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Dana Holgorsen News Conference
Brian Kuppelweiser
October 23, 2012 03:03 PM
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - A transcript of WVU football coach Dana Holgorsen's weekly news conference:
Opening Statement
We are going into our second off week. It will be a little bit different than the first one. The mentality is going to be a little different. We will focus on recruiting this week. We've had four coaches out this week. We will have all of our coaches out this Friday and Saturday. We will try and find some guys that want to be Mountaineers. This Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, we will get back to the basics out there. Last off week, we put the ball down and played a lot, because it was so early in the season. At this point, it is more important to focus on the fundamentals of football. When you play as many young kids as we are, the first thing that is going to go is the technique during the heat of battle. We will focus a lot on fundamentals and on basic football. Offensively, that will be tempo, our base plays, blocking and keeping the timing. Defensively, it will be proper alignment, technique, back peddling, breaking on the ball, run fits and making tackles. We will put the ball down and play at the end of practice in order to develop our young guys.
Other than that, it is a good week for these guys. Last week was midterm week. This is a good time for them to see where they are academically. We are pleased with where we are academically. We will continue to hold these guys accountable in the classroom, while they become better football players.
Hopefully, they get away from it for a couple of days then come back energized and regrouped. We want to have a great Sunday of preparation for TCU.
On if this week is similar to a camp mentality
It will be similar to a spring practice. We are not going to focus on TCU too much. They are not focusing us – I can assure you of that. There are some things that they do that we can mirror. It is more of a mentality. We have to do a better job of offensively playing our game. Defensively, we have to get better at everything we do. We have to understand the situation. The alignment and technique has to improve. Hopefully, we will get healed up and re-energized for the final five weeks of the season, which will be a grind just like the previous five weeks have been.
On recruiting junior colleges this week
Yes, that is the plan. We have been. We will be in Arizona, Kansas, Texas and Mississippi. We will hit all of those this week. We will be out seeing a bunch of games this Friday and Saturday, and we will see a lot of guys.
On what has been the common theme of offense in the previous two games
We haven't played with great tempo. When we play best, we have great tempo. There are things that you need to have settled. A good balance of that is when we are at our best. We were probably a little too settled last week, which is 100 percent my fault. We should have pushed the envelope on some things.
On maturity
Aside from the fact that we would like our 20 freshmen to be seniors, we need to, from a mentality standpoint, grow up. We can't use the excuse of not having enough snaps. We have to grow and play older than we are. We need the older guys to act older. We need the older guys to bring along the younger kids. We need them to be tough when adversity hits. We played a team (Kansas State) that has that mastered. They are the most mature team in college football. They are very old, and they have played a lot of football. They are mentally tough, and their technique is not lost during the heat of the battle. We can learn a lot from playing a team like that. I have a lot of respect for how they run their program. They are everything that we thought they were.
On shifts in the depth chart with younger guys and older guys during the game
It is based on what have you done for me lately. You make the decision to play who you think is the better player. You have to figure out is the ceiling higher for a younger kid versus an older kid. It usually is, but that doesn't always mean it is. If you take a guy like J.D. (Woods) that has played a good bit but hasn't made a bunch of plays, he got a lot better during camp, but he has faded a bit recently. That is what I mean about a mature football team. He has gotten a lot better, but he needs to act a little bit older in a situation like the other night. After you make the decision, it is all about performance. If a guy is not performing, you make the change. The biggest motivation in college football is playing time, but you don't want to sit a guy down that you don't think has a guy behind him that is better than him. You want to play the better player. You want to use playing as a motivation if you can, but our depth is the issue.
On if the new safety rules and spread offenses are taking some of the toughness out of the game
It can a little bit. We don't like to think so. We talk about being physical, effort and playing hard. It doesn't matter if it is a spread team, because there are one-on-one matchups that you need to be physical during, in order to win. If you bring everything together, people are still leaning on each other. Is it a little less physical than it has been? Probably, but it is, because there is a lot more space between contact. We don't view it as that. Those matchups can be pretty violent.
On similarities to last year
That was a little bit different. Whenever you put two losses like that back-to-back, it is a little different. There are some challenges this year that didn't exist with last year's team, and there were some challenges last year that don't exist with this team. Basically, it boils down to having to bounce back, and that doesn't happen overnight. We bounced back last season. This is different, because of who we are playing. We just played the No. 3 team in the country. They are a pretty good team. It is going to take a whole year of going through the Big 12 for everyone to understand the Big 12.
We have to make things more manageable. We can't try to manufacture plays or people. We can't come up with tricks, because that is not the solution. We have been talking about what we are good at on all three sides of the ball, and how we get back to doing those things. We have narrowed down some things. We are going to focus on trying to get better at things that we are already good at. We will build some confidence because of that. We will rebuild and re-energize, as we prepare for our next game.
On defensive schemes
We have tried to cover some areas up. Within our defensive scheme, there are different coverages and blitzes. If it doesn't work, we can go to another one. It is a multiple defense. When they hit us on a cover two with a seam route, we went to cover three. When they started to hit us on out routes, we went to a press and bail, cover four. We mix things up, but it ultimately comes down to execution. You guys saw where a couple of times the ball was in the air, and we had a guy there. They made the plays. How can we get our guys in any better position than that? We constantly try to tweak it. As an offensive play caller, I go back to this. If you guys are going to rely on us as coaches to make the perfect call every single time, then we are going to fail you. Nobody can make the perfect call every time. We are going to put you in a position to succeed as best as we can. Offensively, we need to do a better job of getting in the right play. Defensively, we need to do a better job of getting in the right plays. We are putting you in a position to be successful. Now the player has to takeover, but as coaches, we have something to do with that too. We have to do our best as coaches, and they have to make the play. We have to do a better job of that as coaches and as players.
On if the players are in proper position, but are not making plays defensively
I am not saying that, no. We have to a better job as coaches. We have to put them in better position to be successful. It is a combination. Nobody is pointing fingers anywhere. Nobody is doing that. We all have to understand, as coaches, that we need to put them in a position to be successful and what their technique needs to be. Ultimately, it comes down to getting them out there in practice and having them get better at what we want them to do. There are only a certain number of coverages or plays that we can run. If you try to make up for our deficiencies with more plays, it is going to confuse them.
Geno Smith
taking blame for the loss and facing adversity
Geno and I have talked. He doesn't need to say that. He is one of many positions that play football here. If he thinks that all of this falls on his shoulder, then he is sadly mistaken. He is one of our leaders, and he is a tremendous football player. He cares more than anybody. He is responsible for a lot of points and a lot of wins. This doesn't fall on his shoulders. This falls on all our shoulders – all of our coaches and all of our players. He is only one piece to everything. For him to be at his best, he needs to understand that the only thing he can do is take the snap and go where we want him to go with the ball. If that is all he worries about, then he is going to be more productive. He needs to relax a bit and not bear that burden. We are going to get him back on track.
On the vertical passing game
We have to protect. We know who Texas had coming off the edge, so we were conscious of that and didn't throw vertical very much. Texas Tech was more press. We didn't handle the press very well at receiver. Geno was not very accurate down the field. We threw down the field six or eight times. Against Kansas State, the pass rush was very good. They were rotating a lot of guys, and they were athletic. There wasn't a specific guy we were scared of, but we were aware of them. They did a good job of getting to us, but their corner coverage was off. We should have done a better job of completing the ball underneath. It is a combination of a lot of things. It is not the plays we are calling. We called plays that would have gotten the ball down the field. Whether we broke down up front, or Geno got his eyes away from it, we didn't do a good job with it.
On physical shortcomings
There is something to that. Nobody wants to hear this, but we are doing a decent job against the run. We are not just getting gashed against the run. We are playing physical up front. Shaq (Rowell) is playing physical up front, Jorge (Wright) is holding his gap and
Kyle Rose
played better. Josh (Francis) and Terence (Garvin) are doing a good job of squeezing the edges.
Isaiah Bruce
Jared Barber
are doing a good job too. Those bodies aren't doing a great job with the pass rush. We have bodies that are doing great against the run and being physical, but they have to do a better job of rushing. We are not getting any pressure on the quarterback. We can't have receivers running double or triple moves on people, and then have the quarterback throwing the ball as far as he can and hitting every one of them.
On if WVU was overrated coming into the season
I don't know. Everyone has an opinion on preseason rankings. They are based on the end of the year last year and how many guys that we have coming back. It doesn't matter what happened last year. I stood up here before the Marshall game and said that. This is a different team. I said it was going to take multiple games to see what we are made of. We tell our team not to worry about what the paper says, what the rankings say, what the television says or what the internet says. This week we are saying because all of people that said they were great are now saying you are so bad. Why pay attention? Pay attention to what we say in here. Worry about your academics and worry about your health. Do a good job of getting in the weight room and getting bigger and stronger. When you have practice, don't go through the motions. Go out and get better. If they think about anything other than that, they are not thinking about the right stuff. It is good exposure if you are ranked highly coming into the season, but I knew all of these games were going to be pretty challenging.
On playing young guys at different points in the season
Being ready to play. We make those decisions based on practice. We talked a lot during camp about our freshman receivers. We knew there was some talent there. You don't want to put young guys out there if you have players that are better. As we kept practicing, we saw our young guys getting better and the veterans staying the same. Playing time is the main motivator for the kid.
On Shawne Alston
He is going to finish up. We are going to see if he can practice. We are not going to dress him out and say that we hope he can play. He is going to have to practice. We want to get him to practice, so he can play in a game – it has been that way for a month. This week, we are going to practice him and try to incorporate him. If it looks good, then we will play him. If he is out there hobbling around, then we will not play him. I haven't even thought about the redshirt thing. If he can play and help us win, then he will play.
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HOUSTON - A couple has been accused of going to a nightclub and leaving two children alone in a car in the parking lot.
Misty Robinson, 34, and Alvin Degar, 30, have been charged with endangering a child.
Houston police said Robinson and Degar were inside Nox Nightclub on Nett near Parker early Wednesday. Detectives said they left Robinson's 3- and 5-year-old children asleep in the backseat of their car.
"It's never a good idea," Children's Protective Services spokeswoman Estella Olguin said. "It's actually against the law to leave children seven and younger for more than five minutes alone in a car."
The children were taken to CPS about 4:30 a.m. Olguin said they were crying and hungry.
Olguin said there are options for parents who want to go out at night to keep their children safe.
"There are drop-in day care centers that operate 24 hours a day," she said.
CPS officials said the children would remain in their care until they can determine if the children should be placed with relatives or in foster care.
Police said the night could have ended violently for the children and everyone else at the nightclub. Investigators said weapons were found in the parking lot after officers overheard some patrons threaten to open fire in the nightclub after they were thrown out because of their attire.
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Media ignored Bush administration flip-flops on U.S. troop level increases in Iraq
Research ››› ››› SIMON MALOY
On December 1, Pentagon officials announced that the United States would increase the number of its troops in Iraq by nearly 12,000, raising the total number of American troops in Iraq to 150,000, the highest level to date. The increases are in the form of tour extensions for about 10,400 Marines and soldiers already in Iraq, and the deployment of 1,500 paratroopers to Iraq. Brigadier General David Rodriguez, the deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated that the troop levels were increased "to support the [January 30, 2005, Iraqi] elections and continue to keep pressure on the insurgency." The increases are inconsistent with past Bush administration promises concerning troop levels in Iraq. While several publications held the current administration accountable for past errors and misjudgments, many did not.
This story was covered on December 2 by most major newspapers, including: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Philadelphia Daily News, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and USA Today. A Knight Ridder story on the troop level increase ran in the Detroit Free Press, The Kansas City Star, The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the San Jose Mercury News. The Washington Times also ran a story, and the Associated Press offered a story to its clients.
The troop level increases are inconsistent with the following past statements and claims from the Bush administration:
Troop level estimates
Bush administration officials made numerous pre-war claims and predictions concerning troop levels that would be required in Iraq in the aftermath of the spring 2003 fall of Baghdad. On February 27, 2003, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz rejected the claim of then-Army chief of staff General Eric Shinseki, now retired, who predicted that "Something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers ... would be required" to provide adequate security in a post-invasion Iraq. Wolfowitz said that Shinseki was "wildly off the mark," and that he was "reasonably certain that they [the Iraqis] will greet us as liberators, and that will help us to keep [troop] requirements down." Wolfowitz's position was shared by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who predicted that post-war troop levels would be lower than what was required for the invasion of Iraq.
According to a March 3, 2003, CNN report, "Rumsfeld said the post-war troop commitment would be less than the number of troops required to win the war. He also said 'the idea that it would take several hundred thousand U.S. forces, I think, is far from the mark.'"
Specifically, Pentagon officials announced a plan in the weeks following the fall of Baghdad to lower U.S. troop levels in Iraq to 30,000 by the fall of 2003.
The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and The Associated Press all cited the early misjudgments of the Bush administration with regard to troop levels in Iraq. Newsday also quoted Vice President Dick Cheney as saying we would be "greeted as liberators." Both The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun cited Wolfowitz's February, 2003 rebuff of Shinseki. And while The Chicago Tribune's December 2 article (registration required) on increased troop levels did not mention Shinseki's troop level predictions, a December 3 Tribune article did. The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun also noted the unmet troop-reduction goals of past war plans, as did The Boston Globe.
12-month tours of duty
Retired general and former Army vice chief of staff John Keane, appearing with Rumsfeld at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, announced on July 22, 2003, that the Pentagon had "decided to go to a 12-month tour for the forces that are currently in Iraq and for those that would come into Iraq - with some exceptions." According to the Defense Department transcript of the interview with Keane and Rumsfeld, Keane said:
Well, first of all, we recognize that the situation in Iraq with the current level of violence demands the force level that we currently have. And, with that recognition, we also want to build in some predictability for our soldiers who are there. So, as opposed to having it condition-based, which is what we did, we've decided to go to a 12-month tour for the forces that are currently in Iraq and for those that would come into Iraq -- with some exceptions. Exceptions being the 3rd Infantry Division ... its remaining brigades who would leave in September. That would mean one brigade would have 12 months and the other one would have nine. And, also, for the Marine division that's in place, which will leave when the Polish division takes its place, which will probably be about that timeframe. I mean, don't hold us to the exact week or month, but it will be in that timeframe. Everybody else will stay 12 months.
The New York Times pointed out that the tour extensions for roughly 10,400 troops already in Iraq is a departure from the Army's "pledge to keep troops on the ground in Iraq for no more than 12 months," and that the increased need for American forces was not expected by many military officials and was made necessary, in part, by "the poor performance by many newly trained Iraqi security forces in the face of rebel assaults." The Times also noted that this was the third time that deployments for soldiers in Iraq have been extended. The Washington Post similarly noted the increased troop levels represented the third extension of troop deployments, as did The Boston Globe.
Iraqi troops providing election security
In September, General John Abizaid, commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), said that more troops would be needed in Iraq, but that "it is our belief that those troops will be Iraqi troops" rather than American troops. A September 24, 2004, Washington Post article on the need for increased troops levels to protect the January election processes quoted Abizaid:
"I think we will need more troops than we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq that will probably take place in the end of January," Abizaid said after a closed-door briefing with legislators about the state of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, he added, "it is our belief that those troops will be Iraqi troops." Also, he said, there may be more international troops.
So, Abizaid concluded, "I don't foresee a need for more American troops, but we can't discount it."
Only The Boston Globe and The Kansas City Star mentioned Abizaid's belief that Iraqi troops would provide election security.
The following newspapers made little or no mention of how the troop level increases conflict with past U.S. war plans. At best, they made passing references to 12-month tours, or cursory references to Iraqi security forces:
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution alluded to the Army's "goal" of 12-month tours of duty, saying, "The extensions mean that many of the soldiers will be in Iraq for 14 months rather than 12, which has been the Army's goal. Rodriguez said the extensions were intended to provide commanders with experienced troops."
- The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald (registration required), The Philadelphia Inquirer (registration required), and the San Jose Mercury News (registration required) all ran a Knight Ridder story on the troop level increase that noted: "Combat tours in Iraq are generally limited to 12 months. Under the plan, those currently in Iraq would remain up to 14 months."
- A December 2 article in the Chicago Tribune (registration required) mentioned that Iraqi forces were poorly suited to provide security for the Iraqi elections:
In recent months, Iraq's interim government and the U.S. military have stepped up recruitment and training of Iraqi troops in the hope that they could play a larger role as the Jan. 30 vote approaches. But recent rebel attacks have targeted Iraqi forces, undercutting their ability to assume as much of a burden as some had envisioned.
The Philadelphia Daily News, USA Today, and The Washington Times failed to mention any of the administration's prior inconsistent positions.
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By Amy Rosen
President and CEO, NFTE
We celebrate the persistence of entrepreneurs who make it.
We marvel at the ability of some to be flexible and adapt.
But the truth is we could not appreciate or even recognize persistence or flexibility without acknowledging failure – the adverse, sometimes crushing consequences of trying new things.
Those who teach it, study it or work in entrepreneurship call it 'taking risk.' By which we mean, of course, tempting failure.
But show me someone who succeeded without failing and I'll show you someone who wasn't challenged. Almost no successful entrepreneur succeeded at their first venture. Or even third. And some of our most celebrated entrepreneurs are still taking risks – and failing.
Like it or not, failure is an essential and overlooked part of the entrepreneurial arc.
Even Thomas Edison, among our most revered entrepreneurs and innovators somewhat famously embraced his failures in inventing the light bulb when he said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Yet when you ask would-be entrepreneurs what keeps them from starting a new business or launching a new idea, the answer you get as often as anything is the fear of failure.
It's easy to understand. From an early age we celebrate winning – good grades, athletics, earning allowance. And we punish failure – stigmatizing losers, denying opportunities.
But when it comes to entrepreneurship at least, it should not be that way.
One of the first things we can do is create safe spaces for young entrepreneurs to fail. And there's no better place to do that then in the same high school classrooms that usually only honor those who achieve academic success.
In more than 25 years of teaching the entrepreneurship mindset, we've learned that giving that safe space is essential. We know that a young person's initial experiences must reward processes such as good plans and thoughtful budgets in a supportive environment.
Incentivizing good innovation, planning and presentation practices, while on the sidelines of the real marketplace, reduces the pain of failure. And it makes our students more likely to display perseverance and flexibility by trying again.
That's what we want entrepreneurs to do.
As much as we invest serious time, energy and capital into teaching the tools of success like STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education and coding skills, we should invest in the mindset of overcoming failure.
Those of us who are leaders in teaching and modeling the skills and mindsets of successful entrepreneurs – especially successful entrepreneurs themselves – should publically recognize that failure isn't always bad.
Failure is necessary.
Moreover, if we want tomorrow's entrepreneurs to be persistent and adaptive, we should not allow the words fail and fatal to be confused. They are not synonyms.


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Three-Rice Pilaf Recipe
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My family's favorite rice dish is this tempting medley of white, brown and wild rice. I prepare it as a side dish or a stuffing. In fall I add chopped dried apricots, and for the holidays I mix in dried cranberries. My guests always ask for seconds. -Ricki Bingham, Ogden, Utah
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- 1/2 cup uncooked brown rice
- 1/2 cup finely chopped carrots
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1/2 cup uncooked wild rice
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1/2 cup uncooked long grain rice
- 1/3 cup chopped dried apricots
- 2 tablespoons minced green onions
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted
- In a large saucepan, saute brown rice, carrots, onion and mushrooms in oil for 10 minutes or until rice is golden.
- Add wild rice, broth, thyme, and rosemary; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 25 minutes.
- Stir in long grain rice; cover and simmer for 25 minutes or until liquid is absorbed and wild rice is tender.
- Remove from the heat; stir in apricots, green onions, salt and pepper. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes. Sprinkle with pecans just before serving. Yield: 8-10 servings.
Originally published as Three-Rice Pilaf in Taste of Home February/March 1996, p27
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Reviewed Sep. 23, 2012
"This is now my favorite side dish.. I especially like to have it on the side of a fish main course. This is already the second or third time that I've made it and plan on making it plenty more times."
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"Love, Love, Love this recipe. The Wild Rice and Mushrooms really make it. Everyone fights over the leftovers too. Highly recommend."
Reviewed Oct. 20, 2009
"Instead of the three different kinds of rices called for, I used Royal Blend, which is wild, brown and Basmati. It worked well. I liked this dish but my husband was just okay with it. Tasteful and healthy."
Reviewed Jul. 19, 2009
"Great!! I added more veggies and apricots than called for and that served as a starch-veggie side dish"
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"I just made this today & we loved it."


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Rick Welts
President and Chief Operating Officer, Phoenix Suns
Describe your very first job and what lessons you learned from it.
My very first job was in the exact same industry that I am in now, and the exact same league. I was a ball boy for the Seattle SuperSonics, which I started doing in 1969. I was a team attendant, just like you see ball boys and ball kids running around today doing it, just doing what needed to be done around the locker room and during the games.
I go back to that a lot when I talk to people about what I do, because it's very rare that anybody gets the opportunity to be in the environment of a professional sports team locker room, and there are dynamics that go on there that actually help me very much in my current job in terms of the relationships between players, the coaching staff, the training staff, the media, and where that interaction happens.
Describe your first job in your industry and what you learned from it.
It was called then the public relations director — it's now usually called media relations director — of that same team, the Seattle SuperSonics, which I started doing in 1977. That was very valuable to me in that we ended up, the Sonics, in the two years that I had that position going to the NBA finals both years and winning a championship the second year, which was 1979. … It was really a fast education in my first two years in that position to really be the focal point of our league in the championship series both times and to win a championship.
What were your salaries at both of these jobs?
I think with the ball boy job I got $10 a game and two tickets with which my parents became regular attendees of Sonics' games. My starting salary as public relations director, which started in 1977, was $15,000.
Who is your biggest mentor and what role did they play?
One that everybody knows would be the current commissioner of the NBA, David Stern. … I ended up spending 17 years working directly for him, the first couple in his role as executive vice president and the last 15 as commissioner of the NBA. He truly would be my most important mentor in learning. …
My two others would be my second boss at the Sonics, a guy by the name of Dave Watkins, who was head marketing and public relations person for the Sonics at the time. I really learned the value of how much creativity you could bring to a job and how important communications skills are in business. … (Then) I went into business with a guy who had been our assistant general manager with the Sonics. His name was Bob Walsh. Bob had left the Sonics to start a sports marketing firm in Seattle, and from Bob I learned to value the role personal relationships play in being successful in business …
What advice would you give to a person entering your industry?
In addition to looking for the right organization and the right opportunity, if you can pick a good boss, you're probably going to learn more and probably advance your career better than you could if that wasn't the case.
If you weren't doing this, what would you be doing instead?
I actually wanted to be a journalist or at least be in the journalism industry. When I was in college I was actually in communications school. I was going during the time of Watergate when journalists really were heroes. … I still have great admiration for people who have that as their lives' work.


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DeployStudio has the ability to import a csv file that is populated with the MAC address and a few specific settings. This allows you to prepopulate the database with the names that you want each machine to have. If you purchase a lot of machines from Apple then you can get a list of MAC addresses, or, you can use a bar code scanner to scan them as you're unboxing.
If you have a list of MAC addresses (en0), then you will need to format them in a very specific manner. Here, I have included a sample csv file with the data that goes into each field, which I have name DSImporter.csv.
Once you paste the data that you'd like into the csv, provide the computer names (these can be pasted or compiled using formulas). Once done, save and then open Deploy Studio Admin. From here, click on Computers and then (as you would with iTunes) click on the plus sign (+) and create a new computer list (this step is optional, but I prefer to always import into computer lists, just in case something goes wrong, especially with my first import). Once you have created the computer list, you should see a screen similar to the following.
Next, click on the Server menu and select Import.
Now browse to your csv file and then click on the Import button. When the import is complete you will see a screen informing you as such. Click on the Done button to complete the process.
You will then see your computers listed in the database and should see the names that you assigned them listed as well. You can now set a workflow item in DeployStudio for Reconfigure system with computers database content (shown below). This will set the name (and any other fields you decided to use) from the spreadsheet that you imported into the computer list.
Once you have your computers in a group, you can also set a default workflow for them for their first time imaging, by clicking on the name of the group and then clicking on the Automation tab at the bottom as you can see below.
Here, you will set the workflow to run and optionally set the computer to not have a default workflow moving forward or just be disabled so users can't accidentally reimage their computers later.
If you don't have the MAC addresses for your computers ahead of time, you can use the Hostname option instead.
This will enable you to enter the computer name that you would like to use moving forward into the DeployStudio Runtime at imaging and then have it stored in the DeployStudio database, where it can be used to build future workflows or even be exported and imported into the Open Directory computers.
Overall, the computers and groups in DeployStudio Admin can be used to design more and more complex imaging sequences and to provide much of the scripting logic that a number of organizations need. Beyond that, JAMF, FileWave and a few other solutions offer even more logic and even more features or a little shell scripting can take you a really long way.
krypted August 3rd, 2010
Posted In: Mac OS X, Mass Deployment
Tags: Casper, Computer Lists, csv, DeployStudio, DSImporter.csv, en0, import, JAMF, MAC Address, order of fields


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Hands on with the ASUS Fonepad, and ASUS PadFone Infinityby Brian Klug on 2/25/2013 7:08 PM EST
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Zak - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkA 7" phone? We now need a 5" tablet and say goodbye to logic and common sense. Off to play a game on my 4" Apple tablet... a.k.a. the iPod Touch. Reply
MonkeyPaw - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkI would consider one. I bet lots of people just text and almost never talk and want a data plan. To me, just a data plan never made sense when the functionality was already there, even if you rarely use it. Reply
gseguin - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkHonestly, with the cost of baseband right now... why couldn't we reverse the thinking....
Give all tablets / computers the comms required for a phone, create a lightweight bloototh earpiece that contains the SIM card and carrier info for connection, add comms chip in all car radios and you have a winner...
You thus carry around a very small piece of equipment that has enough memory for your digital content, but use the client's SoC for any apps. There's a few things to figure out, but still, no need for data share plans between phones and tablets, everything would simply be a 'voice+data enabled device' which requires an actual external blue-tooth SIM device for activation.
From home, I'd be talking through my ipad, then my car, then my computer through voip at work if that would be an option... this would require the earpiece to have a 4 year old SoC which could be made new with low battery requirements on new processes... So, why not a 5" phone 'extention'... Reply
sumwand - Saturday, March 09, 2013 - linkit is not an earpiece but I think someday can be made to earpiece size :
http://en.socblue.com/_d275434802.htm Reply
amdwilliam1985 - Monday, March 11, 2013 - linkI agree, I rarely call anyone any more, I text/email everyone except my parents. gotta teach them how to do it. Reply
Flunk - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkAnd I'll go make a call on my 14" phone. Reply
themossie - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - link"Vintage" Windows XP tablets are the new clamshell phones.
Extra hipster 'cred' if you add an iOS theme :-) Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, March 04, 2013 - linkHalf clamshell. Clams have two shells, like a flip phone.
I hate that when hipsters hipster out with some snappy name and the base concept is ensconced in a brainfart.
Apple had half clamshell pieces of crap. The whole industry had half clamshells.
No people, it's not the hot date aphrodesiac slide it in and slurp it down just the bottom half of the clam that is the clamshell.
Get out to any river and stick your hands in the underwater mud till you learn something about nature you hipster gasbags. Learning (incorrectly) about it at the gay clam bistro doesn't cut it. Reply
seamonkey79 - Tuesday, March 05, 2013 - linkWhat? The 'vintage' WinXP tablets were a clamshell, with a top half clamshell and a bottom half clamshell. Top was screen, bottom was keyboard and other stuff.
On top of that, I repeat 'What?' Reply
evonitzer - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkEasy jokes, all around. The price is amazing though. $250 for an unlocked phone! Selling these will not be difficult, despite the form factor oddity. I might buy one, after measuring my pockets (maybe buying new baggy jeans), and seeing what skin Asus has served up.
Does the top just pop off to access the SIM and SD card slots? Rather weird looking, in that picture. Reply
teiglin - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkIt looks like the top does just come off; I've used a handful of HTC phones that have essentially the same mechanism (the One S kind of snaps into place, while the Desire HD/Inspire actually slides in and out).
I don't get why this is revolutionary; Samsung's last round of international tablets--the Galaxy Tab 7+ and 7.7 with 3G radios (P6200 and P6800)--worked this way too. Lots of people mocked them because they had phone functionality, as if people don't already look ridiculous talking on a 5.5" Galaxy Note. Just because they have phone speakers doesn't mean you need to use them; that's what headsets are for. Makes me think they need to offer an accessory like HTC packages with the Butterfly. While a 7" tablet does usually fit in cargo pockets, it's much more useful for purse/murse carriers. If I carried around a bag or briefcase all the time, I'd definitely consider this--consider the battery life you get out of a tablet compared to a phone. It's a great selling point especially for a relatively small tablet, even if it is somewhat niche.
The problem remains US wireless operator support. Getting a Tab 7.7 to be recognized on AT&T as a phone was a pain, and of course neither those tabs nor this one will be offered as-is by US operators (see T-Mo Galaxy Tab 7+, VZW 7.7, both with phone support stripped out). Plus, the quad-band UMTS radio means no T-Mobile in most areas, leaving AT&T as the only option, which is frustrating when this is a device that cries out for magenta's $30 100 minute/5GB prepaid plan. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Sunday, March 03, 2013 - linkIt already looks stupid with your tiny flip dip mobile with your pinky sticking out holding the minute thing and it not making it to your ear and your mouth at the same time.
Who knows what you fashion models would do without your pinkies sticking up in the air while you cup your ear like an old fashioned reporter with your tiny idiot "cellphone".
I mean you people look really stupid, and you're yakking into the air, because your big fat piehole doesn't have any part of the tiny near invisible phone by it.
(unless of course you all suffer from small man syndrome) Reply
phillyry - Saturday, May 04, 2013 - link^^Troll^^ Reply
gxH - Sunday, March 10, 2013 - linkwhile im not going to purchase this device personally because of its lackluster specs i can see this as a further game changer for the industry as it further blurs the line between phones and tablets.
companies such as apple, microsoft, and the telecom industry desperately wants to keep the line between phones and tablets distinct,
so apple can sell you both an iphone AND an ipad
so microsoft can sell you both windows RT AND windows phone 8 (and windows 8)
so your telecom company can sell you both a voice+data plan AND a data only plan
this device and future phablet devices are a godsend to the price conscious consumer who doesn't want to spend $1300 for 2 devices and $100 per month to have them connected. Reply
GotThumbs - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkOnly downside to this is the Intel chip IMO.
I would have preferred snapdragon or Tegra. Reply
evonitzer - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkWhy, in a nutshell? The Atom still has pretty stupendous performance, in the CPU space. Weak GPU, but clocked high enough not to matter.
I'm the opposite, I guess. I'm glad to have some available Atom chips since they seemed to have good performance (RAZR-i, XOLO/San Diego) but were not widely available. Reply
lmcd - Saturday, March 16, 2013 - linkIt isn't clocked high enough not to matter... The GS4 has that same chip, same clockspeed, but 3x the modules. The iPad 2 (1.5 years old) has 2x modules and a slightly lower clockspeed. And lower screen res. Reply
jmcb - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkArchos already did a 5" tablet a few years ago.
The Dell Streak was the first device called a phablet because many sites couldnt decide on calling it a phone or tablet.
Logic and common sense has already left the building...lol. I dont totally knock it tho. I thought the Galaxy Note 8 tablet that has the phone features is a better buy for tablets just for the added functionality.
I think this is a better buy too just for the added functionality. Reply
nafhan - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkSo, it's a product that occupies a niche you're uninterested in. They have no business shipping it! Seriously, though, I would imagine people who typically carry a bag/purse and don't do a lot of talking might find this product compelling (especially because it's cheaper than your iPod Touch).
Also, bluetooth headsets and speakerphone make holding it up to your ear completely unnecessary if you actually do want to use it as a phone. Reply
GotThumbs - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkDon't forget BT functionality in today's cars.
You really never would need to walk around with this thing to your ear. Most people don't even do that with their current phones. How many have you seen holding the phone and using "Speaker Phone"? While I think it's rude and low class of them, I do think a BT ear bud would do fine.
There are uses for this and for 250.00 unlocked, I'd strongly consider it. I already carry a phone and xoom tablet during my work day.
Not for everyone, but it doesn't make it a bad idea IMO.
Best wishes, Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, March 04, 2013 - linkOn the contrary it is rude for the losers to be blabbing out just their end of the conversation in public, as if no one else existed, except all those around them they certainly believe are dying to hear what they have to say, presumably to someone at the other end of the signal.
If they go speakerphone, at least one has the chance to hear the entire conversation, and with that, the added advantage of invading their privacy too. Reply
amdwilliam1985 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkI definitely would consider it and have it replace both of my N7 and SGS3. I already carry both devices almost all the time already, why not cut down the expense(only $250) and the hassle of carrying 2 devices.
I make on average about 1 call a week, so carrying a phone and a tablet makes less sense to me. On the other hand, my Nexus 7 is great for movies, games and readings. I text and email with my friends. If I can teach my parents to text and/or email then I'll get rid of the phone and live on wifi only to save the monthly bill.
Just curious, why do you think 7" phone is too big? Did you come up with that all by yourself or did Apple helped you? No way I'm letting some company or Lord Steve J tell me how to use my devices.
Ha ha ha...
ps: I have my eyes set on the rumor 6.3" Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Reply
amdwilliam1985 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkSorry if I sounded pissed at the OP.
My point being, everyone is different. What you saw unnecessary might strike gold for someone else. Don't let your limited mindset limits your options.
I never like the idea of one solution fits all, major reason why I'm not touching iphone & ipad anymore, don't feel like using the same device that everyone else and their grand parents uses.
"Don't ever let anyone tell you what you can and can't do in life, this is America!" Reply
amdwilliam1985 - Monday, March 11, 2013 - linkI know man, totally agree with you Zak.
Lord Steve J forbids huge phones and tiny tablets. Therefore we should all stick with 3.5 iTiny and ~10 iHuge. 1 perfect size to rule them all, well maybe more perfect sizes now with Lord Tim Crook.
On the other hand, in the USA, you know where the land is free, crazy loonies are defying our lords. How dare they use 7" phones, how dare they make 5" tablet. This is absurd, this is the end of the world. At least not in the apple land ;)
/s chill man, I don't need to make fun of your iTiny so you can give me the freedom to use whatever size phone/tablet I like ;) Reply
Kidster3001 - Thursday, March 14, 2013 - linkThis is the form factor I have been wanting for 3 years now. Finally!!! Samsung too. Too bad they probably won't be released in the US with Phone capability. That means Verizon customers are totally out. Reply
Araemo - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkI knew ASUS couldn't make a product that good with no weird downsides.
Why is the tablet dock's front-facing camera worse than the built-in one? Wouldn't videoconferencing make more sense with the bigger tablet screen? But then you have to use a much worse camera? Makes no sense to me. Especially since the tablet dock probably has significantly more space for a good camera module. Reply
SilthDraeth - Monday, February 25, 2013 - link1mp should be fine for video conferencing. Considering most the time, when video streaming, considering no one is usually streaming resolutions higher than what a 1MP camera can put out. Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - link1 or 2 MP doesn't matter for front facing cameras as long as they're super cheap. Reply
HOSH - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkIt is nice they released the padfone infinity that fixed the short comings of the padfone 2 with Super IPS and high resolution screen on the phone and the pad.
Only two items that I can see missing:
The US release wither it is only sold as an unlocked phone on all carriers or just as a developer device for all carriers. VZW, Sprint, AT&T and T-mobile being the top 4 carriers to start with.
They do not have a keyboard dock or attachment and no add-on memory chip (maybe just in the keyboard dock) to make it a truly mobile office setup.
And just for some wishful thinking if they could work with Ubuntu to release the new version of Ubuntu on this device I could see it being a full mobile office experience on you hip with a couple accessories the size of a large thin day planner.
Price is what I was expecting to see, unfortunately it is a little high. $650 phone + $350 for pad + $150 for keyboard would have been more like it though instead of the ~$1200 MSRP. Reply
flyingpants - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - link$350 for an accessory that can be used with ONE phone is outrageous. $400 buys a Nexus 10 tablet, higher resolution.. Reply
Romberry - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkSeriously, in a day when people use their smart phones mostly for everything other than phone calls (texting, web surfing), a Fonepad makes great sense. Why carry a phone and a tablet? I'd love to have on of these. When it becomes available, if the performance with the silicon they chose is acceptable, I probably will. Great concept. Reply
liffey - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkThe P1000 Galaxy Tab was released WAY back in 2010 and was very popular. Yes, people do use it for phone calls Reply
Wilco1 - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkIt's hard to understand that one. That's seriously underpowered in 2012, and so far behind in 2013 that's not even funny.... An 1.2GHz Atom is equivalent to one A7 core in the Exynos octa core, or half of a 2.3GHz Tegra 4i core. Reply
smartypnt4 - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkI have no idea what you're basing that on... As far as CPU cores go, a single Medfield core with hyper-threading like you see in the fonepad, the RAZR i, and a few other international phones is very competitive with the quad-core A9's in the Exynos 4 and Tegra 3, as competitive with 2 Krait cores in the Snapdragon MSM 8960. Half of a 2.3GHz A9r4 core... That single atom is at least competitive with that, if not beats it outright.
Now, yes, that is a bit under-powered still for a new device, but it's not nearly as bad as you make it out to be. It'll be interesting to see exactly where this lands given its cock speed. Most people who have had hands-on time with the tablet indicate that it feels smooth and perfectly usable.
References: See any chart with a single core Atom in it (every Atom in a phone is a single core so far). Reply
smartypnt4 - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkOh, sorry: For your A7 comparison: an A7 is supposed to deliver A9 performance at lower power, so yeah. There's no way a single Atom is slower than an A7. If you had said A15, you might've had some sort of argument, but even then, I doubt that the A15 is outright faster in every respect. Reply
Wilco1 - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkWhat makes you think that Atom is faster than an A7? Both are 2-way in-order CPUs, which means they are in the same class and will have similar performance.
As for A15 vs Atom, check out how the A15 at A1.7GHz beats Atom at 1.66GHz on every single benchmark:
So yes, A15 is outright faster in every respect. At 1.9GHz it'll be close to 3 times as fast compared to a 1.2GHz Atom... Reply
smartypnt4 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkSee my comment below; you're right in regards to single core computational performance.
That Atom in that benchmark is a 2.5 year old CPU, so of course it's perfectly natural to compare it to a top-of-the-line current gen SoC. /s
I admit, yes, the Exynos 5250 beats the crap out of that Atom. I'm more interested in the newer revisions of Atom like the Saltwell cores in the Mefield and Clover Trail (+) platforms. I don't doubt that the Exynos 5250 beats Medfield, but Clover Trail should give it a run for its money. Note the use of the word *should* there. We shall see. Reply
Wilco1 - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkRemember all Atoms are effectively 5 years old as they all use the exact same micro architecture... But for the sake of the argument, let's look at the top of the range Clovertrail Z2760 at 1.8GHz and compare with the same Exynos 5250 at 1.7GHz (both dual cores):
With 4 threads it can almost keep up on integer, but loses badly on floating point and memory performance. So there is no chance that CloverTrail(+) can keep up with quad A15 at 2GHz... Reply
smartypnt4 - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkI'm wary of comparing cross-platform benchmarks like that. I don't doubt the Exynos 5250 is faster for a host of different reasons not least of which is the dual-channel DDR3-1600 memory hooked up the only versions of the SoC we've seen so far.
My point is this: Intel has been doing this a long time. However, their mobile execution thus far has been distinctly un-Intel. If Valleyview contains some of the same architectural enhancements that the Core i-series did, then I think Valleyview could end up being quite competitive. We'll have to wait and see though.
Also, if the A15 cores have an inferior prefetcher or scheduler to Clover Trail, would that show up in the Geekbanch results for FP and integer performance? Or would it only affect the Stream performance? Reply
Wilco1 - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkI don't see your issue with cross platform benchmarking, how can you compare systems otherwise?
Prefetching issues should show up in stream and other memory intensive apps which do not fit in L2, so unlikely for integer/FP benchmarks. NVidia claims a 15% speedup on average for Tegra 4i, but that includes a better branch predictor and larger TLBs. No idea how much it will help JavaScript.
Could Valleyview be competitive with A15 in performance? Yes that is possible. However Intel won't have an alternative to big.LITTLE or Tegra's 5th core, and fast OoO cores use more power (Bobcat vs Atom). So we'll see how well it does on a 22nm process. Reply
wsw1982 - Friday, March 01, 2013 - linkThe Atom is fast than any duo-core A9, and maybe little bit slower to the quad-core A9.
The A7 is less powerful than A9 but use less area.
So, you are right, the Lexington is little bit slower than tegra 4i, but the Lexington is targeting the phone less than 200$. I don't doubt that if the tegra 4i phone will be a good sell if they are below 200$, how much chance do you think that can happen?
As for A15, the only available A15, Samsung E5250, is fast, great, fantasy and power hungry. With 4+w power budget, it no doubt can beat the 2+w ATOM. If Samsung scale it up to 200W, and cooling it with Liquid nitrogen, it could probably beat 17w i7 as well :) Reply
Wilco1 - Friday, March 01, 2013 - linkAgain your link doesn't prove at all than a Z2420 is any faster than any A9. I showed how you were wrong about Vellamo already.
At 2.3GHz a Tegra 4i is obviously much faster than a Z2420, even single threaded, so it will be used in high-end phones as it is the fastest A9 based SoC. As for cost, Tegra 3 was estimated at $22. Intel typically charges far more for Atom, so the reason Atom ends up in low-end devices is not because they are cheap...
It's true the Exynos 5250 uses a lot of power, but it is several times faster than an Atom so completes tasks quicker. Note the new Octa core reduces power consumption to ~1.25W per core at 1.8GHz according to Anand. We'll find out soon how it does in the Galaxy S4. Reply
evonitzer - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkAgreed. This reflexive Atom hate is perplexing. It's a bit of a CPU powerhouse, and glance at the Nexus 4 review charts again if anyone has forgotten. Reply
Wilco1 - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkIf it is a bit of CPU powerhouse, do you bet on it powering the Galaxy S4? Or any other high-end phone/tablet for that matter? My feeling is that chance is close to zero.
The hard fact is that Atom is an old slow in-order microarchitecture that has been lagging in performance since out-of-order A9 and Krait came out. It'll be another year before a new Atom generation will end up in products... Reply
smartypnt4 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkYeah, no. That single core Atom wasn't ever destined to power something like the GS4 for a variety of reasons.
Clover Trail+ on the other hand, mates 2 Atom cores at 2.0GHz to an SGX544MP2 that I'm sure has been clocked at over 500MHz becahse that's what Intel does. That could power a flagship-level device, and it does: see the Lenovo K900. It won't be a popular flagship, but it's still an important design win for Intel.
Valleyview will be far better though. I'm personally waiting for that since that'll be Intel's first core purpose-designed for phones. The current Medfield parts are adapted from their netbook effort, which was adapted from the Pentium 4 core, and is a bit ridiculous in this day and age. Reply
evonitzer - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkYou're talking design wins, which I'd argue has more to do with Intel lacking a single chip LTE solution than the performance of its CPU. Notice this device lacks LTE, which would be unacceptable in a top of the line phone (except the Nexus 4, which is sorta midrange-ish).
Still though, not all devices need to be top of the line, so I'd argue a $250 tablet (with low-ish resolution) is a fine place for the Atom chip. Reply
Wilco1 - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkMedfield is only competitive with a single A9 core at a low frequency. And even then it really only looks alright on SunSpider (which is not a CPU benchmark).
If you want an idea how far Atom was behind a year ago, check out the Geekbench score of the 1.6GHz Z2460 in the Xolo vs the 1.4GHz Exynos 4 in Galaxy S3:
Note only does it achieve less than half the overall score, it loses every single threaded integer and floating benchmark except for one - despite its higher clockspeed. So we can safely conclude that an A9 is much faster than Atom, agreed?
Tegra 4 has a Geekbench score of 4285, so at 1.2GHz the Z2420 will be 6.5 times as slow. Using a single in-order core at 1.2GHz in 2013 is just insanity. Reply
smartypnt4 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkAlright, first of all, please never say something is "6.5 times slower" than something else. There's no good way to interpret what you mean there.
Now, I will admit that I was unaware of those benchmark figures. Those benchmarks indicate that a single Atom core is slower than the A9, I admit. The only area where I see a possible disagreement with that assertion is in the Stream benchmarks, which measure Floating point math and sustained memory bandwidth.
In those, a single core Atom CPU with hyper-threading beats the Exynos 4412. Now, the Floating Point benchmarks indicate that a single A9 is slower than an Atom core. So, how do we explain why the Atom is faster, having only 1 hyper-threaded core to the 4412's 4 cores? Simple: sustained memory bandwidth.
Extrapolating from that, I imagine that the browser-based benchmarks that I had most recently looked at are heavily memory-performance bound, which is why the RAZR i does so well in Kraken and Octane. Not having played with a device running an Atom chip, I can't speak to how much that extra memory performance helps the device's "feel" so to speak, but I've not ever seen a reviewer call a device with an Atom chip in it slow.
In essence: I apologize for immediately writing you off without having done my homework. However, the Atom SoC's memory subsystem keeps it on par in some respects with the best-of-the-best Android SoC's. In any case, I had no intention of besmirching your honor, but Atom's poor computational performance is hidden by what I can only imagine is its memory subsystem. I now really want an Atom-based device to see if the individual core's computational performance impacts the performance of my phone in my use case.
And yes, using an in-order core in 2013 is a bit absurd, but that's hidden by the hyper-threading to an extent. Not fully, but it helps. Clover Trail+ gives excellent results from AnTuTu (~27k from what I've heard, which is faster than the S4 Pro based phones). That's not Tegra 4 level, but then again, nothing that's been benchmarked gives anywhere close the T4 levels of performance. Anyway, I'll be interested in two things this year: Intel's Valleyview, which will be OoO and (hopefully) 22nm, and should release for the holiday refresh, and T4's memory performance. The Tegra 3 was hamstrung by its memory controller; I'll be interested to see what NVIDIA did to fix that.
Anyway, sorry for the misunderstanding. Hope the discussion has been as enlightening for you as it has been for me haha. Reply
Wilco1 - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkSorry, what I meant was that the Z2420's score will be about 1/6.5 that of Tegra 4, ie. Tegra 4 is 6.5 times faster in Geekbench.
Exynos 4 is indeed slower than the Atom on Stream. This is not a memory bandwidth issue (as it is 20% faster in the memory test), but actually an issue with memory prefetching on current A9's. It is fixed in A9 R4 (Tegra 4i) and in Cortex-A15. For example Exynos 5250 now has twice the stream performance of the fastest available CloverTrail Atom:
No need to apologize, you're right that Atom has good memory performance. However while having good memory performance is important, that alone isn't enough. A lot of tasks require significant CPU and GPU performance as well. So how it translates to your device depends on how you use it. If you do a lot of browsing I'd say that BrowserMark is more appropriate than SunSpider (read my other post on SunSpider and other JS benchmarks).
Valleyview will be interesting as the claims are up to 2.7GHz quad core (but no HT) on 22nm. However release date now seems Q1 2014 according to leaked slides, so it is a year away. I don't expect Samsung, Qualcomm and NVidia to stand still in the meantime! Reply
smartypnt4 - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkI'm the first to admit that more CPU and GPU performance is a good thing (especially GPU). I was just completely unaware that the reason Atom benchmarks so well is due to the prefetcher. I knew A9's had some pretty bad memory issues in certain respects, but I had forgotten where they fell down.
I'll be interested to see what tech Valleyview actually contains. If we see Core-i series branch recovery and schedulers, this holiday season (which I believe is still being targeted for the very first products) and next Q1 could get interesting. But you're right; NVIDIA and Qualcomm won't stand still, that's for certain.
I would really love to see a 10W Core i-series chip (any of them) be benchmarked in the same system with the same OS as a Tegra 4, Exynos 5250, or Snapdragon 800. That's what I'm waiting for. But I doubt I'll ever get to see such a report. I still have doubts about comparing Geekbench scores across platforms. I'm not really sure that it's fair to do that given the different OS-level optimizations, etc. Reply
Wilco1 - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkIt's not just prefetching, Tegra 3 for example suffers due to its single channel memory. Exynos 4 beats it in pretty much every benchmark. Memory controllers are an area where Intel has more expertise, but hopefully NVidia has learnt how to get it right with Tegra 4(i).
Note you can already find some benchmarks between the Samsung Chromebook and Ivy-Bridge based Chromebooks.
I'm not sure how you can see cross platform benchmarking as being unfair. Yes there is always a small OS component in each benchmark - even SPEC makes OS calls. It does affect the scores somewhat, but not by a huge percentage. Besides being hard to avoid in general, it's actually a realistic reprentation of the OS overhead. If a particular OS has a higher overhead, then any software will run slower on it, including benchmarks.
Note this is quite different from how JavaScript benchmarks differ even on the same device. If you have doubts about cross platform benchmarking then you understand the issue with JavaScript benchmarking! Reply
evonitzer - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkThe Tegra 4 and 4i aren't even out yet! I don't really know much about Geekbench. Does it correlate well with actual performance, or is it purely theoretical? The tests on Anandtech show the Atom in positive light, to this day (except the GPU).
Maybe you're right. Maybe it is severely outclassed by top of the line processors, but stick to ones that are at least in devices today. And let's wait for this implementation in this tablet (and the tests when it is released). The
And then, let's remember at the last that this thing is CHEAP! Reply
smartypnt4 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkGeekbench, when compared on devices with the same OS, gives isolated measures of performance similar to theoretical maximums of throughput. As such, the Atom is on par with an A9, technically speaking, unless you're talking FP performance.
The thing is, the memory interface is really that much better. Sunspider has been characterized by AnandTech as being more of a cache test than anything else, so that's why the Atom does so well: it's way faster than most things in the memory access department.
In this tablet, it should do fine. Reply
Wilco1 - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkGeekbench is not the best benchmark around, but it is much better than SunSpider. SunSpider is worse than Dhrystone, it consists of several tiny functions of about 10 lines of code. As such it is easy to add optimizations which give a huge speedup on SunSpider but don't improve general JS performance.
The problem is that Anand appears to report non-optimal JS results, if you Google for it you can usually find much faster results than what he reports - because others use a different browser or download the latest version. So either he should report the fastest result or just stop showing JS benchmarks at all as they are too browser dependent. Reply
evonitzer - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkYes, I've noticed this when comparing my phone to Anand's (or Brian's) results. I'm using CM10, so my results tend to be a lot different. But the same is true on Geekbench, or just about any benchmark, which shows significant variability with different software builds on the same phone.
But it's not quite fair to say that you don't test the CPU with JS benchmarks, because how else to explain the differences. It just doesn't correlate as well as the tests suggest. Comparison- My cappy scores about ~2400 ms. Way better than the fascinate he used in the test, but also nowhere near the top of the lists, and I doubt any optimizations will make it faster than the iPhone 5, RAZR i, or Nexus 10.
Do you think all browser benchmarks should be thrown out? Anandtech prefers them because they are better cross platform, but the are always browser dependent to some extent. The RAZR-i does pretty well in browser based benchmarks too (for whatever that is worth). Reply
Wilco1 - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkNo the same is not true for real CPU benchmarks. These are by definition native code, so you only rely on the compiler used. Typically you standardize to the same GCC version across platforms. If you run Geekbench on multiple Android devices then you actually run the exact same binary, so the only differences are due to CPU performance.
For example the Cortex-A15 SunSpider scores reported by Anand are 1384 for Nexus 10 and 690 for the Samsung Chromebook. They both use Exynos 5250 at 1.7GHz and the same browser (Chrome). Even Anand seemed surprised there. Some Googling reveals much faster Nexus 10 scores however:
Dolphin Beta: 693.2ms
AOSP: 794.6ms
Ocean: 835.7ms
Boat: 837.3ms
Firefox: 972.2ms
Firefox Beta: 993.4ms
Dolphin: 1132.7ms
Chrome: 1354.0ms
So there you have it, a factor 2 difference. And Anand only reports the slowest score of them all. The same is true for most other Android phones and tablets - I call that misleading, and I expect better from him.
I'd certainly say get rid of SunSpider as it is worse than Dhrystone. If you must have JS benchmarks use the newer larger ones like Octane and Kraken - just don't expect actual browsing performance to relate to the scores.
To conclude JavaScript benchmarks are NOT CPU benchmarks. My 2.7GHz i5-2500S reports 868ms for SunSpider with IE9 on Win7, does that mean a Nexus 10 will outperform my PC? Or even browse faster? Reply
wsw1982 - Friday, March 01, 2013 - linkThe different score is basically because the operational system and the CPU throttle.
Running the chrome browser on a ATOM netbook with windows xp is much faster than on the same netbook with windows vista. Although they are both chrome, and both on a netbook, the operational system are different.
The Nexus 10 is a tablet, and the Chrome book is a notebook. The E5250 is throttled to different watts, the 1.7ghz is just the maximum frequency it can reach. That's like the the i7 ulv and normal i7, they both have the same tubo speed (2.7ghz), but different throttle/base frequency (1.7ghz vs. 2.3ghz) for different TDP (17w vs 35w)
Do you really think a benchmark can show the different between windows vista and windows xp or the difference between i7 ulv and i7 normal is worse than the one cannot? Reply
Wilco1 - Friday, March 01, 2013 - linkNo the Nexus 10 is definitely not being throttled. Did you even read my post? How could another browser achieve the same 690ms score as the Chromebook if it was being throttled???
And no the OS has little to do with it either. It's the browser and the WebKit version which most browsers use (this does the actual JIT compilation). Just like different devices come with different Android versions, they come with different browser versions as well.
I don't understand your question. My point is that an updated Chrome on the Nexus 10 will be able to achieve the same 690ms score as Chromebook. If you disagree, please explain how other browsers (which use the same WebKit) could possibly achieve the 690 score on Nexus 10. Reply
This is one of the reasons why Mobile Chrome for Android was not good until R25. It had an older version of v8 than the stock Android browser. Reply
wsw1982 - Friday, March 01, 2013 - linkEach CPU has it's strong and weakness, especially when you compare CPU from two different architecture. With selective benchmark, you can of course declare whatever you want. How interesting is it?
Base on Vellamo benchmark, I could also declare the Z2420 is faster than 1.4GHz Exynos 4 in Galaxy S3.
Almost on all benchmarks, the z2420 beats the dual-core ARM a9, which is the ARMy chip target the same market segment. And in some benchmark it faster than Quad core A9 or krait.
Wilco1 - Friday, March 01, 2013 - linkSelective benchmarking is exactly my issue with Anand's reviews, he doesn't show any CPU benchmarks, and in the JavaScript benchmarks he doesn't show the best scores.
You'd be completely wrong if you believe that a Z2420 beats S3 on Vellamo. Anand's benchmark pages show the S3 scoring 2086 which is much higher.
So in which benchmarks does the Z2420 beat any A9? Vellamo is certainly not one of them. And claiming it beats a quad core is totally ridiculous. Hint: most of the benchmarks are single threaded.
It's funny how you talk about selective benchmarking and then make claims like that. Reply
wsw1982 - Monday, March 04, 2013 - linkRead the link again, the website who tested Z2420 did show the Z2420 faster than S3 Exynos 4 on Vellamo, and Tegra 3 in some other benchmarks. And they should be more professional than both of us.
Anyway, the comparison between the Z2420 and quad core ARMy (include the declaration that Z2420 faster than Exynos 4 quad) is only to make the selective comparison look funny, absurd and vivid. you did find it funny too, didn't you?
My point is the Z2420 beat dual core A9 on almost any benchmark (single or multi-thread) except the benchmark (Geekbench) you select. And they are the chip for same market segment (quad core arm should be comparing to Z2480/Z2580). Reply
Wilco1 - Monday, March 04, 2013 - linkWhy don't you read that webpage you linked again and point out where exactly does it compare Galaxy S3 with the X500? It doesn't even appear at all, so it must be in your imagination. And no, I don't rate fonearena very professional at all, certainly not compared with Anand.
Yes, comparing a Z2420 with a modern ARM core is funny as it is so slow indeed. I guess that is exactly why fonearena avoided comparing it with Galaxy S3 and similar high-end phones.
Geekbench shows the same results as other benchmarks. A Galaxy S3 beats a Z2420 on any of the benchmarks in your link. Just search for the S3 scores and you'll see for yourself. I already posted the S3 Vellamo score. Reply
Kidster3001 - Thursday, March 14, 2013 - linkThere are very few real "CPU benchmarks" for Android. Most of them are Dalvik benchmarks. If the benchmark is not compiled for native execution using the NDK then it is only testing the efficiency of the Dalvik VM, not the CPU, this is a huge difference. Not very many do, a couple benchmarks I know of that use native code are AnTuTu and AndEBench. Reply
p.s. The metal tests in Vellamo are poorly compiled. They must be using generic flags. Reply
RU482 - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkI'd buy one in a heartbeat if it was a Windows 8 (or blue for that matter) phone instead of android.
In fact, i'd really dig it if the phone was a 3.7" screen like my Samsung Focus Flash, with the ability to dock to say an 8.9-9.7" screen dock/tablet. Reply
uhuznaa - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkAt $249 for a 3G-enabled 7" tablet with a 1280x800 IPS screen and a SD slot this thing will sell well enough. The fact that you also can use it as a phone if you want is just something like a free option thrown in.
What I'm missing here is a solid well-integrated kickstand (like the MS Surface has), loud and clear front-facing speakers, and an array of good noise-cancelling mics. In fact I'm wondering how Asus could miss this. The bezels are huge enough to offer room for good speakers and a kickstand in the back cover isn't magic anyway. If you could easily use this thing as a hands-free phone propped up at a desk this would go a long way to avoid the "you look like a moron with a tablet pressed to your face" comments.
People use Skype and similar apps/services quite a lot on tablets and laptops and nobody offers comments about how silly it looks to press a laptop to your head. Ironically one of the weakest points of the Nexus 7 in this regard is its extremely poor speaker on the bottom and I guess the Fonepad won't be any better.
I would really like someone to come up with such a pad that actually has some thought and development applied to it and not just features thrown in. A pen-like BT headset that you can slot into the device for charging and that has a clip for wearing it in a shirt pocket or so would also go a long way to make such a pad actually usable as a phone. Reply
RoninX - Saturday, March 02, 2013 - linkI agree that a pen-like BT headset would be the way to go. I vaguely remember that someone already developed an accessory like this, and it might have been ASUS... Reply
Amit kumar - Friday, March 22, 2013 - linkWow startling devices. I have to agree on your review. I saw fairly a few respectable features in this site as well. www.gadtecho.com Reply
babis - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkI am very happy with my last purchase and mean the fonepad. Is terrific device and all the applications that I was using are working without problems.
I think that Intel atom runs smoother that arm chips. Maybe is the hyper threading that makes it. In general I have that feeling.
The only problem that I encountered is with the Skype. It is working for making video chat and all other operations but It blocks the phone dialer after Skype installation.
its a fantastic machine and the only problem is with Skype that blocks the dialer
When I am dialing to the dialer the number that I want to call and hit the "green phone" button to call the number a pop up comes on and I can choose my cellular line and I can make the call.
have a look to that image (before installing skype):
After installing skype that option disappears and I can not make a cellular call.
It pop up a window to choose skype or android voip service.
have a look to that image (after installing skype):
That renders the capability to call thought my mobile number useless.
Before installing skype everything works as it should be. It reacts as is a tablet and not a mobile phone with a real sim card. And I think this is the problem. Installs the tablet version and not the phone version.
I am waiting from a reply ROM Skype but they always are so late at their reply. Reply


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LSU presidential finalist King Alexander said Thursday he is qualified to run a system as large and varied as LSU and that he will fight to maintain state support to higher education if he gets the job.
In making his first round of public interviews since being named LSU's sole finalist on Monday, Alexander also said he wouldn't have agreed to be a candidate if the process weren't confidential.
Alexander arrived on the Baton Rouge campus just two days after LSU's Faculty Senate unanimously passed a symbolic vote of "no confidence" in LSU's Board of Supervisors, in part over their selection of Alexander to be the next system president.
Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope questioned whether Alexander, the current president of California State University at Long Beach, has the credentials to run a major research institution.
Cope argued that CSU-Long Beach is a regional campus, considered to be on a lower level than LSU, which is made up of four academic campuses; a law school; agricultural center; a biomedical research center; two health science centers; and 10 public hospitals and related outpatient clinics around the state.
But King defended his credentials noting, that he was a part of the largest college system in the country and presided over a campus with 36,000 students. His school, which had twice the national average of low-income and first-generation students, consistently posted a graduation rate over 50 percent, exceeding the roughly 40 percent predicted graduation rate of schools with similar makeups, he said.
Alexander said he was invited to the White House in December 2011, in part, to talk about his school's success."We're very proud of what we've accomplished," he said.
Alexander also addressed state funding to colleges and universities, which has fueled much of Louisiana's higher education debate going back several years. Alexander said his university budget in California has dipped from 44 percent state funding to 23 percent in about two years and routinely includes a number of revenue sources that may or may not pan out.
He said California's Legislature requires a two-thirds vote to pass a budget, making the process especially long and difficult.
CSU-Long Beach administrators have drafted as many as seven distinct budget scenarios in a given year in order to contend with the uncertainty, he added.
As president of LSU, Alexander said, his job would be to establish relationships with donors and convince the Legislature to stay committed to funding higher education.
"This is a national issue," Alexander said. "The trend nationally is very disturbing. We have to talk to legislators and make sure states stay in this game."
On the issue of faculty, Alexander said he has a long track record of working with faculty and would continue that should he be named LSU's next president. He is scheduled to meet with faculty early Friday.
While faculty and news outlets, including The Advocate, have criticized LSU's secretive search process, both Alexander and search committee members defended their tactics this week as necessary to preserve the integrity of the candidate pool.
Alexander said he wasn't actively seeking the LSU job. He said he was contacted by R. William Funk and Associates on LSU's behalf.
Search committee chairman Blake Chatelain said Alexander was the first candidate interviewed, initially by phone in January, and then later in person with about five search committee members present at a Dallas airport in late January or early February.
Chatelain said various members of the search committee were sold on Alexander following his visit to Baton Rouge last weekend.
"He just stood out throughout the entire process," Chatelain said. "We looked at his background, he articulated a vision and he helped us clearly understand how the next five years in the higher education industry are going to shape the next 50."
LSU board Chairman Hank Danos added that he was impressed by Alexander's "passion."
"I'm pretty deliberate in my thought process," Danos said. "I didn't rush into this. He was clearly the right guy for LSU."


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Finally, a hockey game. It's in Kanata, Ont., though, so a 7:30 start for the home-and-home rematch (and an almost certain meeting between Mr. Carkner and Mr. Boogaard).
No worries. MSG Network has some extra programming tonight. At 6:30, MSG will show the latest edition of "Behind the Bench" — the show with John Tortorella and Mike Keenan. In it is an "Open Mic" segment with the very talkative Martin Biron wearing a microphone during practice. That should be worth watching by itself. The fans' Q&A segment features a question that should be interesting for these two hard-headed coaches: Is it important for players to like their coach?
The pre-game show through the post-game show will be filled with the annual telethon for Garden of Dreams Foundation, which has touched over 150,000 kids and their families in four years since its inception.
Here are tonight's pre-game notes, from the Rangers:
NEW YORK RANGERS at OTTAWA SENATORS
Thursday, Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Scotiabank Place • Ottawa, ON
Rangers: 16-12-1 (33 pts)
Senators: 12-15-2 (26 pts)
* All information through NHL games on Dec. 7
The Rangers will complete their home-and-home set against the Ottawa Senators at Scotiabank Place (7:30 p.m.). The Blueshirts currently rank third in the Atlantic Division standings, and eighth in the Eastern Conference, with a record of 16-12-1 (33 pts). The Rangers enter the contest having been defeated by the Senators, 3-1, on Sunday at MSG in the first game of the set, and are now 6-3-0 in their last nine games. The Senators enter the contest with a 12-15-2 (26 pts) record to rank 10th in the Eastern Conference, and have lost nine of their last 12 games (3-8-1). Following the contest, the Rangers will begin a back-to-back set when they face-off against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday, Dec. 11, at Nationwide Arena (7:00 p.m.), before returning to Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Dec. 12 (7:00 p.m.) to close out the set vs. the Washington Capitals.
- TV: MSG Network
7:00 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game Show with Bill Pidto and Ron Duguay
7:30 p.m. – Rangers at Senators
Broadcasters: Sam Rosen (Play-By-Play), Joe Micheletti (Analyst), John Giannone (In-Game Reporter)
- Radio: 1050 ESPN Radio and MSG.com
7:00 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game with Don LaGreca
7:30 p.m. – Rangers at Senators
Broadcasters: Don LaGreca (Play-By-Play), Dave Maloney (Analyst)
RANGERS vs. SENATORS:
- All-Time: The Rangers are 30-33-3-1 all-time against the Senators: 14-20-0-0 at home and 16-13-3-1 on the road
- 2010-11: Tonight's contest marks the second of four meetings between the Rangers and Senators this season, and the first of two meetings at Scotiabank Place. The Blueshirts own a 0-1-0 record thus far, following a 3-1 loss on Sunday at Madison Square Garden.
- Last Season: New York was 3-1-0 against the Senators in 2009-10, including a 2-0-0 mark at Ottawa. The Rangers' penalty kill held the Senators scoreless in 13 power play opportunities in the season series.
- The Blueshirts rank second in the NHL on the road with a record of 10-4-0 (20 pts) in 14 games; the Senators have posted a record of 7-7-1 (15 pts) at home tying for 17th in the league
- The Rangers have posted a record of 5-2-1 vs. Northeast Division opponents; the Senators are 2-3-0 vs. the Atlantic Division
- Henrik Lundqvist has posted a record of 8-11-0 with a 1.98 goals against average and one shutout in 20 career regular season games against Ottawa; Martin Biron is 14-9-2-2 with a 2.79 goals against average and two shutouts in 30 career regular season contests vs. the Senators
- Marian Gaborik has tallied five goals and six assists for 11 points in 10 career regular season contests vs. the Senators
- New York lists two former Senators on their roster: Vinny Prospal (1997-98 – 2000-01); Todd White (2000-01 – 2003-04)
- Ottawa lists one former Ranger on their roster: Alex Kovalev (1992-93 – 1998-99, 2002-03 – 2003-04)
- Power Play: The Rangers did not tally a goal in four power play opportunities (8:00) on Sunday vs. the Senators, and have now tallied a power play goal in six of their last nine games (6-31, 19.4% over the span). New York ranks 17th in the NHL with a 16.0% (17-106) success rate, and ranks sixth on the road with a 19.6% (9-46) success rate. The Rangers notched one goal in one, five-on-three chance (0:30) on Nov. 24 at Tampa Bay, and are now 1-5 on five-on-three attempts (5:01). New York is 0-2 (2:23) with a four-on-three advantage this season. Shorthanded goals allowed (2): 11/20 at MIN (Cullen); 12/5 vs. OTT (Kelly).
- Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts held the Senators scoreless in one shorthanded situation (2:00) and notched one shorthanded goal on Sunday at MSG, and are now 46-50 (92.0%) over the last 17 games. New York ranks 10th in the NHL with a 83.5% (86-103) success rate, and are tied for seventh in the league on the road with a 84.2% (48-57) success rate. The Rangers held the Maple Leafs scoreless in one, three-on-five situation (0:31) on Oct. 30 at Toronto, and are 4-6 on three-on-fives (5:08) this season. The Blueshirts held the Penguins scoreless in one, three-on-four situation on Nov. 15 at Pittsburgh, and are now 4-6 (2:41) in those situations this season. Shorthanded goals for (6): 10/9 at BUF (Dubinsky); 11/5 at NJD (Dubinsky); 11/15 at PIT (Staal); 11/24 at TBL (Boyle); 11/26 at FLA (Prust); 12/5 vs. OTT (Prust).
- Four-on-Four: New York did not skate in a four-on-four situation on Sunday vs. Ottawa, and are now plus-two in 23, four-on-four situations (37:08) this season. Four-on-four goals for (3): 10/18 vs. COL (Frolov); 11/11 vs. BUF (Anisimov); 11/15 at PIT (Callahan). Four-on-four goals allowed (1): 10/15 vs. TOR (Kessel).
The Rangers' penalty kill has allowed just four goals in their last 17 games, registering a 92.0% (46-50) success rate over the span, and have notched five shorthanded goals during the stretch. New York is currently tied for first in the NHL with six shorthanded goals.
The Rangers are tied for the league lead with 10 victories on the road, having posted a record of 10-4-0 in 14 games away from MSG this season. The Blueshirts rank among the league leaders in several road statistical categories, including first in shorthanded goals (five), sixth in power play percentage (19.6%), and tied for fourth in goals (44), seventh in penalty kill percentage (84.2%) and power play goals against (nine), and eighth in power play goals (nine).
The Rangers have posted a record of 5-2-1 (11 pts) in eight games vs. Northeast Division opponents this season, and are now 16-8-4 (36 pts) vs. the Northeast Division since the start of 2009-10 after posting an 11-6-3 (25 pts) mark against the Northeast Division in 20 games last season.
The Rangers completed their seventh of 18 back-to-back sets with a 2-0 win on Friday vs. the Islanders, improving to 7-0-0 in the second game of back-to-backs this season having out-scored their opponent, 20-6, and are 2-0-0 when the second game is at home. Over the last two seasons, New York is 16-2-2 in the back-end of back-to-back sets, including a 10-1-1 mark away from MSG over the span. The Blueshirts' next back-to-back set is the weekend of Dec. 11 at Columbus – Dec. 12 vs. Washington.
The Blueshirts have started games off strong this season, tallying the first goal of the game in 19 of their 29 games and posting a record of 14-4-1 in those contests. The Rangers own a record of 9-1-1 when leading after the first period, having out-scored their opponent, 20-12, in the opening frame. Brandon Dubinsky leads the team with four, first period goals on the season, followed by Brian Boyle with three goals.
The Rangers have had 10 different players credited with at least one game winning goal this season, which is tied for third most in the league. New York trails Tampa Bay (11) and Washington (11) by one, and is tied with Atlanta (10), Dallas (10), Detroit (10) and Montreal (10) entering tonight's action.
The Blueshirts currently lead the NHL with 475 blocked shots on the season, averaging a league-high, 16.4 blocked shots per contest. Dan Girardi leads the NHL with 84 blocked shots, and Ryan Callahan leads all NHL forwards with 37 blocked shots.
The Rangers currently rank first in the NHL with 872 hits on the season, and lead the league with an average of 30.1 hits per contest. Ryan Callahan currently ranks second in the NHL with 117 hits.
- New York has won six of the last nine games and is now tied for sixth overall in the NHL in wins (16), seventh in points (33) and ranks ninth in goals (82)
- The Rangers' penalty kill has yielded just four goals in their last 17 games, registering a 92.0% success rate (46-50), and have notched five shorthanded goals over the span
- Marian Gaborik has tallied 13 points (eight goals, five assists) in his last 12 games
- Ryan Callahan has notched four points (three goals, one assist) in the last six games
- Derek Stepan has registered 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in the last 13 games
- Marc Staal has recorded five points (one goal, four assists) in the last seven games
- Brandon Dubinsky has registered four assists in the last five games
Blueshirts' prospects Chris Kreider and Ryan Bourque have been invited to USA Hockey's evaluation camp for the 2011 World Junior Championship in Buffalo, New York. This would be the second trip to the elite tournament for both Kreider and Bourque, if selected, having both represented the gold medal-winning Team USA at the 2010 World Junior Championship. Roman Horak has also been invited to attend the Czech Republic's evaluation camp, while Jesper Fasth is on Team Sweden's preliminary roster. If selected, this would be Horak's second appearance at the World Junior Championship, having represented his native country in last year's tournament. Fasth is looking to make his first appearance in the elite tournament.
Based on opening day rosters, the Rangers have the ninth youngest team in the NHL with an average age of 27 years and 44 days, and the second youngest defensive corp in the league, trailing only Los Angeles with an average age of 25 years and 51 days.
- Vinny Prospal (IR on Sept. 24/knee surgery on Oct. 18, 6-8 weeks) – 29
- Chris Drury (IR – fractured finger on Oct. 15, 6 weeks) – 26
Total Man-Games Lost: 87
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Four Legs, Two Legs, Three LegsRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
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