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Don't have a lot of interviews for you today because A) I spent a lot of time working on a story I'm doing next week and B) What else is there for the boys to say after that Montreal game and a day off?
For the same reason, John Tortorella's post-practice press conference was short, because there weren't many questions to be asked.
Brad Richards (maintenance day) and Brandon Dubinsky (sick) were not on the ice.
I had a chance to speak briefly with Michael Sauer about the bizarre non-icing play in Montreal. He was shocked. He said he never heard any officials tell him to move the puck, only heard Martin Biron tell him to not touch it, and was surprised that the defending team could be punished on a play like that when the team with the power play chooses to not pressure the play at all.
I told him that, supposed it hadn't been an icing. Suppose he was just back playing the puck, the the team on the power play sat back? Why wouldn't he just sit back there and kill the clock? Same thing, right? But Sauer agreed with me, and said he thought of this at the time, that the officials were a little touchy after the whole Philadelphia-Tampa Bay 1-3-1 incident a couple of weeks back.
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You don't have to be a Southerner to appreciate the iconic desserts served up at the Nashville landmark, The Loveless Cafe, and highlighted in the new cookbook, Desserts from the Famous Loveless Cafe. The café opened in 1951 and became popular for fried chicken and biscuits, but in 2004 it was expanded and reopened with a dessert menu developed by the cafe's new pastry chef, Culinary Institute of America graduate Alisa Huntsman. These are nostalgic, classic desserts like pies, puddings, cakes and cobblers – simple, easy and elegant, just like Mama (or someone's "mama") used to make.
This is the cookbook of my dreams: Every recipe looks beautiful and delicious, yet simple enough to throw together on a weeknight or on short notice. You can give a few sample recipes a spin with these Southern crowd-pleasers:
- Loveless Banana Pudding – The base of this Southern classic is a simple from-scratch vanilla pudding that comes together in only 15 minutes.
- Red Velvet Cake – A good amount of cocoa powder gives this cake a distinct chocolate flavor, but the festive red color makes it the perfect cake for holiday celebrations.
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More than 200 women are expected to attend this year's Grace Project National HIV-Positive Women's Conference after Legacy Counseling Center opened registration to women beyond North Texas for the first time in the event's 12-year history.
The weekend includes 15 speakers. Among them is Michelle Anderson, Miss Plus America 2011. The "plus" is for plus-size, but she is also the first openly HIV-positive national beauty queen winner.
Women ages 17-77 are expected. Seven are in their 70s, according to Legacy Counseling Center Executive Director Melissa Grove.
"Grandpa got Viagra and grandma got AIDS," she said.
The conference is to give the women support, educate them about their health and create grassroots leaders to talk to their communities about HIV/AIDS.
Grove said that many are low-income women.
"Many come not knowing another HIV-positive person," she said.


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Open House at USU Botanical Center
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The Utah State University Botanical Center Gardens open house is held Saturday, June 28, from 9 a.m. to noon at 920 South 50 West in Kaysville. The event is free and open to the public.
"If you've ever wondered what's happening at the USU Botanical Center, this will be the day to visit," said Britney Hunter, horticulture assistant professor for USU Extension in Davis County. "Our garden stewards are available to give tours of each garden area, and master gardeners can answer gardening questions and help visitors with plant diagnostics."
Hunter said there is a lot to see, including a 2,000 square-foot vegetable garden, more than 100 varieties in the fruit orchard, blooming perennial gardens and an arboretum. In addition, there will be children's games and crafts sponsored by USU Extension 4-H in Davis County and Sghetti's Italian Ice will serve shaved ice.
Hunter said participants can get a map of the gardens, plant lists and free popcorn and lemonade at the Farmers Market Tent at 850 South 50 West. From there they can visit whatever interests them on the 100-acre property.
For further information, contact Hunter at 801-451-3411 or visit http://usubotanicalcenter.org/.


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PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team is done with Ivy League play, and will know its Ivy League Tournament fate before it takes the field Saturday afternoon with first-time foe Bellarmine. The Quakers and Knights are meeting in a neutral-site affair at Radnor (Pa.) High School to punctuate the annual Katie Samson Lacrosse Festival.
GAME 12 – #18 PENN (7-4) vs. BELLARMINE (7-6)
Saturday, April 27, 2013 * 5:30 p.m.
Radnor (Pa.) High School
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The Series with Bellarmine
The Quakers and the Knights are meeting for the first time in men's lacrosse.
About Bellarmine
The Knights (7-6) hail from Louisville, Ky.; this is Bellarmine's ninth season fielding a varsity lacrosse program, and they play in the ECAC. Bellarmine was ranked earlier this season, and among the Knights' results this season they fell in double overtime to No. 1 Denver (11-10), by two to defending NCAA champion Loyola (8-6), and by five to traditional power Virginia (12-7). On Tuesday, they lost in overtime to Marquette, 9-8, despite four goals from Will Cary. Cameron Gardner leads Bellarmine in scoring, with 26 goals and 31 points, while Michael Ward has 32 points (21g, 11a) and Lance Robinson has 25 (16g, 9a). In goal, the Knights boast the national leader in save percentage in Dillon Ward (.667).
Scoreboard Watching
Penn has the bye from Ivy League play this weekend, but on the final Saturday of conference play the Quakers will certainly be interested in what happens in Cambridge (Yale vs. Harvard, 2 p.m.) and at the Meadowlands (Cornell vs. Princeton, 4 p.m.) ahead of their 5:30 faceoff. If you're a Penn fan, the Yale-Harvard game is the one that matters; if the Bulldogs win, Penn is in the Ivy League Tournament, but if the Crimson win the Quakers are out because of tiebreakers. IF YALE WINS, Penn's seeding is set by the Cornell-Princeton results (third seed if the Big Red win, fourth seed if the Tigers win).
About Penn
*Penn is ranked No. 18 again this week in the USILA national coaches poll; the Quakers' No. 9 ranking on March 17 was its best in that poll since the Quakers were seventh in the April 10, 2006 poll.
*In the latest NCAA Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) rankings, released Monday, Penn was at No. 14 which was behind only Cornell (5) and Yale (11) among Ivy institutions.
*This week's RPI of Penn's opponents to date: Denver (1), Cornell (5), Duke (7), Yale (11), Lehigh (17), Princeton (18), Villanova (21), Brown (25), Harvard (27), Dartmouth (38), Saint Joseph's (52). Bellarmine's RPI is 30.
*A look at the Laxpower.com computer rankings on Monday showed that, after a few weeks of being No. 1, Penn's strength of schedule is ranked second among Division I programs this week behind Villanova. High strength of schedule is a continuing trend in the Mike Murphy era, as the Quakers ended each of the last two seasons with the toughest schedule in the country.
*Six of Penn's 11 opponents to date are in this week's USILA national coaches' poll: No. 4 Denver (L), No. 5 Duke (W), No. 6 Cornell (L), No. 12 Princeton (W), No. 15 Yale (L), No. 16 Lehigh (W). Another opponent, Villanova, is one of four teams also receiving votes.
*Penn held Dartmouth to just two goals last weekend, the fewest goals the Quakers have allowed in a game since March 5, 2002 (an 11-2 win over Saint Joseph's). The last time Penn held an Ivy opponent to two goals? Try March 20, 1999 (7-2 win over Yale).
*Penn's defense has also held a team to three goals (Brown, 4/6); four goals (Lehigh (3/5); and five goals (Saint Joseph's, 2/26). Overall, the Quakers' 7.45 goals-against average this season ranks them fifth nationally.
*Penn had at least six goal-scorers in each of its first six games, before having just four players score at Cornell and five vs. Yale. The number has gotten back up to six each of the last three weeks against Brown, Harvard and Dartmouth.
*Three times this season the Quakers have had just six goals in a game; in two of those contests, six different players scored those six goals (Saint Joseph's and Lehigh), while against Yale five players scored. (Two weeks ago, six different players scored Penn's seven goals at Harvard.)
*Fifteen different players have scored Penn's 101 goals, and the Quakers have 56 unassisted goals vs. 45 assisted; in other words, a lot of guys are finding a lot of different ways to score.
*Penn has outscored its opponents in the fourth quarter, 37-17, so far this season including 12-2 in the last three games (3-0 at Brown, 4-1 at Harvard, 5-1 vs. Dartmouth).
*Penn has outshot its opponents 239-160 in the second half this season (112-70 in the third quarter, 127-90 in the fourth).
*After going 9-of-10 on man-up situations over a four-game span (10-of-12 over five games), Penn has gone just 2-of-9 in such situations the last two weekends. The Quakers are seventh nationally in man-up offense, with a .455 success rate.
*NATIONAL STATS: Junior goalie Brian Feeney is sixth in goals-against average (7.43) and 10th in save percentage (.586); senior defenseman Anthony Santomo is 11th in caused turnovers per game (2.09); junior Danny Feeney is 14th in face-off win percentage (.572); and 24th in ground balls per game (5.82); senior attackman Tim Schwalje is 19th in assists per game (1.91).
*Schwalje was Penn's leading returning scorer from last year, and he leads the team so far this season in assists (21) and points (36).
*Schwalje had hat tricks against Duke and Denver, and has gone for multiple points in each of the last nine games after opening the season with seven points against Duke.
*Schwalje has a point in 23 straight games; he is the only Penn player to have a point in every game so far this season. (In addition, he has scored in all but one game this season, at Brown on April 13.)
*Junior Zack Losco has 14 goals in Penn's last seven games and 17 in the last nine, including hat tricks against Villanova and Denver.
*Losco leads the Quakers with 19 goals, and has scored at least two goals in seven of Penn's last nine games (he was held without a goal March 5 at Lehigh, and had one on April 13 at Harvard).
*Sophomore Isaac Bock scored once last season; this season, he is second on the team with 18 goals. That includes a four-goal game in the season opener against Duke and hat tricks vs. Villanova, Princeton and Brown.
*After a stellar freshman campaign in 2011, Drew Belinsky broke his ankle prior to his sophomore season and never seemed to fully get over it. This year, as a junior he has 20 points so far (12g, 8a).
*Belinsky has seven multi-point outings this season, including five in the last seven games.
*In his collegiate debut, freshman Nick Doktor scored twice; in fact, in his first quarter as a collegian he scored twice. He has 13 points so far this season (10g, 3a), and on March 9 vs. Villanova he recorded his first collegiate hat trick.
*Doktor had an eight-game point-scoring streak ended last weekend vs. Dartmouth; he has at least a point in nine of 11 contests so far this season.
*Another freshman, Mark Leonhard, has a point in each of the last three games (goals against Brown and Dartmouth, assist at Harvard); he also scored in his first collegiate game, then again on March 5 at Lehigh.
*Junior Alex Blonsky scored at Harvard on April 13, becoming the third different long pole to score for Penn this season (also Anthony Santomo twice and Matt Machucki twice).
*Another long-stick defenseman, Maxx Meyer, had an assist last weekend against Dartmouth.
*Sophomores Will Laco and Chris Hupfeldt saw no game action last year (Hupfeldt due to injury); Laco had a three-game goal-scoring streak earlier this season and assisted a goal at Brown, while "Hup" has had goals against Saint Joseph's and Denver and recorded assists at Cornell and Brown.
*Santomo's goals this season have been the captain's first collegiate goals; he is joined as a captain by Schwalje, Meyer, and fellow classmate Brendan Engelke, a goalie.
*Santomo -- who was added to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List two weeks ago -- leads Penn with 23 caused turnovers, while Meyer has 17 and sophomore close defenseman Matt McMahon has 14; Meyer also has 32 ground balls. As a team, Penn is 13th nationally in caused turnovers per game.
*Junior Danny Feeney has taken a majority of Penn's faceoffs this season (173 of 220); he has a .572 win percentage on the X and a team-high 64 ground balls.
*Feeney went 9-of-15 on the X last Saturday vs. Dartmouth, and is 34-of-49 (.694 win percentage) in the last three games. He has also been over 50 percent against Harvard (13-18), Brown (12-16), Cornell (9-17), Villanova (16-23), Denver (8-14) and Saint Joseph's (8-12).
*Sophomore Joe McCallion, who is running on the second midfield -- he has three goals and two assists this season -- has taken 46 faceoffs this season and has a .413 win percentage.
*Keep an eye on No. 28, Matt Machucki; after three years as an attackman, the sizable senior has moved into a long-stick middie position. With the long stick, he has scored his first collegiate goals (against Princeton and Cornell).
*In goal, junior Brian Feeney had 10 saves while allowing just two goals last Saturday vs. Dartmouth; that is an .833 save percentage, matching the career high he set two weeks earlier at Brown (15 saves, 3 goals) and just ahead of the .810 he put up against Lehigh on March 5 (17 saves, 4 goals).
*Feeney is the only goalie to have three games with an .800 or better save percentage (playing at least three quarters); in fact, only Cornell's AJ Fiore has two such games this season.
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*Penn has five players who were UnderArmour All-America selections in high school: juniors Drew Belinsky and Brian Feeney, and freshmen Nick Doktor, Pat Berkery and Sam Rohr (both Berkery and Rohr are expected to miss this season due to injury).
*Sophomores Joe McCallion and Chris Hupfeldt were seniors on the Haverford School (Pa.) boys' lacrosse team that ended the 2011 season ranked as the No. 1 high school program in the country.
*Two other players who have not yet seen time this year, Berkery and freshman Rob Savage, were on the Garden City (N.Y.) team that was ranked No. 1 at the end of last year.
*If the Savage name looks familiar to Penn fans, your intuition is correct -- Rob is indeed the brother of Dan Savage, who graduated last year and played four years on the Quaker lacrosse team.
*Penn lacrosse continues to be a family affair for McCallion, whose sister, Kelly, is a senior and a member of the Quakers' Ivy League champion women's lacrosse team.
*If Saturday's game gets to overtime, beware Drew Belinsky; as a freshman, he scored the OT winner in two different games, against Yale and Harvard.
*Penn welcomed two former Quaker football players to the roster this season, seniors Dave Twamley and C.J. Mooney. Both players were starters on defense for the Ivy League champs this fall -- in fact, they won three rings during their tenure on the gridiron -- and Twamley was a second-team All-Ivy recipient. Twamley has seen regular game action in the midfield.


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Adélie penguins feed mainly on krill, fish and calamari. In order to find their prey they can dive into 175 meters depth but generally they feed on more shallow waters half of this depth.
They are talented swimmers like other penguin species. Only to find their lunch, they can easily cover approximately 300 kilometers.
At the start of the spring which is the breeding period, they settle on the rocky coasts of Antarctica in crowds. While on land they build their nests and specify their respective zones with little rocks. Although they have the typical waddling penguin walk, they can walk long distances. During the first weeks of the spring when ice are still intact, they need to walk for 50 kilometers to reach open seas. It is almost impossible to distinguish the male of this penguin species from its female. Once the female lays its eggs (it has a pair of eggs) the female and male penguins take turns incubating their eggs. If there are any trouble with food, only one of the two chicks can survive. Three weeks later parents leave the chicks alone but chicks still remain in groups for their security. The young Adélie penguins start to swim alone within 9 weeks.
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Birthday Appeal nears Ł100,000 mark
The Ashmolean's 330th Birthday Appeal has raised over £97,000 making it the Museum's most successful annual appeal since reopening in November 2009.
Donations to the Birthday Appeal will help us to provide public talks and tours, family activities, and educational sessions for schools, and continue to preserve the 700,000 objects in our care.
We would like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who has given to the Birthday Appeal so far.
Tess McCormick, the Ashmolean's Head of Development, spoke to the Oxford Mail this week: "We wanted to do something to celebrate the fact we are, I think, the oldest public museum anywhere. Voluntary donations for the museum make a hugely important contribution to what we can do here. We have reached £97,139. Now we are trying to get over the £100,000 mark."
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10 Actors Who Have Quit Acting (Say It Ain't So, Brad Pitt!)
Sometimes even actors want to quit their jobs– just like Brad Pitt.
-Lucia Peters
Earlier this week, Brad Pitt announced on 60 Minutes that he plans to—gasp!—quit acting. Not only that, but he's got his exit strategy all thought out: Lately, he's been getting more into the producing side of things, so in a mere three years' time, that's where he plans to be. There also might be more kids in the future. Wait– more? In addition to the six he and Angelina already have? Yep. "I don't know that we're finished," Brad said when asked how big he imagined his brood would get. Producing and kids? Quite a project, indeed!
Brad, though, is, of course, not the only actor who's ever quit. In fact, plenty have—including these 10 we've assembled right here. Some of them quit for personal reasons; some of them retired due to old age; and some of them… well, we're not really sure, but hey, it's their life. Furthermore, not all of them have actually stayed retired . Some of them (rather a lot of them, actually), later "un-quit," as it were. Which of these examples do you imagine Brad's quitting pattern will follow? Will he stay retired, like Sean Connery? Or will he un-quit, like Evangeline Lilly? Tell us what you think!
1. Taylor Momsen
Taylor Momsen may have started out as sweet little Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but somewhere between there and the later seasons of Gossip Girl, she turned into a wild child. After getting into some trouble for her questionable behavior on the Gossip Girl set, her character was scheduled for an indefinite hiatus in 2010. Perhaps it wasn't a surprise, then, when she told Elle magazine that she'd quit acting to focus on music and her band, The Pretty Reckless. "Hopefully I'll be able to only do that for the rest of my life," she said. Let's just hope she can do it without imploding…
2. Amanda Bynes
Another former child star, Amanda Bynes launched her career during the golden age of '90s Nickelodeon, first as a cast member of All That and later as the star of her own show, The Amanda Show. In 2010, though, it seemed she'd had enough—or so she said. She announced on Twitter that she didn't love acting anymore, so she'd stopped doing it. A month later, though, she changed her mind, and along came Easy A. Go figure.
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3. Jamie Lee Curtis
Former scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis told Access Hollywood in 2006, "I'm not an actor anymore. I really don't imagine I'll do that again. I'm just focused on my family and just can't imagine anything that's going to pull me away from them right now." She's actually made a few appearances onscreen since then—namely, 2007's Beverly Hills Chihuahua and 2010's You Again—but she's gone on to become an enormously successful author of children's books. Now that's something we can get behind!
4. Ryan Phillippe
After the release of The Lincoln Lawyer last summer and amidst a whirlwind of tabloid coverage about his romantic relationships, Ryan Phillippe told Page Six, "I think I'm going to end my acting career. I'm so introverted. I'm ready to be behind the scenes. I'm 36, but I've been doing this for 20 years." He has yet to make good on this, though; he's been steadily working in both film and television, including a 10-episode arc on Damages—his first regular TV gig since his breakout appearance on One Life to Live in the early '90s.
5. Joaquin Phoenix
Just kidding! Joaquin Phoenix's "I quit" stunt ended up being just that: A stunt. In what became the biggest hoax of 2008, Joaquin announced that he was quitting acting to focus on a career as a rapper. This, of course, led to the immensely bizarre mockumentary I'm Still Here. And he is, in fact, still here; he'll be starring in Paul Thomas Anderson's next film, The Master, due out in 2012.
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This unique downtown loop on the banks of the Willamette River offers some of Portland's best city views and is a must-see for visitors. The paved route consists of a path through Waterfront Park on the west side and the Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade on the other side. The Steel Bridge is the north connection across the river, with the Hawthorne Bridge at the south end.
The west side meanders past the Salmon Street Springs, beelines through the riverside park and even bisects the site of the thriving Saturday Market (actually, it's open on Sundays, too). The east side is a clever combination of floating sections, ramps and concrete pathway. From this side you can enjoy spectacular water-level views of downtown.
On the map shown here, the starting point is the end of SE Salmon Street, a convenient place to access this loop – but there are countless other places to connect. Because this route doesn't follow actual streets, the mapping software won't show it – but you can, easily, by paying attention to signs and general direction.
The adventurous can extend this ride in a couple ways. On the east side, instead of taking the ramp up to the Hawthorne Bridge, you can continue south past the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (slow down here!) and connect to the Springwater Corridor, which parallels the river for several miles before turning east and heading 20+ miles out toward Mt. Hood.
On the west, you can also head south from the Hawthorne Bridge. With some navigating savvy, you can make your way via paths and streets to the South Waterfront, where you can actually put your bike on a tram car and head up the hill for some downhill fun back to the river.
Note: This is a heavily used path, for all kinds of locomotion. Don't expect to go fast, and please be considerate of everyone around you.
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Intel's Menlow Revealed: Baby Centrino Gets Readyby Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/9/2008 12:00 AM EST
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n0nsense - Sunday, January 13, 2008 - linkI don't like intel.
Usually it does something good only when they have no other choice (like Core architecture).
The x86 is not good from the very beginning decades ago. But greater evil is there. It's name Microsoft. They just want you to use what they designed to get money from you instead of designing For You with user in mind.
And the only thing that make me smile, is expected percentage of devices based on this platform that will run MS products.
Actually Linux rules in mobile/efficient devices world.
As for the software compatibility on different platforms, Java does the job.
And the Linux world does know how to work with different platforms. Most distributions available for several architectures.
So, the most important thing is to have size/power/performance in right combination.
It will be very sad if intel will succeed to kill other architectures. Reply
Boissez - Friday, January 11, 2008 - linkI've just checked the numbers... And I just can't see how this 47M transistor processor clocked slower than the 77M Pentium M can perform similarly.
I know that there has been som architectural tweaks meanwhile... but still we're talking about a 3x improvement (assuming the 600mhz part=1000 Mhz Pentium M) - If those performance claims are true I'm inpressed. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Friday, January 11, 2008 - linkActually, most of the differences between the 47 million and 77 million is cache. If you look at the core alone, its not much different. Of course, it will impact performance...
Pentium 2x8KB=3.1 million
Pentium Pro 2x8KB L1=5.5 million
Pentium II 2x16KB L1=7.5 million
Pentium III 2x16KB L1=9.5 million
Conroe/Merom 2x32KB L1=19 million
Silverthorne 32KB iL1, 24KB dL1=10 million??
Silverthorne's core transistor count is estimated at 10 million. Maybe it can perform like a Pentium III 512KB cache with SSE3. Anyway, it has 512KB L2 cache so...
IntelUser2000 - Saturday, January 12, 2008 - linkThe estimated performance of Silverthorne:
50-60% faster in multi-thread than A110
Similar in single thread to A110
A110 MT performance
A100 ST performance
(A100=600MHz/512KB/400MHz FSB/Dothan)
(A110=800MHz/512KB/400MHz FSB/Dothan)
When Intel says "similar" performance to 2004 notebooks, they are referring to ULVs. ULVs are clocked at 900MHz-1.1GHz. Take a look at Intel's technical documentations for their ULV processors. You'll notice that the performance increase has been almost flat even with the architectural/process improvements. They wouldn't have been able to make a 0.5W CPU without a substantial architectural overhaul.
Pentium M 130nm ULV
1.1GHz 7W 400MHz
Pentium M 90nm ULV
773 1.3GHz 5.5W 400MHz
Core Duo ULV
U2500 1.2GHz 9W 533MHz
Core Solo ULV
U1500 1.33GHz 5.5W 533MHz
Core 2 Duo ULV
U7600 1.33GHz-10W 533MHz
Core 2 Solo ULV
U2200 1.2GHz-5.5W 533Mhz
For two generations ahead in architecture and process technology, the latest ULV CPU offers much less than it does on desktops and laptops. Reply
ajuez - Friday, January 18, 2008 - linkI think thet the Via C7-M ULV is similar in approach to the Silverthorne processor: very simple architecture focused on power consumption and cost.
The VIA C7-M ULV consumes 3.5W (according to http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c7-m_...">http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c7-m_... )
However, Intel has the advantage of their manufacturing technology (Silverthorne is a 45nm processor, while C7 is a 90nm processor). I hope Via to update their processor with a better process (55nm?) Reply
IntelUser2000 - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - linkMaybe we are all confused after Intel introduced the Core 2 Duo. From what I can remember, its only worthy product that came out of the company for many years. All the chipsets after 865/875 were mediocre, and everything else is just a flop.
I heard that Menlow is headed by the same guy that made a failed XScale and Itanium. Maybe its gonna be another flop. Currently, the only thing that Menlow is sure to bring is the size. Everything else, like battery life and performance is looking gloomy every day. Reply
Flunk - Friday, January 11, 2008 - linkWay less cache, cache is the biggest use of transistors on chips designed for PCs. Cut the cache to say 256k (which is enough for a device running entirely off of flash) and you save a lot of transistors. Reply
TA152H - Friday, January 11, 2008 - linkWhat's processor cache got to do with Flash drives?
Processor cache speeds up RAM accesses, RAM cache can be used (and is normally) to cache hard disk accesses, and that's probably what you're thinking of. But they're two different things.
I agree though, transistors are not the same as size. You can pack memory transistors much more closely than logic, and it can seriously impact transistor count while less seriously increasing the size (and cost) of the processor. Reply
iwodo - Friday, January 11, 2008 - linkIf Silverthrone is really that powerful i think it can used as a NAS Chip.
All current NAS are so underpower and dont provide fast enough transfer due to CPU limitations. Windows Home Server kind of remove the performance barrier since it require Desktop class PC.
However they are also more power hungry too.
I hope Apple use this as their base for Apple Home server Reply
Shadowmage - Thursday, January 10, 2008 - linkAnand:
Nice article, but you spelled "Bonnell" wrong.
Menlow consists of the Silverthorne processor and the Poulsbo chipset. If you're in dire need of yet another codename, the core used in Silverthorne is also known as Bonnenn. Reply
TA152H - Thursday, January 10, 2008 - linkAnand,
Do you have any idea what this processor is in terms of the architecture? I still have not read anything about whether, for example, it's decoupled, it's superscalar, it's superpipeline, and if it is superscalar, is it out of order, etc ...
Is Intel just not releasing any of this information yet? I guess one clue is that they say it will run at the same clock speeds and performance level as the Pentium M did, so I guess it would almost have to be superscalar, and probably even out of order. But then, why make a new processor from scratch if it's almost the same as the Pentium M. It's kind of confusing. Maybe they reached the same goal by doing something different, that uses less power. For example, maybe it's a shorter pipelined beast, which would increase IPC and lower clock speed and make it smaller and less power hungry. Maybe it's not decoupled, which would save some stages, and some transistors.
I hope Intel will release more information on it. It's would be really interesting to see how they went with it. I'd like to see AMD release a K6 derivative as a mobile chip instead of something off the K7/K8 core. It might not reach the same clock speeds, but I think it had excellent power use characteristics and had relatively high IPC (especially the K6-III).
IntelUser2000 - Thursday, January 10, 2008 - linkISSCC 2008 preview: "A 47M transistor, 25mm2, sub-2W IA processor designed for mobile internet devices…It features a 2-issue, in-order pipeline with 32KB iL1 and 24KB dL1 caches, integer and floating point execution units, x86 front end, a 512KB L2 cache and a 533MT/s front-side bus. The design is manufactured in 9M 45nm High-k metal-gate CMOS and housed in a 441-ball µFCBGA package."
VLSI Seminar(http://dropzone.tamu.edu/VLSISeminars)">http://dropzone.tamu.edu/VLSISeminars): "This presentation will describe a low power Intel(r) Architecture (IA) processor specifically designed for Ultra-Mobile PCs where average power consumed is in the order of a few hundred mW with performance similar to mainstream Ultra-Mobile PCs. The design consists of an in-order pipeline capable of issuing 2 instructions per cycle supporting 2 threads, 32KB instruction and 24KB data L1 caches, independent integer and floating point execution units, x86 front end execution unit, a 512KB L2 cache and a 533 MT/s dual-mode (GTL and CMOS) front-side-bus (FSB). The design contains 47M transistors in a die size under 25 mm2 manufactured in a 9-metal 45nm CMOS process with optimized transistors for low leakage packaged in a Halide-Free 441 ball, 14X13 mm uFCBGA. Thermal Design Power (TDP) consumption is measured at 2W using a synthetic power-virus test at a frequency of 2GHz."
Unlikely it'll be Pentium M range. It's supposed to have Hyper-threading and talks about high throughput oriented processor. The CPU performance is something like 800MHz Dothan-512 at single thread and 40-50% faster with multi-thread, and that's when its clocked at 1.8GHz. Reply
TA152H - Friday, January 11, 2008 - linkThanks for the information.
I agree, it will be impossible for it to have the same IPC capability as the Pentium M. I'm not sure why Intel is saying that. It does look a little more formidable than the VIA chips though. It will be interesting to see what VIA does to counter them.
It's kind of interesting how the computer industry constantly goes in circles. The CGA and MDA adapters (and later EGA) were digital output, VGA and later were analog, now we're back to digital. Superscalar processors, particularly the Pentium, were in order, then went out of order, and now we're seeing the POWER, Itanium and this chip going back to being in order. Before it was the processor that did the video processing, and the cards were just dumb frame buffers. Now, they are talking about moving the video processor back into the CPU.
I just hope the cassette tape doesn't come back as a means of storage. CLOAD. Ugggh! Reply
IntelUser2000 - Thursday, January 10, 2008 - linkAnyways, it'll be an upgrade for the UMPCs anyway with its greater multi-threading performance(somewhat possible single thread??) over the current A110 CPU that's used on the UMPCs.
I don't get Moorestown though, why push x86 on non-Windows platform?? WTF Intel!! Reply
Cali3350 - Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - linkConsidering how much we've been hearing about this platform for the last year or so i must say it does seem rather disappointing. I was led to believe this would the next wave of real portable devices, something Apple and the like would adopt willingly very early. I must say i don't see that occurring from this article.
Ofcourse this is just a quick article from CES, maybe things are different when you really get up close and personal with it. Reply
hnhunt66 - Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - linkthe eventual migration of many of these features like web browsing and the like to devices other than the main number cruncher in the house (the pc or mac) has been a couple of years away for about a decade. The cost effectiveness of reusing code across multiple platforms is the main reason that Intel is more than likely on a good path here. The technically inclined and those young enough for this to be natural still like the cheep sometimes at the expense of elegance. The rest of the world just wants it to be plug and play this is achieved at low costs by not having to write new code or debug recompiles for every device. Under estimating the value of the x86 architecture is risky at best, I was reading about its demise in the 80's. Reply
Freddo - Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - linkI would love to see a Menlow notebook (not UMPC). Something like the Eee PC from ASUS, but with some noticeably changes.
Bluetooth support is a must. HDMI would be very nice too, so you can hook it into the TV for a larger screen now and then. Maybe even use it as a HTPC with an external optic drive thru the USB.
It would be a perfect nice little energy-efficient notebook :) Reply
psychobriggsy - Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - linkIntel tries to catch up to where ARM has been for years. The iPhone chip has the CPU, GPU, RAM, and loads more just on the CPU package (about the size of Silverthorne). Apple won't take over markets by waiting 3 years to get where they can be with ARM today.
Intel are hoping for 2x the iPhone processing power ... a year after the iPhone came out. And that's using a 620MHz ARM11 based core. If Intel do try, Samsung will come out with an ARM Cortex multi-core fully integrated 3G phone on a single piece of silicon with RAM and flash stacked into just the space of the Intel CPU.
Look at the iPhone motherboard. There's no contest as to which architecture is going to get picked. Even in 2010 Intel will have 3 large (for a phone) chips - CPU, I/O and RAM, and that's before you get any phone related circuitry and storage.
Apple are perfectly happy with using ARM in their iPods and iPhones. They've got 15 years of ARM experience in-house. ARM are actually really making moves in terms of performance now as well, with the Cortex cores.
Now on the upside for Intel, these will be very neat systems and I expect that small media servers and the like will abound. Shame that they have such a fixation on mobile internet that the real opportunities could pass them by. All those MIDs look crap. The article says that even with 2x the power of the iPhone the interfaces are sluggish (yet are still way faster and better than Vista) ... there's no hope. Reply
defter - Thursday, January 10, 2008 - link[quote]Apple won't take over markets by waiting 3 years to get where they can be with ARM today.[/quote]
Actually I don't understand why Apple has been mentioned something like 10 times in the article and many times in comments. They have maybe 4-6% of share in a smartphone market and 1-2% share in a whole cell phone market, what they do or not do isn't important.
Of course cell phone manufacturers will not "wait" for Intel CPU and will continue to use ARM based CPUs in the near future, it would be silly to expect otherwise. It seems that currently, Menlow would be very suitable for EEE PC type of devices: it's cheap, has a low power consumption and takes a very little of space compared to current mobile CPUs.
Then maybe in 3-4 years Menlow successors could be good enough for cell phone integrations. Remember: Intel has a lot of money and has a manufacturing process advantage, especially the latter is very important for power consumption. In the distant future we could see 22nm Menlow's successor competing against 32nm ARM CPUs, in that case ARM's power consumption advantage is not given... Reply
PandaBear - Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - linkI don't understand why would Intel try to force x86 down a portable device that runs on Linux. For Windows I can understand but ARM (and almost every other architecture out there) can run Linux and in an embedded device you don't want to have the cost and power consumption much more than ARM.
Given the fact that ARM based solution are so efficient power wise, and that there are already many ARM based ASIC out there, I don't understand why (other than politics) would Intel want to go the x86 road. They should develop a similar low power RISC core and hardware accelerated ASIC around it instead.
What I sense is that they don't want x86 to go away when non PC take over the Internet browsing and mobile market takes off. So they give you something that is just good enough to hang on to rather than going to an all new platform like iPhone. Without a true Windows (with good usability) this won't help much.
defter - Thursday, January 10, 2008 - linkIntel had a low-power RISC core called StrongARM several years ago, but they decided to sell that...
It seems that Intel feels it's important that small mobile devices use the same instruction set as desktop PCs. Reply


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Come up with a list of my top six Watford defenders since the start of my Hornets-reporting days coincided with Kenny Jackett's first league game in management at Dean Court (as it was then), Bournemouth, in August 1996. It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset.
Then I decided to throw the question out on Twitter to make sure I hadn't inadvertently overlooked anyone. Half-a-dozen quickly seemed too limiting but I've stuck by my original intention.
The starting point for a list of defenders needs to be players who can, well, defend. But this isn't about technical ability alone. I wanted players who bring or brought more to the table – character, passion, commitment, longevity where possible and a desire to respond to adversity.
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First on the list due to the alphabet but the selection that caused the most deliberation. But the now Vancouver Whitecaps player got the nod because his story was so appealing a film was made of it. After coming over from America, DeMerit played for Northwood in a pre-season game against the Hornets and was subsequently signed by Ray Lewington. Watford were rewarded with six years service during which the USA international became skipper and, perhaps most memorably, scored the opening goal in the play-off final success at the Millennium Stadium.
The current 'Mr Watford' who's had more managers at Vicarage Road than most players have in their entire careers. The majority have tried to cast him aside but have quickly realised the error of their ways because the popular 31-year-old remains a strong and consistent defender. Doyley is seven appearances short of breaking into Watford's all-time top five and, if he can remain fit, maintain his form and keep getting new contracts at Vicarage Road, he will be in with a chance of breaking Luther Blissett's all-time club record.
Legend is a term banded about too frequently but it thoriughly applies to this man. But for injury, 'Sir' Nigel would be Watford's all-time record appearance maker, although he does hold the record for most starts. It should be recalled that Gibbs was released by Graham Taylor at the end of the 1995/96 campaign, but he came back for pre-season, proved his fitness, earned a short-term deal, which was to be extended and missed only one game in the season under Jackett. That was the measure of the man, as was his trademark consistency. The manner in which Gibbs' career at Vicarage Road was ultimately ended remains a disgrace but that is a distasteful episode I've no desire to revisit in the context of this list. Put simply, one of Watford's all-time greats.
Robert Page
It can be argued Watford have had better defenders in the past 18 years but for passion, commitment and leadership qualities 'Pagey' has to be included. His Hornets honours read captain of the second division winning team of 1998, captain of the victorious Wembley play-off side 12 months later and Player of the Season in the Premiership the season after that. That's some three-year CV.
Steve Palmer
Before Almen Abdi came along, Watford had another 'Professor'. Palmer could have made it onto my list of top six midfielders (more of that next week), but he gets the nod as the other half of that superb central-defensive axis alongside Page in Taylor's second time at the helm. A player who personified the word selfless, you knew exactly what you'd get with Palmer irrespective of what position he was asked to play. A superb reader of the game, Player of the Season for the Division Two title-winning campaign only to be foolishly let go in my opinion when Gianluca Vialli took charge.
Paul Robinson
Remember those moments when 'Robbo' was about to launch into a challenge, closing your eyes and thinking 'don't do it, Paul'? But you knew full well that he would - and normally did. Take that edge away though, and you wouldn't have had the same player. Totally committed, passionate and the ideal man to have in the trenches when the chips were down. But a player doesn't make more than 250 appearances for his home-town club – and more than 650 in total – unless he is good at his job. And that is why 'Robbo' is still going strong in the second tier of English football at 35. As for his career yellow-card count? It now stands at 157.
And one extra...Filippo Galli
Let's be blunt, Vialli's season had few redeeming features. But amid the over-paid mediocrity frequently served up, we were fortunate to be treated to a 38-year-old in the twilight of his career who broughthis own brand of Italian defensive style to Vicarage Road long before Cassetti and Angella landed in this corner of south-west Herts. Galli oozed class, natural authority and it didn't take long to see why he had won five Serie A titles and three European Cups in a glittering career. He knew when to get the ball down and play and when not to but could also scrap when necessary. The former AC Milan defender only made 28 starts for Watford but I, for one, remember him fondly. Filippo Galli was cool.
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Looking for an internal Blu-Ray drive, I have no idea when it comes to these things. I have no need of a Blu-Ray rewrite but this will probably eventually replace my DVD drive so DVD rewrite is necessary.
Looking for something in the <£50 range but all recommendations are welcome.
A general browse seems that the only brand who make them sub-£50 is LiteOn, who I've never bought from, nor heard anyone who has used them. You can find some for a few a few quid over from brands like LG, but they seem to be perpetually low in stock.
That said, I did find this from Micro Direct. No idea how good it is.
Alternatively, you could wait until after Christmas and see if there are any sales, which I wouldn't find too unlikely. Additionally, for about £70+, you can get BR RW functionality too, so you may want to consider that (although I can't imagine you really needing it. If you're transferring something that big, there are probably betters and more cost effective means of storage, like an external HDD).Powered by Steam. And biscuits. I'm also a twit and dabble in creative writing.
If you can find it, the LG GGC-H20L is pretty cheap and supports Bluray writing, DVD writing and HD DVD playback.
Having HD DVD support means you can buy 1080p HD movies for about $5 on average. It comes with Cyberlink PowerDVD (with Bluray support), but if you can buy a discounted version of TotalMedia Theater I'd go with that because Cyberlink dropped HD DVD playback a few years ago.
It's usually around $70 new (huge price drop, bought an earlier variant for $220 back in 2008).
It's really rare though, best I could find is a used ebay listing:
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Discussion in 'Off-topic Zone' started by Sam I Am, Oct 19, 2011.
New Cassini image of Saturn. The Sun is directly on the other side of Saturn in this image.
LOL, still hasn't been corrected yet.
My youngest daughter has one of those and can solve it. I never even solved the original Rubix.
That is really stunning.
This is an old image, but still funny to look at.
The reason Apple allowed Google Maps back on iOS.
Globular Clusters baby!
Top row: Messier 4 (ESO), Omega Centauri (ESO), Messier 80 (Hubble)
Middle row: Messier 53 (Hubble), NGC 6752 (Hubble), Messier 13 (Hubble)
Bottom row: Messier 4 (Hubble), NGC 288 (Hubble), 47 Tucanae (Hubble)
Globular Cluster NGC-6388. How many stars do you see in this picture?
Not sure what this sign means, but...
I want this carpet for my house!
BrAinPaiNt in his younger days ...
Look at the fourth to last image
Thats awesome! :laugh2:
This image shows the world's first web server, Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT machine at CERN. The hand-written sticker reads: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER DOWN!"
It seems it was true!
Wow. Bet these cows have road rash.
Rage and Fear
Yep. A Gangnam Style Alien Flashmob would just about do it.
Bad cobra!
Dogs just know ...


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Hi there,
I would like to find out whether theres an SQL function that combines two fields (in the same table) and processes them as one? So for example, I have two fields - cake & sweets.
I would like to combine the values contained within those fields. So my SQL function would output both values as one; 'cake_sweets'.
Is this possible - could it be done by combining the two fields and outputting them as an 'AS'?
EDIT: Could I do something like:-
SELECT shop.cake AND shop.sweets AS cake_sweets ?
Really appreciated your help as usual.
Kind Regards
Not really a function, but SELECT shop.cake + '' + shop.sweets AS cakesweets should get you there.
You could concatenate the two fields and return them as one but it also depends on the sql server you are using.
MySQL : SELECT concat(shop.cake,' ' , shop.sweets) AS cake_sweets
MS SQL : SELECT shop.cake + ' ' + shop.sweets AS cake_sweets
MS Access I'm afraid - can I still use this function?
Thanks for your help
SELECT shop.cake & "" & shop.sweets AS cakesweets
Thanks so much guys for your help. Got me out of some hot water there!
Works perfectly!
Apologies if this is double-posted.
I've tried the following SQL query (part of it taken from the help you guys were nice enough to give me) but it's throwing up an error, pointing to the 'by' (highlighted in bold - right at the end of my SELECT line):-
strSQL = "SELECT sculptures.ID, sculptures.Name, artist.Firstname, sculptures.condition, sculptures.literature1, sculptures.literature2, sculptures.literature3, sculptures.literature4, sculptures.ImageIndivMain, sculptures.articlenumber, sculptures.circadate, sculptures.Description, artist.Surname, sculptures.artistID, sculptures.weight, sculptures.price, sculptures.depth, sculptures.width, sculptures.height, literature.title & " by " & literature.author AS literaturecombine" & strCRLF & _
" FROM ((sculptures" & strCRLF & _
" INNER JOIN artist ON artist.NameURL = sculptures.artistID)" & strCRLF & _
" INNER JOIN literature ON literature.literaturecombine = sculptures.literaturecombine1)" & strCRLF & _
" INNER JOIN sculpturetype ON sculpturetype.TypeURL = sculptures.sculpturetypeID" & strCRLF & _
" WHERE sculptures.NameURL='" & lngRecord & "'"
Is there anyway I can get this successfully formatted so it works OK
Thanks for your help again
you can't use double-quotes inside of a double-quoted string. based on your use of str at the beginning of your variable name, i'm assuming you're using ASP or VB. i don't know proper quoting technique for VB and ASP, but i know you can't use double quotes inside a double-quoted string.
Thanks for your help, Longneck.
Yes I am using ASP. Would you suggest I try another SQL string format (one which doesn't include the double quotes)?
EDIT: I've tried running my query directly in Access and it's showing an error - it's saying that the join expression is not supported. I'm guessing that it's referring to the field, literaturecombine which is declared immediatly after the ON clause. I think that it may be because I need to declare it as literature.literaturecombine . I've tried that but it then says that the format of my ON clause is wrong. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
SELECT sculptures.ID, sculptures.Name, artist.Firstname, sculptures.condition, sculptures.literaturecombine1, sculptures.literaturecombine2, sculptures.literaturecombine3, sculptures.literaturecombine4, sculptures.ImageIndivMain, sculptures.articlenumber, sculptures.circadate, sculptures.Description, artist.Surname, sculptures.artistID, sculptures.weight, sculptures.price, sculptures.depth, sculptures.width, sculptures.height, literature.title & " by " & literature.author AS literaturecombine
FROM ((sculptures
INNER JOIN artist ON artist.NameURL = sculptures.artistID)
INNER JOIN literature ON literaturecombine = sculptures.literaturecombine1)
INNER JOIN sculpturetype ON sculpturetype.TypeURL = sculptures.sculpturetypeID
WHERE sculptures.NameURL='Tennis-Player'
Thanks all for the help you've given me so far
that last query looks fine -- further debugging would requiring knowing the exact column names and their datatypes
Sorry for the delay in replying - some idiotic builders cut through my phone cable so no internet access for most of the day!
Thanks R937 for your invaluable help on this and past issues!
My complete database structure is below:-
literature.ID (primary key) -- Autonumberliterature.author -- Textliterature.title -- Text
sculptures.ID (primary key) -- Autonumbersculptures.Name -- Memosculptures.LiteratureCombine1 -- Textsculptures.LiteratureCombine2 -- Textsculptures.ArtistID (foreign key to Artist.NameURL) -- Textsculptures.sculpturetypeID (foreign key to sculpturetype.TypeURL) -- Text
artist.FirstName -- Textartist.Surname -- Textartist.NameURL (primary key) -- Text
images.ID (primary key) -- Autonumberimages.ImgURL -- Textimages.sculpturesID (foreign key to sculptures.ID) -- Number
sculpturetype.ID -- Autonumbersculpturetype.type -- Memosculpturetype.TypeURL (primary key) -- Text
You'll notice that my 'literature' table isn't joined to another within Access as it is joined by concatenating the two fields, literature.title and literature.author by SQL within an Access drop down box (not an ideal way of doing it, but that's what the client asked for) - this drop down box populates the fields sculptures.LiteratureCombine1 and sculptures.LiteratureCombine2 within Access.
So basically by concatenating the two fields within my SQL string within my ASP statement, the result gives me the same value as the sculptures.LiteratureCombine1 field - these two fields I want to join together in one of the JOIN clauses.
I think I'm a bit out of my depth as to what I'm doing but I'd like to think of myself as a fast learner and would be more than happy for someone to tell me where I'm going wrong!
Again, thanks Sitepoint members for helping me out on this matter, especially r937
i have no idea what you are doing with the dropdowns and combines
but your problem is here --
INNER JOIN literature ON literaturecombine = sculptures.literaturecombine1
there is no column called "literaturecombine"
maybe you meant literature.author combined with literature.title?
what happened to shop.cake AND shop.sweets?
You should know me by now, r937!. In examples that I don't understand, I like to take them out of context, so that I can apply them to the certain situation that I'm wanting to use it in. I feel this gives me a better understanding of what's actually going on within the example.
Well, in the SELECT clause, 'literature.title & " by " & literature.author AS literaturecombine' successfully bides both fields together to make one- e.g if the literature.author field had a value of 'dickens' and the literature.title had a value of 'famous five' both in the same record, the result from the concatenate function would be 'famous five by dickens'.
In my drop down menu in my form in Access I am using exactly the same concatenating function to output the same string (combines the two fields together) into the sculptures.literaturecombine1 field. So that it outputs the same result, 'famous five by dickens'. This is where I want to JOIN literature ON literaturecombine (created by concatenating function in SQL string) = sculptures.literaturecombine1 (created by concatenating function in Access drop down menu)
Alternatively, like you suggested in your last post, could I do something in my JOIN statement like;
JOIN literature ON literature.author AND literature.title = sculptures.literaturecombine1
The way I see it- this would ultimately give me the same result that I am looking for, but not having to use the extra field created by my concatenating function in my AS clause, 'literaturecombine'
Would this work?
EDIT - Sorry yes I did mean literature.title combine with literature.author = sculptures.literaturecombine1
Hope this makes sense, and thanks again for all the help
JOIN literatureON literature.author & ' by ' & literature.title = sculptures.literaturecombine1
Thanks so much for that solution, r937 - works fine now
thanks -- so you figured out the little hidden whoopsie, eh?
yeah, I saw that one. Was that supposed to make sure I was concentrating?!


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Foreign Minister Westerwelle welcomes clear stance of Human Rights Council on Libya
The Human Rights Council in Geneva addressed the human rights situation in Libya in a special session on (25 February). At the special session, the Human Rights Council adopted unanimously – and thus cross-regionally – a resolution which calls for an end to the violence in Libya, demands the punishment of those responsible for violations of human rights, launches an international enquiry, and recommends suspending Libya's membership in the Council.
Federal Foreign Minister Westerwelle issued the following statement in Berlin on (25 February):
"I welcome the Human Rights Council's decision. This is a clear and determined reaction on the part of the international community, which we too have worked to achieve.
The Council's recommendation to suspend Libya's membership sends a clear message: Anyone who tramples on human rights does not belong in the Human Rights Council."
This is the first time in the Council's history that it has recommended such a step. The suspension now goes to the UN General Assembly, where it requires the approval of a two-thirds majority. Germany, though not currently a member of the Human Rights Council, supported the special session and was one of the resolution's sponsors.


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Topic: Clean Scan
Hello all,
My wife, Marina, had a full body CT scan last Thursday. Our oncology nurse called us today with great news. The scan was CLEAN!! No evidence of recurrence.
The nurse gave us a heads up: our oncologist will offer us another chemo cycle. Gemcitabine/Cisplatin cycle #6. The nurse said he likes to add a cycle or two *after* a clean scan. We will see him tomorrow (Thursday) to discuss this. I'm not sure yet what we are going to do.
I also want to mention that we reached a milestone. Tuesday marked the one year since Marina's CC symptoms showed up. April 10th, 2011 she came down with severe abdominal pain. We thought she caught a bad case of food poisoning at a friend's dinner party (little did we know).
So there you go. A clean scan at the one year mark. I hope Marina's good news give hope to others!
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Navy Day Regatta Schedule/Results
PHILADELPHIA - All three Penn rowing programs will open their 2013-14 seasons on Saturday at the Navy Day Regatta. The women, lightweights and heavyweights will launch their fall racing schedules from the familiar waters of the Schuylkill River.
Nicholas B. Paumgarten Head Coach of Heavyweight Rowing Greg Myhr enters his fifth season as skipper of the Quakers, looking to improve Penn's finish at Navy Day by that all-important final place. Last year, Penn was 2nd out of 19 boats in the heavyweight regatta, finishing 2.24 seconds behind Navy. Both Penn and Navy's A boats were 23 seconds ahead of the third-place crew, shwoing how dominant those two boats were. By the time Penn and Navy met in the Adams Cup in the spring, the Quakers had improved to the point where they were the better crew, taking second over the Midshipment by 1.7 seconds. Showing that the Quakers and Middies meet many times during a season, Navy had he edge at EARC Sprints, winning the Petite Final, while Penn was fifth.
The lightweights are coming off a strong 2013 spring season where they finished seventh at the EARC Sprints and earned their first trip to the IRA Regatta since 2010. At the national championships, the Red and Blue won the petite final and finished seventh in the nation - which matched their best finish under head coach Nick Baker, who enters his fifth season at the helm of the Quakers in 2013-14.
"I can't wait to get this season underway," said Penn's head coach of women's rowing, Mike Lane. "It is a very special fall so far, with the opening of our $2.5 million indoor training center and a group of athletes that has proven to be extremely hard workers and a lot of fun to be around. The Navy Day is always a great way to start our season, the competition is strong and it is on our home course."
Following the races, all three programs will host parents fora dinner and tour of the new indoor training facility in the Hutchinson Gymnasium. The dinner will take place in The Palestra.
A complete recap of the Navy Day Regatta can be found on PennAthletics.com shortly after the conclusion of the regatta.
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Rents for Chippenham's allotments are to rise by nearly 23 per cent, to £70 a year, from September 2015.
The current fee is £57 for a 253 square metre plot and the Chippenham Garden and Allotment Society has asked the town council why the increase has been so large.
Adrian Jones, head of service delivery, said the rate was in keeping with others locally. Wiltshire Council charges £65.78 and Calne town council asks for £75.90.
He said the allotments cost the council £3,734 to run this year and it needed to find ways of reducing the level of subsidy borne by taxpayers who do not have allotments.
Demand for allotments is high, with 52 people waiting Chippenham in November. Waits could be up to a year.
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Sea Hounds Honored as the Best in Environmental Excellence
Veteran Project AWARE supporter and ambassador, Sea Hounds Singapore has clinched the Singapore Environmental Achievement Awards 2012 for its green practices and environmental leadership.
The Singapore-based non-governmental organization, Singapore Environment Council announced the winners of six categories of its annual award. Winners included big name companies like the maker of Singapore's Tiger beer brand, IBM, Malaysian conglomerate YTL Corporation and environmental chemical firm Hydroemission.
Sea Hounds, a local PADI 5 star National Geographic dive centre won the Nissan Leaf Singapore Environmental Achievement Award for Services. Marine conservation and environmental responsiblity have always been central to the Sea Hounds business philosophy. The small team work incredibly hard to ensure this eco concept trickles down from employees to customers and their business partners.
Talking about the award, Stephen Beng, PADI Course Director and Sea Hounds owner said, "Small business owners shouldn't harp on size as a barrier to environmental performance. Being responsible boils down to a company's objectives and procedures, and how it communicates them."
Beng was formally presented with the award during a special ceremony with the Singapore Minister of Environment and Water Resources, Dr. Vivian Balakrishan last Thursday 23rd August.
Added Beng, "As our global consumption increases, conservation is urgent. Our hope is for all to take ownership of local resources and nature, to appreciate the foreword planning of our government, and to start being responsible for daily choices and actions. To our crew and partners, keep up the good work! "
Project AWARE Foundation Director and Vice President of PADI Asia Pacific, Henrik Nimb was present at the ceremony. "Sea Hounds has dedicated 12 years to environmental conservation in Singapore. It's great to see one of our top leaders recognised for their efforts to secure a healthy future for generations to come. We're proud to work alongside you," said Nimb.
We couldn't agree more with Sea Hounds approach to ocean protection - thank you for everything you do to protect our ocean planet and congratulations from us all.


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 30/8/2014 (1090 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Gord Steeves expanded on his public safety platform Friday, vowing to round up panhandlers who approach vehicles stopped at intersections.
Steeves said those people are capable of working but would rather intimidate motorists to raise money for booze or drugs.
"Some people are not bothered by this at all (and) some people are really bothered by this behaviour," Steeves said. "I've had numerous people, particularly women, express to me that when.... a man knocks on their car window while they are waiting at a red light, they are at least somewhat fearful."
Steeves said if he is elected mayor, drivers need not be afraid any longer. He promises to amend bylaws to make it illegal to solicit vehicle occupants.
"We will use our bylaw officers to enforce and remove people engaged in this practice," Steeves said.
Squeegee kids and intersection panhandlers are among Steeves' pet peeves. He tried to stamp them out in 2010 when he was a city councillor, before he quit to run unsuccessfully for the provincial Tories.
Standing on the sidewalk at the intersection of Main Street and Stradbrook Avenue Friday afternoon, a location popular with squeegee kids and panhandlers, Steeves said there is no evidence intersection panhandlers are anything but "healthy, able-bodied men," but acknowledged he had no evidence to back up that claim.
Steeves said intersection panhandlers place themselves at risk by wandering in and out of traffic. Motorists, he said, should be free of this kind of intimidation.
Two weeks ago, Steeves released the first part of his public safety platform when he promised, if elected mayor, police would be empowered to round up homeless drunks downtown.


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Florida reports record number of visitors in 2012
Published: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 4:20 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 4:20 p.m.
TALLAHASSEE — Florida's tourism marketing corporation is reporting a record 89.3 million visitors came to the state in 2012.
Officials said Monday that the number of visitors in Florida last year represented an increase of 2.3 percent over 2011 when 87.3 million people visited.
VISIT FLORIDA — the state's quasi-public marketing arm — estimated in its annual report that 10.2 million overseas visitors and 3.6 million Canadians came to the Sunshine State in 2012. The firms said tourism- and recreation-related taxable sales increased 6.9 percent.
The agency reported the number of domestic visitors to Florida increased by 1.2 percent while more than 20 million Floridians took vacations inside the state's borders.
Tourism is one of Florida's most important economic drivers with more than 1 million people employed in a variety of industry-related jobs.
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Friday, December 3, 2010
The Last Resort
Guinevere van Seenus photographed by Josh Olins for Vogue Nippon January 2011
To be honest, this is the first time I see bleached brows and I do not like it much
However, the clothes are just too good!
Marc Jacobs, Missoni, Chanel styled perfectly with that gorgeous jeweled necklace (does anyone know who it's by?).....
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Leonard Wood, a Harvard-trained physician, earned a Medal of Honor for his valorous contribution in the effort of the U.S. Army to hunt down the elusive Apache chief Geronimo (http://www.fold3.com/page/630019442_geronimo/) in 1886. He carried messages over 100 miles through the rugged and hostile terrain of the southwest, and led an engagment of hand-to-hand combat with Apaches.
Wood advanced through the army ranks, but gained notoriety when he assisted Theodore Roosevelt to assemble, train, and lead the First Volunteer Cavalry (known better as the Rough Riders), who would perform ably against the Spanish in 1898 in such battles as Las Guasimas in Cuba. Later in the Spanish-American War, Wood attained command over the 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, V Corps, which was victorious at San Juan Hill and Kettle Hill.
Wood became a Brigadier General of regular Army troops before he left to command the Philippines Division in 1902. A year later, he was promoted to Major General and provincial governor over Moro, a territory in the Philippines. Wood participated in the first Battle of Bud Dajo that resulted in numerous deaths among the Moros.
In 1910 Wood became Army Chief of Staff, a rare feat for a medical officer, though he acquitted himself well by promoting army preparedness and a more mobile army. THe poilitical winds reversed Wood's fortunes in 1914, as it was then that he was replaced as Army Chief of Staff. During World War I, Major General Wood was put in charge of the training of soldiers in the 10th and 89th Divisions at Camp Funston in Kansas. In 1915 he published a book entitled The Military Obligation of Citizenship. He ended the war as a Lieutenant General.
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Neuro-Training understanding of Success
The Science of Success is here now
How these concepts and processes give you the edge you want
Hi and welcome to this first article of a series on The Scientific Basis of Success.
This first article is for the entrepreneurs, who are an interesting example of human activity, and a wonderful challenge to understand.
Most of the real entrepreneurs don't even know they are one and don't think about being an entrepreneur, they just want to get some thing done, fast!
There are other basic definitions of what makes an entrepreneur but to the reason for this article I want you to realize that an entrepreneur doesn't think about 'why', they think about 'how'! In fact, they don't even do what they do for the money!
That's right, they do it for the feeling of "self satisfaction".
Our nervous systems are the same and are developed by overcoming challenges. The entrepreneur is a person who has had an experience in life that triggered a reaction to need to succeed. A need to feel that they and they alone have done everything they could to feel satisfied with their efforts.
Part of my job in developing Neuro-Training has been to observe people and how they operate from the inside - out. I have seen repeatedly, people who were failing consistently to overcome the odds with the integration of INTERNAL resources or with the addition of resources that could become internalized.
If you want to be successful, just like any successful entrepreneur, you must find the right challenges for yourself to overcome as well as the right challenges for your business to overcome.
In Neuro-Training we have found neurological, scientifically based processes to integrate the internal systems to operate as a single working unit instead of many different competing forces that drain resources.
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