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Me and these easy-to-fold markers go back quite a few years now. One Christmas, I was struggling to find gifts for my dad who can be tricky to buy for. Books are generally a safe bet, or maybe a good whisky, but it's nice to be a little less predictable once in a while. As soon as I learned the five-step fold that makes this clever corner marker, I knew it would be a winner. He enjoys magazines as well as books, and the markers are perfect for slipping over pages to remind you of things you want to buy, try, or go back and read again later.
I dug out a collection of masculine-ish papers - including things like woodgrain prints, security envelopes, graph paper and maps - cut them into squares and folded enough markers to fill a small box. They're super quick to make once you get the hang of it, and I love the idea of having enough that you don't have to be frugal over where and when to use them.
It was such a well-received gift, I've repeated the idea several times since. As an alternative to packing them loosely in a box, they also work stacked together in a clear bag with a simple folded paper strip to seal the top edge. If you're the party-throwing type, or planning a wedding, they'd also make terrific favours in this form. Unisex + inexpensive = the holy grail of handmade favours. Even a party-dodging, social halfwit like me knows that.
So, how to make your own set of markers, or even just a quick single? The instructions (excerpted from Paperie) are over at Stitch Craft Create, although odds are once you've made a few, you'll be able to do it without referring back to the notes at all.
As a bonus, and so you can give it a try right now without having to fish around for scraps of fancy paper, I also have a set of ready-to-print patterned squares that you can download here for free. There are four squares in total, and each one is 10 x 10cm, my go-to size for marker-making. I've set them out so you can print two to a page of A4 or standard letter-sized paper, but you might prefer to combine the squares and save paper if you have a borderless or wide-format printer.
You're more than welcome to share - Pin, Tweet, hire a plane and write it in the sky - but please link back here if you do, and bear in mind the prints are for personal use only (which totally includes making as many as you like for gifts or favours, at least until the papercuts get serious).

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THE federal government has been given the green light to break its deal with the miners and close the loophole in its mining tax that has enabled the states to gouge the proceeds through royalty increases.
The recommendation is contained in the final report by an expert panel that also urges the government to immediately halve the $1000 GST-free threshold for overseas purchases made on the internet. It recommends the government then look at reducing that threshold further, to as low as $20.
With state budgets under severe pressure due to sluggish growth in GST revenue, the GST Distribution Review by the former premiers Nick Greiner and John Brumby and the businessman Bruce Carter, published on Friday, said collecting more tax from overseas online purchases should be a ''high priority''.
This would allow the government to dramatically lower the threshold without the expense of having to handle hundreds of thousands of extra parcels - the dilemma it faces now.
The Treasurer, Wayne Swan, will discuss the report with his state counterparts on December 17, before responding.
While the pressure to bring the mining tax back to Parliament to close the loophole will intensify, such a move would spark a war with BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata, which launched a $22 million advertising campaign against the original mining tax.
When the mining tax was renegotiated after Kevin Rudd was dumped as prime minister in 2010, the government agreed the miners could deduct all present and future state royalties from their mining tax liability. This meant that every time a state raised mining royalties on iron ore or coal, the proceeds of the mining tax were reduced.
The report released on Friday said the present situation was neither ''desirable nor sustainable'' and the mining tax revenue needed to be secured. At the same time, the states should be free to raise their royalties as they wished but had to be accountable for any increases to the mining companies.
Mr Swan had previously flagged that states which raised royalties could be penalised by having their GST payments docked, but this was impractical. Another threat by Mr Swan was to withhold other federal funding as a penalty, but the review panel found this, too, was awkward.
It argued that the preferred option was for the Commonwealth and the states to negotiate a ''co-operative approach'' to taxing the mining industry and share mining revenues.
It said the onus was on the Commonwealth to take a lead in any negotiations because it created the present situation. But with relations between the Gillard government and the Liberal-led mining states poor, any co-operative agreement is unlikely.
The review panel said in this case, the design of the mining tax, as well as the petroleum rent resource tax, should be revisited ''so as to delink them from future state decisions''.
The Greens and the independent Rob Oakeshott support amending the tax in Parliament.
But the Minerals Council of Australia's Mitch Hooke warned against changing the tax. ''Perpetual uncertainty around the tax arrangements … continue to undermine investor confidence in Australia when commodity prices are down,'' he said.


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A CLARETS fan living in New York has joined an internet celebrity craze where people pour buckets of ice cold water over themselves for charity.
Dan Bentley, who moved to the United States a year ago, was filmed doing the challenge with his wife Kari on the roof of a building overlooking the city.
The former St Theodore's and University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) student can be seen wearing his claret and blue shirt but was speaking in an American accent during the video.
ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE: Our favourites from across the web...
The Ice Bucket Challenge sees people nominate each other to pour a bucket of 'freezing' cold water over their head to help raise awareness and funds for motor neurone disease, also known as ALS.
The summer craze has been hailed as a huge success by the charity.
Earlier this week, the ALS Association announced that it had received £9.3m in donations since June – compared to £1m during the same period in 2013.
Chelsea captain John Terry used the away dressing room at Turf Moor to join in with the fundraising craze that is sweeping the nation.
In a video, posted online, Terry was filmed in his shorts in the showers at Turf Moor after Monday night's 3-1 victory for his side in Burnley's return to the Premier League.
After thanking Stylian Petrov and Ashley Cole for nominating him, Terry pours the freezing water over himself, before nominating teammate John Obi Mikel, former teammate Ashley Cole, and his former Blues boss Rafael Benitez.
Those nominated are supposed to then film themselves having a bucket of water poured over their heads within 24 hours, otherwise they are asked to donate money to the charity.
Singer Justin Timberlake, footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and model Kate Upton have also taken part.


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HOSUTON - Houston police said they've nabbed a group of thieves who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint.
The 34-year-old woman was walking her kids home from their school bust stop along Town Park Drive in November, when she was approached by Bladmir Guevara, 17, and two of his friends, investigators said.
The suspects walked up to her and pointed a gun to her stomach and told her to give them her money or they would shoot her and her unborn child, officials said.
Detectives said the victim said she didn't have any cash, and instead gave the trio her cellphone. Seconds later, the crooks took off, police said.
According to court documents, a witness saw the whole ting happen and flagged down an officer. Records show that officer managed to catch the group and then took them in for questioning.
Investigators said Guevara denied any involvement and walked out of the police station that day. Officials said his two friends later confessed to the crime, along with robbing several other people.
Police said they implicated Guevara by telling them he was their ringleader.
Guevara has been charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. He was booked into jail with bond set at $8,000.
Officials said the other two suspects' names haven't been released because they are juveniles.
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Dollis Chamber Ensemble was a Muggle chamber ensemble.
On Sunday 7 May in a year prior to 1997, at 7:30 in the evening, Emanuel Hurwitz, a violinist, and his wife, Kay, a violist, gave a performance of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertanti at St. Mary's Church Hall.[1] The couple were accompanied by the Dollis Chamber Ensemble for the first time ever.[1] Hermione Granger had a poster for this concert stuck up on the bulletin board in her bedroom in the Granger family's house.[1][2]
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Smoking Kills (The Horrorist-Electrofied Mix) – Millimetric by thingstocome
Here's a clip of a remix I just finished for Millimetric. I played it live in Stuttgart and it past the club test so it's in his inbox. From a production standpoint your hearing Vermona DRM-1 drums through Izotope Trash, white noise crashes from a Yamaha CS5, the 90's T99 or 80's Vomito Negro sample is in an Ableton Simpler going through various Sugar Bytes Effectrix presets. My vocals are through a Shure KSM32 and Wavearts plug-ins.
"I'm a ELECTRONIC. ELECTROCHARGED. RUN RUN RUN RUN!!!!" – The Horrorist
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O.J. Simpson sentenced to 15 years in prison
O.J. Simpson just got slapped with 15 years in prison today for robbing a sports memorabilia collector in Vegas last year. The AP reports:
A broken O.J. Simpson has been sentenced to at least 15 years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel armed robbery by a judge who rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity."
Simpson stood stone-faced Friday when Judge Jackie Glass quickly rattled off his punishment after he pleaded with her that he didn't mean to steal from anybody when he tried to retrieve memorabilia.
He appeared ready to break down in tears as he told that he was "sorry and confused" before going into a rambling and emotional 5-minute declaration.
"I didn't want to steal anything from anyone … I'm sorry, sorry," he said.
He added: "It's not like I killed anybody. Again."
After receiving his sentence, Simpson engaged in a heated discussion with his attorney that ended with the football legend audibly shouting "What do you mean you 'forgot' my stabbing knife?"


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Cake. The final frontier. Is there anything better than biting into a freshly prepared slice at a birthday party? Well, there might be one thing. Biting into that freshly prepared slice and then sleeping in an eight-room hotel filled with cake. Sound like a fantasy Willy Wonka land? Think again. Now you can have your cake and sleep with it too.
A London hotel has undergone a complete renovation to become a mostly edible 'cake hotel.' This extreme undertaking, headed up by Tate & Lyle Sugars, took 14 bakers and more than 900 hours to complete. What kind of stuff did they concoct? Edible books, rugs made from meringues, marshmallow garlands, bathtubs filled with caramel popcorn, a giant sea turtle cake and more more than you can sink your cavity-stricken teeth into.
However, just as cake quickly succumbs to the elements, so does this hotel. It was open to the public yesterday for one day only. One lucky couple got to sleep there and we can only guess they are now suffering from extreme stomach pains.


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Broadway's ANYTHING GOES to Sail Into the Orpheum Theatre, 2/26-3/3
The national tour of Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES, the new Broadway revival of Cole Porter's timeless classic musical theatre masterpiece, will make its Memphis premiere February 26th-March 3rd at The Orpheum Theatre as part of the 2012-2013 Broadway Series.
Tickets are on sale now and available for purchase online at the official Orpheum Theatre website at www.orpheum-memphis.com, The Orpheum Box Office (901-525-3000), the ticket counter at The Booksellers at Laurelwood and all Ticketmaster centers (901-743-ARTS).
Winner of the 2011 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES continues on Broadway under the direction of Kathleen Marshall, who won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Choreography, at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre following an opening in the spring of 2011.
Rachel York will star as Reno Sweeney and Fred Applegate will star as Moonface Martin. The principal cast also includes Erich Bergen as Billy Crocker, Jeff Brooks as Purser, Joyce Chittick as Erma, Alex Finke as Hope Harcourt, Dennis Kelly as Elisha Whitney, Vincent Rodriguez III as Luke, Marcus Shane as John, Sandra Shipley as Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt, Edward Staudenmayer as Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, and Chuck Wagner as Captain.
The ensemble includes Jeremy Benton, Jacqueline Burtney, Jan Leigh Herndon, Kristie Kerwin, Gary Lindemann, Dionna Thomas Littleton, Michael Milton, Ashley Peacock, Bobby Pestka, Courtney Rottenberger, Vanessa Sonon, Ryan Steer, Kristopher Thompson-Bolden, Aaron Umsted, Mackenzie Warren, Sean Watkins, Audrey Cardwell, Alexandra Matteo, Sean McKnight, and Tony Neidenbach.
Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES features music and lyrics by Cole Porter; original book by P.G. G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; and new book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman. The creative team includes music direction by Jay Alger with additional orchestrations by Bill Elliot, original scenic design by Derek McLane, costumes by Martin Pakledinaz, lighting design by Howell Binkley and sound design by Brian Ronan.
Cole Porter's roundup of nostalgic hits in the production include "You're the Top," "Friendship," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "It's De-Lovely," "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" and, of course "Anything Goes."
ANYTHING GOES, the 1934 musical comedy about the lovers, liars and clowns on a transatlantic cruise is "a daffy, shipshape romp!" - Variety. When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love... proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, an exotic disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail.
The New Broadway Cast Recording of Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES, nominated for a 2011 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, is available on Ghostlight Records.
Kathleen Marshall received 2011 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards for choreography and Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations for direction for Roundabout Theatre Company's Anything Goes. Also for Roundabout, Kathleen directed and choreographed The Pajama Game and choreographed Follies and 1776. Other Broadway credits include Wonderful Town; Grease; Boeing-Boeing; Little Shop of Horrors; Seussical; Kiss Me, Kate; and Swinging on a Star. Off-Broadway: Two Gentlemen of Verona (New York Shakespeare Festival), Saturday Night (Second Stage), Violet (Playwrights Horizons) and As Thousands Cheer (Drama Dept). City Center Encores!: Bells Are Ringing, Applause, Carnival, Hair and Babes in Arms; Artistic Director for four seasons. For ABC/Disney: "Once Upon a Mattress" and Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" (Emmy nomination). She has received two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Astaire Award, the George Abbott Award, the Richard Rodgers Award and the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for the Arts. Ms. Marshall is the Vice President of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and is an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company.
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) was most recently represented across the country with the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning national tour of Twelve Angry Men that toured the country for 2 years, spending 63 weeks across the United States and Canada. Roundabout's longest-running musical, the revival of Cabaret, received a multi-year tour across the country beginning in 1999. In 2011, Roundabout Theatre Company's acclaimed work reached a worldwide cinema audience with the HD capture and broadcast of their Tony nominated production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Brian Bedford. Now in its 46th season, Roundabout has become one of New York City's most accomplished cultural institutions and one of the country's largest not-for-profit theatre companies. With four theatres both on Broadway and off, Roundabout reaches over 600,000 theater goers annually, including over 35,000 subscribers, through award-winning productions of classical and contemporary plays and musicals. In addition to providing an artistic home for many of the finest actors, playwrights, composers and directors of our time, Roundabout is home to model education and outreach programs designed to diversify and develop the theatre's audiences. With four distinctive homes, the American Airlines Theatre, Studio 54 and the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, site of the Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre, Roundabout has the unique ability to do high-quality, professional stagings of work in a venue perfectly suited to enhance each production. Roundabout also programs the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, where its 2011 Tony Award winning production of Anything Goes played. Since moving to Broadway 20 years ago, Roundabout productions have received 181 Tony nominations, 174 Drama Desk nominations and 195 Outer Critics Circle nominations. Production highlights include Anna Christie, She Loves Me, A View from the Bridge, 1776, Nine, Assassins, Intimate Apparel, The Understudy, The Pajama Game, Sunday in the Park with George, Waiting for Godot, The Importance of Being Earnest and Cabaret, one of the longest-running musical revivals in Broadway history.
For more information, visit www.anythinggoesthemusical.com. For more information on Roundabout Theatre Company, visit www.roundabouttheatre.org.
ANYTHING GOES plays The Orpheum Theatre, February 26th -March 3rd:
· Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 7:30 PM
· Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 7:30 PM
· Thursday, February 28th, 2013 7:30 PM
· Friday, March 1st, 2013 8:00 PM
· Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
· Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 1:00 PM & 6:00 PM
TICKETS: $15-$90. BOX OFFICE: 901-525-3000. WEB: www.orpheum-memphis.com.


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A Kansas State University professor says consumer interest groups will pressure the Food and Drug Administration to put more restrictions on animal antibiotic use, creating a bigger role for large animal veterinarians.
Mike Apley, a professor of veterinary medicine at Kansas State University, told the BC Democrat Online consumer interest groups will push to curb livestock antibiotic use. The changes, which Apley says will happen in the next five years, will require livestock producers to keep more detailed records when using animal health products.
"Within four to five years, every antibiotic we put in the feed or water is going to be a prescription product," Apley told cattlemen in Western Kansas recently. "That means a veterinarian will have to write an approval."
Low levels of antibiotics are used by cattle producers to promote faster growth, prevent diseases and increase feed efficiency. The FDA may add restrictions to livestock antibiotic use fearing continued use, even at low levels, potentially contributes to the development of "super bugs."
The BC Democrat Online says Apley acknowledged cattle producers can do more to use animal health products responsibly and they should ensure products added to feed are necessary.
Allan Sents, owner and manager of McPherson County Feeders told the BC Democrat Online the livestock industry generally uses livestock antibiotics responsibly and consumer awareness in the origins of their food has led producers to be even more responsible.
"Every industry has outliers, but we need to address it on an individual basis, not industry-wide. And we need to be proactive in advertising the benefits of antibiotics and the role they play in animal welfare," Sents said.


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Volume 27 - Article 10 | Pages 261–298
The Second Demographic Transition in Israel: One for All?
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|emancipative values, family formation, fertility, heterogeneity, Israel, marital transition, population composition, postponement, second demographic transition, value change
This article explores family behaviours and attitudes in Israel over the last decades through the lens of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT). Israel is divided by religious affiliation, the level of religiosity, ethnic origin and timing of immigration. Although fertility transition to replacement level among certain societal groups has been previously shown, the question of how the transition unfolds in other domains remains open. The goal of this paper is to highlight the diversity of marital and fertility transitions and non-transitions among various groups of this heterogeneous society, and to compare Israel's transitions to European ones. The data sources which are used are cross-national large scale surveys, national representative surveys, and Population Register data. The data were disaggregated by religion, religiousness and ethnic origin. Emancipative value change, postponement of marriage, alternative living arrangements and a growing variety of fertility regimes were analyzed. A full range of pre-transitional, transitional, and post-transitional elements was found among the groups. Such sign of the SDT as growing childlessness was not found, and the spread of other features as unmarried cohabitation and non-marital childbearing was found limited. Population composition effects were isolated. It was found that the level of religiosity and the country of origin are important factors which differentiate family behaviours and attitudes. The connection between value orientation of the groups within Israel and their family behaviours is discussed. The socio-structural and institutional constraints that might impede further progression of the Second Demographic Transition in Israel are also discussed. Further research directions are suggested.
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Evgenia Bystrov - Universität Bremen, Germany
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A little over a decade ago, we all watched T.J. Scruggs as he zeroed in on the opposing ball carriers at Bryant Field. He really had "an eye for the ball" as he made tackle after tackle. The ball carrier just didn't get away.
It seems that his prowess has changed from football to deer hunting. But his mentality stays the same, "Don't let them get away." T.J. proved that last weekend when he went archery deer hunting in Bureau County.
He left home early enough to be in his stand by 6 a.m. There was no action near his stand for nearly an hour. Then he heard some crunching and when he looked to the left, he saw a buck coming down a trail toward him. When the buck got about 15 yards from his stand, he stopped in a quartered stance. T.J. drew the arrow back and let fly. The buck took off running away but T.J. felt good about the shot. He got out the blind to call the landowner and wait to go after the buck.
About 7:30 am., Jim Scruggs, T.J.'s father, was hunting at another location when he received a message on his phone, BBD. 7:30. He called back to his son and asked him what that meant: the reply, BIG BUCK DOWN.
In about an hour, the owner got there and they started following the blood trail. T.J. said they followed the trail a long ways and then it stopped at the edge of an alfalfa field. They walked through the field for a while and found nothing. Then they walked near the fence row where there were several big round bales of hay. Then they saw the fletching of an arrow sticking in a bale. T.J. recognized the arrow as his but it was only the back half. They walked through the bales to the other side and there it was. They agreed that they might not have found the deer if they hadn't seen the arrow sticking in the bale.
When field dressed out, the buck weighed in at 205 pounds and had nine points. Congrats, T.J.
• Last week, D.U. held its annual banquet at the Met. A good time was had by all. I'll pass the results when I get them.
• Next week, the PHS Sportsman's Club will be shooting some indoor targets at the Time on the Waters' indoor range. Beginners will shoot next Tuesday and experienced bowmen will shoot on Thursday. Thank you "Time on the Waters" for helping us out.
• Finally, we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family and friends of Mark Hudson, a PHS graduate in the class of 1985, who passed away on Tuesday.
Lee Wahlgren is the BCR outdoor columnist. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com


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BB10's Brian Reported NOT In The Big Brother 11 House, Other Spoilers[singlepic id=157 w=320 h=240 float=left]Thanks to our own Sassygal, via BBDish, and you can read Sassy's post here (Post #103), but we've discovered just now some new and WILD information regarding the mystery houseguest, events of the first several days of BB11 and more! Brian, previously reported as being the mystery houseguest, is reported to NOT be the mystery houseguest. [singlepic id=158 w=320 h=240 float=]
AND it's reported, as we previously stated in an earlier article, that Jesse from the same season IS the mystery houseguest!
We can't absolutely confirm it, heck no one really can until tomorrow night when the show airs BUT here's what we've been told…
From Carolyn at BBDish
100% fact… Brian was brains
Cowboy outcasts
Jesse jocks
and a girl was populars… almost positive Jessica
Jesse is 100% in the house
there were 3 different scenarios they were considering before the show started..
they chose this one…
Is this 100% accurate? The person who told me claimed it to be so. The truth remains to be seen tomorrow night starting at 8pm Eastern and continuing on the feeds after that!"
And from an interview on Superpass, they also report that they heard Steven call in and say Brian is NOT in the house.Details


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There is an international calendar of events maintained by Eventoj and a list of events for young Esperantists maintained by the US Esperanto Youth Group (USEJ). Below are selected North American events. Please contact us if you know of additional events. that should be added.
Landa Kongreso de Esperanto-USA
The 59th National Congress of Esperanto-USA
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The OpenStack project got its own open source Foundation last week. This so-called cloud operating system, launched under an Apache 2 license by cloud provider Rackspace and NASA two years ago, will be governed by an independent organization that bears some similarities to the Linux Foundation.
In fact, Alan Clark, who was just elected chairman of the board of directors of the OpenStack Foundation, also serves on the board of the Linux Foundation and helps oversee the Suse Linux project. And there's another familial resemblance: Just as few would download the Linux kernel from Kernel.org and put it into production, few enterprises are likely to download and deploy the raw OpenStack bits from OpenStack.org.
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Instead, vendors will package OpenStack and incorporate it into various products, much as various vendors develop Linux distributions or embed Linux in data center hardware. Canonical, Rackspace, Red Hat, and Piston Cloud already offer OpenStack downloads. And public cloud providers such as HP are launching their own offerings based on OpenStack.
But despite this proliferation, OpenStack remains at a very early stage. There will undoubtedly be exceptions, but among enterprise customers, significant adoption of private cloud OpenStack solutions for production purposes is probably a year or so away.
Risks and rewards
That timeframe points to a stark difference between OpenStack and Linux: The latter had a decade to mature before it was enterprise-worthy. OpenStack is taking shape before our eyes, mainly through code contributions from established vendors. The stakes are very high, because OpenStack provides a management framework for nearly every virtualized resource in the data center.
To me, this breadth -- and the ripple effects of decisions made in code -- make OpenStack a unique experiment with its own special set of risks and rewards.
The main OpenStack reward for customers is indirect: Collaborative development of the core OpenStack bits should shorten the time-to-market for private and public cloud solutions, the adoption of which should increase IT efficiency and reduce costs overall.
OpenStack proponents also say that sharing the OpenStack bits will prevent cloud lock-in, but that benefit may be limited. Those who have been around this tree before (think J2EE application servers) understand the inherent contradiction: Each OpenStack cloud software or service provider will differentiate with special features that, if you use them, will inhibit portability.


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NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Launched: Architecture Revealedby Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/9/2011 12:34 AM EST
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dagamer34 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkTechnically Sony's been planning on having 4 Cortex A9 CPUs inside the Playstation Vita since it was announced in January (plus the very powerful PowerVR SGX 543MP4) Reply
Klinky1984 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - link...and where might I obtain a Playstation Vita? What other four core ARM chip is available in mainstream products as of today? Reply
Klinky1984 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkMaybe I should I have phrased that as "available for use in mainstream products as of today", I don't think Sony is going to let anyone use their SoC in a phone or tablet. Reply
MrMilli - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkBoth NEC (now Renesas Electronics) and Marvell beat nVidia to it. NEC focuses more on the industrial side of things and Marvell (Armada XP) more on storage/server applications. But NEC chips often find their way into automotive electronics (I believe some GPS systems use their ARM11 quad core from years ago).
I don't know what you see as a mainstream products. But GPS systems and low-end servers can be seen as mainstream. Reply
Klinky1984 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkEnterprise, industrial & embedded products are not mainstream. The Tegra3 is going to be a selling point for the products that use it & those products will be advertised prominently on the TV, print & the Internet. I highly doubt you'll see that for the chips you mentioned, I don't think I've ever seen a car commercial tout that their GPS is powered by NEC or Marvell or whatever platform they're using. I've seen plenty of phone commercials touting Tegra2 or Snapdragon. Reply
Stuka87 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkI disagree, and I am not sure you are aware of the meaning of mainstream. As its all dependent on point of view.
Mainstream is something which is purchased, used or accepted broadly rather than by a tiny fraction of population or market; common, usual or conventional.
Nowhere is it stated that something has to be on TV to be mainstream. It simply has to be popular in the market that it is aimed at. And NEC is most definitely mainstream in the markets that they target. Reply
eddman - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkBut the question was: can you buy a phone or tablet with an NEC or marvell quad-core SoC?
Maybe Tegra 3 wasn't the first quad ARM chip, but it is the first quad for mobile devices.
TI doesn't have any in its roadmap for now.
Same thing for St-Ericsson as TI.
Qualcomm's quads won't appear until Q4 2012.
Samsung hasn't announced any yet. Reply
Stuka87 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkThis is true. The NEC would not be suitable for a mobile device, and is not available for them. So nVidia is first in that market space. Reply
Penti - Sunday, November 20, 2011 - linkRenesas do offer quad-core mobile cpus. As does any one else, it's just a matter off when they are actually available. They do have an more impressive overall offer in the mobile space though. Reply
Klinky1984 - Thursday, November 10, 2011 - linkAlmost 1/3rd of the US population has a smartphone, how many of those consumers have an enterprise NAS, SAN or ARM based cloud server or even know what one is & even if they do know what one is do they actually have a desire to buy one? As for embedded GPS devices, which devices used the prototype quad-core ARM11 from Renesas Electronics?
Additionally I am not finding actual products containing a Marvell Armada XP or Renesas Electronics R-Car H1, The R-Car H1 doesn't even start mass production until almost 2013. Renesas Electronics' Quad ARM11 NaviEngine looks like it was used by Alpine Car Information Systems in 2010, but finding out what Alpine product uses it & where I could buy it is a challenge. Reply
Lucian Armasu - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkThose probably use more power, too, so they wouldn't be suited for tablets and smartphones anyway. Tegra 3 is the first quad core to be optimized for them. Reply
jeremyshaw - Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - linkabout as relevent as claiming the iPad 2 GPU doesn't matter since it doesn't use Android. Reply
jeremyshaw - Friday, December 16, 2011 - linkPS Vita is going on sale this Sat in Japan. For the rest of the world.... sucks to be you :p Reply
Draiko - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkWith a 3-5 hour battery life per charge. Disgusting. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkProbably only 1 hour playing a game using the unreal engine or similar. Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkThey said 3-5 hours of gameplay on the Vita, other stuff is more. Reply
tipoo - Saturday, March 10, 2012 - linkWhich is also what you get while gaming on any smartphone, if not less by the way. Reply
GeekBrains - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkLet's wait and see how it affects the real world bandwidth requirements.. Reply
dagamer34 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkSeems there's also a "lot of concern" too over the unchanged aspects of the Tegra 3 chip. They're shoving this entire design onto a 40nm process where every other competitor is focusing on 28nm which means greater power consumption at some point. Also, when you compare the numbers on the GPU, it seems that nVidia's got a rather weak offering comparing to the competition, which is kind of sad for a GPU company. What gives? Reply
B3an - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkIt's because of 40nm, with any more GPU power the chip would be even bigger. It's looking like there will be a 28nm version of Tegra 3 next year, but in order to be the first out with a quadcore SoC they have decided to use 40nm for now. Reply
dagamer34 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkUsing 40nm isn't an excuse when both Apple and Samsung use 45nm and have GPUs that trounce the Tegra 2 in real life and Tegra 3 on paper. Reply
eddman - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkYeah, and A5 is about 42%-43% bigger than tegra 3, an seems to be consuming more power and run hotter. I'd rather have less GPU power than that.
Don't know anything about exynos' size and other characteristics.
Anand, do you have any such information on exynos? Reply
MySchizoBuddy - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkwhat's your source of A5 die size? Reply
eddman - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkAt first this: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4840/kalel-has-five-...
Anand says tegra 3 is 30% smaller than A5, which means A5 is 42-43% bigger.
After your above comment, I searched a little bit, and noticed in the IT pro portal article linked in my other comment, it says 120 mm^2.
I also found these:
Here, it's 122 mm^2.
Now with the exact size known, it puts the A5 in an even worse situation, 50-52% bigger. Reply
eddman - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkOk, it seems exynos' size is about 118 mm^2.
Considering that tegra 3 has 5 cores and yet is still much smaller, I might say nvidia has actually done some nice engineering here.
Wonder how much of that difference is because of 40 nm process vs. 45 nm. Probably not much, but what do I know. Can anyone do some calculations? Reply
metafor - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkIt's really difficult to judge because they're from two different foundries. The minimum etch (e.g. 45nm, 40nm) isn't the only thing that affects die area. Some processes require stricter design rules that end up bloating the size of logic.
Samsung uses Samsung semi's foundries while nVidia uses TSMC. It's difficult to say how they compare without two identical designs that have gone to fab on both. Reply
Klinky1984 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkI think the 500Mhz companion core & proper power gating alleviates most of the concerns about power consumption. Reply
metafor - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkNot really. It alleviates the concern of power consumption on light loads. While that is a big part of common usage and it's definitely a benefit to have great idle/light power, I still would like to have better battery life while I'm heavily using the device. For instance, while playing a resource-heavy game or going to pretty complex websites.
One thing I do like is that they've improved the efficiency of the video decoder. This makes one of the most common use-cases (watching movies) less power-intensive. Reply
SniperWulf - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkI agree. I would rather they had made a strong dual-core and dedicate the rest of the die space to a second memory channel and a stronger GPU Reply
a5cent - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkQualcom is the only SoC manufacturer making the transition to 28nm anytime soon. Everyone else is shifting at the very end of 2012 (at the earliest). Reply
psychobriggsy - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkBy using 40nm NVIDIA has achieved a first to market advantage in the high-end quad-core SoC for tablets. Obviously this comes at the cost of a larger die, higher power consumption and/or slower clock speeds.
The larger die will add some cost to the product, but it's hardly a problem given that it is still quite small in the grand scheme of things. I believe it is smaller than the A5 for example. In addition mature yields on the 40nm process may allow NVIDIA to ship millions without worry rather than risk early 28nm yields.
Tegra 3 was meant to clock to over 1.5GHz, and this hasn't been achieved, probably 1.3GHz was the better option for power consumption. 28nm will fix this for Tegra 3+ next year, hopefully.
In addition the low power core gives NVIDIA an early entry into the low-power companion core market a year or two before the ARM Cortex A15 + ARM Cortex A7 combos arrive. This is another reason it is 40nm - TSMC don't have the ability to fab 28nm dies with a combination of processes (LP and HP) on the same die yet.
So the die might costs a couple of dollers more to make vs Tegra 2, but I'm sure they can charge a premium for the product until the competitors arrive. Reply
Paulman - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkWow, I'm amazed by the response times. It looks pretty seamless (i.e. the switching to and from the low-power transistor companion core). From a GUI perspective, there doesn't appear to be any stutter at all.
Looks like a good job, NVIDIA :O
P.S. Speaking of low-power transistors, that's ingenious to build an entire core out of low-power transistors on the same die as the four regular cores. I wonder if that's an idea that's been floating around in the field for awhile... Reply
dagamer34 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkYou think using LP transistors is something, see big.LITTLE coming from ARM in 2012-2013. ARM designed an entire core to be specifically low power (the Cortex A7) to fit perfectly with the more powerful Cortex A15, so that you get even greater performance with even greater power savings. Reply
Mugur - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkYes, but Tegra 3 is already here... Reply
Draiko - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkIt seems like nVidia and ARM co-developed this kind of Architecture. nVidia is implementing it in the Tegra 3 and ARM is making it available for license with bigLITTLE.
I'm just blown away with how smooth the dynamic threading is on the Tegra 3. This is going to be an absolute game-changer. Reply
JonnyDough - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkThat's because it isn't loaded down with crapware like the Blockbuster app...yet. Reply
metafor - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkIIRC, Marvell's Sheeva processors uses this method (came out ~2010 I believe). Reply
jcompagner - Thursday, November 10, 2011 - linkintel does this also for quite some time
Was the SATA bug they had not a result of something like this?
There also there was a wrong type of transistor used for that. Reply
Omega215D - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkSeeing that the architecture has a sound processor in it, is there any chance that nVidia could revive SoundStorm for the mobile platform? That would be great for things like the Transformer and other tablets as well as smart phones for multimedia purposes. Just a thought. Reply
ggathagan - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkGiven the Tegra 3 already includes HD audio and 7.1 support, I'm not clear on what feature you think Soundstream would add. Reply
MamiyaOtaru - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkwhat i liked about sound*storm* and what has me using cmedia now is DDL Reply
B3an - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkJust a little thing, but the Transformer Prime has a IPS+ display, not a typical IPS display which you have listed. Asus clam the + version is 1.5x brighter than a normal IPS display.
I'm impressed by the specs of the Prime, in literally EVERY single way (possibly apart the GPU) the Prime better than the iPad 2.... thinner, ligher, better display (apparently), higher res too, twice as much RAM, SD slot, and more than twice as many cores that are each also clocked higher...
If it's this good in the real world then i'll be imprssed that Asus could afford to make such a product and keep it at the same price as the iPad. Reply
name99 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - link"in literally EVERY single way ... better than the iPad 2"
You sure about that? You know, for a FACT, that the flash is faster? That the WiFi supports 5GHz and is faster? That there is the same range of sensors (including, eg, magnetometer, accelerometer, gyro, proximity sensor, light sensor, and a dozen I've forgotten --- and that every one of them is better than on iPad2?
There is a HUGE amount to iPad2 that people seem to forget because it's just hiding there under the covers, it doesn't advertise itself. Reply
ncb1010 - Saturday, November 12, 2011 - linkYes, The prime has a magnetometer, a gyro, a compass and a light sensor according to theverge.com(ex-engadget staff). The base iPad base model is missing a key sensor(GPS) but this includes it at the same price point. The iPad has no flash in any sense of the word(Adobe flash or camera flash) while the transformer has both Adobe Flash and a camera flash so I really don't see how it has faster flash(do you mean shutter speed?). Besides, of all the specs we know on the camera, it looks to be a lot better than the ones Apple put in there to upsell people on the iPad 3. As far as a proximity sensor, what would be the purpose of it? The purpose in the iPad is to detect when the custom cover on the iPad is put on and removed. The Pros on the Optimus Prime hardware wise are numerious while the iPad have some theoretical benefits just because we don't know every single detail on the Prime. You are grasping at straws here. Reply
AuDioFreaK39 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkQuick question for Tegra 3 architecture engineers: Is the "companion core" identified as Core 0 or Core 4? Thanks in advance. Reply
Draiko - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkGood question. I'd love a solid answer myself but from the core demo video, it looks like it's core 0. Reply
Anonymous Blowhard - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkIANAD (I Am Not A Developer) but I'm betting it's actually still tagged as 0, with lower-level firmware switching as to whether or not "core 0" is the companion core or a full core.
Remember that the companion core cannot be run at the same time as the full cores, so it's likely that when the demand-based switching kicks in, "companion core 0" is spun down, "full core 0" is spun up, and the rest of "full core 1/2/3" come online as well.
Since this is happening at the firmware/lower level vis-a-vis x86 "Turbo Core" it will be transparent to the OS.
/but that's, like, just my opinion man Reply
eddman - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkI agree with Anonymous Blowhard. The OS can't see all 5 cores at the same time, so companion core would be 0 when it's enabled. Reply
mythun.chandra - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkCore 0 :) Reply
allingm - Thursday, November 10, 2011 - linkWhile you guys are probably right, and it is probably just core 0, there is the possibility that its cores 0 - 4. All 4 threads could simply be run on the one core and this would make it seamless to the OS which seems to be what Nvidia suggests. Reply
jcompagner - Thursday, November 10, 2011 - linkdoes the OS not do the scheduling?
I think there are loads of things build in to the OS that schedules the processors threads.. For example the OS must be Numa aware for numa systems so that they keep processes/threads on the right cores that are in the same cpu/memory banks
If i look at windows, then windows schedules everything all lover the place but it does now about hyper threading because those cores are skipped when i don't use more then 4 cores at the same time. Reply
DesktopMan - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkSeems risky to launch with a GPU that's weaker than existing SOCs. Compared to the Apple A5 performance it looks more like a 2009 product... Exynos also has it beat. The main competitor it beats is Qualcomm, who isn't far from launching new SOCs themselves. Reply
3DoubleD - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkAt least it looks more powerful than the SGX540 which is in the Galaxy Nexus. I'll wait and see what the real world performance is before writing it off. I suspect it will have "good enough" performance. I doubt we will see much improvement in Android devices until 28 nm as die sizes seem to be the limiting factor. Fortunately Nvidia has their name on the line here and they seem to be viciously optimizing their drivers to get every ounce of performance out of this thing. Reply
DesktopMan - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkTotally agree on the Galaxy Nexus. That GPU is dinosaur old though. Very weird to use it in a phone with that display resolution. Any native 3d rendering will be very painful. Reply
eddman - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - link"Exynos also has it beat"
We don't know that. On paper kal-el's geforce should be at least as fast as exynos. Better wait for benchmarks. Reply
mythun.chandra - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkIt's all about the content. While it would be great to win GLBench and push out competition-winning benchmarks scores, what we've focused on is high quality content that fully exploits everything Tegra 3 has to offer. Reply
psychobriggsy - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkI guess it depends on the clock speed the GPU is running at, and the efficiency it achieves when running. Whilst not as powerful per-clock (looking at the table in the article), a faster clock could make up a lot of the difference. Hopefully NVIDIA's experience with GPUs also means it is very efficient. Certainly the demos look impressive.
But they're going to have to up their game soon considering the PowerVR Series 6, the ARM Mali 6xx series, and so on, as these are far more capable. Reply
AmdInside - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkAnyone else getting an error when opening the Asus Transformer Prime gallery? Reply
skydrome1 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkI am still quite underwhelmed by it's GPU. I mean, come on NVIDIA. A company with roots in GPU development having the lowest GPU performance?
They need to up their game. Or everyone's just going to license other's IPs and develop their own SoCs. LG got an ARM license. Sony got an Imagination license. Samsung's even got their own SoCs shipping. Apple is sticking to in-house design. HTC acquired S3.
After telling the whole world that by the end of next year, there will be phones that will beat consoles in raw graphical performance, I feel like an idiot.
Please prove me right, NVIDIA. Reply
EmaNymton - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkREALLY getting tired of all the Anandtech articles being overly focused on performance and ignoring battery life or making statements about the technologies that will theoretically increase battery life. Total ACTUAL battery life matters and increases in perf shouldn't come to the detriment of total ACTUAL battery life.
This over-emphasis on perf and refusing to hold MFGRs to account for battery life is bordering on irresponsible and is driving this behavior in the hardware MFGRs.
QUITE REWARDING THE HARDWARE MFGRs FOR RELEASING PRODUCTS WITH JUNK BATTERY LIFE OR BATTERY LIFE THAT IS WORSE THAN THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, ANANDTECH! Reply
mwarner1 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkDid you actually read the article? Reply
whsmnky - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkAs stated in the article, they'll have more once they have something in hand like they have in every other item review. Without physically having the product to test, I'm curious how you would expect them to provide ACTUAL battery life numbers to be able to hold anyone accountable to anything. Reply
MrSewerPickle - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkYeah I agree with both of the replies to this original comment. And please do NOT change the content, format or delivery of any of your Reviews or articles Anand. They are top-notch and rare on tech websites. Perfectly covered BTW and the Tegra 3 GPU is indeed a concern, in my humble opinion. Reply
cjs150 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkPerfect for a low power, low heat, no noise HTPC?
Zotac have released the incredibly cute Nano AD10 (and one with Via chip in).
NVidia come on you can beat them with something as cute but better (no fan for starters!), you did tease with something like the nano box about a year or 2 ago Reply
krumme - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkHTPC: you can already have bobcat based, no fan solutions. All running x86. At around the same size. Would be nice with some benchmarks comparing this to bobcat, especially fpu part. LOL. Reply
iwod - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkWould love to known how it perform against the A5. Reply
roundhouse_c - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - link
Here is another article:
Tegra 3 on 28nm die will be out sooner then what's being posted here. Reply
eddman - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkKal-El+ must be 28 nm. It wouldn't make sense if it isn't. Reply
ezekiel68 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkFrom the article you linked:
"AMD and NVIDIA saying they will be using the 28nm process silicon in
their next-gen graphics products."
The near-term timeframe is in reference to NVIDIA's next generation Kepler GPUs, not their mobile device SOCs. See also:
http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-28nm-kepler-pro... Reply
eddman - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkTrue, but it doesn't mean that they are NOT working on a 28 nm tegra. 28 nm GPUs will start rolling out in Q1 2012, so a 28 nm tegra 3+ in mid 2012 isn't unrealistic. Reply
Itaintrite - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkThat HD decode processor will make a lot of people happy. Reply
JoeTF - Thursday, November 10, 2011 - linkNo it bloody won't. Tegra2 already has hardware video decode unit and it's main trademark is that, it cannot even decode properly (no prediction, but more importantly - not enough power to decode anything higher than L3.0 at 30fps).
Hardware video decoder in Tegra3 is pretty much unchanged from T2. Hell, you can see light framedrops even in their marketing video.
Good thing is that they added NEON instruction. Sadly, it mean we will have to use all four cores at 100% utilization to playback our videos correctly and under those conditions runtime will be severely constrained (the 8h they talk about is for hardware decode, not NEON-based cpu decode) Reply
3DoubleD - Thursday, November 10, 2011 - linkThis is what I've been holding out for, so I really hope your wrong. Reply
psychobriggsy - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkThe article states that the video decoder has been significantly enhanced in Tegra 3. Where do you get your information from? Reply
Jambe - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - link"Die size has almost doubled from 49mm^2 to somewhere in the 80mm^2 range."
~80mm^2 is considerably more than double the area of 49mm^2, isn't it? Reply
eddman - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkUmm, no!! 80 is 63% bigger than 49. Simple as that. Reply
MamiyaOtaru - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkc'mon man it's not 49 millimeters squared, its 49 square millimeters. 49/80 is well less than 1/2 Reply
MamiyaOtaru - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linksee this for some review: http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/6015/squaremmhe... Reply
vision33r - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkThe Tegra 3 by being evolutionary, left a huge opening for other SOC to surpass it in a matter of months.
I don't think the performance will be that huge like the Apple A4 - A5 is on the magnitude of 9x faster.
It will be worthless by April when the Apple A6 comes out and spanks it silly and rumor has it that Apple maybe using a 1600x1200 10" display to up the ante.
If this is true, it means Nvidia has to bring out a Tegra 4 fall summer or fall 2012.
It will be a big iPad 2 X-mas for sure and iPad 3 will easily trump Tegra 3. Reply
metafor - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkI honestly don't think the biggest decision-maker for people considering an iOS tablet or Android tablet has to do with a ~40% difference in GPU performance.
When comparing Android tablets to each other -- since the OS is the same -- many people will fall back on "well, x is faster than y". But a 2x performance difference isn't going to change my mind if I like Android better than iOS, or vice versa.
Things like a high-res screen, battery life and usability of the OS have a much bigger impact; so I'd say nVidia or really any Android SoC vendor really aren't competing with Apple's silicon group. Reply
psychobriggsy - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkIn the Android market, it really doesn't matter what features Apple includes in their in-house SoC for their iOS devices.
Considering that manufacturers are having problems fabbing larger high-DPI displays, I also wouldn't be betting on the iPad 3 having a higher resolution display. And Apple would go for 2048x1536 for simplicities sake.
Five months is also a long time in the ARM SoC market, one that NVIDIA will try to make use of. Let's just hope the product meets the hype when reviews roll in. Reply
name99 - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkI've asked this before, and I will ask it again:
What software on Android, shipping TODAY, is capable of using 4 cores usefully?
The browser? The PDF viewer? Google Earth? If so, they're all ahead of their desktop cousins.
Yes, yes, people are buying the future. And, sure, one day, software will be revved to use 4 cores. (But, this being Android, chances are, the particular device you buy this year using Tegra3 will NOT be revved.)
I'm not trying to be snarky here, just realistic. It seems to me the competitors ARM manufacturers are targeting the real world, where dual cores can (to some extent) usefully be used. But nVidia is requiring people who adopt this chip to pay for power that, realistically, they're not going to use. This seems a foolish design choice. It seems to me far more sensible for mobile to basically track (lagging by about a year) desktop. Desktop is seeing quad-core adoption in a few places, but it's hardly mainstream --- and I'd say that until, let's say, the low-end MacBook Air is using quad core, that's an indication that "software" (as a general class) probably hasn't been threaded enough to make quad-core worth-while in mobile.
Yes, it's harder, but until then, I'd say far more useful to look at what's ACTUALLY causing people slowness and hassle on phones and tablets, and add THAT to your chips. So, faster single-threaded core --- great. But think more generally.
Flash on these devices is still slow. Could you speed it up somehow --- maybe a compression engine to transparently compress data sent to/from flash? Likewise app launch is slow. Are there instructions that could be added to speed up dynamic linking? Memory is a problem, and again transparent compression might be helpful there.
Basically --- solve the problems people actually have, even if they are hard, NOT the problems you wish people had because you know how to solve those. Reply
psychobriggsy - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkThe video shows web browsing and games to be using three cores quite often, and the fourth quite a bit. Android is quite multi-threaded, and if it also supports the Java Concurrency APIs it is very easy for software to also be multi-threaded.
I also presume that the GeForce drivers and other Tegra SoC drivers utilise multi-threading as much as possible.
And Flash is being dropped on mobile devices in favour of HTML5. That's Adobe making that move. And not before time, it is a horrible technology. Reply
Romulous - Thursday, November 10, 2011 - linkMeh. There may come a time when cores dont metter much.
http://www.euclideon.com/ :) Reply
alphadon - Thursday, November 10, 2011 - link"Die size has almost doubled from 49mm^2 to somewhere in the 80mm^2 range"
49^2 = 2401
80^2 = 6400
This should probably read:
"Die size has bloated to over 2.5 times the area of the prior generation leaving everyone wondering why NVIDIA is releasing this 40nm dinosaur. We would have expected a die shrink to keep the power and space requirements in line with the industry's competitors, but seeing all that real estate squandered on such an evolutionary product is downright shameful." Reply
Lugaidster - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkDid you even read the other posts? The other competitors have bigger dies and less cores! and also, the geometry didn't change between tegra 2 and this.
I find it great that they were able to double the shader core count, increase core count from 2 to 5 (it's slower but not less complex, see the die picture) and increase frequency while still having a smaller die than the competition.
I think that given the constraints, this might turn out to be a good product. Obviously only time will tell if it actually performs, but who knows... Reply
Lugaidster - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkBy the way, its 49 mm² not 49² mm. So its actually less than twice as big. Reply
psychobriggsy - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkDo you seriously think the Tegra 3 die size is 8cm by 8cm?
49mm^2 is the area, not the edge dimension. In effect the die size has gone from around 7mm x 7mm to 9mm x 9mm. I.e., your little finger nail to your index finger nail (your hands may vary). Reply
psychobriggsy - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkIn addition the 28nm shrink of Tegra 3 (Tegra 3+) next year, if no extra features are added, will shrink the die from 80mm^2 to 40mm^2 (in an ideal world, let's say 50mm^2 worst case and shrinks aren't simple). And Tegra 4 will probably be around 80-100 mm^2 again. Reply
lightshapers - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkThis quad core architecture is still disappointing. Actually they implemented a 4th core with good reinforcement from marketing, presented to be a solution for low power consumption at low CPU load. My guess is actually all competitors can do this (cut clocks and power on all but one CPU and reduce cluster frequency) on the ARM dual cluster without the need to add an extra CPU ( I speak for Samsung and TI, as Qualcomm is designing their own). In addition to that, this 5th core is another non negligible additional gates that leak.
Then, the action to synchronize L2 Cache by arm coherency port is fast, but 1MB is 1MB, which means probably few hundreds of us for lost reactivity when switching between cluster and this 5th core.
And at the end, it doesn't really solve all the problems of having 4 cores, as asymmetry in core load balance will ever happen. This solution may solve the low load case. But over the low-load watermark, the cluster is power-up, and we have 4 core consuming at least their leakage. This was reported as an issue on tegra2, I don't think it has changed (the 5th is in some way the proof), but here we have 2 additional cores...
For example, medium load requires 2 cores. 5th is off, but consumption is 4 times the consumption of one.
It would have been smarter to design a full speed additional core, so as to get a higher "low limit load" so as to stay on 1st core as longer as possible. With 500Mhz, it's difficult to say if you can manage all graphical interface + OS background on a 720p device... Reply
shiznit - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkIn a couple generations Nvidia may have a faster cpu than AMD lol. Who would have thought that when AMD bought ATI and some were saying Nvidia was doomed. Reply
ol1bit - Friday, November 11, 2011 - linkI think Nvidia's 5 core solution is right on for the limitation of the battery today.
Want to really crap up the amps, then plug your phone in.
Have to always remember the battery limitations of today's devices. Reply
lancedal - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkAs you can see on the demo video, there are quite a bit of overlap between the companion core and the other main core. Note that, per Nvidia, tasks can not be executed across the companion core and the other core. So, in the case of web-browsing and video playback, in order to smoothly transition between the 5th and the main cores, software would try to copy content over to the 5th core while the main cores are running and vice versa. As a result, there are huge overlap and this would cause higher power consumption in general usage (but lower power-consumption in standby). Compare this with Tegra-2, you would have shorter battery life on web-browsing or video playback. Reply
staryoshi - Saturday, November 19, 2011 - linkI am wanting Tegra 3 products something fierce. I can't wait for Prime to hit and smartphones to follow. Reply


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Scoff if you want. It's true. unions are destroying America, and that's EXACTLY what the union bosses want.
Look for the Union Label, by L. Neil Smith
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"I've ordered the invitation, enclosure cards, address labels, table, and menu cards from this suite. The print is very simple and elegant and the WPD staff was terrific and patient in dealing with the many requests for changes I made to make sure my product was printed perfectly. My wedding color theme is coral and silver. The flowers on this are peach, and the envelopes are silver so they match my color theme. The font is nothing fancy but readable. When you get anything printed with shimmery paper it looks beautiful - just get the invitation done this way. All of my party said how beautiful the invitation is, and honestly first impressions last. Remember, no one is really going to keep you invitation but you. So keep it simple. Btw, the invitation is 5x7 I think - so it's rather larger than I imagined. You invitation will not be lost and will be a bold statement to your invitees just based on it's size!"
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I have to admit that this rally has lasted a very long time -- and without much corrective action, which would have been normal. But, then again, we don't live in normal times.
I will not make a prediction about when this market will be ready to move down or up. That is a "tops or bottoms" game, and it is not my cup of tea. You can be wrong many, many times before you finally get it right. The questions I hear the most address not only the timing of the eventual correction, but also when the market will offer a chance for entry. Nobody raises a flag that tells you to get in or out, but the market will give you the signal!
In the past I've discussed the relationship between stocks and the market by looking at the correlation index (^JCJ), which tells more about the performance of individual stocks vs. the market than any other tool out there. In a low-correlation environment, individual stocks move on their own merit without undue influence. Of course, that tends to exempt commodity stocks, which will move with the underlying spot price: Crude oil was down sharply Friday, oil-related names sank and gold got hammered, along with the old standby gold-bug names.
While many have complained about the lack of an opportunity to get on board, did you know the market went absolutely nowhere this past week? See the chart below. Perhaps this is a function of a low-volatility environment -- the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is under 13% -- but some stocks are moving independent of the overall market.
But how have the indices levitated so well and for so long? Doesn't anyone want to sell? Is it that good of an environment for stocks? I'm not going to talk about price-to-earnings ratios, growth rates or even price multiples. My trade focus is on the charts and technicals, while my landscape analysis is on economic data, anecdotal and empirical evidence.
So, as time passes, the markets are frustrating more and more people -- but isn't that what's supposed to happen? As an options trader who follows trends and momentum, I will take my cues from the market -- and right now it's not a horrible message.
The need for instant gratification has never been more apparent, and many will take that to extremes, perhaps putting too much at risk to gain that reward. But is that the right approach toward achieving a goal? Fear and greed are the emotions that trigger buy or sell decisions. When we are caught up in an emotional swirl, it is because we fear the unknown while fully aware of the consequences, should we fail to make the right decision.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Trading is not a game of perfect. We have to accept that we will occasionally be wrong throughout the journey, all the while believing that we will triumph in the end.


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My comments have been virtually absent from this site for several months as I consolidated my position out of the real estate disaster in Southern California, moved to the Lewis-Clark Valley in Southeastern Washington State, and reestablished myself in this beautiful valley.
Clarkston, Washington, lies just across the Snake River from Lewiston, Idaho, at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers. This is an incredible country for an adventurer.
Here deer cross the road at all times of the day and night, coyotes and elk roam the wilds, sharing the territory with cougar and bear, and newly imported Canadian wolves – to the consternation of many locals.
Birds are everywhere, including several seagoing species, because of deep-water access to the ocean down the Snake and Columbia. The list includes many game birds as well as song birds in huge variety.
Steelhead and salmon fishing is as good as it gets anywhere. Jess Baugh, the son of my partner up here, Paul Baugh, owns Mountain River Outfitters, which he has built into the largest such operation in Idaho. When Jess takes you fishing, you will reach your legal limit every time – the only guide who seems able to do this consistently.
The Clearwater River runs entirely inside Idaho, is the longest wild river in America, and with the Snake River, offers some of the most exciting white water rafting in the World. And just to make things more interesting, after a wild down-river run in a raft (or in a kayak accompanying the raft if you're game enough), you can go back up the rapids on a high-powered jet boat.
If climbing is where your adventure lies, Hell's Canyon is America's deepest gorge at 7,993 ft. The Snake River rushes more than a vertical mile below the Oregon rim, and more than 8,000 feet below the summits of the Seven Devils Mountains just to the east in Idaho.
The Snake is damned in three places offering the scuba diver a very different kind of diving experience.
I will publish here from time to time, things of wider interest that have happened and continue to happen in and around the Lewis-Clark Valley.


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HOUSTON - He's one of the best players in the NFL, larger than life to fans and a force to be reckoned with on the field. Now Texans superstar J.J. Watt is showing the world his softer side, helping a young boy deal with bullies.
That journey is now being profiled on a USA Network special called "NFL Characters Unite," as Watt makes a difference in a little boy's life.
It's hard to imagine that Watt was ever told he was too small to play football.
"My whole career and throughout high school people told me there's no way you can do it. You're too small, you're not fast enough, you're not big enough," he said.
Like Watt, 12-year-old Billy Williams is fighting to keep his dream of playing football alive. He is bullied about his looks and his size, and is constantly told he'll never play the game he loves.
"Sports is very important to me, but they say I'm too skinny and make fun of me," said Billy. "They make me so mad I want to punch my pillow and try to hurt myself."
So Watt surprised Billy and met him for lunch. Billy was in shock to see his favorite player in person.
Watt took Billy to the YMCA, where he was then invited to join the Y's flag football team, the Texans. He immediately hit the field.
"They were giving me high-five's because I did a good job out there," said Billy. "I have a team now and that makes me happy."
Now he's a part of a team and has friends.
"Billy's life is going to be changed because of a day like today. That means so much more to me than any sack or any touchdown, Watt said.
And the gifts just keep on coming for Billy. Watt gave him a pair of autographed cleats he wore in a game and the YMCA of Houston gave him a free life-time membership, so he can continue to pursue his dream of playing football.
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MARK Cooper is hopeful his Swindon Town players will believe they can make a serious impression on the top end of League One after beating one of the pre-season promotion favourites on Saturday.
Although Peterborough United came to the County Ground off the back of a wretched run of form they remain hotly tipped to challenge for elevation to the Championship this term and therefore Cooper thinks his team's 2-1 win should inspire them to even greater things over the course of the remaining 22 games of the campaign.
Goals from Nile Ranger and Yaser Kasim secured all three points for the Robins, who are now within touching distance of a play-off place.
"In my talk before the game I wrote on the board the six teams in the top eight that had beaten us and I asked the players today that if we are going to be serious we have to start knocking off the teams at the top so we can catch them," said Cooper. "That's what today was all about.
"I think they're happy that on a cold winter's day they've ground a result out against one of the better teams in the division. Hopefully that gives them confidence and belief going forward."
The victory was Cooper's first as a manager over the club with whom he spent 13 unhappy games four years ago, but he did not see the win in any sort of revenge context.
"It means nothing, just three points," he said.
"I don't even get involved in all that. I don't even go back to my time at Peterborough, it was that short and it was wrong for everybody. I just look now at going forward and it's another three points.
"Nothing else matters to me – it's three points that keeps us bang in the promotion race."


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10 hours of surgery to remove my husbands common bile duct, the right lobe of his liver and part of the left. I'm sitting in ICU for the night with him. Good news is there were clean margins and the dr didn't think this appeared to be cc. Thinks it might actually be a severe inflammation resulting in the stricture of the bile duct. Odd to me that he would have removed so much of the liver if it's not cancer and until the path reports come back we don't know for sure.
Just wondering, I know Augmentin can cause liver problems and my husbands issues all started several weeks after finishing a script for augmentin which makes me go hmm. It appears tho that most people don't have permanent damage from antibiotics?
This has definitely been a roller coaster ride of first docs saying it must be cc then saying no we don't think it is, go to the next dr and repeat the cycle. Not sure what to think, I just hope he recovers without complications.


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Right now the votes for Prop 37 to label genetically engineered foods are still being counted. On Tuesday morning, Dec 4th, Prop 37 hit 6,004,628 votes on the California Secretary of State's website, but this tally was quickly reversed within an hour of being publicized by Food Democracy Now!
Since November 6th, the vote count in California has been updated daily until December 4th, when the vote count hit 6 million for the first time. When contacted, the Secretary of State's office stated there would be no further updates to the vote totals until Dec 14th when state law requires the election results to be certified. County elected officials only have until COB Dec 7th to submit final results so we need your help now!
At the same time, Food Democracy Now! has learned that a team of independent statisticians have detected "statistical anomalies" in the largest precincts of 9 counties, including Orange, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Alameda and San Diego counties.
We find this news troubling and think it's important that the Secretary of State's office know that we are watching these developments closely and expect honest and fair election results.
Join us in standing up for open and transparent elections, it's important that all votes be counted and any possible malfeasance is properly investigated by California election officials. Count all the ballots, be open and transparent, because we have the Right to Know! If you live in California, please call the Secretary of State's Elections Division staff at (916) 657-2166 to tell them you expect Secretary Debra Bowen to continue to update the vote count until the election is certified on Dec 14th.
Please take a moment to write a quick note telling the California Secretary of State Debra Bowen
Dear California Secretary of State Debra Bowen,
As a concerned citizen, I would like you to know that some questionable election results have appeared as votes continue to be counted in California. Earlier this week 6 million votes for Yes on 37 were reported on the Secretary of State's website and then this total disappeared. I understand that staff in your office have reported that they will not be updating these vote totals any more on a daily basis.
I greatly appreciate your committment to transparent elections, which was your campaign platform. In that spirit I would like to request that your office to continue to update the vote totals as they are reported to your office in order to ensure open, fair and transparent elections.
Please work to ensure that all votes will be counted in an open and transparent manner.
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Did you know?
Constantia was probably named after Constantia van Goens, granddaughter of the Dutch East India official who granted Simon van der Stel the farm Constantia.
The Constantia Wine Route in Cape Town is well worth a visit for its historical wine-making traditions, scenic setting, superb restaurants, fine examples of Cape Dutch architecture and, of course, its fine wine.
This is the Cape's oldest wine producing region, dating back to 1685, and also the only wine district located within a city. Because of its close proximity to Cape Town, it is one of the Cape's most visited wine routes.
A coastal Wine of Origin region, heat sensitive white cultivars grow well in Constantia, where high annual rainfall, and mild winters with very little or no frost, ensure maximum time on the vine, and cool sea breezes from False Bay temper the fierce heat of summer to safeguard flavour complexity.
Constantia Valley may be the smallest of the Cape's wine routes, with 11 vineyards, eight of which are open to the public, but wine producers such as Groot Constantia, Klein Constantia, Buitenverwachting, Constantia Uitsig, and Steenberg are world renowned.
A new generation of winemakers represented by Constantia Glen, Eagles Nest and High Constantia estates are turning out smaller quantities of exceptional wines.
A number of Constantia wine estate histories go back more than 300 years.
At Klein Constantia, visitors can taste the old world charm when they purchase Vin de Constance, a dessert wine that gained the region international fame during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Made from Muscat de Frontignan grapes, Muscat Capp Constantia, as it was previous called, was enjoyed by Napoleon, Jane Austin, and Charles Dickens, amongst others, for its restorative powers. But after phylloxera devastated Cape vineyards in the late 19th century, the wine ceased to be produced.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Constantia Valley Association
Tel: +27 (0)21 709 0413
Cell: +27 (0)72 410 9959
How to get here
The Constantia Valley is conveniently located in the centre of Cape Town's Peninsula, only 20 minutes' drive from Cape Town.
Best time to visit
The Constantia Valley is especially scenic in spring and summer. Visit between January and April to participate in harvest activities. The vineyards also display spectacular colours in autumn.
Around the area
Play golf at Steenberg or visit its day spa. Cape Town's major attractions, the V&A Waterfront and Robben Island, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens and Table Mountain are between 20 to 30 minutes away. Visit the one of the Cape's newest Wine of Origin districts, Cape Point.
Tours to do
At Groot Constantia visit the Iziko Orientation Centre, the Manor House, and the original Cloete Cellar, dating back to 1791.
Get around
Numerous Cape Town based tour operators conduct tours of the Constantia Wine Route. For wine adventurers and gourmands, self-drive is definitely the way to go, and there are numerous car hire companies in Cape Town.
What will it cost
The price of a wine tasting varies from estate to estate. Some cellars will waive the tasting fees if wine is purchased.
Length of stay
It's a good day out.
Where to stay
Constantia has notable five-star hotels: The Cellars-Hohenort, Steenberg Hotel, Constantia Uitsig Hotel and Spa, and Colona Castle among them; as well as B&Bs, guesthouses, self-catering villas for hire.
What to eat
The Cellars-Hohenort's hotel has two restaurants, one specialising in traditional Cape Malay cuisine. Buitenverwachting, Constantia Uitsig, and Steenberg also have superb fine dining resturants. Advance booking at these venues is essential.
What's happening
The Constantia Wine Valley hosts a Constantia Fresh Sauvignon Blanc Festival in February and the Spring it On wine festival in mid-October.
Best buys
Vin de Constance – Klein Constantia's recreation of the legendary Constantia wine from shriveled as opposed to botrytised grapes.


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Waste-to-Energy Plant
Copenhagen, Denmark
Located in an industrial area near the city center the new Waste-to-Energy plant will be an exemplary model in the field of waste management and energy production, as well as an architectural landmark in the cityscape of Copenhagen.
The project is the single largest environmental initiative in Denmark replacing the adjacent 40 year old Amagerforbraending plant, integrating the latest technologies in waste treatment and environmental performance.
/ Ulla Röttger, Director Amagerforbraending
BIG's proposal contributes to the city with something useful and beautiful. We see this creating a lot of opportunities and with this unique building, we can brand the Danish knowledge and technology to show the world our abilities within environmental and energy issues.
Instead of considering the new Amagerforbraending as an isolated architectural object, the building is conceived as a destination in itself and reflects the progressive vision for a new type of waste treatment facility.
The roof of the new Amagerforbraending is turned into a 31.000 square meter ski slope of varying skill levels, mobilizing the architecture and redefining the relationship between the waste plant and the city by expanding the existing recreational activities in the surrounding area into a new breed of waste-to-energy plant.
/Bjarke Ingels Founder and Partner, BIG
The new plant is an example of what we at BIG call Hedonistic Sustainability - the idea that sustainability is not a burden, but that a sustainable city in fact can improve our quality of life. The Waste-to-Energy plant with a ski slope is the best example of a city and a building which is both ecologically, economically and socially sustainable.
The slope is ecological using a recycled synthetic granular, upending the convention of the energy intensive indoor ski resort. Access to the slopes is via an elevator along the plant's smokestack providing views into the plant, giving glimpses of its internal workings finally reaching an observation platform 100 meter above giving sightseers an unobstructed view from one of the tallest structures in Copenhagen.
From a distance the entire building is wrapped in a vertical green facade, formed by planter modules stacked like bricks, turning it into a mountain from afar.
All of this while the smokestack is modified to puff smoke rings of 30 meters in diameter whenever 1 ton of fossil CO2 is released. These smoke rings will form due to the condensation of water in the flue gases as they as they slowly rise and cool, serving as a gentle reminder of the impact of consumption, and a measuring stick that will allow people to grasp the CO2 emission in a straightforward way - turning the smokestack, traditionally the symbol of the industrial era, into a symbol for the future. At night, heat tracking lights are used to position lasers on the smoke rings into glowing artworks.
The surrounding topography is sculpted to form a park which offers informal sport activities in summer and winter. Along its western border a field of hills will mimic a mogul piste. A path system throughout the park interconnects the whole site and creates good connections to the neighboring residential area.
BIG won First Prize in the International competition in collaboration with: Realities:United (Smoke Ring Generator), AKT (Facade & Structural Consulting), and Topotek 1/Man Made Land (Landscape)
Facts about Waste-to-Energy Plant
Building area:
95,000 m2
90,000 m2
Roof + ski slope:
32,000 m2
Estimated completion: 2016
Bjarke Ingels, David Zahle
Project Leader:
Brian Yang
Project Team:
Jelena Vucic
Alina Tamosiunaite
Armor Gutierrez
Maciej Zawadzki
Jakob Lange
Andreas Klok Pedersen
Daniel Selensky
Gül Ertekin
Xing Xiong
Sunming Lee
Long Zuo
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Last updated: December 19, 2013
See also
The Images of Architects
Bike Town Tokyo
The Monocle Guide to Better Living
ARCHIGRAM - A Guide to Archigram
Le Corbusier Redrawn - The Houses


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Goeun Lee carded a 12-over 84 in the second round of the 2012 NCAA Division II Women's Golf National Championships, concluding day two in 28th with an overall score of 80-84—164 at the par-72, 6283 yard Persimmon Ridge Golf Course in Louisville, Ky.
Nova Southeastern still holds onto the first and second spots, with Daniela Ortiz (73-72—145) and Abbey Gittings (72-75—147) sitting first and second, respectively. UNC-Pembroke's individual participant Meghan Moore (75-75—150) currently sits third after two rounds of action.
In team competition, Nova Southeastern holds onto the top team position after 36 holes, bringing in a score of 308-306—614. The Sharks are ahead of their competitors by leaps and bounds, with Florida Southern holding onto the second place slot with a score of 314-315—629, and California-PA and Grand Valley State in a tie for third with a score of 71-over 647.
Participating in the tournament as an individual competitor, and the first women's golfer from Saint Leo to earn a trip to nationals, Lee will continue her journey on Friday morning, May 18, when she tees off on the first hole at 8:30 a.m.
Fans can stay up-to-date on all of the action by visiting saintleolions.com as well as ncaa.com.


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Hey, i know these threads have become a bit discouraged, but this particular swell may need some discussion.
i have seen another site giving swell direction and it looks to be SW. buoy forecasts saying 4-7ft over night.
i have a feeling nj may be a bust on this one.


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Originally posted on borisdiawtime.blogspot.com | Last updated 6/19/12
Even though the Finals are far from over, this past NBA season is done and over with for 28 teams. For those clubs, the focus has shifted from the practice facility to the combine, from game planning to cap management. From now until next fall, the game is a radically different one, one where mere competency seems to be a rare luxury and one where panic and stupidity typically rule the day. Yes, it's the NBA offseason, the time of the year where fat players like Big Baby Davis get even fatter contracts! Why do they get these contracts? Perhaps the Magic also own a struggling chain of local buffets…we may never know. (If that is the case, then I expect them to throw BIIIIIIIIG money at Boris Diaw) It's no secret that the offseason is not always the NBA's finest hour. Draft picks are constantly wasted, max contracts handed out to secondary players, and role players courted like superstars. It really is a mess. A big, giant, tragic mess. And even with a new CBA in place last fall, the league's top executives STILL couldn't stop making idiotic moves! Since common sense is such a struggle for these people, I thought I'd take the time and offer a helping hand this offseason. Each team needs to make a move or decision of some kind, whether it be big or small, and I'm going to give each and every team one such move they should make. We're on to the Southeast Division to finish up the Eastern Conference. In case you missed them, here are the previous Tip Sheets: Atlantic Division Central Division
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By TOMMY BRYAN
MT. JULIET -- Saying the K-12 Christian school is "in it for the long haul", leaders at Mt. Juliet Christian Academy have decided to switch to Division II of the TSSAA effective in the 2009-2010 academic year.
The move will allow MJCA to provide financial aid to athletes, just as they have been offering financial aid to non-athletes for years.
"This move is less about athletics and more about our mission," said MJCA athletic director Paul Christensen. "Athletes at this school have been denied financial aid for years, we want to make sure we are able to treat all our students the same."
Christensen indicated school leaders, " looked very hard at our mission. Tuition can't go down, in these economic times we wanted to be able to offer aid to those in need."
MJCA is joining the ranks of Donelson Christian Academy, Franklin Road Academy, Ezell Harding, Davidson Academy and Rutherford County's Lancaster Christian for all sports.
"We've enjoyed wonderful relationships with folks in Region 4 like Watertown and Friendship Christian," Christensen said. "We're moving divisions, not out of the county. We're hoping we can maintain these rivalries with our neighboring schools."
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Drinking glasses are like shoes. Sure, you can pour that martini, champagne or Tom Collins into any old drinking glass, plastic tumbler or coffee mug, but so can you slip on any comfy, easy pair of shoes with your new dress or suit. These champagne glasses were made for drinking champagne - you will have to tilt your head back to get the last sip from it and the tall, narrow bowl is ideal for watching the bubbles. The sleek, squared shape make these a contemporary addition to your glass shelf even if you only drink champagne once a year!