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Dana Holgorsen News Conference
Abby Norman
November 13, 2012 04:19 PM
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - A transcript of WVU football coach Dana Holgorsen's weekly news conference:
Opening statement
Oklahoma is going to be a tremendous challenge. They are a very storied program that is extremely well coached. Bob (Stoops) has been there for 14 years and won many championships. They have great players, and they develop them well, they recruit well, it is a very structured program. We are talking about a place that has won seven national championships and seven Big 12 Championships so they are used to winning. They have always been known for their defense. His brother, Mike (Stoops), is back with them after being a head coach at Arizona for a while, but you can tell that it has made a difference. It has made a difference from a discipline, effort and scheme standpoint. They play with tremendous effort. They are very sound, and they are very physical. They are very talented. All those things exist with their defense.
They are very talented in the back end. There is going to be one-on-one matchups everywhere. Not from just a coverage standpoint, from an upfront standpoint. They are going to be one-on- one matchups everywhere, and they are going take pride in the fact that they are going to win those one-on-one matchups. They have got two great safeties that tackle well. They lead their team in tackles. They are very good on defense and very talented on offense.
Everything starts with their quarterback, Landry Jones, it seems like he has been there for six years. I remember him in high school, and he came out of New Mexico. He came to our camp, and he is very talented, big kid with a great arm and is a winner.
Then they put in the "Bell-dozer," (Blake Bell). That is their backup who poses different problems. He is obviously a runner and will do wild-cat stuff with them.
This is probably one of the most talented groups of receivers we have faced all year and possibly in the country. Kenny Stills has been there for a while and is good. They hit two home runs on two transfers. The (Justin) Brown kid from Penn State, and the (Jalen) Saunders kid from Fresno are special. They have tremendous depth and some capable running backs. We will have just as much of a challenge on offense.
The special teams is probably the top special teams unit in the Big 12, and it goes back to just having a lot of depth. They have a whole bunch of people who could start anywhere in the country, so when you have that kind of depth, that makes you good on special teams. They have two good return guys and take it very seriously. It is a challenge we are looking forward to.
We encourage everyone to come support the team. The kids are playing hard, the guys are motivated, and we are ready to get back to work today. I understand the frustrations that have existed. Not only with the team, but coaches and players are well frustrated, but we are going to get back to work. Our approach last week was good, and I thought we had good work last week and we traveled well and I thought we wanted to play. We just made too many simple mistakes that prevented us from winning the game. We will get back to work and looking forward to a good week of working and then a great atmosphere Saturday night in Morgantown.
On Oklahoma coming in and helping the players focus
As many challenges that exist with Oklahoma, I don't see how it can't help. We came back to work Sunday and went back to work. I don't think anything was wrong with our approach and our approach is going to be the same this week. We are playing a challenging team just like we faced a challenge last week at Oklahoma State. We didn't play well enough to win. We will get out there and practice hard and put them in a position to hopefully make some plays and catch some breaks to where we can win this week.
On if he has ever been on a four game losing streak
No I haven't. It is not a lot of fun for anybody. The only way to get out of it is to work hard so that is what our coaching staff is doing. We put in a long day Sunday, and we put in a very long day yesterday, and we are going to put in a very long day today. That is the only way you are going to get out of a losing streak. We understand what the challenges are, and we are realistic with them and recruiting hard, and we are managing the team hard. When we are in the weight room, we are lifting weights hard, not us personally, but the team. There is only one way to get on track, and there is only one way that you can win in college football. I don't care what conference you are in. The only way you win is by hard work. We are going to work hard.
On how to coach basic, simple, fundamental stuff and fix the junior high mistakes
It's coaching, and we have to coach it. What is sad about the special teams' situation is that obviously it was embarrassing. It was embarrassing last week, and I sat here a week and a half ago after TCU, and I thought we played really well on special teams other than the execution of our snap and the execution of our kick whether it was a kick or a punt. We worked hard on that all week, and if you look at the execution of our snap and our kick, we were really good. Our snap and our punt, we were excellent. Bitancurt responded and probably had his best day that he has ever had here. (John) DePalma snapped and did his job and ran down field with a tremendous amount of effort. With that said, everything else is bad. Everything that I said was good, turned bad. We went out Sunday night, and we worked on fielding punts. We worked on the "Peter Call", where Tavon (Austin) does this and everybody runs away from the ball, which is what a "Peter Call" is. The kickoff return when Quinn (Sharp), who is special, put some stuff on the ball, we had to make a decision, whether we field it or we make a decision to get out of the way and let someone else field it. We worked on Tavon (Austin) in the back and Stedman (Bailey) in the back fielding a kick. The guys covering the punt would get inside the five, see the ball, and then catch and down it, before it goes into the end zone, so we worked on that. It is all elementary stuff, so we worked on it. We put them in those positions, and we worked on it. Was it frustrating? Yes. Should we have to work on that? Yes, I guess we did. We kind of took some of that stuff for granted, which I will take the responsibility for that.
On Oklahoma State kicker Quinn Sharp and how he squibed the ball.
He did, but maybe he is that good. We tried to do it and when we tried to squib it, it went like 10 yards. We worked on that too. We worked on our kickers putting their foot on the ball and it going down field.
On playing field position football on fourth down
It is our job offensively to score. It is our job to keep going forward. If you look at all seven of them, there is only one of them that I questioned after the game and that was the one in the fourth quarter that we were backed up to our 35 or 40 or somewhere in there. Looking back at it, I kind of questioned that one a little bit, but I think at that point, we were down 14, they had just had an 80-yard score, and we made the decision to go for it. Other than that, the other six, I would do it again. We are talking again in that 35-yard line, which we scored with Paul (Millard), which that was on fourth and 12 on the 35. I didn't feel good about the field goal, because of the wind. I didn't feel good about the punt, because you have a chance at only gaining 15 yards, so we took a chance, and it worked out. Then a couple of the goal line ones, we had third and short and fourth and short, we have to be able to get it. If we are going to be successful offensively, we have to be able to get those. I only kind of regret one of them. I don't want to get into a habit of going for it on fourth down five to seven times a game. I don't want to, and if you look back at the games, there has been a couple of times this year that we have done that, but over the course of the 20 some games since I have been here, that hasn't been the norm and don't expect it to be. But it is all the situation. The situations dictate that.
On evaluating the defense versus Oklahoma State
There was still too many mental mistakes. More mental mistakes than physical mistakes. We were good against the run against other than the reverse, which was a mental error on two of our guys being in the wrong spots. They didn't read their keys, and they were in the wrong spots. But other than that, we did a pretty good job of stopping the run. The pass defense issues, we didn't get any pressure on them. Our pass rush was bad and keep in mind, I do think Oklahoma State's offensive line is the best in the conference, and that is consistent over the years. Coach (Joe) Wickline does a great job, and those kids are good. We didn't get to the quarterback. We didn't pass rush well. When we blitzed, we screwed up the blitzes half the time, and we didn't get there, which put our DBs in some bad situations. What looks bad on the back end, could have been prevented with doing things right on the front end. They work hand in hand. The physical stuff, they didn't have a ton of missed tackles, played hard, just too many mental mistakes and not being where they needed to be 100 percent of the time. You have to be there 100 percent of the time if you want to play good defense. It has got to be all the time. You can't say we played good defense for the exception of seven or eight snaps, which they scored on. We have to play like that all the time. We are having a hard time getting through to our guys, which is coaching, that we have to play like that all the time. That is the challenge.
On the WVU run game
It is a huge issue, and we are going to work hard on it this week. We did a poor job of establishing the line of scrimmage. Look at all our third and shorts. We have no push. We had none. We were garbage on third and short, fourth and short, when we handed the ball off. That is combination of just not controlling the line of scrimmage up front and not having good enough running backs to be able to get the yards that we need. You can blame it on what you want to. Shawne (Alston) is hurt. It is not what people want to hear, but he is hurt. That is why he is not playing. Dustin (Garrison) is still six months out from being where he was last year, which means we put it in the hands of
Andrew Buie
, who is averaging almost five yards a rush, but you give it to him 20 times a game, he is going to wear down. He is not that type of guy who can handle that many carries. We are working extremely hard to recruit about five or six running backs who can come in here and give us help and until that happens, it is what it is.
Tavon Austin
helping on the run
I wish we could clone him and put three of him out there. We have obviously felt like he is a pretty good inside receiver, and it has always been the thing on what can we do to get the ball in his hands. And you want to get it into his hands as much as we can. With that said, his trade has been being an inside receiver for four years now. We will continue to try and come up with creative ways to get him the ball, because he is dynamic as it comes in college football, when it comes to him having the ball in his hands.
On Oklahoma against Baylor's Running Game
They do the same thing every time. They are going play a 4-1 or 4-2 front and their safeties are their fill guys. And if you remember what Baylor does; Baylor spreads you all over, and they go from way out here to way out there. They are going to line up like that. which means they are going to rely on those people in the box and those two safeties that come down to stop the run. There is going to be people in space. Baylor does as good of job as anybody in the country of putting people in space. I feel like we do a pretty good job of putting people in space, and then once those guys are in space, it is about making some people miss, and Baylor did a pretty good job of making some people miss.
On Oklahoma playing straight up in the secondary which is something they haven't seen yet this season
This poses different challenges. I can assure you it poses different challenges. There is one-on- one matchups. Are our guys good enough to win those one-on-one matchups? We will see Saturday night. When you think of a one-on-one matchup, you are not looking at one receiver having to beat one DB. You are looking at four receivers and potentially a running back who have to win those matchups, and then you have two safeties that do what they want to. They still have help over the top, and then there are four people up front, and then add the linebacker, which is a fifth guy up front. So there are five lineman and five people. They have to win that one-on-one matchup too. It boils down to they think they have better players then who they play, which is why they are pretty good at that scheme, because they have pretty good players.
Tavon Austin
Stedman Bailey
being semifinalists for the 2012 Biletnikoff Award
I would choose Stedman last week, because he had a better game, and I would choose Tavon the week, before that because he had the better game. These two guys are completely different than the guys that have won it. A couple of the guys who I have been fortunate to coach that are in the NFL get by with just sheer will. They just want to, so these guys are completely different. These two guys are not like people I have had. They are quicker and skilled and different. We rely on them a lot.
Pat Miller
is still on the team
Yes. I hope he gets out there and practices hard and gets better. We need him and a lot of other people to get better. So hopefully, they take to the coaching and get better.
On certain receivers making plays for the first time last week
Effort was really good. What I am talking about as far as what needs to happen on every position involved is that it (being on the field) means a whole lot to those guys. You take guys like Connor (Arlia), Ryan (Nehlen) and
Cody Clay
. Cody has been a fullback for the last seven or eight weeks. We lined him up at receiver and ran routes. I don't think he got targeted ever, which they probably should target him because he is a big body. Just sheer effort, grit, want to and it means a lot to them. Those are three of the most disappointed kids in our locker room after the game. We need more of that to exist. I am proud of how they did that. I can't manufacture new people. It is what we got.
On if certain redshirts will play this late in the season
There are not many of them. It would be pretty hard at this point. If they would have been ready, they would have gotten pulled a couple of weeks ago.
On Paul Millard
It was kind of what you see in practice. He gets out there and throws an interception or a touchdown. We need a little bit of consistency to happen for him to be a productive football player. I was proud of how he went in there. He didn't bat an eye. He ran in there, called a play and didn't flinch. He took the snap, worked the pocket and threw a great pass. Then the second time he went in there, he panicked and he threw it right to them which they dropped luckily. He is doing good. It is going to be a good battle between him and Ford (Childress) and whoever else we bring in here. That decision won't be made for quite some time. A lot needs to happen for us to figure that out.
On the inside receiver being a bigger body and a different look
It helps on the inside. Texas Tech's inside guy, Jace Amaro, who hasn't played since we played them. We watched Texas Tech offense against Oklahoma's defense. I studied that a lot this week. That guy just destroys people. So the physical presence on the inside is necessary. We don't have that physical presence on the inside. You have Tavon (Austin) and Squirt (
Jordan Thompson
). Those guys run circles around people, but they don't necessarily run right into people. Having Cody (Clay) at that spot last week did us some good. He sprung Tavon for a touchdown, and he blocked well on the perimeter. He probably blocked better on the perimeter than he did in the back field. Having those guys I think is important, yes. Connor (Arlia) brings some toughness like that to the inside. He will get in there and give it everything that he has got. He will in there and stick his hat on somebody and fight for everything that he is worth. That type of guy is important. You need those type of guys who can score too. A Wes Welker type and Danny Amendola, who stick their nose in there and be gritty and then also make a guy miss and go score.
On what makes a good inside receiver
It is grit, toughness and effort.
On determining who will be a fit for this program recruiting wise in junior colleges
It is just evaluating. We have sent coaches all over the country to go to schools and ask questions, get transcripts, watch practice or watch games. Identify your needs and then go recruit them. Everybody in the country has needs. I can assure you of that. You do it like any other high school. You go recruit high school guys, and it is all just evaluations and trying to figure out what your needs are and identifying if they fit the needs or not. Which is a little easier said than done.
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CSS is a tricky band. As easily likeable for its punchy dance-rock as it is dismissible for its lyrical detachment, the Brazilian act does little to shift that acuity on the new La Liberación. The album opens warmly enough: "I Love You" is the cutesy CSS from 2006's Cansei De Ser Sexy, punctuated with noncommittal lines like "The rain is falling on my head / Bringing thoughts it never had / Like love and shit." Following that, the dancehall-inflected "Hits Me Like A Rock" is a cushy out-the-gate hit (and first single) that makes good use of Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie. His polished delivery is a smart contrast to lead vocalist Lovefoxxx's much higher and rougher pitch.
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WGCA release (PDF)
PHILADELPHIA - The Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) has announced its All-American Scholars for the 2012-13 academic year, and a pair of University of Pennsylvania golfers are among the 644 women honored across NCAA Division I, II and III.
Senior Allison Oakes and junior Michelle Lee met the criteria for the recognition, which is among the most stringent in college athletics at a cumulative 3.50 GPA.
Lee missed the fall season as she was on a study abroad program, but returned in the spring and was in Penn's lineup for all five events during that season. The former first-team All-Ivy golfer had an 81.1 stroke average in 10 tournament rounds, with a low round of 74 at the C&F Bank Intercollegiate hosted by William & Mary.
Oakes joined the program for her senior year after transferring to Penn from Columbia. She was in the Quakers' lineup for every tournament in 2012-13 and had an 85.2 stroke average over 17 tournament rounds. Her low round was a 79 at the Hoya Invitational in April.
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SWIMMER Jo Blount hopes to take a step closer to crossing the Channel solo as part of a charity relay event from Dover to Calais this summer.
The 28-year-old, a commercial officer at Cranfield University, was a competitive swimmer for her county and club in Derbyshire as a teenager, which planted the seed in her mind.
Jo has lived in Swindon for seven years, currently in Callington Road, and for much of that period she searched for Channel relay events, picking out one such event for spinal injury charity Aspire last September.
"I have always been a bit of a swimmer and it was the challenge of the Channel which excited me," she said.
"I would have loved to do a solo crossing, but as an initial entry into Channel swimming, this was the sensible one to go with.
"There are only so many people that will do relays, and I didn't want to do it off my own back. I wanted to raise money for something."
Jo landed on Aspire, which offers practical support to the 40,000 people living with a spinal cord injury in the UK, after an inspiring visit to its national training centre in Stanmore, Middlesex.
On a visit to the centre, which offers a range of fitness solutions for disabled people, Jo met Paula, a promising triathlete in her youth, who had been hit by a car and injured her back. After support from Aspire, Paula ran the London Marathon in a faster time than she had ever done as an able-bodied runner, which sealed the deal for Jo.
After getting the green light from Aspire following a selection day in November, Jo became one of six swimmers from across the country who will take on the relay.
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Simon Critchley: The Infinite Demand of Art
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The Holy Archdiocese of Zimbabwe is a diocese under the jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa. Its territory includes the parishes and missions located in the nations of Zimbabwe, Angola, Malawi, and Botswana. Prior to November 1, 2006, Mozambique was also part of the Archdiocese of Zimbabwe. It was created then as a independent diocese.
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How to Photograph Animals
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Know anyone who is a camera buff? Interested in learning how to get the most out of your photography? "How to Photograph Animals" may be the book for you! This full sized 8x10" coffee table-style book is 192 FULL COLOR pages. Commercial-quality — soft cover, four-color printing on 80# coated, semi-matte paper. . It is designed to help the novice photographer learn how to get the best possible shots of one of the best possible subjects. Yet its' full and double-page spreads are beautiful enough to display anywhere. Chapters include: 'At the Zoo', 'At the Aquarium', 'On Safari', 'Out About Town', 'In Your Own Back Yard' and 'Around the House'. The forward is full of helpful do's and don'ts, and it is liberally sprinkled with tongue-in-cheek witisisms...fun and educational! "How to Photograph Animals" is the first in a photographic series, including "Architecture", "Models and Portraits", "Weddings" and more to come! A great gift, and a truly beautiful book.
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HP w2408: A "New" Twist on 24" LCDsby Jarred Walton on 12/21/2007 5:00 AM EST
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wagaduku - Sunday, November 09, 2008 - linkHi people i have read reviews of the following LCD's HP W2408,Acer G24 and Asus MK24. I cant seem to find which is the best of all.My main uses would PC games, Movies and internet browsing. Please guys i am to order one of the by tuesday.. Please Help Reply
bolwin1 - Monday, January 14, 2008 - linkI research purchases pretty hard - and I've been trying to figure out what display to buy for quite some time. I've read every article and comparison I could get my eyes on.
In the end, I wanted a monitor - not a tv or blu-ray display my Sony LCD can take care of that. I settled on the Soyo DYLM24D6 for $300 at OfficeMax. It is outstanding. A non-TN 24" display with NO backlight bleed for $380 out the door with a very good OfficeMax two year warranty. I realize they have had some production issues with some - but this thing is perfect and with the OfficeMax policy, if there is something wrong, take it back and they hand you another - for a value screen it cannot be beaten. Reply
wagoo - Sunday, January 06, 2008 - linkI was researching into LCDs a bit recently, and figured that they had come down in price a lot since I bought my Dell 2005FPW so it might be time to pickup a cheap secondary 20", or a 24".
I couldn't believe the slew of TN panels on the market these days. It seems like monitors with equivalent LCDs to the S-IPS panel in the Dell haven't come down in price at all, just the budget market has been filled in with inferior display technology.
Looking at the viewing angle on my laptop (which I'm guessing is TN), I couldn't see any way I'd be happy with that as a main or secondary monitor. I guess with the laptop I must subconsciously adjust the orientation and pitch so it looks alright.. doubt that would work with a large monitor. Sideways tilted viewing like this HP offers would also give a bit of an odd effect, as both eyes would be seeing different brightnesses.
More LCD reviews from AT would definitely be welcome! 32" 1080p TVs reviewed purely as a monitor would also be interesting.. some offer a "game mode" which may eliminate the picture processing latencies mentioned?
vailr - Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - linkIs there any significance to the "08" vs. "07" (in the HP monitor model numbers)?
The w2207 is only available in a glossy surface.
I think I'd prefer a matte anti-glare finish monitor.
Also: are there any rumors Apple monitors being updated for faster response times? Thanks. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - linkDon't know about Apple, but Dell is supposed to be coming out with a bunch of new models. I'd assume the w2207 vs. w2408 is a case of the w2408 being a bit newer - maybe some minor updates to firmware? Anyway, these two HP displays are glossy, and I definitely understand that a lot of people prefer matte - I know I do. I've got another 24" I'm working on reviewing next which should be more in the realm of what I think a 24" LCD should offer. Reply
Cerb - Monday, December 24, 2007 - linkI like my w2207, and use the portrait mode (rotating issues with the cables are easy to prevent once you do it a few times). But, the viewing angle becomes a bit of an issue, even then. I just can't imagine a 24" being worth it, using such a panel, at any price. At this size, it's begging for a *VA, even if it means being a $700 monitor. Reply
gochichi - Monday, December 24, 2007 - linkOn quality:
It really is too bad that for the most part LCDs are getting cheaper at the expense of quality these days. I recently purchased a 24" Acer that was on sale for under $300.00 and I took it back the next day. My archaic 17" LCD was WAY better overall than that.
On the issue of review units: (Comment/question for AT)
Are you somehow not permitted to buy your own test units? So many companies have lavish return policies, what would be the big deal? I'm thinking Best Buy, Circuit City etc. You know, the places we're still most likely to get a monitor from.
I think very highly of Anandtech, and I guess I imagine it being an extremely profitable site. I hope I'm not wrong there. In any case, it seems very strange to me to have such a prestigious site at the whim of manufacturers.
I could not for the life of me find a review on said 24" Acer, and the only thing it did was make me buy it and return it. If not full reviews, perhaps AT could concatenate a list of which monitors use what kind of panel and some expert "at a glance" comments.
I am kind of baffled by new LCDs on the market, I'm not too impressed so far actually. I use a 24" LG that is now $450 at best buy and it seems to me to be a fantastic deal at that price.
complectus - Sunday, December 23, 2007 - linkAll of the Color Accuracy (Delta E) graphs are an utter mess. Can anyone actually read them without going blind? Reply
SoBizarre - Sunday, December 23, 2007 - linkI believe you should drop monitor reviews. Reviewing a couple of monitors a year (not even belonging to "desirable" category) is not very helpful to your readers.
The truth is, there's not even one site out there serious about reviewing costumer-grade monitors, and the main reason for that situation is the one you have mentioned yourself: manufacturers don't send their products to reviewers.
And why is that? I suspect most of them have too much to hide.
I would love to find on AnandTech a 24 inchers shoot-out broke into two categories: cheap TN panels and more expensive IPS & PVA. Shoot-out of 22 inchers would be useful to even greater number of readers. And why not a quick take on several wide screen 20 inchers...
You wouldn't have to go too much in-depth in these reviews. Some basic tests and subjective evaluation of text, video and games usage would be enough. I bet people trust your ability to pick up a winner.
Now, in reality there is only one possibility for all these to happen. You need a big retailer to supply you with monitors. I'm sure it would be very beneficial for them, because they would have professional evaluation of products they're carrying (they could stock more of highly rated monitors and sell them like hot rolls), and gain a positive reputation for helping their customers to choose the right product.
But maybe in IT world this kind of cooperation is just not possible for some reasons. I don't know, why don't you enlight us? Reply
SoBizarre - Sunday, December 23, 2007 - linkSomething else I forgot to say:
MERRY WINTER SOLSTICE and a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, December 23, 2007 - linkIt's partly an issue of getting enough reviews done so that more manufacturers are willing to work with us on monitor reviews. Things take time, and sometimes we go through periods where nothing new comes out for a while. I've got at least a few more LCDs coming shortly, and I hope many more post-CES will get sent our way for review. Reply
GlassHouse69 - Saturday, December 22, 2007 - linkIPS panels are the best for all things. some s-pva or mva's are close competitors to ips but still have colour errors and colour washout on angles over 20 degrees from center.
tn panels shouldnt be priced higher than 350 dollars. one could get an almost 0 lag (15-19ms) 24" s-pva panel from LG and be more pleased for gaming and general use for 500 dollars.
i paid a grand for my 26" 1920x1200 H-IPS panel from planar. it is incredibly clear and accurate and has less than 1 frame lag. spending 550 dollars on a tn panel vs 900 dollars on a IPS pro fessional panel... sux cant see the point/value.
nevbie - Saturday, December 22, 2007 - linkHave you lurked in the xtknight's LCD thread at the forums?
Perhaps you might get ideas about what people seek from reviews and what kind of LCDs they seek.
For me it seems that there are more interesting LCD models out there than reviews of LCDs. Pretty much the opposite situation when compared to GPUs or other less subjective review targets.
Anandtech LCD reviews seem a bit bare for me, as there are less measurements than in some other LCD review sites. It is difficult to say if reviewers at the other sites measure things that I would notice though, or if the extra measurements just generate artificial desires. Input lag measurements at behardware or RTC error measurements at xbitlabs are interesting, for example, but I don't know if I would be bothered by less than ideal results in actual use.
PS. The old comment system was better - no need to load/reload the article page when browsing comments. Reply
9nails - Saturday, December 22, 2007 - linkWhat is "TN"?
How about "S-PVA"?
Bonus question: How do the two differ / which is better? Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, December 22, 2007 - linkWell, I could try to explain it, but wikipedia already has a good deal of data on the matter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_film_transistor_...">This Film Transistors
The simple answer is that in my opinion:
S-IPS > S-PVA > S-TN/TN+Film
TN panels often have lower stated response times, but frankly I can't see the difference. I can however see the difference between the two in viewing angles and color quality. Reply
trajan - Saturday, December 22, 2007 - linkI know it should go without saying (and usually does) but thanks for another great review that is so clearly unbiased. Just seems to me that if Anandtech is having a hard time getting manufacturers to send LCDs for review, handing out a negative article on the first offering is probably not going to encourage other manufacturers to follow suite. But the truth is the truth, and particularly after recent high profile events on other sites its nice to get a little reminder of the quality we can enjoy here.
(This probably is coming across all doe-eyed fanboyish.. meh. It's just really nice to have trust worthy info sources) Reply
KorruptioN - Friday, December 21, 2007 - linkThe LG L246WP-BN is a P-MVA panel... it's beautiful and doesn't seem to exhibit some of the colour shifting that some PVA panels do. It'll be either that or Dell's next 24" for my next LCD. Reply
gochichi - Monday, December 24, 2007 - linkI recommend it at the $450.00 price tag. I own this display and I am very pleased with it overall. I vastly prefer the HDMI/DVI input as opposed to VGA on this particular display (some displays you literally can't tell the difference, not so on this panel).
It is WORLDS better than the cheapish 24" Samsung. Samsung is building an overinflated name for itself... that or they are seriously risking their brand name over some "too good to be true" products (they really aren't good when you get them home).
I more than ever depend on review sites and user comments to help me navigate the sea of available products. I personally believe that the Dell is superior to the LG 24", however, the LG is more readily available at retail stores and a fantastic deal at $449.00.
agull22 - Friday, December 21, 2007 - linkI would like to see how HP plans to really markey this screen costing what it does and doing so litle for its return really. Right now though I am using my HP 42" Plasma as a monitor. I can honestly say it looks much nicer than the LCD equivalent. It would be nice to see something between the 42 and 26 size range though. Reply
LoneWolf15 - Friday, December 21, 2007 - link$570? I paid around that price a year ago for a Dell 2407. I got an S-PVA panel, additional inputs (component, s-video), 9-in-1 card reader, 4 USB ports, and I got the five-year warranty.
If HP thinks they can sell that panel for $570, they need to think again. 6-bit color, poorer viewing angle, limited inputs --you can do better for your money. Reply
Pirks - Friday, December 21, 2007 - link1) Question to AT - when do you guys intend to review any of the latest 28" LCD monitors? There are at least two of them at newegg, ViewSonic and Hanns-G
2) Question to AT readers - have anyone tried to use something like 37" Westinghouse LCD TV (1920x1080) with their PC as a main monitor? I've got a buddy who has Mac Mini connected to such a TV and he swears this TV is the best monitor one can dream about. Could someone share their experience?
3) Question to AT - do you guys think about revieweing say 37" Westy as a PC monitor? Test response, color, tell us what the panel is (TN film I suppose?) - all the usual tests.
I'm thinking about upgrading to widescreen, and since 1080p Westys are so cheap these days (especially 37" one) I'm seriously considering them too, so please please share your experience if you have one, thanks!
I'm kind of puzzled why AT ahven't realized such an obvious thing as using Westy 1080p as the main PC monitor, why no reviews, nothing... they just review eithet uberduperexpensive 2560x1600 panels, or some smaller cheapo ones like 24" - and no 28? No 37" TV? No 42" or 47" TV? I'm talking about 1080p LCD TVs here.
That's just weird - there must be something wrong with using those TVs as PC monitors or else we'd seen such a review from AT a loong time ago, I guess... Reply
timmiser - Friday, December 28, 2007 - link"when do you guys intend to review any of the latest 28" LCD monitors? There are at least two of them at newegg, ViewSonic and Hanns-G"
I've got the Hanns-G 28" monitor from Costco earlier this month and absolutely love it. First of all, because it is Costco, I have a lifetime, full money back, satisfaction guarantee and it only cost $499 which of course is much less than this 24". It also can be used as a full HD 1080p monitor as it has HDMI hookup.
The monitor itself has been great. I use it quite a bit for gaming and no complaints so far but I must admit I am no expert monitor reviewer either. It replaced my old Dell 20" widescreen.
Johnmcl7 - Saturday, December 22, 2007 - linkI have a 40 inch Samsung 1080p which I use as a monitor but not as a day to day one, personally I think it's just far too physically big for that. To use it properly I need to sit a fair distance back, it's normally only for placing back media and occasionally photo work.
If I could get dual DVI out of my laptops (can't find a cheap dual link DVI PCI card to use in their dock) I'd pick up a 30 inch Dell - personally that's the upper limit on size for using as a monitor.
John Reply
somedude1234 - Saturday, December 22, 2007 - linkI have the Westy lvm-37w1 in my living room. While I haven't used it primarily as a PC monitor, the times that I have it has been perfect: absolutely beautiful at 1080p over either DVI or VGA. Using it to upscale DVD's playing on my laptop Dell D810 (VGA) is fantastic. HD sample footage and playback from hdhomerun (OTA) look amazing as well.
The biggest flaw in this monitor is the backlight bleed in the corners, obvious when watching DVD's, but not a problem for PC use.
I'm eventually going to replace this in the living room with a better TV for movie & TV use, but this one will be kept busy as well. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, December 21, 2007 - linkActually, it's really just an issue of getting companies to send us product for review. LCDs aren't cheaper, and neither are HDTVs. Westinghouse sent me their 42" 1080p display back in July. Unfortunately, UPS wasn't a good shipping choice. I noticed the box had a rip, and it turned out that the panel inside was shattered. They never did offer to send me another test unit for some reason. After trying to get one for testing for ~8 months only to have it damaged in shipping, I'm not holding my breath for seeing another any time soon.
That said, CES is in January and I will be doing my best to hit up all of the display companies to see about getting some review samples sent my way. I'd love to be able to do a roundup of 24", 22", 27", etc. LCDs, though for roundups I'll have to trim down some of the writing and graphs in order to keep things manageable most likely.
Here's a question in return: Out of the stuff I'm currently discussing in display reviews, what do you find good, what do you find lacking? I'd like to do color gamut testing, but I don't have the hardware for that right now. I don't even know how big of a difference it is for most users - I mean, side-by-side I can see color differences between various displays, but using each individually, it's a lot more difficult to say which is better.
The one problem with HDTVs as computer displays appears to be in regards to signal processing. Some displays do extra work (i.e. deinterlacing, noise reduction, whatever) and they introduce noticeable lag - around 50ms I've heard. There's also the issue of finding room on your desk for a 37" or 42" display... I've got a 30" LCD and it's almost too big at times. HDTVs don't have height, tilt, pivot, or rotate features either, or USB ports on most. They probably end up best for movie/video use, good for gaming, and not so great for standard office work.
If I get one for review, I'll see what I can say about it, but honestly reviewing such hardware is a daunting task. Do we review as an HDTV with computer options, as a computer display with TV options, both? I can do the computer display review, but HDTV reviews aren't something I feel really qualified to handle. Reply
Inkjammer - Saturday, December 22, 2007 - link[quote]Do we review as an HDTV with computer options, as a computer display with TV options, both?[/quote]
Review it as a "multimedia monitor". Something that can be used for multiple purposes. Right now, I'm using a 24" BenQ FP241VW, which is self proclaimed the "ultimate gaming PC monitor". It's connected to my C2D box, a 360, PS3 and some cable TV. As a gaming monitor it's decent, but all the extra features it has are absolutely useless in every aspect. For console gaming it leaves a LOT to be desired - my games look slightly washed out and like they're running in 16-bit color. Bioshock 360 looked really bad in dark areas. And as TV it's average as can be.
Now, in comparison...
I used to use a Viewsonic 32" LCD TV (1366x768) for my PC, console gaming and TV. Despite the resolution, I always felt it did everything great. Games, movies, computing. Blacks were so-so, but colors were great and it had a superb response time.
And that's what got me. My dedicated "gaming" monitor was only really really useful as as monitor, yet the cheap LCD TV I got was great at everything. So the aspect of having a monitor good at multiple forms of media (PC, consoles, TV) is really the selling point for an enthusiast like myself. Reply
strikeback03 - Monday, December 24, 2007 - linkI have an OTA HD tuner hooked up to a component input on my Gateway FPD 2485W. Watching similar content (NFL football) is quite comparable between this and a friend's 40" 1080p Bravia. The Bravia is a touch sharper (probably better video processing) but otherwise there is nothing that stands out without the two side-by-side.
And on a side not I'm glad my Gateway has the extra inputs, as I did not own the tuner when I bought the monitor but was able to hook the tuner up without needing a component-to-VGA converter or anything. Reply
Pirks - Friday, December 21, 2007 - link>Out of the stuff I'm currently discussing in display reviews,
>what do you find good, what do you find lacking?
I have no major complaints, maybe this info is a bit technical for me (I'm no photographer so I don't care much about precise color calibration) but other ppl will disagree for sure, hence I wouldn't change anything. The only thing that does lack is the AMOUNT of monitors to test, but since it's out of your hands and UPS is such a POS (they broke my MP3 player screen as well, and haven't paid for it, bastards!!!) I understand I can't complain, so... nothing to say here, very good job, very detailed and everything - probably just leave it as is for now.
>The one problem with HDTVs as computer displays appears to be
>in regards to signal processing. Some displays do extra work
>(i.e. deinterlacing, noise reduction, whatever) and they
>introduce noticeable lag - around 50ms I've heard.
Does it apply to HDMI and DVI inputs as well? Or is it only about VGA/S-Video/Component/Composite stuff, i.e. analog inputs?
>Do we review as an HDTV with computer options, as a computer
>display with TV options, both? I can do the computer display
>review, but HDTV reviews aren't something I feel really
>qualified to handle.
I thought as a computer geek oriented review site you should definitely focus on a PC side of the HDTV device. Probably just ignore its analog inputs altogether, test only DVI and HDMI, I mean treat it as just another PC monitor. Given its restrictions with regard to ergonomics write about where would you put it on your tabel, how far would you seat from it, how legible the text is, etc etc.
Why I think so? Because there are many other consumer electronics review sites, and you should not repeat their job. Let them look at the analog inputs and TV reception and stuff like that. You should solely focus on gaming and response, viewing angles, ergonomics for PC user, maybe Mac user too? Anand has a Mac or two, he can give you some imput, right? ;-)
I'd suggest to start with 37" Westinghous and after you do it we'll see if those 37+ inch behemoths are worth even considering.
Here's the story of my buddy that might give you more perspective on that. He was a self-assembly PC guy, but then he caught that Mac bug, and soon PC is gone and he's sitting in front of his new 37" Westinghouse (he bought a lower table for it and a new gamer armchair, also a lowered one - he loves perfect ergonomics. So he has Mac Mini connected to it, wireless keyboard, mouse, and he also has Xbox 360 for games (he doesn't miss PC games at all, given latest Xbox blockbusters like assassin creed and such) - so that's an interesting way to use huge monitor/TV to do a) Xbox HD gaming b) PC/Mac stuff, like all that web email and whatever, on his Mini, connected to the same TV as Xbox of course, using just keyboard insted of gamepad.
Here you can see an interesting approach, where the old big PC box was replaced by two smaller boxes, one is specialized home computer (Mac) and the other is the specialized gaming device (Xbox 360) sharing same 37" Westy TV. This is something I'd like to hear about from you, I mean add some stuff about ergonomics as well.
Yeah, sounds not that geeky, huh? Not sure you should do it that way - but I just noticed the latest trends that people start to think more and more about comfort and ergonomics when working with PC so old big boxes get replaced with notebooks/macbooks/consoles, and big 37" monitor/TV plays iportant role here.
Ah, this guy also has Xbox 360 HD-DVD, naturally, so his TV is not only for gaming and computer/Unix work (he's Unix admin by occupation), but also for watching HD-DVD movies in 1080p.
There ya go, food for thought. Hoewever if you wanna stay hardcore technical and avoid ergonomics, Macs and such - sure, no problem with that :-) Reply
FXi - Friday, December 21, 2007 - link400-450cd/m2 for the 24" models but the 30's are always 300-350. STILL keeps me happily using 24's, but it's a shameful mark on 30" models and their cost.


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Avondale Mayor Marie Lopez Rogers has been elected to lead the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG), the regional planning agency for the Maricopa region. MAG is a Council of Governments and Metropolitan Planning Organization that provides a regional forum for discussion, analysis, and resolution of regional issues, including transportation, air quality, and human services. MAG prepares the 20-year Long Range Transportation Plan and five-year Transportation Improvement Program for the region. MAG was founded in 1967.
Mayor Lopez Rogers was elected chair of the MAG Regional Council during MAG's Annual Meeting in Phoenix on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. She succeeds Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman, who has chaired the Regional Council for the past year and whose term is expiring.
Mayor Lopez Rogers stated that a key priority for her will be to work with the MAG Economic Development Committee and Joint Planning Advisory Council to foster a viable megaregion known as the "Sun Corridor."
"One important priority will be for us to identify the corridor's key economic drivers and find ways to grow those opportunities," said Mayor Lopez Rogers. "One key area of focus for us will be working to improve our trade relations with Mexico and Canada and enhance the flow of commerce into Arizona."
Mayor Lopez Rogers will lead the MAG organization for the next year and also will preside over the MAG Executive Committee. Mayor Lopez Rogers has served on the MAG Regional Council since 2006 and MAG Executive Committee since 2007. She served as treasurer of the Regional Council from 2010 to 2011, when she was elected vice chair. The committee serves as MAG's finance committee and is responsible for a number of administrative responsibilities, such as amendments to the budget and contract selections. She will also serve as vice chair of the MAG Economic Development Committee, and she will continue to serve on the MAG Transportation Policy Committee. She serves as the vice president of the National League of Cities and in November will become its president.
In addition to Mayor Lopez Rogers' selection as chair, Mesa Mayor Scott Smith was elected as vice chair. Youngtown Mayor Michael LeVault was elected as treasurer. Elected as at-large members of the Executive Committee were Scottsdale Mayor W.J. "Jim" Lane, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, Queen Creek Mayor Gail Barney, and Litchfield Park Mayor Thomas L. Schoaf.
The Regional Council also appointed members of the MAG Transportation Policy Committee (TPC). New members included Lt. Governor Stephen Roe Lewis of the Gila River Indian Community and Joseph E. La Rue of the State Transportation Board. The TPC is responsible for making policy recommendations to the Regional Council on transportation issues, including the Regional Transportation Plan and Transportation Improvement Program. A full listing of all Regional Council and TPC members is available on request.


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Albergo alla Campana
The Albergo alla Campana is located in the centre of Dolo on the Riviera del Brenta, half way between Padova and Venice. It is an ideal point of departure for visiting those prestigious cities and the transportation link, guaranteed by a bus service with departures every 30 minutes, allows easy access.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 15/3/2013 (1619 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Radio broadcaster Michael Silverblatt has a reputation as one of America's première literary correspondents as the host of the talk show Bookworm on KCRW in Los Angeles.
On Friday evening Silverblatt changed things up, and spoke in depth with Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin about about art, incomprehensibility, death, authors and even Nazi film reels.
Maddin said he is an atypical subject for Silverblatt, who usually interviews authors.
"I sure didn't write a book," Maddin says.
"I have been on Michael's show once before. The pop group Sparks and I are on the only two Bookworm shows that don't feature writers," Maddin says. "I'm very proud."
Bookworm is distributed to more than 50 radio stations across the U.S. Its theme song was created for the show by Sparks.
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Hey guys, I need help understanding how the hell my input function keeps on failing...
Here's the code:
# This program says hello and asks for my name.
print('Hello world!')
print('What is your name?')
myName = input(Not_another_Neo)
print('It is good to meet you, ' + myName)
This is the error:
Hello world!
What is your name?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Python33/awdawd.py", line 5, in <module>
myName = input(Not_another_Neo)
NameError: name 'Not_another_Neo' is not defined
I'm running verion:
Python 3.3.1 (v3.3.1:d9893d13c628, Apr 6 2013, 20:25:12) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
The tutorial I'm going along with mentions a problem like this would appear if I download the WRONG version... but I downloaded the most updated version... so...
what the hell?
Please be helpful with your answers; not to be a dick or anything, but we're all aware of the ego-strokers.


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Well, is your graphics-card driver installed?
Hi all, just switched to BT5R1, been on archlinux for about 2 years..
but i remember back in my Ubuntu days, there were settings for graphics acceleration on Lucid.
I want to enable the KDE desktop effects (such as wobbly windows and desktop cube etc.), but when I try, i get a kwin window manager notification in the bottom right telling me that some (all) effects could not be activated...
I tried to use compiz as my WM but that didnt work either, so Im thinking its some kind of graphics acceleration settings...
compositing state is 'desktop effects are active'
anyhow, my graphics card is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GT] (rev a1)
and my laptop is a HP Pavilion DV5..
any help is much appreciated
Well, is your graphics-card driver installed?
I think not, and I'm not sure how as there is no driver manager (Additional drivers or Hardware drivers) like in ubuntu.. I'm guessing your right, but what's the best way to find my driver? On arch it was just pacman -S nvidia (I'm not on my computer at the moment) but I shall try apt-get instal nvidia tomorrow. Cheers.
well, i have tried to install my nvidia driver, i used this method here: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ad.php?t=40497 but when i startx i get the same error as a few people in this thread > "no screen found"
I have downloaded my driver from the nvidia website, but when trying to install it (while in tty) the installer tells me it cannot stop the current driver.. I even tried the script to disable it offered by the installer, but to no avail.. is there any way i can force disable the stock vga drive to install my nvidia one?
In your xorg.conf you can change the driver from "nvidia" to "nv".


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5+2+1=8In Cryptography teasers, a phrase or expressions has been encoded in some way (frequently by replacing letters with other letters). You need to figure out the encoding method and then decode the message to find the answer.
In the equation FIVE+TWO+ONE=EIGHT, each letter represents a different digit. Can you figure out which letter is which digit?
The numbers cannot begin with 0, i.e. none of F, T, O, and E can be 0.
Since the solution is not unique, a restriction is added: the product FIVE*TWO*ONE must be the greatest value possible.
HintStart from the first digits, then the last digits.
AnswerFirst, there are ten different letters in this equation: E, F, G, H, I, N, O, T, V, W. Therefore, every digit from 0 to 9 is used.
Obviously E=1 and I=0. Hence IVE+TWO+ONE<2000, and F=9.
The remaining digits are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. The ones digits read 1+O+1=T, hence T=O+2, and there's no carrying from the ones digits to the tens digits.
The tens digits read V+W+N=H. Because the letters V, W, N all appear only once in the equation at the tens digits, they are interchangeable. Since 2+3+4=9>8 and 6+7+8=21<22, the tens digits carry one to the hundreds digits. Hence V+W+N=10+H, or H=(V+W+N+H)/2-5.
Now we have FI+T+O+1=EIG, or 90+T+(T-2)+1=100+G, or G=2*T-11. From the digits 2 through 8 we can have T=7, G=3 or T=8, G=5.
If T=7, G=3, then O=5. But then we'll have H=(V+W+N+H)/2-5=(2+4+6+8)/2-5=5, which is occupied by O.
If T=8, G=5, then O=6, H=(V+W+N+H)/2-5=(2+3+4+7)/2-5=3, and V, W, N are 2, 4, 7 in some order.
Finally, since we want the largest product FIVE*TWO*ONE possible, and the sum FIVE+TWO+ONE=EIGHT=10538 is fixed, we need the least possible difference between them. Hence FIVE=9021, TWO=846, ONE=671.
We have 9021+846+671=10538 and 9021*846*671=5120914986, which is the greatest product possible.
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GOALS: Port Adelaide: Ebert 2, Schulz 2, Gray 2, Wingard, Hartlett, Lobbe, M White. West Coast: Darling 2, Masten, Cox, Cripps, Kennedy, Wellingham.
BEST Port Adelaide: Ebert, Grey, Polec, White, Lobbe, Schultz West Coast: Priddis, Darling, Masten, Bennell, Shuey, Gaff
UMPIRES: Rosebury, Farmer, Foot.
CROWD 35,366 at Patersons Stadium.
Port Adelaide benefited from fresh legs late in its game at Patersons Stadium on Saturday night to beat West Coast by 14 points.
The Power was able to sub Aaron Young into the game at three-quarter-time, more than two quarters after the Eagles were forced to bench Xavier Ellis.
Port's Chad Wingard gave the Power a match-winning 14-point lead 11 minutes into the final term after receiving a free kick that could see Eagles captain Darren Glass sidelined for several weeks.
The Power kicked five of the last six goals of the game, including four in the final term.
Port had only 12 more disposals in the final term after leading by just one point at the break, but enjoyed 16 more entries into its forward 50 for the quarter.
Young supplied two of them from his six final-term possessions.
Eagle Jamie Bennell, having moved over from Melbourne after injuring his knee, played an important role in keeping dangerous Wingard quiet. And it wasn't his fault that Wingard blew the margin into double figures in the final term.
Important too were the two goals Robbie Grey kicked for the Power within five minutes in the third term.
The first came 15 minutes into the third term when Port's previous goal was about 20 minutes into the second quarter. The second of his goals gave the Power back the lead.
Earlier, Jack Darling received a couple of Easter gifts to give West Coast a two point lead at half-time.
And he threatened to blow the game apart. Port's Jarman Impey handballed to the young Eagle who was standing in the goal square to level the scores midway through the second term.
Then three minutes later his direct opponent Cam O'Shea ran over the mark after Darling had marked outside the attacking 50.
The 23-year kicked truly for his second.
And he could have kicked another just before the break, but scraped the woodwork.
If his fellow tall forward Josh Kennedy had kicked straight, the Eagles would have been more than two points ahead at the break at the result may have been much different.
Kennedy, without his trademark stutter, kicked 1.3 before the break and it wasn't any better for him after the break. He finished with 1.5 for the game.
Brad Ebert had 12 touches in the first two terms and kicked two goals, finding room at both ends of the ground. Along with Matt White, Jared Polec and Robbie Grey, Ebert kept the Power in the contest, even though the home side clearly had the run of play for much of the second term.


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Inland Empire school districts were on heightened alert Friday as they scrambled to assure parents about the safety of their children.
"You can't let your schools or school's community lapse in training and preparedness for something like this," Mat Holton, superintendent of the Ontario-based Chaffey Joint Union High School District, said Friday. "God forbid it ever happens."
As the message went out locally about safety and security, families in Newtown, Conn., were dealing with tragedy as 28 lives were lost, 20 of them students at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Chino Valley Unified School District officials increased security on Friday, putting the district's security force on alert and bringing in off-duty officers to help, district spokeswoman Julie Gobin said.
"We have asked our schools' staff to be extra vigilant and CVUSD security increased visits and surveillance of schools," Gobin said.
It was a similar story in other districts on Friday.
"All of our district patrol officers are on heightened alert, and high visibility, and we will continue to be on heightened alert and high visibility until after the dismissal of school," Rialto Unified spokeswoman Syeda Jafri said.
Friday was the last day of school before the winter break for many Southern California school districts, and others were already out for the month.
"Most of our schools are on winter recess for our traditional schools. We have a handful of elementary schools that are in session today," San Bernardino City Unified spokeswoman Linda Bardere said.
"We will be discussing and reviewing with our staff the emergency precautions we have in place.... What an awful thing."
No change from the schools' normal routine was planned for the district, Bardere said.
"I made sure the principals knew what was going on in Connecticut and be extra-sensitive with the parents," said Jan Gonzales, superintendent of Victor Elementary School District in Victorville.
The Victor Elementary district has classes through Thursday, and Gonzalez knows she may have students coming in with questions on Monday.
"If we have a student who we feel like needs it, we do have counseling available," she said. "If there's an influx of questions, we might have someone go in and speak with them."
The shooting was on the minds of many Inland parents.
Rialto Middle School parent Michelle Torres, who is originally from New York, talked about the importance of discussing the shooting with children as she picked her kids up from school Friday.
"It's extremely tragic. I plan to talk to my kids about what occurred," Torres, 31, said. "It's important to sit down and talk to your kids so they'll know what to do when tragedy like this happens."
Erika Molina held her 16-month-old son, Izaac Gutierrez, as she picked up her other son Sebastian, 5, from kindergarten Friday at Carnelian School in Rancho Cucamonga.
"Two parents and myself were just commenting on how horrible it is and you can't imagine not being able to pick up your kids or dropping them off at school and not knowing if you're going to see them or not," Molina said, in response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"We live in the neighborhood (near the school), and we always watch the cars that are not from around here," Brad Guzman, as he spoke with other parents outside Garcia Elementary School in Rialto. "This (the school shooting) makes us watch things that go on here at the school with more caution."
Lidia Gaytan said she was really sad to learn of the shooting, especially this time of year.
"This time of year should be more about happiness," said Gaytan. "More about peace and love. I can't imagine how the parents (of children killed in shooting) must be feeling. I'm very sad for them."
In the years since the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colo., California's Department of State Architecture now looks for additional safety features at the state's schools.
The Etiwanda School District specifically prepares for crises that would require a campus lockdown, conducting drills at least twice a year on each campus, and administrators participate in training provided by local law enforcement and national experts.
"Our schools all have procedures for visitors to campus to sign in and sign out," said Shawn Judson, superintendent of the Etiwanda district. "In addition, perimeter gates are locked and access to the campus is through the school office. Our district also has a locked classroom door policy, with classroom doors locked during the school day."
Fontana Unified School District also encourages teachers to keep classrooms locked during the day.
"We have had our site and district administrators attend Terrorist Attack/Active Shooter Training, " said Fontana Unified Superintendent Cali Olsen-Binks. "Our own school police department provides training on active shooters to our school sites."
"I think it's natural to look at your current system, your safety plan to look how current you are with training," said Holton, " to make sure that you're up to date."
Central School District in Rancho Cucamonga is also looking at its current system.
"I've asked all our principals to review our lockdown procedures with all staff. That's everyone from teachers to our playground staff," Superintendent Donna L. Libutti said. "We do that regularly, but any kind of horrific tragedy like this makes us do it again."
It would be difficult for an unauthorized person to get onto a Central campus, she said.
"All of our elementaries are closed campuses" with locked gates," Libutti said.
Staff writers Ryan Carter and Ryan Hagen contributed to this report.
Contact Beau via email, by phone at 909-483-9376 or on Twitter @InlandEd.


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WEST Midlands Ambulance Service has experienced a 'moderate' increase in calls as a result of the recent pollution.
The Trust has seen an increase in 999 calls to patients with chest pain and breathing problems over the last three days resulting in a slight increase in overall demand.
Calls to breathing problems and chest pain have increased mainly in Staffordshire and Birmingham.
Breathing problems normally account for 11 per cent of the service's total 999 calls but this has increased to 12 per cent.
And similarly, chest pain calls have increased by 2.5 per cent this week to 13 per cent of the total 999 calls.
Dr Andrew Carson , WMAS medical director, said: "A prolonged period of these conditions poses real difficulties to those patients with emphysema, asthma and long term breathing problems.
"Air pollution and smog can make breathing difficult even for healthy individuals. That's why we suggest people with respiratory illnesses should remain indoors as much as possible.
"It is vital that we get to patients needing our help as quickly as possible and therefore ask the public to assist us by only calling 999 in life threatening situations. For less urgent health advice, please call 111."
Weather forecasters are suggesting pollution over parts of the UK could be blown away later today.


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In Search of Gray Ghosts
To say the elusive bonefish holds an allure for two longtime friends is an understatement.
By M. B. Roberts
"Whoa! Ron!" Richard Stanczyk shouts as he furiously reels in one of several lines drifting behind the boat. "You've got to keep reeling! He's still there!"
"He can't be!" Ron Modra yells back. Then his line tightens and the fish takes off, peeling away yards at a time. "Holy smokes! He is there!"
Modra, a Nashville-based photographer, and Stanczyk, owner of Bud & Mary's Marina in Islamorada, Florida, are "staked-up" (their boat is held stationary via a long pole thrust into the soft sand bottom) on the ocean side of Florida Bay, on a tremendously windy December day. The ominous dark clouds gathering overhead have kept most anglers off the water. But not Stanczyk and Modra. What's a little wind-whipping cold when there might be a bonefish around?
Despite their relatively small size (from two to 14 pounds), bonefish are among the most sought-after game fish in the world due to their speed, power, and extreme elusiveness. They are beyond skittish—any noise or movement sends them shooting off like silver rockets, never to be seen again.
Usually, anglers quietly stalk bonefish by poling small, shallow-draft "flats boats" across the shallow flats of the Florida Keys (or other exotic locales such as the Bahamas and Belize), gently presenting them with a bait. It's challenging to find bonefish; due to their gunmetal gray bodies (hence the nickname "gray ghost") and the strong light, they're difficult to see. But they're even harder to catch. That's why Stanczyk and Modra can't stay away from them. Wind be damned.
Since it is too windy to pole through the flats, Stanczyk suggests staking up in the Bay and setting out lines to wait for a hungry bonefish to cruise by. Modra's game. Since the water is too deep to spot fish, they'll have to get lucky. They'll have to believe.
"Reel! Reel!" Stanczyk yells from the elevated aft poling platform where he is standing to get a better look. "Don't let him get out in the open. No slack! These fish are unforgiving."
Next page > Part 2: Suddenly the fish stops, and there he is, alongside the boat, showing his sleek, silvery self. > Page 1, 2, 3, 4
This article originally appeared in the February 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Santa dash to be held next year
9:00am Wednesday 5th December 2012
9:00am Wednesday 5th December 2012
A SANTA dash race in aid of Bolton Society for Blind People has been postponed — for almost a year — due to health and safety issues.
The 2.5km dash around Leverhulme Park was due to take place on Sunday, December 16 with people raising a minimum of £50 each for the cause.
But the ground was not considered to be safe to be safe after an inspection by council staff. The event is now scheduled to take place in November next year.
The charity will inform anyone who had signed up or showed interested in taking part.
More information about the rescheduled dash visit bsbp.org.uk
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Victorian romance mixes seamlessly with elegant prose and biting wit—and werewolves—in Gail Carriger's delightful debut novel. Soulless introduces Alexia Tarabotti, a parasol-wielding Londoner getting dangerously close to spinster status. But there are more important things than finding a husband. For Alexia was born without a soul, giving her the ability to render any vampire or werewolf completely powerless.
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"Carriger debuts brilliantly with a blend of Victorian romance, screwball comedy of manners and alternate history....This intoxicatingly witty parody will appeal to a wide cross-section of romance, fantasy and steampunk fans." (Publishers Weekly)
"Amelia Peabody has competition"
Followers of Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody will fall in love with Miss Tarabotti. She's wonderfully sensible and completely witty in this alternate Victorian London. It's not that Ms. Carriger manages to meld elements from Jane Austin, Jules Verne and Bram Stoker, it's that she does it so extrordinarily well while crafting her own uniquely memorable tale. I can't wait for the others in this series to come out on tape - I'm headed for the bookstore now!
"Delightfully dry!"
I very much enjoyed both reading this book - and later listeniing to the performance in the audibook. The author has a wonderful dry wit! And the narration is on-target. I very much hope the next books in the series are available soon.
I usually don't think that listening to a book can be better than reading it, but in this case I think it might have been. The narrator was absolutely perfect, her accents and tone really brought the already excellent book to life.
The prose in this book was truly excellent, I almost got myself in trouble at the office because I kept laughing out loud. The story is compelling and the world is truly interesting. I am looking forward to more of the series!
I love to read, but I am time-limited. Audible allows me to keep up with all my favorite authors while on the hiking trail. Thanks, Audible!
Gail Carriger's debut of the parasol protectorate is just plain brilliant. Set in an alternative Victorian England where werewolves, vampires, and ghosts are productive members of society, Soulless takes the listener on a witty and eccentric mystery ride. While we enjoy a satiric portrayal of social graces in the spirit of Jane Austin, we are entertained by fantastical science in the spirit of Jules Verne. Emily Gray is an excellent choice in narrators for this farce fusion. You will like this book. I can't wait for the other books in this series to make it to Audible.
"A bit of Everything"
A wonderful mix of sci-fi, mystery and romance. I cannot wait for the second to be done in audio, even the narrator was amazing.
"Can not say enough about this series..."
My friends at Murder By the Book recommended this series... I went ahead and got it and could not have been more pleased so I had to get the audible version too...The narrator was perfect. I can not wait for the next book to be available on here. It's now our book of the month for July on my blog. Highly recommend!!!
"What a fun story.....I want more"
Alexia Tarabotti so ahead of her time.........I enjoyed every moment of this story I hope there will be more.
"A lot of fun"
This book is sort of a two-for-one deal for me. I love both regency and paranormal books and I thought the book blends both worlds very well. If you have a taste for bookish/strong minded/spinster(you get the idea) main character paired with a strong male lead, you might like to try this book. I had a good chuckle here and there and generally had a good time listening to it. I hope audible publishes the second book soon.
Absolutely fabulous! Gail Carriger is in danger of becoming my favorite author. "Soulless" was funny, romantic, and exciting. Great if you like science fiction, romance, or steam punk. In addition, the narrator was excellent. The best I've ever heard. This book was worth every penny!
Lila Gustavus
"A fun read to while away boring hours."
This book was fun. Pure entertainment to while away boring and/or dull hours we all have here and there.

I'll admit I have some mixed reactions to it and I was having a hard time deciding how to rate this novel. Some things just don't make sense. For example, Alexia's
soullessness. It does give her that one supernatural (or rather, preternatural) power of taking away other supernaturals' powers by a single touch (sadly, no shape shifting or immortality involved) which is an interesting introduction to the paranormal genre. However, character-wise, Alexia couldn't be farther away from my idea of a soulless person (a psychopath comes to mind). I understand that to match the light and amusing tone of Soulless, Ms. Carriger couldn't make Alexia a completely evil woman, with no moral compass. But not a single, teeny tiny sinister trait? That's a little bit of a letdown. Sure, Ms. Tarabotti is stubborn, with an independent and untamed spirit, and with an alpha (of course, duh!!!) personality, but it is kind of mundane, if you ask me. For that alone, I wanted to give Soulless two stars.

On the other hand, I truly enjoyed the light tone of the whole story. I liked the humor, I liked Alexia's and Lord Maccon's 'dance' around admitting their feelings and desire for each other (don't worry, I'm not really spoiling anything, as it's obvious from the beginning where their relationship is going). I also had fun with other characters, especially with Ms. Tarabotti's mother and half-sisters. You put them all in one room and you truly have a comedy of manners. Consequently, I did chuckle a few times and smiled almost all the time, while listening to Soulless. And the writing itself wasn't half bad either. It had a kind of a spring-in-its-step quality. For these reasons, I was ready to bump the rating up to four.

In the end, after hoping that Alexia would suddenly do something deliciously evil and not getting it, I got stuck in the middle. I did like it enough to not consider it a waste of time but not enough, I'm afraid, to read the rest of Parasol Protectorate books (well, maybe if I find them during one of my frequent library sales excursions).

P.S.

The label attached to this book the most is 'steampunk'. Personally, I didn't notice many steampunk elements in Soulless. There was maybe one appearance of a dirigible delivering the queen of vampires' drone to Alexia. Not much that I can think of besides. Maybe because it's set in an alternate Victorian England? Definitely more fantasy than science-fiction, with werewolves and vampires taking the center stage.

Narration

I chose the audible version of Soulless and I'm glad of it. The narrator, Emily Gray, does a fantastic job conveying the sarcastic spark in Alexia and an overall humor of the story. She switches between characters and accents seamlessly. I never was confused as to which character was talking. Above all, Ms. Gray has a pleasant voice, breathes life into the novel and makes the listening experience worthwhile.
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HOUSTON - A woman said she feels like she has a target on her back after burglars targeted her home four times since 2007.
When Mona Singh went to her home at the Tuscany Lane Apartments in the 1600 block of Bering Drive on Monday evening, she discovered that thieves had ransacked her unit.
"Every small trinket, every tiny jewelry box they could possibly put their hand on," Singh said. "I mean, this work is a work at leisure. It was not done in five minutes."
The thieves stole almost everything of value, except for a flat-screen TV. Singh said they took silver coins collected over the years, a cellphone, two laptops, a camera and more.
"Somebody has gotten away with my items, giving me sleepless nights," she said. "This apartment … is on the very end. I mean, what's the probability, let's sample from so many apartments, they would be picking my apartment for burglary?"
Houston police the break-in at Singh's apartment was the third in the complex in about a week. An apartment two doors down from Singh's was burglarized on March 8 and another one was targeted on March 15, detectives said.
Residents said management notified them about the crimes, so they are being more cautious.
"You don't want to live somewhere where people are getting broken into," apartment resident Lori Bell said. "But I would just try to keep my doors locked and keep an eye out."
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Because they didn't make it to actually save animals, PETA's latest ad featuring Joanna Krupa has already managed to piss off the Catholic Church. Fox 411 reports:
"The fact is that cats and dogs are a lot safer in pet stores than they are in the hands of PETA employees," Catholic League President Bill Donohue said in a statement. "Moreover, pet stores don't rip off Christian iconography and engage in cheap irreligious claims."
"PETA is a fraud," Donohue continued. "It also has a long and disgraceful record of exploiting Christian and Jewish themes to hawk its ugly services. Those who support this organization sorely need a reality check. They also need a course in Ethics 101."
Krupa issued a statement responding to the Catholic League, saying: "As a practicing Catholic, I am shocked that the Catholic League is speaking out against my PETA ads. I'm doing what the Catholic Church should be doing, working to stop senseless suffering of animals, the most defenseless of God's creation."
Of course, this is all just smoke and mirrors to cover up the real travesty here: Nipple airbrushing. Seriously, are you kidding me, PETA? Joanna Krupa basically has a Crucifix jutting out of her vulva, but even after Keeley Hazell, a nipple would be too much? Fuck this. I'm going outside to punt Pomeranians.


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NEW YORK (AP) – Mets manager Jerry Manuel was given a one-game suspension and has been fined an undisclosed amount following an ejection from a game last week.
Caption: New York Mets manager Jerry Manuel, left, yells at first base umpire Doug Eddings after being thrown out of the game for arguing a call at first during the second inning of their baseball game July 23 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Manuel is missing tonight's game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Bench coach Dave Jauss is filling in as New York begins a homestand following a 2-9 road trip.
Manuel was tossed from Friday night's 6-1 win at Los Angeles after arguing a call by first base umpire Doug Eddings.
Luis Castillo was called out at first, though replays showed Castillo's foot was already on the bag before shortstop Rafael Furcal's throw reached James Loney's glove.
Manuel came on the field and gestured wildly at Eddings, who gave Manuel his third ejection of the season.


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In the wake of Eugene F. Fama, Robert J. Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen sharing the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on the pricing of financial assets, I thought it was a good time to post on passive versus active investing. An active investor is looking to add value to his or her portfolio by capturing excess return, or beating the market. A passive investor isn't trying to capture excess return. Investors buying and holding a market index aren't trying to beat the market, but be the market.
The market will, of course, earn its return. Index investors can capture the market return, less any portfolio management or administration fees, by investing in a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund, or ETF, based on the market index. One problem investors face is which index to choose when they invest in a market index. The Standard & Poor's 500 index, for example, is based on 500 large capitalization, or large-cap, stocks. A stock's market capitalization often is based on the number of shares freely available to trade (free float) times the market price of the stock.
Pick that index, however, and you're not capturing the return on small- or mid-cap stocks. Some investment professionals say that cap-weighted indexes aren't appropriate because your investment is concentrated in the stocks with the highest stock prices and most number of shares. You're buying the current market darlings and hoping that they will continue to go higher. Alternate approaches to index weights are equally weighted, fundamentally weighted and value-weighted indexes. Investors that aren't happy with a cap-weighted approach can look to these alternate index weightings to find one more attuned to their investment philosophy.
Getting more exposure
Of course there's a lot more to investing than just U.S. stocks. There are foreign stocks in developed and emerging market economies, domestic and foreign bonds, real estate and alternative asset classes such as precious metals and commodities. Limit yourself to a U.S.-centric portfolio, and you can miss out on the benefits of international diversification. Limit yourself to stocks, bonds and cash (shorthand for short-term debt), and you don't gain exposure to the other asset classes.
Indexes are available in global bond and equity securities, too. There's not one right mix for everyone, so investors have to find the mix that's right for them based on their investment goals and their attitude toward risk in investing.
An actively managed investment portfolio has to earn more net of fees than the index portfolio's return net of fees for the investor to be ahead. That's a difficult standard to consistently meet over time. Benchmarking an actively managed portfolio is also a bit more complicated than just comparing the net return to the net return on an index.
One thing that active investors want to avoid is portfolio managers that invest too closely to the index. Called closet indexing, the investor is paying for active management but getting results that are very similar to passive management.
One approach I think is attractive is called core-satellite investing, where the investor's core portfolio is invested passively in index funds with low management and administrative fees, and the balance of the portfolio is actively managed. By separating the two, the investor is only paying active management fees on the part of the portfolio that is actively managed.


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Looks like Jenny Asper has had a lil' R&R [2] and is ready to bring the drama once more in the upcoming film 'Khawatim' (Rings). Nadia Al Ahmar has written the screenplay, and the Syrian actress is ready start filming for the 'Golden Line Art Production' TV project directed by Naji Ta'mi.
In the drama set for release in Ramadan 2014, the Middle East new portal Elaph claims Jenny described her role a girl raised in an orphanage, who when she grows up she works at a bank. Her character becomes involved in a scandal for the orphanage she was raised in.
Jenny clarified, "The orphanage my character grows up in raises and guides the girls to work in different professions that they will from in a scandalous way." She added, "My work at the bank leads me to be involved in a money laundering scandal, and I begin going down the wrong path despite the kindness of the character I play."
Jenny looks at the drama as a way of shedding light at how innocent individuals like orphans are being taking advantage of by those that raise them.
Jenny Asper isn't the only celeb starring in the film. She'll be sharing the limelight with likes of Kinda Hinna, Abdel Minem Amayri, Karis Bashar and some new faces to the TV scene.
The real question is, will her baby 'Sandy' be a star [3] in this project too?
[1] http://www.syndigate.info
[2] http://www.albawaba.com/entertainment/jenny-asper-girls-515446
[3] http://www.albawaba.com/entertainment/momma-baby-jenny-asper%E2%80%99s-2-mo-old-sandy-star-503696
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After the September 11 terrorist attacks, the aviation industry witnessed a severe decline in air travel, which translated into cancelled contracts for airplanes and sharp reductions in purchases planned for the future. Aircraft producers like Embraer had already committed significant resources to building planes – aircraft that they could no longer sell. Between August 31st and December 31st, 2001, Embraer's inventories grew from $600 million to $1.1 billion, absorbing $500 million in cash in four months.
CEO Mauricio Botelho later remarked: "If we did not have cash at hand and weren't flexible, we would probably be dead right now". But by building a cash cushion during the relative lull in the airline industry in the late 1990s, Embraer was able to survive 9/11. Embraer also shifted production to military aircraft to capitalize on rising demand from the defense sector after the terrorist attacks. Embraer's operational improvements also conferred the flexibility to respond to the September 11 slowdown. Botelho described the situation:
We were increasing our production from 14 to 20 aircraft per month from January to December 2001. On August of that year, we had delivered 18 aircraft. Then, September 11th came and we immediately, by the end of September, announced our actions to face the new scenario. We visited all our customers, studied the impact on their operations, and then studied the impact on us. And we reacted very promptly, adjusting our man power, our course and everything to a new delivery scheme of 10 aircraft per month. We adjusted from 18 to 10 aircraft per month overnight. Flexibility is mandatory, and the downturn forced us to lay off 1,800 employees (14% of total) and reschedule our production line.
One might be tempted to attribute Embraer's resilience to luck. After all, Embraer was at the right place to capitalize on the boom in demand for regional jets. However, a comparison with competitor Fairchild Dornier


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