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To emulate or prototype?
In my last blog I talked about debugging a design within an FPGA. This week I want to turn the tables completely and talk about using FPGAs as a way to verify ASICs.
In my last blog I talked about debugging a design within an FPGA. This week I want to turn the tables completely and talk about using FPGAs as a way to verify ASICs. FPGAS can emulate a design at speeds close to their actual operating frequencies, enabling kinds of verification that would otherwise not be possible, such as in-circuit emulation, or runs that go deep into the state space of the design that would take hours or even days to reach in simulation.
Using FPGAs can also make stimulus creation a lot simpler by enabling the use of real world stimulus coming from peripheral interfaces, audio or video streams etc. But this is a path not for the faint of heart or those who are unprepared.
There are three primary ways in which people usually accomplish this. This first is to buy an emulator or simulation accelerator from one of the EDA vendors (I will discuss the differences between these approaches in a future blog).
The second option is often called "rapid prototyping" and usually involves a board with a number of FPGA mounted on it with a fixed configuration and may also include other pre-implemented hardware that can be connected in as well. There are two possibilities with these prototypes, either create a custom prototyping board that may match your application domain, or buy a commercial offering that can allow arbitrary systems to be built up from FPGA modules, or from other specialized modules such as memory, processor or peripheral modules. In this blog we will quickly compare and contrast the differences between these alternatives. Of course, in a short blog such as this, only a few issues can be addressed and I may well follow up on some of these in more detailed blogs later.
If you have a design that is running in a simulator, how easy it is to migrate that design into either an emulator or prototype system? The answer to this somewhat depends on if you intended to do this from the start of your project or if it is a last minute decision based on problems and looming deadlines.
If the design was never meant to be targeted to an FPGA, then you may have problems. For example, how many clocks does your design need? What about the IP you are using? What about the number of registers or amount of memory. All of the resources are limited within an FPGA and this can present serious problems with the mapping – even if multiple FPGAs are to be used. Many of these issues will be lessened with a commercial emulator, but not removed completely.
And don't for a moment think that only ASICs have timing problems. With the design mapped into an FPGA you are likely to be tracking down problems that are only germane to the prototype. Are you ready for the extra debug required?
Of course, when you find a problem, you will have to go back to my previous blog to work out how to debug that issue and to find the right fix, no matter if this is a design issue or a prototype issue.
What if your design contains one or more processors being delivered as an IP block? The answer will depend on which processor and the arrangements you have with the processor vendor. Let's assume that you have the RTL – do you want to spend the time and effort mapping that onto an FPGA. Perhaps the FPGA vendor has a hardened core for this. Or possibly they have bonded out cores that could be integrated into either an emulator or into some prototyping systems –you will want to check out your options here – ahead of time.
Consider the Xilinx Virtex-6 LX760 device – fairly large designs (over 4M gates equivalent, plus over 30 MB memory) could fit into one of these devices. Synopsys uses these devices in their HAPS FPGA-based prototyping product family, where you get the option of having 1, 2 or 4 of these FPGAs on a single board, which equates to support for up to 18 million ASIC gates per board. Multiple boards are also possible.
Similar devices are used in the EVE ZeBu servers that can accommodate up to 1 billion gates. Most designs will require multiple FPGAs, which means that the design has to be partitioned, and this can be a difficult and error-prone task, especially when the number of FPGAs goes up. Emulators and commercial prototypes do the heavy lifting for you, but for a custom board you are on your own and you may have to redo this every time you make a design change or want to change the levels of internal visibility.
Another problem with roll your own and partitioning tends to be running out of pins. Many emulators and prototypes employ time-division-multiplexing on the interconnect, which frees them of these restrictions, but which requires additional state machines to implement it – something quite simple for the software to do but more difficult when trying to do it yourself.
I spoke to Ron Choi, an independent technical marketing consulting who has been working in this space for a long time. He advised that you should only consider a roll your own approach if:
- You already have FPGA experience
- You must achieve a certain performance (e.g. to display real-time video without rate matching, or to test a wireless application)
- You can fit their design into a few FPGAs
- You are part of a big organization, who can afford a point-tool for SW development/real-time validation, in co-existence with commercial emulators for other stages of the project.
- Have large capacity and multiple user requirements
- Do not have any FPGA experience
- Prioritize HW debug and/or HW/SW Co-verification capabilities over the just the SW development speed
- Want to leverage one system across their ESL flow, HW verification, as well as final SW development and validation.
Finally, there is the issue of cost – but this is not just about the amount that the hardware costs – it is about working out the true cost of all of the issues, the software, the time that will be spent etc. There is no one right answer, but I hope this blog has at least made you think about some of the issues.
Brian Bailey – keeping you covered


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Sixteen fire engines, aided by police and armed forces, extinguished the fire, which broke out in fourth-floor administrative offices at about 11am and was put out in about 45 minutes. Fifteen ambulances were seen outside the evacuated library.
No books or Bibliotheca Alexandrina resources were damaged, according to a library spokesman, Khaled Azab. The cost of damage was not known, but the library reopened later on Sunday.
"The fire was limited to the administrative department on the fourth floor. The fire didn't reach the main reading hall, museums or the exhibition," said Mr Azab. "The guards had evacuated the 800 employees and the visitors five minutes after the fire alarm went off."
Hundreds of students from nearby colleges gathered to watch as smoke billowed from the library, which is located on Alexandria's newly renovated seaside promenade.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina was inaugurated in October amid great fanfare. The £150m project aspires to reflect the spirit of the ancient Alexandria library, which was founded around 295BC by Ptolemy I Soter.

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im 7 weeks pregnant and i hav a craving for pineapple.....is it harmful to eat pineapple
is pineapple harmful in pregnancy
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Not sure but my doctor told me not to eat Pineapple and papaya. So I am following her advice
Pineapple is not good eat during pregnancy..the vegetables or fruit which is having rough surface should not eat..eg jack fruit,chikoo etc
pineapple and papaya are believed to be heat producing fruits.
Eating too much pineapple (especially the green, young ones) may also induce uterine activity according to a research. so why take risk. please avoid it.
Eating too much pineapple (especially the green, young ones) may also induce uterine activity according to a research. so why take risk. please avoid it.
I dont know about pineapple but ripe papaya is perfectly okay. Raw papaya (used for sabji) should be avoided. Just google your question...by the way my doc didnt ask me to avoid pineapple
There is some research, though not conclusive, suggesting that both papaya (including ripe) and pineapple can induce uterine activity (contractions). It is therefore feared that in susceptible people, this may induce a miscarriage. Many doctors therefore now suggest avoiding these, to be on the safe side. But as I said, the available research is not considered conclusive and many cultures do traditionally eat these fruits quite regularly even in pregnancy.
Yeah..it doesnt hurt to avoid. During my first pregnancy i ate lot of papaya during 2nd and 3rd trimester. Didnt face any problem..but mine was not a high risk pregnancy.
i never heard about this risk. i dont think anything is wrong with it. infact just eat half a ripe pineapple after my friend gajal told me not to.
in everything too much is not good and unripe and over ripe is not safe especially for us as we are at risk. but that doesnt mean one or two slice will kill.
listen to ur body once it rejects it forget eating it.
how does pineapple make u hot? odd
My doc has advised against eating papaya and pineapple too. Better avoid what's not good.
I was just told to avoid pineapple in my frist trimester...not after that...plus papaya can be eaten if totally ripe..Docs advise against eating the greenish ones which r yet to ripen..
Yes...even my doctor has strictly told me to avoid pineapple and papaya.....she said ripe papaya is fine but very less amount....so i have not taken a risk to eat whatever doc has asked to avoid....
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Jersey Shore starlet Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi has been released from jail after being arrested in Seaside Heights, N.J., police said.
Snooki was taken into custody on the shore town's beach and then booked on charges of disorderly conduct around 3:30 p.m. Friday, officials said.
Police arrested the reality star after she was seen "acting in a disorderly manner."
Details of what led to the arrest of the reality TV star are currently unclear. However, entertainment blog TMZ posted photos of Snooki pouring what appeared to be Coca-Cola into a beer bong on the Seaside Heights boardwalk before her arrest.
Several members of the popular reality show's cast -- including Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino -- quickly made their way to the town's jail to visit their cast mate.
Less than an hour after Snooki's arrest, fellow cast member Jenni "J-WOWW" Farley tweeted she was "on her way" to spring her friend from jail. A Twitter hashtag of #FreeSnooki quickly made its way across the Twittersphere following news of the star's detainment.
News of Snooki's arrest comes just a day after the Jersey Shore crew started filming Season 3 of the popular MTV series. Season 2 also just premiered on the network Thursday.
Snooki was released from custody sometime around 7 p.m. Friday.
Throngs of fans screamed her name as she walked out of the police station with other members of the show's cast -- including J-WOWW, Vinny Guadagnino and Paulie DelVecchio.
J-WOWW proudly sported a pink "Free Snooki" tank as she hopped into the crew's black Cadillac Escalade.
Controversy has followed Jersey Shore and its cast since the reality show debuted on MTV in 2009. Producers have been blasted by affinity groups for portraying Italian-Americans in a poor light.
More recently, the show's cast has been at odds with Gov. Chris Christie, who said the show damages the Garden State's image.
"What it does is takes a bunch of New Yorkers… drops them at the Jersey Shore and tries to make America feel like this is New Jersey," Gov. Christie told said Sunday. "I can tell people: they want to know what New Jersey really is? I welcome them to come to New Jersey any time."
The self-proclaimed guidos and guidettes fired back on the TODAY Show Monday saying it doesn't matter where they call home.
"Our show is about coming to the shore and having a good time. We don't have to be from Jersey," said Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, who grew up in Marlboro, N.Y.
When asked if Gov. Christie had anything to say about Snooki's arrest, his office declined comment.
The disorderly conduct charge is a misdemeanor and does not carry bail. Snooki was issued a summons to appear in court on August 18.


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Posted by Shadowed on Sat, 17 May 2008 23:34:42
XSSFilter could not parse (X)HTML
Posted by jnwhiteh on Sat, 17 May 2008 23:34:42
Would be nice if Arguments and Returns were bigger, since right now you have to copy it to another editor and then paste it back since it's too small to work with.
I've made the text boxes bigger by default, and all textareas on the edit forms are now resizeable by default.
Posted by jnwhiteh on Sat, 17 May 2008 23:34:42
Preview for editing API references isn't working, all it does is show a link with "Change", and two buttons "Save" and "Cancel" but no actual preview.
I've fixed the preview functionality for API functions.
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Another idea to make editing easier: perhaps the table serializer could be modified to produce easier-to-use code for table keys/values that are strings. Here's some pseudocode:
For string values:
if it contains non-printable characters use " and escape codes elseif it contains newlines or both " and ' use long string format with the shortest permutation of %[=*%[ that will work elseif it contains " use ' else use " end
For string keys:
if it's a valid identifier use . indexer else use [ ] indexer, following the same rules for values (except don't use long strings) end


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One of the key features that differentiate XINS from other technologies is the definition-driven approach. Write simple XML definitions and XINS will generate for you:
- Documentation of the specifications and implementations
- Test forms, for testing your applications with a browser
- Client-side code, supporting load-balancing, fail-over and time-out handling
- Web application, compatible with Java servlet containers
- WSDL, for SOAP-interoperability
- Unit test code, based on JUnit
- Stubs, typically used for testing
XINS 1.4 offers various new features over release 1.3, as well as some bug fixes. The main new features are:
- Automatic communication protocol detection.
- Asynchronous requests
- Generation of documentation in OpenDocument format, for use by OpenOffice.org and other text processors.
- Support for including files (e.g. HTML) in the WAR file
- Extensive Pet Store demo
XINS is used in production systems since the end of 2002. As a stable release, XINS 1.4.0 is backwards compatible with all previous stable releases. It has been tested extensively on various platforms, including Solaris, Linux and Windows.
Download XINS 1.4.0, either as a Windows installer or as a platform-independent TAR GZ file:
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Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia
If you take a plee deal can you apeal it? If so how long do you have?
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The answer is, generally, no, you cannot (unless you somehow
received an illegal sentence from the court).
To expand on the previous answer - it frequently isn't a good idea to appeal a plea. If it was a plea deal reached in General District Court and you appeal to Circuit, the Commonwealth might get angry that you tried to do an end run around the deal and directly indict. If it is an appeal from Circuit Court to an appelate court, then with a plea there ususally isn't a record on which to appeal. So you don't have a good argument to make because you don't have a record.
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A quote from IFL President and CEO Jay Larkin during an interview I conducted with him earlier this month for CBSSports.com:
The sport needs to be on traditional broadcast television or widely-viewed free cable television. It's going to happen. It's inevitable. Now that the writer's strike is settled, the fear of panic thing is over but there are still holes in programming that need to be filled and MMA is a good product to fill that hole with. One day soon we're going to hear CBS, or NBC, or ESPN, or FOX is carrying live MMA. When that happens the dam will break and everyone will jump on it just like in the '50s, '60s, and '70s (when) all three major networks carried boxing.
When Jay Larkin speaks, I listen. The sport is lucky to have someone like him affiliated with it. And if MMAjunkie.com's report about EliteXC and CBS signing an agreement is indeed correct, then the dam may have in fact just been broken. The entertainment business is not a place where originality is encouraged.
If one company does something unique that happens to be successful, everyone else tries to copy it. Call it the Britney Spears or Boy Band effect — once Britney and the Backstreet Boys came onto the scene, how many copycats did we see? How many "Survivor" and "American Idol" ripoffs have come down the pike?
I'm not sure if it's going to happen tomorrow or several months from now, but you better believe that another network will strike a deal to televise MMA. A potential deal between CBS and EliteXC could be a landmark development for the entire industry, for obvious reasons. You know that the UFC will be in the mix and this development could change the way they've negotiated with prospective television partners thus far. I've got to believe that Zuffa is somehow going to try and up the ante (which is what they should do).
Also, don't rule out HBO. Whether you believe EliteXC is a big reason for SHOWTIME's recent 11% subscriber increase or not, the fact remains that SHOWTIME is surging ahead while HBO is trending downward. HBO needs to develop new properties in order to retain current subscribers while also attracting new ones. MMA has to be one of the properties that will receive consideration and any bias that may exists towards the sport within the company will have to be challenged. Business is business. Attitudes towards MMA will change once key executives start feeling the pressure.
The big key though is for EliteXC and CBS to make sure the right producer is involved with the project. Getting on TV is not enough. It's what you do with your allotted amount of time that counts. Unfortunately, the IFL learned that lesson the hard way. Landing a deal with MyNetworkTV was a huge coup for them. However, the vision set forth by the original production company did more harm than good for the IFL.
A producer who understands the needs of the hardcore MMA fan but also the casual fan is essential. If the sport is presented in an overly technical manner, hardcore fans will be pleased but the telecast will fail to resonate with casual fans. However, if an attempt is made to appeal only to casual fans and we end up with a product that is essentially "American Gladiators" but for MMA, it's going to be a total bomb. Hopefully the corporate synergy that exists between CBS, SHOWTIME, and ProElite will be utilized. I'm biased, but I think SHOWTIME has done a strong job with how it has presented MMA. I hope the key principals involved with SHOWTIME's production for MMA also become key principals of CBS' production for MMA.
I had been quoted on the record in the past as saying that I believed the sport's growth had plateaued, but it looks like I may have been incorrect. I'm starting to get the feeling that MMA is about to undergo another major growth spurt.
It should be fun.


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Although to careful memo readers, this shouldn't come as a surprise given yesterday's news about the iPhone 5 being built to run on all networks. Open up the floodgates, here come the iPhones. The Wall Street Journal ran this yesterday saying that Sprint will have El Cinco at launch and will also begin carrying the iPhone 4 as well. Could be kind of a good news / bad news situation for Team Yellow (new nickname for Sprint) (like it?) (I'm not so sure): on the one hand they get to sell the phenomenally popular phone that everyone wants and will want more when it's sleeker and cool looking in the new design, on the other hand a wider availability of iPhones may strengthen the argument of AT&T to acquire T-Mobile which could really bury Big Yellow.
iPhone is coming to Sprint
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Hi,

I've written this function here:

 scramble [] = []
 scramble [x] = [[z] | z <- scramble x]
 scramble (x:xs) =
 [(y:z)|y <- scramble x, z <- scramble xs]

and (I think) it roughly does what I want it to:

 *Main> scramble ([]::[Int])
 []
 *Main> scramble ([1]::[Int])
 [[1],[2]]
 *Main> scramble ([1,2]::[Int])
 [[1,1],[1,2],[2,1],[2,2]]
 *Main> scramble ([1,2,3]::[Int])
 [[1,1,1],[1,1,2],[1,2,1],[1,2,2],[2,1,1],[2,1,2],[2,2,1],[2,2,2]]

Three questions:

1. What should I call this function?
2. Is there already one in the standard library that does the same thing?
 3. Is it possible to rewrite it with only "scramble []" and "scramble (x:xs)" and not the "scramble[x]"?

Thanks

-John


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RIM's BlackBerry App World isn't the only way to get mobile applications onto your BlackBerry smartphone, but it's one of the most convenient. As the official BlackBerry storefront, there are certain advantages to using RIM's App World, including redownloading apps you've uninstalled, and reinstalling your apps anew if you change phone models.Read full review
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A handy BlackBerry file manager, FileScout does more than just find files by searching, or by browsing the file tree on your BlackBerry's SD card and internal storage. It can also ZIP files and folders, create directories, and copy whole files and folders. Renaming and deleting content is also part of FileScout's portfolio, as is attaching content to e-mails.Read full review


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WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in auction yesterday with six-month bills falling to the lowest level since late August.
The Treasury Department auctioned $18 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 3.900 percent, down from 4.185 percent last week. Another $16 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 3.990 percent, down from 4.225 percent last week.
The three-month rate was the lowest since these bills averaged 3.840 percent on Oct. 1. The six-month rate was the lowest since it averaged 3.950 percent on Aug. 20.
The discount rates reflect that the bills sell for less than face value. For a $10,000 bill, the three-month price was $9,901.42 while a six-month bill sold for $9,798.28.
Separately, the Federal Reserve said the average yield for one-year Treasury bills, a popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages, fell to 4.14 percent last week, down from 4.24 percent the previous week.


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With notable credits on stage as an actress and on TV as an actor, producer, director and choreographer, Debbie Allen has become one of the more diversified talents in TV. The career of this dynamic, award-winning singer-dancer has been an inspirational beacon to Black women in the entertainment industry. On Broadway, Allen was a fiery Anita in the 1980 revival of "West Side Story" and a high-kicking prostitute with a heart of gold in Bob Fosse's 1986 revival of "Sweet Charity." She began appearing regularly on TV in the mid-1970s in guest shots, summer replacement series, variety specials and TV-movies. Featured as hard-driving dance teacher Lydia Grant in the film "Fame" (1980), she reprised the greatly expanded role on the critically acclaimed TV series (NBC, 1982-83; first-run syndication, 1983-87) which she also choreographed.


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Situated in the heart of North Beach village, a vibrant neighborhood of modern mid century architecture nestled between Fort Lauderdale Beach and the Intracoastal waterway.The Wave on Bayshore is within minutes of superb dining, fine shopping, and world-class cultural Arts and entertainment centers.Brand new construction, this unit comes with an over sized balcony 2,029 square feet. Brand New Construction.908 square feet terrace. This unit takes up one half of the floor which gives you 180 degree views.
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Dallas police have made an arrest in the robbery, beating of a grocery store clerk.
Kirk Jackson, 44, was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery on Wednesday afternoon.
Jackson is accused beating a clerk with multiple hammers at a grocery store on Military Parkway in Dallas on Jan. 17.
The Dallas Police Department released graphic video of the crime, only because investigators believe someone may recognize the robber.
Police said the robber walked into the AZ Mart in Southeast Dallas at about 10 a.m. Jan 17.
For some reason, the clerk came out from behind the protective glass, and the robber slashed his throat. He dragged the clerk down an aisle stocked with hardware and proceeded to beat the clerk with several hammers.
Police said the man got away with some cash, although they are not certain how much.
The clerk was in critical condition after the beating.
He is now out of the hospital, resting at home.


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Rep. Joe Walsh is fed up with claims he owes more than $100,000 in child support.
The Tea Party congressman told a crowd of supporters Thursday in Wauconda that reports first printed by the Chicago Sun-Times are "wildly inaccurate."
During the first of 10 town halls, Walsh, a freshman from Fox Lake, said he would "privately" fight the claims to clear his name, according to the Daily Herald. He won't discuss the family matter in the media, he said.
Walsh's ex-wife, Laura, filed a claim in December that he owes her and their kids $117,000. Court documents show that Laura Walsh was surprised to read in congressional campaign disclosures that he was able to afford a $35,000 loan to his campaign. He now makes $175,000 per year.
But Walsh disputes that he owes the three-figure sum and called the original story a "hit piece."
"Let me say this," he said in a statement last week. "I love all the members of my family past and present. I've always given everything I have to meet my financial obligations to my children and I will fight until my last breath against anyone who says otherwise."
The town hall crowd backed him, and according to the Daily Herald, one person who pressed him was booed. The economy, debt talks and President Obama were more popular topics of discussion.
Walsh has scheduled nine other town hall meetings during the next week, including a 1 p.m. talk Friday in Fox Lake.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Greg Maddux got to 300 wins with precision and pinpoint control, while Roger Clemens did it by just plain overpowering his opponents.
While their styles are quite different, the two star pitchers share some similarities: Both have stayed healthy, are durable and are respected for their diligent preparation.
"I think basically we're the same pitcher, we just do it at different speeds," Maddux said Saturday after joining Clemens and 20 other greats in the 300-win club. "We do the exact same things on the mound, but just subtract 10 (mph) from the radar gun."
Some believe Clemens and Maddux could be the last pitchers to make it to the 300 mark, which has become more difficult to reach in the era of five-man rotations, relief specialists and pitch-count limits.
Don't tell that to Maddux.
While the modest right-hander insists that such an accomplishment is in large part "lucky," he believes there will be more pitchers to follow in his footsteps.
Tom Glavine, Maddux's former teammate with the Atlanta Braves, could be the next to reach 300. The New York Mets' lefty has 259 wins, and, like Maddux, he's 38. After Glavine, even Maddux is unsure how many more pitchers could accomplish the feat.
Randy Johnson, who turns 41 next month, is the next closest at 241.
"There will come some other guys," Giants manager Felipe Alou said.
"There will be some guys who go to winter ball to learn to pitch. I'm only saying that because Maddux went to winter ball."
Maddux, who improved his career record to 300-170, became the first National Leaguer to notch 300 wins since Philadelphia's Steve Carlton in 1983. Clemens reached the milestone last June while with the New York Yankees.
Maddux (11-7) did it on his second try -- he got a no-decision in his first chance last Sunday against the Phillies.
He celebrated over a nice dinner with his family Saturday night.
Maddux also received more congratulatory phone calls than he could count.
"The calls I got were cool," he said Sunday. "I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. It's a nice achievement and something I'm very proud of. It's almost like you might feel a little guilty. The game has been so good to me ... and it keeps coming."
Maddux just wanted to get 300 over with -- and knows his wife, Kathy, will appreciate fewer phone calls from friends and relatives requesting tickets. Maddux son, Chase, bounced around the Chicago clubhouse before Sunday's game against the Giants, then played with a baseball with his dad in the dugout.
Maddux needed help from the Cubs' potent offense and a strong effort by five relievers as the Cubs rallied from an early 3-0 deficit to beat the San Francisco Giants 8-4.
Maddux had far from his best stuff, allowing three runs, five hits and three walks through three innings. He left with a 6-3 lead after giving up hits to the first two batters in the sixth inning.
In his 19th season, Maddux knows himself well enough to realize when he's losing it.
That's why he warned pitching coach Larry Rothschild before the sixth to be ready to make a move if Maddux ran into trouble.
"It wasn't his best performance, but it was a victory," Cubs manager Dusty Baker said.
After bumping fists with Baker, Maddux quietly retreated to the clubhouse to ice his arm and watch the rest of the game -- as he always does.
Maddux didn't even acknowledge the cheering, sellout crowd, and he never returned to the field to celebrate once LaTroy Hawkins struck out Yorvit Torrealba to end the game. In someone else's ballpark, he said that would be bad form.
"The thing that's amazing about him is he knows how to pitch regardless of what he has on that day," said teammate Mike Remlinger, who's played five years with Maddux in Atlanta and Chicago.
"It's phenomenal, the mental process that he has. It's been a lot of fun watching him. I know he'd much rather just go out and do his job and give his team a chance to win than have the whole nation watching him."
Maddux, who has a major league-record 16 straight seasons with 15 or more wins, got a break when Alou moved ace Jason Schmidt up a day to pitch Friday and sent rookie right-hander Brad Hennessey to the mound to make his big league debut against the four-time Cy Young award winner.
Maddux is the second Cubs pitcher to reach 300 wins after Grover Cleveland Alexander did it in 1924, also against the Giants.
"The way he goes about his business is an inspiration for everybody," Cubs starter Mark Prior said. "He's taught me a lot of things already."
Despite reaching 300, Maddux isn't looking to retire -- he's still having too much fun.
"It feels good to be able to play this game as long as I have," he said. "It's a good gig when you can pitch every fifth day and have four days off in between. Trust me, it's good. It really is."
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai instructed the Ministry of Interior on Tuesday to return a 10-year-old girl to her family after she was arrested a day earlier for attempting to carry out a suicide attack in Helmand province.
President Karzai conditioned her return on the promise by her family, to be made in front of tribal elders, that the girl would be guaranteed improved living conditions comparable to those afforded other children.
Umar Zwak, the spokesman for the governor of Helmand province, says that 10 year-old Spozhmai has offered varying accounts of her ordeal which has authorities questioning her story. In both versions, she alleges that her brother Zahir, locally known as Hameed Sahib, a local Taliban commander, was responsible.
In an account the girl gave to reporters, she stated, "My brother Zahir and his friend Jabar forced me to wear the suicide vest." When she refused to cross a cold river to the targeted police station, "They moved me back home and (took) off the vest from my body. My father beat me. I had to run away from home in the middle of the night and spent the rest of night in a village nearby to our home" before surrendering to police the next day.
Zwak relayed to CNN another version Spozhmai gave to police. In that version, her brother and his friend warned her at the river "if you come back alive, we will kill you." She then crossed the river, removed the suicide vest, and screamed. With no one around to hear her, she went to an abandoned building for shelter and then turned herself into the police at the station she was supposed to attack.
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Did You Hear About the 911 Operator Who Saved the Wedding in Kent?
A Kent, Washington, 911 operator got a call from a bride last Sunday reporting a theft… of her wedding dress!
She had her car doors open loading stuff for the wedding and reception from her home. On one of the trips out to the car she realized everything — EVERYTHING — was gone, taken, stolen, including the wedding dress.
The 911 operator sent an officer over to get a report — the top priority was finding the thief — and afterwards he mentioned the operator had offered her own wedding dress!
The operator had a dress from the exact same store purchased 18 months prior! The women were miraculously the same size! But loaning the dress wasn't as easy as it sounded.
- The dress was at her mother's house.
- Her husband was camping
- He didn't have a key to the parent's house anyway
But again another miracle happened: the husband had stayed home! So he drove to her brother's house to pick up the key and then over to the parent's house. But with the wrong key! So the brother drove over to unlock the door, and then the husband met up with the groom!
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RANDY BRECKER el. trumpet / vocals
ADA ROVATTI t. & s. saxophones
BARRY FINNERTY guitar
NEIL JASON el. bass / vocals
TERRY BOZZIO drums
The loss of 57-year-old tenor saxophone titan Michael Brecker from leukemia in 2007 left a gaping hole that can't be filled. His longest running collaboration was with his older brother, trumpet great Randy Brecker. They were already well-traveled jazz improvisers when first joining forces as the Brecker Brothers in the mid-70s, infusing the era's predominant jazz/rock fusion with a heaping helping of funk. Their 1975 debut was followed by five more sessions for Arista through the early '80s, even scoring a Top 40 UK single with "East River" (from Heavy Metal Be-Bop). The brothers reunited in 1992, recording two superb albums for GRP that picked up where they left off, combining sensational chops with infectious electronic grooves. Their final release, 1994's Out of the Loop, won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance. Randy Brecker has now assembled a true supergroup with deep Brecker Band history, (LINEUP TBC) The band's reunion marks a rare occasion, one you'll only experience at SFJAZZ, and is timed to coincide with the release of their new record.
Support: The Ronnie Scotts All Stars
+ support tonight: The Ronnie Scotts All Stars with Special Guest vocalists Emma Smith (Mon) and Natalie Williams (Tues)
Monday's band line up: Alex Garnett (tenor sax), James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Ed Richardson (drums).
Tuesday's band line up: is Alex Garnett (tenor sax), James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Chris Higginbottom
The Ronnie Scott's All Stars are comprised of some of the greatest talents on the U.K scene, including some of our most regular performers James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Pedro Segundo (drums)
James Pearson:-
Musical Director at Ronnie Scott's and the owner of a ferocious piano technique coupled with a sense of musicality rarely heard, James Pearson is one of the most exciting musicians to have emerged from the U.K in the last 25 years. After working with him, the late jazz legend Sir John Dankworth declared: "James Pearson is an exceptionally gifted artist. His masterful playing makes him head and shoulders above the rest of his contemporaries. He shows signs of true greatness".
Sam Burgess:-
Double Bass Despite only being in his early 30's, already Sam is a stalwart of the UK jazz scene. As well as appearing on numerous film soundtracks such as 'Bridget Jones's Diary' and 'Hannibal'. Sam's thumping, pounding, relentlessly driving bass lines have been heard accompanying the likes of Bob James, Billy Kilson, Gary Novak, Joe Lock, Dave Kekowski, Guy Barker, Dave O'Higgins, Pete King, Gareth Williams, Claire Martin, Jim Mullen, Alan Barnes, Tim Whitehead, John Horler, Gwyneth Herbert, John Dankworth, The BBC Big Band and Robbie Williams.
Pedro Segundo:-
At 22 years old Pedro Segundo, Portuguese drummer joins the James Pearson Trio at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.
Born and raised in Lisbon, picked up the drums seriously at the age of eight starting studying classical percussion a year later. In June 2011 he graduates from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in Timpani and Classical Percussion. His musical ability combines a blend of styles creating a unique sound on the drum set. He has played regularly with Dennis Rollins, Femi Temowo, Mário Franco, Cleveland Watkiss and many other artists touring in festivals all around the globe.
Other regular performers include:
Dave Ohm (drums), Natalie Williams (vocals), Alex Garnett (sax), Nigel Price (guitar), Steve Rushton (drums), Polly Gibbons (vocals), Alistair White (trombone), Gary Baldwin (hammond), Al Cherry (guitar), Matt Home (drums), Alan Barnes (sax), Ralph Salmins (drums), Arnie Somogyi (bass), Mark Smith (bass), James Nisbet (guitar), Pete Long (sax), Gerard Presencer (Trumpet), Dave O'Higgins (sax), Alec Dankworth (bass), Steve Fishwick (trumpet) and others...
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More than 150 countries took part in Earth Hour, organised by the World Wildlife Fund. People across all continents switched off their lights for 60 minutes at 8.30pm local time on Saturday.
In the UK, the palace was joined by Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben in the Palace of Westminster and the Southbank Centre on the banks of the River Thames.
Other landmarks across the world joined in including, Gateway of India in Mumbai, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Table Mountain in Cape Town, Times Square in New York, the Tower of Pisa and former Olympic stadium, the "Bird's Nest" in China.
Sydney had kicked off the event to cheers and applause from a small crowd that had gathered to see the skyline dim and Sydney Opera House turn a deep green to symbolise renewable energy.
"It's been a very inspiring night because it's all about hope and change," said Jessica Bellamy, one of the spectators.
Japan switched off soon after Australia, with the illumination on the landmark Tokyo Tower dimming down as visitors were given the chance to pedal bicycles to generate power to illuminate an egg-shaped artwork.
Earth Hour originated in Sydney with a simple appeal to people and businesses to turn off their lights for an hour to raise awareness of carbon pollution.
"I think the power of Earth Hour is in its ability to connect people and connect them on an issue that they really care about which is the environment," said Dermot O'Gorman, head of WWF-Australia as the city stood in darkness.
"Earth Hour shows that there are millions of people around the world who also want to do something."


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Havis Docking Station for Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 in Development
In Development: The new DS-SAM-100 Series Docking System with protective case for Samsung's 7" Android-based Galaxy Tab 3.
Havis is currently developing a rugged Docking System with Protective Case for Samsung's 7" Galaxy Tab 3. Securing the protective case in the docking station will give you a safe mobile solution with charging and security for your tablet.
The DS-SAM-100 Series Docking Station will help maximize your productivity with its lightweight and strong design that is built with theft deterrence, longevity and stability in mind.
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You make the Motion directly to the Judge that presided over your felony conviction. It must be your only felony. If you think the Judge has respect for you and you feel you can speak to him well enough then you should be able to do it on your own, but this is a very important decision for the Judge to make... Contact me directly if you want. 216.952.1990..
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To The Editor: My wife and I moved to the Hendersonville and Flat Rock area six years ago.
We love it here. Great people, great environment, great climate and an all around wonderful place to live. After moving around for 30 years in the Army, it felt good to put down roots.
Little did I know that my Army training would be needed to run the four generators I would need to keep the lights and power on and to help our neighbors, many of whom are elderly and can't fiddle with generators when needed.
We need our elected representatives to urge Duke Power to begin burying power cables in this heavily forested area. I fully realize it will take years to accomplish the needed task, but we have to start sometime. The main roads in the area would be a great place to start. It's a shame that in today's age, we have to wait for seven days for power to be restored.
Duke Power did a fantastic job of restoring hundreds of lines, but it will just happen again and again if we don't start the task now. It just needs to be done.
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Kerbela Roane Shriners will have a free screening clinic for children from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 29 in South Gate Lodge 569 F&AM at 306 Ruritan Road, Harriman.
Shriners Hospitals for Children is a network of 22 non-profit hospitals across North America. Children with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate are eligible for care and receive all services in a family-centered environment, regardless of the patients' ability to pay.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct driver license roadside safety checkpoints on three dates over the next month.
The next checkpoint will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Sept. 28 on Hwy. 27 at the Morgan County line.
A second checkpoint will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. Oct. 5 on Pine Ridge Road near the railroad tracks; and a third will be from 11 a.m. to noon Oct. 26 on Hwy. 58 near the new bridge.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Isham will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on Oct. 8.
Like so many couples of the "Greatest Generation," Isham and the former Wanda Delaney were married during the early days of World War II and spent their early moments together only during furloughs during the war years.
After the war, they made their home in their native Roane County and have spent 70 years of marriage in their South Harriman home.
Brycelyn Steven Hennager celebrated his fourth birthday on Sept. 11.
His party theme was Monster Truck Jam.
He is the son of Steven and Krystal Hennager of Ponchatoula, La., formerly of Rockwood.
Grandparents are David and Carolyn Thomas of Rockwood, and Ronnie and Tina Hennager of Ozone.
Great-grandparents are Marthalee Lowery, Bob Thomas and Dot Brown.
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Kingston Elementary School beat the odds of 10,000 to 1 by having five sets of twins among the 137 students in the kindergarten class. The twins included Sarah and Megan Robinson, Roseinna and Tracy Shelton, William and Robert Shannon, Kristin and Jennifer Renfro, and Tiffiany and Timothy Martin.
10 Years Ago
By Bonita Irwin, For Roane Newspapers
Homecomings are nothing new for the people who lived in the former Wheat community or attended the Wheat Schools.
This will be the 81st year of getting together.
On Oct. 7, the reunion will be at George Jones Baptist Church in what was known as Wheat. The program will begin at 11 a.m. with A.L. Turpin bringing the message.
Wheat no longer exists except in the hearts and minds of the ones who lived there.
Jerry and Betty Purcell of Harriman will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Oct. 6.
They were married in a Presbyterian church in Lake Station, Ind.
The couple has three children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
When it comes to high school football rivalries, it's hard to top Harriman and Rockwood.
The two teams started playing in 1921 and have been playing every year since 1923, which makes the annual meeting between the Tigers and Blue Devils the state's longest consecutive running rivalry.
Friday night at Civitan Field marks the 93rd meeting between to old foes, and this year's battle is important as ever as both teams are looking to remain alive in the District 3-A race.
A longtime Roane State employee, Roane State alumni and Harriman resident will be recommended as the next Roane State Community College president.
Chris Whaley, currently vice president of student learning and chief academic officer at Roane State, will be recommended by Chancellor John Morgan to the full Tennessee Board of Regents and ask them to approve him in a special telephonic meeting on Monday, Oct. 1, at 3 p.m.
Officials with Roane County Schools expect a surplus when the $32 million building program is finished.
"It looks like we're going to have in excess of $1 million remaining," Director of Schools Gary Aytes said at last week's Board of Education meeting.
"Any items that have been purchased, but not paid, we've accounted for, we think," added Lee Maines, who was hired to oversee the $32 million program for the school system. "We feel pretty good about our numbers."
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Asthmatic teenagers are too embarrassed to use inhalers
New campaign aims to end stigma and save lives
A PIONEERING new online resource for teenagers aims to take the stigma out of asthma in order to reduce hospital visits and save lives.
Mary Hughes, research and education officer for the Asthma Society of Ireland, said teenagers were often too embarrassed to admit to their friends that they suffered from the chronic respiratory disease.
As a result they may not use their inhalers in public or "overestimate their control and underestimate their symptoms" to prevent them from standing out amongst their peers or appearing weak or "uncool", she said.
However, by doing so, they were putting their lives at risk and may wind up in hospital, which typically costs €3,508 per visit.
But a new online resource she developed as a pilot project with students at Kinsale Community School in Co Cork takes the stigma out of the condition. It provides teenagers with easily accessible information on the causes, triggers and management of the condition as well as other vital information they may be reluctant to access.
"They're not very open about it and they don't talk to each other about it.
"They feel their friends don't understand it so we wanted to get into the minds of all teenagers to raise awareness about it and to give them information if and when they need it," she said.
The interactive resource comes in four modules that is designed to fit with the secondary school curriculum and is free to use, she said.
More than a hundred students who took part in the pilot project came away with a much greater understanding of the condition, which affects about 20pc of Irish children and teenagers and costs the healthcare system about €56m a year.
Ms Hughes said the society would be offering the free resource to all secondary schools nationwide this year with the hope that they would roll it out and encourage all students to learn more about the potentially fatal condition.
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DRJ Racing is back and delivering another incredible event at Greenselfer County Park. Now in its 4th year, our Greensfelder race has a favorite course challenging all partiicpants.
The course will run on the Dogwood Course – Not sure of direction yet.
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Pristina - Kosovo's image in the international community has sunk to a new low following a European report linking Prime Minister Hashim Thaci with organised crime and organ trafficking, Kosovo's Zeri paper said on Wednesday.The Council of Europe on Tuesday endorsed the report calling on Albania and Kosovo authorities to investigate alleged trafficking of organs taken from bodies of dead prisoners, mostly Serbs, held by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Albania in the 1990s.Authored by the Council of Europe's special rapporteur on human rights, Dick Marty, the 27-page report outlined alleged abductions, disappearances, executions, organ trafficking and other serious crimes co-ordinated by Thaci and former leaders of the KLA who are now leading Kosovo politicians."The image of Kosovo abroad has sunk below every level, ushering a new black cloud over the country," the independent Daily Zeri, said, adding "it will be very difficult" to restore it even over the long run."In the coming days, weeks and months, whenever something will be written or said about Kosovo, the new (Council of Europe) resolution will be mentioned in a footnote," the broadsheet said.The Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly also called for a probe into the "existence of secret detention centres and inhuman treatment" against Serb and Albanian prisoners from Kosovo, in a resolution adopted by 169 votes.Zeri backed the probe saying Kosovo and its people also needed an independent investigation."Kosovo and its citizens cannot be anybody's hostage," the paper said."The country needs to respond to (the questions): Who will be investigated, why they will be investigated and when the investigation will be over."
As soon as Hashim Thaci is proven innocent they will accuse another Kosovo Albanian of more outrageous allegations. They did this with Ramush Haradinaj, TWICE, and both times he was proven innocent, and both times accusations came after Kosovo made some sort of progress, almost like a counter. Right after the ICJ voted that Kosovos independence is legal, President of Kosovo had to step down right away because he can't hold too seats, right after that was sorted out, new accusations of Thaci. I hope after Thaci is proven innocent, because as we all know no evidence exists, Kosovo should be compensated, because Kosovo is the target. And we have to stop this defaming campaign strongly funded and lobbied by Serbia and Russia.
Kosovo is Serbia...Albanians belong in Albania. Sorry.


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Coyne v. Wells on the sorry, sorry state of the media: All the self-pity, and twice the denial!
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I enjoyed that. I'm always happy to see journalists talk about the media.
It's too bad frank discussions about The National Post, newspapers and news media in general have had to wait for a crisis before they can be entertained.
Why is that, exactly?
That is so very interesting. It's my opinion that the Media reached a *critical mass* and now it is *growing* but just not in the expected way. I think Andrew's point that *new product* is needed, and that would be toward building a new snowball *effect*. To digress, I think on that when the Big Newspapers began to re-publish online every article they had ever published — well that was the point at which critical mass happened. The Print became a Literature. The Newscast a Play. The Audience fully participatory.
Amazon is already doing newspapers and magazines ( some ) on Kindle ( 1&2 ) …… in the US.
What do you think of Amazon's Kindred as a platform for reading the newspaper?
What's up with this talk of paying for the news when it's never been done before? Advertising–at least for as long as I can recall–has always paid for it.
Oops, I meant Amazon's Kindle.
Advertising is way down and probably not paying for much anymore.
I should confess I'm just generally a fan of direct payment over advertising in any event: It's more stable as a source of revenue, and more importantly it creates a very direct relationship with your readers/viewers. Whereas with an advertising-based model, you're not selling content to readers, but readers to advertisers.
Whereas with an advertising-based model, you're not selling content to readers, but readers to advertisers.
Gee, where I have heard that before?
I give up, Ti-Guy, where?
That awful commie, Noam Chomsky. That's where I heard it first, in any case.
It's been a problem with the business model for journalism since…well, as long as I can remember.
With Ti-guy it all begins and ends in the gospel according to Noam. The guru and oracle of the left.
Well I guess we all have to believe in something or other.
I just people were more….discriminating.
I buy the G&M daily just to find out if that towel wrapped guy has lost any more weight since dropping 17 pounds in 30 days.
But, after three months of the same ad, I concluded he ballooned back up – well, certainly didn't lose any more, or we'd have seen a new pic.
With Ti-guy it all begins and ends in the gospel according to Noam. The guru and oracle of the left.
You're an idiot. I'm always loath to mention Noam Chomsky just because this is exactly the kind of response it elicits. I *despair* that the World is full of Jarrids who have the baffling arrogance to be confident enough to dismiss, out of hand, something of which they are completely ignorant.
I'm not a leftist, you moron.
Is it alright if I respect Noam for his contributions to computer science?
Sure. If you like. But …..
Is it alright if I respect Noam for his contributions to computer science?
For those of you wondering what Andrew (not Potter or Coyne) is talking about: the Chomsky hierarchy.
I buy the G&M daily just to find out if that towel wrapped guy has lost any more weight since dropping 17 pounds in 30 days.
For those of you wondering what I was talking about, nevermind.
Ti-Guy, he doesn't say things like that out of ignorance, he says them out of fear.
I like Andrew in more casual dress. Ditch the suits.
Me too. Very fetching.
I'll keep reading the comments. I'm sure I'll have something intelligent to say eventually.
By the way, the IPOD has NOT saved the music industry. If anything its slowed the decline. Buts the sum of micropayments there too doesn't make up for lost album sales, as far as I can see.
bigcity, I'm not so sure of that. I was listening to the owner of Thrill Jockey Records on the radio the other day and she claimed that Independant record companies can definitely make a living off of their digital sales. What she was worried about was the decline of LP's and CD's, which in her opinion, is the superior product.
Make a living off of, sure. But I think the music biz is still getting smaller.
And yeah, a digital file doesn't have the same sound quality (esp. when you play it over a stereo and not headphones).
Oh, la-de-da, I'm Andrew Coyne, I'm nonchalantly posing with a full bookshelf behind me!
I say Wells should respond by, in the next edition, doing his segment with an interview of flattened old pizza boxes.
I actually arranged the books behind me for our first duelling weblog, but I got the webcam angle wrong and ruined the effect.
He had a beer going there didn't he, what more do ya want? :)
Nah, I'm pretty sure that was a cola product. Probably of the diet nature.
How much did Wells get for his diet coke product placement?
Now there's thinking creatively guys!!
Next week Andrew and I will do our chat from behind the wheels of matching brand-new Toyota Priuses. Prii?
That's a horrible car. It isn't even environmentally friendly. At least sell out for something that that either actually helps mother earth or is enjoyable to drive.
You got that right. Everyone loves a winner. They should each have a really hot car and or a couple of babes. Enough with the doom and gloom, i demand to be entertained. Poor Ac, at one pt there i thought he was going to throw himself out of the window.
Completely ignoring of course what exactly goes into its manufacture. Plus of course, if you are actually just using a car primarily for urban driving, you are better off with a smaller, lighter, more fuel efficient car than you are with a hybrid like a Prius if you care about km/litre.
I suppose Prii, 'cause they're using it as a noun, but in Latin it's an adverb and so indeclinable. The adjective is "prior," pl. "priores," but I dunno if that cuts much ice with Toyota marketing people. I mean, they're already using an adverb as a noun and you just can't talk sense to people like that.
I thought that was a beer. Gee, now it isn't as poignant as I had originally thought.
Looked like Michalob to me.
I thought ti was a gros Mol.
So no one takes my points?
This reminds me…CBC Radio's Ideas had part one of "The Hurried Infant" last week and part of the episode dealt with new research that seems to suggest that our current media culture is producing children who manifest clinical/classical attention deficit disorder.
I'm looking forward to part two.
My comment was deleted, all my *points*, and what was the point of that? Firstly, that is my property, it's my writing, and if it was good enough to be deleted it was worth something. Perhaps the website technology is not developed enough to where there is a 'hide' feature, and so the draconian delete function is used (but still, my email is there, an explanation should be provided!). If the website here wants to solicit comments that solicitation comes with a responsibility not to exploit. Hence the need for Regulation of the Media on the Internet further to Andrew Coyne's previous post.
Maybe Sheldon Sawchuk deleted my comment? How can I know who was offended, who has a problem with me? I can improve myself if there's no feedback, how can I learn the rules for participation in this media porta.? I don't think Paul Wells deleted my comment cause he usually dismisses or ignores comments that make no sense to him and usually announces when he deleted comments and that is the polite and right thing to do. Sheldon Sawchuk is not as polite, I'm sure.
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You claim it's your property? Get your own blog. I have been pleased to comment or not on various posts, but I have never felt any right to tell Rogers what to do with any of my pearls on its own property.
While I don't have anything to offer in the way of positive suggestions for improving things. I'd bet that if i were to suggest that we're reaping the whirlwind of the dumbing down of our whole culture, i wouldn't be wrong, merely stating the obvious.
if i were to suggest that we're reaping the whirlwind of the dumbing down of our whole culture
Maybe Jaime Weinman has some thoughts on that…
Here's one solution — free morning tabloid distribution disappears while public transit ridership increases owing to recession. Those long commutes require reading material, ergo buying and reading newspapers become popular once more, for a time at least.
Simply trying to cheer you.
People will never lose their appetite for information so the medium and the cost remains the issue as you touch on in your discussion. (Content only affects potential market — not buyers' innate desire for any medium.)
What I'm trying to say is, relax (prudently) — we're all going through an adjustment and we'll adapt.
What I'm trying to say is, relax (prudently) — we're all going through an adjustment and we'll adapt.
No way. Keep the media scared. It's the only way to effect real change.
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My and Ti-Guy's comments were in response to an entry by "Hair Today" – not sure why their comment was deleted. I hope this doesn't become the norm. I'm sorry in retrospect if my comment contributed to the editor's decision. You were wrong, editor.
The editor is us. It's that report abuse button. Too many people click it and your comment is whisked away into never-never land.
Forgive me in advance, I'm thick — what does the handsome woman with the winning smile have to do with newspapers?
Is anyone else having problems watching this? I keep hearing a loud buzz on top of the sound, and it makes both Firefox and IE crash.
Not here. Worked perfectly in FireFox. But then, I have Rogers internet, so maybe I'm being privileged.
I couldn't view it at all in FF (gave up waiting after 3 minutes) but it was fine in IE on my machine.
No problem with FF here. But you might have to "allow" it.
I had to update to the next version of FF. I've been noticing FF compatibility issues lately.
Ah. I noticed that I had my vpn connection to work open. I closed it, and everything worked fine.
Oooh, I love it when you all talk technical stuff.
Anyone else having trouble viewing this vid? I've been waiting about three minutes with the little swirly circle thingy and still nothing (fast connection, good new desktop, plenty of RAM, latest Firefox, watched the other vids in the series no problem… pretty sure the problems not on my end…).
I'll try IE just to see and report back.
Still not sure what the issue is, but it seems to work fine in IE for me but not FF.
I don't mean to be a complainer, just thought it would be useful for you to have reports of issues while you're still in the early experimental stage!
Try updating your version of Flash, just a guess.
What I think would be interesting is if you could somehow print out a newspaper that was tailored made for each, individual person. The problem with newspapers is that they are one size fits all, I find myself reading only a tiny fraction of any paper I buy, not that they are printed on paper. We don't need to invent new device to read news on, we just need news delivered that is tailored to each person's interests.
Yeah. What you need, jwl, is Fox News, Rush, O'Reilly, Beck, Malkin and Hannity and any Murdoch publication. Or, you could just read the National Post and watch CTV?
I don't really see your problem? Problem with finding what you want, I mean.
jwl, you have just described the internet. Let the individual pick and choose what s/he wants to read, as headlines or in depth. Sorry about that, revenue-desiring media people.
myl and James C
yes, I understand your points. I love National Newswatch and other sites like it but what I hate is that I am chained to my desk to read them. I don't like BlackBerry or Kindle or any other type of device like that to read on because they are tiny and difficult to read. What I would like is a newspaper, which is readable and can be taken anywhere, but tailored to my tastes. I am perfectly aware I am asking for a lot but I am just trying to fit in with zeitgeist of everyone wanting a pony at the moment.
A problem is that the online product is just a regurgitation of the print product so you force people to ask 'why should I pay for this'? Instead they should fee each other. Subscribe to the print edition and online you get access to not just the articles, but back up research, maybe some of the reporters notes, portions of the article cut for space, links embedded within the article or the extras to prior articles on the same matter, etc. Someone want to just see that extra material? No problem, just subscribe to the print edition and opt to not receive the actual paper. You'll still drive up your circulation numbers and your circulation dollars.
Plus, allow subscribers to organize their own news online: I like to see lots of headlines with the lede from the Canada, Ontario, Toronto and ROB sections of the Globe so let me organize it that way the way I can organize my free yahoo.news or google.news. The technology is there.
A second problem is that, while I subscribe to the Globe, I like to read from many papers on certain topics to get a variety of viewpoints. Especially on politics, I like to see what the NP, the Calgary papers, the Washington and NY papers and some non-conventional sources are writing about a particular issue. News aggregators like Drudge or National Newswatch are huge because of this. So partner up with your competitors or other cities papers and offer a general subscriber service: I subscribe to your print edition, you allow me to read it and, in one place, a whole bunch of newspapers and magazines as a featured add-on service.
A third problem was mentioned by Coyne. The cost of archived material. $5 for an article at the Globe is so out of touch with online information distribution that it alone highlights how far out of it some are.
In all these cases the solution is the based on the same simple solution: Make it easy for me to collect more information how and when a reader wants to.
Second line should have read "Instead they should feed each other".
What's a happening with the threading in this comment section?
You guys and your technical problems…
some technical problems, but never as bad as the NY TIMES blogs.
Must be the auto industry tightening their budget. They spent $1.5 Billion on advertising last year.
The old regulars are now just fuel for the popular bloggers .And I am enjoying them, altho it can be time consuming.And addictive.But atleast I don't have to see all that stuff about cars.
It always seemed to me that the Globe when down the toilet when the Post showed up. Newsmedia response to competetion seems to be to get dumber.
The slow death of print media is a lot like the slow death of the music industry—they're both being made obsolete by changing tastes/consumption habits. So I'm not sure "relaxation" is really in order here.
There's a key difference between the two, though—and it doesn't favour journalists. The difference is that Individual musicians aren't actually suffering that much from downloading because they have other sources of revenue that are still directly (and traditionally) linked to their work: concerts, merchandise, selling songs to advertisers, etc. Writers, on the other hand, have no other avenues than going through publishing houses that are, in effect, the print media industry's equivalent to record labels. And even when new avenues have presented themselves—things like web, multimedia, data mashups, etc.—writers have proven to be a pretty conservative bunch and never really embraced them. That said, unlike concerts and t-shirts, all that techy stuff hasn't been monetized yet, so maybe there's a good reason for the skepticism. But perhaps that's where micropayments come in. Just like you pay for the time- and place-limited experience of a concert, maybe that's how journalism should be consumed.
Either way, I still think I should have gone to law school.
Until there's a better consensus among the elite that a prosperous, healthy, free market democracy depends on an informed citizenry, I can't see any light right now at the end of this tunnel.
You may work FOR a 'print medium' but you work AS a journalist. The tools you use to do your work might change (often making things easier), the media that transmits your work may also change (think of a fine artist) but still, it's your skill that matters. Besides, you may find yourself released from the 'tyranny' of 'publishing houses'. Wouldn't that be nice?
This was the best vlog yet.
Good point about the Post keeping the Globe honest (or relatively more honest). I remember when the Post was born and the Globe got better overnight. Though I sense that now, at the other end of the Post's life story, the Globe isn't waiting for the death certificate before it lapses back into complacency.
I think Mr. Coyne is right about micropayments; but even then, who will make the first bet? Perhaps it will take the emergence of new players, about the same time the old players are leaving the table, before consumers will pay anything.
I talk to and interact with boomers and the elderly on a regular basis. I don't think the culture is being dumbed down at all. Some of that golden nostalgia for the age that never was popping up again.
What the media needs is for the inferior publications to go bankrupt so that the superior ones consolidate the customer base.
We don't need to have every paper across Canada regurgitating the national news on the internet.
Andrew's micropayments idea is great. Same with the ipod-reader device.
I have no useful comment again, just want to encourage more of these. And I'll pony up my nickel when it comes to that.
is that a Kreighoff behind Paul?
wow wells really comes off as shallow, self-important and stupid.
I had to stop half way through it was so bad.
I was right about my onanistic comment on previous thread about these totally not ground-breaking webcam postings.
Coyne has got the right idea with the comparison to Apple and micropayments. I think 'Le Monde' is the model for future newspapers, both in terms of focus on opinion and analysis but also in terms of ownership – many of the journos who work for Le Monde also have a financial stake in the newspaper. If we could combine the two, I think we could lead the way here in Canuckistan in providing a new model for media – there doesn't have to be a print version, only an Internet version, and those who want to read it pay a small subscription fee which is lower than a paper newspaper subscription. In fact, I would argue that there should not be a print version in order to make the enterprise successful. Direct mail techniques could be used to bump up subscriptions. I really don't care whether it's left or right in its political orientation, as long as it's not partisan and intelligently written. Somebody should take the National Post brand off of Canwest for a dollar debt free with this idea in mind. I would be willing to pitch in to make this work. Andrew, Paul ?
I used to subscribe to the Edmonton Journal, but the subscription lapsed when the credit card expired, and despite their friendly reminders to update my payment information in order to resume delivery, I just…didn't. Why didn't I? First and foremost, it was those giant stacks of old newsprint that would build up in the corner of my kitchen, which I probably could more easily have put up with if I actually read more of it than I did, but I didn't. In the main, that's due to the fact that it's slowly but steadily turning into an unreadable piece of crap. The journalism itself is getting progressively softer, the local perspectives are growing more and more marginalized, replaced by bozos from the national chain who are more interested in selling me stuff than they are in producing genuine, insightful writing. And then there's Lorne.
So, as I was finally getting around to calling that nice customer service lady back to update my credit info, it suddenly occurred to me – I could keep sending them my money, encouraging them to produce a newspaper that I don't value while breaking my back taking blue bags full of largely unread crap out for the recycling, or not. I put the telephone down.
Here in Halifax there has been a lot of talk in the media about this issue since our remaining daily (The Chronicle Herald) is laying off 25% of their journalists. I don't subscribe since I think the Herald (like many of the supposedly local dailies) isn't very local. Yesterday's issue that I picked up on the newstand had less than 40% local content – the balance was CP/ AP. Often this outside material is supplemented by reprinted articles and commentary from global sources like the New York Times. As mentioned, the Herald is in trouble but I am a devoted subscriber and reader of AllNovaScotia.com, a business online daily. It provides great coverage of my city in an online format. If I want to see articles or comments from the New York Times, I can read them myself rather than let my local media monopoly choose for me. People will pay for online content if it is valuable to them. Most local newspapers are not.
I really enjoyed listening to this.
Having gradated from a journalism program last year, it's interesting that while there, I heard very little debate on this. Of course, that was a different time, and this was definitely still an issue on the table. The teachers, journalists all, certainly had opinions on what to do, but there was very little debate on the issue.
To me, that seems to be part of the problem. There has been some discussion on this, especially in the last few months, but maybe journalists, be they print or broadcast or web, need to get together and start having this discussion, with the aim in mind of finding a solution, because there isn't one yet, and if we don't find one we're going to have a lot less media outlets running around. And that could be a serious problem if you think of media as a watchdog that has an important role in society, which is what I think.
I wish micropayments would work. But that won't support the way I read articles, which is to open twenty or thirty of them from a whole bunch of different websites, skim the opening to decide if there's anything worth reading, and then only read it if I feel there's something worth reading. I don't think I'm the only person who does that, but if I had to pay to open up each of those articles, with only the off chance that I might read them, well, I probably wouldn't. And that makes me doubt the micropayment option.
I think we might have a lot more effort with the subscription model, but only when we get those Kindle-type readers into the market in mass numbers, cheaply. And that relies on people actually buying them.
I love the format of this video blog, it is cutting edge, keep it up.
I enjoyed the vlog thoroughly. An innovative idea.
I really enjoyed this discussion as it's one I've been pondering lately. As someone trained in journalism and now contemplating, after several years' hiatus raising my children, how best to make my voice heard in what seems a cacophony of voices in the webosphere, on television and in various print models, I admit to being somewhat overwhelmed, as I'm sure the general readership must be.
Perhaps a natural culling is in order. Yet I would hate to see the preponderance of opinion spewed as fact or the rantings of one issue or one ideology bloggers take the place of well researched journalism. I think the concentration of the media in fewer corporate hands has also contributed to the decline in quality.
While I continue to try and figure this out, I've cancelled my print subscriptions to my local paper though continued with a low cost online subscription for a year, until I figured out I could certainly get a handle on what was going on in the world through Google news and had the advantage of being able to read a variety of sources on the same story.
I don't know if it's feasible but I'm wondering if journalists could be paid to submit their work to a 'feed service' that a reader then could subscribe to. People pay for what matters to them, and us news junkies would obviously spend more to subscribe to more sites. I guessthe sites themselves could do the same kind of 'annoying' advertising that all website and now the social networking sites are doing as a say to generate more $. Enough. I'm still got to wade through everything that's out there.
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