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Jacksonville Rotary South and the Onslow Literacy Council Reverse Raffle and Live Auction fundraiser is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. this coming Thursday, May 23, at the Infant of Prague Parish Hall. It is an opportunity to have a good time while vying for a chance to win $10,000. There will also be an auction of unique artwork donated by local artists and other items with auctioneer Howard Funk. For those of you who don�t know him, Howard is a funny guy.
Proceeds will help the Literacy Council teach adults to read and Rotary South to help other Onslow nonprofits such as the Caring Community Clinic. Rotary South just donated to the clinic this week to help purchase supplies. Rotary South also supports the soup kitchen, homeless shelter, Women�s Center, Boy Scouts, Onslow Caregivers, the schools, Newspapers in Education literacy program and others.
These reverse raffles are lots of fun. Suspense mounts as the numbers count down. If your number is called there will be an opportunity to get back in the drawing. There will also be other drawings to keep the fun and suspense going, plenty of hors d�oeuvres and drinks. Tickets are $100 and admit two, which includes two drinks; more by donation. Tickets are available at The Daily News on Bell Fork Road, American Dream Cakes on Gum Branch Road, and Jacksonville Antique Mall on Henderson Drive.
Among the local artwork being auctioned is a watercolor by Artist Jenean LaCorte of Sneads Ferry. Jean attended Columbus College of Art and Design and does watercolors, mixed media, acrylics and oils. Professional photographer Dawn Acosta has donated a wall mountable photograph of a sailboat on the New River at sunset. Dawn specializes in photographing newborns and children, but the sailboat caught her eye and she has donated it for a good cause. Patsy Kennedy Lain donated an American Primitive hand painted platter and a hand painted angel tray. John Papurca donated a face pottery jug made in North Carolina by McCauley Pottery and an original large Ron Lee personally signed sculpture clown playing the piano. There were only 85 of these made and you can bid on one Thursday evening. Patricia Jones, who works in Walmart arts and crafts, donated handmade quilts; Diana Rogers donated classic car models; and there are other unique items.
Some of us here at The Daily News couldn�t afford $100 so we are splitting a ticket, $10 each. If we win, that will be $1,000 each. I hope we win because in my head, I have already got that money spent. Jacksonville Rotary South welcomes splits. When the drawing is down to five tickets, the last five can opt to split the $10,000. The lady who won last year donated half of the $10,000 back to the Literacy Council and Rotary South. Wasn�t that nice? We have the best people here in Onslow County.
Come on out and have a good time and take a chance. There are good odds that you will win, but the fun is a sure thing.
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My daughter Britainy took me on a cruise last weekend to the Bahamas for Mother�s Day. It was a once-in-a-lifetime weekend. We sailed on Royal Caribbean Majesty of the Seas out of Miami. I had never been to Miami so I was tickled to see that city. Driving there I passed through Vero Beach and places my family used to take me as a child. We enjoyed all the shows and events on board including comedian Steve Smith. The karaoke was almost as entertaining, midnight pool parties, classic piano and guitar while sitting looking out the window at the water. It was great. We line danced at midnight. The food was phenomenal. I loved the fruit and I miss it. Our waiter at dinner was entertaining. He served us well and performed an egg trick. The crew took such good care of us.
During the excursions to the island of CoCo Cay, we rode a glass bottom boat to see all the fish. The guide dove off the boat and came up with the largest starfish I have ever seen, conchs of all kinds, cucumber fish, it was so educational. Then Brit convinced me to snorkel and that was fascinating. I got so busy following the fish that I forgot about my back and it got burned, but it was definitely worth it. The next day we went ashore in Nassau. We saw the Pirates museum which I loved because the pirates from that area have always interested me including our own Blackbeard. We toured gardens where orchid bloomed on the trees, herds of flamingoes walked around and entertained, and there were monkeys and animals of all types. The peacocks were jealous of all the attention the flamingoes were getting during the show so he spread his wings for us. We fed beautifully colored birds slices of apple while they sat on our hand. The only shopping we did was to visit the Diamond International shop. I wanted to see Lorimar, which is the only gem natural to the Caribbean. I loved the people. Some found their vying to get tourists to use their service annoying, but I like the way they hustle. They may be poor, but they work hard. Our taxi driver had his grandson with him. He opened and closed the door for us. He was such a polite and smart little guy.
I was nervous before we left on our adventure because I had never gone cruising before. My friend Sherry told me at church about when she and her husband took their four teenagers on a cruise for Christmas in 2003. There was a tsunami in Thailand that winter, but it was not expected to impact the Caribbean. The waves were 12 to 14 feet. They all had a bout with sea sickness, but motion sickness medicine helped. They had packed clothes for a Caribbean cruise but the weather was cold and there were no shops that sold warm clothing so they wrapped up in towels. The rock climbing and other outdoor events were canceled because of the weather so they only had indoor events. When they attended the shows there would be 400 people aiming for two doors to leave. They would sway to the left and then to the right but eventually would hit the hole that was the door. It was comical, Sherry said, there was lots of giggling. When they took them ashore, snorkeling was like being plunged into ice water. �We made the best of it and had a good time,� Sherry said.
So, after hearing the stories, I was concerned about 1) drowning, 2) being sea sick, 3) claustrophobia and 4) having these and interfering with Brit�s enjoyment. Praise be to God, I had none of these. There was a porthole in my room but I was hardly there anyway. I did not fall overboard, the water was like glass so I was not seasick, and I was able to keep up with Brit. So, I highly recommend a Bahamas cruise � just not during a tsunami.
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A Terrebonne church will open its new school this fall to the public.
A Terrebonne church will open its new school this fall to the public.
Houma Assembly Church will open Houma Assembly Christian Academy, with classes set to begin in August.
Registration is currently open. The school is enrolling pre-K and kindergarten students, with plans to eventually teach students through the 12th grade, said Houma Assembly Church Pastor J. Leo Brown.
The school will be housed in a new $1.1 million two-story school built on the church grounds. It will have classrooms, administrative offices and a gymnasium, said Church Board Vice President Edward Lawson. The building was built with the help of church donations. Work on the school began in December, and construction is wrapping up.
"It's a Christian academy where scholars are cultivated. We're providing an educational environment aimed at inspiring and educating students, and an environment with good morals," Lawson said.
Brown said the idea for the school was conceived five years ago. Educating students is part of the church's mandate, Brown said, adding he doesn't believe the government can properly educate students when they're not being brought up with Christian morals and standards.
"We believe in Christian character and conduct, and we're taking the kids from the cradle to graduation with those standards," he said.
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Like most of China's high-tech manufacturers, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. is located in an outsized and relatively isolated technology park.
But unlike the bulk of China's electronics manufacturers, which set up cramped dormitories and massive dining facilities to manage legions of workers who come to do basic assembly, SMIC's campus is actually pleasant.
Located within walking distance of its production facilities, apartment buildings in SMIC's residential zone are brightly painted and framed by well-manicured trees. A short stroll across a canal leads to an area populated by villas that seem more suited to an American Sun Belt suburb than a technology park in Shanghai's Pudong district.
Nearby is even a church, set up by SMIC's Christian founder Richard Chang, where many employees worship on Sundays.
For decades, people in advanced economies have fretted over losing jobs to China. But when he was setting up SMIC in the year 2000, Mr. Chang, an American, realized that to build a Chinese company in a technologically advanced field that was dominated by foreign technology, he would need to bring the workers over along with the jobs. Taking a page from Silicon Valley, he made the creation of an attractive campus a key part of his recruitment strategy.
While you won't find refrigerators full of free organic juice or break rooms lined with pool tables at SMIC, the company's Pudong compound has the sort of family-friendly vibe that is key to pulling in top-level talent in Asia. And so far, the strategy has paid off: According to a 2012 study by Harvard Business School, the amenities the company offers helped it attract roughly 1,000 foreign workers within its first few years, including 500 Taiwanese and 300 Americans.
While some of China's most advanced technology and Internet companies, including search engine Baidu and telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei, have built attractive campuses to lure in talent, none have gone quite as far as Mr. Chang in providing a total environment for employees.
The contrast in work environment between SMIC and other large-scale Chinese tech companies like Apple-supplier Foxconn is striking. At Foxconn's Shenzhen-based Longhua plant, for example, workers typically stream out the campus in the morning into Internet cafes or for a bleary-eyed breakfast after the night shift. Contrast that with the scene at SMIC's compound one morning last week, where China Real Time saw employees' parents taking their grandchildren to play on a playground in the center of the residential area, not for from a company-run bilingual secondary school (subsidized for employees) that sends kids to well-known U.S. colleges every year.
"Our school is getting very popular in Shanghai. We're always getting calls from our customers (about) whether we can put their kids in our school," SMIC Chief Financial Officer Gareth Kung said in an interview, adding, "frankly some people join SMIC just because of the school."
And for the company's employees from Taiwan, which has become one of the world's most important sources of chip producers, four Taiwan restaurants stand just a block down from the school.
Whether SMIC can be successful enough to make this a model for other Chinese companies remains to be seen. Long a key target for China's economic planners, domestic success in the semiconductor and chip industries has thus far remained elusive. China is still a long way away from challenging the advanced technology produced in Taiwan, South Korea and the United States. Yet in the past few years it has managed to established a small foothold. Thanks to subsidies to companies that design chips and the rise of Chinese companies that make cheap smartphones which do not require the most advanced chips, China now has the beginnings of an integrated electronics supply chain that could lead to better jobs, higher wages and more sustainable growth.
As China's most advanced semiconductor manufacturer, SMIC has been lifted by the trend. Relatively unknown chip design companies like Spreadtrum Communications that rely on SMIC to create their chips helped SMIC's revenue from Chinese customers grow 34.1% in 2012 from the year before. SMIC expects the chip design industry in China to grow around 19% through 2016, compared with total industry growth of 8%. In 2012 revenue from China stood at $578 million versus $187 million in 2009.
All of this is good news for government's dreams of a semiconductor industry more heavily anchored in China that could eventually grow abroad. But prognostications about the next boom in China's semiconductor sector have proven wrong in the past, China's chip sector remains focused around communications chips instead of processors and other chips, and the global market remains dominated by a whole host of large and well-financed companies with a history of high-level innovation. Nonetheless SMIC's campus offers a glimpse of what work in China could look like if the country succeeds in building out the leading edge of its electronics industry.
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Indiana State University Community Semester has six events planned for this upcoming week to share with the Wabash Valley.
The Community Semester, which focuses on the theme "Our Town," is a way for the College of Arts and Sciences to showcase what it does best and to encourage faculty and students to share what they are learning to the community. It is also a way to bring innovative ideas in the science, humanities, liberal and creative arts to the area.
On Feb. 5, Bob Guell, an ISU economics professor, will be making his predictions on the upcoming year at the Groundhog Day Economic Forecast. The forecast will take place at HMSU Dede I at 6:45 a.m.
Another event on Feb. 5 is "A tale of Two Cities: Paris and Berlin Harry Gee, Jean Kristeller and Silvia and Terry Weir, will discuss how studying abroar changed their personal and professional experience at the Vigo County Public Library from 3:30 - 5 p.m.
On Feb. 6 in the Federal Hall Courtroom, Matthew Bergbower, assistant professor of political science, will host a question and answer forum with Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett. The forum, which is sponsored by WFIU will take place from 3:30 - 5 p.m.
"I felt having the mayor was appropriate since the theme this semester is our town. ISU and the City of Terre Haute have good relationship that is growing closer," said Bergbower.
With university officials setting a goal to increase enrollment and to have 10 percent of students living off campus, there are concerns from some people if it will help the city and how the city is preparing to handle this, said Bergbower.
"I have volunteers from my political science class that did some basic duties to prepare for this event. They will also start with asking questions to the mayor then it will be open to the public," said Bergbower.
In ISU Fine Arts Building there will be a reception held on Feb. 8 from 4 - 6 p.m. for the 10 students that created different pieces to represent the theme "Our Town." The "Sense of Place: Visions of Our Town" exhibit is open from Feb. 4 to March 1 in the Turman Art Gallery.
On Feb. 9, the Terre Haute Children's Museum, and the ISU Center for Science Education, invite children and their families to explore the latest technologies in nanoscience through different hands-on activities. It will take place from 1 - 4 p.m at the Children's Museum.
On Feb. 10, Roby George, director of bands, will lead the School of Music Wind and Percussions Scholarship Concert of "American Guernica," which is dedicated to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, in Tilson Auditorium. The concert starts at 4 p.m.
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Josh Hill (No. 75 Dodge/Sycuan Casino/RCH Racing/Bel-Ray/Suzuki RM-Z450) remains sidelined for another week recovering from the fractured right-hand he suffered at the season opener at Anaheim. He is scheduled to return to the RCH Racing lineup next week in San Diego. In his absence, RCH Racing is excited to announce that Kyle Partridge will ride the No. 85 Dodge/Sycuan Casino/RCH Racing/Bel-Ray/Suzuki RM-Z450 this weekend. Partridge flew the RCH colors for nine races last season and earned seven Main Event starts.
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Hattiesburg, MS (Sports Network) – According to a published report, Southern
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Boxer Hector Camacho Dies After Being Taken Off Life Support
Hector Camacho, a world championship boxer known for his fast hand speed and audacious behavior, died Saturday in San Juan, P.R. after being taken off life support. The death of Camacho, 50, came four days after he was shot while sitting in a parked car in San Juan. He was declared brain dead on Thursday.
Police are still investigating the incident, which claimed the life of 49-year-old Adrian Mojica Moreno, a friend of Camacho's. Police said two men fled the scene of the shooting in a sport utility vehicle. Authorities said that a total of 10 bags of cocaine were found inside the car, with nine of them in Moreno's pockets.
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Opening Sequence
Hong Kong leader says sorry as '2 million' protest
'Full range of options' against Iran - Pompeo
Trump launches tweet storm ahead of TV interview
Sudan's ex president makes first public appearance
Women in Switzerland have gone on strike
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-Fred Smoler
Booting Up
"Welcome maggots."
I looked up to the source of the voice from my position on-line. I was in my skivvies, awaiting the introduction of our Drill Instructors.
Shivering, I was shocked by who I saw standing on the quarterdeck.
Jack Thompson! It was unmistakable. The shock of white hair, the rheumy, piercing, venom-filled eyes, the permanently furrowed brow. All capped by a stiff Smokey Bear.
"Now then, pukes," he spat. "Which of you sorry fuckfaces have played videogames before?"
Hands shot up around the squadbay. Jack broke into a vicious grin. "Hardened killers, every one of you. My job's half done already. The ESA had no idea their rape and murder simulators would actually do a service in the War Against Terror." He chuckled, a sick, gurgling sound.
He passed a cursory glance over us. "Why are you all lined up?"
I stepped forward. "Drill Instructor Sergeant Thompson is supposed to do a hygiene inspection, sir!"
He sneered. "No, no. None of that claptrap. We get right down to training." He clapped his hands, and burly men began wheeling televisions and large, unmarked boxes into the room.
We were each issued a TV and several videogame consoles, along with a smattering of games.
I spoke up again, immediately regretting it. "Shouldn't we be issued M-16s, sir? Actual weapons?"
Jack strode over to my rack. The guys around the room cautiously avoided looking in my direction.
"Weapons? Weapons!?" He made it sound like I'd asked for a meatball sub and a handjob. "The only weapon you'll ever need is that controller. You'll carry it everywhere, even sleep with it. Now get your ass on my quarterdeck, pick up that PSP and start expanding that cranial menu!"
My face covered in spit, I did as he ordered. The game was GTA: Liberty City Stories.
Letter Home
Dear Mom and Dad,
Boot camp is ok. Our DI, Sgt. Jack Thompson, is a little strange, though. He's had us playing Grand Theft Auto, Full Spectrum Warrior, Halo 2 and, for some reason, The Sims 2 day in and day out. We hardly get any sleep. I'm starting to get RSI in my hands and my thumbs feel like they're going to fall off.
We're all getting a lot fatter here, but every time we suggest a good run or even a day at the range the DI tells us that nobody ever learned how to kill by getting in shape and firing actual weapons. He doesn't seem to understand even the simplest metaphors, like abstract thought is too difficult for him. I think maybe he confuses reality with the games we're playing. Somebody said it could be schizophrenia.
Yesterday I tried to do some pushups and when the DI caught me he made me pick up prostitutes over and over again and then run them over -- which isn't even fun the first time. Then he said I was a killer, and the only thing keeping me from jail was that the government needs murderers like me.
They say we'll probably be sent over to Iraq soon as we get out of Boot Camp. We don't even get to go to our MOS school. The DI says it's unnecessary, that the games are all we need.
I'm a little scared.
Your Son
Coin Insertion
The chopper's blades drowned out any other sound. The whole team was with me, all of Jack's Boys, as the papers were calling us.
We descended onto a makeshift helo pad and offloaded.
Our CO was there to meet us.
"Welcome to Hell," he yelled above the roar of the chopper as it gained altitude and disappeared over the horizon. "I am your commanding officer, Colonel Grossman. I understand Sergeant Thompson put you guys together as a crack unit, and I expect nothing but the best. I know you've had the best videogame training available, so you all know what it's like to kill, to rip a man in half, to hold the steaming guts in your hand."
I started to protest but held my tongue.
He pointed toward the distant mountains.
"That is the Hindu Kush region. You boys are to load up on AMTRACs and assault an enemy position on a ridge. Out there. Somewhere." He smiled. "Smoke 'em out of their holes."
We crammed into our vehicles and rode out over the dusty desert.
Too Few Health Packs
"Go, go, go, go!" shouted Colonel Grossman as the rear hatch slammed open.
The night was suddenly awash in smoke and tracer fire.
I shoved Spencer forward. "Get going, and get down!" I yelled. His eyes were teary, but he listened. He ran into the night and flung himself on the ground.
I followed after and struggled to get my bearings.
Paczkowski kneeled down next to me. "What's the reload button?" he screamed.
He fiddled with his M-16. "The reload button. I don't see an 'R' key or anything."
"Get down, you idiot!"
Pacz's head exploded in a shower of thick blood and bone fragments. Spencer began howling and pawing at his face. "What's the command to disconnect from this server? Disconnect . . . disconnect . . . " I left him babbling and crawled forward.
By now the enemy was concentrating arcs of fire toward our vehicles and automatic weapons. I remembered that they had given Williams an M-249 SAW. For some insane reason. Sergeant Thompson had made him play Ghost Recon for two weeks and decided to make him the machine-gunner.
I found Williams wheezing. His blood was soaking into the sand. "Hey," he said when he spied me.
"Hey, Williams."
He looked around. "I-I tried, I really did." A thin line of blood streamed out of his mouth and down his chin. "They didn't even give me ammo. Said I'd be able to find it just lying around. Said I could run over a bunch of bullets and they'd go right into the weapon."
Williams closed his eyes.
I grabbed the SAW and sprinted toward a rocky outcrop.
Adams and Rider trained their weapons on an enemy. Surprisingly, the combatant raised his arms. Adams grabbed a grenade and lobbed it toward their new prisoner. Who was standing only fifteen feet away.
"Drop to the ground, you morons!" I yelled, but they were too far away to hear. The POW went up in a red misty cloud. Rider was cut into pieces by the shrapnel; He caught the brunt of it. Adams got his share, however.
I ran down to Adams. "What happened?" he croaked.
I shook my head. "It was a grenade. You threw it. Those things have a range. They send out shards of metal that rip through flesh."
"That's stupid. Worst particle effects evar." And then he died.
All through the night men -- boys, really -- were dying.
Cutty ran into a minefield screaming, "I ownzzor, fags!" And he blew up.
Maddox grabbed a flag and began running around screaming about finding "the base." He was killed by friendly fire.
Eigen tried to wrestle the controls away from a helicopter pilot. He crashed it into a humvee.
All around, devastation. Death. Poor grammar and third-grade insults.
A small flicker of light caught my eye and I low-crawled toward it. It resolved itself as a Game Boy Advance held by the radioman, Allen. "Hey," he mumbled. He was playing Advance Wars. "This isn't so hard."
"You got the radio," I breathed out.
"Here." He tossed me a handset.
I called for an airstrike. "You okay, Allen?"
He shrugged. "Sure, man." He pointed to his Game Boy. "Those other noobs just forgot their training."
Grossman and Thompson surveyed the battlefield.
"They're all dead, sir." I walked up with Allen at my side. The stench of charred corpses, cordite and napalm hung thick in the air.
The colonel and the sergeant nodded in unison.
"Well, a new crop will be ready soon enough," Colonel Grossman began. "Thompson, step up the training."
"Oh, no problem, sir." Thompson grinned. "Bully should be out in a few months."
"Grossmanism, then, is a compound of various forms of historical illiteracy, aggravated by a perfect absence of common sense. The assertion that video games have produced an ever-more violent American population runs afoul of the simple fact that rates of violent crime in this country have been falling for most of the last decade, precisely the period in which video game use has exploded. The argument that disinhibition of an imaginary instinct via immersion in violent visual imagery is the only possible source of increasing popular violence -- an argument that is repeatedly shrieked throughout the chapters of Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill -- runs afoul of the fact that some of the cultures least exposed to violent visual images -- medieval England, for example -- had horrific levels of personal violence, while cultures immersed in staggeringly violent visual imagery -- for example, contemporary Japan, where popular theaters featuring sado-masochistic burlesque do a land office business -- have some of the lowest rates of personal violence recorded by modern societies."
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That can be measured in a variety of ways, of course, and Chrysler clearly hopes to turn the facility, two hours outside of Chicago, into one of the industry's most productive. But volume alone won't matter, cautions Senior Vice President Doug Betts, if the new Dodge Darts starting to roll off the Belvidere line can't match the quality of the best competitors like the Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla.
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Izzy Brannick, like all of her ancestors, is a monster hunter. Her sister has disappeared, and her mother thinks Izzy is not ready to go on missions on her own. Izzy thinks otherwise, but it is her word against her mother's. When the two hear about a haunting in Ideal, Mississippi, they move there and get Izzy enrolled in Mary Evans high, the sight of the hauntings. Ghosts are relatively easy to get rid of, so Izzy has this mission all to herself. The only problem is . . . Izzy has never set foot in a school.
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Reason One: Scott Walker has been irresponsible with your tax dollars.
Scott Walker's first act, even before his inauguration, was to kill the high-speed rail project that would have connected Madison and Milwaukee to Minneapolis and Chicago. He returned an $810 million grant to the federal government.
There's an existing Amtrak line between Milwaukee and Chicago. It's heavily used, financially viable, and badly in need of repair.
It turns out that this line needs $150 million in repairs and upgrades. That work would have been covered in the original federal grant. If Walker had taken the time to study the issue, he'd have known that.
Not only did we turn down the money to pay for needed repairs, we're now financially on the hook for it.
In the name of saving $7 million per year in maintenance costs, Scott Walker cost us $150 million dollars.
That may not be a lot of money in big states like New York and California. It goes a long way out here. Earlier this year, Walker's budget had a $143 million dollar hole in it. He had to raid a federal grant designed to help homeowners in mortgage trouble stay in their houses.
This isn't the only time his ideological zeal has cost the state a large sum of money. That $150 million mistake could have balanced the budget.
Scott Walker claims to be a fiscal conservative. He isn't.
Reason Two: Scott Walker's office is at the center of a criminal investigation.
Public resources cannot be used for political campaigns. Period.
It's a felony.
We're serious about this in Wisconsin, and it doesn't matter which party does it. Chuck Chvala, Democrat, used to be the State Senate majority leader. Now he's a sad little felon without a law license. Why? Running a campaign operation from a state office.
Scott Walker was the Executive for Milwaukee County for eight years. Six of his closest associates have been charged with a total of fifteen felonies and three misdemeanors. These were not accidental violations of the law. The FBI is currently investigating a secret e-mail network that was set up specifically to subvert the laws against campaigning on the public's time.
The closet where the router was hidden was only a few feet from Scott Walker's office.
The more the John Doe probe widens, the more sickening twists it uncovers.
Tim Russell, Walker's deputy chief of staff, has been indicted for theft of $11,000 from an event at the Milwaukee County Zoo to benefit military families. Walker himself didn't steal the money, but he's the one who transferred control of the funds away from an American Legion post to a longtime crony.
Scott Walker is the first Governor in Wisconsin's history to set up a legal defense fund while in office. According to Wisconsin law, he can only do this if he (or agents acting at his direction) have violated Wisconsin election law.
Walker has consistently refused to reveal who's funding his legal defense. He has refused to reveal which violations he's being investigated for. He claims that he set up the fund to pay the costs of cooperating with the investigation. There's no provision in the law for a "cooperation fund".
As Walker's fellow conservative, your natural first instinct is to want to believe in his innocence. I get that. I believed that President Clinton "did not have sex with that woman" long after my common sense should have told me otherwise.
Scott Walker has not been formally charged with any crime yet. However, it strains the imagination to think that he was in the middle of all this criminal activity, which was conducted on behalf of his campaign, and that he was an Eagle Scout the whole time.
Where there's smoke, there's fire. Right now, there's enough smoke to make me drop to the floor and look for a window exit.
Reason Three: Scott Walker is not a friend to Wisconsin's outdoor sportsmen.
I'll confess that I'm not much of an outdoorsman. I'd rather sip a latte and watch a movie with subtitles. (Some of your stereotypes about liberals are true.)
Scott Walker appointed a "deer czar" to manage Wisconsin's deer herd. Rather than choose a naturalist from Wisconsin, Walker appointed (for $125,000 per year) an ideologue from Texas who believes that herd management is best left in the hands of private landowners.
Dr. Kroll has called public land management "the last bastion of communism". I suspect Teddy Roosevelt would have a big-stick response to that statement.
There are things that the private sector can do more efficiently than the public sector. Managing public resources isn't one of them. Google "Chicago parking meters" or "Wackenhut prisons" if you want to see what happens when a for-profit entity takes over a for-public service. Under Kroll's model, the landowners set the prices for hunting with an eye toward generating maximum profit.
Currently, a buck on a private game farm can cost you up to $1000. It is difficult to imagine that the state-issued $24 deer tag would survive in such an economic climate.
There's also the issue of what the proposed Gogebic Taconite mine....
Conservative case against Walker
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Re: Conservative case against Walker
You just scratched the surface on this................
Evil little man, with Evil little thoughts!
Evil little man, with Evil little thoughts!
Re: Conservative case against Walker
Yes, and the politics of the right is about ideology and emotions. The teaparty far right will vote for Walker even if he was shown to be a murderer, rapist and child molester or guilty of the charges in the Criminal Investigation. They don't care and will vote for him regardless of character or past history. The must know he is a puppet for the Billionaires. Who can say why they vote against themselves.
Re: Conservative case against Walker
I work with a few people that aren`t really "Tea Party", but are very republican.
They said they were disappointed with the things $cot walker has done and said.( "I dropped a bomb" "Divide and Conquer" ) They said they would not have voted for him if they knew the state of Wisconsin would end up so divided.
They`re going to vote for him asgain in the recall election, because "they don`t want the Democrats to win"
They said they were disappointed with the things $cot walker has done and said.( "I dropped a bomb" "Divide and Conquer" ) They said they would not have voted for him if they knew the state of Wisconsin would end up so divided.
They`re going to vote for him asgain in the recall election, because "they don`t want the Democrats to win"
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Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 9:45 pm
Post subject: How to read the lagometer
Enemy Territory provides a small graph with some network information which can be enabled by setting
. Although this is not a feature specific to ET Pro, it has never been well-documented.
The lagometer consists of two graphs--the upper is the frame graph, and the lower is the snapshot graph. New data is added to the frame graph every time the client renders a frame (so this graph will move faster at higher framerates), and new data is added to the snapshot graph every time a snapshot packet is received from the server.
The snapshot graph is the easiest to understand--it is essentially a graph of the latency (ping) between you and the server. The graph's colors provide some additional information:
is normal,
indicates that the snapshot was delayed so that the server would not exceed the rate value (either
on your client, or
on the server, whichever is lower), and
indicates that a snapshot was lost entirely (i.e. a snapshot sent by the server never made it to the client, probably due to network problems.)
In the above image, arrow 1 points to a normal snapshot with a ping of about 130ms, arrow 2 points to 700ms of packet loss, and arrow 3 points to 2 snapshots that were delayed to stay under the rate limit.
The frame graph is a little more complicated, and requires some background information about how Enemy Territory's network code works for a full understanding. In Enemy Territory, each client runs at a non-fixed frame rate (depending on configuration, system performance, etc.) while the server runs at a fixed rate of 20 frames per second. After running each frame, the server will send a snapshot to every client (so long as the client's
settings allows it) describing everything that has changed since the previous snapshot. When the client receives this snapshot, it
the values between the old snapshot and the snapshot that was just received--that is, it smooths out the movement so that things in the map don't appear to be jumping around when the client is drawing frames faster than the server is sending them. If the client doesn't receive a snapshot, it may have to guess where an object is going to be in order to keep things looking normal.
The client and the server each keep track of the current game time, and the differences between these times are expressed in the frame graph as well as object movement. For a simple example of this, imagine that the server has sent you two snapshots,
snapshot a
at time 12350, and
snapshot b
at time 12400¹, and then imagine that the client's current time is 12375. The client will
² the position sent in
snapshot a
and in
snapshot b
to determine that the object in question should be drawn in the middle of the two points sent (because 12375 (the time our client is drawing for) is exactly halfway between 12350 and 12400.)
In the situation presented in the previous paragraph, imagine the client's time is 12425 and that no additional snapshots have been received yet. In order to maintain fluid motion, the client will need to guess where objects will be (using the last known position, angle, and velocity.) The calculation for this is quite not as easy to explain, so an example has been omitted for brevity.
The frame graph in the lagometer represents how far the time used for currently drawn image is away from the most recently received snapshot, and whether the client interpolated or extrapolated to obtain the positions used. Normally, the client interpolates positions, which is represented in
on the lagometer; the graph height will spike downwards when a new snapshot is received, then crawl upwards towards the baseline), although it will sometimes be
to indicate extrapolation (and the graph will crawl upwards
from the baseline as the client extrapolates farther and farther from the last known data.) Since the
cvar causes the world to be rendered a certain number of milliseconds behind or ahead of the client's internal time, negative values may cause extrapolation during normal gameplay. For example, in the first situation described above (where the client's time is 12375), a
value of -30 would end up pushing the time used for rendering up to 12405 (which is newer than the data we have), so a small amount of extrapolation (5ms) would be required here.
In the above image, arrow 1 points to an interpolated frame immediately after a new snapshot was received, and arrow 2 points to a frame where a fair bit of extrapolation was performed.
¹ Note the increase of exactly 50 -- remember that the server is running at 20 frames per second, so:
1 frame ·
1000ms (1 second)
20 frames
= 50ms
² This is technically called
linear interpolation
(the simplest interpolation method), which is sometimes abbreviated to
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 12:36 am
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can you aslo explain how the fps graphs wors ? since i know the higher the graph gets the lower my fps is but i dont know wut the colors mean
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 12:38 am
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The colors on the FPS graph don't mean anything special--they just change as the times go higher.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 5:33 pm
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common problems diagnosed via lagometer:
(image credit: defragga)
typically this is caused by punkbuster's screenshot feature.
pb_sv_autoss 0
on the server should fix it.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 6:49 pm
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Thanks for the first clear explaination I've seen
I've had an ongoing issue with a constant extrapolation cycle which repeats about every 0.75 seconds - it appears that a single frame is extrapolated :
You can't see the cycle on the top line (although you can see one yellow spike, but the cycle is clear on the lower one).
I've tried shutting down everything else I can think of on my machine mIRC, MSN, ASE, f/W etc etc but with no success. Is there an obvious reason for it ? I wouldn't worry but it becomes noticable at times and with such frequency is a pain in the ass.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 4:35 am
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Since et pro 3.0.1 I get this strange lags in my lagometer:
it comes up in a rendom frequency, and isnst predictable, but it's very often ...
this screenshot was made when I was allone on the server, when there are 8+ players, the lag is a big yellow hill, I'll make a screeni of it, but I was just too lazy in the last few days!
PS: this just happens on et pro 3.0.1 servers (and with bugfix 1,2,3)...
on et main, or 2.0.7 it doestn happen.
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 12:06 pm
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Excellent piece of work. You might want to add a link to the Lagometer explanation on
, which contains a number of lagometer screens for different error conditions (although the text is not
accurate). Perhaps adding some more screenshots to
article will help explain things better.
Examples to add:
- Server CPU lag (big yellow triangles on frame graph)
- Client CPU lag, driver/interrupt or PB scan problem, leading to "micropauses" in frame output (gaps in the snapshot graph)
- Client network congestion (erratic rolling hills in snapshot graph)
- Client-to-server packet loss (single red lines in snapshot graph)
- Server-to-client packet loss (single, small yellow triangles in frame graph)
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 12:21 pm
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... and red indicates that a snapshot was lost entirely (i.e. a snapshot sent by the server never made it to the client, probably due to network problems.)
I just noticed that quote. If I'm not mistaken, that's wrong. A red line indicates lost updates from the
client to the server
, which is then indicated by the server to the client and shown as a red spike/block on the snapshot graph. If updates
from the server to the client
get lost, the snapshot graph just stalls (i.e. doesn't display anything until the next packet is received).
You can test this by connecting to a win32 server. Clicking on the title bar of the server console stalls the server, effectively simulating 100% packet loss from the server to the client. You'll see that the snapshot graph on the client just stops at that point (it doesn't show a red block).
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 6:26 am
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This is the basics for the lag-o-meter (thanks to
John Carmack
The upper graph (blue/yellow) slides one pixel for every rendered frame. Blue lines below the baseline mean that the frame is interpolating between two valid snapshots. Yellow lines above the baseline mean the frame is extrapolating beyond the latest valid time. The length of the line is proportional to the time.
The lower graph (green/yellow/red) slides one pixel for every received snapshot. By default, snapshots come 20 times a second, so if you are running >20 fps, the top graph will move faster, and vice versa. A red bar means the snapshot was dropped by the network. Green and yellow bars are properly received snapshots, with the height of the bar proportional to the ping. A yellow bar indicates that the previous snapshot was intentionally supressed to stay under the rate limit.
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 11:04 am
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Lekdevil.NL wrote:
I just noticed that quote. If I'm not mistaken, that's wrong. A red line indicates lost updates from the
client to the server
, which is then indicated by the server to the client and shown as a red spike/block on the snapshot graph. If updates
from the server to the client
get lost, the snapshot graph just stalls (i.e. doesn't display anything until the next packet is received).
This incorrect, AFAIK. snapshots are from server to client. The bottom line represents snapshots. Hence, the red lines
represent server -> client loss. client -> server loss is not reported at all.
Re: scrolling the server console on win32, the difference is that the server didn't send the packets, which
the same thing as sending them and having them lost.
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 12:38 pm
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SCDS_reyalP wrote:
This incorrect, AFAIK. snapshots are from server to client. The bottom line represents snapshots. Hence, the red lines
represent server -> client loss. client -> server loss is not reported at all.
Re: scrolling the server console on win32, the difference is that the server didn't send the packets, which
the same thing as sending them and having them lost.
Well, it is the same to the
, which is where the lagometer is running. The client has no way of knowing the difference between a packet getting lost in transit from the server to the client or a packet that was never sent by the server at all. Hence, the measured effect of both situations must be the same. As The Carmack said, the snapshot line displays one pixel
for every received snapshot
. If no snapshot is received, it doesn't scroll.
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 12:43 pm
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...although I might be wrong...
I'm going to build a network test setup shortly where I can test these ideas conclusively.
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 1:05 pm
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Every packet sent by the server is relative to a certain amount of time... If a packet is lost, you will receive snapshots 12400 to 12450 and then 12500 to 12550. There you go, now you know you lost a packet (12450-12500).
From what is written above, that's what I understood.
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 1:26 pm
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Lekdevil.NL wrote:
Well, it is the same to the
, which is where the lagometer is running.
Not necessarily. Snapshots have times and numbers. If the number doesn't advance, then the server simply isn't sending them.
The fact remains that the bottom portion shows
, which are strictly server->client. There is
no way
it can show client -> server loss. Even if client -> server loss were to be shown (which it isn't), it would make no sense to do it in the same graph as snapshots.
As The Carmack said, the snapshot line displays one pixel for every received snapshot. If no snapshot is received, it doesn't scroll.
I suspect you have misinterpreted that...
Carmack wrote:
A red bar means the
was dropped by the network
ephasis added.
The client system knows the order of snapshots, thus, it retroactively knows when they have been dropped (e.g. if the last valid snapshot was number 8, and the next valid snapshot was number ten, it is safe to say number 9 was dropped), and puts red lines in the lagometer to represent this. See void CG_ProcessSnapshots( void ) in src/cgame/cg_snapshot.c
This is exactly what happens when you scroll the server console... the top portion of the clients lagometer goes yellow (because there are no new snapshots to intererpolate) and the bottom
stops advancing
this probably doesn't belong in the documentation thread....
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 1:42 pm
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Yes, you must be right. I made the logic error of thinking that a stalled server yields the same effect as packet loss. The timestamps in the snapshots make that assumption incorrect, obviously.
Well, all this might have a place in the documentation thread, because it's about reading the lagometer. Reading is one thing, understanding a second. So maybe Rain could add some things from this discussion to the documentation, to further clarify the workings of the lagometer (and Q3A client-server communication in general).
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Major Section: GUARD
The discussion of guards concludes here with a few miscellaneous
remarks. (Presumably you found this documentation by following a
link; see guards-for-specification.) For further information
related to guards other than what you find under ``guard,'' see
any of the following documentation topics: guard-example,
set-guard-checking, and
Defun can be made to try to verify the guards on a function.
This is controlled by the ``defun-mode'' of the
see defun-mode. The defun-mode is either as specified with the
xarg of the
defun or else defaults to the default
defun-mode. See default-defun-mode. If the defun-mode of the
defun is
logic and either a
guard is specified or
t is specified in the
xargs, then we attempt to
verify the guards of the function. Otherwise we do not.
It is sometimes impossible for the system to verify the guards of a
recursive function at definition time. For example, the guard
conjectures might require the invention and proof of some
inductively derived property of the function (as often happens when
the value of a recursive call is fed to a guarded subroutine). So
sometimes it is necessary to define the function using
:verify-guards nil then to state and prove key theorems about the
function, and only then have the system attempt guard verification.
defun guard verification is achieved via the event
verify-guards. See verify-guards.
It should be emphasized that guard verification affects only two things: how fast ACL2 can evaluate the function and whether the function is executed correctly by raw Common Lisp, without guard violations. Since ACL2 does not use the raw Common Lisp definition of a function to evaluate its calls unless that function's guards have been verified, the latter effect is felt only if you run functions in raw Common Lisp rather than via ACL2's command loop.
Guard verification does not otherwise affect the theorem prover or the semantics of a definition. If you are not planning on running your function on ``big'' inputs and you don't care if your function runs correctly in raw Common Lisp (e.g., you have formalized some abstract mathematical property and just happened to use ACL2 as your language), there is no need to suffer through guard verification. Often users start by not doing guard verification and address that problem later. Sometimes you are driven to it, even in mathematical projects, because you find that you want to run your functions particularly fast or in raw Common Lisp.
certify-book is used to compile a file, and the file contains
functions with unverified guard conjectures, then you will be warned
that the compiled file cannot be loaded into raw Common Lisp with
the expectation that the functions will run correctly. This is just
the same point we have been making: ACL2 and Common Lisp agree only
on the restricted domains specified by our guards. When guards are
violated, Common Lisp can do anything. When you call a compiled
function on arguments violating its guards, the chances are only
increased that Common Lisp will go berserk, because compiled
functions generally check fewer things at runtime and tend to be
more fragile than interpreted ones.


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LAX terminal reopens after shooting
Terminal 3 at Los Angeles International Airport re-opened Saturday after a rifle-wielding gunman killed a Transportation Security Administration officer, injured two others and fired a barrage of shots Friday morning before police shot him and took him into custody.
The suspect, Los Angeles resident Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, has been charged with first-degree murder by federal prosecutors. He was shot four times by airport police, wounding him in the mouth and leg, and remained in hospital in an unknown condition.
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The officer who died, Gerardo I. Hernandez, 39, was the first TSA employee to perish in the line of the duty.
Two TSA employees were among the four others wounded, Administrator John Pistole wrote in a note to workers.
Airport operations are returning to normal, the Associated Press reported, following the cancellation of hundreds of flights and disruption to nationwide flight schedules. Some 1,550 flights with 167,000 passengers were affected, LAX spokeswoman Nancy Castles said in a statement, according to the AP.
The shooting caused chaos in the world's sixth-busiest airport and gave the nation yet another burst of gun-fueled violence less than a year after the mass shootings at a school in Newtown, Conn., and a month and a half after the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard.
The AP described Ciancia as a "man from New Jersey who wrote a rant about killing Transportation Safety Administration workers."
The news service said he wore fatigues and had a bag containing a hand-written note that said he "wanted to kill TSA and pigs," and had talked about suicide in a text to a relative. The note contained possible references to conspiracy theories that foresee a one-world government, the AP reported.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama briefed on LAX shooting)
The bag also contained hundreds of rounds of ammunition for the semi-automatic rifle Ciancia used in the shooting.
Ciancia had earlier sent a text message to a sibling "in reference to him taking his own life," Pennsville, N.J., police Chief Allen Cummings told the AP. The chief said Ciancia's father called him early Friday afternoon asking for help locating his son. Cummings said he called Los Angeles police, who sent a patrol car to Ciancia's apartment, where two roommates said they had seen him Thursday and that he was fine.
Friday's incident also brought a flurry of conflicting news reports, including disputed information on whether the gunman had been killed. NBC News's Pete Williams said on the air that the suspect had no connection to the TSA, despite some news organizations' claims that he may have been an employee of the agency.
Authorities said the incident began around 12:20 p.m. EDT, when the shooter pulled an assault rifle out of a bag and began firing. He made his way past the initial TSA checkpoint and continued well into the terminal before an airport police officer shot him, airport police chief Patrick Gannon said. Officials said the incident ended about 30 minutes after the first shots were fired.
( Also on POLITICO: Barack Obama: 'Concerned' about LAX shooting)
"A large amount of chaos took place," Gannon said.
One witness, Leon Saryan, told MSNBC that the gunman had been walking calmly amid the turmoil. He told the network that the gunman approached him with a one-word question: "TSA?"
Gannon said authorities believed only one shooter was involved. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the situation at the airport was now "static."
The FBI, which has jurisdiction over crimes targeting federal employees, is leading the investigation.
A fire official said at a news conference that seven patients were treated for injuries and six were transported to hospitals. UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center said it received three male patients, one of whom arrived in critical condition.
President Barack Obama expressed concern about the shooting but declined to say much about it.
"Obviously, we've been monitoring it, we're concerned about it, but I'll let the law-enforcement folks talk about it directly," Obama said at the end of an Oval Office meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.


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Detroit Lions wide receiver Titus Young is still in exile.
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) ? Detroit Lions wide receiver Titus Young is still in exile.
Young wasn't at practice Tuesday and his status remains very much in doubt. He was deactivated for the Lions' 34-31 loss to Houston on Thanksgiving for what coach Jim Schwartz described as "unacceptable" behavior during the previous weekend's loss to Green Bay.
Schwartz didn't provide any detail Tuesday on when Young might return.
"We'll reevaluate that as we go and again, we'll decide based on his behavior getting him back with the team and getting him possibly back in a role," Schwartz said. "It's more when he gets back with the team ? if he gets back with the team ? but it's more when he gets back and the behavior that he does then."
Schwartz was asked if he thinks Young has played his last game as a Lion, but the coach said that kind of talk is premature.
"I think it's way too soon to tell," Schwartz said. "But it's definitely going to be in his court when it comes to his actions."
Young, a second-year receiver out of Boise State, has 33 catches for 383 yards and four touchdowns this season.
Although Young's future is uncertain, the Lions can expect to have star defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh in the lineup when they host Indianapolis on Sunday. The NFL said Monday that Suh wouldn't be suspended after his foot caught Houston quarterback Matt Schaub in the groin area.
Suh was on his chest after being taken down by an offensive lineman and extended his left foot to hit Schaub below the belt. Schaub went to his knees, doubled over in pain, but stayed in the game. The Texans went on to win in overtime.
It wasn't clear from replays whether Suh meant to kick Schaub, and the defensive lineman hasn't spoken publicly about the play.
"I don't think it was any big news that he wasn't going to be suspended. I thought that his play was within the natural course of the game," Schwartz said. "What I saw was his head was down and away from that play. In my mind you would have to have eyes in the back of your head to be able to do it, but that game's over with."
The Lions (4-7) have lost three straight. They moved the ball well at times without Young last week ? rookie Ryan Broyles had six catches for 126 yards, giving Detroit another dangerous threat alongside Calvin Johnson. Matthew Stafford threw for 441 yards.
Broyles said he's been in touch with Young recently but didn't want to comment further on his teammate's situation.
"We've got the tools," Broyles said. "We've got the quarterback and we've got the system to make plays, and we've just got to make one more."
Schwartz, meanwhile, is still taking heat for throwing a challenge flag after a long Houston touchdown run. The play was subject to an automatic review, but because Schwartz threw his flag, he was hit with a 15-yard penalty and the review was negated ? giving the Texans a TD that replays showed shouldn't have counted.
"I wish I had taken a shoe off and thrown it like that guy did to President Bush that one time," Schwartz joked. "Or if I had a hat, if I wore a hat I could have thrown that ... or thrown the headset down. I mean, I've smashed headsets before ? that would have been a much better solution there."