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When Robert Griffin III was carrying Washington to an NFC East title and playoff spot in 2012, the franchise's blockbuster trade for him -- three first-round picks and a second-rounder for St. Louis' draft spot last year -- looked plenty fair.
Now, after an RGIII knee injury, a 3-10 start to this season and news Wednesday that Kirk Cousins will take over as QB, the NFL world is back to wondering if Washington made a huge mistake in its wheelings and dealings.
The truth is, just as with the Colts' recent move for Trent Richardson or Seattle's trade for a hobbled Percy Harvin, we won't know the final verdict for at least another year or two.
But if Griffin's NFL career peaked in his rookie season, the Redskins' trade eventually could go down as one of the worst in NFL history ... joining these ill-advised moves:
15. Dolphins trade Wes Welker to New England for second- and seventh-round picks: The end result here was more a damnation of how the Dolphins utilized Welker than of their decision to trade him. He was an unspectacular player in Miami, his best season coming in 2006 with 67 receptions and 2,100 all-purpose yards. Welker's career arc changed dramatically in New England, where he became Tom Brady's favorite receiver.
His catch totals in six seasons there: 112, 111, 123, 86, 122 and 118. Miami drafted Samson Satele and Abraham Wright with its extra picks.
14. Falcons trade Brett Favre to Green Bay for a first-round pick: Obviously, a game-changer for the Packers. Favre took over as starter in 1992 and stayed there through 16 unforgettable seasons. But from the Falcons' perspective, he was a gamble at best when they traded him -- ex-Atlanta coach Jerry Glanville said in 2010 that part of why Favre was traded was that "I could not sober him up." A few years later, Favre had to enter a rehab facility (more on that here, from an interview with Peter King in 1996).
The overall picture, though, is too great to ignore. Favre turned into one of the greatest QBs of all time; Atlanta drafted running back/returner Tony Smith with Green Bay's pick.
13. Patriots trade down in 1985 draft, allow 49ers to draft Jerry Rice: For all the wheeling and dealing that's gone on at the draft, few moves have worked out as well as San Francisco's trade here: the Nos. 28, 56 and 84 picks for the Patriots' Nos. 16 and 75.
The 49ers used that early selection to nab Jerry Rice, in most people's minds the greatest receiver of all time. New England wound up taking Trevor Matich, Ben Thomas and Audray McMillian with its three picks.
12. Colts trade John Elway to Denver for Chris Hinton, Mark Herrmann, 1st-round pick: This one could be higher given how Elway's career played out, but what were the Colts to do after drafting a QB who refused to play for them?
Hinton, the No. 4 overall pick in that famed 1983 draft, actually turned into quite an offensive lineman for Indianapolis, with six Pro Bowls in seven seasons.
11. Cowboys trade first-, third-, sixth-round picks to Detroit for Roy Williams, seventh-round pick: This was a heck of a way for Lions GM Martin Mayhew to begin his run after replacing Matt Millen. Williams was a total bust for the Cowboys, catching 19 passes in 10 games in 2008 and following that up with 38- and 37-catch years. Detroit didn't do much with the third- or sixth-rounders but did score TE Brandon Pettigrew in Round 1.
10. Oilers trade Steve Largent for an eighth-round pick: At the time, with the Oilers prepared to cut Largent after drafting him in Round 4 of the 1976 draft, they probably were happy to get any return. In the long run, this trade turned into a nightmare for Houston.
Largent went on to post a 14-year, Hall of Fame career with the Seahawks -- his 819 receptions rank 27th in NFL history.
9. Dallas Texans trade Les Richter to Rams for 11 players: This was a win for the Rams, despite coughing up nearly a dozen players. It took two years for the then-L.A. Rams to cash in on this trade, as Richter spent 1952 and '53 serving in the Korean War.
He formulated a Hall of Fame-worthy career upon his return (Richter was inducted in 2011), complete with eight Pro Bowl bids. The best player the Texans received in return was DB Tom Keane, who picked off 10 passes in 1952 and another 11 in '53, after the Texans moved to Baltimore.
Six of the players Dallas received never played for the team, one (FB Dick McKissack) lasted one game and two more (Billy Baggett and Joe Reid) called it quits after the 1952 season.
8. Raiders trade Randy Moss to New England for a fourth-round pick: Two years after dealing for Moss themselves, the Raiders turned around and sent him to New England following a hugely disappointing 2006 season. Moss spent three-plus seasons with the Patriots, catching 50 touchdown passes and helping them post a 16-0 regular-season record in 2007.
Oakland used the pick it received, No. 110 overall, to take CB John Bowie, who now plays in the CFL.
7. Bears trade first-round pick to Seattle for Rick Mirer: The hype always exceeded reality for Mirer, first at Notre Dame and then in the NFL. He was taken No. 2 overall by Seattle in 1993 and despite going 20-31 in the next four seasons, somehow showed Chicago enough that it was willing to cough up a Round 1 choice.
Through another deal, Seattle turned that pick into CB Shawn Springs. Mirer started just three games -- all losses -- for the Bears.
6. Chargers trade two first-round picks, a second-round pick, Eric Metcalf and Patrick Sapp to Arizona for (via draft) Ryan Leaf: The debate headed into the 1999 draft was whether Peyton Manning or Ryan Leaf should be No. 1 overall. The Colts took Manning; the Chargers happily settled on Leaf, after earlier sending that huge offer to Arizona to ensure it would get one of the QBs.
The gap between Manning's career and Leaf's was impossible to imagine. Leaf was 4-17 as San Diego's starter and out of the league within a few years.
5. Rams trade Jerome Bettis and a third-round pick to Pittsburgh for second- and fourth-round picks: Talk about not getting a great return on investment. The Los Angeles Rams drafted Bettis No. 10 overall in 1993, then three seasons later (after moving to St. Louis) dealt him to the Steelers. Bettis made them pay by rushing for more than 10,000 yards and winning a Super Bowl with the Steelers. He's also been a three-time Hall of Fame finalist.
Oh, and one of the main catalysts for the trade? St. Louis wanted Bettis to move to fullback to make room for Lawrence Phillips at RB.
4. Packers trade two first-rounders, two second-rounders and a third-rounder to Los Angeles for John Hadl: Arguably the most infamous panic move of all time. After starter Jerry Tagge endured a rough outing, dropping Green Bay to 3-3 in 1974, the franchise quickly spun five draft picks for 34-year-old John Hadl.
Hadl finished that season 3-3 as starter, went 4-9 the next year, then wound down his career with two nondescript seasons in Houston.
3. Buccaneers trade Steve Young to San Francisco for second- and fourth-round picks: Young did not become the full-time starter in San Francisco for five seasons after this trade. And then he delivered a Hall-of-Fame run.
The 1994 Super Bowl MVP, Young racked up a 91-33 record as San Francisco's starter over 13 seasons. Tampa Bay drafted Vinny Testaverde No. 1 overall after dealing Young, then used the extra picks on LB Winston Moss and WR Bruce Hill.
2. Saints trade eight draft picks to Redskins for opportunity to draft Ricky Williams: Mike Ditka went all-in on Williams in 1999. And the Saints then finished Williams' rookie season 3-13, Ditka was fired and the franchise dealt Williams to Miami two seasons later. New Orleans at least saved a little face with that 2002 trade with the Dolphins, scoring a pair of first-round picks and four draft choices overall.
And hey, at least we got this ESPN the Magazine cover out of this situation.
1. Cowboys trade Herschel Walker to Vikings for five players and eight draft picks: A trade that changed the course of NFL history. The Vikings destroyed what appeared to be a budding dynasty by selling the farm for Walker, who tallied 2,264 yards rushing in his two and a half seasons with the team.
Dallas turned around and turned one of the Vikings' picks into Emmitt Smith. (Would the Vikings have been the NFL's team of the '90s had they stayed put and maneuvered for Smith themselves?) The Cowboys also snatched up Darren Woodson, then spun a couple of the extra selections into later moves.


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Bethany students enrolled in studio art classes display their best work and are honored at a reception beginning at 7 p.m. in the gallery of the S.C. Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center. The annual awards ceremony also takes place at this time. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The students' work will be on display in the gallery until May 16. Gallery hours are 1-9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 1-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.


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The main goal is to finish program 3. I have included Lab 5 and Lab 6. Lab 5 is the first part of the program and Lab 6 is the second part.
For program 3, you have to implement the fetch-execute cycle and then implement the maTe instructions:
First, implement in, newint, newstr, out, and areturn.
Second, implement aconst_null, aload, astore, dup, dup_x1, ifeq, and goto.
Third, implement new, getfield, and putfield.
Fourth, implement invokevirtual, invokenative, and invokespecial.
Finally, implement checkcast, return, refcmp, and pop.
There are also lecture videos and course materials, go to the week of October 3.
I have also included test files for program 3.
70% of the program is done basically since Lab5 and Lab6 are running smoothly although Lab6 has some compilation warnings. I just need 30% more.
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County currently has an economic development commission
SNOW HILL � Does Greene County want two economic development groups?
That�s what Jim Davenport, a member of the county�s Economic Development Commission, wanted to know at this week�s Board of Commissioners� meeting during public comments.
Davenport questioned the board as to why it had unanimously approved setting up an economic development task force at its Aug. 19 meeting.
�You�ve got a system in place,� he said. �We�ve got a strategic plan that you all paid $20,000 for. But yet, you�ve developed this task force to come up with the same thing that you already got set in place.�
Davenport said the EDC members meet the second Wednesday of each month, except in July and December.
They have discussed having brainstorming sessions they call smoke-outs, seeking alternative funds for advertising and business incentives and volunteering to attend economic development meetings in Raleigh at their own expense, he said.
�We�ve talked about the same things that was what was proposed for the task force,� Davenport said.
The EDC members are volunteers, whose positions were approved by the board. They have bylaws and seats for specific positions, including a representative selected by the mayor of each town, the Chamber of Commerce director, representatives from Lenoir Community College and the public schools, the county board chairman, three at-large positions and others.
The current county board chairman is presently Jack Edmondson, who said he had been thinking about there being two economic development groups and was planning to ask the board about that in the upcoming meeting.
�I planned to have a workshop after the strategic plan,� he said, �about the possibility of getting something going.�
Davenport said when he read in The Free Press about the commissioners approving setting up a task force, �it was like a slap in the face � saying the people that you guys have appointed can�t do their job, �so we�re going to put another task force.� �
Davenport said he�s read the strategic plan five times.
�The EDC makes recommendations,� Davenport told the board. �I understand this task force makes recommendations on the same thing. Who will you guys take the guidance from? If you take it from them, you don�t need us.�
Commissioner Denny Garner, in a telephone interview, said a study was done a few years back on the county.
�As a result of that study,� he said, �� in his report, we had not been successful in recruiting industry.�
Garner said the representative for the study recommended the county set up a task force which would include the three mayors, the tourism director � then Misty Chase, the Chamber director, a county commissioner and others.
When Chris Roberson was economic developer for the county, he and the EDC president Ed Sugg would make recommendations to the county board. But the county eliminated his position and there have been no recommendations made since then.
Garner brought up a plan that was not discussed on Monday night.
�I think the plan is for most of these committees to work together,� he said.
Davenport was asked if the EDC would be agreeable to working together with the task force.
�We can listen and be glad to work with any group,� he said, �but if we�re operating separately, who would the county commissioners get their direction from?�
The bylaws are specific about the number of seats in the commission, but Davenport said the bylaws can be changed. Currently, one seat is vacant, he said.
�Anyone on the task force has the opportunity to apply,� he said.
To stimulate economic development, Davenport said, will take funding.
Last fiscal year, there was $139,177 allocated for it in the budget, which included the ED�s salary. This year, there is about $15,000.
Most of that $15,000 is being used to pay for the Vandiford restaurant property that foreclosed after the county provided a loan as a business incentive. The rest remains for office supplies.
In August, Interim County Manager Richard Hicks suggested the $177,000 refund from South Greene Water Corporation be set up in an account for economic development, as well as a task force be formed. Additional funds could come from the license plate refund, he said.
Davenport expressed concern about the possibility of two separate accounts for economic development, as well as two groups providing recommendations.
Regardless of how many groups or accounts, funding is the bottom line.
�It takes funding,� Davenport told the board. �I know how tough the county is in funding. But if we don�t stimulate business in this county � it�s mainly rural-oriented, farming-oriented � we�re going to be in this same predicament 10, 15, 20 years from now.�
The commissioners made no comment following Davenport�s appeal.
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Portals have not always lived up to their expectations but this is changing now. Modern, integrated enterprise business software built on open standards can be deployed easily as self service portals for customers, suppliers and employees alike.
Some thirteen years ago, when I started working for a big blue consultancy company, portals were all the rage. Vendors were tripping over each other to create portal software and both media and technology companies tried to get their part of the portal market. At that time, web portals were used by many users as their point of access to the internet, hence its commercial importance. Companies also took great interest in portals for internal use. The promise of tying together information and applications of all kinds of legacy systems in one place sounded appealing. I worked on three intranet-portals in my first year. Although we made them all look great and both customers and users were excited at first, the productivity boost that we all expected, did not fully realize.
In hindsight the reason for the unfulfilled promise was simple: Just aggregating information from different systems in little containers (portlets) on a workspace does not add a lot of value if you do not have the possibility to manipulate it without leaving the portal. An example is an expenses portlet that shows employee expenses to be approved by a manager. In a millennium portal the user would be taken away from the portal to an external expense report application to approve the expense. The employee would then receive a notification in her expense portlet. The portal in this example solely served as a notification system! For this, you might as well just use email.
Open up your Business Application
Now, in 2013, portals seem to go through a revival. Thanks to improved integration, personalization, RIA (Rich Internet Application) architectures, workflow, customization, scalability, the possibility to create mash-ups and the usage of open standards, portals finally live up to their expectations. The most effective portals are part of the business application instead of imposing an additional layer on top of it. Openbravo 3 was architected with portal functionality in mind from the start using open standards and having a Workspace tab out-of-the proverbial box. In most implementations so far we have seen the Openbravo Workspace being used as an internal portal for staff using Openbravo to manage their business processes. But there is no technical reason to not widen the scope and give access to the Openbravo Workspace to customers and providers. With Openbravo you can open up your business applications to both ends in the value chain and provide self-service that will lead to increased productivity, reduced costs and higher customer satisfaction.
Establish a Relationship First
The idea behind the Openbravo self service portal is that customers, suppliers and employees have direct access to Openbravo. It is important to understand that self service starts after a relationship has been established with the customer or supplier. The Openbravo self service portal does not aim to replace your company's branded web site. Converting prospects into customers and potential suppliers into trusted suppliers are activities that are best done with your existing toolset but once these parties are in the circle of trust they should be able to interact with your system in a more direct manner. Note that this is not because of security but more because of reduced guidance. To use an analogy for suppliers: If you let someone fill up your fridge when it is empty, this means that this person should already know where to find the fridge and what your needs are.
Dumb it Down
Enterprise business applications are complex by definition because of their breadth and depth in functionality. Users usually receive training and even then, ease-of-use is not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of ERP systems. Among those, Openbravo 3 is probably the most usable business application suite on the market as it was redesigned in 2011 from the ground up with the end user in mind. However, this does not mean that you want to force your customers, employees and suppliers to use your system as-is. The best approach for a successful portal is to take out all functionality and GUI elements that are not absolutely necessary and only present that what is relevant to the user's task at hand. In the first two examples below you can see that the only tab visible is the Workspace tab. We have taken out the multi-tab feature for the sake of simplicity. We did the same for the top navigation: the quick search and launch menus are hidden, as well as the application menu. Obviously it is up to you to decide what you want to offer to your users but we recommend to dumb it down as much as you can.
A few examples of self-service portals with Openbravo:
1) Customer Self Service for Coworking. With more and more independent professionals who are looking for a desk or a conference room, the coworking business has grown spectacularly. As in any other business, coworking needs contract management, resource reservation, invoicing and payments. Openbravo has recently successfully implemented a coworking self-service solution in one of the largest coworking spaces in the United States and two more European coworking spaces have signed similar deals. The Openbravo for Coworking Spaces solution will be launched during the Coworking Spain 2013 event.
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2) Employee Portal for Business Consulting: expense reports, time allocation, team calendars, social media, requisitions, HR services, training. It is worth pointing out the difference with the expenses widget in a millennium portal that I referred to earlier in this post. In the Openbravo employee portal, the expenses are actually part of Openbravo rather than using an external application. This means that data only sits in one place and there are no delays in processing or synchronization.
3) Supplier Portal for Sports Equipment Retailer. Your supplier can manage many processes autonomously. Just to name a few: invoice submission, shipment tracking, master data management, payment terms management and contract management. Openbravo can manage all these applications in one single database that is accessed by the supplier. Obvious benefits are: better stock optimization, higher transaction speeds, less errors and greater supplier (and thus customer) satisfaction.
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Degree Evaluation (CAPP)
CAPP Degree Evaluation (Curriculum, Advising, and Program Planning) is designed to show you how the courses you take fit into your current academic program or where your courses could fit into another academic program. CAPP Degree Evaluation is not meant to replace your advisor or the University Catalog. It serves as a great reference tool to make your path to graduation easier to follow by tracking your progress towards degree completion. You may view this at anytime via insidePacific.
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Well, follow these simple tips and you will make it through the night and have an enjoyable time.
Our all-night screenings normally start on Saturday between 11.30pm and Midnight, finishing in the early hours of Sunday morning - usually between 7.30 and 9.00am depending on the movies we screen.
Sleep in the afternoon if you can
Really, this is a good idea. Of course you will miss good movies at the festival but you will be ready to go allnight.
shower - use deodorant
Please, no one wants to sit next to someone smelling of yesterday's kebab, old trainers or lynx body spray! Take a shower, wash your hair, put on some roll-on and clean your teeth. Honest, you will feel so much better.
clean socks and non-smelly footwear
There is nothing like putting on clean socks! And there is no reason not to arrive in trainers that have known the joy of an odour-eater. If you are feeling really decadent, bring a clean pair with you as well. At 4am, slipping new clean socks on is great. Why not try a wet wipe around the ankles - ooo err missus.
pack a toothbrush
Highly recommended. Throughout the night you will be snacking, slurping sugary drinks and ice-cream and who knows what else. Clean your teeth after the third movie with a nice strong toothpaste and you will get through the last one no problem!
a bottle of water is a good idea
Air-conditioning and sugary snacks will tend to make you feel a little de-hydrated. Stick a two-litre bottle of water in your pocket and sup regularly
mobiles off
Rather than piss off the whole cinema with your 'amusing' ringtone - turn it off! It is courteous to your fellow movie-goer.
Be prepared to get nudged if you fall asleep. Equally, be nice to the person next to you if the doze off. Move their head gently from your shoulder and give them a delicate shove... bring them slowly back... dont push them over! Think about how you would want to be woken up if you fell asleep in the cinema.
chatting - no one paid to listen to you!
You are a fascinating person I am sure... but at this all-nighter the people around you came to see the entertainment on the big screen. Shut up and tell them afterwards.
booze - dehydrates you, makes you fart, and you really are not hilarious!
Honest. You will feel rotten in the morning if you drink all night and you will probably piss off a lot of people as you argue with your nearest and dearest. Enjoy the movies and the freebies on offer.
Be nice
It makes it all so much more enjoyable if you are nice and considerate to your neighbours. Remember they paid to see these movies too.
no smoking venue!
For those of you who still smoke, the Apollo is a completely non-smoking venue - no exceptions!!! On the night we will allow people to "nip out" for a ciggie at the break times, but you will not be admitted back into the cinema once a movie has started, so keep alert and come in when asked by the staff.
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The Royal Navy & Operation Neptune
The Royal Navy's role in Operation Neptune- the assault phase of Operation Overlord- the liberation of North-West Europe is well summarised in Admiral Ramsay's order to all the Allied naval forces under his command:
Our task in conjunction with the Merchant Navies of the United Nations, and supported by the Allied Air Forces, is to carry the Allied Expeditionary Force to the Continent, to establish it there in a secure bridgehead and to build it up and maintain it at a rate which will outmatch that of the enemy.
Let no one underestimate the magnitude of this task.
Special Order of the Day, 31 May 1944
by Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay KCB, KBE, MVO,
Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief
The fulfilment of this task required a wide range of operations, which closely align with the Royal Navy's current capabilities and vision of the future.
Preparing for Normandy
The maritime operations required to permit D-Day had begun several years before. Success in the Battle of the Atlantic, the joint (multi-service) and combined (multi-nation) campaign, which endured for the entire war and was led by the Royal Navy, was essential if Britain was to survive as a base for the assault on Europe. It was also vital if American and Canadian military power was to be successfully imported for the invasion. Simultaneously, the maritime blockade of German controlled Europe put serious limits on Nazi war production.
Having secured global communications it was then important to dominate the waters of the English Channel. Joint naval and maritime air offensives in the spring of 1944 forced German shipping back into its harbours. This dominance allowed the build-up of Allied forces along the south coast of Britain, relatively free of naval attack or reconnaissance. It also facilitated deception policies that would do so much to assist the Allies in Normandy.
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2014: Posted the lowest ERA among Duke's freshmen pitchers, finishing the season with a 1.98 mark over 13.2 innings … Appeared in 14 games, starting one … Made his collegiate debut Feb. 16 against Binghamton, recording two outs in the ninth … Started his first collegiate game March 12 versus Furman … Allowed six runs, two earned, over 2.2 innings to suffer the loss against the Paladins … Made his ACC debut Apr. 4 at Georgia Tech, tossing a scoreless inning in relief … Did not permit a run over his final 10 outings … Allowed just four hits while striking out seven batters during that span … Did not yield a run in five ACC appearances on the year.
High School: A three-year letterwinner for head coach Bart Batcher at Westwood High School ... Two-time first team all-district selection ... Named Team co-MVP in 2013 ... Austin Area All-Star ... Under Armour Preseason All-America pick ... Earned Rawlings first team All-Texas Region recognition ... Ranked as the 63rd best pitching prospect in the country and 227th overall prospect by Perfect Game Crosschecker ... Played travel baseball with the Centex Propects and the Houston Banditos ... Lettered one season in basketball ... Named to the Honor Roll all four years ... Member of the National Honor Society ... President of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes ... Earned both academic all-state and all-district honors in 2013 ... AP Scholar.
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In CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 10 of this article series on CUDA (short for "Compute Unified Device Architecture"), I examined CUDPP, the "CUDA Data Parallel Primitives Library." In this installment, I revisit local and constant memory and introduce the concept of "texture memory."
Optimizing the performance of CUDA applications most often involves optimizing data accesses which includes the appropriate use of the various CUDA memory spaces. Texture memory provides a surprising aggregation of capabilities including the ability to cache global memory (separate from register, global, and shared memory) and dedicated interpolation hardware separate from the thread processors. Texture memory also provides a way to interact with the display capabilities of the GPU. Texture memory is an extensive and evolving topic that will be introduced here and discussed more in a dedicated follow-on article.. Part 4 of this series introduced the CUDA memory model and illustrated the various CUDA memory spaces with the schematic in Figure 1. Each of these memory spaces has certain performance characteristics and restrictions.
Appropriate use of these memory spaces can have significant performance implications for CUDA applications. Table 1 summarizes characteristics of the various CUDA memory spaces. Part 5 of this series discusses CUDA memory spaces (with the exception of texture memory) in greater detail and includes performance cautions.
Local Memory
Local memory is a memory abstraction that implies "local in the scope of each thread". It is not an actual hardware component of the multi-processor. In actuality, local memory resides in global memory allocated by the compiler and delivers the same performance as any other global memory region. Normally, automatic variables declared in a kernel reside in registers, which provide very fast access. Unfortunately, the relationship between automatic variables and local memory continues to be a source of confusion for CUDA programmers. The compiler might choose to place automatic variables in local memory when:
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- A structure would consume too much register space.
- The compiler cannot determine if an array is indexed with constant quantities. Please note that registers are not addressable so an array has to go into local memory -- even if it is a two-element array -- when the addressing of the array is not known at compile time.
For additional discussion, please see "Register/Local Memory Cautions" in Part 5 of this series, "The CUDA Memory Model" in Part 4, and the CUDA programming guide on the NVIDIA CUDA Zone Documentation site.
Constant Memory
Constant memory is read only from kernels and is hardware optimized for the case when all threads read the same location. Amazingly, constant memory provides one cycle of latency when there is a cache hit even though constant memory resides in device memory (DRAM). If threads read from multiple locations, the accesses are serialized. The constant cache is written to only by the host (not the device because it is constant!) with
cudaMemcpyToSymbol and is persistent across kernel calls within the same application. Up to 64KB of data can be placed in constant cache and there is 8 KB of cache for each multiprocessor. Access to data in constant memory can range from one cycle for in cache data to hundreds of cycles depending on cache locality. The first access to constant memory often does not generate a cache "miss" due to pre-fetching.


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Column: When Green and Blue Collide
WASHINGTON - The proposed extension of the Keystone XL pipeline has divided the political left. On one side are environmentalists who are concerned about climate change and disappointed with the Obama administration for being all talk and no action thus far. On the other side are advocates for the working class, who see the potential for jobs and lower gas prices as something that should not be passed up.
Here in South Dakota, there is no real debate over this issue. There are some concerns about property rights and what not, but given the heavily Republican slant of the state's officeholders, that some of those jobs would be local, and that being called an environmentalist is tantamount to an insult in these parts, the pipeline isn't exactly controversial.
Elsewhere though, the debate rages on because of the complicated issues it raises. It is worth noting that the version of the pipeline that already exists does the work of bringing Canadian oil to the US Midwest. The extension would create another source point and another destination, this time a Gulf of Mexico port in Texas, which would allow for more convenient export of the oil. At a time when lessening dependence on foreign oil is so politically popular do we really need to make it easier for oil to leave North America?
Environmentalists argue that we aren't going to make any progress on mitigating climate change until we start leaving some fossil fuels in the ground. Will disallowing the pipeline really accomplish that though? It isn't as though the oil companies will stop owning the mines that the oil is coming from, it will just cost them more to move it around once they have it out of the ground. These higher production costs would mean less is oil is pumped, or rather that it is pumped less rapidly, giving more time for alternatives to be deployed. However, these higher oil costs have a tendency to hinder the economy, which undercuts investment into alt energy technologies amongst other negative consequences.
It isn't immediately apparent that the pipeline extension will really have any long term benefit for anyone except Canadian oil companies looking to export. On the other hand scuttling the pipeline would mean passing up potential economic growth at a relatively lean time, in which additional money rattling around the economy might actually help spur green investment. Thankfully, we have the Obama administration, which just announced more plans to push green infrastructure last week, considering the alternatives and ultimately making this decision, rather than Romney/Ryan corporate rubberstamp.
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A young man jangles a stack of coins, organizes his passengers like they're shapes in a game of Tetris, then bangs on the side of the colorful bus.
We move off, clattering along the noisy, dusty road.
The city is Dar es Salaam,
's biggest and the place President Obama hung out on his July visit to East Africa.
The man is the conductor and his bus is a "dala dala" -- hordes of which toot and rattle along the key arteries through Dar es Salaam every day.
This city is often ignored by travelers heading to Tanzania's big tourist destinations -- it's not hard to see why.
"Dar" has few obvious attractions and can get hot and sticky.
Its streets are filled with traffic, exhaust fumes and dust.
Yet it has charm and for anyone willing to experience some "Bongo flava" via one of these eccentric buses, the rewards can be great. ("Bongo flava" is the Tanzanian brand of R&B/hip hop, which originates here in Bongo Town, the local nickname for Dar).
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Dala for dollar
Dala dala get their name from the slang term for five Tanzanian shillings ("dala" for dollar), the bus fare in the 1970s and 1980s when these vehicles started operating as a response to poor public transportation.
Now a standard trip costs 400 shillings (25 cents), though the fare can be more if you're going a long distance.
Dala dalas are an attraction in and of themselves, their bright exteriors painted in set designs and colors that indicate the route.
Dala dalas are featured in one of the most popular Tanzanian TV shows, with random people being picked up to discuss issues of the day as they get a ride to work.
I spend a day exploring the city via dala dala, invariably slotted into a sweaty squeeze, forehead dangerously close to the metal frame hanging from the roof.
Yet however crowded it gets inside, the atmosphere is friendly.
When I ask where to get off for Kariakoo market, a fellow passenger offers to escort me there. He turns out to be a fisherman on a day off.
Conversation along the way ranges from Tanzania's chances in the football World Cup qualifier against Ivory Coast to the best fishing and diving spots.
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Kariakoo market variety
Kariakoo market, the largest market in East Africa, is worth the stop.
East Africa's biggest market.
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It covers several blocks of shops, stalls and courtyards all set around an imposing indoor market built in the 1970s.
Its high vaulted arches provide an odd setting for the small hardware sellers who inhabit it.
Downstairs there's a huge basement complex where fruit and vegetable traders dwell in semi-darkness.
Above ground Kariakoo is full of color and trade in a huge variety of goods, from farming tools and food to bows and arrows.
It's a good spot for sampling Dar's abundant street food -- a combined product of the fertile Tanzanian soil and Indian influences.
Options include chipsi mayai (chips/fries in an omelet -- a Tanzanian staple), samosas, chapattis, roasted corn served with chili and lime, mandazi (something like a doughnut), sugarcane and tropical fruits.
Drinks include coconut juice straight from the coconut or coffee from one of Dar's renowned mobile street coffee vendors.
Dar is a port city, so also a place for seafood.
For this it's best to go to source.
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One of many snacks on offer -- fried octopus.
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A short dala dala ride from Kariakoo, the main fish market assaults the senses; it's full of activity, shouts, smells and a variety of fish and sea creatures.
At one end the market, a concrete wall drops down to the natural harbor where fishing boats sit on the white sands or at anchor in the water.
At the other end, their haul is cooked up in huge sizzling frying pans.
Still chewing some deep-red fried octopus, I board a dala dala moving along the seafront.
Although color-coding makes them they look like a single organized collective, dala dalas are private enterprises and feature a range of individual touches representing the owners' tastes and allegiances.
The most obvious of these are slogans many carry on the windshield sunshade, ranging from religious ("Allah Akbar," "Jesus Power") to sporting ("Liverpool Forever") to cryptic ("New Passion," "Simba Family").
In this sense they're cousins to the
jeepneys of the Philippines
The one taking me along Kivukoni front features tassels around its windows and has a sound system playing Bongo Flava.
The dala dala travels along the line of distinctive old colonial government buildings built by the Germans in the 1890s and British in the 1920s (well preserved and used by the current Tanzanian government) followed by impressive Catholic and Anglican cathedrals.
From here, it's a short hop to the Asian Quarter, Kisutu.
This part of town has a different feel to the African Quarter where Kariakoo is located.
It's filled with art deco buildings, mosques and Hindu temples and the women are as likely to be wearing an Indian sari as a Tanzanian kanga.
The roof terrace of the nearby
Sapphire Hotel
offers a panoramic view of the city, as well as a good gin and tonic.
Looking out at the Dar skyline you can see the jumbled high-rise blocks jutting over the older, squatter buildings.
Look harder and you can see the dense slums that house most of the city's population.
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The final dala dala ride of the day takes me to Msasani Peninsula, a prime example of the city's recent rapid re-development.
The Sapphire Hotel's roof terrace provides a break from the streets.
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Located in the north of the city, beyond the popular hangout of Coco Beach, the once largely uninhabited peninsula is now home to many of Dar's richer inhabitants, including much of the expat community.
This is Dar's newest face: marina, luxury apartment blocks, upmarket shopping precinct, restaurants, bars.
Many have Maasai security guards standing outside.
These members of the famous pastoralist tribe (easily recognizable by their tall, robed frames) have been forced by drought and other factors to leave their traditional lifestyle and
move to the towns and cities in search of work
Dar es Salaam is a place of uncomfortable contrasts.
Nevertheless, the dala dalas make it a worthwhile stop alongside Tanzania's more obvious attractions.
How to catch a dala dala
To catch a dala dala you have to be at, or at least near, a bus stop.
There's no timetable; frequency depends on traffic but they generally come around at least every 10 minutes.
A standard journey costs 400 shillings (25 cents). The conductor will let you know if you need to pay more.
The main dala dala stops in downtown Dar are Posta (center), Fire (west center -- next to the Fire Station near Kariakoo) and Kivukoni (east center, covering the fish market and waterfront).
Dala dalas for Kivukoni are painted green. Ask where you should get off for the fish market.
Lots of buses go past Kiriakoo.
For Msasani Peninsula, get a bus going to Msasani (dark blue), or one going to Mwenge (light blue), get off at Mbuyuni and walk.
Dala dalas heading for Mwenge go past the Mwenge carvers market and the village museum.
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Introduction to Fashion | Career Challenges | Career Outlook | Education | Accreditation
Introduction to Fashion
Clothing is considered one of the basic necessities of life. Originally we clothed ourselves for protection from the natural elements, but later that motivation was joined by other reasons. We began to wear clothes -- and to be selective about what clothes we wore -- to make ourselves more appealing to others, to help us feel better about ourselves, to decorate and to communicate.
To accomplish these ends, clothiers thoughout time developed a host of materials and methods that they could use. By combining different textures, colors and materials in unique ways, and customizing the end results to suit each subject's particular needs, the act of clothing an individual evolved from a nessessity to an art.
Over time, that art has developed and expanded.
From sarapes to sandwich boards, the variety of apparrel that humans can create to express themselves appears to be endless. The notion of fashion now goes well beyond mere clothing. It includes the accessories that people use in their daily lives, like billfolds and backpacks. Apparel fashion melds into larger fashion landscapes, integrating itself with home fashion, product fashion, and others. An understanding and appreciation of fashion design is not just for clothing designers, but for merchandisers, purchasers and anyone else who works in an area that defines or promotes the styles and looks we live by.
Career Challenges
Fashion centers are regionally located and designers must usually live in just one of a few places - New York City and Los Angeles are promininent in the U.S..
Working conditions will range from the office studio to the manufacturing floor. At times, fashion designers may travel for showings or to communicate with manufacturers about their creations.
The fashion world experiences a certain amount of seasonality, during which designers can expect to work longer hours. Other times they may be working a typical 40 hour week.
Fashion designers now have more colors, materials and construction methods at their disposal than at any othe time in history. But even with the revolution in computers and computer graphic programs, sketching by hand is still an integral part of the creation process. Designers must develop their ideas, either alone or with a team, from the first layouts to the finished product.
Besides considering the qualities of the materials (weight, color, texture, elastisity, durabilty, expense, and chemical propeties, to name a few), designers should consider how the garmet or accessory will be constructed. What kind of stiching should it have? What is the most economical way to cut patterns out of bolts of material? And so forth.
Many fashion designers are self-employed, and so need to be skilled in all aspects of the creation process. Other designers may be specialized, leaving the actual assembly work to others. Still others may not work directly with the creation of garments at all -- instead working as purchasers for large mechandising houses or department stores, or selling fashion merchandise directly to the public.
People employed in all these areas of fashion need to pay continual attention to changes in fashion trends, tastes and attitudes.
Career Outlook
With only 16,900 fashion designers in the United States, entrants into the field may expect heavy competition for jobs. And since the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts only 5% growth through 2016, that competition will be keen.
But of the job openings that do come, many will arise from the need to replace fashion designers who leave the field, and for designers in design firms that create mass market clothing sold in department stores and retail chain stores.
The mean annual income for fashion designers is roughly $71,400. Entry level workers can expect to earn $32,000 to $42,000,while experienced and successful designers can earn between $87,120 and $124,780. Salaries may vary enormously depending on the employer, the economic environment, and the location.
A bachelor's or associate's degree in fashion is often required by employers seeking candidates who are knowledgeable about textiles, fabrics, ornamentation, and fashion trends. See Degrees in Fashion to learn more about degree options.
Part of ensuring that you get the right education is checking to see that the schools you are interested in are accredited. Accreditation means that the school meets educational standards developed by certain accrediting agencies.


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The former spokesman for al Qaeda was found by the CIA in Ankara, Turkey.
U.S. officials have announced that a former spokesperson for al Qaeda—who also happens to be a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden—has been captured overseas and has been brought to America to stand trial.
According to the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, the CIA found Abu Ghaith in Ankara, Turkey, and tipped off local police who arrested him and held him for more than a month. Despite entering the country illegally from Iran, a Turkish court said he had to be released because he had not committed a crime in Turkey. The U.S. requested extradition, which was denied, however, it was decided that he could be deported to a country of his choosing. They decided to send him to Kuwait, via Jordan, but the CIA seized him en route. Abu Ghaith is actually Kuwaiti, but was stripped of his citizenship after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
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Consumers in the United States spent $53.3 billion with e-retailers during the third quarter, up 14.6% from $46.5 billion during the same quarter last year, according to web measurement firm comScore Inc.
But e-retailers may be noticing a change as to how consumers are placing their orders. ComScore says $5.8 billionof the $53.3 billion in sales recorded in Q3 took place on mobile devices, which translates to 10.9% of all web sales during the quarter. That's up from 9.9% a year ago, when mobile accounted for approximately $4.6 billion in web sales and Q3 web sales totaled $46.5 billion.
Smartphones accounted for 62% of mobile web sales, and tablets for the remaining 38%, comScore says. Mobile retail commerce in the United States is projected to grow 63% this year to around $34.17 billion from $20.95 billion in 2012, according to Internet Retailer's 2014 Mobile 500, which ranks online retailers by their 2013 mobile commerce sales. The 2013 growth projection includes an estimated $8.8 billion in U.S. merchandise sales taking place on eBay Inc.
Looking only at sales taking place on desktop computers, comScore says retail e-commerce sales grew 13.4% year over year during Q3, to $47.5 billion in 2013 from $41.9 billion a year ago. "Third quarter [desktop] e-commerce spending grew 13% from a year ago, and although that marks a pretty healthy growth rate, it also represents a slight deceleration from the prior quarter," says Gian Fulgoni, comScore chairman. ComScore recorded $49.8 billion in desktop web sales in Q2 2013, meaning consumer spending from desktop computers dropped about 4.6% quarter over quarter. In 2012, there was a 2.8% decline in online sales in the third quarter compared with the second quarter. Fulgoni says this suggests a softness in discretionary spending going into the holiday season. "Nonetheless, we are confident that the growth rate in online spending will once again far exceed that in bricks-and-mortar stores, reflecting the ongoing channel shift to e-commerce."
For its desktop e-retail estimates comScore draws on online purchase data from its panel of about 1 million U.S. online shoppers and excludes automobile and auction sales. For mobile commerce estimates, comScore says it surveys Internet users about their spending by platform across product categories and calibrates those numbers according to behavioral data it has on desktop e-commerce. Like desktop estimates, mobile commerce estimates also exclude automobile and auction sales.
The U.S. Department of Commerce releases its third quarter e-commerce estimates Nov. 22. Read more about how mobile commerce is blasting off for web retailers in Internet Retailer Magazine's October cover story.


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What goes around, comes around. The recently lawsuit happy Apple Computer has been named in a class-action suit filed by a group consisting of Apple resellers and consumers. Some of the allegations in the lawsuit echo those of another suit filed by other retailers, namely that Apple provides its own stores a competitive advantage at the expense of its resellers.
Additionally, the suit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco accuses the computer maker of unlawful business practices, misappropriation of trade secrets from its resellers, and repackaging used products as new. According to the complaint, Apple gives its own stores favorable treatment when it comes to product pricing and availability, and uses customer information gained from third-party sales to grab customers away.
In one complaint, longtime Apple dealer Elite Computers & Software contends that Apple sold product in its in-house retail stores at a net loss--an 8% net loss in 2002, Elite figures--eliminating the "level playing field" Apple had promised would exist between independent resellers and Apple's own stores. Apple stores debuted in 2001. Apple's website lists 102 Apple-owned stores, 98 of them in the U.S.
The suit just made it under the wire prior to President Bush's signing the recently-passed class-action lawsuit reform bill. The class action seeks to include everyone who has purchased a Mac since the beginning of 2005.
When Apple started its direct-sales channel a few years ago, questions were immediately raised about how it would manage the task of both supplying and competing against its resellers. From the looks of things, they are doing a great job competing against them and a poor job keeping them well-supplied with new products, especially those in great demand like iPods. Just last month, two long-time independent Apple dealers closed their doors for good, citing Apple's inability to get them new products in a timely fashion.
Apple's retail stores have been pheonomenally successful (although rumors are that the new mini-stores aren't doing as well as their larger counterparts), and the company has repeatedly stated that its revenue growth strategy involves grabbing as big a piece of the sales pie possible. While desiring to maintain a retail presence in major chains such as Best Buy and CompUSA, the company wants to drive as many sales through its web site and retail stores as possible. With such a strategy, it is inevitable that resellers will be left holding the dirty end of the stick.


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lovin the red vs blue cameo
What red versus blue? this is all starwars parody, guys...
They saw the MC.
Dear Migrant, Red vs Blue is a series on youtube by RoosterTeeth, I highly recommend you watch it because they're actually really good(nearly professional) movie makers. That ''bow chicka wow wow'' that David said is from RvB, and in the background there's obviously a HALO spartan.
And I now leave the rest of you all to explain further as this is the longest I can stay concentrated :<
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Great comic. Loved the Tucker cameo
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Everything comes down to the IP address
Two of the companies I've been most excited about recently are SendGrid and Superfeedr. These two companies have a lot in common. For starters, both companies have products aimed squarely at developers like myself. Both solve real pain points that I've experienced firsthand. Both companies are solving problems that look deceptively simple on the surface. What do they do? SendGrid sends emails. Superfeedr fetches feeds. Simple stuff, right? Pick any high-level language and you can accomplish either task with 10 lines of code, tops. And yet, I'm a customer of both of these companies and would invest in either one given the money and the opportunity.
Let's take them one at a time.
Sending an email is simple. Getting emails consistently into inboxes is not. At Eventvue we've been plagued with email deliverability issues since our very first conference. Since sending email is crucial to our business, I invested the time to learn about SPF records, DomainKeys, email whitelists, the spam assassin rules and subscribing to feedback loops. We did it all. And yet, we still had problems…
Fetching a feed is simple. Fetching thousands of feeds in near real-time is not. Over the years the code I've used to fetch a feed has drastically improved. I made optimizations to fetch feeds in parallel. I started keeping track of feeds that failed regularly so I could fix or eliminate them. I updated my records when feeds were permanently redirected. I got better at parsing feeds regardless of whether they were RSS or ATOM, version 0.9, 1.0, 2.0 or when they contained invalid XML. I experimented with predictive algorithms to fetch frequently updated feeds more often. I wrote a bunch of code but still found myself running into issues when trying to fetch certain feeds…
Okay, but what does this have to do with IP addresses?
Earlier this week Jud Valeski from GNIP spoke at the Boulder CTO lunch. The topic was "performance and scaling for the real-time web" but the conversation ended up being a lot broader than that. Jud made one comment in particular that stayed on my mind for the rest of the day. It was something along the lines of "everything comes down to the IP address." It may sound trivial, but that offhand comment was a bit of an "aha" moment for me.
You see, the missing piece for us sending email was the reputation of IPs we were sending emails from. It turns out in the magical equation for getting an email into an inbox, your reputation matters more than anything. That's the part where SendGrid can help the most.
And the reason I was having trouble fetching feeds in near real-time? You guessed it. My IP address was getting blocked for pounding certain servers too hard. In contrast, Superfeedr has a much larger pool of IPs to draw from and is in a much better position to deal with those issues.
So everything comes down to the IP — at least when it comes to sending emails and fetching feeds. The problem for me as a developer is I don't want to deal with stuff at that level. And I'm not alone. I want to be able to focus on building cool technology instead of worrying about which IP a request is going out on. This is part of the reason why I'm so bullish about SendGrid and Superfeedr. For a small monthly fee, they'll take care of that stuff for me. Keep in mind that cloud computing is only making these challenges harder. It's too easy for someone to fire up an EC2 instance and spam the entire world. As a result, the entire EC2 IP-block has email reputation issues. Google App Engine has similar challenges with several services threatening to block App Engine IPs because of abuse by a small number of individuals. Elastic IPs will reduce this problem, but there's still the hassle of managing all of that. For most developers it's just not worth the time and effort to get things that really ought to be a commodity by now.
So to Julien and Isaac — you're building stuff that matters. Keep up the good work. And Jud, thanks for the spark that got me thinking.
Update: Jud expounded on this thought in a new post titled IP address brokers please stand up


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Zardari Has No Sense How To Run A Country
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#1 Tarbela
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 12:09 PM
Thursday, December 02, 2010
WASHINGTON: The United Kingdom is pessimistic about Pakistan, especially in light of President Zardaris poor leadership and the bad economy, cables released by WikiLeaks reveal top British leaders as saying.
This is contained in a cable sent from London to the State Department on October 21, 2008, senior UK officials at the Ministry of Defence (MOD), Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Cabinet Office, told US Defence Under Secretary for Political Affairs (USDP) Eric Edelman and Centcom Major General Robert Allardice about their October 15 meetings in London.
US Under Secretary Edelman and Major General Allardice met with UK officials on a broad range of issues including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Russia/Georgia. At the Ministry of Defence, Edelman and Allardice met with Chief of the Defence Staff Jock Stirrup and Policy Director John Day.
At the foreign ministry they met Permanent Under Secretary for Security Affairs Peter Ricketts; and at the Cabinet Office with Foreign and Security Adviser to Prime Minister Simon McDonald and the Cabinets Deputy Head of the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat Margaret Aldred.
The cable said they discussed the Situation in Pakistan. It stated: Although UK interlocutors were generally pessimistic about Pakistans prospects, including the governments ability to manage the financial crisis, they expressed cautious optimism about President Zardaris efforts to cooperate with Afghanistan President Karzai.
McDonald noted that Prime Minister Brown wants to encourage communications between Zardari and Karzai since he believes that if the top levels can work well together, the lower levels will follow suit. Ricketts, who had just returned from a visit to Pakistan, praised Zardaris efforts to reach out to Karzai.
Ricketts characterised Zardari as having not much sense of how to govern a country...I fear he talks and talks but not much happens. Ricketts stated that HMG would like to believe in Zardari...he says the right things, but he faces big challenges, including the economy, which is in a really bad way. Stirrup stated that Pakistan is arguably worse now than a month go, asserting that although Zardari has made helpful political noises, hes clearly a numbskull.
McDonald acknowledged US concerns about former Premier Nawaz Sharif, including ties to militants, but asserted that hes indicated hes willing to change and some in the system believe he has already done that.
Although Sharifs moment may not come for a couple of years he is in line to be Pakistans next president, McDonald said. Ricketts observed, however, that many members of the opposition are publicly irresponsible although some, like Sharif, are reasonable in private.
Stirrup agreed that clear intelligence has demonstrated that US drone strikes in Waziristan have had an impact on terror networks. Ricketts noted that cross border operations are resonating hard in Pakistans political world, but Ricketts and other interlocutors concurred that the Pakistani leadership was not presently troubled by US drone strikes that kill Arabs and Taliban, although Stirrup cautioned that such attitudes could change.
Stirrup asserted that General Ahmed Shuja Pashas recent appointment as head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) by General Kayani (former ISI head) reflects the army chiefs efforts to get control of the ISI and make sure that Zardari wont control the ISI.
Stirrup claimed that HMG has urged Zardari and civilian leadership to get control over ISI but when we put pressure on the Pakistanis they rearrange the furniture. Ricketts described Pasha as Kayanis man, but also noted that during his recent trip to Pakistan everyone spoke highly of Pasha.
The News.
This is state of affairs at top level how it is possible for Pakistan to progress, any comments...
I like the phrase by Stirrup :... when we put pressure on the Pakistanis they rearrange the furniture. this has to say lot about beyond the door CONTROL....
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 08:15 PM
How Haqqani (Pakistani ambassador to US) talked to a diplomat giving an anology of Pakistan being some girl and US being a guy, and how a guy should woo a girl and give what she wants in order to get what he wants.
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Posted 03 December 2010 - 07:59 AM
How Haqqani (Pakistani ambassador to US) talked to a diplomat giving an anology of Pakistan being some girl and US being a guy, and how a guy should woo a girl and give what she wants in order to get what he wants.
If what you say is true that is beyond disgusting what are we a nation of Whores and B!tches?
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Posted 03 December 2010 - 08:29 AM
Haqqani would sell his nearest relatives to please the Americans. Read up on him. Such comments coming from Haqqani ought to be least surprising. After all, Haqqani is a US ambassador.
On a different note, Zardari is synonym for failure. Nothing new there.
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Posted 04 December 2010 - 04:08 PM
Haqqani is the same person who invited Air Chief Rao Qamar to a Lavish Dinner. Air Chief refused to attend that party because of the terrible situation by floods in Pakistan.
Ab himmat say hai mera saara jahan. (Ali Noor--Noori)
Great pilots are made not born A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands and perfect coordination, but the end product is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice and experience.
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<----PAF... Train to fight--Fight to kill.---->
Pakistan ZINDABAD--Pakistan PAAINDABAD
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Posted 07 December 2010 - 10:20 AM
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To handle others, use your heart.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
There is no beginning or end....
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.
#8 MoThSmOkE
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Posted 12 December 2010 - 09:52 PM
Can anyone confirm?
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Posted 14 December 2010 - 09:11 AM
Can anyone confirm?
i think he came once....around the flood time because i saw his interview on a local channel in Pakistan.Regardless, he came off as an absolute ahole.
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Posted 14 December 2010 - 03:37 PM
He served his master Zoor dari during so-called Patient in New York and got the post still holding USA passport. Shame.
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Thousands of revellers are enjoying a second day of musical and festival fun today (Saturday) at Wild Life at Brighton City Airport.
Jess Glynne, George Ezra and Chaka Khan took to the stage yesterday and today's line up includes Fatboy Slim and Pete Tong.
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MONROE, La. (AP) Terrance Broadway threw four touchdown passes and ran for another as Louisiana-Lafayette spoiled Louisiana-Monroe's bid for a perfect Sun Belt Conference record in a 40-24 win Saturday.
The Ragin' Cajuns (5-3, 3-2) climbed back from a 10-7 deficit with consecutive touchdown passes by Broadway. The first was a 52-yard pass to Jamal Robinson and the latter was a 23-yarder to Harry Peoples that put Louisiana-Lafayette up 21-10.
Louisiana-Monroe's Cody Wells responded by hitting Je'Ron Hamm for a 19-yard TD with 48 seconds left before the half, but the Warhawks (6-3, 4-1) got no closer as Broadway stretched the lead to 28-17 with an 8-yard TD run midway through the third quarter.
Broadway finished 23-of-32 passing for 373 yards and ran 14 times for 87 yards.
The loss drops Louisiana-Monroe into a tie with Middle Tennessee for first place in the Sun Belt.


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Yesterday was the jewellery competition. Today is lashes!
One person can win 3 pairs of lashes of your choice from any of the categories:
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When the chips are down, or even when the chips are up – there are some people you can rely on to be your noble steed (where am I going with this?!). Someone like Donkey from Shrek?
Who or what are the 3 most reliable things in your life?
Lets see – living things, Mr C, The Cat, Aunties.
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Net sales for Precor, Woodinville, WA, were flat in first quarter 2012 at EUR59.7 million ($77.2 million) compared to first quarter 2011 when they were EUR56.6 million ($73.2 million), according to a financial statement released by Amer Sports, the Helsinki, Finland-based parent company of Precor.
Heikki Takala, president and CEO of Amer Sports, noted in a call with investors and analysts in late April that the fitness segment of the company improved on EBIT from EUR3.3 million ($4.3 million) in first quarter 2011 to EUR3.9 million ($5 million) in first quarter 2012.
"Remember, fitness's role in the portfolio is to return to target profitability," Takala said. "Net sales were stable, but EBIT continued its logical improvement now since quite some time back. So we are on the right track driven by higher gross margins and with somewhat higher operating expenses."
He added that the company has a pipeline of new products hitting the market, including the adaptive motion trainer, which now has a longer stride length and open stride feature. The product has received encouraging feedback from the marketplace, he said.
The company also introduced version two of Preva and Preva Net, which allows users to access the Internet content while exercising.
In the strength area, Precor introduced Discover Strength, a line that was designed to look sleeker and less intimidating for people new to strength training.
For Amer Sports in general, Takala said the company had a solid start for the year with all business areas progressing towards their targets, with the exception of Winter Sports Equipment, which lagged due to a warmer winter than normal in most areas of the world.
Net sales for Amer Sports for the first quarter were EUR489.9 million ($633.8 million) compared to EUR449.1 million ($581 million) in first quarter 2011, which in local currencies was an increase of 7 percent.
(Conversions from Euros to dollars are based on exchange rates on May 9, 2012.)