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THE mother of York murder victim Mark Webb has spoken of the grief she still feels every day – one year after her son was fatally stabbed in the throat.
York murder widow jailed for cover-up
10:00am Saturday 10th December 2011
THE widow of a murdered York father has been jailed for two years for trying to cover up what happened.
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KILLER Brian Cox apologised from the dock to his victim's family as he started a life sentence for the murder of York father-of-five Mark Webb.
Murderer must spend 18 years in jail
11:17am Wednesday 9th November 2011
KILLER Brian Cox must spend at least 18 years in jail for the murder of York father of five Mark Webb.
Acomb murder: Quick action 'could have saved father'
8:14am Wednesday 9th November 2011
FORMER doorman Brian Cox will today receive a life sentence after a jury unanimously convicted him of the murder of York father-of-five Mark Webb by slashing his throat with a Stanley knife.
Acomb murder: Lives ripped apart
8:12am Wednesday 9th November 2011
MURDERER Brian Cox was a man torn between two women, his barrister Rodney Jameson said.
MURDER: "We have been robbed in the most violent and brutal way imaginable," say victim's family
6:42pm Tuesday 8th November 2011
THE family of Mark Webb said Susan Webb's deceit intensified their grief and loss following his death.
Brian Cox guilty of slashing father-of-five's throat
12:23pm Tuesday 8th November 2011
THE man who slashed the throat of York father-of-five Mark Webb has been found guilty of murder.
Murder trial jury out
8:55am Saturday 5th November 2011
THE jury in a York murder trial has retired to consider its verdicts.
Accused wife was 'hysterical' on learning of husband's death
9:22am Friday 4th November 2011
THE estranged wife of a man allegedly murdered by having his throat slashed became hysterical after learning of his death, a court has heard.
Accused was 'stupid, but not a murderer'
9:20am Thursday 3rd November 2011
A FORMER doorman was "as cool as ice" when he confronted the man he is alleged to have killed by slashing his throat, the jury in the York murder trial heard.
Father's death was 'accident'
10:40am Saturday 29th October 2011
THE man accused of murdering a York father-of-five told a jury that leaving the scene was "the stupidest thing I've ever done", and said he did not want to live without a court judging him guilty or not guilty.
'Murder jacket cleaned of blood'
9:10am Friday 28th October 2011
THE blood-stained jacket of a man accused of murdering a father-of-five was washed by his fellow defendant, a court has heard.
Murder accused said: 'I have done something stupid'
8:38am Thursday 27th October 2011
A MAN has told a murder trial that an old friend turned up at his home and said: "I have done something stupid... I have slit someone's throat."
Murder trial: Officer followed blood trail
8:53am Wednesday 26th October 2011
A POLICEMAN has told a York murder trial how he followed a trail of blood and found a fatally wounded dad-of-five lying in his wife's garden.
Witness poorly at Acomb stab trial
9:34am Tuesday 25th October 2011
THE jury in a York murder trial was sent home early yesterday after a witness felt poorly and the case had to be adjourned for the afternoon.
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The jury in the York murder trial have heard details of an attack that the prosecution claims killed father-of-five Mark Webb.
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TWO teenage girls told a murder trial how they saw a bloodstained father of five stagger across the road before he slumped lifeless into a York garden.
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6:00am Thursday 20th October 2011
Read the exchange of text messages between Mark Webb and his wife Susan Webb, in the hours before he was killed.
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10:10pm Wednesday 19th October 2011
A FATHER of five had his throat cut and was left to die after being confronted by his wife's new lover, a murder trial heard.
Widow denies murder cover-up
12:00pm Saturday 2nd July 2011
The widow of a York father-of-five has denied covering up his murder by disposing of the weapon and cleaning up his blood.
Three face charges over murder of Mark Webb
10:50am Tuesday 7th June 2011
THREE people charged in connection with the murder of York man Mark Webb have appeared in court together for the first time.
Woman charged with probe offence
1:15pm Saturday 28th May 2011
A SECOND woman has appeared before York magistrates accused of obstructing police investigations into the murder of Mark Webb.
Wife of Mark Webb 'obstructed murder probe'
9:10am Tuesday 17th May 2011
THE wife of murder victim Mark Webb has appeared before York Crown Court charged with obstructing the investigation into his death.
Woman accused of hindering murder inquiry
9:29am Monday 9th May 2011
A 30-year-old woman has appeared in court accused of hindering the police investigation into the murder of Mark Webb.
First grandchild for York murder victim
11:00am Tuesday 3rd May 2011
THE mother of York murder victim Mark Webb has spoken of her sadness that her son will never see the newest addition to the family, his first grandchild.
Family and friends say goodbye to York murder victim Mark Webb
12:00pm Thursday 31st March 2011
TRIBUTES were paid to tragic father-of-five Mark Webb, as mourners gathered in York for the funeral of the murder victim.
Inquest delayed until after murder trial
9:30am Tuesday 29th March 2011
THE final moments of a father-of-five found dead at his home in York were relived at the opening of an inquest.
Tributes to York murder victim
8:32am Friday 18th March 2011
FRESH tributes have been paid by friends of York murder victim Mark Webb who have spoken of their sorrow at the death of "a true diamond".
Moving tributes left to murdered father Mark Webb
10:21am Wednesday 9th March 2011
THE wife of York father-of-five murder victim Mark Webb has paid tribute to a "wonderful daddy".
Murder accused Brian Cox to appeal for bail
10:15am Wednesday 9th March 2011
A MAN charged with murdering a York father will today try to get bail.
York murder accused appears in court
10:34am Tuesday 8th March 2011
A man has been in court charged with the murder of York father Mark Webb.
Man, 29, charged with murder of York father
10:20am Tuesday 8th March 2011
Updated: A 29-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with the murder of a York father named yesterday as Mark John Webb.
YORK MURDER: victim named by police
3:25pm Monday 7th March 2011
Police have named the murder victim who died in York after being stabbed in the throat
YORK MURDER: 4 still in custody over stabbing
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Murder probe in York - five people held
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A MURDER inquiry was launched after a man in his forties was stabbed in the throat and died.
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Mentoring for economic justice campaigners
28 November 2012 — New Economics Foundation
[I got this from the New Economics Foundation here in the UK and thought would-be revolutionaries might find it useful. WB]
I thought that you might be interested in a new mentoring programme that our friends at the new economics foundation (nef) are launching in collaboration with the Finance Innovation Lab. It's designed for anyone campaigning on issues of economic justice (e.g fossil fuel financing, austerity, living wage) who wants to understand more about the current system and how we can change it.
The programme consists of six sessions over six months and will feature an array of experienced and high profile mentors. The course is free and applications are open until December 13th for 16 people from 8 organisations. Please do pass on the email to anyone you know that might be interested. You can find out more on the nef blog here and download the recruitment pack from http://cl.ly/0b3B201d0L1X
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The complete first season
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Originally broadcast on television during the 2006-2007 season
Contains all 13 episodes from the first season
Special features: Commentary on every episode; outtakes; deleted scenes; The Captain's log video diary; 14 featurettes: 5 "Torchwood out of this world" featurettes, 4 "Torchwood: the team & their troubles" featurettes, "Welcome to Torchwood," "Torchwood on the scene," "Torchwood: on time," "Torchwood: sex, violence, blood & gore," "Torchwood: on the road."
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Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, the team responds to any alien threat-- a meteorite crash landing, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autops... Read More »
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awful. like the later seasons but this one had terrible cardboard acting, stupid premises for plots. what's with the flying pteradactyl in their headquarters - no one ever mentions but it was helpful in pecking one baddie to death. weird combo of adult themes but aimed at 5 yr old sophistication.
Disappointing - not just the fact that the first two CDs (only two watched) had scratches and were partially unwatchable, but a great disappointment to any Dr Who fans who had any expectations at all.
like a truely terrible doctor who rip off. Not worth it.
this appeared to be of good quality and content. a little different than our similar type series.
Terrible,the first couple episodes had some really Stupid,not to mention disgusting ,rude, inappropriate parts.
The Characters were really annoying and the main story theme thingy was really lame.
I wouldn't suggest this to anybody,
but if you're looking for something Sci-fi DR.who is the best ever :D
Since I loved Captain Jack Harkness so much in Doctor Who I thought I'd give Torchwood a try. Sadly I had a hard time getting into it. The characters are all rather annoying, including Jack, and the cases aren't that exciting. It lacks the humour of Doctor Who as well.
Disc 5, the last episode locked up the DVD player and stopped playing.
For my tastes, and as a huge Doctor Who fan, this entire series is absolutely revolting! It's well acted and produced, but the stories and characters are simply NOT in the same spirit and polish as Doctor Who. Captain Jack is good in Who, and here he's morbid and distant. This is not a family show with extra gore and sexual perversions. Would have been better off as an American R-rated movie! Mixing it in to Doctor Who is dissapointing. A pox on it.
Great show. Definitely first heard about Harkness and Torchwood from watching Doctor Who, but after going back and watching the Torchwood/Doctor Who cross over episodes, I've realized I enjoy Torchwood much better. More action, more humour, more sex ;) More fun!
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Instead of doing this, you could just chmod g-w /, /etc, /etc/mail. The only problem is that apple seems to reset the permissions on / at every update. Still, as I understand it, it's better to change the directories to group non-writable than it is to add in the DontBlameSendmail stuff.
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For the 88 men who graduated this month from the Lee College Huntsville Center, the road to an associate's degree was paved with an obstacle uncommon to most students: incarceration in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), some of them for decades.
"You are a select group," Lee College Pres. Dr. Dennis Brown told the graduates at an intimate and joyous commencement held Saturday, April 26, at the TDCJ Wynne Unit in Huntsville.
The ceremony was attended by dozens of the inmates' proud family and friends, many of whom wiped away tears as they watched their loved ones march into the unit chapel — black caps and gowns covering their white, prison-issue uniforms.
"The accomplishments that you have achieved are going to be with you for the rest of your life," Brown continued. "As you move forward from this day, you'll realize that your chances of returning to this place are slim to none. You have a degree from Lee College, and that degree will serve you well."
Lee College first began offering courses for credit to offenders in the Texas prison system in 1966. The program, based in Huntsville and operated as a separate extension of the main campus in Baytown, has increased from 182 students in its first year to more than 1,200 students today and growing.
Classes are offered in six TDCJ units and one private state prison, and can lead to degrees and certificates in air conditioning, heating and refrigeration; automotive mechanics; cabinet-making; culinary arts; horticulture; microcomputer applications; truck and heavy equipment operation; and welding technology.
More than 70 percent of offenders who receive no additional education while behind bars will end up back in prison. By comparison, only 10 percent of those who complete two years of college while incarcerated will return, according to Donna Zuniga, dean of the Huntsville Center.
"We are in the business of changing lives through education," Zuniga said. "Nowhere do the results shine brighter than they do through the lives of former offenders."
Lee College Huntsville Center graduate Timothy Sneed is one of many success stories. Sneed earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in horticulture at the Ellis Unit in 2006 and was released from TDCJ custody in 2012. He went on to earn an advanced horticulture certification from Texas A&M University and is now a well-respected and popular landscaper at the San Antonio Zoo.
Invited to deliver the commencement address, Sneed said the willingness and ability to change is at the heart of creating success while in prison.
"I've come full circle," he said, pausing to gaze around the chapel before setting his eyes on the rows of graduates seated in front of him. "Enjoy your degree but understand that this is the beginning of a solid foundation. Lasting works are built on a solid foundation. You must continue building on your education."
The message resonated with Bryan J. Moore, an inmate at the Wynne Unit who was eager to enroll in the Lee College Huntsville Center program after watching so many receive degrees. Moore planned to write a story about the event for "The Echo" prison newspaper as a source of inspiration to others.
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In Louisiana in the 1930s, white teachers and principals were making an average salary of $ 1,165 a year. Colored teachers and principals were making $ 499 a year, forty-three percent of what the white ones were…In neighboring Mississippi, white teachers and principals were making $ 630 a year, while the colored ones were paid a third of that— $ 215 a year, hardly more than field hands. But knowing that didn't ease the burden of the Fosters' lives, get their children through college, or allow them to build assets to match their status and education.
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Here are links to each of the four articles in this month's System Builder Marathon (we'll update them as each story is published). And remember, these systems are all being given away at the end of the marathon.
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Day 1: The $2,500 Performance PC
Day 2: The $1,300 Enthusiast PC
Day 3: The $700 Gaming PC
Day 4: Performance And Value, Dissected
Folks expecting something extraordinary, like the AMD beast with four Radeon HD 4850s that was in our previous $1,250 system, might be disappointed at first. Our new $1,300 Intel system is fairly mainstream in comparison. But don't let that fool you because this machine packs a heck of a punch, which we'll see in the benchmarks.
First, let's look at the components:
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|Gigabyte P55-UD4P LGA 1156
Chipset: Intel P55 Express
|Intel Core i5-750 2.66 GHz
4 Cores, 8.0MB L3 Cache
|2 x A-Data 2.0GB DDR3-1333 Dual-Channel Kit
2 x 2.0GB (4.0GB Total), CAS 8-8-8-24
|2 x Radeon HD 5850 (CrossFireX)
1.0GB GDDR5-4000 Per Card
Radeon HD 5870 GPU at 725 MHz
|Hard Drives
|WD Caviar Black 640GB
640GB, 7,200 RPM, 32MB Cache SATA 3.0 Gb/s
|Samsung SH-S2232C
22x DVD+R, 8x DVD+RW, 16x DVD ROM, 48x CD ROM
|Corsair CMPSU-750HX 750W
ATX12V, EPS12V , 80-Plus Certified
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Although the previous AMD build featured four graphics cards instead of two, and we didn't have the budget for an aftermarket CPU cooler, we've still broken through our $1,300 target limit by $54--or $24 with $30 worth of mail-in rebates. This is not something we're proud of, but something we'll have to live with given the current climate of gradually-rising prices.
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- CPU, Motherboard, And Case
- Video Cards And Power Supply
- Memory, Hard Drive, And Optical Drive
- Assembly And Overclocking
- Test System And Benchmarks
- Synthetic Benchmarks
- Application Benchmarks: Media Encoding
- Application Benchmarks: 2D And 3D Graphics
- Application Benchmarks: Productivity
- Game Benchmarks: First-Person Shooters
- Game Benchmarks: Real-Time Strategy And Flight Sim
- Game Benchmarks: Role-Playing Game
- Power And Temperature Benchmarks
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0Crashman , December 23, 2009 5:09 AMGreat build Don! The only thing I'd change is to use the RAM from the $2500 system! It's too bad you didn't have enough money left over to buy a big cooler.
8noob2222 , December 23, 2009 5:22 AMVery smoothe build, pretty limited with the 5850s with the pricing once past that, but this thing handles it well, esp since the cpu was lucky enough to stay fast while undervolted.
Not all cpus are the same, this one compared to the $2500 build definatly shows it. Takes a bit of luck sometimes or bad luck.
0Tridec , December 23, 2009 5:39 AMJust a thought, but why not use an I7 920 CPU, with an asrock x58 Extreme motherboard? I see a lot of people bought their I7 920 CPU for 199 dollars and the motherboard costs 170 dollars.
Pair that up with OCZ 1333 platinum 7-7-7-24 memory, that can easily be overclocked to 1600 7-7-7-24 and you'll have a powerful system with 36 PCI-e lanes and loads of CPU overclocking room thanks to asrock's great motherboard.
2SpadeM , December 23, 2009 6:06 AMGood article, and yes the quadfire setup was sweet back then!! I just have a question/suggestion to make, and if you find worthy of a replay I'd much appreciate it.
Since you are willing to experiment with different setups, and since we see the problem with the Phenom in the application suite, why not try something more exotic like pairing a nvidia based card with the crossfire cards to act like a PPU / video transcoding accelerator (TMPEng supports CUDA at least to act as a filter). I don't know if this makes sense in a marathon build, but I'd like to see something like this benchmarked.
2alchemy69 , December 23, 2009 6:27 AMThose delta T over ambient figures worry me. We don't all live in Fairbanks, AK.
4shubham1401 , December 23, 2009 6:53 AMThis is an excellent build.
With an aftermarket cooler this build will be flawless.
Power Draw,Performance all were nice.
The case looks nice too.
2burnley14 , December 23, 2009 6:54 AMI'm not especially interested in the gaming results per se, but this build certainly solidifies my choice to go with an Intel processor over AMD based on productivity benchmarks.
-6optional22 , December 23, 2009 7:19 AMAside from the video cards, this is essentially the same build as the $2,500 build recently posted performance-wise. What is the point?
-1kick_pixels , December 23, 2009 7:41 AMGood system over all… an extra hard drive for backup is essential and the wiring needs some tiding up.
9cangelini , December 23, 2009 10:30 AMMore specifically, these guys are trying different things each time we do a round of SBMs--sometimes the results are great, and sometimes they're not as good. The point is that we're putting the machines together and reporting on the results so that you can decide if you want to do the same or not. And hopefully, when we come across a result that doesn't look so hot, we'll call out where our mistake was in building the box.
Just think how boring these would be if every quarter we did a Core i7-920-based machine at $2,500, a Core i5-750 machine at $1,500, and a Phenom II-based box at $700! =)
0davenjes , December 23, 2009 10:30 AMThank you for this build. Can't wait for the comparison of all the December builds. My last computer was significantly influenced by a previous enthusiast build, and it has worked well so far.
-1dingumf , December 23, 2009 11:00 AMThat looks like a Corshair tx750 to me
-2zelannii , December 23, 2009 11:40 AMI really don;t understand the choice of using 2X 5850 when you could have gotten a 5970 for $20 less. Yea, i know, the day you built it they were not in stock, but the waiting list was down to a week or less a month ago, and they're readily available now... That $20 would have upgraded the CPU to an i7 or the RAM past 4GB.
Otherwise, great build.
1Crashman , December 23, 2009 11:48 AMzelanniiI really don;t understand the choice of using 2X 5850 when you could have gotten a 5970 for $20 less. Yea, i know, the day you built it they were not in stock, but the waiting list was down to a week or less a month ago, and they're readily available now... That $20 would have upgraded the CPU to an i7 or the RAM past 4GB. Otherwise, great build.
Actually availability was still a guess when these were ordered. They were ordered a week before the 5970 launched, and it was guessed that the 5970 wouldn't be available for several weeks after launch based on availability of 5870's.
What I'd love to see is a comparison of "every possible" 58xx/59xx configuration
0Ehsan w , December 23, 2009 12:12 PMnice build, but does anybody know why the build got raped on Hawx
0JohnnyLucky , December 23, 2009 12:21 PMA Great big thank you for including mainstream application benchmarks. Much appreciated.
-1masterasia , December 23, 2009 12:21 PMWow, this thing totally pwned the Sep. AMD build. Power consumption is way less too. Best bang for buck today.
The only thing I didn't like is the cable management. I'm a cable management freak and to see Tom's just shove the cables in there like that disappoints me.
0fozzie76 , December 23, 2009 12:32 PM"we have to wonder what four of the new Radeon HD 5750s could do in quad-CrossFire. And with a price tag as low as $480" -- THe cheapest 5750 on NewEgg is $139 x 4 = $556. You had me all excited too.. bout ready to do a new build, was gonna switch my two 5850's to four 5750's but I'd rather pay the extra $50.
1jcknouse , December 23, 2009 12:37 PMcangeliniMore specifically, these guys are trying different things each time we do a round of SBMs--sometimes the results are great, and sometimes they're not as good. The point is that we're putting the machines together and reporting on the results so that you can decide if you want to do the same or not. And hopefully, when we come across a result that doesn't look so hot, we'll call out where our mistake was in building the box. Just think how boring these would be if every quarter we did a Core i7-920-based machine at $2,500, a Core i5-750 machine at $1,500, and a Phenom II-based box at $700! =)
ARGGGH!!! Chris! Don't put those thoughts in my head!!
This was cool to see what that Intel CPU could do. I am kinda jealous now...kinda. Of course, I got a PII 550BE to go firstname.lastname@example.com on air for $99. So, I can't be too sad...except...C3 stepping came out 3 weeks later. lol
Another great read and something to consider down the line in building my next rig. I actually am seeing value for the buck now in a line of Intel CPUs. I just wish that i7-920 had been $50 cheaper. I might have gone with them.
Thanks for another good article, guys.
0xtc28 , December 23, 2009 12:46 PMVery impressive I might add. Makes me wish I had kept my i5 and purchased a new MB. Just recently I had an MSI BIG BANG with a i5 750. I tried to run a 4970x2 and a GTX 295 together for some reason both cards, the board and the processor were fried. For the life of me I havent a clue what happened, but it is all good as I have RMA'd all parts but my wall mounted 4870x2. The rest were sold


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New president for controllers' union
In the aftermath of the standoff between the FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) over a new contract, the union's rank-and-file elected Cleveland en route center controller Pat Forrey president, ousting two-term president John Carr.
The FAA declared an impasse on April 5 after nine months of negotiations with the union that the agency claimed cost the taxpayers $2.3 million. As provided by federal law, the FAA then submitted its final proposal along with NATCA's objections to Congress, which had 60 days to take action.
"The period for review has ended without modification of our proposal to Congress," said FAA Administrator Marion Blakey on June 5. "Therefore, under terms of our statute, the FAA's proposed change takes effect as of today, and we will begin the process of implementing our proposal."
According to the FAA, the average controller compensation package worth $165,900 today would grow to $187,000 over the life of the five-year contract. The agency said it plans to operate under the old contract as it phases in the new pact.
Forrey is an 18-year veteran at the Cleveland center and a two-term vice president of NATCA's Great Lakes Region. Paul Rinaldi, a veteran controller at the Washington Dulles tower, was elected executive vice president.
After the election, the FAA congratulated Forrey and Rinaldi and "the rest of the NATCA leadership team. We look forward to working with Mr. Forrey in the months and years ahead. There are many challenges facing the aviation system, and we're looking forward to a renewed spirit of professionalism, cooperation and mutual respect."
Both the president and executive vice president serve as the national elected officials on natca's national executive board. All elected officials on the board serve three-year terms, which began September 1.
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Through the first three games, the fifth-seeded Portland Trail Blazers were outclassed by the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs. On Monday however Portland raised its level to win 103-92 over San Antonio, which resembled a team looking ahead towards the next round instead of staying on task.
Hold your horses Spurs, the Blazers aren't done quite yet. Portland was the last squad down 3-0 to force a Game 7, at the Dallas Mavericks in 2003. However, like all the rest who've been down 3-0, the Trail Blazers went on to lose the best-of-7 series.
Portland became just the third team to force a seventh game after trailing 3-0 during an NBA playoff series. The Blazers hope they can become the fourth and possibly the first ever to come all the way back to win a series. The previous 109 franchises to face a 3-0 hole in a best-of-7 situation have all gone on to lose.
Before we get to Game 5 let's take a look at Portland's bench production, Boris Diaw's stellar offensive play and LaMarcus Aldridge's performance as well as highlight how Danny Green found his shot late and point guard productivity.


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Spare a thought for the makers of the world's fastest production automobile. Ever since they announced further details about their plans to produce the "world's fastest production electric car," Shelby Super Cars has been the target of much snickering and rolling of the eyes over their claim of a 10-minute battery re-charge capability.
It's not because it's outside the realm of possibility. Indeed, that same declaration has been made in the past by the makers of the Lightning Gt and the folks at Phoenix Motorcars. Heck, it was even demonstrated by Aerovironment and the battery maker, Altairnano. The problem was they said it could be done with a 110V outlet which, according to the known physical laws of the universe, is not possible. Soon that claim was downgraded to "220V service". Better, but still a touch on the outside of believable. In search of a little respect, the company has now gone back and revised its press release further by simply eliminating any reference to the voltage of their source. Will it quiet the critics until the upcoming superspeedway demonstration? You tell us. Re-revised press release after the break.
[Source: Shelby Super Cars via Doug at Tesla Motors Club Forum]
2009 SSC Ultimate Aero EV
Shelby SuperCars (SSC) released today the details of its revolutionary All-Electric Scalable Powertrain, the AESP. SSC will incorporate its AESP into thecurrent Ultimate Aero to create the Ultimate Aero EV. Being the "World's Fastest Production Car," SSC decided the Ultimate Aero to be the perfect high visibility outlet to demonstrate the capabilities of its new Green powertrain. Directly following the debut of the Ultimate Aero EV, SSC will conduct a live media event to showcase the capabilities of its revolutionary Green powertrain.
SSC will display its AESP in the Ultimate Aero EV in order to prove that electric-powered vehicles will not only match but also provide more linear power (electric motors have 100% torque at 0 RPM) and overall performance than internal combustion cars. The Ultimate Aero EV utilizes a twin motor AESP producing an astounding 1,000 HP and 800 lb-ft of torque enabling it to rocket to 60 mph in a mere 2.5 seconds and reach a top speed of 208 mph. Not only does the Ultimate Aero EV have a range of 150-200 miles on a single charge, but SSC's "Charge on the RunTM" onboard charging system allows for full battery recharges in as little as 10 minutes. SSC's 3-speed automatic transmission transfers the Ultimate Aero EV's power to its wheels and achieves electronically controlled shift times of .24 s. The entire AESP is liquid cooled allowing it to run for extended periods of time at peak performance with no overheating issues.
SSC's Green division, SSC Green, Inc., will provide packaged solutions of its AESP to a wide variety of applications ranging from 200 horsepower for economy and midsize cars, to 500 horsepower for light trucks and SUVs, and up to 1,200 horsepower for delivery trucks, heavy-duty equipment, buses and military vehicles.
SSC expects to roll out its first full-scale, pre-production Ultimate Aero EV in second quarter 2009. Ultimate Aero EV deliveries will start as early as fourth quarter 2009. SSC will pursue the title of "World's Fastest Production Electric Car" and conduct a marketing campaign consisting of international motor shows, magazine articles, TV appearances and live media events. Most importantly, SSC will conduct a live media event at one of America's superspeedways to prove its claims. During this event SSC Founder and Lead Designer, Jerod Shelby, and notable guests will drive laps at high speed pitting only to demonstrate the quick recharge times. SSC asks any interested media to send a request to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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So far the tallest structure in the city, it is an observation tower located directly at the waterfront, at about the geographical center of the city. Expect to see it in a lot of screenshots from now on.
As you can see from the first picture, it went through a lot of revisions to get it just right…
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With a private cloud strategy and dynamic data center you can quickly respond to rapid business fluctuations. But how do you get there?
This post was originaly published as thanksgiving weekend special at virtual-strategy.com.
In the article I discussed some approaches for building a dynamic data center that not only addresses complexity and reduces cost, but also accelerates business response time, to ensure that organization realizes the true promise of cloud computing, business agility and customer responsiveness.
Cloud computing presents an appealing model for offering and managing IT services through shared and often virtualized infrastructure. It's great for new business start-ups who don't want the risk of a large on-premise technology investment, or organizations who can't easily predict what the future demand will be for their services. But for most of us with existing infrastructure and resources, the picture is very different. We want to capitalize on the benefits of the cloud ― on demand, low risk, affordable computing ― but we've spent years investing in rooms stacked high with hardware and software to run our daily mission critical jobs and services.
So how do organizations in this situation make the shift from straight-forward server consolidation to a dynamic, self-service virtualized data center? How do they reach the peak of standardized IT service delivery and agility that is in step with the needs of the business? Many virtualization deployments stall as organizations stop to deal with challenges like added complexity, staffing requirements, SLA management, or departmental politics. This "VM stall" tends to coincide with different stages in the virtualization maturity lifecycle, such as the transition from tier 2/3 server consolidation to mission-critical tier 1 applications, and from basic provisioning automation to a private/hybrid cloud approach.
The virtualization maturity lifecycle
The simple answer is to take it step-by-step, learning as you go, building maturity at every step. This will earn you the skills, knowledge, and experience needed to progress from an entry-level virtualization project to a mature dynamic data center and private cloud strategy.
It's called the virtualization maturity lifecycle, and it builds in four steps. Just like pilots start their training on small planes (going full cycle from take-off to landing) before they move onto large commercial jets, it is advisable for organizations to implement these virtualization maturity steps iteratively. For example, start a full maturity cycle on test and development servers before moving to mission critical servers and applications.
Start easy, by consolidating servers, to increase utilization and reduce your current carbon footprint. To ensure deep insight and continuity in support of the migration from physical to virtual, you might want to leverage image backup and physical-to-virtual restore tools that allow you to move your physical IBM, Dell and HP images directly to ready to run VM images for VMware, Sun, Citrix and Microsoft.
The next step involves optimizing the infrastructure. Apart from maintaining consistency, efficiency, and compliance across the virtual resources (which is proving fast to be even more complex in virtual than in physical environments), we analyze, monitor, (re-)distribute and tune our applications and services.
While optimizing, we also discover and document the rules we will automate in the next phase. Rules about which applications best fit together, what areas are suitable for self service and which type of services are most important. As you can imagine the answers to this last question will be very different for a nuclear plant (safety first) compared to an online video rental service (customers first), which it is why it is such an important step. If you skip this stage and go straight into automation, you'll likely end up in the same situation that you're in today, just automated.
A successful cloud strategy is all about agility and flexibility, and the next step in the virtualization maturity lifecycle helps take care of automation and the orchestration of your (now) virtual services. You can empower users to help themselves ― industrialize processes ― without calling IT for every service request. Automation has many advantages here. It is the catalyst to standardize your virtual infrastructure, integrate and orchestrate processes across IT silos, and accelerate the provisioning of virtual cloud services. Once the industrialized provisioning process is live, automation technologies can then also be used to monitor demand volumes, utilization levels and application response times and to assist root-cause analytics to help isolate and remediate virtual environment issues.
The final stage is the centerpiece of a cloud strategy, a position which allows you to manage the definition, demand, and deployment of IT services: the dynamic data center. Your now agile infrastructure, delivered from a secure, highly available data center, enables you to quickly respond to rapid business fluctuations. To reach a dynamic data center, you need to automate the entire process of service delivery from request to fulfilment. This includes centralized service requests, automating the approval process so that department heads can quickly approve or reject requests, a standard and repeatable provisioning process, and standard configurations.
This goes much further than the traditional dream of a "lights out" data center, which basically was a static conveyor belt-like factory where all labor was automated away. The dynamic data center is like a modern car factory, where robots perform almost all tasks, but in ever changing sequences and configurations, guided by supply-chain-lead orchestration.
The new normal
As we all know, technology changes fast. This advancement in technology is creating a "new normal" where relationships with customers are increasingly in a digital form and technology is no longer an enabler or accelerator of the business― it has become the business.
This is a theme picked up by Peter Hinssen, one of Europe's thought leaders on the impact of technology on our society. He evangelizes this new normal, arguing that in a digital world there will be new rules that define what is acceptable for IT, including zero tolerance for digital failure, an era of "good enough" functionality (60% functionality in six weeks rather than 90% in six months), and the need to move your architectures―including your new cloud architecture―from "built to last" to "designed to change".
The lifecycle approach described earlier may be just what you need to help align your IT organization to what Hinssen calls the new normal. First you determine where opportunities exist for consolidation and rationalization across your physical and virtual environments ― assessing what you have in your data center environment and establish a baseline for making decisions that take you to the next stage. Next, to achieve agility, you have to automate the provisioning and de-provisioning of virtualized resources, including essential elements, such as identities, and other management policies such as access rights.
The next step in delivering an on-time, risk-free (zero failure) cloud computing strategy is service assurance. You need to manage IT service quality and delivery based on business impact and priority — top-to-bottom and end-to-end. That includes, for example, delivering a superior online end-user experience with low-overhead application performance management, and end-to-end visibility into traffic flows and device performance. The new normal also needs to be secure. IT security management technologies must be applied against current regulations and end-user needs, which enable the virtual layer to be more secure.
All these factors combined ultimately lead to agile IT service delivery. With agility, you can build and optimize scalable, reliable resources and entire applications quickly. By embarking on the virtualization maturity roadmap, you can move closer to a dynamic data center and successful cloud strategy.
Any shortcuts?
This evolutionary approach may sound very procedural (and safe). You may also be thinking, is this the only way? What if I need it now? Is there no revolutionary approach to help me get straight to a private cloud much more quickly? Just like developing countries, which have skipped the wired POTS phone system and moved directly to a 100% wireless infrastructure, a revolutionary approach does exist. The secret lies in the fact that – in addition to the application itself - the infrastructure required to deploy an application can be virtualized – load balancers, firewalls, NAS gateways, monitoring tools, etc. This entire entity – the application and the required infrastructure it needs to be successfully deployed – can then be managed as a single object. Want to deploy a copy of the application? Simply load the object and all of the associated virtual appliances are automatically loaded, networked, secured and made ready. This is called an application-centric cloud.
With traditional virtualization, the servers are the parts that are virtualized, but afterward, these virtual servers, networks, routers, load balancers and more, still need to be managed and configured to work with the other parts of the data center, a task as complex and daunting as it was before. This is infrastructure-centric cloud. With full application-centric clouds, the whole business service (with all its involved components) is virtualized becoming a virtual service (instead of a bunch of virtual servers) which reduces the complexity of managing these services significantly.
As a result, application-centric clouds can now model, configure, deploy and manage complex, composite applications as if they were a single object. This enables operators to use a visual model of an application and the required infrastructure, and to store that model in the integrated repository. Users or customers can then pull that model out of the repository, reuse it and deploy it to any data center around the world with the click of a button. Interestingly, users deploy these services to a private cloud, or to an MSP, depending on who happens to offer the best conditions at that moment. Sound too futuristic? Far from it. Several innovative service providers, like DNS Europe, Radix Technologies, and ScaleUp, are already doing exactly this on a daily basis.
For many enterprises, governments and service provider organizations, the mission for IT today is no longer just about keeping the infrastructure running. It's about the critical need to quickly create new services and revenue streams and improve the competitive position of their organization.
Some parts of your organization may not have time to evolve into a private cloud. For them, taking the revolutionary (or green field) approach may be best, while for other existing revenue streams, an evolutionary approach, ensuring investment protection, may be best. In the end, customers will be able to choose the approach that best fits the task at hand, finding the right mix of both evolutionary and revolutionary to meet their individual needs.
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