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The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 12by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/3/2012 10:59 AM EST
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SpitUK - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkAnother one so soon, awesome! Love listening to your podcasts when I am working out in the gym. Reply
Rick83 - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkI had the same thought the other day, but while listening came up with the following snag:
While upping performance (with Ivy Bridge, for example) has not been problematic at all, what you can not physically unlock is binning for low power consumption.
Additionally, there's the possibility, that motherboard manufacturers team up and release CPUs that are soldered onto carrier PCBs. Then the motherboard manufacturers would dictate the socket (within the architectural constraints of the BGA package) and make a slim markup on (exchangable) CPUs.
Downside would be lengthened interconnects, but the upside would be more degrees of freedom to competition in the mainboard market. Reply
Fiercé - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkAbout halfway through, and already it's an interesting talk guys. Good work as always.
As an aside, can you quickly look into the Podcast naming schema, meta data and tag usage?
Right now, the Podcast tag is missing from Episodes 5-7 (though a search for "podcast" brings up all of them), and the recent Episodes 9-12 are displaying under a weird "Anand Shimpi1's Album" on my phone (Android, HTC OneX, Google Play Music). Episodes 1-8 went into "Anand Shimpi's Album" as a comparison.
Also, a picture of the AnandTech logo wouldn't hurt either. In addition to aesthetic cleanliness with the rest of ones Album view, those sidelong glances at the screen from people sitting beside a smartphone user on a train or plane lead to curious Google searches and new listeners.
Again, good work guys. Reply
gregounech - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkAwesome, will listen to this one ASAP, love them, keep-em coming! Reply
mckirkus - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkI think we'll see things like Intel's Next Unit of Computing with an optical Thunderbolt connection to a self housed/powered GPU at 30Gbits/s. The days of the actively cooled CPUs are numbered, but GPUs should stay beefy, especially with the new high res monitors coming out.
It's only a matter of time until HP creates a crappy all in one printer with an HDMI out and an OS designed from the ground up to sell your ink cartridges. Reply
CaedenV - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkSo I have messed with win8 duel head setup a little bit, and it is really close to awesome... but not quite.
For desktop, it is pure awesome. There is simply no longer any need for extra software to get things to behave nicely. You have hard corners for snapping between screens, applications show up on the superbar on the proper windows, etc.
ModernUI/Metro... not so much. Part of it is the point of ModernUI: It is designed for small, mobile platforms. This even shows up in some apps which look terrible on big screens because the app designers never though ti would be running at high resolution. Anywho, Metro apps only ever run on a single display, and you get a feel that there are 4 different interfaces.
1) Charms overlay, which rules over all, and I wish it had more features/capability
2) Start Screen, which is always only ever on one display (I'd love to see this on something like a lilliput USB display as an always on feature... that would be cool. Even better? let me hook up my phone and use it as the start menu for my PC.)
3) Merto/ModernUI interface, which any single app can only take up to 1 display and only 1 instance, with a max of 2 metro apps on a single display. I would like to see this change to where you can have multiple instances/windows of apps like web browsers. And for those with large screens I would love to be able to snap apps to both sides of a screen (3 apps per screen), and be able to have some say of how wide the snap is because it is too thin for some apps, and too wide for others. Metro needs something for multi-display to tell you what the active 'window' is as things like the Charms Settings menu are context sensitive, and will not always be clear as to what you are controlling.
4) Desktop, which is almost a metro app itself, is the only thing which can span displays. I wish that we could see windowed metro apps run within desktop (especially things like card games or web browsers), but other than that it is just like win7 but with all of the multidisplay mods that you wanted from 3rd party apps already built in. Reply
Impulses - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkProblem with all that is, if you start making Metro too flexible and adjustable it becomes a hassle for the tablet user and you just end up making it more like the regular desktop, which wasn't the point of Metro... Tho I do like some of the ideas, I'm sure we'll see Metro improved along those lines in the future, but with a measure of refinement and restraint.
Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for Metro IMO, it's the first truly useful touch UI overlay capable of any real multitasking, and it's far more forward looking than iOS or even Android.
#2 is genius tho... But forget phones, what we REALLY need is a sort of Metro Smartglass for tablets! Build an app that just streams the Metro side of things to any tablet regardless of OS, that'd be the first truly useful and mainstream convergence of touch and the desktop. Just put some limits in place for stuff that obviously won't translate accEsacross the stream (games) or limit it to Windows tablets, either way that could make Metro really popular on the desktop.
Only gotcha with that is... I'm sure the desktop is such a niche at this point that they figure it doesn't deserve that kinda development time. They're expecting far more people to be using convertibles over the next couple of years than desktops. Reply
Krysto - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkAnother great reason for why Microsoft should have NOT combined the 2 UI's and forced the Metro one on desktop users. Now every changes they'll make it will be a compromise either for PC users or for tablet users. Reply
Kevin G - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkGood discussion about Broadwell and Krait.
Around 15 min mark and discussing the convergence of Atom and Core is going to happen. Atom will only hang around if there are significant power and/or die space saves (cost) for Intel to keep it on their roadmaps. Intel is agressively moving Atom forward and it'll be the premiere CPU design on 14 nm so we'll really get to see how low Atom's power consumption can go.
Doing a big-little strategy for Core-Atom doesn't make sense in the x86 space due to the power overhead of x86 decoders. The only design with a reasonable chance of pulling that off would be something similar to Bulldozer where the front end is shared between a big and a little core. A large micro-op/trace cache would also be helpful to cut down power consumption by power gating the decoder.
Ian pretty much had why Broadwell as a mobile only part around the 18 min mark: DDR4. Migrating to DDR4 will require a new socket but the initial Haswell parts will be DDR3. Intel has not built in any DDR4 migration plan into socket 1150. Thus with Broadwell going DDR4, Intel can make that change in the mobile market where it is expected to be BGA packaging to begin with. The desktop PC market does not want migrate to a new socket with every generation. There is already irritation from the socket 1156 to 1155 move and it will happen again with 1155 to 1150. Customers aren't seeing the benefit as the IO hasn't noticeably change between the sockets: dual channel DDR3, 16 general PCI-e lanes and 4 PCI-e lanes used for DMI. There were some minor changes but none really merited a new socket. Why couldn't Intel have provided some backward compatibility between sockets like AMD has done in the past? (IE 1155 CPU in a 1156 socket like AM3 chips working in AM2 sockets on the AMD side)
At 23 min, there is an electrical and power advantage to using BGA over LGA, in particular with regards to noise. One thing worth noting is that DDR4 only allows for one DIMM per channel. Many laptops will be moving to soldered on memory as there is no real merit to expansion (rather, direct replacement). This will remove the DIMM slot which further improves signaling and further reduces power consumption.
The 386 didn't have BGA version. There was a quad edge connect version for chip carries and a PGA version. The PGA version could fit into a socket (which was before ZIF came to market) or at times it was soldered down.
At 31 min, check out netkas.org for news about Mac GPU drivers on OS X. You'd be surprised what PC cards you can just take and us inside of a Mac Pro. These cards would also work with TB -> PCI-E 16x adapter (at 4x bandwidth). Flashing EFI based firmware isn't necessary on some of them (Radeon 6870 is a good example with working kernel extensions for OS X 10.7 and 10.8).
At 36 min, Sharp has a 32" panel that is 4096 x 2160 that has been in production since May of 2012. Unfortunately I can't find a single display using it.
I'd also like to see a review of the two new 29" displays from Dell and LG that have 2560 x 1080 resolution.
Intel went to core only partially because of AMD. They were simply hitting a power wall with the Netburst architecture. Tejas was going to be an IPC reduction while maintaining the same power and clock speeds as Prescott. The design could scale to the high clock speeds but Intel wasn't willing to ship a 200W+ CPU in the consumer space to get any tangible performance over Prescott.
At 49 min, why would you be shived? Got a Wii U in your room? :) Reply
Kevin G - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkRe-listening to this at work had me catch another tidbit. Around the 29 minute market the pod cast is discussing the concept of 'board of boards'. A couple of things to throw out there.
Both Intel and IBM are going to be moving to optical interconnects for high servers shortly. Both have shown off prototypes and IBM had plans to ship a POWER7 box for HPC usage using optical interconnects between chassis to create a single coherent node. Due to costs, I have no idea if this technology will scale down to consumer levels due to costs, but this would be a means to implement that board of board ideas.
Also why not have a 'universal' socket for both CPU, GPU and CPU+GPU chips with on package memory? Essentially taking AMD's HSA idea and scaling it out. Depending on user needs, a quad socket board could have four CPU chips for legacy server workloads or one CPU + three GPU chips for gaming or four CPU+GPU chips for HPC workloads. This would be great for consumers if any company could pull this off. Alas I can only see AMD doing this realistically and the effort would be suicidal considering the current state of the company.
The other thing to factor in with on package memory is that not only will you have differing CPU strengths on different class motherboard but also the amount of memory would be another axis. So a low end motherboard would have a low end processor and a small amount of memory. Compare this to a high end motherboard with lots of IO, a high end CPU and lots of memory.
Another thing worth mentioning is that IO will become a distinguishing feature between desktop and mobile SoC's. I'd expect the desktop versions to come with more SATA ports, more PCI-E lanes, more USB ports etc. despite using the same die. Packaging will obviously be different. Desktop chips will also be able to run the IO at higher speeds (PCI-E 3.0 on the desktop vs. 2.0 in mobile, USB 3.0 on the desktop vs. USB 2.0 in mobile). Reply
Paulman - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkAnother podcast, and so quickly, too! I like.
When it rains, it pours... I managed to score a "Ships in 1-2 weeks" Nexus 4 16GB order here in Canada today, too :) They went on sale at 3PM EST / 12 noon PST today. Reply
asphyxxiate - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkHey guys, glad you're keeping up with the podcast schedule!
A note about the audio levels: they're really low, at least on the iTunes M4A feed. You should do a little post-production to bump those levels up. I usually have to crank up my volume 4x or so to make it listenable. I think there are some drag-and-drop tools that'll do it for you if you don't want to take the extra time to do it, like Levelator.
Thanks! Reply
Ken g6 - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkFirst, with Haswell, Broadwell, and keeping the LGA1155 parts around, I'm reminded of the situation with Nehalem where all the low-end processors, Pentiums and Celerons, were still Core 2. I get the impression we'll have Sandy Bridge Pentiums for years to come. I hope that doesn't make LGA1150 parts too expensive, like all the 1156 parts seemed to be.
As far as BGA and sticking the SOC on a board, see also the EOMA-68 standard. http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architectu... The idea is that one card can power your desktop, laptop, or smartphone - just not all at the same time. Intel could probably get Broadwell into the 10W-with-cooling power profile if they wanted to.
Finally, regarding waiting, obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/989/ Reply
Krysto - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkThey can't really converge Atom and Core. From a technical point of view, it may make sense, but from a business point of view, it won't, which is exactly why they will not do it. If Core gets integrated into Atom, then they will need to keep pricing them at $20 anyway, which means it would collapse their entire pricing strategy for Core chips.
On the other hand, they don't want to get Atom become as good as Core i3, while it costs $20, because people may start preferring Atom to Core "too much", and against collapse their business, as Intel can only thrive on high margin chips.
Intel is stuck here, because you can bet ARM has no problem trying to make their chips more and more powerful to catch-up with Intel's core, while keeping it at $20 per chip. ARM has no conflict of interest here. Intel does, and that's why it's doomed. Reply
Krysto - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkAnd my point was that if Intel doesn't learn to compete with ARM at every level for $20 chips - if they can't learn to adapt their business for $20 chips, then Intel will be gone from the mainstream consumer market, because ARM will chase them out, as their chips become more powerful, and entrench more and more on Intel's territory for a much lower price.
So Intel either learns to survive with $20 chips, or they'll be chased away from these markets, with their only escape in high-end servers and supercomputers (at least until ARM and Imagination's MIPS make their play there).
Intel vs ARM is as much of a classic disruption case as you can get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDrMAzCHFUU Reply
peter123 - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - linkHey guys, so I got a little confused by the current/next Krait versions. I thought that the Krait v3 (Fusion3 platform?) was already in the market, inside devices like the Nexus4, Droid DNA or Padfone2 (as per QCM nomenclature S4 Pro tier). And the Krait v2 were the ones with the adreno 225 that debuted early this year (S4 Plus tier). But you said that the V3 will come only in devices next year? What I'm I misunderstanding here? Reply
smartypnt4 - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkThe APQ8064 is an S4 Pro part - It has four Krait v2 cores and the Adreno 320. The MSM8960 is an S4 part - it has two Krait v2 cores and the Adreno 225 along with an integrated baseband.
Then MSM8960T is an S4 Pro part - it has two Krait v3 cores and the Adreno 320 along with an integrated baseband. The only phone with this chip in it that I'm aware of is the Nokia 920T for China, which is either rumored or confirmed (I forget which) to contain an MSM8960T, giving it a sizeable performance advantage over the US and European Nokia 920, which has an MSM8960.
Personally, I'd love to have a phone with the MSM8960T in it. It seems far preferable to the quad core part for battery life concerns and everyday usability. Reply
peter123 - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkThanks smartypnt4, I got it. So we can expect to see a four core krait v3 in the future, with adreno 320 and integrated baseband? And yes the lumia 920 for china mobile was officially launched today;)
Anyway it will be interesting to which SoC will have the most design wins in 2013. A15 designs to my knowledge do not have integrated basebands (Tegra4, OMAP5, Exynos 5xxx) but apparently can offer superior raw performance over the S4. On the other hand the S4 it's an integrated solution. Reply
smartypnt4 - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkYes, the logical progression is that a 4-core part will surface eventually.
And if the Krait 300 (v3) really does achieve a 15% increase in IPC through architectural improvements, it will be very, very competitive with the current A15 cores from what I've seen. That's difficult to say given that there's only one A15 device on the market (Nexus 10), but I think they'll be very close to each other.
The reason Qualcomm is having yet another record-breaking year is that they've got an integrated solution with a radio that can be used on any of the US carriers, and a fair few of the international markets. It'll be interesting to see if NVIDIA's Tegra 4 with LTE or Intel's next chip that supposedly has LTE will be able to gain any ground against Qualcomm in the coming year. Reply
smartypnt4 - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkIs anything known about the Adreno 320's clocks in the Krait 200 vs. the Krait 300 parts? I'd think that if they managed to increase the clock speed of the CPU cores, they'd similarly be able to bump up the clock on the GPU. But maybe not. I'm not sure whether the clock speed increase comes from changes to the CPU core (pipe stage shortening, etc.), or if it's from a different or substantially more mature process at TSMC. Thoughts? Reply
Commander Wolf - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkjust to say how much I look forward to your podcasts! You guys are the best; keep it up! Reply
Kougar - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkSooo, if Haswell mobile launches at the end of 1H13, and desktop parts finally follow up sometime after the summer months... when were IB-E parts supposed to launch?
Been waiting awhile to upgrade my 920 as my system has developed a 'ghost in the machine' and other motherboard-specific oddities, but knew Haswell would bring a new socket so I waited.
And random question, but is it confirmed Haswell-E (or whatever it is termed) will also require a new socket replacement for LGA2011 series, correct? I presume it will launch 2014 sometime? Reply
dishayu - Thursday, December 06, 2012 - linkLooks like Intel has denied BGA-only rumours surrounding Broadwell...
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/intel_says_c... Reply
IanCutress - Thursday, December 06, 2012 - linkThey technically only denied going BGA-only across the spectrum. It's important to differentiate because Broadwell is only one part of the spectrum. As always, Intel's response on these matters comes down to:
"We don't comment on rumor and speculation. We remain committed to multiple PC segments including desktop and enthusiast, and will continue to innovate in those markets."
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Ive built a site mainly consisting of image galleries for an artist.
The images are looking great in the usual browsers,but there is a problem in IE.
In IE 9 and 10 the images have a slightly lower resolution, UNLESS I switch to compatibility view. Then they look as they should.
How can I make the images view properly without having to turn on compatibility view? And why is it doing this...could it be a fault in my coding?
Possibly an error in your code but impossible to say for sure without seeing the code.
Compatibility mode is generally only needed for pages coded for old versions of IE.
I see, can I assume that if its a coding issue, its most likely to be a problem in the head tag? If so I will just post that up.
I ask because Ive written the code mostly in html5
Can anyone help any further?
hello, have you tried to add height:auto and width:auto for the images view on IE! or max-height and max-width, this usually results in IE rendering the correct aspect ratio when the images are kinda big..
Sorry, do you mean to put height:auto and width:auto into my html? Or are you talking about a setting in IE?
i talk about your HTML code.
I think you are talking about the CSS, aren't you? height:auto and width:auto are something you'd put in the CSS.
@murphaloid What you are describing sounds pretty odd, as IE9 and 10 should behave pretty well. As felgall said, the ideal would be for us to see this ourselves. Is this online yet?
yes sorry and thank you for the correction, when i answered the question it was kinda 3:00am over here
Hi there
Thanks for trying to help guys I'm not so good with browser issues (but getting better!).
The site is temporarily online, only to allow good people like you to help me to fix it. Its here www.tristanbristow.com
The issues are:
Site looks good in Firefox, Chrome, Safari.
In IE 10,9,8 - the site looks as it should, EXCEPT the images are lacking the correct sharpness. The fonts and navigation are fine.
IF I switch to compatibility view in those versions, the images are properly rendered but the fonts and navigation look poor.
I haven't tried yet to support IE7 so don't worry about that for now. This is the only issue preventing the site from being launched!
hello there,
i just tested the website on IE 9 it's really working good, im under Windows XP there is no different on my side, all work good!
Really? Thats helpful to know...are you certain the large images look exactly the same if you switch to compatibility mode? The best image to test is to look at the writing on the door of the first image on the homepage.
OK so I turned off Javascript and the images are perfect! So this must mean a JS issue? I know nothing about JS I'm afraid.....can you help?
I've just had a look, after stopping the slide show, and I CAN see differences in the sharpness. Using FF 17, Chrome 23 (when will this insane numbering race stop) and IE9 on my old Vista machine. The IE images are slightly lower contrast.
On my new (back from the repair shop) Windows 7 machine which has a sharper screen, I see it there too, for the same browsers.
It's not your imagination.
Then I turned off Javascript in IE on the Windows 7 machine, and it made no difference (yes, I remembered to refresh the page as well). That door with writing on it is a good test image, I accidentally choose that one when I first looked.
That's interesting, thanks for confirming that there is an IE issue. I'm completely stumped and desperately hoping some clever person out there can help me fix it ASAP!
Thanks for your replies so far. Any more ideas out there?


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If only the players had the creativity, imagination and passion you guys have. That last thread was filled with some pretty clever stuff. Very funny in many cases.
Anyway, a look back at the latest Rangers loss, 2-1 in a shootout in Sunrise last night. It's now six losses in seven games, a grand total of 10 goals in that span (we're counting four vs. Washington), including four games of one goal or none.
Which leads to the first point in the reflections of last night's game:
1) This team lacks skill. You can argue all you want about the system being stifling, or the coach making bad personnel decisions, or whatever. And I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you.
… But who is transporting the puck from the defensive zone to the offensive zone? Who? Gomez is capable of doing it, and in fact that's one of his strengths when he's playing well. Zherdev can do it. Callahan once in a while. That's really all, and the transportation of the puck from defense to offense is a crucial element in any attack, whether the attack is passive or aggressive. It is a terribly under-appreciated facet of a good power play, and thus one of many reasons the Rangers' power play stinks. And it truly does stink.
One PPG in eight games now, and counting.
Chris Drury is a finisher, a good faceoff guy and a decent defensive center. He can't carry the puck the length of the ice. Dubinsky is everything you want in a young, still-developing player. He can't carry the puck the length of the ice. Naslund isn't a carrier of the puck. These are the top "offensive" players on the team, and they don't transport the puck. Worse, there isn't exactly Brian Leetch on the back end. Staal can lug it sometimes.
So that's a big problem I see.
Then you look at the Rangers compared to the opponent. Florida's forwards skate better (especially with Richard Zednik back from that horrfying injury), are more physical, and finish better. Florida's defensemen have far more puck skills (and far more goals).
2) More of the same as above. The Rangers use Drury, Gomez, Naslund on the power play. That's not exactly the '85 Edmonton Oilers. It's not even the '07 or '08 Rangers. Or McClanahan-Pavelich-Hedberg. Or Ogrodnick-Kisio-Mullen. Or Mallette-Nicholls-Gartner. You get the idea.
I don't remember when the point men were so dismal.
3) That all said, also … I didn't think last night's game was boring. I didn't think the Rangers played without heart or passion. I thought they were physical and pretty decent against a team on a roll and at home, and against a goalie that was almost as good as Lundqvist, who was spectacular.
This was the 14th time all year they led after one period, thanks to the fourth line. And they battled, and they picked their spots in terms of chances to be aggressive. But, geez, who is going to score a goal?
Did we mention the power play is rather fragrant? Oh.
4) I hate the shootout.
I may have mentioned that before. In the old days, after the OT, this would have been a "good" tie. On the road, against a hot opponent, you get on the plane after a 1-1 tie feeling pretty good. Instead, because of a skills competition, and a shot that caught a piece of Lundqvist and snuck through, it's a loss. Another loss.
Yeah, they got a point. But they feel like they lost.
On Wednesday, at home, they played a hard passionate game against Washington, attacked hard, scored four goals, and won in a shootout. If they'd lost that skills competition — Callahan's goal off the crossbar and off the goalie won it — they'd have felt awful. Instead they felt as if they'd removed an ape from their backs. Because of a skills competition. It's silly and stupid.
5) Some of the MSG Network voices are starting to get a little brave in questioning Redden and the Prucha situation, aren't they? The next two games will be on NBC (vs.Philly tomorrow, 12:30) and Versus (Monday against JD's Blues in St. Louis). It will be interesting to hear what non-payroll people have to say.


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Preferably you should attempt to use the same e-mail addresses for the sender and recipients as the one that are meant to be used by your application. If any of the operations above fail, it means that the problem is NOT with your application, but with the SMTP server itself. If it works, then you should try the same from a remote host, to see if your issue might have to do with a firewall or some network issue.
If you don't get any errors when doing these 2 operations, then it means that your server is properly set to send email, so now you can switch to troubleshooting POP.
Troubleshoot POP server
The POP3 manual commands are almost as easy as the SMTP commands. To check your mail with POP:
cmd> telnet popserver.somedomain.com 110 user <some_valid_user> pass <user_password> stat
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AppleSox add two from the Oregon Beavers for summer lineup
(Wenatchee, WA)-Two players from one of the Pac-12's premier baseball schools will call Paul Thomas Sr. Field home this summer. Oregon State University is sending a pair of freshmen, right-handed pitcher Riley Wilkerson and outfielder Ryan Howell to play for the AppleSox.
"We have had a great relationship with Oregon State for many years," said AppleSox head coach Ed Knaggs. "They are a fantastic program and every player they have ever sent us has been very well prepared to play in our league."
Wilkerson is the third Oregon State player that has hailed from West Linn, Ore., to play for the AppleSox, following in the footsteps of Cole Gillespie (2004) and Ryan Barnes (2011). At West Linn High School he was named Pitcher of the Year for the 6A Three Rivers League and was selected to the All-State team after going 5-3 with a 1.95 earned run average on the mound his senior year. He has started four games for the Beavers this season and is 1-0 with a 5.84 ERA.
"Getting an opportunity to be a starting pitcher at Oregon State as only a freshman is very impressive. He has a bright future and we are looking forward to having him as part of our pitching staff," said Knaggs.
Howell was named the Bay Valley Athletic League Offensive Player of the Year after his final season at Heritage High School in Brentwood, Calif. He hit .466 as a high school senior, driving in nine runs and stealing seven bases. The freshman has seen limited action for the Beavers, appearing in six games this spring.
"Like most players who have not seen a lot of action in the school season, I'm sure he will be chomping at the bit to get out on the field when he gets here this summer," said Knaggs.
The AppleSox open the 2012 season on the road against the Bellingham Bells on June 1st. The team will return to Paul Thomas Sr. Field to start a six-game homestand beginning with the home opener on June 5th against the Bend Elks.


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The National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV) applauds President Obama and the White House Council on Women and Girls for issuing a renewed call to action today to address the epidemic of sexual assault in our nation. "With 1 in 5 women in the United States experiencing rape in her lifetime, it is only with the concerted effort of those in highest leadership that we can hope to turn the tide and together build a culture that refuses to tolerate sexual violence. President Obama and his team are bringing an unprecedented spotlight to the problem of sexual assault," said Monika Johnson-Hostler, NAESV board president.
Advocates at state sexual assault coalitions and rape crisis centers across the nation share the Administration's commitment to address the trauma of sexual violence and its impact on survivors. With increased funding for programs like the federal Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP), more survivors will have access to the critical trauma-informed services and supports they so desperately need. NAESV agrees with the Administration that criminal justice responses to the crimes of sexual violence must be strengthened, and we are hopeful that new provisions of the Violence Against Women Act 2013 will provide law enforcement and prosecutors with the resources and tools they need to increase arrest and prosecution rates. NAESV urges the Administration to end sexual assault in our military. We share the Administration's commitment to ensuring young people are able to lead lives free from violence. Holding campuses accountable will be a crucial part of that work, and NAESV looks forward to working with the White House Task Force on Protecting Students from Sexual Assault.
"We know that addressing the complex and horrifying reality of sexual violence isn't easy, but President Obama is setting an example of the kind of courageous leadership we will need to succeed. Together, we can create a world where our daughters and sons are safe to reach for their dreams," said Ms. Johnson-Hostler.
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Golden Globes 2012 Goddesses! Red Carpet Style to (Mostly) Die for!
The worst part of the Golden Globes: narrowing down the best dressed list!
-PJ Gach
As Meryl Streep said in her acceptance speech, "…Oh no, no, no." It was that hard picking a small group of actresses to represent the best dressed of the Golden Globes. If I could, 90 percent of the actresses who walked the red carpet would be on today's list! As it is, the list is bulging. On the flip side, it was difficult to separate the boring from the badly dressed. When you have a ton of fantabulously dressed actresses, the rest just fade away.
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The awards for the Golden Globes Best Dressed are not given out in alphabetical order or by height. They're given out to women who looked spectacular.
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron looked like a goddess in a Dior couture gown and Cartier jewelry pieces that are normally housed in a museum. One wonders how many bodyguards surrounded her during the event?
Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek looked ravishing, from her loose waves to the tips of her toes. The Gucci gown slithered over her curves. I can't get over the fact that the woman is barely 5 feet tall!
Octavia Spencer
Lovely in lavender, The Help's Octavia Spencer channeled Jackie O's '60s style with aplomb. She looked gorgeous in a Tadashi Shoji gown, silver Louboutins, Judith Leiber clutch and pale moonstone looking tear-drop earrings. Her chignon completes this classic look.
Sarah Hyland
Modern Family's Sarah Hyland looked totes adorb in a vintage Dolce and Gabbana lace gown. Whilst she was walking the red carpet, her zipper broke and Guiliana sent the E! fairies to fix it. Sarah told Guiliana, "Well I was just standing there waiting to come up here, and I just kinda felt like an explosion in my back….I'm sewn into my dress! It's funny because we had the zipper replaced." All of Sarah's glittering platinum and diamond jewelry was from Lorraine Schwartz and she carried Lauren Merkin's Eve clutch.
Paula Patton
During the pre-show E!'s Ross the Intern looked at Paula Patton's brilliant yellow mermaid dress by Monique Lhuillier and he (I'm paraphrasing here) said, "She's channeling Bird Bird in a good way." We thought she was absolutely yummolicious! We are also very envious of her Judith Leiber evening bag and kwait jewelry. We want to look like Paula when we grow up.
Emma Stone
On my TV, Emma Stone's Lanvin gown looked brown. In photos it appears to be a warm deep brick red. No matter the color, the fit is flattering and we love how Emma doesn't pay attention to trends and dresses to please herself.
Nicole Kidman
I know, I'm always surprised when Nicole Kidman lands on my best dressed list. Normally she's consigned to the worst list, but she pulled out the stops last night. The studded gray gown was molded to her body.
Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton's red carpet fashion is either head shaking or breath taking. Tilda Swinton's icy blue ensemble made her skin glow. For extra glow, she wore Fred Leighton platinum and diamond wing brooches that dates back to 1900. We're also digging the retro Teddy Boy coiffured do.
Reese Witherspoon
Looking like a pocket Venus, Reese Witherspoon channeled the Golden Age of Hollywood with a little help from Zac Posen and stunning platinum and diamond jewelry from Fred Leighton–some of the pieces were antiques!
Angelina Jolie
How can one woman look regal and fragile at the same time? Angelina Jolie's chignon, red lips and figure-hugging gown by Atelier Versace with matching bag and platinum and diamond jewels by Lorraine Schwartz were a true red carpet moment. However, her too tiny figure made me want to force a cupcake down her throat. Eat, please!
Nicole Richie
Hey Nicole Richie, once we drop the Xmas cookie weight, can we please with sugar on top borrow that sick, sick, sick Julian McDonald gown? Please with sugar on top.
Sofia Vergara
Who wasn't laughing when Sofia Vegara and the Modern Family crew were onstage to accept their award last night? Sofia totally hit the night's big trends: mermaid/fishtail gown and blue! She makes curves de rigeur. We love the peacock blue custom gown from Vera Wang and the elegant jewels from Harry Winston.
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2011 Summer Camp Open Registration for Children with Disabilities
Therapeutic Recreation Services is offering several on-site registration opportunities where parents can drop off registrations and receive on-the-spot confirmation on their child's early placement in summer camp. Attendees will be able to learn what our camps are all about and meet the program managers.
Locations & Times:
Monday, April 11, 2011, from 4:30 - 8 p.m.
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12011 Government Center Parkway
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Saturday, April 16, 2011, from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Kilmer Center
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Bush Hill Elementary
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Navy Elementary
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Fairfax, VA 22033
Wednesday, April 20, 2011, from 6 - 10 a.m. and 5 - 8 p.m.
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Summer registration packets will be mailed on March 30, 2011. Registrations will continue to be accepted through the mail or hand delivered to the Pennino Building office Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information, please call 703-324-5532, TTY 711.
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This article was published 28/12/2012 (1699 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The year 2013 is looming on the horizon, and from all appearances, it's going to be a great year for Manitoba businesses.
Newly reported economic statistics indicate the provincial economy showed modest growth in 2012, unemployment is down and salaries increased moderately.
As well, the latest 2012 statistics from the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce small business survey released in early December also suggest a clear increase in business confidence. In particular, confidence was evidenced by the significant growth in capital investment spending which, in turn, has led to an increase in jobs and workforce levels.
I know from watercooler conversations that many people -- employees and business leaders alike -- are indeed feeling a sense of optimism. In fact, I personally feel a great sense of excitement as we move into 2013.
However, I can guarantee that all this optimism will quickly fade for our small business leaders and employees alike if effective strategic and workforce planning fails to set the corporations up for success in the coming year.
On the other hand, the concept of workforce planning has become much more sophisticated than in the past. Earlier in its evolution, workforce planning consisted mainly of employee headcount while today, effective workforce planning provides a complete and strategic overview of an organization's talent-management strategy. This means identifying the job roles going forward and the critical skills base required for success in the future. And it's all about implementing a plan to ensure an organization has the right people doing the right job at the right time.
Yet at the same time, experience shows that many small- and mid-sized business leaders without internal human resource expertise do not include workforce planning in their annual or future strategic plans. For instance, it was noted in the 2012 Winnipeg Chamber small- and medium-sized business survey that while 47 per cent of local small businesses were concerned about the potential loss of talent in the next few years, almost 23 per cent suggested they had no plans in place to do anything about this workforce challenge. At the same time, only 30 per cent of small businesses were engaged in general succession planning.
If these weak workforce planning trends continue, Manitoba small- and medium-sized businesses may find themselves struggling with all areas of human resource issues, and in particular recruitment and retention challenges as well as skill shortages in key areas that will impact the success of their businesses.
How can a business respond to and take advantage of new opportunities and/or adapt to changing business conditions when they don't have the right staff resources? The answer is obvious -- they can't. Thus, I recommend that leaders of small- and medium-sized businesses begin learning how to engage in long-term workforce planning that looks beyond head count and turnover metrics and instead focuses on developing a staffing plan for the future.
This staffing plan must ensure the right talent is hired and distributed throughout the organization at the right time, with the right skill set at the right cost. Although there is no one right way to conduct workforce planning, the following steps can provide you with some basic guidance.
-- Confirm your strategic plan -- Develop a comprehensive picture of where you want to go, set the direction and confirm the details. Identify specific long-term objectives in three to five key areas. Be sure these goals are directly related to the strongest business opportunities in your industry sector and its changing environment and be sure these goals make sense for your organization.
-- Align organizational structure -- What will your organization look like as you implement your strategic plan? Define the structure, systems and strategies required to implement your strategic plan. Will you be decentralizing or centralizing? How will your plan impact on work flow? Involve management and human resource professionals so that no issue is forgotten.
-- Conduct a demand forecast -- Take time to analyze the specific type of workforce that will support your strategic plan and your proposed structure. What functions, roles and job classifications will be required to meet your goals? What does your skills mix look like? Define the top key competencies needed and how these are differentiated between job roles.
-- Assess internal supply demographics -- Identify internal occupational groups where skills gaps currently occur and/or will occur due to changes in your strategic plan. Determine issues related to baby-boomer retirement, age, gender, education, job classifications, skill levels and salary level. Pay particular attention to the impact technology will have on your jobs and workflow. Will your current employees have the skills they will need? Document your skills gaps and potential areas of challenge.
-- Assess the external environment -- Examine external occupational trends to determine the future availability of skilled workers. Consult government job future predictions to determine the potential availability of new graduates in various occupational groups. Identify shortages and the impact on your strategic plan.
-- Assess HR implications -- Change impacts all areas of human resources. Be sure to examine cost and budget implications for workload projections, staff vacancies, recruitment and retention, compensation and benefits, training and development, succession planning, professional development and career progression.
-- Develop a workforce plan -- How will you address the skills gaps? Determine a strategy for meeting the workforce needs to support your strategic plan. This includes recruitment, new employee orientation, employee coaching, mentoring, training and development and specific compensation initiatives.
-- Develop milestones and measureable goals -- Create measurable goals for each of your strategic objectives and the workforce plan that accompanies it. Define the goals in terms of human resource metrics, set timelines and milestones to measure what is accomplished.
-- Ensure senior management support -- Senior management should have been involved in overseeing the development of the workforce plan. For certain, senior management must fully understand how the workforce plan is linked to the corporate strategy and they must visibly support it going forward. If managers are not on side, the plan will never be executed effectively.
-- Operationalize, evaluate and modify -- strategic plans and workforce planning requires significant time to develop and are implemented over a three- to five-year timeframe. Thus, it can be expected that as environmental changes occur, the plans and their accompanying actions need to be modified and adjusted to new conditions. Review your plans on an annual basis and make adaptations to realign as required.
Managing the people side of the business through workforce planning is absolutely critical to meeting your long-term goals. In fact, as Norman Vincent Peale, author of the Power of Positive Thinking said many years ago, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." Make 2013 the time to build your plan for success.
Source: Manitoba Bold, Business Leaders Survey, 2012, Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, December 2012; Grow Winnipeg, Economic Indicators 2012. Economic Development Winnipeg.
Barbara J. Bowes, FCHRP. CMC, M.Ed. CCP is president of Legacy Bowes Group. She can be reached at email@example.com


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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – The Saint Leo women's basketball team fell to Barry University by a score of 81-68 on Saturday evening from Miami Shores.
Barry (8-4, 1-3 SSC) pulled away from the Lions in the second half behind a strong outside shooting performance. The Bucs quickly added on to their one-point halftime lead and led by as many as 16 before the Lions began to cut into the Barry lead. The Lions were able to reduce the Barry lead to seven, but were never able to get any closer.
Saint Leo (7-7, 2-2 SSC) had four players score in double figures, and was led by Teresa Manigrasso, who contributed 15 points, five rebounds and three assists. Saturday afternoon's game also saw the homecoming of Miami native Kinnara Lewis, who dropped in 10 points. Chelsea Connelly had another double-double performance for the Lions, as she scored 11 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. Keishara Green continued where she left off against Florida Southern—this time adding 11 points and eight rebounds.
Barry led by as many as 10 points in a first half that saw three ties and three lead changes, but Jessee's squad bounced right back and led a 14 point turnaround that saw the Lions take a four-point lead in the waning minutes of the half. Lewis had 10 points in the period including going 2-for-4 from downtown. Dominique Dixon led the Bucs with nine first half points—all three-pointers—including one at the buzzer to cut the Lions' lead to one at the half.
Barry continued to rely on their outside shooting in the second half and extended their lead into double-digits. The Lions battled their way back into the game and reduced the deficit to seven multiple times, but could not seem to get enough defensive stops to make a stronger push. Dixon continued to provide offense for the Bucs, scoring 20 points on the night—12 of those coming from behind the arc.
Saint Leo shot 32.9 percent for the game, drastically lower than the Bucs' impressive 49 percent. The Lions were able to outscore Barry in the paint 26-14, and get 13 more second chance points than their opponent.
The women's basketball team gets back in action on Wednesday, Jan. 16 when they travel to Tampa where Coach Jessee will go head to head with her husband Tom Jessee and the Tampa Spartans. Tipoff is slated for 5:30 p.m.


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Who doesn't love black and white cookies – those cake-bottomed confections iced with chocolate on one side and vanilla on the other? Yummy as they are, these delicacies, also known as New York cookies, are not exactly diet-friendly. Now, fourteen year-old Virginia native Khaled Khalifa has found a way to improve on this northern treat. By substituting honey for sugar and using only natural ingredients in a recipe of his own devising, Khaled has successfully knocked down the calorie count from 320 to 109 without sacrificing flavor.
"I wanted to help my friends and neighbors enjoy a delicious snacking alternative without having to feel guilty or gaining weight. I myself suffer from being overweight, because of the wrong eating habits and the lack of healthy food in my diet," says Khaled. "My main goal is to help my community avoid suffering from the problem I suffered from."
In only six months, Khaled's cookies have become so popular that he has had to enlist friends and his extremely supportive family to help bake and pack his product. He sells his Delicious New York honey-made cookies online, in school, and around the neighborhood. Most surprising to Khaled is the number of large orders he has been receiving. With one middle school requesting 1,000 cookies for Valentine's Day, and a prominent local theater company contracted to sell his wares this fall, Khaled realizes the time to hire employees is fast approaching.
Khaled, who speaks English, Arabic, French and German, hopes to study business and law at Harvard and ultimately establish Delicious New York as an international brand. He credits NFTE with making these dreams seem attainable. As he puts it, "Starting my own business at the age of fourteen is something that I will be always proud of. It helped me improve my communication skills. It gave me the confidence that I needed. It made me feel more responsible. It has given me opportunities that I have always dreamt of – I learned how to be an entrepreneur."
"Have confidence in yourself and believe in yourself, because if you do that, you can accomplish whatever you want to do."


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Thread: Skyrim Creation Kit Question
Skyrim Creation Kit Question
Alright, so I have no coding experience or anything, but I'd like to do some simple editing of a few Perk parameters.
For example, I'd like to add an effect to the first Destruction Mastery Perk (Novice Destruction, or whatever it's called) so that it will cause all Destruction spells to inflict 10% more damage. That's obviously a tentative figure; it'll take some fiddling to perfect. But that seems like it should be something extraordinarily simple; just add an effect to an existing value. Heck, I'd settle for just upping the damage modifier on the elemental-boosting Perks.
But I can't figure out how to do it! The CK wiki didn't seem to have any kind of tutorial on how to edit Perks, and a Google search hasn't yielded anything. Does anybody have some direction? I can't be the only one who'd like to tweak Skyrim's numbers rather than build stuff from scratch!
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Try asking here. It can be done because it's been shown in the Bethesda video, I don't know how tho.
Start the CK, Load the Skyrim.esm, Look at the Object Window, open Actors submenu, open Perk submenu, then modify
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I pulled up the Actor menu in the object window (after loading Skyrim.esm), but I don't have an expandable Perk submenu. Any other thoughts?
EDIT: Here's a thought: maybe I can make sure to manually press the button to ensure that everything works right. Now to fiddle...
Last edited by Drinking with Skeletons; 11-02-2012 at 04:49 PM.
It's official: this is a great tool! I've beefed up the magic system a bit so that--with the exception of Conjuration, which is a little differently balanced to start with--all of the mastery level perks (Apprentice Destruction, Novice Destruction, etc.) now increase the potency of their respective spells by 10%, for a total of a 50% increase on top of any other boosting perks.
I also adjusted the casting times for Master level spells (again, with the exception of Conjuration, which isn't crippled by long charge times like the other schools) so that they now take 1 second to charge instead of 3. That's double the time for a non-Master spell, which means that they can definitely still be interrupted, but not so long as to be useless (and with the adjusted perks, they are quite a bit nastier, which makes the effort it takes to get them more worthwhile). That may need to be adjusted; I've got a lot of testing to do.
Some of the spells aren't affected by the perks that they should be (such as the Cloak spells) so I've still got some fiddling to get everything working, but I'm already pleased with my progress.
Would you mind sharing your modified files when you're done testing them? I haven't played a Destruction oriented mage yet, but from what I hear people are running into troubles with the damage/mana cost ratio using destruction spells from higher tiers.
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If you cheat the blacksmith/enchanting system you can get spells for free, but if you applied the same amount of enchanting to get a powerful weapon you get one that can oneshot bosses.
Also, most spells are very bread&butter, and the funny or utility stuff are in the shouts (freeze, stop time, diversion...) that are available to everyone. There's not much incentive to roll a mage in Skyrim.
Also, that superduper item you get at the end of Mage's Guild questset is linked to your level when you started it, so it will be only a couple of levels until the damage output is "outdated"
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EDIT: On the subject of magicka scaling, my thinking was that there are two ways to fix it: lower magicka costs for all spells via base cost and/or perks, which encourages spamming, or increase spell damage via base damage and/or perks so that you get more bang for your magicka-buck. I think higher damage is more fun and involved, since you should still benefit from/need magicka regeneration and potions while also getting the sense that you are more efficiently using your magicka, making your investments feel worthwhile. Also, spamming spells is by definition more boring than casting fewer, more damaging spells, and who wants that?
Given the way the game does math, I think that there's actually more than a 50% increase in effectiveness from this mod. However, you have to invest in the skills to get the benefit, which keeps the perks relevant and the stacking semi-balanced.
The adjustments to Restoration seem to affect some of the item enchantments (like Magicka regen) so investing in Restoration now offers more benefits than just better healing. I'm not 100% clear if the effectiveness of Turn Undead and similar spells (which affect creatures based on a base level) are improved, though wards are definitely affected. Given how slowly Restoration tends to increase, I'm hoping this actually makes it more attractive to invest in.
The Cloak spells aren't adjusted, because I can't quite figure out how to adjust them to make them be affected properly. Similarly, Runes aren't affected by all of the Destruction Perks, so I added a separate boost to the Rune Master perk. That will probably be left there regardless, as the runes are finnicky enough to use that, even with greatly increased power, most players aren't going to use them much, so they might as well be really good for when you bother to deal with them.
I've tested the mod primarily with my level 47 mage, and he's quite a nasty customer now. Mage Armor + Ebony Flesh now gives something like 600 armor (!) and Fast Healing now heals somewhere in the ballpark of 350 hp in one cast without having all mastery perks (overkill for a mage, but possibly better-balanced for a paladin-archetype). Incinerate inflicts 178 damage now, up from 90, which is still far below weapon potential, but combined with the added fire perk, area affects, etc. it proves to be very, very potent without being the one-hit-kill-snoozefest that you get with Smithing+Two-Handed.
Not sure how this affects enemy mages, but they may also be a lot nastier, so please let me know if they prove to be insurmountably tough. My current character is a level 16 paladin-archetype (who does use a lot of Restoration), and I don't know when I'll get around to trying out a more magically-inclined character again, so please let me know how this affects balance for lower-level casters.
Last edited by Drinking with Skeletons; 12-02-2012 at 04:32 PM. Reason: Forgot to Address an Issue
One thing I forgot to ask for: if anyone could chime in regarding the effectiveness of this mod when using one-handed spells with weapons, I'd appreciate it. And if anyone knows how to adjust the Cloak spells, I definitely want to add that in as well.
EDIT: I think I've figured out the Cloak spells. Apparently they work by casting the "cloak" effect on the character, which is separate from the actual damage. The damage is "cast" when an enemy hits you, and is categorized as a separate spell that is not, by default, affected by any Destruction Perk. Those effects should now be affected properly.
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Hello, I figured posting my question here would be better than starting a new thread. But I'm trying to make a mod that changes Draugr into Bandits,(or Vampires or Greybeards) just cosmetically. But I can't find any information on it, though I know it can be done because people have replaced spiders with bears and wolves.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by CATCH17, Jan 12, 2013.
so there is no way for us to win?
hey now
jerry perpetuates his own myths
qualified GM
football guy
so why shouldnt others?
also, can you point me to some 'true myths'
throw in a couple of high piced CBs and we will be good to go
Jerry has neglected the position of safety.
The Cowboys will always be weak at safety.
The Cowboys will never have depth at safety
Hmm, ok. Nowhere did I say to get more cb's. go get one good O lineman in FA and draft one and spend the rest on the def line and a safety.
They can go draft all off lineman for all I care but it will not be much better with Garrett calling plays. We will still have a mediocre offense to go along with a mediocre defense who still can't get pressure up front.
Then we have to hope both sides play above avg to win a game.
I have np loading up the off line but I think this team needs a defensive identity, one that can win games with a mediocre offense.
I see you're ignoring the two 1st round picks spent on Joey Galloway and the 1st and 3rd spent on Roy Williams.
Build the OL......A solid OL can make a rookie QB look like Joe Montana....
If there are some good OL in this coming draft I would trade Romo for draft picks just to get them...
THIS! I love Romo, but every qb is going to have a bad game from time to time, and we MUST have a team that can win anyway, instead of only winning if Romo has a fantastic game.
It'd help......but that mentality is part of the problem. Jerry was already quoted this offseason talking about trying to find ways to drive across water. That worries me.
Need a consistent, methodical approach to team building. I worry that Jerry gets too impatient and makes rash decisions.
The OL sucks, but probably more than another other unit on the field, they require great chemistry and a cohesive unit. I couldn't tell you what a Dallas Cowboys OL looks like because it has changed so much in the last few years.
lol @ that. You mean the guy who melted down against the 30th ranked pass defense? The guy who threw 3 picks that were all his fault and cost his team the division and a shot at the playoffs? What good is Tony Romo if he is a choker in big games? You see the level the QB's are playing in the playoffs right now? Romo CAN't do that, he is like a fish out of water in big games.
Romo needs the 85 bears to succeed. He is part of the problem here.
Im starting to agree with you but i'd like to see him in an offense that is better ran and has some better blocking.
I do believe when it's getting closer to the post season we need to ask him to do LESS.
The choke job in Washington is what has defined his career. Like it or not.
draft day
You take the BPA. Hopefully it's OL, DL, or S.
they had a chance to get a great Free agent guard last year but instead got 2 scrubs who are average to pathetic ,you need commitment to O-line which i believe is the most important unit in a football team.you cant win consistently if your O-line play is spotty.what is common to NE,Baltimore,SF and atlanta? they have great o-lines.If Jerry is serious about the o-line than he should take Callahan to task for recommending Livings and Bernadeu.
People say that but teams end up taking BPA at a position of need.
If the value isn't there at a position of need they usually trade up or down.
Makes no odds when. Still spent 3 first rounders on WR.
That's true.
i guess you missed the point
if it is 'true' it cant be a 'myth'
hate it when i am being glib and i have to explain myself
point was, if you are just gonna 'tweak' the OL, you may as well also get more CBs because thay are both a waste of time and resources
this OL does not need a 'tweak' it needs an overhaul


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Two technicians from the Forensic Services Unit processed the scene and officers interview witnesses in the neighborhood. A release from LPD stated that due to the diligent work of officers and detectives, a suspect, Tony West, of Carthage, was charged that same night.
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Buried beneath the ampitheatre at Nirox Sculpture Park are concrete structures that were used as reservoirs for trout farming by the former owners of the land.
About an hour's drive from Johannesburg, deep in the Cradle of Humankind, artist Richard Penn wraps some vegetables in foil and places them carefully on a braai (barbecue). 'My brother is flying in from Manchester, and he's going to come through for a braai,' he says.
Dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, you'd think he was on holiday – after all, we are in area that is increasingly becoming a weekend retreat from the big city. But this is the Nirox Foundation complex and Penn is here to work.
Penn is part of the Nirox Foundation's residency programme, which invites renowned artists to stay on its property, giving them access to the region's extraordinary heritage.
Working in collaboration with United Kingdom-based writer Guinevere Glasford-Brown, they are busy on a project that will see Penn's art merge with Glasford-Brown's writing to create a unique work that is neither quite book nor art piece.
The project involves them exchanging two books every day, with each entry in each book a response to the other's drawing or writing. Working on the theme of 'Origins', they say they have been inspired by their current surroundings. Their entries are, therefore, closely linked to the scenery and feelings evoked by it.
That scenery is the Nirox Sculpture Park, a 15ha lush expanse of land that was once a commercial trout farm. Now with a serene atmosphere, walkways and water features surrounded by a sea of greenery, it belies the fact that it is part of Gauteng, the most densely populated province in the country.
According to curator at Nirox Mary Jane Darroll, the sculpture park was the brainchild of Benjy Liebmann, the owner of an adjacent farm who in 2006 had bought a sculpture by Edoardo Villa and displayed it on his farm. 'He was so impressed by the work of the artist that he offered him accommodation and a studio on his farm. Villa declined the offer, but said, however, that he would love to exhibit there,' she says.
Following that exhibition, Liebmann, along with the owners of two other pieces of land bordering the former trout farm, purchased the land. They tore down their fences to give their animals access to the land, and turned it into what is now the Nirox Sculpture Park.
'If you are lucky, you might see some zebras or antelopes grazing,' Darroll says. 'We tell our artists to make their installations strong as the monkeys come out to play on them.'
As you stroll into the garden, you meet Layers of Being by Angus Taylor – the giant kneeling figure made of rammed earth fascinated art lovers in the Netherlands during an exhibition entitled The Rainbow Nation .
The installation took Taylor four days to assemble in the park, but its presence is so overwhelming, it looks as though it emerged from the earth from which it is made.
Further down the garden, Fractals – also by Taylor and comprising nine heads on top of each other – echoes the earlier piece.
As we continue our walk, each piece is met with a new reaction – shock, horror, fascination, wonder...
Perhaps the most fascinating aspect about the garden is that none of the works are permanent fixtures. To a first-time visitor, each work looks firmly grounded to its spot, yet one day each will disappear, to be replaced by the works of other artists. Each trip to the park is certain to be a new, unpredictable experience.
Darroll says the project aims to make sculptures as an art form more accessible to the public. 'More people buy paintings for their homes, yet if you look at the history of Africa, sculptures are a more natural form of art,' she says.
The Nirox Foundation also promotes performing arts. There's an amphitheatre where events such jazz concerts and poetry readings are held regularly.
At such times, and when there are exhibitions taking place, the park is open to the general public. At other times, visitors need to make an appointment.
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Who to contact
Benji Liebmann
Nirox Foundation
How to get here
The park is about 40 minutes from Johannesburg or Pretoria. Click here for directions.
Around the area
Since you are in the Cradle of Humankind, you can make a day of it and visit the Maropeng Visitor Centre and the Sterkfontein Caves; and just down the road from Nirox is the Kromdraai Gold Mine.
Get around
Self-drive is the best option.
What will it cost
Entry to the park is free, but the various events do have a charge.


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Monday Morning Ten Pack
Monday, July 15
Nolan Sanburn, RHP, Athletics (Low-A Beloit)
D.J. Peterson, 1B, Mariners (Short-season Everett)
J.P. Crawford, SS, Phillies (Rookie GCL Phillies)
Offensively, the most impressive part of Crawford's game thus far has been his two-strike approach--taking what the pitchers have given him while simplifying and shortening his swing. Crawford has been making contact on a regular basis, but there is work to be done with his mechanics before he starts facing more advanced pitching. He doesn't possess blazing speed like his cousin Carl, but runs well enough and is a very athletic player. As long as he continues to work and improve, he could profile as a top-of-the-order bat for the Phillies who will hit for average with some pop. In addition to the on-field tools, the word around Clearwater is that he has been an outstanding teammate and truly enjoys showing up to play hard every day. The Phillies were excited when they drafted him and so far he's been everything they thought he would be, and more. --Chris King
Dorssys Paulino, SS, Indians (Low-A Lake County)
Andrew Aplin, OF, Astros (High-A Lancaster)
After glossing over Aplin in my first couple of viewings of Lancaster, his solid at-bats and consistent defense have slowly made me take notice. When asked, every scout has stated that Aplin is a future major leaguer, with some even going so far as to say they would take him over teammate, and former first rounder, Delino DeShields, Jr. As of today, I see more of a fourth outfielder whose reads and routes can help him to fill in at all three outfield positions when needed. --Chris Rodriguez
Eric Jagielo, 3B, Yankees (Short-season Staten Island)
Franklin Barreto, SS, Blue Jays (Complex League GCL Blue Jays)
Defensively, Barreto has shown decent range and an above average arm, but can try to do too much at times, leading to inconsistencies. His arm strength is solid, but lacks accuracy, especially coming off of movement to his left. Additionally, there is work to be done with regards to his footwork if Barreto is to continue to project as a shortstop. Some of the scouts I've talked to believe his future will be in center field where he can put his speed to best use out there. No matter where he ends up on the field, his bat will keep him all over prospect radars. --Chris King
Eduardo Rodriguez, RHP, Orioles (Double-A Bowie)
Nolan Fontana, SS, Astros (High-A Lancaster)
At the plate, Fontana has a special eye and is walking at an impressive rate of 19.6 percent--good for second in the Cal League. He's recognizing off-speed pitches very well and his swing is simple and whippy, with good plate coverage and the ability to hit the ball to the opposite field. Fontana won't set the world on fire, but it looks like his potential versatility in the field and solid plate approach could get him to the big leagues sooner rather than later. --Chris Rodriguez
Max Kepler, OF, Twins (Low-A Cedar Rapids)
Nick J. Faleris is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @NickJFaleris
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Would love to see more coverage of guys in NL organizations. Recognize it can't happen every time, and you should go "where the story is." Still, you do such good work; for those of us who really follow one league, we feel deprived!
Jul 15, 2013 07:29 AM
When I first start reading about JP Crawford I could have sworn he was going to be a typical Phillies first pick. All tools, no skills. I'm happy that this doesn't seem to be the case.
Jul 15, 2013 07:57 AM
Kepler..."looking ahead to the remainder of June?" Was the blurb on his written last month?
Jul 15, 2013 10:32 AM
Once Jonathan Singleton is promoted, there seems to be hardly any top 1B prospects left in the minors, DJ Peterson seems to be the exception. Are there any other 1B prospects that could see a jump in prospect status with production this 2nd half/1st half next season?
Jul 15, 2013 16:32 PM
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Toronto critics award The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson's drama takes home four awards; Denis Lavant, Rachel Weisz scoop acting awards.
The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) has named Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master the best film of 2012.
Anderson's drama following the relationship between a War veteran and a cult leader won four awards in total, taking home Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman winning Best Supporting Actor. The director has now won Best Director three times and Best Picture twice.
Denis Lavant and Rachel Weisz won Best Actor and Best Actress for their roles in Holy Motors and The Deep Blue Sea, respectively. Chris Butler and Sam Fell's ParaNorman won Best Animated Feature, while Gina Gershon was named Best Supporting Actress for Killer Joe.
Michael Haneke's Amour was awarded Best Foreign-Language Film, while Best First Feature was shared between Panos Cosmatos' Beyond the Black Rainbow and Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild.
The TFCA also unveiled the three finalists for the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, to be announced at a gala dinner at Toronto's Carlu on Jan 8, hosted by Cameron Bailey, artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival: Bestiaire, directed by Denis Côté; Goon, directed by Michael Dowse, and Stories We Tell, directed by Sarah Polley. Polley's documentary also won the Allan King Documentary Award.
"The diversity of our three finalists for this extraordinary new prize show there's nothing predictable about Canadian cinema," commented TFCA President Brian D. Johnson, film critic for Maclean's.
He continued: "These are all genres we haven't seen before. Bestiaire is a visionary documentary from Montreal that explores our relationship to the animal world. Stories We Tell, a doc from Toronto, unfolds as a procedural home movie, investigating the filmmaker's family secrets; and Goon, shot largely in Winnipeg and set across the country, is a viciously funny comedy about hockey violence."
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