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No More Apple Mysteries, Part Twoby Johan De Gelas on 9/1/2005 12:05 AM EST
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tthiel - Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - linkYou need to redo this entire test. So much has come out about how poorly this was done its hard to believe it came from Anandtech. Reply
iggie - Friday, January 13, 2006 - linkI'm surprised you didn't post the raw VM latency results from lmbench. I found http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-yd...">another article that did a similar performance comparison (Darwin vs. Linux on G5).
mmap latency is 3x greater, but most tellingly, page fault latency is > 900 x greater!
Did you observe similar results in your tests?
I would imagine that page faults would play a greater and greater role as more and more independent clients connect to a server. I have experienced a huge disparity in http://www.openmicroscopy.org/api/omeis/">our own server software implementation for scientific imaging. In our case, all disk access is done via mmap and page faults (its a shared-VM-based image server system meant to serve many terabytes of image data) Reply
asifyoucare - Sunday, September 04, 2005 - linkInteresting article.
If you suspect that thread performance is the bottleneck, why not write a short program to measure how many threads can be created and destroyed per second?
DoctorBooze - Saturday, September 03, 2005 - link
In the case of Linux, creating a thread is very similar to creating a process. [...] So, if you test fork() on Linux, you also get a rough idea of how fast threads are created
I'm no guru but I don't think that's true now with Native Posix Threads, which you get in 2.6 kernels with a suitable libc (and some distros with 2.4 kernels). Check what your program's linked with: on my Fedora Core 3 system `ldd /usr/libexec/mysqld` shows me MySQL is linked with /lib/tls/libc.so.6 and running that shows it has NPTL. The API may be similar but what happens in the kernel isn't and it makes a big, big difference to MySQL. Still, Linux now has fast native POSIX threads and it looks like OS X doesn't. Reply
ikruusa - Saturday, September 03, 2005 - linkIndeed, as mentioned previously there was some mistakes in gcc options. And SIMD optimization is really basic in 4.0.x - only certain loops can be vectorized automatically. But loops around arrays are most significant part in signal processing and that is where SIMD really matters :)
As we know for NetBurst arch it is recommended to use XMM registers (that is registers for SSE/SSE2) for FP calculations. And that is what gcc 3.x does (4.x too): -mfpmath=sse triggers all x87 stuff to run as scalar math using SSE command-set. As I know AltiVec is SIMD unit which is smoothly added to PowerPC pipeline. How useful there is scalar math instead of usual FP - I have no idea.
What I want to say - my opinion is that if MySQL team has something to say about compiler options then they have documents about it. Using SIMD style processing in DB engine is very challenging exercise for coders. Dont expect magic from compiler here. Hint: maybe Intel's own icc compiler provide some magic but you have to prove it ;) I still believe that the most useful options can be -O[2,3] -funroll-loops and -ffast-math (as you mentioned) with -arch=[processor]. The last one should provide basic branching elimination (e.g. using cmov for x86) and correct instr. ordering.
About testing Linux. I have some skills in Apache testing with JMeter. I have been quite stuck but kernel developers were kind enough to help: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m...">http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m...
Then I discovered all OS tuning possibilities in /proc Well, most are still unknown for me but I just want to get your attention here. Oracle talks about shared memory and number of semaphores and some particular Linux /proc parameters. Of course there should be all written in MySQL manual too if any parameter needs tuning. But is it enough to read MySQL manual and create profile for OS'es IPC and process management if we need to stress test MySQL on e.g 8-way SMP?
But still - good start of interesting investigation, anandtech.com!! Thank you and keep going!
kvs - Saturday, September 03, 2005 - linkIf thread-creation is extremely slow in Darwin, maybe MySQL-performance could be helped by enabled the thread cache? A look at 'mysqladmin extended-status' would show how many threads had been created and cached, and should reveal if thread_cache would be needed.
tester2 - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkWell if ab on Mac OS X was the problem you could have easily tested this from a Linux box over the network.
Because you probably did this as well, and found out that performance tuning done by Apple outperformed the Linux/PPC and Linux/Opteron system by a substantial amount you keept this out of the story ...
So I did some testing, and yes when using ab from a Mac OS X I find the exact figures you report. Using a Linux Pentium 4 based system over Gb network gave me 6150 req/sec substantially faster then anything out there.
Look here for numbers from another source; http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1637655,00.as...">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1637655,00.as...
The webserver runs around 60 threads ... go figure.
Yes there is a problem with the Mac OS X - Mysql combo if you are looking for performance, but jugging this as Mac OS X for server applications is a nono is drawing the wrong conclusion. I hope someone with good development skills will look at the mysql code and tune it to work well with Mac OS X.
benh - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkInteresting article ! One thing that is worth looking into however is wether the YDL kernel is actually a 32 or a 64 bits kernel. This would probably have an impact on some of the numbers. I would expect the ppc64 kernel to perform faster overall on a 64 bits CPU with a small overhead on syscalls from 32 bits applications due to the argument size translation.
Also, the problem with the 2.7Ghz on linux is indeed a slight change in the firmware. It in fact looks like a bug in Apple Open Firmware device tree on those machine where they left out the properties providing the interrupt routing of the i2c controller in the north bridge used to drive the fan controller among others. The OS X driver silently falls back to a polled mecanism, while the linux driver doesn't and (shame on me!) used to have a small bug that would cause it crash when unable to locate those properties.
I posted a patch a while ago fixing that up, I would expect YDL to have an updated kernel/installer available by now.
Finally, you are right about the U3 northbridge having a quite high memory latency, that is definitely not helping the G5. There have been rumours floating around that Apple now has a new bridge that improves that significantly, though it's pretty much impossible to tell if/when they will release a machine using it. IBM also had multicore G5s available for some time now, though Apple is still not releasing any machine using them.
JohanAnandtech - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkThanks for the very helpful feedback.
Do you have any idea why the U3 came with such high latency. Lack of development time? Lack of expertise? A inherent problem with the FSB of the G5? Rather old technology? You see I am very curious, and couldn't find much info on it.
benh - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkI don't know for sure. I wouldn't blame the FSB though. I remember reading somewhere that the memory controller in U3 was similar if not identical to the old one they used in U2 on G4 machines and was to blame but I can't guarantee the reliability of that information.
Gandalf90125 - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkFrom the article:
"...so it seems that IBM, although slightly late, could have provided everything that Apple needs."
I'd say not everything Apple needs as I suspect the switch to Intel was driven more by marketing than any technical aspect of the IBM vs. the Intel chips. Reply
Illissius - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkA few notes:
- you mention trying a --fast-math option, which I've never heard of... presumably this was a typo for -ffast-math?
- when I tried using -mcpu (which you say you used for YDL) on GCC 3.4, it told me the option had been deprecated, and -mtune has to be used instead (dunno whether it told me this latter part itself or I read it somewhere else, but it's true). I'm not sure whether GCC4 has the same behaviour (I'd think so), whether it still has the intended effect despite the warning, or whether it matters at all.
- was there a reason for using -march on one, and -mcpu/-mtune on the other? (the difference is that -mcpu/-mtune optimize the code for that processor as much as possible while still keeping the code compatible with everything else in the architecture, while -march does the same without care for compatibility -- on x86 at least, not sure whether it's the same on PPC)
- you mention using the same compiler because, err, you wanted to use the same compiler... if this was done in the hopes of it generating code of similar speed for each architecture, though, then your own results show there isn't much point -- seems GCC, 3.3 at least, is much better at generating x86 code than PPC (which isn't surprising, given much more work probably went into it due to the larger userbase). Not saying it was a bad idea to use GCC on both platforms (it's a good one, if for no other reason than most code, on the Linux side at least and OSX itself (not sure about the apps) are compiled with it), just that if the above was the reason, it wasn't a very good one ;).
- Continuing the above, I was a bit surprised at the, *ahem*, noticeable difference in speed between not even two different compilers, but two versions of the same. (I was expecting something like 1-5, maybe 10% difference, not 100). Maybe this could warrant yet another followup article, this time on compilers? :) Reply
Pannenkoek - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkThe reason is that GCC 4.0 incorporated infrastrucure for vector optimization (tree-ssa), which can give, especially in synthetic benchmarks, huge increase in FP performance. GCC can now finally optimize for SSE, Altivec, etc., a reason why in the past optimizing specifically for newer Pentiums did not yield much improvement.
Althougn compiler benchmarks would be interesting, I doubt it is a task for Anandtech. Normal desktop users do not have to worry about whether or not their applications are optimized optimally, and any differences between, say GCC and ICC, are small or negligible for ordinary desktop programs. (Multimedia programs often have inline assembly for performance critical parts anyway).
GCC is free, supports about any platform and improves continually while it's already a first class compiler. Reply
javaxman - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkWhile I generally love this article, I have to wonder...
why not write a simple benchmark for pthread(), if you think that's the bottleneck? Surely it'd be a simple thing to write a page of code which creates a bunch of threads in a loop, then issues a thread count and/or timestamp. It seems like a blindingly obvious test to run. Please run it.
I have to say that I *do* think pthread() is the likely bottleneck, possibly due to BSD4.9-derivative code, but why not test that if we think that's the problem? I understand wanting to see real-world MySQL performance, but if you're trying to find a system-level bottleneck, that's not the right type of testing to do...
Now that I metion it, Darwinx86 vs. BSD 4.9 ( on the same system ) vs. BSD 5.x ( on the same system ) vs. Linux ( on the same system ) would really be a more interesting test at this point... I'm really not caring about PPC these days unless it's an IBM blade system, to be honest... testing an Apple PPC almost seems silly, they'll be gone before too long... Apple's decision to move away from PPC has more to do with *future* chip development than *current* offerings, anyway... Intel and AMD are just putting more R&D into their x86 chips, IBM's not matching it, and Apple knows it...
but even if you are going to look at PPC systems, if you're trying to find a system-level bottleneck, write and run system-level tests... a pthread() test is what is needed here. Reply
rhavenn - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkIf I remember correctly, OS X is forked off of the FreeBSD 4.9 codebase. The 4.x series of BSD always had a crappy threading system and didn't handled threaded apps well at all. I doubt Apple really touched those internals all that much.
FreeBSD 5.x has a much better time of it. I'm wondering if the switch back to a Intel platform will make it easier for Apple to integrate the BSD 5.x codebase into their OS? or even if they plan on using the BSD 6.x codebase for a future release? The threading models have vastly improved.
Just a thought :) Reply
JohanAnandtech - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkhttp://www.apple.com/education/hed/compsci/tiger.h...">http://www.apple.com/education/hed/compsci/tiger.h... :
"FreeBSD 5.0
The upgraded kernel in Tiger, based on mach and FreeBSD, provides optimized resource locking for better scalability across multiple processors, support for 64-bit memory pointers through the System library and standards-based access control lists"
Where did you see FreeBSD 4.9? Reply
mbe - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkReaders also pointed out that LMBench uses "fork", which is the way to create a process and not threads in all Unix variants, including Mac OS X and Linux. I fully agree, but does this mean that the benchmark tells us nothing about the way that the OS handles threading? The relation between a low number in this particular Lmbench benchmark and a slow creating of threads may or may not be the answer, but it does give us some indication of a performance issue. Allow me to explain...
This misses the point, your claim in the last article was that MacOS X used userspace threads. Mentioning that LMbench uses processes still rules out userspace threads having any part to play. This is since processes can't in any meaningful way (short of violating some pretty basic principles) be implemented around userspace threads. The point is that a process is a virtual memory space attached to a main system thread, not a userspace thread which are not normally even considered threads on this level.
This is necessary since the virtual memory attached to the thread has to be managed when doing context switches, and by its very definition userspace code cannot directly touch the memory mappings. Reply
JohanAnandtech - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkYes, it could be. The interesting questions are:
- Is the only culprit for the 8 time lower performance. Microkernels are reported to be 66 to 5% slower depending on who benchmarked it. But not 8 times slower.
- What makes it still interesting for the apple devs to use it?
I hope Apple will be a bit more keen to defend their product, because their might be interesting technical reasons to keep the Mach kernel.
sdf - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkIs Mac OS X really a microkernel? I understood it to be designed to function as a microkernel, but compiled and shipped as a macrokernel for performance reasons. Reply
JohanAnandtech - Sunday, September 04, 2005 - linkI am sorry if I wasn't clear. As I state in the article clearly: Mac OS X is ** NOT ** a microkernel, but based on a microkernel as the Mach kernel is burried inside the FreeBSD monolithic kernel.
Most of the tasks are done by a FreeBSD alike kernel, but threading is done by the Mach kernel. Reply
Lori - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel
MacOS X uses a modified microkernel (a monolithic / microkernel hybrid). The idea was to cut down IPC costs by putting servers that would be IPC heavy directly into the kernel. However, there has recently been a lot of work in the microkernel world to reduce this IPC cost and bring its speed near that of a monolithic kernel.
L4Ka::Pistachio is an example of this:
http://www.l4ka.org/">http://www.l4ka.org/ Reply
leviat - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkIf the problem is indeed in the thread creation portion of the OS, it would be interesting to see how a single threaded webserver fairs. I would love to see a benchmark test of Lighttpd (www.lighttpd.org) to see a comparison of how that runs on Darwin vs linux-ppc.
Another interesting test would be to see MySQL can be configured to precreate the handler threads. This might allow us to see how it handles the context-switching between the multiple threads and allow for it to compete.
Anyways, great article! Reply
JohanAnandtech - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkWhat exactly to do you mean by single threaded? Because Apache 1.3 works with processes, and is thus single-threaded per user.
MySQL can make use of a Thread cache, we played with it but it didn't give any substantial boost. I don't see how the software would be able to precreate all threads as it has close down and open connections. If you got some insight, please share :-).
Context switching is quite fast on the G5 OS X, give or take a few percentages compared to Linux x86 or G5 Linux, as we tested with lmbench. Reply
Lori - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkActually there are more than one way to handle multiple connections in a server application.
To give you some examples...
1. Multi process
2. Multi thread
3. Some hybrid of the two
You can see combinations of these types all provided by Apache 2's MPMs. (perchild, prefork, threadpool, worker, leader.. etc)
4. Asynchronus multiplexing.
Your program becomes its own schedular. You can do all your processing within a single thread. Also read up on non blocking i/o. I am actually surprised apache does not have a MPM to handle this type of connection multiplexing but I also read its harder to get OS support.
Letsee... links... umm... ahh...:
Avalon - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkSeems like once you remove the G5 from OSX, it's a very capable chip. Reply
jamawass - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkGreat article, in response to the previous post Anand has posted tons of server articles on x86 systems so Apple is fair game here. Secondly Apple servers are based on OSX in the market, corporations want to know the real world performance not the desktop feel. Also Johan's speculation on Apple's move to Intel raises some troubling questions for Apple execs. Reply
karlreading - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linka lot of people commenting on how apple have mad a wrong dicision turning to intel.
possibly, but IMHO, and, if im not mistaken, didnt the opteron dominate all the tests.
so in my mind whilst its true for people to doubt apple for going intel, x86 on the whole is still a very viable option if you go the AMD route.
yes i know people will say AMD dont hae the capacity, but amd powered macs should be how x86 macs are done.
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karlreading - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkalso worth noting is that they say the FP poerformance is as good as the fastest x86 chip. well scuse me, but isnt that a 2.7ghz g5 part there testing there? thats the fastest g5 currently avalible isnt it? well then why not test the opteron 254. thats the fastest x86 chip, running 2.8ghz, rather than the 850/250 2.4ghz part tested? that would put some lead against the g5 and also, 2.8ghz is a lot closer than 2.4ghz is to the 2.7ghz g5's core speed. if were trying to be fair.
if we was being really picky we would be stating duakl core opteron as the fastest x86, but i digress....
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JohanAnandtech - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkYou are right about the recentely introduced 2.8 GHz Opteron. Well, to be really accurate, at the time of the introduction of the 2.7 GHz G5, a 2.6 Ghz opteron was available.
Anyway, It was not my intention to be "accurate", it was more a general impression. Give or take a few percent, the G5 can compete FP wise :-). Reply
Pannenkoek - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkIt's a matter of scalability, SMP support and not so much of how fast some system calls are executed as the reason for the bad performance I would think. Linux is the most used OS for superclusters these days, Mac OS remains a desktop OS. It's no wonder that it performs poorly as a serious server on a multiprocessor/core system. It would have been interesting to see how Windows would have faired (on the x86 of course), if we are testing OSes in this way.
However, MySQL benchmarks say little about desktop performance, Anandtech's audience consists of desktop users and the reason people love or hate Mac OS is its desktop. Nevertheless, almost a great article. It should have been if the autor could have resisted the temptation of too much speculation, instead of honest benchmark numbers. Reply
JohanAnandtech - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkSorry couldn't resist :-). (for the rest of the world, pannekoek is dutch for Pancake)
Desktop performance is ok, as desktop apps are similar to the workstation apps we tested in the first article. Those apps spend from 5-20% in the OS, while server apps spend up to 80% of their time in the OS!
However, I should point out that we tested Mac OS X SERVER, so it is a problem for the Xserves. Reply
Pannenkoek - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkI stand corrected then. However, my reasoning still applies, it's just that Apple relies even more on its brand than on technology to sell server systems apparently. Who runs Mac OS servers anyway, it's an oxymoron. ;-)
P.S. Do not mock my nick, it served well in beating godlike UT bots, and should be honoured as much as Loque. Reply
Tanclearas - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - link"Apple told us that the problem lies in the Apachebench (the client side), which stalls from time to time and thus, generates too low of a load on the (Apache) server."
How does this explanation make any sense? Linux obviously doesn't have a problem with these "stalls". Reply
JohanAnandtech - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkWhat follows is not what Apple said, but my interpretation...
They are probably pointing out that the version for Mac OS X has a Mac OS X specific bug. Of course, who is to blame? I am sceptical like you. Reply
mariush - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkPage 4 :
We used the following on the Opteron based PCs:
Gcc -O2 -mcpu=G5 flops.c -o flops
And, on the G5 machines, we used:
Gcc -O2 -march=k8 flops.c -o flops
I think it's the other way around. Reply
Houdani - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkAye, was gonna point that out also.
In addition, on page 3 should you list the Yellow Dog Linux along with OSX in the Software section for the Apple PowerMac G5? Reply
Shinei - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkMy question is, would the memory latencies be so high for the 970FX if high-end RAM was used for the Linux tests (like, say, some TCCD or BH-5 at 2-2-2-5), instead of the standard 3-3-3-8 SPD that ships with the G5 system? Or is there some limitation to the G5 motherboard that prevents posting with performance RAM as a way for Apple to ensure that only certain, accepted DIMMs are used with their computers?
Anyway, these results are very telling about what the OSX86 Macs are going to perform like--that is to say, ~25% slower than the equivalent Windows/Linux boxes running the same hardware... Reply
IntelUser2000 - Sunday, September 04, 2005 - link
My question is, would the memory latencies be so high for the 970FX if high-end RAM was used for the Linux tests (like, say, some TCCD or BH-5 at 2-2-2-5), instead of the standard 3-3-3-8 SPD that ships with the G5 system? Or is there some limitation to the G5 motherboard that prevents posting with performance RAM as a way for Apple to ensure that only certain, accepted DIMMs are used with their computers?
That doesn't matter since they are testing workstations, Irwindale and Opteron is also using CAS3 RAM. No workstations/servers use 2-2-2-5 RAM.
The poor scores of OS X compared to Linux makes sense. G5 was rumored to be fast in speccpu benchmarks but came out to be slower. Must be that rumor systems were benched with Linux and the production was benched with OSX.
I am impressed with OS X's features though. Reply
Jedi2155 - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkThe G5 motherboard has the limitations due to Apple's way to insure you only buy certified ram. The SPD settings must be perfect. Reply
ceefka - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkI am humbled by the sheer expertise of Johan. Amazing work, Johan!
This makes me even more curious about Intel's contribution to the next generation of Macs. How will they compare to the best G5s? Reply
stmok - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkLOL...As everyday passes, it seems more "interesting things" are revealed from Apple solutions. Reply
ViRGE - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkGranted, some of this was over my head(more than I'd like to admit to), but your results are none the less very interesting Johan. Now that we have the Linux/G5 numbers, there's no arguing that there's a weakness in MacOSX somewhere, which is a bit depressing as a Mac user, but still a very useful insight as to how there's obviously something very broken in some design aspect of the OS(it simply shouldn't be getting crushed like it is). My only question now is how Apple and its devs will respond to this - it is pretty damning after all.
Thanks for finally getting some Linux/G5 numbers out to settle this. Reply
sdf - Friday, September 02, 2005 - linkBy changing hardware platforms.
No, seriously.
A transition from PowerPC to Intel would be the perfect time to correct ABI flaws like this. It isn't that the G5 causes the slow down, it's that the slow down (maybe) can't really be fixed without breaking binary compatibility. A CPU transition is clearly going to do that anyway, so maybe they'll just wait... Reply
toelovell - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkI am kind of curious to see how Darwin would work on an x86 based system for these same tests. There are x86 binaries for Darwin 8. So it should be possible to run these tests and compare Darwin with Linux on an x86 platform. This would help to see if the OS really is the limitation. Just a thought. Reply
JohanAnandtech - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkIf linux is capable of pushing the G5 8 times higer than with Mac OS X, there is little doubt on my mind that the OS is the problem. Or did I understand you wrong?
Anyway, I have no experience whatsoever with Darwin. My first impression is that installing Darwin on x86 is probably a very masochistic experience, due to lack of proper drivers. We might get it working but can it really run MySQL and other apps? THere are probably libraries missing... Will the results be representative of anything as it is probably tuned for just getting it running instead of performance? Anyone with Darwin x86 experience? Reply
wjcott - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkThe only interest I have in a mac OS is if they are going to sell it without a computer. I would love to have OS X, but I must build the machine. Reply
Quanticles - Thursday, September 01, 2005 - linkEvery component must be fine tuned to the upmost degree... Every BIOS Setting... Every Hidden Register... *crazy eyes* =) Reply


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EAST Lancashire councillors said they would continue to call for powers to restrict or ban betting machines, despite MPs voting against the move in Parliament.
Government ministers promised people would be 'protected' against the machines after a review into the machines ends later this year.
But MPs voted against handing local authorities the power to restrict the machines by 314 to 232, a majority of 82.
Only Hyndburn and Haslingden MP Graham Jones voted in favour, whilet Pendle MP Andrew Stephenson, Burnley MP Gordon Birtwistle, Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans, and Rossendale and Darwen MP Jake Berry all voted against.
Jack Straw was out of the country and did not vote.
The machines — fixed odds betting terminals — allow punters to spend £100 every 20 seconds on virtual casino and racing games, such as roulette.
People in East Lancashire spent more than £270m on the machines — dubbed the 'crack cocaine of gambling' —last year, according to the Campaign for Fairer Gambling.
Hyndburn Council will be the first in East Lancashire to call for the power to restrict the machines, if a motion put forward by a senior Labour councillor is passed at a meeting on January 23.
Its leader, Coun Miles Parkinson, confirmed yesterday the council would still push ahead with the motion, despite Wednesday's vote.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has previously promised to give local authorities power over the machines if he gets into power.
Liberal Democrat MP Gordon Birtwistle said: "The law needs amending, but we can't change the law without taking evidence and doing it properly. A kneejerk reaction like the Labour party are doing won't work because the bookmakers will challenge it."
Speaking on Twitter, Graham Jones said he had asked in the House of Commons for a guarantee that a report into the machines will be published in the spring and debated.
He said: "It's disappointing that the government voted against it because it leaves the position unclear.
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"Jason Pesterfield brings to Veran over 17 years of in-depth experience in the medical device navigation field," said Greg Johnson, Veran's Chairman of the Board. "He has an impressive track record of leading navigation business, focused on transforming an early stage technology into a profitable, high growth business. Jason has proved the successful execution of positioning business strategically for profitable growth, and we have great confidence that he will use his talent and experience to lead Veran to the next level."
"Veran Medical Technologies has a solid foundation and tremendous opportunity to grow and deliver," Pesterfield said. "Veran is already a recognized contributor in the next generation of navigation technology, with solid success in gaining market position." He noted that Veran is widely appreciated for its capabilities to generate innovative products and customized solutions.
Pesterfield was previously with Stryker Corporation, where he held the position of Global Vice President and General Manager, in charge of the Global Surgical Navigation Business and a member of Stryker Instrument's $1.5 billion executive team. Through his leadership, the business transformed from an early stage technology into a profitable high growth business. His leadership contributed to strategic attributes extending across an $8 billion corporation comprised of 21,000 employees. He also served in global leadership and innovation, sales and customer care leadership, global marketing and research and development. Pesterfield holds a BBA in Marketing from the University of Nebraska.
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GARETH Ainsworth said Wanderers face their biggest game of the season at Newport County tomorrow.
Good Friday's Adams Park clash with Northampton Town, with second bottom meeting third bottom, is seen by many as being the match that will ultimately decide who will take the drop out of League Two at the end of the season.
But Ainsworth said Blues can do themselves a huge favour by beating the out of form Welsh club this weekend, with a victory having the potential to take them six points clear of the drop zone with four games left.
The Wanderers chief said it's crucial his men build on Saturday's home win over Dagenham and Redbridge, which had the added bonus of reeling in a host of other clubs.
A week ago it looked like a straight battle between Blues, Northampton and Portsmouth for the second relegation slot along with seemingly doomed Torquay, but Wanderers can move to within a point of 14th placed Newport with a win at Rodney Parade.
Ainsworth said: "I firmly believe we can beat Newport and I firmly believe this is a huge, huge game. This is the biggest game so far of our season. Everyone's got to realise that.
"Northampton at home is going to be a huge game no matter what but we could really stack the odds in our favour if we beat Newport on Saturday. For me, this is the biggest game of the season so far.
"There's about eight teams in the mix, and that's not including the bottom two. I think anyone in the bottom ten now is looking over their shoulder. We know where we are and where we've been. We are on the ascendency and people are looking over their shoulders thinking, where are we going to get our next win from?
"We kept it in our own hands and set up two big games with Newport and Northampton within a week of each other. They can play a big part in securing the future of the club.
"Without getting carried away, it's all looking good. There will be other teams in a worse situation than us at the moment going into the next game.
"We are confident we can get another win, no problem, and build on that. It'll be really interesting after Saturday's results - the table's going to become even more crazy. I'm sure the positional changes will be many and hopefully we'll be one of them going higher."
The Exiles, promoted from the Conference last year, had been pushing for a play off place when they last met Wanderers on Boxing Day but a succession of postponements ground their momentum to a halt.
Justin Edinburgh's men have won just two of the 20 matches they've played since then and Ainsworth said: "I think they are a different team to the one we played earlier in the season at home - they were in the ascendency and were flying high.
"Justin's gone through a tough time, just like I did in the middle part of the season. He's having his now and it's a tough place to be when you're like that.
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11. Chris started us off with a lesser hit from American Life, but perhaps the best song of the bunch from that album. "Love Profusion" was released as a single but best known as the theme for Estee Lauder Beyond Paradise fragrance.
10. Erik immediately named "Superpop" as his fave Madonna song that wasn't a bigger hit. All the better. This was an unreleased song intended as a track on Confessions on a Dance Floor but nixed as an exclusive download for fan club members only. This says her cocky lyrics might have rubbed fans the wrong way.
9. David picked "Like a Virgin" as his favorite because he says "it describes him." And then we laughed. At him.
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What the Packers and Bears have presented this season has been difficult to watch. Green Bay (No. 11 in AP Pro32) can't make its offense click, and Chicago has mastered losing games it is in position to win.
"I don't think you win your share of games in this league with 16 points, and we just have to get more points, plain and simple," Fox says.
The biggest concern in Green Bay is where did the real Aaron Rodgers go? Of course, A-Rod will repeat his mantra of "Relax," and he's probably right.
"I just think it's accuracy," he says. "I've missed a couple that I'm used to hitting. And you hit those and you take away the throwaways, being able to hit some things on some of those plays instead of extending and throwing the ball away and we're right where we need to be."
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo softball team (3-3) continues preparations for this weekend's Eckerd College Spring Invitational. The Lions, who are coming off a 2-2 outing at the SSC/GSC Crossover in Pensacola, Fla. have six tough games scheduled, including five in-region contests.
On Friday, Saint Leo will take on the Drury University Panthers, before being paired up with the University of West Florida for the second time in a week. Saturday is pair of region games against Peach Belt Conference contender, Flagler College and will close out the day against Gulf South Conference powerhouse Valdosta State. Sunday sees a pair of Sunshine State Conference programs tangle with SLU. Nova Southeastern is the first school on tap, before host institution Eckerd College rounds-out competition for the week.
Saint Leo kicked-off their 2010 campaign last Monday, splitting their home opener against the Webber Warriors at University Field. The Lions dropped the first game, but did rebound in game two behind a strong effort in the circle from Ashton Whidden.
Following the season debut, the squad traveled to Pensacola, Fla. to take part in the Crossover Tournament. SLU managed only one runs, while North Alabama broke through for three runs over the course of the game to take the front end of the doubleheader. The loss negated a 2-for-3 day by Tiffinee Harvey and dropped the Lions to 1-2. However, the team did rebound in game two. Whidden threw a complete game and Harvey was a perfect-3-for-3 from the plate as SLU pulled even at .500 winning 6-4.
In the final series of the weekend, the Lions took on West Florida and Palm Beach Atlantic. Against the Argonauts, the Green & Gold were 8-2 victims, as UWF scored runs in all but one inning. The tide turned once again on the back end of the doubleheader, as Saint Leo won a thrilling 3-2 decision against the Sailfish with a Harvey game-winning single in the bottom of the seventh.
On the season, the Lions are hitting .222 as team and have scored 19 runs. Defensively, Saint Leo has committed just three errors in 56 attempts for a .984 fielding percentage. Harvey is leading the way with a .529 average and was tabbed SSC Player of the Week. She has scored six runs, connected on six extra-base hits, including two home runs, and totaled six RBI. Brittany Yates also began to catch fire in Pensacola, finishing the week hitting .316 with a double, a home run, and four RBI. Dianne Gonzalez is batting .250 with four hits in 16 at-bats. Elysha Agen and Amber Martyn have combined for nine hits, while Danielle Moreda and Sarah Boyd knocked in three and four runs, respectively. Going into the game, Harvey has picked up a hit in each of her six games. Meanwhile, the Lions as a team have scored nearly half of their 19 total runs in the first inning (nine runs). The team has answered every loss with a win and is 3-0 when scoring three or more runs. The Lions enter the tournament on a one-game winning streak.
Drury is a member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference and currently stands at 0-2 on the season. Sadie Ball is their leading hitter, batting a .750 clip through the first pair of games. She has gone 3-for-4 with a double and a home run. They are batting .180 as a team and have committed two errors in the field. Junior Brittany Davis is their top hurler, throwing seven complete innings in her first and only outing of the year. She surrendered 10 hits and five earned runs taking the loss for the Panthers.
West Florida is a member of the Gulf South Conference and is 4-1 on the season. The Argonauts defeated the Lions in their first meeting this season by the score of 8-2. Their lone loss on the season came against SSC competitor Nova Southeastern. The squad is filled with talented hitters including, Amber Ingram and Jillian LaFrance. Ingram is batting .579 on the year, while LaFrance is batting .467. The duo has combined for 18 hits. In fact, five hitters have a batting average over .330. In the circle, LaFrance is 3-1 with 0.55 ERA. She has surrendered two earned runs in 25.1 innings of work.
Peach Belt Conference member Flagler College is currently 3-3 on the season. The Saints are led by Kaycee Lisa who is batting .636 on the year with seven hits, including a triple. She is slugging .818 and has struck out once in 11 at-bats. Brittney Hatem has collected five RBI on the season and is batting .500. Six hitters are batting above .300, while the team is hitting at a .327 clip. Kelly Riddick leads the Saints in the circle, collecting a 2-1 record and compiling a 3.26 ERA.
The Blazers are a major player in the Gulf South Conference. Currently ranked seventh in the NFCA National Top-25, VSU is batting .339 as a team and is 2-0 on the season. Led by Marti Littlefield's .500 average, Valdosta State have seven players batting over .300. The team already has six round trippers and have pushed across 21 runs across the plate. They also have a two-headed monster in the circle as Holly Satterfield and Margaret Carter have combined for 0.64 ERA and allowed just two runs.
SSC foe Nova Southeastern is also ranked in the top-25, standing in the No. 15 position. The Sharks are 5-1 on the season with their only loss coming to West Florida at the Crossover Tournament. The Sharks have five batter's batting over .400 and have scored 41 runs as a team. Noemi Luciani is their sparkplug as she is batting .529 on the year with a team-best nine hits. Lexi Sarradet and Dani Caron have combined for a 4-1 record and allowed just 16 earned runs. Defensively, the Sharks have committed seven errors and are fielding .962.
Eckerd College is a member of the Sunshine State Conference and is off to an impressive 3-3 start on the season. The squad has four batters hitting over .315 and have scored 19 total runs. Eckerd is also the host school for the tournament and two weeks into the season has yet to play a game outside of their home field. The Tritons have committed eight errors in 54 chances.
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Update, 3:50 p.m.: For whatever it's worth, all four Rangers goals were scored by Americans. OK, I'm out for now. Tom Renney has a conference call with us at 5:30 p.m. I'll be sure to check in after that.
Update, 3:48 p.m.: Classy move by the likes of Gomez and Drury to have Zherdev and Kalinin claim the Victoria Cup. Or is it because no one else wants to be seen with that trophy?
Update, 3:45 p.m.: Honestly, the Metallurg players look devastated. It's too bad, but really, just by playing the Rangers as tough as they did, they showed something about their league. By the way, the Victoria Cup might be the ugliest trophy in the history of professional sports. I'd like to know which bar the designer was drinking in when he came up with it.
Update, 3:42 p.m.: Now comes the presentation of the Victoria Cup. Vladislav Tretiak appears on the ice. What do you think he tells the Metallurg players? "You guys don't know from choking. Victoria Cup? We blew the Olympics!"
Update, 3:40 p.m.:Â Final score: Rangers 4, Metallurg 3. Callahan is all smiles. The Metallurg fans, meanwhile, look like they're headed to Sibera. Wait, they are headed to Siberia…
Update, 3:39 p.m.: Ryan Callahan scores on a breakaway! The Rangers go ahead 4-3 with 20 seconds remaining. Callahan steals the puck from a Metallurg defenseman then dekes Mezin for the game-winner. And that's the game. A phenomenal comeback. The Rangers look pretty excited for a preseason game.
Update, 3:37 p.m.: Time is winding down in regulation.
Update, 3:33 p.m.: The ice seems really choppy at this point. Al says the Rangers have 40 shots on goal.
Update, 3:31 p.m.: A big stop by Henrik Lundqvist from a shot at point blank range. The King hasn't seen much this period, but he's been much sharper as the game has gone on.
Update, 3:28 p.m.: Power play yields little. And now a scuffle breaks out in front, with Petr Prucha in the thick of it. Great play by Marc Staal to intentionally miss the net with a shot to produce a rebound off the end boards. The teams will play 4-on-4.
Update, 3:24 p.m.: Rangers go back on the power play.
Update, 3:21 p.m.: Tie game. Chris Drury stuffs in a rebound of a Scott Gomez shot, then does his best Bobby Orr imitation celebrating as he's taken down right afterwards.
Man, you think the Metallurg players are sweating that $100,000 bonus right about now? "Call my wife. Tell her no buy BMW yet."
Update, 3:18 p.m.: Zherdev and Dubinsky apply enough pressure to draw a penalty. Those two look like they're figuring each other out. Tom Renney calls timeout, but it's Perry Pearn who's addressing the team.
Update, 3:12 p.m.: Goal. Dan Fritsche races down the right side of the ice and blasts a shot by Mezin. A great pass by Wade Redden to set the whole thing up. It's 3-2 Metallurg, but the momentum has turned.
Update, 3:09 p.m.: Power play ends without the Rangers sniffing the net again. But another power play is coming.
Update, 3:05 p.m.: Back to Bern, a strange close-up of Drury fixing his visor in slow motion. Rangers start the third on the power play. Al talks about Callahan, Dubinsky and Dawes starting out, and yet the shot is directly of Zherdev.
Update, 3:04 p.m.: Fischler is going off on a tangent about a Bohemian beer garden. Giannone handles a potent situation deftly.
Update, 2:58 p.m.:Â We're heading to the third period. By our calculations, Rangers need two goals to tie, three to win. But as I've said before, math has never been one of my strengths.
Update, 2:51 p.m.: Rangers get on the board thanks to Chris Drury converting on a Nikolai Zherdev pass. It's 3-1 Metallurg at the end of the second period. But the Rangers still have a power play when the third period starts. Drury was pumped after the goal. Fischler speculates that he's the next Rangers captain. That's been my guess all along as well, but we'll know for sure soon.
Update, 2:49 p.m.: Rangers have their best chance and are thwarted by Mezin. But the Rangers get an extended 5-on-3. Safe to say they need to score here.
Update, 2:47 p.m.: It's never an encouraging sign when Al says, "The Rangers are trying to get a goal in this game" and the close-up is of Blair Betts.
Update, 2:45 p.m.: It might simply be a result of having his lines jumbled by the penalties, but Tom Renney now has Markus Naslund skating with Brandon Dubinsky.
Update, 2:40 p.m.: A phenomenal rush by Marc Staal produces a scoring chance, but nothing more. Now Wade Redden gets called for a hook, giving Metallurg a brief 5-on-3. Why do I get the sense that penalties will be part of the post-game conversation for the Rangers?
Update, 2:36 p.m.: Another power play for the Rangers….which is quickly nullified by a holding call on Markus Naslund. A questionable call, but avoidable in the offensive zone.
Update: 2:33 p.m.: Wow. Another power play goal by Metallurg. A shot from the point, a redirection in front. The good news is Lundqvist never had a chance. But it's still 3-0 Metallurg.
Update, 2:30 p.m.: Rangers go nowhere on the power play. Then comes a giveaway and a penalty by Petr Prucha. Not a good sign for a kid who is still struggling.
Update, 2:27 p.m.: Another Rangers power play coming after a scoring chance by Brandon Dubinsky.
Update, 2:20 p.m.: It's nice to see Michal Rozsival is back to his old self — which is to say, showing absolutely no urgency on the power play. Rangers apply decent pressure, but have nothing to show for it.
Update, 2:18 p.m.:Â Second period starts, and the Rangers draw an early power play. A goal here would be a significant moment-turner.
Update, 2:11 p.m.: Since many of you have asked, I'm told Tom Renney's plan is to name a captain while in Prague, but before Saturday's game. So that leaves tomorrow or more likely Friday as possibilities. We'll have the coach and the new captain on a conference call when that happens, so stay tuned.
As for cuts, count on those being made in the same time frame. One will certainly be Miika Wiikman, but two more need to be made as well. It looks like it will be between Fritsche, Rissmiller, Sjostrom and Korpikoski up front, and Potter and Fahey at defense. I wouldn't be surprised if it's just the two defensemen who get cut, and the team carries 15 forwards, six defensemen and two goalies.
Update, 2:07 p.m.: Referencing his own experiences against the Russians, Maloney talks about their overwhelming…..body odor. "They stunk but they were good when they came to play," he says. I have nothing else to add.
Update, 2:04 p.m.: I love how both Dave Maloney and Stan Fischler avoid at all costs naming any of the Mettallurg players, instead referring to the "Mettallurg goaltender" or "the Russian players." I'd give them even more heat, but I've been doing the same thing.
Update, 2:03 p.m.: Rangers turn up the heat at the end of the first, but end the period in a 2-0 hole. Territorially, they've been the better team at even strength, but like I said, they need to stay out of the box.
Update, 2:01 p.m.: Slap shot from the point and through traffic, trickles past Lundqvist. Mettalurg goes up 2-0. Soft goal. It's apparent the Rangers need to stay out of the box.
Update, 1:59 p.m.: Another Rangers penalty, this time on the bearded one, Paul Mara
Update, 1:58 p.m.: Al talks about a Metallurg player showing some "quick speed." You know, as opposed to that other kind of speed…
Update, 1:54 p.m.: Korpikoski wheels around the net and throws a shot on goal. The kid has to be a lock to make this team.
Update, 1:52 p.m.: Al espouses on the stellar defensive hockey being played so far. Which is a nice way of saying the game has hit a lull.
Update, 1:49 p.m.: Yet another sign that this is an important game: Paul Mara is back with the lumberjack beard.
Update, 1:47 p.m.: Blatant interference on Naslund. He goes to the box for Mettalurg's second power play.
Update, 1:43 p.m.: Nothing doing on the power play. George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" can be heard in the background. Not sure what that signifies, but it has to mean something.
Update, 1:42 p.m.: The Rangers draw their first power play. They scored six yesterday against Bern, but it's apparent Mettalurg is a significant step up.
Update, 1:41 p.m.: Rangers kill the penalty.
Update, 1:39 p.m.: Interference call on Dan Fritsche. Metallurg gets its first power play.
Update, 1:35 p.m.: Oh boy. Nikolai Zherdev coughs up the puck in the offensive zone. Mettalurg goes down the other way and beats Lundqvist with a wrist shot high on the glove side. 1-0 Mettallurg. We have ourselves a ballgame…
Update, 1:33 p.m.: Rangers start with the Gomez between Drury and Naslund, with Rozsival and Redden on the back end. The King is in the net…
Update, 1:31 p.m.: Micheletti hints that Metallurg players are starting at a $100,000 bonus per man if they win. But hey, no pressure…
Update, 1:30 p.m.: Giannone trips on "Magnitogorsk" right from the start, then says it won't happen again. Careful there, Johnny. We're watching. Cut to Al and Joe in Bern, where Rev. Al has ditched the questionable red sweater from the day before. Even more confirmation that this is a bigger game.
Earlier: We're minutes away from the start of the Victoria Cup and here at Blog Headquarters, I just downed a turkey sandwich. Between that and Fran Healy on the "Halls of Fame", I'm….suddenly…feeling…very….sleepy.
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A dog has unwittingly landed its owners in hot water after it led police tomits home, where they found drugs and an unlicensed shotgun.
Scarborough Police first noticed the large mastiff cross when it trotted into their staff car park at 1.30pm on Friday.
Police officers followed the dog, out of concern, after it ran across the road causing traffic to stop to avoid hitting it.
The dog the turned down a laneway opposite the police station and went home to a unit in Hinderwell Street.
Police found much more than the dog's owner at the unit, however, with a loaded syringe and cash allegedly lying on a table between the occupants.
Police also found other drugs, including amphetamines in the house and a search of a vehicle revealed an unlicensed shotgun and ammunition.
A 31-year-old man from Queens Park will be appearing in Perth Magistrates Court on January 10, charged with possessing unlicensed firearm and possessing unlicensed ammunition.
A 45-year-old Beverley woman is to be charged by summons with possession of a prohibited drug and possession of a smoking implement.
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Do you internet marks finally get it?
Do people finally understand that WWE is a company desperate for consumer's money and attention? That they are only going to give opportunities to stars with interest, and how the Divas are not of any interest to the consumer? Wrestlemania is nigh & RAW is pulling off the best ratings possible. That means showing mostly segments that will certainly
If the rumors appear to be true, then TNA is making an awful mistake.
Sky reportedly left the promotion last July. She is expected to come back some time in 2013, but the reason why this is is unknown. The reason that Dixie wants her back so bad is because she helps in promoting their company.
I am sorry, but Dixie is seriously out of her mind. She is by no means a marketing
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If there's one thing that WWE is doing right, it's allowing Divas matches extended time not only on the new 3-hour RAW, but on the 2-hour Smackdown. What I've seen from the past two months is just the right amount of time for them and they get more ring time on occasion than Clay, Barrett, Tensai, etc. But if Divas matches went on for any longer
I am indeed aware that we haven't even gotten to the halfway point of the WWE season yet with Summerslam still coming up, but it doesn't seem like it hurts to see what the WWE will shape up to be several months from now. This card features ten matches with eight of them being part of the main show. I'm really
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Word had it that Kharma said she was going to appear at RAW 1000, as she told a fansite, which later had to remove the report. So if she knew her set return date and openly told people about it, then it doesn't add up to it being her decision to leave because "creative has nothing for her".
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Adding to numerous awards throughout the spring softball season, Saint Leo softball player McKenzie Burns picked up the 2012-13 NCAA Division II statistical title for Stolen Bases per game.
For nearly the entire season, Burns led the nation in stolen bases per game, earning 54 stolen bases throughout the Lions' 53-game schedule. Her final stolen bases per game percentage came out to 1.02.
In addition to Burns' national recognition on the bases, she was selected to the All-Sunshine State Conference First Team as an outfielder, while also collecting NFCA All-South Region Second Team honors.
Along with her regional and national honors, Burns shattered Saint Leo's all-time record for steals in single season, beating the previous record-holder by 19 stolen bases.
Burns will return to the Lions roster in 2013-14 as a junior outfielder.
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When the University Library and the College of Arts and Sciences were seeking funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant in the 1990s, a fund was named the Doc Watson Endowment in Appalachian Music in honor of Doc's important contributions to Appalachian music and culture.
These were his words when he learned that the endowment would bear his name: "I'm certainly proud that my career in music has been an effort to preserve Southern Appalachian culture. And I certainly endorse the effort to catalog and preserve it. I strongly back the NEH grant."
Everyone is deeply saddened by the loss of Doc Watson, and the Library pledges to keep his memory alive through the Appalachian Collection and the Music Library.
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NEW YORK – February 28, 2011 – Extreme Entrepreneurship Education Corp. has honored Steve Mariotti with its Lifetime Achievement Award for his vision and contributions to helping at-risk students achieve successful futures through entrepreneurship education. Mariotti was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Considered one of today's leading experts in education for at-risk youth, Mariotti changed career paths in 1982 when he decided to move from the corporate sector and become a special education teacher in the New York City school system. While teaching in this hard-hitting environment for six years, Mariotti gained insight into how to successfully motivate his tough students – teaching them how to run businesses. His perceptions inspired him to create a program to bring entrepreneurship education to low-income youth, and in 1987, he founded NFTE to inspire young people from low-income communities to pursue educational opportunities, start their own businesses and succeed in life. Twenty-four years later, NFTE has reached over 330,000 young people since its founding and has programs in 21 states and 9 other countries.
"In today's highly competitive global economy, we're reminded of the importance of education and having the skills to create opportunities for ourselves to move forward. Steve's passion for enabling young people to succeed through entrepreneurship education is a testament to the American dream that if you work hard and believe in your ideas, you can succeed in life," said Amy Rosen, president and CEO of NFTE.
Mariotti is the recipient of numerous awards including an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Bernard A. Goldhirsh Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the National Director's Entrepreneurship Award from the Minority Business Development Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He has also been the subject of many national media profiles on programs including ABC's World News and 20/20. In addition, he is the co-author of 28 books on entrepreneurship that have sold over one million copies.
Mariotti has attended The World Economic Forum and has been a frequent speaker at its Annual Meeting in Davos, as well as other business forums. He received his B.B.A. in business economics and his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has also studied at Harvard University, Stanford University and Brooklyn College.
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Number five, get your financial house in order. "It's looking at two things one is cash flow what do you have coming in and what do you have going out, but also what assets you have and what liabilities you have and what are you worth today," said financial advisor, Nicole Middendorf
Number four, if your not doing so already, max out your retirement or 401K accounts, especially if there's a company match. "It's free money, you want to take advantage of it. It's hard to think about retirement sometimes depending upon your age but the earlier start the easier it is," said Middendorf.
Tip number three is to run your credit report and if there is any sort of debt, make a plan to get rid of it.
Number two, if you are getting a tax refund each year, while it may seem like a good thing, it is not because it is money that you could have received throughout the year. "If you're living beyond your means and you have credit card debt, you're paying interest to a credit card company, but you're giving your money to Uncle Sam on the other hand and not getting any interest for it and so getting a refund is a negative thing, you want to make sure you're giving that money to yourself," said Middendorf.
Number one, it's the last thing we tend to think of, but it makes financial sense to think about and figure out what will happen to your estate when you're no longer around. "At a bare minimum, you want a healthcare directive and a durable power of attorney -- those two documents and really it's stating where do you want your money to go and if something were to happen to you who is going to receive those funds and how do you want them to receive them. You've worked really hard for the money that you have and you want to make sure it goes where it should go," said Middendorf.
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A lot of north Americans will get high on last night's vote – not because they are celebrating the re-election of Barack Obama as president, but following the legalisation of marijuana in Colorado and Washington. In defiance of federal law, they have now become the first US states to legalise the possession and sale of marijuana for recreational use. Although Oregon voters rejected the amendment, it's a ground-breaking move which will change the tone of the debate on international drugs policy, test the balance of power between US states and the Federal Government, and affect Mexican security.
Medical-use cannabis is already legal in several US states. What makes Amendment 64 significant is that it would remove the prohibition on the commercial production of cannabis. In Colorado, pot can now in theory be legally sold and taxed at state-licensed stores in a system similar to alcohol sales. Personal possession of up to 28 grams (1 oz) will be legal for anyone at least 21 years old.
To get a bead on what this might mean, this is further than Netherlands has gone. There, contrary to common perception, it is only the retail sale of 5 grams that is legal. Production and wholesale remains illegal, and the law is vigorously enforced. That is why the price of pot in Amsterdam "coffee shops" is "little different than the price in US dispensaries," as the authors of "Marijuana legalisation: what everyone needs to know", argue here. Read more


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In a refreshing and exceptionally informative article on arguably the most important of family issues, what happens to money and assets when people die and how to manage such matters, The New York Times Feb. 10 quoted Iowa Savings Bank's Michel Nelson, vice president and senior trust officer at the institution.
The article quotes Nelson, an attorney, extensively along with sources from Yale University and JP Morgan Chase. It's remarkable for someone in Carroll, Iowa, to make it into the Rolodex of a Times reporter.
Nelson is known for his expertise with trusts and planning in the Carroll area. He played a key role in establishing the Warren Harding Timmerman Trust for the late Manning farmer and cattleman. Timmerman last month earned the Carroll Chamber of Commerce's Good Neighbor Award posthumously for establishing the perpetual trust managed by Iowa Savings Bank that has so far resulted in 47 grants totaling about $500,000 to Carroll County endeavors. This is a big deal for Carroll County.
Additionally, for years, Nelson has written a popular newsletter he sends around the nation on the law and money, and he's been active in shaping legislation in Des Moines on off-the-front-page financial issues that determine much about our lives.
In The New York Times' piece on wealth management titled "Efforts to avoid probate can carry their own risks," Nelson warns, for instance, about the perils of people who aren't married setting up joint bank accounts.
"For the last several years, bank employees have been instructed not to open joint accounts until customers read about the risks," The Times reports about Iowa Savings Bank. "One risk is that either person can withdraw all the money without the other's consent. Another is that unless the joint tenant is a spouse, there may be gift-tax costs of adding someone's name to an account, and joint title could expose each co-owner to the other's potential liabilities."
There are also a number of assets that don't pass through probate, the legal process involved with inheritances in wills and living trusts. Jointly titled bank accounts and savings bonds and retirement assets don't go into probate, meaning some surprises can be in store for families who assume otherwise, The Times reports.
"He (Nelson) recalled cases in which an aging parent with several adult children depended on one of them as the primary caregiver," The Times reports. "To facilitate bill-paying, the parent opened a bank account of which that child was the co-owner, not realizing that the co-owner would automatically receive all the money in this account when the parent died. That child has no obligation to share the money with siblings, Mr. Nelson said."
Say what you want about The New York Times, but in the media universe the Old Gray Lady is the sun. All other news organizations, whether they admit it or not, orbit around what The Times reports in some way or form.
It's a major coup for Carroll to have one of its brightest professionals featured so prominently in the pages of The Times. And thanks to the story's online posting and Internet search engines used by reporters Nelson can expect more calls from major-market media in years ahead.


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Forget the brightly coloured title, because Crystal Palace's new technical coach David Kemp will be doing the same thing he has done for almost 30 years.
With the Eagles bottom of the Premier League, Tony Pulis and Kemp have reunited to bring about yet another footballing resurrection.
The duo first began working together at Portsmouth in December 1999, where their magic touch lifted the south coast club out of the relegation zone and ensured survival in the old Division One.
Now Kemp is hoping he and Pulis can do the same at Selhurst Park, and he sees no reason why it should not be so.
"Palace were cut adrift at the bottom of the table when Tony came in, and they have done very well to get themselves back into a position where they have a fighting chance," he said.
"The group of players there have worked brilliantly hard, but it would be great if we can bring in some faces in to strengthen the squad, give everyone a boost.
Welcome: Results have improved since Palace appointed Tony Pulis as the head honcho
"If that happens, we'll be in a great position to stay in the Premier League, and once you have done that, you can start building the club up from there."
The 60-year-old added: "As for Tony and me, we had been a successful partnership at Portsmouth.
"They were in a lot of trouble when we went there and we got them out of that.
"We went to Plymouth when they were in relegation trouble and we got them out of that. We succeeded at Stoke City, and hopefully we can keep that going here."
Kemp's role at the Palace training ground will be all encompassing, and while he admits the title is a new one on him, it makes little difference to his day-to-day job.
He said: "I had never heard of the job title before, but it is just a title. I will be doing for Tony exactly what I have done for him in the past.
"Tony does a lot of his own coaching. Some managers do, some don't, Tony is definitely one that does. He is very hands on.
"But I'll do some of the stuff he does not want to do or cannot do because he is too busy.
"I'll take some training sessions, or work on something special with a player or on an aspect of the team – whatever is required really."
He added: "I have been a manager myself and I know how difficult it can be in this day and age, it is an enormous responsibility and an enormous workload. If he needs help and I am there to give."
Kemp's experience is not restricted to coaching as he has more than 340 first team appearances under his belt.
In a career that lasted more than a decade, the striker hit 126 goals, including 10 in 35 appearances for the Eagles in the mid 1970s.
"I have good memories of playing for Palace, we had a great FA Cup run in 1976 to the quarter-finals, including a win at Chelsea.
FA Cup run: Crystal Palace v Chelsea in 1976
"I also had a stint as assistant manager under Alan Smith in the 90s and that was a time full of bright moments such as promotion and semi-final appearances in the League Cup and FA Cup."
He added: "I have been coaching for almost 30 years in the top flight, managed and coached more than 1,000 games so I have the experience.
"But that counts for nothing in this business, because you always have to win the next game, that's what football is all about.
"Anyone in football loves a challenge, they are all enjoyable but the best one is the next one, you're always onto the next one."
And Kemp, who had his first taste of Palace action in Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Spurs, has already seen enough to know the challenge of keeping Palace in the Premier League is achievable.
Encouraging signs: Palace's first half showing at Spurs last weekend gave David Kemp hope for the future
He said: "If we can play like we did in the first half against Tottenham, it would be a fantastic start.
"We played ever so well, but did not get the reward – by our own fault, not anyone else.
"The performance was very encouraging, but we have to maintain that level of play over 90 minutes and close the deal.
"We created lots of opportunities and did not take them, and you cannot afford to drop the standard as we did in the second half because that will cost you the game.
"We have Stoke next, and we need a good solid performance for the whole game."
Should all else fail for Kemp, he could fall back on his famous team-mate from the pages of the Roy of the Rovers comic.
Such was Kemp's popularity while at Portsmouth, he and his team-mates featured with the famous Roy Race as part of a comic strip story, and he even got to have his photo with the legend.
"There was a story line based on me, and I ended up having my photograph taken with Roy Race," he said.
"It was a great honour obviously, and I was in the centre spread of the comic, with me and Roy. There are not many people who can claim that."
Legends: David Kemp (second right, front row) lines up with his Pompey team-mates and Roy Race in the mid 1970s


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Crack the Code IILogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
Jesse James' lesser known brother, Eddie has also decided to take up robbing banks for a living. He is unfortunately a little slow and has forgotten to bring the dynamite to blow open the safe!
Using logic, the following clues and a large amount of patience, can you figure out the 10 digit number to crack the safe?
*All digits from 0 to 9 are used exactly once.
*The sum of the 2nd, 5th, 6th and 8th digits is a single digit number.
*The 4th digit is a perfect square.
*The 3rd digit is 1.
*The sum of the 4th and 7th digits is a perfect square.
*The value of the 10th digit is twice that of the 2nd.
*The product of the 4th and 6th digits is equal to that of the 10th and 2nd digits.
*The 5 is next to the 6 but not the 4.
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1 Kaapse Klopse, Cape Town
The streets of Cape Town come alive on 2 January when the Cape Minstrels celebrate Tweede Nuwe Jaar in style wearing brightly coloured outfits, sporting umbrellas and singing traditional songs. more
2 Namaqualand daisies in spring
The annual blooming of Namaqualand daisies is a major event on the Northern Cape's calendar. In springtime millions of wild daisies sprout after the first rains, a sight to behold. more
3 Comrades Marathon
This ultra-marathon that takes place between Durban and Pietermaritzburg has become known as the 'greatest race on earth'. Great spectator value! more
4 Grahamstown National Arts Festival
In July, the student town of Grahamstown comes to live during the National Arts Festival – a celebration of song, dance and creativity. more
5 Pick 'n Pay Argus Cycle Tour
Known as one of the most popular cycling races on the planet. 'The Argus' takes place in and around the Cape Peninsula and attracts cyclists from all over the globe. more
6 The Sardine Run
A race of a different kind! Thousands upon thousands of silvery sardines make their way to the South Coast of KwaZulu Natal, followed closely by sharks and dolphins. more
7 Dusi Canoe Marathon
This multi-day canoe race between Pietermaritzburg and Durban is billed as the toughest in the world. more
8 The Soweto Derby
This yearly clash between Kaiser Chiefs and Orlando Pirates at Soccer City is legendary and soccer fans around the country just love the event. more
9 Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
This fun festival takes place in Oudtshoorn and is a celebration of Afrikaner culture. Great food stalls, music concerts and live performance. more
10 Knysna Oyster Festival
We South Africans just love our food festivals and one of the major highlights is the Knysna Oyster Festival along the Garden Route (March). more