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National Dialogue on the Curriculum of Readiness for the 21st Century Librarian
ALA Annual Conference - Chicago, Illinois - Tuesday June 28, 2005
Plenary Session II: Diversity and Equity in LIS Recruitment, Education, and Readiness
W. Michael Havener: Our first speaker is going to be Maurice Wheeler, from the University of North Texas.
Audience: [applause]
Maurice Wheeler: Good morning everyone! I have reached the interesting point in my life on the road to bifocals, where I can neither read with nor without my glasses.
Audience: [laughter]
Maurice Wheeler: So, you'll have to excuse me if I stumble through this. The year 2004 marked the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education court decision, requiring the desegregation of public schools in America.
This groundbreaking U.S. Supreme Court decision had a tremendous effect on libraries, and librarians. It reshaped laws, policies, practices, and to some degree attitudes about education, as well as the use of public facilities and libraries. It seemed hard to imagine that in 1991, the new generation of Supreme Court Justices quietly began to create what is viewed as an "incremental reversal" of that 1954 decision.
In fact, January 2004, the Civil Rights Project at the Harvard University, released the findings of a new research project on the re-segregation of American public schools. There is no need to research re-segregation of library schools in America. Statistically speaking, there are few if any, that have ever been truly integrated.
Librarian information assigns student and faculty demographics are a clear indication that while library school classrooms are not segregated by policy, they have remained so by negligent recruitment and retention practices.
The complexity of issues within the educational process is daunting. Yet, despite the frustrations fueled by enormous political and organizational challenges, there is optimism for the future. Indeed, great strides have been made in effort to provide African Americans, and later other people of color, with equal opportunities for intellectual and professional pursuits.
Yet, 141 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, 50 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, and 40 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Supreme Court determined that affirmative action in higher education is still appropriate, and still necessary.
America has yet to fully be exercised of its demons of racial bigotry and the inequities in education, there is still much to be done. Considering the tremendous range of cultural, ethnic, and other types of visible and invisible diversity in our lives, in what ways and by whom are students being prepared for the reality of the shifts in racial and ethnic majorities?
Meeting the information needs of a culturally diverse population, will require continuous assessment and reorganization of information in the advancement of cultural knowledge. For librarian's skills and abilities to be professionally relevant, they must possess a level of competence that enables them to function successfully, and provide effective information services in a racially and culturally diverse society.
How do we make this a reality? How do we move from rhetoric to action, and who is responsible for that outcome? This is the crucial question, who ultimately is responsible for these changes in our profession, and for moving the diversity agenda forward in LIS Education?
Certainly, it would not be inappropriate for me to say that we are all responsible. However, I believe that the responsibility falls with more weight in some areas than in others. In essence, some of us by virtue of our professional positions or participation are more responsible than others.
Although, I could discuss the LIS Administrative leadership in diversity or the lack of it, or the research that I have on faculty that shows they are not voluntarily to revise their current courses related to diversity, I will devote my today on another area of responsibility and that is of professional associations, and I'll start with ELIS.
I'm a new member to ELIS, and I certainly cannot say that I have my finger on the political pulse of the organization, but I am very observant. This past winter at the Annual Conference of ELIS, I facilitated a presentation on the research, current research and diversity.
Louise Robbins was present, but I expected her to be, because she's a big champion of diversity issues for a long time. But the sparse attendance at the session for me was an indication that the topic is no longer a collective agenda item for the association, and perhaps even for individuals. They don't see diversity as relevant in their daily lives as teachers. Moreover, without a critical mass of people who are insistent that diversity become a permanent and active aspect of the association's agenda, it never will.
Regarding ALA, although I am thrilled at the support that the Spectrum Initiative has continued for so many years, it appears to me that many people are happy to point to the Spectrum and suggest that all is well, and therefore the association and the profession are meeting their obligation. Yet, programs like today leave me hopeful that new initiatives will arise and we will see action for the future.
My research also tells me that faculty will do what they are required to do, the things that they cannot negotiate on. So, I go to the source of the power. The most recent version of the ALA standards of accreditation for masters programs and library information studies was last revised over 10 years ago.
It identified diversity as being important because of the changing racial and cultural composition of society. However, subsequent passages stopped short of taking prescriptive positions. Therefore, for me they are essentially window dressing.
For example, and I quote, "The school has policies to recruit, rank, and retain faculty for multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual backgrounds." That's great, but what good is the policy if there's no enforcement of it?
Sure, library schools might have policies, but how many of them have faculty of color in full-time tenure-track positions?
How many schools offer mainstreamed diversity-related courses on a regular basis?
While the inclusion of the four references on diversity in the accreditation standards of ALA is certainly no small feat -- and I know how painful it was to arrive at that -- the reality is that now 10 years later they lack the level of detail that commands action and response.
More important, the library schools know that the issues within the standards on which they are challenged are not related to diversity. The mere presence of the topic in the standards can provide support for schools that want to improve diversity.
However, the statements are sufficiently weak that schools and programs with no interest in the topic can easily point to halfhearted and marginally related activities in attempts to show their diligence.
The standards conclude by stating that there is a desire to include diversity. If a reader had previously any concerns about whether the references were prescriptive or not, the statement regarding desire makes it clear. The answer is "no". It's not a mandate. It's not even strongly encouraged. It's a "desire".
By contrast, the National Education Association, NEA, in its policy statements has taken a much strong position. While still avoiding heavy-handed prescriptive measures, the standards provide a clear articulation of the association's position and states it with some degree of specificity.
In the policy section on curriculum reform it reads, "Any effort at curriculum revision should be designed to prepare all students for effective citizenship and participation in an increasingly diverse multicultural and multiracial society. A common body of intellectual reference must be inclusive of all traditions and realities."
The NEA also recommends that, quote, "In designing the college's curriculum and schedule, the faculty should take the responsibility to ensure that it is suited to the needs of a multiethnic multicultural society."
In many ways, the library information science profession is a reflection of the society it serves. Nevertheless, it is essential that librarians are prepared to not only work with people from diverse backgrounds, but are also able to pursue multiple and divergent perspectives even when their own opinion, personal boundary, or belief is not validated or affirmed.
Library education programs must accept the responsibility of populating the profession with a new generation of culturally competent librarians. That task falls squarely on the shoulders of faculty.
Their success will be determined by how well their teaching reflects the evolution of both our society and our profession. Thank you.


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Kingston fire station will not be losing one of its engines as feared, it has been announced.
But 12 London stations will close, with seven two-pump stations losing an appliance, as part of plans to cut £65m from London Fire Brigade's budget.
However, four other stations, including Twickenham, will gain a new engine.
The plans were announced today by London fire commissioner Ron Dobson, who was presenting the draft fifth London safety plan at the service's headquarters in London.
Mr Dobson said: "Like virtually every other public service, the brigade needs to make savings.
"Additional savings cannot be found without making significant changes to how we keep London safe.
"In the last decade, demand for the brigade's service has changed dramatically and it's time to reflect that in how our fire stations, engines and staff are organised.
"With all the work we do to prevent fires happening, and response times that are still amongst the best in the country, I am confident these savings can be made while keeping London safe."
But Paul Neale, London south west area organiser for the FBU said: "This is devastating, in no uncertain terms.
"I don't know where to begin. This is going to put the public at risk. It's going to put firefighters at risk.
"It's just appalling, and they're getting away with it."
Earlier today, London mayor Boris Johnson hinted in a radio interview that firefighters could attend 999 calls in Minis, a practice trialled at the London Olympics.
That proposal did not feature in today's safety plan, but Mr Neale said: "To be told it looks as if we're going to have to travel round in Minis is unreal."
The 12 fire stations closing are: Belsize, Bow, Clapham, Clerkenwell, Downham, Kingsland, Knightsbridge, New Cross, Silvertown, Southwark, Westminster and Woolwich.
The seven stations losing a fire engine are: Chelsea, Chingford, Hayes, Leyton, Leytonstone, Peckham and Whitechapel .
The four stations gaining a fire engine are: Hendon, Orpington, Stanmore, and Twickenham.


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The Flawed GameLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
A teacher was having trouble getting her students to learn their facts, but she noticed that her students often played the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors". She made a game with similar rules in order to encourage the students to learn their facts.
The class would be divided into three teams: Rock, Paper and Scissors. The teacher would ask the students a question and the class would raise their hands if they knew the answer. If the first person to answer the question correctly is in the Rock team, he or she would choose one player from the Scissors team to be eliminated. Similarly, if a player from the Scissors team was first to answer the question, then he or she would eliminate a member from the Paper team. Lastly, if a player from the Paper team was first to answer correctly, he or she would eliminate a member from the Rock team.
The teacher would then continue asking questions until only one team still has members. That team would be declared the winner and all its members would win a small chocolate.
However, as soon as she explained the rules to the class, one particularly smart student immediately found a large flaw that made the game unplayable. Can you do the same?
HintThink about what would happen after one team loses all its members.
AnswerAfter one team loses all its members, the team that it eliminates members from will always win. For example, say the Scissors team is the first team to lose all its members. It is now impossible for the Paper team to lose any members, but the Paper team can still eliminate members from Rock team, so it will eventually win (if the Rock team answers questions, there would be no one left for them to eliminate so nothing would happen). This means that the best strategy is actually to avoid answering questions until one team is eliminated. If all the players know this, the game would never end.
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Well, guys, the cat's out of the bag. Or at least word of another All My Children star signing with All My Children was tweeted earlier today by Lindsay Hartley (Cara), who was one of the first actors -- along with Cameron Mathison (Ryan) -- to sign on the dotted line with the new production company.
Soapdom can confirm at this time that Darnell Williams (Jesse) has indeed signed on, making him the third star to head to the online version of All My Children.
With Williams former co-star, Debbi Morgan (ex Angie) now airing on the Young and the Restless as Harmony, will Prospect Park cast a new Angie for Jesse, or will it turn out to be Angie that was the one JR shot, paving the way for lots of emotional story material for Williams to play? Stay tuned.
Soapdom learned of Williams signing with Prospect Park last night directly from our sources at Prospect Park, so yes, we can confirm it.
However, it might be a while before All My Children fans get word of additional stars joining the online cast due to the complexity of the storytelling for All My Children going foward so stay tuned.
Also, keep in mind that all three deals (Hartley, Mathison, and Williams) are still contingent on AFTRA negotiations. We will keep you posted as things progress.
In the meantime, be on the lookout for another major announcement from Prospect Park coming soon.
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This solicitation provides program and application guidelines for Fiscal Year 2013 Services*Training*Officers*Prosecutors (STOP) Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program (STOP Program) funding, including guidelines for complying with requirements of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), as amended. By statute, the STOP Program supports communities in their efforts to develop and strengthen effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to combat violent crimes against women and to develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving violent crimes against women.
See the full announcement [1].
Links:[1] http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/docs/fy2013-stop-solicitation.pdf


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NV45 Preview: On Package HSIby Derek Wilson on 6/28/2004 1:00 AM EST
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Pete - Thursday, July 01, 2004 - linkThanks much for the prompt reply, Derek. Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - linkPPro cahce was a seperate hunk of silicon nudged right up next to the core ;-) search google images for pentium pro and you'll see the what it looked like under there.
#1 not sure when that's going to happen, but it will be enevitable for both companies. How we get there is the question. ;-)
#2 our demo is the same, only drivers have changed from our previous tests. We are looking into IQ also...
hope that helps,
Derek Wilson Reply
Pete - Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - linkSorry, Derek, please ignore #3. For some reason I missed that you specified the 6800U (PCIe) was a custom-clocked NV45. Reply
Pete - Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - linkHi Derek,
Can you help clarify three things?
1. I remember reading that ATi would eventually move to all-PEG-native GPUs, and then use a bridge for AGP cards, similar to nV's future plans. Did you hear anything about this from ATi or their OEMs/partners?
2. Did you change your Far Cry demo, or are new drivers responsible for the impressive gains the 6800U has made to significantly overtake the X800XT(PE)?
3. The "NV45" in your charts is simply a higher-clocked "6800U (PCIe)," right? Did you down-clock the NV45 to attain the 6800U PCIe numbers used in Anand's earlier LGA article? Reply
KF - Monday, June 28, 2004 - linkI'm not sure how garbled a recollecton can be, Minotaar. That's not the way I remember it. The PPro had the cache on separate chips in a complex package that plugged into a socket. PIIs, slot cartridge style, had separate cache chips at first, and no cache chips for the first Celeron, true. Later PIIs, and PII style Celerons had on-die full speed cache. On die, reduced size, cache for such as the notable 300 MHz (not 266) Celery that OCed 1.5x by setting the bus speed to 100 instead of 66.
Back to the subject, There are some very odd results for a solution that is supposed to be, and mostly is, equal between AGP and PCIe. Reply
GTMan32 - Monday, June 28, 2004 - linkThere was a web site reporting that NVIDIA opened up one of ATIs PCIe chips and found it wasn't native but just had the bridging on-chip like the NV45.
Then there was another comment that the ATI PCIe chips were clocked lower because of OEM fears that they were running too hot at the same speed as the AGP parts.
One could conclude that the tacked on AGP->PCIe bridge was causing this since it would be the same size as the AGP plus the extra circuits for the bridge. If the ATI solution was really native then it shouldn't have any heating problems?
But was all this just a rumor. I haven't heard anything on this since. Reply
OCedHrt - Monday, June 28, 2004 - linkA possible explanation for the drop in performance on the PCIe cards could be due to specific optimizations that aren't enabled for the PCIe cards in the current drivers. Just a wild guess. Reply
ZobarStyl - Monday, June 28, 2004 - linkThis bridging seems to be the perfect solution for first generation PCI-E chips which have nothing to gain over AGP anyway...just so long as nV doesn't get lazy and has a native PCI-E card by next gen (which might actually use the bandwidth), they really haven't lost anything with this solution. Good article. Reply
Filibuster - Monday, June 28, 2004 - linkMinotaar,
The Pentium Pro, by todays standards, *does* have on package cache because it was not part of the cpu core. It is full cpu speed however.
The big deal about the Pentium 2 cache was that Intel had to make it that way so they could test the cache chips separately from the cpu and thus save money, because the PPRo was soo expensive. Reply
Wonga - Monday, June 28, 2004 - link-----
Pentium Pro also had the advantage of clock speed cache, whereas P2's cache was bus speed.
Well, if we want to be correct about everything, the P2's cache was not run at bus speed, but instead a fraction of the core speed. Half the core speed, to be precise.
Anyway, cheers for the review. Looks like nVidia listened to their OEM partners here and did the sensible thing bringing the HSI on package. Reply
kherman - Monday, June 28, 2004 - linkHow did this get eh NV45 label? Shouldn't this be the NV40p or sum'n? Reply
Minotaar - Monday, June 28, 2004 - linkPentium Pro did NOT have on-package cache. Pentium Pro had On-DIE cache. Pentium 2 took a step backwards and had on-package cache (that huge ugly slot garbage, with the triple fans from OC co's like Glacier? The side two fans cooled cache chips on the side). It wasnt until Socket P3 that on-die cache came back.
Thats why celeron happened the way it did. it started off as a p2 with none of the on-package cache. Remember the ol' celly 266 that OC'd to 450, and for some lucky ones 504? Well That was just the P2 card without the cache on the sides - the sides were empty.
Pentium Pro also had the advantage of clock speed cache, whereas P2's cache was bus speed. But I digress. The article has an inconsistancy. Reply
Brucmack - Monday, June 28, 2004 - linkWell, you're not going to gain anything in the near future with PCIe, so if you already have an AGP card, don't bother.
It would probably be a good idea to get a PCIe card if you're upgrading to the new Intel chipset though. The boards that have both PCIe and AGP slots are running the AGP slot off of the PCI bus, so there will be a slight performance penalty associated with that. Reply
GhandiInstinct - Monday, June 28, 2004 - linkSo is AGP8x faster or better than PCIe, because that's what I got from those earlier benchmarks. Or will drivers and optimizations change that in the future?
Basically, is it worth while(money) to purchase PCIe now?


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Microsoft Announces New Surface RT SKU: 64GB Without Touch Coverby Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/22/2013 12:00 PM EST
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kmmatney - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkcrickets.... Reply
mjv.theory - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkCan't quite get my head round how they can justify charging $100 for a $2 keyboard. Reply
bapcorp - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkProbably because it was built by Apple ! Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkPoint me to where we can get capacitive touch keyboards that thin for $2? 50-70 dollars isn't unreasonable for a regular keyboard imo, for something as thin as this and with capacitive touch buttons which probably cost more I don't think 100 is unreasonable. Reply
MonkeyPaw - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkBy comparison, you can get a Transformer dock for ASUS tablets for anywhere from FREE (Transformer RT) to $200. I managed to get one for my TF700T for $99 at Best Buy. It's no Touchcover, but it does offer more battery and a couple extra expansion ports. The keyboard itself isn't half bad. Makes the tablet far more useful for everyday tasks, while also serving as a "cover" of sorts. Reply
paul878 - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkMicrosoft Logic---It is more expensive than Apple so it must be better! Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkHow so? 500 for the 32GB SKU, the 16GB iPad is that much. Granted Windows 8 RT takes a lot more storage than iOS, lets call the storage a draw (the Surface still has a bit more), the price seems the exact same to me.
The keyboard is more expensive than the Apple one, but the Apple one isn't this thin, magnetic, and capacitive. Reply
uhuznaa - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkBut then the Apple BT keyboard is a real keyboard. And with a case or stand for the iPad you can position the keyboard as you like.
I agree that the keyboard cover should be much, much cheaper. MS should just include it for the base price. This would make it attractive and MS needs its platform to be attractive. It seems that nobody gets the most crucial thing: Market share is crucial and without it you won't be able to make any profits later on. Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - linkTrue,but is a "real keyboard" best for tablet use? It doesn't attach to the tablet, you have to carry it around separately, and with a separate case if you want the tablet to stand while typing. The smart cover plus the Apple keyboard end up no less expensive than the Surface + touch cover and built in stand. Reply
paul878 - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkIf Microsoft drop the price to $299 this would fly of the shelves, and they would have an ecosystem overnight. The Surface is a slick design but price to fail. Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkI suspect they aren't selling it for profit neutrality (like Google is with the Nexus) because they don't want to piss their partners off. I would love it if they did though. They need to get marketshare up first and foremost, agreed. Reply
steven75 - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkTHIS! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING! Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkI've been tempted by Surface..more so by Pro, but have zero interest in these touch keyboards. If I was getting a keyboard, it would be the other model (though I think I'd sooner just use a normal keyboard, or a model that comes with a normal keyboard as dock). Reply
kyuu - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - linkI've seen this same news accompanied by the note that the new Surface RT 64GB SKU will come with a free touch cover of your choice elsewhere. Reply
IlllI - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - linkanyone try that crappy felt (or whatever its made of) keyboard? i did. ~try~ is the key word. it was bad. i'd never pay that much for an over-glorified screen protector
kyuu - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - linkI've tried it too. It actually works quite well. Still, I can't quite wrap my head around the exorbitant pricing. Reply
kmmatney - Thursday, January 24, 2013 - linkIt really is like the Zune all over again, except now they're competing against Google and Apple. Reply


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A WEEKEND conference which holds the key to future success in Wiltshire's tourism trade starts in Swindon today.
Delegates of The Group Travel Organisers Association (GTOA) are meeting at the Hilton Hotel for the Annual Showcase Exhibition and AGM Weekend which takes place in a different county every year.
Among the GTOA's aims and objectives, it tries to negotiate various travel and leisure-related services for the benefit of all GTOA members and the organisations they represent.
Every one of the delegates from the GTOA visiting the county this weekend will assess each of the sites they visit and report recommendations on where they should book trips and spend money in future.
Visit Wiltshire, the county's tourism body, secured the GTOA conference for the first time in the county's history with a bid last year, which contested and won against several other regions for the honour.
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Donnerstag, 22. April 2010
Prebuilt jre-image available
To try it, simply pass -Dsun.java2d.xrender=True to java, e.g.
> bin/java -Dsun.java2d.xrender=True -jar demo/jfc/Java2D/Java2Demo.jar
Those OpenJDK based builds contain the latest xrender sources, as well as the Jules rasterizer.
I'll try to keep those builds in sync with jdk7 master as far as possible.
Have a lot of fun :)
- cl333r hat gesagt…
I'm wondering why isn't it better to use OpenGL directly?
Afaik XRender exposes only a part of OpenGL and hence it's slower, afaik Cairo tried to use XRender extensively as a back-end but then dropped it for several reasons, otoh recently the Cairo devs decided that going pure OpenGL is better and their preliminary benchmarks have proven that. That's what cairo-gl in version 1.9.6 is about, you can read details about it in their news section.
Am I missing something important why in Java it can't be done? Just wondering..
- 24. April 2010 um 16:13
- Linuxhippy hat gesagt…
Seems I have spent countless hours of development for nothing ;)
- 25. April 2010 um 03:47
- cl333r hat gesagt…
I'm just wondering why XRender..
- 25. April 2010 um 16:06
- Linuxhippy hat gesagt…
pass -Dsun.java2d.opengl=True to java, and you'll know why.
- 27. April 2010 um 01:49
- cl333r hat gesagt…
Well, thanks, I'm actually using this option for like 2 months and while it feels a bit faster it's still nowhere as fast as Java feels on Window$, so I thought the OpenGL back-end is just not optimized and/or doesn't use all of its power to say the least, I thought partly because when this effort has been started Linux had very bad drivers but since then Sun (now Oracle) didn't bother reviewing this OpenGL pipe. But I'm just a Java dev and these are my personal thoughts, you certainly know better hence your comments would be highly appreciated.
- 27. April 2010 um 13:27
- Linuxhippy hat gesagt…
Ok, to make it short:
The main argument for XRender is clearly driver support...
The current OpenGL pipeline works only well with the proprietary NVidia driver (sometimes), and is broken almost everywhere else.
XRender is supported on almost every driver+gpu combination and if not there are SSE2 optimized software fallbacks.
> Afaik XRender exposes only a part of
> OpenGL and hence it's slower
Where did you grab that? XRender provides almost everything Java2D needs.
To make it short, XRender is here to stay and it works pretty well.
That is what counts for me.
- 30. April 2010 um 01:17
- Andrea Aime hat gesagt…
Hi Clemens,
thanks for sharing a prebuilt JDK and for commenting on the scalability thread on the Sun Java2D forums.
I gave a spin to this build with my little synthentich benchmarks, so far the results are disappointing, the single threaded case shows a performance 4 times slower than Ductus and a very close to the default renderer on your build, but slower than the results I got out of my own build of OpenJDK (b82)
Maybe it's because I'm running a 64bit machine and thus possibly the native libraries are not loaded? I got no error messages though.
Anyways, if you want, I'd like to share the synthetic benchmarks with you.
Contact me at andrea dot aime at gmail dot com to get them
- 30. April 2010 um 21:34
- Xerxes Rånby hat gesagt…
Hi, I did some quick benchmarks on using jgears using your prebuilt jre-image
I have fetched the prebuilt jgears.jar from http://trac-hg.assembla.com/jgears/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/jgears.jar?format=raw to be used for benchmarking.
xerxes@xerxes-J464X:openjdk_xrender_20100422/bin/java -Dsun.java2d.xrender=True -jar jgears.jar
XRender pipeline enabled
Jules library successfully loaded
Size: 512x512, 100 frames in 2839 ms = 35,224 FPS
Size: 512x512, 100 frames in 2180 ms = 45,872 FPS
Size: 512x512, 100 frames in 2142 ms = 46,685 FPS
xerxes@xerxes-J464X:openjdk_xrender_20100422/bin/java -jar jgears.jar
Size: 512x512, 100 frames in 4505 ms = 22,198 FPS
Size: 512x512, 100 frames in 3581 ms = 27,925 FPS
Size: 512x512, 100 frames in 3733 ms = 26,788 FPS
xerxes@xerxes-J464X:openjdk_xrender_20100422/bin/java -Dsun.java2d.opengl=True -jar jgears.jar
Could not enable OpenGL pipeline for default config on screen 0
Size: 512x512, 100 frames in 4774 ms = 20,947 FPS
Size: 512x512, 100 frames in 3786 ms = 26,413 FPS
Size: 512x512, 100 frames in 3689 ms = 27,108 FPS
And to sum it up:
I got in average a 1.7X speedincrease using XRender!
Verry cool!
- 3. Mai 2010 um 04:06
- Linuxhippy hat gesagt…
As communicated over mail, Jules was not active because a cmd-line switch was missing.
Using Jules as AATileGenerator was more or less something "for free", so its main-goal was making XRender fast, not providing a fast software-rasterizer.
Althouhg Jules scaled almost linear, and was in many areas a lot faster than Pisces, there are cases where its a lot slower than the closed-source ductus rasterizer.
Hopefully Cairo-1.10 can help here - beeing able to rasterize directly without tesselation.
Thanks for testing, glad you are happy with the results :)
jgears is more or less a worst-case scenario, excercising all the areas where XRender doesn't really shine compared to software-only-rendering ;)
- 6. Mai 2010 um 04:43
- Xerxes Rånby hat gesagt…
Users reports are extreamly happy using the xrender pipeline when running remotely accessed java gui applications.
"Now, is there a place in /etc where I can set this (-Dsun.java2d.xrender=True) option as a default?"
- 12. Mai 2010 um 03:27
- Xerxes Rånby hat gesagt…
Xerxes: You can add
export _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dsun.java2d.xrender=True"
to your ~/.profile
and it will make all java applications use the xrender pipeline by default!
- 12. Mai 2010 um 03:50
- zstegi hat gesagt…
hi, nice feature and fast!
one question: is there a way to get vsync to work, like with the opengl-pipe? would be nice.
thx, your work is a lifesaver
- 16. Mai 2010 um 03:49
- Linuxhippy hat gesagt…
zstegi: As far as I know, there's no way to control vsync, sorry :/
Would be a nice feature for X in general, make window-resizing etc look smoother.
- Clemens
- 17. Mai 2010 um 00:32


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Postcards from Pat: March 21, 2013
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AUSTIN, Texas — When the regional sites were first announced, I was hoping like heck for Austin. So here we are in a college town with an edge.
I have been here twice before — once to cover an Auburn-Texas game and once on my 50th birthday. My wife's present to me was to take me to a game because we never get to go to one together and we came here for a Texas-Texas A&M game.
I really like Austin and Sixth Street is one of the most amazing places you can see. It's all bars and tattoo shops and — to be honest — a lot of homeless people. The music is tremendous.
Unfortunately, I missed the South By Southwest music festival here. Green Day was among the bands to play it.
I also got a recommendation from Florida football coach Will Muschamp, who lived here for a while. I'm going to try that place out today.
But first, there's a lot of work to be done. Interviews at the Erwin Center go all day. Did I mention how much I love being at the NCAA Tournament?
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In The Time of The Butterflies
Saturday Mar 16, 2013
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Play focusing on the memory of the Mirabal sisters, who led part of the resistance against the dictator Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and were assassinated in 1960.
TP's production is directed by Nicole Phelps and is a workshop production of the play in its English version (also by Caridad Svich). The play was originally commissioned by the Repertorio Español in New York City to be performed in Spanish. The world premiere of the play in English will be at the Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis in April 2013.


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Fugaku Uchiha (うちはフガク, Uchiha Fugaku) was a jōnin-level shinobi of Konohagakure and leader of the Uchiha clan and the Konoha Military Police Force. He was Itachi's father and Sasuke's first father.
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When the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox attacked Konohagakure, the village accused the Uchiha clan of orchestrating the attack (during the attack, Itachi noted that Fugaku and his wife were noticeably absent before the beast struck - what they were doing is currently unknown). This belief caused a rift between the village and the Uchiha clan. Fugaku, out of spite, conspired a coup d'etat that would allow the Uchiha clan to take control of the village. Eventually, Fugaku placed Itachi as a spy in the ANBU to pass information back to the clan. However, Itachi secretly betrayed the Uchiha and took the role of a double agent, leaking information right back to the village.
As Itachi was the eldest of his sons, Fugaku focused most of his attention on him, even defending Itachi when he was suspected of killing Shisui Uchiha. However, the two had a falling out when Itachi lost hope in the clan and Fugaku shifted his attention to Sasuke, even teaching him how to use the Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, and was impressed at how Sasuke was able to master the technique after just one week. Sasuke was finally able to enjoy his father's company, but Fugaku advised him not to follow in Itachi's footsteps. Fugaku was later found laying dead on top of his wife's corpse after being killed by Itachi during the latter's massacre of the Uchiha clan.
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As leader of the Uchiha, Fugaku was focused on the clan's interest and welfare. His son, Sasuke, saw him as a stern and uncaring man (though his wife revealed he cared deeply for his youngest child) while he was seen as a father figure to the rest of the clan. As Itachi was his successor as head of the clan, Fugaku spent much of his time focusing on the development of his eldest and little time with his youngest. Sasuke trained constantly in order to get his father's attention and approval. Near the end of his life, Fugaku had switched his attention to Sasuke, having lost hope in the wayward Itachi. He was only impressed by great feats and rarely praised anyone, having high expectations. Fugaku was very serious, hardly smiling most of the time. He also had a short temper, easily getting angry at Itachi for trying to deny an important mission in exchange for attending Sasuke's school initiation, and for refusing to attend an important clan meeting.
Despite his outward attitude of desiring to strengthen the bonds between the Uchiha clan and Konohagakure, Fugaku was in truth resentful of how the village had shunned the clan for years, particularly after the Nine-Tails' Attack on Konoha. His spite had taken as far as to plan a coup d'etat, which would lead to a potential Fourth Shinobi World War, and he was apparently unwilling to negotiate with Konoha's elders, forcing the Uchiha's assassination.
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Fugaku had short, black hair that reached to his shoulders and onyx-coloured eyes, with visible creases below them made more pronounced whenever he adopted a stern look (both of which Itachi inherited from him). He wore a simple kimono with grey pants which had the clan's symbol on the back when not on duty. While on duty, he wore the standard flak jacket, along with a black shirt with the Konoha Military Police Force symbol on the shoulders, shin-guards and a black, open-front apron with white diamonds on the bottom.
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As the leader of the Uchiha clan, it is likely that he was well-versed in all the clan's techniques. He taught Sasuke the clan's signature technique, the Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique demonstrating great mastery of the technique. He also wielded the Sharingan, similar to most members in his clan. Also, being the leader of the Konoha Military Police Force, it can be said that he was very intelligent and a formidable opponent in battle. He also had some knowledge about the Mangekyō Sharingan, after telling Sasuke that it needs a great sacrifice to awaken.
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- Fugaku is an alias for Mount Fuji.


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Once you are served with a lawsuit, you need to decide whether you are going to respond to the lawsuit. If you choose to respond, you then have to decide how. This is a really good time to talk to a lawyer for advice on whether to respond and, if so, how to best handle your case. Click for help finding a lawyer.
You have 30 days AFTER the date you are served to file a response with the court. The 30 days include weekend days and court holidays. If the last day falls on a day that the court is closed, you have until the next day that the court is open.
1. You can NOT respond
If you do not file a response within 30 days after you were served, the plaintiff can file a form called "Request for Default," which means you have defaulted and can no longer respond to the lawsuit to defend yourself. If there is any part of the case you disagree with, or any amount of money you feel you do not owe, you will not be able to tell the court once you have defaulted.
After a default is entered the plaintiff can ask the court to enter a default judgment against you. The plaintiff can prove his or her case without you disputing what he or she says, and can win up to the amount that he or she asked for in the lawsuit against you.
Then the plaintiff can enforce the judgment against you. This can mean getting money from you by garnishing your paycheck, levying on your bank account, or putting a lien on your house or car. A judgment against you can also show up on your credit report. This can make it hard to get a credit card or a loan.
But, in some cases, it may make sense for you not to respond. This is a very difficult decision to make, so talk to a lawyer about what would be best for you in your particular situation.
2. You can file an answer or a general denial
These are the most common ways to respond to a lawsuit:
3. You can file a motion
In certain situations, you can respond to the lawsuit by filing a motion (a request) that usually tells the court that the plaintiff made a mistake in his or her lawsuit. Some of the more common motions are:
Give your reasons why the court should take it out of the complaint.
Talk to a lawyer! A lawyer can answer any questions you may have about what type of response would be best in your case. Each type of response has different legal implications that could even hurt your case in the future, so it is very important you understand all the consequences to what you choose to file. Click for help finding a lawyer.
Even if you cannot afford a lawyer to handle your whole case, you may be able to get a consultation for on a limited issue or for a limited time period to help you decide on your best strategy. To get more information about limited-scope representation or for help finding a limited-scope lawyer, read the section on Limited-Scope Representation.
If you decide to file a response, you must file it in the same courthouse where the lawsuit was filed. The address should be on the papers you were served by the plaintiff. Make sure you take your original plus at least 2 copies to the clerk's office to file.
You will have to pay a filing fee to file your papers. If you cannot afford the filing fees, you can ask the court for a fee waiver. If the court approves your fee waiver request, you will not have to pay the fees. But if you win your lawsuit and collect costs from the other side, the court may ask you to pay back the waived fees.
Once you file your response to the plaintiff's lawsuit, you must serve a copy on the plaintiff. You can also serve a copy of your response BEFORE you file the original with the court. Either way, make sure you file your response before the 30 days are up!
To serve the plaintiff with a copy of your response, have someone 18 or older (not you and not involved in the case) mail a copy to the plaintiff. If the plaintiff is represented by a lawyer, a copy of your response gets served on the lawyer. If the plaintiff is self-represented, it gets served on the plaintiff. The person who does this for you must fill out a proof of service by mail form. Then, make sure you file this proof of service form with the court and keep a copy for yourself.
If you have a claim against the plaintiff and you want the court to hear your claim, you have to file a cross-complaint against the plaintiff at the same time you file your answer. If you do not, you will waive your claim. This may also be true for claims against third parties if they are based on the same facts and circumstances as the lawsuit the plaintiff filed against you.
If you are adding new parties to the lawsuit, you will also need to complete a summons for the cross-complaint and have the new parties served with the summons and cross-complaint. You do not need a summons if the only persons you are suing are the ones who are suing you.


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Honda received so many complaints for its latest australian commercial, that it withdrew the ad less than 48 hours after its Sunday evening release.
In the ad, created by Foote Cone & Belding, a man on a rooftop carpark admires the new Honda so much that his own car commits caricide by driving itself off the roof.
"We were showing it was the car doing it by itself and we focused on the jealousy of the vehicle. We didn't expect the insensitivities to come through so strongly." said Andrew Scott to smh.au
"The national depression initiative, beyondblue said the company had demonstrated gross insensitivity to the major Australian health issue of suicide." from bandt.com
"People ringing in with heart-wrenching stories of their own personal experience with suicide and within the light of that, we're not in the business of creating offence or harm in the community and effective yesterday we pulled the ad," said Honda Australia director Lindsay Smolley to abc.net
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Cancer is ugly. I hate it. I shared Jamie's story with you earlier in the week and now I'm going to share Matt B's story. You see, in this line of work I communicate with people so often on email. Once in a while on the phone but mostly email. I've worked with many of the PR reps I know multiple times since this journey of mine began, and sometimes, personal information sneeks into our conversations. Its kind of inevitable, don't you think? Anyway, several weeks ago, a very nice woman named Dre shared with me her brother's fight against cancer, and I want to share his story with you- because maybe you can help- or maybe his story will inspire you in some way. He's had a pretty amazing life, filled with challenges, but his strength and will to live are awesome. When I read his story, their family story, I was sobbing. Literally sobbing while reading.
Please visit, and read Matt's story. Follow his Facebook page, and support Matt on this uphill battle he's fighting. Support his family and friends as they support Matt. Donate if you are able to support his ever-increasing medical costs. Share his page. Share his story. Someone you know or I know may be able to help in some way- but they can't help if they aren't aware. So please, please share.
Matt, Dre and their family have been in my prayers, and will continue to be. I hope they can find their way into yours.


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MEMORIES – that was the word on everyone's lips as you squeezed through the throng in Church Street yesterday.
For the parents in the 2,000-strong crowd, it was about creating memories that their children, some of them still in buggies, would carry with them forever.
And for the older generation, the scene – a town centre awash with Union flags and imitation crowns – provoked memories of previous royal visits.
As the bell tolled at Blackburn Cathedral, and the clock struck 11am, it was odd to see such a sizeable crowd so quiet.
Then, suddenly, the anticipation gave way to a raucous cheer as Her Majesty the Queen, visiting Blackburn for the first time since 2006, progressed down Railway Road and into Church Street.
The spring sunshine, which was so pleasant earlier in the week, had given way to a grey, overcast Thursday morning.
But the warm smile on the Queen's face as she made her way towards the cathedral lit up the faces of those who had waited for more than two hours to greet her.
The Queen, accompanied by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, arrived in Blackburn on the Royal Train just before 10.50am.
Dressed in a cerise hat and coat, she was welcomed on the platform by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, Charles Kay-Shuttleworth, and his wife, Lady Shuttleworth.
Lancashire police's chief constable, Steve Finnegan, accompanied by his wife, Jackie, were also on hand to make their acquaintance.
As word of her imminent approach spread, staff and customers spilled out of The Mall, Blackburn Market, banks, pubs and offices to catch a glimpse of the monarch.
Photographers, amateur and professional, clambered on top of stools, benches and plinths to get the best spot for a shot.
School groups and day trippers shouted and screamed, hoping to gain Her Majesty's attention from the roadside.
Everyone seemed to be armed with a smartphone, tablet or digital camera – a concept that would surely have been alien to the Queen when she first visited Blackburn in 1955.
Among them was 80-year-old Eileen Eastham, who was in town to see the Queen for a third time.
Sporting a Union flag top hat left over from the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, Eileen, from Darwen, said: "I've actually been to a garden party in Buckingham Palace.
"I was there because I was awarded the British Empire Medal for 40 years of service to the sea cadets, and then again when my sons received the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
"It's wonderful that the Queen has chosen to come to Blackburn for the Maundy service. It's a real lift for the whole area. You can see that by how many people have turned up today."
Stood next to Eileen was a family with a much different background, but the same unflinching support for the monarchy.
Nafisa Mulla, 44, from Shadsworth, said: "I came over to Blackburn from India in 1990 and I'm a big fan of the royal family.
"My grandfather fought in the war and my son is in the sea cadets so we feel a connection. We are all part of one big community and it's such a big deal to have the Queen here.
"My daughter, Afraa, loves photography so she is here with her camera hoping to create some memories we can all look back on."
The buzz of the crowd was palpable.
"Isn't she beautiful for an 88-year-old?" whispered one woman. "She takes a brilliant photo," cooed another.
"Is that claret she's wearing?" queried a rather worried man in a Blackburn Rovers shirt.
For the Leigh family, the occasion was a big one.
Mum Claire, 32, said: "I just think it's a memory that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. I remember when Princess Diana came to visit my school and I want them to learn about the Royal family and have those same memories."
In a matter of moments, the Queen's car had passed through Church Street, turned down Darwen Street and on to the cathedral grounds.
Despite the chill, hundreds of hardy folk remained huddled outside for almost an hour, waiting for a second glimpse.
And it duly came, just after midday, as the Queen - and her seemingly ceaseless smile - exited the cathedral down Darwen Street en route to Ewood Park.
Outside the stadium was Karen Dewdney, who waited patiently with her sons, Rhys Williams and Noah Williams, both seven.
She said: "We made some Union Jack flags for the children to wave. It is a day for them to remember."
Cheryl Schofield was also at Ewood Park with her children Harry, nine, and Martha, seven.
She said: "It's a great opportunity for the children to come and see the Queen. You never know when you will see the monarch back in Blackburn."
After dining with the borough's religious and civic leaders, the Royal couple were taken to RAF Samlesbury, where a helicopter was waiting to take them home.
Among those present were Jack Straw, Blackburn's long-serving MP, the Bishop of Blackburn, the Right Reverend Julian Henderson, and Venkatesh and Balaji Rao, co-owners of Blackburn Rovers FC.
As the crowd, young and old, dispersed into the market and the surrounding shops, it was clear that new memories had been made.
The children of Little Acorns Day Nursery, Feniscowles, were preparing to do a project on their day out. Laura Atherton, 84, chatted with her friends and compared events to the four previous royal visits she had attended.
That mixture of looking to the future and nostalgia, so evident yesterday, is also relevant to Blackburn as a town.
As the £30m work on the Cathedral Quarter progresses, the council hopes to transform it into a thriving cultural hub, centred around the historic 19th century church building.
New landscaped gardens, shops and a public square are planned; places where the people of the town can create new memories.
And, for many of Blackburn's young people, the first of those memories may well be yesterday's visit of the Queen.


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Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9 TV dated August 15th, 2012
ADNAN OKTAR: Those who look carefully into the Middle East would see a struggle in between the communist world and the world of the believers. Noone was aware that Iran is taking sides with the communists, note that people have newly learnt that. We know them as the "Iran Islamic Republic" but they are a word-perfect communist country. The mosques are all deserted and empty in Iran. Go and have a look at them if you like. You will see that the mosques are all empty. Noone goes to the mosques. When the head of the state gives a speech they give sermon (khutbah) and they do so in the universities. The students of the university cannot go out anyway, so everyone there applauds. They give such sermons from time to time. The majority of the students are darwinists and materialists. I mean you can almost not find a student who is not a darwinist. You cannot see a person out on the streets who performs prayers. And people ask "Why does Iran support Syria?" Well, they support them because they are communists. They are supporting the PKK as well. For instance, Iran is known to be against the PKK yet that is not the truth. They share the same mindset.


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OTTAWA - It was the first rain-free day during the Putnam County Fair on Thursday.
Harness racing had to be delayed to Thursday because of wet race tracks.
Upcoming activities include the Tug-A-Truck on Friday at 7 p.m. in front of the grandstand. On Saturday, it will be Motor Mayhem with numerous derbies in front of the grandstand.
The small animal sale was held Thursday at the fair. On Friday will be the large animal sale.
Also on the schedule for Saturday is the W.A.R. wrestling near the main arches.
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Urinary Incontinence—Male
Urinary incontinence is the loss of voluntary bladder control that can lead to urine leakage. Incontinence can be temporary or long-lasting.
The causes may vary with the type of incontinence.
Stress Incontinence
The accidental loss of urine during physical activity or coughing, sneezing, and laughing
The leakage may be caused by:
Urge Incontinence
This is also known as overactive bladder and is the accidental loss of urine when the bladder spasms for no reason. It may be caused by:
Overflow Incontinence
This occurs when the bladder will not empty. The urine builds up and overflows. This leads to leaking of urine. It may be caused by:
Functional Incontinence
This is when you have normal bladder control, but you are physically unable to reach the toilet in time. It may be a result of a condition like severe arthritis. Drugs that cause confusion or sedation can also lead to functional incontinence.
There may be several different causes for incontinence. In some cases, the cause may also be unclear.
Men who are older than 65 are most affected.
Factors that may increase your risk of incontinence include:
Urinary incontinence is a symptom of other conditions. Any loss of bladder control can be considered incontinence.
With stress incontinence, leakage may happen when there is extra pressure on your bladder. This can happen when you laugh, sneeze, lift heavy objects, or exercise.
With urge incontinence, you may have a loss of bladder control following a strong urge to urinate. You may not be able to hold urine long enough to make it to a toilet.
When Should I Call My Doctor?
Call your doctor if you have any loss of urine control. Your doctor can help you determine the underlying cause.
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. You will be asked about your urine leakage and how often you empty your bladder. A physical exam will be done to look for any physical causes. These include blockages or nerve problems. You may be asked to to keep a diary of your urinary habits.
You may be referred to a specialist. Urologists are doctors who focus on urinary issues.
Tests to help find the cause of the incontinence may include:
Treatments may include:
Behavioral Therapy
Behavioral therapy includes:
Weight Loss
Losing weight may help reduce the number of episodes due to stress or urge incontinence. Talk to your doctor about a weight loss program that is right for you.
Medications may be prescribed to relax the bladder muscles. These types of medications are called anticholinergics. They are often used in treating urge incontinence. Examples include:
Your doctor may also recommend
Absorbent diapers are often used by men with incontinence.
Catheters are sometimes used to treat more severe cases. External (condom) or internal (Foley) catheters may be used.
Another option is a penile clamp. These clamps are padded and have a sleeve to absorb leakage.
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Home Care
Nerve Stimulation
Devices like Urgent PC and Inter-Stim may be used to stimulate the nerves. This may involve implanting a thin lead wire with a small electrode tip. This electronic stimulation therapy can be done as a series of treatments in your doctor's office and can help strengthen muscles that control voiding.
In men, surgery may be done to relieve a physical blockage due to an enlarged prostate.
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The changes at Seven are part of a broader upheaval in Australia's television industry, with the ailing Ten work sacking several prominent newsreaders and Nine recently striking an eleventh-hour deal to restructure its debt-laden empire.


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I looked up some history of this word, first at the Word Detective:
It seems that this use of "dibs" is not nearly as old as one might have thought. The first citation for the "it's mine" sense of "dibs," in fact, comes only from 1932, although "dibs" was used as slang for "money" as early as 1807. "Dibs" was an abbreviation of "dibstones," a game similar to jacks played with "dibs," which were sheep knuckle bones. It is unclear exactly how "dibs" came to be a child's way of staking a claim, but presumably it made sense if you knew the rules of the game of "dibs."
...a fascinating list of the British equivalents. A child in Southern England who spots the one cookie left on the plate might exclaim "Bags it" or "Baggsy," whereupon by the sacred code of children the prize is hers. Her London counterpart might say "Squits," and still further north a child would say "Foggy," "Furry" or "Firsy." Other words which seem to work as well include "Barley," "Bollars," "Jigs" and, in Scotland, "Chaps" or "Chucks." We will probably never know where these words came from...
Michael Quinion's World Wide Words states, in part:
There are various other meanings of dib, as both noun and verb, which has had a muddled history in which dab and dap feature strongly as variant forms. But none of these have any obvious link to the word in the sense you're asking about. As an example, in older northern English dialects it meant a depression in the ground, possibly a variant of dip, as here in John Galt's The Annals of the Parish of 1821: "The spring was slow of coming, and cold and wet when it did come; the dibs were full, the roads foul, and the ground that should have been dry at the seed-time, was as claggy as clay, and clung to the harrow".
Yet another suggestion is that the word is a modified abbreviation of division or divide. This neatly circumvents the problems with provenance, and fits the model of many children's slang terms of this and earlier periods. But I've not come across any evidence for it.


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2 in OneRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
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Liberty opened its 25th season of play at Williams Stadium in grand fashion on Saturday, handing future Big South foe Monmouth a 45-15 loss in front of the sixth-largest crowd in stadium history.
Included with today's news and notes are radio highlights from the contest courtesy of the Liberty Flames Sports Network's radio crew, plus Coach Turner Gill's postgame interview with LFSN radio sideline reporter Nick Pierce.
Throughout the season, LibertyFlames.com will run a similar feature online each Sunday, spotlighting the notable accomplishments and numbers from the previous day's gridiron battle.
Home Opener Notes:
• Liberty's record in its first home game of the year: 26-14-1.
• Liberty in its last 10 home-opening games: 9-1.
• During the last 10 years, Liberty's only home opening loss was head coach Turner Gill's first home game last year against No. 24 Norfolk State, 31-24, on Sept. 8, 2012.
• Liberty has now won 10 of its last 11 home-opening contests.
Series with Monmouth:
• Saturday's match-up was the first in the series between the two programs.
• Monmouth is one of four first-time opponents on Liberty's 2013 schedule.
• Other first-time matchups for Liberty in 2013 include: Richmond (9/28), Old Dominion (10/5) and Brevard (11/16).
• Liberty will start to face Monmouth more frequently in coming years when the Hawks will become an associate member of the Big South Conference in 2014.
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• The Monmouth game marked the beginning of Liberty's 25th season of competition at Williams Stadium.
• Liberty has posted a 90-43 record in 25 seasons at Williams Stadium (67.7 winning percentage)
• Liberty won its first game played at Williams Stadium, defeating Towson, 37-18, on Oct. 21, 1989.
• Liberty has posted a winning record in 15 out of 24 seasons since starting play at Williams Stadium in 1989.
• Liberty has posted a winning record at Williams Stadium the last seven years.
• Liberty's scoring average at Williams Stadium: 32.31 (4,297 points scored/133 games)
• Liberty's opponent scoring average at Williams Stadium: 19.30 (2,567 points allowed/133 games)
Team Notes from Monmouth Match-Up:
• The game was played in front of 18,467 fans, marking the sixth largest attendance figure in Williams Stadium history.
• Liberty finished the game with 399 total offensive yards, missing the opportunity to post its sixth game under head coach Turner Gill with 400 or more total offensive yards by one yard.
• In 13 games under head coach Turner Gill, the Flames are averaging 387.15 total offensive yards per game.
• The Flames scored 45 points in the game, marking its second-highest point production in 13 games under head coach Turner Gill (most points scored was in a 56-7 victory at Presbyterian College on Oct. 13, 2012).
• Liberty opened its scoring against Monmouth with a first quarter safety, accounting for the Flames' first safety since Aug. 31, 2006, against St. Paul's.
• Liberty opened the game by scoring nine first quarter points, the second most points the Flames have scored in the first quarter in 13 games under head coach Turner Gill (most first quarter points scored was 21 points in a 56-7 victory at Presbyterian College on Oct. 13, 2012).
• Liberty finished the Monmouth game with 20 first downs (eight rushing, 10 passing and two by penalty).
• In 13 games under head coach Turner Gill, Liberty has averaged 19.64 first downs per game and had 20 or more first downs nine times.
• Liberty had 10 first downs via passing plays, marking the seventh time the Flames have finished a game under head coach Turner Gill with 10 or more passing first downs.
• Liberty finished the Monmouth game with 277 passing yards with three different players combining to complete 16-of-22 pass attempts (72.7 completion percentage).
• The game marked the first time the Flames have passed for more than 200 yards since last year's game against Presbyterian College (263 yards on Oct. 13, 2012).
• The game marked the sixth time in 13 games under head coach Turner Gill the Flames have passed for 200 or more yards (with five of the six occurrences coming during Gill's first six games with the program).
• Liberty fumbled the football four times against Monmouth, but was able to recover its own loose ball three of the four times.
• Liberty won the time of possession battle against Monmouth, 34:15 to 25:45, including a 12:03 to 2:57 edge during the first quarter.
• Liberty finished the Monmouth game with 13:05 more time of position than its season-opening game against Kent State (21:10).
• For the second-straight game, the Flames struggled on third-down plays, finishing the Monmouth game 2-of-10 on third-down conversion opportunities.
• Liberty is 4-of-20 on third-down conversion opportunities in 2013, which ranks No. 106 among FCS programs in the country (113 total FCS teams).
• After allowing three sacks against Kent State, Liberty finished the Monmouth game without allowing a sack.
• This marked the fourth time in 13 games under head coach Turner Gill that Liberty's offensive line did not allow a sack in a game.
• Liberty held Monmouth to 15 points scored, marking the eighth time in 13 games under head coach Turner Gill the Flames have held an opponent to 20 or few points scored.
• Liberty has held seven of its last eight opponents to less than 20 points scored in a game.
• Liberty currently is allowing an average of 16.0 points per game this year, which ranks No. 19 in the country in scoring defense.
• In 13 games under head coach Turner Gill, Liberty's defense has held opponents to a scoring average of 21.23 points per game.
• Monmouth finished the game with 280 total offensive yards with 101 of its yards coming during the fourth quarter.
• Monmouth finished the game with 12 first downs (three rushing, seven passing and two by penalty).
• In 13 games under head coach Turner Gill, Liberty has held eight opponents to 15 or fewer first downs and opponents are averaging 14.31 first downs per game.
• Liberty held Monmouth to 87 total rushing yards, marking the sixth time Liberty has held an opponent below 100 team rushing yards under head coach Turner Gill.
• Liberty held its third-straight opponent without a rushing touchdown.
• The Flames have not allowed a rushing touchdown since Stony Brook's Miguel Maysonet scored on the ground from 13 yards out with 13:31 left to play in the fourth quarter during Liberty's 28-14 upset win over the Seawolves on Nov. 10, 2012.
• Monmouth finished the game with 193 passing yards, marking the ninth time in 13 games under head coach Turner Gill the Flames have held an opponent to less than 200 passing yards.
• Liberty caused Monmouth to turn the ball over three times on Saturday (three interceptions), with each giveaway eventually leading to a Liberty touchdown.
• Monmouth finished the game 2-of-11 on third-down conversion opportunities and one failed fourth-down conversion try.
• Monmouth's two third-down conversions tied for the second fewest conversions an opponent has had against Liberty in 13 games under head coach Turner Gill (2-of-7 by Gardner-Webb on Oct. 6, 2012).
Player Points Against Monmouth:
• Liberty had three different players finish the game with rushing touchdowns: Desmond Rice, D.J. Abnar and Clifton Richardson.
• The last time the Flames had three different players record a rushing touchdown in the same game came during a 56-7 victory over Presbyterian College on Oct. 13, 2012.
• Desmond Rice (16 carries) and D.J. Abnar (12 carries) finished the game with career-high rushing attempt totals
• The game marked the fourth time in Desmond Rice's career he has carried the ball 10 or more times in a game.
• Desmond Rice rushed for 50 yards, marking his second-highest single-game career rushing total (rushed for 52 yards against Gardner-Webb in 2011).
• Josh Woodrum finished the game with 237 passing yards and two touchdown passes.
• Josh Woodrum has thrown at least one touchdown pass in 10 of 11 games he has started under center for the Flames.
• The Monmouth game marked the third time in Josh Woodrum's career he has thrown multiple touchdown passes in a game.
• Josh Woodrum's 237 passing yards was his third-highest single-game passing total since taking over as Liberty's starting quarterback last year.
• Javan Shashaty completed both his passing attempts for 18 yards, marking his first career attempts and completions in a Flames' uniform.
• Darrin Peterson completed a 22-yard passing play to tight end Brandon Apon midway through the third quarter.
• Nine different players finished the Monmouth game with at least one reception.
• Dante Shells led the Flames with four receptions for 68 yards, both career high totals for the wide receiver.
• Darrin Peterson posted his second-straight 100-yard receiving game, finishing the Monmouth contest with three receptions for 124 yards.
• Darrin Peterson became the 14th player in program history to post consecutive 100-yard receiving games and the first since Chris Summers accomplished the feat twice in 2010.
• Two of Darrin Peterson's three receptions resulted in touchdowns (28 yards and 85 yards).
• Darrin Peterson's 85-yard touchdown reception is the seventh longest touchdown reception in program history.
• Grant Bowden averaged 40.2 yards per punt against Monmouth.
• Two of Grant Bowden's punts pinned Monmouth inside the 20-yard line, including the first which put Monmouth at the one-yard line that eventually led to a Liberty safety.
• Grant Bowden has averaged 40 or more yards per punt in a game seven times in 13 games as Liberty's starting punter.
• John Lunsford had seven kickoffs against Monmouth, six of which sailed into the end zone for a touchback.
• Linebackers Nick Sigmon and Jimmy O'Grady topped Liberty's individual tackle listings against Monmouth, each finishing the game with five tackles.
• All five of Jimmy O'Grady's tackles were assisted stops.
• Jimmy O'Grady entered the game with three career tackles in seven career games played.
• Francis Bah recorded his first sack of the season (a six-yard loss) and is currently Liberty's active leader with five career sacks.
• Kevin Fogg finished the game with two interceptions, extending his Liberty active career lead now with seven career interceptions.
• The game marked the second time in Kevin Fogg's career he has recorded two interceptions in the same game (also against Robert Morris on Sept. 9, 2011).
• Kevin Fogg returned his first career interception for a touchdown, picking off a pass midway through the second quarter and returning it 29 yards for a touchdown.
• Walt Aikens intercepted his first pass of the year, giving him five career interceptions.


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HOUSTON - A race between two Lamborghinis in the Galleria area ended in a rollover crash, according to police.
Local 2 reporter Gary Striewski came across the crash Sunday at 8 p.m. on Westheimer Road near the Galleria. Witnesses said the two Lamborghinis were speeding and racing when one crashed and flipped.
The driver of the flipped car crawled out, but the passenger, a woman, was trapped.
Striewski tried to help the trapped passenger.
"I crawled under the car to try and free the woman, but I couldn't reach her seat belt," Striewski said.
Striewski and several other witnesses helped flip the Lamborghini back into an upright position.
"When we got the car right-side up, the passenger, she was indeed conscious," Striewski said. "She was complaining to me about some serious neck pain she was suffering."
Then the engine caught fire.
"There was smoke everywhere," witness Trevor Wright said.
The woman was taken to a hospital. Houston police did not release any more information.
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