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Jose Andres
Jose Andres
Jose Andres
It has only eight seats. It's hidden away at the back of another restaurant. It's never advertised or promoted itself. In fact, one of the most unique restaurants in the world is an unknown wonder. Some foodies say that the dining delight, which opened on New Year's Day, should get recognition at the finest dining on Earth.
The restaurant "e" is the creation of Chef Jose Andres, who was recently named Outstanding Chef of the Year by the James Beard Foundation after attending several 2011 Vegas Uncork'd events this month. His Think Food Group runs five restaurants in the Washington, D.C., area, two in L.A., and he's planning an expansion to Miami and then Europe.
I'm told "e" is simply because it's the last letter of his first name. I think more likely it will come to stand for "excellent" or "extraordinary" or "exquisite." Twice nightly, at 5:30 and 8:30, for $3,000 all-inclusive to reserve the entire space (including beverages, taxes and tips), Jose's master chefs serve a 15-plus-course tasting menu for eight fortunate diners.
It's all about the performance of cooking and preparation right in front of your eyes. You are to concentrate on the meal -- and only the menu. That's why guests are encouraged to abandon cell phones, cameras and video recorders. But I was permitted to take some photos for our VegasDeLuxe.com readers.
It's so exclusive that you can make reservations only via email -- not by phone -- and always 30 days in advance at [email protected] I was invited there by friends from Moet & Chandon to taste the 2002 grand vintage with winemaker Marc Brevot, who flew in from champagne country in Epernay, France, for the dinner. Yes, "e" lures people 7,000 miles away to experience the extraordinary. The champagnes also were "e" for "enchanting."
Our meal -- I counted 20 courses -- was a masterpiece. I will never forget the whole lobe of foie gras baked in salt. I will always treasure the chickpea stew, which were bubbles of beauty after two days of marinating. Beets were turned into jeweled rings and served inside a treasure box. Jose's taco with artichoke and caviar will be remembered forever -- I confess to the sin of being the first to dare ask for seconds!
Jose is the Spanish chef who introduced small bites of Spanish gourmet treats to America. Other dishes include liquid nitrogen sangria with grilled strawberries, smoky oysters in escabeche, 25-second biscocho and bocata de calamares.
"e" is a small private room near the bar and paella grill of his restaurant Jaleo in the Cosmopolitan. Jose also runs China Poblano there. Check the glass door with the tiny "e," and inside the miniature room has a dramatic red glass wall and red velvet curtain. The setting is like a miniature theater with small stage as a tip of the toque to Jose's concept of cooking as performance. The wraparound, steel-topped bar nestles the eight seats.
You could call this cuisine Spanish avant-garde. Architect David Rockwell designed the magical room under the artistic direction of Spanish designer Juli Capella. It features unusual decorative items including casts of Jose's hands, a very old typewriter that reminded me of the one on which I started my career(!) and a lamp disguised by an antique female corset.
Yes, totally matchless in every possible way. Absolutely no question "e" is the most unique restaurant in the world. Go and taste for yourself. It's a feast for the eyes and the mouth. Then let me know if you think it's also the finest menu on Earth.
Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world's premier platinum playground.
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Lumberton farmer sentenced in $1M fraud case
Posted October 31, 2013
Kinston, N.C. — A Lumberton farmer was sentenced to six years in prison after defrauding the federal government of more than $1 million in crop insurance payments and threatening to kill a special agent who was investigating the illegal activity, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Thursday.
Harry Dean Canady, 63, was also ordered to serve five years of probation following his release on charges of conspiracy, identity theft, unlawful possession of a firearm and retaliation against a federal official.
Investigators said Canady owned and rented farmland in Robeson County, where he grew tobacco, corn, wheat, soybeans and other crops. In 2009, Canady conspired with others to file false federal crop insurance claims and hid some of his crop production by selling it in the names of others or for cash.
Canady profited because he was paid twice for each pound or bushel of his crop: Once through the false insurance claim and then through the sale of "hidden" grain. Investigators said Canady received a total of $1.03 million in federal crop insurance indemnity payments, including a payment of nearly $100,000 on a single false claim filed in 2008.
Canady involved family members in the scheme, using the names of his grandchildren to sell some of the "hidden" crops and making his daughter deposit some of the illegal funds. He also created a new corporation to continue to defraud the federal crop insurance program.
A search executed on his property in 2010 netted six firearms and more than 180 rounds of ammunition. Canady has a previous conviction for involuntary manslaughter and was prohibited from owning a weapon.
Investigators said Canady also threatened to kill a special agent from the U.S. Department of Agriculture who was investigating the case.
"This investigation exemplifies how our nation's law enforcement officers place their lives at risk in the investigations of crimes, even white-collar offenses. Such intimidation tactics will not be tolerated in the pursuit of justice for the American people and the protection of public funds," U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker said in a statement.
U.S. District Court Judge James C. Dever III also ordered Canady to repay the $1.03 million.
Walker's office on Thursday also announced sentencings of two more North Carolina farmers on fraud charges.
William L. Whaley Jr., 50, of Kinston, will serve a year and day in prison on a charge of making false statements in connection with a commodity credit corporation loan.
Investigators said Whaley, the controlling partner of Whaley Partners, a large farming operation, offered bushels of soybeans as collateral for a $272,986.56 loan from the USDA. When an agency employee went to Whaley's farm to confirm the quantity and quality of the soybeans, Whaley had a farm worker suspend a bucket of soybeans below the opening of an empty grain bin to make it appear that the bin was filled with 54,000 bushels of soybeans.
Investigators said Whaley submitted false lien waivers along with the loan application.
Whaley also was sentenced to three years of probation following his release. The court did not impose a fine because Whaley had already paid a $50,000 penalty.
Patrick Rex Lovett, 48, of Tabor City, will serve five years of probation, with nine months of house arrest, and pay a $10,000 fine for his part in a tobacco insurance fraud scam.
Investigators said Lovett structured 22 currency transactions, totaling $160,696, with financial institutions in order to evade the legal requirement to report transactions over $10,000. Six of the transactions related to sales of "hidden" tobacco that were not reported to the USDA. He also did not report the sales on his tax returns until he amended them as part of his guilty plea.

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NEW YORK (The Deal) -- Two private equity-backed energy firms are set to combine assets in a deal that the companies said would create a midstream powerhouse serving the Eagle Ford region of south Texas.
Southcross Energy Partners has entered into a definitive agreement to combine with TexStar Midstream Services in a deal that would value a collection of TexStar assets at about $450 million. Terms call for newly formed Southcross Holdings to own equity interests in Southcross Energy and TexStar assets, with private equity firms EIG Global Energy Partners, Charlesbank Capital Partners and Tailwater Capital each indirectly owning about a third of Southcross Holdings.
San Antonio-based TexStar is a privately held gas gathering and processing partnership. Southcross will pay $180 million in cash and 14.633 million newly issued common units for the collection of TexStar assets, creating an Eagle Ford-focused midstream operation with four processing plants, three fractionation facilities and about 3,700 miles of pipeline.
Southcross Energy, of Dallas, is an existing portfolio company of Charlesbank with assets in south Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. TexStar is a portfolio company of EIG Global and Tailwater.
Southcross chairman and CEO David Biegler in a statement said the assets to be combined are highly complementary and should help fuel growth.
"The transactions create a premier, fully integrated Eagle Ford-focused midstream company," Biegler said. "The enhanced asset base and potential for further drop-downs, we believe, give us a clear path to generate significant distribution and value growth for our unitholders."
Post-deal, Biegler would be chairman and CEO of Southcross, with TexStar's CEO to become an executive vice president at the combination.


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Brooksville Regional Hospital, 17240 Cortez Blvd., Brooksville, is now offering Saturday hours, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., for diagnostic examinations and lab work. Advanced testing includes X-rays, CT scans, ultrasounds, echocardiograms, mammograms and all lab tests. To schedule an appointment, call the hospital's One Call Scheduling number, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, or from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, at 796-5474.
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Who's news
Anna Kamphaus has retired from Economy Insurance Mart, 11211 Spring Hill Drive, Spring Hill, after 15 years of service. Her last day was Friday.
"Anna has been one of those special employees who is very devoted to her clients," said John Reddin Sr., president. She plans to travel with her husband, Leo.
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Dr. Brian O'Sullivan recently celebrated 20 years in Hernando County. Family, friends and his staff gave him a surprise anniversary celebration at VFW Post 10209 in Spring Hill. More than 150 attended.
O'Sullivan came to Hernando County after serving in the Navy. He remained in the Naval Reserve and recently retired as a full captain. He received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University and his degree in dentistry from Fairleigh Dickinson School of Dentistry.
He completed his general practice residency at Oakland Naval Hospital in 1980, and later completed his two-year prosthodonic residency at the Naval Dental School, Bethesda, Md. He retired as a captain in the dental corps in the Naval Reserve with 23 years of service.
O'Sullivan's office is at 3429 Mariner Blvd., Spring Hill. He can be reached at 666-9898.
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Oak Hill Hospital, 11375 Cortez Blvd., Spring Hill, has announced its "stars" — associates of the month — for April. Each month, an associate representing each of the hospital's three areas of service — nursing, ancillary and support — is chosen in a process that involves nominations and voting by the staff.
This month's stars are Jan Marino, Bob Jimolka and Lanna Bartz.
Marino, a registered respiratory therapist, joined the respiratory therapy department in 1998. She lives in Brooksville. She has two daughters and five grandchildren.
Jimolka, a registered pharmacist, has been a pharmacist in the HCA system since 1982. He began his HCA career at Largo Medical Center. In 1983 he moved to Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point. He came to Oak Hill Hospital in June 2003.
Bartz, a registered nurse, joined Oak Hill's third floor in June 2007. She has two daughters and one son. They live in Brooksville.
The Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce will have the following ribbon cuttings this week:
•Arriviste Title Group, 443 Mariner Blvd., Spring Hill, 11:30 a.m. today. Call Leslie K. Exterkamp at 684-7700.
•Huntington Learning Center, 11216 Spring Hill Drive, Spring Hill, 11:30 a.m. Friday. Call Lawrence Stellato Jr. at 666-2442.
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Spring Hill Natural Foods will host the first part of its "Get Hernando Healthy — Weight Loss for Life" seminar from 7 to 8 p.m. today at 11079 Spring Hill Drive, Spring Hill.
Part 1, "The Most Important Aspects of Weight Loss," will be given by Samantha Taylor, a personal trainer and nutrition expert. The seminar is sponsored by Progress Personal Training. The lecture is free and open to the public. Call 584-1192.
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Service Corps of Retired Executives, Pasco-Hernando Chapter 439, will offer a free workshop on effective and comprehensive business plans from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today at the Hudson Regional Library, 8012 Library Road, Hudson. The workshop, sponsored by the Hudson Regional Library, will provide an ongoing manual to guide a company's daily operations. Bill Brydia, SCORE counselor, will cover the basics of writing a plan. The two-hour seminar is free. For reservations or information, call the library at (727) 861-3040 or the SCORE office at (727) 842-4638.
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The Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce will host its 2008 Hernando County Business to Business Expo from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Heffernan Hall at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, 20428 Cortez Blvd., Brooksville.
The event is open to the public. Call the chamber at 796-0697 or Valerie Pianta of the Hernando County Office of Business Development at 540-6400.
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The $50 Investment Club will meet at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the Edward Jones office, 3296 Commercial Way, Spring Hill. New members are welcome. Call Ross or Wynn Keith at 596-2649.
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Wal-Mart Vision Center, 7305 Broad St., Brooksville, will have its semiannual Speaking of Women's Health event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Participants will include Candlelight Fitness, Brooksville Regional Hospital, Brooksville Health and Human Services, Family Chiropractic and New Hope Cancer Treatment Center, as well as many national vendors of food and health products. Call Cheri Fowler at 796-6366.
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Service Corps of Retired Executives, Pasco-Hernando Chapter 439, will offer a free seminar for small businesses, "How to Successfully Obtain a Business Loan," from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the New River Branch Library, 34043 State Road 54, Zephyrhills. The seminar for existing and newly forming businesses is sponsored by the New River Branch Library. Veteran SCORE counselors Hap Fairman and Howard Smith will cover how business and SBA loans are obtained, the terms and conditions of business loans and the importance of credit reports and scores, and how to determine the best bank for your needs. For reservations or information, call the library at (813) 788-6375 or the SCORE office at (727) 842-4638.
If you have announcements you would like to share with our readers, mail the details to Jean Hayes, Business Digest, Hernando Times, 15365 Cortez Blvd., Brooksville, FL 34613-6174. You may also e-mail items to email@example.com or fax them to 754-6133. Items may be edited for length and clarity. Photos are published as space permits; they will not be returned.


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This is a really cool video of a shoot that Michael Thompson did for Allure magazine. I'll warn you, it talks almost exclusively about makeup and hair, but I loved the simple sets that they built for the shoot AND you see how the photographer used two big silver reflectors to shoot with natural light.
I've always felt that if you give your model something to interact with, you're more likely to get a more natural image.
What do you guys think? Ever built any on location sets like these?
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loved the sets, even though the cover is just a close up of the face
great video, simple, to the point, and just a nice teaser. congrats.
She is so toally different in this compared the the film. It was interesting seeing a bts video from the beauty side of things and makeup and hair can really be overlooked when there is so much lighting to deal with.
It is a little bit strange that such a set ( wooden ladder, beach and etc. ) and result used is just a close up part of the face. Maybe other pictures were used inside magazine ?
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He said signs will light up around the curve north of the crosswalk to warn cars about pedestrians, and the system can also give audio messages.
The crosswalk is costing Danville about $74,000, which will come from capital improvement funds. Schratz estimated the work would be finished Wednesday.


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ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Yankees decided to follow Brett Gardner's lead Tuesday, and the result was an offensive outpouring of rare occasion.
Gardner homered again, and paced the Yankees with four hits. Everyone in the lineup save Brian McCann scored as the Yankees trampled starter Nick Martinez then the Texas Rangers bullpen. They did not stop until they had reached double-digits on the scoreboard for the first time since April 24.
The final score, 12-11, provided reason to exhale. The Yankees had totaled 10 runs in losing their previous three games. A late charge against a wobbly Yankees bullpen that allowed seven over three innings demonstrated each of those runs Tuesday was necessary.
"It was a strange game, but it's great to get out of here with a win," manager Joe Girardi said. "This can be a good hitting ballpark, and that's what it was tonight.
Since the Yankees dealt Vidal Nuno -- another one of their stopgap starters -- to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Brandon McCarthy on July 6, the beanpole right-hander has looked a transformed pitcher and helped stabilize the wounded rotation. McCarthy lost 10 times with Arizona, but his diving fastball has returned in pinstripes.
In three starts, McCarthy won twice and ceded a sum of six runs, only half of those earned. Against the Rangers, though, McCarthy allowed that many in the third inning.
The Rangers again rallied with two out. They collected three consecutive singles before J.P. Arencibia concluded the outburst with a double to left that scored a pair.
The Rangers led, 3-1, and Arencibia tacked a run in the fourth when he looped a fastball over the wall in right. Even though McCarthy lasted through the sixth and collected his third Yankees win, Arencibia nearly lifted the Rangers on his own.
He smacked a grand slam off Dellin Betances in the seventh and drove in seven runs with his four extra-base hits.
Betances said his full-count fastball to Arencibia was rising out of the strike zone but it didn't matter.
"He's been putting some good swings on us," said Betances of Arencibia, who has driven in nine runs in two games this series.
Martinez played his college ball in the Bronx at Fordham, but to the Yankees he was largely a mystery. Even though Martinez threw a scoreless start against the Yankees a week ago, no one in the order had more than a pair of at-bats against the 23-year-old righty.
Martinez is a straightforward thrower. His fastball grazes the low-90s, and he has a slider that comes in around 85 miles an hour. More than anything, he relies on hope the ball is hit to one of his defenders.
For most of the game, the Yankees did just that and Martinez puzzled. He ended the fifth by threading a fastball over the plate to freeze Zoilo Almonte, then a slider that left Brendan Ryan motionless. At that point, Martinez had set down 13 of the last 14 Yankees he faced. The Yankees had three hits and only scored on Gardner's third leadoff home run of the season.
The Yankees invested millions during the offseason to load the core of their lineup with muscle. But it is Gardner -- not newcomers Carlos Beltran or McCann -- who is second on the club with 13 home runs. Globe Life Park has become a favorite launching pad. Gardner has dropped three balls into the right field seats this series.
"He's hitting them out of the ballpark, he's hitting them down the lines -- he's just swinging the bat really well," Girardi said. "He's been a little sparkplug."
In the sixth inning, the Yankees finally got a read on Martinez. Naturally, Gardner started the trouble with a double into the right-field corner (he has seven hits this series). A replay showed Derek Jeter safe at first on an infield single, and the Yankees were off.
A bases-loaded single by Beltran brought in two runs. The next batter, McCann, tied the game, 4-4, with a sacrifice fly, and Martinez soon left.
Shawn Tolleson entered and the Yankees went into overdrive. Almonte singled in a run and Ryan doubled home a pair. The Rangers' lead, three runs at the start of the inning, had evaporated and then so did their cool. Gardner pounded a fly ball to right that deflected off Alex Rios' glove then the forehead of Leonys Martin. The Yankees led, 8-4, as Gardner raced into third on the error that punctuated their biggest inning of the season.
But the Yankees' relievers -- from Adam Warren on down to closer David Robertson -- in turn nearly handed away the lead.
Besides Betances' mistake, Chase Whitley gave up a run in the eighth. In the ninth, Robertson walked three and allowed a pair of singles and two runs. With the bases loaded and the Yankees holding a 12-11 lead, Adrian Beltre flied out to deep left and the game ended.
"We were tired of giving you 4-2 games," Girardi joked.


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Current-Account Deficit Shrinks
Published: March 15, 2007
The current-account deficit shrank in the fourth quarter of 2006 to its smallest in more than a year as lower oil prices took a bite out of imports and exports continued to rise, a Commerce Department report showed on Wednesday.
The quarterly shortfall totaled $195.8 billion, below a midpoint estimate of $204 billion made by Wall Street analysts before the report. It was also the smallest since the third quarter of 2005, when it was $183.4 billion.
But the gap still set an annual record in 2006 at $856.7 billion, up more than 8 percent from 2005. It also set a record as a percentage of the overall economy, at 6.5 percent of gross domestic product, up from 6.4 percent in 2005.
The current account is the broadest measure of America's trade with the rest of the world. It includes trade in goods, services and capital and financial flows, like foreign purchases of Treasury bonds to help finance the government's budget deficit.
The fourth-quarter gap fell to 5.8 percent of gross domestic product, from 6.9 percent in the third quarter and a record 7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2005.
United States imports in the fourth quarter decreased to $464.6 billion, from $480.2 billion in the third quarter, as oil prices tumbled from highs earlier in the year.
Exports increased to $266.6 billion, from $261.3 billion, led by exports of civilian aircraft and other capital goods, followed by consumer goods.
United States investors made net purchases of a record $115.7 billion of foreign securities in the fourth quarter, up from $54.4 billion in the third quarter.
A separate Labor Department report on Wednesday showed import price inflation pressure in February was ''tamer than expected,'' said Josh Stiles, bond strategist for IDEAglobal in New York.
Excluding volatile petroleum prices, import prices were down 0.1 percent. Petroleum import prices rose 2 percent.
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04 Jan 2006, 12:59pm by P. Ryan Wilson
We'll know at 1PM if Mike Mularkey still has a job, but it looks like GM Tom Donahoe is gone, and 77-year-old Marv Levy will return to oversee football operations. No word yet on whether Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas or James Lofton will come out of retirement for the 2006 season.
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04 Jan 2006, 10:05am by P. Ryan Wilson
I am shocked -- shocked! -- to hear Tom Brady describe his team as disrespected heading into this weekend's playoff game. "I think we've been probably disrespected more than any team in the league this year," Brady said. Well, Byron Leftwich, not one to be out-disrespected, shot back with, "I watch a lot of TV and I haven't seen anybody give us a chance." After listening to these guys, you half-expect the game to be decided by a last second drop-kick to break a 0-0 tie.
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03 Jan 2006, 03:44pm by P. Ryan Wilson
This week, Gregg Easterbrook eulogizes NFL Primetime, has some thoughts on Black Monday, and asks why Norvell sent out the punt team on a 4th-and-1 from the Raiders 15. He also notes with some curiosity that the Falcons, Bengals and Titans all "rolled over and played dead" in Week 17, and picks USC in a "walkover."
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03 Jan 2006, 11:44am by P. Ryan Wilson
Note to self: Don't throw beer on Clinton Portis's mom. (free registration/bugmenot required)
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03 Jan 2006, 11:33am by P. Ryan Wilson
The fact that Drew Brees was injured makes the point moot, but before the season finale, I was thinking the Chargers shouldn't play Philip Rivers. They probably could've gotten a first round pick for him this offseason, but after his performance Saturday, I'm guessing that might be a little tougher sell. And depending on how quickly Brees recovers, Rivers may not be going anywhere at all.
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02 Jan 2006, 02:22pm by P. Ryan Wilson
In the first MMQB of 2006, Peter King has more on the Tony Dungy story, some thoughts on Mike Tice's future (yikes), and names Tom Brady his MVP. He's also already looking to this April's draft, mentions Brett Favre (to keep his consecutive "MMQB columns mentioning Brett Favre" streak alive), and gives us his All-Pro team. Oh yeah, apparently Au Bon Pain makes a very nice tuna salad sandwich on whole grain, too.
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01 Jan 2006, 10:34pm by P. Ryan Wilson
I guess this is what happens when you sign an incentive-laden contract that includes no guaranteed money and then get cut in training camp.
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01 Jan 2006, 10:18pm by Aaron Schatz
According to AP, Mike Tice has been fired tonight. Who else will go on "Black Monday," and who should replace them?
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31 Dec 2005, 10:55am by P. Ryan Wilson
This is, uh, curious to say the least. As one Browns fan wrote me in an email:
"Um.... What the [redacted] is going on here? Didn't they just hire this guy less than a year ago? Did his philosophy suddenly change, or were they somehow unaware of it when they gave him the keys to the franchise?
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30 Dec 2005, 11:44am by Aaron Schatz
Clinton Portis brought along some pals for his press conference yesterday. My personal favorite is Chris Cooley as "Johnny White Guy" although I like the way Ryan Clark says "Pied Piper Piccalo." You must watch this video. I mean no disrespect for fans of Seattle and other NFC playoff contenders, but if you are a fan of an AFC team, how can you not be rooting for the Redskins to make the Super Bowl? Don't you want to see Clinton Portis on Media Day? The Portis Dance is your chance to do the Portis.
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In our second look at turf and injuries, we look at specific stadiums, with some surprising results. It turns out the turf in Washington isn't nearly as dangerous as you may have been led to believe.


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LARKIN VALLEY >> Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputies arrested a 35-year-old Marina man Thursday in a suspected road rage crash with a school bus in Larkin Valley.
About 1:30 p.m. Monday, Jeffrey David Bowie was driving a Toyota Corolla north on Highway 1 near Larkin Valley Road when he cut in front of a short school bus also headed north, said deputy Ryan Kennedy.
Bowie then slowed to about 15 mph and swerved toward the bus, causing its driver to go to the highway's shoulder, Kennedy said. While both vehicles were on the shoulder, Bowie intentionally backed into the bus and fled, deputies said.
The bus driver and its 3-year-old passenger were not injured. Kennedy said it was not clear what caused Bowie to attack the bus.
Authorities investigated and found Bowie on Thursday at his home. He was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, deputies said.
Separately, Bowie also was arrested at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday in Pleasure Point on suspicion of being drunk in public — before he was linked to the alleged road rage.
Bowie was held in Santa Cruz County Jail on Thursday in lieu of $25,000 bail, according to jail records.


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Auburn wide receiver Quan Bray arrested Thursday night in Georgia
Auburn sophomore receiver Quan Bray was arrested on the campus of University of West Georgia for operating a vehicle on a limited Georgia driver's permit after being pulled over by campus police for loud music.
Along with being arrested, Bray received citations for an open alcoholic beverage container and loud music.
Police have confirmed that Bray was not drinking.
The 19-year-old was released on bond from the Carroll County Jail at 10 a.m. on Friday
According to Georgia Department of Driver Services, a limited driving permit is issued in certain situations while a driver's regular license is suspended.{} The permit only allows for the following:
- Drive to your place of employment or to perform the normal duties of your occupation.
- Receive scheduled medical attention or obtain prescribed drugs.
- Attend classes at a college or school in which you are enrolled as a student.
- Attend regularly scheduled sessions or meeting of support organizations for the treatment of alcohol or other drugs.
- Attend a driver education program or alcohol/drug assessment and treatment program.
Bray is from LaGrange, Georgia and he played his high school football at Troup County High.


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Optimism at the FOMC
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has continuously been overly optimistic regarding its expectations for economic growth in the United States since the last recession ended in 2009. If their annual forecasts had been realized over the past four years, then at the end of 2013 the U.S. economy should have been approximately $1 trillion, or 6%, larger. The preponderance of research suggests that the FOMC has been incorrect in its presumption of the effectiveness of quantitative easing (QE) on boosting economic growth. This faulty track record calls into question their latest prediction of 2.9% real GDP growth for 2014 and 3.4% for 2015.
A major reason for the FOMC's overly optimistic forecast for economic growth and its incorrect view of the effectiveness of quantitative easing is the reliance on the so-called "wealth effect", described as a change in consumer wealth which results in a change in consumer spending. In an opinion column for The Washington Post on November 5, 2010, then FOMC chairman Ben Bernanke wrote, "…higher stock prices will boost consumer wealth and help increase confidence, which can also spur . Increased spending will lead to higher incomes and profits that, in a virtuous circle, will further support economic expansion." Former FOMC chairman Alan Greenspan in a CNBC interview on Feb. 15, 2013 said, "The stock market is the key player in the game of economic growth." This year, in the January 20 issue of Time Magazine, the current FOMC chair, Janet Yellen said, "And part of the [economic stimulus] comes through higher house and stock prices, which causes people with homes and stocks to spend more, which causes jobs to be created throughout the economy and income to go up throughout the economy."
FOMC leaders may feel justified in taking such a position based upon the FRB/US, a large-scale econometric model. In part of this model, employed by the FOMC in their decision making, household consumption behavior is expressed as a function of total wealth as well as other variables. The model predicts that an increase in wealth of one dollar will boost consumer spending by five to ten cents (see page 8-9 "Housing Wealth and Consumption" by Matteo Iacoviello, International Finance Discussion Papers, #1027, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 2011). Even at the lower end of their model's range this wealth effect, if it were valid, would be a powerful factor in spurring economic growth.
After examining much of the latest scholarly research, and conducting in house research on the link between household wealth and spending, we found the wealth effect to be much weaker than the FOMC presumes. In fact, it is difficult to document any consistent impact with most of the research pointing to a spending increase of only one cent per one dollar rise in wealth at best. Some studies even indicate that the wealth effect is only an interesting theory and cannot be observed in practice.
The wealth effect has been both a justification for quantitative easing and a root cause of consistent overly optimistic growth expectations by the FOMC. The research cited below suggests that the concept of a wealth effect is in fact deeply flawed. It is unfortunate that the FOMC has relied on this flawed concept to experiment with over $3 trillion in asset purchases and continues to use it as the basis for what we believe are overly optimistic growth expectations.
Consumer Wealth and Consumer Spending
Many episodes of rising and falling financial and housing asset wealth have occurred throughout history. The question is whether these periods of wealth changes are associated in a consistent and reliable way with changes in consumer spending. We examined, separately, percent changes in real consumption expenditures per capita against percent changes in the real S&P 500 index (financial wealth) and against percent changes in Robert Shiller's real home price index (housing wealth). If economic relationships are valid they should work for all time periods, regardless of highly different idiosyncratic conditions, as opposed to an isolated subset of historical experience. As such, we conducted our analysis from 1930 through 2013, the entire time period for which all variables were available.
Financial Wealth. Chart 1 is a scatter diagram of current percent changes in both real per capita personal consumption expenditures (PCE), the preferred measure of spending, and the real S&P 500 stock price index. It is made up of 84 dots, which constitutes a robust sample. Over our sample period, as with most extremely long periods, time will tend to link economic variables to each other; population is a key factor that can cause such an association. By expressing consumption in per capita terms, trending has been reduced, and in turn, an artificially overstated degree of correlation has been avoided.
If financial wealth drives consumer spending, an unambiguous positively sloped line should be evident on this scatter diagram. Larger gains in the S&P 500 would be associated with faster increases in spending; conversely, declines in the S&P 500 would be tied to lower spending. If there was a strong positive correlation, the large gains in stock prices would be associated with strong gains in spending, and they would fall in the upper right quadrant of the graph. In addition, sizeable declines in the S&P would be associated with large decreases in consumer spending, and the dots would fall in the lower left quadrant, resulting in an upward sloping line. For the relationship to be stable and dependable the dots should be packed in an around the trend line. This is clearly not the case. The trend line through the dots is positive, but the observations in the upper left quadrant of the graph and those in the lower right exhibit a negative rather than positive correlation. Furthermore, the dots are not clustered close to the trend line. The goodness of fit (coefficient of determination) of 0.27 is statistically significant; however, the slope of the line is minimally positive. This suggests that an approximate one dollar increase in wealth will boost real per capita PCE by less than one cent, far less than even the lower band of the effect in the Fed's model.
Theoretically, lagged changes are preferred because when current or coincidental changes in economic variables are correlated the coefficients may be biased due to some other factor not covered by the empirical estimation. Also, lags give households time to adjust to their change in wealth. As such, we correlated the current percent change in real per capita PCE against current changes as well as one- and two-year lagged changes (expressed as a three-year moving average) in the S&P 500. The lags did not improve the goodness of fit as the coefficient of determination fell to 0.21. An increased dollar of wealth, however, still resulted in a one cent increase in consumption. We then correlated current percent change in real per capita PCE with only lagged changes in the real S&P 500 for the two prior years (expressed as a two-year moving average), and the relationship completely fell apart as the goodness of fit fell to a statistically insignificant 0.06.
Housing Wealth. Chart 2 is a second scatter diagram, relating current percent changes in real home prices to current percent changes in real per capita PCE. Once again, the trend line does have a small positive slope, but there are so many observations in the upper left quadrant that the coefficient of determination does not meet robust tests for statistical significance. The dots are even more dispersed from the trend line than in the prior scatter diagram.
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Hendrick Motorsports driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., fresh off matching his best finish in Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup history, took to the Interwebs on Tuesday morning by commandeering @NationalGuard on Twitter to maintain a lengthy Q&A session with his loyal fans.
Earnhardt, who also revealed his slick, new 2014 National Guard paint scheme as part of the event, answered questions for over three hours, touching on subjects such as video games, movies, his influences and even his desire to own more buffalo.
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Disney introduces 2010-2011 Planet Challenge
Dear Educator:
I am pleased to introduce the 2010-2011 Disney's Planet Challenge. We had an incredible response last year—from educators and students alike—as we rolled out the program nationally for the first time.
Disney's Planet Challenge is a free, project-based learning environmental competition that empowers students to make a difference in school, at home and in their communities. It began 16 years ago as a regional competition that honored our founder Walt Disney's commitment to conservation of natural resources.
To ensure the highest educational standards, the program curriculum has been developed in collaboration with the West Ed K-12 Alliance and the National Science Teachers Association. A hands-on, problem-solving approach is incorporated into a series of lesson plans that are tailored to both state and grade-specific content standards in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and visual and performing arts.
Students choose a project, manage it from start to finish, and develop decision-making skills and self-esteem along the way. Past projects have ranged from school recycling programs to the protection of local habitats. National, regional and state winners will receive an array of Disney prizes, including a class celebration at Disneyland for the national grand prize champion.
I invite you to learn more about Disney's Planet Challenge and to join us as we help students think and act responsibly toward the environment.
Beth Stevens
Senior Vice President of Environmental Affairs
The Walt Disney Company
For more information, visit www.disney.com/planetchallenge
Iowa sixth graders win Disney's 2009 Planet Challenge
Operation: Save the Quail
Helping classrooms through DonorsChoose.org
List of 2010 Winners and Runners Up


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While the Department of the Interior and the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office have standards and guidelines for National Historic District, the preservation of a district is largely a local responsibility. The process of acquiring a historic preservation zone was initiated by residents, museum and historical society members and gained city council support in the mid-1980's. On December 28, 1988, after extensive input by residents, the city council adopted a Development Code establishing the Aurora Colony Historic Overlay District. Like the National Register, historic preservation zoning honors an area's historic significance, but with that recognition, all exterior work on buildings or sites, from any new construction to alteration, demolition or relocation is reviewed to ensure that the community's visual character is preserved.


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Jeffery Deal holds both M.A. and M.D. degrees. He presently serves as the Director of Anthropology and as the Director of Health Studies for Water Missions International. He is a member of the London International Development Centre, a Fellow in the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. He holds board certification in tropical medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and is a Member of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. In addition to writing fiction, his previous publications span the fields of microbiology, anthropology, and surgery.
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Patriots Point holding Memorial Day observance
Mon, 27 May 2013 10:49:00 GMT —
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) - A Memorial Day observance at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum on Charleston Harbor won't have a speaker.
Instead, members of the audience are being asked to come forward and say a few words about someone who died for the nation during the Monday event at the Vietnam Support Base at the museum in Mount Pleasant.
Patriots Point Executive Director Mac Burdette says the idea is to make the observance more personal.
Those who don't want to speak can simply mention the name of the person they would like to be remembered.
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text: Well....between the record crowds and the record heat...I was difficult to have a good time....even though we did....but it was not all it could have been. I don't know if the whole state was down there or not but it sure seemed like it. As I mentioned on another thread...I'd rather go in the summer. When the parks are open later, we spend the heat of the day by the pool and go to the parks when it cools down and the crowds thin out. I will never go the first week of Nov. again...even though my kids have the whole week off from school. I mean 1 1/2 hour lines for splash mountain.......1/2 hour for Pirates???? I've never waited on line for Pirates. Easter week we basically walked on. It was unbelievable. Anyhows, the good parts. We stayed at the Poly for the first time and I will never stay anywhere else again. I luuuuved it. The atmosphere was phenominal. Of course, that's a matter of opinion. I love the Hawaiian atmosphere and Disney captures it wonderfully. We had a room in the Nuie building (smoking) and I would highly recommend it to smokers. We were on the first floor facing the quiet pool. Beautiful view. Close to EVERYTHING. No musty smell AT ALL. I am a smoker but I really didn't smell smoke when I walked into the room but maybe a non-smoker would. Everything was great I have not one complaint....oh, wait....except the cockroach in the bathroom one night. But there's nothing anyone can do about that....its like crickets here in NJ. MNNSHP was fantastic. The kids loved it. I loved it. I went as Miss New Jersey Week, DD as a piratess, DS as a soldier. DS and DH went to Universal's HHN. They were a little disappointed. Long lines and to DS not scary enough for him (go figure). Unfortunately, DS (8) and DS (16) didn't have the "Magic". For DS (8) too much walking, too hot and too crowded. For DS (16) Universal is more his speed, although he luuuvvved watching the gorillas in AK. That was one of the highlights of our trip. Cried at Wishes, Cried at Spectromagic, Cried at Illuminations. And I forgot to bring tissues!! And cried when we had to leave while checking out. How embarrassing! Loved O'Hanas and Crystal Palace. Oh, if you go to Universal I highly recommend Mythos in IOA. Great place to Eat!! Okay, for the highlight of our trip. We take Amtrack down because I do not fly. I actually love the train trip. However, on our trip home our train was 2 hours late coming into Orlando. It was supposed to pull in at 7:30 pm and didn't come in until 9:30. Okay, not too bad. Hung out on the train for a while...then went to sleep. In the middle of the night I kept rolling over and noticing that we were not moving. That happened a couple of times but in my sleepy state I didn't really care. Woke up at 8:00 a.m. to find that we were still in FLorida. Couldn't believe it!!! Why oh why! Well, apparently out train hit and killed someone outside of Jacksonville. They're not sure if he committed suicide or if he tried to outrun the train or if he was sleeping on the tracks. So we were 8 hours late coming into Newark, NJ. 32 hours on the train!! They started running out of food and drinks for Pete's sake!! I mean, I feel bad for the guy but jeez, I was ready to throw myself in front of the train after 32 hours. Well, I can't think of any other highlights of our trip. Despite all we had a great time. I would like to stay at the Poly next time and only do the parks a few days. I'd really like to spend more time at the resort than I did. I have no problem sitting by the pool listening to hawaiian music drinking my pina colada for a week and going to see Mickey only one or two days. Next time that's what I'll do!!


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The Apple iPad 2 Reviewby Brian Klug, Anand Lal Shimpi & Vivek Gowri on March 19, 2011 8:01 PM EST
The Right SoC at the Right Time: Apple's A5
Here's how I know Apple is masterful at marketing. After first showing off the new iPad Apple had tons of press convinced that the company was no longer competing based on specs but rather only interested in delivering an experience. In reality Apple is competing with hardware even more than before, it's just trying to give the public the impression that it's not. After all, Apple doesn't make the vast majority of the technology inside the iPad but it does control the experience. A competitor may be able to ship a dual core Cortex A9 but it can't ship the iOS experience. Is it really a surprise that Apple would downplay what it doesn't have exclusive rights to and instead try to get everyone to focus on what it does? Make no mistake, Apple is very much playing the specs game - in fact it's playing the game harder than anyone else in the industry today.
At the heart of the iPad 2 is a brand new SoC: the Apple A5. Built on what I assume is Samsung's 45nm process the A5 is a much more powerful SoC than it's predecessor the A4.
|Architecture Comparison
|ARM Cortex A8
|ARM Cortex A9
|Qualcomm Scorpion
|Issue Width
|Pipeline Depth
|8 stages
|13 stages
|9 stages
|13 stages
|Out of Order Execution
|Optional VFPv2 (not-pipelined)
|VFPv3 (not-pipelined)
|Optional VFPv3-D16 (pipelined)
|VFPv3 (pipelined)
|Y (64-bit wide)
|Optional MPE (64-bit wide)
|Y (128-bit wide)
|Process Technology
|Typical Clock Speeds
While the A4 featured a single core ARM Cortex A8, the A5 integrates two ARM Cortex A9s with a total of a 1MB L2 cache. That puts the A5 at a similar level of CPU performance to NVIDIA's Tegra 2 and TI's OMAP 4430. The only insider information I've managed to come across points to A5 featuring ARM's MPE (SIMD/NEON engine) in its A9 cores.
Based on Chipworks' analysis of the Apple A5 die it looks like Apple implemented a dual-channel LP-DDR2 memory controller, similar to TI's OMAP 4430.
|ARM Cortex A9 Based SoC Comparison
|Apple A5
|NVIDIA Tegra 2
|Clock Speed
|Up to 1GHz
|Up to 1GHz
|Up to 1GHz
|Core Count
|L1 Cache Size
|L2 Cache Size
|Memory Interface
|Dual Channel LP-DDR2 (?)
|Dual Channel LP-DDR2
|Single Channel LP-DDR2
|NEON Support
|Yes (?)
Had it not been for NVIDIA Apple would've had the first shipping dual-core Cortex A9 SoC on the market. This is ultimately why Apple is producing it's own SoCs - most of the players in the SoC space don't seem to be moving fast enough for Apple's hardware schedule. Given the aggressive yearly product cadence I wouldn't be too surprised to see a dual-core Cortex A15 in the Apple A6 a year from now. Remember that much of Apple's success has come from being able to control it's hardware and software development. On the Mac side Apple has an extremely aggressive chip partner with Intel, but with the iDevices there is no equivalent (for now). Until that changes, Apple will continue to produce it's own SoCs. It's not that Apple is designing any of the IP that goes into the SoC, it's that Apple is piecing together what it needs, when it needs it.
We've already gone through the performance offered by the A5 over the A4, but to quickly recap: it's a huge increase. While the original iPad felt slow, the new one feels much faster. I would be lying if I said it was fast enough, but it's way better than the original.
CPU Performance
Taken from our iPad 2 Performance Preview:
|Geekbench 2 - Floating Point Performance
|Apple iPad
|Apple iPad 2
|Overall FP Score
|Mandlebrot (single-threaded)
|79.5 Mflops
|279.1 Mflops
|Mandlebrot (multi-threaded)
|79.4 Mflops
|554.7 Mflops
|Dot Product (single-threaded)
|245.7 Mflops
|221.7 Mflops
|Dot Product (multi-threaded)
|247.2 Mflops
|436.8 Mflops
|LU Decomposition (single-threaded)
|54.5 Mflops
|205.4 Mflops
|LU Decomposition (multi-threaded)
|54.8 Mflops
|421.6 Mflops
|Primality Test (single-threaded)
|71.2 Mflops
|177.8 Mflops
|Primality Test (multi-threaded)
|69.3 Mflops
|318.1 Mflops
|Sharpen Image (single-threaded)
|1.51 Mpixels/s
|1.68 Mpixels/s
|Sharpen Image (multi-threaded)
|1.51 Mpixels/s
|3.34 Mpixels/s
|Blur Image (single-threaded)
|760.2 Kpixels/s
|665.5 Kpixels/s
|Blur Image (multi-threaded)
|753.2 Kpixels/s
|1.32 Mpixels/s
Single threaded FPU performance is multiples of what we saw with the original iPad. This sort of an improvement in single-core performance is likely due to the pipelined Cortex A9 FPU. Looking at Linpack we see the same sort of huge improvement:
Whether this performance advantage matters is another matter entirely. Although there aren't many FP intensive iPad apps available today, moving to the A5 is all about enabling developers - not playing catch up to software.
Geekbench reports the iPad 2 at 512MB of memory, double the original iPad's 256MB. Remember that Apple has to deal with lower profit margins than it'd like with the iPad, but it refuses to cut corners on screen quality so something else has to give.
L2 cache size has also apparently increased from 512KB to 1MB. The L2 cache is shared among both cores and 1MB seems to be the sweet spot this generation.
|Geekbench 2 - Memory Performance
|Apple iPad
|Apple iPad 2
|Overall Memory Score
|Read Sequential (single-threaded scalar)
|340.6 MB/s
|334.2 MB/s
|Write Sequential (single-threaded scalar)
|842.4 MB/s
|1.07 GB/s
|Stdlib Allocate (single-threaded scalar)
|1.74 Mallocs/s
|1.86 Mallocs/s
|Stdlib Write (single-threaded scalar)
|1.20 GB/s
|2.30 GB/s
|Stdlib Copy (single-threaded scalar)
|740.6 MB/s
|522.0 MB/s
Geekbench's memory tests show an improvement in effective bandwidth as well. The biggest improvement is in the stdlib write test which shows a near doubling of bandwidth from 1.2GB/s to 2.3GB/s. Unfortunately this isn't enough data to draw conclusions about bus width or DRAM operating frequency. Given the increases in CPU and GPU performance, an increase in memory bandwidth to go along with the two isn't surprising.
Geekbench shows a healthy increase in integer performance, both in single and multithreaded scenarios. The multithreaded advantage makes sense (two are better than one), but the lead in single threaded tests shows the benefit the A9 can deliver thanks to its shorter pipeline and ability to reorder instructions around stalls.
|Geekbench 2 - Integer Performance
|Apple iPad
|Apple iPad 2
|Overall FP Score
|Blowfish (single-threaded)
|13.9 MB/s
|13.2 MB/s
|Blowfish (multi-threaded)
|14.3 MB/s
|26.1 MB/s
|Text Compression (single-threaded)
|1.23 MB/s
|1.50 MB/s
|Text Compression (multi-threaded)
|1.20 MB/s
|2.82 MB/s
|Text Decompression (single-threaded)
|1.11 MB/s
|2.09 MB/s
|Text Decompression (multi-threaded)
|1.08 MB/s
|3.28 MB/s
|Image Compress (single-threaded)
|3.36 Mpixels/s
|3.79 Mpixels/s
|Image Compress (multi-threaded)
|3.41 Mpixels/s
|7.51 Mpixels/s
|Image Decompress (single-threaded)
|6.02 Mpixels/s
|6.68 Mpixels/s
|Image Decompress (multi-threaded)
|5.98 Mpixels/s
|13.1 Mpixels/s
|Lua (single-threaded)
|172.1 Knodes/s
|273.4 Knodes/s
|Lua (multi-threaded)
|171.9 Knodes/s
|542.9 Knodes/s
On average Geekbench shows a 31% increase in single threaded integer performance over the A4 in the original iPad. NVIDIA told me they saw a 20% increase in instructions executed per clock for the A9 vs. A8 and if we remove the one outlier (text decompression) that's about what we see here as well.
|Geekbench 2
|Apple iPad
|Apple iPad 2
The increases in integer performance and memory bandwidth are likely what will have the largest impact on your experience. The fact that we're seeing big gains in single as well as multi-threaded workloads means the performance improvement should be universal across all CPU-bound apps.
Apple improved the Safari JavaScript engine in iOS 4.3, which right off the bat helped the original iPad become more competitive in this test. Even with both pads running iOS 4.3, the iPad 2 is 80% faster than the original iPad here.
The Motorola Xoom we recently reviewed scored a few percent slower than the iPad 2 in SunSpider as well. Running different OSes and browsers, it's difficult to conclude much when comparing the A5 to Tegra 2.
The move from the A4 in the iPad 1 to the A5 in the iPad 2 boosts scores by 47%. More impressive however is just how much faster the Xoom is here. I suspect this has more to do with Google's software optimizations in the Honeycomb browser than hardware, but let's see how these tablets fare in our web page loading tests.
We debuted an early version of our 2011 web page loading tests in the Xoom review. Two things have changed since then: 1) iOS 4.3 came out, and 2) we changed our timing methods to produce more accurate results. It turns out that Honeycomb's browser was stopping our page load timer sooner than iOS', which resulted in some funny numbers when we got to the 4.3/Honeycomb comparison. To ensure accuracy we went back to timing by hand (each test was repeated at least 5 times and we present an average of the results). We also added two more pages to the test suite (Digg and Facebook).
The iPad 2 generally loads web pages faster than the Xoom. On average it's a ~20% increase in performance. I wouldn't say that the improvement is necessarily noticeable when surfing most sites, but it's definitely measurable.
Double the Memory, Still Not Enough
On a Mac or PC if you don't have enough system memory and go to run a new application you'll get a lot of swapping to disk. The OS will write least recently used pages of memory to disk and evict them from main memory, making room for the newly launched application. Memory management in iOS works differently. All applications are required to save their state as soon as they move from the foreground as iOS can evict them from memory at any point in time.
Having more memory in iOS means you can have apps with larger memory footprints or you can keep more apps in memory without forcefully evicting them, but it generally doesn't mean you'll see improved performance.
With the iPad 2 Apple chose to only equip the device with 512MB of LP-DDR2 memory. That's half of what you get in the Motorola Xoom, but twice what you got in the original iPad. This does mean that (as we mentioned earlier) things like web pages can remain in memory longer, although there's no real impact on performance from what we can tell.
If Apple follows its short tradition, we may see more memory in the iPhone 5 and then more in the iPad 3 next year. Display resolution didn't increase so there's no pressure for additional memory there, but Apple is definitely holding developers back by not throwing even more hardware resources at the iPad 2.
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jalexoid - Saturday, March 19, 2011 - linkThe movie editing app on Honeycomb is there. And it's similar to iMovie.
The Office look alike apps on iPad are still not good.
Honeycomb struggles on the apps side, because the developer hardware was not there, when it was needed.
But saying "So far only iOS has the most real apps" is a bit incorrect. Reply
WaltFrench - Sunday, March 20, 2011 - link"The movie editing app on Honeycomb is … similar to iMovie."
Yes, except for one thing: the YouTube of it shows it unable to show thumbnails properly and balky, rough animations. This wouldn't even get bronze at a beer-fueled coding contest.
The two are exactly as similar as night and day: they live on the same planet. Reply
Zoomer - Saturday, March 19, 2011 - link>>Also, when you take it out in front of a client during a lunch meeting, it tends to impress them.
That's probably why most buy it. Reply
Azethoth - Sunday, March 20, 2011 - linkI bought my iPad to turn my daily NY Times habit at Starbucks paperless. So Wi-Fi only and one year = it paid for itself.
Acting as an awesome controller for my home stereo setup is a total bonus. Same with reading books again via iBooks and Kindle.
Yes, the underlying thing is I use it to consume and not to create. Unless you find an application that uses its strength in that regard it will just frustrate you as you try to do your pad-inappropriate netbook / laptop / PC / mini / mainframe or whatever apps on it.
For me its a perfect way to avoid the netbooks / laptops which I have always loathed but get a little mobility. But then I only create on a desktop with 2560 x 1600 resolution so laptops will never cut it anyway. Reply
synaesthetic - Sunday, March 20, 2011 - linkIt's pretty refreshing to see someone who has actually found a usable niche for these things.
It's just not too useful to a lot of folks. I carry my laptop to class already--yeah, this big, heavy MSI gaming laptop--because I need it. If I could carry something as light as the iPad and have it do what I need... I'd be sold.
But it can't. And LCDs suck for long reading sessions. I'd rather have an ereader. Reply
doobydoo - Sunday, March 20, 2011 - linkwhat is it you can't do on an ipad? Reply
LaughingTarget - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - linkQuite a bit, really. It's a lousy drafting platform. Don't try doing anything remotely related to engineering on it. Want to create a proprietary program to tie into your own business systems at work? Don't bother, you're not putting that thing on your iPad without Apple's permission. Don't bother trying to type anything lengthy up on the thing, you'll be operating, at best, on about 1/4 speed as a keyboard. It's a useless tool for accountants, field technicians needing to keep track of customer data, worthless for engineers trying to troubleshoot a power plant turbine on-site. Hell, it's even a horrible method of ringing up orders at a fast food joint.
Go down the list of what people do for a living, the meat of the modern global economy, and you pretty much found everything the iPad can't do. Reply
kevith - Sunday, March 20, 2011 - linkUse it as an E-reader?
Well, only for books, that the the censors at Macintosh find good, clean and familyfriendly enough, that is.
"When You start burning books, You will eventually end up burning people."
That fact does not change over time... Reply
WaltFrench - Sunday, March 20, 2011 - linkLet's be a bit more honest here: Heine was talking about government-sanctioned political violence, not commercial decisions. In fact, the considerations are almost exactly opposite.
Commercial decisions have dozens of considerations, including authors' willingness to grant rights (e.g., Nabokov's Pale Butterfly not in any e-form), format (the wonderful Visualizing Information, also MIA) and a host of others. Freedom of speech implies the speaker's right to choose when and how he speaks; that means Apple's right to make commercial decisions about what it offers and what it does not.
E.g., Apple no longer sells a camera, but they don't in any way restrict your ability to buy them or use them. Re books: if you like Kindle, for example, read them on the iPad. (As long as Amazon chooses to carry the work.) This is just like say, the B&N store across from my office: they don't carry titles they don't want, whether for expected lousy sales, or to keep the local Bigots United chapter from waving pitchforks at them. This freedom of Apple, which is NOT an arm of the US Government, to have its own voice, is just as important as preventing governments from banning speech.
Maybe there is somebody at Apple who wants to treat you like a child. But about a hundred times more likely is that they simply want to do the stuff they think they do best, and some people act (childlishly!) as if Apple should run by different principles.
PS: "Macintosh" is not the company you're talking about. Reply
vision33r - Saturday, March 19, 2011 - linkThe last thing you want is bring that $899 device in front of people and have app crashes and App drawer that doesn't work when you press it like a zillion times.
People at work will just say you blow $899 on a netbook.
Yes, the LCD on the Xoom is the typical 10.1" you found on Acer Netbook parts bin.
How dare Motorola try to pass off a netbook for $899. How about the ASUS EEE Slate for $999 instead. Reply


text: Culture 14 October 2010 How to succeed at Frieze Five ways to make your mark at the art extravaganza. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML With so many different galleries from all over the world vying for visitors (particularly those of the well-heeled variety), going around Frieze can be somewhat numbing - and that's putting it mildly. What are the winning strategies that make a few galleries stand out from the crowd? Here are five ways to lure in artlovers, collectors and idlers: 1. Position is key It is no exaggeration to say that where a gallery is situated inside the vast Frieze tent can make or break it. The more prominent galleries, more often than not from New York or London, line one of the principal arteries of the fair, close to the main entrance through which everyone is channelled in. Smaller, lesser-known galleries often languish somewhere on the periphery, in cubicles half the size of those allotted to their more illustrious counterparts. Being placed next to the toilets at last year's fair, I was told by the attendant of an Italian gallery, did his sales more harm than the economic downturn. 2. The element of shock Given the ambient sensory overload, some galleries resort to shock tactics. Perrotin gallery mounts a full-blown assault on the senses by choosing Daniel Firman's multi-coloured neon Butterfly, inspired by the Apple login-in sign, as its centrepiece. An abrupt change of scale, forcing you to peer at a work from close up or else to distance yourself from it, can equally be arresting. On a different note, pornography is more prominent than ever at this year's fair. Desperate measures for desperate times? 3. The recognition factor Galleries from far and wide pull out all their big names for the occasion. What struck me was the number of British artists or artists recently featured in major London exhibitions on show. Michael Werner and David Zwirner, two New York-based galleries facing each other from across the aisle, had between them enough works by artists made familiar through solo exhibitions at Tate Modern and Tate Britain, the Whitechapel Gallery and the White Cube, to fill out a choice contemporary art museum. But even smaller galleries are eager to flaunt their work relations with the usual suspects of the British arts scene. 4. Humour pays off Contemporary art isn't famous for its sense of humour. This may be why two Frieze Talks - "What's So Funny?" and "Susan Hiller in conversation with John Welchman" - choose to tackle this issue head-on. A more subtle alternative to shock, humour can be just as arresting. Witness gallery Jack Hanley's adroit use of astonishingly lifelike, cast-resin effigies of gherkins erected on pedestals in Austrian artist Erwin Wurm's Self-Portrait as a Pickle. 5. Less is more This principle goes a long way to explaining the success of "Frame", a section of the fair dedicated to solo artist presentations by galleries that have been around for less than 6 years. Some of the displays that worked best at Frieze as a whole were the ones which focused on a single artist or fully worked out one dominant concept. Soothing grey tones in the richly patterned paintings by Japanese artist Nana Funo, represented by Tomio Koyama Gallery based in Tokyo and Kyoto, were a positive reprieve after some of the fair's excesses. › Web Only: the best of the blogs Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles Look What You Made Me Do: Taylor Swift's reinvention game falls flat How to talk about Harry Potter if you've never read Harry Potter Everyday superheroes - how pop culture can help overcome trauma Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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Ilford XP2 Super 400 35mm : Solutions for C-41 Process Besides Kodak BW CN2013-05-22 2 9 Share Tweet
This is the most enjoyable black and white film for those of you who don't have an access to process your own b&w film with b&w chemicals because you can process it with the C-41 process.
I haven't tried the famous Kodak BW CN, black and white film which can be processed with C-41 (color negative film process) chemicals. When I found the Ilford XP2 Super 400 35mm film at Seni Abadi, Bandung, Indonesia, I have no doubt to buy it and try it out soon. Wanna see the result?
When my senior high school friend, Hilman Adi Setyawan, came to visit me in my hometown, Bandung, Indonesia, I shot him with this film at night.
Before the night, I accompanied him to the bus diecast small home production. In the middle of the walk I found this classicool car and asked him to shoot me with this film.
Then I tried that famous selfie method without looking at the viewfinder style.
It's quite funny when I shot my friend with this film at night. Its color tuned out like tungsten film. But when I re-scanned it at other lab, it turned out like the usual lucky b&w color that I always use. I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong.
Actually, I love this film. Besides, it can be processed with C-41, the color is just unusual for b&w film.
I try to shoot with this film at low light situations, when the sunlight only comes into the window hole at the mosque Al-Imtizaj, Bandung, Indonesia. And this is the result.
Then I shot outside the window and the result is so pink. Weird isn't it (?)
I tried every possibility and every angle, just in case the color will turn out differently.
Pink? B&W film? Different photo labs giving different results. I have re-scanned all of my Ilford XP2 shots and it turned out as usual b&w color, just like the Lucky b&w film that I always use. Unfortunately, I can't upload the photo because there's some error (?) at lab section right now.
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I Hate Making The First Move
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I Am So Shy......I am so shy when I first meet a woman, and I rarely make the first move, so I know I miss out on a lot of opportunity.
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Pretty traditional. I like a manwho takes charge, including making the first move.
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My GingerSo I'm not bad at making the first move or anything like that. I just don't like to. There's a guy I like. & I have liked him for like 6 years. he moved away for a while. Now he's back & we're hitting it off. He's just not sure about whether or not we should date. I want to & it...
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Though his actions were sleazy in the extreme and hurt a lot of people, including some he was ostensibly close to, you've just got to hand it to Joshua Matthew Pierce.
In a Waco federal court yesterday, Pierce, of Houston, pleaded guilty to defrauding a Waco bank, his own son-in-law and another man, two jet-leasing companies and a Waco lawyer.
According to KXXV, it all started last October, when Pierce opened a checking account at the Extraco bank in Waco. After telling them he would be wiring in $10,000 at a later date, he was able to withdraw $550 with a debit card. Pierce never made the promised wire transfer.
A month after that, Pierce took a meeting with two men, including his son-in-law Ken Lewis. (Records state that Pierce is only 30, so we're not sure how that worked unless there's a step- involved, or Pierce had a daughter at 15 who then got married herself at the same age, but anyway...)
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Pierce told the men that he owned a prospering business in Kansas City, and he wanted in on a deal wherein the trio would purchase a company called Aurora Aviation at a small airport in the town of McGregor. Though he promised to wire $150,000 to cover his end of the deal, the whole meeting was a charade. Pierce just wanted to get his partners' Social Security numbers, which he used to obtain bogus credit cards.
And the roly-poly con man had only just begun...
Pierce used the fake credit cards to hop around America on corporate jets belonging to jet-leasing companies in Michigan and Arizona. The final tab for those flights came to $30,000.
Once police in the town of Robinson tracked him down, Pierce denied everything. He showed them a letter of credit which later turned out to be worthless.
And then, finally, he hired Waco attorney Guy Cox to defend him in these matters. When Cox sent him a bill, Pierce paid with a fraudulent check.
Court documents say Pierce confessed to one and all of these cases on Leap Day. He will be sentenced on July 11.
A public records search shows that Pierce got into some trouble over bad checks a few years back in Brazoria County.
Meanwhile, on his LinkedIn page, Pierce claims to be a "business consultant / CEO" of his own Pierce Global Logistics Corporation (Web site defunct), whose "aggressive management tools, strategies and practices" help him focus on "progressive techniques that improve quality and roi."
DPS records list Pierce as packing a cool 450 pounds on his six-foot fame in 2006, but on his LinkedIn page he claims to have played soccer and baseball at Ottawa University in Kansas at around the same time.
Okay, there have been some nose tackles who come close to four-and-a-half bills, and some grossly obese DHs and Carlos Lee in the majors, but soccer? Come on...Well, I guess he could be a reasonably effective goalie by just standing there and taking up space.
Which, come to think of it, is what he'll be doing for the next few years...In jail.
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Broad-spectrum antibiotic
The term broad-spectrum antibiotic refers to an antibiotic that acts against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria.[1] A broad-spectrum antibiotic acts against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, in contrast to a narrow-spectrum antibiotic, which is effective against specific families of bacteria.[2] An example of a commonly used broad-spectrum antibiotic is ampicillin.[2]
Broad-spectrum antibiotics are properly used in the following medical situations:
- Empirically (i.e., based on the experience of the practitioner), prior to the formal identification of the causative bacteria, when there is a wide range of possible illnesses and a potentially serious illness would result if treatment is delayed. This occurs, for example, in meningitis, where the patient can become fatally ill within hours if broad-spectrum antibiotics are not initiated.
- For drug resistant bacteria that do not respond to other, more narrow-spectrum antibiotics.
- In the case of superinfections, where there are multiple types of bacteria causing illness, thus warranting either a broad-spectrum antibiotic or combination antibiotic therapy.
- For prophylaxis within one hour before incision, for an operation, in order to prevent bacterial infections occurring.
As a side-effect, antibiotics can change the body's normal microbial content by attacking indiscriminately both the pathological and naturally occurring, beneficial or harmless bacteria found in the intestines, lungs and bladder.[3] The destruction of the body's normal bacterial flora provides an opportunity for drug-resistant microorganisms to grow vigorously and can lead to a secondary infection such as Clostridium difficile[2] (also known as "C. diff") or Candidiasis (also known as "thrush"). This side-effect is more likely with the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics.[3]
In humans:
- Aminoglycosides (except for streptomycin)
- Ampicillin
- Amoxicillin
- Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (Augmentin)
- Carbapenems (e.g. imipenem)
- Piperacillin/tazobactam
- Quinolones (e.g. ciprofloxacin)
- Tetracyclines
- Chloramphenicol
- Ticarcillin
- bactrim
In veterinary medicine, co-amoxiclav, (in small animals); penicillin & streptomycin and oxytetracycline (in farm animals); penicillin and potentiated sulfonamides (in horses).
See also[edit]
- ^ Clayton L. Thomas, ed. (1993). Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (17th ed.). F. A. Davis Co. ISBN 0-8036-8313-8.
- ^ a b c S. J. Hopkins (1997). Drugs and Pharmacology for Nurses (12th ed.). Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 0-443-05249-2.
- ^ a b E. A. Martin (2003). Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary (6th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860753-9.


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There are six observing scenarios for the UVOT: slewing, settling, finding chart, automated targets, pre-planned targets, and safe pointing targets.
UVOT observations are taken in observing modes. Modes are sets of predefined observations with pre-specified filters and instrumental characteristics such as binning. In general only pre-defined observing modes will be used. There are several hundred modes available that allow observers to select almost any combination of filters and binning. The primary considerations, in priority order, for selecting a UVOT mode are instrument safety, the volume of telemetry generated, and the science return from the observations.
The commonly used UVOT modes are:
To conserve telemetry and filter wheel rotations Filter of the Day modes are used for very late time GRB observations (after the afterglow has faded to below UVOT detectablity), Galactic Center observations, and many fill-in observations. The following Filter of the Day modes are used.
It is currently unknown which binning is optimal for grism observations. The following grism modes are available. When observing crowded fields the clocked modes are preferred.


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|Roger Vaughan, in his list of Bristol
Photographers 1852-1972, shows
the firm at 25 Bridge Street in Bristol from 1926 until 1939, with
additional premises at 126 Gloucester Road in 1937 and 1938.
The company Laurence (Portraits) Ltd. (registration number 219950) was
registered in 1927 [Source: entry in The
National Archives Catalogue]. A
1930 listing for Laurence (Portraits) Ltd at 158 Mount road, Leicester
has been found in the British Phone Directories on Ancestry. The Derby branch
may have operated in 1928.
According to Sandy Barrie, who has extracted details from a large number of old trade directories, there were several branches of this studio, as follows, with approximate dates of operation:-
203 Corporation St., Birmingham: 1928-35
483 Coventry Road, Small Heath, Birmingham: 1928-35
25 Bridge Street, Bristol: 1926-1938
121 Friargate, Derby: 1928
Piccadilly Buildings, Kettering: 1928-1932
Granby Studio, 118 Granby Street, Leicester: 1932
(Head Office and Works) 158-164 Mount Road, Leicester: 1928
103 Byrom Street, Liverpool: 1927-1932
4 Redwell Street, Norwich: 1929
Exchange Walk, Nottingham: 1928
young child with doll
by Laurence Studios
Undated, but probably taken c.1929-1931
Format: Mounted print
Size: 134 x 171 mm
Image © & collection of Brett Payne
|Unidentified young woman
by Laurence Studios
Undated, but probably taken in the 1930s
Format: Post card
Image © & collection of Roger Vaughan
Images and information provided by Sandy Barrie, Roger Vaughan & Brett Payne
Anon (1932) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1932, Kelly's Directories Ltd., London.
Adamson, Keith I.P. (1997) Professional Photographers in Derbyshire 1843 - 1914, The PhotoHistorian, No. 118 Supplement, September 1997, ISSN 0957-0209. Courtesy of John Bradley.
Craven, Maxwell (ed.) (1993) Keene's Derby, Breedon Books, Derby, pp. 200-202. - by kind courtesy of Sonia Addis-Smith
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