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Picky monkeys PIC ARM
The Mozilla JavaScript-engine team has been hard at work since the shiny new JägerMonkey Just-In-Time compiler hit the betas. We're viciously ripping apart any bug that stands between us and shipping Firefox 4. One could say that we're coming at you like a SpiderMonkey.
Alongside our ferocious fixing, one of our late-game performance initiatives was to get all of our polymorphic inline caches (AKA PICs) enabled on ARM devices. It was low risk and of high benefit to our Firefox for Mobile browser, whose badass-yet-cute codename is Fennec.
Jacob Bramley and I took on this ARM support task in bug 588021, obviously building on excellent prior inline cache work from fellow team members David Anderson, Dave Mandelin, Sean Stangl, and Bill McCloskey.
tl;dr: Firefox for Mobile fast on ARM. Pretty graphs.
Melts in your mouth, not in your ARM
To recap, JägerMonkeyJM is also known as the "method compiler": it takes a method's bytecode as input and orders up the corresponding blob of machine code with some helpful information on the side. Its primary sub-components are the register tracker, which helps the compiler transform the stack-based bytecode and reuse already-allocated machine registers intelligently, and the MacroAssembler, which is the machine-code-emitting component we imported from Webkit's Nitro engine.
The MacroAssembler is the secret sauce for JägerMonkeyJM's platform independence. It's an elegantly-designed component that can be used to emit machine code for multiple target architectures: all of x86, x86-64, and ARM assembly are supported through the same C++ interface! This abstraction is the reason that we only need one implementation of the compiler for all three architectures, which has been a clear win in terms of cross-platform feature additions and maintainability.
"So", you ask, "if you've got this great MacroAssembler-thingy-thing, why didn't all the inline caches work on all the platforms to begin with?" Or, alternatively, "If all the compiler code is shared among all the platforms, why didn't all the inline caches crash on ARM?"
The answer is that some platform-specifics had crept into our compiler code!
ARM'd and ifdef-dangerous
As explained in the entry on inline caches, an inline cache is a chunk of self-modifying machine code. A machine code "template" is emitted that is later tweaked to reflect the cached result of a common value. If you're frequently accessing the nostrilCount property of Nose objects, inline caches make that fast by embedding a shortcut for that access into the machine code itself.
In the machine code "template" that we use for inline caches, we need to know where certain constants, like object type and object-property location, live as offsets into the machine code so that we can change them later, during a process called repatching. However, when our compiler says, "If this value is not 0xdeadbeef, go do something else," we wind up with different encodings on each platform.
As you may have guessed, machine-code offsets are different for each platform, which made it easier for other subtle platform-specifics to creep into the compiler as well.
To answer the question raised earlier, the MacroAssembler interface wasn't heavily relied on for the early inline cache implementations. Inline caches were first implemented for x86, and although x86 is a variable-width instruction set, all of the instruction sequences emitted from the compiler had a known instruction width and format. [*] This permitted us to use known-constant-offset values for the x86 platform inline caches. These known-constant-offsets never changed and so didn't require any space or access time overhead in side-structures. They seemed like the clear solution when x86 was the only platform to get up-and-running.
Then x86-64 (AKA x64) came along, flaunting its large register set and colorful plumage. On x64, the instruction sequence did not have a known width and format! Depending on whether the extended register set is used, things like mov instructions may require a special REX prefix byte in the instruction stream (highlighted in blue above). This led to more ifdefs — on x64 a bunch more values have to be saved in order to know where to patch our inline caches!
As a result, getting inline caches working on ARM was largely a JägerMonkey refactoring effort. Early on, we had used conditional compilation (preprocessor flags) to get inline caches running on a platform-by-platform basis, which was clearly the right decision for rapid iteration, but we decided that it was time to pay down some of our technical debt.
Paying down the debt: not quite an ARM and a leg
The MacroAssembler deals with raw machine values — you can tell it dull-sounding machine-level things like, "Move this 17 bit sign-extended immediate into the EAX register."
On the other hand, we have our own awesome-sounding value representation in the SpiderMonkey engine: on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms every "JS value" is a 64-bit wide piece of data that contains both the type of the data and the data itself. [†] Because the compiler is manipulating these VM values all the time, when we started the JägerMonkeyJM compiler it was only natural to put the MacroAssembler in a delicious candy coating that also knew how to deal with these VM values.
The NunboxAssembler, pictured in red, [‡] is a specialized assembler with routines to deal with our "nunbox" value representation. [§] The idea of the refactoring was to candy-coat a peer of the MacroAssembler, the Repatcher, with routines that knew how to patch common inline cache constructs that the NunboxAssembler was emitting.
With the inline cache Repatcher in place, we were once again able to move all the platform-specific code out of the compiler and into a single, isolated part of the code base, hidden behind a common interface.
Routines like NunboxAssembler::emitTypeGuard, which knows how to emit a type guard regardless of the platform, are paired with routines like ICRepatcher::patchTypeGuard(newType), which knows how to patch a type guard regardless of platform. Similarly, NunboxAssembler::loadObjectProperty has a ICRepatcher::patchObjectPropertyLoad. The constructs that are generated by the NunboxAssembler are properly patched by the corresponding ICRepatcher method on a miss. It's all quite zen.
Frog ARMs
On real devices running the Fennec betas, we've seen marked improvements since Beta 3. [¶] Most notably, we've leapfrogged the stock Android 2.2 browser on the V8-V5 benchmark on both the Galaxy S and the Nexus One. Pretty graphs courtesy of Mark Finkle.
ARMn't you glad I didn't say banana?
Since I've run out of remotely-acceptable ARM malapropisms, these topics will be left to further discussion. Feel free to comment on anything that deserves further clarification!
Why does the JägerMonkeyJM ARM back-end emit fixed-width ARMv7 machine code, instead of Thumb2?
How are JägerMonkeyJM exceptions implemented on ARM? (It's slightly different from x86/x64.)
What are the current development platform limitations?
How does the compiler prevent a constant pool from being dumped into the code stream?
For example, if you always emit a simple mov from a 32-bit register to a 32-bit register, that has a known constant length. The "variable width" part of "variable width instruction set" refers to the fact that different instructions do not generally take the same number of bytes. It does not mean that the encoding of a given instruction (like mov) with particular operands (like two 32-bit registers) is totally variable.
The team also believes that further experimentation with a 128-bit value representation for 64-bit systems could yield positive results.
FD&C Red No. 40, to be precise.
"Nunbox" is a play on the term NaN-boxing. We have no idea how Luke comes up with these names, but we hope he never stops.
On the fancy Tegra 2 board I was developing on, running the SunSpider harness on the JavaScript shell with methodjit-only, this work net us a whopping 230% speedup on the V8-V4 benchmark and a 15% speedup on SunSpider 0.9.1.


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Ron Guth:
The 1927 Peace Dollar is a desirable coin for two reasons: it has the second lowest mintage of the series (one of only four dates with mintages below 1 million coins) and it is legitimately hard to find in nice condition. Overall, the 1927 Peace Dollar ranks as the third rarest of all the Peace Dollars in Mint State, behind only the 1928 and the 1934-S. In true Gem condition, it is the rarest of all the P-Mint Peace Dollars, beating out even the more celebrated 1928. Most certified examples fall into the MS-63 category, with significantly fewer appearing at the MS-64 level, followed by a big drop-off in MS-65 and only a handful in MS-66. Thus, the modern-day population reports have confirmed the "key" date status that the 1927 Peace Dollar has enjoyed for decades. In terms of eye appeal, this date usually comes with a good strike but a few too many bagmarks. The luster is often nice and strong, but mitigated by the afore-mentioned marks.
According to a notice in the June 1934 issue of The Numismatist (p. 416), collectors could still purchase Uncirculated 1927 Peace Dollars directly from the U.S. Treasury for "the face value of the coins and an amount sufficient to cover the mail charrges by first-class mail."
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PB12IN wrote: What happens to peoples minds that makes them think it is ok to ignore the rules on a bike but wouldn't dream of acting like that in their cars.
Enforcement (the lack of).... "I can get away with it"
A feeling that a bike rider is unlikely to hurt someone.... more likely to be injured... so "ride fast and sneaky to get through safe" (not saying I agree with this)
The view (partly true) that devices like traffic lights have only been needed because of "all those damn cars". Not relevant to a bike.
Lack of any programs of bicycle skills and safety training.


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Volume 18 Issue 38 | February 3 - 9, 2006
Directed by Peter Rosen
80 minutes
February 1-14
Film Forum
209 West Houston St. btwn. Varick and Sixth Ave.
(212-727-8110; filmforum.org)
Photo by John F. Waggaman
Curator extraordinaire Henry Geldzahler in an Andy Warhol film thats 90 minutes of Henry smoking a cigar.
He called it art
By Jerry Tallmer
The thing about Henry Geldzahler, says Frank Stella, was that he lived with us
other curators dont live with artists.
Lived with us, dug us, promoted us, curated us, saw on the instant what was genuine about us (or not), made us famous, hung out with us, partied with us, slept with some of us
Painter/sculptor Frank Stella is one of those saying this, on camera, to filmmaker Peter Rosen, whose fascinating 80-minute documentary about Henry Geldzahler and the entire American (i.e., New York) art movement of the explosive 1960s opened Wednesday for two weeks at Film Forum.
Its called Who Gets to Call It Art?, and for anyone who lived through that era and maybe even if you didnt its like a bracing and wonderful class reunion, or a warm bath of life-giving memories.
Who was Henry Geldzahler? He was a rich kid, the Yale- and Harvard-educated son of a Belgian-born New York City diamond merchant who got himself and his family out of Europe in 1940.
By sophomore year, Henry knew what he wanted to do, work for a museum, but when a bid came from the Met, he turned it down. Pretty ballsy, we hear Henry himself saying on a recording. The Whitney, devoted to American artists, was what he had in mind. The Met bid again, and this time Henry left Harvard and in 1960, at the age of 24, Henry Geldzahler became the first curator of contemporary art at the august Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 1969, at the Met, he mounted one of the most socko art exhibits to hit New York since the famous 1913 Armory Show that had introduced the American public to the universe of European art from the Expressionists to Marcel Duchamp. Henrys show as it was immediately dubbed brought together more than 400 works by 43 artists under the rubric New York Painting: 1940-1970. An exhibit, says todays still vital, still productive Frank Stella, of historical scope.
One telephone operator at the Met asked Henry why he got so many phone calls. All my artists are alive, Henry told her.
There is a well-known painting by David Hockney a quite large painting of Geldzahler side-by-side on a couch with Geldzahlers then boyfriend, the painter Christopher Scott. Henry had no trouble coming out of the closet as a member of New Yorks homosexual community, we are casually informed by gallery owner Ivan C, Karp, himself one of the early-SoHo pioneers of the movement and, in this film, one of the continuing deep-rooted enthusiasts of the entire art scene of the 60s.
Hockney of course is another. So are they all, one survivor after another, as they come before us here John Chamberlain, James Rosenquist, Larry Poons, Mark di Suvero, Francesco Clemente, Ellsworth Kelly, giving their recollections, their praise, of Henry Geldzahler and the revolution he did so much to nurture.
Henry, says Ivan Karp, was the most cool of a very cool bunch of people. Karp talks of Geldzahlers vigorous, lively, energetic spirit, and of how [It] was so exciting then
new artists
something incredible happening around me every day
The arts maintained an incredible momentum all through the 60s.
Critic Calvin Tompkins speaks of Geldzahler as a great facilitator of cross-pollination in the arts.
Hockneys remembrance: He [Geldzahler] was an extremely cocky, controversial person. We got on instantly. Henry was 26 or 27 [when they met]. He had a special eye, thats the point. A fantastic eye. He was always right [in sighting talent], he was never wrong. And Hockneys clean, incisive black-and-white portraits of his friend Geldzahler are not wrong either.
John Chamberlain, who makes art out of automobile parts: What will the public think? Who gives a rats ass? Its their job to catch up.
Filmdoms Jonas Mekas remembers the Orchard Street apartment he once had for $14.95 a month. He repeats it, with a sort of wonder: $14.95 a month. And talks of the Cedar Tavern on University Place, where you would go a) to get warm, b) because everybody went there, c) to borrow money.
And then there is Andy Warhol, who does little talking (mostly confined to Yes or No) but who figures throughout Who Gets to Call It Art? along with a brief clip from a 90-minute Warhol film consisting wholly of Henry Geldzahler smoking a cigar and cleaning his eyeglasses.
Those terrible movies, says jovial advertising man George Lois in recollection of the Warhol Factorys output. Foolish stuff, but got a lot of attention. Lois himself helped spur some of that attention. We see a full-color photo devised with Warhols gleeful cooperation of tiny Andy drowning in an open Campbells soup can.
Of course there are also the cynics. Franz Kline on how to tell which of the crowd is the best artist. Stuff them all in a sewer, and the one that climbs out first is the best artist. Robert Rauschenberg on Topic A: I was never interested in Abstract Expressionism. You have to feel sorry for yourself to be an Abstract Expressionist. Critic Hilton Kramer on the small victories of Pop Art: A cliché of form superimposed on a cliché of image. I think it was Kramer who called the big 1940-1970 show at the Met Henrys Playpen.
Mayor Ed Koch appointed Geldzahler the citys first Commissioner of Cultural Affairs. Geldzahler did that from 1977 to 1982. By then the little Porky Pig, as Ivan Karp affectionately thought of him, had grown a full beard. I am surprised that nobody at least nobody in this film has mentioned how much that made him look like another Henri, Toulouse Lautrec.
Henry Geldzahler died of cancer in 1994. He was 59. The dance he danced goes on.
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1. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingBobLevine Jan 31, 2012 7:25 AM (in response to tara330)
I've seen occasional crashes but nothing like that. Try removing it and then download it again.
2. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingGraham Davis Jan 31, 2012 7:43 AM (in response to tara330)
We have experienced a similar problem (on two iPads) but also with the previous Viewer. For us it is when swiping from article to article sometimes it crashes back to the Content Viewer Home screen. There are no videos on these pages. Are these issues likely to persist after the folio has gone through the Viewer Builder process as a multi issue app?
3. Re: Adobe Content Viewer Crashingktukker1 Feb 1, 2012 1:11 AM (in response to Graham Davis)
Crashing of the Adobe Content Viewer (or branded viewer) is caused most of the times by memory starvation.
General items to look at
* large files for covers (resolution > 1024x768)
* large images used in folios / MSO / Scroll Pan - especially in articles next to each other
With kind regards,
Klaasjan Tukker
Adobe Systems
4. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingGraham Davis Feb 1, 2012 2:00 AM (in response to ktukker1)
Thanks Klaasjan, helpful advice!
We do have many 1024x768 images on a the first page of adjacent articles (its a photography magazine) and in one instance an MSO comprising 10 1024x768 images so I guess we should look again at this. In the previous issue we quite an number of articles starting with videos but this worked fine.
5. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingD_Wilton Feb 1, 2012 7:51 AM (in response to ktukker1)
Ive had a lot of crashing as well. Images are at the start of every chapter - size= 1232x242.
Is that big enough to crash the app?
6. Re: Adobe Content Viewer Crashinglama-tak Feb 1, 2012 11:05 AM (in response to tara330)
I'm facing the same problem !
7. Re: Adobe Content Viewer Crashingtara330 Feb 1, 2012 11:14 AM (in response to tara330)
What I find strange about this issue though is that I'm working with the same folio files that I was before I upgraded to the latest Content Viewer. I have only made minor text edits and have not added images or video. The previous Content Viewer never crashed for me.
8. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingD_Wilton Feb 1, 2012 11:20 AM (in response to tara330)
My experience (and that of my colleagues) is repeated crashing at different times.
Download of an updated folio complete? Crash.
Open said folio after restarting app? Crash.
Flick too quickly between pages? Crash.
Im trying to eliminate some variables. I think I'll start with a completely vanilla folio and see what happens...
9. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingBob Bringhurst - Adobe Feb 1, 2012 11:22 AM (in response to tara330)
Try removing the viewer from both the iPad and iTunes. Then sync, and download the viewer again. You might also want to restart your iPad to clear the memory cache. Then try again. Let us know if you still experience crashing.
10. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingD_Wilton Feb 1, 2012 11:28 AM (in response to Bob Bringhurst - Adobe)
Thanks Bob, we'll give that a try.
Though I do have to ask - is this a common behavior of the Viewer? Are there any specific actions that I can take to avoid this?
11. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingBob Bringhurst - Adobe Feb 1, 2012 12:01 PM (in response to D_Wilton)
There are two possible issues here. The first issue is that an app's memory can get messed up on the device. That can happen with any app. My guess is that that's causing the crash when you flick too quickly between pages. That sounds like a memory glitch and a reinstall/restart would fix.
The second issue is something that I've run into and the team is looking at. Certain articles in a folio are causing the viewer app to crash when the folio is updated. When you agree to update the folio and tap the View button, the viewer crashes. The workaround is to archive the folio and download it from scratch. It happens only with some folios, and we haven't pinned down the cause of this.
12. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingD_Wilton Feb 1, 2012 12:36 PM (in response to Bob Bringhurst - Adobe)
HI Bob,
Glad to know this is on the radar. Thanks for the 'Archive first' workaround!
13. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingNortau Feb 6, 2012 11:49 AM (in response to ktukker1)
Hi Klaasjan, this is really helpful information, since we have actually the problem that the reader is crashing a lot. Not really surprising since we use a MSO (57 states) in a scrollable area, exactly what you wrote to avoid.
But one question remains, which effects our testing. You said that the articles shouldn't be arranged next to each other, does that mean that the viewer is loading the previous and next article into the memory to speed up the loading time when the user jumps to the next article? Because that would effect our testing, since we have all different versions to test the crashing in one dedicated folio in a row, so we would need to insert a dummy page between all variations, or to you have more specific info on that?
Thanks, Norbert
14. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingMaciejLenartowicz Apr 30, 2012 2:42 AM (in response to tara330)
I've been experiencing a similar problem. I have a layout with a bunch of 1024x768 images and movies that worked perfectly. All of a sudden the client reported the Viewer crashing on horizontal view. After a day of experimenting, I narrowed it down to a list of possible causes. As long as all MSO and movies are not connected to any buttons the folio loads alright (albeit, it's not functional). The moment I add the buttons to change the MSOs, the folio crashes. The movies and MSOs alone work all right.
Any clues? Thanks in advance!
15. Re: Adobe Content Viewer Crashingsharene80 May 1, 2012 5:33 PM (in response to Bob Bringhurst - Adobe)
Hi Bob
I've done everything you mentioned... delete both apps and reinstalled, restarted iPad, and still crashing.
This time I only have 1 article published and it still crashes the app. It has only one slideshow in it and it's definitely not a big file.
The most I could get it to work is vertical, when turned horizontal, it still crashes the app.
Please help!
16. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingBob Bringhurst - Adobe May 1, 2012 6:28 PM (in response to sharene80)
Please share the folio with me so I can see if it blows up on my iPad: firstname.lastname@example.com
17. Re: Adobe Content Viewer CrashingBob Bringhurst - Adobe May 2, 2012 6:37 AM (in response to Bob Bringhurst - Adobe)
Yes, this folio blows up the viewer on my iPad. It's not the viewer. There is a problem with something in the folio.
18. Re: Adobe Content Viewer Crashingsharene80 May 2, 2012 4:47 PM (in response to Bob Bringhurst - Adobe)
Yea... I suspect it's the slideshows with buttons. It also happens when I put a swipe slideshow in.
You can view the folio vertically, but not horizontally.
How do I find out what went wrong?
I've been doing the same thing the past 20 issues and it was fine, till now.
Can I send you the indesign files for you to help investigate?
19. Re: Adobe Content Viewer Crashingtk @ tag May 2, 2012 11:37 PM (in response to sharene80)
make sure your MSOs and buttons dont have same name
20. Re: Adobe Content Viewer Crashinggardnermag Oct 8, 2012 2:35 PM (in response to Bob Bringhurst - Adobe)
Is it logical to hope this is only a problem when using the Content Viewer, and that once the folio is published as an app the memory issues will no longer be a problem? Or is this instability going to carry through? (Any way to test that?)


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Brian Gionta scores twice as red-hot Canadiens down Red Wings 5-3NHL.com @NHLdotcom
MONTREAL - Brian Gionta scored his second goal of the game late in the third period to give the red-hot Montreal Canadiens a 5-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday.
Michael Bournival, Max Pacioretty and Alex Galchenyuk also scored for Montreal (45-27-7), while Carey Price made 34 saves.
Montreal is now 10-2-0 in its last 12 games.
Pavel Datsyuk, Luke Glendening and Niklas Kronwall scored for Detroit (37-27-14), which had its four-game win streak snapped. Jonas Gustavsson stopped 19 shots.
With the game tied 3-3, Gionta was credited with his second goal of the game when his shot, which was initially saved by Gustavsson, bounced off defenceman Brian Lashoff's skate and into the net. Galchenyuk added a fifth for the Canadiens two minutes later.
With the victory, the Canadiens remain in second place in the Atlantic, four points clear of division-rivals Tampa Bay, which lost on Saturday.
With Montreal up 3-0 going into the third, Detroit made a game of it with two goals in 36 seconds to put the Canadiens on their heels. Datsyuk scored his 16th of the year at 5:11 on the power play, and Glendening reduced the deficit again at 5:47 on a soft backhand shot that Price got a piece of.
Kronwall tied it up for Detroit midway through the frame, beating Price with a slap shot from the point on the man advantage.
Despite the loss, the Red Wings are holding on to the first of two wild card spots in the East.
Montreal opened the score when Bournival scored his seventh of the year ??? and first in 37 games ??? at 14:16 of the first period.
The rookie got the play going, intercepting the puck in the neutral zone before feeding Ryan White at the blue-line. White held off defenceman Kyle Quincey and took a weak backhand shot on Gustavsson, who kicked the puck straight to a wide-open Bournival.
Pacioretty made it 2-0 on a great individual effort at 8:52 of the second, going around Kronwall with speed at the Canadiens' blue-line to generate a breakaway. Pacioretty fended off a diving Lashoff before beating Gustavsson blocker-side for his ninth goal in his last eight games.
With his 39th goal, Pacioretty moved into tie with Joe Pavelski of the San Jose Sharks for third in NHL scoring.
Gionta got in on the action five minutes later, scoring his 16th of the season after a set play off the end boards landed perfectly on his stick, unmarked in front of the net.
The goal was Montreal's second in the period on only their third shot.
Both Montreal and Detroit were coming off wins on Friday. The Red Wings scored three times in the first period to beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-2, while the Canadiens scored seven straight to down the Ottawa Senators 7-4. Both Price and Gustavsson had the night off on Friday.
Notes: The Canadiens play three more times before the start of their first-round playoff series??? The game was Gionta's 300th with Montreal??? Forwards Brandon Prust (upper body), Travis Moen (concussion) and Dale Weise (upper body) did not dress??? Defenceman Douglas Murray served his second of a three-game suspension for his elbow to the head of Tampa Bay's Mike Kostka??? The Red Wings are seeking a 23rd consecutive playoff appearance.


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SPRINGFIELD (AP) — When lawmakers return to the Illinois Capitol on Tuesday, they're expected to override Gov. Pat Quinn's alterations to a gun bill they spent months negotiating on the same day they blow past at least the sixth deadline he's given them to fix the state's nearly $100 billion pension crisis.
Tensions are rising and patience is falling between Quinn and the Legislature as Illinois' two highest-profile public policy issues vie for center stage.
The governor, a populist outsider and former consumer advocate, never has been particularly close to the powerbrokers in Springfield, but the grousing between them has broken into the open. Lawmakers say they are "disgusted" with Quinn's last-minute meddling and accuse him of "pandering" to voters. They say his deadlines are irresponsible, while Quinn warns lawmakers not to "dilly-dally" on pensions and sell out to the gun lobby.
"The role of the governor ... is to act on behalf of the common good, the public interest, when the Legislature overreaches," Quinn said Friday. "In this case, I think they went way overboard pleasing the National Rifle Association and didn't pay enough attention to public safety."
With the 2014 gubernatorial election campaign already underway, there's inevitably some showmanship in the fireworks. But political experts say the rising rhetoric and clashing styles could be a hindrance as they try to forge agreements.
Chris Mooney, who teaches politics at the University of Illinois at Springfield, calls the exchanges "pure political grandstanding." He said that criticizing the Legislature is a "tried and true approach" for governors when things go bad, because legislators are largely unknown to voters and not well thought of, so they are easy to demonize.
"It's probably good politics, especially because the state is in a mess," Mooney said. "Somebody has got to be to blame."
For Quinn, an override and another blown deadline may not necessarily be seen as setbacks. His aides say he needs to keep pressuring lawmakers on pensions, and his tough stand on guns — even if rejected — will play well among Chicago constituents tired of gun violence at a time when Quinn's popularity ratings are low and other Democrats are threatening to challenge him next year.
But clashing with the Legislature could make it tougher for him to do his overall job, Mooney said, because he runs the risk of alienating any friends he might have in the General Assembly. Even before the heated exchanges on guns, lawmakers already were piqued by Quinn's governing style of setting deadlines, hanging back during negotiations and then intervening afterward.
"His relationship with the Legislature is not good, and it's gotten worse," Mooney said, who also recalled how nasty relations were between the Legislature and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich before he was arrested and convicted on corruption charges. "It's not there yet, but that's a pretty low bar."
House Speaker Michael Madigan, like Quinn a Chicago Democrat, has publicly noted that lawmakers' relationship with Quinn is better than with Blagojevich. The now-imprisoned Blagojevich once called lawmakers "drunken sailors" hungry for taxpayers' money. But even Madigan called into question Quinn's motives recently, saying he expected Quinn to act on the gun bill in a way "designed to advance his campaign for re-election."
Madigan spokesman Steve Brown downplayed the tensions, saying lawmakers had a "continuing good relationship" with Quinn. He said Quinn was merely taking another shot at getting the changes he wants in the gun bill.
Others are questioning Quinn's strategy of repeatedly issuing deadlines to a General Assembly over which he has little control. Former Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican with lots of experience trying to broker deals, said deadlines without more behind-the-scenes negotiating can make lawmakers want to defy Quinn.
"He's got to be careful on the public pronouncements, because that can irritate the leaders," he said. "That's a delicate balance. I'm not sure he's quite figured that balance out."
Since April of last year, Quinn has twice called lawmakers back to Springfield for one-day special sessions devoted to pensions, in addition to end-of-session deadlines. So far, none of it has produced results.
Lawmakers now have formed a bipartisan committee to find a compromise between House and Senate plans. They meet Monday, but there's little chance of fulfilling Quinn's deadline. They're increasingly frustrated.
"It's a bit irresponsible to arbitrarily select a day when you're not the one who has to sit there and crunch the numbers. You're not the one showing any leadership," said state Sen. Kwame Raoul, a Democrat who leads the committee.
The tensions were again visible Sunday when Quinn declined the panel's invitation to testify Monday, saying that members know where he stands. He then issued a warning.
"When you don't have your work done on time, that's a situation where there are consequences and there will be," he told reporters after talking up his gun legislation changes at a church on Chicago's West Side. He declined to say what the consequences might include, but said he expected them to get the job done.
Some of Quinn's defenders, at least on pensions, say holding firm could help him as he bats at past criticism that he waivers on decisions. Mooney said it strengthens his image to be seen "lashing the whip."
"There needs to be a sense of urgency, and (issuing deadlines) is something (Quinn) can try to do to contribute to that sense," said Republican state Sen. Matt Murphy, another committee member. "I don't fault him."
In an op-ed Quinn wrote last month for Illinois newspapers, he said lawmakers shouldn't "dilly-dally with partial solutions" and signaled that if this deadline doesn't work, he'll likely set another.
On the gun bill, Illinois is under a federal appeals court order to pass a concealed carry bill — the nation's last — by Tuesday. After months of bargaining that produced a compromise bill in the General Assembly, Quinn waited more than a month before announcing an amendatory veto with major revisions without having signaled his intentions beforehand.
The move incensed the bill's sponsors.
"I'm disgusted that the governor would do what he did," said Rep. Brandon Phelps, a Harrisburg Democrat. "It was total political pandering to his Chicago vote."


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ASHLAND, VA – The York College baseball team dropped their final road game of the season, falling to Randolph-Macon College 13-5 in a non-conference contest in Ashland, VA on Saturday.
The Yellow Jackets improve to 23-16-1 overall while the Spartans fall to 21-21 for the campaign.
Randolph-Macon jumped on the Spartans for a single run in the first followed by two runs each in the second and third innings as the Yellow Jackets took a 5-0 lead.
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The Green and White trimmed the RMC lead to 5-4 as York struck for three runs in the top of the fifth. Jimmy King (Frederick, Md./Frederick) drove home two runs with a single up the middle. King eventually came around to score on a Dustin Worthman (Tabernacle, N.J./Seneca) RBI single as the Spartans trailed by just one.
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Randolph-Macon struck for five more runs in the bottom of the eighth as another Spartan error made all five runs unearned.
York closed out the scoring with an RBI double by senior Justin Cohen (Severn, Md./Old Mill) in the top of the ninth.
Michael Trentham led the Yellow Jackets with three hits, three RBI and a pair of runs scored. Jeb Waymouth went 2-for-5 with three runs scored and two RBI while Tim Benjamin finished the game 3-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored. Travis Lodge was the third Yellow Jacket with three hits in the win.
Herr, Cohen, Andrew Hershey (Lancaster, Pa./Penn Manor), and Derek Pitzer (York, Pa./Dallastown) each had two hits for the Spartans. King led the squad with two RBI while five different Spartans each scored one run.
Jake Bram earned the win on the mound for the Yellow Jackets as he tossed five innings, allowing four runs on seven hits with a pair of strikeouts. He improves to 3-4 with the win. Four relievers followed Bram and combined to allow a run on five hits in four innings of action.
Dan Gurganus (Prince Frederick, Md./Huntingtown) suffered the loss for the Spartans as he falls to 2-8 for the year. He allowed seven runs, four earned, on seven hits with a pair of strikeouts in four innings. David Walker (Hanover, Pa./South Western) pitched the final four innings of the game, allowing six unearned runs on eight hits with three strikeouts and no walks.
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The England international came off the bench to salvage a 1-1 draw with an 80th-minute equaliser after Shane Long had given the Baggies a 51st-minute lead. But Bent admitted being left out of Lambert's first XI was the climax to an unhappy fortnight.
He was not included by England boss Roy Hodgson in the squad for last month's World Cup qualifiers and was removed as Villa captain by Lambert. He said: "It's been a crappy couple of weeks, finding out I was no longer captain before the game (against Swansea). Then to find out when I got here (for West Brom) that I wasn't playing - it was disappointing."
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For some kids, school is never truly out for the holidays.
Trends in education standards provide the currents that keep tutoring businesses sailing.
"There have been many (educational) trends in the tenure that I've been with this company," said Andrea Goughnour, director of the Sylvan Learning Center, 1605 N. Germantown Parkway in Cordova.
"There was a time before the economy bottomed out where we could throw a commercial on television and people would line up at the door to enroll. We don't have that anymore," Goughnour said. "We're relying on more grassroots marketing and word of mouth. That's the biggest trend we've seen."
But that doesn't mean business is bad for the Memphis Sylvan franchise, which is one of the oldest in the country. As federal laws and standardized testing morphs through the years, Goughnour has gotten good at reading the cards and preparing ahead of time.
Sylvan Learning Center is a national franchise of some 1,200 centers throughout North America. There are only two centers in the Memphis area – Goughnour's center and another belonging to a separate franchisee in Southaven.
Andrea Goughnour is director of Sylvan Learning Center at 1605 Germantown Parkway. The business offers supplemental education with personalized programs for children from 4 1/2 years old to 12th grade.
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A third used to exist in Millington but closed due to health problems of the proprietor.
The Memphis franchise is owned by Ashley Hill, who owns centers in Arkansas – Little Rock, Jonesboro and a recent addition in Conway.
Sylvan Learning Centers, established in 1979, use individualized study programming to teach children from 4 1/2 years old to 12th grade. Usually one teacher meets with three students at the same time, though Goughnour said that model is not considered "group study," per se.
"That allows the teacher to work one on one when the student is learning something new, but then the independence level is achieved," she said. "I equate it to mom at the kitchen table helping her three kids. They may be at three different grade levels, but she's giving them equal time. There are times when she needs to work one on one while the other two are busy on their own."
Core programs at Sylvan includes reading; math, algebra and geometry; writing and handwriting; study skills, ACT prep and advanced reading; and homework help.
Occasionally the center works with adults on a one-on-one basis.
Fees include a $95 lifetime assessment fee, a one-time registration fee, materials and hourly tuition of $49 to $55.
The needs of students change with the times, Goughnour said.
"Everything has shifted since I was in grade school," she said. "I went to kindergarten to learn how to read, but more schools are expecting kids to come in with their letters and sounds. It's shifted everything down a grade level."
Also a string of new and arguably rigid standards set forth by the No Child Left Behind Act meant that schoolteachers were forced to move students through their curricula, ready or not, to prepare for standardized testing.
For Sylvan, that meant that most kids were coming in for remediation – playing catch-up – rather than enrichment, or getting ahead.
Now that federal standards have been eased somewhat, school tutoring programs have also lost funding and many schools depend on volunteers to staff their own programs.
Sylvan meets with students for a minimum of two hours per week but as many as six to eight hours. The 15 teachers on staff are mostly schoolteachers, substitute teachers or retired teachers working part-time to supplement their income.
While business is tied to the school calendar, now in midwinter, they get a reprieve.
"We ebb and flow in our seasons, we're at a lower point in the year just because we're coming off the holidays and funds get directed toward Christmas," Goughnour said. "But another report card's going to be coming out and we'll start getting that feverish panic before the end of the school year."
Summer, she said, is the busiest period because students can catch up on what they missed at a more relaxed pace, and because some parents use the center to keep kids from forgetting what they learned in the previous year.
Goughnour expects her enrollment to double or triple in the vacation months and she will likely hire more staff.
The center recently added open hours on Friday and Sunday, making it a seven-day per week business. The center has learning available online and has also opened up a digital platform used by iPad, which appeals to kids who associated it with playing video games.
In time Goughnour expects to offer mobile servers so that learning can take place from any location.
As with the needs of the students, each Sylvan franchise's business model is extremely individualized, and therefore depends on volume to perform well. But Goughnour doesn't see the need for tutoring going away anytime soon.
"There's no cookie-cutter approach," she said.
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Each week, Sporting News college basketball writer Mike DeCourcy takes on five burning questions. Here's one of them:
Villanova's Jay Wright says no thanks to the Sixers. What current college coach will be next in becoming an NBA head coach?
When Rick Pitino, John Calipari and Lon Kruger made their cash runs to the NBA roughly a decade ago, the league was paying obscene salaries to coaches and the colleges merely were paying huge salaries. Pitino and Calipari, in particular, received life-changing paydays by accepting NBA jobs.
The current trend in the league is moving away from the "star" coach (unless that coach happens to be named Jackson or Popovich) and toward guys who get lesser paydays and shorter contracts. Miami's Erik Spoelstra and Chicago's Vinny Del Negro might be considered prototypes.
It doesn't make sense for a college coach with a contract term that might run as long as a decade at $2 million per to run after an NBA job where he might get four years for roughly the same money.
One college coach with appeal to an NBA team that would be interested in taking such a job would be Pitino, whose interest in getting back to the league would be less about money or security and more about being away from Louisville as the court case related to an alleged extortion attempt against him becomes a Jon-and-Kate type of obsession in the city.
It still makes me laugh, though, that people think the NBA is too complicated for college coaches. Jim O'Brien won 10 games combined in his final two seasons at Dayton. He's been a head coach in the pros for seven seasons. Cavs assistant John Kuester was drawing up plays for LeBron James and Co. at the end of game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals. His next-to-last team as George Washington head coach went 1-27.
Opinion: If any college coach looking to go pro, it?s Pitino - College basketball- nbcsports.msnbc.com
A thought: With the Cleveland Cavs's season now over with their loss to the Magic, is Mike Brown's coaching job in jeopardy? Could Pitino be a fit there? -- alh1020
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I may have posted this item in the wrong forum, ie., Spurs and NBA Fan. If I did, I may need an administrator's help moving it. Thanks.
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NBA teams will always give college coaches a try out, the turn over rate for NBA coaches is still high.
The way for a coach to be successful nowadays, is to have a popovich like structure. Have final say in FO decisions, great working relationship with the franchise players, and deflect attention away from himself.
and to win.
getting a good coach is only part of a winning solution, good players, fiscal responsibility, great scouting, good trades, and great training staff are very important.
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The Harvard wrestling team recently announced its awards for the 2009-10 wrestling season. Three of the awards handed out were voted on by the team, while the final two were selected by the coaches.
Freshman Steven Keith picked up two awards from the team, the Henry Russell Ames Award for the most improved wrestler and the Most Promising Freshman Award. Keith compiled a 20-12 overall record at 125 and 133 pounds. He finished third at the EIWA Championships at 125 pounds and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships.
Senior co-captain Louis Caputo also walked away with two honors as he was presented with the Hardest Worker Award as voted on by the team and was a co-recipient of the Richard Sullivan Award, which is awarded to the wrestler who has given the most back to Harvard throughout his career. Caputo was a four-time NCAA qualifier and two-time All-American. Caputo won the 184 pound EIWA title in 2008 and served as team captain three times.
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There was no surprise in seeing Wilson emerge from that game with an 85.4 QBR score for the game. He was that good.
Russells stats for that game: We know, 60 percent pass completion, 2 tds no picks 1 sack taken
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A case could be made that he cost his team the game with a poor decision leading to a safety and a botched pitch. That is why I was quite surprised to see QBR reward Kaepernick with an 82.4 score Sunday.
So our qb barely got a marginally higher QBR than a quarterback that gave, singlehandedly, 9 points to the other team.
Colins Stats: 6.5 yds per attempt 65 percent comp rushed for about the same yardage, slightly higher.
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Alibi's hopelessly lame and thoughtless editorial staff calls in an expert for holiday shopping advice
We admit it: We're a hopelessly lame band of losers who have neither the time, energy or imagination to come up with holiday gift ideas for the folks on our lists this year. Knowing that we'd catch hell for giving out another batch of McDonald's gift certificates, we decided to call in an expert to advise us on these hard-to-shop-for friends, family members and associates. We chose the talent, style, creativity, empathy and eye for fashion of a real pro, Brendan Picker. We don't need five experts like the TV show, our guy's got it all: a degree in design, fashion flair and his finger on the pulse of all things cool. He not only gave us shopping suggestions, but in the process, transformed us from lame friends, fathers, daughters and coworkers into fabulous folks who "really care" (as far as our gift recipients know).
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Say, we've done some pretty cool stuff in the past. Just take any one of these cool Thanksgiving stories from our archive. They all rock! And so will your T-day dinner, after you've boned up on brining, pie-making and wine-pairing. Bon appétit, pilgrims.


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Authorities plan to announce later today a new, expanded search area in the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared in March with 239 people aboard.
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The new search area could cover up to 23,000 square miles, which is 70 times larger than the area that has already been searched.
It will still be weeks, if not a couple of months, before the underwater search for Flight 370 continues.
Aircraft Detects Possible Signal in Flight 370 Search
Malaysia Air Mystery: Differing Accounts for Flight 370's Last Location
Final Words of Missing Jet Pilots Clarified
The jetliner's digital signature shows the plane was probably descending the last time it was in touch with a satellite, meaning the wreckage could be more than 20 miles to the west or 30 miles to the east from the flight's path over the southern Indian Ocean, Martin Dolan, the commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the agency overseeing southern search efforts for the doomed plane, told ABC News.
Search efforts off Australia's coastline have been fruitless, with air crews and underwater vehicles scouring ocean waters for clues in the plane's disappearance.
Investigators believe the jetliner had been flying for more than seven hours, cruising at altitude with apparently no damage, pinging a satellite every hour.
The final full ping occurred at 8:11 a.m. But eight minutes later, an unexpected ping occurred, reflecting fuel exhaustion.
By that point, the jet was descending, Dolan said. Investigators are still unsure whether the jet was dropping out of the sky or still flying.
The location of the jet could depend on whether both engines quit at the same time. If so, the jet could have glided for a while, he said, leaving considerable range for the plane's final location.


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Malaysia Airports' position on addressing issues with its partners
05 December 2011
It has always been Malaysia Airports' view that in dealing with our partners, issues raised by either party are best resolved through proper consultation. However, from time to time, we are duty bound to make clarifications so that the public receive accurate information and a balanced perspective.
Over the past few weeks, there have been many issues raised in the media concerning Malaysia Airports. We have therefore made available the relevant clarifications through the media and on our website for reference. We wish to continue working closely with all our partners to address any issues that may arise and will do so through a proper working forum as we believe this is the best and most objective way to do so.
Malaysia Airports believes that any disagreements in public are neither good for the image nor in the best interest of the country.
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CHICAGO, Nov. 5, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Durata Therapeutics (Nasdaq:DRTX) announced today that Paul R. Edick, CEO, will present an overview of the Company at the Credit Suisse Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 4:00 PM MT in Scottsdale, Arizona.
About Durata Therapeutics
Durata Therapeutics is a pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics for patients with infectious diseases and acute illnesses. Durata has completed two global Phase 3 clinical trials with its lead product candidate, dalbavancin, under investigation for the treatment of patients with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections caused by susceptible gram-positive bacteria.
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Any statements in this press release about Durata's future expectations, plans and prospects constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. Durata anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause its views to change. However, while Durata may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, Durata specifically disclaims any obligation to do so.
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Police have named the pedestrian who died following a collision with a car outside The Ladybower Inn on the A57 road at Bamford.
Robert Humberstone, 68, suffered fatal injuries after the collision with a Honda estate car at around 9.25pm, on Wednesday, March 12.
The collision happened near the Ladybower Dam and along the road which leads to the notorious Snake Pass.
Mr Humberstone suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
The road was closed for several hours which caused traffic disruptions while Derbyshire Constabulary carried out investigations.
Derbyshire Constabulary confirmed Mr Humberstone was from Sheffield.
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I feel your pain, Loren. The thing to remember is that abandonware doesn't suddenly stop working when the company goes out of business. Yes, you may need to keep an older computer in the studio to continue using these apps when they're no longer supported by your OS or hardware, but that's not the end of the world.
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A babysitter is going on trial in January, accused of violently throwing a 7-month-old in his care after the infant crawled toward his Play Station and pulled one of the cables.
According to the court records, the injuries sustained by the baby are so severe, he will "likely never see, hear or have purposeful movement."
Caleb Collins, 24, has been charged with attempted murder and child abuse causing serious bodily injury in connection to the June 30 incident.
Collins' case has been covered by the Coloradoan before. But the arrest affidavit in this case has been previously unavailable and has just been obtained by 9Wants To Know.
According to that court document, Collins called 911 on June 30 saying the baby in his care "fell from his arms and was not conscious or responsive."
The 7-month-old was flown to Children's Hospital Colorado. The name of the victim has been redacted from court documents because he is a minor.
Collins told police he was babysitting the baby that morning. He was also in the process of packing up the apartment he shares with his wife. Collins was watching the baby from 7:30 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Collins told police the boy was teething and running a fever. According to court documents, Collins originally told police he knelt down to pick up a box of DVD's, fumbled with it and the boy slipped out of his arms.
"Caleb said he felt awful for being responsible for hurting [name redacted]," the affidavit said.
When confronted by detectives with evidence of the baby's severe head trauma, Collins told detectives the boy was crawling towards his Play Station 4 and pulled one of the cables. Collins he said he palmed the boy's face and "forcibly threw [name redacted] behind him. He said [the baby] almost did a backflip and broke his fall with his head."
Collins pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. If convicted, he could face 16 to 90 years in prison.
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UH Hilo College of Pharmacy achieves next level in national accreditation process
UH Hilo Home > News and Events > UH Hilo Press Releases
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Contact: Dr. John Pezzuto, (808) 933-2909; Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
For Immediate Release
The University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy was recently awarded Candidate Accreditation Status during the June Executive Board Meeting of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE). Dean John Pezzuto said this is an important step that will help the one-year-old program address a nationwide shortage of pharmacists.
"This second phase in the accreditation process is a critical milestone that takes the College of Pharmacy to the next level, and we are very pleased," Pezzuto said. "As the first and only pharmacy school in the Pacific Basin from Samoa to Guam to Alaska, we fill a significant gap that provides opportunities for Pacific Islanders to earn their Doctor of Pharmacy degrees locally. This makes it more likely they will stay to serve the community and hospital pharmacy needs of the islands."
ACPE accredits all pharmacy programs in the U.S. through a three-step process: pre candidate status for programs that haven't enrolled students, awarded to UH Hilo in June 2007; candidate status, awarded to a program with students enrolled pending graduating its first class; and full accreditation, for which UH Hilo is on track and eligible in May 2011 when the first group of Pharm D. students will graduate.
The ACPE team, representing faculty and administration from several notable pharmacy schools, practitioners in the field, and the ACPE accreditation staff, conducted the on-site evaluation in Hilo and Honolulu during the week of April 21.
As part of the review, the College of Pharmacy provided a comprehensive self-study of the PharmD program, as well as other related materials. The on-site evaluation consisted of interviews with faculty, staff, community preceptors and students, and an evaluation report was presented to the dean and chancellor upon completion.
The College of Pharmacy received high marks in virtually every aspect of the evaluation report, and showed progress in every area since the first ACPE inspection in early 2007.
According to the report: "The College has a dynamic, long-term mission with broad coverage that was created through group processes that include faculty endorsement."
The ACPE recognized Pezzuto in the evaluation for "having autonomy and flexibility to utilize financial resources for programmatic needs" and noted the College has been successful in recruiting and hiring faculty with the necessary credentials to develop and deliver the first components of the curriculum.
"With our growing cadre of outstanding faculty and the high-quality students who are earning acceptance here, there's no doubt in my mind that we will continue to be successful," Pezzuto said.
The College of Pharmacy seated its inaugural class in fall 2007 with 90 students and 18 faculty and staff. By August 2008, the College will have approximately 30 faculty and staff, and 180 students. Current plans call for the addition of 80-90 students per year for a total of four classes.
"We are proud of the College of Pharmacy for the collective hard work it took to put together this successful application for accreditation," said Chancellor Rose Tseng. "The development of a world-class training ground for future pharmacists is a significant step in the University's goal to prepare students to meet a global world."
The four-year curriculum leads to a Doctor of Pharmacy degree, also called a PharmD degree. For more information about the College of Pharmacy, call (808) 933-2909 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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A bunch of content to get you ready for Cowboys vs. Saints
At Bleacher Report, I've been publishing a ton of Cowboys-Saints material. Here's part of my game plan for Dallas:
DON'T let tight end Jimmy Graham get off of the line.
If there was any doubt that Graham is the league's top tight end coming into the season, that doubt has been completely erased. Through eight games, Graham is on pace for a final stat line of 98 receptions for 1,492 yards and 20 touchdowns.
He's also scored at least two touchdowns in four games this year. One of those contests was against the Patriots, who actually did an outstanding job on both Graham and Brees. The tight end had the two scores, but he caught just three total passes for 39 yards. Brees was held to only a 47.2 percent completion rate and 236 yards on 36 attempts (6.56 YPA).
Using NFL Game Rewind, let's take a look at how the Pats played New Orleans.
In the third quarter, the Saints lined up in a shotgun spread formation that's typical for them, motioning Graham prior to the snap.
The Patriots used cornerback Aqib Talib on Graham for much of the game, using him to bump Graham at the line. As Graham would get into his route, he was frequently contacted by a linebacker, as well, as was the case on this play.
Brees had all day to throw because New England rushed only three defenders—a tactic Dallas would be smart to mimic this week. Despite the time, there was nowhere to go with the football. Eventually, the defenders closed in on Brees.
He forced the ball out to avoid the sack, overthrowing Graham for the interception.
Brees and Graham are going to have their moments, but the key to this game for Dallas is doing everything they can to limit the Saints' other-worldly tight end.
I also explained why the Cowboys need to keep throwing:
The Numbers on the Run/Pass Balance
Against both the San Diego Chargers and Detroit Lions, the Cowboys remained relatively balanced early in the contests, only to lose down the stretch. In addition to being a poor running team in general, there are a couple reasons that rushing the ball often is a sub-optimal strategy for Dallas.
First, it shortens the game. The Cowboys have a quality offense and should want to run as many plays as possible in most situations. Running the ball decreases the number of potential plays.
Second, and more importantly, it keeps the game close when it shouldn't be. We saw that against Detroit, but it was especially apparent last year in Baltimore.
Remember when Dallas ran all over the Ravens for 227 yards?
Many blamed kicker Dan Bailey for missing a last-second field goal for the loss, but the Cowboys shouldn't have even been in that position. When you run the ball a lot, even if you run it efficiently, it keeps the other team in the game and can result in undeserved losses.
But here's why we really know the Cowboys shouldn't seek offensive balance in the traditional sense: It hasn't worked in the past.
Yes, there are a million stats like "The Cowboys are 20-1 when they run the ball 35 times" or "Dallas is 2-20 when Tony Romo throws the ball more than 40 times," but that's only because teams that are already winning run the ball and teams that are already losing must throw it.
Offensive balance is often an effect of winning, not a cause of it.
Instead of analyzing final box scores, we should really be looking at how teams call plays earlier in games and how that affects their results. I've done that in the past. From an article on the illusion of balance:
"Since 2008, the Cowboys have won just 27.6 percent of their when they pass on greater than 57 percent of their offensive plays. Wow, better keep it on the ground, right?
Before jumping to conclusions, soak this one in: that rate miraculously jumps to 63.6 percent when the 'Boys pass on at least 57 percent of plays through the first three quarters, compared to only 41.9 percent when they pass on fewer than 57 percent of plays."
When the Cowboys open up games by throwing, they're a better team than when they keep it on the ground.
It's not that offensive balance in the final box score is bad, because that can often signify winning. But really, the way to achieve final balance isn't by remaining balanced early; it's through passing efficiently to acquire a lead and then running late to close out the game.
First-Down Passing
One of the times when the Cowboys (and all NFL teams) should be passing more often is on first down. Check out the Cowboys' first-down run rate after each quarter.
That final rate of 42.2 percent, while one of the lowest numbers in the NFL, is still much too high. Take a look at the efficiency of NFL offenses on first down runs versus passes.
That's a pretty dramatic difference. Coaches justify running on first down because it's safe and it "sets up manageable third downs."
And finally, I explained what you need to know heading into Week 10:
What Must Improve: Pass Protection
For the third week in a row, my choice for "what must improve" for Dallas is pass protection. Here's why.
With 22 pressures allowed on Sunday, according to Pro Football Focus (subscription required), the Cowboys had their worst day of pass protection all season. They yielded pressure on a season-high 43.1 percent of pass plays. Their previous season high came just a week earlier with a 40.0 percent pressure rate in Detroit.
The Cowboys allowed three sacks against the Vikings, but based on historic pressure-to-sack ratios, they should have allowed 5.5 sacks. They aren't going to be able to keep winning if they're allowing pressure on one-third of their pass plays (or more).
The top player who must improve is right tackle Doug Free. After starting the season on fire, Free has allowed 14 pressures in the past three games. On just 143 pass snaps, that's a 9.8 percent pressure rate, which is horrific. In comparison, Free allowed a pressure on just 2.8 percent of his pass snaps prior to this rough three-game stretch.
Key Matchup to Watch vs. Saints: Interior Line vs. DE Cameron Jordan
While tight end Jordan Cameron has surprised some people this year, it's the reverse—defensive end Cameron Jordan—who has really dominated. Jordan is a specimen at 6'4", 287 pounds with sub-4.8 speed.
Most important, Jordan has ridiculously long 35-inch arms, which is by far the most predictive trait for pass-rushing success. That's allowed Jordan to dominate as a pass-rusher in 2013, accumulating 26 pressures—more than J.J. Watt and the second most for any 3-4 defensive end in the NFL.
And he's still just 24 years old, meaning there's plenty of improvement to come. Take a look at Jordan's development since entering the league in 2011.
The Saints use Jordan all over the field, so he won't face off exclusively against the Cowboys interior linemen. Containing Jordan will really be a team effort, although it's the Cowboys' weakness—the interior trio of Ronald Leary, Travis Frederick and Mackenzy Bernadeau—that will see the most of him.


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COULEE DAM In the wake of a federal government decision to have Grand Coulee police patrol dam facilities, Coulee Dam's police chief has told neighboring Grand Coulee its police officers aren't welcome in his city.
Chief Pat Collins' decision apparently affects Grand Coulee's ability to operate under the $1.6 million contract since some of the dam's facilities are within Coulee Dam.
Coulee Dam City Attorney Mick Howe said he's aware of the rift, but hasn't been involved in the decision-making process.
He said Collins has the authority to cancel Coulee Dam's mutual aid agreement with Grand Coulee.
Police chiefs and mayors of the two cities could not be reached for comment.
Dam spokeswoman Lynn Brougher said Bureau of Reclamation officials are trying to work out the problem with the two cities' officials.
"We expect if there are any emergency situations that law enforcement in the area would respond as they would with any other emergency situation," she said.
The Bureau of Reclamation announced Sept. 20 that it had awarded a $1.6 million contract for law enforcement services at Grand Coulee Dam to the city of Grand Coulee.
The contract calls for providing law enforcement services at the Grand Coulee Power Office in areas where the office's guard service does not have authority or jurisdiction, and providing support to the guard services in the case of an emergency.
Services are expected 24 hours a day, each day of the year.
The total contract amount will be awarded over a three-year period, assuming satisfactory performance each year, the bureau said.
In the past, the two cities split the contract.
Collins has said his department will have to lay off two officers and sell two police cars. The contract had accounted for four officers, their training and equipment.
Grand Coulee Police Chief Mel Hunt has said his department is short on personnel and won't be able to fill any positions until next summer.
"Law enforcement services at Grand Coulee Dam are essential for the safety of our employees, the general public and our facilities," dam Power Manager Mark Jenson said. "Safeguarding our staff, visitors, and property is a top priority."
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rushy necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 91 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
We need a new website designed for our Fine Antiques business. We are an extremely prominent and exquisite dealer of antiques and specialise in high value items so a highly expensive and exclusive, elegant looking design is a neccessity.
LJR Windwake & Sons
Fine Antique Auctions
Desired Color Scheme:
gold, brown, rich, elegant
Desired Style:
Clean, professional, rich, elegant, exquisite, deluxe, old, antique, oak, rustic
Accepted File Formats:
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We need a website that matches our rich history and exclusive client list. We need the website to use rich, elegant colours, like browns, golds, greens and other rich-feeling colours.
Despite this rich feel, the text needs to be clearly visible, so no brown text on brown background escapades!! A lighter background would be preferred as we feel it generally gives a cleaner user experience however this could be sacrificed if a design was truly original and looked uncerimoniously rich and elegant.
The layout will follow the 'standard' web format, with a header across the top preferably suited to fit a 1024x768 browser window, but I would like the design to look and feel complete on larger screens also.
In the header should be a logo for our company, LJR Windwake & Sons, again to look and feel rich, exquisite and luxurious with an older, antique-age style about it. Also in the header should be an image (or series of images) that fit the contents of our site, so feel free to take images from our auction listings of bookcases, rich oak furnitures, tables, boxes, chests, pianos, chairs etc. This image should be big enough to act as a normal header image for promotion or alternatively a flash image if we wish to change at a later date. You can either use the full width of the design for this or say, two thirds and have the navbar coming down the left of it if you wish. Just above the image, there should be some text/links to our contact details, details about our company and a sitemap.
This should ideally be to the left of the page, either below the header image or as a crossover from the header to the main content area. The style of link here should be text link with rollover effects for the background and text itself. We DO NOT want complex images here but just text that can be styled using .css (stylesheets). You can see the current links that we have in the navbar and the desired [general] style of the links by visiting http://www.windwake.net
Content Area:
Having clicked the link in the above paragraph, you will have seen the current content style of the page. I would like to keep as close to this as possible. You can deviate by adding some promotional boxes or info boxes just above the item listings but generally, the content area will predominantly be taken up by items. Again, the colours in this area must flow and match the rich and elegant style of the site.
This should be the usual closing of the page and should contain space for text and text links for things like the copyright and various text links directing people to various parts of the site etc. (terms and conditions etc etc.)
Sites that we like the look of:
http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com - for the overall feeling of rich, elegance and the clean design.
http://www.elisabethjamesantiques.co.uk - for the rich colour scheme and impression of expensive antiques it conveys
http://www.timezone.org.uk/ - although I dont like the design because it doesn't look rich enough for me, it still manages to convey a sense of professionalism with its clean design. There is also an undercurrent of luxury to it which I like..perhaps because of the subtle use of the colours??
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- Logo Design
- Web Page Design
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We all have moments of solitude. For some people, finding those few precious moments alone is a rarity. When they do come along, it's natural to focus on yourself, whether curling up with a book, taking a long bubble bath or simply relaxing.
For others, those moments alone are arduous. You may want to quickly fill the silence with a phone call, going to the nearest coffee shop, or at least checking Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat … you get the idea.
That time, whether welcomed or dreaded, could be spent on the Lord instead of ourselves. This week, embrace the solitude. You can offer that time, offer yourself, to God. This could be more time in prayer and reflection, whether reciting the Rosary, reflecting on the daily readings or remembering the blessings you are thankful for. It could be as simple as changing your focus and reveling in God's creation or getting things done, but pointedly offering those activities to the Lord.
As Father John Jay Hughes quoted in an article for The Priest, solitude "is the loveliness of being alone with God."
Each week during Lent I am sharing a quick tip on each of the three disciplines of the season: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. So tune in throughout the coming weeks for more ideas! I hope this third week of Lent is fruitful!
Jennifer Rey is the web editor of Our Sunday Visitor Publishing.
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Glimpsed at the Baltimore School for the Arts Expressions fundraiser: Tobi Thompson
Tobi Thompson, 29, doesn't just earn a living in the fashion world, working at Ruth Shaw and modeling on the side. It's clear the Charles Village resident lives it, as well - on and off the job - like when she came to the Monday night Expressions fundraiser at Baltimore School for the Arts. Thompson wore a gray tweed Isabel Marant zip-front jacket over a magenta sleeveless stretch knit Robert Rodriguez sheath, with gray wool flannel Jimmy Choo pumps that featured black patent leather platforms. She added a gold Eddie Borgo spiked cuff and a vintage black Chanel bag. The only item that didn't come from Ruth Shaw was the bag, which was a gift from "a loved customer." Thompson says it's hard to pinpoint what she dubs her "sophisticated, but fun" style. "I don't think anything is unexpected from me. I go from motorcyle boots to a Chanel bag, and from lady dresses to boyfriend jeans."
Colby Ware, For The Baltimore Sun
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