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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team can secure a playoff spot with a victory over Robert Morris on Senior Day. The Blue Devils (14-13, 8-8 NEC) and Colonials will tip-off at 2 p.m. or 35 minutes after the conclusion of the CCSU-Robert Morris men's basketball game.
Here are some notes for the Blue Devils heading into today's game:
Today • The Blue Devils (14-13, 8-8 NEC) host the Colonials of Robert Morris (7-20, 6-10 NEC) in a Northeast Conference women's basketball game. The Blue Devils have two regular season games left on the schedule and CCSU is in the drivers seat to secure one of the final two spots in the NEC Tournament. CCSU's opponent today, Robert Morris, is also in the hunt for one of the final playoff spots. The Colonials and Blue Devils played earlier this season with Robert Morris winning 65-48. That was the NEC opener for both squads. Up next for CCSU is a Monday night game against Saint Francis U. The Blue Devils fell to the Red Flash on the road earlier this season and the Red Flash have already locked up a playoff spot.
Senior Day • Prior to today's game the Blue Devils honored seniors Jaclyn Babe, Kirsten Daamen and Jameilia Dillon. All three players are in their final season of action for the Blue Devils. Brooke Bailey, who is listed on the roster as a senior, has not played this season and will return next year to play for the Blue Devils.
Series History • The Blue Devils are 11-16 all-time against the Colonials and are 1-8 against Robert Morris under head coach Beryl Piper. Robert Morris won the first meeting this season by a score of 68-45. It was the fifth straight win in the series for the Colonials.
The Playoff Picture • Heading into today's action the playoff picture is becoming more clear with six teams locked into the tournament. Quinnipiac is locked in as the #1 seed, behind the Bobcats are Sacred Heart, Monmouth, Saint Francis U, Mount St. Mary's and St. Francis Brooklyn. CCSU enters today tied with St. Francis BK for sixth place in the NEC stadnings. Four teams are currently competing for the final two spots, CCSU at 8-8 is in the drivers seat and likely headed for the playoffs, Robert Morris, Fairleigh Dickinson and Bryant at 6-10 are mostly likely in contention for the final spot. However, a massive five-team tie at 8-10 is still possible and in that case the two teams with the highest combined winning percentage against the other teams in the tie would earn playoff berths. For CCSU the path is simple, a win today puts the team at nine wins and secures a playoff spot.
Assisting the Team • Junior Jessica Babe has 105 assists this season, which gives her a new season-high. Last season, Babe recorded 102 assists to lead the Blue Devils. She is currently tenth on CCSU's career list with 257 assists.
Seniors • Senior Kirsten Daamen holds the school record for career blocks (193), single-game blocks (9, at FDU 2/2/13) and has the second (73, 2011-12), third (53, 2012-13), ninth (37, 2009-10) and 11th (33, 2010-11) highest single-season block totals in program history.
Senior Jameilia Dillon has played off the bench throughout her career serving as a valuable back-up forward and center. She had the best game of her career at Bryant last season when she posted 10 points and 9 rebounds.
Senior Jaclyn Babe transferred to CCSU following two seasons at Duquesne University. Babe has scored 846 points at CCSU and with her 191 points at Duquesne she has registered 1,037 points as a Division I college basketball player. Babe has averaged 15.7 points/game over her two seasons at CCSU, and has 151 assists and 123 steals during that time.
Round Numbers • Senior Jaclyn Babe reached 1,000 career points two weeks ago and sophomore Kaley Watras reached 400 career points on Saturday. Senior Kirsten Daamen is just 2 points shy of 800 for her career. Also approaching milestone scoring numbers are junior Jessica Babe (14 points from 600) and junior Lauren Arbogast (18 points from 500). On the coaching side, head coach Beryl Piper recorded her 80th career win on Saturday.
Wins • With 14 wins this season the 2012-13 team is tied with the 2000-01 team for the fifth most wins in a Division I season. With a victory tonight, the Blue Devils could move ahead of the 00-01 squad. Head coach Beryl Piper has led CCSU in three of the top-six seasons by win total. The program's DI record of 21 wins was set during the 1989-90 season, the 2010-11 team's 19 wins are second, the 2008-09 squad's 18 wins are third and the 1998-99 team's 17 wins are currently fourth.


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Clinton has concentrated on the oil issue during his two-day swing through North Carolina. His wife's proposal to eliminate the gas tax during the summer months has been criticized by rivals who point out that the short-term benefit for many Americans would register at a savings of less than $50.
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West Ham sold
Long gone are the days when a succesful local businessman could buy his local club in the top flight English Premier League. The fact is that most PL clubs are at least £100 million to buy and that doesn't include the millions of investment that need to follow in terms of transfers, wages and infrastructure in order to compete in the worlds richest football league.
Would you welcome talks between DIC and our current owners?
Your views are very welcome on this subject!!
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Re: A question of the DIC
I would but some guy on 5live just said he works for them and although they are very very wealthy they are not in the habit of throwing money at projects.
He also said they are not interested in Liverpool anymore.
I can't see anything happening right now. I bet they end up at Newcastle.
Re: A question of the DIC
For sure!
Football isn't the same anymore, and I for one have found myself falling out of love with it....but the way the premier league is changing, in terms of investment, who wouldn't welcome it?? We need to be owned my a billionaire just to compete for 6th place at the moment. I would love to see a takeover personally.
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To be honest Trap, I think our fans like most others wouldn't care if Donald Duck bought the club as long as the £millions was provided that would get us winning some trophies. They don't give a monkey's f**k where the money comes from they just want to watch our team doing the business on the pitch.
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I don't know. My first reaction is yes, definitely. Because I want BG, Duxbury, Kia and (if some of this weeks reports are true) Nani out of the club forever by whatever means possible.
But as things stand, West Ham United is still kind of salvageable. Maybe it's not really, but it feels like it is. I still feel like we can go back to a time where it feels like our club. And DIC would put an end to that overnight for me. We'd become another franchise. We're basically there already, and there with no money, so it would be a big step up from where we are now, but I'd only want it if there were no West Ham fans (or even football men) around who could buy the club and take us forward.
Problem is, I don't think there are. Or will be again until the Arab investors coming into the game set up their own league back home and gut the premier league of its superstars, taking us back somewhere close to before Sky existed. In the meantime, we may as well have a bit of fun and play some European football while that still means something. I suppose.
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Football has changed and it's impossible to achieve anything without the proper backing. I remember that a lot of people were very happy for the Icelanders to take over, this should be no different. We had no guarentees whatsoever that they will stay true to our history and tradition of promoting young local talent etc, so if this DIC company were to take over we can only hope that they don't turn us into a team of Johnny Foreigner's.
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Excellent site that Ironball.
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great site
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Very interesting site.
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Fantastic read
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I have been mentioning the "catchment" area for ages and how our club has been continually undersold.
Does anyone take notice ?
Someone gets a blog and their the dog's.
(It's still raining lads, the thunderstorm shook me out of my bed and I have had a distinct lack of sleep and a miserable week end. Haven't seen a single soul since work on Wednesday and we're told to stay HOME again today. Besides there is either petrol with no power, or power with no petrol. No food shops open and more to the point NO BOOZE AVAILABLE !! Oh and no signal from the mobile so i can't even call anyone !!).
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It's quite a shock to find out that Ghandi helped in the formation of our club!
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Here's your contact address:
go to the contact us part and start selling them the idea, remind them we are all on 60 k a year and the scousers don't work.
Seriously though, give it a go and show we're willing!!!
Re: DIC for West Ham? Contact them (Link included).
That's slightly pathetic, don't you think?
I'm sure their decision on whether or not to make a multi-million pound investment won't be affected by receiving a few emails that will serve no purpose beyond annoying their PR department.
Re: DIC for West Ham? Contact them (Link included).
1st XL on the shirts & now dic?
Bring on Jiffy condoms.....................
Re: DIC for West Ham? Contact them (Link included).
Well don't worry about it then old chap.
Re: DIC for West Ham? Contact them (Link included).
I think being apathetic is pathetic.
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I'm starting a "I WANT DIC" chant from the BML on Saturday - who's with me?
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Drobo data protection
One of the points Data Robotics stressed to us is that they consider Drobo to be a primary storage solution rather than strictly a secondary/backup storage unit. Drobo obviously has some of the same characteristics as a secondary, external storage unit, but we'll also be evaluating the device to see if it lives up to Data Robotics' claim that it can function effectively as a primary storage pool for frequently accessed data.
Data Robotics markets Drobo as a "data robot" and has designed it to "take the pain out of data management." Far more flexible than a RAID array and with much more storage potential than any single external drive, Drobo offers end users a versatile, secure, and expandable external storage solution, according to its manufacturer. The "data robot" nickname refers to how data storage is dynamically managed and allocated on the fly depending on available hard drive space. Unlike a RAID array, where array size is fixed and set at creation, Drobo is capable of striping and mirroring across a drive array composed of different drive sizes, as shown at right.
A standard RAID 5 built using the four above drives would only offer 300GB of storage, with one drive reserved for parity. Because RAID arrays are limited by the size of the smallest drive (if different capacity drives are used), the additional capacity of the 200, 300, and 400GB drives would be effectively wasted.
Using Drobo, the total amount of available storage jumps to 600GB of protected storage, with an additional 100GB available as unprotected storage. When additional storage capacity is needed, the 100GB drive can be hot-swapped for a higher-capacity unit. Once this is done, Drobo will rebuild its array on the fly (data can still be copied to the drive while this occurs), and the array's capacity will summarily increase.
The folks at Data Robotics were understandably vague when questioned about exactly how Drobo goes about its business, but they were willing to confirm that aspects of their technology were similar to Intel's Matrix Storage Technology or the Volume Shadow Copy technology built into Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Drobo setup
Unit setup is a cinch—simply plug in Drobo's USB and power cables and allow Windows to automatically discover and configure the new drive. Strictly speaking, there's no software installation required, but if you want an accurate report on how much hard drive space you've got left on Drobo, you'll need to install the Drobo Dashboard. Although it properly configures itself as an attached drive, the Drobo unit always reports itself as a 2TB drive in Explorer, regardless of how large the installed array actually is. Data Robotics states that this allows the end user to install more or larger hard drives in the future without the need to remap the drive in Explorer. If you opt not to install Drobo Dashboard, you can still indirectly monitor the amount of available storage by watching the lights on the front of the Drobo: a solid bank of yellow lights means Drobo has reached 85% capacity, while a solid bank of red means Drobo has reached 95% capacity. If more than 2TB of total storage is installed, Explorer will report the presence of multiple 2TB arrays.
If you do elect to install the Drobo Dashboard (and I see no reason not to), it's a small utility for monitoring and updating Drobo's configuration and software, and a Mac OS X version is also available (you can format the drives via Disk Utility). Installing the dashboard drops an icon into the system tray that brings up the following information when clicked:
The main page of the Drobo Dashboard maps out how much space is available for new storage as well as how space is currently allocated within the storage pool. Clicking on the "Advanced Controls" button opens the following two pages of information:
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About 10 gay couples lined up Saturday morning outside of a county courthouse in northwest Arkansas, one day after a judge ruled that the state's same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional.
It isn't clear whether any same-sex marriage licenses will be issued Saturday, because couples must find a clerk willing to do so.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza ruled Friday that Arkansas' 2004 voter-approved amendment to the state constitution violates the rights of gay couples. He didn't put his ruling on hold as some judges in other states have done.
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said he would appeal the ruling and asked it be suspended during that process. No appeal had been filed as of Saturday morning.
The first couple in line at the Carroll County Courthouse was Kristin Seaton, 27, and Jennifer Rambo, 26, both of Fort Smith, Arkansas. The couple has been together four years.
Upon hearing about the judge's ruling, Seaton said her first thought was "Is this really happening?" The couple set out for the Pulaski County Courthouse, but learned on the way there that it wouldn't be open Saturday. Eureka Springs, a popular site for destination weddings in the Ozarks, was their next stop, after someone told them it was the most likely place to get a license.
Seaton and Rambo slept in their Ford Focus after arriving at 2 a.m. Saturday, waking up every 30 minutes to make sure they were at the head of the line. The moment they saw another couple pull up, Seaton and Rambo bolted to the courthouse.
"I don't think I ran that fast," Rambo said.
Arkansas' amendment was passed in 2004 with the overwhelming support of Arkansas voters. Piazza's ruling also overturned a 1997 state law banning gay marriage. In striking down the ban, Piazza wrote that it is "an unconstitutional attempt to narrow the definition of equality."
"The exclusion of a minority for no rational reason is a dangerous precedent," he said in his ruling.
The U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled that a law forbidding the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages was unconstitutional. Since then, lower-court judges have repeatedly cited the decision when striking down some of the same-sex marriage bans that were enacted after Massachusetts started recognizing gay marriages in 2004.
Federal judges have ruled against marriage bans in Michigan, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Texas, and ordered Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee to recognize same-sex marriages from other states.
In all, according to gay-rights groups, more than 70 lawsuits seeking marriage equality are pending in about 30 states. Democratic attorneys general in several states — including Virginia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Oregon and Kentucky — have declined to defend same-sex marriage bans.
Arkansas' ruling came a week after McDaniel became the first statewide elected official to announce he personally supports gay marriage rights. But he said he would continue to defend the constitutional ban in court.
Aaron Sadler, McDaniel's spokesman, said Friday the attorney general sought the stay because "we know that questions about validity of certain actions will arise absent a stay."
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There's an evolution taking place in the crop production world as crop protection companies and a host of others seek to maximize the genetic potential of the seed you plant. Decades of success with what many call "traditional chemistry" will continue, but now companies are turning to biological approaches to protect crops and enhance plant performance.
The result will be a new set of options in the future for keeping plants healthier and protecting crop yield potential until the combines roll. How this new approach to plant performance will look is still unfolding, but rest assured you'll see more new ways to boost yields by the end of the decade.
Many of the moves creating new-think approaches to crop production come as major players in traditional chemistries acquire companies or develop new relationships. For example, BASF acquired Becker-Underwood and later created the Functional Crop Care division.
"For us, Functional Crop Care is not just about biologicals and inoculants," says Juergen Huff, senior vice president, Functional Crop Care, BASF. "It's about combining tools to increase the farmer's yield."
He explains the goal is to get away from "product definitions" and move toward solution-based decision-making.
Plant breeders have estimated the built-in genetic potential yield for corn is 500 bu./acre or more; for soybeans, the number is 200 bu. or higher. Super crop contest yields have hit records that show those numbers aren't far off. You want to hang on to every potential bushel that crop can produce, and these new approaches could help.
Huff says BASF is working on novel ways to increase fertilizer efficiency in the soil. "Inoculants and nitrogen management have been around in soybeans for some time," he says. "We have nitrogen management technology in our pipeline that we'll be bringing to market."
Challenging tech
Of course, biobased technology challenges formulators and companies in new ways. Soybean inoculants are the granddaddy of biobased solutions for crop yield enhancement. The living rhizobia that help soybeans fix needed nitrogen nodules have been around for some time, but getting living rhizobia from fermenter to field as a viable product was a challenge.
Now these experienced companies are taking the approach a step further, creating rhizobia and seed-applied biological crop inputs for seed treatments.
"To make that work, you need a holistic approach," says Huff. "You need to have the right polymer to put the inoculant where it belongs and look at the other seed treatment components. It is a complex relationship optimizing seed, soil and foliar treatments."
Yet creating seed-treatment-based approaches makes use of this new technology easier, requiring the farmer simply to set up the planter, fill the hopper and head to the field.
Already, many soybean producers are using a biological seed treatment in the Poncho/Votivo combination from Bayer CropScience. The Votivo portion controls nematodes using a biological approach, which was a first for the industry.
Bayer CropScience bought AgraQuest in 2013, and is working on maximizing that firm's biobased approaches in new ways. Recently, the company announced it had purchased the Biagro group in Argentina, further strengthening its biobased efforts. Biagro produces soybean inoculants.
"We're looking for new ways to improve crop yields," says Ethan Luth, seed growth product manager, Bayer CropScience. "We're looking at biological solutions for pests and diseases."
He points to the pythium species where a biological compound might be applied that would turn on the plant's own defense mechanisms to battle the disease. This kind of approach is not a new idea; the challenge is finding the compounds that stimulate a healthy plant response when disease is present — or in advance of disease.
Another major player in the biologicals market is Syngenta, which is officially rolling out Clariva Complete for soybeans in 2014. The treatment uses a naturally occurring soil bacteria — Pasteuria nishizawa — which has a direct mode of action on nematodes. Essentially, spores for the organism are in the seed treatment, and soil moisture moves them from the seed.
The rhizosphere
As more biological products enter the market, you'll probably be hearing a lot more about the rhizosphere. This is the zone surrounding the roots of plants, and there's a lot going on down there. The relationship among the roots, the soil and the organisms in the soil is the key, and it's also where new biological products will "interface" with the system.
Tom Johnson is the founder of T J Technologies, which Novozymes acquired in 2013. Johnson, who now serves as senior consultant for Novozymes, notes that companies are recognizing that increasing the incidence of beneficial organisms in the rhizosphere will allow the plant to function more closely to its genetic potential.
"There's something on your soil test that you forget to measure — time," he says. "It doesn't tell me how long that fertility will take to get from the soil to the rhizosphere. Biologicals can reduce the time it takes for that [fertility] to reach the rhizosphere."
Johnson was the early developer of Quick Roots, a biological product that actually has an 18-month life on seed as a fungal bacterial component. It's that kind of technology companies will have to perfect as they bring living tools to market to enhance the rhizosphere.
Monsanto sees the value of biobased solutions, creating the BioAg Alliance with Novozymes, which Johnson says will allow for greater field-level testing of this technology. And Monsanto is also looking toward the seed treatment approach as the key application method for these tools.
The future of crop production will be changing. "You'll be looking at a systems-based approach," says Brad Griffith, vice president, global commercial microbials, Monsanto, who is working with the BioAg Alliance. "These microbes are naturally sourced products, so we've had to learn how to ferment them, multiply them, and how to coat seed effectively without adversely affecting plantability."
Pushing the plant
Biological products can also work on the plant itself (as can traditional chemistry — see story at right) to boost a kind of "immune response."
Marrone Bio Innovations has Regalia Rx, for example, that provides induced systemic resistance in the plant, which allows it to fend off disease. And it brings a different mode of action to the disease control mix for farmers seeking ways to avoid issues with resistance. It's another example of how biobased products could turn up the heat against pests in the future.
The traditional chemistry companies entering the bioproduct market are bringing proven product discovery technologies to the table as well. The high-throughput systems these companies use can speed the process of finding new active biological products for control of a range of issues.
The move to biological approaches — with either biobased application products or active ingredients that incite a bioresponse in the crop itself — is a growing trend. In a high-yield world where raising production remains a paramount goal, new technologies here offer promise.
Traditional chemistry, bio result?
The move toward research in biological products for a range of uses — from plant yield enhancement to pest control to disease prevention — is already showing benefits in the market. Yet there is "traditional chemistry" on the market that works on the plant, or the rhizosphere, as well. The key is that science is turning in the direction of tools that help the plant in addition to molecules that kill weeds or insect pests.
This change in direction is necessitated by the lack of new modes of action in traditional chemistry, and the potential available for biological approaches given the wide range of spores, bacteria and other beneficial organisms out there.
However, there are traditional chemistry systems that work on the plant as well, creating ways to beat disease while having a low impact on the environment. Several years ago, Syngenta launched Actigard, a product that pushes the plant's own resistance into high gear to battle certain diseases.
All plants have some form of protection, and Actigard, when applied, simply turns on that protection. The process is called systemic acquired resistance, or SAR, and it is an area of continued research as part of the move to work on ways to help the plant protect built-in yield potential.
Differentiating between the SAR from Actigard and the induced systemic resistance from a product like Regalia Rx gets into the biochemistry of the plant itself. This will be a growing area of interest as scientists get better at understanding plant processes.
At Stoller USA, the traditional chemistry the company uses has been shown to ignite specific plant genes, helping boost yields. "The plant experiences a lot of stresses," says Jeff Morgan, Stoller USA. "We're able to produce a genetic response that tells the plant to continue its normal processes, to do this, or do that, in season."
Morgan is talking about Bio-Forge, a popular product among yield contest winners year in and year out. The product is sprayed on — usually once per season, but the flexibility allows for low-rate multiple application — and helps offset plant stress and reduce yield loss. "Our data show that we're telling the plant to signal a reduction in ethylene," he says.
Ethylene is the gas produced when a stressed plant starts to senesce, or die off. Bio-Forge is another example of a product that works on the plant, not the pest, to boost yield and enhance performance.
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A Circus for the Brain
After serving as a professor of economics at Otterbein College for over two decades, J. Patrick Lewis turned to writing children's poetry. His first book of poems for children, A Hippopotamusn't, was published in 1990, and he has followed with over seventy children's books since then, most of them poetry. He is also a contributor of children's book reviews for the New York Times, makes over 30 elementary school visits a year, and is a frequent speaker at workshops and conferences. He recently received the 2011 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Excellence in Children's Poetry Award for his body of work.
The themes and subjects of J. Patrick Lewis' poetry collections are wide-ranging with a frequent focus on science related and historical topics. In addition, he enjoys experimenting with poetic form and wordplay and has authored everything from narrative poems to concrete poetry to limericks to riddles to haiku. Here, he shares his thoughts on his poetic influences, process, preferences, parodies, the place of poetry in children's lives, and his plans for the future.
SV: Why do you think poetry is important for children?
JPL: Children spend their whole lives talking, listening, reading, and dreaming in one language (or more, if they are lucky), so why not encourage them to do all those things in the most pleasurable possible way—with poetry. Great poetry is a circus for the brain. It's ten pounds of excitement in a nine-pound bag. But children won't know what that means unless we offer them the best. Soon, they'll be asking for second and third helpings. Even though few children will become poets, poetry helps them realize that one of the most phenomenal gifts humans get free of charge is the English language. And there is nothing in any language more beautiful, more inspiring and thought-provoking than poetry.
SV: How did you come to the writing of poetry for children when you're also a scholar of economics and Russian history?
JPL: My usual answer (a joke) is that an economist can become a children's poet only after a very delicate operation. Actually, I wanted to be a writer first, and so I wrote for nearly 30 years in economics. But very few people read economics unless they are roped to a chair. Happily, when I was still a pup (but almost 40!), I discovered poetry— "the road not taken . . . and that has made all the difference."
SV: What part did poetry play in your own childhood?
JPL: Where was the magical teacher when I was in 2nd, 5th, 8th or 16th grade who would say, "I'm going to do you a favor, sonny. Read Emily Dickinson or Robert Frost, and tell me if you don't come down with a fever of delight." Alas, it never happened. So I'm sad to say that poetry played no part in my childhood. I'm a walking, talking example of, "It's never too late." Good things happen to those who wait.
SV: Which poets or poems do you most admire and why? Or which have been most influential in your own development as a poet?
JPL: The giants Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll in children's poetry, though there is a whole list of more or less forgotten poets I return to: Arthur Guiterman, Hilaire Belloc, Charles and Guy Carryl, so many that the winds of death have scattered. Ogden Nash was a big influence. But I spend much more time reading adult poets: Dickinson, Frost, Auden, Larkin, Hardy, Roethke, Housman, Robinson, Fenton, Causley, so many to name. I believe poets are influenced by every good poem they read, even though they may not be able to say exactly how.
SV: Do you follow a regular process in creating your poetry? Care to share?
JPL: Writers are odd folk; peccadilloes abound. Each one of us has a unique way of answering this question. When I'm not making school visits, I spend at least eight hours a day, seven days a week working. By working I mean reading (which always comes first), then writing, rewriting, doing research.
SV: Your poetry is often grounded in history or historical topics. How did you come to that focus? Why is that important to you?
JPL: My objective, as I've always said, is to range across the curriculum and all ages. My choice of subjects—the Civil War, extraordinary women, notable black Americans, famous monuments, geography, Galileo, Michelangelo, and the like—stems from a sense that I might be able to add my own small voice, with a heavy dose of humility, to these well-traveled themes, and not repeat what others have done. I'm always searching for a new untouched—or insufficiently touched—subject.
SV: You seem to delight in experimenting with poetic form. Which are your favorite forms? Are there any you would still like to try?
JPL: Ballad stanzas or common measures are overused in children's poetry, I think. A whole book of ballad stanzas, even if it's a very funny collection, gets to be monotonous. There are hundreds of other forms, most foreign born, just begging to be tried. I think children's poets should be willing to take more risks. Unfortunately long forms seem to have fallen out of favor with publishers and parents. So short forms are winning the day. I can't choose a favorite form since so much depends upon the subject, whether it's nonsense verse, nonfiction topics, biographical poetry. I invented a new verse form, the zeno, but it has almost no chance of finding a stall in the redoubtable stable of verse forms, simply because its rhyming requirements are too strict.
SV: Poetry parodies seem to be a strong suit for you, channeling your wicked sense of humor. How do you select the poems to parody and then create those riffs?
JPL: Parodies are enormously fun. I think of them as compliments (as well as complements) to the originals, rather than mere send-ups, even if they do add a bit of mischief. I have a Harcourt collection of parodies coming out in 2012 entitled, Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Classic Poems in Mathematical Puzzles. The key to selecting poems to parody is that the original must be more or less well-known. If you parody unknown poems, no one is likely to see what you are about. Few remember Isaac Watts's "How Doth the Little Busy Bee" today because it was buried beautifully by Lewis Carroll's parody of it, "How Doth the Little Crocodile." But Watts's ditty was popular three hundred years ago.
SV: Most of your work appears in picture book format accompanied by art by a variety of illustrators. How do you see the role of illustration in poetry books for children?
JPL: The marriage of text and art is nowhere more exquisite than in children's picture books, and I have been inexplicably lucky in the illustrators who have been chosen for my books, especially at Creative Editions, which makes the most gorgeous picture books in the world, in my opinion. Ownership of a book is divided in half, or perhaps in thirds, if you count the important work of the book's designer. My dear friend, the late Myra Cohn Livingston, used to argue that the poem should be surrounded by nothing but white space. For adult collections, I agree. But for children's books, the artist is capable of evoking the words in surprisingly new and provocative ways. While artist and poet rarely collaborate, the best picture books look or should look like they are the result of seamless cooperation.
SV: What is your favorite part about visiting kids in schools and libraries?
JPL: Having done over 450 author visits here and abroad, I think I can safely say that the children's appreciation of books is the most rewarding part of author visits. That and the obvious pleasure they take in hearing poetry spoken. Riddles are always great favorites, simply because they are interactive. And they treat you like a rock star! (Which my wife has thus far refused to do.) I hasten to add that being with those amazing beings called teachers and librarians is another reason why school visits are so rewarding. Without seeming to curry favor, I don't think most people appreciate the hard work and imagination of the shepherds of our youth.
SV: What topics still beg for poetry for children, in your opinion? If you could write about anything (regardless of commercial viability), what would you choose?
JPL: For older childen, more nonfiction rendered in poetry. This year Jane Yolen and I have a new collection, Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers: A Life of Marc Chagall in Verse (Creative Editions). Next year my Thunder Before Lightning: Poems for the Civil Righteous will be published by Chronicle. For younger children, my fond wish would be for a renewed interest in the long story in nonsense verse, like Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter" or W.S. Gilbert's "Etiquette."
SV: In this digital age, what do you see as the ideal role of technology in creating and/or promoting poetry for young people?
JPL: I think I was born too soon to appreciate fully the wonders of the new technologies, so I dare not hazard a guess as to what it all means for children's publishing and poetry. In fact, the warp speed at which the digital age is flying by suggests that none of us can predict the virtual future. I'm holding on as tightly as I can to see how the future will unfold.
SV: As the recipient of BOTH the Children's Poet Laureate distinction and the National Council of Teachers of English Excellence in Poetry Award, what are your plans for your "reign"?
JPL: That remains to be seen, but I've got several ideas I'm eager to explore with the good people at the Poetry Foundation. The erstwhile Children's Laureates Jack Prelutsky and Mary Ann Hoberman have left mighty big shoes to fill. If excitement and enthusiasm count for anything at all, I like to think that I'm up to the task, and I can't wait to see what the next two years will bring for all of us in this corner of children's literature. When I received the call from John Barr, the Poetry Foundation's director, informing me of the appointment, I was thrilled beyond measure. That day and for many days thereafter, it felt like a butterfly was dancing on my heart; likewise when the NCTE Excellence in Children's Poetry Award committee called in November. I'm deeply grateful to NCTE and to everyone connected with the Poetry Foundation for awarding me what I think of as the brass rings of children's poetry.
Sylvia Vardell is a professor of children's literature at Texas Woman's University and author of Poetry Aloud Here and the acclaimed blog, PoetryForChildren.


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University degree programs in game design have been popping up around the country in recent years, but these have largely been dedicated to the creation of games for entertainment purposes.
This fall, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development has launched a ground-breaking degree program in the field: a master of science in game design to enhance learning.
The MS Program in Games for Learning (G4L) is a two-year program that prepares students to create, use, and evaluate digital games for the purpose of learning in school, out of school, and on the go.
The program aims to instill in its students technical skills while also providing a pedagogical and research framework.
"Students are learning to be practitioners who also understand the social, cognitive, emotional, and cultural issues involved in both the design of games and in the learning process," explains Jan Plass, a professor in the Department of Administration, Leadership, and Technology and director of the program.
Plass, co-director of the NYU-housed Games for Learning Institute, adds that the program's curriculum includes a wide range of research areas: game design models and developmental practices; the value of narrative features of game design; and research methods aimed at improving and evaluating the design of games for learning.
The program also has an optional internship that places students in game design studios and similar professional environments where they use their skills and learn about their real-world applications.
Armed with this understanding, students will be able to apply cognitive theories to the building of games for a broad range of learners.
The G4L program is housed at NYU's Media and Games Network (MAGNET), a facility in downtown Brooklyn's MetroTech Center that also houses the NYU Game Center and a game engineering program.
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Texas researcher adds 'Enemy' feature to Facebook
Mei-Chun Jau for The Chronicle
Dean Terry has 400 friends on Facebook, but he wants some virtual enemies.
Mr. Terry, who is director of the emerging-media program at the University of Texas at Dallas, says a major flaw of the popular social network is that it's all sunshine and no rain: The service encourages users to press the "like" button, but offers no way to signal which ideas, products, or people they disagree with. And "friend" is about the only kind of connection you can declare.
Real-world relationships are more complicated than that, so social networks should be too, the scholar argues. He's not alone—more than three million people have voted for a "dislike" feature on an online petition on Facebook.
But Mr. Terry has decided to take action, protesting the ethos of Facebook by literally rewiring the service. Or at least, adding the ability to declare "enemies."
"It's social-media blasphemy, in that we're suggesting that you share differences you have with people and share things that you don't like instead of what you do like," he told me last week. "I think social media needs some disruption. It needs its shot of Johnny Rotten."
Here's what he's done. Last month he and a student released a Facebook plug-in called EnemyGraph, which users can install free and name their enemies, which then show up in their profiles. "We're using 'enemy' in the same loose way that Facebook uses 'friends,'" Mr. Terry explained. "It really just means something you have an issue with."
The scholar would have preferred to use "dislike," but the word is literally banned by the service to prevent developers from creating a dislike button. Critics of Facebook say the social network's leaders want to keep the service friendly to advertisers who might object to users publicly scorning their products.
Mr. Terry wondered if Facebook would even allow his plug-in application to pass the company's approval process, and even though it did, he still believes administrators will shut it down if it becomes popular. The day I talked with Mr. Terry, only 300 people were using it, but at that point no national media had picked up the story.
Facebook officials declined to talk about the new app. The only response a spokesperson would give was a one-sentence e-mail addressing the company's position on creating a "dislike" button: "At some point we may consider it, but for the time being, we are working on what we believe are more high-impact features."
Who was Mr. Terry so eager to diss? "One of the first things I put was the band Journey," he said of his enemy list, "just because they annoy me, and I thought it was funny." He has also enemied Deepak Chopra and the color red.
The programming stunt might win Mr. Terry some real enemies among people who think the best thing about Facebook is its relative lack of negativity. After all, many online forums are prone to vicious flame wars that lead reasonable people to steer clear. What's wrong with keeping an online world like Facebook nice?
To Mr. Terry, that's where his role as an educator comes in. "What we all do in the program is help our students think critically about social media," he says, noting that that is the main goal of EnemyGraph. "On Facebook you're the product—it's commoditized expression," he argues, and he wants students and others to recognize that. "I'm not telling students not to use it, I'm just telling them to understand what's happening when they use it."
A graduate research assistant, Bradley Griffith, did the actual coding, and he made an even stronger case for the service than Mr. Terry did. "It's dangerous for us as a society to move in this direction where everything has its worst qualities removed from it," Mr. Griffith told me.
Virtual Dissent
EnemyGraph points to a new form of social protest, one that could only happen in a virtual realm. In the physical world, scholars calling for social change might write up their suggestions, or stage symbolic protests, and hope their arguments prompt leaders to make changes. In online communities, it is possible to promote change by creating a new technical feature or service.
As Mr. Griffith put it, "academics have always had ideas about society, but we could only really talk about it, and now we can do it."
Consider another work of online protest by Mr. Terry and Mr. Griffith. Last fall they built a searchable Web archive of Twitter messages that had been deleted by users. The service was possible because while deleting a Twitter message stops it from being distributed, it can live on, since in some cases it has already been captured by archival services that mine Twitter for information. Called Undetweetable, the service disturbed many observers, some of whom criticized its creators for giving new life to comments that users had chosen to remove.
The goal of Undetweetable was to raise awareness of how persistent anything posted online can be—and how easy it is for outsiders to secretly pluck those messages to analyze them in various ways.
"Someone said, These are the nicest people who will ever steal your data," said Mr. Terry, referring to one of the bloggers who wrote about the service. "Because we're not going to do anything nefarious with it."
Undetweetable did start a conversation. It attracted a stream of users after being mentioned by The Wall Street Journal and popular technology blogs including Gizmodo. It operated for only five days—until Mr. Terry got an e-mail from Twitter asking that he shut down the service because it violated Twitter's rules. He complied.
"This is the way you call attention to certain kinds of things on the Net," he said. "You have to make something that people can use. Some of these things need to be experienced firsthand."
Alex Halavais, an associate professor of communications at Quinnipiac University and president of the Association of Internet Researchers, said he expected to see more of this kind of high-tech intervention by scholars as more researchers in the humanities gain skills in programming and comfort using social media. "Increasingly there are faculty who feel confident doing this," he said.
A Tool for Cyberbullies?
A social critique is one thing. But what if adding an "enemy" button leads to increases in cyberbullying, bringing real harm to users uninterested in the scholars' points?
Mr. Terry believes that the feature will not spark hateful speech. "It's not necessarily going to make us fight, it's just going to make us have a conversation," he argues.
So far the most popular enemies are public figures, such as rock stars and politicians. A page of "trending enemies" shows that Rick Santorum now leads, with the band Nickelback close behind. Also on the list are racism, Merrill Lynch, and hypocrites.
Users of the service, like Maria-Luiza Popescu, a senior at the Dallas campus, say that's the kind of thing she would like to know about her Facebook friends. "What I want to know when I first interact with someone is what we disagree over," she said. The service even highlights things that one friend has "liked" and another has "enemied," showing it as a point of "dissonance," in hope of starting a conversation. She imagines "making new friends through enemies."
Mr. Griffith, though, expected some sparks to fly. He said he is disappointed that EnemyGraph hasn't been used more for what he called "bullying and high-school dramas." He feels Facebook's current system is artificially nice, so he wants to "encourage people to confront their negative relations to each other head-on as a sort of conversation." He argues that "when you keep groups or people separate, you can actually cultivate more enmity."
The researchers are eagerly watching to see what happens next, as Facebook users discover their app and become volunteers in a new kind of social experiment.


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T10 Balance Druid Relic - The periodic damage from your Insect Swarm and Moonfire spells grants 44 critical strike rating for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
At first glance I was pretty unimpressed due to it's similarity to the T9 idol. Lets take a quick look at it for comparison.
[Idol of Lunar Fury] - Each time your Moonfire spell deals periodic damage, you have a chance to gain 200 critical strike rating for 12 sec.
The two idols buff your crit chance by a similar amount and both are based upon a DoT you put up. So, my first reaction was "Don't I already have this idol?" My second reaction a little more honest. While these two idols are very similar it is important to note the differences.
The first difference is obvious. The T9 idol grants 200 Crit Rating. The T10 idol grants 220 Crit Rating when fully stacked. If you assume a 100% uptime of both idols then this is a 10% buff to the idol slot. That's not that bad of a buff going from one tier to the next.
The second difference is something a lot of people will ignore.The T10 idol will have a higher buff uptime. The T9 idol buff has a 70%-90% proc chance and a 12 second duration. It's so high that most players and theorycrafters assume that it has 100% uptime. That's not a bad assumption, but in real life the idol's uptime will be less.
Since the buff is proc based there is always the possibility that bad luck will strike and it doesn't proc for an extended period of time. Also, there are times when casting DoTs is not in your best interest. At these times your giving the buff an opportunity to slip off.
The T10 idol on other hand is not proc based and has a 15 second duration. If you cast both DoTs the buff should be fully stacked within 8 seconds. Since Moonfire has at least a 15 second duration, as long as your cast a DoT every 27 seconds the stack will be maintained.
TL:DR - The T10 idol is not sexy and it isn't something your going to see a bunch of moonkin going nuts over. However, the buff is a little bit bigger then the T9 idol and it will be easier to maintain the buff. Therefore, this is a clear upgrade, despite my first reaction.
Rebirth: The cooldown on this spell has been lowered from 20 minutes down to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.
Great chance. If you've read my blog for along time you may remember that I thought that the Rebirth cooldown should have been reduced to 15minutes instead of 20 back in the early days of BC. Reducing it to 10 minutes is even better then my suggestion.
The big problem with the 20 minute cooldown is that if you use it in one attempt you don't have it for the next 2 or 3. Hopefully, with this change it will now be up for almost every attempt. This does make me wonder about soul stone though. They should reduce it's cooldown also.
UI Change: Any party member may mark raid targets.
Oh god, please don't let this go through. I can see the advantages for this change. The leader of the party is not always the best person to mark targets. This is especially true in 5mans when you can't make someone an assistant. I see the issue, but I also see the headache this could cause.
First, Addons like DBM and Big Wiggs like to use the icons to mark people that get buffs or debuffs. Most of the time that is fine and it doesn't matter that 25 different mods are trying to mark those people. However, there have been times in my raids were those marks were distracting and we want to turn them off. If you've ever tried to get 25 people to PvP flag in an instance, I think you'll understand how hard it will be to get 25 people to turn off a part of DBM so that the targets aren't marked.
Second, you always have to worry about people getting silly and changing the marks as a joke or on accident. There are some responsibilities that should be left up to the leader of a group. I think this is one of them.


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Tammy M. Anderson 6/6/2012 3:28:52 AMGorgeous comp. and dof, Stefania. #10170171
Debbie Bray 6/6/2012 4:02:32 AMWhat a beautiful wedding photographer you make, Stef! #10170210
Anthony G. Comella 6/6/2012 1:32:15 PMSuperb - one for their wedding album!!! #10170648
John Connolly 6/6/2012 2:38:43 PMA very tasteful wedding shot Stefania! Your contrast control, and the pose are fantastic! #10170709
Nancy L. Green 6/6/2012 3:03:22 PMWhat a wonderful wedding portrait Stef, VERY well done!! <>< #10170736
Ellen Hodges 6/6/2012 5:22:58 PMVery beautiful capture of this lovely couple, Stef!!! #10170864
Tammy Espino 6/6/2012 6:33:59 PMNice wedding shot :) #10170967
Terry Cervi 6/6/2012 8:43:41 PMGorgeous wedding photography, Stef! #10171112
Stefania Barbier 6/7/2012 12:40:45 AMthank you all! #10171234
Emile Abbott 6/8/2012 8:04:53 AMTouching #10172849
Ken Smith 6/8/2012 6:26:49 PMI'm trying to remember the other one, but I think I like this one better...superb, Stef!! #10173681
Nadia Paul 12/27/2012 10:52:57 PMCongratulations on this beautiful finalist Stefania! #10481762
Marijana Fajgl 12/28/2012 4:05:38 AMBig congratulations on your fantastic finalist, Stefania! #10482285
Ken Smith 12/28/2012 6:51:36 AMGlad to see this one get finalist, Stef. Congrats to you!! #10482911
Shelly A. Van Camp 12/28/2012 7:15:34 AMLovely capture and couple!! #10483054
Emile Abbott 12/28/2012 8:29:24 AMCongratulations Stef on this wonderful finalist. #10483326
JO ANN CLEVELAND 12/28/2012 8:31:17 AMCongrats Stef, this is sooo beautiful, hope to see it in Gold too!
jo ann c. #10483333
Sherran Andersen 12/28/2012 10:01:44 AMCongrats Stefania. #10483720
Laurence Saliba 12/28/2012 10:03:48 AMPerfect setting!! Gorgeous finalist Stefania!! Congratulations!! #10483740
Ellen Hodges 12/28/2012 10:53:58 AMHuge congrats and very best luck with your gorgeous finalists, Stef!!, #10483996
Tammy Espino 12/28/2012 10:56:25 AMCongrast on this wonderful finalist! :) #10484013
Tammy M. Anderson 12/28/2012 1:33:31 PMCongrats, Stefania. #10484757
Bojan Bencic 12/28/2012 1:42:33 PMGreat work, Stefania. Congratulations on your finalist! #10484798
John Connolly 12/28/2012 1:56:55 PMA beautiful wedding capture Stefania! Congratulations on your finalist award! #10484847
Patrick Rouzes 12/28/2012 7:51:00 PMBig congrats, Stefania!
Mary K. Robison 12/29/2012 5:34:30 AMCongratulations, Stef! Such a romantic Finalist!
Nancy L. Green 12/29/2012 12:17:00 PMCONGRATULATIONS Stef on your wonderful finalist, WTG my friend!!! <>< #10487334
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 12/29/2012 2:13:50 PMCongratulations on your finalist!!! So romantic Stef, a keepsake! #10487779
Phyllis H. Burchett 12/30/2012 10:26:33 AMCongrats on this wonderful finalist Stefania! #10489564
Mariann Kovats 12/30/2012 11:56:32 PMHuge congratulation on your winner capture! #10490614
Stefania Barbier 12/31/2012 12:09:53 AMThank you all!!! #10490641
Mary K. Robison 12/31/2012 12:47:17 AMCongratulations on your well deserved First Place Winner, Stef! Love conquers all! #10490666
Colette M. Metcalf 12/31/2012 2:33:56 AMCONGRATS on your win!!! WTG! #10490726
Ellen Hodges 12/31/2012 2:46:43 AMHuge congrats on a gorgeous winner, Stef!! #10490749
R. J. Laudenbacher 12/31/2012 3:13:52 AMCongrats, Stef on this fabulous first place winner! #10490783
Michelle Alton 12/31/2012 3:31:35 AMA GREAT choice by the judges for a first place GOLD! Congratulations on this and your other winner! #10490838
Randy D. Dinkins 12/31/2012 3:33:15 AMBeautiful shot, huge congrats on your win! #10490843
Tammy M. Anderson 12/31/2012 3:47:08 AMCongrats on a beautiful winner. #10490866
Mike Clime 12/31/2012 4:06:48 AMCongratulations! #10490927
Bojan Bencic 12/31/2012 4:16:13 AMLovely. Congratulations on your win, Stefania! #10490963
Anita Hogue 12/31/2012 4:35:45 AMBeautiful capture! Congratulations on your first place win! #10491022
Laurence Saliba 12/31/2012 4:50:58 AMDeserving win Stefania!!!! Congratulations!! #10491055
Ken Smith 12/31/2012 5:00:28 AMThe only surprise is that it didn't get gold back in July. Congrats, Stef!! #10491089
Deborah C. Lewinson 12/31/2012 5:03:31 AMHardy congrats on your First Place Win, Stef, for this beautiful and excellent image!
Debby #10491108
Nina Shields 12/31/2012 5:06:48 AMStefania, congratulations on this huge award, totally deserved as the image is truly masterful! Love catching up on your inspiring gallery! #10491131
Phyllis H. Burchett 12/31/2012 5:25:18 AMCongrats Stefania on this gorgeous winner!!! #10491174
Carol Flisak 12/31/2012 6:45:55 AMWonderful capture of a tender moment! Congratulations on your beautiful first place winner, Stefania! #10491382
Janice Mezzacappa 12/31/2012 7:04:25 AMA beautiful, loving capture Stef Congrats on your first place Winner!! #10491433
Kathryn Wesserling 12/31/2012 7:18:59 AMStefania, what a special wedding portrait. I love the natural look of the scene (and her gown!) It so deserved the Gold Win. Congratulations. #10491465
JO ANN CLEVELAND 12/31/2012 7:40:04 AMPerfection...Congrats on your well deserved Gold 1st Place Winner Steph!
jo ann c. #10491541
Stephen Zacker 12/31/2012 8:08:16 AMJust Beautiful. Congratulations, Stef. Hope 2013 is good to you! #10491660
Debra R. Harder 12/31/2012 8:15:37 AMThis is truly brilliant photography, Stef! Huge congratulations on your BEAUTIFUL FIRST PLACE WINNER!! #10491702
Mary Beth Aiello 12/31/2012 9:11:57 AMGorgeous... in every way, Stef. Huge congrats on your superb First Place Gold. #10491856
David Phalen 12/31/2012 9:38:06 AMBIG Congrats on your beautiful First Place Winner!! #10491928
Marijana Fajgl 12/31/2012 10:18:59 AMBig congratulations on your beautiful winner, Stefania! #10492025
Laura L. Gonzales 12/31/2012 10:29:24 AMCongratulations Stef on your beautiful and well deserved win!!!!!! #10492044
Merna L. Nobile 12/31/2012 11:50:56 AM
January is a month of reflection for me, I remember how privileged I was to observe all the outstanding work and beautiful photographs of the past year. For the last time this year, I would be honored to congratulate you for your spectacular work and willingness to share with all of us, Happy New Year, Merna Nobile
Patrick Rouzes 12/31/2012 12:09:52 PMBIG Congrats, Stefania! Well deserved!!!
Julianne Bradford 12/31/2012 12:42:45 PMCongratulations on this wonderful winner Stefania! #10492450
Emile Abbott 12/31/2012 12:46:13 PMHuge congratulations on your first place winner Stefania. #10492455
Nancy L. Green 12/31/2012 1:06:35 PMCONGRATULATIONS Stef on this wonderful winner, WTG!!! #10492529
Nadia Paul 12/31/2012 1:32:32 PMCongrats on a well deserved winner Stefania! #10492566
Judith Redmount 12/31/2012 2:24:11 PMCongrats. It is really amazing. #10492624
Jessica Jenney 12/31/2012 2:48:57 PMCongratulations, Stefania, on your beautiful First Place Win! #10492666
Linda D. Lester 12/31/2012 4:18:29 PMWhat a beauty....can't wait to meet you!
Tammy Espino 12/31/2012 4:28:18 PMCongrats on your win~ #10492830
Mary L. Olson 12/31/2012 5:56:48 PMBeautiful moment. Beautiful capture. Congrats on your First Place win. #10492953
Nancy L. Green 12/31/2012 7:01:22 PMCONGRATULATIONS Stef on your FANTASTIC winner, WTG!!! <>< #10493038
Ujjwal Mukherjee 12/31/2012 7:48:33 PMSuperb Winner!! Congratulations!! #10493092
Stefania Barbier 1/1/2013 12:45:08 AMThank you!!! #10493297
Lindley Johnson 1/1/2013 8:04:27 AMWhat a gorgeous wedding photo! Big congratulations on your very well-deserved First Place winner, Stef! #10493811
Reynaldo D. Reyes 1/1/2013 3:39:00 PMIt's a portrait of joy! Happy New Year to you and yours Stefania. Looking forward to another amazing photo-shooting year. Cheers! #10494509
Jennifer L. Alder 1/1/2013 10:57:33 PMA sweet moment at a beautiful location! Congrats on your win, Stef :) #10494878
Phyllis A. Houghton 1/2/2013 11:49:36 AMSuch a special image for their special day - a favorite for me. Congratulations on your First Place! #10495845
Gail Vitikacs 1/2/2013 4:16:17 PMBlows me away....this is stunning! You should enter in a Brides Magazine! Congratulations my friend! #10496178
Rona L. Schwarz 1/2/2013 10:16:55 PMStunning! Incredible wedding shot, beautifully composed, lush and romantic! Huge Congratulations, Stef, on this very well-deserved First Place Win! #10496645
David Hurt 1/3/2013 2:38:30 PMCongrats on your outstanding winning shot. #10497825
Cindy Bendush 1/4/2013 3:35:42 PMCongratulations on your first place gold Stef! #10499506
Renee Doyle 1/6/2013 5:17:29 PMWTG Stef! Big congratulations to you on this wonderful First Place Winner!! #10502596
Stefania Barbier 1/7/2013 1:25:09 AMthank you! #10503077
Laura E. Swan 1/7/2013 1:29:37 AMI'm speechless. This is gorgeous and perfect and original and depicting a moment in time where their hearts are filled with nothing but each other.
This will be such a cherished photo of theirs to have, Stef! WOW!
You are such a talented person!
Hugs! (And Miss you! Sorry I am not here a lot!)
-Lala :D xo #10503093
Stefania Barbier 1/8/2013 1:17:45 AMthank you Lala! :0) #10504635
Barbara Waldoch 1/15/2013 11:52:31 PMWonderful shot, Stef! #10517279
Stefania Barbier 1/16/2013 2:37:51 AMthank you! #10517384
Sharon Sawyer 1/20/2013 10:13:15 PMStefania, HUGE congrats on your beautiful First Place Win!!! #10525322
Stefania Barbier 1/20/2013 11:42:47 PMthank you! #10525386
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text: Sensations of Lyon and Provence & Nice - 11 day $ Request a quote Your progress Departure month Departure date Pick your suite Request a call from a cruise specialist You are currently viewing Lyon to Nice in 2019 View map You may also be interested in Nice to Lyon in 2019 Lyon to Nice in 2020 Nice to Lyon in 2020 * From price is for a 17 August 2019 departure. For a full list of pricing and availability, please see below. All prices are per person, twin share in USD, based on two guests sharing. Terms and conditions apply and we reserve the right to withdraw our offers at any time. Please note, the ship operating a particular cruise is subject to change. View your 11 day itinerary Day 1 Welcome to Lyon. You will be met at the airport and transferred to the ship where you will be welcomed by your Captain and crew. Tonight, enjoy a welcome reception and dinner on board. Meals included: Dinner Day 2 Chalon-Sur-Saône – Beaune Chalon–Sur–Saône is best known as the birthplace of photography and the center of Burgundy's wine region. Travel by road to the quaint village of Beaune, where we visit the Hospices de Beaune, one of the finest examples of French fifteenth–century architecture. Marvel at the multi–colored roofs of this former hospital, now a museum, which has become one of the symbols of Burgundy. EmeraldPLUS: Cheese and olive tasting on board Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Day 3 Lyon Lyon is France's third largest city, a former Roman capital positioned at the conference of the Rhone and Saone rivers, which is steeped in history. Today be part of the guided tour of Lyon, which starts with a drive to the Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière, Lyon's hilltop church, with stunning views over the town. 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The Panasonic PT-AE8000 home theatre projector is one of the best that you can buy. If you've got a Blu-ray player or HTPC and some high quality video material, you can be assured of excellent video quality -- a huge range of contrast, a pin-sharp lens, and seamless 3D. Setup is an imperfect process, but once set up it is one of the best ways to watch movies that we've seen.
Panasonic has a solid history in the 1080p home theatre projector market, constantly evolving since the original $7700 PT-AE1000 from 2007. The PT-AE8000 is an incremental upgrade from the early-2012 PT-AE7000, significantly increasing overall brightness while maintaining and improving the already-excellent contrast and colour capabilities of its 3LCD panel setup.
The PT-AE8000 projector is nearly identical to its predecessor, with a large, offset lens installed next to a large front-venting air duct. There's a matching duct at the rear, pulling in fresh air away from the exhaust. Three rear HDMI inputs are joined by VGA, component, composite, and S-Video — the omission of DisplayPort or DVI are forgivable given this projector's home cinema-only destination.
There's a rear switch for the projector's power — next to the standard kettle-plug power connector — but all the PT-AE8000's controls are clustered in a square panel on the right-hand side front, near the lens. There's a removable panel that hides a manual joystick-style horizontal and vertical lens shift with a range of 26 and 100 degrees respectively.
The controls are simply arranged — power, input, menu and return buttons around a five-way menu navigation pad. Dedicated buttons for focus and zoom can be found on the bottom of the panel, and every button is clearly labeled enough to read upside-down (for the most-common ceiling-mount installations).
Setting up the projector is a mix of easy and difficult. It's easy to make the rough adjustments necessary — the manual lens shift adjustment is smooth, and it's easy to make fine adjustments and lock them in. Zoom and focus are easy to control — there's no diving through menus thanks to dedicated buttons — and the inclusions of a remote control means that it's possible to get up close to the screen to properly fine-tune focus. It's an installation job that needs two people at least to complete ideally, but you can get pretty close on your own.
It's slightly more difficult to both navigate the menu system, which is populated with menus on top of sub-menus We like to switch back and forth between presets a few times to compare them in our testing, and the menu-on-menu system isn't perfect for it.
There's a bevy of quality settings on offer for adjusting almost every aspect of the Panasonic PT-AE8000's picture, and this can be quite daunting if you're intending to install the projector on your own. We'd either opt for a professional installation, or to sit down for a long, hard read of the owner's manual beforehand. Once you've got the PT-AE8000 set up correctly, it's not going to require much fiddling (beyond an occasional calibration, if you're intending to), but it's an intensive process that's more complicated, albeit for better results, than a simpler or cheaper home theatre projector.
We tested the PT-AE8000 on a 100-inch screen, using the lens at its widest setting to maximise brightness. The 2x zoom lens of the PT-AE8000 has a variable aperture, changing from f/1.9 at its widest to f/3.2 at its tightest — so with the projector fully zoomed, you'll lose a moderate amount of the projector lamp's output.
With a 2400-lumen rated lamp, over the PT-AE7000's already impressive 2000 lumens, the PT-AE8000 is more than versatile enough to display a bright, vibrant, extremely highly-contrasted image under lighting conditions from dark all the way up to a moderately well-lit room. If you're in a room that's brightly lit by fluorescent lights, the projector will suffer, but this is understandable given that it's a dedicated, installation-only home theatre model.
This is a consideration to make if you have any thoughts of using the PT-AE8000 in a living room or non-dedicated theatre room that has external windows, though; it's only going to operate at its best when you can control the lighting in the room around you.
Moving up from the PT-AE7000 in every way, the PT-AE8000 is one of the best home theatre projectors we have tested in terms of its image quality. It's got a huge contrast range, displaying bright white areas with impressive gradation of detail alongside equally detailed shadows and darker screen areas.
Sharpness is equally good, with the PT-AE8000 resolving every pixel we looked at across its entire frame with no noticeable variation from centre to edges or corners. We generally left the sharpness setting at its default minimum; bumping it up does accentuate edges on high detail sources like Blu-ray but introduces a small amount of over-sharpening haloing with each increment. We didn't see any need for it with our test material.
Where the PT-AE8000 excels is in the brightness it can deliver with 3D video. The high-brightness lamp output takes a jump when changing to 3D mode, and the two pairs of bundled 3D glasses are relatively comfortable even if they aren't quite as modern as those that this year's LCD and plasma TVs will ship with. The 3D mode delivers impressively realistic depth of field, has no flickering, and just generally looks great — mostly thanks to the extra brightness that Panasonic's held in reserve.
For the majority of our viewing we left the projector in its Cinema 1 mode, which has the best colour accuracy we've seen on a home theatre projector. The Rec.709 mode is nearly identical but brings a slight brightness boost which adds a little pop at the cost of a tiny amount of highlight detail. We'd happily use either without any calibration, although you could wring a tiny bit of extra highlight detail with some work.
Given that it's a $3800 piece of technology, buying a PT-AE8000 isn't a decision to be made lightly. If you're looking for a high quality projector to flatter your high quality movies in a home cinema, though, this is one that you should give serious consideration to.
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