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Active Career of J.B. Walker Ends
Man Who Backed Development of City's West Side Dies at the Age of 84
July 8, 1931
Active Career of J.B. Walker Ends
Man Who Backed Development of City's West Side Dies at the Age of 84
John Brisben Walker, 84 year old, original backer of the West Side expansion in Charleston, one-time soldier in China, manufacturer, journalist, and pioneer of the West, died Tuesday at his Brooklyn home in New York, according to Associated Press dispatches. His widow, who had been his third wife, Mrs. Iris Calderhead Walker, and nine children survive.
Mr. Walker was born on the Monongahela river, in Pennsylvania, in 1847, a grandson of General S. G. Krepps and Major John Walker, the first commissioners appointed for the improvement of the western rivers.
Following a schooling at Georgetown collect he entered West Point in 1865, and in 1868 resigned to go to China under appointment from Anson Burlingame, ambassador extraordinary, to the court of Pekin. Mr. Walker accompanied J. Ross Browne, United States minister plentipotentiary, to the East and returned several years later to Charleston, in the Valley which he later termed "The Great Kanawha."
Mr. Walker became interested in various enterprises in the city, including the ownership of about 2,000 acres of land embracing nearly all o f that portion west of the Elk river, where West Charleston now stands. There he named streets and promoted the subdivision. In that section also he built a large mill for woodworking and engaged in several other manufacturing enterprises.
In 1872, while he was a resident of Charleston, he received the unanimous nomination of the Republican party for congress in the third West Virginia district, but was defeated. In the panic of 1873 he lost his property.
A position of preparing articles on mineral and manufacturing industries of the West was offered to him by Murat Halstead, and he wrote a series of articles for the Cincinnati Commercial. Soon afterward he was offered the managing editorship of the Washington Daily Chronicle, then the leading daily of the national capitol. For three years he remained in the journalistic field.
Mr. Walker then was appointed a commissioner of the United States agriculture department and was commissioned to visit Colorado in examining the country in regard to irrigation. This examination resulted according to Atkinson and Gibbens' "Prominent Men of West Virginia,". In an appropriation by congress for artesian wells and other improvements, "the good results from which are no showing in the general development of the arid regions of the West."
Mr. Walker remained 10 years in Colorado, building up the Berkley farm which eventually became the largest alfalfa farm in that state. It harvested nearly 3,000 tons annually and contained nearly 200 miles of main and lateral ditches.
In 1888 Mr. Walker returned East and became the editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine, which he later sold to William Randolph Hearst. His first marriage was in 1870 to Miss Emily Strother, the daughter of General David Hunt Strother. They had six sons and one daughter.
In November 1870, Governor Stevenson appointed Mr. Walker a commissioner to the convention at Indianapolis which was held in the interest of Immigration to the states represented. He was chairman of the committee on resolution at the first Ohio River Improvement convention. At the centennial year of the University of Georgetown, D.C., In 1888, the degree of doctor of philosophy was conferred upon him.
According to the Associated Press while Mr. Walker was out West he devised a system of reclaiming the Platte river valley, and railroads paid him a reputed profit of $900,000 on a $100,000 investment. He also was the first president of the Automobile Manufactures association.
Mr. Walker's old home in Charleston was near Virginia and Ohio Avenue.
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SOCORRO, N.M., July 15, 2002 -- Miguel Garza, a five-year employee of Chartwells Dining Services at New Mexico Tech, recently was named the recipient of the "Be a Star" Regional Associate of the Year Award for the national company's western region.
The annual award is sponsored by Chartwells College and University Dining Services, a division of the Compass Group.
Garza traveled last week to Houston to accept his award at a regional meeting of Chartwells managers and administrators. The Chartwells western region encompasses dining services provided by the company to colleges and universities in 14 western states.
"I was surprised -- very surprised -- to hear I had won this award," says Garza. "However, I feel my winning this award reflects more on the quality of the people I work with than it does on the work I do."
In his current position as supervisor/manager at Chartwells at New Mexico Tech, Garza says he works alongside 20 other Chartwells employees on a daily basis, but considers himself more of a "jack-of-all-trades," a team player lending a hand wherever and whenever he's needed.
"I'm involved with all aspects of the operations--from working the serving line, to catering, to cooking, to baking, to retail sales in the Tech Canteen," Garza relates.
"I even work on the computers when we have problems with them," he adds. "If I can't get them fixed, then we call ISD (New Mexico Tech's Information Services Department)."
Earlier this year, Garza was among a handful of Compass Group employees from throughout the world who were chosen to temporarily relocate to Salt Lake City to provide dining services for the athletes and staff at the Olympic Village during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
For those 60 days in Utah, Garza was able to rub elbows with several world-class athletes and renowned sports personalities, but none of them impressed him as much as the disabled athletes participating in the Paralympics, which was being held there at the same time, he says.
"There was one German lady, for instance, who sticks in my mind, who was blind and competing in the biathlon," Garza recounts. "It was amazing to me that she could peg all her targets. . . . Her trainer later explained to me that visually impaired competitors like her are actually given audible cues through earsets once their shooting rifles line up with targets."
Garza, a soft-spoken, unassuming young man, is obviously more comfortable speaking about the achievements of others than he is of his own accomplishments.
He is quick to point out that even though his recent award is a first for dining services employees at New Mexico Tech, the local Chartwells group has been recognized as one of the best in the western region for five years running now.
"Chartwells at New Mexico Tech was picked again this year for the regional 'Five-Star Account Award,' and that directly reflects on the good job that our director Dave Culberson has been doing all this time," Garza notes.
Garza, a resident of Socorro since 1981 and a Socorro High School graduate, is the son of Aurora Sanchez-Garza of Socorro.

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Cooper strikes peace deal with ARU
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Quade Cooper appears to have resolved his differences with the Australian Rugby Union and agreed on a new contract © PA Photos
Quade Cooper has reportedly settled his long-running dispute with the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) and signed a new contract.
Cooper appeared to jeopardise his playing future earlier this year when he labelled the Wallabies' environment as "toxic" - an outburst that saw the ARU withdraw a contract offer and the player handed a hefty fine and threatened with a further three-match suspension.
An incentive-based deal was later tabled by the ARU but rejected by Cooper with his manager Khoder Nasser subsequently revealing that there had been "a total communication breakdown" with the governing body.
The 24-year-old playmaker, who is currently battling back from a knee injury, signed a new three-year contract with the Reds earlier this year but that deal was dependent on a new agreement with the ARU. In a bid to secure Cooper's services, his Super Rugby employers have reportedly acted as peacemakers in a bid to settle the six-month saga.
A Fairfax Media report says the revised deal, thought to be for two or three years, is similar to the A$800,000 (£520,000) offer that had been taken off the table following his controversial comments in September. The agreement is also expected to allow Cooper to continue with his recently revealed plans to pursue a boxing career alongside his rugby commitments.
It is thought that the possibility of featuring for the Wallabies during next year's series against the British & Irish Lions was pivotal in negotiations but Cooper faces a battle to force his way back into coach Robbie Deans' plans ahead of the first Test on June 22.
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Wlw... that is very interesting... and implies that the coil manufacturer also mfg'ed the bracket? (or had it made by a vendor to GM specs to sell to chevy with the coil).... ?I removed my original coil/bracket in the '70 when I installed the Mallory Rev Pol with Judson Electronic magneto.... I'm sure it's in the garage 'somewhere'.... * ..but finding it might be a whole different story!Does anyone have PN and/or a photo of the correct coil/bracket for the '69 Z28 so at least I know what to scrounge in my garage/shop for?
Was the only function of different numbers stamped on coils to coordinate the correct bracket required? Were a 293, 298 and 270 coil bracket all different. Obviously the 208 mounted totaaly different than the V* brackets. I realize the 270 coil bracket angles more than the 298 coil bracket. But why was the 293 different? A lot of questions here.The Chassis Service Manual only lists 1 value for coil primary and secondary resistance so the coils must have been the same.


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In athletics it is all about peaking at the right time.
For Samantha Wood, the right time is now. She is coming off a sixth place finish in the Atlantic Sun Conference Cross Country Championship Oct. 28 at Gardner-Webb University in Boling Springs, N.C. She ran the 5-kilometer course in a time of 19:18.
That performance came on the heels of a fifth place finish with a time of 18:12.4 in a 5-kilometer run at the Evansville (Ind.) Invitational Oct. 14.
Her performance earned her a spot in the Atlantic Sun All-Conference team. Wood, a senior majoring in exercise science at Lipscomb University, will join her teammates Saturday in the NCAA Regional Cross County meet in Knoxville
"I give a lot of credit to Sam's hard work, her believing in the program and the confidence she had in herself," Lipscomb Coach Karen Robichaud said. "She has always been this talented. But this year she has really believed in herself."
Wood has discovered that her success in running this season has been a culmination of all the miles she has accumulated.
"It's not just what I did this summer or what I did this season, but it has taken every race to get to this point," Wood said. "The teammates I have had in the past, and my new teammates this season, have also been a help to me.
"It is difficult. To go out there every day really takes a supportive team in order to maximize your efforts."
Wood has been a senior leader on a young team featuring six freshmen. Despite all the new faces the team has been a close one
"Lipscomb has something special," Wood said. "I have been to meets and seen how teams interact and their dynamics. It really makes me appreciate my own team.
"There is not that much competitiveness between our runners. We help one another push things up. We have switched back and forth between the top runners. You never know who is going to lead each day."
Robichaud points to the fact that Wood has become a more spiritual person with each passing year. Robichaud was most impressed with the way Wood quietly became a counselor for the younger players.
"She knew she was a senior leader," Robichaud said. "She was proactive in setting the tone. I am proud of her leading the younger runners in such a positive way."
Wood's teammates, especially Susan Worden, a fellow senior, have been strong influences.
"The most important thing is to have a relationship with God," Wood said. "It is important not to blow running out of proportion.
"You are standing at the starting line and you are so nervous you feel like you are going to be sick. The stress is just ridiculous. I try to remind my teammates that it is in God's hands. Things can come up that you can't control. We should let him handle the worries and doubts."
At both the Evansville and A-Sun Championship meets Wood found herself near the front of the pack. She is easy to see wearing a bright orange bandana which she claims to use to control her unruly blond hair, and sunglasses.
"I had never been up in front of a race to start before," Wood said. "I've always been more conservative starting out slower and trying to pass runners. At the beginning of a race I concentrate on staying relaxed and calm and trying to conserve as much energy as possible while at the same time opening up my stride to get up near the front.
"I have felt stronger this year. This is all about peaking at the right time. I have been able to pull out my speed, but not over train. Running comfortably is such a key."
Robichaud thinks that Wood deciding to truly embrace the spiritual side of her life helped her achieve as a runner.
"Being more open about the spiritual side of her life took some of the pressure off of her," Robichaud said. "She arrived on campus more focused, more mature and more relaxed this year. She is a fabulous runner, but, more importantly, she is a fabulous individual. It has been a privilege to work with her."
That brightly colored bandana also lets her teammates know where she is on the course. Wood likes the fact that in a race it is impossible for a runner to hide.
"That's one of the aspects of running that keeps me in it," Wood said. "There is nothing to hide behind. The race you run is the race you run and everybody can see that."
"The biggest thing is consistency. Coach Robichaud sends out training schedules every two weeks. You look at the schedule for the first time and just say, `whoa'. If you are running both track and cross country then you are training all year. You realize you have to pace yourself not only in a meet, but over time because you can burn out."
Wood started running cross country and track her freshman year at El Campo (Texas) High School. She has played basketball in middle school and wasn't as good on the court as she wanted to be so she looked for an alternative.
She learned that becoming competitive as a runner was going to take some time, but she also realized that she loved distance running. "I didn't like it at first because it was very hard," Wood said. "But I wasn't a quitter. I got hooked on it eventually. It turned out I was good at it."
She gives a lot of credit for her success as a runner, and her willingness to make sacrifices in order to excel, to Noma Kremling, her high school cross country coach.
"She was very encouraging and very challenging," Wood said. "I remember having really minor injuries, especially my senior year. She said, ` I know it hurts but you have to do it.' "
The spring track season is still ahead for Wood. She plans to compete in the 5-K as well as the 1500-meter and 3000-meter runs. After graduating in the spring she is thinking about attending graduate school, possibly to study in a particular field of medical research. She will leave with good feelings about her accomplishments in both athletics and in the classroom.
"I feel like I have surpassed my goals," Wood said. "I had certain expectations, but I didn't know what to expect when first came here.
"We all like to do what we are good at. I don't like getting beat. No matter what I am doing I want to do well."


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Wild ride 4-goal 1st period to 6-4 win over slumping AvalancheNHL.com @NHLdotcom
DENVER - Devin Setoguchi scored twice and added the 100th assist of his NHL career to help the Minnesota Wild hold off the slumping Colorado Avalanche 6-4 in a Saturday matinee.
Ryan Suter started a four-goal scoring spree in the first period to help the Wild win for the fourth time in five games. Cal Clutterbuck, Kyle Brodziak and Pierre-Marc Bouchard added goals.
This was the second half of a home-and-home between the two teams, with Minnesota winning 5-3 on Thursday night.
John Mitchell, P.A. Parenteau, Gabriel Landeskog and Chuck Kobasew had goals for an Avalanche team that has dropped three in a row. Jean-Sebastien Giguere was roughed up in his first home start of the season, allowing four goals on 14 shots before giving way to Semyon Varlamov at the start of the second period.
In all, the Wild had 11 players earn at least a point in this game, with Dany Heatley contributing two assists to give him 400 for his career.
Backstrom was solid in net, stopping 28 shots to move to 23-5-3 lifetime against the Avalanche.
Setoguchi all but wrapped up the win with his second goal midway through the third period when he slipped a shot through the pads of Varlamov. It was Setoguchi's first two-goal game of the season.
Kobasew scored with 1:53 remaining to make it a two-goal game, and the Avalanche pulled Varlamov but couldn't take advantage of the extra skater.
Colorado worked its way back into the contest in the second period with goals from Parenteau and Landeskog. But the Avalanche made a costly mistake in their zone, when Landeskog tried to send a pass across the middle. Bouchard intercepted the puck and backhanded a shot by Varlamov to make it 5-3.
The first period featured two fights, three roughing calls and two Wild goals before fans even had a chance to settle into their seats. Suter got Minnesota started on the right note with a shot over Giguere's left shoulder.
Soon after, Setoguchi scored on a similar shot on a screened Giguere. Clutterbuck and Brodziak also added goals on "passes" from Heatley, who actually hit the post with two shots, only to have the puck carom to his teammates.
The four goals in the opening 20 minutes were a season-high for the Wild and brought the day to an end for Giguere. He sat on the bench as Varlamov took his spot in goal.
Milan Hejduk was a scratch after returning to the lineup Thursday at Minnesota, his first game back after sitting out five straight with a torso injury.
Hejduk has been quite productive against the Wild throughout his career, scoring 22 goals. Only Jarome Iginla (35) has more versus the Wild.
Minnesota was without forward Jason Zucker for a second straight game. The rookie has what the team is calling an upper-body injury after a violent blindside collision with Corey Perry that brought the Anaheim right winger a four-game suspension.
Zucker is on the trip with the Wild and possibly could play in Vancouver on Monday.
Notes: Wild D Brett Clark was a scratch for a second straight game after being signed for the rest of the season on Thursday. Clark played five-plus seasons for Colorado. ... Avs D Ryan Wilson (ankle) was a scratch. ... Duchene had two assists, giving him 10 points in his last five games. ... Colorado dropped to 2-1 in day games this season.


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"We're experiencing a bit of turbulence from the side-effects of structural limitations inherent in centralized closed source system development model – beyond a point nobody on the outside really knows what is going on inside."
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Now by and large although i've never met them personally i believe that the techies working on flickr cal et al are brilliant and wonderful people – particularly the ones who openly give back what they're learning to the community (ie Link && Link ). before rounding off about a sinister conspiracy theory you must also consider that the problematic these people are dealing with is immense (think : data volumes, storage, servers, real-time distributed databases, massive in memory ram cache, hardware and so on). implementing any new functionality to such a system requires a serious understanding of so much that even with the best due diligence and safety harness there's always room for the possibility that something is not quite working out the way it was intended (especially if the messages between technical/commerical/executive) get confused in translation / implementation
what the likes of big clustered centralized sites like flickr, facebook, youtube et al are doing has never been attempted before so technically and to an extent ethically (in terms of the socio implications of globalized virtual cross border multi-cultural meme exchange systems) they are exploring the model and (hopefully with our participation) making up the rules as they go. what is important is that the community feedback is consensually applied and not subordinated to any kind of "lets do evil" type strategy.
flickr, i still think you guys are doing a great job which is why i like so many others still love to hang out here and share little reflections from our lives. i know that you listen and from past experience when something makes sense (or not as in the suggestion in this thread) you act.
looking at the wider picture i begin to wonder whether this is actually the way to go – does what we are seeing here mark the beginning of a fragmentation and de-centralization phase along the lines of my personally favored open-source model – that which evolved with bsd / linux and at a higher level of abstraction spawned smtp / web / wiki / bbs – that is to say the technology framework becomes itself collaborative – ie it is open-sourced, becomes in its centralized form completely transparent and is freely distributed to anyone who wishes to host this on their server (on the basis that what they learn and the improvements they make are re-merged in for the good of the whole). with the advent of web2.0 api's and interconnectedness the distributed model may still come back into vogue once the current regression in a back to the future sense towards the mid/mainframe structure unwinds. think eco-systems of interconnected clusters – all potentially interacting and sending messages to one another in the way that say atoms, molecules or reflected light does. ask yourself why did http/html succeed in creating the current version of the internet we use? ok the trade off is that the single globalised community (photosharing in the case of flickr) fragments and what you get is a vision of networks of individual entities selectively collaborating, coexisting and interconnecting according to their own affinities and blinkering (or wide opening) their particular worldview according to where they are and how they like it.
actually this issue may be more fundamental than what we are seeing here – as i suspect your google search result screenshot alludes – the problem may be wider than we suspect – ie. real time personalized re-writing of your personal view of the internet by the people who know whats best for you – those kind corporate and political entities seeking actively to define and control your flow ™. infowars, firewalls, censorship, filtering, projection, suggestion, brainwashing and mind control – patterns and strategies designed to serve the respective best interests of competing ideological-politico worldviews each seeking to assert itself as the defacto version of reality – whats happening right now in the wider online sphere (or should i say, what could happen) makes orwell's vision of a nightmarish big-brother future look understated.
personally i think its time to admit defeat and give over the control immediately to the uber-intelligent ai supercomputer intelligence masquerading in its current infantile guise as a harmless bunch of wifi rabbits (www.nabaztag.com). Republished from d_nurv's stream on Flickr


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LeBron and on: James becomes youngest player to 20,000 NBA points
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For LeBron James the NBA records just keep on tumbling.
The Miami Heat star notched up 20,000 career points against the Golden State Warriors Wednesday, becoming the youngest player in NBA history to reach the milestone.
And the fact he swiped the title from the other undisputed megastar of the league, Kobe Bryant, will only have added to his satisfaction.
James was the youngest to reach 1,000 and 10,000 points and now at the tender age of 28 years and 17 days, he's reached 20,000 over a year before his LA Lakers rival.
The two are set to go head-to-head on Thursday night as the Heat take on the Lakers in Los Angeles.
A haul of 25 points in the Heat's 92-75 victory over the Warriors secured another slice of history for one of the finest players the NBA has ever seen.
He took to social networking site Twitter to thank teammates and fans alike: "I give everything to the game and I hope it continues to give back to me! Love you so much!
"More importantly I wouldn't be anything without my teammates over these 10 years! Thanks guys. You're the best."
James reiterated his thanks in quotes reported by the Miami Herald: "It was awesome. They've given me an opportunity to be in this position because they trust me on the floor to make plays and make decisions. Both milestones are pretty cool."
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra paid tribute to James' tenacity after he was the victim of some roughhouse tactics from the Warriors.
He added: "Everybody was proud of him. It's a big moment. We gave him the game ball and then everyone took a shot at him -- a punch, a jab, an elbow, whatever they could get in before he started hitting back."
James also racked up assist number 5,000 in the same game, becoming the 13th player in history to reach 20,000 points and 5,000 assists.


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Most policymakers, charter school operators, and others immersed in the charter school movement since it began in the early 1990s have focused their attention primarily on charter schools, not on the public bodies that license these schools to operate. As the charter school movement has grown, however, there has been increasing recognition that effective charter school authorizing is critical to the success of the charter school sector. Charter school authorizers are entities charged by law to approve new schools, monitor their compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and evaluate their performance to make decisions about charter renewal and closure. The role of charter authorizers* has become particularly important in the context of increasing accountability under the no Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB).
Intended primarily for policymakers and charter school authorizers and potential authorizers, this guide describes various ways that authorizers and policymakers can achieve quality authorizing. It provides detailed information designed to help policymakers at the state and national levels and to help current and potential authorizers replicate these successful models and practices.
In order to provide specific illustrations of abstract concepts involved in successful charter authorizing, this guide highlights the practices of eight charter authorizers that have fostered the development of high-quality charter schools. By profiling the work of these authorizers, this guide intends to enhance the knowledge base, capacities, and practices of all types of authorizers, aiming to strengthen the quality and success of charter schools nationwide. The field of charter authorizing is relatively new, though, and there is a great deal of necessary experimentation—and resulting variation—among the offices profiled here.
It is outside the scope of this guide to explore all of the processes and responsibilities in which authorizers engage. Instead, the guide highlights the experiences of authorizing agencies that are successful at the most challenging aspects of quality authorizing (e.g., providing transparent oversight of the schools they authorize). By focusing on these challenging and potentially make-or-break issues, the examples in this guide are intended to help move the field of high-quality authorizing forward.
The type of entity that may authorize charter schools varies by state. During the 2004–05 school year, according to estimates by the researchers who developed this guide, there were more than 800 charter school authorizers across the country. Nearly 90 percent of active authorizers are local education agencies (LEAs). The rest are county, regional, or intermediate agencies; colleges and universities; state boards, commissions, and departments of education; nonprofit organizations; independent, special-purpose charter boards; and mayors' offices and city councils.
Most states allow more than one type of entity to authorize charter schools. Most also offer charter school developers some degree of choice in selecting an authorizer. But some states restrict choice to designated geographic areas. In other states, local school boards are the only option for authorizing.
The volume of authorizing varies significantly by authorizer type. Although most authorizers are LEAs, the most typical LEA authorizes only a very small number of charter schools: Almost 80 percent of the LEAs that are active authorizers have authorized only one or two charter schools each.1
* For purposes of the Federal Charter Schools Program, "authorized public chartering agency" is definited as "a State educational agency, local educational agency, or other public entity that has the authority pursuant to State law and approved by the Secretary to authorize or approve a charter school" (The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, §5210[4]). Each of the eight profiled authorizing offices has an oversight body that ultimately approves, denies, renews or revokes each charter and meets this federal definition (for more information, see Part II - Policy Considerations).


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Performing Arts Series Season Showcases Diversity
SOCORRO, N.M. August 22, 2013 – The upcoming New Mexico Tech Performing Arts Series season opens with a performance by an internationally acclaimed nouveau flamenco guitarist and closes with a visit from Santa Fe Opera apprentices, as part of a diverse entertainment package.
"We're really excited about this year's new program, and hope it will appeal to our longstanding patrons, and will attract newcomers as well," series director Ronna Kalish said.
"And, back by popular demand, New Mexico Tech will sponsor a spring musical to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the school's founding in 2014," she said.
Internationally acclaimed nouveau flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert and his band, Luna Negra, will kick off the season with a performance at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, at New Mexico Tech's Macey Center. (All performances will start at 7:30 p.m. at Macey, unless otherwise noted.)
Liebert, born in Germany to a Chinese-German father and a Hungarian mother, began playing guitar at age 11. Through his extensive travels through Europe and Asia, Liebert was introduced to diverse musical styles and cultures. After pursuing his rock-and-roll dreams first in his native Germany, and later in Boston, he left the frustrations of the East coast and settled in Santa Fe.
By 1989, he had founded the first incarnation of his new band, Luna Negra, and released the self-produced, "Marita: Shadows and Storms," which found its way to radio stations and began generating generous feedback.
Liebert, who has since become one of the most successful instrumental artists of the past decade, has released a catalog of classic recordings, including the remix collection Euphoria, and an album with Luna Negra called The Santa Fe Sessions.
CAPTION: The Hot Club of Cowtown makes its Socorro debut on October 4. They are elana James (from left), Whit Smith and Jake Erwin.
Tech welcomes back Willy Sucre and his guest musicians Monday, Sept. 23. Violist Sucre will be joined by Carol Swift-Matton and Ruxandra Simionescu-Marquardt on violins, and James Holland on cello to perform string quartets by Haydn, Schubert and Grieg in the first of four Presidential Chamber Music Series events throughout the year.
The series is sponsored by Tech President Dr. Daniel H. López, and admission is free.
There'll be a hot time in the old town on Friday, Oct. 4, when the Hot Club of Cowtown swings into Socorro with a show sure to have people on their feet. "We'll have lots of space for dancing," Kalish said.
For guitarist Whit Smith, fiddler Elana James and bassist Jake Erwin, the journey has always been about staying true to their roots. Since their first recording in 1998, the Austin-based group has grown into one of the most globe-trotting, hardest-swinging Western swing trio on the planet.
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys have been a tremendous influence on the band, which has remained willfully out of the musical mainstream. The first American band to tour Azerbaijan, they have opened stadiums for artists such as Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, and continue to bring their brand of western swing to a wide range of festival audiences all over the world.
The series moves from October to November with Andy Gross's Mindboggling Variety Show on Friday, Nov. 1, featuring the eponymous stand-up comic, magician and ventriloquist, to be joined by award-winning juggler, Fred Anderson.
Gross performs over 150 shows a year at comedy clubs, cruise ships, Fortune 500 corporate events and college and university stages. "Andy is incredibly talented, and his ad-libs have people comparing him to Don Rickles and Robin Williams," said Kalish, adding that the man's ability to throw his voice is, in itself, a throwback to another entertainment era.
As a measure of his agility, at age 15 Gross was the youngest professional racquetball player in the history of the sport, when racquetball was at its peak in popularity. He also has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and cable TV, and frequently performs in Las Vegas to great reviews.
The series takes a classical turn on Friday, Nov. 8 when the New Mexico Philharmonic presents its Bach Fiesta, an evening devoted to the legendary German composer (1685 – 1750) during its Baroque period.
Christopher Confessore will conduct a 26-member chamber orchestra featuring violin soloist Krzysztof Zimowski, and comprised of strings, flute, oboes, trumpets, timpani and harpsichord, performing Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, Violin Concerto in A minor, Violin Concerto in E Major, and Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major.
The second performance in the Presidential Chamber Music Series will feature piano trios and quartets on Monday, Nov. 18. Violist Willy Sucre will be joined by the West Shore Piano Trio with Jay DeWire on piano, Heather Haughn on violin, and Diana Flesner on cello.
On the evening's program are piano quartets by Saint Saëns, Mozart and Brahms.
Two-time Grammy Award-winner Robert Mirabal returns to the PAS lineup with 10 singers/dancers/musicians from the Jemez in "Blue Corn – The Journey" on Friday, Nov. 22.
CAPTION: New Mexico legend Robert Mirabal returns to Socorro for a performance to coincide with the Festival of the Cranes.
The performance, which coincides with Global Village Day on the New Mexico Tech campus, and the 26th annual Festival of the Cranes at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, also honors Native American Heritage Month.
Mirabal and the Jemez Pueblo troupe will perform Buffalo, Eagle and Rainbow dances, all ceremonial pieces that are rarely seen outside Pueblo boundaries.
An evening of string quartets is on tap for the third concert in the Presidential Chamber Music Series on Monday, Jan. 17, 2014. Violist Willy Sucre will be joined by violinists Kevin Connolly and Debra Terry, and Sally Guenther on cello, to perform string quartets by Mendelssohn and Dvořák.
Prepare to be captivated by Cirque Montage on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, when the traveling troupe brings its whimsical world of animated characters to town.
The acts weave together in a collage of traditional cutting edge circus arts.
CAPTION: Cirque Montage returns to Socorro with the fanciful, modern performance.
"This is definitely a performance that will appeal to all ages," Kalish said. "Cirque Montage features, of course, a Ringmaster, a variety of high-flying aerial acts, a father-and-daughter balancing act, and an incredible juggler."
And, she warns, be on the lookout for a red, featherless bird named Raven.
The Fantasticks, a performance based on the longest-running musical in history, will follow the Valentine's Day Dinner sponsored by Tech Club – Club Macey, on Wednesday, Feb. 12. Tickets for the dinner, menu to be announced, will be sold separately from those for the performance.
This tour of the Fantasticks is produced by the Nebraska Theatre Caravan as part of a 65-city national itinerary. The version headed to Tech is a new, steam punk adaptation of the classic tale of young lovers who become disillusioned, only to discover a more mature, meaningful love.
Next up on Friday, Feb. 28 is the renowned Celtic bagpiper, flutist and honorary Chieftain, Carlos Núñez, considered one of the biggest artists in the international world/Celtic music scene.
"Núñez has the quality of a classical music virtuoso and the charisma of a rock star," noted Kalish of the entertainer, from Galicia, Spain. "In his own words, Carlos plays Celtic music with Latin passion," she said.
The Spaniard has released 10 albums to date on the Sony label, which have sold a million copies since his debut in 1996. The album Santiago, for which Núñez was named an honorary member of the Chieftains, received a Grammy in 1997.
Coming on the heels – and toes – of the popular "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" show from two years ago is "Tap: The Show," scheduled for Friday, March 7, 2014, celebrating the artistry of tap dance from around the world.
Draped in dazzling costumes and backed by a soaring orchestral score, these award-winning dancers and singers move through decades of styles from Broadway and big band to world music and pop/rock. Included in this production are recreations of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly numbers, Broadway showstoppers, soft shoe, flamenco, tribal, Irish step and more.
The Guy Forsyth Trio concert scheduled for Friday, March 28, shares a tie with New Mexico Tech alumnus Denby Auble, in that Forsyth's most recent album, "The Freedom to Fall," was recorded on the Blue Corn Music Label, which is owned and operated by Auble, one of the original members of The Vigilante Band.
A true Renaissance man, Guy is a master of electric and slide guitar, harmonica, ukulele and singing saw. From his start as founder and stellar live performer with The Asylum Street Spankers to being awarded numerous Austin Music Awards, Forsyth has earned a veritable army of fans in Texas and beyond.
March will go out like a lion with the final performance in the Presidential Chamber Music Series on Monday, March 31. Violist Willy Sucre will be joined by Krysztof Zimowski and Julianie Collier Lee on violins, Sandra Rivers on piano and Joanna de Keyser on cello, to perform piano quintets by Shostakovich and Brahms.
Mark Nizer's 3D Comedy and Juggling Show is slated for Friday, April 4, 2014, coinciding with the N.M. State Science and Engineering Fair on the New Mexico Tech campus, tours at the VLA and an open house at Trinity Site on White Sands Missile Range.
"This high-energy show is infused with music, movement and technology, which we hope will attract Science Fair participants, their families; and, of course, our own techno-whiz Tech students," Kalish said.
Enjoy the rhythms of ancestral Japanese Taiko drums and the magical melodies of bamboo flutes on Friday, April 11, 2014, with a performance by Taikoza, an internationally acclaimed troupe of performers.
New Mexico Tech's Spring Musical returns with the Threepenny OperaApril 25-27, with two evening performances and a Sunday afternoon matinee, featuring thespians and musicians from the college and community.
Closing out the Performing Arts Series on Thursday, May 1, 2014, will be The Santa Fe Opera Apprentices on Tour, featuring young singers and performers training with the state's historic opera program.
"Once again, PAS has tried to arrange a program with wide appeal, touching on familiar and not-so-familiar elements of the entertainment spectrum," noted Director Kalish. "And, as always, we are grateful to all our sponsors and supporters."
By Valerie Kimble/New Mexico Tech


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Nvidia Joins 28nm Graphics Race with "Kepler" Architecture
As expected, Nvidia today announced its entrantance into the 28nm graphics market. The unveiled family of desktop and mobile chips promises to be twice as efficient as its earlier 40nm architecture and deliver better graphics performance and smoother visuals.
The new chips, which use an architecture known as "Kepler" will be sold as GeForce GTX 680 for desktops and as the GT 600 family for notebooks. Nvidia will compete with AMD's recently announced "Southern Islands" 28nm chips, starting with the high-end Radeon 7970, which has been shipping for a few months.
Nvidia says the new system will be the fastest and most power-efficient GPU ever built. The GTX 680 desktop version has 192 CUDA graphics cores in each of its SMX blocks (which combine control logic and the rendering cores) and has eight blocks for a total of 1,536 graphics cores, rendering units, compared with the 512 cores in the 40nm GTX 580, based on the "Fermi" architecture.
In addition, it requires only 195 watts of power, compared with the 250 watts required by the GTX 580 and by AMD's 7970 card. This lets it draw less power and create less noise while still producing more performance. Each GPU can support up to four displays from a single GPU, and can now run three monitors in 3D vision surround from a single GPU (versus two GPUs required in the previous generation).
The new cards also add what Nvidia is calling fast approximate anti-aliasing (FXAA) and temporal anti-aliasing (TXAA). It improves anti-aliasing quality and speed and is designed to reduce stuttering and improve the visual impacts, as well as Nvidia's 3D and PhysX technologies. It also has support for multiple GPUs for most of the high-end games.
One difference is that now there are more cores but they all share a single clock, as opposed to using a double clock with fewer cores in the previous generation. This makes it more power-efficient, says Justin Walker, a senior GeForce product manager. In addition, it now uses a technique called "GPU boost," which lets all of the cores increase in speed when the chip has extra headroom. The basic clock runs at 1006 MHz as a minimum, with boost at 1058 MHz.
Walker said that Epic's "Samaritan" demo required three GTX 580s to run at last year's Game Developers Conference, but at this year's conference it could run on a single GTX 680.
The basic card, with 2GB of 256-bit DDR5 memory, will carry a suggested retail price of $499. Partners may offer overclocked versions.
In addition, Nvidia launched its GeForce GT 600 family of notebook processors, specifically the GT 640M, based on the same overall architecture. Nvidia said this should enable lighter, slimmer notebooks with discrete graphics that still get great battery life. In particular, the company compared the Acer Timeline Ultra M3 with the GT 640M—a five pound, 20mm thick notebook designed to get eight hours of battery life—with a year-old Alienware laptop from that has the same graphics performance but weighed eight pounds, was 50mm thick, and only got three hours of battery life.
In the notebook space, Nvidia stressed how its discrete graphics chips could play all of the popular games at high frame rates. The 640M should be in the middle of the notebook graphics line, with other chips ranging from the low-end 620M to the high-end GTX 675M.
The new GeForce lines will face off against AMD's Radeon graphics family, and I'll leave it to others to do the benchmarks once the boards and notebooks really ship. Both companies will be also be touting how much better discrete graphics play games than integrated graphics do, specifically targeting Intel's current Sandy Bridge and upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs. We'll better be able to compare this when Ivy Bridge finally ships, now expected to start late next month.
For more, read PCMag's "Nvidia GeForce GTX 680: How to Get One."


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This rare contemporary violin upholds the traditions of Pollastris, a family of violin makers from Bologna. With its outstanding and powerful sound, its typical Italian "melting" and its highly comfortable playing properties, this violin satisfies sophisticated professional standards. It was crafted in 1991 by Franco Albanelli as a mature piece he produced in his 59th year. Franco Albanelli learned his craft from Gaetano Pollastri, and he and the highly esteemed Otello Bignami are ranked amongst the most prominent students of the influential Pollastri, who trained many excellent luthiers both at Scuola di Liuteria Artistica in Bologna and at his own workshop. Franco Albanelli's entire oeuvre comprises only 40 instruments, and throughout his work he paid tribute to the heritage of the Pollastri family in terms of both his style and his high quality standards. This Italian violin is a masterpiece with an aesthetic which is rather reserved for Italian stringed instruments; only the strikingly lovely irregular flames of the maple back create a stronger accent. The luminous subtlety of the orange-reddish varnish gently emphasizes elegant details such as the bright and somewhat broader inlay down the centre of the carefully crafted purfling. The harmony of its visual aesthetic is a brilliant match for the violin's perfectly balanced sound, which has a remarkably fast response and features a blend of a warm, sweet sound with radiant brightness and powerful resonance. At our workshop the instrument was set up and made ready to play, and we heartily recommend this original Franco Albanelli violin among many contemporary fakes as a true rarity of modern Italian violin making. A certificate by the German Stuttgart expert Hieronymus Köstler is included in the price.
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The transmitter is the heart of the 4-20 mA signaling system. It converts a physical property suchas temperature, humidity or pressure into an electrical signal. This electrical signal is a currentproportional to the temperature, humidity or pressure being measured. In a 4-20 mA loop, 4 mArepresents the low end of the measurement range and 20 mA represents the high end.BAPI specifies the power to our current transmitters as a range, 15 to 24 VDC for a humiditytransmitter or 7 to 40 VDC for a T1K temperature transmitter. The lower voltage is the minimumvoltage necessary to guarantee proper transmitter operation. The higher voltage is the maximumvoltage the transmitter can withstand and operate to its stated specifications
If you are sensing a current loop transmission, you can use a resistor;If you are sending a current loop transmission, you can use a current generator. You can build one from an opamp + transistor, or with just four transistors + some resistors. Either way, it is fairly simple.
What exactly are you trying to emulate or achieve and in what enviroment?
So you are talking about a three wire or two wire sensor? Id assume three to keep it simple?


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West Palm Beach pest control companies are in constant conflict with the dreaded whitefly. These lawns pests are known to have an insatiable appetite for all sorts of vegetation - at least on the surface. In fact, the whitefly comes in a number of different varieties, all with different plant preferences. O'Hara pest control in West Palm Beach is usually careful to identify subcategories of these pests, as this enables more effective control of whitefly outbreaks. Common whitefly types include:
- Ash Whitefly- Perhaps one of the most prolific types of whitefly, this species is reviled within planting communities for the amount honeydew it excretes. Target plants include ash, citrus, toyon, and pomegranate. O'Hara pest control in West Palm Beach Florida always cautions that ladybugs should be facilitated to control this subspecies - these natural predators are known to feast on ash whitefly.
- Citrus Whitefly- It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize why this variety is so endemic to the Citrus State. While very bad for citrus groves, the subtype also targets gardenia, ficus, and pomegranate plants.
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DaveinOlyWA wrote:DeeAgeaux wrote:edatoakrun wrote: but I think Infiniti would be nuts to not proceed with the LE, now that it has access to a 60 kWh pack and drivetrain off-the shelf.
The problem is price and specifications versus a fully loaded Gen II LEAF on the one hand and a base Tesla Model S on the other hand.
Price it too close to a top spec LEAF and you will just cannibalize LEAF sales without added profit to Nissan Motor Company's bottom line.
Price it too close to a base 2018 Model S Infiniti likely suffers the same fate as Cadillac. Infiniti's halo EV gets ELR'd with huge discounts and old stock on dealer lots.
an infiniti would be priced in the mid 40's, LEAF in the mid 30's. nothing else makes sense. its becoming obvious that the issue is not the level of the technology, its the economy of providing it. That is what Nissan is waiting for...
So you feel confident an Infiniti in the mid 40's without a dedicated nationwide fast charging network will do well in the market when there is a Tesla Model 3 with a base price in the $35k-$38k price range and a Tesla Model S with a base price of $70k both with a dedicated nationwide fast charging network?


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Investigators believe Cedar Mill stabbing victim was targeted
Detectives seek public's help to find suspect in murder of Forest Grove woman
Investigators believe a 29-year-old Forest Grove woman who was stabbed to death at a Cedar Mill apartment complex on Tuesday was likely targeted by her killer, and there is no ongoing threat to area residents.
Investigators are pursuing leads and "hundreds of pieces of evidence" in seeking a suspect in the fatal stabbing of Nicole Laube, 29, of Forest Grove.
"Because it was such an unusual incident, we don't have information to lead us to believe there is a continued danger to the public," said Sgt. Bob Ray, spokesman with the Washington County Sheriffs Office. "We could be mistaken, but we didn't want the public to be unnecessarily alarmed any more than they already are."
Detectives ask the public to continue providing tips as the homicide investigation continues, noting that any piece of information could prove critical.
"It's really important that people call in," Ray said. "Even if it's a small piece of information that you may think is insignificant, it may be an important part of this case."
Laube was found lying on the ground in a parking lot of The Commons at Timber Creek apartments in the 12000 block of Northwest Barnes Road on Tuesday just after 5 p.m.
A neighbor reported that Laube approached her in a breezeway of the complex and said she had been stabbed by a man wearing a black hoodie and camouflage-covered pants. Another resident called the sheriffs office for assistance.
Deputies found Laube, an employee of the apartment complex since late July, in the parking lot near the breezeway. She was unconscious and bleeding with multiple stab wounds, Ray said.
Deputies administered emergency lifesaving assistance, but Laube was pronounced deceased shortly after.
"We believe she was hanging fliers on (apartment) doors for residents to re-up their leases as they were coming due," Ray said, noting Laube had not worked at the complex long enough to be familiar to many residents.
An autopsy the Oregon Medical Examiner's office concluded on Wednesday determined Laube was stabbed with a sharp object, Ray said.
"I can't disclose where (on her body) or how many times," he said.
Led by the sheriffs office, an intensive manhunt with K-9s and more than 20 law enforcement personnel from surrounding agencies was unable to locate a suspect on Tuesday.
No murder weapon has been located.
Uneasy feeling
Investigators are trying to determine if Laube, who was married with four children, knew her attacker.
Social media pages portray Laube, whose father is Pastor Rich Jones of Calvary Chapel Beaverton's Hillsboro campus, as a passionate advocate for health and fitness. A memorial service for Laube was held Wednesday evening at the chapel at 6550 S.E. Alexander St.
Calvary Chapel's Facebook page on Thursday featured a post that read, "Please pray for Pastor Rich, Jordi and their family, as well as for Nicole's husband, Chris, and their children during this time of mourning. Pray that the Lord would bring healing and peace."
A resident of The Commons at Timber Creek told the Valley Times he had seen Laube around but didnt know her personally. On Tuesday afternoon, about 10 minutes before he heard any sirens, the neighbor's dog "started barking like crazy."
"So she heard something, but I thought it was just the upstairs neighbors moving around," the resident told the Valley Times. "She just wouldn't stop barking."
The resident, who had greeted Laube a few times and said she "was nice," noted that fellow residents are uneasy in the wake of the violent tragedy.
Theres some of us scaredy-cats who worry that the perpetrator may be a resident who simply stayed in his apartment after the incident, he said. We are worried because this happened in broad daylight, and as far as we know, nobody heard anything. Its scary to think the place you live is the place where something like this can happen.
Not random
An autopsy is underway as the investigation continues.
"We have canvassed and interviewed people from the apartment building and all around there," Ray said. "We don't have the manpower to knock on doors of every apartment, but we've made many calls and left messages. We're reaching out to the public as a whole. We're processing a large number of (calls). They're still coming in."
Deputies "rarely go to" The Commons at Timber Creek on disturbance calls, Ray noted, particularly after the complex was remodeled about seven years ago.
"They really improved the rental requirements," he said. "It's not a place the sheriff's office frequents."
Emphazing the likely targeted nature of Laube's murder, Ray called violent stranger-on-stranger attacks "very rare."
"There is no evidence to suggest it was not a random attack," he said on Friday. "Detectives do not have definitive evidence to lead them toward a firm conclusion as to why the attack occurred or who may be responsible."
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriffs office at 503-629-0111.


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Kevin Boss, the tight end brought in to replace Zach Miller last August, will be released by the Raiders, the NFL Network reported Monday.
Boss signed a four-year, $16 million contract after Miller signed with the Seattle Seahawks. Boss missed the first two games of the season with a knee injury sustained against the San Francisco 49ers in the preseason and later had a concussion during the season.
In 14 games, with 11 starts, Boss caught 28 passes for 368 yards and three touchdowns, his lowest figures since his rookie season with the New York Giants.
Given that Miller left the Raiders and received a reported $17 million in guaranteed money, Boss, with reportedly $8 million guaranteed, seemed like a bargain.
The Raiders were still working Monday to get under the NFL salary cap, reportedly set at $120.6 million.
In other news, Oakland reportedly will not be the beneficiary of $1.6 million in cap relief because of a minor violation regarding salary structure in the uncapped season of 2010.
ESPN reported theWashington Redskins lost $36 million and Dallas $10 million because of major violations that included front-loading contracts during the uncapped season. That money would be allocated in terms of cap relief to the remaining teams except the Raiders and New Orleans Saints, who had unspecified violations.
The NFL confirmed irregularities in contract practices to a "small number'' of teams but did not specify the infractions, the teams or the amount of money those teams were penalized.
There has been no movement to the Raiders with regard to linebacker Kamerion Wimbley, whose agent said there has been no contact with his client in recent days. Wimbley, should he be on the roster March 17, would be in line for $17.5 million in guaranteed money.
The Raiders would like Wimbley to accept a cut in pay, but will still owe him $6.5 million if he is released.
One linebacker who will return is Aaron Curry, who was due $5.75 million in the original deal he signed with the Seattle Seahawks as the No. 4 overall pick in the draft. Curry agreed to restructured deal, terms of which were unavailable, the club announced.
In other transactions, the Raiders confirmed tenders to restricted free agent defensive Desmond Bryant and fullback Marcel Reece, essentially tying both players to the Raiders. Exclusive rights free agents Mason Brodine (defensive end) and Bryan McCann (defensive back, return specialist) were also tendered.


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Coding theory began in the late 1940's with the work of Golay, Hamming and Shannon. Although it has its origins in an engineering problem, the subject has developed by using more and more sophisticated mathematical techniques. It is our goal to present the theory of error-correcting codes in a simple, easily understandable manner, and yet also to cover all the important aspects of the subject. Thus the reader will find both the simpler families of codes – for example, Hamming, BCH, cyclic and Reed-Muller codes – discussed in some detail, together with encoding and decoding methods, as well as more advanced topics such as quadratic residue, Golay, Goppa, alternant, Kerdock, Preparata, and self-dual codes and association schemes.
Our treatment of bounds on the size of a code is similarly thorough. We discuss both the simpler results – the sphere-packing, Plotkin, Elias and Gaschamov bounds – as well as the very powerful linear programming method and the McEliece-Rodemich-Rumsey-Welch bound. Therefore this book can be used both by the beginner and by the expert, as an introductory textbook and as a reference book, and both by the engineer and the mathematician. Of course, this has not resulted in a thin book, and so we suggest the following menus:
[Sequence of chapters for an elementary first course on coding theory for mathematicians, a second course for mathematicians, an elementary first course on coding theory for engineers, and a second course for engineers.]
[List of principal codes discussed, encoding methods given, and decoding methods given.]
When reading the book, keep in mind this piece of advice, which should be given in every preface: if you get stuck on a section, skip it, but keep reading! Don't hesitate to skip the proof of a theorem: we often do. Starred sections are difficult or dull, and can be omitted on the first (or even second) reading.
The book ends with an extensive bibliography. Because coding theory overlaps with so many other subjects (computers, digital systems, group theory, number theory, the design of experiments, etc.) relevant papers may be found almost anywhere in the scientific literature. Unfortunately this means that the usual indexing and reviewing journals are not always helpful. We have therefore felt an obligation to give a fairly comprehensive bibliography. The notes at the ends of the chapters give sources for the theorems, problems and tables, as well as small bibliographies for some of the topics covered (or not covered) in the chapter.
Only block codes for correcting random errors are discussed; we say little about codes for correcting other kinds of errors (burst or transpositions) or about variable length codes, convolutional codes or source codes (see the Notes to Ch. 1). Furthermore we have often considered only binary codes, which makes the theory a lot simpler. Most writers take the opposite point of view; they think in binary but publish their results over arbitrary fields.
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Selected Publications and Manuscripts
Potsdam, Eric. 2012. Which Questions in Malagasy. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, Theories of everything: In honor of Ed Keenan 17, 360-366.
Potsdam, Eric. 2009. Austronesian Verb-Initial Languages and Wh-Question Strategies. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 27, 737-771.
Potsdam, Eric. 2007. Malagasy Sluicing and Its Consequences for the Identity Requirement on Ellipsis. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25, 577-613.
Potsdam, Eric. 2006. More Concealed Pseudoclefts and the Clausal Typing Hypothesis. Lingua 116, 2154-2182.
Potsdam, Eric. 2006. The Cleft Structure of Malagasy Wh-Questions. In Hans-Martin Gärtner, Paul Law, and Joachim Sabel (eds.). Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 195-232.
Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2012. The Syntax of the Tahitian Actor Emphatic Construction. Oceanic Linguistics 51, 58-85
Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2011. Questions and Word Order in Polynesian. In Claire Moyse-Faurie and Joachim Sabel (eds.). Topics in Oceanic Morphosyntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 83-109.
Control and Raising
Potsdam, Eric and Youssef A. Haddad. 2017. Control Phenomena. In Martin Everaert and Henk C. van Riemsdijk (eds.). The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2015. Control into nominalized complements in Malagasy. In Amber Camp, Yuko Otsuka, Claire Stabile, and Nozomi Tanaka (eds.). Proceedings of the 21st Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 261-278.
Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2013. Diagnosing Covert A-Movement. In Lisa Cheng and Norbert Corver (eds.). Diagnosing Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 210-234.
Haddad, Youssef A. and Eric Potsdam. 2013. Linearizing the Control Relation: A Typology. In Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts (eds.). Principles of Linearization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Polinsky, Maria and Eric
Potsdam. 2013. Diagnosing covert A-movement. In Lisa Cheng and Norbert
Corver (eds.). Diagnosing Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. 2012. Backward Raising. Syntax, 75-108.
Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2011. Against Covert A-Movement in Russian Unaccusatives. Linguistic Inquiry 42, 345-355.
Potsdam, Eric. 2009. Malagasy Backward Object Control. Language 85, 754-784.
Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2008. The Syntax and Semantics of Wanting in Indonesian. Lingua 118, 1617-1639.
Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2007. Missing Complement Clause Subjects in Malagasy. Oceanic Linguistics 46, 277-308.
Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2006. Expanding the Scope of Control and Raising. Syntax 9, 171-192.
Polinsky, Maria and Eric
2002. Backward Control: Evidence from
Malagasy. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 44,
Polinsky, Maria and Eric
2002. Backward Control. Linguistic
Inquiry 33, 24-282.
English Syntax
Potsdam, Eric. 2013. CP Negation and the Domain of Quantifier Raising. Linguistic Inquiry 44, 674-684.
Potsdam, Eric. 2007. Analysing Word Order in the English Imperative. In Wim van der Wurff (ed.). Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 251-272.
Potsdam, Eric. 1997. NegP and Subjunctive Complements in English. Linguistic Inquiry 28, 533-541.
Potsdam, Eric. 1997. English Verbal Morphology and VP Ellipsis. In The Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.Amherst, Ma.: GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 353-368.
Potsdam, Eric. 1995. Phrase Structure of the English Imperative. In The Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, 143-154.
Potsdam, Eric. 1998. Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative. New York: Garland Publishing Co.
"Collaborative Research: Variation in Control Structures". This National Science Foundation-funded project was joint work with Maria Polinsky at Harvard University. The project time period was March 2002 to August 2006.
Control constructions have been at the fore of syntactic and semantic theorizing for the last thirty years, and the research into the syntax and semantics of Control constructions has led to important results in the domain of clausal complementation. Most theoretical research on Control has built heavily on the facts of English and a small number of other well-studied, typologically similar languages. Such theories of Control account for the canonical English Control pattern, Sandy tried _ to remain calm.The core property of this construction is a Forward Control relation: an obligatory interpretational dependency between an overt argument NP and a lower unpronounced argument in the complement clause. In the proposed study, we will investigate variation in the structural realization of this Control relation which we believe is cross-linguistically attested and which we also believe has important implications for syntactic theory. A Backward Control relation is a similar, obligatory interpretational dependency in which the overt argument NP is in the lower position and the higher argument is unpronounced. Backward Control has been proposed in the literature for constructions in Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Tsez (Nakh-Dagestanian), Korean, Malagasy, and other languages.
The goal of this project is to explore the empirical and theoretical issues surrounding Backward Control phenomena. In the empirical domain, we will further document Backward Control constructions cross-linguistically. We will carry out in-depth investigations of attested Backward Control structures across several selected languages and, with the aid of graduate and undergraduate research assistants, we will seek out additional examples and simultaneously develop a database of control patterns in selected language families. In the theoretical domain, we will examine the implications of our empirical findings for existing theories of Control and for syntactic theory more generally. Theoretical work will center on whether or not current theories permit the structures that we document and, if they do not, what modifications are necessary to permit the range of observed variation while still maintaining restrictiveness. Overall, the proposed project will contribute to an understanding of the range of variation in Control structures that are attested in natural language.
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