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On September 22nd the OPERA collaboration announced that neutrinos arrived at their detectors 60 nanosecond early. In about that amount of time, the physics world was all in a tizzy with comparisons to cold fusion fiasco of 1989, saying it had to be wrong and arguing over whether or not we should even be publicizing the published results. Well today a "sources familiar with the experiment" says the result can be blamed on faulty wiring.
Most physicitsts were pretty sure this would happen. It is so unlikely that anything can travel faster than the speed of light that there had to be some sort of error on the experimenter's part or some misinterpretation of the data. Well, it turns out that most likely it was a loose connection between a GPS and computer card that made it appear as if the neutrinos were breaking the speed limit. Seeing as the "source familiar with the experiment" is the only one quoted, I'm gonna wait to pass judgement till I hear from someone that uses their name. But it is pretty likely that this caused the result.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Neutrinos: Physics Embarrassment or Great Public Outreach
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I teach science (biology and chemistry) and I'm always trying to get students to ask questions. We were actually looking at light (wavelengths, etc) when the first story broke. I took a day and challenged them to discuss whether the results were actually possible or not.ReplyDelete
I'm really glad they released the first result. While science "knows" a lot, there are still little mysteries out there that pop up from time to time. It's a chance for students to get excited about science in their future, seeing that not everything can be explained.
When asked to comment about the recent finding that last Fall's apparent "faster-than-light" neutrino result was in fact due to an instrumental error, OPERA collaboration spokeswoman Emily Litella said only, "Never Mind."ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 23, 2012 at 1:33 PM
in that case you´d be sure the cesium clock performs for the job if it does at all.ReplyDelete
Considering the pedestals that such august researchers are sometimes placed, it's great that such details as this come to light. I agree with Brian E. Bennett. This is a great teaching example. It's also a classic example of, "All exposure is good; good exposure is better." This got people talking (and arguing!) about this affair. People all of a sudden said, "Wait. Science is exciting? Well, allllll-righty then!" While many might have no clue as to what a "neutrino" is, they can understand the basics of this problem. If it was an error, then it had to be one of two things: the distance between the source and detector was wrong or the timing was wrong. Okay, so it might also have been a combination of these two things. Frankly, I've found that racing fans get the concept faster than most. They understand distance = velocity * time. And that's what this problem boils down to. And if it's not an error in timing nor an error in distance, then you physics-types have a LOT of work to do!ReplyDelete
If it does turn out to be an error, so what? That's science in action. Science goes through this self-correcting process all of the time. Most of the time it doesn't get such international press. When it does (as it did this time), milk it for all its worth. Anything that will improve the science literacy of our citizens is something I'm all for.


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It's considered correct for atheists to insist we have values. But the values I see us testifying to come mostly from past movements and ages. Atheism doesn't seem to generate any new values today.
Why not? I think it's because today's atheism identifies primarily with science and logic, and values from that source--such as strategies from game theory--seem bloodless to most people, almost sinister.
I propose a new direction for atheism: a return to old-fashioned humanism but drawing on a more recent discovery. This could provide atheism with a source of new values, in fact an entirely new human nature, built on a new foundation.
What I see making a difference--the new foundation--is knowing we evolved. The source of new values would be what we know, and can learn, about evolution.
That's idea number one. Here's quite-unrelated idea number two: my idea of atheism is, it's for the whole person, not just the left brain--science and logic--as atheism's philosophy tends to be now. I propose we create, also, a right-brain strand of atheist philosophy.
Put those two ideas together and they point to an atheism informed by knowing we evolved, with right-brain style. That could lead us to a new renaissance-humanism, but the renaissance in question would involve not physics but biology--new thinking about evolution.
Here's the sticking point: the evolutionary theory most atheists subscribe to-- darwinism--is pure left brain. It consists of two purely physical processes--natural selection and genetic mutation--expressed in the form of population statistics. Atheists almost universally subscribe to this account of human origins yet probably very few of us understand the mathematical basis it's been given. That puts atheism in the precarious position of being based on a theory over which it has no influence.
I therefore propose we develop non-darwinian, non-creationist origin stories based on us having evolved that we can draw on for new atheist values we can then promote in the form of plays and movies. For a sample story check out my play, "What it Means We Evolved: Dialogue Between Darwin and Galileo."
That's the idea I invite responses to. I ask you to respect me saying I am not a creationist, have no religious leanings.
Is there a constituency for this kind of thinking? I've been debating on this site with an advocate of philosophy-of-mind which clearly represents the left-brain side of atheist theory. I know humanists are considering how to respond to science's offer of a consilience based on darwinism. Can you point me to anywhere else in society where evolution and "mind" are being looked at from both left-brain and right-brain point of view?
About myself: The trajectory of my life has been from left-brain to right-brain. I grew up a physicalist--seeing myself as purely physical, driven entirely by brain chemistry, my consciousness being impotent to direct my behavior--then in my thirties I had an epiphany that convinced me I could, through consciousness, direct my behavior, that I was doing it all the time. As the "Contrarian Evolutionist" I write articles critical of darwinism, and I am currently working up an alternative theory of evolution on right-brain principles. You can see a list of the principles I've arrived at so far on my blog on this site.
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You will find math and physics at the core of the arts, I assure you. One look at "sacred" geometry should be enough to understand that it is neither a left-brained nor right-brained direction that's taken, atheism included or not. It's true that many atheists come from the scientific fields, but many of us don't. I currently work in education--language... which would fit into the right side of the brain, if I remember correctly. I also come from an art background... and I once worked in tech support. Okay, that's more left-brained, but really--is it? Being able to relate to people, to articulate ideas and processes takes both sides of the brain, working en tandem. (Or is it, 'in tandem'? Forgive me.)
Morality is something that has evolved alongside society. Religions lay claim to it, but they do not hold patent on it at all. Don't buy into that. I certainly don't.
For a long time, I would have considered looking for a philosophy that optimizes how to live one's life. I have given that up, because no philosophy will cover all of the contingencies of life. Each philosophy is a beautiful construction of logic that unfortunately is threadbare on premise.
I see no need to generate new values as stated in the original post. None of our values were generated by previous religions. Religions only make the claim of generating values. However, these values are a natural consequence of changing living conditions. Religion has always told people what they want to hear. You can't stay in business otherwise.
While I am intrigued by your attempt to reconcile the needs of both the left and right sides of your brain, your premise that "atheism doesn't seem to generate any new values today" is somewhat flawed. It may apply to some atheists, but not all. I for one do not view atheism as an alternative to religion, but rather a simple rejection of it. For me, the noun "atheism" is really more of an idea rather than an entity of any kind. In this context, atheism itself would not, and should not, be able to generate anything. Instead, it simply leaves us free as individuals to develop our own ideas and views of the world around us without the rose-colored lenses of religion. The fact that you have taken the time to develop your set of principles is an excellent example of this.
A second criticism involves the idea that the cold, calculated and logical premises of evolution and genetic mutation theory, among other such principles, somehow makes atheists unable to generate any new values. A person's ability to navigate the environmental, social, cultural, political and economic complexities of the human experience is hard-wired by millennia of evolution, combined with his or her ever-present stream of consciousness, memory, and rationalization by the prefrontal cortex. Our values are based on much more than a simple story of our beginnings, however logical and scientifically-founded that story may or may not be. While many devout Christians believe in creationism, one seldom hears that their values are derived strictly from the book of genesis.
I applaud your thought and creativity, however to broaden any set of set of stories or ideas as the basis of some new atheism is to, in reality, create a new sort of religion. Thus, it could not become the foundation of atheism that is viewed strictly in the context of rejection.
Thanks for all replies, helping me see I fudged the issue. Edison, very interesting response.
My concern comes from a highly organized view on human nature that I see becoming very influential in atheism. It's the doctrine, based on a simplistic reading of science, that we are all physically determined, that our sense of having free will is an illusion. Following a talk I gave to about twenty five humanists maybe eight years ago three of those present said they were determined, three said they had free will, the rest weren't sure. The leader of our group said humanists (and I assume this applies to atheists) no longer believe in the old humanist principles but instead subscribe to modern science and the obvious implication that we are physically determined. Of 400 responses to a New York Times article on the issue a few years ago, a third gave an opinion, just over half of those saying they, and all humans, were determined. This is the doctrine of philosophy of mind, generally regarded as today's primary philosophy. I see this belief in determinism becoming a growing influence in atheism, and I have misgivings about it.
Would you have any misgivings about physical determinism becoming the default (because the only clearly articulated) belief underlying atheism? And do you see it happening?
This is a different issue from drawing on evolutionary theory to redraw human nature. For me the issues are linked but I appreciate that for most people they are not. I recently thought I could relate them by seeing determinism as left brain, and creativity and free will--which I see characteristic of evolution--as right brain. Your responses suggest this is not a persuasive model.
I am fishing, looking for opinions--am I chasing red herrings?
Shaun, you asked me to commit my time and energy but gave me no reason to do so.
Summarize in maybe 20 lines what I will see.
Tell me in as few lines as possible how your right brain view differs from the left brain view you allege.
Tell me how much time your play will require.
In short, sell your idea. How will I benefit?
The metaphor he uses, of the conscious, intelligent genome, is foggy and undeveloped. (It isn't a new metaphor). Develop it, flesh it out, and you'll see whether it's useful.
The play insults both Darwin and Galileo.
The basic idea seems to be that morality, consciousness, free will can be reintroduced by using the metaphor of a conscious genome directing evolution.
Applying Occam's razor, there isn't a justification for introducing a huge new entity, if it is "real". No proof that a conscious genome is necessary (whatever is meant by a conscious genome).
Big questions are: what is meant by a conscious genome?
is it necessary to use this metaphor to have morality, consciousness, free will?
Does this metaphor introduce morality, consciousness, free will?
Luara, the play is meant to be burlesque, sort-of Fawlty Towers, to make it amusing. So, yes, I do insult both Darwin and Galileo but it's meant in fun, in a British-sort of way. I am British. And I am tall and look like John Cleese. I do make a fool of myself, too.
Tom, the play is pretty standard length for a solo performance--40 minutes for a first act, 20 minutes for a second, with perhaps a 15 minute intermission. It takes place in the afterlife. I dress as Darwin, and play both roles. It's meant to be an evening entertainment for general interest audiences.
Luara, except for perhaps Samuel Butler in Life and Habit, I haven't come across anyone else suggesting the genome is intelligent. Can you tell me who has? Who should I credit?
Between you, you probably raise the issues I guess most people will face me with. What do I mean by a conscious genome, what relevance does it have for morality, consciousness and free will? And what is the benefit? I have written a self-improvement manual based on the idea ("Self Improvement Through a New Approach to Evolution") but I welcome the challenge of summarizing the benefit here.
I got interested in this from growing up convinced evolution was a foundation-shattering new origin story that would tell us all about human nature. Instead I found no one thinking of it as a new source of truth about us, only as a counter in a political game of church against humanism, special creation against evolution. Darwin could account for evolution only within the limits of pre-Victorian science--Victoria was still a teenager while he was coming up with natural selection. His had to account for the origin of the Earth's living species with only simple physical processes. Accounting for the evolution of all of human nature was incidental.
But that is what I want to know: how all of human nature evolved. Why do I enjoy studying history? What allows me to make rational choices? Why do I experience consciousness? How come I can be creative, a designer and an artist and a novelist? Where does our creativity come from? Non-living matter isn't as creative--volcanoes today are much the same as they were a billion years but today there are elephants, then there were only bacteria. In the solar system only us humans and the process of evolution appear to display creativity. Evolutionary psychology can't account for us liking ice cream, or being able to drive automobiles at night at 70 miles per hour, or wanting to practice science. What's going on?
I expect benefit to come simply from learning more about our own nature. I expect atheists to be interested in that. But we're likely to learn more about human nature with a theory better able to account for the evolution of us humans, with remarkable attributes like those above, so far beyond what you'd need merely to be adapted to the environment. I can testify that once I started losing belief in darwinism, as I did in my fifties, it rapidly came to seem grossly inadequate to account first for evolution in us, then for life in general.
I'm going to pause there. This post clears the way. I'll post another with benefits and theories.
Shaun, am I understanding your l-o-n-g argument, Darwinism (whatever you mean by the term) fails because it does not explain the evolution of thought and human nature?
A pioneer in any field requires dedication to her/his cause. Good luck with yours.
Tom, I put it this way: if we want to understand ourselves better through the study of how we evolved (surely a reasonable quest for atheists) we need a better theory than darwinism has shown itself to be.
I appreciate your good wishes.
As with so many theories and hypotheses, we put too much value in their ability to solve pesky human problems. Darwin is not the end of an inquiry, only a beginning. Much more work needs to be done and is being done to understand human evolution and, indeed, evolution of the universe. We have more questions than answers.
There is a difference between those who live in the answers and those who live in the questions. Answers people, such as fundamentalist Christians, Muslims and atheists don't get it. The answers we have to explain complex issues, such as life, miss the bigger story, they stop asking and seeking when some new idea apears. That is what our bicameral mind is all about ... ask questions, be skeptical, challenge authority, and think for yourself, welcoming ideas from others, not to accept but to ponder.
A great mind expander has to do with cognitive function, such as learning physics or biology, sociology; or the affective functions, such as feelings, emotions, desires, hopes, imagined preferred futures.
We exist, not as cognitive beings alone or emotional beings alone. We are both and.
I start with evolution, Positivism, physicalism, darwinism (darwinism standing for both Charles Darwin's natural selection and the modern synthesis).
Evolution is a fact as much as something can be. We evolved. Positivism is a practice of science, limited to what can be measured, with anything supernatural discarded, even "volition, natural or supernatural," that is, even human conscious judgment and will.
Let Positivism grow into a philosophy and you get "physicalism," denial that mind exists: only purely physical things can have any effect on other purely physical things. Since it's not physical, consciousness cannot therefore drive our behavior, our behavior must instead by driven directly by brain chemistry. So according to physicalists our sense of having free will--of being free to any extent of physical determinism--must be an illusion.
Now darwinism: In 1809 Lamarck said evolution involved "subtle fluids," a term from alchemy. Under the influence of Positivism Darwin came up with the purely physical process of natural selection. Later the modern synthesis would add to that the purely physical process of genetic mutation. These purely physical processes were widely adopted as what drives evolution ("darwinism").
Both darwinism and physicalism are doctrines, assumption made based on the Positivist way of practicing science. There can be no proof of them. Physicalism can't be proved true or false; whatever you do can be claimed to be either determined or done of your own free will. Similarly with darwinism, the creative (macromutational) effects of genetic mutation and natural selection can become significant only after hundreds of thousands of generations, by which point you can't tell whether or not the original genetic changes were due to mutations-- not unless you define all genetic change as "mutations."
Darwinism may be nothing more than an unprovable hypothesis, but physicalists point to it as proof of their doctrine that physics rules everything and we are determined, that we can't consciously direct anything that happens in the world except as determined by physics. So when atheists defend darwinism they add strength to physicalism's denial of consciousness as an agent in events. I have no problem with atheists who are also physicalists defending darwinism. What bothers me is atheists defending darwinism as a knee-jerk reaction against creationism, in the process also supporting the physicalists' denial of conscious volition.
For me, what's at stake is freedom from the feeling of fatalism, an unavoidable implication of us being determined. I think of humanism as defense against that feeling just as much as defense against religion. How much does atheism today celebrate freedom from fatalism? I hope, a lot. But how do you defend that freedom?
If you accept today's physics as a complete account of the world, you can't argue against physicalism. It's a purely logical system based on today's physics. That's why I say it's the epitome of left-brain thinking.
So how can you argue for freedom from fatalism? Where's the hole in the physicalists' argument that we're determined? For me it lies in two pieces of evidence for today's physics being incomplete. One is my fundamental conscious experience of being able to express conscious volition in behavior, and hence in physical matter. The other is how creative evolution is.
(Physicalists deny me both of those pieces of evidence. Evolution is no more creative than matter, they may say. And you can't prove you're not determined. In answer I say, those are axioms on which I base my natural philosophy. You can no more prove them wrong than I can prove yours wrong.)
Then I build my system. First, conscious experience is the medium through which the practices of science have to pass: conscious creativity in coming up with hypotheses, in creating experimental apparatus, in judging results. So even the practice of science depends on conscious experience being an effective agent in the physical world. Second, creativity is found only in evolution, and in its products--for example us. Since the process of evolution evolved before we did, and generated us, I assume that's where we got our creativity from. Evolution is the source of both it, and us, being genuinely creative, in defiance of physical determinism--physics does not create anything like living species.
By similar arguments I trace our ability to be conscious and to think to similar capabilities in the process of evolution. In other words, I account for all our mental capabilities by saying they come to us from the process of evolution building into us some of its own powers. We need to account for them somehow. Where else in the cosmos could they come from? Then I propose evolving is equivalent to thinking. So in us, thinking is our thoughts evolving.
Mechanism of evolution? On the basis of thinking being equivalent to evolving, I can suppose the genome can by thinking make changes to its "brain"--the genes it consists of--just as we when we remember something make changes to our brain cells. The intelligent genome can literally think up new species.
My skein of arguments, given my axioms, is not illogical. Maybe not at first plausible. But illogical? Can't be proved so. Will that do?
Benefits: If we get our mental powers from the genome, then by further study of evolution we may discover new powers in it that we can add to those we've already got. And, if this theory turns out to fit the facts of nature better, we can base new technologies on it.
I offer this not as "truth" but as a model for how to think outside the physicalist box. Even I don't think my theory is true, rather a supplement I have to propose as a supplement to physics, incomplete simply because of the limits it imposed on itself through Positivism's denial of "volition" in its subject material.
Because my theory rests on axioms involving creativity and conscious volition I see it as right-brain. It gives due acknowledgement to that side of our nature, as darwinism doesn't. Between the two, may we come to understand ourselves more fully.
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From the changelog of the ByteFX package it is clear that SUSE is putting work into keeping ByteFX connector up to date. However, according to Miguel de Icaza, ByteFX should only be used in those cases where the MySQL connector will not work.
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gacutil -i MySql.Data.dll
...and the file became available for adding in the normal manner as a reference in Mono or Monodevelop.
If you follow the excellent little tutorial on connecting your Mono frontend to MySql you will soon run into a small problem: the Mono compiler will not like the references to
IDbConnection and
IDataReader. Classes are now prefixed with 'MySql' and not 'ID,' as in
MySqlConnection and
In addition, let's say you have a connect string for your database in this format (note in particular the single quotes):
This will work if you are using the ByteFX connector, but the MySql connector will fail with a message that the specified host could not be found. Removing the single quotes around 'localhost' will allow the host to be found, but it will not log you in since the user will not be found. The MySql connection string needs to be stripped of single quotes. (In this format it will work with the ByteFX connector, too.)
Password hashing in MySql definitely places some restrictions on which connector can be used. ByteFX will not deal with password hashing in MySql 4.1+, but the MySql connector will.
When setting up your first connection to a back end of any kind, it is helpful to have concrete feedback about why things are not running as expected. Using the
try - catch structure will help to demystify the sometimes cryptic, sometimes lengthy information from the compiler:
... statements to be tested go in here
catch (Exception ex)
Console.WriteLine("Error was: "+ex.Message);
It's not the Mono developers' fault that specifications have to change and that documents get out of date, but we users need a reference to the changes that need to be made. Luckily, there's plenty of detailed assistance available on the Mono forums.
In the absence of a sophisticated replacement for Access on a Linux machine, having a convenient front end to a MySQL back end in C# -- as provided by Mono -- gives us an alternative. And the more easily and efficiently we can get our first connection going, the more ready we are to attempt the more complex process of actually editing, adding, and deleting data in the database.


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The NHL finally returned to the ice in the past week, but with all due respect to goal scoring machine Patrick Marleau of Aneroid, Sask., the most spectacular show on ice and snow on the weekend was turned in by Canada's other winter sport athletes.
From dynamic kids – teenagers like Justine Dufour-Lapointe and Mark McMorris winning World Cup moguls and X Games snowboard gold, respectively – to age-defying old timers – Maelle Ricker winning world championship snowboard cross gold – it was a podium fest for spinners, sliders, skaters and jumpers.
In world championship and World Cup competition around the globe, Canadians recorded five wins, six seconds and a third.
And in Olympic disciplines at X Games, where the best-of-the-best are invited, it was one gold, two silver and three bronze.
"It's super exciting," Ricker, a North Vancouver native, said of the bountiful medal haul just a year out from the Sochi 2014 Olympics. "It's really showing that the Own the Podium program after 2010 is still working and actually going beyond.
"Hopefully, it continues to rise through the (Sochi) Games and into the future."
Ricker's world championship gold on Saturday at Stoneham, Que., was a long time coming for the woman with the sweet giggle and steely determination.
The 34-year-old has won FIS Crystal Globes for season titles and Olympic gold in 2010 at Cypress, but never a world title. She was eighth in 2001, sat out 2003 with a bad knee, than was third in '05, fifth in '07, fourth in '09 and fourth again in 2011.
"It's extremely satisfying," Ricker said of her big win. "It's definitely something that was missing, just not performing on the right day. It was a little bit of a thorn in my side and a big goal going into this season."
Ricker was the fastest qualifier among the 24 women to move into six-boarder heat racing. She led wire-to-wire in her quarterfinal and semifinal, then got out front again in the final over the tricky five-jump start section into the opening corner. Right behind her, however, was Canada's other dominant SBX competitor, Dominique Maltais.
"In the last third of the course, I definitely felt Dom on my shoulder," said Ricker. "It was the only part of the course she was faster than me. We saw that on video all week. But I stayed calm, kept my body moving forward and beat her to the line by a board length."
Ricker and Maltais, 32, were easily the oldest riders in a final that featured a pair of teenagers and two others in their early 20s.
"We're the dinosaurs of the group," said a laughing Ricker. "But experience plays a lot in these technical races. It's definitely something I have to use to my advantage since I don't have youth on my side anymore. I have to be smart with my training, smart with some of my landings."
Canada's other world championship winner Saturday was no surprise as Calgary's Kaillie Humphries, the most dominant woman driver bobsleigh has ever known, defended her title at St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Humphries, also the reigning Olympic champion, and first-year brakeman Chelsey Valois of Zenon Park, Sask., had a four-run combined time of four minutes, 30.31 seconds to finish 0.68 ahead of the American duo of Elana Meyers and Katie Eberling.
"I'm ecstatic," said Calgary's Humphries, who has won 10 of 12 international races over the last year. "Our goal all year was to win world championships. And to do it in St. Moritz . . . the birthplace of our sport and the longest track in the world that demands experience and skill, it means the world to me to win the world championships here."
On Sunday, Chris Spring and brakeman Lascelles Brown were a Canadian-best sixth in the men's two man event won by Francesco Friedrich of Germany. Lyndon Rush and Jesse Lumsden were 10th.
FAST TIMES: Christine Nesbitt placed first and second in a pair of 1,000 metre races on the weekend at the ISU world sprint speedskating championships, but failed to repeat as overall winner after finishing just 12th in two 500 metre races.
Nesbitt's speciality is the middle distance races – she was the Olympic gold medalist at 1,000 metres in 2010 – and she blitzed the field in Saturday's 1,000, winning in a season-best time of one minute, 12.91 seconds, 0.77 better than Britanny Bowe of the U.S.
"I just felt that every stride I took, especially in the first 200 metres, I was getting pressure right away and that allowed me to carry lots of speed in the first lap and then build speed off that."
On Sunday, her time of 1:13.28 left her 0.09 behind Heather Richardson. The American, who was fourth in the 500 and third in both the 1,000 and 500 on Saturday, claimed the overall sprint title.
Meantime, Jamie Gregg of Edmonton was second both days in the men's 500 behind Joji Kato of Japan, while Junio Gilmore of Calgary made the podium Sunday in third place.
MOGULS MANIA: In Calgary, Justine Dufuor-Lapointe, 18, and her sister, Chloe, went 1-2 in a World Cup event, with promising 17-year-old Andi Naude of Okanagan Falls finishing sixth. Quebecer Mikael Kingsbury, with his 18th consecutive podium finish, captured the men's event for his 13th career win.


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Lawrenceville, N.J. - The Farmingdale State men's lacrosse team had two players receive All-Skyline Conference Honors. Freshman attack Erick Thomson (Floral Park, N.Y./Floral Park) and senior midfielder Mike Maxwell (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) were named Second Team All-Skyline.
Thomson had 30 goals and a team-high 31 assists for a total of 61 points this season for the Rams. He scored two game winning goals and picked up 44 ground balls.
Maxwell scored a team-high 32 goals, had nine assists, 29 ground balls and caused eight turnovers this season.
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Player of the Year: ............................... Thomas
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Rookie of the Year: .............................. Tyler Meth, Montclair State University
Skyline Championship MVP:............... Tyler Meth, Montclair State University
Coach of the Year: ............................... Dick Rizk, Richard Stockton College
Co-Team Sportsmanship Award: ........ Montclair State University
Co-Team Sportsmanship Award: ........ Richard Stockton College
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Keith Bologno - Richard Stockton
Tyler Meth - Montclair State
Lawrence Montreuil - Maritime
Matt Bell - Richard Stockton
Taylor Bonner - Montclair State
Stephen Doherty - Maritime
Andrew Rau - Kean
T.J. Beaudette - Maritime
Anthony Dzienkiewicz - Montclair State
Patrick Ferry - Montclair State
Nick Miceli - Kean
Thomas Bowers - Montclair State
Second Team -
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Alex Korb - Maritime
Mike Shea - Mount Saint Vincent
Erick Thomson - Farmingdale State
Anthony Bertucci - Kean
Mike Maxwell - Farmingdale State
John Schiavone - Montclair State
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Which is your favorite Improv so far?
Happy Town
[ 2 ]
Brad's Somber Mood
[ 17 ]
I Am the Most Beautiful Dog in the World
[ 5 ]
Flap those Flagella Like You Mean It!
[ 1 ]
Man-Eating Shoes
[ 4 ]
Meadow of the Damned
[ 17 ]
Robots Love to Dance!
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When Luna Smiles
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Inertia Man
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No One Tells Interesting Jeff What to Do!
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Greg Stephens
Forum Founder
Joined: 14 Apr 2001
Posts: 3861
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2002 2:28 pm
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Favorite M.I. so far?
These are the Improvs that have been completed as of April 2, so "The Paralellogram's Revenge" isn't included. Wouldn't be fair, you see, to vote on a work in progress.
Me? I like "I am the most beautiful dog in the world."
Good morning! That's a nice tnetennba.
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Consistant Poster
Joined: 16 Apr 2001
Posts: 141
Location: Pittsburgh
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2002 4:26 pm
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I liked the art in "When Luna Smiles". I find the abstract nature of the storytelling to be refreshing. Most comics feature characters that tell you exactly what you are supposed to think about what happened, while Luna lets me just enjoy my personal version of it. Bravo to Scott!
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Joined: 30 Jul 2001
Posts: 70
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2002 4:37 pm
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My favorite strip is Brad's Somber Mood: quirky art & use of fonts, some general silliness, and a nice ending.
I love some the more extreme art style of Proto the Pet. The Parallelogram's Revenge is an interesting move in the other direction.
When Luna Smiles doesn't work for me because the one processed-photograph image breaks me out of the mood. This may just be me--I've had the same reaction to a couple of other works that mixed media similarly, although other viewers didn't seem to mind.
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Scott McCloud
The one and only
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Posts: 299
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2002 8:42 pm
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Ooh, cool feature!
I notice that you have to be logged in to vote, though, so if any of you are wondering why there's no submit button, now you know.
Just log in and return to this page to cast your vote.
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Understands reinventing
Joined: 02 Apr 2002
Posts: 429
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2002 12:05 am
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It hard to say. I have always enjoyed McCloud's work and find it fun, creative and innovative. It takes some thought ... I hope you do not mind if I ramble.
Happy Town: reminds me of those old "Mr." books except dark and twisted. Although the story doesn't really end and reminds me of the comics I drew in junior high.
Proto: I love the art. Good story, but just doesn't capture me.
Brad's Somer Mood: is hilarious. The characters practicly jump off the screen and talk to you. I would love to see this story become a full-sized comic or a serialized story somewhere.
Most Beautifull Dog: Makes me want to smile. Has got to be one of the top canidates. It has that Charles Schulz feeling to it. I show this story to non-comic readers too enjoy.
Flagella: is new ... entertaining and educational all in a comic! How offen does that happen? Although the ending seems like the end to stories in creative writing class in high school. If you do not know what should happen next, have a truck drive through the wall and kill the characters.
Man Eating Shoes: is cute. Short. Would have loved to see some teeth or fangs on them shoes.
Meadow of the Damn: is just wonderfull. It is a well thought out story that had me checking for updates twice a day. It was drawn in the typical McCloud comic style that I have grown and love. It has a solid story and is very comical.
Robots like to Dance: Cute ... fun.
When Luna Smiles: is a bit too artsy for me. I agree with buzzard about the photo. Porphyria's Lover was better on poetry->comic.
Inertia Man & Interesting Jeff: are good "Gag-of-the-Day" comic strips. As much as I enjoy them, I kind of expected to see more content.
So all this rambling and I still haven't decided ... can I vote more than once?
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Greg Stephens
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Posts: 3861
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2002 1:42 am
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Re: the Poll feature
Sorry, only one vote per customer! I really try to be inclusive here, but unfortunately in order for the polls to be accurate or meaningful (even though they're just for fun), the only way to track 'em is by user ID, which means, yeah, you've gotta be
logged in
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Robin Skyler
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Joined: 03 Apr 2002
Posts: 6
Location: NYC
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2002 2:09 pm
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hard pick between Proto and Inertia Man
Although really my favorite part of Inertia Man is the first (non-title) frame, which kind of sums up the whole episode. Well, and I like the last frame of course. But I think Proto gets my vote thus far.
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Location: Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2002 5:15 pm
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Interesting Jeff
Loved the title.
Meadow of the Damned was good, but waaaaaay too long. It seemed to be less improv. I felt like Scott knew what was going to happen, and that took som eof the fun out of it.
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Aris Katsaris
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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2002 7:32 am
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Taking out of consideration the completely one-joke improvisations (the Robots, Man-eating shoes, Inertia man, Interesting Jeff, Most beautiful Dog), we're left with the Meadows, Brad's somber mood, Happy Town, Proto, Flap those Flagella, and When Luna smiles...
Out of these, "Flap those Flagella Like You Mean It" had great promise but Scott seems to have gotten tired of it too soon and just decided to kill everyone - an unconnected, non-thematic ending IMO... I'd love it if he had really expanded *this* one, instead of Meadows.
Happy Town was just a bunch of non-sequitur incidents, not a story... Proto the Pet seems too obviously a day-by-day improvisation, even though it has a *beautiful* ending... (The "Stupid,
desert god." is a *lovely* line btw, even though I know it's not really commentary to real-life events...)
As for Meadows... sigh - it was too damn long IMHO... It's the description of a situation but it could have been made shorter but equally effective. In something so long, I had hoped for some kind of *change*, some climax, some escape, some *story*... The "lame hell for lame sinners" was obvious from part one IMO - I'd hoped that part two would go a bit deeper to show how different people can make hell of heaven or heaven out of hell. Was not to be, so it left me rather disappointed and unsatisfied...
And "when Luna smiles" is just not my thing, so that leaves "Brad's somber mood" for my vote of Best Morning Improvisation. Lovely, short and to the point, great use of contrast, and an ending panel that's at the same time humorous and sombering... (anyone else thinks btw that Brad is actually just as shallow -though in a different way- as Mandy and Sandy? That's what I thought, anyway....)
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Posts: 2
Location: London, England
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2002 9:32 am
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Proto the pet is easily my favourite so far. I love the art work, I think the bevelled brush thing really works well for this story, gives it a unique feel, like an embroidered quilt or something.
Also love the "stupid Stupid desert god" line, I keep saying it in my head!
Plus, out of all the stories so far it feels least like a joke improvised around an idea; it has it's own atmosphere and emotion to it rather than just a sense of fun and experimentation. Although it does have that too!
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Craig J. Quack
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Location: The swamps of Haddonfield, NJ
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2002 10:32 am
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Aris Katsaris wrote:
Taking out of consideration the completely one-joke improvisations (the Robots, Man-eating shoes, Inertia man, Interesting Jeff, Most beautiful Dog), we're left with the Meadows, Brad's somber mood, Happy Town, Proto, Flap those Flagella, and When Luna smiles...
Well, I wouldn't take the one-joke improvisations out of consideration because I thought
Man-Eating Shoes
was great. It was short, sweet, to the point and just plain funny. I also liked
Inertia Man
for the same reasons, but for my money, the
have it.
Of the longer ones, it's a tie between
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Lemon Aid
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Location: New England
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2002 5:30 pm
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My favorite Improv so far has been
I'm the Most Beautiful Dog in the World.
Why? It was sublime, it was just a joy to read, to look at, to see unfold. And it's so darn true about dogs.
About my dog, anyway.
Panel after panel of the dog standing there, admiring his ego, was genius.
But of course there's also
Meadow of the Damned
, which
to go on as long as it did so we could, y'know, get it. Why were they there? It had to unfold like that. It just had to. I liked it anyway.
Everywhere, and nowhere at all.
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Renaissance Man
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Location: The (relatively) quiet suburbs of Columbia, Maryland
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:17 am
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I put my vote on "Brad's Somber Mood." As Aris Katsaris mentioned, I particularly like the contrast between Brad's deep philosophical tirade and Sandy and Mandy's blissfully jovial ravings about some crappy musical.
By the way, I don't think that Brad was really as shallow as the two women were. In fact, I think Sandy was the
shallow one there.
Brad has clearly been pondering about life (and reading Nabokov) and has come to adopt an existentialist attitude far on the pessimistic end of the spectrum. He's obviously depressed by his new realization that human life is ultimately meaningless, and conludes that there's no point to having fun because it means nothing in the "big picture." (Either that, or he's had too much to drink. Or maybe both.)
However, it's possible that his wife, Mandy, has extensively pondered and has come to this conclusion, too: for she remains unfazed by his lament (while Sandy nervously stares at something off the panel) and comments that he's being a sourpuss. She probably subscribes to the same existentialist worldview, but instead of bitter pessimism, she optimistically chooses to live a
carpe diem
lifestyle... because if your life is pointless in the first place, you might as well make it enjoyable.
And so they run off in the night with death cheerily on their trail. (Which is a nice touch, I might add.)
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Joined: 02 Apr 2002
Posts: 429
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2002 5:58 pm
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I am suprized that nobody has made a comment about the line "Stupid, stupid desert god." being a ripoff/homage to Jeff Smith's Bone "Stupid, stupid rat creatures."
Brad's Somber Mood seems to be my favorite for the reasons people have already stated in the last few posts. I love the Death figure in the last panel!
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Posts: 24
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2002 9:36 pm
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I like the random wackiness of "Happy Town." I'd like to see more like that, maybe one every few "serious" improvs. 'Course, that's just me.
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Josiah Rowe
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Location: Cheshire, CT USA
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2002 10:01 pm
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losttoy wrote:
I am suprized that nobody has made a comment about the line "Stupid, stupid desert god." being a ripoff/homage to Jeff Smith's Bone "Stupid, stupid rat creatures."
Half the people probably didn't get the reference, and the other half probably thought it was so obvious it didn't bear mentioning.
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Rip Tanion
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 7:12 pm
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I'd have to split my vote into two categories.
On a purely graphic level, I have to go with "Luna Smiles"
On a purely comedic level, it's "Meadow Of The Damned", with "Uninformed Bob" a close second.
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Nathan P.
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 9:19 am
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my favorites
Well, I couldn't decide which of all of these was my absolute favorite. I am very fond of Flap Those Flagella Like You Mean It, since I've made short comics about protozoa and bacteria before, and I found the humor splendiferous! I'm also very fond of Nobody Tells Interesting Jeff What to Do, because I can relate to Jeff quite well. The Parallelogram's Revenge was the most creative storytelling that I've seen in the daily improve, and I hope there's more like it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 7:18 am
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Meadow is brilliant. Lame hell?! Excellent concept. It'd be more realistic if they had the internet as well, but you cant have it all.
Her lips are devil red, she's the color of mocha...
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Location: Germany
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 10:07 am
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Voted for "Meadow" here and for "Bob" in the other thread.
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A novel concept.
Not always. But usually. We'll note this is distinct from those occasions when both the movie and the book are independently awesome. See: The Princess Bride and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep / Blade Runner.
Our customers are thorough. Y'all are the sorts of people who will read the book, see the movie, and heatedly debate the merits of the two against each other. And, let's be honest, words rock. The book generally wins. Your own personal imagination trumps Michael Bay's any day. (Also, it generally involves fewer gratuitous explosions.) Using our highly scientific method of Google search results returned, we are relieved to see that the Internet agrees with us. We were a little concerned at first:
- search terms: movie was better = 2,210,000,000 results
- search terms: book was better = 2,040,000,000 results
Oh wait. We're probably picking up references like "this movie was better than the last one." Let's refine that a little.
- search terms: "movie was better" + book = 754,000 results
- search terms: "book was better" + movie = 1,160,000 results
That's more like it. We mentioned this was highly scientific, right? And by that we mean we used a Bunsen burner. Because it was there.This shirt is graced with the simple statement "The book was better." White ink on a black, 100% cotton t-shirt.


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A year and a half ago, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was launched alongside S60v5. Since then? Crickets…
The N97 was a bust. The N97 mini, albeit competent, was too little too late. Symbian touch was only marginally improved, with the addition of widgets and kinetic scrolling – congrats on catching up!
The N900 was a flash in the pan – Maemo 5 was delicious, but the meal was undercooked.
Enter the Nokia X6, the latest S60v5 phone, and Nokia's first capacitive touchscreen – finally another device to join the ranks of the awesome Samsung i8910.
Repeat after me: capacitive, capacitive, capacitive, capacitive :)
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Ohio Supercomputer Center, Bale Theater (1224 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH 43212)
XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting an OpenACC GPU programming workshop on November 5. The agenda is below and it is designed a one day to be time-zone friendly. OpenACC is the accepted standard using compiler directives to allow quick development of GPU capable codes using standard languages and compilers. It has been used with great success to accelerate real applications within very short development periods. This workshop assumes knowledge of either C or Fortran programming. It will have a hands-on component.
Sign-up link: https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/152/session/263
This workshop is NOT available as a webcast.
There is no registration fee for this workshop.
Please address any questions to Tom Maiden at firstname.lastname@example.com
XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop – OpenACC
Tuesday November 5
All times are given are EDT
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
11:45 Parallel Computing & Accelerators
12:15 Intro to OpenACC
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Introduction to OpenACC (cont.)
4:00 Using OpenACC with CUDA Libraries
4:30 Advanced OpenACC and OpenMP 4.0
5:00 Adjourn


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5 Powerful App Features to Get Things Done Naturally
– An Ultimate Productivity Approach.
GTD devotees know that there are 5 phases to mastering workflow – Collect, Process, Organize, Review, and Do. But how you apply technology to the task of actually putting these 5 phases into practice?
We propose a system that takes an organic view of productivity to more truly reflect how we get things done in life. This system takes into account all the real-life elements of getting things done – things beyond notes and lists of tasks. For example, with something as complex as planning an event (like a birthday party or wedding), going on a family vacation, or embarking on a large household project (major landscaping improvements), tasks and notes with simple reminders only take you so far. Many more elements are involved, such as services utilized, managing the providers for those services, shopping, bookmarks, sharing with and managing event co-hosts, travel companions, or project team-mates, in addition to a comprehensive calendar view of everything with proper reminders.
LifeTopix does 5 things to make it all come together more naturally.
- Quick Inbox
- Touchpoints
- Dashboards
- Device Integration
- Social Collaboration
Let's quickly take a look at each concept.
1. Quick Inbox
It's not just about quickly entering something to be processed later. It's about capturing an item that can become anything – a project, a trip, and event, etc. While it resides in the Quick Inbox, it can be marked as something to be done soon, or someday, it can be given a type from the beginning, it can be converted later into a specific type, and it can be managed in the inbox to track the next action date, while simultaneously being managed from whatever topic the item got converted into.
2. Touchpoints
Once it's converted, the ability to associate all items with it in the app as it naturally does in real life, is key. To be able to manage shopping for a trip from within the trip, manage tasks, reminders, checklists, appointments, bookmarks, media, services, providers, notes, files, and share with participants from within the trip, from the same app, is priceless. Touchpoints are exactly that.
3. Dashboards
Across everything you are doing/planning/thinking, across everything you need to know, configurable dashboards put it all together in helpful panes like What's Next, Recently Updated, and Quick Access to the most popular items from a a single place. The power of expensive business apps in the palm of your hands for organizing your personal life redefines what a top productiviy app does.
4. Device Integration
Use the contacts in your device directly, while knowing how the people in your life are associated with things you do over time – trip companions, event attendees/hosts, task owners, project mates, service relationships (doctors. plumbers, etc). Take advantage of the device calendar in a way that fully integrates it with all things managed in the app. Utilize location to know errands, shopping and other location relevant items. Whether at home or on the go, get more from your device to manage the information in your life.
5. Social Productivity
Facebook, Twitter, MobileMe, Google Docs, Dropbox – the list keeps growing. By using your favorite social and cloud apps directly from the things you do and need to know, usher in a level of productivity impossible to imagine with simple apps that do one thing only – like manage tasks, or keep lists, or just jot down notes. Go pro. Check out LifeTopix – tell us what more you want from this new kind of app.


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A trophy is defined as a cup or other decorative object awarded as a prize for a victory or success. Moreover, (in ancient Greece or Rome) the weapons and other spoils of a defeated army set up as a memorial of victory. Who wouldn't feel proud if he has a trophy displayed on his home, anyway? It simply means an honor on your part, right? The list below are some Trophy Stores, her in Los Angele,s California.
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For more Trophy Stores in Los Angeles,click here: http://us.wowcity.com/losangeles/?what=Trophy+stores
If you are still a student and you were rewarded by a trophy at your skill, it makes you feel proud cause you are being honored. either in your accdemic skills or extra corricular activities. It might be expensive or cheap, ikt doesn't matter at all. what matters most is the reason behind it.


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Rubio Won't Hurry Return To Timberwolves
Timberwolves' point guard Ricky Rubio gave us an update on his recovered from a torn ACL on Thursday. Rubio says he won't rush to return and expects to be back in December or January. Rubio was injured against the Lakers at Target Center on March 9 while guarding Kobe Bryant. The Wolves were in playoff contention at the time when Rubio was hurt but the team finished the season 5-20.
The Timberwolves begin training camp at Minnesota State-Mankato on Tuesday.


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ETSU (6-17, 6-7) has now won its last five games in conference dating back to the March 16 4-3 win over Mercer. The Bucs were out hit by North Florida 12-10, but received another good start from senior Brandon Langston (
The Bucs got out to an early 1-0 lead on an Anthony Russell (
In the bottom of the third, ETSU would score three runs on an RBI single by Fabry to drive in Nick Belcher (
North Florida would score again in the top of the sixth as J.T. Thompson doubled to left center driving in a run to make the score 4-2. The Bucs answered in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI triple to left by Danny Petro (
The Ospreys would score another run in the top of the seventh on a solo home run to right by Preston Hale to make the score 6-3.
Junior Dustin Plumlee (
Fabry, Russell and Petro each had a big day for the Bucs as Fabry had three hits and an RBI, Russell had two hit including a home run and three RBI, and Petro had three hits and also drove in a run.
The Bucs are back in action tomorrow as they will play a double header against
ETSU 6, UNF 3 (March 28, 2008 at
UNF...............000 101 100 - 3 12 1 (13-11, 5-7 A-Sun)
ETSU............ 103 002 00x - 6 10 0 (6-17, 6-7 A-Sun)
Pitchers: ETSU - Brandon Langston; Dustin Plumlee (7)
UNF - John Raiford; Antonio Franzese (5)
Win - Brandon Langston (2-4) Loss - John Raiford (2-1)
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One detail from Apple's WWDC keynote that many digital creatives will find interesting is that Adobe is working to build support for the new Macbook Pro's Retina Display into Photoshop. Photoshop was mentioned alongside Apple's own Final Cut Pro and Aperture - and Autodesk's AutoCAD - by Apple's Phil Schiller as tools Apple has been actively participating in helping work with the new display.
So why is an update necessary? Photoshop already runs fine on all-in-one computers with 2,560 x 1,440-resolution displays such as Apple's own 27-inch iMac and the HP Z1 workstation. Well, with a display as small as the 15-inch MacBook Pros, interface elements such as buttons will be too small to easily click on - and much text will be unreadable. For comparison, the 27-inch iMac has a dpi of 109, the Retina display on the new MacBook Pro is more like 220dpi - so interface elements will appear half the real-size.
Mac OS X and its built-in apps such as Mail and iCal have been updated to scale up to a readable resolution. Photoshop will need to be updated in similar fashion.
No information has been released yet as to when the Photoshop update for Retina Display Macbook Pros will be released, nor whether Adobe will update the rest of Creative Suite 6 (CS6) for the new display. We've reached out to Adobe and will update the story when it responds.
This story, "Adobe Photoshop to be updated for the Retina Display in the new MacBook Pros" was originally published by DigitalArts.


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Fall and winter are no doubt 2 of my favorite seasons. During the warmer months, all we can think about is getting out of the house enjoying the sun. For me, in the cooler months, I think of cuddling up on the sofa with a good book and a throw.
When I started thinking about how many years we've been in our home and how long I've been "decorating" it, I realized I haven't had much time to do just that. I also never have my home what I like to call "season ready" in time to really enjoy it like I want. That's all coming to a change!
For the past few weeks, I've been warming up my home. Making it feel like "home".
This picture makes the living room look a little busy, but in all honesty, I love it like this! It's perfect for that book and throw. I have finally had a chance to start a gallery wall (still have a few pictures to add to some frames). I have a little tweaking to do to it, but so far so good. I also purchased a fiddle leaf fig from Home Depot. I felt like the space needed some more "life"!
(I have yet to find a basket to sit it in!)
It not going to sit in this spot, I just sat it there to get a little sunlight.
I have a few more things to do and then I'm going to snap some better pictures. I've also started rub n buffing the frames of the mirrors in the dinning room
They are looking great! I can't believe it took me so long to hang them. And just in case you missed it, the mirrors came from Goodwill a while back. I knew they'd be perfect on this wall when I purchased them:)
And of course I can't end this post without mentioning voting! Make sure you go vote! It doesn't matter to me who you vote for, I just think its important that you do!


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Somewhere between the edgy nihilism of Holden Caulfield and the playful insurgency of Ferris Bueller, there was Benjamin Braddock, the 1960s misfit hero of "The Graduate," now playing at the Southampton Cultural Center until Sunday.
The momentous movie, released in 1967, was based on a novel by Charles Webb and adapted for the screen by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham (who both submitted screenplays but did not actually collaborate), and directed by Mike Nichols, who earned an Oscar for his innovative style. It featured the songs of Simon and Garfunkel on the soundtrack, an album that, upon its release, dislodged the Beatles' "White Album" from the number-one slot. The movie has frequently turned up on the American Film Institute lists as one of the most important films of the 20th century, capturing young people's desperate search for meaning on the eve of the counterculture movement.
This stage version, adapted by Terry Johnson, was first presented on the West End in London and found a home on Broadway a decade ago, offering several new scenes.
"The Graduate" follows Benjamin, an upper-middle-class college graduate who has returned to his parents' home in California for the summer with no particular plans. He is drawn into an affair with one of his parents' friends — libidinous, alcoholic Mrs. Robinson, the original cougar, only to meet and fall in love with the Robinsons' daughter, Elaine, when she returns from Berkeley.
The Southampton production, directed and designed by Michael Disher, offers up a set featuring a series of white doors interspersed with white louvers, a very modern 1960s look, dappled with light and a clean efficiency. Songs like "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying" add to the feeling that this is, indeed, California circa 1964.
Vincent Carbone excels in his role as Benjamin, the part made famous in the screen version by a young Dustin Hoffman. Mr. Carbone manages to both shuck the Hoffmanesque archetype and add layers of likable neuroticism to a character once deemed "an insufferable creep" by Roger Ebert.
All that bored Benjamin wants is to be around "simple, honest people," a seeming impossibility until Elaine Robinson returns. Elaine — played disarmingly by Bethany Dellapolla — describes herself as a "plain ordinary person," but she manages to bring out the humanity in Benjamin, in a stripper she meets, and even — for a moment — in her mother, played with cool control by Brooke Alexander.
The stage production sparkles with life and humor, more energized and less dark than the film, with a welcome depth added to the characters of the Robinson women in additional material that offers a glimpse into what may have made Mrs. Robinson who she is.
Benjamin's parents are portrayed by John Tramontana and Barbara Jo Howard, who manage beautifully to balance their concern over their son's future with their own self-centeredness. If it were 10 years later they would be popping Valium and trying Est. Seth Hendricks plays the cuckolded Mr. Robinson with a touching combination of authority and desperation, with a little bit of crazy eyes thrown in.
The cast is rounded out with Steward Mead in a variety of small roles, and Julia King in a small but significant role as the stripper.
Mr. Disher does a terrific job of keeping the production moving at a snappy pace, and the cast delivers a sterling performance, led by Mr. Carbone, Ms. Alexander, and Ms. Dellapolla. Without spoiling the ending, it is different from the film, and seems to dilute that original message, but a message is there nonetheless — just who is the graduate, anyway?
Perhaps Elaine, who learns to assert herself, or Benjamin, who finally takes command of his life, can share the title together.


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Kalamazoo, MI –
Effective September 15, Kalamazoo Public Library, Portage District Library, and Willard Public Library will limit the number of items reciprocal borrowers can reserve to a total of three.
Other libraries in the Kalamazoo area that have reciprocal agreements with Kalamazoo Public Library either have or may soon establish similar limits. Regular users of reciprocal borrowing services should be aware that some aspects of their service may be changing.
As library usage has increased dramatically during the recent economic crisis, area libraries may set other limits to improve access to new books, movies, or other high demand items for taxpayers in their service area. While reciprocal borrowing was established to provide better access to library materials throughout the broader community, each library must also set polices that best serve the needs of its taxpayers.
A few Kalamazoo Public Library services have always been reserved for library district residents—including Hot Picks, Book Club in a Bag, Book My Favorites, MeLCat, and home access to some databases. The library board respects KPL taxpayers' support; they encourage library management to reserve KPL's more time intensive and costly services for KPL taxpayers. Nonresident, reciprocal borrowers may choose to pay an annual fee to get a KPL card with full borrowing privileges.
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What sport(s) did you play at Lipscomb? What years? Who were your coaches?
â€ÂÂI played soccer in 1995 and 1996. The program was discontinued for the 1997 and 1998 seasons. The head coach was Eddie Long, and Charles Morrow was the assistant.â€ÂÂ
What is your fondest athletic memory at Lipscomb?
â€ÂÂMy fondest memory was the feeling after our first victory of the 1996 season. After being winless in 1995, we didn't know what to do with ourselves when we won. The postgame celebration on the field was priceless. We finished with five wins that season. "
Who had the biggest influence on you during your athletic career at Lipscomb? How?
â€ÂÂChris Witte, the goalkeeper from 1994 to 1996, had the biggest influence on me. He helped me see that you could work hard and have fun at the same time. One of my favorite activities was creating posters to get people to come to our games my sophomore year. His memory and all the great times we had live on for me and all of my teammates.â€ÂÂ
What is your fondest non-athletic memory from your time at Lipscomb?
â€ÂÂI have many great non-athletic memories, such as being in a social club, some great concerts, and a Maymester on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
"My fondest non-athletic memory, though, was directing Singarama in 1997 and 1998. I enjoyed working with lots of people and creating an entertaining show (if you like "Pirates or the Great Depressionâ€ÂÂ). And it didn't hurt that my choreographer was hot.â€ÂÂ
What is the most valuable thing you gained or learned from your time at Lipscomb?
"I learned that great friends are one of the most important possessions you can have. Most of my family's best friendships have come from my time at Lipscomb. I feel lucky to count Charles Morrow (present men's soccer coach) and Jim Maddux (the previous men's soccer coach) among my good friends. They both have gotten me some good coaching gigs.â€ÂÂ
Who was your favorite professor? Why?
"I was fortunate to have lots of great professors, but Wayne Garrett was my favorite professor at Lipscomb. He was the advisor to my social club, Delta Tau. He was wise, patient, and taught a mean World Lit class. I also need to give a shout-out to Paul Prill, who married me to my choreographer.â€ÂÂ
Where do you live now?
"I have lived in Nashville since I graduated in 1999. My family and I currently live in south Nashville.â€ÂÂ
Who is your employer? What is your occupation? What does your position entail?
"I teach 5th grade at Margaret Allen Middle School in Metro Nashville Public Schools. This year I teach math and science, and I also coach the girls and boys soccer teams. Both teams made the City Tournament this past season. I have taught in Metro since January of 2000.
Tell us about your family.
"I am married to Becca Horn Messner. We have two children, Tate (10) and Phin (4). Both boys play soccer, and they love watching the Lipscomb soccer and basketball teams. My brother-in-law is Shaun Senters (men's basketball assistant) who married my sister, Katie Senters. Our favorite family activity is our annual beach trip with Beth and Charles Morrow and their sons, Trip and Will.â€ÂÂ


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Eric Fischl
American, b. 1948
Study: Boys at Bat II, 1980
watercolour on tissue paper
90.1 x 73.2 cm Image: 35.1 x 49.8 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with the Shell Canada Limited fund for Canadian drawings
One of the leading figurative painters in America, Eric Fischl gained cricital attention in the early 1980s for referencing adolecent fantasies in his studies of middle-class suburban residents engaged in various daily activities. Up until this time the controversial subject mix had not been dealt with in such an overt way in contemporary art. Fischl made it his own, mining the fixation of the exterior appearance which held the dysfunctional family dynamic together. The WAG study is for the second version of the painting. In the earlier version, Boy at Bat (1979), a boy wearing a baseball uniform and holding a bat stands next to a man swinging a baseball bat.
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA–The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's schedule for this weekend has been affected by the impending winter storm.
The Little East Conference basketball doubleheader between the Corsairs and Eastern Connecticut State, scheduled for Saturday afternoon at the Tripp Athletic Center, has been postponed. It has been rescheduled for this Sunday afternoon, February 10th, at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. at the Tripp Athletic Center.
The LEC/New England Alliance Indoor Track and Field Championships, scheduled for Saturday at Southern Maine, have been moved to Sunday at 2:00 pm. at Southern Maine.


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Fred Phelps – Founder Of Westboro Baptist Church – Dies
The Reverend Fred Phelps Sr., who founded Westboro Baptist church, which is known for its protests at military funerals and anti-gay sentiments, has died according to his son Tim Phelps and Kansas First News.
Phelps, 84, was being cared for in a Kansas hospital, Westboro Baptist Church spokesman Steve Drain said Sunday.
Members of the Westboro Church, which is based in Topeka, KS, frequently protest at funerals of soldiers with signs bearing messages like "Thank God for dead soldiers," and "Thank God for 9/11". They claim the deaths are God's punishment for American immorality and tolerance of homosexuality and abortion.
Westboro Baptist, a small group made mostly of Phelps' extended family, inspired a federal law and separate laws in some states that limit picketing at funerals. In a major free-speech ruling in 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court said that the church and its members couldn't be sued for monetary damages for inflicting pain on grieving families under the First Amendment.
The Southern Poverty Law Center - a civil-rights nonprofit group - has called Westboro Baptist Church a hate group.