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Tanner Marcum had a junior season in 2011-12 that a lot of players can only dream about.
The New Albany guard was the Bulldogs' leading scorer at 17 points per game along with averaging five steals, five assists and four rebounds a contest. That production helped her make the All-Hoosier Hills Conference team and earn the News and Tribune's Area Player of the Year honor.
Despite putting up those numbers, Marcum knew she was going to have to increase her point production during her senior season after the Bulldogs graduated standout guard Kamaren Cole.
New Albany girls' basketball coach Tammy Geron told Marcum in a preseason meeting how much she needed to increase her scoring output in 2012-13.
"Coach and I had a talk and she said I had to step up my scoring," Marcum said.
Marcum did that — and more.
For the second season in a row, she led the Bulldogs in scoring at 22 points per game as they posted a 9-12 record. She was more impressive in HHC contests, as she tallied an unbelievable 33.4 points a clip in those games.
Marcum also showed she was a complete player by leading New Albany in assists per contest (5.4) and steals per game (3.7), and averaged 5.4 rebounds per contest. Those statistics helped her make the All-HHC team for the second straight season.
"She had one of the best seasons ever put together by a Lady Bulldog. She led us in all the statistical categories expect rebounding," Geron said.
Those statistics helped Marcum repeat as the News and Tribune's Sonya Wahl Memorial Area Player of the Year for the 2012-13 season.
"It's a great honor," Marcum said. "I worked hard this year and I'm glad it paid off."
Marcum's 2012-13 numbers enabled her to finish her high school career as one of the most prolific players in Bulldog girls' history.
Marcum wound up third on New Albany's all-time scoring list with 1,216 points. She joined the Bulldogs' 1,000-point club on Jan. 3 in a 68-57 loss at Madison by registering a career-high 38 points.
"It was a big deal because I had no idea I was that close," Marcum said about eclipsing the 1,000-point plateau. "It's an honor to be up there with those names."
Marcum finished her career second all-time in New Albany girls' history in steals (318) and free-throw percentage (78 percent). She placed third in career assists (336) and fourth in both field-goal percentage (53 percent) and 3-point shooting percentage.
"She's got an all-around game," Geron said. "She brings a lot to the floor. She plays both ends of the floor and is a great defender. She became a very diverse player."
Along with increasing her scoring load because of Cole's graduation, Marcum had to augment her leadership role on the team by helping teach the game to her younger teammates.
Geron said it was a role that Marcum had to get used to.
"Tanner had to fill that leadership void, and she stepped into a role she was not comfortable with," Geron said. "But she earned the trust of her teammates and made her teammates better. She got her teammates involved and taught them the game of basketball."
Marcum hopes she taught the younger Bulldogs a few lessons in her senior year.
"I guess the main thing I wanted to teach them is to stick with it. They have a lot to learn and they need to keep at it," Marcum said. "It was kind of a learning season."
Marcum would like to play basketball in college, but she also is considering playing collegiate soccer. She has drawn interest from some NCAA Division II and III schools and NAIA institutions on furthering her basketball career.
A handful of smaller NCAA Division I schools have expressed interest as well.
But Hanover College — a Division III school — has been recruiting Marcum to join its women's soccer program for the 2013 season.
"I definitely want to play [sports] in college," Marcum said. "But I haven't decided between soccer and basketball."
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Ashley Johnson, G, Jr., New Washington
Caroline Ricks, F, Jr., New Washington
Kriston Sarver, G, Sr., New Washington
Alex Tinsley, F, Sr., Silver Creek
Kaitlynn Henning, G, So., Charlestown
Leslie Beatty, F, Sr., Borden
Madison Kaiser, G, So., Floyd Central
Haley Vogen, F, Jr., Jeffersonville
Emily Hollis, G, Fr., Henryville
Justice Burdin, F, So., Charlestown
Emily Clayton, G, Sr., Silver Creek
Abby Ellis, F, Jr., Borden
Lexi McFarland, G, Sr., Silver Creek
Krista Roberts, F, Sr., Eastern
Courtney Amick, G, Jr., New Washington
Carson Casey, F, Jr., Borden
Meredith Endris, G, Sr., Providence
Katie Ernstberger, G, Jr., Eastern
Jasmine Harrell, G, Sr., Henryville
Brooke Hinton, G, Jr., Floyd Central
Tori Kingsley, C, Sr., Floyd Central
Shelby Kirchgessner, G, Jr., Borden
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CLASS A BASEBALL SECTIONAL: Borden reaches Class A Lanesville Sectional final by trouncing Mustangs, 13-3
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New Albany's Kanii outlasts Hollkamp in singles sectional final
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Pioneers blow out Eastern, 19-2, to make history
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H.S. GIRLS' TENNIS: No. 6 Highlanders win another regional crown
Floyd will face Jasper in semistate on Saturday
H.S. GIRLS' TENNIS: Weather postpones championship
Floyd and Jeff will meet today for title
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BASEBALL SECTIONAL PREVIEW: Floyd, New Albany, Jeff expect tough field at Class 4A BNL Sectional
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Stimulus money helping to open doors to houses
For Sonya Franklin, the federal stimulus through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 worked just fine.
Single and on disability but looking at houses, she had been living in an apartment for more than three years.
Then she heard about a homebuyer program offered through Oakland County, Mich., and paid for with money through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program as part of the Recovery Act.
"So I applied," said Franklin, of Clarkston, Mich. "I got a letter from Oakland County saying they were out of grant money. That was in March 2009.
"Then in August, I got a letter saying they were ready to process my loan application," she said. "They walked me through every step of the way."
The homebuyer program put $27,000 toward her down payment on a foreclosed house and another $6,700 for repairs and energy efficient appliances.
The Neighborhood Stabilization Program was established in 2008 with the goal of redeveloping and occupying abandoned and foreclosed homes.
The Recovery Act set aside nearly $14 billion nationally for a variety of housing programs, including $2 billion for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
According to the HUD website that tracks Recovery Act allocations:
n Michigan was allocated $34.61 million in block grants, $53.46 million for public housing, $49.399 million for project based rental assistance, $53.14 for homelessness prevention and $63.97 million for its tax credit assistance program. The total allocation through HUD was $259,812,158. Continued...
n Connecticut was allocated $145.79 million. The state has received $76,738,791 as of Sept. 1 for housing-related uses. All of the money has gone to the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, a self-supporting quasi-public agency that works to expand housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income families and individuals.
* Ohio was allocated $416.79 million.
* Pennsylvania was allocated $528.09 million.
* New York was allocated $1.228 billion.
Oakland County government's cut of that was just $17 million, $5 million of which it used to set up its homebuyer program for low- and moderate-income residents in 43 of the county's 61 communities to buy foreclosed homes and get them back on the tax rolls.
The money the county received is a tiny fraction of the total spent on housing assistance programs in Michigan and across the country, much of it funneled through the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to states, or through community block grants.
The Recovery Act money was allocated through HUD in broad categories of block grants, homelessness prevention, lead hazard reduction, project based rental assistance, public housing and tax credit assistance.
The money has not been totally disbursed, and local, state and federal reports differ because of different reporting dates and requirements.
In Michigan, even though the money for the county program that helped Franklin purchase her home is a tiny amount of the total housing assistance in the state, Franklin said she couldn't have bought her home without it.
"I could not have gotten into this home being a single disabled woman on my own with an income of less than $15,000," said Franklin of the three-bedroom ranch she moved into last April 1. Continued...
Despite the program's relatively low funding, the county had hundreds of applicants when it first launched the program.
"All told, I bet we had 1,000 applications," said Gordon Lambert of the county Community and Home Improvement Division. "Of the 900 that were disqualified or chose not to participate, 80 percent were because of credit scores.
"As we speak, we have 77 people who are in very, very solid," he said.
"Either they've purchased or they're in the process of closing and being in the house. About 30 more people are out looking and have a purchase agreement.
"Out of our $5 million, we're going to have 100 people who will purchase vacant foreclosed properties," Lambert said.
All in all, Lambert gives the Neighborhood Stabilization Program and its funding through the Recovery Act high marks.
"You always hear about federal programs that don't work," Lambert said. "This is one of those programs that actually works. This is not the bridge-to-nowhere kind of program."
Even with help through the Recovery Act, county officials say the need for housing assistance for low- and moderate-income people outweighs the resources of such programs to fill the gap in a state economy with persistently high double-digit unemployment and high foreclosures — and even with falling property values.
Oakland County, which peaked at 9,242 foreclosures in 2008, fell back to 8,486 foreclosures in 2009, signaling some hope that the housing market in general was beginning to stabilize.
But eight months of statistics in 2010 indicates the county could top 10,000 foreclosures this year, an all-time high. Continued...
That climate isn't likely to change anytime soon.
"There's no indication yet that we're going to see a reduction in the number of foreclosures," said Dave Hieber, manager of the county's Equalization Division, the county's tax assessing arm.
"Hopefully, the property values will stabilize and we'll stop the double-digit decreases in property values." Hieber said. "Without improvements to the unemployment (rate), it's probably unlikely that the real estate market is going to recover.
"I think if we can get back down to the 2,000 number and have it improve from there, I think then the properties held by the banks can get absorbed by new buyers," he said. "And then hopefully we'll be back into a normal market where the buyers and sellers are individuals as opposed to lending institutions."
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A new giant bestrides US
13 September 2008A hardwood giant has been formed by the merger of Rossi American Hardwoods and Hardwood Lumber Manufacturing
• American Hardwood Industries was formed in October 2007.
• The production facilities have a combined capacity of 350,000m³.
• The Rossi Export brand is being retained.
• Ted Rossi is chairman and CEO of the new company.
In October 2007, a new leading force in the American hardwood industry was formed by the merger of Rossi American Hardwoods and Hardwood Lumber Manufacturing. The resulting American Hardwood Industries Inc comprises four strategically placed sawmills at Blue Triangle Hardwoods, Emporium Hardwoods, Graham Lumber and Northern Hardwoods which, between them, produce high quality hardwood lumber, logs and by-products.
The production facilities throughout the eastern US have a capacity of more than 150 million board feet, or 350,000m³, and make it one of the largest and most diverse manufacturers of sawn hardwood lumber in the US.
In Pennsylvania, Blue Triangle Hardwoods is a fully integrated sawmill with dry kilns producing export quality lumber in all major species and specialising in northern Appalachian oaks and yellow poplar.
Also in Pennsylvania, the Emporium Hardwoods sawmill has dry kilns and a concentration yard facility producing northern hardwood lumber. It specialises in high quality black cherry and hard maple.
In Tennessee, Graham Lumber Company has a modern sawmill, dry kilns and a concentration yard facility producing Appalachian hardwood lumber, specialising in high quality white oak, and offers "pulled and ripped strips".
Over in Michigan, Northern Hardwoods is a state-of-the-art sawmill with dry kilns producing northern hardwood lumber. It specialises in high quality white hard maple and what sales manager Diane Beauchamp describes as "beautiful red leaf soft maple, yellow birch, and honey wheat red oak".
These four centres of production, based on the best available resources, are able to offer specialist production to customers around the world looking for professional expertise in hardwood lumber from the temperate forests of the US.
American Hardwood Industries intends to maintain the 'family' business relationships that Rossi American Hardwoods built up over so many years. Heading the Rossi Export Division is John Read Jnr as vice-president export sales, with Matt Gauvrit as export sales manager.
Based in Cromwell, Connecticut they co-ordinate export sales with all the production centres, including Cross Creek Sales, which is an affiliated American Hardwood Industries operation situated in Augusta, Georgia. It is a wholesale division for domestic and export shipments of northern, central and southern Appalachian hardwoods and southern yellow pine. Cross Creek maintains inventories at Turkey Creek Dry Kilns, which incorporates a grading line and dry kilns.
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Consequently, this new hardwood group is able to offer a wide range of specialised solutions to meet the demands of customers, in domestic and export markets, who are increasingly focused on exactly what they want. Exports are made under the well-established Rossi brand.
The Rossi Export brand, well-known all over the world for the past 30 years and represented by sales agents covering more than 40 countries, is being maintained. With strong financial resources, American Hardwood Industries is actively seeking opportunities with partners that share its basic business strategy and commitment to build relationships worldwide. Corporate headquarters have been established in Cromwell, Connecticut where the highly experienced team of hardwood specialists is led by chairman and chief executive officer Ted Rossi and new president and chief operating officer Dave G Marshall.
Ted Rossi remains very involved in key industry associations as (founding) president of the recently formed Hardwood Federation in Washington DC, first vice-president of the National Hardwood Lumber Association and as a board member of The American Hardwood Export Council.


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NVIDIA's Kepler architecture forms the heart of the ZOTAC GeForce® GT 640 graphics card with new SMX unified shaders that deliver superior performance and energy efficiency. Hardware accelerated Blu-ray 3D playback renders stunning stereoscopic high-definition video with compatible displays and playback software. The new NVIDIA® Surround technology brings triple independent displays possible on the GT 640 to create a massive workspace for greater productivity and an immersive point of view. These features provide users with a rich visual computing experience that boosts productivity and performance with outstanding energy-efficiency.
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"A delicious cookie filled with raspberry jam and topped with an almond flavored glaze. " - by Sharyn
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Original recipe yields 2 dozen
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg. Combine the flour and salt; stir into the creamed mixture. Dough will be stiff. On a lightly floured surface, roll half of the dough out to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into star shapes using a cookie cutter. Set cookies 1 inch apart onto the prepared cookie sheets. Place a teaspoon of jam onto each cookie and spread out towards the points of the stars. Roll out remaining half of the dough and cut into stars the same size. cut holes in the center of each star, then place them onto the jam stars.
- Bake for 7 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden around the edges. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks. In a small bowl, mix together the confectioners' sugar and almond extract to form a glaze. Add water a teaspoon at a time if the mixture is too thick to drizzle. Drizzle glaze over cooled cookies.
Amount Per Serving (24 total)
- Calories
- 223 cal
- 11%
- Fat
- 8.1 g
- 12%
- Carbs
- 36.3 g
- 12%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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May 3, 2013
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Apr 19, 2013
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Apr 12, 2013
This weekend, Texas Motor Speedway will host a NASCAR race -- and the name of the race is causing a bit of controversy. It's called the NRA 500, as in National Rifle Association.
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Apr 2, 2013
The NRA reveals its plans to protect schools from shooters like Adam Lanza. What are the plans? And who bears the costs?
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Dec 21, 2012
The usually stoic National Rifle Association will break their MO with a press conference in the wake of the gun deaths of 20 elementary school children.
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Aug 29, 2012
The nation's powerful gun lobby has stayed relatively quiet, but is now spending big on ads in Florida, Ohio and Virginia
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About Grae
So you're in favor of the government stepping in and removing the bodily autonomy of a woman because a "life" is at stake?
When can we expect to see you lobbying congress to introduce the Forced Organ Donor for All Citizens bill? After all, we could save millions of lives each year if everyone was forced to give up that extra kidney, lung, liver tissue, bone marrow, or blood. And let's not get started about how many people could benefit from your body parts after death, and hey, at that point we wouldn't even have to violate your bodily autonomy to get them so that should be mandatory for everyone, right? After all, this is about preserving life and not about controlling women, isn't it?
*One caveat: the trailer for this film was released in May. Where the hell were all these outraged actors back then? Why is it only now the film has made the news that they are releasing statements, speaking out, and filing lawsuits? Did none of these actors bother to view the movie they were in before the mainstream media picked this up?
I did not consider this to be an unusual thing, seeing as I have had an experience with something like this before. I did a movie once where the script was written in a foreign language and only my parts were translated into English and accordingly, I was provided with my scenes only. Having experienced that, I thought the same thing was happening with �Desert Warrior�. Aware of the fact that the supposed producer and the script-writer of the movie (known as Sam Bassil) was a foreigner (thanks to his accent), I thought that the original script was written in his native tongue and that not all scenes were translated into English. Also, the filming dates of the movie had to be rescheduled last minute to fit my schedule (I had other films to do right after the �Desert Warrior� outside CA). Because of this rushed rearrangements, I thought that the production first forgot and then did not consider it necessary to send me the script, and again - I did not find this unusual, since I knew what role I had, I knew about my character and I knew about the story of the film.
My character Hilary was a young girl who is sold (against her own free will) by her parents to a tribe leader known as GEORGE. She is one of his (most likely, the youngest) brides in the movie.
The film was about a comet falling into a desert and different tribes in ancient Egypt fighting to acquire it for they deemed that the comet possessed some supernatural powers.
The movie that we were doing in Duarte was called �Desert Warrior� and it was a fictional adventure drama. The character GEORGE was a leader of one of those tribes fighting for the comet.
There was no mention EVER by anyone of MUHAMMAD and no mention of religion during the entire time I was on the set. I am hundred percent certain nobody in the cast and nobody in the US artistic side of the crew knew what was really planned for this �Desert Warrior�.
Or maybe, just maybe, the demand for HD content will push ISPs to improve their network and technology and the demand for better internet connections will push content providers to make improve their HD content and make more of it available.
Not to mention that there are people and organizations outside of the ISP and content industries which are making improvements all the time on the very technology that those two industries use, which acts as an outside force to push the average standard higher.
I fully expect that when--not if--the legislative shackles are unbound from intellectual monopolies and technology that it will advance for the sake of nothing more than progress itself, and the average consumer will reap the benefits of that work.
I love The Pirate Bay's response, as covered by TorrentFreak:
A Pirate Bay spokesperson told TorrentFreak that this measure is going to do very little to stop people from accessing their site, as there are many ways to circumvent it. �This will just give us more traffic, as always. Thanks for the free advertising.�
""The company is attempting to make new law"
You hit all the right talking points but were too obvious.
"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
2/10: No creativity went into this at all.
Are you even trying?
Prior to the passing of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act in response to the September 11th terrorist attacks, privately run airport security required visitors to pass through a metal detector and to x-ray luggage/bags they carried with them. The ticket counter agents were required to ask passengers if their luggage had been out of their immediate control since being packed and if they had been asked to carry anything onto the aircraft by someone unknown to them.
You're either entirely ignorant of the decades of airport security that preceded the implementation of the TSA or you are purposely being dishonest with a false dilemma of "all or none". You still lose. Care to try again?
Unsure what point you're making or rebutting. Basically you're saying "No, you're wrong!" Care to respond with an actual point?
I'll give you that no harm is done to innocent travelers and you'll still have to explain why we're spending $8,000,000,000 per year on an agency that does not fulfill its purpose. You cannot deny this; they themselves have admitted in their own top ten list that they've never caught one terrorist trying to board a plane.
If you want to go the route of claiming they provide additional benefits beyond the scope of their mission then you'll still have to explain why they are off task and off their mission and why are we paying it to do something it was not created for.
I'll give you all the cards you want and you'll still be holding a losing hand.
Uh oh, I smell circumvention of proper democracy going on.
Indeed. Techdirt's own Tim Cushing covered this himself earlier this month.
"Maybe so, but corrupt police don't just pick random citizens to trump up charges. Most people who are arrested did something to be in that predicament in the first place."
"Three years ago a notice was published in the Federal Register re the TPP and requesting comments, pro and con, from EVERY member of the public. It is hard to reconcile the continuing mantra "We have no opportunity for input" when at the very start a request for input was published."
"Now, it seems that so many are focused on "secrecy" associated with its negotiation. This is not at all unusual while substantive discussions are taking place. Lest this be misunderstood, there is the saying "Too many cooks spoil the broth". I believe it applies here. Once negotiations are substantially complete, a draft will certainly be published for public comment before the agreement is signed."
"I do agree that what appears to be preferred access is a legitimate complaint. What I have to ask, though, is if there is anything preventing other groups from likewise meeting with the TPP negotiatiors? Frankly, I do not know the answer. I hope the answer is yes. I understand that a public presentation intended to solicit public input is to be held at the Australia Round of negotiations in March. Hopefully, those who feel left out of the process will attend and present their views and concerns."
"A final point. It is not reported if this is an executive agreement, or one authorized under authority conferred by Congress. I understand that Congress has held hearings concerning the negotiations, which suggests to me that this is not an executive agreement. Importantly, congressional participation does not mean that the resulting document will be a treaty, and courts have upheld agreements in which Congress participated under conditions other than its treaty powers."
Well put.
Novak, 78, also said in the advertisement: "I feel as if my body - or at least my body of work - has been violated by the movie."
The statement was headed by the words: "I want to report a rape".
Make Magazine has joined as well: makezine.com
Your flippant attitude to my serious inquiry tells me all I need to know about you. I worry for your wife, any female relatives, colleagues, and acquaintances in your life.
You set a fine example for those that would rally under the flag of copyright.
"... and rape all the women you want!"!?
Are you seriously making a comparison between copyright infringement and sexual assault? Are you really seriously honestly saying copying a set of bits over the internet in violation of the laws of various nations is on the same level morally and criminally as violently sexually violating someone against their wishes?
The subtext of your statement is that you honestly believe that copyright infringement is so heinous that copyright infringers should be treated the same as those who sexually violate other people;
you're believe that rape is so insignificant and unworthy of attention that it sits on the same moral and criminal shelf as copyright infringement.
Which is it Average_joe?


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The FLOW 2 conference focuses on interiors and landscapes that arise from the emergence of increasingly fluid and virtual spatial environments. FLOW 2 is the second of the two-conference investigation into the transitional and intermediary relationships between interiors and landscapes.
FLOW 1, hosted by MIRC at Kingston University in 2011 explored interior and landscape as they relate to the transference of thoughts and ideas across disciplinary boundaries and cultures. FLOW 2 is concerned with the theoretical and practice-based examination of historical and contemporary interiors and landscapes, particularly where new ideologies emerge that are shaped by corporate, political and ecological initiatives.
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Part of Classical Season 12/13 and Philharmonia 12/13
Thursday 27 September 2012György Kurtág: ...quasi una fantasia... Op.27 No.1
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No.9 (Choral)
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Beethoven's Choral Symphony with an all-star cast, alongside Beethoven's First Piano Concerto played by Leif Ove Andsnes and Kurtág's Beethoven-inspired Quasi una Fantasia.
Beethoven's influence on future generations was incalculable. At first, György Kurtág's Quasi una Fantasia, with its strategically placed mouth organs throughout the hall, may appear anything but Beethovenian, but even here Beethoven acts as a spiritual mentor. The clue is in the title Quasi una Fantasia and opus number 27, which is taken from a pair of Beethoven's piano sonatas that includes the Moonlight.
The remainder of the new season's opening concert shows how far Beethoven travelled musically in just 30 years, from the sheer exuberance of the First Piano Concerto, performed here by Leif Ove Andsnes, to the epoch-making Ninth Symphony, with its epic 'Ode to Joy' choral finale.
Royal Festival Hall at 6pm - Pre-concert talk. An introduction to the evening's concert. Free.
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Born: April 24, 1963 Primary Instrument: Trumpet
Last Updated: April 24, 2013Morgera is an excellent instrumentalist and most of his tunes leave a lasting impressions. Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
An excellent post-bop trumpeter with a flexible style, Fabio Morgera has been gaining more recognition lately due to his versatility Scott Yanow, Trumpet Kings.
Morgera is, in the vernacular, a talent deserving of more attention. He is no Miles Davis rip-off, being as much his own musician as alto saxophonist Art Pepper was in the shadow of Charlie Parker. Need For Peace is a shining example of great, great jazz smothered in a commercial market place. Let Fabio breathe! C. Michael Bailey, AllAboutJazz
Italian trumpeter Fabio Morgera became known around town as a member of the acid-funk band Groove Collective, but that represents only a fraction of what he can do. At Smalls his quartet will offer up some old-school-jazz barn burners, as well as ballads like those on Morgera's recent Need for Peace . Time Out , New York
Italian trumpeter Fabio Morgera has a mastery of the hard bop vocabulary, possesses a lyrical and appealing sound and is willing to take chances during his solos. Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
THE PURSUIT w/ Jesse Davis, Geoff Keezer, Peter Washington, Billy Hart and Leon Parker (1991),
THE PURSUIT w/ Jesse Davis, Geoff Keezer, Peter Washington, Billy Hart and Leon Parker (1991),
BE HIP w/ Mark Turner, Steve Turre, Kevin Hays, Dwayne Burno, Billy Hart, DJ Smash (1993) ,
SLICK w/ JD Allen, Jason Jackson, Bill Ware, Peter Griesinger, Eric Revis, Alvester Garnett (1999),
NEW HOPES w/ JD Allen, J. Jackson, Jesse Chandler, A. Garnett (2001),
COLORS feat. Steve Turre and JD Allen, James Hurt, Joe Ashlar, Eric Revis, A. Garnett (2002),
RED STARS feat. Victor Lewis and JD Allen, J.Jackson, Eric Lewis, Raymond Angry, Eric Revis (2004),
THE VOICE WITHIN w/ Krystle Warren, Stefano di Battista, Josh Roseman, J.Jackson, Gregoire Maret, Joe Ashlar, Barney McAll, Jonathan Maron, Bruce Cox , Saul Rubin, Dionysus, Bruno Briscik (2005),
NEED FOR PEACE (2007) w/ K. Warren, Miles Griffith, Antonio Barbagallo, J. Jackson, Joe Ashlar , Gregg August, Joseph Lepore, Bruce Cox.
NEAPOLITAN HEART w/ Stacy Dillard, Gary Valente, Jason Jackson , Christos Rafalides , Craig Hartley, Gregg August, Gianluca Renzi , EJ Strickland , Antonio Barbagallo ( 2009)
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December 16, 2005
Researchers at the University of Michigan have produced what is believed to be the first scalable quantum computer chip, which could mean big gains in the worldwide race to develop a quantum computer.
Using the same semiconductor fabrication technology that is used in everyday computer chips, researchers were able to trap a single atom within an integrated semiconductor chip and control it using electrical signals, according to Christopher Monroe, U-M physics professor and the principal investigator and co-author of the paper, "Ion Trap in a Semiconductor Chip." The paper appeared in the Dec. 11 issue of Nature Physics.
Quantum computers are promising because they can solve certain problems much faster than any possible conventional computer, owing to the bizarre features of quantum mechanics. For instance, quantum computers can process multiple inputs at the same time in the same device, and quantum circuitry can be wired via the quantum feature of entanglement, dubbed by Einstein as "spooky action-at-a-distance."
One of the most favored candidate quantum computer architectures is the use of individual atoms to store quantum bits (qubits) of information, where each qubit can hold the number 1 or 0, or even both 1 and 0 simultaneously. Electrically charged atoms (ions) for such quantum computers are stored in what are known as ion traps. Trapping is necessary in order to isolate the qubits from the rest of the world, which is absolutely essential for the system to behave quantum mechanically. It is well known how to program a quantum computer composed of any number of trapped ions; the problem is to get the ions trapped in the first place.
Current ion traps can only hold a few atoms or qubits, and are not easily scaled. Rather, these ion traps are assembled laboriously by hand. Therefore, one of the obstacles to perfecting the quantum computer is making a scalable integrated quantum computer chip that can store thousands or more atomic ions. For this reason, efforts in the area of quantum computing are now focused on making ion traps on a chip that are scalable and mass producible, and can host larger numbers of qubits.
"The semiconductor chip we demonstrated holds an individual atom in free space inside the chip. We levitate the atom in the chip by applying certain electrical signals to the tiny nearby electrodes," said Monroe. "We directly view this single atom with specially-tuned lasers and a sensitive camera. This type of ion trap has never been demonstrated at such a small level and in an integrated chip structure."
The chip produced at U-M is about as big as a postage stamp. It is etched with electrodes using a process called lithography, which eliminates the need for manual assembly. Each electrode is connected to a separate voltage supply, and these various electrical voltages serve to control the ion by moving it in different ways as it hovers in a space carved out of the chip.
Using existing microfabrication technology, the quantum chip developed at U-M could be scaled up to include hundreds of thousands of electrodes, according to Monroe.
"There is a worldwide race to build these (chips) right now, as such an integrated chip structure shows a way to scale the quantum computer to bigger systems - just like the microfabrication of conventional chips have given us the impressive gains in conventional computing speed and power," said Monroe.
The next step is to build the chip bigger with many more electrodes, so that it can store more ions. "There is still a great deal of work to be done in order to learn how to control lots of ions in one of these chips. It won't be nearly as easy as it was with conventional computer chips, but at least we know what to do in principle," said Monroe.
Doctoral student Daniel Stick, in Monroe's group in the U-M Physics Department and FOCUS Center (Frontiers in Optical, Coherent, and Ultrafast Science), led this work in collaboration with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland.
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The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call 'Climate in a Box,' a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
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May 16, 2013 |
When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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Supercomputers at the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
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05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/15/2013 | Bull | "50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less." How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today's and tomorrow's ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel's Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.
In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.
The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.


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Captain Mahela Jaywardene has anticipated more success of Sri Lanka's seamers ahead of Wednesday's fifth and final ODI against Australia at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart.
The Sri Lankans sport a two-one series lead after eight- and four-wicket triumphs in Adelaide and Brisbane respectively and a washout in Sydney. The collective performance of right-armers Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga and Angelo Mathews has been key, with the trio sharing 23 wickets in four matches.
"Given the way we have played and how we've controlled things, the boys will be pretty happy and I'm pretty confident that we'll be able to close this series in Hobart," said Jayawardene.
"The quality of the bowling has been pretty good. A lot of the batsmen in world cricket will struggle with the way our guys have delivered. With the two new balls, that's always going to happen going forward.
"That's something we've spoken about as well - how we're going to navigate the new rules. All over the world, you're trying to get wickets up front and it's vital that you bat well in the top four."
Kulasekara has led the charge superbly, clinching 10 scalps at the miserly average of 12.90, including career-best figures of five for 22 at the 'Gabba - and a complementary three-wicket burst at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
"Nuwan had the control in the Test match, but not the success," Jayawardene said. "He had a two-week layoff with injury, but he's come back into the one-dayers very strongly with the white ball," added Jayawardene.
"He has got a lot of confidence with what he's doing with it. Both he and Lasith have a very good partnership for us, and I'm looking forward to how he's going to go about it in Hobart as well."
Meanwhile, Twenty20 skipper George Bailey is likely to lead Australia in Hobart after ODI captain Michael Clarke sprained his ankle during practice on Tuesday.
Unless the selectors call up another batsman as cover, Clarke's absence would bring spinning all-rounder Glenn Maxwell back into the side alongside seaming all-rounder Moises Henriques.


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A follower recently asked me about the communications technology used to help maneuver the curiosity rover. Well here's a part of how they did it.
In this picture of the antenna DSS-63 with a diameter of 70m (20 floor building) is pointing the Curiosity rover 8 hours before landing on the surface of Mars (Also pictured).
This antenna is located in Madrid and it is part of the Deep Space Network (DSN) property of NASA JPL. At the moment of the picture, the antenna was busy doing Ranging and Doppler measurements of the signals travelling from the spacecraft in order to calculate its position. At the end of this session the calculated position is radioed back to the Curiosity so it can make its EDL using only its IMU and radar.


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The Lenticular 3D-posters in our shop are posters with the illusion of depth or animation.
This effect is achieved by creating different angles of an images on multiple layers or frames. This is then printed on a plastic sheet with tiny lenses.
When holding this print in front of you, the left eye sees a different image than the right. Now you see depth!
3D posters are best viewed from a 2,5m distance.


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"I asked (then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question."
Barbara Boxer on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 in an editorial board interview
Sen. Barbara Boxer says Condoleezza Rice didn't know how many troops had died in Iraq
During a meeting with the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board on Aug. 31, 2010, Sen. Barbara Boxer was asked about a controversial comment she made in 2007 to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about Rice not paying a "personal price" in the Iraq War because she did not have any immediate family members serving in the military.
Rice and a number of political pundits later claimed Boxer's comment was an unfair jab because Rice didn't have children.
In the editorial board meeting, Boxer, a California Democrat, sought to set the record straight about her comments, but then added a bit of revisionist history, saying she was criticizing Rice because she didn't know how many American troops had died in Iraq. In fact, Rice never said that.
Let's back up to 2007.
During the Jan. 11, 2007, Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Boxer tried to make a point with Rice about the sacrifice families were making in the Iraq War. "The issue is, 'Who pays the price?' I'm not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old. My grandchild is too young. You're not going to pay the price, as I understand it, with immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families," Boxer said.
A day later, Rice told the New York Times that she believed Boxer was implying she was less sensitive about the impact of war because Rice didn't have kids. ''I thought it was O.K. to be single. I thought it was O.K. to not have children, and I thought you could still make good decisions on behalf of the country if you were single and didn't have children.''
Fast-forward three years to the editorial board meeting and Boxer said her words were twisted.
"I asked her how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question. And since we had lost a lot of Californians, I was concerned. And I said, you and I don't have, we haven't paid a person price. I said, you and I, I said, myself, my grand kids are too young, my husband too old, and as far as I know you don't have anybody in the war. So I tried to use it to bring us together, but the right-wing press said that I questioned, that I turned on her because she wasn't married which was a little silly."
So you weren't criticizing? Boxer was asked.
"I was criticizing the fact that she didn't know how many people died in Iraq. Absolutely I was," Boxer said.
But in a blog posting after the editorial board meeting, the Chronicle's Debra J. Saunders called Boxer out, pointing out that in the 2007 hearing, Boxer never actually asked Rice how many Americans had died in the war in Iraq.
"I can see why Boxer would want to believe that she put her foot in her mouth -- and somehow it was Rice's fault, but the tale turns out to be a figment of Barbara Boxer's self-aggrandizing imagination," Saunders wrote.
We reviewed the video ourselves, and Saunders is correct -- Boxer actually hadn't asked Rice any questions prior to her "personal price" comments. Nor did such a question arise at any point in the exchange between the two. In other words, Rice wasn't ignorant of the number of troop casualties; she was never asked.
Indeed, it wasn't until after her "personal price" comments, when Boxer asked Rice about casualties, but it was for an estimate of future deaths from the surge in troops:
Boxer: "Do you have have an estimate of the number of casualties we expect from this surge?"
Rice: "No Senator, I don't think there's any way to give you such an estimate."
Boxer: "Has the president, because he said, 'Expect more sacrifice.' He must know."
Rice: "Senator, I don't think any of us have a number of expected casualties. I think that people understand that there is going to be violence for some time in Iraq and that there will be more casualties."
And then Rice responded to Boxer's "personal price" comments.
"And let me just say, I fully understand the sacrifice that the American people are making," Rice said. "And especially the sacrifice that our soldiers are making, men and women in uniform. I visit them. I know what they're going through. I talk to their families. I see it. I could never, and I can never, do anything to replace any of those lost men and women in uniform, or the diplomats…"
Said Boxer: "Madam Secretary, please, I know you feel terrible about it. That's not the point. I was making the case as to who pays the price for your decisions, and the fact that this administration would move forward with this escalation with no clue as to the further price that we are going to pay militarily. We certainly know the numbers, billions of dollars that we can't spend here in this country. I find really appalling that not even enough time was taken to figure out what the casualties would be."
"Senator, I think it would be highly unlikely for the military to tell the president we expect 'X' number of casualties because of this augmentation of the forces," Rice said.
So there you have it. Boxer asked Rice for a projection on how many American troop casualties might be lost in the surge, and Rice essentially answered that that was unknowable.
In the editorial board meeting, Boxer made a strong argument for her initial point that she was not criticizing Rice for being single and childless. As Boxer noted, and the record confirmed, Boxer began by noting that she, herself, did not have any immediate family serving in Iraq; and she then made the point that neither did Rice.
But in defending herself on that issue, Boxer completely distorted what Rice said. She claimed Rice did not know how many American soldiers "had died" -- past tense. In fact, Rice said she could not project expected casualties from the surge.
Boxer makes it sound like Rice either didn't know or didn't care about the number of soldiers who had died and that Boxer was nobly calling her out. In fact, she was asking Rice to speculate about casualties in the future. We find the senator's revisionist account to be far from the truth and disparaging of Rice. Pants on Fire!
Published: Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.
Subjects: Bush Administration, Iraq, Military
San Francisco Chronicle, "Barbara Boxer spins fictional tale about Condi Rice," by Debra J. Saunders, Aug. 31, 2010
C-SPAN, Senate Committee Foreign Relations, U.S. Policy Toward Iraq, Jan. 11, 2007
New York Times, "Washington Memo; With Rumsfeld Gone, Critics of War Look to Rice," by Helene Cooper, Feb. 4, 2007
Written by: Robert Farley
Researched by: Robert Farley
Edited by: Bill Adair
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