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Finding a gecko in the crowd
May 1, 2013
A combination of crowdsourcing and computer vision could identify individuals within endangered populations.
Is that smile real or fake?
May 25, 2012
A computerized system developed at MIT can tell the difference between smiles of joy and smiles of frustration.
The quantifier
January 12, 2012
By helping biologists turn their hunches into rigorous mathematical models, Polina Golland builds software that interprets medical images.
Putting the 'art' in artificial intelligence
December 12, 2011
CSAIL associate professor develops AI systems that can interpret images.
Oliva explores new ground in computational perception at CSAIL
November 8, 2011
Neuroscientist looks forward to collaborative studies of visual perception in the brain and its computational applications.
Portable, super-high-resolution 3-D imaging
August 9, 2011
A simple new imaging system could help manufacturers inspect their products, forensics experts identify weapons and doctors identify cancers.
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June 16, 2011
A new system lets you transfer open applications between a computer and a cellphone simply by pointing the phone's camera at the computer's screen.
Finding an edge
May 31, 2011
An algorithm for identifying the boundaries of objects in digital images is 50,000 times more efficient than its predecessor.
Also labeled: Object recognition, Image segmentation
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May 24, 2011
Hint: We tend to remember pictures of people much better than wide open spaces.
Gesture-based computing on the cheap
May 20, 2010
With a single piece of inexpensive hardware — a multicolored glove — MIT researchers are making Minority Report-style interfaces more accessible.
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May 7, 2010
Object recognition systems that break images into ever smaller parts should be much more efficient and may shed light on how the brain works.

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Have you ever had an opportunity to compromise your values for a little bit of cash, but instead you took the high road? I did a couple weeks ago and this is the story. When I arrived in my current city, I immediately started looking for a job. I signed up with a talent agent and then proceeded to apply for jobs at local restaurants and nanny positions. After three weeks of interviews, that I nailed by the way, nothing came to pass. Don't worry, I didn't give up, but in the mean time I went on about 7 auditions and was submitted for about 15 convention type jobs… nothing. These companies come into town for these conventions and want people (good looking ladies) to stand in their booth or in front of the door to pass stuff out and all of that. Because they wanted blondes only, I obviously wasn't hired for one. Until my agent shmoozed me into one and game ON! $500 for two and a half days of work!? Are you kidding?! This was a dream come true and answer to prayer.
The first day I got to the convention, I eagerly rode the escalator down to the lobby to meet my temporary boss, we shook hands and then he then explained that this convention was a real estate/brokers convention, which typically meant 99% men. Good thing I've got my hair down and I remembered to spritz that perfume, oh, and so proudly rocking my wedding ring… The other "talent" hired showed up and was a lovely lady who had a great smile. She attempted to connect with me immediately and I felt like we hit it off, kind of. As the night went on, we obviously were instructed to draw potential clients to the booth by explaining about the services and then give some information and in exchange acquire a business card from each. I did exactly this. Some of the men chose to close their pretty little eyes when the opportunity to see my wedding ring came, and the invitations for dinner, golf and trips were flowing my way. I was kind but I mentioned how great my husband was whenever possible.
The lady working with me mentioned a few times that there were men staring from afar and that I needed to go over to where they were standing (20 feet away) and bat my eyes for a collection of business cards to bring back to "our boss." I told her I wouldn't, and then explained that I was going to treat these men the way I'd want a woman to treat my husband if he were here. She said that was the most inspirational thing she had ever heard.
The night ended and I obviously had mixed emotions about making money from standing in as "bait" to get potential business for this guy. Oh yes, but then I recalled the bills that were due and remembered the $500 coming from these next two days.
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It's a fantastic night out . The team on the tram are very friendly , the food was beautiful. We will plenty of friends it's a must thing to do in Melbourne . Justed loved the whole night . Paul and Ingrid
Reviewed by: Paul W, April 2013We had an awesome night - amazing dinner and drinks - great company - definitely a highlight of our trip. Thanks to the staff that made it fun too!
Reviewed by: Angela Joy S, April 2013Everything about the trip was fabulous. Service, food and as much to drink as we wanted. As I said, everything was fabulous. Thank you for the experience.
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The wonder of this book is that most of us intimately understand the subject matter, and Follet does a wonderful job of creating the emotion and devastation associated with this tumultuous era in World History.
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I love exploring new authors and this is my first experience with Haruki Murakami--could not be more impressed!
The sci-fi overtures are limited, as this book is more about human beings and what drives them. The older I get, the more I can relate to many of these complex human themes.
Do not doubt the value of this purchase for a second! Excellent Book!
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This book is one of those wonderful surprises that highlight the true genius of the human imagination. The concept is simple, and the writing is excellent. Ken Grimwood's insight into the future world from the point of view of 1986 is stunning--Muslim Extremism! He is able to effectively present the excitement and emotion of being stuck in a perpetual 25 year time loop. It really is about second, and third, and fourth chances etc. What would you do differently if you were able to re-live your vulnerable and naive early twenties until 43?
I cannot speak highly enough of this book, and wish Mr. Grimwood would have kept his theme going longer.
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Take a Kaplan Course, as this thing was a colossal waste of time. They ramble on and one without really any great insight into how to tackle the many challenges present in the LSAT!
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This book traces the adventures of one greatly flawed man whom finds redemption and peace in a loyalty born of a new world!
I cannot speak highly enough of this novel, and I wish that it would have just kept going on and on.
I can hear the sounds of the busy streets, and the friendships could not be more convincing!
Hats off to Mr. Roberts and Mr. Bower as both have combined to create a wonderful epic masterpiece!!!
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I found this book painful! I hated everything about it. I for the life of me cannot figure out all the hype. This book basically is a gigantic Penthouse Letters, with very little interesting plot! I wasted my money, and cannot believe that people actually like this nonsense.
I have never been so disappointed in a book, as it started out ok. Oh, and the narrator stinks too. I am less intelligent as a result of this book!
"Excellent Insight into the Melancholy of Love Lost"
Orhan Pamuk masterfully illustrates the fate of one whom misses his last chance for love. This tragedy is set in a polarized political and religious climate, that lends excitement and illumination to the underlying character analysis.
The book is not one you can turn up to 3x speed and breeze through. I struggled a little with some of the themes, but at the end of the day I really enjoyed this unique world presented in Snow. The story twists and turns and finds truth along the way!
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You will not find any tremendous insights with Nicole Wallace's version of a female presidency under-pressure. The scandals are believable, the action exciting, and the story bubble-gum enough to be quite satisfying.
This book is light and easy, and the plot is fast paced and well developed. This book is good satirical fiction, and I enjoyed it beyond my expectations.
There are plenty of great plot twists, and the ending is not so obvious at first.
Crank it up to 3x as the writing is not dense at all.
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John Scalzi's version is a wonderfully simple book with plenty of excitement and the classic moral dilemma of doing the right thing for others versus the right thing for one's bank account. In the midst of this far off court room drama find a disgruntled girlfriend, a likable cat like humanoid, and a Han Solo type who stands to gain a huge fortune by selling out.
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Crank it up to 3x's as it is easy listening.
"Excellent Play by Play of USA's Tumultuous 1861:"
Adam Goodheart does an excellent job of making you feel like you are there, right beside the other participants, in this incredibly immense and polarized year of 1861 in the United States.
I could not be more impressed with the attention to detail, as Goodheart's ability to craft scenes allows the emotions of the moment to transfer to the reader some 150 year later. Literally, I got "goose-bumps" during certain exchanges between President Lincoln and his detractors. It could not be more amazing his foresight against the backdrop of history.
I highly recommend this book, and I am certain you will realize there is much you don't know about the events that led to the Civil War. In addition, I promise a change in perspective on both this era in history and the people involved.
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ANDERSON — Midway Elementary and T. L. Hanna High School are on lockdown status because a student reported seeing a man in the area with a gun.
Anderson County Sheriff's deputies are searching the areas around the two schools after a student at the elementary school, at 1221 Harriett Circle, reported seeing a man in the woods that surround the school around 9:30 this morning.
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I've spent the last three days here in Washington, DC on business. Meetings with the FAA, HHS and the WAAS office. Long times between meetings and I've been done pretty early in the day. So, I placed a casting call on ModelMayhem to see if I could pass the time doing what I like to do, take pictures. 5 or 6 TFCD models responded and I set up sessions with two of them. As my luck would have it – both at the same time. That wasn't a problem for me (read assistant) or them though so we met at my hotel and headed for the National Mall to shoot. The plan was to use the monuments as the background. Sounded way cool.
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2. noun. a collection of six single serve cans or bottles of a beverage (usually soda or beer) packaged together in either cardboard or plastic rings 3. (sexual) verb. to stimulate a female sexual partner by placing two digits of the same hand into the anus and vagina as if preparing to pick up a six pack (as per def 2). 4. (technical) noun or verb. While working an entertainment event on ice such as a hockey game or ice skating event, to slip and fall on the ice while not wearing ice skates. Entymology/notes: (def 3) Derogatory. Usually employed while bragging in locker room type situations. (def 4) Used by stage hands and those who have occasion to work on ice rinks while wearing civilian shoes. If said person slips on the ice and falls, another ice worker who sees the incident may traditionally call upon the victim to buy a six pack (as per def 2) for the witness after helping him or her off the ice, especially if the incident involves injury. 1. She must do situps. Her stomach is sporting a six pack that just won't fucking quit!
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While the drought conditions covering much of the nation have been disastrous for farmers and others who depend on water, there has been one unexpected benefit – lowered water levels in rivers and man-made lakes are giving people today glimpses of life in the past, as entire towns submerged when dams were built are coming into sight as the waters recede. In the Flint River in south Upson County, a different kind of glimpse into the past has become visible in the water – what is believed to be the remaining pieces of the Gray's Ferry.
In the early days of Upson and the surrounding counties, long before there were state and federal highways and bridges, ferries played a major role in transporting people, horses and wagons, and the goods they carried across rivers that were not shallow enough to ford on foot. Gray's Ferry played a role in the development of the south Upson area in the 1800's, and may have also been the site of a murder in 1892.
The remains of the ferry, believe to be made of heart pine and wrought iron, are lying about 2-3 feet below the surface in the mud of the Flint River between Upson and Taylor counties. Portions of the wooden boards can be seen, including sections with holes in them where the cable used to move the ferry may have been threaded. The man who discovered the ferry in the mud notified surveyor Doug Gordon who, in turn, notified Gary Self of the Upson County Historical Society, and the Thomaston-Upson Archives.
Gordon said if the remains are of the Gray's Ferry, it is an important historical artifact.
"It needs to be documented and photos taken of it to prove that it was here," Gordon said last Monday, concerned that then-approaching Hurricane Isaac might bring rains that would raise the level of the river and the ferry would once again disappear into the murky depths.
In Place Names of Georgia, Essays of John Goff, written between 1954-1964 and published by the University of Georgia Press in 1975, Grays Ferry can be found in his writings concerning the route that U. S. 80 now follows.
Goff states that surveys of the area in 1821 show a dirt road called Booths Road that ran southwest from Crawford County across Auchumpkee Creek into Upson County. The surveys show the road stopping short of the Flint River. However, four years late in 1825, Samuel Calhoun was authorized to open a public ferry at or near the point where Booths Road would have crossed the Flint if it had continued. Goff goes on to write that in later years there was a successor to the Calhouns Ferry called Grays Ferry, which crossed the river downstream from where Calhouns Ferry had been. It is believed where Grays Ferry crossed was part of a path that Indians in the area used before the land was ceded to Georgia.
In 1892, a murder may have taken place at Gray's Ferry. According to an article in the December 2, 1892 issue of The Thomaston Times, two black men, Jerry Walker, who ran the ferry, and John Rush, a gambler, were engaged in a card game at the ferry landing on November 24, 1892. According to witnesses, Walker had just laid down five dollars and dealt a hand of cards when someone asked to be taken across on the ferry. Stopping the game, Walker transported the person across and came back. But Rush told Walker he has misdealt, and Rush picked up the five dollars. An argument ensued and Walker shot Rush with a Marlin rifle, killing him instantly. Walker then picked up the winnings and fled the scene, never to be seen again.
According to The Times' article, the incident happened at the "Respess and Swift's Ferry on the Flint." But while an 1897 survey map of Upson County made by W. J. Matthews shows 12 ferries, including Gray's Ferry, there is no evidence of there having been a Respess and Swift's Ferry. A second article on the murder appeared in the December 6, 1892 issue of The Butler Herald. In that article, the site of the shooting is referred to as "Gray's Ferry in Upson County."
While it is not known when Gray's Ferry ceased operation, the 1917 Geological Survey of surface water supplies mentions records of the Flint River being taken at Gray's Ferry from July 1, 1911 to September 30, 1916. The Survey listed the location of the ferry as 1.5 miles upstream from the mouth of Auchumpkee Creek and 14 miles southwest of Culloden. It also states that measurements were taken from the ferryboat and a rowboat held in place by "a small galvanized cable," and that a gauge to judge the depth of the river was a "staff in four sections on left bank at ferry landing."
"How many ferries crossed the Flint is hard to determine, but there were plenty," states Brown's Guide to Georgia. "The real heyday of ferries was in the 19th century, although some continued to operate well into the 20th century. In 1920, the Georgia Highway Department took over the state road system and the ferries on those roads were purchased from private individuals who had been operating them. Toll charges were abolished at state-owned ferries. One by one though, bridges replaced the ferries."
The last ferry crossing in Georgia was on the Flint River near Marshallville. While it closed down in 1988, today there are still 25 ferries operating in various places around the United States.
Editor's note: Information for this article was obtained with the assistance of the staff of the Thomaston-Upson Archives.


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January 03, 2013
January 5:
Guilford County Schools
failed to win a Broad Prize for Urban Education, a national award that comes with $1 million in scholarship money. Denver-based education consulting firm RMC Research Corp. paid
Guilford County Schools
numerous compliments but found that
Guilford County Schools
was not doing a good job of meeting federal No Child Left Behind accountability standards.
January 10: The Guilford County Board of Education, before an audience packed with NC A&T State University representatives, including Chancellor Harold Martin, approved a proposal to create an early college on the campus of A&T that would teach science, technology, engineering and math a STEM school.
January 19: Guilford County School Superintendent Mo Green held his annual State of Our Schools address at the High Point Theatre on Thursday, Jan. 19 and it was good. Unlike earlier such events, the address was relatively short, not overly sweet and, by the standards of Green's and Guilford County Chief of Staff Nora Carr's unusually grand marketing extravaganzas, straight to the point.
February 7: The school system, to comply with a grading system created by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction found that almost no teachers in Guilford County were incompetent. Social promotion applies to teachers as well as students.
February 14: The school board's School Safety Committee sat through the results of a federally funded report that found that, of the law enforcement officers stationed in schools, known as school resource officers (SROs), 62 percent reported a slight level of gang-related activity in the school in which they work. Another 38 percent reported a moderate level of gang-related activity in their school. No SRO reported a heavy level of gang-related activity.
February 23: All was not well at Ferndale Middle School in High Point. Since the beginning of February, there were at least six fights at the school and a 14-year-old student was charged with having a pellet gun on school grounds.
March 1: Ferndale coach Kenny Angel returned to his job, ending a standoff that began after baseball tryouts on Feb. 13 and Feb. 14, when Angel a teacher and coach at Ferndale Middle School for 25 years stopped coming to school because of a dispute over tryouts. Parents rushed to support Angel after at least one parent, and the
Guilford County Schools
administration, accused him of holding invitation-only tryouts before the official tryouts. Angel's supporters said he had, at most, held skill-sharpening sessions for pitchers and catchers, which is allowed.
March 10: The school system released the results of its 2012 "Employee Climate Survey," which found that
Guilford County Schools
teachers were angry because they had received no pay raises in five years and said they're not allowed to discipline troublesome students and feel bullied by principals, students and parents alike.
March 22: The school board settled on the location of a proposed southeast area elementary school. The board voted 10 to 0 to approve buying a 32-acre tract at 3511 East Lee St. Southeast residents had strongly opposed two earlier sites.
April 3: Green released a proposed 2012-2013 budget with a $28 million increase that would have increased the school system's budget from $660 million to $668 million, the largest year-to-year increase in Guilford County School spending at least since the market crash of 2008. Green invented imaginary cuts by deciding that the 2008-2009 state funding for
Guilford County Schools
, which was $376 million, the most ever, would be the school system's budget baseline forever, and any cumulative reductions since then were aberrations that should be carried on the books for eternity as losses a budgetary fantasy.
April 12: High Point, on Wednesday, April 11, made an offer to buy 10 acres the Guilford County school board owns on Shadybrook Road next to the High Point Athletic Complex and Miracle Field for children with disabilities. High Point offered $294,300, not the $400,000
Guilford County Schools
thought the property was worth. The two parties spent the rest of the year haggling over the price.
April 25: Two-and-a-half years into the design of a renovated Allen Jay Middle School in High Point, the project crashed and burned because the architect, Millennium 3 Design Group of Charlotte, pulled out, citing financial concerns and owing subcontractors about $130,000.
April 26: Chaos broke loose at the end of the comment period when school board member Paul Daniels used his time to speak in favor of Amendment One, the referendum on the May 8 North Carolina primary ballot for a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Daniels' detour into non-school-related issues resulted in two school board members, Kris Cooke and Jeff Belton, walking out in the middle of Daniels' speech.
May 8: The primary election was a day of upsets in Guilford County school board races. Six school board seats were on the primary ballot, but only two were contested: the District 5 seat held by Paul Daniels, and the at-large seat held by Sandra Alexander. Both Daniels and Alexander lost. Alexander was beaten by a slim margin by Pat Tillman and Linda Welborn beat incumbent Paul Daniels in a blowout. But it was just a primary.
June 5: The Kernersville Board of Aldermen took the better part of a year to consider the Guilford County school board's request to put the $72 million "airport area high school" in the Triad Business Park in part of western Guilford County that has been annexed into Kernersville. It then took three-and-a-half hours to get to the hearing on the issue on Tuesday, June 5, a half-hour to hold the hearing and only a few minutes to kill the idea. The five-member Board of Aldermen voted 5 to 0 to deny
Guilford County Schools
the rezoning it would have needed to put the school in the business park.
July 5: A committee of the school board considered a misguided policy that would almost certainly kill private donations to schools by PTAs, community groups, booster clubs and private individuals by taxing private donations by 50 to 75 percent to raise money for an "equity fund" for schools that hadn't received such donations.
June 12: According to
Guilford County Schools
financial records, the search for 100-plus acres for the proposed airport area high school cost $2.9 million, despite the fact that the school board never found land for the high school.
June 12: The Guilford County school board meeting devolved into a free-for-all over a plan by the
Guilford County Schools
Facilities Department to hand-pick its bidders for construction projects costing up to $500,000, stacking the deck in order to increase the number of contracts handed out to minority and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs).
June 28:
Guilford County Schools
reported that parents had run up $500,000 in unpaid meal charges, and administrators proposed capping the amount a student can charge at $17.50. According to
Guilford County Schools
Chief Financial Officer Sharon Ozment,
Guilford County Schools
had 9,888 "accounts" with charge balances. Accounts are families, which can have multiple children, charging meals.
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July 26: The school board approved a $677 million budget without knowing what was in it. Several days before the July 26 meeting revealed that, despite the fact that the North Carolina General Assembly had approved the state budget, the Finance Department couldn't produce basic fiscal numbers, including the total amount of the
Guilford County Schools
budget, the amount of state funding
Guilford County Schools
was getting and the amount of federal funding it would get.
Despite dire early warnings,
Guilford County Schools
didn't lose any teachers. All
Guilford County Schools
employees except for Green, who makes $250,000 a year, got a 1.2 percent salary increase.
July 26: The Guilford County school board approved, on a 6-to-4 vote, a motion by school board Chairman Alan Duncan, who himself opposed the plan, to hand-pick the bidders for a long list of small construction projects as an "experiment."
July 26: School board members Kris Cooke and Darlene Garrett broke ranks to question the $488,737 attributed to the phantom airport area high school, and school board member Ed Price suggested scrapping the airport area high school project altogether and using the money to fix the county's already existing schools, some of which are in disgraceful shape.
August 9: After a turbulent tenure that began only in September 2010,
Guilford County Schools
Chief Operations Officer Andy LaRowe announced he would retire effective Sept. 4, 2012.
August 16: School board member Amos Quick proposed steering business to black-owned banks. On July 24, Quick and school board members Sandra Alexander, Carlvena Foster and Deena Hayes, the four black board members, wrote School Superintendent Mo Green and recently appointed
Guilford County Schools
Chief Financial Officer Angie Henry, asking the school system to deposit money in the Greensboro branch of Durham-based Mechanics and Farmers Bank.
August 23: Having underestimated the backlash from their constituents, members of the Guilford County school board's Donated Funds for Construction Committee scrapped the proposal to tax private donations for construction from PTAs, community groups, booster clubs and private individuals by between 50 percent and 75 percent.
August 30:
Guilford County Schools
claimed that Farley Associates Inc. of Indian Land, South Carolina, the contractor on the $25 million McNair Elementary School at 4603 Yanceyville Road, defaulted on its contract with the school system. The recovery plan for the construction project, originally scheduled to be finished on July 18, 2012, estimated that the school would be substantially complete "no later than October 31, 2012." That date later slipped to February 2013.
September 6: Green, after four years, rolled out his plan to address the "achievement gap" between black male students and white students. Six elementary schools would make a concerted effort to address literacy problems among black male students: Allen Jay, Fairview, Irving Park, Montlieu, Peck and Sedgefield.
September 13: The Grimsley High School swimming pool, owned by the City of Greensboro, not
Guilford County Schools
, and which was closed in 2011, headed for death after Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins said he supported demolishing it.
September 11: The school board voted 8 to 0 to consider overriding the way it invests taxpayer money in an effort to steer money to Mechanics and Farmers Bank.
Sept. 25: Work to replace the leaky roof at Allen Jay Elementary School in High Point was stopped in its tracks because the new roof was not designed to meet the State of North Carolina's building code, according to High Point officials.
October 2: In an email to
Guilford County Schools
administrators and school board members,
Guilford County Schools
Chief of Staff Nora Carr wrote that construction at the High Point Central gym wouldn't be finished until mid-December, "delaying use of the gymnasium until after the winter break."
October 20: Members of the Allen Jay Alumni Association, High Point Mayor Becky Smothers and North Carolina National Register Coordinator Ann Swallow gathered at the 1939 Allen Jay Rock Gym, built as a Works Progress Administration project, to celebrate the gym being placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The school board, with its usual politically tone-deaf timing, on Oct. 9, voted to postpone a $1.9 million renovation of the gym.
October 29: The Guilford County school board held a meeting at High Point Central High School to try to pacify angry parents after a second major delay of the $5.3 million project to renovate the High Point Central gym. Guilford County school board Chairman Alan Duncan called the project a train wreck.
November 6: Incumbent Guilford County school board member Sandra Alexander beat back a challenge by Pat Tillman, getting 52 percent of the vote, to keep her at-large seat. Tillman received 48 percent of the vote.
November 8: The Guilford County school board named the new southeast Guilford County elementary school after Dr. George C. Simkins Jr. on a 5-to-4 vote. Simkins was a Greensboro dentist who filed several lawsuits against segregation in Greensboro, including Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, which went to the US Supreme Court and desegregated hospitals nationwide.
November 15: High Point Central High School parents and supporters told Guilford County School board members at a public forum at High Point Central that the condition of the historic high school, built in 1926, was a galloping disgrace.
December 6:
Guilford County Schools
announced that the High Point Central High School boys' varsity basketball team wouldn't be playing any home games during the 2012-2013 school year at all.
December 13: Green's administration killed the effort by the Guilford County school board's four black members to divert taxpayer money from the banks
Guilford County Schools
usually uses to Mechanics and Farmers Bank.
December 20: Members of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church on Johnson Street in High Point, which is building a new school, proposed that
Guilford County Schools
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Read the Amazon reviews. AFAIK it's not wireless. It has to be wired to your wireless router. Then your other computer(s) can connect to it 'wirelessly'. Not a minor quirk, IMO.
Cool idea and cool peripheral, but do we really care if it meets your expectations? Im more concerned about my own expectations, not yours.
This thing would come in handy if you had to share multiple devices, like an external HDD and a printer - although it is more expensive than a dedicated NAS setup or a network print server, it is cheaper than both combined.
it's supposed to work with scanners as well, which network print servers cant do
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Seems like a very useful gadget. If it would support wireless streaming from a vid. camera, it would definitely be worth the investment. Likely is the case that the camera vendor would determine connectivity of the camera. Whether the transfer rates would be usable on the hub is another story. Yet, for a wireless camera (for a security setup) this would be great, all other things being equal.
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LUMBERTON — An 18-year-old was shot and killed Thursday night, and another teenager was injured in the shooting.
Lamont Lyles was killed at the intersection of Alamac and Rice roads at about 9:30 p.m., according to sheriff's Capt. Anthony Thompson, and 19-year-old Dashawn Taylor was struck by gunfire. Their addresses were not available.
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Understanding the influence of solar variability on the Earth's climate requires knowledge of solar variability, solar-terrestrial interactions, and the mechanisms determining the response of the Earth's climate system. We provide a summary of our current understanding in each of these three areas. Observations and mechanisms for the Sun's variability are described, including solar irradiance variations on both decadal and centennial time scales and their relation to galactic cosmic rays. Corresponding observations of variations of the Earth's climate on associated time scales are described, including variations in ozone, temperatures, winds, clouds, precipitation, and regional modes of variability such as the monsoons and the North Atlantic Oscillation. A discussion of the available solar and climate proxies is provided. Mechanisms proposed to explain these climate observations are described, including the effects of variations in solar irradiance and of charged particles. Finally, the contributions of solar variations to recent observations of global climate change are discussed.
(2010): Solar Influences on Climate. Reviews of Geophysics, 48, RG4001.
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我们Handset Country Share Tracker (HCST)服务的分析师很荣幸的参加了华为公司在深圳举办的2013年第10届全球分析师大会。超过500位分析师和媒体朋友参加了这次的活动。
• 品牌建设不是一朝一夕的事情。华为的以言践行(Make It Possible)品牌和市场建设活动正在有序进行并取得了积极的进展,但有限的预算仍会限制华为把品牌建设和市场推广活动进一步推向更多的地区和市场;
• 电商渠道给华为提供了一个很好的平台来切入开放市场(Open Channel), 在2012年贡献了7%的智能手机销量。HTC最近的定制手机业务也许可以给华为一些启示,如何进一步在电商渠道进行差异化的尝试。
HTC China recently announced its new Dual-SIM mid-tier Android smartphone E1 in April 2013. But unlike the sea of mid-tier Android smartphones, HTC is differentiating this device by offering online buyers in HTC eShop to "customize" the E1's specs such as color, memory size or camera megapixels, thus, a "made-to-order" device.
On entering the eShop page for E1, users are presented to input their "Birth Date" & "Gender" using which the HTC eShop's algorithm spits out a suggested configuration (case color, memory size, camera megapixels) as a part of the online customization experience. Users are obviously free to choose or tweak their own configuration as well.
This though is a basic customization effort but a very interesting and novel step from HTC to differentiate from other Android OEMs especially in markets such as China where Android dominates with 9 out of 10 smartphones sold. We expect to see more "customization" efforts from OEMs this year to make the smartphone buying experience highly engaging and also the device to be bought to truly match user's requirements making it more personalized and differentiated.
Global smartphone shipments surged +38% annually in Q4 2012. We estimate the top 10 smartphone families accounted for over two thirds of smartphones shipped worldwide during the quarter. Samsung and Apple top the charts, but Sony's Xperia, LG's Optimus and Huawei 's Ascend series are quietly gaining traction. This report, Global Smartphone Shipments by Family / Model: Q4 2012, available to the clients of our HCST (Handset Country Share Tracker) service, tracks the world's best-selling smartphone families and models by shipment volumes from Q1 2011 to Q4 2012. This report will give you the information on how many units of iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note and other flagship models from smartphone vendors have been shipped on a quarterly basis for two years. In this regards, this report is a valuable tool for component makers, car manufacturers, content suppliers, mobile operators, device vendors and other stakeholders who want to identify and measure the world's most-popular smartphones by individual model.
Our Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service tracked Coolpad ranked the 11th largest smartphone vendor globally in 2012, with 2.6% marketshare. It grew smartphone volume by 108% YoY from 2011, indicating the Shenzhen-based Chinese vendor is ambitious to push into the top 10 club this year.
The company is on the right track to become a 3G smartphone specialist, with an encouraging breakthrough recently also in the North American 4G LTE market. Its first LTE phone at MetroPCS achieved an encouraging start last year.
However, how to further define and implement its overseas strategy, especially in North America and West Europe, remains the key for the rising Chinese brand. We would recommend Coolpad to:
- Launch a decent flagship model with a unified sub-brand (like Samsung Galaxy, Huawei Ascend does) globally;
- Initially target prepaid carriers / customers because prepaid segment is price-sensitive and accessible for Chinese brands;
- Prepare for the potential IPR risks associated with overseas expansion. Coolpad is reportedly have accumulated over 4000 handset related patents at this moment, however, it is still vulnerable to get involved into IPR war. We believe patent swap would be an effective way to ease risks;
- Branding and marketing initiatives are needed to tap into richer customers in developed markets;
- Prepare for the direct competition with Huawei and ZTE in overseas market. Compared with the two rivals, Coolpad exclusively focuses on the smartphone market and lacks synergy among different product lineups. We would recommend Coolpad to further differentiate from rivals with improved hardware designs and more localized services and apps (e.g. social networking);
- Balance volume and profitability. Shifting upwards with more mid- and high-tier models, in order to improve ASP and profit margin, which will ensure the Hong Kong listed-company has sufficient cash on hands for the upcoming overseas expansion.
According to our Handset Country Share Tracker (CST) service, the French mobile phone market dipped -6% year-on-year in Q4 2012. This followed flat growth in the prior three quarters of 2012 as the country struggled economically. Free Mobile, a challenger operator with low prices perfectly suited to the tougher economic times, is making a serious dent in the French cellphone market. Its main device partners are Samsung and Apple, who dominate shipments there. This published report, available to clients, tracks mobile phone vendor market share at the four major French operators -- Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free Mobile -- from Q1 2009 to Q4 2012. The report is an important tool for measuring the health of individual handset brands at the operator level in Western Europe's third largest cellphone market.
According to our Handset Country Share Tracker (CST) service, the German mobile phone market slipped by -8% year-on-year in Q4 2012, as the broader ongoing macroeconomic challenges affecting the whole of the eurozone trumped the relative strength of the German economy. Following the launch of the iPhone 5, Apple reclaimed a significant chunk of volumes in Germany, but there are also initial signs of traction for Nokia's Lumia Windows Phone family. The Finnish vendor gained 1 point of sequential marketshare in the quarter. This published report, available to clients, tracks quarterly mobile vendor market share at the four major German operators -- T-Mobile, Vodafone, O2 and E-Plus -- from Q1 2009 to Q4 2012. The report is an important tool for measuring the health of individual handset brands at the operator level in Western Europe's second largest cellphone market.
According to our Handset Country Share Tracker (CST) service, the UK mobile phone market dipped -4% year-on-year in Q4 2012, mimicking the broader economic challenges of the country. While Samsung and Apple showed healthy growth, this was offset by declines from Nokia, RIM, HTC and the Android long-tail. This published report, available to clients, tracks mobile phone vendor shipments and marketshare at the 4 major UK operators -- O2, Vodafone, Everything Everywhere and Three -- from Q1 2009 to Q4 2012. The report is an important tool for measuring the health of individual device brands at the operator level in Western Europe's largest cellphone market.
Smartphone shipments in the United States grew 25% annually in Q4 2012. Apple captured the number one smartphone spot overall, as well as the top smartphone vendor ranking at the country's two largest operators, Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Android partners, such as Samsung, LG, HTC and Huawei, combined to keep the Google platform as the number two OS overall. The full report, USA Smartphone Vendor Marketshare by Operator: Q4 2012, available to the clients of our handset country share tracker (CST) service, tracks mobile smartphone shipments, vendor marketshare, and OS marketshare for 20 major vendors and 5 major platforms in the United States across 4 top operators and total market on a quarterly basis from Q1 2011 to Q4 2012.
Our Handset Country Share Tracker (CST) team attended the launch of the new Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone at Radio City in New York, US, on Thursday 14th March, 2013. Several thousand attendees joined the event.We trialed the S4 earlier this week and were briefed on the strategy behind it. This is a concise summary of our initial analysis:Key Hardware: As expected, the S4 contains a 5.0-inch, full-HD, super AMOLED display with an impressive 441ppi in a rounded-slate formfactor. There are Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core / Samsung Exynos octo-core chipsets, varying by region. Other specs include 2GB RAM, dual-camera, NFC and MHL. The S4 looks visually similar to the previous S3, but the materials feel better quality and it is slimmer, lighter and nicer to hold in the hand.Key Software: Samsung has clearly worked hard on its software and the results are impressive. There is finger-hover for the touchscreen, gesture recognition, improved eye-tracking, and better camera-editing.Key Services: Samsung has layered a rich suite of Samsung proprietary services on top of the Android Jelly Bean OS. There are plenty of "S" services, such as S-Health and S-Translator. Google will be worried by this.The S4 will launch commercially in the US and worldwide at the end of April 2013. Versions will support 3G, 4G and TD-LTE. There are 325 carriers in 166 countries onboard, such as AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Pricing will be Note-like.We forecast tens of millions of units to be shipped worldwide this year. Provided there are no major "hidden" bugs that become apparent after launch, the S4 will be another blockbuster product for Samsung.Which competitors will be impacted by the S4? Apple, LG, Sony, HTC, Blackberry, Nokia, Huawei, ZTE and Motorola will all be getting some sleepless nights in the next few weeks. Models such as iPhone 5 and HTC One could feel some pain.We will publish a full report to clients on Friday 15th March, 2013.


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Though Hurricane Sandy seems like a long time ago to many of us, many of those who lost everything to the storm are still just beginning to piece their lives back together. At the ASPCA, we're still working with animal welfare groups and individuals who suffered as a result of Sandy, and less than a month has passed since our special facility for Sandy pets closed.
Since then , we've seen many Sandy strays find new homes and hundreds of Sandy pets reunited with their families. (To see some of those, visit our Facebook album of reunion photos.)
If we could tell you all their stories, we could, because if you give to the ASPCA you're responsible in part for each one. For now, we'd like to tell you one—Magnus and Aheber's. Please watch their video to see how you helped them.
Thank you for giving to the ASPCA and helping us help animals like Magnus. If you're not already a member, please consider making a gift now. You'll help us be prepared to go wherever animals need us, whenever they need us.
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Slow Pictures: Theo Firmo
"Slow Pictures" is a series of videos that seek possible narratives in apparently still images. They are about bringing up universes from common places, and odysseys from moments.
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See video "Cruising" here.
Theo Firmo (São Paulo, Brazil, 1983) is graduated bachelor in Sciences of Communication by São Judas Tadeo University (São Paulo, 2004) with major in semiotics. He has later taken master studies in Semiotics of Culture and its application on video and music. He lives and works in Madrid, where he gets most of his images to work on. His works have been featured in festivals such as BAC (Barcelona Contemporary Art Festival), NETMAGE (Bologna Audiovisual Festival) and publications such as FAKE Magazine and WLTF. His studies on liguistics and semiotics have driven him on a research about the narrative speech that is the main drive behind his video work, which seeks possible narratives in apparently still images. Based on questions of memory and expectations, it approaches an organic time, where we remember what we wanted for the future, and we can see the change but can no longer describe the process.


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The early Schaller Golden 50s are like JBs to my ears, only with less bottom end.
I posted this in the Tone Talk section too.
I know the vintage site states that is like a Duncan Custom, but the Schaller site list the Golden 50 as a PAF with Alnico Mag. The Duncan Custom has a Ceramic Mag in it.
Can anybody tell me what the winding or DC resistancs is on the original Schaller Zebra pups that came in the 1984 Barettas?
What are the specifications..I did a search and kind find anything really abou them.
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1984 Black Kramer Baretta took out the stock Schaller and put in a JB. (Golden 50 Zebra w/A8)
2001 ESP LTD H 50 (CC pup)
DD and Schaller pup on the shelf.
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The early Schaller Golden 50s are like JBs to my ears, only with less bottom end.
The early Schaller Golden 50s are nothing like JBs to my ears
They are pretty weak actually, by todays standards. 8.5 ohms iirc.
I would say they are PAF sounding pups.
You have to beat on them to get them to bark but they have a really nice sound IMO. Back off the vol and they clean up real nice.
Depending on your body wood, if it isn't maple a JB zebra will sound better and more modern.
The schallers I really like are the 2 in 1 but they never made them in zebra...
You're right Andy, I hate the 2-in-1 too. It just sounds kind of..lifeless?
Bruce, the 2-conductor Schallers were 8.5kOhm, but the 4-conductor ones are 12 kOhm... They have a lot of output actually.
By todays standards I said!They are pretty weak actually, by todays standards. 8.5 ohms iirc.
And do you really think this sound Lifeless?
Schaller 2 in 1
Great riffs Bruce....
I'm with you on this one...I love the hard drive of the 2in1 especially in poplar and the series/split/parallel make for a versatile single hum "highway" axe.
Thanks guys!
Rick, been going back to my roots and doing some 70s type originals. I'm not sure they would fit in. Not shred worthy and all that....
send them to me
later Rick
once my neck gets better(and me learning how to play) I'll have to do that... Gonna be down by DC on Monday and Tuesday... have to test for promotion
later Rick
Pentagon or Andrews?
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Andrews.... thanks I like it
later Rick
Well these are interesting post as the vintage kramer site under electronics compares the Schaller Zebra to a Duncan Custom...which means it would have to have the power of a Ceramic Mag in it like the Duncan Custom. I pulled the mag out and somebody told me it was Alnico 5 mag.
I swapped in an A8 Mag and it really woke of the pup...it sounded fantastic but it wasn't getting the mids I wanted.
The Custom Custom was supposed to be the EVH pup. It comes with an Alnico 2 mag in it.
When I had the CC in the maple Baretta Serial #C7350. Lead sounded very buttery...was a nice sounding pup. Then I put a DD in it which is like a JB with a Ceramic Mag. It never really did sound too good.
So I put in the Schaller Zebra which I think really sounds like a PAF clone and with the A8 mag in it it screamed. But the CC with the A8 mag really blisters and I can get more some better mid tones with it.
If I do anything it would be to put the Schaller stock Alnico mag in the pup...just to have it stock. But for now the C8 is staying in. It sounds like a very modern (not vintage) sound with plenty of everything.
Hughes & Kettner Switchblade 50
1984 Black Kramer Baretta took out the stock Schaller and put in a JB. (Golden 50 Zebra w/A8)
2001 ESP LTD H 50 (CC pup)
DD and Schaller pup on the shelf.
Parametric EQ
Noise Gate
EVH Phaser
My Corvette page.
Cool playing there Bruce. Some reall tasty riffage going on. Like Rick said, been a while since ive heard you put any news tracks down.
Once again Bruce good work going on there bro.
This Schaller was originally installed in...
...this 1984 Barretta.
I still own the pick-up, but sold the guitar back in 1998.... yes, it still kills me to this day!!!
The pick-up comes in at 8.2K and, to me, it sounds vey much like Seymour Duncan '59.
Today, it resides in my homemade, spray-painted "Bengal"- a 1982 Schecter body made from ash...
Tom, is that a reissue? That thing looks schweeet!
WOW that thing is Klean!!!
I don't know if this has already been discussed but do they still make Schaller pups??


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PULLMAN, Wash. – You may have visited zoos where the animals look less-than-thrilled sitting in their cages. That may become a less common sight, thanks to Northwest scientists' work to make captive bears happier bears.
The project into improving grizzly bears' moods is taking place at Washington State University's Bear Research Center. On this day, two bears pace back and forth in a narrow pen. You can hear the bears growl and sniff as they explore the area. When the bears reach the end of the pen, they twirl their bodies in a sort of pirouette motion.
It's that type of repetitive movement that researcher Heidi Keen is working to prevent.
"A lot of bears exhibit those behaviors in zoos. There's a lot of debate as to why those behaviors originate, but it can be related to lack of stimulation in the environment," Keen says.
Zoo managers say keeping animals psychologically happy is as important as providing them with good veterinary care.
Nearly every morning and every afternoon, Keen gives the center's eight grizzlies different toys to play with. (She calls them enrichment items.)
Keen uses a system of gray flashcards, apple slices and gestures she taught the bears. This all helps her figure out which toys the animals like to play with. Keen is testing the difference between cowhides and orange traffic cones.
"You can't just ask the animal, 'Okay, so how are you feeling, and how did you respond?'" Keen says.
Ultimately, Keen's research could help zoos could have almost instant feedback on the "toys" in animals' pens. Providing better environments for captive animals helps with their mental health.
A 425-pound grizzly saunters up to the edge of a wire fence. She plops down right in front of the researchers.
"So this is Peeka," Keen says. She says she's enjoyed learning each bear's personality.
The researchers start to measure the bear's mood. They feed Peeka apple slices each time she makes the correct gesture.
"You can see she's very enthusiastic," Keen says.
Peeka a scarfs down the treats as fast as research assistant Danielle Rivet can feed them. The grizzly eats around thirteen apples in five minutes. Rivet's been helping out at the Bear Research Center since May.
"It's kind of scary, I guess, the first couple times you do it. You have to really make sure your fingers stay behind the fence. They do try and grab the apples with their lips, but you still have to be careful," Rivet laughs.
The Washington State University Bear Research Center opened in 1986 to protect wild grizzlies. The animals at the center are not able to return to the wild. That's one reason scientists decided to start studying the captive animals to provide research to zoos.
Keen's study would allow zoos to provide a better environment for captive animals.
"We can have an almost daily reading of how animals are experiencing their environment or what enrichment items are working," Keen says.
David Shepherdson works with the Oregon Zoo in Portland. The zoo has studied animals' psychological well being for the past 40 years. He says Keen is basically developing a new tool to communicate with a wide variety of mammals — not just grizzly bears.
"For a lot of animals, the kinds of training that she's doing with the bears would be feasible. If it's feasible with all bears, obviously a primate would easily be able to learn these tasks, and so would an elephant. Certainly it could be a useful tool," Shepherdson says.
Back at Washington State University, Keen says she thinks her research benefiting other captive animals. After finishing up Peeka's experiment, Keen takes her to a large, open pen to play. It's a more appealing setting for the bear that played with traffic cones during the experiment. Keen glances at the day's results.
Reporter: "So, she was happy today?"
Keen: "Nope, not as happy as usual. But she got the traffic cones today instead of cowhide. That's kind of what we expect to see is that she's a little disappointed in the sense that she's not getting the best option."
But, Keen says, it's important to note that she studies moods overall, not on a day-to-day basis.
"We all have better and worse days, right?" Keen says.
If Keen and her colleagues are successful, they'll make these bears' "worse days" better.
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As the Oilers headed into their seventh straight off-season without a playoff appearance, the Edmonton Oilers announced the replacement of General Manager Steve Tambellini with former Oilers captain and coach, Craig MacTavish. At the press conference, John MacKinnon of the Edmonton Journal pointed out that the same management team that was in place before Tambellini's dismissal was back in charge.
"How are fans going to be reassured that the group that left the mess that Tambellini couldn't quite clean up is now going to be cleaned up by the guys who left the mess to begin with?"
Kevin Lowe, President of Hockey Operations for the Oilers, clearly irked by this question, responded with this: