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It's no news that the Detroit Pistons are a bad team. They are one of 11 NBA teams with a winning percentage less than .400. They currently sit at 23-40 (.365). But there 40 losses are only two less than the Sacramento Kings, who own the third-worst record in the league. Let's examine the remaining schedules of all 11 of the NBA's worst teams and see if they can be expected to climb to the top (bottom) of the ranks.
Toronto Raptors: 24-38 (.387)
Philadelphia 76ers: 23-37 (.383)
Detroit Pistons: 23-40 (.365)
Minnesota Timberwolves: 21-37 (.362)
Cleveland Cavaliers: 21-40 (.344)
Phoenix Suns: 21-40 (.344)
New Orleans Hornets: 21-41 (.339)
Sacramento Kings: 21-42 (.333)
Washington Wizards: 19-40 (.322)
Orlando Magic: 17-45 (.274)
Charlotte Bobcats: 13-48 (.213)
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Now lets look at some actual numbers. Most of the teams on this list will be underdogs for most of their remaining games and most of the NBA's worst teams seriously struggle on the road. So how many games does each team have against teams under .400? Home and road?
Team | Home | Road | Sub.-400 Home | Sub.-400 Road |
Toronto Raptors | 10 | 10 | CLE, CHA, DET, WAS | CHA, DET, WAS, MIN |
Philadelphia 76ers | 8 | 14 | CHA, CLE | ORL, SAC, CLE, CHA, WAS, DET |
Detroit Pistons | 7 | 12 | MIN, TOR, CHA, PHI | CHA, TOR, CLE, MIN |
Minnesota Timberwolves | 12 | 12 | NO, TOR, DET, PHX | SAC, PHX, DET |
Cleveland Cavaliers | 11 | 10 | WAS, PHI, ORL, DET | TOR, NO, PHI, CHA |
Phoenix Suns | 11 | 10 | WAS, MIN, SAC, NO | SAC, WAS, MIN |
New Orleans Hornets | 10 | 10 | WAS, MIN, PHX, SAC | CLE |
Sacramento Kings | 12 | 7 | PHX, MIN, PHI, NO | PHX |
Washington Wizards | 10 | 13 | CHA, NO, PHX, TOR, PHI | CLE, CHA, PHX, ORL, TOR |
Orlando Magic | 9 | 11 | PHI, WAS | CHA, CLE |
Charlotte Bobcats | 11 | 10 | WAS, TOR, DET, ORL, PHI, CLE | WAS, TOR, PHI, DET |
You can't take too much from this list. After all, one month ago Detroit creamed a Tony Parker-led San Antonio Spurs team by 10. Then, on March 3 Tony Parker was out injured and the Spurs got revenge in a 39-point drubbing. You can use the above chart to mix and match presumed wins and losses (under the assumption all the above teams win roughly the same number of surprise games. Or we can use even nerdier, more informative math, to try and figure out where this season is headed.
Pythagorean Wins
Pythagorean wins gives you an idea of your team's quality by comparing how many points it has scored and how many points it has surrendered. It then gives you an expected win-loss total. You can then compare it to a team's actual win-loss total to see if it has been lucky or unlucky during the given period. But you can also use it to figure out if team's have improved or not over a given timeframe. The calculation used by basketball reference is as follows:
Games x (Points^14 / (Points^14 + Opp. Points^14))
We can use that formula to get a more accurate reading of the current state of the above crappy teams. The Magic and Bobcats are obviously in a class of their own and have virtually assured themselves the two worst records in the NBA. But everything else is up for grabs. Could Detroit slide from ninth-worst team to third-worst? Well, some teams are playing better while others are playing worse. Over the past 20 games only two teams have been outscored by more than the Pistons -- Orlando and Charlotte (no surprise there). What might be surprising is just how much worse Detroit has been than almost everyone else. The Pistons have been outscored by 159 points (tying the Suns). The Kings (-148) and Wolves (-100) are next. But the next team, the Sixers, sits all the way at -69, a huge gap in competitiveness. Lets look at where the team's above stand in the past 20 games:
20-Game Plus-Minus
Charlotte Bobcats: -291
Orlando Magic: -224
Detroit Pistons: -159
Phoenix Suns: -159
Sacramento Kings: -148
Minnesota Timberwolves: -100
Philadelphia 76ers: -69
New Orleans Hornets: -58
Toronto Raptors: +1
Cleveland Cavaliers: +16
Washington Wizards: +22
This helps put things in perspective. It keys in on just how bad the Pistons have been while showing what improvements Toronto, Cleveland, Washington and, to a lesser extent, New Orleans have made. It also makes logical sense. Toronto now has Rudy Gay, Cleveland has Kyrie Irving, Washington has John Wall and New Orleans has Anthony Davis healthy again. So if they have the same margins over the course of the rest of the season how many more victories could each team expect?
Expected Wins
Charlotte Bobcats: 2.23
Orlando Magic: 3.34
Detroit Pistons: 4.51
Phoenix Suns: 4.98
Sacramento Kings: 5.15
Minnesota Timberwolves: 7.86
Philadelphia 76ers: 8.17
New Orleans Hornets: 7.95
Toronto Raptors: 10.03
Cleveland Cavaliers: 11.06
Washington Wizards: 12.44
And, finally, lets see what the final standings looked like if the season played out as outlined above (rounding up and down normally).
Expected Draft Order
1. Charlotte Bobcats: 15-67
2. Orlando Magic: 20-62
3. Phoenix Suns: 26-56
4. Sacramento Kings: 26-56
5. Detroit Pistons: 28-54
6. Minnesota Timberwolves: 29-53
7. New Orleans Hornets: 29-53
8. Philadelphia 76ers: 31-51
9. Washington Wizards: 31-51
10. Cleveland Cavaliers: 32-50
11. Toronto Raptors: 34-48
Suddenly, the Pistons go from ninth position to fifth position and only two extra losses away from third position. So if there is anything to look forward to over these last 19 games, I guess it might be that Detroit's actual pick might be higher than it has since 1994 when the team drafted Grant Hill (we'll blame Darko on the Grizzlies).


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I would say that the main theme that these two books have in common is that people cannot create a perfect world. In both books, you have governments that have tried to create utopia in some sense. They have tried to plan their society to be just the way they want it. In both cases, they have ended up creating something horrible.
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Both share the theme of enslavement versus free will. In both societies, the common citizens are reduced to whatever the ruling elite wants them to be, while the elite continue to retain their own free will. The difference in theme are that in 1984 the elite emphasizes the labor of the common citizen, counting on their lack of intelligence, while in Brave New World the elite sacrifice creativity, spontaneity, individuality and imagination for a controlled society, though they court the intellect of the Alphas by showing them the margins of "primitive" cultures.
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In each book, people have learned to survive by basically checking out. They are not interested in confronting their society's problems. Instead, they take Soma or keep their head down and swallow the government's mumbo jumbo. No one faces reality.
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no wonder he lost
Embarrassing but an understandable faux pas.
The guys on autopilot in never, never moderate mediocrityland.
"Act" before you think - 'if' you think at all.
I guess your right. I'll probably never get over the bad taste he has left from his years and years of opposing conservatism, making alliances with the left and pulling the GOP even further leftward. Senior or senile he'll never have any serious respect from me (in the political arena)... except for his military service.
It's still infinitely better than this moron:
McCain basically was and is a JFK Democrat in all his political positions. He's a man who has long out-lived his time. I think the reason he is a Republican has more to do with chance than analysis.
I agree. He reminds me a lot of Arlen Specter (who finally got honest and switched to D) in that he worries a lot about crossing the aisle, getting along, being nice etc. It seems like the only thing he won't compromise on is national security, but other than that he keeps you guessing.
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Drinking culture still plays a big part in game
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... Alcohol-fuelled sessions common with pros in the old days, but less now Drinking culture still plays a big part in game Have you heard about the Parlour trick with 35 pints of lager and a double? Those who have heard the story will invariably recognise the entrenched drinking culture and loutish behaviour among British-influenced soccer communities, including Hong Kong. Ray ...
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... of Chinese pairing food with wine, saying that Chinese drinking culture is not about pairing, but rather about community and, to paraphrase him, machismo. But Hong Kong wine lovers seem intent ... Debra Meiburg and Sarah Heller firstname.lastname@example.com Menus tell of a culture taking root Hong Kong is a metropolis built around trends and the question of whether wine is a passing fad lingers ...
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... SCMP Editorial Promoting wisdom of responsible drinking among our students We can all remember our university days- the enduring friendships made during long nights studying and cramming ... in students, it can sometimes lead to bad choices as they struggle to cope with the pressure. Such choices include a range of activities, but one harmful option is binge drinking. Alcohol consumption ...
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... Reuters in London Coach Ewen McKenzie reads the riot act after squad members drank late into the night ahead of test against Ireland Wallabies culled after night of drinking Australia have suspended six players for one match and sanctioned another nine for "breaches of internal team protocols" after a drinking session in the days leading up to last Saturday's test ...
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... now consider the drinking culture on British campuses an issue. It has even been highlighted as a minus point by guidance counsellors in Hong Kong international schools. Head teachers ... this was not their fault, but reflected the state of wider society and that student unions also encouraged alcohol-free activities. It takes initiative to work around the prevalent drinking culture and enjoy ...
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What drives the cost of PV systems? GW Solar Institute director Ken Zweibel answered this question and presented
"The Economics of PV Devices"
at the 2009
International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium
at the University of Maryland. The answer is the PV device, in two ways. One, as the most costly and complex component of the PV system. And the other, because its output defines the cost of the entire system in terms of unit electricity output. In addition, reliability of PV is essential, with operating lives warranteed to thirty years, and possible lifetime extending as long as 50-100 years. Thus the success of PV depends on the properties of the PV device that converts sunlight to electricity. The price of PV electricity is often misunderstood, because it can be quoted for systems that are in good or poor sunlight and of substantial to tiny sizes. Each has a different price. With these variations, prices can vary from a high of about 50 ¢/kWh (for small systems) to a low of about 12 ¢/kWh for the largest systems in the sunniest locations. This range explains why there is so much misunderstanding about the economics of PV systems.
"Solar energy has valuable characteristics for adoption as a major part of a solution to climate change and oil fuel dependence. Sunlight is abundant,nearly ubiquitous, and solar technologies are rapidly falling in cost. Photovoltaics has additional advantages: simplicity, long operating life, and minimal or no use of water. Carbon intensity for solar energies are also quite low, below any but wind. Solar electricity is also a potential energy source for electrified transportation. These characteristics make solar PV and solar thermal electric critical technologies among the various choices for addressing climate change and oil dependence. Solar institute director, Ken Zweibel, gave
this presentation
on solar energy at the recent
"Congress on Assessing America's Renewable Energy Future,"
hosted by the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation in Reston, Va., December 8-9, 2009."
Institute Co-Director, Debra Jacobson, provided a presentation, entitled
"Flawed Methods for Calculating Avoided Emissions from Renewable Energy,"
to a roundtable at Yale University sponsored by
the Renewable Energy and International Law Project
(REIL). The presentation provided a critique of the methodology currently used by the 40-State Climate Registry for calculating the emission reduction benefits of renewable energy.
Ms. Jacobson explained that the eGRID system average methodology (currently used by the Climate Registry) significantly understates the emission reduction benefits of renewable energy, including solar photovoltaic energy, in most regions of the United States. She stressed that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Congress should avoid the adoption of the eGRID system average methodology in development their greenhouse gas (GHG) registries.
In her talk, Ms Jacobson stressed that the essential features of a reliable methodology for calculating the emission reduction benefits of renewable energy are as follows:
1. Reductions must differ in each power market (to reflect the differences in the mix of generation sources in each region);
2. Emission displacement rates must be based on emissions from fossil fuel-fired units rather than the average emissions of the power market; and
3. Emission displacement rates should be calculated on an hourly (or at least a seasonal) basis.
The work in this area has been co-authored by Dr. Colin High, Chairman of Resource Systems Group, and much of the initial analysis was funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy. Current work is continuing under the auspices of the GW Solar Institute and Resource Systems Group. The Journal of Energy and Environmental Law of The George Washington University Law School will be publishing an in-depth paper about this work in the spring of 2010.
Harvard University's Paul Epstein organized "The True Costs of Coal" workshop held at the Willard Hotel, Washington, DC, October 15-16, 2009. Fifty attendees shared discussions and talks on Climate Change, US coal mining, mountain top removal, carbon capture and sequestration, coal reserves, coal combustion pollutants, alternatives sources, alternatives for the coal field regions, and the smart grid. GW Solar Institute Director, Ken Zweibel, presented
"Cost Comparison of PV with Other Electricity Options"
in the alternative sources session. Other representatives from GW were Robert Nordhaus and Celeste Monforton who also gave presentations. The conference had representatives of the press and White House in attendance.
Key issues in the Appalachian region included the continuing presence of miner's black lung disease, possible contamination from mountain top removal of private well (which remain untested), landslide risks during heavy rains, sludge dams containing contaminated coal ash, poverty concentrated in regions with the most coal extraction, intimidation of those who speak out about working or health conditions, dependence on coal silencing other concerns, contaminated soil and waterways, plummeting employment per unit extracted with mechanization and the mountain top removal strategy, and dust spread from explosives. In the west, issues included aquifer depletion and contamination, dust from explosives, and the concentration of about 40% of all US coal supply in one county of Wyoming. Possible issues associated with coal and oil peaking in the nearer term than expected were also discussed, with a consensus developed that current knowledge of coal is incomplete. Concern stated for a climatic tipping point short of 450 ppm CO2 (where other sources of GHGs from, e.g., methane liberated from the tundra) would make 1000 ppm unavaoidable, impelled substantial discussion of faster and more effective anti-climate change strategies.Solar, wind, and electrified transport received a great deal of attention.
The George Washington University Solar Institute has completed its first year. Read the Institute's
Annual Report
to learn about the many accomplishments, ongoing research and growing partnerships of the Institute, including details on the Director's role with the US Department of Energy's Solar Vision, which is developping a 20 year roadmap for solar energy.
Ken Zweibel gave a presentation on the cost-competitiveness of solar PV at the
MIT-hosted Technology Review EmTech conference
in Boston, September 24, 2009. He spoke on a panel entitled "The Energy Agenda" designed to respond to issues of climate change and the discussion of cap and trade in the US Congress. Zweibel presented the opening remarks and challenged a number of myths about solar energy in a talk entitled "PV Now: 4 Reasons for Not Waiting." He strongly countered the misconception that solar was not ready for major deployment. Instead, Zweibel indicated that: (1) solar energy would likely be able to provide the US with as much electricity as we want in the 10 c/kWh range (and this is also true of wind) within ten years; (2) that in the long term (using a metric that measures cost over the life of a power plant) solar and wind are already less expensive than any form of fossil fuel power production, and especially generation with the added expense of carbon capture; (3) that since solar and wind, especially combined with electric transport, can meet all our needs without any carbon dioxide, there are few technical or economic challenges to meeting climate change goals ; (4) that our current portfolio of solar PV R&D overemphasizes long-term, high-risk research and nearly ignores the most likely route to success, and is thus sub-optimized for practical progress. and (5) that direct incentives of solar, wind, and electric transport are an essential complement to any cap-and-trade legislation.
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The Swiss Embassy in DC hosted 200 people for a forum entitled
"Making Solar Competitive."
Ken Zweibel gave a
characterizing PV cost competitiveness four ways: as a multi-billion dollar societal investment by the government of China; in terms of cost reductions achieved by technical improvements and economies of scale; in a comparison between powering vehicles with electricity or gasoline; and finally based on annual electricity cost over typical power plant lifetimes.
Ken Zweibel, director of the Solar Institute, testified before the
House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
. He spoke about the practicality of developping a solar "roadmap" and answered questions about the ability of solar energy to meet US demand. Video of the hearing can be found on the subcommittee's
. View Ken Zweibel's
testimony and the supporting materials
submitted to the Congressional record.
Ken Zweibel, director of the Solar Institute, presented a talk,
Solar Energy: A Better Option
, to
The International Conference on Energy and Sustainability
, sponsored by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, in Stavanger. Zweibel summarized the benefits that society would realize from accelerating investment in solar as a solution to climate change and energy price escalations. Zweibel explains that over the lifetime of a solar PV system, which can extend to almost 100 years, it is the lowest cost energy now available in terms of total cost per killowatt hour. The two-day conference featured scientists and scholars in technology from around the world who addressed prospective aspects of energy, social change and social responsibility.
Ken Zweibel, Solar Institute director, delivered a talk on the role of
Muti-GW Thin Film PV
at the 34th annual
IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The IEEE PVSC 34 is the largest international conference of photovoltaic experts. View the
The Institute's Kickoff Symposium was a great success with nearly 250 people in attendance. Tedt Turner delivered a rousing speech mid-way through the conference that reminded the crowd and the speakers why solar energy is so important. Presentations, video and photos of the day's events are available on the Symposium page.
Ken Zweibel, IASE director, gave a briefing on solar energy to Senate staff which included two presentations: "
Global Manufacturing of Photovoltaics: Where Does the US Stand?
" and "
First Solar: A "Made in America" Emerging Powerhouse
On March 19, 2009 the Institute announced it will be holding day-long symposium on solar energy entitled "Solar Energy: A Solution to Energy and Environmental Problems?" The symposium, taking place April 24, 2009, is intended to be the first of many that IASE will host in the coming years. This first symposium will feature key technical leaders and decision makers in the world of solar energy. Some of IASE's ongoing research will also be featured as a preview of the important research that is being conducted by the Institute.
More information on the symposium and registration...
The presentation "
PV Innovations
" summarizes the past, present, and future of PV technology development. It was presented March 13, 2009 at the "Energy Innovation from the Bottom Up" Photovoltaics Workshop in Washington, DC.
IASE Director, Ken Zweibel, presented a talk about
solar powered plug-in hybrids
and technology trends in
thin film PV
at an international conference in Eilat, Israel, February 17 and 18, 2009. The Jerusalem Post and Israel Radio
Zweibel after the conference.
IASE director, Ken Zweibel, delivered a presentation, "
Plug-in Hybrids, Solar, and Wind
" at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, February 6, 2009. The talk examines in more detail the idea of using solar and wind energy to power plug in hybrid electric vehicles, simultaneously reducing our dependence on oil imports while minimizing their contribution to carbon dioxide emissions. Expected results of such a program would be to stabilize energy prices and reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the US by about one gigaton.
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"This is a decadent lobster bisque that is surprisingly easy to prepare. Your guests will be impressed and feel pampered. I serve this with salad and hot, buttered French bread."
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3 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup chopped fresh mushrooms
2 tablespoons chopped onion
2 tablespoons chopped celery
2 tablespoons chopped carrot
1 (14.5 ounce) can chicken broth
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 1/2 cups half-and-half
1/2 cup dry white wine
1/2 pound cooked lump lobster meat
With the following changes, you'll never want for another seafood bisque recipe! I used just 8 oz chicken broth and for the remaining liquid I reserved the juice from the lobster and added clam juice to make up the difference. I then whisked in 3oz tomato paste and put it all in the soup. I used 1/4 c white wine (instead of 1/2c) and 1/4c sherry. It was ABSOLUTELY incredible! *Works well with crab as well or a lobster/crab combo.*
While this wasn't too bad, it just didn't measure up without additions. It didn't thicken up enough to please us! I added a tablespoon of tomato paste, and thickened it at the end with flour mixed with heavy cream. Also added additional lobster meat at the end.
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I've used this recipe with some modifications based on all of the reader reviews & it always comes out great. I use my hand blender to blend the vegetables & seafood, because I found that transferring to the countertop blender was too messy. Also, I add clam juice instead of broth, as it gives it more of a seafood flavor, and I skip the wine. I also use just celery & onions and not the carrots & mushrooms. I also use imitation crab & lobster meat sometimes, or throw in scallops and/or shrimp. The base is excellent, and the cayenne pepper gives it just enough kick! I forgot to mention that I also add a small can of tomato paste and blend it with the vegetables and broth/clam juice. It helps thicken the bisque a bit and also gives it more flavor and color.
ORIGINAL REVIEW 1/3/05---I didn't add all the veggies to mine. I doubled the amount of onions & celery & omitted the carrots & mushrooms. I decreased the butter by 1 tbp. to account for the lack of veggies. The wine sauce was a bit strong (I used a good chardonnay)...next time I will use just a bit less wine. All in all, very very good! UPDATE 7/24/06---Made this again using all the veggies & using leftover lobster tails (we purposely made extra for this recipe) & this time I simmered the lobster tails (I removed the meat) in the soup & then removed them before serving. WOW! It added such great flavor!!!! Also, this time I used a pinot grigio & even added a bit extra & the wine taste wasn't overpowering at all.
This recipie was awesome. Thanks Laura. I used 12oz of crawfish meat in place of the Lobster and it turned out really good. I also used some corn startch to thicken it. We had high expectations and they were met!!!! Yummy!!! I will definatly make this again...and again..and again!!!!
I love this recipe! My husband said it's better than what he has had at restaurants. I have already made this several times and will pull out this recipe when I want to make it a very special dinner. I've even made it once without the mushrooms and it was still excellent.
Very good. Try Dry Sherry instead of wine! Dry Sherry was made to go with seafood dishes. will make this again!
This is the best soup I've ever made. Very easy and wouldn't change a thing. It's not a very thick bisque but has incredible flavor. I used crab meat instead of lobster and it was great!!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Perfect Lobster Bisque
Serving Size: 1/6 of a recipe Servings Per Recipe: 6 Amount Per Serving ** Calories: 186 ** Calories from Fat: 117
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March 28, 2013 | By IMS
Area Kids To Enjoy Easter Egg Hunt March 30 At IMS
Families are invited to enjoy a fun, exciting spring tradition featuring a special appearance by the Easter Bunny and Indianapolis 500 drivers Ed Carpenter and Alex Tagliani at the third annual Indianapolis Motor Speedway Kids Club Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 30. Participating youngsters also can enjoy a bounce house, face painters and additional activities.
This free event, the only annual IMS Kids Club event open to the public, will take place from 10 a.m.-noon inside Turn 3 of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The general public will enter IMS through Gate 2 from 16th Street. Parking is free. Children age 12 and younger can participate in the Easter Egg Hunt.
All those wishing to participate are encouraged to RSVP for the event by Thursday, March 28 by visiting:
The Easter Egg Hunt will be conducted in age-specific areas with thousands of eggs containing candy available to participants. The event will take place rain or shine and Indianapolis Motor Speedway Kids Club membership information will be available.
The schedule:
10 a.m. – Registration Opens
11 a.m. – Easter Egg Hunt Begins
Noon– Event Concludes
WHAT: Indianapolis Motor Speedway Easter Egg Hunt
WHO: Open to children age 12 and under, with free admission. Special appearances by the Easter Bunny and Indianapolis 500 drivers Ed Carpenter and Alex Tagliani
WHEN: 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 30
WHERE: Inside Turn 3 of IMS oval (Enter through Gate 2 from 16th Street)
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International Conference Center - ICC, Geneva, Switzerland
8 - 9 May 2014
Geospatial Media and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe organized the two-day workshop Land Information Systems for Smart Cities , which will be part of the Geospatial World Forum event. This Forum is a biannual international conference and exhibition, which supports dialogue on geospatial technologies and their role in promoting economic and social development. Organised in India (2007, 2009 and 2011), the Netherlands (2012 and 2013) and now in Switzerland (2014), this global platform brings together more than 1000 delegates from over 80 countries deliberating on geospatial technologies and their role in promoting sustainable development.
Workshop objectives
- Showcase examples of land administration systems which lay a sound foundation for smart cities
- Present success stories from authorities who successfully implemented smart city approaches
- Share information on the wide range of software, services and technologies available for developing sound smart information systems for smart cities
- Brainstorm on possible future steps to promote effective and modern land administration and the implementation of smart city approaches.
The speakers will include representatives of governments, academia and the private sector representing various sectors, including urban planning and management, land administration, housing, energy, environment and disaster risk reduction.
For more information, please contact:
Gulnara Roll, Head
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By Lee W. Capristo, Assistant Vice President of Publications and Media Relations What do a pirate ship, a film production company, a magazine, and living classrooms have in common? Baltimore and a St. Mary's education. If you don't have enough energy to keep up with Cara Hergan Joyce '92, you'll have to walk the plank! Cara, who grew up in Linthicum, Maryland, and now lives in the Canton neighborhood of Baltimore City, got the idea for a pirate ship when she went on a similar adventure ship in 2007. The call she made from that ship to her husband, Mike Joyce '92, started something like this: "Honey, I know what we're doing for the rest of our lives . . . ." Apparently, Mike had heard this before from Cara, who admits to having lots of crazy ideas. As a student at St. Mary's, the advice she got from her psychology professor and adviser, Carol Giesen, was "Now Cara, you need to focus." Cara admits she focused more on sports at St. Mary's than academics (she played varsity soccer, swimming, and tennis, and was athlete of the year in both her junior and senior years). But, as one in an extended family of St. Mary's graduates (including her husband; sister Tricia '89 and brother Mark '90; brother-in-law Bill Matthews '90 and sister-in-law Pam Deem Hergan '90), she is grateful for her dad's advice to "gain all the knowledge and education you can, because no one can take it away from you!" In the summer of 2007, Cara recruited two friends to join her in business. Theypitched their idea to their husbands in August, incorporated in September, and began the process of permits, fundraising, and boat-building. At each bank Cara approached, the response was the same: "You're building a pirate ship? No, you're not getting any money from us." Nonplussed, Cara persevered, making friends with the Fells Point Preservation Society, the city council, the Fells Point Business Association, the local mayor's office-whoever it took to sell the idea of Urban Pirates to Baltimore. "Baltimore has great pirate history and Fells Point is at the heart of that history," says Cara. "Privateer pirate ships were built right here in Fells Point. Even The Pride of Baltimore was a privateer boat! It was called The Chaucer and it defeated the British in the War of 1812 and when it came back to port it was dubbed The Pride of Baltimore." Her knowledge of pirate history in Baltimore and Fells Point helped turn skeptics like the Fells Point Preservation Society into supporters of her pirate plan. The Ann Street dock where Fearless moors is a block away from the John Stevens Pub, a busy Fells Point business that often lodged and fed pirates back in the day. Funny, during the fall of 2007, the John Stevens Pub fed and practically lodged Cara too, as she squirreled away in a corner with her laptop, using the restaurant as a makeshift office to get Urban Pirates off the ground. Besides getting at least a dozen permits in place before going to the City of Baltimore for approval, there were other matters uniquely challenging to starting a pirate ship business. Where do you buy a pirate ship? How do you get it certified by the Coast Guard? Cara and her husband spent several months traveling the Eastern seaboard in search of the perfect boat. Dave Mason provided the answer and a handshake sealed the deal. His Crisfield, Maryland, company, Chesapeake Boats, had built the Duckaneer pirate ship in Ocean City, and he offered Coast Guard certification as part of the purchase price. In order to have a pirate ship by Privateer Day in April 2008, Cara and her sole Urban Pirates employee, Adam Sahhar, spent about three months in Crisfield helping the boat builders paint the boat, and install the ratlins, spars, crow'snests, and cannons. Being a trained actor with a background in computer programming, Sahar had the uncanny combination of skills Cara needed for Urban Pirates. Onboard the ship he plays the lead pirate, Peppercorn, making pirate history come alive through the songs, tales, and treasure that he and the rest of the pirates share. Shore-side, Sahhar does the web site for Urban Pirates. "We opened in April 2008 with only one side of the boat painted and no money at all," says Cara. "We begged people to come on the ship, and we made our kids come just to fill up the boat. Even our husbands were part of the crew." Their enthusiasm was contagious and their knowledge of pirate lore in Baltimore impressive; they got through that first season barely breaking even but having a ball. You can now find the Pirate Queens of Baltimore just about everywhere, talking up the greatest new way to see Baltimore's Inner Harbor. They've been featured on MSNBC's "Your Business" with J.J. Ramberg, Maryland Public Television, and local cable and TV news spots. Urban Pirates offers pirate story-time aboard ship, pirate weddings, corporate teambuilding gigs, and adult-only "bring your own grog" cruises. The ship is also a popular field trip destination for school groups. Cara runs Urban Pirates in addition to the other three jobs. She has a master's degree in education from Loyola University and teaches special education in Anne Arundel County high schools. She's also a tennis coach at a local club and runs her own specialty florist company, C.H. Joyce Designs. But she says her most important job is raising her two sons, Sean, age 6, and Ryan, age 3. Coming aboard Fearless means taking on the mantle of a pirate. Everyone participates. Costumes, face painting, tattoos, are all part of the experience and no one is exempt. Go ahead; jump in and find your inner pirate. AARRGH ! (Start by visiting www.urbanpirates.com.) Fearless
Dubbed "the Pirate Queens of Baltimore," Cara and her business partner, Laura Bolin, own and operate Urban Pirates, a Fells Point tourist attraction onboard the pirate ship Fearless. Now in its third season, Urban Pirates has all the signs of a thriving mainstay of Baltimore tourism, and potential as a franchised business. Urban Pirates' success is a thrill to Cara, who admits, "I'm still in awe when the phone rings. It's such a fun business!"
By Flora Lethbridge-Çejku '12, Publications and Media Relations Fellow "Follow your dream now, and live with no regrets." That's the way Brian Morrison '04 has been living ever since his mother gave him that advice six years ago. In 2000, Brian transferred to St. Mary's,liking the fit of a liberal arts college and its proximity to his home in the Baltimore area. He had no clue what he wanted to study and finally settled on a major in economics. But by senior year he realized economics might not be what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. In the spring of his senior year, Brian was two credits short for graduation so he approached theater professor Joanne Klein about doing an independent study in film to fill the gap. "The film he made, entirely on his own, showed his impressive ability to use film rhetoric to communicate tone, ideas, and hilarity," Professor Klein told me. "I continue to admire his films for their skillful use of cinematography and editing. He's got a thumping case of cinematic deftness." After completing his independent study project, Brian realized what he wanted to do after graduation. "Movies have always been something I could talk about, every minute of every day, and I wouldn't get tired of it," he says. "I thought, if I can make money at this, that would be the ultimate dream." After graduation, he interned with a Baltimore production company that made local television shows and car commercials, and gained valuable experience. "I didn't have many bosses, so I got to experiment with editing and graphics; it helped me learn a lot of the technology." He jumped around between local production companies until he became an editor and graphic designer for Cerebral Lounge, a production and post-production company in Baltimore, where he had the opportunity to work for bigger companies such as the Discovery Channel. Brian soon realized, though, that he was not really doing what he wanted. "They wanted me to become more of a New Age tech geek, and it wasn't really engaging for me," he says. "I needed to have a strong, creative role." And so Brian went off on his own to do work that would reflect his creative sense and bring attention to him as a filmmaker. With his wood-paneled bedroom as inspiration, he created "The Wood Room," a film-directing, production, and post-production company. Brian admits working on his own is a struggle, "There's a high demand for jobs [in film] but there's not enough money. You just have to keep your head above water. . . . And you have to be as self-sustaining as possible to retain the ability to be creative in your work." Brian always has a distinct vision in his head as a writer and a director but getting that on film is difficult. "Film is an organic thing, it's made up of so many different elements, and it evolves as you go along. It's a series of letdowns, compromises, and disappointments, a challenge of getting what you want, and you just have to roll with it." It is hard for him to sit back and enjoy what he has done because it is hard to see it objectively. "I am just now looking at some of the videos I did at St. Mary's with an objective eye. . . . It's painful in a lot of ways. It's physically demanding and emotionally taxing." As he becomes more proficient in his field, working with film in a variety of ways ranging from music videos to feature-length films, Brian wants to make sure he does not get stuck doing one type of film. "I don't like style, and I don't think I have a style. I don't think you need to have a certain way of doing things. " At a disadvantage because he did not go to film school, Brian has attempted to catch up to his colleagues who are film school graduates by building a network of film professionals. He recently collaborated with cameraman John Cooper who has worked for CBS, BBC, and Discovery 3. With the help of Cooper and his high quality REDONE camera, Brian produced music videos that normally require a $25,000 budget for about $2,000. "It's important to find people who have the same sensibilities and are willing to sacrifice money and time to produce content that rivals productions that cost infinitely more." Brian's philosophy is beginning to pay off. Last December, The Baltimore Sun did a feature on his career as a local filmmaker. As a result, he has two new music videos coming up for production featuring national recording artists that will be aired across the MTV networks this summer. "With these next two projects, I have to go beyond what I've done previously. It's important to get better with each one." Though Brian is still writing screenplays and scripts which he is hoping someone will pick up and put into production, he sees music videos as a more direct path to success as a filmmaker. "A music video is great because the band can take From the song "Coquette" by Lazerbitch, filmed in Baltimore possession of it and you can focus more on the work itself. I think there is a clearer path of progress; if you work with a little bit bigger band with a little bit bigger audience, you're going to get seen a little bit more." Brian makes it clear that no matter how successful he becomes, Baltimore is where he wants to stay. "I really have faith in Baltimore, I think it's such a great place for art. As far as films go, I think there's a lot out there that Baltimore has to offer," Brian explains, "I don't want to be one of those guys that makes it and goes to New York or L.A. and never comes back." "I'm doing exactly what I want to do and some people can't say that. I feel complete freedom; I just hope I can keep moving forward." See Brian's videos and upcoming projects at www.woodroom.comA Thumping Case of Cinematic Deftness
By Lee W. Capristo, Assistant Vice President of Publications and Media Relations It was meant to be, what Talib Horne does for a living. He may not have realized it until he was 22 years old, but it was settled for him by the time he was 11. Talib Horne '93 was born in 1971 to parents who were leaders in the Black Panther Movement's Philadelphia operations. Leaders in the Black Panther Party stayed at their house when they came to town for meetings. By 1978, Talib's parents had separated, and his mother had taken a job as a missionary for the National Baptist Convention. She became principal of an elementary and middle school in Liberia, Africa. For two years, she and Talib lived in the bush, 50 miles from Monrovia, with no water or electricity. Like any other child in the village, Talib attended his mother's school, hauled water from a community well, boiled it for drinking, and bathed in it in a bucket in the yard. He missed TV and his friends from Philadelphia but made new friends in Liberia. "I knew what my Mom was doing was important," Talib recalls. These two years were followed by another two in Swaziland, where his mother ran another school. During breaks, Talib and his mother traveled to Egypt and Israel, and Talib came back to the U.S. to visit his dad and grandparents. They returned to the States when Talib was 11, just as he was entering fifth grade. His classmates didn't know what to make of him: he spoke with an accent, his name was unusual; they teased him and asked him if he was American or African. Talib stayed in Philadelphia until high school, when his mother took a job that moved them to Baltimore. He graduated with honors from Baltimore City College High School, enjoying "the positive peer pressure I got by surrounding myself with successful friends. When you do that," he explains, "success becomes the expectation." Talib came to St. Mary's knowing he wanted to study abroad at Oxford. He double-majored in political science and economics, played soccer and tennis, joined the Judicial Board, the Student Government Association, and led the Black Student Union. He and his roommates in Boone 4 (Rob Johnson, Spencer Wilder, and Quentin Hillsman) took it upon themselves to welcome fellow Baltimore minorities to campus. The friendships they made this way have lasted all these years. Talib set his sights on law school after graduation. To pay for the summer in Oxford, he and his mother asked neighborhood churches and businesses for assistance. The summer at Oxford "changed my life," he says. "It showed me what possibilities exist when you put your mind to achieving them." Then, a setback that changed Talib's future: he wasn't accepted into law school. "That hurt," he remembers, "but it forced me to look at something else." He returned to Baltimore and looked for work in urban community development. He landed his first job with Ombudsman Education Services, a for-profit educational firm running several schools in Baltimore. He rose quickly in the organization, becoming director of all their schools in Baltimore by the time he was 23. "My mother always told me, 'Use your talents and skills to help others' and it was around this time that I began to understand that this was going to be my career." Next came a job with the Empowerment Zone where Talib worked as a community organizer and youth advocate in the streets of Baltimore's largest public housing area. In 2000, he began an executive master's program in community development. His thesis project became his future. He created the nonprofit East Harbor Development Corporation and ran it as the CEO for five years, under a subsidiary license to the East Harbor Village Center. His nonprofit offered volunteer income tax assistance, free financial advising and home ownership counseling, language services for Latinos, and building rehabilitation in the Spanish Town section of Baltimore's East Side. As director of development, Talib heads up the Target Investment Zone (TIZ) effort for Baltimore's Eastside. The TIZ is a 10-year effort to improve the education, career prospects, and self-sufficiency of Baltimore's Eastside residents. Talib has helped to raise $26 million for the effort thus far. Within the TIZ, Living Classrooms Foundation works with 13 public schools and runs its own middle school. A new $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation and several Baltimore churches provides children living in the TIZ with free after-school and Saturday programs at the LCF's Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park and Museum in Fells Point. There are two community hubs in the TIZ, both in rehabilitated buildings. The first, made possible by a $1.5 million gift from NBA star and native Baltimorean, Carmelo Anthony, is in a former Boys and Girls Club facility. The Carmelo Anthony Youth Development Center serves 200students a day and offers community programs and services. The Safe Streets office is in a converted row house, and is used for GED and job-training programs, conflict resolution, and health and family services. Since Safe Streets opened in 2009, shootings in the neighborhood have been reduced by 70 percent. Physical upkeep of the TIZ is aided by ex-offenders re-entering society through LCF's Project SERVE program. In describing the yawing needs within the Target Investment Zone and Living Classroom Foundation's efforts to break the cycle of poverty, Talib shares his dream that everyone will achieve success and be self-sustaining by age 21. "We need to reach kids sooner than we currently are: by the sixth grade, these kids are three years behind kids in other parts of Baltimore. It costs too much to catch them up; it's not a sustainable model." He adds, "if you can develop kids from ages 0-14 they don't often fall back down; they stay successful and it becomes the expectation. That's what keeps me coming to work every day." When Success Becomes the Expectation
The chairman of the board for Talib's East Harbor Development Corporation was James Piper Bond, the CEO of Living Classrooms Foundation (LCF). Bond persuaded Talib to come work for LCF. Talib recognized that with LCF resources, solving urban issues and investing in community development could happen much faster. And so, in 2007, he stepped down as CEO of his nonprofit and became director of development at Living Classrooms Foundation.
By Lee W. Capristo, Assistant Vice President of Publications and Media Relations "People who know me now find it hard to believe, but I was sort of shy when I came to St. Mary's," says Keisha Reynolds '96. She credits the size of the college as an advantage that helped her to be engaged in a variety of activities, including being a reporter for The Point News and being active in the Black Student Union (BSU). In fact, she explains that the BSU President Talib Horne '93 and his Boone 4 townhouse mates (Rob Johnson, Spencer Wilder, and Quentin Hillsman) reached out to her and other first-year minority students to make them feel welcome at St. Mary's. "I'm still close to Talib and the Boone 4 guys," says Keisha, "and I'm still close to the girls that embraced me in friendship during my first year. That's what's so special about St. Mary's, that I developed friendships that have lasted all these years." Keisha also found a friend for life in Helen Thompson '80, the periodicals technician she worked for as a student. "We would get into very deep discussions over the periodicals we were checking in to the library," Keisha recalls fondly. "Helen gave me all kinds of life advice." In her junior year, when there was no one to chair the spring formal (a dance sponsored by the BSU), Keisha wondered if she might be able to do it. Helen told her emphatically, "Keisha, you can do anything you want to do!" With newfound confidence, she chaired the dance, turning it into a campus-wide, mustattend event, selling 700 tickets to an event that had previously attracted fewer than 200. That spring dance was Keisha's coming out party: she's been confident and running full speed ever since. Born in Baltimore City, Keisha grew up with one older brother. When they were in their early teens, their parents expanded the family by adopting two boys and opening their home to dozens of foster-children. In the same spirit, a high-school aged Keisha began volunteering with children at Agapé House in Southwest Baltimore, where drug-addicted, homeless, or abused families can find safe harbor. She still volunteers there today. Keisha is a writer and a storyteller. She's creative and prefers to be hands-on in her work. She's also very ambitious: Keisha dreams of creating a mini media empire (magazine, TV, book, publishing company) and she is working on making that dream come true. She's launched her own magazine, produced TV tie-ins to that magazine, and written two books already. Keisha is still in her 30's. How'd she get so far so fast? Her first job after graduation was with the Maryland Mass Transit Administration doing public and media relations. She quickly became the go-to person for speechwriting and events planning. She finished a master's degree at Towson University in professional writing-mass media in 2000. She worked in a paid position at Agapé House for a year, and then joined the Columbia Association in 2002, a quasi-government entity uniting the 10 villages of Columbia, Maryland. Under the mentorship of the association's president, Maggie Brown, Keisha built its communications department from the ground up, defining the work processes, hiring and training the staff. Brown nominated her for the Howard County Leadership Program which she completed in 2004. Keisha joined Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH ) in 2004 and still works there today, as a communications consultant to government agencies in the defense industry. As such, Keisha helps the agency with communication needs assessments and strategic planning. Occasionally, she gets to develop newsletters and plan events as an outcome of the needs assessments. "I sometimes miss the hands-on, creative work I had when I was starting out at the Mass Transit Administration," she says, "but I appreciate that what I have developed over the years is a complete communications skill set." Wanting to fill the creative void in her work life, Keisha set up a company in 2007 and launched her own magazine, Everyday People, in 2008. "I saw the need when I looked at magazines in the racks that were all about stars and their pets, stars and their favorite foods, stars and their favorite vacation spots, and I thought, 'We need more substance!'" "I knew from working at Agapé House that there were many amazing stories right in our own community that needed to be told." She approached friends about joining her in the effort to produce a free, quarterly magazine, primarily for and about Baltimore, but with distribution and reach into other parts of Maryland and metropolitan Virginia and D.C. They joined her every Sunday for two years, volunteering their time to produce Everyday People, paid for entirely by advertising and personal funds. The nation's economic downturn brought an end to the magazine in early 2009, when advertising dollars no longer covered production expenses. "It's on hiatus," says Keisha, who plans to bring it back. "The support for it was tremendous. I had letters from people as far away as Chicago and New York, sending me ideas for stories." She's not disheartened by its hiatus. Last summer, she started working on an Everyday People for TV, producing cable-ready segments that she'll have ready for distribution this summer. Perhaps, the attention from the cable segments will reinvigorate the magazine. Keisha's also written two children's books for which she's currently pursuing publishing opportunities. "I fell in love with writing for children when I took Lucille Clifton's class on it," she admits. Her first book is for young children, written in rhyme; the other is for 'Tweens and is about rehabilitating chimpanzees. She got the idea for this second book in 2000, when she joined Professor Bill Roberts' study tour to the Gambia, West Africa. They visited Baboon Island, where mistreated and orphaned chimpanzees are rehabilitated and taught how to be independent. That experience led Keisha to Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees. It was through this love of chimpanzees and Goodall's work that Keisha learned of the Roots & Shoots internship program and decided to apply. Wanting to check out of the rat race for a while; to develop herself in a new way; and give of herself to others, Keisha took six months' unpaid leave from BAH in October 2009 to intern at the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in Tanzania, East Africa. There she volunteered in a children's orphanage; started a community garden with microfinancing opportunities for community members; and, because of her communications skills, was asked to work with JGI-Tanzania to improve communications. She conducted a needs assessment, interviewed staff, reported her findings, and made suggestions based on strategic planning for the organization. Goodall herself was visiting the compound when the report was delivered; took interest in it and its author; called Keisha into several meetings; and implemented some of Keisha's recommendations on the spot.Keisha Keeps it Real
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