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By Will Hughes CC '13
Being a student at Columbia can be difficult at times, especially getting used what might be a more academically challenging environment. In between coursework, extracurricular activities, and everything New York City has to offer, taking time just to relax and decompress can fall by the wayside very easily. But since it's important to remember to take that time to de-stress, here are some tips on how to be well while at Columbia:
Check in with yourself: It can be so easy to get caught up in the million things going on on and off campus, and the incredible people you're meeting. But take a few minutes every day to see how you're feeling. Are you spending your time on things you find rewarding?
Take a break: Carve out time to just relax, hang out with friends, and not worry about schoolwork. This will help you be more productive when you are working, and have a lot less stressful of a time here.
Don't be too hard on yourself: it might seem like everyone around you is getting perfect grades and has everything in order, but in reality, every student here struggles at different times to manage their workload. Moving out of the mindset that says you have to do and be everything can really help you enjoy your time here.
Know about the resources out there, and feel comfortable asking for help: There are so many resources Columbia provides to its students, because it wants to see all of us succeed. On the academic side, your advisors are always there, and they can connect you to tutoring, study groups, and specific departments' resources. For more general stress, there's always your RA, Counseling and Psychological Services, the Chaplain's Office, Nightline, and the list goes on and on.
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mtnl 3g jadoo review
can anyone using mtnl 3g jadoo please post a review about it ive heard bad news about their coverage
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its good speed about 150 kbps download speed at max and fluctuiating speed,can be even more as i tried only 1 file.video calling is enjoyable.revised rates of mtnl 3g are same as 2g service.so its very affordable service.only data usage is still costly abt 50p/100kb.call rates
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I tried video calling, to their auto answering, dialing 5544 but i never got connected....
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well above answers were not a review, but its just specification of their plan. Dont know much about MTNL service, just know their connectivity was not good some months before.
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Better that other
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it 54455 not 5544
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In which cities of India are 3G service available?
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I think you also mean EVDO service?? if thats what you mean then it is available from 5 companies now and covers the whole country.
But its too new and will only catch up in a big way after a few months.... This mobile broadband thing is going to bring about a bigger revolution then the mobile phones brought in the last decade.
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Algeria's first president Ahmed Ben Bella. (AP)
ALGIERS: Algeria's elderly first president Ahmed Ben Bella left hospital in good health Thursday after undergoing medical tests, his daughter said after some reports that the former independence fighter had died.
"He left hospital today and is at home and in good health, considering he is 95," Mehdia Ben Bella told AFP, dismissing the reports about her father's demise as "scandalous".
"He is not in a coma and he is out of danger," she said. "My father went into hospital 48 hours ago medical checks, but there was no need to start all these rumours."
Ben Bella became the first president of Algeria after its independence in 1962 and is one of the north African country's last surviving heroes of the war against French colonial rule.
In its early online edition Thursday, El Watan newspaper said Ben Bella had died, before updating the story to say there was utter confusion over his condition.
"This morning, one of his nephews... confirmed the death of the former president, telling our correspondent 'He is clinically dead,'" the newspaper wrote.
But Algerian news agency APS and public radio said Ben Bella, who returned to Algiers on Monday after being hospitalised in Paris for "respiratory complications", was in stable condition at a military hospital.
"News of his death is false," APS said. "Ben Bella is still alive and under medical observation at the hospital after having been taken there overnight."
According to his biographer, Mohammed Benelhadj, Ben Bella has suffered "memory losses," and his mental state "deteriorated significantly" after his wife Zohra died from lung cancer in April 2008 at the age of 70.
Ben Bella was overthrown as president in 1965 by defence minister Houari Boumediene, who enjoyed the support of current President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
But his biographer said he had been "very close" to the president since they reconciled in 1999.
Ben Bella has also chaired since 2007 an African Union panel charged with the prevention and management of conflicts in Africa.
Ben Bella became the first president of independent Algeria in 1962 but was overthrown in 1965. He spent a total of 24 years as a prisoner of both the French colonial regime and its nationalist successors.
The leftist leader became a leading figure of the Non-Aligned Movement -- alongside Cuba's Fidel Castro, India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser -- and a vocal advocate of pan-Arabism.
He spent several years in exile in Switzerland but returned to Algeria in 1990 and still lives there.
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Of course it wasn't all bumbling and bathroom breaks.
They didn't want a whole film crew bumbling in there and destroying parts of the cave that are incredibly pristine.
The story is a true account of what this poor bumbling couple did with their first dog.
He is way too neurotic to handle this, however, so he compensates by representing himself as a bumbling idiot.
He is played by a different actor each time-the first rotund and bumbling, the latest weedy and quiet.
However it is we're bumbling along, we're doing okay.
In the newspapers, these problems were looked upon as a lot of bumbling and incompetence.
His own lawyers painted him as a bumbling misfit living out a spy fantasy.
One useful thing that you've discovered in your bumbling about is a metal doorknob set at waist level into what might be a door.
There's an intriguing mystery, exotic settings, likable heroes and nasty-but-bumbling baddies.
Who had stopped the bumbling politicians from implementing the lofty ideas you mentioned above.
But you don't to be governor by being a bumbling fool.
But the note also reignited criticism of their bumbling rescue efforts.
Two bumbling boneheads who are kicked out of flying school decide to remain airborne by becoming stewardesses.
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See concurring opinion on bumbling bifurcation of prosecutions.
One day, he encounters a bumbling old wizard who becomes his tutor.
All the while security was bumbling around with ticket holders, all heck could have broken lose in other places.
So, your bracket has more dead ends than a bumbling detective on his first case.
They are prosecuting a bumbling idiot that no one likes and that has many, many, many character flaws.
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He's a bit bumbling and bit naive and a bit ham-handed.
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Advanced Math/Science Research Update
by Dr. April Burch, Director of the AMSR program
January 15, 2013
Since our last update, Berkshire School hosted student researchers from Belmont Hill, and all-boys prep school outside of Boston, for a 1-day mini-symposium on Student Biomedical Research. The goal was to foster collaboration, communication and community outreach with our students. AMSR students Liza Bernstein '13, Sissi Wang '13, Lars Robinson '13, Elsie Guevara '13, Ernest Yue '13, and Nate MacKenzie '14, gave short talks about their work in the new Bellas/Dixon Math and Science lecture hall. The talks were followed up by break-out sessions where Belmont Hill students described their research projects and students discussed commonalities between the projects and future goals.
The second semester of AMSR started with some terrific news. The AMSR program was awarded a grant from The Chinchester Dupont Foundation for the purchase of an EVOS fluorescence microscope. This piece of equipment will expand the types of experiments and analyses that can be done by AMSR students this and future years. The microscope should arrive shortly, and Dr. Burch has invited everyone to stop in for a look next time they are on campus.
One new, exciting project that is underway in the winter season of AMSR in the afternoons is being spearheaded by Elif Kesaf '14. Elif is from Turkey and seeks to identify novel viruses of non-pathogenic strains of Legionella bacterium from travertines in Pamukkale. In collaboration with Dr. Sunny Shin at the Perlman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, she will be working to isolate viruses of this bacterium with the hope of identifying new agents to combat Legionnaires' disease caused by a pathogenic form of Legionella.
Look for more news from Dr. Burch in the next issue!
Bears in the Postseason
The Girls Varsity Basketball and Boys Varsity Hockey teams have both qualified for the postseason and will play their quarterfinal games this Wednesday. Girls Basketball is ranked #5 in the New England Class B division and will play #4 Cushing at Cushing at 3:30 PM. Boys Hockey, ranked #3 in the New England Division I/Elite 8, will play #6 Salisbury at Berkshire at Berkshire at 3:00 PM.
NOTE: The Boys Hockey game will be streamed live on the Berkshire website. To access this stream, click here on Wednesday at 3 PM.
Girls Basketball
#1 Tilton vs. #8 Marianapolis @Tilton
#2 Pomfret vs. #7 Brooks @ Pomfret
#3 Govenor's vs. #6 St. George's @ Govenor's
#4 Cushing vs. #5 Berkshire @ Cushing at 3:30
Boys Hockey
#1 Kimball Union vs. #8 The Gunnery @ at a neutral site TBA
#4 Kent vs. #5 Dexter @ Loomis
#3 Berkshire vs. #6 Salisbury @ Berkshire at 3:00
#2 Belmont Hill vs. #7 Westminster @ Belmont Hill
Click here for more info about the Hockey rankings.
Alpine Racing
A number of boys and girls in the Alpine Racing programs have also qualified for the postseason and will be competing in March in USSA (United States Ski Association) and FIS (Fédération Internationale de Ski or International Ski Federation) competitions:
- Elise Chauvel '15 finished tied for 1st Overall at the Tristate (Ma/CT/RI) U16 Championships and qualified into the USSA Eastern U16 Championship at Sugarloaf, ME.
- Annette Key '16 finished 6th Overall at the Tristate U16 Championships and was named as 1st Alternate to the U16 Eastern Championships, and qualified into the USSA Eastern U16 Finals at Attitash, NH.
- Julia Slyer '14 qualified into the USSA Eastern U21/U18 Finals at Okemo, VT.
- George Frick '14 qualified into the USSA Eastern U21/U18 Finals at Okemo, VT.
- Nate Mackenzie '14 qualified into the USSA Eastern U21/U18 Finals at Okemo, VT and the Eastern FIS Championships at Stowe, VT.
- Jackson vanZon-Borwick '13 qualified into the USSA Eastern U21/U18 Finals at Okemo, VT and the Eastern FIS Championships at Stowe, VT. Jackson was also invited to the Netherlands National Alpine Team training camp and evaluation this summer.
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BIGLER, Pa. - Eight-year-old Victoria Vasquez can do something few boys her age can do. Few boys of any age, for that matter.
The third-grader from Edgewood can bench-press most of her own weight.
On a recent Sunday in an antiquated gym in this mining town, Victoria demonstrated her strength at the annual Coal Country Classic championships. She dipped her hands in powdered chalk, just like an old pro, lay down on a padded bench and pressed an iron bar with all her might.


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Instead, the next big thing for Ulvaeus and Andersson following the "Kristina" concerts would be to write new material for a follow up to Mamma Mia!, he said, stressing it would not be a classical sequel, but a "looser kind of follow up."
While they had not yet decided on the format or the theme, Andersson said he had been positively surprised by the screen adaptation of Mamma Mia!, and had not ruled out another film or a continuation of the same theme.
Asked about sources of inspiration, Andersson just shook his head.
"Inspiration is overrated. It's all down to discipline. I have to keep working at it, and if I am lucky it will come. Then I have about one or two days of flow. Then it's uphill again," he smiled.
Luckily, the handsome black Yamaha grand piano standing in his studio can electronically remember what he has played and play it back to him.
Andersson said he listened to all kinds of music, mostly classical, and especially Johann Sebastian Bach, whose range and depth were "inexhaustible."
While Bach's cello suites were among Andersson's favorite pieces of music, he declined to mention any contemporary music he liked because he said he was not up to date with the current pop scene.
Instead, the music closest to his heart was Swedish folk music, he said, his face lighting up. Andersson received his first accordion when he was six years old – a classical instrument central to Swedish folk music that both his grandfather and father had played and taught each other.
"I think there is something very beautiful about being part of this folkloristic tradition. I feel grateful for being part – a small part – of something bigger," he said, referring to the act of keeping a cultural heritage alive.
For Andersson, Swedish folk music expressed and represented the Nordic climate of long, harsh, dark winters and short, light summers and the physical and emotional conditions people lived under as a consequence.
"I think there is an understanding in the music for our conditions up here. You can hear what kind of a life people have had up here in the deep dark forests – a hard life," he said pensively.
In fact, he speculated, perhaps it was the influences of Swedish folk music and its wide range of happy yet melancholic undertones that had made ABBA's music resonate in so many parts of the world.
"It's funny. I am always asked why I think ABBA has such broad appeal - from Galapagos to China and Egypt. Why does it work in all these different places? I don't know, but perhaps a part of it has to do with that melancholy below the gaiety."
Andersson's desire to feel part of a greater context might explain why he claims to feel friendlier towards the taxman than most multi-millionaires. He enjoys such rich men's hobbies as breeding racing horses and runs the trendy Hotel Rival in Stockholm, but insists he does not mind paying Sweden's high taxes.
"Yes I pay a lot of tax, but I like the idea of giving back to society," he said, adding there was quite enough money left after he had paid the hefty sums.
Another example of his social engagement was the elections to the European parliament in June when Andersson donated one million SEK to Swedish political party "Feministiskt initiativ" – the world's first feminist political party.


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Two 19-year-old students from the Chicago area have been found dead in two campus dormitories at Illinois State University, but school officials say no foul play or criminal activity is suspected in either case.
Allison Zak, a sophomore from Schaumburg, was found unresponsive in Manchester Hall around 9:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the McLean County coroner's office. She was pronounced dead on the scene an hour later.
Shortly before midnight, John Cody Stephens, a freshman from Wilmette, was found unresponsive in Hewett Hall, the coroner's office said. He was pronounced dead at 12:30 a.m. today.
In both cases, the coroner's office said "no signs of life were found" when officials arrived on the scene.
Preliminary information from autopsies performed today indicated Zak's death was medically related, while Stephens died of "a non-natural process."
Zak's might be related to an undiagnosed seizure disorder or infarct related to her Crouzon Syndrome — a syndrome that manifests itself with multiple cerebral and cranial abnormalities, according to McLean County Coroner Beth Kimmerling.
Although it was reported to officials that Zak fell and hit her head earlier this week, the autopsy showed no fatal trauma as a result of this incident, Kimmerling said.
Forensic toxicology and microscopic tissue exam studies are pending.
Stephens' autopsy showed his death was the result "of a non-natural process," Kimmerling said.
Forensic toxicology tests have been ordered, but no additional details will be released.
Kimmerling confirmed there is no sign of foul play or third-party involvement with either death.
"Other than the fact that both individuals were found by their respective roommates, these two young peoples' deaths are apparently unrelated," Kimmerling said. "There are no signs of foul play or third-party involvement. The deaths were not of violent nature."
Zak was a 2010 graduate of Conant High School in Hoffman Estates, where she was a member of the orchestra and marching band, according to High School District 211 spokesman Tom Petersen.
She was the oldest of three sisters, and the two younger sisters attend Conant.
Kreg Moorhouse, the director of bands at Conant High School in Hoffman Estates, taught Zak for her final two years at the school. He called Zak, who played clarinet in both orchestra and marching band for all four years, "very smart and very well-rounded."
"I was just shocked," he said when he heard of the news in the morning. "She was very bright and one of my best players. She took a lot of pride in that. She took that marching band uniform and wore it with pride."
He described Zak as someone who took both her music and her academics very seriously, and he couldn't recall her ever missing class. He called her a well-natured and well-mannered student who he expected great things of in the future.
"Here's this great girl who is involved in all this ... It's just disbelief," Moorhouse said. "She was focused on what she was going to achieve. She knew what she wanted to do. I saw that in her."
Friday was the last day before spring break, but counselors will be provided for students when they return April 2, officials said.
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A Young Artists Program Production
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Based on Goethe's iconic novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther," the beautifully affecting score tells the story of Werther, a sensitive young artist in love Charlotte. Charlotte, however, is duty-bound to fulfill her dying mother's wish that she marry Albert. In growing desperation, Werther chooses to end this impossible love with his death.
A chamber version, with piano, this production will be overseen by Music Director Brian Garman and Directed by Artistic Director Peter Kazaras with Design Coordination by Victor Steeb.
Tickets: $25
In French with English subtitles
Approximate Running Time: 2 hours including intermission.
Meet the Young Artists singing the lead roles, and hear why the program is performing this "specialty" (according to Stage director Peter Kazaras) opera. Find out which role Kazaras calls "a killer" because of its difficulty, and see it all coming together in rehearsal.
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The subject was discussed at length during Thursday morning's session, with the focus on how to avoid excluding gays and lesbians without compromising anyone's beliefs.
Fox also spoke of trying to find balance with current laws.
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"Most of them are Gulf War and forward; they're young guys," said Fox, adding that many of the people who seek shelter in his mission are "younger and younger," and that there are increasingly more suburban, middle-class types.
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Apparatus for reading RFID tags of picked goods as they are loaded onto a picked pallet, and a method of picking and tracking goods using the device. The invention is mounted on a pallet support on a pallet conveyance, and has an RFID interrogator connected to at least one antenna mounted on a vertically movable antenna mount. The interrogator triggers the transponders in the goods and sends the decoded replies to the control unit. An object sensor adjacent to the antenna senses the presence of goods, and a control unit controls the movable antenna mount to raise the antenna mount above the goods. A computer having a display visible to an operator loading the pallet conveyance is used to communicate with the operator, confirming the loaded goods are the correct ones, and tracking inventory loaded on the conveyance. A barcode reader may be located on the antenna mount.
1. An apparatus for reading RF identification transponders in picked goods loaded on a pallet conveyance having a pallet support for conveying the picked goods, comprising:
a) an RFID interrogator for triggering the transponders and receiving and decoding replies;
b) at least one vertically movable antenna mount, mounted to the pallet support for movement therewith, the mount being moveable from a base level adjacent to a pallet supported by the pallet support to a level at least even with the top of a load of picked goods on the pallet support;
c) at least one antenna mounted to the antenna mount and coupled to the interrogator;
d) at least one object sensor adjacent to at least one antenna;
e) a control unit coupled to the interrogator for initiating interrogation of transponders and accepting decoded replies, to the antenna mount for controlling the level of the antenna mounted on the mount, and to the object sensor for detecting the presence of goods adjacent to the object sensor,
such that when picked goods are loaded on the pallet support, the interrogator triggers the transponders in the goods and sends decoded replies to the control unit, and if the object sensor senses the presence of the goods blocking the antenna, the control unit controls the movable antenna mount to raise the antenna mount above the goods.
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19. A method of identifying picked goods having RF identification transponders while the goods are loaded on a picked pallet conveyance having a pallet support for conveying the picked goods, and a reading apparatus comprising an RFID interrogator for triggering the transponders and receiving and decoding replies; at least one vertically movable antenna mount, mounted to the pallet support for movement therewith, the mount being moveable from a base level adjacent to a pallet supported by the pallet support to a level at least even with the top of a load of picked goods on the pallet support; at least one antenna mounted to the antenna mount and coupled to the interrogator; at least one object sensor adjacent to at least one antenna; a controller coupled to the interrogator for initiating interrogation of transponders and accepting decoded replies, to the antenna mount for controlling the level of the antenna mounted on the mount, and to the object sensor for detecting the presence of goods adjacent to the object sensor, the method comprising the steps of:
a) loading a case onto the picked pallet with the RF identification transponder facing the antenna;
b) interrogating the transponder in the case, and sending information from the transponder to the controller;
c) decoding the information from the transponder;
d) displaying on a user interface identification of items loaded;
e) using the object sensor, detecting if the case is blocking the antenna, and if the case is blocking the antenna, raising the antenna mount until the antenna is positioned to read the transponder on a next case to be loaded;
f) if there are more cases to be picked, repeating the method from step (a).
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loading a pallet on the pallet support;
reading a pallet transponder on the pallet with the fixed antenna;
communicating with a warehouse computer to determine contents of the pallet;
if the warehouse computer indicates that there are cases already expected to be on the pallet; downloading identification of the cases expected to be on the pallet;
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displaying the cases expected to be on the pallet; and
displaying any discrepancies between the cases found to be actually on the pallet in steps (a) through (d) and the cases expected to be on the pallet downloaded from the warehouse computer.
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loading a pallet on the pallet support;
interrogating a transponder from at least one case on the pallet and decoding an identity of at least one case;
communicating with a warehouse computer to determine contents of the pallet associated with the at least one case;
if the warehouse computer indicates that there are cases already expected to be on the pallet with the at least one case; downloading identification of the cases expected to be on the pallet;
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displaying the cases expected to be on the pallet; and
displaying any discrepancies between the cases found to be actually on the pallet in steps (a) through (d) and the cases expected to be on the pallet downloaded from the warehouse computer.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention pertains to the field of registers for reading and displaying data pertaining to goods. More particularly, the invention pertains to apparatus and methods for identifying and tracking picked goods on a pallet conveyance using RF identification transponders (RFID tags) associated with the goods.
2. Description of Related Art
Pallets are a cost effective means used to ship products from the point of manufacture to distribution centers and finally to retailers where the merchandise is sold to the general public. Retailers need to know what goods are in the supply chain in order to make better business decisions and to make sure that goods are on the store shelves when consumers want to purchase them. Mandates from major retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Metro, and others are requiring that cases, cartons, and shipping totes, primarily shipped on pallets (hereinafter, simply "cases"), have Radio Frequency Identification transponders, commonly called "RFID tags" attached to identify the product content.
Manufacturers and distribution centers receive orders from stores for a variety of merchandise. The order is typically "picked" which means that a manufacturer or distribution center uses a pallet that is carried on the forks of a pallet conveyance, which may be a forklift truck, motorized pallet jack, manual pallet jack, or other such vehicle, onto which goods from a "pick list" are loaded for delivery to a given location. The operator will move the pallet via the conveyance to an area of the warehouse where merchandise listed on the pick list is stored. The operator will then add the number of cases listed on the pick list to the pallet. This pallet will now be called the "picked pallet", and the goods "picked goods".
The manufacturer or the distribution center would like to know that the right merchandise was loaded onto the picked pallet. Prior art used barcodes read with a handheld barcode scanner as a way to insure accuracy. As each item is added to the picked pallet, the barcode printed on the case is scanned with a hand held scanner. A computer system is used to check that the right merchandise was picked. This process is time consuming and depends on the operator to manually scan each case.
Prior art, such as U.S. Pat. No. 6,669,089, describes methods of reading an RFID tag on one or more pallets loaded on the forks of the forklifts. The patent does not address a method of reading RFID tags on individual cases loaded onto pallets. The antennas in this patent are fixed to the forklift structure (either to the moving fork structure, or the fixed vertical support), and are not independently movable apart from the normal raising and lowering of the forks.
Reading the RFID tags attached to cases as they are loaded onto a picked pallet has proven to be difficult using prior art. The operator can park the forklift or other pallet conveyance vehicle with the picked pallet anywhere in the warehouse. Because the RF field generated by the RFID reader and antenna is imprecise and may bounce off metallic objects in the warehouse, such as the metal shelves, it is difficult to know if the item is on the picked pallet or near it. As goods are loaded onto the picked pallet, antennas that were visible before are now covered with merchandise. Depending on the type of merchandise, the RF signal from the reader will become blocked and no additional RFID tag reading will take place.
Published Patent Application no. 2005/0071234 describes a pallet picking operation in detail. The application makes the assumption that if there is an RFID reader it will read the tag of items placed on the pallet, but does not discuss the placement of the RFID reader antennas with respect to the RFID tags on the cases. This location and proximity between the tags and the antennas is critical if the tags are going to be read correctly—or at all. As an example, paragraph 0016 states "Once on the pallet the RF reader for the pallet identifies the item and logs the item into the pallet's inventory. At the same time the forklift's RF reader reads the RF tag of the item and identifies the item in the pick list". This requires knowing the location of the antennas of the forklift RF reader, and the location of the antennas of the pallet RF reader. The forklift is a metallic structure and RF waves from the forklift may be blocked in many cases. The pallet and forklift RF readers and antennas are not described at all.
The invention is an apparatus that will read the RF identification transponders (RFID tags) of picked goods as they are loaded onto the picked pallet, and a method of picking and tracking goods using the device. Human error is reduced and the picking process can be accomplished much faster.
The invention is mounted on a pallet support of a pallet conveyance such as a forklift, pallet jack, or the like, having pallet supports (such as the "forks" of a forklift) which engage the pallet. The apparatus has an RFID interrogator for triggering the RFID transponders on picked goods and receiving and decoding replies.
The interrogator is connected to at least one antenna mounted on a vertically movable antenna mount, which is moveable from a base level to a level at least even with the top of a load of picked goods on the pallet support. The base level is approximately even with the pallet on the conveyance.
As goods are loaded onto the picked pallet an interrogator triggers the transponder in the goods and sends the decoded replies to the control unit. If the goods are placed onto the picked pallet blocking the antenna, an object sensor adjacent to the antenna senses the presence of goods, and a control unit controls the movable antenna mount to raise the antenna mount above the goods.
A computer having a display which is visible to a user loading the pallet conveyance is used to communicate with the user, confirming that the goods the user has loaded are the correct ones, and tracking the inventory loaded on the conveyance.
Another aspect of the invention is a semi-automatic method of reading barcode labels. The bar coded labels and the RFID tags are usually on the same face of the case. Because the vertical movement of the antenna attempts to maintain a line of sight from the antennas to the newly loaded cases, bar code reading is possible. A bar code reader device can be either a laser scanner or digital camera imager. It will be optionally mounted next to the antenna section. Preferably, a motion sensor next to the bar code scanner will trigger scanning when a new case is loaded onto the picked pallet, but other triggering methods are also possible within the teachings of the invention.
The forklift RFID reading apparatus of the invention is self contained and may be used on any number of pallet conveyances including, forklifts, stock pickers, motorized pallet jacks, manual pallet jacks, and other conveyances that have forks that engage the pallet. In the description below these pallet conveyances may be referred to as "forklifts", but it will be understood that any such conveyance is possible.
Both figures show the vertically movable antenna mounts (6), sliding on their risers (5), each with two antennas (4) for interrogating the RFID tags on goods on pallets on the forks.
The apparatus is mounted on its own pallet guard frame (3) and rests on the forks (2) or (11) of the pallet conveyance vehicle (1) or (10). The apparatus may be secured to the pallet guard (44) of the forklift (1), or it may be secured to the battery compartment (13) of the motorized pallet jack (10), or to any structure located at the base of the forks. Any type of mechanical arrangement may be used to hold the apparatus in place, with the weight of the apparatus carried by the forks (2)(11) of the conveyance.
The pallet (42) is lifted by the forks (2) of the pallet conveyance (1) or (10). A pallet guard (44) is a part of the pallet conveyance, attached to and moving with the forks (2). The pallet guard (44) prevents the pallet (42) and any goods stacked on the pallet from moving into the lift rails (46) and lifting mechanism of the conveyance.
Frame (3) provides a structure on which the apparatus of the invention is constructed, with the guide rails (5) running between a top rail (30) and a middle rail (31). Pulleys (23) can be mounted on the top rail (30), for cables (22 a)(22 b) controlling the height of the antenna mounts (6 a)(6 b). Middle rail (31) and bottom rail (32) form a compartment for mounting the operational components of the invention, such as control unit (26), RFID interrogator (24), pallet antenna (27), motors (25 a) and (25 b), and possibly batteries or power supplies or other components, as needed. Wheels (28) may be mounted on the bottom rail (32) to allow the frame to be moved easily from conveyance to conveyance, or to be removed for service or storage.
The preferred embodiment shown in these figures has two antenna mounts (6 a) and (6 b), aligned with the left and right sides of the pallet (42) on the forks (2), although it will be understood that one or more antenna mount assemblies could be provided within the teaching of the invention. The antenna mounts (6) are independently movable on risers (5) from a lower base level at or near the level of the pallet (42), up to a top level which is at least even with the highest (40 e) of the goods (40 a)-(40 g) which are piled on the pallet (42). Preferably, the top level is about 80 inches (203 cm) above the base (pallet) level.
Each antenna mount (5) has one or more antennas (4) for interrogating RFID tags (41 a)-(41 g) in the goods (40 a)-(40 g), and also one or more object sensors (21) for sensing the proximity of objects aligned with the sensors. Preferably, each mount has two antennas (4). The antennas can preferably be low gain and the outer antennas can preferably be angled in. The antennas on the right and left side of the pallet will help determine if a case is on the pallet or off. Software algorithms, such as reading a RFID tag multiple times with both antennas will determine whether a tag is on the pallet or just adjacent to it. The combination of manual and automatic feedback will further confirm that the right merchandise was loaded.
The object sensors (21) near the antennas (4) are used to determine the height of the merchandise (40 a)-(40 g) loaded on the picked pallet (42) and will keep the antennas (4) several inches above the highest layer (40 c). Thus, as new merchandise (40 c) is loaded, the RFID tags (41 c) of the new merchandise will be visible to the antennas (4).
In certain circumstances of warehouse picking, some items may have a RFID transponder and others may not. Having a bar code reading apparatus will help identify cases that do not have a RFID transponder or that have a defective RFID transponder. Therefore, preferably, there is also a bar code reader (33), which could be a digital camera imager or a laser bar code scanner, mounted next to the object sensors (21) and antennas (4) on each antenna riser. Because the vertically movable antennas maintain a line of sight to the newly added cases, this will allow the bar code scanner to work properly. Preferably, a motion sensor (34) is mounted next to the barcode reader (33), which is used to trigger the barcode reader.
The cable (22) from the movable antenna mount (6) exits from the top section (73) of the mount (6). It goes up and through a pulley (23) at the top rail (30). It then comes down to the bottom (74) of the antenna mount (6), where it goes through two pulleys (71)(72). Using this arrangement of pulleys will allow a fixed length cable to be used as the antenna mounts move up and down.
An optional fifth antenna (27) can be mounted adjacent to the pallet (42) on top of the forks (2) in or on the equipment compartment (29). This fifth antenna (27) can be used to read a pallet tag (45), if one is used, when the forks (2) engage the pallet (42). This antenna (27) can also read shelf tags, if they are used, when the pallet is loaded into a storage area of the warehouse.
A user interface (20) having a display which is visible to an operator while loading the pallet conveyance, as well as preferably a keypad for input and an audio output, is used to communicate with the operator, confirming that the goods the operator has loaded are the correct ones, and tracking the inventory loaded on the conveyance. The keypad and display should be visible and available to the operator at the point of activity, during the loading of the pallet. The operator will immediately see that the wrong item was loaded and can take corrective action. Finding out that the wrong items were loaded when the operator gets back into the cab could make the operator reluctant to go out and change the item, fearing more time will be lost.
The interface (20) will preferably be mounted on top of one of the antenna mounts (6), fully visible while the operator is loading cases. This will allow the operator to get immediate feedback that the RFID tags of the cases that were just loaded have been read and correctly identified by the device.
Controller (26) communicates with the various components of the invention, as well as controlling the lift motors (25) for positioning the antenna mounts (6).
The user interface (20) includes display (60), and preferably keypad (61) and audio output (63). The interface may be controlled by its own computer (62), or the interface control might be built into the main controller (26).
Interrogator (24) provides the radio-frequency (RF) transmitter and receiver to send signals to antennas (4) (and (27), if so equipped), and thus to the RF transponders (RFID tags)(41) and (45), and to receive responses from the tags (41)(45) through antennas (4) and (27). The interrogator (24) may also contain encoder/decoder and control logic, so that the main controller (26) will receive decoded data. Alternatively, this logic may be included as part of the main controller (26) itself.
The controller (26) receives signals from the object sensors (21), and also from the barcode reader (33), if the apparatus is so equipped.
In a preferred embodiment, a pallet vehicle motion sensor (65) will also be part of this invention. The motion sensor (65) will determine when the conveyance is in motion, and will send signals to the controller (26) accordingly.
The main controller (26) can interface to the infrastructure system of the warehouse (66) via a wireless link (64). This link can be the industry standard 802.11 a/b/g, or any other wireless communication system that might be desired. The controller (26) can also communicate through a short range wireless system (67), such as Bluetooth®, to a vehicle radio computer (VRC) (68) in the cab (69) of the forklift (50). However, the apparatus will have most of the functionality of a VRC and can reduce the overall cost by eliminating the VRC.
Preferably, the apparatus will be powered by rechargeable batteries (70) and may be recharged at night or when the forklift is not in use. Alternatively, the invention can run off the electrical system of the forklift.
The method typically starts with an empty pallet. The antenna mounts are at the base level, and, preferably, the interrogator is "on", ready to read an RFID tag.
The bar code (43) that identifies the contents of the case (40 e) will also be located on the same face of the case as the RFID transponder (41 e) (for the purposes of
It will be understood that in some circumstances, instead of starting with an empty pallet and placing a case on the empty pallet, the method may start out by picking up a pallet which is already partially full. As an example, imagine that a full pallet was received from a manufacturer. In this case the contents of the pallet are known to the warehouse database. The database will also know the cases that were removed from the pallet in previous picking operations. The apparatus of the invention will know the identification of the pallet by reading the pallet transponder (45) (if one is present) with fixed antenna (27), and communicating with the warehouse computer to determine the contents of the pallet, or by reading the cases that face the antennas as the antennas travel vertically to get to the top of the load and associating the cases with a known pallet already in the warehouse database.
In such a situation, this step of "loading a case" will comprise putting the partially loaded pallet having one or more cases loaded upon it on the pallet support of the conveyance. The cases on the pallet are determined by the process described above to load the identifications of the case(s) expected to be loaded on the pallet. The method can then proceed with the following steps.
If necessary, and if the apparatus is so equipped, the controller (26) may communicate through the wireless link (64) with the warehouse computer (66) to translate the information, coordinate the picking, or other tasks.
In the situation indicated in step 80, above, where the initial loading comprised picking up a partially loaded pallet, the identity of the cases whose transponders and/or barcodes face the antennas can be read and confirmed as indicated here. It is possible that the transponders or barcodes on some cases on the pre-loaded pallet might not be visible to the antennas or barcode readers, in which case the display could indicate which cases were not detected and have the operator visually confirm that they are there.
With the conveyance in motion, detected by motion detector (65), the apparatus controller (26) will stop the interrogator (26) from reading tags to prevent extraneous reads. Picked pallet loading only occurs when the conveyance is stopped and the RFID reader will be activated during that time.
Accordingly, it is to be understood that the embodiments of the invention herein described are merely illustrative of the application of the principles of the invention. Reference herein to details of the illustrated embodiments is not intended to limit the scope of the claims, which themselves recite those features regarded as essential to the invention.
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The difference: Turnovers and rebounding. You don't have to do much box-score digging to diagnose the Cats' problems on Saturday. Buoyed by a raucous environment, the Hogs were the aggressors all day, even when their shots weren't falling. The Arkansas pressure forced UK into 19 turnovers - a season high for the Cats - and the Razorbacks scored 30 points off turnovers to Kentucky's two. Arkansas also used 20 offensive rebounds to take a 44-37 edge on the glass. As a result of those two factors, the Razorbacks attempted 69 shots to UK's 43, overcoming the fact that UK shot 46.5 percent from the field to Arkansas' 34.8.
Player of the game: Coty Clarke. Marshawn Powell led the Hogs with 15 points, but Clarke had a monopoly on pretty much every other category. To go with his 14 points on just five shots, Clarke had 12 rebounds, six assists and three of Arkansas' 11 steals.
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December 08, 2003 // 11:00pm
Minister Xie Zhenhua leads a frank discussion about China's environmental challenges, and the role of NGOs, industry, and international assistance in addressing China's growing pollution problems and ecological degradation.
Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation: Scoping Gaps and Opportunities for Research and Policy Agendas
December 02, 2003 // 11:00pm
A diverse group of international practitioners, policymakers, and researchers gather at the Wilson Center to analyze the gaps and opportunities for research and policy agendas in the growing field of environmental conflict and cooperation.
Human Rights and Environmental Activism in Russia: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future
December 01, 2003 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
Ivan Pavlov, Director of the Bellona Environmental Human Rights Center in St. Petersburg and Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the Kennan Institute, describes the state of the human rights and environmental movements in Russia today.
Putting Conservation in Context: Social Science Tools for Conservation Practitioners
November 12, 2003 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Founded in 1999, the Community Conservation Coalition (CCC) is a Washington, D.C.-based forum comprised of diverse organizations interested in the human dimension of biodiversity conservation worldwide.
Sparing Nature:The Conflict Between Human Population Growth and Biodiversity
October 31, 2003 // 9:00am — 11:00pm
Since prehistoric times, human population growth has led to the extinction of other species. Using insights from paleoanthropology, Professor Jeffrey McKee examines the impact of a population boom on biodiversity conservation.
Six Modern Plagues and How We are Causing Them
October 17, 2003 // 10:00am — 12:00pm
Global climate change, deforestation, heavily industrialized agriculture, and wildlife decimation have contributed to the emergence and spread of modern plagues, argues Mark Jerome Walters.
The Human Dimensions of Environmental Security: Some Insights from South Asia
September 24, 2003 // 12:00am
Adil Najam and Atiq Rahman explore whether poverty is a necessary condition for environmental degradation and resource scarcity to lead to conflict and insecurity.
Book Launch: Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature
September 03, 2003 // 10:00am — 12:00pm
Authors of the new book Rivers for Life discuss how the disruption of natural river flows by large dams and river diversions is causing a worldwide crisis in river health and the loss of valuable ecosystem services.
Challenges for Financing Environmental Infrastructure in China
July 30, 2003 // 12:00am
Over the past decade as air, water, and waste problems have grown increasingly serious in China's cities there has been growing pressure on the Chinese government to finance urban environmental protection.


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New Arrivals - eBooks
Three students, Mel, Bev, and Brandon, left behind at their prestigious school during Christmas break, find themselves in 1776 New Jersey with General George Washington dead at their feet, and twelve-year-old Mel must find a way, using his iPhone, to set things right.
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Doerr's gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work"-- Provided by publisher.
"America's Bitter Pill is Steven Brill's much-anticipated, sweeping narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing--and failing to change--the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. Brill probed the depths of our nation's healthcare crisis in his trailblazing Time magazine Special Report, which won the 2014 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. Now he broadens his lens and delves deeper, pulling no punches and taking no prisoners,"--Amazon.com
Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in Appaloosa, where their work enforcing the law has been exceptionally quiet. All that is about to change. An ominous storm rolls in, and along with it a band of night riders with a devious scheme, who show up at the Rio Blanco camp, where a three-hundred-foot bridge is under construction.
A witty political satire ripped from the headlines and written by Congressman Steve Israel, who's met the characters, heard the conversations, and seen the plot twists firsthand.Meet Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman living and working in western Long Island who loves the Mets, loves his wife Rona, and loves things just the way they are. He doesn't enjoy the news; he doesn't like to argue. Rona may want to change the world; Morris wants the world to leave him alone. Morris does not make waves. But one day Morris is seduced by a lonely, lovesick receptionist at one of the doctors' offices along his sales route, and in a moment of weakness charges a non-business expense to his company credit card. No big deal, you might think. Easy mistake. But the government's top-secret surveillance program, anchored by a giant, complex supercomputer known as NICK, thinks differently. Eventually NICK begins to thread together the largely disparate and tenuously connected strands of Morris's lifé??his friends, family, friends' friends, his traffic violations, his daughter's political leanings, his wife's new patients, and even his failed romantic endeavor???and Morris becomes the US government's new public enemy number one. A hilarious, debut novel from a charismatic author, Morris Most Wanted toes the line between recent breaking headlines and a future that is not that difficult to imagine.
"Who doesn't want a delicious, home-cooked meal to appear magically at their doorstep on a chilly evening? But work, kids, and life get in the way, even in the most well-intentioned homes. In The Soup Club Cookbook four moms show how to make this fantasy a reality with 150 recipes for soups from favorites (Jewish Chicken Noodle, Italian Wedding) to fancy (Sunchoke Bisque, Senegalese Peanut), and dozens of filling and delish sides, such as Soy Simmered Chicken Wings and Pickled Brussels Spouts. The authors, who are neighbors on New York's Lower East Side, make this soup book extra delicious--and inspiring--by explaining how to start the same kind of soup club that they did: each person makes soup once a month and delivers it to the other women with garnishes and instructions for serving. That's at least three meals a month you don't have to cook or order. And you have a good excuse to see your friends"-- Provided by publisher.
"Make work simple by using the tools and tactics that are right for you Your time is under attack. You just can't get enough done. You find yourself wondering where the hours go. You've tried every time-management system you can get your hands on-and they've only succeeded in making your work more complicated. Sound familiar? If you sometimes feel you spend more time managing your productivity than doing actual work, it's time for a change. In Work Simply, renowned productivity expert Carson Tate offers a step-by-step guide to making work simple again by using the style that works best for you. Tate has helped thousands of men and women better manage their time and become more productive. Her success owes partly to the realization that most of us fit into one of four distinct productivity styles: Arrangers, who think about their projects in terms of the people involved; Prioritizers, who are the definition of "goal-oriented"; Visualizers, who possess a unique ability to comprehend the big picture; and Planners, who live for the details. In this book, you'll learn How to identify your own productivity style as well as the styles of those around you-bosses, coworkers, staff, and family. How to select your "tools of the trade" to maximize your effectiveness, from the style of pen you use to the way you decorate your office. When face-to-face conversations are more effective than e-mails-and vice versa. What it takes to lead the perfect meeting. Why a messy desk is right for some, but a disaster for others-and how to tell. After reading Work Simply, you'll come away with a productivity system that truly and fundamentally fits you-and you'll never feel overwhelmed again"-- Provided by publisher.
When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter from Blaisdell Consulting -- the umbrella cover company for their real employer, a top secret counterterrorist unit called the Taskforce -- they expect orders for their next mission -- impossible tasking. Instead, they learn that their latest actions have gotten them fired, despite having saved thousands of innocent lives.
"The wackiest road trip in history continues as the McDonald twins travel the Southwest dodging nefarious villains and visiting weird but true American landmarks"-- Provided by publisher.
"London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis must decide where her loyalties lie, duty to the job or personal ambition, in this masterful tale of suspense. Six months ago, London nightclub owner Josh Reynolds was found dead. Ruled a suicide, the police investigation was closed. Then a young man, awaiting trial for armed robbery, tells his guards that Reynolds was murdered, and that he has information to share. DCI Anna Travis is scheduled to leave for training at Quantico, as part of an exchange between the Met and the FBI. But before she can leave, she's got to review the case thanks to her boss, DCS James Langton. Joining her team is senior FBI agent and crime scene expert Jessie Dewar. The American's brash manner quickly ruffles feathers throughout the Met, and what should have been a simple matter of tying up loose ends becomes a political powder keg when the competence of the original investigation team is challenged. Suddenly, Anna is faced with a dangerous choice. Will she close ranks to protect her people, or push to find the truth no matter what the consequences?"-- Provided by publisher.
Presents the early life of the German-born physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
"A middle-aged woman in the 1960s looks back on her life as a single woman and on the men in her life"-- Provided by publisher.
"Why was [Paralympic ski racer and cancer survivor] Josh still single? To find out, he tracked down the girls he had tried to date and asked them straight up: what went wrong? The results of Josh's semiscientific, wholly hilarious investigation are captured here: disastrous Putt-Putt date involving a backward prosthetic foot, to his introduction to CFD (Close Fast Dancing), to a misguided 'grand gesture' at a Miss America pageant, this story is about looking for love--or at least a girlfriend--in all the wrong places"--Amazon.com.
The past comes back to haunt Sean Dillon and his colleagues, as the New York Times?bestselling master of suspense returns with a knife-edge story of terrorism, revenge, and a very old nemesis. In the past few years, the killing and capture of many Al-Qaeda leaders has left the terrorist organization wounded?but by no means dead. And they intend to prove it. On a dark summer night, two Chechen mercenaries emerge from the waters off Nantucket to kill a high-value target, the former president of the United States, Jake Cazalet. Unfortunately for them, Cazalet has guests with him, including black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his colleague, Afghan war hero Captain Sara Gideon. The Chechens do not survive the night, but Dillon is curious as to how they even got on the island. What he discovers sends a chill through his bones?a name from very far back in Dillon's past. If this man is working with the terrorists now,...
A devil is a bad influence . . . There was a time when geeky, squeaky-clean Max Kilgore would never lie or steal or even think about murder. Then he accidentally unearths a devil, and Max's choices are no longer his own. The big red guy has a penchant for couch-surfing and junk food?and you should never underestimate evil on a sugar high. With the help of Lore, a former goth girl who knows a thing or two about the dark side, Max is racing against the clock to get rid of the houseguest from hell before time?and all the Flamin' Hot Cheetos this side of the fiery abyss?run out. Gina Damico, author of the Croak series, once again delivers all the horror, hilarity, and high-stakes drama that any kid in high school or hell could ever handle.
Co-written by Malcolm X's daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world. Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's a pack of lie???after all, his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away, and his dreams of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. There's no point in trying, he figures, and lured by the nightlife of Boston and New York, he escapes into a world of fancy suits, jazz, girls, and reefer. But Malcolm's efforts to leave the past behind lead him into increasingly dangerous territory. Deep down, he knows that the freedom he's found is only an illusio???and that he can't run forever. X follows Malcolm from his childhood to his imprisonment for theft at age twenty, when he found the faith that would lead him to forge a new path and command a voice that still resonates today.
"A "rich, sometimes heartbreaking" (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December 1940, he would be dead of a heart attack. Those last three years of Fitzgerald's life, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour, are the focus of Stewart O'Nan's gorgeously and gracefully written novel. With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald's past, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot, falls in love with brassy gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, begins work on The Last Tycoon, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and daughter, Scottie. Fitzgerald's orbit of literary fame and the Golden Age of Hollywood is brought vividly to life through the novel's romantic cast of characters, from Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway to Humphrey Bogart. A sympathetic and deeply personal portrait of a flawed man who never gave up in the end, even as his every wish and hope seemed thwarted, West of Sunset confirms O'Nan as "possibly our best working novelist" (Salon)"-- Provided by publisher.
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her "How did you get to be the woman you are today." She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naive girl she was and a wicked sense of humor. Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Anita Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world"-- Provided by publisher.
Alex is ready for things to change, in a big way. Everyone seems to think she's a boy, but for Alex the whole boy/girl thing isn't as simple as either/or, and when she decides girl is closer to the truth, no one knows how to react, least of all her parents. Undeterred, Alex begins to create a new identity for herself: ditching one school, enrolling in another, and throwing out most of her clothes. But the other Alex?the boy Alex?has a lot to say about that.?Heartbreaking and droll in equal measures, Alex As Well is a brilliantly told story of exploring gender and sexuality, navigating friendships, and finding a place to belong.
"A deadly plague has struck Olympus and is slowly aging and killing the Olympians. Emily can only stand by and watch as those she loves fade and die. But in one last desperate attempt to save those she loves, she journeys back to Earth to face the CRU, then back in time to confront Cronus, leader of the Titans and father of the gods"-- Provided by publisher.
Takes you inside the science of how the body affects the mind, and shows how to use that wisdom to live smarter and maximize what your body teaches your mind.
"Autumn has finally arrived in the small town of Bascom, North Carolina, heralded by a strange old man appearing with a beat-up suitcase. He has stories to tell, stories that could change the lives of the Waverley women forever. But the Waverleys have enough trouble on their hands. Quiet Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley's Candies, but it's nothing like she thought it would be, and it's slowly taking over her life. Claire's wild sister Sydney, still trying to leave her past behind, is about to combust with her desire for another new beginning. And Sydney's fifteen-year-old daughter Bay has given her heart away to the wrong boy and can't get it back"--Provided by publisher.


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The fate of the Mississippi State season is decided today.
Being added to the NCAA Tournament field equals success. Being among the teams selected to play in the NIT, well let's just say, it's not exactly where State planned on being when it assembled the schedule last summer.
A month ago, the fate of the Bulldogs appeared to be sealed. They had 19 wins and several winnable games remaining on the schedule, a virtual lock for the NCAA Tournament and conceivably a No. 5 or No. 6 seed. Now, State is on the bubble after finishing the season with a 2-6 run over their final eight games.
Some say State doesn't deserve the opportunity to play in the Big Dance because of a weak finish, while others will tell you their body of work is good enough to be among the 68-team tournament field.
However seemingly everyone is asking, will the Bulldogs get in?
If you ask Mississippi State head coach Rick Stansbury, he'll quickly tell you his team is among the best in the nation regardless of how they played down the stretch.
"Remember in those five games, we were without a starter in two and a half of those games," said Stansbury following his team's 71-61 loss to Georgia in the first round of the SEC Tournament. "In that stretch, in two of those games were overtime losses, so I don't think we lost any mojo or anything like that."
Stansbury insists his team's non-conference slate and their 13-2 record prior to conference play should warrant being among the field of 68.
"Well, I think, again, it's over 31 games, what you judge us on," Stansbury said. "We have won 21 games; we had a great non-conference schedule; and we were 13-2 in the non-conference play against really good people. I think when you look at our team, there's no question we're one of the 68 better teams."
While I understand Stansbury's position on his team's resume, I just have a hard time agreeing that right now this team is one of the best at-large teams in the country.
That being said I'll readily admit I feel this way because of how State finished the regular season. I didn't see the heart and determination I expected to see from a team with as much talent as they Bulldogs have.
If you place emotion aside, one can see the Bulldogs have a few quality wins in Vanderbilt (RPI 29), Alabama (RPI 34), West Virginia (RPI 56), and Arizona (RPI 72). Actually, at the time the Bulldogs felt they had two really solid wins because when they played both Arizona and Texas A&M (RPI 165) they were ranked teams. Since that time both have fallen on hard times, A&M even has a losing record for the season, and that has had an adverse affect on MSU's RPI which stands at 74.
Last season the highest RPI of an at-large team was UCLA at 67, the highest RPI of an at-large team in the field to date.
While no one can agree on if State will make the tournament, it seems a certainty that if it does, they'll be playing on Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio, as part of the play-in-games. The winner earns a spot in the tournament as a No. 12 seed.
So, grab your popcorn and get ready for tonight's drama of the NCAA Selection show on CBS, and for what it's worth, my best guess is that MSU will be playing in the friendly confines of Humphrey Coliseum in the first round of the NIT this week.
But hey, what do I know, last time I check I haven't received a call from Indianapolis to get my opinion.
Michael Wardlaw is the Mississippi State beat writer and columnist for the Starkville Daily News. The opinions in this column are his and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Daily News or its staff.View more articles in: