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These are the bookings recorded for the Doris C. Gravat Detention Center for March 22, 2014. Some of the people listed may not have actually spent time in jail if they posted bond and were released. Although those listed have been arrested and charged, that does not mean they have been found guilty. All bookings may be viewed online by visiting www.aikenstandard.com and clicking on the Crime tab.
Dushawn Jamar Merritt, 33 possession of crack cocaine
David Jerome Williams, 49 possession of drug paraphernalia
Mary Louise Salley, 50 possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of crack cocaine
Andre Antwon Gooch Jr., 22 simple possession of marijuana
Kenneth Alexander Islar, 27 possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of crack cocaine
Tyler Ryan Patterson, 27 pointing and presenting firearms
Bobby Lee Isaac, 48 possession of drug paraphernalia
James Edward Brown, 30 criminal domestic violence second offense
Brian Lemare Hamilton, 36 failure to pay child support two counts
Katrina Williams Douse, 29 filing a false police report of a misdemeanor violation, criminal domestic violence
Timothy Alan Bush, 47 permitting domestic animals to run at large
Danny Jay Osbon, 53 breach of trust with fraudulent intent value $2,000 or less
Clarence Charlie Videtto, 20 driving under suspension first offense sentence, speeding sentence, simple possession of marijuana sentence, simple possession of marijuana
Dena Deneisetry Bates, 43 disorderly conduct
Robert Girarad Jones, 42 possession of crack cocaine general sessions bench warrant
Juan Carlos Gamboa, 52 hold per National Crime Information Center for Harrison County
Cason Monroe Smith II, 24 vehicle altering forging title or license plate, altering, forging or counterfeiting certificate of title
Wolfgang Nathan Knapstein, 32 criminal domestic violence first, second and third offense, malicious injury to animal or property $1,000 to $5,000
Jennafer Lynne Thompson, 34 driving under suspension second offense
Minnie Bell Thomas, 46 failure to pay child support
Michael Paul Antonelli hold per National Crime Information Center for Broward County Sheriffs Office
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
Dorchester County Council adopted a resolution in honor of three local emergency responders, (from left to right) Liz Rowell, Chris Sarine and Kevin Varnadoe, who saved the life of a drowning child on July 9. The three were awarded a framed copy of the resolution, which will also appear in the county's permanent files. The child's mother, Kelly Smoak-Wilson (also pictured), also played an instrumental role in saving her daughter's life. The council thanked all of them for their service to the community.
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Interesting Things
You can't make something "falsy" in ruby. For example, let's say you are a good Fowlerite and you are implementing a nil object pattern like so:
class User; end class NilUser def nil?() true end end user = NilUser.new if user puts "Access Approved" else puts "Access Denied" end
If you run that code, even though you've defined .nil? to be true, it will print "Access Approved". Ruby if/unless/else only recognize nil and false to be "falsey".
RubyMine rebase strangeness
When you rebase from the command line and get a merge error, then run the merge tool from RubyMine, the "Your changes" and "Their changes" will be the reverse of what you might think. If you are accustomed to clicking "accept theirs" to mean taking other people's changes, you'll be in for a surprise.
If you botch the git rebase, you can always go back with this awesome git command, brought to you by Peter Jaros:
git reset --hard "master@{ 1 }"


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According to reports provided by the Aiken Department of Public Safety:
A 33-year-old Aiken man allegedly shoplifted shirts, underwear and body wash from a store on Richland Avenue on Wednesday.
Two Barnwell women were detained for shoplifting on Wednesday after they tried to take $95 in merchandise from a store on Richland Avenue without paying.
An 18-year-old Warrenville man was detained for shoplifting on Wednesday after he tried to take a pair of sunglasses from a store in Aiken Mall without paying.
An Aiken woman reported a dog house stolen from her home on Dupont Drive on Wednesday.
A vehicle break-in was reported on Berringer Drive on Wednesday. The owner reported a laptop and an external hard drive missing.
According to reports provided by the Aiken County Sheriffs Office:
A refrigerator and a stove were reported stolen from a home on Bethany Lane in Aiken on Wednesday.
A Warrenville woman reported clothing stolen from the hallway of her apartment on Timmerman Street on Wednesday.
A 32-year-old North Augusta man was detained for disorderly conduct on Wednesday after he was found walking on the side of Five Notch Road. The man reportedly smelled of alcohol.
A burglary was reported at a home on Charleston Highway in Aiken on Wednesday. The owner reported an air conditioner missing.
A bicycle was reported stolen from Chandler Drive in Beech Island on Wednesday.
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Inclement winter weather is scheduled to hit Yadkin County and Elkin beginning at approximately 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon and continuing through to midnight.
According to Accuweather.com, snow accumulations are predicted to be between four to eight inches in Yadkinville and Elkin. Temperatures are expected to make a rapid drop from the mid-40s to below freezing by 3 a.m. on Friday morning.
In anticipation of the winter weather schools in Elkin dismissed students at 2 p.m. and Yadkin County Schools were released at 1:30 p.m.
This is the first winter storm of the year for these areas and state officials are preparing the best they can but preparations are difficult due to the large amounts of rain the area has received in the past few days.
"When you don't have rain and you know that you are going to have a storm coming through you can pretreat the roads with a brine solution," said Jerry Higgins, a communications officer for North Carolina Department of Transportation. "When you have rain like we're having now then we can't pretreat the roads because it will just wash away."
Higgins said that the road crews for the state are being sent home early to rest up before being called back in by 7 p.m. tonight to start patrolling the roads and pretreating when the rain stops.
"We are sending some crews home early so they can get some rest and they will be called in at about 7 p.m. unless the weather gets worse earlier than expected," Higgins said. "Once it stops raining they will be able to put out some sand and salt solutions on the road and monitor and plow as needed."
Higgins said that the Yadkin and Elkin areas are fortunate because temperatures have not been particularly cold leading up to this winter storm, so accumulation shouldn't start immediately.
"It hasn't been really cold so when the snow comes down it's not going to stick probably," Higgins said. "Putting the sand and salt solution should take care of quite a bit of the problems. We'll be in contact with highway patrol and other law enforcement in towns and they will let us know when there are roads that getting bad."
Higgins said that major roads like I-77 and US-421 will get treated first, followed by major roadways in the area like Highway 601 and 67 and then secondary roads would be treated next.
Higgins said that crews will be on the roads throughout the night treating the roads that need special attention and plowing as frequently as necessary. He encourages drivers to get home as early as possible and stay off the roads Thursday evening if they don't have to be out.
"People need to be careful while they are out driving and make sure that they are leaving plenty of space between their car and the car in front of them," Higgins said. "If drivers don't have to be on the road then they should try to stay in because it is safer for them and it allows our trucks to have the space to clear the roads like they need to."
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Madge Irene McCoy Stepp went to be with her lord and savior on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012.
She was born May 13, 1921, in Pike County, Ky., to the late Benjamin McCoy and the late Sarah Jude McCoy.
She lived and raised her family in Hatfield, Ky., then resided in the Ashland, Ky./Ironton, Ohio, area for many years before living in Prince George, Va.
She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Ade Stepp; and two daughters and a son-in-law, Martha Carol Spencer and her husband, Alvin, of Westerville, Ohio, and Donna Sue Lambert, of Ironton.
She is survived by one son, Robert Charles Stepp of Gahanna, Ohio; and three daughters, Phyllis Ann Lowe and husband Edward of Jarrettsville, Md., Esther Frances Singer of Indianapolis, Ind., Anita Kathryn Fleming and husband Carl of Prince George; and her son-in-law David Lambert of Ironton. She is also survived by 12 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
There will be a viewing on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, from 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Lazear Funeral Home, Ashland, Ky., with graveside services on Friday, Nov. 9, at 1:30 p.m. at the Goldens Oak Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Ashland with Pastor David Lambert officiating.
Arrangements are under the direction of Lazear Funeral Home, Ashland.


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'8'Written by Michael Miller | Editor in Chief Emeritus | firstname.lastname@example.com
Jennifer Rockwood is a force of nature. The director and actress, who serves as assistant dean for the University of Toledo's College of Innovative Learning and director of the First Year Experience Program, possesses a personality designed to mobilize other people into action. As a 20-plus-year veteran of theater on and off campus, she has guided hundreds of people through the always compelling and often introspective journey that leads actors to the stage.
I have known Rockwood since the early 1990s, when I was a student journalist and she was directing plays at UT. She is as much a part of my definition of "Toledo" as a Mud Hens game, the High Level Bridge and a signed hot dog bun at Tony Packo's. Her husband, John, is one of the naturally coolest men on the planet, a musician with Voodoo Libido who also takes insightful and often breathtaking photos of other musicians.
In July, when Rockwood asked if I would take part in a staged reading of the marriage equality play "8," I jumped at the chance to work with her and be part of an important social and political statement.
"8," written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, appealed to me because it is very much a work of journalism. Black took the court transcripts of Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now Perry v. Brown), a federal district court case filed to overturn California's Proposition 8, which banned gay and lesbian couples' right to marry in that state. By presenting actual transcripts of testimony (from a trial that had been closed to television broadcast), Black was revealing the testimony and facts behind the arguments.
I have long maintained that gay marriage in the United States is as inevitable as interracial marriage and other once-contested civil rights. There is no cogent, empirical argument that allowing gay people to marry has any detrimental effect on heterosexual marriage, that stalwart institution that barely 50 percent of Americans can successfully navigate. You don't have to like it, but understand that your distaste is irrelevant to the legal and social standards that should guarantee this right for all Americans.
The cast of "8" met for one table reading and two stage run-throughs before the Oct. 7 performance. My role, marriage equality advocate Evan Wolfson, was a brief but loud moment of conflict on a talking heads news show, arguing with marriage equality opponent Maggie Gallagher, played by Merlaine Angwall. The brief appearance called for us to step on each other's lines in protest and escalate our rhetoric to a flash of righteous anger.
"Loud and indignant? I can do that," I told Rockwood.
It was a tremendous learning experience, watching the actors and nonactors gel and slip into character. I was particularly struck by the efforts of Ben Pryor as Proposition 8 proponents' attorney Charles J. Cooper and John Meadows as proponents' witness David Blankenhorn. Both men took difficult strings of often stuttering, insupportable dialogue and brought them to life with wit and empathy.
"8" also features real commercials that were run to convince California voters to overturn gay marriage rights. The commercials are stunning examples of lying propaganda, focusing on how marriage equality would supposedly destroy families, children and education as we know them.
As plaintiffs' attorney Theodore B. Olson (played by John Adams) argued, "The overwhelming evidence proves that allowing persons to marry someone of the same-sex will not, in the slightest, deter heterosexuals from marrying or from having babies."
Some of the most striking moments in "8" focus on the frustration gay couples feel in not being able to participate in marriage and how that exclusion keeps them from expressing the basics of their relationships and humanity.
As spoken by plaintiffs Jeff Zarrillo (Rob Salem) and Paul Katami (Larry Dean Harris), "A civil union? A domestic partnership would relegate me to a level of second-class citizenship, maybe even third-class citizenship. It doesn't give due respect to the relationship that we have had for almost nine years. Only a marriage could do that. … 'Husband' is definitive. It's something that everyone understands. There is no subtlety to it. It is absolute, and comes with an understanding that your relationship is not temporal, it's not new, it's not something that could fade easily."
Illuminating testimony about gay marriage was provided by Gary Segura (played by Carter Wilson): "For starters, and I would include in this undocumented aliens who are a distant second, there is no group who has been targeted by ballot initiatives more than gays and lesbians. The number of ballot initiative contests since the late 1970s is probably at or above 200. Gays and lesbians lose 70 percent of the contests and 100 percent of the contests over same-sex marriage and adoption."
In his closing argument, Olson said, "The Supreme Court has said that marriage is the most important relation in life. It is the foundation of society. It is essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness. It's a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights and older than our political parties. A right of intimacy to the degree of being sacred."
Denying anyone that right is un-American. And as Blankenhorn testifies (to the chagrin of Proposition 8 believers), "we would be more — emphasize more — American on the day we permitted same-sex marriage than we were on the day before."
More than 500 people attended Rockwood's one-time only reading of "8." My guess is the vast majority of them already support marriage equality. It is up to them, and forces of nature like Rockwood, to keep educating and working to share the message that "8" dramatizes so effectively.
Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Gallery: Covenant School students take part in experiment
HUNTINGTON — Third-grade students from Covenant School didn't just conduct a science experiment -- they were part of the experiment.
On Friday, Nov. 12, Dr. Thomas C. Rushton, whose two children attend the school, led a cyanotype demonstration in the parking lot. And on an unseasonably warm day with plenty of sunshine, it went very well.
Rushton, who is an infection disease specialist, also is a photography hobbyist. A friend, he said, introduced him to a book that discusses the history of photographic processes. In it, it talks about cyanotype.
A cyanotype is a photographic printing process that gives a cyan-blue print. The simple and low-cost process produces large-scale copies of work, referred to as blueprints.


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Selenium removes the If-Modified-Since header. This gets in your way if you are testing ETags.
Speaking of ETags – they are awesome. See Ryan Daigle's article for code.
Just how slow is Mongrel when serving static images?
The answer is – pretty slow. The reason for the question was that Google's crawler tends to keep a single connection open and fire lots and lots of http requests over a period of several hours. With a standard Nginx/Mongrel setup, this would tie up a mongrel for this entire period.
A proposed solution to this problem is to use HAProxy between Nginx and Mongrel.


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March 20, 2013
Announcement | Sponsored Sports | Tickets | Xavier Gear
CINCINNATI --- Xavier University President Michael J. Graham, S.J., announced today that Xavier is joining a 10-team conference with fellow private schools Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall, and Villanova. The conference will be officially named the Big East on July 1.
"It's an endorsement of who we are and how we've gotten here, as well as where we can go next," said Michael J. Graham, S.J., president of Xavier University.
The Big East provides additional exposure and a big boost for Xavier University admissions, alumni and fundraising efforts across the nation.
"So it's not just about athletics it's about the whole institution and about the institution at its heart, which is an academic place," Fr. Graham said.
It's a very exciting time for Xavier's broad-based 18-sport athletic program, which has sent eight different teams to NCAA postseason championships in recent years: baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's golf, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's tennis, and women's volleyball.
Presidents of the New Big East member schools, including Fr. Graham, gathered in New York Wednesday to announce a series of seminal developments that will help shape the basketball-focused conference, including an unprecedented partnership with Fox Sports that will grant the network exclusive broadcast rights.
Fox Sports and its Fox Sports 1 Network will acquire television rights to all Big East game action, as part of a 12-year contract. Under the broadcast partnership, Fox Sports will own television rights to a wide range of marquee Big East basketball games, including the annual Big East conference tournament.
The Big East Conference will officially commence operations on July 1, 2013. Each of the inaugural members will be full conference participants starting in the 2013-2014 academic year. Each school will compete in all of the sports it offers today. The Big East Tournament will continue to call Madison Square Garden its home, and the new conference will assume an existing lease agreement that extends to 2026.
The Big East was formed in 1979 to celebrate the student-athlete and showcase some of the nation's greatest collegiate basketball programs at schools with rich academic traditions. These moves mark a return to the Big East's roots as a basketball-centric conference working in the best interests of the student-athletes.
Xavier's men's basketball program has made two NCAA Tournament Elite Eight appearances (2004 and 2008) in addition to three NCAA Sweet 16 appearances (2009, 2010 and 2012) in the last 10 years. XU has been to seven of the last eight NCAA Tournaments and 11 of the last 13. The women's basketball program has made two NCAA Elite Eight appearances as well (2001 and 2010) and has made five of the last seven NCAA Tournaments. Men's soccer advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament this past fall.
Xavier, which is ranked 11th in the nation in the latest NCAA Graduation Success Rate report at 97 percent, is excited to align itself with private schools that share a like commitment to academics and athletics. Xavier had 14 XU programs at 100 percent in the latest NCAA GSR report. In men's basketball, XU has graduated each of the last 88 players that have played as seniors, a streak which dates back to 1986.
Xavier has been a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference for 18 years, beginning with the 1995-96 school year. Previously, Xavier was a member of the MCC (now known as the Horizon League) from 1979-80 through 1994-95. For a brief three-year period, 1983-86, Xavier's women's sports competed in the North Star Conference.
New York-based senior executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associate is conducting the search for the New Big East's first commissioner, seeking an aggressive and innovative commissioner to shepherd the conference to continued success and enhance its history of excellence in a wide variety of collegiate team sports.
Conference Members
University Website | Athletic Website
President: James M. Danko
Director of Athletics: Barry Collier
Location: Indianapolis, Ind.
Mascot: Bulldogs
Colors: Blue and White
Enrollment: 4,771
Basketball Arena: Hinkle Fieldhouse (10,000)
Visit Indianapolis
University Website | Athletic Website
President: Timothy R. Lannon, S.J.
Director of Athletics: Bruce Rasmussen
Location: Omaha, Neb.
Mascot: Bluejays
Colors: Blue and White
Enrollment: 7,730
Basketball Arena: CenturyLink Center (18,320)
Visit Omaha
University Website | Athletic Website
President: Dennis Holtschneider, C.M.
Director of Athletics: Jean Lenti Ponsetto
Location: Chicago, Ill.
Mascot: Blue Demons
Colors: Royal Blue and Scarlet
Enrollment: 25,398
Basketball Arena: Allstate Arena (17,500)
Visit Chicago
University Website | Athletic Website
President: John (Jack) DeGioia
Director of Athletics: Lee Reed
Location: Washington, D.C.
Mascot: Hoyas
Colors: Blue and Grey
Enrollment: 15,318
Basketball Arena: Verizon Center (20,300)
Visit Washington, D.C.
University Website | Athletic Website
President: Scott Pilarz, S.J.
Director of Athletics: Larry Williams
Location: Milwaukee, Wis.
Mascot: Golden Eagles
Colors: Blue and Gold
Enrollment: 12,002
Basketball Arena: Bradley Center (18,600)
Visit Milwaukee
University Website | Athletic Website
President: Brian J. Shanley, O.P.
Director of Athletics: Robert Driscoll, Jr.
Location: Providence, R.I.
Mascot: Friars
Colors: Black and White
Enrollment: 4,587
Basketball Arena: Dunkin' Donuts Center (12,993)
Visit Providence
University Website | Athletic Website
President: Dr. A. Gabriel Esteban
Director of Athletics: Patrick Lyons
Location: South Orange, N.J.
Mascot: Pirates
Colors: Blue and White
Enrollment: 9,656
Basketball Arena: Prudential Center (18,500)
Visit Newark
University Website | Athletic Website
President: Donald J. Harrington, C.M.
Director of Athletics: Chris Monasch
Location: New York, N.Y.
Mascot: Red Storm
Colors: Red and White
Enrollment: 21,067
Basketball Arena: Madison Square Garden (19,979), Carnesecca Arena (6,008)
Visit New York City
University Website | Athletic Website
President: Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A., Ph.D.
Director of Athletics: Vince Nicastro
Location: Villanova, Pa.
Mascot: Will D Cat
Colors: Blue and White
Enrollment: 10,661
Basketball Arena: Wells Fargo Center (20,328), The Pavilion (6,500)
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Saturday, September 21, 2013
Raising money for charity, that's what the Mount Pleasant Mom to Mom Sale is all about. The bi-annual consignment sale is set for Sept. 28 at the National Guard Armory in Mount Pleasant. If you have shopped the sale before you know that the deals on children's items are awesome. This is the MOMS (Moms Offering Moms Support) Clubs of Mount Pleasant's biggest charity fundraiser. All proceeds go directly to charity and it is completely run by local volunteers.
The spring 2013 sale raised more than $6,000 for the selected charity. The line will start earlier, but the doors will flood open at 7 a.m. and close at 11 a.m. and then reopen from noon to 1:30 p.m. for the 50 percent off sale. Don't forget to bring a basket or bin to carry your items home. Remember, in supporting the Mom to Mom Sale, you are also doing good for our community.
The fall sale features toys, books, fall and winter clothing, baby equipment, bedding, furniture and more from over 100 different consignors and vendors all for amazing prices.
The sale accepts credit cards, and there is a $1 admittance fee that goes directly to charity. The Mom to Mom Sale is hosted by the three Mount Pleasant MOMS (Moms Offering Moms Support) Clubs, which is a network of new and tenured stay-at-home moms who come together to support one another through the journey of motherhood. For more information about the sale, please visit the Mom to Mom Sale website: www.mountpleasantmomsale.com. For this sale all of the profits will go to the benefiting charity - Pattison's Academy. The programs of Pattison's Academy are designed to improve the quality of life for children with disabilities through comprehensive education and rehabilitation. For more information about the programs of Pattison's Academy or to donate, please visit www.pattisonsacademy.org
For more information about MOMS Club or to get involved, please visit www.momsclub.org.
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FreedomFlix brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments in American history.
With approximately 50 topics, covering everything from The British Colonies in North America to Internet Inventors and Steve Jobs, FreedomFlix allows students and children to read the book, watch the video, find project ideas and activities, and continue exploring the topic in other ways.
Ten new units were recently added to FreedomFlix:
- African Americans in the Thirteen Colonies
- The Attack on Pearl Harbor
- The British Colonies in North America
- Environmental Protection
- Hydrofracking
- Internet Inventors
- Steve Jobs
- The Titanic
- The United States and Mexico
- The Vietnam War
You can find FreedomFlix on our History Resources page and on the eBooks for Kids page. We'll keep you updated and let you know when new topics, subjects, and units are added to FreedomFlix.


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Coach Chris Martin reported that the JV Hounds downed Northside-Warner Robins 9-3 on the road last Tuesday, with Bradley Hunnicutt picking up the victory on the mound.
Keever Walker was 3-for-4 with two doubles, Tracy Jackson was 2-for-3 with a double and a home run and Austin Harrison was 2-for-3 to lead the attack.
The Hounds followed that with a 10-7 win over Veterans in their home opener on Thursday. Tanner Goff was 3-for-4 and Jackson was 2-for-4 with another home run.
Jones County visited Mary Persons on Monday and came home with a 10-2 victory. Ethan Rutland picked up the win. Walker went 3-for-3, and Goff, Harrison Bryant, Dee Thomas and Dylan Still all went 2-for-3 for the Hounds.
The ninth-grade Hounds blanked Northside 9-0 on Tuesday and whipped Veterans 11-1 on Thursday, coach Brandon Davis reported. Then they started this week with a 5-2 home victory over First Presbyterian.
For the full story, pick up a copy of this week's newspaper or subscribe to our e-Edition at http://ee.jcnews.com.


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By Kim Jones, Curriki CEO
I returned to the beautiful country of Qatar this year to attend the WISE 2012 Summit. This year's theme was "collaborating for change." I was honored to meet so many impassioned educators and prominent leaders from around the world who gathered here to discuss and inspire innovation in education.
Whether I met someone from Rwanda or Malaysia, I was excited to find that everyone knows, loves and uses Curriki. This was one of the most rewarding moments of my time at Curriki! It is immensely satisfying to know that we are changing people's lives in positive and tangible ways.
New Education Initiative Announced by Sheikha Mozah
While I was there, Sheikha Mozah spoke about "Education First," which is designed to help drive the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) around education by the end of year 2015 so that all children receive primary education. There are 60 million children around the world with no access to education. Some live in conflict zones where going to school could be a matter of life or death. Some live in areas afflicted by natural disasters like the flooding in Bangladesh. Some are refugees. Thousands of refugees are headed to Lebanon and Jordan to escape the civil war in Syria. In many cases, parents are leaving so their children can continue in school since it is not safe or possible in many towns in Syria.
Her Highness Sheikha Moza will partner with many global organizations around the world to help accomplish this goal. Here at Curriki, we will continue to get the word out about our free resources that can be used in places where textbooks are not available. Although many schools lack computers, the number of people gaining access to mobile devices is growing so although we will not be able to be accessed by everyone, if we can get to even a small number of teachers, we will be able to help some of the children!
One can survive 30 days without food, 3 days without water, 8 seconds without air, but not a second without hope. Education equals hope.
Stay tuned, as I will tell you an amazing story about a man I met from South Sudan in my next post.


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Cheap ski holidays in hundreds of ski resorts worldwide.
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Local architect Karl Fahrner created this modern chalet four years ago, out of his family home and next door to the family hotel, it creates quite a statement with its contrast of traditional and ultra modern architecture. Situated in a quiet, elevated location with lovely views across St. Anton, it is only a 5 minute downhill walk to the resort centre, main slopes and ski lifts (and don't forget to make life easier you can always leave your ski equipment at our rental shop at the foot of the slopes). If you don't fancy an uphill walk at the end of the day, then jump on the ski bus which stops close by.
The Eagles Nest cleverly mixes the old with the new, in fact the living room and bedroom 1 were once part of the owners house but have been incorporated into the new chalet. The new bedrooms are decorated in a modern and contemporary style and all are ensuite. The chalet is one of our most popular and is usually fully booked for the season fairly early on. Perhaps the outdoor hot tub has something to do with its popularity. After all, at the end of a hard days skiing, what better way to relax and unwind either in the sauna or best of all taking a dip in the aforementioned hot tub which is discretely tucked into the rock face on the balcony terrace.
Hotel Fahrner being so conveniently situated next door has proved popular with guests dining out on the chalet night off or just after a drink or two in the hotel bar and our guests are assured of a warm welcome by the proprietors Andreas and Gina.
**For larger groups, think about combining Chalet Eagles Nest with its sister chalet Eaglet. The two chalets combined can sleep up to 18 guests and mix and match your dining partners each evening!**
Ground floor:
Chalet entrance & hallOpen plan living/dining room
Room 1: Austrian Twin with bath & shower, basin & wc
Rooms 2 & 3: Austrian Twin with shower, basin & wc.
First floor:
Rooms 4 -6: Twins with shower, basin & wc
Sauna & relaxation area leading to hot tub on the deck.
Tv (local channels) & DVD playerMusic system & Ipod docking station.Hairdryer in each bedroom.Bathrobes providedWifi External ski locker on front porch.
Chalet staff live in & have use of sauna bathroom.
NB: Access from the road to the chalet is quite steep.
Our Chalet staff have a well earned day off during your stay. On this day, breakfast and afternoon tea will be laid out for you to help yourself and you are free to sample one of the local restaurants in the evening - our staff will be pleased to help with recommendations and bookings.
Breakfast : Start your day with a hearty breakfast to fuel your day on the slopes, choose from a selection of cereals (not forgetting a bowl of porridge!), fresh fruit and yoghurts, freshly baked local bread and choice of preserves accompanied by fruit juices, tea and coffee. In addition, apart from chalet staff day off and change over day, enjoy a cooked "dish of the day" such as eggs and bacon (not a full English!).
Afternoon tea : On your return from the slopes, pop the kettle on and help yourself to a teatime treat with a slice (or two!) of delicious home-made cake or biscuits.
Dinner: Just imagine a casual dinner party with friends, now imagine that minus the stress of shopping, cooking, clearing up, ordering taxis, organising babysitters...... well now you can! Relax, your evening starts around 7.30pm swapping some ski tales and banter over canapes and aperitif followed by a delicious freshly cooked dinner with unlimited house wine until coffee to finish.
Our Chalet staff always aim to please and if given notice will as much as possible adapt their menus to your specific tastes and dietary requests however we cannot provide vegan, kosher, gluten and dairy free meals and cannot guarantee a nut free environment. We provide a vegetarian alternative for guests that don't eat meat or that evening choice of meat or fish. Please ensure that we know about any dietary requests well in advance of your holiday and that you are happy to compromise with our chalet menu and accept that we cannot offer a completely alternative menu for you.
Children's Supper : We provide a child friendly supper at around 6pm for all children under 12years, if you have sole use of a chalet and you would prefer your children to eat a normal dinner with you at 8pm there is a upgrade ( at a supplement). For those in a shared chalet it is generally expected that under 12s would have the early supper.
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As some of you may have heard, as I heard from my daughter who is a junior at Harwood Union, this past week, apparently the HU administration is proposing/considering the elimination of honors-level classes for freshmen (Class of 2018 – current eighth-graders). We have heard that this elimination may include 10th-grade honors level classes as well.
Without the challenge of the honors-level courses that my daughter has been able to take (one each in 7th and 8th, three in 9th and four in 10th) there is no way that she would have been prepared for the rigor of her AP chemistry class and the four honors-level classes that she is taking as a junior. Not to mention that her transcript would not look too good to the colleges to which she will be applying.
I could go on for hours about why this concerns me and I realize that each of you may or may not agree with some or all of my points, but I would like as many people as possible to be aware of the potential loss of opportunity for Harwood's more motivated and/or more capable students and brevity has never been my strong suit.
My son who is in eighth grade loves three (out of his four) core teachers and finds their classes interesting, but the only class that he actually finds really challenging is the algebra seminar. If HU eliminates honors-level classes for freshmen and maybe sophomores (as the HUHS kids have heard and the principals did not deny when I asked them), will he not be challenged again until his junior year? As the saying goes, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
I began asking the principals about this on Thursday evening. Co-principal Amy Rex and I traded messages back and forth. The email below, received this evening from Amy and Lisa is all I have learned about what is happening.
"In my correspondence to you Friday evening, I stated that Lisa and I were preparing additional information for parents who had made inquiries and that we would send it along sometime today. At that time, I also stated that this information, although it may provide a little more insight, would not fully detail the ninth-grade model. Please know that it is essential that we adhere to our practice of first providing information related to programmatic changes to the school board and then take the time to work with them around next steps; their insight as representatives of the community is critical to what we do and how we move forward. It is unfortunate that both incorrect information and information out of context was shared in the community; it creates unrest and hostility. I apologize for the frustration that this is causing you and perhaps many others. Below is the response we prepared for parents who chose to make direct inquiries; a choice we wholeheartedly appreciate.
"Foremost, thank you taking the time to make a direct inquiry with the administration; it is truly the best source of information when trying to dispel rumors related to decision-making at Harwood.
"Please know that it is the intent of the administration to make decisions that serve in the best interest of all students. Our decisions are informed by evidence at the school level, best practices in the field of education and their implementation locally and nationally and via educational research.
"Also know that currently all programmatic decisions are related to our multi-year redesign plan; a plan that reflects Vermont's Quality Education Framework (http://www.vtvsa.org/). This redesign, in part, includes a rigorous curricula for all students, increased personalization, proficiency-based graduation and the integration of technology to enhance learning.
"The redesign plan necessitates the review of a range of school-wide practices and policies including: the school schedule; tracking; graduation requirements; and weighted grading. Changes will only be made if doing so will result in advancing our redesign goals. At this time, some revisions may be made to our ninth-grade model and a selection of honors courses; however, honors and advanced placement courses will not be eliminated school-wide.
"More detailed information regarding changes related to tracking and/or other programmatic changes will be shared community-wide later this week after we consult with the school board. Thank you again for your inquiry; we appreciate your thoughtful approach and patience in this matter, and please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
"Sincerely, Amy Rex and Lisa Atwood"
Change can be tough, but a lot of good changes have been made. For instance, I believe that many people agree with me in thinking that the eighth-grade algebra seminar is a far better experience than having eighth-graders take algebra with the eighth-grade math teacher at HU was. Many people agree that the iPads are fabulous and that the effort that some of the staff has put into that initiative is both infectious and impressive. The changes for working with every individual student that Sarah Ibson and her colleagues are bringing about are cutting edge and will bring value to every student.
However, the HU motto is to "provide an educational and creative environment in which every person is valued as an individual, challenged as a learner and inspired to contribute to a democratic society." If my son has to sit through all his freshman classes with an experience like the nonhonors geometry class was for so many of our children during their freshman year, I don't see how that will value my son as an individual or challenge him as a learner. I can readily see how the increased personalization and integration of technology will bring all students closer to that goal – but removing the challenge for many students seems entirely contrary to that goal. Also, given that the students and parents weren't even invited to the table, how does that teach the students how to participate in a democratic society?
I mean no disrespect to the students who are not able to take or are not interested in taking all or some of school's more rigorous offerings. Part of the HU experience that is valuable is the diversity of learners. However, if this goes through, I expect that diversity, along with the total numbers of students enrolled, will decline. My son and I expect many others will likely leave HU for either a more rigorous private school or (by luck in the school choice lottery or by relocating) another public school that continues to offer a more rigorous experience for those who are interested. UVM has added an honors college to try to attract Vermont's top students to study at an in-state public university. Why would HU be pushing their top students out?
HU graduates are currently attending MIT, Yale, Middlebury, Smith and other top-tier colleges and universities. If we stop offering top-tier courses, only offer rigorous courses for two out of the six years at HU, how will HU prepare our students to be accepted at and successful in these schools.
I am interested in having parents and the potentially affected students invited to the table for discussion. I believe it is our best opportunity to learn what is in the works, to be heard, to participate in a civil and democratic process, to show our kids that we value their educations.
Laura A. Caffry


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In its second annual ranking of MBA programs, Poets & Quants, an online community for business school prospective students, listed the Willamette MBA as the highest ranked program in Oregon. Willamette was also included on the website's first ranking in 2010.
The Poets & Quants list is a "composite" score, taking into consideration all of the other national rankings and the influence these rankings have on the image and reputation of the schools listed. The Willamette MBA made high marks this past year as the only school in Oregon recognized on Forbes magazine's list of "best business schools" and a top 25 school on the Aspen Institute's Beyond Grey Pinstripes list.


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Miami, Florida, October 1, 2012 – Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. (Southern), the country's leading wine and spirits distributor, today announced the appointment of Mickey Horton to the company's Supply Chain Strategy Team as its National Director, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS). The appointment is effective immediately.
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FS: Race winning 1980 ITB/STU Ford Mustang, with a really cool paint job (slightly bent)
Price reduced...need to get out of my house soon!
So I am putting up Old Glory for sale. I need to move everything out of my house and garage in the next month and it will be a lot easier to pack up the racecar and all the extra goodies into YOUR trailer and truck, instead of me packing it up and then unloading it in storage (or storing it somewhere).
This 1980 ITB/STU Mustang was originally built by D. Cordier (Won an ITB championship at Waterford Hills with it), then was sold to Piku, then K. Smith, then C. Childs and then me. C. Childs (of Angry Sheep Motorsports fame) updated this car including the roll cage after his 2004 ITB Championship at Waterford Hills. This car, once fixed, I believe, is capable of beating the ITB lap record at Waterford Hills and Mid-Ohio. The car does need work, but frankly with all the extras, it will be the last racecar you will ever need to buy. I had a few wins, and finished 2nd in ITB points in the first year (2010) with this car at Waterford Hills. Finished 5th out of 13 at the 2010 IT Fest at Mid-Ohio the first time out and I had never seen the track. Lap times around 1:51.00.
It can be a winner, oh and it can still lose some weight. This would be a great starter car for someone wanting to teach a young driver they have to put some work into it before they can drive it.
ITB/STU classified (also could run vintage), carb 2.3L with 5-speed transmission. Roll cage has NASCAR bars and is built for AS if desired. Brake biased installed into car. Fuel cell installed. Fire system installed, race seat installed and seat belts good until 2015. Custom level foot pedals by C. Childs. I fit comfortably at 6'0â€. C. Childs fits into this car at 6'3â€. So someone smaller may need to adjust some things. Very, very little rust, has been stored inside.
Racecar has the following extras:
2 extra engines, both carbs, one out of the green racecar and one is an old pinto motor
3 extra transmissions – two 4-speed, one 5-speed
Extra trunk, right side door, rear bumper, 2 front fascia, muffler, custom fuel cell and a slightly used hood (yes off the green car)
Additional two hoods - no rust, extra engine cradle
Extra ignition box, 2 alternators, a starter, new belts, spark plugs, new gaskets and enough engine parts (crank, cam, pistons) to make a fourth engine, minus the block.
Extra suspension parts – rear springs, front A-arms with new bushings (two sets of front suspension)
Extra rear axle, 2 drive shafts, steering column (Make that two extra rear axles)
Extra brake calipers, lines and rotors (which will be needed for a new system)
11 Outlaw wheels 14x6 (no longer manufactured) and 3 sets of other wheels 14x6 (each different)
Lots of tires, most mounted, 1 set of mounted rain tires used once. (Set of rains and a set of intermediate tires remain)
Various weather seals
And probably about five boxes of other misc. stuff (Note: This is from one donor car (1989) and the green racecar (1979 Hatch) that was stripped before scrapped)
I do not have the title to this car, C. Childs has it….somewhere.
Willing to sell any extras separate (except the Outlaw wheels), WILL NOT unbolt anything from the car in its current condition.
Hoods, trunk - $75
Engine - $400
Trans - $250
Suspension parts - $25
The work, and this is as honest as I am knowledgeable:
This car has been on its roof, the roof is crushed on the top of the windshield. New windshield required (need a sedan Mustang, not a hatchback)
The left shock tower will need to be repaired and the floor board under the pedals is no longer flat.
This car could be taken to a frame place to be straighten, or if someone who knows what they are doing can fix this without.
The left side door and left fender will need to be replaced, but is included.
The roll cage did its job and is still perfect. And the car runs, I drove it off the trailer into the garage. May need to make sure the oil has drained back out of the carb, timing is ok and the spark plugs are ok.
May need a new battery (Sitting a bit) and (edit) Needs a new radiator.
Brakes need a once over. Suggest replacing whole system, rotors, pads, lines, caliper and probably booster. Have all parts except a booster. This is the reason the car was on its roof (Regardless of what you heard). Maybe 10% of brakes available.
Semi-motivated, like I said, need to move it and not looking forward to moving it, but not going to give it away. (You know, I will race it again someday…I keep telling myself). Also know, I would rather see it on the track from the tower then sitting in my garage.
Willing to bring price down in exchange for a co-driver race, Open Track Day session or Practice session. (You know, one last hurrah). NO trades please.
Please contact me at my screen name ID listed above with (at) aol (dot) com added, or PM me, Or call/text me.
Car and goodies located in Lake Orion, MI - car is at the house, some parts in storage and currently some still in Ortonville, MI 48462
Website master Andrew, if you could find a picture of Old Glory and post it, you will be my hero! Thanks Andrew!


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The Baby Blues
Sarah recalls crying uncontrollably for no apparent reason one day after the birth of her son almost five years ago. "I just felt completely overwhelmed and scared, because suddenly the life of this little being was all my responsibility. I had to feed him, make sure he got enough food, make sure that he didn't suffocate at night or swallow something and choke, or even drop from my hands … I felt extremely restricted, imprisoned by his feeding schedule." Looking back, Sarah believes she suffered from the baby blues, a short-lived but often distressing condition that affects between 50 and 75 percent of all new mothers within the week after the birth of their baby.
According to Depression after Delivery, a national Postpartum Depression support organization, baby blues are a biological response to a woman's rapidly changing hormone levels after pregnancy. Yet sometimes the blues turn into postpartum depression. Learn the difference and where to find support if you're struggling with a postpartum mood disorder.
Baby Blues 101
According to Depression after Delivery, baby blues is a biological response to a woman's rapidly changing hormone levels after pregnancy. Symptoms include tearfulness, irritability, impatience, restlessness, and anxiety. Of course, the overwhelming responsibilities of a new baby, around the clock feedings, diaper changes, inconsolable crying, spitting up, and too many sleepless nights, aggravate this state.
My husband would call, and I would hear his voice, and I would just start to cry for no reason, recalls Stephanie, whose baby blues were gone within three weeks. She describes being on a high her first days home, but her mood quickly dampened as she began week two. "I'm not very good with change," she confesses. "I felt weird, anxious, really tired, a little overwhelmed—just out of sorts."
Dr. Silvia Olarté, senior attending at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital, explains that women experiencing the baby blues "feel life through loudspeakers." These exhausted moms find themselves in an emotional state they just don't recognize. Usually the women's hormones self-adjust within 21 days, and by then routine sets in and they find themselves feeling more and more at ease with their new situation.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - Tolls are increasingly being diverted to pay for transportation projects and other expenses unrelated to roadways, bridges and tunnels used by the motorists who pay the fees, the nation's largest auto club said Wednesday.
By looks alone, Ford appears to have a major hit on its hands with the new generation Fusion and that seems even more likely when the new technologies and fuel efficiency is factored in.
There's a little game I like to play when I first get into a test car. It's called "Guess the Price" - and it can help or hurt the first impression. It's the dollar number that I'd pay for the vehicle - and often I'm wrong, on the low side.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Shadowbox with a silhouetted Muhammad Ali. Grab a bat and take a few swings in a batting cage at the Louisville Slugger Museum. Dig into a Hot Brown at the place where the savory sandwich was created. Sip Kentucky bourbons at a hotel where Al Capone played blackjack.
Manteca resident Michael Lamb has decided to travel the United States with his wife Jody after she retires this year from the Manteca Unified School District.
When Phil Waterford wakes up in the morning, he has expectations that great things are going to happen.
Last weekend, MC Hammer celebrated his 50th birthday in style at a star-studded birthday bash at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Many celebrities and dignitaries, including the Mayor of San Francisco, were in attendance.
Sales started out sluggish at Phil Waterford's Manteca Ford & Exotic High Line last weekend as the rain and the wind kept most people indoors. When Phil Waterford arrived at his North Main Street Ford dealership his showroom was filled with customers. However, they had no sales reported for the day.
TRACY – The special edition 2012 Nissan Versa hatchback is now available in a package deal worth more than $900 in savings.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Driving is becoming so last century.
NEW YORK (AP) - With gasoline around $4 in much of the nation, fuel economy has never been more important to pickup truck buyers. That's why engineers who worked on revamping Chrysler's Ram put it at the forefront of their work.
OCALA NATIONAL FOREST, Fla. (AP) - Erika Faulk and her cousin, Gale Robinson, could have met up for a weekend spa retreat or planned a shopping excursion, but the two middle-aged, suburban moms opted for weekend learning to shoot guns, build campfires and track deer deep in the Ocala National Forest.
Few travelers speeding along Interstate 5 near Coalinga realize that those cattle they see in feedlots next to the freeway are actually In-N-Out burgers waiting to be processed. Sure, everyone knows that burgers come from cattle, but did you know In-N-Out burgers come from these cattle?
I thought my eyeglasses were going to blow off at 160 mph, but I kept my foot to the floor and headed toward 170 mph before I had to lift and begin braking.
Since we started reviewing cars more than 20 years ago, we've watched Volvo go through an interesting metamorphosis. During that time, Volvo has continued to be the undisputed safety leader with a steady flow of innovations. Fortunately, for consumers, other manufacturers have embraced much of the new technology with their own applications in something of a 'follow-the-leader' response.
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- cognition (2)
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- attention (1)
- cognitive penetrability (1)
- concepts (1)
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- Timescales of multineuronal activity patterns reflect temporal structure of visual stimuli (2011)
- The investigation of distributed coding across multiple neurons in the cortex remains to this date a challenge. Our current understanding of collective encoding of information and the relevant timescales is still limited. Most results are restricted to disparate timescales, focused on either very fast, e.g., spike-synchrony, or slow timescales, e.g., firing rate. Here, we investigated systematically multineuronal activity patterns evolving on different timescales, spanning the whole range from spike-synchrony to mean firing rate. Using multi-electrode recordings from cat visual cortex, we show that cortical responses can be described as trajectories in a high-dimensional pattern space. Patterns evolve on a continuum of coexisting timescales that strongly relate to the temporal properties of stimuli. Timescales consistent with the time constants of neuronal membranes and fast synaptic transmission (5–20 ms) play a particularly salient role in encoding a large amount of stimulus-related information. Thus, to faithfully encode the properties of visual stimuli the brain engages multiple neurons into activity patterns evolving on multiple timescales.
- Synchronization hubs may arise from strong rhythmic inhibition during gamma oscillations in primary visual cortex : poster presentation from Twentieth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2011, Stockholm, Sweden, 23 - 28 July 2011 (2011)
- Poster presentation from Twentieth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2011 Stockholm, Sweden. 23-28 July 2011. Parallel multiunit recordings from V1 in anesthetized cat were collected during the presentation of random sequences of drifting sinusoidal gratings at 12 fixed orientations while gamma oscillations were present. In agreement with the seminal work [1], most units were orientation selective to varying degrees and synchronization was evident in spike train crosscorrelograms computed between units with similar preferred orientations, particularly during the presentation of optimal stimuli. Interestingly, a subset of units, which we refer to as synchronization hubs, were additionally found to synchronize with units having differing preferred orientations which was consistent with a previous study [2]. Moreover, oscillatory patterning in spike train autocorrelograms was also found to be strongest in units denoted as synchronization hubs, and synchronization hubs also tended to have narrower tuning curves relative to other units. We used simplified computational models of small networks of V1 neurons to demonstrate that neurons subject to a sufficiently strong level of inhibitory input can function as synchronization hubs. Neurons were endowed either with integrate-and-fire or conductance-based dynamics and each neuron received a combination of excitatory (AMPA) synaptic inputs that were Poisson-distributed and inhibitory (GABA) inputs that were coherent at a gamma-frequency range. If the strength of rhythmic inhibition was increased for a subset of neurons in the network, and excitation was increased simultaneously to maintain a fixed firing rate, then these neurons produced stronger oscillatory patterning in their discharge probabilities. The oscillations in turn synchronized these neurons with other neurons in the network. Importantly, the strength of synchronization increased with neurons of differing orientation preferences even though no direct synaptic coupling existed between the hubs and the other neurons. Enhanced levels of inhibition account for the emergence of synchronization hubs in the following way: Inhibitory inputs exhibiting a gamma rhythm determine a time window within which a cell is likely to discharge. Increased levels of inhibition narrow down this window further simultaneously leading to (i) even stronger oscillatory patterning of the neuron's activity and (ii) enhanced synchronization with other neurons. This enables synchronization even between cells with differing orientation preferences. Additionally, the same increased levels of inhibition may be responsible for the narrow tuning curves of hub neurons. In conclusion, synchronization hubs may be the cells that interact most strongly with the network of inhibitory interneurons during gamma oscillations in primary visual cortex.
- Semantic mechanisms may be responsible for developing synesthesia (2014)
- Currently, little is known about how synesthesia develops and which aspects of synesthesia can be acquired through a learning process. We review the increasing evidence for the role of semantic representations in the induction of synesthesia, and argue for the thesis that synesthetic abilities are developed and modified by semantic mechanisms. That is, in certain people semantic mechanisms associate concepts with perception-like experiences—and this association occurs in an extraordinary way. This phenomenon can be referred to as "higher" synesthesia or ideasthesia. The present analysis suggests that synesthesia develops during childhood and is being enriched further throughout the synesthetes' lifetime; for example, the already existing concurrents may be adopted by novel inducers or new concurrents may be formed. For a deeper understanding of the origin and nature of synesthesia we propose to focus future research on two aspects: (i) the similarities between synesthesia and ordinary phenomenal experiences based on concepts; and (ii) the tight entanglement of perception, cognition and the conceptualization of the world. Importantly, an explanation of how biological systems get to generate experiences, synesthetic or not, may have to involve an explanation of how semantic networks are formed in general and what their role is in the ability to be aware of the surrounding world.
- NeuroXidence: reliable and efficient analysis of an excess or deficiency of joint-spike events (2009)
- Poster presentation: We present a non-parametric and computationally-efficient method named NeuroXidence (see http://www.NeuroXidence.com ) that detects coordinated firing within a group of two or more neurons and tests whether the observed level of coordinated firing is significantly different from that expected by chance. NeuroXidence [1] considers the full auto-structure of the data, including the changes in the rate responses and the history dependencies in the spiking activity. We demonstrate that NeuroXidence can identify epochs with significant spike synchronisation even if these coincide with strong and fast rate modulations. We also show, that the method accounts for trial-by-trial variability in the rate responses and their latencies, and that it can be applied to short data windows lasting only tens of milliseconds. Based on simulated data we compare the performance of NeuroXidence with the UE-method [2,3] and the cross-correlation analysis. An application of NeuroXidence to 42 single-units (SU) recorded in area 17 of an anesthetized cat revealed significant coincident events of high complexities, involving firing of up to 8 SUs simultaneously (5 ms window). The results were highly consistent with those obtained by traditional pair-wise measures based on cross-correlation: Neuronal synchrony was strongest in stimulation conditions in which the orientation of the sinusoidal grating matched the preferred orientation of most of the SUs included in the analysis, and was the weakest when the neurons were stimulated least optimally. Interestingly, events of higher complexities showed stronger stimulus-specific modulation than pair-wise interactions. The results suggest strong evidence for stimulus specific synchronous firing and, therefore, support the temporal coding hypothesis in visual cortex. ...
- Neural synchrony in cortical networks : history, concept and current status (2009)
- Following the discovery of context-dependent synchronization of oscillatory neuronal responses in the visual system, the role of neural synchrony in cortical networks has been expanded to provide a general mechanism for the coordination of distributed neural activity patterns. In the current paper, we present an update of the status of this hypothesis through summarizing recent results from our laboratory that suggest important new insights regarding the mechanisms, function and relevance of this phenomenon. In the first part, we present recent results derived from animal experiments and mathematical simulations that provide novel explanations and mechanisms for zero and nero-zero phase lag synchronization. In the second part, we shall discuss the role of neural synchrony for expectancy during perceptual organization and its role in conscious experience. This will be followed by evidence that indicates that in addition to supporting conscious cognition, neural synchrony is abnormal in major brain disorders, such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders. We conclude this paper with suggestions for further research as well as with critical issues that need to be addressed in future studies.
- Multidimensional patterns of neuronal activity: how do we see them? (2008)
- Poster presentation: Introduction The brain is a highly interconnected network of constantly interacting units. Understanding the collective behavior of these units requires a multi-dimensional approach. The results of such analyses are hard to visualize and interpret. Hence tools capable of dealing with such tasks become imperative. ....
- Membrane resonance enables stable and robust gamma oscillations (2012)
- Neuronal mechanisms underlying beta/gamma oscillations (20-80 Hz) are not completely understood. Here, we show that in vivo beta/gamma oscillations in the cat visual cortex sometimes exhibit remarkably stable frequency even when inputs fluctuate dramatically. Enhanced frequency stability is associated with stronger oscillations measured in individual units and larger power in the local field potential. Simulations of neuronal circuitry demonstrate that membrane properties of inhibitory interneurons strongly determine the characteristics of emergent oscillations. Exploration of networks containing either integrator or resonator inhibitory interneurons revealed that: (i) Resonance, as opposed to integration, promotes robust oscillations with large power and stable frequency via a mechanism called RING (Resonance INduced Gamma); resonance favors synchronization by reducing phase delays between interneurons and imposes bounds on oscillation cycle duration; (ii) Stability of frequency and robustness of the oscillation also depend on the relative timing of excitatory and inhibitory volleys within the oscillation cycle; (iii) RING can reproduce characteristics of both Pyramidal INterneuron Gamma (PING) and INterneuron Gamma (ING), transcending such classifications; (iv) In RING, robust gamma oscillations are promoted by slow but are impaired by fast inputs. Results suggest that interneuronal membrane resonance can be an important ingredient for generation of robust gamma oscillations having stable frequency.
- Distributed fading memory for stimulus properties in the primary visual cortex (2009)
- It is currently not known how distributed neuronal responses in early visual areas carry stimulus-related information. We made multielectrode recordings from cat primary visual cortex and applied methods from machine learning in order to analyze the temporal evolution of stimulus-related information in the spiking activity of large ensembles of around 100 neurons. We used sequences of up to three different visual stimuli (letters of the alphabet) presented for 100 ms and with intervals of 100 ms or larger. Most of the information about visual stimuli extractable by sophisticated methods of machine learning, i.e., support vector machines with nonlinear kernel functions, was also extractable by simple linear classification such as can be achieved by individual neurons. New stimuli did not erase information about previous stimuli. The responses to the most recent stimulus contained about equal amounts of information about both this and the preceding stimulus. This information was encoded both in the discharge rates (response amplitudes) of the ensemble of neurons and, when using short time constants for integration (e.g., 20 ms), in the precise timing of individual spikes (<= ~20 ms), and persisted for several 100 ms beyond the offset of stimuli. The results indicate that the network from which we recorded is endowed with fading memory and is capable of performing online computations utilizing information about temporally sequential stimuli. This result challenges models assuming frame-by-frame analyses of sequential inputs.
- Attentional demand influences strategies for encoding into visual working memory (2007)
- Visual selective attention and visual working memory (WM) share the same capacity-limited resources. We investigated whether and how participants can cope with a task in which these 2 mechanisms interfere. The task required participants to scan an array of 9 objects in order to select the target locations and to encode the items presented at these locations into WM (1 to 5 shapes). Determination of the target locations required either few attentional resources ("popout condition") or an attention-demanding serial search ("non pop-out condition"). Participants were able to achieve high memory performance in all stimulation conditions but, in the non popout conditions, this came at the cost of additional processing time. Both empirical evidence and subjective reports suggest that participants invested the additional time in memorizing the locations of all target objects prior to the encoding of their shapes into WM. Thus, they seemed to be unable to interleave the steps of search with those of encoding. We propose that the memory for target locations substitutes for perceptual pop-out and thus may be the key component that allows for flexible coping with the common processing limitations of visual WM and attention. The findings have implications for understanding how we cope with real-life situations in which the demands on visual attention and WM occur simultaneously. Keywords: attention, working memory, interference, encoding strategies
- A small world of neuronal synchrony (2008)
- A small-world network has been suggested to be an efficient solution for achieving both modular and global processing-a property highly desirable for brain computations. Here, we investigated functional networks of cortical neurons using correlation analysis to identify functional connectivity. To reconstruct the interaction network, we applied the Ising model based on the principle of maximum entropy. This allowed us to assess the interactions by measuring pairwise correlations and to assess the strength of coupling from the degree of synchrony. Visual responses were recorded in visual cortex of anesthetized cats, simultaneously from up to 24 neurons. First, pairwise correlations captured most of the patterns in the population´s activity and, therefore, provided a reliable basis for the reconstruction of the interaction networks. Second, and most importantly, the resulting networks had small-world properties; the average path lengths were as short as in simulated random networks, but the clustering coefficients were larger. Neurons differed considerably with respect to the number and strength of interactions, suggesting the existence of "hubs" in the network. Notably, there was no evidence for scale-free properties. These results suggest that cortical networks are optimized for the coexistence of local and global computations: feature detection and feature integration or binding.


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This will be a cool milestone for any company to achieve.
While I have little doubt Apple will reach $1 Trillion in valuation I have to ask, so what. I get what it means, but what will it actually do for the company. The vast majority of their cash (wealth) is held overseas, they pay little corporate tax and this valuation will only continue to give them more cash to further control markets, supply chain and attack (and in some cases abuse) patents and the patent system.
When you are worth as much as Apple is you can choose to ignore a lot, corporate responsibility, other companies patents and play the "So sue me" game and force smaller companies to let them slide on accused patent abuse, fight an uphill battle against a cash rich company who can buy and sell you any day of the week.
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Passing leagues and passing league camps help bridge the two-month gap between football spring practice in May and the start of pre-season practice in August.
They also help quarterbacks and receivers get on the same page, build route memory and get in sync.
They help definitely, said Berkeley Stags quarterback Joseph Dress. Back in the spring doing this was kind of hard, but weve been working together all summer so its gotten a lot easier.
Dress said he and his receivers have had time since spring practice to learn the routes and to learn more about each other.
We get on the same page now and we know what each other is doing, he said. We know our routes better and we run them better.
Eight area football teams - the Stags, Timberland, West Ashley, Goose Creek, Hanahan, Bishop England and host Stratfords varsity and JV football teams met on the practice fields for a three-day passing league camp July 15-17, a final tune-up before the start of pre-season practice on Aug. 1.
Weve thrown the ball well all summer, said Stags Coach Jeff Cruce. We have an experienced senior quarterback in Joseph Dress and a quality group of receivers that can catch the ball.
While it is an offense based camp, the defense does get some work in on pass coverage, Cruce said.
The Stags begin their season on Aug. 22 at home against Class AAs Johnsonville.
For teams like Timberland and Goose Creek that employ a run-oriented offense, the passing camps offer a look at what the passing game might be like.
We will throw the ball more here today than we will all season, said Goose Creek Assistant Coach Joe Hauff. We just dont throw the football much, or need to for that matter.
Timberland Coach Art Craig said the passing camp helps get his team in front of competition.
Its all about getting ready for the season, the region and the playoffs, said Craig, whose Wolves open the season on Aug. 29 against Class AAAs Hanahan. We have a much better pre-region schedule, a lot tougher than before. The only way we can get ready for Dillon is to play some really good football teams early.
The Wolves were by far the smallest school competing in the passing camp but it was nice to go nose to nose against the bigger schools like Stratford and Goose Creek.
We really held our own well and it was nice to line up on the other side of the ball from these guys, Craig said. We really benefitted from the competition and our scrimmage against Stratford was like a regular season football game and not a camp scrimmage.
As for Timberlands performance in the spring and summer, Craig said the teams maturity is beginning to show.
Ryan Hood has looked really well in practice and during the passing leagues. We were able to hire Brandon Cantrell as our quarterback coach and Ryan has really benefitted from his influence during the spring and summer.
Tight end Wyatt Craig is 100-percent healthy after battling injuries for the better part of two years and has committed to play college football at Newberry.
Wyatt said he liked the concept of the smaller school and what Newberry had to offer and he decided to get that whole process out of the way early by committing so he could focus on his senior season, Craig said of his youngest son.
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Two individuals where shot and killed following the robbery of the 1st Bank & Trust in Wright City, McCurtain County, at gun point on Thursday afternoon, June 16, 2011 just west of Rattan on HWY 3.
Dead are Justin Whisenhunt, a former Wright City resident whom the OSBI says was recently released from jail in Tarrant County, TX., after serving time for theft, and Jeremy Dysart of North Richland Hills, TX. The woman with them was Rachel Marie Morris Spear of Euless, TX., she was taken into custody, booked into the Pushmataha County Jail and charged with Murder in the First Degree.
According to reports and witnesses, this is what happened. At approximately 12:50 p.m. the bank was robbed at gun point by individual(s) who left in a black Dodge dually truck. Police reports and some witnesses differ on the number of individuals who entered the bank. Some saying it was one man and some stating it was two men.
Shortly after their departure from the bank law enforcement agencies were notified and officers were all on their way. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper, Eric Blades, saw the vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed heading west on HWY 3, approximately 5 miles east of Rattan. Blades turned on his lights and sirens in an attempt to initiate a stop, but the vehicle did not comply. The truck then swerved into a privet drive in an attempt to avoid driving over stop sticks that had been deployed by Trooper Brad Dansby. The vehicle then turned around and drove back towards Blades and began discharging firearms. Blades returned fire which resulted in the death of Whisenhunt and Dysart . The female, Spears, was also in the vehicle at the conclusion of the pursuit. Spears was taken into custody and transported to the Pushmataha County Sheriff's Department for further questioning, no injuries were reported.
At around 3:40 p.m., OSBI Agent Steven Carter interviewed Spears. Prior to the interview Spears was advised of her Rights and she stated that she wanted to talk to Carter. Present in the interview was also OSBI Agent in Charge Dale Birchfield and FBI Agent Amber Fallon. Spears said that she had known Dysart, as a friend, for several years and had known Whisenhunt for about one year and considered him her boyfriend.
According to police reports and Spears' statement, Whisenhunt, Dysart and herself had traveled to Oklahoma from Arlington, TX. Prior to driving into Oklahoma, Whisenhunt appeared with the black Dodge truck. Spears did not ask about the truck, but knew it had to have been stolen because Whisenhunt had no means of purchasing the vehicle. After arriving in Oklahoma the three stayed at various locations, including spending the night at Robber's Cave State Park on the night of June 15th. On the morning of the16th, they traveled to Wright City because Whisenhunt had relatives who lived there.
While in Wright City, Whisenhunt said that he had to go to the bank to pick up inheritance money left to him by his father, who had recently passed away. Prior to driving to the bank Dysart asked Spears to get into the back seat of the vehicle and help him smoke a cigarette. At the time of the interview Spears said that she felt Dysart might have known that Whisenhunt was going to rob the bank, due to him asking her to get in the back seat.
Once at the bank Whisenhunt put on a denim jacket and went into the bank. Shortly afterwards he returned to the vehicle with a white trash bag full of money. Once in the vehicle Spears says that Dysart asked Whisenhunt, "You didn't do this did you?" and Whisenhunt replied, "I told you I would get us the money to start a new life."
Spears also said that later, she was unsure of t he direction they were driving or the amount of time that had passed, Whisenhunt stated, "They just lit us up." Referring to the law enforcement vehicle behind them who had just turned on their lights and sirens.
Whisenhunt then drove the vehicle at a high rate of speed and refused to pull over. Spears saw a police SUV stopped in the roadway ahead of them and Whisenhunt drove the vehicle off the roadway, keeping his speed, to avoid an officer who was later identified as Rattan's Chief of Police Marshal Sorells.
The next thing Spears recalled was seeing another Officer in the roadway putting down spike strips. Whisenhunt left the roadway again to avoid the strips and turned into a wooded area. Spears was knowcked into the floorboard of the vehicle due to the erratic movement of the vehicle. Spears was unsure how many rounds of gunfire she heard but knew that Dysart had been shot because he fell into her lap and was bleeding profusely from the head.
Whisenhunt drove the vehicle back onto the highway and then into the ditch at the Rattan Landing on the west side. At this time Spears exited the vehicle with her hands extended upon the officer's orders. At some point during the initial portion of the pursuit, a chrome revolver fell from the front seat of t he vehicle into the rear of the vehicle. Spears picked up the gun and placed it back into the front of the vehicle.
According to sorces and reports, Dysart was shot in the head and Whisenhunt was shot in the chest and died on the way to the hospital. One body was covered in the back
Spears, the only living one of the three involved, now faces two counts of Murder in the First Degree, Felony Murder; and Possession of a Firearm after a Former Felony Conviction. FBI Agent Fallon advised OSBI Agent Carter that the United States Attorney's Office is not pursuing charges on Spears for bank robbery at this time.
Spears is being charged with Murder based on Oklahoma Statute 21 O.S. § 701.7 (B) which says that a person can be charged with First Degree murder, regardless of malice, if a person takes the life of another, or if the death of a human takes place during the commission or attempted commission of a robbery with a dangerous weapon or while eluding an officer, which in this case both happened.
Spears is facing Possession of a Firearm after former felony conviction because of prior felony conviction involving Manufacturing a Controlled Dangerous Substances and another one for Possession of a CDS.
If Spears is convicted of First Degree Murder the crime is punishable by death, imprisonment for life or imprisonment for life without parole. If she is convicted of Possession of a Firearm After a Previous Felony, she could face up to 10 years in prison.
Spears is being held in the Pushmataha County Jail and was denied bail.
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