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Dale Earnhardt
Racing Driver
Born Apr 29, 1951
Hometown Kannapolis, North...
Died Feb 18, 2001
Death Place Daytona Beach, Fl...
Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. was an American race car driver, best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR. Born to race car driver Ralph Lee Earnhardt, Earnhardt began his career in 1975 when he drove in the 1975 World 600 at Charlotte… Read More
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Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Dale Earnhardt.
1951 Birth Earnhardt was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, on April 29, 1951, to Martha Coleman and Ralph Lee Earnhardt, who was then one of the best short-track drivers in North Carolina.
1956 5 Years Old Ralph won his one and only NASCAR Sportsman Championship in 1956 at Greenville Pickens Speedway in Greenville, South Carolina. … Read More
1968 17 Years Old When Earnhardt was 17, he married his first wife, Latane Brown, in 1968.
1969 18 Years Old Brown gave birth to Earnhardt's first son, Kerry Earnhardt, in 1969. They were subsequently divorced in 1970.
1971 20 Years Old In 1971, Earnhardt married his second wife, Brenda Gee (the daughter of NASCAR car builder Robert Gee), with whom he had a daughter, Kelley King, in 1972, and a son, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., in 1974. … Read More
1973 22 Years Old Ralph was a hard teacher for Earnhardt, and after Ralph died of a heart attack at his home in 1973, it took many years before Earnhardt felt as though he had finally "proven" himself to his father. … Read More
1975 24 Years Old Earnhardt began his professional career at the Winston Cup in 1975, making his debut at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina in the longest race on the Cup circuit, the World 600. … Read More
1979 28 Years Old Earnhardt competed in 8 more races until 1979, when he joined car owner Rod Osterlund Racing, in a season that included a rookie class of future stars – Earnhardt, Harry Gant and Terry Labonte. … Read More
1981 30 Years Old In 1981, after Osterlund sold his team to J.D. Stacy, Earnhardt left for Richard Childress Racing, and finished the season 7th in the points standings but winless.
1982 31 Years Old 2 More Events
Dale then married his last wife, Teresa Houston (niece of NASCAR driver Tommy Houston) in 1982, who gave birth to their daughter, Taylor Nicole in 1988.
1983 32 Years Old 1 More Event
In 1983, Earnhardt rebounded and won his first of 12 Twin 125 Daytona 500 qualifying races. … Read More
1984 33 Years Old During the 1984 and 1985 seasons, Earnhardt visited victory lane six times, at Talladega, Atlanta, Richmond, Bristol (twice), and Martinsville, where he finished fourth and eighth in the season standings, respectively.
1986 35 Years Old The 1986 season saw Earnhardt win his second career Winston Cup Championship and the first owner's championship for RCR. … Read More
1987 36 Years Old In the 1987 season, Earnhardt earned his nickname "The Intimidator" after spinning out Elliott in the final segment of "The Winston", a non-points event now known as the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race. … Read More
1988 37 Years Old 1 More Event
The 1988 season saw Earnhardt racing with a new sponsor, GM Goodwrench, which replaced Wrangler Jeans. … Read More
1995 44 Years Old 1 More Event
Earnhardt started off the 1995 season by finishing second in the Daytona 500 to Sterling Marlin.
1996 45 Years Old 1 More Event
1996 for Earnhardt started just as it had done in 1993 – he dominated Speedweeks only to finish second in the Daytona 500 to Dale Jarrett for a second time. … Read More
2000 49 Years Old In the 2000 season, Earnhardt had a resurgence, which some attributed to neck surgery he underwent to correct a lingering injury from his 1996 Talladega crash. … Read More
2001 50 Years Old 6 More Events
… On February 3 and 4, 2001, Earnhardt participated in the Rolex 24 endurance race at the Daytona International Speedway. … Read More
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Santa Fe Speedway Had Long History In Chicago
Perhaps the best-known short track in the Chicago area during its run, Santa Fe Speedway operated between 1953 and 1995.
Located at 91st Street and Wolf Road in the Chicago southwest suburban area, the speedway featured a quarter-mile and a "short" half-mile clay oval. Howard Tiedt built and operated the speedway on the property where his father, Frederick, had built the original Santa Fe Park, a picnic grove/race track complex, in 1896 in the area that became known as Tiedtville.
The early track saw horses, bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles compete there until a tornado in the late 1920s destroyed the grandstands, bringing a halt to the racing activity at the site located adjacent to the Santa Fe Railroad tracks, hence the name.
Frederick Tiedt died in 1946. Prior to 1953, Howard Tiedt established Santa Fe Park Enterprises, Inc. and began an overall reconstruction program of the race track and grounds — the beginning of Santa Fe Speedway.
The first race at the new speedway was held in May 1953 with Indiana's Kenny Boyer winning the first stock-car feature. He later became the track's first stock-car champion. A number of races were televised live with popular baseball announcer Jack Brickhouse handling some of the telecasts.
On July 10, 1954, the first NASCAR Grand National stock-car race in the Chicago area took place at Santa Fe with Dick Rathmann winning the 200-lap race and a reported $1,000 for his efforts.
Bill Van Allen, Dick Nelson, Jim O'Connor, Tony Izzo and Frank Reaber stick out above the rest when it comes to stock-car championships and races won at "Chicago's Track of Clay."
Van Allen won three-consecutive stock-car championships from 1954 through 1956. He came back and won three more from 1962 through 1964.
Dick Nelson won his first of seven titles in 1960. He won again in 1961, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971 and his last — 1972.
Jim O'Connor captured late-model laurels in 1973, repeating in '74 and again in 1976. The 1977 racing season saw Tony Izzo claim the first of his nine track championships. Izzo won four straight from 1977 through 1980 and five straight between 1984 and 1988.
Santa Fe became part of NASCAR's Winston Cup Series in 1987. Howard Tiedt died in 1990, and his daughter Mary Lou and her husband John Moskal took over during the track's final years.
Frank Reaber added his name to the champions' list in 1989 and won additional titles in 1992, 1994 and 1995, which was the last season of racing at the famed speed venue.
Over the years, USAC midget and sprint cars, along with World of Outlaws sprinters, competed at Santa Fe. The track was also a popular venue for weekly AMA motorcycle events.
With the '95 season completed, participants looked forward to another season of racing the following year and were shocked when management announced the track would not open in 1996.
The facility sat idle in 1996, 1997 and 1998, falling to the wrecking ball in March 1999 to make way for a housing development.

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Linda J. Wilson passed away suddenly Saturday, March 1, 2014, at her residence in Chalfont. She was 59.
Born in Philadelphia, she was the daughter of the late Frank and Elizabeth (Wills) Blusiewicz; and was predeceased by her husband, George E. Wilson III in 2003.
Linda is survived by her beloved children, Kathryn Kay (Robert), George E. Wilson IV (Jamie), Maggie Crouthamel (Lawrence), and Mary Frances Lamb (Kevin); her brother, Frank J. Blusiewicz (Dawn); her nieces and nephew, Amber, Frank Jr. and Brandi Blusiewicz; and her close friend, Bernie Platt. She also is survived by her six cherished grandchildren; and several other extended family members.
Linda was a graduate of Abington School of Nursing, and was employed for 30 years at Warminster Hospital.
She was a member of the Chalfont Fire Co., and enjoyed traveling, dancing and playing games and cards.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend her memorial service noon Saturday, March 8, at Scanlin Funeral Home, 175 East Butler Ave., Chalfont, where the greeting will begin at 11 a.m. Interment will be held privately.
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T.I. is excited in this week's episode of T.I. And Tiny: The Family Hustle, because he's been chosen as the Grand Marshall of the Bud Billiken Parade in Chicago, an honor that has come to him only because President Obama was unable to do it himself, he tells us. And of course Tip wants his first lady next to him, and together the two of them will rule that parade, and nothing can mess that up. "I'm gonna need to ring Shekinah, babe," Tiny tells him when she hears the plan. Did I say nothing could mess that up? Well, maybe one thing.
"Would Michelle bring Shekinah?" President Tip asks. "Hmm?" Good question. I guess we're going to have to wait and see the entire episode on Monday night at 9 p.m. ET/PT to see how Tip handles this third wheel on their trip.


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Some of you may have heard that you could pay a certain amount of money to get a green card. Guess what? It's true – though it's not that simple. The EB-5 investor green card allows foreign nationals to invest $500,000.00 to $1 million in an enterprise. For new investments in non-rural, non-targeted employment areas (TEA), the investment must be $1 million and create 10 direct jobs. The foreign national must also direct oversee the development of the enterprise. If the investment is in a rural area, or a TEA, you only need to invest $500,000.00, demonstrate the creation of 10 indirect jobs, and you do not have to be directly involved in overseeing the business. To qualify for a TEA, an area must have an unemployment rate of 150% of the national average.
What do I need to do?
Generally, a foreign national has to put the entire $500,000.00 or $1 million at risk. The funds may be derived from gifts, but they must come from lawful sources. Upon deposit of the funds, the application process takes approximately six months. Upon approval, the foreign national receives conditional residency. Approximately two years after, the foreign national must apply to remove the condition, thereby making him/her a permanent resident.
Is there an easier way to get a green card?
Needless to say, most foreign nationals seeking a green card would opt for the $500,000.00 green card since: 1) it's half the price; 2) does not require direct management of day-to-day operations; and 3) it only needs to show the creation of 10 indirect jobs. However, applying for an EB-5 green card and demonstrating that your new/proposed business meets the requirements takes a lot of time and money. Fortunately, foreign nationals looking for a green card with minimal effort can look to investing in a Designated Regional Center.
What is a designated regional center?
A designated regional center (RC) is a USCIS pre-approved investment/enterprise that has already met the requirements to accept $500,000.00 investments in exchange for a green card. In other words, investors do not have to show that the enterprise is in a TEA or rural area, or that it has created 10 jobs. This has already been done by the individuals/groups who created and had the RC approved. All the foreign national has to do is invest $500,000.00 in the RC of his/her choice.
There are approximately 130 regional centers in the United States. However, many of them are shell companies that were started simply to get investors – but not offering any legitimate business to invest in. As a result, most of investors in these regional centers have their EB-5 application for green cards denied. There are probably only a handful of regional centers that are legitimate, operating companies. These centers have 100% – or near 100% – approval rates for EB-5 green cards. Any denials in the green cards usually stem from the source of investor funds – and not from your business program. Thus, even though there are a lot of regional centers, investors only have a few choices if they want a good shot at getting a green card. If your business proposal fits this mold, Maximilian Law Inc. can help you target overseas investors who want a green card and possibly a small return on investment, then you can be one of the very few regional centers that investors would flock to.
What if I want to create a Regional Center to attract foreign investors?
In addition to investing in a RC, you can also apply to become a RC. This is a very lengthy process, not unlike applying for an EB-5 green card through conventional (non-RC) means. There is a moratorium on these regional centers at the moment because so many people want to get on the band wagon. As such, there is about a one and a half year wait from the time any application is filed. They are also very complicated to set up. However, they can be very lucrative for your business after it is approved.
Some of the benefits of an EB-5 green card have already been discussed. You get a green card within six months and are thus free to live, work, study and do anything you want in this country (legal, of course!). Another benefit is that your spouse and children under 21 all get green cards under the same $500,000.00 investment! So if you are married with four children, that's 6 green cards for $500,000.00 (if you invest in a RC). Pretty good bang for your buck, huh?
Most foreign investors put the $500,000.00/$1 million simply to get a green card and don't expect a return on investment. However, some of the legitimate RC's do, in fact, offer a return on your investment. So for those of you who want something more than just a green card, picking the right RC could yield a financial return that would be, as they say, "icing on the cake.
Since the EB-5 program started, approximately 90% of all foreign investors elect to apply for EB-5 green cards through an existing regional center rather than creating their own investment enterprise.
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Relegation threatened Genoa have confirmed that Gigi De Canio is their new boss after Alberto Malesani was sacked for the second time this season.
"De Canio is the new Coach of Genoa," stated President Enrico Preziosi to Radio Anch'io lo Sport. "He'll take charge of his first training session this morning."
Preziosi made the change after the dramatic events at Marassi yesterday during the game against Siena which eventually ended 4-1 [12].
Malesani was only recalled to the Rossoblu hotseat on April 2 to replace Pasquale Marino – the man who succeeded him in December.
De Canio, who left Lecce last summer, returns to Genoa for the last five games of the season after bossing them during the 203-04 Serie B campaign.
He'll make his debut on the bench on Wednesday when the Grifone, just one point above the relegation zone, will travel to Milan.
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The Critical Inquiry Seminar for First-Year Students
First-year students are required to take the Critical Inquiry Seminar (ID 1) in the first semester. Multiple sections are offered each fall by faculty from throughout the College. Each section has a unique and usually interdisciplinary focus. The Critical Inquiry Seminar challenges students to interrogate established truths and theories and to develop their abilities to express ideas, both orally and in writing. For more information please visit your "Through the Gates" tab on the student portal (mypomona).
Breadth of Study Requirements
The Breadth of Study Requirements provide a window into the vast extent and variety of our accumulated experience and knowledge in the liberal arts. Students are required to complete at least one course in each of the five major areas (and preferably several), choosing any course offered in the disciplines listed, unless specifically exempted. For details on the five areas please visit the online Pomona College Catalog.
Breadth of Study Requirements must be completed at The Claremont Colleges. Breadth of Study credit is not awarded for Study Abroad or other external program coursework. No two breadth areas can be fulfilled with courses from the same discipline. (You cannot have only one discipline represented in different areas) The Critical Inquiry Seminar (ID 001), senior exercises, independent studies, lower-division foreign language courses, and courses taken for less than one full course credit do not satisfy any area requirement.
Students admitted as transfer students are awarded Breadth of Study credit for work completed outside The Claremont Colleges prior to matriculation, but once students matriculate Breadth of Study requirements can only be fulfilled by courses taken in residence at The Claremont Colleges. Students are encouraged to fulfill all the Breadth of Study Requirements within their first two years at the College, and before the major is declared.


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Ex-"All My Children" star Susan Lucci was onstage Emmy night wearing that gorgeous red dress from Cavalli. From our live blog, Hollie says, "8:38 PM: Agnes Nixon leads off the introduction for the iconic Susan Lucci. She is everything we expect her to be - fun, flirty and fabulous. She talks about how deliciously flawed Erica Kane was, the part of a lifetime. And I can't agree more. Erica will live on forever in her heart, and she misses her as much as the fans do. But she says not to cry because something is over, but smile because it was. Loving Lucci, but can we have "AMC" back now please?" Soap.com's Deanna Barnert was in the press room during the show when Lucci headed back to talk about her thoughts on the Daytime Emmy broadcast, "AMC," "Devious Maids," and her memoirs.
Lucci gushes, "I thought it was really terrific show. I thought it was a real - what it set out to be: A tribute to Daytime television. All of Daytime television. The talk shows, the morning shows, the culinary award now and the Daytime dramas. I thought it was a great representation and it was a tribute. And it was a celebration. I loved that. And they didn't cut anything. I think we may have run over a few minutes but they – because I expected my last presentation to be 'And the nominees are' you know, but they did not cut anything. So I think they were very respectful to the medium and that was wonderful to see." Some seemed to question the lack of "AMC" pictures and the short Agnes Nixon tribute. Lucci addresses this: "I have no idea what the process for producing was. I have no idea about any of that. Agnes did speak beautifully. I was so happy to see her in the package they had planned for me. I don't know anything about the rest of it. I'm sorry I can't answer." She was asked if she found closure for "AMC" yet and she admits tonight was 'very helpful'. "When, when Gabriel, the executive producer, told me they wanted to plan a tribute to Erica Kane and, and to me, then I knew I would be able to say some things that have been in my heart and the academy gave me that opportunity, to stand on stage and, and to thank the fans and to say how much respect I have for this medium, and how grateful and joyful I am to be part of it.
Talk turned to her new show, "Devious Maids" being picked up on Lifetime, which she believes they'll be shooting in Atlanta. "I am so happy. Well, yesterday I got off the plane in LA from New York, landed, got in the car, checked my phone on the way to my hotel and there was a message from my agent telling me that 'Devious Maids' has been picked up by Lifetime and they plan to air starting in March. And I am so thrilled that I get to play that wonderful part that I already love so much. From the pilot and even from the table reads. This cast is fantastic and to work with Marc Cherry, with his enthusiasm and his creativity and just love his work and love the opportunity to work with him. And with Lifetime. I was doing 'Army Wives' this, this season and, wow, I am so, so impressed with everyone there at Lifetime. The care and the caliber of production. Very excited."
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Would Lucci like to see Erica brought to Port Charles, even for a bit with Sonny? "Well I would love to work with Maurice Benard that's for sure. And, actually it would be up to the producers if they ever thought about bringing Erica Kane. So far they have not asked me. Um, but it is a wonderful show. If the timing were right, of course [she would do "GH"]. I mean, I have a new show coming out on Discovery as well that I start shooting in New York that will be out in September. And so I have a lot, a lot to do, but sure. I'd love to listen to what they'd have to say, of course."
Lucci's last thoughts were of her memoir and how honest she was about what really went down. "Well, when something is taken out of context it can be regrettable. But the publishers at the time asked me if I would do that and I said I felt so raw I couldn't sort things out. And, um, they wanted me to be raw. And, uh, I tried to be fair. I really just simply just chronicled what I had witnessed. And I felt I owed it to the fans really, because, because they were so passionate that they crashed the computers or phones - switchboards. They kept saying that they didn't want 'All My Children' to go off and I was left being asked so many questions by the fans, why did this happen. I have only to say this is what I know. So I felt I owed it to the fans."
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New York State Police have issued an arrest warrant for Oneil O. Stephenson, 33, who is wanted for robbery in the 3rd degree in connection with the July 2 robbery at NBT Bank, located at 482 Route 3 in the Town of Plattsburgh. Stephenson has used the alias Philippe Francois.
Stephenson is black and heavyset with various tattoos, including one on his right forearm with the word "FLATBUSH" in large letters. Another tattoo on his right shoulder and upper arm features a teddy bear, the faces of two women and cursive writing.
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Apple's iPad 3 is expected to go on sale in March and will support Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile network technology, according to Bloomberg.
The new iPad will be the first product Apple has released since the death of founder and former CEO Steve Jobs last October.
The iPad 3 will support LTE before the iPhone thanks to its larger battery which can handle heavier power demands, according to the report.
"The company's manufacturing partners in Asia started ramping up production of the iPad 3 this month and plan to reach full volumes by February," Bloomberg reported.
The tablet will also reportedly use a quad-core chip to improve application switching.
The rumoured release date comes after Chinese authorities on Friday ordered Apple shut one of its Beijing stores during its iPhone 4 launch, which went awry as customers and scalpers jostled to purchase the device.
Customers at the Sanlitun Beijing store waited in minus nine degrees Celcius temperatures only to be told two hours before the stated opening time that the device would not go on sale that day, which one customer responded to by throwing eggs at the store.
Fellow customers cheered as the egg slid down the iPhone 4S icon, according to the China Daily, which reported that more than 100 police arrived to disperse the crowd.
Apple later suspended sales of the device at its official outlets in Shanghai and Beijing, directing customers to purchase the phone online.
In his first interview since assuming the role, Apple chief Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal the incident in Beijing was "unfortunate", adding that the company would "change some things in the future".
The troubles in China came after Apple for the first time released the names of 156 of its suppliers in an effort to bring greater transparency to its operations, which have come under increasing scrutiny over environmental and safety standards.
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The Hanover Township board of trustees unanimously approved the 2013 property tax levy with no increase, marking the second consecutive year officials held the line. The total township levy is $5.9 million, while the road district levy is about $1.6 million, half of which goes to municipalities within the township. "We continue to find new ways to do more without asking for more," Supervisor Brian McGuire said, citing the township's phasing out of administrative support positions and decision to implement a four-year pay freeze for elected officials. Hanover Township serves nearly 100,000 residents in parts of Bartlett, Elgin, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg and Streamwood. For more information, call (630) 837-0301 or visit hanover-township.org.
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The 2012 San Francisco GLAAD Media Awards take place on Saturday, June 2, 2012 - at the Marriott Marquis, in downtown San Francisco.
The Board of Directors of GLAAD and newly appointed President Herndon Graddick invite you to celebrate the most outstanding images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in the media at the largest, most visible LGBT gala in the nation, the GLAAD Media Awards! Held in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco with over 5,000 attendees, the GLAAD Media Awards bring celebrities, corporate partners, media professionals, and young adults together in support of GLAAD's mission to amplify the voice of the LGBT community and achieve full equality!
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Hosted by Glee's Dianna Agron, honoring Shonda Rimes (creator of "Grey's Anatomy") with the 'Golden Gate Award,' and corporate honorees: Wells Fargo & Facebook.
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I am 50+-year-old Industrial Engineer/Manager responsible for the development and implementation of chemical coating-removal systems aimed primarily at the automotive, medical and military industries. I am married with three children, two cats and live in Sandusky Ohio, the Roller Coaster Capitol of the World.
I remember the first model that I built. My father gave me a
Revell submarine kit for my birthday in 1969. I clearly recall the two
of us sitting at the dining room table with one of those orange tubes of
Testors cement putting that thing together. It was an excellent bathtub
toy for many years. Prior to that my older brother had entertained my
sister and myself with aerial operas involving a 1/48 scale Monogram SBD
Dauntless and a Monogram Corsair - I still have those two planes, dusty
and worn but laden with memories that can never be replaced.
The keel was laid down 23 May 1900, she was launched in 1901 and entered service in 1904. On 27 May 1905 the Japanese Navy sent her to the bottom. It was a really short service life of the lead ship for the pre-dreadnought battleship line of the Imperial Russian Navy. Here is the Zvezda 1/350 Battleship Borodino.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. — It's an international custody battle involving a 5-year-old girl. Jeff Chafin promised his daughter Eris that he "would do everything I could to bring her back home and safe." Eris lives in Scotland, her mother's home country after a federal judge gave custody of the girl to Jeff's estranged wife Lynne Chafin last year.
On Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether Jeff has the legal right to appeal the federal judge's decision. Chafin is an Overland Park, Kan., native and is currently an Army sergeant based at Ft. Stewart, Georgia.
He says his daughter spent the majority of her life in the U.S. before she was sent to Scotland. But the Federal Judge found that under international law, Scotland was the "habitual residence" of Eris and granted custody to her mother.
Eris Chafin was born in Germany but lived in Scotland with her mom while her 42-year-old father served 15 months in Afghanistan. After his tour of duty the family moved to Alabama but the marriage quickly fell apart.
Jeff says Lynne's alcohol troubles were largely to blame. She was arrested December 10, 2010 after she allegedly attacked a cab driver while drunk. On December 24, she was charged with domestic violence, again while she was allegedly drunk.
"I woke up with her standing over me with a knife," Chafin said. "Personally, I don't think someone with an alcohol issue like that can take care of a child."
Lynne Chafin was deported in 2011 but was allowed to return long enough to convince a judge to grant her custody.
"If my daughter is returned to the United States, I believe I will never see her again," she said.
If the Supreme Court sides with Jeff, a lower court will review on the earlier custody decision but that's no guarantee Eris would be returned to the United States. A Supreme Court ruling is expected in the spring of 2013.


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Spin on this Cadmium Red was my "afterword" contribution to "NierghtravAOnWint'sIf A Teller" a ten week cumulative project curated by Simon Lewandowski for London's Gooden Gallery 24/7 window. Each week a new artist would take charge of the window space, existing works could be altered or destroyed but not removed.
The work performed for less than two minutes during which time it sprayed toxic cadmium red paint over the walls, window glass and of course the other artit's works.
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Mischa Barton's jealous guyMischa Barton is on the verge of splitting from boyfriend Cisco Adler because of his possessive behaviour.
The couple, who were reported to have got engaged last November, had a blazing row on New Year's Eve after rocker Cisco became jealous of Mischa spending too much time with her friends.
Cisco's band, Whitestarr, had played at Miami's exclusive Victor Hotel that night and after the concert 'The OC' beauty invited a host of male friends to join the couple for a party, sparking a jealous argument between the pair.
A source is quoted by America's New York Post newspaper as saying: "Cisco was very angry that Mischa wanted to hang out with some of her other friends, and not exclusively with him.
"There was a lot of slamming doors, stomping around and swearing at their bungalow at the hotel."
The pair recently denied they had got engaged after reports claimed Cisco proposed in Hawaii in November.
The 26-year-old musician - who was once engaged to Rod Stewart's daughter Kimberly - said: "Yes, Mischa is my girlfriend. But we are not engaged."
Mischa, 19, started dating Cisco in August last year, two months after she ended her one-year relationship with oil heir Brandon Davis.


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LaTonya M. Nixon has served as the Pitt Community College TRIO Director since 2005, but she has been a part of the TRIO community for 18 years. Mrs. Nixon has a very serious commitment to higher education and her desire is to see all students regardless of race, socioeconomic status, age or gender reach their educational endeavors. She leads an extraordinary team of professionals dedicated to serving the at risk student population with her motto: "We are here to serve you."
|Kim Waters,Counselor
Kim Waters has been a member of the Pitt CC TRIO Staff since August 2008. As a counselor, Ms. Waters has the opportunity to interact with TRIO students on a daily basis. She feels that if students are given adequate support and resources, they can achieve their academic and personal goals. Ms. Waters takes great pride in assisting students in reaching their academic milestones at PCC.
|Lyudmila Galeyeva, Math Academic Specialist
Lyudmila Galeyeva has served the Pitt Community College students for over five years. As the Math and Science Academic Specialist and Tutor, she is experienced in tutoring and teaching all levels of math. Through her work with students, she has learned what kind of math problems students tend to have and how to help them in a concise and clear manner. Ms. Galeyeva strives to help students overcome math anxiety so that students can achieve success.
|Amy Staton, Lead Tutor
Ms. Amy L. Staton joined the TRIO: Student Support Services staff as Lead Tutor in December 2013. Ms. Staton received her degree in middle grades education from East Carolina University. Having taught within the Pitt County School system for thirteen years, she is passionate about all students receiving a quality education and a chance at success. Ms. Staton will be working closely with the peer tutors and the rest of the SSS staff to help coordinate the TRIO tutoring program.
|Starlena Peel, Administrative Assistant & Data Specialist
Ms. Starlena Peel joined the TRiO: Student Support Services staff in 2014 as the Administrative Assistant/ Data Specialist. Along with having 2+ years' experience providing great customer service she has also been with the college for 3+ years. She is responsible for managing the SSS database and because she is the first voice callers hear and the first person visitors see, Ms. Peel provides outstanding service to all students and staff, while handling other numerous tasks.


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CITGO Petroleum Corporation and its lubricants blending plant in Atlanta donated more than 1,500 pieces of laboratory equipment, including workbenches, beakers, flasks and ovens to the City of Atlanta School System.
The equipment will help students at the Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy and Forest Hill Academy advance their science and chemistry education.
"At CITGO we are proud to give back to the community and support our local schools to ensure a promising future for our children. We know how important science education is to helping prepare students for the future - whether that is going on to college or finding a competitive job in today's market," said Brenda Rhoades, plant manager of the CITGO Atlanta lubricants blending facility. "We hope this laboratory equipment sparks the scientific imagination of all the students involved."


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The invention concerns a method and system for detecting morphemes in a user's communication. The method may include recognizing a lattice of phone strings from the user's input communication, the lattice representing a distribution over the phone strings, and detecting morphemes in the user's input communication using the lattice. The morphemes may be acoustic and/or non-acoustic. The morphemes may represent any unit or sub-unit of communication including phones, diphones, phone-phrases, syllables, grammars, words, gestures, tablet strokes, body movements, mouse clicks, etc. The training speech may be verbal, non-verbal, a combination of verbal and non-verbal, or multimodal.
1. A method for detecting morphemes in a user's input communication, comprising:
forming a lattice representing a distribution of verbal and non-verbal phone strings representing morphemes recognized from the user's input communication that includes verbal and non-verbal communication; and
detecting verbal and non-verbal morphemes in the user's input communication using the lattice.
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8. A system that detects morphemes in a user's input communication, comprising:
a recognizer that forms a lattice representing a distribution of verbal and non-verbal phone strings representing morphemes recognized from the user's input communication that includes verbal and non-verbal communication; and
a morpheme detector that detects verbal and non-verbal morphemes in the user's input communication using the recognized lattice.
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This non-provisional application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/322,447, filed Sep. 17, 2001, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. This application is also a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 09/690,721 and 09/690,903 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,681,206 both filed Oct. 18, 2000, which claim priority from U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/163,838, filed Nov. 5, 1999. U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 09/690,721, 09/690,903 and U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/163,838 are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
The invention relates to automated systems for communication recognition and understanding.
Conventional methods for constructing and training statistical models for recognition and understanding involve collecting and annotating large speech corpora for a task. This speech is manually transcribed and each utterance is then semantically labeled. The resultant database is exploited to train stochastic language models for recognition and understanding. These models are further adapted for different dialog states. Examples of such methods are shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,675,707, 5,860,063, 6,044,337, 6,192,110, and 6,173,261, each of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
This transcription and labeling process is a major bottleneck in new application development and refinement of existing ones. For incremental training of a deployed automated dialog system, current technology would potentially require transcribing millions of transactions. This process is both time-consuming and prohibitively expensive.
The invention concerns a method and system for detecting morphemes in a user's communication. The method may include recognizing a lattice of phone strings from the user's input communication, the lattice representing a distribution over the phone strings, and detecting morphemes in the user's input communication using the lattice.
The morphemes may be acoustic and/or non-acoustic. The morphemes may represent any unit or sub-unit of communication including phones, diphones, phone-phrases, syllables, grammars, words, gestures, tablet strokes, body movements, mouse clicks, etc. The training speech may be verbal, non-verbal, a combination of verbal and non-verbal, or multimodal.
The invention is described in detail with reference to the following drawings wherein like numerals reference like elements, and wherein:
This invention concerns a dialog system that automatically learns from speech without transcriptions. Semantic labels can be extracted automatically from either experiments or from autonomous dialogs. In particular, a task-independent phone-recognizer is taught how to 'learn to understand' from a database of untranscribed (or transcribed) speech plus semantic labels.
Baseline approaches to the teaching of a speech recognition systems to understand are found in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,675,707, 5,860,063, 6,044,337, 6,192,110 and 6,173,261, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
The earliest work demonstrated automatic acquisition of 'words' and 'grammar' from collapsed text. That work did not address, however, the issues arising from non-perfect recognition of speech. The next step was to show how to acquire lexical units from speech alone without transcription and exploit them for spoken language understanding (SLU). That experiment, however, was constrained to speech comprising isolated word sequences and used matching techniques to decide if an observation was a new 'word' or variation of a known 'word'.
All of the above efforts involve learning from speech alone. While one can learn much about a spoken language by merely listening to it, the process can progress further and faster by exploiting semantics. This has been demonstrated in both the engineering domain and in analyses of children's language acquisition. Thus, this invention goes beyond the past efforts by exploiting speech plus meaning using morphemes, both acoustic and non-acoustic, in order to teach a machine to learn to understand.
While the morphemes may be non-acoustic (i.e., made up of non-verbal sub-morphemes such as tablet strokes, gestures, body movements, etc.), for ease of discussion, the systems and methods illustrated in the drawings and discussed in the below concern only acoustic morphemes. Consequently, the invention should not be limited to just acoustic morphemes and should encompass the utilization of any sub-units of any known or future method of communication for the purposes of recognition and understanding.
Furthermore, while the terms "speech", "phrase" and "utterance", used throughout the description below, may connote only spoken language, it is important to note in the context of this invention, "speech", "phrase" and "utterance" may include verbal and/or non-verbal sub-units (or sub-morphemes). Therefore, "speech", "phrase" and "utterance" may comprise non-verbal sub-units, verbal sub-units or a combination of verbal and non-verbal sub-units within the sprit and scope of this invention.
The morpheme generation subsystem 110 includes a morpheme generator 130 and a morpheme database 140. The morpheme generator 130 generates morphemes from a corpus of untranscribed training speech (the invention may also operate with training speech that is transcribed, of course). The generated morphemes are stored in the morpheme database 140 for use by the morpheme detector 160. The morpheme database 140 contains a large number of verbal and non-verbal speech fragments or sub-morphemes (illustrated as phone-phrases for ease of discussion), each of which is related to one or more of a predetermined set of task objectives. Each of the morphemes may be labeled with its associated task objective. The operation of the morpheme generator 130 will described in greater detail with respect to
The input speech classification subsystem 120 includes an input speech recognizer 150, a morpheme detector 160 and a task classification processor 170. The input speech recognizer 150 receives a user's task objective request in the form of verbal and/or non-verbal speech. The input speech recognizer 150 may perform the function of recognizing, or spotting the existence of one or more phones, sub-units, acoustic morphemes, etc. in the user's input speech by any algorithm known to one of ordinary skill in the art. However, the input speech recognizer 150 forms a lattice structure to represent a distribution of recognized phone sequences, such as a probability distribution. The input speech recognizer 150 may extract the n-best phone strings that may be extracted from the lattice, either by themselves or along with their confidence scores. Lattice representations are well known those skilled in the art and are further described in detail below.
While the method of morpheme detection using lattices is shown in the figures as being associated with a task classification system, this is purely exemplary. The method of morpheme detection using lattices may be applied to a wide variety of automated communication systems, including customer care systems, and should not be limited to a task classification system.
The morpheme detector 160 then detects the acoustic and/or non-acoustic morphemes present in the lattice that represents the user's input request. The morphemes generated by the morpheme generation subsystem 110 are provided as an input to the morpheme detector 160.
The output of morpheme detector 160 includes the detected morphemes appearing in the user's task objective request that is then provided to the task classification processor 170. The task classification processor 170 may apply a confidence function, based on the probabilistic relation between the recognized morphemes and selected task objectives, and makes a decision either to implement a particular task objective, or makes a determination that no decision is likely in which case the user may be defaulted to a human or automated system for assistance.
An exemplary process of the invention will now be described with reference to
In an embodiment for recognizing non-acoustic morphemes, the ASR phone recognizer 210 may be replaced in the figure by a sub-morpheme recognizer. The sub-morpheme recognizer would operate similar to the ASR phone recognizer, but it would receive raw non-acoustic or a mixture of acoustic and non-acoustic training data from a database. However, for each of discussion, use of only acoustic morphemes will be described below.
In addition, while the drawings illustrate the use of phones, this is purely exemplary. Any sub-portion of verbal and/or non-verbal speech may by recognized and detected within the spirit and scope of the invention.
A training set of thousands of spoken utterances with corresponding call-labels is used, followed by using a separate test set in the range of 1000 utterances. They are designated HHS-train and HHS-test, respectively. HHS denotes human/human speech-only.
The ASR phone recognizer 210 that is applied to the training speech is task-independent. In particular, a phonotactic language model was trained on the switchboard corpus using a Variable-Length N-gram Stochastic Automaton. This corpus is unrelated to the HMIHY task, except in that they both comprise fluent English speech. Off-the-shelf telephony acoustic models may be used. Applying the ASR phone recognizer 210 to the HMIHY test speech data yields a phone accuracy of 43%. The training and test sets so generated are denoted by ASR-phone-train and ASR-phone-test respectively.
For a baseline comparison, a 'noiseless' phonetic transcription was generated from the orthographic transcriptions, by replacing each word by its most likely dictionary pronunciation and deleting word-delimiters. E.g. "collect call" is converted to "K ax I eh K T K ao I" (see
The number of recognized phones per utterance is distributed as shown in
For each utterance, the length of the recognized phone sequence is compared with the length of the phonetic transcription. These values are scatter-plotted in
In step 3200, the salient phone-phrase generator 220 selects candidate phone-phrases from the raw training speech corpus. While the system and method of the invention is illustrated and described using the term phone-phrases, it is again important to note that phone-phrases are actually sub-morphemes that may be acoustic or non-acoustic (i.e., made up of non-verbal sub-morphemes such as tablet strokes, gestures, body movements, etc.). However, as discussed above, for ease of discussion, the systems and methods illustrated in the drawings and discussed in the below concern only phone-phrases. Consequently, the invention should not be limited to using just phone-phrases and should encompass the utilization of any sub-units of any known or future method of communication for the purposes of recognition and understanding.
Once the candidate phone-phrases have been selected, in step 3300, the salient phone-phrase generator 220 selects a subset of the candidate phone-phrases. Thus, new units are acquired by the above process of searching the space of observed phone-sequences and selecting a subset according to their utility for recognition and understanding. The resultant subset selected is denoted as salient phone-phrases. Examples of salient phone-phrases for the word "collect" are shown in
The salient phone-phrase generator 220 may perform the selection of salient phone-phrases by first using a simplified measure of the candidate phone-phrase's salience for the task as the maximum of the a posteriori distribution,
where C varies over the 15 call-types in the HMIHY task. The salient phone-phrases are then selected by applying a threshold on Pmax and by using a multinomial statistical significance test. This significance test excludes low-frequency phrases for which a fortunate conjunction of events can give a high appearance salience purely by chance. It tests the hypothesis that the observed call-type count distribution is a sample from the prior distribution.
In step 3400, the salient phone-phrases are clustered into acoustic morphemes by the clustering device 230.
The example below illustrates this acoustic morpheme generation process. Consider a candidate phone-phrase,
where pi are phones. Denote its frequency by F(f). A measure of its utility for recognition is the mutual information of its components, denoted MI(f), which may be approximated via
As discussed above, a simplified measure of its salience for the task is the maximum of the a posteriori distribution,
where C varies over the 15 call-types in the HMIHY task.
These features for phone-phrases observed in the noise-free case are characterized transcr-phone-train. In
For each of these phone-phrases, Pmax(f) is computed, which is a measure of the salience of a phrase for the task.
The goal of this process is to grow the phone-phrases until they have the salience of words and word-phrases. Thus, the search criteria for selecting longer units is a combination of their utility for within-language prediction, as measured by MI, and their utility for the task, as measured by Pmax. For phrases with large Pmax, the MI of the phrase tends to be larger than average. This correlation was exploited successfully for frequency-compensated salience in earlier experiments discussed above, but is not exploited here. In the earlier experiments, a set of salient phone-phrases of length≦16 was generated via a two-pass process as follows:
Select phone-phrases with F(f)≧5 and length≧4;
Filter the training corpus ASR-phone-train with those phrases, using a left-right top-down filter with the phrases prioritized by length.
Select subsequences from the filtered corpus of fragment-length≦4, (i.e. with #phones≦16) and with MI≧1 and Pmax≧0.5.
This particular iterative selection process was selected based on ease of implementation should not be considered optimal. The resultant set of salient phone-phrases have lengths≦16, distributed as shown in
Non-verbal speech may include but are not limited to gestures, body movements, head movements, non-responses, text, keyboard entries, keypad entries, mouse clicks, DTMF codes, pointers, stylus, cable set-top box entries, graphical user interface entries and touchscreen entries, or a combination thereof. Multimodal information is received using multiple channels (i.e., aural, visual, etc.). The user's input communication may also be derived from the verbal and non-verbal speech and the user's or the machine's environment. Basically, any manner of communication falls within the intended scope of the invention. However, for ease of discussion, the invention will be described with respect to verbal speech in the examples and embodiments set forth below.
Working with the output of the non-perfect input speech recognizer 150 introduces the problem of the coverage of the user's input with the acoustic morphemes. To counter this problem, in step 5200, a lattice structure is formed to improve the coverage of the recognizer 150. Lattices are efficient representations of a distribution of alternative hypothesis. A simple example of a lattice network, resulting from the utterance "collect call", is shown in
In speech recognition, the weights (likelihoods) of the paths of the lattices are interpreted as negative logarithms of the probabilities. For practical purposes, the pruned network will be considered. In this case, the beam search is restricted in the lattice output, by considering only the paths with probabilities above a certain threshold relative to the best path. The threshold r is defined as: ri≦r, with ri=pi/p1, where pi is the probability of the ith path and p1 is the probability of the best path.
In order to quantify the coverage, the number of test sentences are first measured with no detected occurrences of acoustic morphemes, for the experiments using best paths, pruned lattices and full lattices. These numbers are illustrated in
The relative frequency distributions of the number of detected acoustic morphemes in the best paths, in the pruned lattices, and in the full network experiments, are shown in
As shown above, expanding the search of the acoustic morphemes in the lattice network results in improved coverage of the test sentences. It is of course accompanied by an increased number of false detections of the acoustic morphemes. In order to study in more detail the false detection issue, it is beneficial to focus on one particular morpheme Fc, strongly associated to the call-type c=collect. Its occurrences in the best paths will be compared with its occurrences in the lattice network. The salient phone-phrases clustered in this morpheme represent variations of the phrase "collect call". A subgraph of this morpheme was shown in
In step 5250, the acoustic morpheme detector 160 detects acoustic morphemes that have been recognized and formed into a lattice structure by the input speech recognizer 150 using the acoustic morphemes stored in the acoustic morpheme database 140. In step 5300, the task classification processor 170 performs task classifications based on the detected acoustic morphemes. The task classification processor 170 may apply a confidence function based on the probabilistic relation between the recognized acoustic morphemes and selected task objectives, for example. In step 5400, the task classification processor 170 determines whether a task can be classified based on the detected acoustic morpheme. If the task can be classified, in step 5700, the task classification processor 170 routes the user/customer according to the classified task objective. The process then goes to step 5900 and ends.
If the task cannot be classified in step 5400 (i.e. a low confidence level has been generated), in step 5500, a dialog module (located internally or externally) the task classification processor 170 conducts dialog with the user/customer to obtain clarification of the task objective. After dialog has been conducted with the user/customer, in step 5600, the task classification processor 170 determines whether the task can now be classified based on the additional dialog. If the task can be classified, the process proceeds to step 5700 and the user/customer is routed in accordance with the classified task objective and the process ends at step 5900. However, if task can still not be classified, in step 5800, the user/customer is routed to a human for assistance and then the process goes to step 5900 and ends
An experiment evaluating the utility of these methods in the HMIHY task was conducted. A classifier was trained from the output of a phone recognizer on 7462 utterances, which was denoted ASR-phone-train. Salient phone-phrases of length≦16 were selected, as described above. The salient phone-phrases were then clustered into salient grammar fragments. A single-layer neural net was trained with these fragments as input features. The resultant classifier was applied to the 1000 utterance test-set, ASR-phone-test.
The call-classification results are scored following the methodology of U.S. Pat. No. 5,675,707. In this method, an utterance is classified by the system as one of 14 call-types or rejected as 'other'. Rejection is based on a salience-threshold for the resulting classification. One dimension of performance is the False Rejection Rate (FRR), which is the probability that an utterance is rejected in the case that the user wanted one of the call-types. The cost of such an error is a lost opportunity for automation. The second dimension of performance is the Probability of Correct Classification (Pc) when the machine attempts a decision. The cost of such an error is that of recovery via dialog. Varying the rejection threshold traces a performance curve with axes Pc and FRR.
Searching in the lattice network will introduce the additional problem of multiple detections of the acoustic morphemes on different levels of the lattice network, and the issue of combining them optimally. For an evaluation of the usefulness of the phone lattices, the problem of treating multiple detections will be deferred from different levels of the network, and stop our search in the lattice network as soon as a sentence with one or more detections is found. The existing call-type classifier is modified in the following way: for the test sentences without detected occurrences of the acoustic morphemes in the best paths, the search is expanded in the lattice network and stops as soon as a sentence with one or more detections is found.
As shown in
While the invention has been described with reference to the above embodiments, it is to be understood that these embodiments are purely exemplary in nature. Thus, the invention is not restricted to the particular forms shown in the foregoing embodiments. Various modifications and alterations can be made thereto without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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Like all artists, I draw inspiration from other artists, and this can be especially meaningful if the artist is my contemporary. One of my favorite artists to watch is Will Wilson. Wilson works in San Francisco, in a studio upstairs from his long-time gallery, John Pence. Will studied at the Schuler School of Fine Arts, and at my alma mater, The New York Academy of Art.
Will has been making amazingly consistent, exemplary and individualistic work for about 30 years. He has always been a "guiding light" of mine in the classical tradition of the figure and portrait painting. One of the things I admire in his work is his clear sense of "voice" and individuality. When I look at his painting, I think, "Will and I are barking up the same tree." I recently received a card from John Pence Gallery featuring a fantastic recent oil painting portrait of Wilson's, Mary. The painting is a quiet revolution. I wanted to share the image because it stands in sharp contrast to the predominant style of much figure painting out there today. The alla-prima brushstrokes and dash of impasto that are usually praised as good oil painting techniques are nowhere to be found. Instead, the paint handling is careful, the drawing precise, and the surface is relatively smooth with delicately modeled form. Wilson isn't dwelling on the surface of the painting's canvas. Art, for him, is more than that--he's trying to draw you into the world of the image. He wants you to depart into his painted realm, inside the picture plane, and consider what the world is like from that view. He is implying narrative, but in ways that invites the viewer's opinion. He uses subtle embellishments in the composition, like the pansies in the girl's hair and the key around her neck, to remove the image from the everyday.The painting is also very sweet. Do you know how hard it is to make a sweet painting that is not trite, saccharine, or stereotyped? And where is the irony, the mortification, the fashionable disaffection, or the socio-political commentary that critics so often look for? Sweet is not cool, right? But painting a young woman, pretty, yet individual, is a challenge. Wilson goes his own way, not with the maddening crowd, and sticks to his singular vision.
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Don't hide your face behind a mask this Halloween. Embrace the fright night season and tap into the dark side for some beauty inspiration.
Engage with your inner vamp for the sultry Gothic look: think smoky eyes, plum lips, porcelain skin and blackened nails.
Avoid the white face paint and aim for an ethereal, supernatural glow, almost as though you're lit from within.
Illuminating products applied after your base will achieve a pale, satin finish that looks gorgeous, not ghoulish.
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What was supposed to be a week filled with family fun almost turned deadly for Farmington resident, Ray Esquibel.
"They (doctors) didn't think he was going to live for the next 72 hours," said his brother, Lance Esquibel.
Ray was driving his family to San Antonio for vacation last month.
Somewhere near the Texas border another vehicle hit a giant rock that was along the road. The rock flew at ray's car and smashed through the windshield.
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Ray had to be air lifted to a Lubbock hospital. Lance says his brother flat lined twice, but doctors were able to revive him. He was in a coma for 11 days and had to have reconstructive surgery on his face.
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Lance says the accident has been tough on his family, but the support from the community makes all the difference.
"I'm actually speechless people around us just coming together the love and support that they have shown for my brother and has been outstanding."
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Royal Liverpool—usually called Hoylake after the town that envelops it—doesn't offer the special ambience of St. Andrews, the visual drama of Turnberry, or the grueling, muscular challenge of Carnoustie. Except for a lovely sweep of holes in the dunes along the shoreline, the terrain is uninspiring. Hoylake, wrote the poet Patric Dickinson in 1951, "is utterly flat and dreary to look at, and for all the infinite subtleties to be discovered it remains rather formidably unattractive."
But it is an honest, solid, worthy Open venue. In July it will play at 7,312 yards—54 yards longer than it was for the most recent Open here, in 2006—and once again the last two holes of the course that the members play will be the first two holes for the championship, making the members' 16th a dramatic, reachable, 551-yard closer. It was here in 1967 that Roberto De Vicenzo hit a spoon over the out-of-bounds practice ground to the heart of the green for a birdie to keep Jack Nicklaus at bay.
"It's a true golfers' course," says club historian and former captain Joe Pinnington. "It's exceptionally hard to score, and the name of the game is course management." This is especially true when the fairways are brown and bouncy as they were in 2006, and when the wind blows. Writes Dickinson: "Hoylake shares with bicycling the strange fact that whichever way you turn, the wind is plumb against, or at any rate unhelpful." It's a place where people suffer, he says—where "all golfing dentists should be forced to take their holidays."
The Open returned to Hoylake in 2006 after a 39-year absence. It was a gamble—many believed the event had long outgrown the ancient, pocket-size links. But the 2006 Open was a huge success. In front of record crowds, Tiger Woods skillfully tacked his way around the bone-hard fairways, using his driver only once all week and avoiding every one of the merciless fairway bunkers. As the last putt fell, he wept in memory of his recently departed father. Prior to 2006, there were 10 Opens at Hoylake, with some quality champions, including five-time winners J.H. Taylor (1913) and Peter Thomson (1956) and four-time winner Walter Hagen (1924). Bobby Jones completed the second leg of his "impregnable quadrilateral" 1930 Grand Slam here. And the great De Vicenzo's 1967 victory was especially poignant: At the age of 44, too late to win his first major, he won his first major.
"Hoylake brings out the best," Pinnington says. "We've had jolly good winners over the years."
Although the word "links" is often used to describe any golf course, strictly speaking there are fewer than 300 of them worldwide, mostly the hallowed, old-country playing fields like Royal Dornoch, Royal County Down and Ballybunion. Links golf is the original form of the game, played among the confounding slopes and stirring sandhills of a particular kind of seaside terrain. Links courses are generally treeless, exposed to the elements, and born of a sand-based soil that gives rise to dry, fine-blade grasses, tight lies and firm, fast-running fairways. Links golf is played along the ground as well as in the air, demanding the vital British Open qualities of imagination, creativity and shotmaking. And patience.
The stereotypical British spectator at the Open sports a tweed cap, a cheap anorak over a terrible sweater, and off-white, cracked golf shoes from the 1980s. He carries a shooting stick, a huge pair of binoculars 'round his neck, and an ancient canvas backpack that contains a thermos flask of weak tea, a hip flask filled with some sort of gin concoction, and a small portable radio to keep up with the cricket. In one pocket is a thin, white-bread cheese sandwich, in the other the folded-up sports pages of a conservative newspaper bearing the day's tee times.
Courteous Americans playing in the Open often remark how "knowledgeable" the British golf fans are. It has become the gracious thing to say in press conferences. But maybe it's just that British fans tend to be quieter, more reserved, less likely to yell "get in the hole" as someone tees off on a par 5. As King Solomon or Mark Twain or Abe Lincoln said: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
"John Ball was the patron saint, emperor, mayor, the lord and master of Hoylake," Pinnington says. "He was the hero of all the town." Ball, born and raised in the family's Royal Hotel, right behind what is now the second tee of the Open course, was the quintessential Englishman: stoical, modest, a man of few words. He lied about his age to fight in the Boer War. He was a natural, brilliant golfer—in 1890, he became the first amateur (and the first non-Scot) to win the British Open. A lionhearted competitive spirit brought him an unparalleled eight British Amateur titles. He was loved. (Another Hoylake great, Harold Hilton, was by contrast respected; Nicklaus to Ball's Palmer.) Coming home from that eighth British Amateur victory, Ball dodged the brass-band welcome and adulation from the Hoylake crowds by hopping off the train one stop early and walking home along the beach. He gave away all his medals. "No-one has ever inspired greater hero worship," wrote former Hoylake club secretary and historian Guy Farrar in 1933. "And no-one ever courted it less."
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Street Pianos "Play Me, I'm Yours!" tour in Los Angelas, April 2012
To all you cats in the LA area, the Street Piano's "Play Me, I'm Yours" tour will be kicking off in LA at noon on April 12th.
From the website
"Touring internationally since 2008, Play Me, Im Yours is an artwork by artist Luke Jerram. For three weeks beginning April 12, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra brings Play Me, Im Yours to Los Angeles. Thirty pianos, designed and decorated by local artists and community organizations, are featured across Los Angeles County and are available for everyone to play, in celebration of acclaimed conductor and pianist Jeffrey Kahanes 15th anniversary as LACO music director. Visit laco.org to learn more about Jeffrey and the Orchestra.
Join us at the piano nearest you on April 12 at 12 noon for the lunch launch of Play Me, Im Yours. Thirty pianists kick off the installation with a simultaneous play-in of Bachs The Well-Tempered Clavier at all 30 pianos. After that, the pianos are available to you and any member of the public to play and enjoy."
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