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Thumbs up: Response shows recycling program merits support
A recycling program introduced in Cabell County a little more than a year ago has shown that many residents are willing to be environmentally friendly -- if given the opportunity to do so.
Now, the county's Solid Waste Authority wants to keep the program growing, and expand it by adding new recycling bins in new locations and introducing the recycling of glass. To do that, however, will require bigger contributions from local governments. One reason is to make the program, which involves placing bins at several locations throughout the county, more convenient for more people. Another is because a $20,000 state grant to help launch the program last year has run out.
Last week, the Cabell County Commission voted to boost its support of the program fourfold, by agreeing to allocate $20,000 from its budget in the coming year. In doing so, the commission urged other local governments -- Huntington, Barboursville and Milton -- to boost their contributions in the coming year, too. If at all possible, we think they should.
Since the program started in November 2011 with eight bins at four locations, at least 500 tons of recyclable material have been picked up by Rumpke Recycling, a partner in the program. The program now has 25 bins at eight locations between Huntington and Milton.
Before this initiative began, Cabell County residents had few options for disposing of recyclable materials. Their response so far shows they want to be responsible to the land, recycling their goods rather than seeing them take up space in a landfill. Reducing the volume of waste going into landfills reduces costs for local governments.
We encourage Huntington, Barboursville and Milton to follow the Cabell County Commission's lead and step up their support of a program that yields many benefits.
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A waveguide hologram illumination system is based on thin substrate waveguides bearing a hologram on the surface through which light is diffracted out. A light source is optically coupled to the waveguide such that light emitted from the source is caused to propagate along the waveguide, being diffracted out at intersections with the surface of the waveguide on which the hologram is formed. The selective emission through the hologram can be advantageously used to illuminate display holograms or spatial light modulators. Provisions are made for rendering the amount of light emitted through the hologram uniform along the length of the hologram.
1. A holographic-based system for producing spatial intensity modulated distributions of light for illuminating an object, wherein said system comprises:
a thin substrate having first and second planar surfaces between which light is transmitted in a waveguided manner;
a light source optically coupled to said thin substrate for transmitting light along said thin substrate between said first and second planar surfaces in a waveguided manner; and
a hologram embodied within a recording medium mounted on said first planar surface of said thin substrate;
and wherein said object is disposed adjacent said recording medium for modulating the spatial intensity of light illuminating said object;
said light being transmitted along said thin substrate between said first and second planar surfaces in a waveguided manner while a portion of said transmitted light is diffracted by said hologram so as to produce a distribution of emitted light from said hologram having substantially uniform spatial intensity characteristics over the region of said hologram corresponding to the regions of said object at which spatial intensity modulation occurs.
2. The holographic-based illumination system of claim 1, wherein said thin substrate has an edge surface, and said light source is optically coupled to said edge surface.
3. The holographic-based illumination system of claim 1, which further comprises means associated with said first surface, for coupling said light source to said thin substrate.
4. The holographic-based illumination system of claim 1, wherein said light source is a laser.
5. The holographic-based illumination system of claim 1, wherein said light source is a white light producing source.
6. The holographic-based illumination system of claim 1, wherein said object is a spatial light modulation panel adjacent said hologram, for modulating the spatial intensity of light illuminating said object.
7. The holographic-based illumination system of claim 6, which further comprises a diffuser disposed between said hologram and said spatial light modulation panel, for improving the viewing angle of said spatial light modulation panel.
8. The holographic-based illumination system of claim 6, wherein said distribution of light produced from said hologram has a predetermined polarization state, and said spatial light modulation panel selectively modulates said predetermined polarization state of said light distribution.
9. The holographic-based illumination system of claim 1, wherein said object is a display hologram adjacent said hologram, for modulating the spatial intensity of light illuminating said display hologram.
This is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 07/902,881 filed on Jun. 23, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,515,184 which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/790,516 filed Nov. 12, 1991, now abandoned. The entire disclosure of the parent application is incorporated herein by reference.
This invention pertains to the use of waveguide holograms for use as illuminators of objects having specific illumination requirements. In particular, objects having special illumination requirements, such as display holograms or spatial light modulators can be illuminated with waveguide holograms as disclosed herein.
In applicants' parent application Ser. No. 07/790,516, waveguide holograms are disclosed, based on the use of thin substrate waveguides. These waveguides are characterized the relationship between the width w of an incident laser beam coupled onto an optical waveguide having a thickness t. This relationship is controlled by λ, where λ is the wavelength of the incident lightwave. Thin substrate waveguides are characterized by t>>λ. In this situation, one can avoid difficulties encountered in coupling the optical source to the thin film waveguide, and allow for convenient white light illumination. At the same time, t<w, so that the illumination obtained uniform.
The inventors have now discovered that these thin substrate waveguides can be particularly used for situations requiring controlled illumination. There are a wide variety of situations which require illumination of an object in an controlled fashion. This is particularly the case where one seeks to illuminate a spatial light modulator (SLM) or hologram. Certain requirements present major difficulties for conventional illumination systems. Initially, illustrating with traditional illumination of a transmissive object (FIG. 1a) and a reflective object (FIG. 1b), conventional illuminators require a substantial amount of space to perform the transformation from the wavefront emitted by the light source to the one required on the object. This space usually contains several optical elements which are the origin for stability problems, alignment difficulties and obstruction of other light beams that may be required in the optical system. Second, for some illumination, it is desired not to flood the object to be illuminated with light. Rather, the illuminator seeks to pattern the light so it hits only in preselected areas. This can increase illuminator efficiency if the light is redirected, instead of simply being partially blocked. Additionally, if the light source is broad band, spectral filtering may be required. As one example of such a situation, illumination of holograms presents particular problems. Some may have their own built-in spectral filters, while others permit white light illumination. If incoherent light sources used, the filter provides the needed amount of spatial coherence, while if lasers are employed, the filter is required to clean up the coherent noise. Accordingly, it remains an object of those of skill in the art to provide a method for selectively illuminating demanding objects, such as holograms and spatial light modulators.
Applicants have discovered that thin substrate waveguides can be used to provide improved, controlled illumination of objects, including holograms and spatial light modulators. The illumination system can comprise a thin substrate waveguide optically coupled to a coherent light source, such as a laser. This illumination system provides extremely high diffraction efficiencies.
Non-uniformity of the diffracted wavefront in the direction of propagation can be compensated for by exposing a photographic emulsion to the beam without compensation. The photographic negative absorbs most where the beam is brightest, and therefore, upon subsequent illumination through the negative, the wavefront passing is uniform. In an alternative approach, the hologram of the waveguide hologram illuminator can be recorded non-uniformly, so that the reconstructed beam formed is uniform in intensity. Both corrections can be employed.
FIG. 1a and 1b are illustrations of prior art illumination systems for transmissive and reflective objects respectively.
FIG. 2(a)(b) is an illustration of a thin substrate waveguide optically coupled to a light source.
FIG. 3 is an illustration of the volume occupied by conventional lens systems.
FIG. 4 is an illustration of repetitive diffraction of light out of a waveguide in the direction of propagation.
FIGS. 5 and 6 are schematic representations of recording systems used to record a waveguide hologram grating to prepare the illuminator of the claimed invention.
FIG. 7 is a schematic representation of an illumination system according to the invention wherein a light source is directed through a diffraction means into the waveguide hologram and out through a hologram to illuminate a spatial light modulator.
This invention may be better understood by the following discussions, with reference to the Figures presented. The illumination system claimed herein is based on the waveguide hologram of the parent application incorporated herein. Thus, in essence, the illumination system comprises a light source which is optically coupled to a waveguide, on a surface of which is formed a hologram, which can be displayed or used to illuminate, selectively, the object of interest. Herein, waveguide holograms are referred to as WGH.
WGHs are normally flat and can be optically contacted to the objects they illuminate as indicated by the diagrams of FIG. 2. Thus the relatively complicated systems of FIG. 1 are replaced by compact, rugged arrangements. Mutual alignment is easily maintained and reflection losses at the air-glass interfaces are readily reduced by index matching oil or optical cement.
Comparing with a conventional lens illumination system, the WGH illuminator occupies much less space. Shown in FIG. 3, a conventional lens illumination system occupies a volume approximately ##EQU1## wherein f is the focal length of the main lens, A is the numerical aperture, and M is the magnification of the collimator. For reflective spatial light modulators or SLMs, the volume for the illuminators increases to ##EQU2## On the other hand, the active volume for a WGH illuminator is no more than ##EQU3## where is the thickness of the waveguide substrate. Usually h<<f. Taking the ratio of V, to Vwi, we obtain the gain of a WGH illuminator as ##EQU4##
The diffraction efficiency, n, is the fraction of the light from the illuminating source which is diffracted into the required beam. For conventional display holograms, n=0.6 is sometimes obtained and for holograms made by two plane waves n=0.99 is attainable. WGH illuminators can, in principle, also achieve very high diffraction efficiency (of order approaching 0.99), however, high efficiencies over large area holograms requires very careful design as will be discussed below.
For purposes (minimizing noise, making viewers comfortable, etc.) what is more important than just the efficiency is the absence of stray light propagating forward the observer. From this point of view WGHs are ideal. The undiffracted light from a WGH illuminator never enters the instrumentation or the eye of the viewer due to the total internal reflection at the waveguide surfaces. Let the diffracted light have irradiance Hd and the undiffracted light leaving the hologram be Hu. Then ##EQU5## for display holograms can approach 0.25. For holographic recording of two plane waves, E an approach 0.99, while for all types of WGH E≧0.999 is routinely achievable since the undiffracted light is trapped in the waveguide.
Along with the advantages of WGHs as illuminators, there are some penalties that must be paid. With a laser illuminated single-mode waveguide hologram, alignment of the laser beam is critical. This can lead to certain lack of ruggedness. Because light enters one side of the waveguide hologram and travels to the other, there is a time delay across the hologram. If we try to use a waveguide hologram for clock distribution, this builds in a clock skew. If we use the waveguide hologram as a way to produce spatially-coherent illumination beam, we must be sure that the temporal coherence time of the source exceeds this time delay. Another way of saying this is that source temporal coherence manifests itself as spatial coherence in a waveguide hologram illuminator.
In addition, nonuniformity of the diffracted wavefront along the propagation direction is inevitable unless combated. Light diffracted out of the waveguide at one point is simply not available for diffraction at a later point. This aspect of the WGH illumination process is shown in FIG. 4. Assume the guided illumination beam is collimated. When it reaches the area where a hologram is placed, the beam encounters the region 1 of the hologram first. Part of light is diffracted as the reconstruction of the image, and the rest of light reflected. After the total internal reflection at the other waveguide surface, the residual light illuminates the region 2 on the hologram and undergoes the second reconstruction. This process repeats until the illumination beam passes the hologram area. Because WGHs have this unusual reconstructive mechanism, it is necessary to distinguish two different types of diffraction efficiencies. Assume the initial intensity of the illumination beam in FIG. 4 is Io, and the intensities of diffracted light from region 1,2 . . . , N are I1, I2, . . . , In respectively, then the global diffraction efficiency of the WGH is defined as ##EQU6## On the other hand, the local diffraction efficiency in the region i is defined as: ##EQU7## where Iio is the intensity of the illumination beam immediately before entering the hologram region i. For conventional holograms, the global and the local diffraction efficiencies are equal because N=1.
If the hologram is recorded uniformly, that is nL1 =nL2 = . . . =NLi = . . . =nLN =N, then
Ii =Io η(I-.sub.η)i-1
Substitute Eq. 8 to Eq. 6, the global efficiency is expressed as:
ηG l-(l-η)N.
by plotting I, vs. i as shown in FIG. 4, we see that the holographic image is not reconstructed uniformly if all the local efficiencies are the same, i.e., the hologram is recorded uniformly. This problem may be called illumination depletion.
Moreover, a WGH tends to produce two diffracted beams, one out of each side. For display holograms, this can be an advantage. However, for illuminator holograms, it is not easy to use both beams and the unutilized beam reduces the useful efficiency and may introduce noise into the system.
Additionally, if light enters the waveguide by diffraction at some angle to the waveguide and exits via the hologram at any angle other than the angle or its opposite, light dispersion results. Thus, an input of white light results in a spectral output. This can be redressed by providing an input grating or hologram diffractor with an output direction equal or opposite to the angle of the hologram output. Both diffraction events are dispersive, but collectively they cancel.
Such a system is illustrated in FIG. 7, wherein a light source S impinges on the waveguide hologram WGH through an input grating or diffraction means D. Light is emitted through the hologram H, illuminating a spatial light modulator SLM.
Aligning sensitivity can be combatted in two ways. First, we can attached the source, such as a diode laser, firmly to the edge of the waveguide or to the input of an input coupler or to an optical fiber which is itself firmly attached to the optical input couplers. Second, we can use a spatially and spectrally broad source and allow the waveguide to select out the portion of the available light which is properly matched to it. A WGH can achieve high spectral selectivity about 2-5A due to its double selection by the hologram and the waveguide.
Compensating for illumination depletion can be done a priori or a posteriori. A posteriori compensation is very light inefficient. Basically, we may expose a photographic emulsion to the uncompensated beam. A photographic negative of that pattern absorbs most where the beam is brightest and, therefore, uniformizes the wavefront passing through it. The a priori approach records the hologram nonuniformly so that the reconstructed beam is uniform. To derive an appropriate nonuniform beam to record, we illuminate uniformly through the photographic negative just described. For extremely high uniformity, we might follow a priori compensation with a posteriori compensation which can now be highly efficient because it is making only small corrections.
The problem of two-sidedness has a variety of potential solutions. We can absorb the light emerging from one side by an absorbing paint applied carefully not to damage the waveguide property of the guide. The other side will still be useful for transillumination. We can also place a mirror on one side to reflect all of the light into the same direction. Another solution is using off-axis illumination leading to an off-axis secondary beam keeping it from entering the illuminated optical system.
If we are illuminating SLMS, new possibilities arise. We can diffract out only polarized light and use the SLM to modulate the polarization. We can then use polarization analyzers to control or block the unmodulated light. With very precise reflective systems, using phase modulation, we can cause selective constructive and destructive interference between the directly emitted beam and the reflected beam.
Two basic architectures were used in our experiments to record the WGH grating. The first configuration is a modified conventional holographic recording system (FIG. 5). A cubic glass prism, CP, is employed to create a reference beam with very steep incidence angle. The recording plate, R, is optically contacted with CP by index matching. The second configuration (FIG. 6) is suitable for the waveguides with more stringent requirements. In this configuration the reference beam is coupled into the waveguide by a prism coupler, PC, and can be exactly reproduced for reconstruction. All holograms discussed in this communication were recorded on silver halide plates (Agf a 8E75) and bleached. The recording medium was optically contacted to a thin substrate glass waveguide with index matching oil.
A SLM was illuminated by a white light illuminator which was recorded using the system of FIG. 5. In these experiments a plastic fiber ribbon was used to couple the light from a remote source indicating the convenience and flexibility of such illuminators. The color of the diffracted illuminating light depends, in this configuration, on the viewing angle. However, if a diffuser is placed between the SLM and the WGH, the colors are angularly mixed to reproduce the white illumination of the source at all angles. Illuminating the hologram by coherent laser light generated a coherent illumination beam suitable for reconstructing a 3-D holographic image.
The quality of the reconstructed beams was analyzed from various points of view qualitatively and also quantitatively. Particular emphasis was placed on polarization and phase characteristics. A slight nonuniform depolarization was observed by using an imaging polarimeter. The origin of this depolarization and its nonuniformity is probably in some local strains and is still under investigation.
When a hologram recorded by the configuration of FIG. 5 is illuminated by a coherent wave, the wavefront is distorted by an essentially random phase distribution. To reconstruct a cleaner wavefront, the configuration of FIG. 6 must be employed. In our experiments about 10% of the light in the source was diffracted out into the +1 diffraction order with about 2% in the -1 (the other side of the waveguide). About 30% of the light was coupled out of the edge, scattered and absorbed. The remaining 58% was lost due to inefficient coupling.
The invention described above has been disclosed with reference to generic description and specific embodiments. Save for the limitations presented in the claims below, the examples set forth are not intended to be, and shall not be construed as, limiting in any way. In particular, selection of other light sources, objects for illumination and the like will occur to those of ordinary skill in the art without the exercise of inventive skill, and remain within the scope of the invention as claimed hereinbelow.
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This tutorial should also help the beginning sewer get an understanding of measuring, cutting, pinning, and basic sewing concepts.
Step 1: Gather Ye Materials While Ye May.
I. 1 8-inch square each of fabric for the front and back
II. 1 8 1/2-inch square thermal batting (silvery-colored, usually)
OR three layers batting, flannel, towel scraps, each cut into 8 1/2-inch squares
III. 1 42-inch strip for binding, 2 inches wide - here's an assembly tip.
IV. Thread, pins
V. Seam ripper (never sew without one!)
Index / Terms:
FF, CF = Fashion Fabric, Contrast Fabric
RS, WS = Right Side, Wrong Side of fabric
SA= Seam Allowance
Step 2: Layer and Pin.
Pin or hand-baste all layers, being careful to keep both sides wtihout gathers. I use about nine safety pins.
Step 3: Now Quilt! (Or Tie), Add Binding
The more layers (the thicker your potholder) the longer machine stitch length you will want to use.
Press one raw edge of binding trip 1/2" to WS, lengthwise. Begin pinning, matching raw edges and RS together. Important - pin the binding strip to the FF side if you will be handfinishing the binding (as I do in this tutorial); pin the binding strip to the CF if you will be finishing by machine topstitching.
When pinning the binding strip to thepotholder, fold up the binding at a 45-degree angle as shown, starting halfway on an edge.
I really want to print a copy of these instructions but none of the links work...and I can't afford to pay a minimum of $27 to get them. The idea is terrific and it will be my first sewing project. Any suggestions how I can get the pdf and the info in the two links that no longer work. This is so cute!!
I used the French binding technique, though those instructions had some ambiguity in them, which I've mostly resolved by now.
The other change I made was to make the loop and sew it to the sandwich after I've machine-sewed the binding to the face of the potholder. Then when I hand-stitched the binding on the back (a friend sent me a link to some instructions on doing a hidden stitch for that, which I've since lost!), I just stitch to the loop as I would the back of the potholder. It feels more secure to me.
On the whole, these are excellent instructions, and even a novice like me can make something wonderful as a result. Thank you for the effort you put into this!


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Sep 09 2007
Because I've Been Talking Way Too Much Lately…
I thought I'd better post a few photos for a change.
Her name's Katy. She lives in the small town near our ranch and she's just starting her senior year. When her mom asked me last week if I'd consider taking her senior picture, my immediate impulse was to say no. I'm not a professional photographer, after all, and while I do occasionally snap a decent photo, it's almost always on my terms. That way, if the exposure or focus or composition of a photo doesn't turn out like I'd hoped, there's no accountability—nothing like a pretty seventeen-year-old girl who's depending on me to provide her with a memorable and lasting senior portrait.
I agreed to do it, though, on one condition: that they not pay me for the work. That way, if the photos wound up sucking, they wouldn't be out any money and I wouldn't feel guilty. Also, I was strangely attracted at the idea of taking the photo of someone other than my own children, i.e. someone who wouldn't necessarily be whining that they were hungry or tired the whole time.
Katy turned out to be a total natural, and made it way too easy for me. Could she possibly be any cuter?
I had Katy come out to the ranch for the photo shoot, as the wild sunflowers are absolutely everywhere. I told her she looked like a sweet, tasteful version of Daisy Duke.
A self-proclaimed glamour-puss, Katy locked eyes with the camera and didn't release her grip for well over an hour. She spoiled me so much, I think this'll be the last senior portrait I'll ever do.
As I look over these photos, I realize how much Katy reminds me of myself when I was around her age. I was so fresh-faced, so scrubbed, so full of quiet, natural beauty:
At least I thought I was at the time.
Dadgum, did I ever grow up in the wrong decade.
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Kristen On Sunday, September 9 at 1:57 pm
Jeesh, you take some good pics.
Plus, these are pretty damn good Senior pics, the kind that won't haunt you 20 years down the road.
Just wait till you start getting asked to do weddings.
RobsCat On Sunday, September 9 at 2:00 pm
great photos.
you were and are beautiful! everyone who is anyone agrees!
Laquet On Sunday, September 9 at 2:01 pm
Lovely photos … I love the 3rd one. But *twiddles thumbs* part 4? Of the BIG story?
LadyVolFan On Sunday, September 9 at 2:05 pm
Wow, Ree. Those are amazing shots. She's a gorgeous young lady. I would love to have had senior pictures that didn't make my hiney cringe. Well…I suppose that the fact that big hair and spiral perms are out of style make a big difference.
Julie On Sunday, September 9 at 2:07 pm
Yes, she is lovely. And yes, you are wonderful photographer.
But what about the next installment?!?!?!
You are such a tease. If you want me to beg, I will.
Teryn On Sunday, September 9 at 2:10 pm
Those are a lot better than my senior pictures ….
Nalventures On Sunday, September 9 at 2:13 pm
You're good and too funny… and we will all be back anxiously awaiting the continuation.
kayceebeebee On Sunday, September 9 at 2:22 pm
She's just beautiful! I'll bet she was really happy with the pictures you took, too. All four pictures are very nice.
I love your blog. My sister and I are always talking about it and comparing life in Minnesota as we know it to your daily living. It's like reading a book chapter after chapter. Thanks!
janet On Sunday, September 9 at 2:31 pm
the pictures are beautiful…
but about installment no. 4… *foot tapping impatiently*
Miss Wisabus On Sunday, September 9 at 2:34 pm
Those are beautiful!
Foot-tapping right along with Janet though
Jenni in KS On Sunday, September 9 at 2:36 pm
Great job, Ree! Doesn't Katy have the most gorgeous eyes? I like the 2nd and 4th pictures because they really focus on her eyes and show them off.
You're such a tease leaving everyone hanging and waiting for the fourth installment on the Marlboro Man story. I can wait. A little anticipation just makes it better:o)
ashpags On Sunday, September 9 at 2:38 pm
So pretty! The last one is my favorite – I like how the direction of the light gives her a bit of a halo. I wish you could have taken my senior pics! =)
Melissa in NZ On Sunday, September 9 at 2:39 pm
Stunning. I love the one with the sunflowers. As for the Molly Ringwald shot … it has almost the same vintage value as The One With The Unitard!
Barpier On Sunday, September 9 at 2:40 pm
Very funny. Wheres part IV !?!?!?
melanie On Sunday, September 9 at 2:49 pm
wrong decade? How so? Seems things moved along as planned.
taking pictures should never be work. Don't you think?
patiently awaits the next MM installment.
Kathy in WA On Sunday, September 9 at 2:50 pm
Gorgeous pictures! You had better watch out, you're going to be inundated with requests once everyone sees what a fantastic job you did (not that there was any question.
I did my very first Photoshop tutorial last week (very much in honor of you and your wonderful inspiration).
As a mother of many punks, I thought you might enjoy a story dh wrote on our camping trip last week. It's in the style of Pat McManus. Come by for a visit.
Alabama Grandmother On Sunday, September 9 at 2:52 pm
Beautiful girl….
Now…part 4 of the story, PLEASE???
And wedding pictures..
You are a tease..lol
Angela On Sunday, September 9 at 2:54 pm
Am I the only ones who thinks thats a bit too "come hither" for senior pictures?
amra On Sunday, September 9 at 2:57 pm
OMG so much better than the Chaz Peloso pics we all took for our Senior Pics. the ones with the faux velvet off the shoulder dress thing? you could choose black, navy or purple. Of course when you are 17, you choose black because, gasp, you may stand out otherwise. One girl, Abby, chose purple. The only one in our 641 student graduating class. People talked about it for months. Gawd, don't let me ever be 17 again.
Katy looks lovely.
Katharina On Sunday, September 9 at 2:59 pm
I love the second and fourth one! She is so lucky that she got you as a her photographer.
I love that pictures of you as well. You two do kind of look alike! I love those sunglasses in your picture as well…
But… seriously… as everybody else has already tried to find out inconspicuously… WHERE THE HECK IS THE REST OF THE STORY??!
Denise On Sunday, September 9 at 3:02 pm
Gorgeous shots, Ree. Of course it helps if your model is lovely, but the composition (pretending I know what I'm talking about) is awesome.
I'm joining the protesters: where's part 4?!? I feel like I was reading an engrossing novel, and I put it down somewhere, and now I can't find it!
Laurie On Sunday, September 9 at 3:07 pm
If my sons & I can come to your house for pictures (and food!!), I will most generously forgive you for not "talking too much" today.
Love it!
Evelyn On Sunday, September 9 at 3:08 pm
She's cute, the pictures are great … but … what about … Marlboro Man??? I'm hanging on the edge of my seat for the rest of your story. It's like CLIFF HANGER FRIDAY on the soap operas …. lol
Brea from Texas On Sunday, September 9 at 3:12 pm
Ree, this is getting cruel!!! Not that Katy isn't completely adorable, cause she really is, but you simply MUST give us the next part of your story!! Women all over the country are eagerly awaiting part IV … the suspense is killing us!!!
Rod On Sunday, September 9 at 3:12 pm
My 17 year old son was looking over my shoulder while I was reading today and he would like Katys' email address. Or even her myspace.
cptwentworth On Sunday, September 9 at 3:14 pm
Aren't all 17-year-olds gorgeous? I remember thinking I was so ugly, and I look back and *wish* I was 17 again. Wowzers! Lovely photos, Ree.
chocolatechic On Sunday, September 9 at 3:21 pm
Those are lovely pictures…….
however……don't you think it is awfully bratty of your lovely self to not continue talking……..not moving forward with this story……..not telling us how MM felt about you?
Was he weak in the knees? Was he totally put off by your grimy socks and your black mascara? Was he wowed by your gorgeous hair, or did he think you a goof for eating cherries off the condiment bar???
If you don't tell us, you might find angry mobs at your ranch one day soon…
Audra On Sunday, September 9 at 3:36 pm
Windy On Sunday, September 9 at 3:38 pm
Angela, it seems there are no pose limits for senior pictures anymore. Have you looked through a Senior year book lately? At least they aren't like when I graduated from high school (61 years ago), all girls in the same pose and taken by the same photographic studio.
I imagine Dee is having this conversation with MM: "Sweetcheeks, the ladies are getting very impatient for the completion of our story. Should I give them the family reading or the ex-rated reading?"
(Sorry, GaGa, couldn't resist)
rkintn On Sunday, September 9 at 3:40 pm
Katy is beautiful and I really liked the sunflower picture. BUT like everyone else..I am BEGGING for the REST of the STORY!! LOL Dontcha know you cannot start a new line of work and leave your blog?! *Gasp* What would I have to read while at work?! lol
Chic Girl On Sunday, September 9 at 3:44 pm
The pictures are beautiful, but you do realize that you left us hanging!!!
Shannon from Oklahoma On Sunday, September 9 at 3:52 pm
Those turned out awesome! Way to go!
Angela On Sunday, September 9 at 4:04 pm
Umm, yea, thanks Windy. DH is a photographer, so we've seen it all.
Dorothy Stahlnecker On Sunday, September 9 at 4:05 pm
She is absolutely beautiful, and you captured every bit on camera. Wow, and how nice that you shared them with us….
Looking forward to the Marlboro man go forward…
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Lisa On Sunday, September 9 at 4:07 pm
OK enough allready, yes the pictures are wonderful, you do take great pictures!!!!!!!!! We need the rest of the story, dont leave us all hanging much longer!!!!!!!!!Plllllllllllllease
Liz On Sunday, September 9 at 4:41 pm
Very nice pictures. Has anyone ever told her she reminds them of Rachel Ray? That's the first thing I thought of when I saw her….she could be Rachel's sister. Very pretty girl. Back when I graduated, all we got to do was pose once and every girl wore a black sweater backwards with a white blouse…yeah, Catholic school in the 60's.
~C On Sunday, September 9 at 4:44 pm
They are all so beautiful, but the second from the top is my favorite. It looks like it is right out of a magazine. You did an amazing job with them. I just shot my first engagements the other day and I was a total mess about it. I can't wait to see more of your work, you inspire me daily.
Pam On Sunday, September 9 at 4:52 pm
I like the third picture the best, because the smile with her teeth showing is really the most flattering.
NOW, PLEEEZ finish your MM story!
Nin On Sunday, September 9 at 4:58 pm
Thorny Tree Lady On Sunday, September 9 at 5:03 pm
WOW! She's beautiful, but it is the true photopgrapher who can pull the inner beauty out of a subject. I don't know this girl, and I feel like I know her because of the way you photographed her. It seems strange, but I prefer to shoot pictures of other people's kids, because I know what I expect out of my kids, and if they don't deliver because of hunger, or boredome, or whatever, I get upset, and the pics don't turn out right. Post more — I LOVE your photography!
Gee On Sunday, September 9 at 5:08 pm
Katy's very cute, and the sunflower one is perfect! Another career (doing senior pics) for you, Ree….you may set the record for # of careers in a lifetime!
momto3cubs On Sunday, September 9 at 5:09 pm
Wow, what beautiful photos!
I would definately pay you good money to photograph my kids. I'd even pay to transport you from OK to WI and back again.
Tanya T On Sunday, September 9 at 5:12 pm
I think they are beautiful photos!! You really should think about doing more Senior portraits, what a wonderful side business that could be.
erika jean On Sunday, September 9 at 5:15 pm
the second one is great!
Swampy On Sunday, September 9 at 5:21 pm
Katy is a doll. Love the sunflower pic. What a wonderful friend you are.
"Molly Ringwold called. She wants her clothes back."
Lazy Mom On Sunday, September 9 at 5:23 pm
Wow. Is she ever beautiful! You got some incredible shots of her. Good job!
Sabine On Sunday, September 9 at 5:28 pm
Gosh Ree, those pictures are beautiful! And what a gorgeous young lady – she is going to be very happy. Thanks for sharing them here.
stella On Sunday, September 9 at 5:54 pm
Mmmmmkay. Katy is loverly. She really is and I'm glad that you were gracious enough to not only take her pics, but to not accept a dime for your efforts. Beautiful Katy is lucky to have such an important time in her life captured by your talented eye.
But you are torturing me! Sure, I know how the story ends, but Marlboro Man is just about to romance you dag-gummit! Please post part four tomorrow. Please?
Katy On Sunday, September 9 at 5:57 pm
Beautiful pictures. My DD has to have hers done next summer…I'm trying to learn how to use my nikon and paintshop before then.
Jessica On Sunday, September 9 at 5:59 pm
Very pretty. The light was just perfect. Photographing in bright light scares the beejeusus outta me! You nailed it, girl! : )
Miz Booshay On Sunday, September 9 at 6:01 pm
They're beautiful pictures!
I took pictures this week also.
For a friend…as a favor.
It was scary but I'm happy how they turned out.
And actually it was a confidence builder.
You must have more confidence than you let on, dear Ree.
You just ooze talent!!!
shai On Sunday, September 9 at 6:23 pm
Number one, by all means…unaffected..natural. Beautiful!
LLL On Sunday, September 9 at 6:25 pm
Some people don't get to get online in the mornings except on the weekends. Some people work without computer access at just the click of a mouse because some people are working so hard to keep people from not being dead.
So some people are feeling very discriminated against since some people, not saying who, don't post their blogs as early on the weekends as they do on the weekdays. And thennnnn, part IV is delayed another whole day. And even if it is posted tomorrow morning, some people won't get to read it 'til 8pm.
I'm now officially whining, my lip is starting to poke out and might even tremble.
But hey, no pressure. And by the way, the senior portraits are perfect. Excellent job, Ree!
Cindy On Sunday, September 9 at 6:32 pm
Geeze, I wish you would of been around when I had my senior pics. What a disaster, I ended up looking like a man. I had the same yucky experience when I took my oldest dtr for her senior pics recently. "Ok honey, just pretend you are a fairy and fly through the air" Huh, we actually paid money for that. Oh well, we do laugh about it, when we left, after the photo shoot, his wife came up to us and said thank you, gave us a fortune and bowed to us. Ahh we ran away, fast! You did a great job, she is gorgeous Ree, nice job!
jenn On Sunday, September 9 at 6:42 pm
Those turned out excellent! I would have loved to have senior pics like that. I hate fake backgrounds, so im so glad she got to get outdoors! she will remember this for the rest of her life Ree!
Annie On Sunday, September 9 at 7:06 pm
Excellent photos!
Ladybug On Sunday, September 9 at 7:14 pm
WOW! That girl is beautiful! You really do take some amazing photos.
Dancing Shoes On Sunday, September 9 at 7:16 pm
Love the photo in the sunflowers!
But…waiting for Chapter IV!!!!!
Jenny Kay On Sunday, September 9 at 7:17 pm
Okay, you have this thing with eyes in your photos. Everyone you photograph ends up looking like they have eyes that seem to gaze into your soul. Especially your children. They have beautiful eyes.
(Yes, I am a new reader… and I love your blog. And I can't wait for the next 'How I met Marlboro Man' installment.)
Tiger Lamb Girl On Sunday, September 9 at 7:23 pm
OMG, we totally grew up in the wrong decade.
Scrolling down to the last photo? The music just stopped. And I cringed. For you. For me. And for all other chicks from the same era.
Katy is gorgeous. She must be thrilled with her photos;). Well done P-dub!
Tiger Lamb Girl On Sunday, September 9 at 7:25 pm
Stop being evil and just post the next instalment already.
purty pwease.
melody is slurping life On Sunday, September 9 at 7:27 pm
Katy's parents made an excellent choice of photographer. She is a natural beauty and you a natural photographer.
avra On Sunday, September 9 at 7:31 pm
Oh well. I guess all the anticipation will make reading the next installment even more exciting.
PS: I wish I looked like Katy when I was 17! She's beautiful.
marysia in tx On Sunday, September 9 at 7:38 pm
while I agree with all that these senior pictures are luminous, and WOW do I wish mine looked like hers, I can't help but be a restless whiner and ask, HOW could you leave us hanging like this??
You have a very twisted sense of humour but that's why I come back for more.
Jaime On Sunday, September 9 at 7:50 pm
Honestly, you are really talented. You should continue doing these!
Claudia W. On Sunday, September 9 at 7:57 pm
Beautiful young lady, beautiful pictures. You do such good stuff!
Jen On Sunday, September 9 at 8:10 pm
Another one of my favorite bloggers with a camera – http://crunchyphotoblog.blogsome.com/
She has a totally different style, you both inspire me!
Susanna On Sunday, September 9 at 8:15 pm
Good for you! I just did my first senior portrait session, for a good friend's daughter. You did an excellent job! She'll be pleased and proud of these pics. You definitely have the talent to do this! Maybe next time you'll get paid
MrsA On Sunday, September 9 at 8:20 pm
I think you do a wonderful job with photography. Period.
BTW–What a gorgeous complexion that young lady has.
candi On Sunday, September 9 at 8:31 pm
those are gorgeous! it's always such a treat to have a subject who is willing, huh!
joann in TX On Sunday, September 9 at 8:38 pm
thanks for the pictures! sometimes i'd rather see pictures than read paragraphs!
as things are slow at work, i'll look forward to paragraphs tomorrow!
Gina On Sunday, September 9 at 8:40 pm
Pretty? Yes. Fresh faced, scrubbed… not so much.
Lisa in MI On Sunday, September 9 at 8:45 pm
Katy ~ Good luck trying to pick which fabulous picture to feature in your yearbook! You're a beautiful girl!
(We expect to see you bright and early Monday a.m., Ree, with the CONCLUSION of our story!)
nancypants On Sunday, September 9 at 8:50 pm
Great portraits Ree! Katy, you're adorable!
Now Ree… tell us all the details of what lenses you used, what settings and all the dirty photography and photoshop talk!!
Gloria On Sunday, September 9 at 8:57 pm
You're torturing us by purpose…we want number 4!! Though the pictures you took of her are really pretty.
I crack up everytime you bring up your..erm…equally pretty picture.
Helen G. On Sunday, September 9 at 9:06 pm
Your favorite aunts said you were a tease even when you were younger… and while I totally appreciate the fresh young beauty that your photographic talent made sing (and all of her classmates will all be overshadowed and MAD) some of us older folks wonder if we will last until we get the next installment…. Hurry , Hurry , PLEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZE
Natalie In TX On Sunday, September 9 at 9:17 pm
Now THAT'S gutsy, posting that last picture of yourself. I think I've long since burned all pictures like that of myself!
Summer On Sunday, September 9 at 9:20 pm
She is a beautiful girl and if I didn't know you weren't a professional I would certainly think you were.
You also look very pretty in that pic of you.
Cheryl On Sunday, September 9 at 9:20 pm
She is a natural beauty and all her friends are going to be so jealous. Great pictures. Loved yours too!
A from TX On Sunday, September 9 at 9:25 pm
Ok Great! You did a lovely job with the senior photos, and you were quite the cutie yourself.
Now lets hear more of your story.
Cindy Z On Sunday, September 9 at 9:27 pm
Wow, great photos! What did the family think? I bet they were very pleased.
Now where is part 4?
Marlene On Sunday, September 9 at 9:43 pm
Beautiful Senior pictures. I bet they will be very happy with the results!
Ang in TX On Sunday, September 9 at 9:53 pm
I enjoy seeing all the other readers from Texas– it's really neat!
Ree, you pulled a "ninnie" today, now get over here and give us loyal readers what we are begging for…:)
rm in ma On Sunday, September 9 at 9:57 pm
You are able to catch the "essence" of your subjects. Yes, you have nice editing software, but it is not the software that catches the beauty of the subject, it is the photographer. Wish you lived closer to us, I look at the $500+ I spent for really bad pics of my gorgeous and easy to photo daughter and sigh with disappointment. And by the way, you were cute, now you are beautiful.
WDS On Sunday, September 9 at 11:14 pm
just read the MM stories and had to laugh out loud at the Walrus stories… and then had to post them on my fantasy football message board for Walrus and all to read…
BTW, Walrus celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary this week… and the pot was more of an occassional thing for him back then, and never now…
Isle Dance On Monday, September 10 at 12:28 am
Absolutely beautiful photos. Way to go – both of you!
Sarah On Monday, September 10 at 12:36 am
Hey Ree,
You did such a great job on the pics. I won't go into my need to read part 4 since everyone else did….. I will say, as a fellow photographer, that I am worried about someone stealing your photos. One word… watermark!!
Kymberli On Monday, September 10 at 1:09 am
Great photos, Ree! I love the 3rd and 4th one!
Laura On Monday, September 10 at 8:16 am
Katy is a beautiful subject for a photoshoot. You can just tell that she LOVED looking into the camera lens.
All of the photos were nicely done and you have a light hand for PhotoShop enhancements. My favorite is the one in the sunflower field.
How very pleased her parents must be. You've done them a great service as senior portraits are expensive and not always great.
Still working forward to reading "the rest of the story" (as Paul Harvey would say) regarding the How I met Malboro Man saga.
pink ric rac On Monday, September 10 at 11:45 am
ree, you are hilarious!!!! Love that…strike a pose!
Aileen On Monday, September 10 at 4:06 pm
Love your photo. It screams "the 80s!!"
Anonymous On Monday, September 10 at 9:09 pm
That second shot's for the boyfriend if there is one!
Patty House On Tuesday, September 11 at 6:15 am
Wow, she really is a cutie!
I took the pictures for my niece's wedding. They turned out ok, but I don't think I would want to do anyone other than family. The pictures of the actual wedding weren't the best…the lighting SUCKED and my camera was still fairly new to me, but the group pictures…those were awesome if I do say so myself…I took those outside. =)
Theresa On Tuesday, September 11 at 1:17 pm
I occasionally do weddings and I have I have also done a few family group shots. It is a mixed bag because on the one hand it's fun to play and get adventuresome with your photography. When you get someone who is natural, like Katy, it's so fun because their natural "photogenicity" (is that a word?! LOL) can make you look even better than you are! On the other hand it can make what you love seem monotonous. These pictures turned out awesome and I loved seeing what you did with the Photoshop and plug ins. I only have PS Elements 5 but am considering PS in the future. Thanks for the FAQ on your camera. I have the D80 and recently sold 3 OOP knitting books on eBay and made $700! I purchased the 60mm closeup lens and the 50mm f1.8 as well as a monopod. Love both lenses! Now I just need more hours in my day to experiment with them…and having a beautiful ranch to photograph wouldn't hurt either! LOL


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From the Greek word melissa 'honey bee'. It is the name of the good witch who releases Rogero from the power of the bad witch Alcina in Ariosto's narrative poem Orlando Furioso (1532). The name was fairly popular in the 1990s, along with other girls' names sharing the same first syllable.
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Anne Hathaway Looking Thin While Filming 'Les Miserables'
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Gun charges send felon back to jail two years after Round Hill stand-off
A Purcellville man was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for violating probation on a 2010 incident that involved a police standoff.
Steven D. Underwood, 54, appeared before Circuit Court Judge Benjamin N. A. Kendrick only 13 months after being released from prison, according to the Loudoun Commonwealth Attorney's Office.
Underwood was on probation after pleading guilty Feb. 14, 2011, to five charges related to a 2010 incident in Round Hill involving himself, his girlfriend, two other individuals and a police stand-off. During the incident, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office Swat Unit and Negotiations Team were deployed and supplemented by the Virginia State Police and the Fairfax County Helicopter Unit.
Underwood was found guilty of unlawful discharge of a firearm in an occupied dwelling, unlawful purchase or transportation of a firearm while subject to a protective order, assault and battery, reckless handling of a firearm and brandishing a firearm. He was sentenced to two years of active incarceration with an additional seven years of suspended time conditioned upon his good behavior, forfeiture of 17 firearms and compliance with supervised probation.
In April, not more than three months into his supervised probation, Underwood committed new offenses in Pulaski County, the commonwealth attorney's office said. Underwood was convicted of felony possession of a firearm by a violent felon, felony possession of explosives by a felon, felony possession of explosives and four misdemeanor charges related to unlawful hunting in Pulaski County and sentenced to six years and six months in prison and $700 in fines.
"This is the exact type of person that should be watched closely when it comes to the misuse of lawful firearms," Commonwealth's Attorney Jim Plowman said in a statement. "Mr. Underwood's volatile behavior and inability to adhere to Court Orders that are specifically in place for the safety of the community, present a dangerous and unpredictable situation for our citizens."
Underwood will have an additional eight years and six months of suspended time that could be imposed should he fail to comply with supervised probation upon his release. His anticipated release date will not be until at least 2023.
"A great deal of credit goes to the fine work from the Officers with Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, who were able to secure the convictions in Pulaski County and bring that information forward to our hearing," Plowman said.
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I remember not really knowing much of them and then I had the privilege to see them play back in 97. I was really impressed overall with the performance.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Activist investor Carl Icahn is increasing his stake in Chesapeake Energy, a company where he has already pushed for sweeping changes in governance.
Company shares rose 2.3 percent Tuesday before the opening bell.
A regulatory filing shows Icahn now owns 8.98 percent, compared with a 7.6 percent stake in the Oklahoma City company he held this summer. Icahn first invested in Chesapeake Energy Corp. in May.
Since then, he's pushed for a slew of changes including the stripping of CEO Aubrey McClendon's chairman title. Icahn also shook up the company board. In June, Chesapeake Energy Corp. appointed four new directors that were hand-picked by the company's largest investors.
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The Cal State Northridge softball team (10-41, 5-15 Big West) lost twice to UC Santa Barbara Friday afternoon in a Big West Conference doubleheader at Matador Diamond. UCSB freshman Shelby Wisdom tossed a no-hitter in game one (2-0) and then added a complete-game shutout and two-run home run in the second game (7-0) to keep the Gauchos' hopes for a Big West title alive.
In game one, Wisdom was simply dominant. She had nine strikeouts, no walks and allowed only two runners to reach on errors. Her counterpart, Mia Pagano (8-17), kept CSUN in the game, allowing no runs through six innings as well.
However, the Gauchos scored twice with two outs in the seventh inning. The play of the game was a stolen base by DeJanee Moore of UCSB. Beaten badly to second by the throw, she knocked the ball from the Matador second baseman and took the base. From there, the Gauchos got two singles and the Wisodm took care of the rest.
In game two, the Matadors got two base hits in the first inning off Wisdom and would add three more hits during the game. And still, Wisdom controlled the pace of the game and finished with five strikeouts and one walk in her 23rd win of the season in the circle.
UCSB scored all of its runs in a wild fourth inning. CSUN starter Shelly Tait (1-7) had one out with a runner on second when the Gauchos got consecutive infield hits. An error with the bases loaded allowed one run to score and then with two outs, got two more singles to finish with five unearned runs.
Wisdom unloaded a two-run home run in the top of the seventh to cap off her day.
The Matadors will conclude their season Saturday with a single game at noon against the Gauchos. A Northridge victory would eliminate UC Santa Barbara from postseason consideration. Before the game, CSUN will honor its three seniors playing in their final collegiate games: Samantha Sloniker, Jessica Fridwall and Alyssa Ray.


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Angola's Oil-Led Foreign-Currency Reserves Rise 44% in 2011
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Angola's foreign-currency reserves rose 44 percent last year to reach $25.02 billion in December as Africa's second-biggest oil producer benefited from rising crude prices, a document from Angola's central bank showed.
Reserves climbed from $17.33 billion at the end of 2010, according to the preliminary report from the Luanda-based Banco Nacional de Angola obtained by Bloomberg News. The amount increased in December from $23.27 billion in the previous month.
"Angola looks extremely well positioned to grow sustainably going forward," Stephen Bailey-Smith, head of research for Africa at Standard Bank Plc in London, said in a phone interview.
Angola should continue to benefit from higher oil prices and exports, which account for more than 90 percent of the country's foreign-currency earnings, Bailey-Smith said.
"We expect oil production to increase this year to 1.84 million barrels per day from about 1.69 million last year," he said. Angola may also record a budget surplus in 2012 of around 9 percent of gross domestic product, Bailey-Smith said.
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The Elk County Conservation District was recognized for its 50 years of service during a two-day annual joint conference hosted by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts and the State Conservation Commission.
District Manager Steve Putt reported attending a conference held in Scranton on July 9 and 10 to accept the Award of Appreciation.
"At the conference they recognized a few districts, including us," Putt said. "This is our 50th anniversary, so they gave us this certificate to honor those 50 years."
According to local historian Ray Beimel, the Pittsburg, Shawmut, and Northern Railroad "in a sense started in St. Marys."
Beimel recently discussed the railroad's history during a presentation at the St. Marys Senior Center, explaining that the railroad was used to transport coal from mines in Elk County to communities in upstate New York.
"Kaul and Hall built a railroad that ran from St. Marys to a place called Hyde, which is outside of Brockway, and the whole point of that was to haul coal from the mines at Brandy Camp and that area and bring it up to St. Marys," Beimel said.
A poignant ceremony that offers area residents the opportunity to honor someone special will again be held by Community Nurses, Inc.
The Community Nurses Butterfly Release for Hospice will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 5 at The Serenity Garden, behind the organization's building on the campus of Elk Regional Health Center in St. Marys. The general public is invited to the release, which allows area residents to honor their loved ones and benefits the Community Nurses' Hospice program.
On May 26 at Shippensburg University's Seth Grove Stadium, St. Marys Area High School's Adair Gennocro joined the ranks of the PIAA state champions as she claimed her first career title in the PIAA Class-AA girls' 3200-meter run.
Gennocro, who will begin her senior year at SMAHS in the fall, recently reflected upon the race and what it is like being a state champion. She is the first SMAHS athlete to win a state championship in track and field. Her photo will eventually hang in the foyer of the school along with that of Jeff Foster, who won a state championship in cross country in 1973.


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How Michigan State, Arizona and Syracuse don't measure up to past champs
The last time I measured this season's title contenders against past Final Four participants, I was offering my list of seven legitimate threats to win it all: Florida, Michigan, Indiana, Miami, Louisville, Duke and Gonzaga.
I'll be updating that short list soon based on the results of the past few weeks, but first I want to look at the highest-ranked teams that would not be included in that select company as of today. To refresh your memory, I'm basing my selections on seven seasons of per-possession data that I've tracked and archived. Based on this past history, for example, we know that the "average" major-conference team that reaches the Final Four does so after outscoring league opponents by 0.13 points per possession.
But (and this is an important qualifier) we also know that a true outlier such as Connecticut in 2010-11 can crash this evaluative dance and cut down the nets after a thoroughly mediocre (+0.01) regular season. I refer to this back door to a title as the Connecticut Exception, and I dare say part of the reason we love college basketball is because stuff like this happens. As long as the Connecticut Exception is alive and well, I can't truly "eliminate" teams from title contention. (It's true.) However, what I can do is flag teams that are getting the pollster love but that don't fit our profile.
As of today, then, here are three teams yet to justify inclusion on your short list of title contenders. Anything can happen in March, of course, but to this point in the season these teams are not hitting the mean performance standard set by past Final Four entrants. I've listed them here in the order of their AP rankings.
Michigan State Spartans+0.08 points per possession; AP No. 9
In 2009-10, the Spartans outscored the Big Ten by 0.08 points per possession. That team, you might remember, went on to beat four tournament opponents by a combined total of 13 points to reach the Final Four. So take the Eliminator's skepticism of this season's +0.08 MSU team for what it's worth. Tom Izzo has enjoyed some measure of success in the month of March, to put it mildly, and it would be foolhardy to write off his team entirely. Then again, it's probably no mistake that Izzo had an easier time reaching a national semifinal with his 2008-09 team, the one that outscored the league by 0.13 points per trip.
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A former Old Dominion University professor has settled her sex discrimination lawsuit against the school for $15,000, according to a spokesman for the state Attorney General's Office.
Linda M. Gagen was an assistant professor in the department of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation from 2002 to 2009. She claimed in her suit that she was denied a promotion and tenure due to her complaint of unwanted sexual advances by a colleague.
The university denied the charge and said Gagen was not qualified for the promotion or tenure. According to a court filing, the school said the "alleged behavior" by the colleague ended three years before she came up for tenure. Gagen argued that the colleague retaliated against her by trying to thwart her promotion.


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Since Geany 0.12 there is a plugin interface to extend Geany's functionality and add new features. This document gives a brief overview about how to add new plugins by writing a simple "Hello World" plugin in C or C++.
To be able to write plugins for Geany, you need the source code and some development packages for GTK and its dependencies. The following will only describe the way to compile and build plugins on Unix-like systems [1]. If you already have the Geany source code and compiled it from them, you can skip the following.
First you need to have Geany installed. Then install the development files for GTK and its dependencies. The easiest way to do this is to use your distribution's package management system, e.g. on Debian and Ubuntu systems you can use
This will install all necessary files to be able to compile plugins for Geany. On other distributions, the package names and commands to use may differ.
Basically, you are done at this point and could continue with writing the plugin code.
[1] For Windows, it is basically the same but you might have some more work on setting up the general build environment(compiler, GTK development files, ...). This is described on Geany's website at http://www.geany.org/Support/BuildingOnWin32.
When writing a plugin, you will find a couple of functions or macros which are mandatory and some which are free to use for implementing some useful feature once your plugin becomes more powerful like including a configuration or help dialog.
You should start your plugin with including some of the needed C header files and defining some basic global variables which will help you to access all needed functions of the plugin API in a more comfortable way.
Let's start with the very basic headers and add more later if necessary.
geanyplugin.h includes all of the Geany API and also the necessary GTK header files, so there is no need to include gtk/gtk.h yourself.
Then you should define two basic variables which will give access to data fields provided by the plugin API.
Now you can go on and write your first lines for your new plugin. As mentioned before, you will need to implement and fill out a couple of functions/macros to make the plugin work. So let's start with PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK().
PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK() is a convenient way to tell Geany which version of Geany's plugin API is needed at minimum to run your plugin. The value is defined in plugindata.h by GEANY_API_VERSION. In most cases this should be your minimum. Nevertheless when setting this value, you should choose the lowest possible version here to make the plugin compatible with a bigger number of versions of Geany.
For the next step, you will need to tell Geany some basic information about your plugin which will be shown in the plugin manager dialog.
To do this you should use the PLUGIN_SET_INFO() macro, which expects 4 parameters:
Based on this, the line could look like:
Once this is done, you will need to implement the function which will be executed when the plugin is loaded. Part of that function could be adding and removing of an item to Geany's Tools menu, setting up keybindings or registering some callbacks. Also you will need to implement the function that is called when your plugin is unloaded. These functions are called plugin_init() and plugin_cleanup(). Let's see what this looks like:
If you think this plugin seems not to implement any functionality right now and only wastes some memory, you are right. But it should compile and load/unload in Geany nicely. Now you have the very basic layout of a new plugin. Great, isn't it?
If you would rather write the plugin in C++, you can do that by marking the plugin functions that it implements as
"C", for example:
First make plugin.o:
Then make the plugin library plugin.so (or plugin.dll on Windows):
If all went OK, put the library into one of the paths Geany looks for plugins, e.g. $prefix/lib/geany. See Installation paths for details.
If you are writing the plugin in C++, then you will need to use your C++ compiler here, for example
Let's go on and implement some real functionality.
As mentioned before, plugin_init() will be called when the plugin is loaded in Geany. So it should implement everything that needs to be done during startup. In this case, we'd like to add a menu item to Geany's Tools menu which runs a dialog printing "Hello World".
This will add an item to the Tools menu and connect this item to a function which implements what should be done when the menu item is activated by the user. This is done by g_signal_connect(). The Tools menu can be accessed with geany->main_widgets->tools_menu. The structure main_widgets contains pointers to the main GUI elements in Geany.
Geany has a simple API for showing message dialogs. So our function contains only a few lines:
For the moment you don't need to worry about the parameters of that function.
Now we need to clean up properly when the plugin is unloaded.
To remove the menu item from the Tools menu, you can use gtk_widget_destroy(). gtk_widget_destroy() expects a pointer to a GtkWidget object.
First you should add gtk_widget_destroy() to your plugin_cleanup() function. The argument for gtk_widget_destroy() is the widget object you created earlier in plugin_init(). To be able to access this pointer in plugin_cleanup(), you need to move its definition from plugin_init() into the global context so its visibility will increase and it can be accessed in all functions.
This will ensure your menu item is removed from the Tools menu as well as from memory once your plugin is unloaded, so you don't leave any memory leaks. Once this is done, your first plugin is ready. Congratulations!
Now you might like to look at Geany's source code for core plugins such as plugins/demoplugin.c.
After having written our first plugin, there is still room for improvement.
By default, PLUGIN_SET_INFO() does not allow translation of the basic plugin information for plugins which are not shipped with Geany's core distribution. Since most plugins are not shipped with Geany's core, it makes sense to enable translation when the plugin is loaded so that it gets translated inside Geany's Plugin Manager. As of Geany 0.19, the plugin API contains the PLUGIN_SET_TRANSLATABLE_INFO() macro which enables translation of the basic plugin details passed to PLUGIN_SET_INFO() when the plugin is loaded.
PLUGIN_SET_TRANSLATABLE_INFO() takes two more parameters than PLUGIN_SET_INFO(), for a total of six parameters.
The Localdir and the Gettextpackage parameters are usually set inside the build system. If this has been done, the call for example HelloWorld plugin could look like:
When using this macro, you should use the gettext macro _() to mark the strings like name and the short description as translatable as well. You can see how this is done in the above example.
As you can see the author's information is not marked as translatable in this example. The community has agreed that the best practice here is to use, if possible, the latin version of the author's name followed by the native spelling inside parenthesis, where applicable.
You can (and should) also mark other strings beside the plugin's meta information as translatable. Strings used in menu entries, information boxes or configuration dialogs should also be translatable as well. Geany offers a way to enable this in the plugin's code using the main_locale_init() function provided by the plugin API. This function takes the same two parameters discussed in the previous section; GETTEXT_PACKAGE and LOCALEDIR.
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About a week ago Atlantic City's Marina District officially said goodbye to Donald Trump and hello to Tilman Fertitta. The former Trump Marina is now the Golden Nugget Atlantic City hotel and casino. Fertitta, CEO of Houston-based Landry's bought the property last year and the company has spent $150 million on renovations. Fertitta remodeled the […] [Read More]


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She may not have had a leading role in "The Social Network," but Alec Baldwin thinks Rooney Mara has an astronomical career ahead of her.
"This girl's going to be the biggest movie star of her generation," Alec Baldwin told Access Hollywood's Billy Bush of the actress, and football dynasty daughter (she has ties to the Pittsburgh Steelers' Rooney family, as well as the New York Giants on the Mara side), who is currently filming her starring role as Lisbeth Salander in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
Alec hit the red carpet at the Golden Globes on Sunday, and while he was nominated for his own work – on "30 Rock" (a category which Jim Parsons of "The Big Bang Theory" eventually won), the celebrated actor said his interest in the ceremony was to praise some of his fellow celebs.
"I got this award three times in the last four years or something like that and they've always been very nice to me, but the excitement for me, as I'm sure it is for you, is to see films this year that you really dug and you get to see somebody. Like, I want to go tell Michelle Williams how much I loved her in 'Blue Valentine,'" Alec said.
"I want to tell Christian Bale how great he was in 'The Fighter.' I want to tell Ben Affleck how great he was in 'The Town,'" Alec continued. "I saw a bunch of films this year where I thought, 'Man, people really, really have done great work."
In related Alec news, a few weeks ago, Patti Stanger of Bravo's "The Millionaire Matchmaker" came on Access Hollywood Live, and at the time, she told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover that she thinks Alec would be perfect with Denise Richards.
"Why did she say that?" Alec asked Billyt.
"She said he needs a woman that can test him," Billy replied.
Alec actually seemed intrigued by the idea.
"I think Denise Richards is absolutely adorable and she's certainly a gorgeous woman and I had a psychic once tell me I'm going to marry a woman whose name started with the letter 'R,'" Alec revealed.
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Water, Water Everywhere, but None to Drink
We know fossil fuels are finite, so they'll end someday. But we assume water is infinite, and we reuse it time and time again. Now, this would have been an incorrect assumption if you lived on Mars or Venus a few hundred million years ago, but even if we only have one million years of […] [Read More]
Ice Was Nice III and a Warming Globe Summary 2014
I've studied pack ice since 1971. It is a fascinating feature of a Goldilocks planet — one suitable for our form of life. Not essential tho; water in liquid form will do it nicely. But it creates a buffer, moderating climate so that new life forms aren't forced into extinction every time some natural or unnatural […] [Read More]
The Supreme Court of the USA— Throwback to Dark Ages
The five conservative men on the Supreme Court seem incapable of handling 21st century US and world problems. They vote on the opposite side of the vast majority of Americans on: contraception & birth control, progressive taxing of the super-rich, women rights in general and women votes on SCOTUS in particular. This seems to be […] [Read More]