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Summary: Written for the short course where content must be thorough, but to-the-point, FUNDAMENTALS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Sixth Edition, continues to provide an effective, clear, and readable introduction to the beauty and logic of organic chemistry. McMurry presents only those subjects needed for a brief course while maintaining the important pedagogical tools commonly found in larger books. With clear explanations, thought-provoking examples, and an innovative vertical format for explaining reaction mechanisms, FUNDAMENTALS takes a modern approach: primary organization is by functional group, beginning with the simple (alkanes) and progressing to the more complex. Within the primary organization, there is also an emphasis on explaining the fundamental mechanistic similarities of reactions. Through this approach, memorization is minimized and understanding is maximized. The sixth edition brings in new content that applies organic chemistry to students, for example all of the chapter openers have been changed and incorporate a model and photograph of an application of organic chemistry such as Taxol from the pacific yew tree. ...show moreSummary: Written for the short course where content must be thorough, but to-the-point, FUNDAMENTALS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Sixth Edition, continues to provide an effective, clear, and readable introduction to the beauty and logic of organic chemistry. McMurry presents only those subjects needed for a brief course while maintaining the important pedagogical tools commonly found in larger books. With clear explanations, thought-provoking examples, and an innovative vertical format for explaining reaction mechanisms, FUNDAMENTALS takes a modern approach: primary organization is by functional group, beginning with the simple (alkanes) and progressing to the more complex. Within the primary organization, there is also an emphasis on explaining the fundamental mechanistic similarities of reactions. Through this approach, memorization is minimized and understanding is maximized. The sixth edition brings in new content that applies organic chemistry to students, for example all of the chapter openers have been changed and incorporate a model and photograph of an application of organic chemistry such as Taxol from the pacific yew tree. ...show less
John E. McMurry received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Foundation Fellow. He has received several awards, which include the National Institutes of Health Career Development Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, and the Max Planck Research Award. In addition to ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, he is also the author or coauthor of ORGANIC CHEMISTRY: A BIOLOGICAL APPROACH, FUNDAMENTALS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, THE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY OF BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS. A new co-author, Eric Simanek of Texas A&M University, has expertise in both biochemistry and organic chemistry. Dr. Simanek received his B.S. Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University, where his advisor was George M. Whitesides. He was most recently featured in the Journal of Chemical Education's October edition with an article on dendrimers. Dendrimers are polymers named for trees that show snowflake-like perfection. In 2000, Eric's group introduced dendrimers based on melamine. These architectures are unique in a variety of ways and subsequent reports from his group have addressed synthetic aspects of these architectures. He is also involved in improving science education the state of Texas.
Preface xvi A Note for Students xxi 1 Structure and Bonding; Acids and Bases 1 1.1 Atomic Structure 3 1.2 Electron Configuration of Atoms 5 1.3 Development of Chemical Bonding Theory 6 1.4 The Nature of Chemical Bonds 7 1.5 Forming Covalent Bonds: Valence Bond Theory 10 1.6 Hybridization: sp[superscript 3] Orbitals and the Structure of Methane 11 1.7 Hybridization: sp[superscript 3] Orbitals and the Structure of Ethane 12 1.8 Hybridization: sp[subscript 2] Orbitals and the Structure of Ethylene 13 1.9 Hybridization: sp Orbitals and the Structure of Acetylene 16 1.10 Polar Covalent Bonds: Electronegativity 17 1.11 Acids and Bases: The Bronsted--Lowry Definition 20 1.12 Acids and Bases: The Lewis Definition 24 2 The Nature of Organic Compounds: Alkanes 34 2.1 Functional Groups 35 2.2 Alkanes and Alkyl Groups: Isomers 41 2.3 Naming Branched-Chain Alkanes 46 2.4 Properties of Alkanes 49 2.5 Conformations of Ethane 50 2.6 Drawing Chemical Structures 53 2.7 Cycloalkanes 54 2.8 Cis--Trans Isomerism in Cycloalkanes 55 2.9 Conformations of Some Cycloalkanes 57 2.10 Axial and Equatorial Bonds in Cyclohexane 60 2.11 Conformational Mobility of Cyclohexane 61 3 The Nature of Organic Reactions: Alkenes 74 3.1 Naming Alkenes 75 3.2 Electronic Structure of Alkenes 78 3.3 Cis--Trans Isomers of Alkenes 79 3.4 Sequence Rules: The E,Z Designation 81 3.5 Kinds of Organic Reactions 84 3.6 How Reactions Occur: Mechanisms 86 3.7 The Mechanism of an Organic Reaction: Addition of HCl to Ethylene 89 3.8 Describing a Reaction: Reaction Energy Diagrams and Transition States 92 3.9 Describing a Reaction: Intermediates 94 4 Reactions of Alkenes and Alkynes 105 4.1 Addition of HX to Alkenes: Hydrohalogenation 106 4.2 Orientation of Alkene Addition Reactions: Markovnikov's Rule 106 4.3 Carbocation Structure and Stability 109 4.4 Addition of H[subscript 2]O to Alkenes: Hydration 111 4.5 Addition of X[subscript 2] to Alkenes: Halogenation 113 4.6 Addition of H[subscript 2] to Alkenes: Hydrogenation 115 4.7 Oxidation of Alkenes: Hydroxylation and Cleavage 116 4.8 Biological Addition Reactions of Alkenes 118 4.9 Addition of Radicals to Alkenes: Polymers 119 4.10 Conjugated Dienes 122 4.11 Stability of Allylic Carbocations: Resonance 124 4.12 Drawing and Interpreting Resonance Forms 126 4.13 Alkynes and Their Reactions 128 5 Aromatic Compounds 143 5.1 Structure of Benzene: The Kekule Proposal 144 5.2 Structure of Benzene: The Resonance Proposal 145 5.3 Naming Aromatic Compounds 146 5.4 Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions: Bromination 149 5.5 Other Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions 153 5.6 The Friedel--Crafts Alkylation and Acylation Reactions 154 5.7 Substituent Effects in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution 156 5.8 An Explanation of Substituent Effects 158 5.9 Oxidation and Reduction of Aromatic Compounds 162 5.10 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons 163 5.11 Organic Synthesis 164 6 Stereochemistry 177 6.1 Stereochemistry and the Tetrahedral Carbon 178 6.2 The Reason for Handedness in Molecules: Chirality 180 6.3 Optical Activity 183 6.4 Specific Rotation 184 6.5 Pasteur's Discovery of Enantiomers 186 6.6 Sequence Rules for Specifying Configuration 187 6.7 Diastereomers 191 6.8 Meso Compounds 193 6.9 Molecules with More Than Two Stereocenters 195 6.10 Racemic Mixtures and the Resolution of Enantiomers 196 6.11 Physical Properties of Stereoisomers 199 6.12 A Brief Review of Isomerism 199 6.13 Chirality in Nature 201 7 Alkyl Halides 211 7.1 Naming Alkyl Halides 212 7.2 Preparing Alkyl Halides 213 7.3 Reactions of Alkyl Halides: Grignard Reagents 215 7.4 Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions 217 7.5 The S[subscript N]2 Reaction 220 7.6 The S[subscript N]1 Reaction 224 7.7 Eliminations: The E2 Reaction 228 7.8 Eliminations: The E1 Reaction 230 7.9 A Summary of Reactivity: S[subscript N]1, S[subscript N]2, E1, E2 232 7.10 Substitution Reactions in Living Organisms 233 8 Alcohols, Phenols, and Ethers 243 8.1 Naming Alcohols, Phenols, and Ethers 244 8.2 Properties of Alcohols, Phenols, and Ethers: Hydrogen Bonding 246 8.3 Properties of Alcohols and Phenols: Acidity 248 8.4 Synthesis of Alcohols 250 8.5 Reactions of Alcohols 253 8.6 Synthesis and Reactions of Phenols 258 8.7 Synthesis and Reactions of Ethers 261 8.8 Cyclic Ethers: Epoxides 262 8.9 Thiols and Sulfides 264 9 Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition Reactions 276 9.1 The Nature of Carbonyl Compounds 277 9.2 Naming Aldehydes and Ketones 279 9.3 Synthesis of Aldehydes and Ketones 281 9.4 Oxidation of Aldehydes 282 9.5 Nucleophilic Addition Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones: Reduction 283 9.6 Nucleophilic Addition of Water: Hydration 285 9.7 Nucleophilic Addition of Alcohols: Acetal Formation 288 9.8 Nucleophilic Addition of Amines: Imine Formation 290 9.9 Nucleophilic Addition of Grignard Reagents: Alcohol Formation 291 9.10 Conjugate Nucleophilic Addition Reactions 294 9.11 Some Biological Nucleophilic Addition Reactions 295 10 Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives 305 10.1 Naming Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives 306 10.2 Occurrence and Properties of Carboxylic Acids 310 10.3 Synthesis of Carboxylic Acids 313 10.4 Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution Reactions 314 10.5 Reactions of Carboxylic Acids 317 10.6 Chemistry of Acid Halides 320 10.7 Chemistry of Acid Anhydrides 322 10.8 Chemistry of Esters 324 10.9 Chemistry of Amides 329 10.10 Chemistry of Nitriles 331 10.11 Polymers from Carbonyl Compounds: Nylons and Polyesters 334 11 Carbonyl Alpha-Substitution Reactions and Condensation Reactions 347 11.1 Keto--Enol Tautomerism 348 11.2 Reactivity of Enols: The Mechanism of Alpha-Substitution Reactions 352 11.3 Alpha Halogenation of Aldehydes and Ketones 353 11.4 Acidity of Alpha Hydrogen Atoms: Enolate Ion Formation 355 11.5 Reactivity of Enolate Ions 358 11.6 Alkylation of Enolate Ions 359 11.7 Carbonyl Condensation Reactions 362 11.8 Condensations of Aldehydes and Ketones: The Aldol Reaction 362 11.9 Dehydration of Aldol Products: Synthesis of Enones 364 11.10 Condensations of Esters: The Claisen Condensation Reaction 366 11.11 Biological Carbonyl Reactions 368 12 Amines 379 12.1 Naming Amines 380 12.2 Structure and Properties of Amines 383 12.3 Basicity of Amines 383 12.4 Synthesis of Amines 386 12.5 Reactions of Amines 392 12.6 Heterocyclic Amines 393 12.7 Alkaloids: Naturally Occurring Amines 397 13 Structure Determination 406 13.1 Infrared Spectroscopy and the Electromagnetic Spectrum 407 13.2 Infrared Spectroscopy of Organic Molecules 410 13.3 Ultraviolet Spectroscopy 415 13.4 Interpreting Ultraviolet Spectra: The Effect of Conjugation 416 13.5 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 418 13.6 The Nature of NMR Absorptions 419 13.7 Chemical Shifts 422 13.8 Chemical Shifts in [superscript 1]H NMR Spectra 423 13.9 Integration of [superscript 1]H NMR Spectra: Proton Counting 425 13.10 Spin--Spin Splitting in [superscript 1]H NMR Spectra 426 13.11 Uses of [superscript 1]H NMR Spectra 430 13.12 [superscript 13]C NMR Spectroscopy 430 14 Biomolecules: Carbohydrates 441 14.1 Classification of Carbohydrates 442 14.2 Configurations of Monosaccharides: Fischer Projections 444 14.3 D,L Sugars 446 14.4 Configurations of Aldoses 448 14.5 Cyclic Structures of Monosaccharides: Hemiacetal Formation 450 14.6 Monosaccharide Anomers: Mutarotation 452 14.7 Reactions of Monosaccharides 454 14.9 Polysaccharides 460 14.10 Other Important Carbohydrates 463 14.11 Cell-Surface Carbohydrates and Carbohydrate Vaccines 463 15 Biomolecules: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins 472 15.1 Structures of Amino Acids 473 15.2 Isoelectric Points 478 15.3 Peptides and Proteins 481 15.4 Covalent Bonding in Peptides 482 15.5 Peptide Structure Determination: Amino Acid Analysis 484 15.6 Peptide Sequencing: The Edman Degradation 484 15.7 Peptide Synthesis 487 15.8 Classification of Proteins 490 15.9 Protein Structure 491 15.10 Enzymes 494 15.11 How Do Enzymes Work? Citrate Synthase 497 16 Biomolecules: Lipids and Nucleic Acids 507 16.1 Lipids 508 16.2 Fats and Oils 508 16.3 Soaps 511 16.4 Phospholipids 513 16.5 Steroids 515 16.6 Nucleic Acids and Nucleotides 517 16.7 Structure of DNA 520 16.8 Base Pairing in DNA: The Watson--Crick Model 521 16.9 Nucleic Acids and Heredity 524 16.10 Replication of DNA 524 16.11 Structure and Synthesis of RNA: Transcription 526 16.12 RNA and Protein Biosynthesis: Translation 527 16.13 Sequencing DNA 530 16.14 The Polymerase Chain Reaction 532 17 The Organic Chemistry of Metabolic Pathways 540 17.1 An Overview of Metabolism and Biochemical Energy 541 17.2 Catabolism of Fats: [beta]-Oxidation Pathway 544 17.3 Catabolism of Carbohydrates: Glycolysis 549 17.4 The Citric Acid Cycle 554 17.5 Catabolism of Proteins: Transamination 557 17.6 The Organic Chemistry of Metabolic Pathways: A Summary 559 Appendixes A Nomenclature of Polyfunctional Organic Compounds 1 B Glossary 8 C Answers to Selected In-Chapter Problems 18 Index 1
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Small Shen is the amazing story of Gold -- a stone spirit and a chronic troublemaker in the court of the great Gods of Chinese mythology.
A mix of Kylie Chan's brilliant storytelling and Queenie Chan's beautiful illustrations,Small Shen is a fantastic treat for fans of White Tiger. Readers will be thrilled to discover the events leading up to John Chen and Emma Donahoe's story in this wonderful prequel.
Shown through Queenie Chan's stunning illustrations and comics, the story follows the stone spirit Gold's entertaining adventures throughout history. His escapades include seducing a dragon princess, attempting to steal one of the Tiger's wives, making bets with demons, and working for the Blue Dragon of the East.
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Jan. 19, 2012 -- Teens who have babies without meaning to often don't use birth control because they think they can't get pregnant, according to a CDC survey.
Half the teenage moms with unplanned pregnancies who responded to the survey said they weren't using contraceptives when their babies were conceived.
About a third of those who had unprotected sex mistakenly believed they could not get pregnant at the time.
The CDC analysis, which appears in the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report(MMWR), is among the first to focus on teen moms who had unplanned pregnancies.
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While fewer teens overall are having babies in the United States, the teen birth rate is still among the highest of any developed country. In 2009, close to 400,000 teens in the U.S. gave birth, the CDC says.
Teen mothers are more likely than other teenage girls to drop out of school and live below the poverty line, and their daughters are more likely to become teen mothers themselves.
It was not clear why the 31% of teen moms who did not use birth control mistakenly thought they could not get pregnant or why 22% said they did not really mind getting pregnant, even though it was not their intent.
"This was beyond the scope of the study, but it is an indication of ambivalence about this issue, which is a big problem in general," Gavin says, adding that sex education efforts should stress motivating young girls to want to avoid pregnancy.
Lawrence Finer, PhD, of the reproductive health research and policy organization Guttmacher Institute, says it is clear from the survey that misperceptions about fertility are common.
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Finer says there has been a decline in the number of programs providing comprehensive education about sexuality in recent years.
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Brendan Rodgers believes his Liverpool side are reaching milestones on the road to success and described himself as 'quietly pleased' with what the Reds have achieved so far this season.
The Northern Irishman guided his team to three victories in eight days last week - a run of results which ensured Liverpool qualified for the knockout stages of the Europa League and reduced the gap to fourth place in the Barclays Premier League to four points.
Rodgers insisted his squad will not rest on their laurels, though, and the boss is confident that his methods will help the Reds continue to progress during the second half of the campaign.
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"That's a big credit to the players - they have been absolutely fantastic. They have kept going through the early stages, which were difficult because we're trying to form something here and that's never easy.
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A 1-0 victory over Udinese in Italy last Thursday extended the side's European journey into 2013 and preceded a comeback triumph against West Ham in the league on Sunday - results which the boss feels were landmarks.
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"I'm pleased with how it's evolving - we're a long way off where I want us to be, of course, but we've shown we're making good progress.
"By all accounts, Liverpool have had a disastrous start, but we're four points off the top four and if we had a little bit more luck we actually could be in there now. The great encouragement is - we're only going to get better."
Fixtures come thick and fast throughout Christmas, with the Reds preparing for five league encounters within the next three weeks, and the boss has called for a strong conclusion to the calendar year.
"I hope that we finish this year strongly. 2012 has been an emotional year for the football club - we want to finish it on a high," reflected the 39-year-old.
"We can then go into the next six months and push on, because that's when you take care of business and in particular the last 10 games.
"If we can arrive in January in and around that top four then we can really put our foot to the floor, when the confidence will be improved even more and players will be aligned with what we're trying to achieve. I believe we can have a good second half of the season."
In the short term, focus is solely on the visit of Aston Villa on Saturday, and Rodgers also provided an injury update - with in-form full-back Jose Enrique the only doubt for the weekend.
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"Apart from that, our condition has been excellent and it's great credit to how the players have prepared themselves.
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CIRCLEVILLE, OH - Ohio Christian hosted the defending regional champions from Grayson, Kentucky on Saturday afternoon as part of the OCU homecoming festivities.
Women's Soccer Edges Out Johnson University 3-2
CIRCLEVILLE, OH - The Ohio Christian women took on Mid-East Region rival, Johnson University on Saturday in a home soccer match.
Late Rally Not Enough in 4-2 Loss to OMW
CIRCLEVILLE, OH - Ohio Christian outplayed Ohio Mid-Western for 84 minutes on Thursday night, and outscored the Rams 2-1 during that stretch.
Women's Soccer Loses 5-0 vs Shawnee State
CIRCLEVILLE, OH - The Lady Blazers hosted NAIA affiliate, Shawnee State on Wednesday night and came up on the losing end of a 5-0 score.
Katelyn Danner Hat Trick Fuels 4-1 Win Over Grace
CIRCLEVILLE, OH - Freshman Katelyn Danner was on a mission Friday night as she provided the offensive spark that helped lead OCU to a 4-1 win over Grace Bible College from Michigan.
Men's and Women's Soccer Ranked in the NCCAA Top Ten
GREENVILLE, SC - The NCCAA has announced the first Top Ten National Poll of the regular season for Fall Sports. OCU Men's soccer placed 4th in the poll and women's soccer tied for 8th.
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CIRCLEVILLE, OH - Ohio Christian University Fall athletes will begin training on August 13th as they prepare to get ready for their 2012 seasons.
OCU Senior Kim Uetrecht Joins NTC Soccer Squad
CIRCLEVILLE, OH - OCU senior captain Kim Uetrecht is spending her summer on the NTC Phoenix women's soccer team.
Women's Soccer Announces 2012 Season Schedule
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Detroit Tigers vs. Texas Rangers - Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Learn about how weather effects and influences the game of baseball! This event features a pre-game on-field presentation by FOX-2 Chief Meteorologist, Rich Luterman that will be interactive, informative and fun! This event is designed for children in middle school and includes experiments, trivia, weather history, games and much more.
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Exclusive for Weather Day participants and group leaders: Comerica Park gates will open at 10:00 a.m. and will close at 10:40 a.m. Please enter the ballpark at GATE B (located on the corner of Adams and Witherell) Participants arriving after 10:40 a.m. will not be allowed into the ballpark until after the gates open for the general public. Once inside, all participants will be directed by Detroit Tigers staff to the Weather Day presentation area.
The Weather Day workshop will start promptly at 10:45 a.m. and last until 11:30 a.m.
Rich Luterman is the Chief Meteorologist at WJBK FOX 2. He appears on FOX 2 News at 5, 6 and 10pm. He joined the station in June of 1997.
The Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored Luterman in 2001 with the Science and Environment Emmy for the FOX 2 Xtra show on severe weather.
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He earned a master's degree in business administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, as well as a bachelor of science degree in meteorology from Penn State. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant through the Air Force ROTC.
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The Carolinas Bearded Collie Club (CBCC), a regional club of the Bearded Collie Club of America (BCCA), has initiated and designated a Rescue Committee to provide rescue service within the region served by the Carolinas Bearded Collie Club. The purpose of CBCC's rescue program is to prevent the suffering of lost, abandoned or unwanted Bearded Collies and, whenever possible, place them in good homes. CBCC's Rescue Committee works within the guidelines of the Bearded Collie Club of America's Rescue Committee.
We are dedicated to preserving the lives, health and welfare of Bearded Collies. Our organization covers the states of North and South Carolina, however we will assist any Bearded Collie that is in need.
We will accept any purebred Bearded Collie regardless of age or physical condition.
Any purebred Bearded Collie that is legally turned over to us is immediately taken to one of our participating veterinarians for a complete health check, vaccinations, if needed, and is spayed/neutered. The Beardie is then placed into one of our foster homes for an undetermined length of time (depending on its condition) for a complete evaluation and, if necessary, retraining, rehabilitation and restoration of health. The Beardie will be kept in foster care as long as necessary to prepare it for entry into its new and permanent home. Due to the care and consideration we take in placing the "rescued" Beardie, our success rate is approximately 95%.
When the Beardie is placed with its new family, a member of our committee will be in constant contact with the new family to encourage and help with any adjustments. A $150 fee is required upon adoption to help defray the actual expenses incurred by the committee for transporting, boarding, and providing medical care for the Beardie.
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In her 12th year teaching at Brightwood, Kalpana Kumar Sharma finds joy and happiness in working to shape the young minds in her classroom. She says that her mother's ability "to guide, support, and inspire people to live a happy life made me aspire to bring these things to my students." She differentiates her lessons to reach her students where they are, and engages them in hands-on activities. Capturing the key to their success, Ms. Kumar explains, "My positive attitude and sense of humor always encourages my students to try their best without any fear of failure. I create an environment where they feel safe and respected."
Ms. Kumar has volunteered to serve DCPS and her school community as a grade level chair, member of the school Equity Committee, Teacher Selection Ambassador, LIFT Ambassador, Teaching In Action Consulting Teacher, and member of the Chancellor's Teachers' Cabinet. She was also recognized with the Wolf Trap Best Teacher Award for two consecutive years in 2004 and 2005. Her biggest reward, though, is "the great energy, curiosity, and excitement I see in my students each day," Ms. Kumar says. "Teaching gives me the power to help a student realize his or her innate potential." Ms. Kumar has been rated Highly Effective in all four years of IMPACT evaluations.


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Tag Archives: children's clothes
March 29, 2011
Celebrate Spring with Spanish Nouveau
Our latest Spring Collection video is finished! Come share in our celebration of Spring, with our latest girls' clothes and boys' clothes.
March 17, 2011
Spring Break Must-Haves
With the clocks turned ahead, it's starting to feel a lot like spring. And for those of you taking a spring break (or just thinking or wishing for warmer weather), we've put together our favorite must-have looks for girls and boys.
Spring Break Must-Haves for Girls:
from left: We have our butterfly-adorned Mariposa Top, paired with our classic Paperbag Shorts. The Marisol Hoodie is a perfect warm layer for windy evenings on the beach, over the Racerback Stripe Tank in asparagus green, and comfy French Terry Shorts. The Songbird Banded Dress can be dressed up or down, and the Citron Flora Playdress encourages adventures anywhere, anytime. Pair anything and everything with our brightly-colored Espadrilles and you're ready to go!
from left: Our Goril Graphic Tee gives strength for all expeditions, and the Cut Off Cord Shorts and Sidewalk Surfers in Dark Brown or Grey are a perfect match. Mix and match outfits with our Tortuga and Barcelona Tees over Long Cargo Shorts. Instead of traditional layers, roll up and down when the weather changes with our Slub Polo and Painter Roll Up Pants.
Check back with us in a month or so and we'll have lots more summery clothes from our new Costa Brava collection to add to the list. Summer at Tea will be all about maritime style with a vintage vibe, made modern. Until then, happy spring travels!
Speaking of a closely-related Tea Family…
Here's a picture of Emily, our co-founder and chief creative officer with her daughter Georgia James. Georgia came into the office for a visit not long ago and we just had to capture the moment. We think Em and Georgia look resplendent and warm in their Tea clothes! By the way, Emily's wearing the Mila Sweater and the Modernista Tee in Medium Heather Grey.
We'll be sure and post more pics of Tea people (and their kids) in Tea. And as always please feel free share your own pics here or on Facebook. Happy Tuesday!
February 25, 2011
Tea's Stylista Project
A couple of months ago we heard a story about one of our former models, a girl named Francesca. Francesca, we were told, has an avid interest in fashion–watching shows like Project Runway and What Not to Wear, devouring fashion magazines and constantly playing games of dress-up with her friends.
The stories of this little fashionista inspired us at Tea, and we decided to invite her to our studios for a photoshoot. How would a 9 year old style and fashion our line of clothes? We set up racks of our clothing, laid out accessories from previous photo shoots, and gave her free rein to design, style, and model her own outfits.
The result was a fun and energetic photoshoot, which gave us a whole new perspective on how Tea could be styled. Above: Francesca models our Fall 2010 Cord Cargo Pants, a Spring 2011 top (stay posted! coming out soon), Sanuk flip flops, and her grandfather's cap. Below: She wears this season's Painters Plaid Tunic, Fall 2010's Stretch Slim Cord Pant, and Sidewalk Surfer Shoes.
The whole experience was so much fun, that we thought we'd bring the challenge to you!
Official Rules and Regulations, as well as a list of Participating stores can be found here.
January 25, 2011
A New Twist on Tea
We're always looking for new ways to style Tea. This season a few of Tea's employees found inspiration in some of our Catalonia-inspired kid's items, and found a whole new style for these pieces:
Michelle (above), who works in Graphic Design for Tea, is rocking the girl's Picasso Bowtie Shirt in size 12. The shirt ran a little short, so she layered an H&M camisole underneath. Jeans are by RVCA, Cardigan is Madewell.
Isabelle (above) does Product Development for Tea, and is sporting the boy's Picasso Stripe Sweater in size 12. Her scarf is from Nordstrom, and her short boots are by Rachel Comey.
What's your favorite way to style Tea?
January 12, 2011
Be Prepared for Art-Making!
1.) Indigo Stripe Tee 2.) To Be an Artist 3.) Painters Overalls 4.) Bandana Set 5.) El Artista Shirt 6.) Paint Splattered Jeans
There's nothing like dressing for the part in comfy and casual Tea clothes when making and creating. This season we're celebrating everyone's inner artist. We compiled some of our favorite art-inspired and art-friendly pieces above to get you started.
As for art projects, the sky is the limit! We listed some of our favorite kid-friendly DIY projects below.
Garden Projects
Potted Plants and Chalkboard Paint
For a quick art fix, print out our Coloring Book Pages of Tea Collection graphics!
December 22, 2010
Semi-Annual Sale Begins Today!
Our Semi-Annual Sale begins today with up to 50% off seasonal favorites! Shop now online: http://www.teacollection.com/clothing-sale
Also, save an additional 10% on already reduced sale prices when you shop in participating stores! A comprehensive list of the participating stores can be found below.
Be sure to print out the following image and present it to a participating store to receive the additional 10% discount. Offer is good until January 2, 2010.
Retailers Participating in the Additional 10% Off Promotion:Baby Bliss 6721 Snider Plaza Dallas, TX 75025 (469) 759-7831 Bambini of Bend 1052 NW Newport Ave. Suite 102 Bend, OR 97701 (541) 385-1806 Bambini's World 22 South Main St
Doylestown, PA 18901
(215) 230-4572 Bella Boo
(717) 509-5700 Busy Bees 1544 Laskin Road #216 Virginia Beach, VA 23451 (757) 425-2337 Cassis 819 W. Idaho St. Boise, ID 83702 (208) 345-5501 City Sprouts 6303 Delmar Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63130 (314) 726-9611 Clothes Pony 111 North College Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80524 (970) 224-2866 Crackerjacks 4009 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611 (510) 654-8844 Cupcake 641 4th Street Santa Rosa, CA 95404 (707) 579-2165 Epiphany Children's Boutique 290 West Main Street Northborough, MA 01532 (508) 393-5437 Fiddlesticks 508 Hayes Street San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 565-0508 Gaga Chic 712 West Shaw Suite B Fresno, CA 93704 (559) 226-0462 Itty Bitty 307 West 8th Street Columbia, TN 38401 (931) 380-5434 Jumping Jellyfish 107 S. Fair Oaks Ave Suite 107 Pasadena, CA 91105 (626) 578-1838 Kairos 533 Main Street Grand Junction, CO 81501 (970) 241-0460 Lil' Lamb Shop 167 Jennifer Road Suite Q Annapolis, MD 21401 (410) 266-3303 Mako the Children's Shop 732 NW 23rd Ave Portland, Oregon 97210 (503) 274-9081 MamaBaby 4029 Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard Portland, OR 97214 (503) 233-8130 Maya Papaya & Tony Macarony Children's Boutique 1917 Central Street Evanston, IL 60201 (847) 866-6292 Milk and Honey Kids 3303 Bath Pike Bethlehem, PA 18017 (484) 821-1399 Mulberry Road 46 Gloucester St, Boston, MA 02115 (617) 859-5861 Nurture 433 Massachusetts Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46204 (317) 423-1234 O Child 101 W. Kirkwood Suite 108 Bloomington, IN 47404 (812) 334-9005 Over the Moon 38 W Main Street Avon, CT 06001 (860) 676-9599 Petit Armoire 156 E. Main Street Spartanburg, SC 29306 (864) 585.3222 Posh Boutique 809 NW 11th Ave. Portland, OR 97209 (503) 478-7674 Pout Baby Boutique 4325 13th Ave S # 6 Fargo, ND 58103 (701) 356-7688 Preggers 900 N. Michigan #L5-21 Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 943-6262 Rocky Mountain Kids 2525 Arapahoe Ave #H12A Boulder, CO 80302 (303) 447-2267 Seal & Co. 410 Springfield Avenue Summit, NJ 07901 (908) 277-1777 Shima 105 Main Street, North Adams, MA 01247 (413) 346-1055 Small Frys 3022 Birney Ave Scranton, PA 18505 (570) 344-6565 Style Child 1070 University Ave San Diego, CA 92103 (619) 220-0480 Sweetbriar Fair 443 Highland Ave Augusta, GA 30909 (706) 738-8386 The Kid's Court 1724 E Battlefield St Springfield MO 65804 (417) 889-4427 The Lollipop Shop 4357 Forsyth Road Suite 160 Macon, GA 31210 (478) 475-0609 The Lolly Garden 2046 Utica Square Tulsa, OK 74114 (918) 742-6300 The Nest Denver 2808 East 6th Avenue Denver, CO 80206 (720) 287-1372 The Picket Fence 1108 Carter Street Vidalia, LA, 71373 (318) 336-7155 Tiny Toes 4 N. Main Street Bel Air, MD 21014 (410) 420-6727 Tulips 5817 Kavanaugh Boulevard Little Rock, AR 72207 (501) 614-7343 Wild Child 5 Medford St. Arlington, MA 02474 (781) 483-3566 A Woman's Work 2401 Rice Blvd. Houston, TX 77005 (713) 524-3700 Y & Z Kids 711 W Hillgrove Ave La Grange, IL 60525 (708) 579-1507
December 20, 2010
Picasso and his Stripes
Welcome to Catalonia, Spain! We are so excited to share our discoveries of this unique region of the world with you, and what inspired us to create our new collection.
"Viva el Artista" is the name we gave the first delivery of clothing for this season, which is greatly influenced by the abstract and artistic beauty of Barcelona. Inspired by the architecture and buzz of the city, our designers also found themselves being drawn in again and again to the work of one of Barcelona's most famous residents – Pablo Picasso.
This season we have several items that reference not only to his work, but also his fashion sense. Picasso was known for his love of striped shirts, as some of the most famous images of him prove:
This style of stripes, either in black and white or navy blue and white, are a timeless icon, often associated not just with Picasso but with 1960s fashion across Europe.
We have two pieces this season that reference Picasso's stripes – a comfy knit sweater for boys, and a chic and playful tunic for girls. And ladies if you like stripes, keep an eye out for our brand new Catalonia-inspired women's items that will be premiering soon….
You'll be seeing and hearing a lot more about Picasso this season, and how his work has influenced different pieces in this line. We look forward to sharing this exciting new destination with you. Stay posted!
November 24, 2010
Our Latest Manhole Cover Inspiration
At Tea we love coming across interesting manhole covers while on our travels. Many of our circular designs on our boy's clothes originate from manhole covers we've discovered on our journeys, such as as our Nanaos Dragon Pullover, which we blogged about here. Our latest inspiration from manhole covers came from the manhole image on the left, which we used on our Side Stripe Pants.
For more manhole covers in Budapest check out some photos here.


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FCW Arena Report – 01/28/2010
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- Donnie Marlow pinned Darren Young (with Percy Watson) with an assist from the Usos
- Tyler Reks pinned Johnny Prime using leverage from his feet on the ropes
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Cooper Elementary School Students Enjoy Bedtime Books Event
Cooper Elementary School staff hosted their 14th annual Bedtime Books event - an evening of fun and family literacy.
Kindergarten through third grade students, parents, and grandparents enjoyed milk and cookies while Cooper School Principal, Larry Brahan, welcomed guests and introduced the evening's guest speaker Don Pilon, a retired and beloved Sheboygan Area School District Staff Member. Mr. Pilon read two special stories to the guests before they rotated among classrooms to listen to additional bedtime stories read by Cooper staff members. The pajama-clad students carried pillows, blankets and stuffed animals as they celebrated literacy.
Fourth and fifth grade students also enjoyed a specially designed night of literacy. Students strapped on their tennis shoes as they rotated to four different stations for a variety of literacy games and activities created by Lakeland College students under the direction and with assistance from Kevin Herber, Cooper School's Physical Education teacher. The fourth and fifth graders concluded their night of literacy by enjoying cookies and milk before heading home for the evening.
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Issues, you reported were fixed
Hi, folks. And thank you for reporting issues with WpfPerf Performance Profiling tool. Now it was fixed, so, download and use new and fixed version.
Keep reporting, as you can see, you have the power to change!
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October 10th, 2008 · Comments (3)
For all those, who have problems with running WPF Performance Profiling tool – Microsoft cares
Three days ago, I announced the new release of WPF Performance Profiling Tool. A couple hours after this was announced, I got a number of comments from you, readers. It was about issues with running this tool. I checked the issue and forwarded it to development team from Microsoft. The problem was in bad parsing of comma and point characters in this tool, when using it on non-US locale. Dev team took care about it and hopefully they will provide a fix soon.
Thank you for reading my blog, reporting and your awareness of such issues. This is very important to me and I'm really appreciate your efforts to help us to develop WPF community.
I'll update you as soon as the patch will be available.
Thank you and Shana Tova!
September 28th, 2008 · Comments (3)
The new version of WPF Performance Profiling Tool is available for download
Finally, after a long time of silence, the new version of WPF Performance Profiling Tool is available for download for x32 and x64 OSs. So, what's new there?
Ton of UI improvements for Visual Profiler
New search function to quick find elements in visual tree
Hot path (critical path) of CPU usage aside with CPU usage for single element
Configuration of tint for overlay windows
Live preview, ability to split columns, slider of graph duration, expanders to have cleaner screen and much much more
Perforator also got new UI and has history now.
There is new tool, named String allocation profiler
This tool is very useful for viewing and managing strings inside your application (another step toward normal localization support for WPF? Probably)
There are also some improvements in Event tracing tool. Select process for example
And much much more. Great thank to Josef and his team for this great work
Download the new version of WPF Performance Profiling Tool >>
September 25th, 2008 · Comments (11)
A little bit about batteries
I tired to write about programming, code and similar nerd stuff. So today I'll write about … batteries. How is it?
Today, batteries are in use all over our life. We have a battery in our mobile phone, computer, camera, mp3 player, even microwave, alarm and hand clock. So, the main problem with batteries, scientists all over the world work about is how to extend the working and life time. Let's try to understand how to know whether the battery is good for us.
How to measure batteries
The number, can tell us whether the battery will work longer for us is charge (or actual). We measure charge in Ampere/hours (Ah). One ampere-hour is equals to 3600 coulombs (ampere-seconds) and represents an amount of charge, transferred by a steady current of one ampere for one hour. As higher this number is, your battery will work longer for the same consumer.
What does "steady current" means?
Steady current is the power in watts, associated with an amount of electricity, named voltage (V). So, constant voltage, associated with one Ah produces the power of the battery in Watts per hour (Wh). So, why we cannot measure batteries in Wh? The problem is, that the power vary during charge and discharge process. So, the exact energy is the integral over time of the instantaneous voltage time and the current. Calculation of those three parameters is simple:
Today's battery contains large number of elements (cells) with different fillings. As higher the number of elements, this your battery will work longer. Total work time may vary because of different parameters: charging methods, temperature, the way we're charging it, number of charge-discharge cycles, etc.
Types of batteries
There are various batteries, however the most famous are following:
Li-ION (lithium-ion): Number of charge-discharge cycles is between 500 and 700. The number of it depends on the depth of discharge. As more the battery discharged, this less number of cycles the battery will provide. It necessary to make a number of cycles for 14-16 hours until the battery will provide its nominal capacity. Each cycle the battery's current will be increased until the nominal.
Pros: Good energy to weight ration – the battery rather small in compare to the current because of their high energy density.
No memory effect (no loss of maximum energy capacity on repeatedly recharge after partial discharge)
Slow loss of charge when not in use
Cons: Those batteries might explode under certain conditions.
Energy loss starts directly after first charge, thus don't buy this battery if you need spare battery and will not use it directly after purchase.
NiCd (Nickel-Cadmium): Number or charge-discharge cycles is between 1000-1500. This number might increase if you're using the battery properly. However, you need to "train" this battery to assure maximum performance.
Pros: Tolerate to deep discharge for long period.
High energy density
Low self-discharge rate – about 20%/month
Cons: Cadmium is toxic material
Memory effect – wrong usage pattern may cause to "false bottom" effect. The battery will stop charging, before the total capacity gathered.
Negative temperature coefficient – As the cell temperature rose, the internal resistance fell.
NiMH (Nickel-metal hydride): Number of charge-discharge cycles is under 1000 and depends on depth of discharging. Those batteries are very similar to NiCd, however those batteries can have two or three times the capacity of an equivalent size NiCd, but discharge rate is also higher.
Pros: Less toxic, price effective and have higher capacity then NiCd
Memory effect
Cons: High self discharge rate
High application discharge rate
Voltage drop near as it nears full discharge
Li-Pol (Lithium-polymer): Number of charge-discharge cycles is very low 100-150 and depends on depth of discharging. Newer Li-Pol batteries has higher cycle durability, however they are still expensive. This is successor of Li-ION batteries.
Pros: Energy density is over 20% higher, then that of Li-ION.
High charge rate, about 1-3 minutes for cell
Greater life cycle degradation rate in comparison to Li-ION
Very efficient current per size ration
Non explosive
Cons: High cost
Low charge-discharge rate
Bottom line
Today, most of batteries are Li-ION, in spite of the fact, that it has high life cycle degradation rate. This is about two years by now for general user. Also, those batteries degrades, even when not in use inside devices. You cannot leave uncharged battery unattended, because of the fact, that recharge may become impossible if the current drops under certain level. Also, those batteries are sensitive to temperature changes. On very low or high temperature the current degrades.
Ni-Cad batteries provides the most optimal life cycle degradation rate, however it very sensitive to the way, you're using it. The ideal pattern for such batteries is "full charge – full discharge – full charge", else you'll suffer from the "memory effect", I spoke earlier.
As you already understand, there is a wide range of battery types, so chargers are also different for those types of batteries. So, how to know if the charger we have is good for me and what to choose.
The best charger for your battery is the one, you got with the device. It tuned for the battery you have. But can we use 3rd party chargers? The answer is: yes, we can, however it's very important to understand, that if you have Li-ION battery and slow charger, you might be unable to charge it, even if you'll put it in forever.
Slow chargers works with current equals to about 1/10 of nominal battery current, thus it will take about 10-12 hours to full recharge cycle. Quick chargers uses 1/2-1 of nominal battery current, so recharge cycle can take between 1 to 3 hours.
In both cases, do not leave NiCd and NiMH batteries in charger for a long time after the end of charging process. Even after the end of charge, those batteries keep charging, thus the quality will degrade. The story is different for Li-ION and Li-Pol batteries, those types of batteries are indifferent for overcharging. They usually have controllers to stop charging process after full recharge.
Car chargers are not very healthy devices to charge batteries. Each time you're turn your car on, it initiate new charge cycle, thus the quality of battery will degrade.
How to prolong battery life time?
Let's assume, that most of devices have Li-ION battery. Once, you got a new device do not start using it with minimal capacity, also do not want to full discharge. Recharge it number of times until the capacity will be equal to almost equal to the nominal power.
Also, switch your device to turn into idle mode after reasonable amount of time. It's better, if it possible to switch or hibernate the device, rather then turn it into idle. Turn off all unused modules (such as GPS, Wi-Fi, Blootooth for mobile phones). Large number of concurrently running processes are also degrade the power quickly, so you can use Vista Battery Saver to decrease this number in Windows Vista. In PDAs, almost all plugins for battery level and processes performance measurement usually only use the battery, rather then provide usable information. If you can, turn GPRS in your mobile phones and use only GSM, this might save about 30% of energy without QoS degradation. Also, in places without coverage mobile phones increase the level of signal, so decrease the time, you can use the device.
If during the charging process, the temperature of battery exceeds 60C (140F), stop charging immediately and recycle the charger. If the battery become swollen, recycle the battery. If Ni-MH battery discharges very quick, it's possible to restore it, however restore is impossible for Li-ION batteries. If you're feeling, that the capacity of Ni-MH battery degrades, you can calibrate it. Never train Li-ION batteries, the quality will degrade.
Do not store your battery empty. Charge it unto 40%-50% of nominal capacity and store in 15C (60F) in fridge. Also it worth to recharge unused batteries once a half-year. However, the best you can do is to use battery. This what it designed for.
September 19th, 2008 · Comments (11)
Developers academy 3 – vote your choice
If you're "in" WPF and/or Silverlight development and want to learn more about high performance programming in WPF or your ability to develop once for WPF and Silverlight, you're invited to vote for my session in Dev Academy 3 and attend it:
- High performance programming with WPF in .NET framework 3.5 SP1
.NET 3.5 SP1 (Arrowhead) brings you full power of WPF by taking into account huge performance enhancements for Line-Of-Business by using data virtualization and high graphical applications by access to DirectX surfaces. This session will round up all new features to Arrowhead
- Unified development experience with Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight 2.0
Two years ago, Microsoft introduced Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to provide a unified platform for Rich Windows Client Applications development. A year later Silverlight was introduced as similar platform for Rich Internet Applications. Is it possible to use XAML based approach to share and reuse code for both frameworks? In this session we will learn how to develop reusable code base for productive, usable and well branded Client and Internet applications to wider distribution, demanded today.
Also, you can advice another session, you might be interested in via comments in this post
Thank you and see you there…
September 8th, 2008 · Comments (2)
WPF DataGrid CTP is here. It's also open source!
Huge amount of people asked me about DataGrid control in WPF. There are some 3rd parties providing this control for free and not, However, I always adviced them to wait until Microsoft will release it with (or after) Arrowhead. So here comes the King. Some boys and girls from MS WPF dev team have OS initiative and released WPF toolkit. It's absolutely free and includes all sources. Also it renewed with WPF DataGrid CTP and other tasty Futures inside with full source aside.
Microsoft goes open source? It does!
Download latest WPF toolkit >>
August 11th, 2008 · Comments (4)
.NET 3.5 SP1 is RTM and available for download
For all those who asked, .NET 3.5 SP1 is final and available for download. What's inside?
- ASP.NET Dynamic data
- Core improvements for CLR
- A lot of performance improvements in WPF
- ClickOnce enhancements
- ADO.NET with Data Services and Entity Framework
- LINQ2SQL and Data Provider for SQL Server 2008, that was released last week
- WCF with easier DataContract serialization
Download it with Web Installation or as Full Package
For more information, please see Read Me and KB about .NET 3.5 SP1 RTM. If you faced with any issue, please provide us with feedback via MS Connect
August 10th, 2008 · Comments (3)
Mastering Images in WPF
If you are "in" WPF imaging, you, definitely, should read this post of Dwayne Need (who is SDM of WPF in Microsoft) about customizing BitmapSource. A ton of information about how to make Bitmap Source for your needs, what WIC is and how to use it. Also he has a lot of samples in CodePlex. Great work, Dwayne.
June 21st, 2008 · Comments (4)
HLSL (Pixel shader) effects tutorial
Recently, I already wrote about PixelShader effects, introduced in .NET framework 3.5 SP1 (WPF). However it looks like for most people this syntax is still hard to understand. Today we'll try to lean it more. In order to do this, I wrote small program, that helps you to write and debug pixel shader effects quickly. This how it looks like
Hit Open to load image, Write your code and hit Execute to compile and apply bitmap dx effect to the image. Let's start from very beginning. Effect, that does nothing:
sampler2D input : register(s0);
float4 main(float2 uv : TEXCOORD) : COLOR
float4 Color;
Color = tex2D( input , uv.xy);
return Color;
This is the results:
What was done? We got pixel. Read it color and return it as it to the shader. Let's do something more interesting.
Actually we can get float2 as coordinate, this means, that it can be spitted to uv.x and uv.y. Also color is float4 (argb), thus we can change color. Let's multiply color by 3
Color = tex2D( input , uv.xy)*3;
And the result is bright image
We also can make operations with variables.
Color = tex2D( input , uv.xy)*uv.x;
We not have to change whole color. We can also change only its part. Blue for example
Color = tex2D( input , uv.xy);
Color.b = Color.b*2;
Or execute math operations
Color = tex2D( input , uv.xy);
Color.r = Color.r*sin(uv.x*100)*2;
Color.g = Color.g*cos(uv.x*150)*2;
Color.b = Color.b*sin(uv.x*50)*2;
Color is not only thing we can operate. Actually we're sampling coordinates, so operations done with coordinates should work. Let's try to stretch image
uv.x = uv.x * 0.5;
Color = tex2D( input , uv.xy);
Why 0.5? Should not it make it smaller? Actually not, you're multiplying coordinates, so to make the image smaller, you should divide
uv.x = uv.x / 0.5;
Color = tex2D( input , uv.xy);
Some math could be fun here also
uv.y = uv.y + (sin(uv.y*100)*0.03);
Color = tex2D( input , uv.xy);
There are a ton of interesting effects you can do by using pixel shaders. Here for example color shift
Color = tex2D( input , uv);
Color.r -= tex2D( input , uv +(somevar/100)).r;
Color.g += tex2D( input , uv+ (somevar/200)).g;
Color.b -= tex2D( input , uv+ (somevar/300)).b;
Or, even cooler efects
Color -= tex2D(input , uv.xy-0.003)*2.7f;
Color += tex2D( input , uv.xy+0.003)*2.7f;
Color.rgb = (Color.r+Color.g+Color.b)/3.0f;
You can also use cases and ifs for even cooler effects
Color.rgb = (Color.r+Color.g+Color.b)/3.0f;
if (Color.r<0.2 || Color.r>0.9) Color.r = 0; else Color.r = 1.0f;
if (Color.g<0.2 || Color.g>0.9) Color.g = 0; else Color.g = 1.0f;
if (Color.b<0.2 || Color.b>0.9) Color.b = 0; else Color.b = 1.0f;
Other words, the sky is the limit.
Please note, that Pixel Shaders done in GPU only, thus it is the most efficient method to manipulate your images. Actually, you can apply effect to any UIElement, thus the sky is really the limit.
Have a nice day and be good people. Download code for this article. Notice, that you'll need DirectX SDK to compile pixel shader files and use this program
June 17th, 2008 · Comments (23)
Presenting at TechEd Developers South Africa 2008, Durban
Save the date. TechEd Developers South Africa is around the corner (August 3rd through 6th). This year it will take place in Durban, the third most populous city in South Africa.
This TechEd, there are four sessions assigned to me:
Creating Rich Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation (300)
Completely new session about how to enrich user experience, by decreasing development efforts with WPF. In order to do this, we'll try to take some application and completely recreate it, by using XAML only without any single code line.
Target audience: Developers and decide makers, who what to understand what can be done with WPF and how easy you can do it.
Understanding Reflection (400)
This is also new session for lazy developers. It's not only about what reflection is or what's new about reflection in latest frameworks (including .NET 3.5 and Silverlight), but also how to use it to make developer's life easier. We'll enter a bit into IL to understand what's going on under the hoods, but most of session is about appliance of this technology for everyday developers' tasks and challenges.
Target audience: Developers, have an experience with .NET programming
WPF Performance (400)
Session very similar to one, I had in Dev Academy 2. However this time it will focus on performance enhancements in .NET framework 3.5 SP1. I'll speak about virtualization, parallel processing, DX surface direct access and more…
Target audience: Developers, have an experience with WPF development.
Game Development Using Microsoft's Latest Technologies (300)
Fun session, I had in TechEd Israel with very complicated setup. Here the sneak preview of how it looks like. It listed as a 300 level, because the fact, that except this session's fun, you can learn a lot of new there.
Target audience: Everyone, who love technology and want to have fun hour in the morning before advanced sessions will begin.
If you're reading my blog, and you're going TechEd Africa. Come and say me hello, 'cos it would be really nice to see the faces of the people I'm writing to in this blog
More information about other sessions in this TechEd can be found in Ahmed Salijee blog, who is developer evangelist in Microsoft Africa and arranges this event.
See you there.
June 12th, 2008 · Comments (8)
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30. The Tunnel (FTV)
Investigative journalists venture into the labyrinthine system of tunnels beneath Sidney Australia, seeking a story about the homeless and the water supply, but something in the darkness finds them instead. Although done on the cheap as yet another "found footage" film/documentary, reminiscent of The Blair Witch Project, The Tunnel delivers some effective tension and scares. One mistake is the use of interviews with the crew after the fact, because this cues us as to who is going to survive, although there's still intrigue in seeing how things play out. The real star here is the setting, which are miles of quite real tunnels, which ratchets up the realism and claustrophobia considerably. It's amazing to think of these miles of old tunnels beneath the modern city, and while it's never as overt as "Midnight Meat Train", there's very much the sense that progress has come at a price which officials rightfully want to keep hidden. This is a very dark film and fans of The Descent will find much to like here, even though this is the poorer cousin of that film. Some might complain that it's hard to see what's really down there, but to me that just made it better. 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2013 Horror Movie List
FTV denotes first time viewing
1. Some Guy Who Kills People (FTV)
2. Uzumaki (FTV)
3. The Pact (2011) (FTV)
4. Midnight Son (FTV)
5. Excision (FTV)
6. Absentia (FTV)
7. Sleep Tight (FTV)
8. Lunacy (FTV)
9. Frankenstein's Army (FTV)
10. The Woman in Black (FTV)
11. Color Me Blood Red (FTV)
12. Chained (FTV)
13. Frankenweenie
14. Mum and Dad (FTV)
15. Malevolence (FTV)
17. Juan of the Dead (FTV)
18. The Awakening (FTV)
19. Blood and Black Lace (FTV)
20. Naboer (Next Door) (FTV)
21. Carrie (2013) (FTV)
22. Eye of the Devil (FTV)
23. Splinter (FTV)
24. The Shining (1980)
25. Taxidermia (FTV)
26. Poltergeist
27. Maniac (FTV)
28. Hotel Transylvania (FTV)
29. Eden Lake (FTV)
30. The Tunnel (FTV)


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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Its hard to believe it was just six months ago that Waccamaw High School students Griffin DesMarteau, Michael OTuel and Jacob OTuel and Waccamaw Middle School student Sydney Register were asking the Georgetown County School Board for permission to get a sailing team started.
The Winyah Bay Sailing Club had received a generous contribution from Charleston Community Sailing of 6 used Vanguard 420 sailboats to get them started. After donations from the Matthew Britton Family, Dr. Chris Register and Amy Jones, Dr. Ged Tiller, the Pawleys Island Rotary Club and Hazzard Marine, the team had four boats ready, rigged and a coach from Charleston hired.
More than 33 students from Waccamaw High got involved in the newest sport in the area sailing and its been full steam ahead.
The excitement has grown and the Georgetown School of Arts & Sciences will start their sailing team practices in March.
Students from both WHS and GSAS have been involved in sailing all winter participating in clinics in Charleston with the Charleston Ocean Racing Association Frostbite Race series as well as volunteering at Hazzard Marine by building four floating docks that will be used by both teams.
Along with Emily Livingston, Bob Turner and Kate Bibb, skippers from both teams will staff the Winyah Bay Sailing Club summer camp this June for students 11-16. Registration is now open to returning sailors and open to the public at www.winyahbaysailingclub.org
The Winyah Bay Sailing Club recently completed their first SAISA Regatta season at the Carolina Yacht Club in Charleston.
Skipper Griffin DesMarteau with crew Matt Staub got their personal best this season with a fourth in a hard fought race against 13 teams from North Carolina, Georgia and Charleston.
Staub has crewed in three previous regattas earned a spot as skipper and did a great job and continued to improve with each race.
Matthew OTuel crewed for both Staub and Sydney Register.
Morning delays followed by light afternoon winds made for some challenging conditions early on, but seas and winds both piped up and offered some exciting challenges.
New coach Emily Livingston was on board to provide great suggestions to the team as the conditions continued to change from the cat in the hat delay flag with no wind, to gusts up to 20 knots.
Livingston was on staff at Camp Seafarer in North Carolina and has extensive sailing and racing experiences of her own to share with the team and summer campers.
Support from the community has been overwhelmingly positive this is a very generous community and they are so happy to see kids out on the water said DesMarteau.
The Winyah Bay Sailing Club just received a Chrysler 22 sailboat that will be used to provide adult sailing lessons in the area and a 15-foot RIB center console inflatable from Tiller to help with the teams and summer camp. Earlier this year Bob Turner donated $1,000 to the club to purchase new sails.
We just need a 15HP outboard to drop from the sky and well be set, said DesMarteau.
For information about junior sailing, high school sailing and getting involved go to www.winyahbaysailingclub.org.
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EcoLink Inc. Lean Kaizen Event Case Study
National Information
Region 4 Toolkits
Contact Information
Pollution Prevention and Innovation Team
U.S. EPA Region 4
Ecolink is a 20-year-old company that designs cleaning processes and supplies cleaning products that are safer and more efficient degreasers and solvents than traditional commercial products. Ecolink's clients include manufacturers, aerospace companies, energy utilities, transportation providers, the military, and government organizations. With eight full-time employees, Ecolink occupies an 8,000 ft2 distribution warehouse and 2,000 ft2 of office space.
Ecolink's approach to designing chemicals encompasses all phases of the chemical lifecycle to prevent pollution. This niche service helps clients to adapt to chemical bans and phase-outs and reach their own sustainability goals. Ecolink is a bronze member of the Partnership for Sustainable Georgia (PSG), a state program that assists Georgia businesses in using continuous improvement tools to achieve better environmental results and a better bottom line. Ecolink worked with the PSG and EPA to undertake a Lean Kaizen event on its administrative and warehouse processes in 2009. Since discovering great savings through this event, Ecolink has also started providing "Opportunity Assessments" for Lean savings to their clients and helping provide them with their own efforts to prevent pollution and help them achieve their own sustainability goals
Problem Statement
In 2009, Ecolink moved from 45,000ft2 of shared warehouse space into its own 8,000 ft2 warehouse , bringing along 20 tractor-trailer loads of inventory. Some of these items were not even ordered by Ecolink, but had been left behind by the last company to move out of the shared warehouse. Many items had been set down wherever they would fit in the warehouse during the move, and there was little time to organize them because employees were so busy dimply keeping up with each day's work.
Ecolink was also technologically backlogged, performing many functions manually and relying on paper based communication. Caught in a complex and inefficient system, office staff sometimes forgot to charge clients for freight or entered an order twice into their system.
Project Scope: Organize the entire warehouse using 5S techniques (described below), improve the ordering process from the time a customer places an order until they have received the product and paid all fees, and improve energy and water efficiency in the building.
Project Team: Ecolink Staff
Partnership for Sustainable Georgia
- Suzanne Burnes, Assistant Director
- Diana Trettin, Program Manager
EPA Region 4
- Suganthi Simon, Pollution Prevention Coordinator
- Latoya Miller, Innovation Coordinator
Lean Works Contractor
- Danny Jones
- Reduce touches and time in the order-to-cash cycle
- Eliminate search time and extra steps in the warehouse
- Create a Visual Control System in the warehouse
- Regain confidence in the system and protect profits
- Make Ecolink more sustainable
Solutions Developed
|Ecolink's team used a combination of Value Stream Mapping and 5S to improve Ecolink's efficiency and environmental sustainability.
|Value Stream Mapping (VSM) breaks down a process into its fundamental steps and creates a visual representation of how these steps relate to one another. Once this is accomplished, it is easier for the team to pick out which steps add little or no value to the final product. With these steps eliminated, the team can plan and map a new, more efficient process. The Ecolink team used VSM to optimize several office processes.
|Ecolink used 5S, a process for making a workspace more efficient and productive, to organize its warehouse. The 5 S's stand for: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain.
|Substantial savings were discovered as a result of the Ecolink Lean Event. Now an advocate for Lean, Chief Operating Officer Brandon Pelissero said, "It's not just Pollution Prevention. It's Profit Protection."
|Ecolink made the following changes because of the Lean event:
|Accounting Software Optimization
|Energy Management
|Solid Waste Reduction
Annual Savings
Contact Information
Brandon Pelissero, COO
Twitter: @EcolinkInc
Suganthi Simon
Pollution Prevention Coordinator
U.S. EPA, Region 4


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Serious Reads: 'Ravenous,' by Dayna Macy
Most of us serious eaters have a strong passion for food. But a love for food doesn't always manifest itself in healthy ways. As writer Dayna Macy recounts in her memoir, Ravenous: A Food Lover's Journey from Obsession to Freedom, eating can easily become inextricably linked with seeking comfort, or respite from difficult emotions. Macy brings us into her struggle with overeating through the lens of childhood memories, and incorporates interesting coping mechanisms to attempt to achieve healthy habits. More


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Tags chill, instrumental, nu disco, hip hop, electronic
Artists 仲野順也, Masashi Hamauzu, Tycho
March 24, 2012
Art by sakimichan@deviantART.
Awesome mix thank you!
another face by heartofgold
love, indie pop, indie rock
never felt so wicked... by heartofgold
duffy, amy winehouse, banks, rilo kiley
misadventures of us by heartofgold
We were caught up and lost in all of our vices.
folk rock, indie pop, alternative, love
global astroliner by heartofgold
space, instrumental