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Andrea Brookover, executive director of the Fairfield Heritage Association, discusses how to date an old photograph Monday at the Georgian Museum. Brookover will lead a workshop on how to date historic family photos on Aug. 24.
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A family of six, somewhat grim-faced people gaze directly at the camera in an 8-by-10 sepia photograph that was snapped years ago at The Hill Studio on Woodland Avenue in Cleveland.
I know quite a bit about the family in this photo. The woman on the far right is Maria Morscher Poje, my great-grandmother. She immigrated to the United States with her sister and brother-in-law in 1901 when she was just 10. Her parents and baby sister had already made the trip several years prior, an interesting revelation I uncovered during one of many late-night genealogy research sessions.
I know the Morscher family, like most Gottscheers or people who came from what is today the south central part of Slovenia, settled in Cleveland. I know when each member of the family married, where they lived, how many children they had and when they died.
But until recently, I had no idea when this treasured family photo of them was taken.
It's a problem a lot of people face when they come across an old photograph, says Andrea Brookover, executive director of the Fairfield Heritage Association. There is nothing more puzzling or frustrating than coming across a fascinating photo of your ancestors, only to turn it around and discover that it lacks a date or any other identifying information.
"And if it is labeled, you can't always count on the labels on a photo to be accurate," she said.
On Aug. 24, Brookover will lead a one-day workshop on dating historic photos at the Fairfield Heritage Association, 105 E. Wheeling St., Lancaster. Residents are invited to bring several of their own, undated photos to the Who Do You Think They Were? workshop, which will give an overview of the evolution of photography and tips on what to look for when determining the age of a photo.
On Monday, Brookover offered to date my great-grandmother's family portrait for me. I brought her the original copy of the photo, which is faded and slightly water-damaged along the upper half, as well as a digitally-enhanced copy of that same image.
After looking at the clothing and hairstyles of the people in the photo and briefly comparing the image to a 1909 wedding photo of my great-grandparents, Brookover was able to date the portrait between 1915-1920, approximately two decades after the Morscher family reunited in the United States.
She said there are two main ways people can determine when a photo was taken, both of which will be discussed in-depth during the Aug. 24 workshop. First is to identify the type of material used to print the photo. The second is to study clothing and hairstyles.
"During the workshop, I'll go through a quick and dirty historical clothing timeline - we'll start in the 1840s and go through the 1950s," Brookover said. "It's more difficult to determine the time period with men's clothing than it is women's because men's clothing styles didn't change much over time."
Brookover said she also can determine the time period of a photo by studying props or simple details in the background, clues that those with an untrained eye might simply glaze over.
"Everything from the way the curtains are hung to the furniture to what the people are holding can help date a photo," she said.
This year marks the first time the Fairfield Heritage Association has conducted a workshop on dating historic photos. Brookover said she led a class on archiving old photos several months ago and thought the Who Do You Think They Were? workshop would be a good follow-up to that session.
"We want people to do it right," she said of dating old photos.
Residents who attend the workshop are asked to select only a few personal photos to bring to the class - even if do they have an entire shoebox full of undated photos. If possible, attendees also should bring digitally enhanced copies of their photos.
"Especially (if you have) a photo that is faded by light or has water damage," Brookover said.
Space for the workshop is limited and registration is required. The cost of the workshop is $8 for FHA members and $10 for non-members. To register, call the Fairfield Heritage Association at 740-654-9923 by August 23.
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Canadian Pacific Ltd. Chairman John Cleghorn said in an open letter to shareholders that the railroad company's board fully backs Chief Executive Fred Green and the entire management team, and encouraged activist investor Bill Ackman to accept CP's offer to join its board.
This relationship seems to be souring quickly.
This afternoon, hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman struck back at Canadian Pacific Railway, which earlier accused its biggest shareholder of leaking the possibility of a new CEO to the press. Now, Ackman says Canadian Pacific's pants are on fire.
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has been playing nice with Bill Ackman, the hedge-fund manager who tends to strike fear in companies in which he invests. Now, the railroad company is bashing Ackman publicly.
In a letter to Ackman released in a regulatory filing, Canadian Pacific Railway criticized Ackman for recent news reports the company blames on him. A story last week in Toronto's Globe and Mail said Pershing Square wants a railway-industry veteran, Hunter Harrison, to replace the current CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway. Ackman wasn't quoted in the story.
Bill Ackman disclosed a new stock position in hardware retailer Lowe's, according to a regulatory filing Monday.
Last week, Dealbreaker posted a presentation by Ackman outlining his bullish investment thesis on Lowe's, but it wasn't clear then how much of the company's stock Ackman owned.
According to a quarterly snapshot of investment holdings of Ackman's Pershing Square hedge fund, the firm owned about 21.2 million shares of Lowe's as of Sept. 30, or about 1.7% of the company's outstanding shares.
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman bought a 12.2% stake in Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., according to a regulatory filing Friday.
The company's stock is popping 9.9% in after-hours trading following the disclosure of Ackman's investment.
In the filing from Ackman's Pershing Square, the hedge fund said it believes Canadian Pacific Railway's shares are "undervalued and are an attractive investment."
Activist investor Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management reported bigger stakes in Family Dollar Stores and Citigroup as of June 30, according to a Monday regulatory filing.
The hedge-fund manager, who reported equities stakes worth about $6.4 billion in the document, raised his Family Dollar holdings to roughly 11.1 million shares as of the end of June, versus 10.9 million earlier in the month.
In May, Ackman said he thought Family Dollar's stock was poised for gains, with the prospect of selling to a strategic buyer. In early June, a filing showed that Ackman's own Pershing Square Capital Management had become the largest shareholder of the discount retailer.
J.C. Penney's appointment of a heir apparent CEO from Apple has been a boon to the retailer's stock price, and to the pocketbock of the executive, Ron Johnson. And it has also given a lift to investor Bill Ackman.
Ackman is staring at a roughly $490 million paper profit on his investment in J.C. Penney.
For his gain, Ackman owes a tip of the chapeau to Johnson, whose hiring has lifted J.C. Penney's stock price — and Ackman's stock holdings — by nearly 18% just today.
Bill Ackman shops in the discount aisle.
The noted activist investor, who talked up discount-retailer Family Dollar at a recent investor conference, today disclosed ownership of an 8.9% stake in the company.
Ackman now is the largest owner of Family Dollar stock, according to data from LionShares. He previously owned about a 4.7% investment, according to LionShares, good for the third-largest stake in Family Dollar….
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Bill Ackman is finally starting to burn the Borders Group part of his book.
Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management, which had economic exposure to more than 40% of the bankrupt bookseller's stock, said in regulatory filings that it has shed about 1.06 million of the 40.9 million Borders shares and warrants in which it has an interest….
Factoring in the other, still-unexpired swap agreements as well as warrants that will probably be worth nothing, Pershing Square's total loss in Borders will likely be around $200 million, although the firm has already realized most of those losses. [CLICK THROUGH FOR MORE]
Target has outlasted the notoriously bulldog investor Bill Ackman.
Ackman's Pershing Square apparently dumped its investment in Target stock sometime during the first quarter. Pershing Square reported owning 7.4 million Target shares as of Dec. 31, but there is no whisper of the Target investment in Pershing's latest snapshot of its stock holdings as of March 31.
Ackman is famous for scooping up shares in a company, and then forcing through changes he believes will juice the stock price. That's the tack he took successfully recently with Fortune Brands and J.C. Penney. But Ackman's gambit backfired at Target.
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Tanja Sadow, Dean & Founder of the JDMIS speaks upon its inauguration:
After more than two decades of passionate dedication to such a wide spanning, varied and creative sector of the industry it fills me with great pride to accept this pioneering position as founder and Dean of the Jewellery Design and Management International School, and of all places, to have the opportunity to do so in a city so dear to me, and so motivating to the Arts as is my Singapore.
I am proud to say that the curriculum has been designed and perfected over the years, to expose students to a varied yet interrelated study program which gives each student the skills to enter the industry with confidence, either as a jewellery designer, self employed studio jeweller or as a marketeer, merchandiser or sales manager.
Our overall objectives are to build a strong foundation of technical skills and design ability, supplemented by a keen understanding of trends and styles that affect jewellery today. By combining these jewellery-related skills with a good understanding of business concepts such as merchandizing, marketing, management and entrepreneurship, our students leave with the creativity, skill and ambition to succeed in the industry.
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Claymont rolled past Harrison Central 54-19..
CLAYMONT 54, HARRISON CENTRAL 19 Claymont opened the match with three straight pins and followed with three straight wins by forfeit in rolling past Harrison Central in a prep wrestling contest at Cadiz.
Jonathan Gray, Tanner Peters, Matt Dennis, Tyler Warner and Hunter Miles all had pins.
"Harrison Central has a nice team, but they're young, so that gave us a chance to get some of our young kids in the lineup," said Claymont coach Eric Toukonen.
Claymont returns to action Saturday with a 10 a.m. contest against Carrollton.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama says he plans to run for a fourth term next year.
Sessions is beginning his 17th year of service in the Senate. The 66-year-old senator said Wednesday in Montgomery he's still enjoying serving in Washington and plans to run again in 2014.
Sessions was the only Republican in Alabama's Senate or House delegation to vote for the fiscal cliff legislation at the start of the year. Sessions said that by the time the Senate voted at 1 a.m. on New Year's Day, taxes had gone up on everyone and the Senate had to act to bring them down. He says it's time for the Senate to get serious about the next step, which is cutting federal spending. He labeled the current federal spending unsustainable.
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When you think of search in China, you think of Baidu. If you keep thinking, you'll probably think of Qihoo 360 and Sogou, too. But you probably won't think of Panguso or Jike, two state-owned search engines so irrelevant that they usually show up in market share data in the "Other" category because they control well under one percent of the market. But could these titans of irrelevance be poised to become, er, slightly less irrelevant through a merger?
Although Jike claims it is unaware of any merger plans, rumors have been swirling for months and have become quite specific over the past few days. Supposedly, the two services are to be merged into an entirely new company that would be headed by Xinhua's Zhou Xisheng.
Fueling these rumors is the fact that Jike CEO Deng Yaping seems to be MIA and is rumored to be out of favor and possibly out of a job after a partnership with Yunyun that ended badly, leaving Jike out of a big chunk of cash but somehow still owning none of the search technology it had invested in Yunyun to develop.
Whether or not the merger rumors are true, it seems likely that sooner or later China's government may want to take another swing at the search engine market given that its first attempts (the aforementioned Jike and Panguso) have failed so poorly. Among other reasons, the government is particularly interested in this market because monitoring search patterns is a great way of keeping public sentiment, something that China's government is interested in for obvious reasons.


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"Arrested Development" Reveals Its First New Trailer, And It's Filled With WTF Moments
The Bluths are back! But what the hell is going on?!
First, that star-studded premiere. Then, the Frozen Banana Stand goes on tour. Now, a minute and a half of glorious teasing ahead of Arrested Development's May 26 re-premiere on Netflix. There's lots to unpack in this first trailer, so watch below and take a drive in the stair car to WTF-ville, where questions abound!
3. George Michael and Maeby are roommates again. Are they lovers too?
4. What does this creepy bird represent?
5. And how about this one? (Also, how did an ostrich get in the house?)
6. Did Kitty say good-bye to… umm… those?
7. Did Tobias win an Oscar yet? Will that new sign be the latest promotional stunt for AD?
8. Is Mike's Hard Lemonade buying all that product placement? Is GOB a teenage girl now?
9. More importantly, is he back in the good graces of the Magician's Alliance?
10. They're still together?!
11. How many miles does this thing have on it by now?
12. And finally, is Buster back on the sauce? Can anything save him?
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I have a message for AT&T telephone book delivery: Don't deliver on a day forecast to have rain and thunderstorms. Throwing the package out of the car window didn't help either. A torn package, soaking wet, was the result.
Advertisers take note, because your advertising dollars just went out the window, literally, this time. Is there a digital version of the telephone directory being offered? This directory really does have advantages for some searches, even in a digital version.
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This report analyzes the results of the implementation at a large private Mexican university of the Pedagogical Expectancy Violation Assessment (PEVA), developed by Gaffney, Gaffney and Beichner. The PEVA was designed to evaluate shifts of the first student's expectations due to the initial orientation and experiences in the classroom. The data was collected at the Student-Centered Learning (ACE) classroom, based on the Student Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) classroom. Three professors participated with their groups during the first semester they implemented their courses in this environment. Participants were enrolled either in a Pre-Calculus, Differential Equations, or Electricity and Magnetism course. The results indicate shifts in students' expectations during the semester and reveals differences in shifts among the different courses.
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Ten years ago, Jesse Curtis Slack was born; he never drew a breath, and he never opened his eyes. His parents, Sanford and Sarah Slack, were devastated to realize that instead of buying a crib for Jesse, they were buying him a casket. To make matters worse, there wasn't enough money to buy Jesse a grave marker. Sarah held yard sales for nearly a year before she had saved enough money to buy that marker, and by then, a new dream had been born: she would establish a non-profit organization to help parents pay for their babies funeral expenses. The TEARS Foundation was born in November 2002, and since then, hundreds of Washington families have received financial assistance and emotional support services to help them with their grief in their darkest hours. Sarah's work with The TEARS Foundation has recently started expanding to other states, and it's all accomplished from a tiny little office in Puyallup. The TEARS Foundation hosts fundraising events and remembrance gatherings throughout the year, with the signature event being the Rock & Walk, where parents can see their babies' names in lights, and share their experiences with other families who have experienced infant loss. The 2011 Rock & Walk for Western Washington will be held at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, and we anticipate over 500 people will attend. Sarah Slack is making a big difference in her community, but it's one that isn't often seen unless you have been directly helped by TEARS. We need to raise awareness of this wonderful cause so more people can be helped, and know that there is hope after tragedy.
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Since the Miro project began 2 years ago, we've been using Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 to build Miro on Windows, because it's the compiler used to build the official version of Python. There's only 3 problems with this: it's not free as in freedom, it costs money, and you can't actually buy it anymore (except on ebay). This puts up a huge obstacle for developers that want to work on Miro on Windows.
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Johannesburg - The rand held steady against the dollar early on Wednesday and looked set to test fresh 2014 highs after breaking through technical levels as global investors continued to buy in to high-yielding emerging market assets.
At 08:19 SA time, the rand traded slightly firmer at 10.2895 to the dollar, from a 10.3045 close in New York on Tuesday.
"Rand bulls have the edge for a while longer," said Barclays technical strategist Judy Padayachee.
"While dollar/rand holds below 10.30, the risks are for a drop towards the 10.00-10.10 area before potential bottoming signals could emerge."
However, the rand's rally could be stemmed by violence in the platinum mines as the denouement of a crippling 16-week strike approaches.
Stick-wielding members of the militant Amcu union were blocking the entrance to Lonmin's Marikana mine early on Wednesday, keeping out workers who want to break the strike and report for duty.
An initial resistance barrier for the rand is at the 2014 high of 10.2725, followed by December 18 level of 10.2200.
Yields on government bonds gave up 3 basis points on the benchmark 2026 issue to 8.065 percent and dropped 2.5 basis points to 6.51 percent on the 2015 note.
South Africa will release business confidence figures for April at 11:30 SA time, and retail sales data for March.
Expectations are for growth to have slowed slightly to 2 percent. - Reuters
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On Wednesday March 27th we will hold our annual Day at the Capitol. AFP-MO activists from across the state will join in solidarity for limited government, low taxes, and economic freedom. Together, we will send a message that no Missouri politician, lobbyist, or bureaucrat will be able to ignore.
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But who doesn't?
They're sweet and delicious and yummy;
With nuts and fudge and caramel.
When I take it in my mouth,
And swirl it with my tongue;
It melts just like the snow;
When the sun shines on it.
I feel a thousand tastes,
Exploding in my mouth.
Just like the fireworks when,
They explode in the sky;
And fill it with sparkling colors.
I slowly savor its taste;
And yearn for another bite,
But when I do get another;
I long for more and more.
I feel like I have gone,
In the Heaven of delectable tastes;
Where I don't want the sensations to stop;
Or come back down to earth.
But when I find the wrapper empty,
I feel like someone has just;
Burst my delicious bubble;
And pulled me down to earth.
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Where Do You Stand: Calling Your Girlfriends Pet Names
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I'm all for using pet names in a romantic relationship, but what about using them with your girlfriends? I think "babe" is one of those terms of endearment that can be used for either sex, but more personal nicknames like sweetie or honey just seem a bit inappropriate when referring to your gal pal. Of course that's just my opinion, so tell me ladies, where do you stand on using pet names with your girlfriends?
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dikke-kus 6 years
It's all in fun. I had a girlfriend or two that had nicknames for me. I think the experts write it's a sign of affection thats all. One of my friends uses my last name a lot. I am petite so once in a while someone blurts out something with little in it or little miss this or that. I don't mind it. My husband sometimes calls me some word in Dutch that means little doll or princess or something. Although for some reason when he does it I find it irritating since I don't really have that type of personality.
jennjennnbubba 7 years
I call one of my bf's hot mama and she called me skankarita. its been going on since we were teens.my others gal pals I call girl, girly, hooker, hoe, loser and they call me by the same
jennjennnbubba 7 years
I call one of my bf's hot mama and she called me skankarita. its been going on since we were teens. my others gal pals I call girl, girly, hooker, hoe, loser and they call me by the same
shafiii 7 years
i call my best friends love, dear, and darlingi think its fine. its just showing that i care about them
shafiii 7 years
i call my best friends love, dear, and darling i think its fine. its just showing that i care about them
JaimeLeah526 7 years
I hate when people call me hun or dear so I don't use them for other people. I think the point of a pet name is too be something unique that only the other person knows and you only use in private.
kendallina 7 years
I call my best friend pet names and other nicknames we have for each other.
Silverlining10 7 years
I'll call girl friends...Sexy, skank, whore, love, or best. That's about it. Or a nickname that's just a shortened version of their actual name.
emalove 7 years
I usually just call my friends by some variation of their first name...no pet names for us.
grys 7 years
yeah me and my friends call each other pet names like honey, baby, babe, sweetie but only close friends male or female
divinelight 7 years
I call my very good friends pet names all the time. Definitely, hun and sometimes sweetie. But only my good friends. It seems condescending if you don't really know the person.
j2e1n9 7 years
Sure. My friends call me girl, girlie, sweetie, cutie, hun, etc. Young and Old :)
juicylove 7 years
i hate when people say hun. it sounds like.. fake and condescending.
WhatTheFrockBlog 7 years
I hate using pet names for girls. If someone who isn't a family member calls me "sweetie" or "honey" or "babe" it makes me want to smack them.
pumpkinsugar70 7 years
We started calling each other "pumpkin" or "pumpkinbutt" in college and it stuck. We even refer to each other's daughters by the term. What is so funny about it is the friend who chose the name is a very serious art history professor at an expensive liberal arts university. Her students would never believe it.
Kristinh1012 7 years
I don't use pet names for friends really. Most of my friends do. But there is this girl that works with me and I really don't even know her and she calls me sweetie every time she seems me (and she positively knows my name) and I HATE it. It makes me uncomfortable. Now if it's an older person for some reason it doesn't bother me.
CaterpillarGirl 7 years
nicknames for girlfriends, to me, is a little middle school. it might be funny once, but all the time is too much.
Bookish 7 years
I call her "girl". As in, "hey, girl." But that's it.
swwonder 7 years
I hate being called babe or baby by anyone, it just irritates me. I tend to vary between sunshine, chickadee and sweetheart. I have friends who call me hon or honey, which doesn't bother me at all. We have inside jokey nicknames too, but those are more sort of inside names and not for everyone.
jaxon 7 years
I call EVERYONE babe. When meeting new guys I always have to warn them so they do get weird when I refer to them as babe. I give all people nicknames but my close gf and I have names that date back to high school. My one friend calls all her gf "miss". I call her "Miss Chris" cause she was always a "flygirl" Which also relates to our love of the sone "Miss Thang" by Monica. There is a story behind all of our names for each other
Martini-Rossi 7 years
Shopaholichunny, me too! We call each other skank, hoe, skankster, skanky, love, beautiful and Trashy! Its all in love. lol i love it
kiwitwist 7 years
I have petnames for two of my friends, but not all of them.
ladychaos 7 years
Me and a friend of mine used to call each other "darling". My mom always used to question me about what guy I was talking to...but it was just my girl...lol
aimeeb 7 years
Hmmm I have funny inside joke nicknames for some of my friends I call them on occasion but that's about it.
Shopaholichunny 7 years
Yeah we call eah other hun, hoe, skank, b*tch, homie,love, sweetie, etc. LOL We're all really close so it doesn't hurt our feelings. It's an inside joke thing. :D


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A woman had an unlikely accomplice during a strong-armed robbery today at a Roseville party store - her young son.
Roseville Police said the pair was nervously walking back and forth in the Stop & Go Party Store at 13 Mile and Callahan Streets about 12:30 p.m. When other customers left the store, the clerk went to the front door and asked the pair if everything was all right, police said.
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A river shouldn't divide the people of West Monroe and Monroe because "of childish, moronic bigotry and hatred," wrote Scott O'Neal. Indeed, some people "on the other side of the river" wouldn't trek across the bridge "to get a drink of water if they were dying of thirst." Yep, for those "over there" who've tasted the water "over here," that's true.
O'Neal also said that everybody around here isn't hateful because "there are a lot of very good, nice, Christian people" on both sides of the river. Well, the truth of this hateful east/west situation is obvious: There really aren't lots of "very good, nice, Christian people" around here; otherwise there'd be lots more love.
But if a river shouldn't divide the people of Monroe and West Monroe, then a wall should divide the people of America, according to Shawna Lozada. Immediately, following O'Neal's letter came loads of "childish, moronic bigotry and hatred" via Lozada's Christian heart. She wants to "erect a wall down the middle of America" and put "Obama-loving democrats" on the east side and "producing, thinking, God-loving Americans" such as John Spires, Patsy Chambless, and herself on the west side. Adios, three amigos!
Last, Charles J. Caraway raved: "judge not lest ye be judged," and you're going to hell's basement (hot-hot) where "liquid fire runs through your blood veins." Charlie, I don't believe the Bible, which exempts me (not you) from "judge not" and "hellfire." And about Obama on Rushmore, I don't know where you had your head when you read that, but I had my tongue-in-cheek when I wrote that. Now, you three "producing, thinking, God-loving" amigos (plus Chuck), try becoming "very good, nice, Christian people," and stop the hate.
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|Do plaques grow upstream or downstream?: an angiographic study in the femoral artery.
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|Although the distribution of atherosclerosis has been described, little is known about the direction of growth of plaques. In this study, 237 patients with slight or moderate atherosclerosis underwent femoral angiography twice at a 3-year interval, and the films were studied with computerized image analysis. First, atherosclerosis was measured as edge roughness, and the change in roughness of each 1-cm segment over the 3-year period was related to the edge roughness of the segments immediately upstream and downstream. On the medial side of the artery, the change in edge roughness was found to be more strongly related to the roughness values upstream than to those downstream of the segment studied. This suggests that growth in the downstream direction is more common than growth in the upstream direction. On the lateral side, more equivocal results were obtained. Atherosclerosis was also assessed by study of the cross-sectional area of the artery as a function of distance along the vessel. A mathematical model of plaque growth was formulated as a nonlinear filtering of this curve. Growth in the downstream direction was significantly (P<.001) more frequent than growth in the upstream direction. The findings are compatible with an atherogenic effect of fluid mechanical disturbances, such as flow separation, that may occur downstream of a stenosis.
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
I'm really into big, crazy earrings at the moment. These are from a vintage store on Magazine Street in New Orleans.
The earrings jingle when I wear them. Here they are on the knee of a new favorite pair of pants. They are slouchy and loose, perfect for weekend brunches.
Joss papers from H Mart (?), the big Asian grocery in the same shopping center as Spa World in Virginia. The papers on the left are slightly thicker than tissue paper and come in a pack of several different colors with this same great black motif.
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Wish my Mom hadn't gotten rid of all her 70's earrings…that's what those remind me of and they would be "in" right now!
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Ultimate Car vs. Ultimate Bike: Veyron against BMW S 1000 RR
Following up on Motor Trend's recent Ferrari vs. Ducati article, Inside Line just pitted the world's fastest car against the world's fastest bike…at least at the time of writing. So perhaps Bugatti's own Veyron SS and a Japanese bike or two have grabbed these titles away from the contenders, but it's still an awfully impressive pair. While on paper the big numbers aren't really close, the article takes you on a journey that closes the real-world gap between them for you:
First a few numbers.
2010 Bugatti Veyron 16.4: 1,001 horsepower, 253 mph.
2010 BMW S 1000 RR: 190 hp, 191 mph.
Oh, and then there are the price tags: $1.3 million for the Bugatti, a mere $14,295 for the BMW.
But at this moment, we're not worried about the numbers. All we can think about is the French supercar sitting behind us, buzzing like an impertinent bluebottle fly in the mirrors of the 2010 BMW S 1000 RR. And now it behooves us to unleash the BMW's inner demon and show this, this insect of a 2010 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 the true, grand order of nature.
That bikes are faster than cars.
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Chairman Matt Pinnell Bio
Matt Pinnell, 33, became Chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party on June 26th, 2010, and was re-elected in May of 2011 to a full two-year term. Until recently, he was the youngest State Chairman in the country.
Pinnell was appointed in 2010 as "Chairman of the State Chairmen" by new Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus. In his role as Chairman of the RNC's State Chairmen's Committee, Matt is directing the sharing of ideas and best practices among the nation's state Republican leaders.
In 2010, Pinnell oversaw the most successful election cycle for Oklahoma Republicans in state history- helping sweep all eight statewide races and expanding majorities in both the state house and senate. During the 2008 election cycle Pinnell served as the "Oklahoma Victory" Director for the McCain-Palin ticket, helping sweep all 77 counties for John McCain. With 65.4% of the vote in OK, it was the highest percentage in the nation.
In 2012, the Oklahoma Republican Party continued to see great success under Pinnell's leadership. Oklahoma–again–won all 77 counties for our Presidential nominee Mitt Romney, and swept all 5 Congressional seats. In addition, Republican voter registration is at an all-time high in the state.
He spent three years in Washington, D.C. in the field of grassroots advocacy and legislative affairs for the American International Auto Dealers Association (AIADA) and the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS). Pinnell is a former campaign aide to U.S. Congressman Steve Largent, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, and U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D.. Matt is a graduate of Oral Roberts University, and lives in Tulsa with his wife Lisa and their three children.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. March 24, 2003 -- Santa Clara University President, Paul Locatelli, S.J. today announced the appointment of Donald J. Polden, as dean of the Santa Clara University School of Law.
Polden will succeed Mack Player,who will step down from his post on July 1, after nine years as dean.
Polden has been dean and professor of law at the University of Memphis School of Law since 1993. Prior to that he was an associate dean and professor of law at Drake University School of Law and a visiting professor of law at University of Louisville School of Law.
In announcing the selection, Locatelli said, "Dean Polden's impressive credentials and leadership ability will be invaluable in guiding the law school's future course. As dean, he will build on the law school's growth in quality and stature and the accomplishments of Mack Player, the former dean. His background and experience make him the right person to support the development of professional leaders who practice competence, conscience, and compassion."
Polden brings a wealth of experience to the law school. At the University of Memphis School of Law he has served as chief executive officer at one of the state's two law schools. Under his leadership the law school increased the diversity of its student body, raised the national profile of its faculty and their scholarly publications, significantly increased private support of the law school and to its endowment, and improved the structure and operation of the law school's alumni association.
"I am extremely pleased to be joining the faculty and administration at Santa Clara University. I have deep respect for the mission and ambition of the university and its School of Law and for their outstanding leadership," said Polden. "The (SCU) School of Law has gained a national reputation for its academic excellence in teaching, legal scholarship, and service to the community. I look forward to working with its distinguished faculty, capable staff and engaged alumni in continuing the law school's progress and the growth of its national prominence."
Polden, in addition to his work as dean, has taught and lectured to professional audiences in the areas of federal antitrust law, federal securities law, employment law and corporate law and governance. He recently co-authored a treatise on American employment law and his scholarly publications have been cited by the United States Supreme Court and other federal and state courts. Also, he is a Fellow of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Foundation and the Tennessee Bar Foundation.
He has been appointed by the American Bar Association, the Tennessee Supreme Court, the Association of American Law Schools and the Iowa Supreme Court to state and national commissions and committees, including ones on improving racial and ethnic diversity in state courts, strengthening clinical legal education and improving the health of law students. "Leading Santa Clara's law school is a tremendous personal and professional opportunity. The school's goal to educate professionals with an uncompromising commitment to excellence and social responsibility makes it a stimulating place, and the school's cutting-edge curriculum and location in the Silicon Valley create unlimited opportunities for student and faculty academic enrichment and professional service. I look forward to building upon the successes of Dean Player and the law school community and to moving the school forward to a greater level of professional recognition and academic achievement and excellence," Polden said
Polden will inherit a program that has flourished over the past decade. In the last two years, applications have jumped 38 percent. The law school continues to strengthen its areas of emphasis - intellectual property and high tech law, international law, and initiatives in public service and social justice - while maintaining a core curriculum designed to prepare men and women for the realities of contemporary law practice.
Polden earned his B.B.A in economics from George Washington University and a J.D. (cum Laude) from the Indiana University School of Law- Indianapolis. He is married to Susan Polden and has three children, Andrew, Laura and Emma.
About Santa Clara University School of Law
The SCU School of Law, founded in 1912, combines a tradition of excellence with a commitment to ethics, diversity, and social justice, and is fully accredited by the American Bar Association. Many of its 968 students work in criminal and civil community law clinics, and may earn certificates in intellectual property law, international law or public interest law. Law degrees may be combined with MBA or master's in taxation degrees, and the law school offers lawyers master's degrees in international law and intellectual property law. More information is on line at www.scu.edu/law
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Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California's Silicon Valley, offers its 8,060 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the third-highest graduation rate among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. More information is on line at www.scu.edu.
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Won't these people just shut up?
So I'm watching TV last week and Hockeycentral comes on and does a feature story about what NHL referees are doing – Don Van Massenhoven was selling cars at a dealership and another ref was installing cabinets!My question: Who gives a crap?
It pains me that such these people go on the air night after night and talk about nothing. Seriously, Hockeycentral has a half-hour show every day with Nick Kypreos, Gord Stellick, Bill Watters and some other guy and they talk about hockey. Then, the follow up sports show has a segment with a big fancy lockout graphic just to report that nothing happened. Great.
Some of the topics – like what the refs are doing – are so useless that you just want to smack them over the heads and tell them to shut up if there's nothing to talk about. Next thing you know, they'll be breaking news (Sportsnet is the first to report …) that Gary Bettman went the bathroom four times today and likely has diarrhea caused by Bob Goodenow and the union and then launch into a fifteen minute discussion regarding Bettman's bathroom usage.
In other equally useless news, the Toronto Star is simulating the Leafs season as played on XBOX NHL2K5 and the Leafs lost 4-2 to New Jersey. I don't lie that this got coverage in the sports section. What an unbelievable waste of time and print, I mean can't these reporters use the time to cover local minor sporting teams or something? Are they that desperate that they have to grasp at making stuff up to fill their pages?
So, at the end of all this, I wonder if the same useless idiocy is going on in other NHL cities or if you, unlike me, think this is informative and worthwhile?
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CORPUS CHISTI, Texas - The third of three convicted for his part in an alien smuggling organization which resulted in the dehydration death of a Mexican national in Brooks County in 2009 was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno. The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Border Patrol (BP).
Jose Francisco Gelover-Jerez, 32, a Mexican national illegally residing in Houston, who was convicted in October 2010 for conspiring to transport illegal aliens and illegally re-entering the United States after being deported, will be serving a total of 120 months in federal prison without parole. U.S. District Judge John Rainey handed down the sentences on Jan. 19. The court ordered Gelover-Jerez to serve the sentences concurrently and further ordered him to pay more than $15,000 restitution to Halo Flight and Christus Spohn Kleberg Hospital for emergency medical care.
The charges stem from an Aug. 24, 2009 traffic stop and "bail out" in Brooks County, Texas. The continued investigation by ICE HSI and BP led to the identity of Gelover-Jerez, the driver of the Ford Expedition who had absconded the day of the stop.
On that day a Ford Expedition picked up a group of illegal aliens along Highway 281. When BP agents attempted to stop the vehicle, the Expedition left the roadway and drove through a fence before stopping in a field. Several individuals jumped out of the vehicle and into the brush. Afterwards, BP agents discovered a severely dehydrated male Mexican national in the back of the Expedition. Although transported by Halo Flight to a nearby medical treatment center, the Mexican national did not survive.
BP agents apprehended several illegal aliens in the brush including Anselmo Pena-Telio, 20, a Mexican national illegally residing in Houston. Pena-Telio was identified as one of the individuals who had arrived in the Expedition to pick up the aliens. Law enforcement officers were also able to identify a scout vehicle, normally used to divert law enforcement during illegal smuggling operations, traveling with the Expedition. Job Ortuno-Garcia, 27, of Houston, was identified as the driver of the scout vehicle, and was arrested.
Gelover-Jerez's sentence includes increases to the recommended Sentencing Guideline range based upon a prior smuggling conviction. Ortuno-Garcia and Pena-Telio each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport illegal aliens in November 2009. They were sentenced in January to 45 months and 65 months imprisonment, respectively, by U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack.
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"In fashion," says Kerry Clark, formerly an assistant designer at upscale clothing maker Nicole Miller, in New York City, "the eye is always growing tired. What it sees one season, it doesn't want to see the next." The same goes for Web sites, Clark says, only the "season" is shorter.
Management realized how true that was only after having paid a design firm $10,000 to build a Web site that company founder Nicole Miller later characterized as "crap." She quickly decided that the company should oversee the site's radical redesign.
The redesigned version, financed from the company's $1.2-million advertising budget, featured such interactive icons as TV screens with video clips of models dancing down a runway to hip music.
Clark objected to characterizing the change as a "makeover." That, she said, "implies a before and after rather than a continual evolution and growth with technology. A Web-site redesign is never really over. You never really figure it out. Just when you think you've created the coolest site in the world, you find out there's something even cooler."


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November 29, 2015
Charleston, WV (AP) -- The county extension service that aids West Virginia farmers may also help the state keep tabs on its cemeteries.
The House of Delegates voted 87-11 Monday to send the senate a measure that would use extension agents in collecting global positioning system coordinates for a statewide map of grave sites.
The measure comes as the state's family and community cemeteries are being lost to time and to mining, timbering and development.
Opponents question adding this duty to an agriculture agency.
But supporters say its officials endorse the idea, and locating these grave sites would be a great project for local 4-H clubs.
The mapping measure appears the most successful of several bills introduced this session that aim to protect small cemeteries.
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Jeep Safaris
One day Jeep Safaris
* Super Safari White Canyon tour
Saint Catherine's Monastery
The monastery is Greek Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the UNESCO report (60100 ha / Ref: 954) and website hereunder, this monastery has been called the oldest working Christian monastery in the world – although the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, also holds claim to that title.
The monastery was built by order of Emperor Justinian I between 527 and 565, enclosing the Chapel of the Burning Bush ordered to be built by Helena, the mother of Constantine I, at the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush; the living bush on the grounds is purportedly the original. It is also referred to as "St. Helen's Chapel." The site is sacred to Judaism,Christianity and Islam.
White Canyon
This site is located 700 m above sea level along the way to St. Catherine, known for it's white soft sandstone terrain. When you descend, you will find Ain Khudra Oasis where you'll observe Bedouin families living in traditional tents, following the natural water sources for their livestock.
Ain Khundra
A palm tree and desert vegetation paradise located 53 km North of Dahab. At this site you will observe the desert at it's most natural state when Mother Nature has been so kind as to bring some rain. There is natural spring which irrigates the landscape.
The programs
Starting at 7 in the morning and drive for about two hours to visit St. Catherine's Monastery. After this we will continue for another one and a half hour to the White Canyon. You walk through the canyon for one hour with your guide. You will finish your hike in Ain Khudra Oasis. Here you will have lunch and relax. Then we drive to visit the Mushroom Rock before going back to Dahab around 5 in the afternoon.
Including: experienced guide, lunch and transportation in a landcruiser
Costs: 45 euro per person
This trip can be organised any day for a minimum of 4 people. Please book at least one day in advance. Please check with us to see if we have any other people booking.
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President's Cabinet Meeting
November 13, 2000
Attendees: President Ivory V. Nelson, Interim Vice President Saligrama C. SubbaRao, Vice President William B. Bynum, Vice President Edward L. McCusker, Mr. Samuel W. Pressley, Mr. Jerryl Briggs, Ms. Diane M. Brown
Privatized Housing - Lincoln has been strategizing to bring an additional 400 bed privatized student housing complex to the campus. Mr. Jerryl Briggs, Dean of Students and Housing Operations, has taken the lead for this project. A tentative project timeline has been established, which sets the projected completion date at July 2002. Mr. Briggs will meet with the Lower Oxford Township Supervisors to inform them of the University's plans in this regard. It is hoped that the completed Request for Proposal (RFP) will be released within two weeks.
Commonwealth of PA, Capital Funding - The Office of the Budget has approved the transfer of $2,001,000 into the project account for Lincoln's Campus Security System. The Office of Budget has also approved the Scope of Work for the University's Communications and Electrical Distribution System Replacement Project totaling $3,000,000.
Lilly Endowment Funding for Capacity Building - The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) is the recipient of a capacity building grant to fund training and development initiatives for Chief Development Executives and other fundraising professionals from member institutions. The grant will also fund a one-day program designed for Presidents. Training sessions will begin in January 2001. President Nelson intends to participate in these training sessions.
KPMG Foundation Diversity Programs - KPMG has sent the University a notice of the programs they have launched to increase diversity in their firm, profession and the general business community. As these programs may prove beneficial to Lincoln, Interim Vice President SubbaRao will share this information with the Deans.
Fiscal Affairs Lincoln has submitted its report on the cleanup of debris to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). We have been informed that the report will be reviewed by appropriate persons at DEP. The University may expect a response to the report by 2002.
Vice President McCusker reported that the NCAA insurance for athletes carries a $50,000 deductible. NCAA is sending further information on its policy.
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Naser informed that within hours, the nanoparticle-based technique generated highly accurate and reliable results without compromising sensitivity and specificity. The team developed hybridizing magnetic relaxation nanosensors (hMRS) that are capable of extracting and detecting trace quantities of DNA from microbes residing in the cells of a patient. The hair-thin hMRS are made of polymer-coated iron oxide nanoparticles. They are made to attach to a DNA marker that is specific to the pathogen through chemical modification.
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"If Kentucky gets Enes Kanter eligible, I'm recruiting Ricky Rubio next year."
That's what a coach told me a couple of months back, and I think he was joking but I can't say for sure. Either way, what I took from that statement was this: The NCAA allowing Kanter to play despite his background as a professional basketball player in Turkey would, in the eyes of most everybody outside of Kentucky, set a dangerous precedent. That's why I said on a radio show in Louisville on Wednesday that I did not believe the NCAA would clear Kanter, and why I wasn't stunned when the NCAA announced Thursday that it has ruled the UK freshman permanently ineligible.
Kentucky will appeal, of course.
But good luck with that.
The reality is that the NCAA has concluded that Kanter received $33,000 above his necessary expenses for the 2008-09 season with a professional team in Turkey, and there's little reason to think any lawyer will be able to make the NCAA conclude otherwise. Essentially, Kanter is a professional regardless of what those pushing his cause insisted. And though I realize the ongoing saga centered around Auburn quarterback Cam Newton suggests otherwise, professionals -- or anybody whose amateur status has been knowingly and seriously compromised -- still aren't allowed to compete under the NCAA umbrella.
So what now for the Wildcats?
Smallball, for starters.
This development -- combined with Daniel Orton's unexpected jump to the NBA after one season -- has Calipari operating with a roster short on tall people. Terrence Jones is a 6-foot-9 freshman who is talented. But when Scout.com lists one of your weaknesses as "post play," well, that's a decent indication that you're not ready to be DeMarcus Cousins. In all seriousness, Jones is good, and he'll be good. But he's not a natural lowpost presence, and he'll have to drastically adjust his mindset to serve as UK's top post player because I don't believe Eloy Vargas, a 6-11 junior, is a difference-maker down low.
Beyond that, it's mostly just a bunch of guards and wings.
They're gifted guards and wings, to be sure, gifted enough, in fact, to still lead Kentucky to very good things. But whereas last season's Wildcats had no ceiling, these Wildcats almost certainly do now. This team will likely prove to be one player away from greatness, and that one player will end up being the guy the NCAA took away Thursday.
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Kentucky loses Kanter, gains a ceiling
Posted on: November 11, 2010 7:54 pm
Edited on: November 11, 2010 8:02 pm
Category: NCAAB
Tags: Enes Kanter, Kentucky, Terrence Jones
Since: Jan 22, 2007
Posted on: November 18, 2010 7:51 pm
Kentucky loses Kanter, gains a ceiling
Actually wilw410 the fact that the Kanter family has ANY money from a pro club sitting in their account would suggest that Kanter is a professional. If the family decided to take money from a professional club and allocate money to an education whose overall cost was less than the total given to the family, then the family profited. It does not matter if they spent the profit or not. If someone asked you to hold some drugs for them and the cops caught you, you're still going to jail regardless of whether they were your drugs or someone else's. You are still in posession. If the family was really serious about keeping Enis's status amature, then they would have NEVER allowed ANY money from a PROFESSIONAL club enter their accounts.
Since: Nov 14, 2010
Posted on: November 14, 2010 8:57 am
Kentucky loses Kanter, gains a ceiling
Corruptupari at his finest...
Since: Aug 11, 2006
Posted on: November 13, 2010 5:29 pm
Kentucky loses Kanter, gains a ceiling
coachKball... No, what it means is Duke should have to forfeit that entire season Maggette was there, but of course the NCAA will never do that to their flagship of college basketball.
Since: Feb 5, 2008
Posted on: November 13, 2010 1:12 am
Kentucky loses Kanter, gains a ceiling
coachKball.... No, Maggette became INELIGIBLE when he took money from Piggie BEFORE he went to Duke. What part of THAT aren't you understanding?
Oh ok, you're right. Maggette was ruled ineligible before he came to Duke. Which of course means he never played for Duke at all.
Since: Sep 1, 2006
Posted on: November 12, 2010 10:32 pm
Kentucky loses Kanter, gains a ceiling
Regardless of you position on the issue of Kanter's eligibility, everyone should be concerned by the complete lack of the full story in the above article. Other news outlets are clearly reporting the circumstances of the money, its intentions, uses, and unused portion. Gary Parrish and CBS felt the need to hide this information to make Kentucky and the Kanter family look bad. In the interest of fair and ethical journalism, Gary and CBS should held accountable for misleading their readership.
The new NCAA rule is not about playing with professionals, as was the case in numerous previous cases already mentioned, but instead about the given athletes intent to remain an amateur. In most European countries, a kid has no option but to join a professional team to develop their skills. This has made it nearly impossible for them to come to US to play in the NCAA. The NCAA recently changed the rule so players like Enes Kanter would have the opportunity to continue their athletic develop and education in the US so long as their intent was to remain an amateur and they did not receive above necessary expenses. For this reason, the Kenter family documented all money they received and turned down large contracts with the intent all along of keeping Enes an amateur and eligible the come play in the NCAA. The Kanter accepted the money and documented the entire amount of money in question. They used about 20,000 for well documented educational expenses and have the rest sitting untouched by the family in an account so it could be returned to the Turkish team. Now the NCAA has decided that since the Kanter's paid the educational expenses themselves instead of having the Turkish team pay them directly he is a porfessional and therefore ineligible.
Since: Aug 11, 2006
Posted on: November 12, 2010 6:38 pm
Kentucky loses Kanter, gains a ceiling
coachKball.... No, Maggette became INELIGIBLE when he took money from Piggie BEFORE he went to Duke. What part of THAT aren't you understanding?
Since: Aug 29, 2006
Posted on: November 12, 2010 5:03 pm
This hurts us.....no doubt. We are now in a dogfight for 3rd place in the SEC east (seriously)........kanter would have made us a legit Top 10 team; as it stands we are not a Top 25 team at this stage of the season. By year end we will be one of those NCAA 5 seeds that no one will want any part of, but right now we are a collection of talented inexperienced freshmen that will certainly get a few unexpected thumps early on. On that point, I am very concerned about our opener against ETSU. They start 5 seniors and were an NCAA team last year when the team had the same 5 starters.......it would not shock me if we get pushed hard tonight.
Also.........the SEC is a very tough conference this year.
Since: Jan 17, 2008
Posted on: November 12, 2010 2:53 pm
Kentucky loses Kanter, gains a ceiling
Five stars jimlowe. Excellent post and thanks for clearing some of this up for the rest of us since saying someone accepted $33,033 dollars is one thing vs. explaining the intent behind that money.
jimlowe just retyped the Mike Decourcy article that can be found here:
The issue is pretty muddled, but you can't allow people to get a pass if they "didn't intend" to break the rules. I can hear it now, "but I didn't intend on shooting that guy, officer". Yeah, you're still busted, sorry.
Since: Feb 5, 2008
Posted on: November 12, 2010 1:35 pm
Kentucky loses Kanter, gains a ceiling
What part of gone do you not understand? Maggette became ineligible when he got drafted by the Sonics.
Since: Nov 26, 2006
Posted on: November 12, 2010 1:17 pm
Kentucky loses Kanter, gains a ceiling
All I can say is Karma is b!tch and this was predictable and anyone who offered this kid a scholarship was foolish. Looks like ol Cal did Washington a favor by snaking this kid away. Saves the huskies the headache and just proves the win at all costs attitude will eventually catch up with you. If you disagree then ask yourselves why would every program in the country not offer a scholly to this kid b/c by all accounts he's a beast. Kentucky will be fine but until they stop offering scholarships to kids with questionable academic backgrounds and amatuer status they will continue to have these problems.


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Published Date Written by Karen VachonCathy and Myron Skott, age 62 and 64, have been long-distance cycling for 21 years. They choose bicycling for a number of reasons: It's a great way to see the country; rural landscapes and cities; cycling exposes you to upfront and personal encounters with farmers, community, and the great things that people do across the country. It's also therapeutic, and an enjoyable way to stay in shape.
Though the Skotts have done many long-distance rides, the ride they are on now is different. They are the volunteer sponsored riders for the 2012 Community Tour that will be celebrated in Portland July 7.
Cabot Cheese is sponsoring the Skotts on this ride. Which, Cathy says "is to promote and celebrate community, volunteerism, and cooperative." This message raises awareness for the East Coast Greenway, a cycling route that, when completed, will span the east coast from Key West, Florida to Calais. Roughly 3,000 miles, 25 percent of this bike route is off-road on old restored rail beds. Cyclists are able to enjoy great cities linked by miles of rural landscape — riders see how city and farm life come together shaping the character of community, cooperative, and give cause for celebrating the great work that people do.
Myron learned of the East Coast Greenway back in 2004. He signed up for their newsletter, and cycled portions of the route since. When he learned about the 2012 Community Tour, the couple volunteered to ride. When they arrive in Portland July 7, the tour will be complete. The Skotts will have covered 2,300 miles, and celebrated in eight major cities: Miami, Charleston, Durham, Fredericksburg, Wilmington, New York, Providence and Portland.
When I caught up to the Skotts last weekend, they were in Wilmington, Del. Myron looked at his odometer: They had ridden 1,583 miles. It was Father's Day — and a rest day for the Skotts, following the Wilmington Community Celebration.
Awareness of the Cabot Community Tour is growing, and people have been following the Skotts. For the Wilmington celebration, more than 100 riders joined the Skotts on their ride into the city. And they hope that other cities will do the same. To learn about the tour, and daily rides, visit www.communitytour.coop
For those thinking about discovering the world of distance cycling, Myron offers some tips: Go out for shorter bike rides first. A five- or six-day tour will give you a good flavor for distance riding. He recommends that you drive to your furthest destination, and ride home. This helps with those moments on the ride when you begin to question your sanity in doing this — somehow, riding home makes it easier. Turning back isn't an option. The Skotts ride recumbent long bikes — built for comfort, the bikes always draw attention, invite conversation and spark curiosity.
When the Skotts tour on their own, they typically carry 45 pounds of gear each on their bike. This includes extra tire tubes, water, and granola bars. When asked what was the most essential item that they have, both agreed, it was the small rearview mirror that attaches to their sunglasses. Touring on their own, they're able to stay put on rainy days, where they find the local library. On nice days, the most welcoming sight is a shady church yard or park, with marble picnic tables. The marble is cool, and a great place for tired cyclists to stretch out on. The Skotts encourage others to discover cycling.
The East Coast Greenway route in Maine offers nearly 400 miles of diverse scenery that includes coastal communities, historic mill cities, blueberry fields and more. If you'd like to add biking to your summer to do list, go to http://www.exploremaine.org/bike/eastcoastgreenway/ There's time to get a ride or two in, before the Skotts arrive in Portland. They hope that you'll consider joining them and celebrating.
The people they meet along the way is what they really enjoy. Cycling puts you in situations and encounters that you wouldn't experience or notice otherwise. Some examples include, the encounter with the posted sign on the bridge that says 'No pedestrians or bikes allowed' – the Skotts solution: flag down a pick-up truck and ask them to transport you and your bike across the bridge! Another delightful and common encounter is the miles from a bathroom - the needed pit stop. The cyclist solution: A shady tree on a farmers land. While stopped, they enjoy a granola bar and water, and have ended up speaking to the farmers. Cathy noticed the difference that volunteers make in a community; noting the Adopt A Highway project in Florida, where a community of volunteers formed a partnership to clean up the litter. "What a difference it makes", she says. These examples, are exactly what the tour celebrates. The Skott's hope that they'll turn people onto cycling, and that people will come out, join them on the ride into Portland, and celebrate community July 7 in Portland.
The celebration will take place in Payson Park, on Baxter Blvd in Portland from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
(Karen Vachon is a resident of Scarborough. She is a licensed insurance agent, and an active volunteer in her community.)


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One of the cool problems I'm working on now is object distribution/spawning in my 3D game world. For some background, the game world I'm building is, in theory, endless in each of the cardinal directions. The game builds terrain patches on-the-fly, procedurally, as the player moves around the world. More on that in a later post. Placed onto the terrain are objects, of a mostly decorative sort, whose purpose is to make the world look friendly and, well, occupied.
So how does one go about determining where to place these objects once you've rented a spot to put them from your game engine?
The first thing I tried is a pseudo-random distribution using coordinates generated from two Halton sequences. Sounds scary, but really these are just a progression of "random-like" values in the range of 0 to 1 that cycle, depending on what radix (or numerical base) you choose. I am using base 2 for X and base 3 for Y. The great thing about this algorithm is that it produces a nice uniform distribution in the range of [0,1] horizontally and vertically (see image on right). This fits nicely next to another patch of terrain, like a puzzle piece. The algorithm avoids overlapping objects just by the elegant nature of the numerical sequences.
I have to stop and give credit to Andrew Willmott and the team at Maxis, who contributed the Halton Sequence algorithm and many other great ideas from Spore to Sigraph in 2007. Their papers and videos can be found here. Spore is one of those rare games that really pushed the envelope of what's possible with procedurally-generated content and art-minded engineering.
This worked great, but my objects are fairly large, not like the grass and shrubs that Andrew was placing on the terrain in Spore. On my landscape, this tended to produce a "noise" of objects, and didn't allow enough space for movement in between them.
I decided that I needed to try clustering the objects. Then I could maintain the same count of objects, but create a look that was a bit more artistic and intentional. As an example of what I was going for, check out some of the sketches on this page. I spent about a day thinking about how to do this, then after a good night's sleep, I realized that this could be solved with a simple circle-packing algorithm. Each circle represents the "personal space" of an object in a cluster from a top-down perspective.
As any engineer who wants to prototype something visual will do, I pulled up my copy of Processing and started mocking something up. Here's my first attempt below. Wait for the circles to appear below in the Java Applet box (give it permission to run first!), then click on the box and press SPACE to generate a new cluster of objects.
For each run, this applet iterates a hundred times before the circles come to rest in an optimal packing. It works very much like spring/particle physics systems, using relaxation – moving objects around repeatedly, until they finally reach an equilibrium. Each cycle pushes intersecting objects away from one another and then moves the objects closer to the center of the cluster. I want something much faster, and it only needs to work for a small handful of objects.
Here is my final prototype, which only spawns between 3-7 objects and goes through a mere 10 iterations before stopping:
The circles are sorted in the code by size such that the relaxation algorithm tends push the smaller ones to the outside, which is what I want. A cluster like this would then be created for each of the first handful of Halton Sequence coordinates, which will space them at a good distance appart from one another. I'll post images of the results at a later date.


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