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I got very tired of trying to work out climate for Thraeton, so I experimented with drawing caves / caverns instead.
Not clean enough for what I had in mind, but I think I kinda like it anyway. Maybe someone will find the style useful.
Quick instructions:
- Created in Inkscape
- Rivers and the little crevices were made with the calligraphy tool (width based on pressure of pen)
- Main lake was made with freehand tool
- combined lake+rivers, duplicated the result then used outset function twice on a clone of the object to create the larger cave
- Duplicated larger cave and used outset tool a whole lot of times to create the surrounding rock
- Style: Both the rock and the cave itself are actually duplicated and thus each consist of two geometrically identical objects; one has a texture, the other a gradient (for the rock) or a slightly transparent white (for the cave)
- The river+lake has a straightforward blue gradient applied.


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The third and final German Gems, a single-day showcase for new and vital German-language cinema, arrives Saturday for its farewell appearance at the Castro Theatre. Otherwise, it's a week of birthdays at the city's historic movie palace.
1. Army of Darkness
Where: Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., 415-621-6120
When: Jan. 13
At Last, Parkway Speakeasy Theater Finds New Home in Oakland's Uptown District
Oakland's Parkway Speakeasy Theater, defunct since March 2009, has finally found a new lease on life. The second-run cinema – popular among East Bay cinephiles for its overstuffed coaches, eclectic food menu and, best of all, its beer-and-wine bar – will make its new home in the city's Uptown Art Murmur district, in a 7,800-square-foot space once occupied by a sheet-glass factory.
Although the grand reopening isn't expected until late summer at the earliest, patrons heartbroken by the Parkway's abrupt disappearance almost two years ago can finally rejoice, without worrying about the new facility's sustainability. Spearheading the effort to revive the theater and pub, Oakland's J. Moses Caesar reportedly plans to sign a 21-year lease on the 24th Street property this afternoon.
Indie Theater Roundup: 7 Movies to See This Week
Another year is drawing to a close, but the Oscar season is just heating up, with early favorites The Artist, The Descendants and Hugo all playing this week at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas on Post Street. Elsewhere:
1. Pariah
'Rocky Horror' Rings in New Year with Midnight Show at the Clay Theatre
Rather than wandering from one overcrowded bar to the next this New Year's Eve, risking obnoxious run-ins with lightweight boozers and wasting your cash on inflated cover charges, head to the Clay Theatre this Saturday for a special midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show to ring in 2012.
Steven Spielberg, Tom Hiddleston on Leading 'War Horse' to the Big Screen
It's nearly 9:30 on a frigid New York morning, and Tom Hiddleston is running late for the day's first interview. On arrival, the tall, lean Londoner apologizes profusely, blaming an itinerary that has him rushing from the set of his latest venture – a TV production of Henry V – to press day for Steven Spielberg's War Horse, opening Christmas day.
All of which is perfectly acceptable – schedules at events like this are made to be broken – but what in god's name is in that monstrous glass of olive-green sludge he's waving about? "This is rocket fuel," explains Hiddleston, 30.
Indie Theater Roundup: 7 Movies to See This Week
Dreaming of a white Christmas? You're probably out of luck. But for those whose holiday celebrations traditionally involve a trip to the movies – as well as those who've lost their taste for the TBS network's annual 24-hour A Christmas Story marathon – San Francisco's indie theaters are serving up a seasonal concoction of time-honored Hollywood classics and contemporary Oscar hopefuls. Among them:
1. War Horse
Where: Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post St., 415-929-4650; Balboa Theatre, 3630 Balboa St., 415-221-8184
When: All Week
'Tis the Season: SF Film Society Plans 'Wonderful Life' Revival for Christmas Day
For all the imitations and parodies it has inspired since its debut at New York's Globe Theater on Dec. 20, 1946 – appropriately, a special screening for charity, one day before the movie's official premiere – Frank Capra's yuletide classic remains one of America's most enduring seasonal staples. Not bad for a family drama dismissed by critics of its day as sentimental slop, and all but ignored by moviegoers: It's a Wonderful Life was the 26th highest-grossing picture of 1947, just ahead of another holiday offering, Miracle on 34th Street.
Downtown San Francisco Weathers Threat of Nuclear Annihilation in 'Ghost Protocol'
The Transamerica Pyramid is the target of a nuclear strike in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the latest thriller off one of Hollywood's most dependable assembly lines. Pixar's Brad Bird is not the first to wreak havoc on San Francisco, though the Golden Gate Bridge, rather than the city's tallest skyscraper, is a more popular bull's-eye.
Indie Theater Roundup: 7 Movies to See This Week
What better way to celebrate the 12 days of Christmas than with two blood-curdling chillers – The Birds and The Shining – playing this weekend at the Castro? Elsewhere, Paul McCartney: The Love We Make, which follows the onetime Beatle around New York in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, arrives Friday at the Roxie Theater.
1. The Birds
Where: Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., 415-621-6120
When: Dec. 16
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He's just the sort that Mavis, Charize Theron's aging beauty, would have ignored back in school, and she'd probably keep ignoring him, if not for her own desperate neediness. Returning to her small-town Minnesota home after a modestly successful stint as a ghost writer in the "Mini Apple," Mavis finds companionship where she can, leading her time and again back to Matt's nerdy man-cave.
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The battle of Lexington
Lewis Brindle holds on tighter as a blast of wind from a passing truck tries to wrest the sign from his scarred fists. It advertises todays special at a nearby grill in downtown Lexington. Hes making $5 an hour as a human billboard, but his callused hands hint of days when he didnt have to accept free meals. I started at old Dixie when I was 16 years old, Brindle says. That was in 1964. Why finish high school when Dixie Furniture Co., which employed more than 1,000 workers in 15 buildings that sprawled over 31 acres along the Southern Railway tracks, was paying good money?
He would wind up a supervisor, making $11 an hour, which was all right for this area. But outside ownership, imports and intense competition would bring old Dixie down. Beginning in 1987, it and several affiliates were bought, reinvented, sold and leveraged into Lexington Home Brands. Brindle, like hundreds of others, was laid off in 2005. That October, the company closed its last U.S. wood-furniture factory.
Brindle has struggled since. He attended community college to learn a new trade, then tried bricklaying. But I couldnt hold up for anything like that, he says. So he holds a sign as cars roll by. Im mainly doing this here so I wont be sitting at home on my butt all day. He looks down the street. The Lexington that I knew growing up is gone.
The last decade has been no kinder to this city of about 19,000 than it was to him and the company he hung his hopes on. Though in the heart of the Piedmont, the most prosperous part of the state, Lexington lost population, down 5%, from 2000 to 2010, the last census showed. Compare that with statewide growth of 18.5%. Or with nearby cities such as Thomasville, which grew 35.2%, or Salisbury, 27.2%. The population of Davidson County of which Lexington is the seat increased 10.6%.
Some say Lexingtons growth was stunted because it botched an annexation that would have brought 2,000 new residents and has lackluster schools. But mostly the city shrank because its manufacturing base, predominantly furniture and textiles, shriveled, causing people to move away. They went to other towns to find jobs, says Bob Timberlake, the artist who found fame with his paintings of the rural landscape that surrounds his hometown. Manufacturing was our life. Its what fed everybody. It gave promise to students that they were going to have a job and the American dream when they got out of school. Now those jobs have gone halfway around the globe, where workers are paid half what Lewis Brindle makes as a human billboard.
The numbers are grim. From 2006 to 2011, unemployment hovered around 16%. Manufacturing, which provided more than half the jobs in 1980, comprises less than a third now. One of every four residents lives in poverty, compared with 15.5% statewide. Almost half those under 18 are poor; the state figure is one in five. Ive never seen anything like it in my lifetime, Timberlake says. But I cant imagine living anywhere else in the world.
Lexingtons plight is not unique. Since 2008, the 12 counties of the Piedmont Triad Partnership, Davidson among them, have lost some 90,000 jobs, more than any other region of the state. And it is the loss of manufacturing jobs that hurts most. Between 2005 and 2010, North Carolina lost 137,154 nearly a quarter in what once, by several measures, was considered the nations most industrialized state. Of those the N.C. Department of Commerce considers competitors, only Georgia and Michigan shed a larger portion of their manufacturing industry. Unlike many small Tar Heel towns, Lexington can boast of attractions such as Timberlakes gallery, NASCAR team owner Richard Childress vineyard and its famous barbecue. But this is a place that made its name known around the world by making things. Now its struggling to find a way to remake itself.
Legend has it that a horseman tore into town in 1775 with news that fighting had erupted between colonial militia and British regulars in the Massachusetts village of Lexington, so local patriots adopted the name for their own hamlet. By 1810, their town could boast a store, tavern, post office and population of 83. Incorporation came in 1827, and the North Carolina Railroad followed in 1855, triggering a building boom. By 1858, it had a grand Greek Revival courthouse.
Like the Yadkin River east of town, Lexington rolled on, reflecting ups and downs in the national economy. Erlanger Cotton Mills and Co. came along in 1914, making dimity-check fabric for BVD underwear. Housing 1,400 workers and their families, the mill village had its own community hall, day nursery, kindergarten, schools, dairy and church. It was not just a mill, it was a community, says Joe Sink Jr., former publisher of The Dispatch, the newspaper his family owned until sold to The New York Times Co. in 1973. (It was sold again in January to Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Media Holdings LLC). Sink attended Grimes Elementary with mill kids. They werent any different from me, except they had their own gymnasium, swimming pool and subsidized housing 25 cents a month per room.
Textile mills created jobs, but it was furniture factories that made the town famous. By the early 1900s, the town had Lexington Chair Co., The Crowell Furniture Co. and Standard Parlor Furniture Co., among others. But first among them was Dixie Furniture Co. A factory with that name dated back to the turn of the century, but Henry Link organized his company in 1936 with 90 employees to produce moderately priced bedroom furniture. In 1940, after visiting auto plants in Detroit, he added motorized conveyors that would turn Dixie into the largest manufacturer of bedroom furniture in the world. It spawned affiliates to produce solid-wood bedroom and dining furniture, boys and girls bedroom furniture and, in the 1970s, wicker furniture. By 1986, Lexington Furniture Industries, the umbrella organization for the various branches, was the nations ninth-largest furniture maker, with revenue of $205 million and 4,500 employees. By then, furniture manufacturing employed one in four of Davidson Countys workers.
But that was then, and this is now. Furniture, tobacco and textiles, which accounted for 70% of the states manufacturing jobs in 1947, provided less than a third by 1996. Manufacturing itself became less of a factor in the state economy as jobs went overseas. Then the last recession pummeled the sector, which fell from 14.2% of total Tar Heel employment in 2005 to 10.9% in 2010.
Within Lexington, furniture manufacturing is limited at present to two or three companies, says Burr Sullivan, president and CEO of the local chamber of commerce. Stanley Furniture closed its plant in early 2010. We do have United Furniture, an upholstery manufacturer based in Mississippi that opened its Lexington plant two years ago and now has 460 employees. Linwood Furniture is located in a community just outside Lexington. Lexington Home Brands operates a distribution plant here for products sourced in Asia.
Chris Reddick, 55, is one of hundreds of former furniture workers trying to retool their lives. She recalls the day four years ago when she was laid off at Drexel Heritages Plant 37. I went home acrying because that place had been there forever. I mean, my momma worked there, my father-in-law and my mother-in-law worked there 20 years and retired from there. I never thought Id see that plant closed. Cobbling together government grants and scholarships, she is earning a four-year teaching degree from Salisbury-based Catawba College, which offers classes at Davidson County Community Colleges Lexington campus. Its mind-boggling, she says, because you have to get your brain to working again. The first test I had, I thought, What have I got myself into?
There are manufacturing jobs to be had, but they require a different set of skills, which DCCC tries to provide. On a three-day bus tour in February to highlight innovative industry partnerships with community colleges, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, came visiting. As part of their tour, they toured the schools Advanced Manufacturing Lab, an almost obligatory stop for dignitaries. Here, bathed in fluorescent light and nearly hospital clean, a series of lathes and mills hooked to a computer panel teaches students to design, create and machine parts from blocks of metal. Randy Ledford, dean of the community colleges School of Business, Engineering & Technical Studies, points to a blinking monitor set into an industrial-gray machine the size of a minivan. This, he says, is where students learn to talk to machines.
Problem is, the lingua franca of computers is a four-letter word to many students: math. There are good jobs out there starting with salaries of $40,000-50,000 a year, he says. One local company has 16 openings. And here are the steps youre going to have to follow in order to get those jobs: Take math and science.
This proved a stumbling block for his own father, Ledford says. At age 50, after working in one sock plant after another, each of which closed as jobs departed, he tried to go back to school on two occasions, but he just wasnt able to gain the skill sets he needed for these high-tech jobs we have even with his son tutoring him. He couldnt get past the math part. Even for recent high-school graduates, the coursework can be daunting. Designing things requires quite a bit of calculus, differential equations and linear algebra, Ledford says. In the computer-aided machining curriculum, for example, two out of three students dont make it through the second year.
Some blame poor preparation. We have one of the worst school systems in the state, Sink says. Thats questionable, but theres no doubt the city schools could be better. Seven of 10 third- to eighth-graders in the county system passed end-of-grade tests last year; only about half of Lexingtons did. Nearly nine of 10 high-school students in the county system passed end-of-course tests; barely two-thirds in the city system did. The statewide rate is 80%.
What happened to the citys schools, which once were far superior to the countys, is what occurred in many of the states smaller cities, as well as in the inner cities of its large ones. Folks that could, took their children out of the city school system, says Frank Callicutt, a new member of the City Council with three children in the system. They put them in private schools or got them into the county system, where 80% of the students are white. Nearly three quarters of Lexingtons students are minorities. A staggering 92% get free or reduced-rate lunches, compared with 53% statewide. We can improve Main Street and we can improve jobs here, but no one is going to live here until we improve the school system, Callicutt says.
But its not all the school systems fault, says Antionette Kerr, executive director of the nonprofit Lexington Housing Community Development Corp. We raised a generation of children in poverty. For years, the city clung to a dream. People thought this manufacturing savior would come and automatically all social issues that surrounded the economic downturn would go away. All the while, she says, Lexington was in denial about the root problem: children living in poverty.
Manufacturing, according to the new mayor, cannot be the centerpiece of Lexingtons recovery. Theres got to be a balance thats never existed before, Newell Clark says. We need to become a business-friendly environment to help entrepreneurs and small business owners. With that as a backdrop, last years municipal elections shaped up as a referendum on the citys future.
On one side, there was John Walser, 72, who came onto the City Council in 1991 and had been mayor since 2007. Im right proud of what weve done here, he said during the campaign. I think the status quo has been pretty good for most people compared to the rest of the country. We have a better record of jobs than almost any city in the country. In announcing his candidacy, Clark vowed, After today, its not business as usual in Lexington. He told how he had left a good job as a professional photographer and college instructor in Santa Barbara, Calif., to move back in 2007 to take over Standell Properties, the family business, because his hometown was where he wanted to raise his family.
Predictably, change won. Clark, 40, became one of the citys youngest mayors ever, and of four seats up for election on the eight-member council, only one incumbent won.
What happened here is people wanted new blood, Timberlake says. And its about time. If you cant change, youre in trouble. Youre going to be left by the wayside. Sink believes that the departure of industry and executives left a leadership vacuum in Lexington, just as it did in many other places across the state. My take on Newell is hes young, and he needs the city to grow for him to make money in real estate. The same could be said of Callicutt, 35, a partner in Evans Properties Inc., who won an at-large seat. But he points out that, as a parent, he has a personal stake: Unless things improve, his children will leave Lexington when they grow up. If I do all I can to change that, at least it wont be my fault.
The new blood believes downtown Lexington, with its historic buildings revitalized, can become a sort of small-business incubator. In addition to being the seat of county government, it already has a thriving hardware store, a grocery, several banks, jewelers, florists and antique and coffee shops. Even the shuttered factories have potential. In March, a meeting to gauge public support for revitalization of the city-owned, million-square-foot Lexington Home Brands Plant No. 1 drew 175 people. The city has hired Charlotte architectural firm Shook Kelley Inc. to study, among other things, whether shops, restaurants and residential housing might thrive in a once-industrial setting. So many cities your size would absolutely kill for your downtown, Terry Shook told the assembled. It is a great foundation to build on.
Many consider Chris Phelps the breed to breathe new life into the city. In 2010, he opened High Rock Outfitters. Using pressed-tin ceiling tiles, corrugated siding from a chicken house and old bricks, he turned a Main Street storefront into a hangout for young adults, many living within walking distance of downtown in restored historic homes. He soon discovered that coffee sales lagged as the day progressed and that sales of camping equipment and kayaks were highly seasonal. He decided to offer North Carolina wine, craft beer and local music, but that, he discovered, would require rezoning the property to operate what the city code called a nightclub, a concept that shocked many locals.
My skin cringes at the word nightclub, he says. Weeks, then months went by before a zoning meeting was scheduled. We had a huge turnout. We had something like 50 people there, standing room only. Only one person opposed the rezoning. High Rock Outfitters now serves organic Jamaican coffee during the day and Black Mountains Pisgah Pale Ale at night. The space is jammed on weekends and even on weeknights if theres entertainment.
Bob Timberlake sits in his gallery, surrounded by duck decoys, model sailboats, handcrafted canoes and leather easy chairs and sofas hes helped design. From his window, he can see Interstate 85, where 70,000 cars a day go by. I cant imagine being located in a better place than we are, he says. One of the things Shook Kelley is studying is the feasibility of reopening the train depot for Amtrak service. That, Timberlake thinks, could turn the city into a bedroom community. I see us having the potential of being a small, warm, friendly, responsible and successful small town. We can sit on our front porches and visit and listen to the birds and the bees. Its soothing to live here.


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A man accused of raping his stepdaughter and impregnating her turned himself in Wednesday and was charged with sexual battery by a person of custodial authority on a victim over 12.
Last July, the victim told police the man forced himself on her when she was 15, in July 2008, and she became pregnant. The victim is now 19.
Detective Mike Hilton interviewed the woman, who said the rape occurred when she was living at her mother's residence and the man threatened to kill her if she told anyone. She said he later threatened to take away her daughter since he was the biological father. Fearing she would lose her child, that is when she contacted police.
Hilton also interviewed the man in July. He denied having sexual contact with his stepdaughter and provided a DNA sample to be compared with the DNA of the child, now age 3.
On Jan. 2, Hilton received the results, which showed that the man is the father of the toddler.
The 47-year-old man met Hilton at the Ocala Police Department on Wednesday, where he was arrested and transported to the Marion County Jail.
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|Written by Rhonda Osborne, LPC, Centennial Mental Health
Mistletoe, carols, pretty ribbon and bows; the holiday season has arrived. For many this is a month of excitement and joy. Shopping, wrapping beautiful gifts, preparing cookies and eggnog, decorating the tree and planning for Santa makes this time of year special for thousands.
Unfortunately, this is also the season that reminds others just how miserable they really are. Perhaps they have lost someone special during the year and this is their first Christmas without them; the economic crisis may have resulted in loss of one's home, vehicle, insurance, etc.
Others might find Christmas is the trigger to memories of family violence, sexual abuse or addiction problems. These are the individuals who dread Thanksgiving being over, and breathe a sigh of release once the New Year has begun.
With the chaos of the season, depressive symptoms can easily be overlooked, within ourselves and in those we love. Irritability may be a normal response to dealing with visiting in-laws, or it may be a symptom of declining mental health. Difficulties falling and staying asleep can easily be blamed on the rush of activities. Insomnia, however, is a piece of the depression puzzle as well.
Other symptoms of depression include the loss of energy, loss of motivation to engage in activities previously enjoyed, feelings of excessive and inappropriate guilt (keeping in mind some people should feel guilty about the ugly moose sweaters they wrap up for family members), difficulties concentrating, thoughts of death and weight and appetite changes.
Weight gains can appear to be the result of holiday snacks, big feasts of high fat side dishes and stocking candy. However, if one's weight continues to increase following the holiday, it may yet be another symptom indicating depression. Loss of appetite and weight loss are also symptoms.
Whether the season is one of enjoyment or misery for you, take notice of any changes to the following: appetite, weight, mood, energy, concentration, sleep patterns, guilt, feelings of hopelessness and thoughts of death. Don't be afraid to ask a family member about other symptoms if you witness a change in them.
Remind yourself and others depression is a common disorder that can be easily treated. Early symptom identification can prevent a lapse into a complete depressive episode.
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SHRM Chapter Recognized for Excellence
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Shippensburg University's student chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has earned a Superior Merit Award from the national organization as recognition of its excellence and achievement during the 2011-2012 year.
It is the fourth consecutive year the chapter has earned this prestigious award and the chapter will be recognized at the 2012 Annual Student Conference in Atlanta June 23.
Dr. John G. Kooti, dean of the John L. Grove College of Business, said, "Chapter officers and members participated in and coordinated a variety of professional development activities throughout the year which enabled the chapter to achieve the SHRM Superior Merit award. We congratulate our students and their chapter adviser, Dr. Vicki Taylor, for this significant achievement."
According to information on SHRM's website, the award recognizes student chapters of SHRM for their exceptional ability in operations, the professional development of chapter members, promotion of the profession and support of SHRM.
SHRM, according to its website, is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management with more than 250,000 professional and student members in more than 140 countries. Founded in 1948, SHRM has more than 575 affiliated professional chapters and more than 450 student chapters within the United States as well as subsidiary offices in China and India.


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Through endless, eons-long cycles of drought and flood, the ancient San Antonio River has worked its magic on this land, providing homes for all living things through the presence of water. Whether plants, animals or people, all are part of the interconnecting web of life, with water acting as the thread that draws all.
Visitors attending Rio! Rio! will be able to encounter and learn about many of the native plants and animals that call the water, woodlands and limestone bluffs around the San Antonio river "home." And there will be people, too. Just like the park's wild neighbors, humans have been drawn to create our homes along the river. Leatherworkers, potters and many other lifeways demonstrators will share how water has shaped human life in this region.
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This project is about audio processing techniques and algorithms. It covers sound capture and speech enhancement topics, acoustic echo cancellation, de-reverberation, microphone array processing. On the playback side are loudspeaker arrays, spatial sound and sound picture formation.
Speech enhancement
This topic includes denoising algorithms. In most of the cases this is applying a time varying real gain to the short term frequency transformation of an audio frame extracted from the input signal. This class of algorithms is denoted as noise suppression. Various criteria for estimation of this suppression gain (rule) were derived historically: magnitude minimum mean square error (Wiener, 1947), spectral subtraction (Boll, 1979), maximum likelihood (McAllay and Malpass, 1980), short-term MMSE (Ephraim and Malah, 1984), log MMSE (Ephraim and Malah, 1985), etc.
In other cases the unwanted signal can be reduced using some prior knowledge (a harmonic nature allows predicting the signal in the next frame), or even knoledge of some filtered version of the noise itself, when we talk about noise cancellation algorithms.
Our point is that what matters is how the output sounds to humans (if the target is human ears) or what is the reduction in the word error rate (if the target is speech recognizer). We use psychoacoustic criteria and large signal corpus to tune the algorithms to maximize the perceptual sound quality.
Microphone array processing
A single microphone captures too much noise and reverberation, especially in noisy environment. One of the solutions to capture better sound is to use more microphones. The signals from these microphones, combined in certain way, increase the directivity of the device and reduce the captured noise and reverberation. Using multiple microphones allows localization of the sound source and pointing the directivity pattern maximum towards the desired sound source.
Initially we designed this technology for office and conference room scenarios. Our technology is part of Windows Vista. More details can be found on the Microphone array project web page.
Using multiple microphones can improve the sound capturing quality of headsets and small form factor devices as cell phones and portable media players. The classic beamforming is less effective due to the smaller size of the array, which requires employing additional spatial suppression techniques. On the following picture a head and torso simulator is wearing a headset with three element microphone array.
What is reverberation and why it hurts?
When a sound source is placed in closed room or near sound reflecting surfaces the listener receives not only the direct wave, but in addition multiple reflected waves. This smears the speech features and makes it less intelligible for humans and reduces the recognition rate for speech recognition engines. Therefore for best speech recognition results users are forced to use headsets with close-talk microphones.
Dereverberation as deconvolution
Nearly every approach assumes a convolutional model for the effects of reverberation. Then it is logical to try undoing the effects of reverberation by deconvolution (inverse filtering). This can be done mathematically perfect only if the room response is minimum phase, i.e. is causal, invertible and the inverted function is causal. As in most of the cases this is not true usually the de-convolution function is an approximation. Estimating the room response is more difficult in presence of noise.
Blind dereverberation
Blind dereverberation methods seek to estimate the input without explicitly computing a de-convolution or inverse filter. Some methods use probabilistic speech models and even Independent Component Analysis (ICA).
Dereverberation via suppression and enhancement
This approach tries to remove the reverberation effects by methods used for noise suppression and speech enhancement. These algorithms will either try to suppress the reverberation, to enhance the speech or both. In contrast of blind algorithms, however, there is no source signal estimation either. Rather the waveform is processes to reduce the negative effects of reverberation and enhance qualities of the captured waveform.
Our approach and initial results for ASR
The initial goal of our dereverberation project is to improve the speech recognition results from our microphone array for distances up to 3 feet and to make them as close as possible to close talk microphone. Most of the modern ASR systems have Cepstral Mean Normalization in the front end. The purpose of this processing id to compensate the frequency response of the capturing channel, but, due to relatively fast adaptation time, it successfully compensates the early reverberation - up to 50 ms. At that time the rate of reflections arriving already exceeds the sampling rate, converting the reverberation to a stochastic process. Estimation of the room response would not give us good results under these conditions, therefore we choose to do de-reverberation via suppression.
Initial results are shown in the next charts. A test set of ~3000 utterances was recorded using close talk microphone, regular analog PC microphone and the four element microphone array in a conference room from distances 1.0 and 2.5 meters. The sound was played trough B&K mouth simulator.
Speaker array
This is pure research project for now. We decided to see what can be reused from our experience in beamforming design for microphone arrays. The loudspeaker array consists of sixteen inexpensive speakers and has linear geometry. The project was demonstrated during Microsoft Research TechFest 2007 as "Personal Audio Space" and definitely had the "Wow!" effect among the visitors in our booth. We demonstrated focusing the sound in given area and dual beam mode when you hear one music channel in one place and a second music channel in another. The attending journalists liked the demo and it was widely published in the press: WIRED Blog Network, Seattle PI, MIT Technology Review, MSR web site, many others, in different languages and from different countries. Currently we are exploring various scenarios and potential applications for this technology.
Multichannel Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is part of every communication device working in speakerphone mode. It estimates the transfer path between the loudspeaker and the microphone and then subtracts the signal we send to the loudspeaker from the captured by the microphone signal. This prevents annoying echoes and feedback in the closed loop communication system. The AEC employs an adaptive filter using typically NLMS, but in some cases RLS, AP (or FAP) algorithms.
Stereo, and later multichannel (for surround sound systems), acoustic echo cancellation is not a trivial problem and sparked a lot of interest in the research community. The problem is that the stereo channels are highly correlated which leads to infinite number of solutions. Only one of them is the real solution, for all others the AEC has to readapt when something changes in the stereo signal.
We demonstrated multichannel acoustic echo cancellation and sound capturing with eight element circular array during Microsoft Research TechFest 2008. Our approach is based on starting the adaptation process at the right solution and reducing the degrees of freedom of the adaptive system to the right solution only. Our setup is shown on the next picture.
Potential applications of the Multichannel Acoustic Echo cancellation include voice control of multimedia systems, advanced communication systems, gaming scenarios. Video of this demo canb be found here.
The anechoic chamber
In our audio projects we actively use the anechoic chamber for measurements of microphones and microphone arrays directivity pattern, generation of reference recordings, measuring the sound filed around speaker arrays, etc. The chamber provides very low noise and low reverberation environment. It is part of the new building Microsoft Research moved in at the end of 2007 and become one of the places which attracted visitors and journalists. MIT's Technology Review, Computerworld, Wired.com, and some bloggers posted articles or notes about our audio facility.
- Jinkyu Lee and Ivan Tashev, High-level Feature Representation using Recurrent Neural Network for Speech Emotion Recognition, in Interspeech 2015, ISCA - International Speech Communication Association, 8 September 2015.
- Ivan J. Tashev, Offline Voice Activity Detector Using Speech Supergaussianity, in Information Theory and Applications Workshop, University of California - San Diego, 3 February 2015.
- Kun Han, Dong Yu, and Ivan Tashev, Speech Emotion Recognition Using Deep Neural Network and Extreme Learning Machine, in Interspeech 2014, September 2014.
- Ivan J. Tashev, Technological Trends in Natural User Interfaces, in Computing Now, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. [online], IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, September 2014.
- Ivan Dokmanic and Ivan Tashev, Hardware and Algorithms for Ultrasonic Depth Imaging, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 9 May 2014.
- Ivan Tashev, Kinect Development Kit: A Toolkit for Gesture- and Speech-Based Human-Machine Interaction, in Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE, September 2013.
- Edmund Lalor, Nima Mesgarani, Siddharth Rajaram, Adam O'Donovan, James Wright, Inyong Choi, Jonathan Brumberg, Nai Ding, Adrian KC Lee, Nils Peters, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Jeffrey Pompe, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Malcolm Slaney, and Shihab Shamma, Decoding Auditory Attention (in Real Time) with EEG, in Proceedings of the 37th ARO MidWinter Meeting, Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), 17 February 2013.
- Ivan Tashev and Malcolm Slaney, Data Driven Suppression Rule for Speech Enhancement, in Information Theory and Applications Workshop , University of California - San Diego, 14 February 2013.
- Kenichi Kumatani, Takayuki Arakawa, Kazumasa Yamamoto, John McDonough, Bhiksha Raj, Rita Singh, and Ivan Tashev, Microphone Array Processing for Distant Speech Recognition: Towards Real-World Deployment, in APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, Hollywood, CA, USA, 5 December 2012.
- Jens Ahrens, Mark R.P. Thomas, and Ivan Tashev, HRTF Magnitude Modeling Using a Non-Regularized Least-Squares Fit of Spherical Harmonics Coefficients on Incomplete Data, in APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, Hollywood, CA, USA, 4 December 2012.


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The Georgia Bulldogs have competed in the Southeastern Conference since its inception in 1932 and have been a basketball program since the 1890s. The highlight of the program came in 1983 when the Bulldogs won their conference tournament and advanced all the way to the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament. Former NBA star Dominique Wilkins played three years for the Bulldogs, but left after his junior season, the year before Georgia advanced to the Final Four. In their history, the Bulldogs have appeared in the NCAA Tournament nine times and have won their conference tournament twice. Georgia has also won their conference regular season title once. Score with TicketCity - the place to go for Georgia Bulldogs basketball tickets.
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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
This rivalry may not get the attention as football, but it is just as heated. Georgia and Georgia Tech have played over 185 times in their history with the first game being played in 1906. The home team has dominated this match-up as the team that has hosted the game has won 111 times.
The Georgia Bulldogs have appeared in the NCAA Tournament nine times in their history and advanced to the Final Four once in 1983. The Bulldogs have won their conference tournament twice and the regular season once throughout the years.
Gates open at Stegeman Coliseum 60 minutes prior to tip-off.
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Cyclones Strong in Spring Tournament
AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State volleyball team started its spring season Saturday with the Iowa State Spring Tournament in front of a spirited crowd at Hilton Coliseum. Iowa State won all three sets of its matches against Omaha and Nebraska-Kearney while the Cyclones also took two of three sets off UNI.
Victoria Hurtt led the Iowa State attack with 21 kills across the three matches at a .316 hitting percentage. Iowa State hit at a .233 hitting percentage as a squad across the three matches. Natalie Vondrak joined Hurtt with an over .300 hitting percentage as she earned a .303 hitting percentage.
Vondrak led the Cyclones' blocking effort with five total blocks on the day.
Another area that Iowa State showed its prowess in was serving, as ISU finished with 26 service aces across the matches. A couple of new faces led the Cyclones in serving as Samara West, who redshirted in 2013 and Suzanne Horner, a transfer from Mississippi State led ISU with five service aces.
Iowa State is back in action next Saturday at the UNI Spring Tournament in 9 a.m. Iowa State will play again in Hilton Coliseum this spring when they take on Nebraska at 2 p.m. on April 19. Iowa State also has a match against Creighton in Carroll, Iowa at Carroll High School at 6:30 p.m. on April 17.


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|Jolly Dozen to host State FCE Conf.
|Written by April Peregoy
Traveling from all four corners of the state, between 60-75 women (and a few husbands) are expected to be in Holyoke June 11-14 as the local FCE Jolly Dozen Club hosts the 78th Annual State FCE Conference.
Most of the meetings and workshops will take place in the Peerless Center. The workshops are open to the public and locals are also welcome to stop by and take a look at the cultural arts projects that will be on display.
This year's theme is "Birds of a Feather Flock Together," and most of the programs and activities are based on this. Time is also set aside in the afternoons for the ladies to tour Phillips County Museum, Heginbotham Library and to do some downtown shopping.
Following the initial registration and entering of cultural arts projects on Thursday afternoon, June 11, the festivities will kick off at 7 p.m. with a banana split social in the Peerless gym.
On Friday, June 12, Mayor David Nygaard will give a welcome speech during the opening ceremony at 9 a.m. A flag presentation, folding and etiquette will then be performed by Gene Daise and other local veterans.
Workshops and programs taking place on Friday include: "Going Green," 9:30 a.m., taught by state FCE president Victoria Schmidt; "Earth Links" program, 10:30 a.m., Bette Ann Jester; "Going Green, Eating Green," 1 p.m., Yuma County extension agent Joy Akey; and "Community Gardens," 2 p.m., Phillips County extension horticulturist Linda Langelo. A tour of the Holyoke Community Garden will follow Langelo's workshop at 3 p.m.
An "FCE Forever Dinner" will take place Friday night as well at the Sunset View Community Center. Holyoke Marketplace will cater the meal, and Holyoke High School Select Choir will provide the entertainment.
The agenda for Saturday, June 13, calls for members to spend much of the morning attending the annual state FCE business meeting. Lunch in the Peerless gym at 12 noon will feature local humorist Karin Kramer.
In the afternoon, Jack Wieland will give a Department of Wildlife presentation at 1 p.m. This will be followed by a Family Community Leadership Workshop from 2-4 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend this workshop to learn more about FCE and how individuals can become certified Family Community Leaders (FCL).
Another banquet catered by Holyoke Marketplace will take place again at Sunset View Community Center on Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. During the banquet, numerous awards, including FCE Member of the Year and Honorary Life Member of the Year, will be handed out. Awards for 50 and 60-year members will also be handed out. Holyoke resident Viola Colglazier will be one of these recipients. She will be honored as a 60-year member of FCE.
Activities will wrap up on Sunday, June 14, with an inspirational devotion to be given by Rita Kleve at the Peerless Auditorium at 8:30 a.m.
According to state conference coordinators Joyce Harms and Mary Tomky, this year's conference was planned by clubs in District 1, which includes Wray, Idalia, Burlington and Akron. The planning commmittee came to Holyoke in February and March to check out the facilities.
"They raved and raved again about Holyoke," said Tomky.
March 20-21, the FCE State Board also visited Holyoke and was impressed by the layout of the community, the unique stores and all that Holyoke has for its size. Noted Tomky, "I was at the conference last year in Creede and we are several notches above in facilities and meals this year."
FCE stands for Family and Community Education. Its mission is to strengthen individuals, families and communities through continuing education, leadership and community action.
The National Association for Family and Community Education was established in 1936 as the National Home Demonstration Council. The organization has evolved with the times and changed its name throughout the century, but the basic mission has remained the same: To educate individuals and community members for the improvement of family and society.
The local Holyoke chapter of FCE developed in 1930. At the time, it was called the Extension Homemakers Club. In 1950 the club re-organized and changed its name to the current title, Jolly Dozen Club.
Over the years, FCE Jolly Dozen Club has contributed to the community in many ways. They remain active to this day by making favors for residents and patients at Regent Park and Melissa Melissa Hospital, sponsoring the annual Holly Daze event and providing baby books to newborns born at MMH and Haxtun Hospital.
The club also donates to several other organizations including Holyoke Volunteer Fire Dept., Dragon's Wagon Preschool, Baby Bear Hugs and County Express.
Membership is open to individuals who meet the local requirements and by paying dues through the FCE affiliated state association.
Individuals may join as supporting members by paying dues directly to National FCE Headquarters when they choose not to belong through a state affiliate. However, they are not represented by vote at National FCE meetings.


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Testimony :: Hon. Alcee L. Hastings
Co-Chairman - Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing today on these longstanding and time-sensitive concerns.
Roughly one year ago, virtually every country in Europe sent representatives to Prague to discuss outstanding issues relating to Holocaust-era assets -- outstanding even 65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of the war. I commend the government of the Czech Republic for hosting that conference. But I do not see the Prague conference as an end unto itself. That is why this hearing is so important -- we need to see the lofty goals espoused at that conference translated into real, and meaningful, action.
While the Prague Conference covered a lot of issues, I would like to highlight one subject in particular. A special session focused on the extremely difficult and even precarious situation of many elderly and impoverished victims of the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes. Those who suffered extraordinary emotional and physical anguish during the war often suffer the lingering effects of trauma, particularly in old age. I welcome special attention that was given to the subject in Prague.
With this in mind, Mr. Chairman, I would like to draw attention briefly to a statement by Esther Topeorek Finder that has been submitted for the record. Her deeply moving remarks about the impact diseases of age have on Holocaust survivors were originally presented at the Prague conference and I commend them to everyone here. I would also note that Ms. Finder's commitment and dedication to Holocaust survivors is eloquently described in the May 19th issue of WASHINGTON JEWISH WEEK.
Mr. Chairman, I also wanted to say just a few words about the particular problem of heirless property. And here, I want to make two points.
First, there is something terribly perverse about applying the normal rules of inheritance to the extraordinary and tragic circumstances created by the Holocaust. Last August, the NEW YORK TIMES described the situation of Michael Klepetar. His Great Uncle was killed during the Holocaust, along with his Great Uncle's direct heirs. The Czech Government has relied on its standard rules of inheritance to prevent Mr. Klepetar from claiming his Great Uncle's artwork because the family's direct heirs were murdered. Meanwhile, the family artwork hangs in the National Gallery in Prague. Mr. Chairman, I think that is just wrong.
Governments have, I believe, a moral responsibility to address this problem more creatively. And where property is truly, truly heirless, the proceeds of heirless properties should go to communities, in trust for survivors' needs and welfare.
With that, Mr. Chairman, I join you in welcoming Ambassador Eizenstat. Ambassador Eizenstat, thank you for your tremendous leadership on these issues.


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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- DC Police are investigating a shooting that killed 23-year-old Angelo Alphonso Payne.
On Sunday at about 12:08 a.m., police responded to the 3400 block of Croffut Place in SE DC for reports of gunshots. When officers arrived they found Payne unconscious suffering from gunshot wounds, DC police said.
DC Fire and EMS transported him to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
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MSRA Back To The 50's Show - Back '50's To The WeekendWritten by on October 1, 2009 It's Sturgis For Hot Rod Trucks
The summertime is the right time for hopping in the cab of your truck and hitting the road, but unfortunately there's a million different events all going on at the same time. A case in point was the weekend of June 21, the first week of summer when the MSRA folks were throwing their 36th annual Back to the '50's event. On the same date out in California, not more than 10 miles away from our Placentia offices, the 27th annual F-100 Western Nationals were taking place, and just a little farther north, the L.A. Roadsters were holding their 45th annual show. It was a shame to miss 'em but Tim Bernsau and I had been talking about hitting Back to the '50's for some time, so we decided this year was going to be the year we went. What a great time we had, it was like climbing into a time machine and going back 50 years in time.
Back to the '50's Weekend is held on the 320-acre grounds of the Minnesota State Fair which opened for the first time on September 7, 1885, so as one can imagine there's a lot of great old buildings, and established landscaping to make it the perfect venue to hold over 100,000 attendees and over 11,500 vehicles. For information about next year's show please check out www.msra.com.
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Here's "Wings" Kalahan, the voice of Hot Rod Radio in front of his '38 Chevy set up to haul his 40-foot mobile radio station. The Cruisn' with Wings show went nonstop all weekend long and was the perfect rock 'n' roll catalyst to trigger massive amounts of nostalgia. Longtime friend "Big Daddy" Roth striped the flames on Wings' '38 in 1994, good stuff Maynard!From Lakes Country MN, Jamie Gjersvig rolled up in his Torch Red '52 Chevy by Frazee Auto Body, powered by a souped-up 235-inch Chevy Stovebolt.Power parts include a Fenton split exhaust and dual-carb intake manifold with an HEI robbed out of an '84 292-inch GM truck motor.
Dean liked the design so much he went straight to the printer and cranked out a bunch of decals with dirty artwork.We could have shot Brock Shimon's aqua and white '56 GMC extended cab from Corcoran, MN, for a full feature if the interior had been done.
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Dan Terfehr from Fairmont, MN, owns one of the nicest stock '58 Cameo Carriers we think we have ever seen.Notice the Cameo also sports Apache emblems. 1958 was the first year for the Apache model in Chevrolet's truck lineup.Paul and Bonnie Mohagen drove their Vermillion Red '62 Ford F-100 in from Grafton, ND. Paul hauled the Unibody shortbed in from York, NE, and then spent four years putting his "shop" truck together. Power comes from a 302-inch Ford with a five-speed manual transmission. The front suspension is sourced from Fatman Fabrications and Vintage Air keeps the humidity out, and the air cold.Wayne Lussman of Fort Dodge, IA, bought this '56 Ford F-100 when he was 18 years old for $50, it was his first truck. Thirty-two years later the '56 has Vintage Air, Volare frontend, a 390-inch big-block with a C-6, and 2.75:1 freeway gears in the rearend. The paint was done by Snyder Autobody in Storm Lake, IA, and the bitchin' interior was done by Gord Upholstery in Dakota City, IA.
Henry and Sheila Weber bought their '63 Chevy C10 at Back to the '50's in 2008. It has Vintage Air and a 350 with a 700-R4 automatic transmission. They are members of the Classic GMC Chevrolet club of Minnesota.Rick and Gina McShane of Shakopee, MN, have a custom paintjob on their '64 Ford F-100 Flareside that has to be seen to be believed.What's unbelievable about the DuPont Candy Orange Hot Hues job is it was done at the Macco in Burnsville, MN, by Jason Liesenfeld for a little more than Macco's standard top-of-the-line paintjob. Under the hood is 400-inch Mercury with a C-6 transmission.


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Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871
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Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871
- Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the American Republic.
- Tsar Alexander II broke the chains of the serfs and brought the rule of law to Russia.
- Otto von Bismarck threw over the petty Teutonic princes, defeated the House of Austria and the last of the imperial Napoleons, and united the German nation.
The three statesmen forged the empires that would dominate the twentieth century through two world wars, the Cold War, and beyond. Each of the three was a revolutionary, yet each consolidated a nation that differed profoundly from the others in its conceptions of liberty, power, and human destiny. Michael Knox Beran's Forge of Empires brilliantly entwines the stories of the three epochal transformations and their fateful legacies.
Telling the stories from the point of view of those who participated in the momentous events -- among them Walt Whitman and Friedrich Nietzsche, Mary Chesnut and Leo Tolstoy, Napoleon III and the Empress Eugénie -- Beran weaves a rich tapestry of high drama and human pathos. Great events often turned on the decisions of a few lone souls, and each of the three statesmen faced moments of painful doubt or denial as well as significant decisions that would redefine their nations.
With its vivid narrative and memorable portraiture, Forge of Empires sheds new light on a question of perennial importance: How are free states made, and how are they unmade? In the same decade that saw freedom's victories, one of the trinity of liberators revealed himself as an enemy to the free state, and another lost heart. What Lincoln called the "germ" of freedom, which was "to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind," came close to being annihilated in a world crisis that pitted the free state against new philosophies of terror and coercion.
Forge of Empires is a masterly story of one of history's most significant decades.
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Royals to hold open tryout camp
The Royals will hold an open tryout camp at Mid America Sports Complex located at 20000 Johnson Drive in Shawnee, Kansas, tomorrow morning, Saturday, October 11.
Each player is required to sign a liability waiver. If a player is under age 21 a parent or guardian must also sign the waiver. Click here for a printable waiver. Copies will be available at the tryout camp.
College players are not eligible to participate in this tryout camp as it takes place during the academic year. High school players must have written permission from their school principal.
There is no registration fee. Registration will begin at 8:00 a.m. and the camp will start at 8:30 a.m. Bring your own personal equipment (shoes, glove, etc.). If you do not have a uniform, you should wear loose-fitting clothing, which will allow you to move freely.
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WNEC Routs Anna Maria, 21-1
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Senior goalie Brian Hanno (Lowville, NY) compiled five saves for his first collegiate victory as the Western New England men's lacrosse team posted a 21-1 victory over visiting Anna Maria in the season and The Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC) opener for both squads Saturday afternoon (Feb. 26).
Twelve players scored goals with freshman attacker Justin McKinney (Niskayuna, NY) leading the Golden Bears with two goals and three assists in his collegiate debut.
Junior midfielder Jonathan Roy (Lewiston, ME), freshman attacker Adam Knapton (Canandaigua, NY), and freshman midfielder Sean Lawton (Abington, MA) each contributed a pair of goals and assists.
Senior midfielder Mike Murray (North Baldwin, NY) and freshman midfielder Colton Craig (Gales Ferry, CT) added three goals apiece while freshman attacker Mike Donahue (South Windsor, CT) chipped-in with a goal and three assists. Senior midfielder Marty O'Brien (West Springfield, MA) had two goals and an assist.
Freshman midfielder Kris Woodcock (Clifton Park, NY) picked-up a team high six ground balls while sophomore defender Philip McLean (Wilbraham, MA) had five.
Western New England led 8-0 after the opening period and stretched the margin to 11-0 when Lawton scored at the 9:02 mark of the second quarter.
The AMCATS finally got on the board when sophomore attacker Chris Summers (Morris, NJ) netted a goal with an assist from Alex Natterstad (Upton, MA) with 5:51 remaining before the break. Sophomore goalie Andrew Ellis (Fitchburg, MA) stopped 15 shots for the visitors.
Several starters didn't play for the Golden Bears who had a commanding 56-11 advantage in shots.
This is only the third season of varsity competition for Anna Maria.
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JONESBORO, Ga. -- The 40 metro Atlanta students who were stranded in New York by Hurricane Sandy arrived home safely Thursday.
The Jonesboro High School and Atlanta International School students weathered the storm in their Brooklyn hotel after a mock trial competition over the weekend. The Jonesboro team came in fourth in the world.
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"It was a little scary at times, but out coaches took care of us and we knew that they had everything under control," said Jonesboro High student Kiara Scott.
"I knew they were fine, I knew they were good," said her mother Luella Scott. "It's just for my child to go through a hurricane without me, it's just a little nerve-racking."
The students never lost food or water, but they couldn't get a flight back home after the storm, so they chartered a bus back.
Their long journey ended with a flurry of hugs and kisses.
The students got to take the day off and go home with their families, but they will be back in class Friday.
Clayton County Schools and the Atlanta International School plan to split the cost of the charter, which is about $5,000.