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When he was just 12 years old, Viliami Lauti began selling drugs outside a rundown East Oakland liquor store. At first, it was easy money for new tennis shoes and clothes, but soon he became hooked on drugs and the steady flow of cash. By age 24, Lauti was a fixture on the corner of Coolidge Avenue and North MacArthur Boulevard.
Then, two years ago, he began running into Anthony Del Toro, an old high-school friend. They had lost touch after Lauti's expulsion from school. Del Toro, a third-generation Norteño gang member, graduated-but then spent more than three years in the county jail for dealing drugs.
Del Toro was back on the streets-for a different reason. He told Lauti he'd come out of the gang life with the help of Christian-based California Youth Outreach (CYO), where he works as a team leader. Each time Del Toro ran into Lauti, he would encourage him to make the change too. He even asked Lauti to join CYO's outreach team.
At first, Lauti resisted: "I told him I could never be a role model. I told him I was cool with the life I was living. But really, I wasn't cool with it. I carried a gun. I have been shot at. I knew I was either going to die or go to jail for a long time."
Del Toro persisted until Lauti finally went for an interview at CYO. He told his interviewer, "The only job I've ever had is selling drugs," but that wasn't a bar to the program. Soon he was studying the Bible, working with CYO mentors, and attending weekly meetings on topics like leadership, life skills, and accountability. During his training, Lauti realized "no man can serve two masters." He left drugs behind, and more than a year ago went to work as a street outreach worker.
In 1980, ex-gang-member-turned-pastor Tony Ortiz of San Jose founded CYO as a prison ministry. Since then it has expanded into a street outreach and mentoring program operating in five Bay-area cities. In Oakland, more than 20 former gang members and drug dealers regularly walk the streets in blighted neighborhoods, visiting schools, playing pick-up games of basketball, hosting block barbecues, and driving young men to job interviews.
"We know how to talk to our community because we look like our community," says Del Toro, 26, who wears a flat-billed San Jose Sharks hat and a baggy white T-shirt covering his tattooed arms. "We're out there as walking resources, as living proof, that there's a way out."
Kevin Grant is Oakland's coordinator for violence prevention groups under Measure Y, an anti-violence effort twice approved by voters. At least half of Measure Y's violence prevention funds go to CYO and other faith-based organizations. Grant, who grew up in Oakland as an "OG" (original gangster), cycled through 11 federal prisons in 17 years. He says, "A lot of people come into this town with their Harvard degrees and their cookie-cutter approaches, but we've got 500 degrees in street knowledge."
On a sunny Wednesday morning outside Oakland's parole office, Grant energetically greets 30 young men just released from state prisons. He knows many of them by name. Even those he doesn't, he's hugging, high-fiving, and referring to them as his "loved ones."
Inside, wearing a white Oakland A's hat, baggy gray jeans, and an extra-large T-shirt, Grant paces back and forth and tells stories about his time in federal prison, including the time in an Indiana prison when he held his newborn son. Within minutes, the guard said, "Now give him back." Grant didn't see his son again for 17 years. He doesn't want these parolees to suffer like that. He points them to sign-up sheets on tables lining both sides of the room: "Try something different. We've got people who can help you and opportunities for employment. This is your opportunity to get your life together."
Grant calls the work he does a slow dance: "We're working on re-messaging that violence is not the only way. While we're doing that, we're lining up some steady opportunities for them."
Grant's "loved one" approach is one way to fight crime. Some people in Oakland want to pursue "Operation Ceasefire," an approach based on a homicide reduction method developed by New York criminologist David Kennedy. Kennedy emphasizes town-hall-style meetings or "call-ins" between violent perpetrators, community leaders, and police who offer assistance and then present an ultimatum: Stop shooting, or your group will face targeted police response.
Even in the most crime-ridden neighborhoods, Kennedy-a professor at New York City's John Jay College of Criminal Justice-says most violence is the work of "a remarkably small group of criminals. ... If you can affect the behavior of these groups, in a very immediate way it is possible to see results." Operation Ceasefire helped to reduce youth homicide rates in Boston during the 1990s, and sometimes worked in other cities, but it failed completely in Baltimore and elsewhere. Kennedy blames the failures on bureaucratic politics in his 2011 memoir, Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America.
CYO founder Tony Ortiz says Kennedy's Ceasefire model "tries to pump a little fear into gangsters," but what they really need is a change of heart: "Most of these guys, you can't scare them out of violence. You have to earn their respect and show them a better way to live."
Viliami Lauti is modeling that better way. He recently received a message from a young man who had lived with him for two months before disappearing. "Meet me at Wing Stop," the message said. When Lauti showed up, the young man bought him lunch and told him that he had a job. He showed Lauti his check stubs and the car he'd bought: "He wanted to thank me and tell me he was getting his life together."


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heeyy : ) i know! i cant believe break is over : p i have 1 week left so im gonna try to enjoy it..get use to going to bed at a decent time lol..but on saturday the 21st im seeing william control XD so hopefuly it will be awesome..like my last memory of the summer. ya ill be broke after all the shows i have comming up too but im hoping since 30stm is oct and anberlin is nov i will get those tixs for my bday cuz my bday is next month : ) and ya 30stm is playing at USF like at the sundome at the college but there isnt a link yet to buy tickets so idk. oo enter shikari ya i want to see them but idk i have too much planned : / lol and i will prolly have to pass up the AP tour too but who knows XD so what have u been up to?
nooo ur not a bad roach lol. anywaysssss hmm well gigs...i want to go to thrash and brun this thursday to see asking alexandria and motionlessin white but idk if i can go. for sure though on the 21st im seeing william control..then i have uproar with disturbed and a7x on the 5th of september : ) after that.....the 23rd of september is the BFMV date!!! and then october is 30stm but idk about that show cuz now idk if they have a venu and it still says details TBA..i hope they dont cancel it. soo how have u been?
heyy : ) whoo see now u have to come on here to read this lol. well warped was epic! minus the rain. i have pics on my myspace. i got a few good ones between total downpours..at one point i had like a bucket of water in my shoe and i could feel it when i walked lol..well i saw almost all the bands i wanted to see except breathe carolina. well i kinda wanted to see pierce the veil and in fear and faith too..ohh well. BUT i did catch parts of alot of sets umm i saw attack attack, alesana, parkway drive, suicide silence, BMTH, the rocket summer, nevershoutnever, four year strong, sum 41..and others. i met bryce avry and alesana XD i LOVEE alesana and the rocket summer and it was my 1st time seeing both of them...i also had a music saves lives wristband so i watched alesana from the stage but aftr 2 songs i got bored and tired of staring at thier backs lol so i pushed my way into the pit XD OH and omg the BMTH pit was brutal! i was up front but backed away to where i had breathing room cuz i was so squished lol and there was a huge wall of death! well ya thats most of the deatails i think. cant wait for next year! maybe BTF will be on the tour
well as it looks now i think bullet is booked through summer but after that maybe a FL date XD im a bit booked on summer shows anyways lol ive about reached my limit. and i saw bullet last summer at mayhem so it wasnt headline but it was main stage so they played about 45 mins. and i will have to get the new rock sound mag!! i need to subscribe to AP mag too lol. ya i went shopping last weekend but just for summer clothes like tank tops. i want a new bullet shirt XD yours sounds awesome! i have plenty of proach but this summer im def getting a BTF shirt and warped shirt. and ya chiodos thier ex singer was craig owens AMAZING voice lol so unique so i didnt know how they were gonna sound an stuff but i will reserve judgement until i hear the new singer XD umm what else oh i get out june 9th...less than 3 weeks! like 13 school days lol but exams start soon : / well hope all is well! have a good weekend : )
heyy sorry its taken me a little bit to get back to u lol. school ahhhh! my minds in summer mode but school isnt out yet : p well im soo jealous u met and saw bullet!! they need to come here. and i LOVE say goodnight lol idk its one of my fav more ballad type songs by them..did it sound amazing live? anyways who did u meet again? padge and jay? jay is the drummer right? well either way i would have died from matts sexy ness and his huge biceps lol : ) and did u see chiodos? i think they opened for them. if so how were they? i love them and saw them at warped tour but then they kicked thier singer out an this is thier first tour with the new guy so im curious as to how they sound. and ya im SO going to warped this summer and almost positive i can see BTF : )!!!!umm what else ohh did u get a new bullet shirt? i only have 1 i need more lol. well ill stop rambling i need to do my math hw anyways bleh : / ohh i hope the moving went well!!
heyy : ) sorry i havent been on here in awhile either lol well u know all about teh proach show last week XD and im still jealous u saw 30stm and jared sexy pink mohawk! haha and hey r some of ur pics of proach ones u took from the show this week? i think thats the same thing coby wore when i saw them lol. and did u see jerrys new guitar? its soo awesome and tobin was looking damn sexy when i saw them, i was on his side. and have fun at bullet tonight!!!! LUCKY lol i hope they come here this summer. umm idk i hope i can see BTF in july, in june im seeing framing hanley then warped tour in july and also carnival of madness. havent bought any of these tixs yet but i hope to go to a few of them OH and the uproar tour in sept. with A7X and disturbed! so going but thats months away. well have a good weekend : )
heyy : ) how was ur weekend? its been a few days lol...but im on twitter everyday so it hasnt been that long since weve talked xD haha anyways i cant wait for bullets album! 2 weeks! and plenty of concerts..but bullet and BTF still need to announce dates here. well my weekend has kinda sucked lol. yesterday i went to the beach but it was a bit cloudy and boring. then today it rained all day BUT i did buy the may issue of AP mag which had the rating of bullets album and a short 3 questions interview : ) they gave it 3 out of 5 stars whatever! lol but they did say it was good. umm what else oh i need to buy the march AP mag with 30stm on the cover and i cant see them cuz even if my mom let me its already sold out : p well ill stop rambling haha XD gotta study for my math test. hope u r doing well
heyy how was the baseball game? and i hope u had a good weekend : ) ya my break was great. im sad its over though, it went by so fast! oh happy easter! lol anywayss ur seeing proach may 5th? thats awesomeee well i wont tickets to 98 rockfest lol with alice in chains, limp bizkit, sevendust and all these bands so now on the 24th im going to that radio show then the next saturday on the 1st is the proach radio show!!!! the end of this month is gonna kick ass : ) i dont think i can see 30stm though cuz that show is the 28th right in the middle of that week lol. anyways hope u r doing welll : ) oh and is the bullet pic at the top new? holy hell matt is the one in the center ritght? hes hugee lol i wouldnt def not wanna get in a fight with him haah XD
its ok i ramble too lol. soo how has ur weekend been? hope u had a good break. ya one wek of school then break! cant wait. and i love atreyu, congregation of the damned is a great album XD and i need to watch the last fight video again but last time i looked at his biceps and your right! they r pretty big lol..like when you really look at them its like damnnn haha. i will have to look at the shoes though. umm do u like asking alexandria? they r from the UK london or something. they r a hardcore screamo type band and i really like them. im going with friends this friday to see attack and breathe carolina and they r gonna be there too. so i listened to them and ya XD something about bands from other countries.like the sick puppies! thier accents r adorable. well i hope u had a better weekend than me. i broke up with my bf today cuz supposedly he cheated on me..he denys it so idk so confusing. well hope u r well : )


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Laman Library unveils new civil rights exhibit | News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- William F. Laman Public Library opened a new civil rights exhibit.
Friday, the library held a special reception to unveil "For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights."
Special guest speaker Simeon Wright witnessed his cousin Emmett kidnapped in 1955 after whistling at a white woman. His murder and the acquittal of the killers attracted international attention.
"We took the people to trial, and then nothing happened. The jury came back not guilty, and we were eye witnesses to the kidnapping of Emmett Till," said Wright.
Protected against double jeopardy, Roy Bryant and J-W Milam later admitted to the murder in a magazine interview. The case is considered a key moment in motivating the Civil Rights Movement.
The exhibit includes photographs from influential magazines, such as LIFE, JET, and EBONY; CBS news footage; and TV clips from The Ed Sullivan Show in addition to iconic civil rights-era objects.
Laman Library's exhibit runs through March 16. Admission is free.
For more information, visit www.lamanlibrary.org.


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SWANSEA, Ill. (KSDK) -- The Major Case Squad has identified a woman who was found dead in Swansea, Illinois, Friday morning.
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1927 T Roadster Rod Tops Fitment - Dressed to the T: Part 2Written by on August 1, 2012 Fitting your roadster with a top so that you can fit too
Last month we saw the craftsmen at Rod Tops measure, manufacture, and fit a custom top to my '27 T roadster. Starting with one of their '32 top kits, the irons were modified and mated to a Shadow Rods XL27 wooden header from another Rod Tops kit. This month, we get a lesson on how the top attaches and disassembles with ease. Just as planned we were able to put the entire assembly in the trunk of the roadster for a rainy day. The tonneau was an added bonus that works great to protect the interior when the T is parked. The two-piece style of the tonneau enables me to leave the passenger side in place when I am cruising solo.
The maiden voyage for the top and tonneau worked out very well. I spent some time rolling around the infield of the Daytona Speedway at the Turkey Rod Run. In January my wife, Mary Ann, and I headed to the Florida Keys for more product testing. While we got lucky and avoided the rainstorms, the chillier days were made more comfortable with the top in place.
There is nothing like the thrill of blasting down the highway in an open roadster. Unfortunately, the reality is that many of us don't live in sunny California and most of us can't spend all of our time in Florida. It is always a good idea to be prepared. If you want to enjoy the open air but have some peace of mind in the trunk, check with the folks at Rod Tops. They will be able to get you fit with a top and a tonneau for a T, or for any other type of roadster that you might have in the garage.
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The rear window easily zips out for flow-through ventilation on those hot days when air circulation is a necessity.When the rear window is removed, a top tensioning flap keeps the canvas tight and top buffeting to a minimum.When the time comes to remove the top, all of the rear snaps are unfastened and the canvas assembly is rolled forward to the wooden front header.For removal of the front header rail, the large head Allen bolt needs to be loosened and the stainless quick-release pin removed.The top bows are easily removed from the side iron mechanism by simply pushing in the self-contained release button on each crossbar.The stainless clevis is removable and keeps the top edge of the body smooth to avoid bumped elbows and bruised arms when the top is off.
With all of the pieces removed and folded up, the entire top assembly easily stores in the standard trunk of the '27 T roadster.The finished top has just the right look when mounted on the roadster. The fit, finish, and flow with the body of the T are exactly what I was looking to achieve.I decided to have a tonneau made for the T while it was at Rod Tops. Continuing with the vintage look of the roadster it was determined that a split lakes-style top would be the best choice.The steering wheel pocket lets the tonneau fit tight again the body. The zipper down the middle allows the use of just the passenger side tonneau during chilly days when I am travelling solo.The steering wheel pocket lets the tonneau fit tight again the body. The zipper down the middle allows the use of just the passenger side tonneau during chilly days when I am travelling solo.


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Sacramento Autorama - Sacre Bleu!Written by on August 1, 2010 Kustoms Galore At The Autorama-And The "Most Beautiful" Was Blue!
With the area around California's state capitol long known for its connections with custom cars, rather than SoCal's propensity for hot rods, it's little wonder that the Sacramento Autorama, which celebrated its 60th birthday this past February, showcases customs. Its sister show, the Grand National Roadster Show, which occurs a mere few days beforehand in L.A., awards the AMBR trophy, while the premier award at the Sacramento event is the World's Most Beautiful Custom. Two new awards were introduced this year, namely Custom D'Elegance and King of Kustoms, each with different eligibility criteria, as well as the established Sam Barris Memorial award and the Joe Bailon award, all of which makes for a celebration of all things "custom"'-or "kustom", depending on your preference.
But there was so much more than customs, with muscle cars, hot rods, restored classics, trucks, motorcycles, street rods, dragsters, and even boats, pedal cars, and bicycles. If it had wheels, chances are you'd find it at the Autorama. It was good to see the pinstripers moved into the Suede Pavillion this year, rather than stuck way out at the end of the complex where few could find them, the same building hosting a number of bands throughout the weekend, as well as a pin-up contest Saturday night. Elsewhere you could meet various TV stars, or bid for lots in the pinstripers auction, assuming you'd found time to look at all the vehicles on display of course! With the GNRS and Autorama so close date-wise, it's not surprising that many cars feature at both shows, which means that, for instance, though James Hetfield's Auburn won King of Kustoms and the Manuel Arteche Memorial award, you won't see it here, as we showed it to you last month. It's not like there wasn't plenty at Sacramento to point our camera at, that's for sure!
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The "Lincster", by Advanced Restorations in Sacramento for Mike Gray and Val Tompkins, took the HA Bagdasarian award for World's Most Beautiful Custom, as well as the Custom D'Elegance Outstanding Engine award.Mike Podaca's "Psycobilly" '51 Cadillac was redone by Caldwell's Rods & Kustoms and painted by Kolors Unique, with upholstery by Elegance Auto Upholstery. The chopped hardtop, extended front fenders, and elimination of the baby fins on the rear all contribute to the improved flowing lines.Bob Smith's '55 Bel Air is an exercise in restraint and extremely subtle body mods, which explains why it looks so good but you can't figure out why! Try a 1 1/2-inch pancaked hood, 1-inch roof chop and driprail removal, vent wing removal, the top edge of the rear quarters raised by 5/8 inch, the rockers lowered 1 3/8 inches, and the lower rear quarters dropped 3/8 inch, amongst others. The '55 won the Custom D'Elegance award."Citric Acid" was a runner up in the Custom D'Elegance class. Joey Spada's '54 Chevy was built totally in-house at OZ Kustoms with the exception of the Devine's interior.As with almost all customs, Lou Querusio's '59 Caddy would have displayed better with the hood and trunk closed, not that it stopped Querusio from taking the Outstanding Overall Custom trophy back home to Florida. Not only were the side moldings hand-fabricated, but so was all the interior chrome.Ron Courtney's X-51 made the cover of R&C in 1958, was voted one of the Top 100 hot rods that changed the world in Hot Rod magazine's 60th anniversary issue, and has been in the care of Bob Page from Sacramento, for the past two decades. Page restored the car, making a few changes to make it driveable.David E. Walters' '59 Caddy El Dorado Biarritz convertible is dubbed "Elvis II". Designed by John D'Agostino, with body and suspension by Aiello Customs, paint by Art Himsl, and upholstery by Divine's Custom Interiors, the Cad rolls on Roadster Wire Wheels and Coker tires. It took the Joe Bailon award and runner-up in Custom D'Elegance.Though a Dodge Polara may not be the first base for a custom project that comes to mind, as Richard Zocchi proves with "Thriller", it works! Of course, combining the talents of Art Himsl, John Aiello, Bob Devine, and Sherm's Plating was a huge help!With the exception of a few changes made to the motor, Tim Lohrey's '32 pickup was remarkably unchanged since winning the Barris award in 1970. It was part of the large display of previous "Big B" award winners in Building C, as well as one of seven cars-two previous and five new builds-displayed at this year's show by Lohrey, voted Sacramento Autorama Builder of The Year for 2010.
Hunter Blender's '61 Caddy Coupe De Ville was in the Suede Pavilion, despite it having 26 coats of basecoat with a candy overlay under the gloss clearcoat, and 36 coats with metalflake on the roof!After over 50 years in storage, the "Moon Rocket" was brought out of hibernation and appeared at the show. Owner Jerry Anolik drove the much-modified '55 T-Bird to 161 mph at Bonneville as well as entering it in shows from California to Puerto Rico between 1957 and 1961, before hiding it away.Though some didn't and won't "get it", Joe Fazio's '32 was a real gem among the glitzy Camaros and Tri-Fives. While this local Sacramento survivor had obviously been spiffed up for the show, it was perfectly displayed with dirty firewall, crusty carburetors, and stained hood top and engine block. Original Eddie Meyer heads grace the 21-stud Flathead.Saturday's drive-in show saw a good turnout, the R&C pick going to Gary Levering's chopped '50 two-door sedan. Subtle mods included the elimination of the vent windows, filled center hood seam, and a neat third brakelight on the package tray made from a stock taillight in a custom pod.We love seeing hot rods that have been with the same owner for decades, especially when you can see the various transformations along the way. Gordon and Cheryl White's display with photos of their '29 roadster pickup from 1961 with its square rollbar and whitewalls hanging out the rear fenders was one of our favorites at the show. The owner-built lil' truck never looked better than it does today, either!Dave Grimmitt's '25 T track roadster, dubbed "Simple T", drove in on Saturday, its simplicity appealing to us. With no brakes on the heavily dropped front axle, later-model top hat disc brakes had been adapted to the rearend to provide sole stopping power.Lucky 7 Customs put together this cool '54 210 for Gary Morales using a Total Cost Involved IFS, 350/350, and C-notched rear, finishing it in pearl cream with metallic green scallops and accents. The slightly slant-chopped roof uses a '42 Stylemaster rear window and four altered '54 Merc taillights.


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Census Shows 1 in 3 Counties Are Dying
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A record number of U.S....
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NOimpact, I MOVED !!
Seems like YOU are the local yokel moron living in Poverty Neck Podunk.
Take you OWN Advise, dumb ***k.
Oh right, need to pass a DRUG TEST to get a real job. Sorry, STAY. SIT. Be a good Obama lap dog and collect your welfare check along with the rest of the 47 percenters.
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obywamma's newest directive..for all Govt. agents to consider the impact on Global warming from any new business before approval,before permits...such as port expansions for coal exports..."the burning of coal in other countries may add to global warming" this is to be done under presidental orders for all possible expansions...well obywamma, you have just killed all business expansion in the US..the only hope now would be for congress to De fund Govt. Agents....Peter Schiff may be correct..the biggest crash is coming soon...looks more like it's being planned
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render unto Caesar that which is caesars and to God that which is Gods...problem is with the Govt. we now have, there is no God, so they want it all..lke the Roman Empire the US has some big troubles...an all powerful central Govt. that's run by people that think they know best and do not care about what anyone else thinks..Free souls are dying at the hand of our Govt...US tax money to be the highest in history this yr. but still they want more..taxed to death and taxed after death...there are now more in Ohio collecting from the Govt. then paying into the govt...rural counties and small towns are dying..big gov in support of big corps..have eliminated so much of mom & pop business that most towns and counties are looking to the Feds for more support...yes,Obywamma's plan is working as he wanted
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There are a lot of areas that are having energy booms such as the Appalachians and the Dakotas but that is under constant attack by the Obama administration as being bad for us. Gas is the cleanest of all fuels and if the Fed implemented it into all public transportation sytems we would see a reducton in air pollution at levels we have never seen in our lifetime. But Obama wants to maintain his political spoils spending programs, including outrageous foreign aid (nearly $1 billion to Libya and Egypt in March alone) and make up the difference by raising taxes. Not on the rich guys, but on us, mine have gone up $1600 already this year. Federal revenue on energy is lucrative and yet Obama would rather kiss his money supporters who like us on foreign oil rather than reap the huge domestic tax boost. Now 60% of counties are dying, the government is killing investment and jobs. How did we get to be happy with 7.8 unemployment and higher taxes? Lets all chant Buuuush and stop thinking.
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For those states east of the Mississippi River and for other regions of the country, especially in the West; all those counties, created when transportation was a real issue, distance as measured in real horsepower meant something; how much tax revenue is spent just to duplicate services which are a short drive away? School districts which have few students, draining down resources which would see a much better return if those districts were consolidated or services shared? An example in not far away Washington County, Ohio where two small school districts, Fort Frye and Wolf Creek maintain independent high schools when both facililties are less than 3 miles apart.
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Wrat, your obviously are illiterate. The article said weak "local" economies. They're moving to localities where the economy is stronger. Moron! And what a racist!
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1 in 3 counties are dying?
No, this further demonstrates that an entire nation is dying.
The stock market is doing well now but many millions in America continue to lose homes, jobs, seek bankruptcy, and move to government assistance. Also, more local governments are filing bankruptcy. & check out gas prices.
And, speaking of population, how many American children have been lawfully murdered since 1973? 40 million, 50 million, 60+ million???
America is suppose to be a nation of free people. A people free to do right & good things; but killing an innocent unborn child does not demonstrate freedom; it demonstrates how vile our nation has become.
Ultrasongraphy can clearly show a child's heartbeat within 6 weeks of gestation.
If American's are so smart, refined, & educated, why can't they recognize this truth?
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the immigrants don't have to pay taxes.an american here with a job gets taxed which along with healthcare cost takes up half his paycheck.this article should state that one in three taxpayers is dying.
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Weak Economy? But But But Obama says everything is rosey!
Well at least the BIG CITIES are doing well! Why just look at Detroit . . .. OH yes, just appointed an EMERGENCY MANAGER by the GOVERNOR to stave off bankruptcy.
Well at the least the rich whitebread cities like Gay Francisco and the Big Rotten Apple are doing OK and can still get Owebam*** elected even though a majority of 85% of the COUNTIES in the USA did NOT vote for him.
John Edwards was RIGHT about one thing: there are TWO Americas.
The HEARTLAND of family values and the Pervert blue coasts that keep electing a Muslim racist Santa Claus to the White Crib.
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text: Q&A: The Lost Fleet sails to the UK Culture 14 February 11 by Michael Parsons Remember when science fiction was about square-jawed heroes, battles and spaceships, not nihilism, dystpoia, and horror? US science-fiction author John M. Hemry is a hard-working exponent of the old-school sci-fi novel series, and now UK space opera fans are going to get a chance to savour his work with the release here of the first three novels in his best-selling series The Lost Fleet, a military sci-fi saga about a noble fleet Captain who comes out of suspended animation to rescue his navy and his nation in a series of space battles, written under the nom de plume of Jack Campbell. You won't find the slick post-modern tricks of Iain M. Banks: while Bank's world weary spaceships are called things like But I Thought He Was With You, in Campbells's universe, the spaceships are named Dauntless, Fearless, and Courageous. As you'd expect the story itself is equally old school, and Cambell's hero "Black" Jack Geary is a straight modern military commander. He fights his fleet actions in space just like Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's historical novels, as a hardworking, disciplined commander who must jostle his Captains into line while pressing the flesh with the raw recruits on the lower decks. This is pulp fiction at it best, and it's great fun, with a quality of earnest integrity that comes from its author's real-world experience in the US Navy. Fans of old-school sci-fi from the likes of Robert A. Heinlein will enjoy the pleasure of a good yarn well told with no fancy po-mo tricks. Wired.co.uk spoke to the author to find out more about the challenges of writing modern science fiction with good old-fashioned stories.Q. The first thing that strikes you in The Lost Fleet is that you do old-school physics: the hero has to guess where the enemy is because the light from that event hasn't reached him yet. Why was it important to be realistic? A. Part of it was to show just how big space is, and one of the ways that shows that most clearly is that it takes literally hours and days to see what's going on even within one star system. It really brings across, without pounding it into people, that this is a really big distance. It challenges the reader but it also challenges the writer quite a bit! I found that when I make things real I have to really figure out how it would work, how they would be able to deal with it, what kind of difficulties would they face, and so I am treating it just as if it were an historical action here on earth, something that was going on now. That forces me to write something that doesn't cut corners, and I think it comes across as a better story that way...Q. One of the things the book asks is: what is a just war? We've been through a period in recent US history where the US government seems to have got a bit blurred about issues like torture and extraordinary rendition, Abu Ghraib, and there is a distinctive sense of anger in the book about a military strategy that's based on the ends justifying the means... Was the idea of how to fight an ethical war something you were planning to address? A. As I started the book, these arguments were being made, and I wanted to address them on both a moral basis and also on a practical basis, because frankly they don't work, and they've never worked. People will bring these tactics up and say, "You need to do these things otherwise you won't win," and the rejoinder that my hero Captain Gery gives repeatedly is, "If you have to do it in order to win, why haven't we won yet?" I wanted people to think about that in a context that is not directly tied to emotional events that triggered actions in the 2000 time frame, they were very emotional, very strong issues, and it gives them a chance to think about them and say: is this a good idea morally and in terms of getting the results you want? Q: I grew up with Robert A. Heinlein who did a great job of making the space navies of his fiction seem authentic -- are you a fan, and how have you mined your own experience as aval officer in your fiction? John M. Hemry: I was definitely a fan of Heinlein, especially his middle period. He and I went to the same trade school, the Naval Academy, so we had a bit of that in common. I think it helps you to bring in bits with the uniforms, stuff about food, which really make the environment feel real to people. That's more important than ever before because when Heinlein was writing you had this immense number of World War II veterans who were reading this stuff and would say, "Yes, I remember that". Now you have fewer and fewer people who are veterans and this is basically their introduction to this kind of environment, the little annoyances and the little victories that come up when people are risking their lives. Q. I am very struck that you are writing military fiction at a time when fewer and fewer people have any understanding of what soldiers, sailors, and airman actually do for a living. I get a sense that this kind of military fiction can help to bridge the gap - but it's a very big gap. If you were teaching a course in US schools, what do you think would be the hardest thing to get ordinary civilians to grasp about reality military life? A. I remember when I was about to go off to the Academy, I got a hold of one of the booklets they give to the first year students, and it's pretty rough on you in the first year, and it was explaining all the things you have to do, and I remember thinking, "I can't possibly do this, this must be ten years old, things have surely changed by now - which shows how little I really knew about the military, as I thought that things would change in ten years. I think that would be the hardest part to get across -- that you can live with all of these big and small little restrictions and rules and regulations. Some of them actually make a great deal of sense, some of them don't -- but you can live with them all, and they can make you a pretty impressive team. The hardest part to get across in today's world is the idea that you can deal with all that discipline and still remain an individual. I try to bring this across in my books, that the military very much operates as teams. 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Uranus cloud bands in a C8
Posted 16 September 2012 - 09:08 AM
A month ago or so there was a thread talking about observing details on Neptune and Uranus, and I had mentioned that I have seen features on these planets in the past using my C14.
I had the senses that there may have been some skepticism, because these features are generally very low contrast.
But this link has a drawing that someone made showing detail on Uranus (!) using.. Drum-roll please... An 8" SCT!
Detail on Uranus using an 8" SCT.. Confirmed by Peach image using a C14!
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 10:28 AM
Damian (and others including myself), have not been able to capture these features in visible light. Damian mentions that himself in the text accompanying the image that you've linked to.
Posted 16 September 2012 - 12:25 PM
This means only the capability is not enough using the method employed.
Now what is shown in near nir will not differ substantially from the visual field.
We can say an happy coincidence and there are someothers also.
This needs more analysis being not black and white difference.
Posted 16 September 2012 - 12:54 PM
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 02:19 PM
I detect them as very slight shading differences between the polar areas and the equitorial areas. A faint contrast difference, but distinct enough that I am sure that I have seen them.
Drawings cannot always convey the subtle nature of these shadings, and sometimes, I think the camera may struggle to render them.
Camera's excel at capturing the smallerst angular detail, but I know from imaging and visual observing that sometimes color contrasts are not well rendered by a camera, and processing can further shift the result.
If the person doing the image cannot see the detail visually (because perhaps they have not tried to see it visually), then how can they know that their processing isn't obscuring some detail? Regisax and other programs can do very funny things to color shading during processing. I know this from direct experience. I don't image much because I am a very avid visual observer, but I do in fact image.
Anyway, I know I have seen it, and I totally believe these drawings and am happy to see that someone else has detected these, and in an aperture that is smaller than I would have thought capable of doing so. And I have every reason to trust these drawings because I have seen Urnaus with similar levels of detail.
Excellent. Really superb. High 5.
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 08:33 PM
No matter what we may ultimately think, the whole question of real or not has heightened our awareness of this -out-of-the-way - world. I dont think Ill ever look at it again the same frankly, details or not.
The *other* post had some remarks out of bounds but in the interest of discussion and awareness its a winner thread.
My 10 cents.
Posted 16 September 2012 - 08:50 PM
Posted 16 September 2012 - 09:43 PM
I agree with some that a highly processed IR image is not proof of Stan's details. There may not ever be any proof of his claims that will satisfy everyone.
Posted 17 September 2012 - 12:38 AM
You see big theories have been raised by imagers with the generation of views with the 685 filter. Now we see others making views with the 742 astronomik the 610 etc.
The 685 may help to get something better with the SNR ratio (to be demonstrated) but what I see visually is the fact that the Uranus contrast levels follow fluctuations, more or less in value and now it seems we are on a good period.
This is the explanation. The planet is not fixed in contrasts, featuring (from an opposition to an other the banding system pattern had changed).
The vision in the R150 is better by the the better scope factor than the mewlon, newtonian and C8 (slightly better).
But this is not prooving this is enough to explain the more easy ability to catch the Uranus pattern except by the fact that contrasts are higher.
So profit of the to_day situation and makes some assessment of the status of to-day.
Posted 17 September 2012 - 03:07 AM
SNR is not the problem here as it's much more easy to get a good SNR in visible light, where the planet is much brighter. Also, the resolution of telescopes is much better in visible light.
Respecting to the fact that processing can alter the details, this is possible, as well as other things (like collimation). However if a CCD imager is able to detect details in infrared, he should be skillful enough to get them as well in visible light, where imaging is much more easy due to the amount of light available, and to the better resolving power than in infrared.
Posted 17 September 2012 - 03:41 AM
This is interresting to know.
Do we have the idea of which absorption band is involved for the contribution of the image contrast, we have the 619nm (stopped by the 685), the 889nm and after with regards to the chipset sensitivity?
Posted 17 September 2012 - 03:44 AM
Sky transparency.
Posted 17 September 2012 - 04:29 AM
With comparison with the 610 filter which quantified gain the 685 is bringing?
This is interresting to know.
Do we have the idea of which absorption band is involved for the contribution of the image contrast, we have the 619nm (stopped by the 685), the 889nm and after with regards to the chipset sensitivity?
The RG610 is bringing something like 30-40 % more light, from my last experiences. That's quite a lot. The absorption band is just the broad infrared absorption - from what I have seen this is just like if the CH4 absorption spanned the whole band. After 700 nm we find only narrow peak of emission bands at 750, 820 and 940 but the rest is absorbed.
Here is the spectrum :
Posted 17 September 2012 - 06:20 AM
something around 1050-1100nm?
Are the spectrum compensated with the atmosphere absorption because the absorption bands may be deeper than those shown.
Posted 17 September 2012 - 07:48 AM
I don't know, about the spectrum... but I have a better one that I will post tonight.
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Posted 18 September 2012 - 01:12 AM
I give you this link which gives data about albedo values for Uranus.
If we consider the absorption bands in cause it may expected some contrast assessments.
Now this should be combined with the respective sensitivity of the eye and the chipset for a certain evaluation approach.
These graphs were published at the time of the support observations and taking into account the relative variability of the planet pattern the assessment will follow these variations.
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Posted 19 September 2012 - 04:24 AM
Spectrum are not only for the beauty of the curves but can be exploited for assessments.
The green plus yellow surface correspond to the combination of the planet spectrum (compensated) and the eye sensitivity for a mesopic vision. The R band absorption concerns 1-2% of the green and yellow surface. The yellow surface is about half this surface that makes the contrast improved by a ratio 2 times better.
The pink surface corresponds to the combination of the planet spectum and the 618 chipset sensitivity and the use of the 685 filter. It appears that DR and near NIR bands are involved. The contrast level involved can be 3-5 times better than the level got by visual.
All these levels must have to be pondered by the scope factor and the seing level which reduce them.
More than feelings this help to understand more the capability in each kind of observation.
The 610 filter will involve more seeing perturbation and this could be a fact for going to the 685. This is more the bad influence of the seeing that make poor results rather than the filter selection itself.
Now for visual observation the matter is sufficiently quantified.
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Not amazing to catch with 150 and 203mm visually.
Please refer to the above curves annd assessments also this is cross checked.
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I'm new to the site, and new to hunting, but I figured this might be a good spot to ask a question. Has anyone ever hunted in area 16 (unit 161-164) at all? I've never been to the area and probably won't get more than one weekend to go check it out before the season (Oct. 5-20) starts, so I was hoping maybe someone here had been before and could share some general advice or tips on mule deer around there. I'm not looking for anything specific, just general info on the area.
I am an adult beginner and this is my first ever tag (I come from a 100% non-hunting family so everything I currently know is from friends, the internet and magazines), so any general hunting advice at all is most certainly welcome and appreciated. Maybe just things you have figured out over time that a first-timer wouldn't think of or wouldn't learn through reading alone.
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Thanks guys for all the responses. I guess I should have been more specific about the recoil. Shooting a rifle a few times won't make me flinch. It's when I take one out to the range and really put some lead through it, trying to shoot it from different shooting positions. I'm talking about a 15-25 rounds.
I have a .270win Winchester model 70 (8 1/2lbs estimated) no problems with recoil. The 7mm rem mag mentioned before (10 3/4lbs) no problem. While on the other hand, I have a 8 1/2lb Ruger m77 in .338 win mag that my brother gave me after he won it in a pool game. I can shoot this gun effectively out to 250-300. But after about the 5th or 6th shot...you guessed it: flinching time. I never really did that before I got scoped but now I can't seem to break it. I just didn't want suggestions for .300 mags or above for a 6-7 lb lightweight rifle. I want something I can shoot comfortably and get very good with it.
With that said I'm going this weekend to hold some of those models that I mentioned. I'll probably buy online but I want to handle the rifles and see which one feels natural when shouldering it. Out of the 3 scoped big game rifles I own the ruger seems to just fit me the best. The Remington Sendero is the most expensive but the Ruger just seems to feel better, like it was custom made for me. Too bad its .338 win mag.
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - The cynics will say "You can't win majors
with those driving problems," but Tiger Woods did more than enough over the
first 63 holes to earn his eighth victory at Torrey Pines.
The bad driving on the back nine had to do with one thing, and one thing only,
at the Farmers Insurance Open: slow play. After Saturday's play was fogged out,
the completion of the final round was pushed into Monday.
And the final 11 holes for Woods took 3 hours, 45 minutes. Brutal! More
on that later, though.
Woods fought off sloppy play on the back nine to win by four strokes. That
rough stretch, where he dropped four strokes in a four-hole span, did nothing
more than cut his eight-stroke lead in half.
It did ensure one other odd fact. In his seven wins at the Farmers Insurance
Open, Woods has never put together four rounds in the 60s.
The win could set up a big year for Woods. In five of the previous six seasons
Woods has won this title, he has gone on to win at least one major. In fact,
in those five years - 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 - Woods has won seven
The 2008 U.S. Open victory, also at Torrey Pines, was his last major.
Woods also has averaged over six wins per season in the previous six years in
which he won at Torrey.
Going against the grain of those statistics is the set-up of this year's
majors. It isn't 2010 with Pebble Beach and St. Andrews on the schedule, two
courses in which Woods often fares well.
After Augusta for The Masters, the major championships are at Merion Golf
Club, Muirfield (Scotland, not Ohio) and Oak Hill Country Club.
Woods doesn't have much of a track record at those three venues. He has never
played Merion in competition. His lone appearance at Muirfield for the British
Open was in 2002, when he tied for 28th, six strokes off the pace.
Finally, the PGA Championship is headed for Oak Hill, where Woods shared 39th
place in 2003, a mere 16 shots behind the winner.
Those numbers don't necessarily bode well for Woods, but neither Merion nor
Oak Hill are bombers courses. Merion will play about 7,000 yards, while Oak
Hill will measure a little over 7,100 yards.
Those two set up perfectly for Woods and his stinger 3-wood tee shot, or even
a hard 3-iron off the tee.
The driver seems to be Woods' downfall in recent years, but if he isn't going
to need it as often, he'll be better off.
Everyone loves to ask, "Is Tiger back?" This was his fourth win since his 2009
Thanksgiving incident, which led to his divorce. Does that make him back? No,
it doesn't.
Tiger will be "back" when he earns his 15th major championship, which is very
likely to come this year if his win on Monday is any indication.
Fog halted all but 10 minutes of play on Saturday at Torrey Pines, which meant
there was going to be Monday finish.
Officials announced there would be no re-pairing after the third round, and no
secondary cut. Good news, bad news right there.
No re-pairing saved plenty of time as the lead groups had actually finished
nine holes of the final round before the final group even got to the first tee
for their final round.
However, 87 players made the cut and since there was no secondary cut to the
closest number to 70 after Round 3, that led to bad things on Monday.
When play was called for darkness on Sunday, players had the option to finish
the hole they were on. That led to several groups hanging out on tee boxes
waiting for the hole in front of them to clear out.
There was no one group causing the delay as the lead groups finished 15 holes
and the last group got through seven holes of the final round on Sunday.
The logjam never broke on Monday. Combining the time it took to play Sunday and
Monday afternoon, Tiger Woods' group needed five hours to play 16 holes. And
those last two holes were at least another 30 minutes to finish.
In the time Woods waited on the last two holes, he could have jogged four or
five miles for part of his daily workout. No wonder he started hitting the
ball all over the map. It's impossible to keep your swing grooved with that
much waiting.
Again there wasn't one group taking a lot of time, but the group immediately
in front of Woods' threesome -- Brad Fritsch, Erik Compton and Steve Marino --
needed officials to help with drops on the last two holes, and did end a full
hole behind the group ahead of them.
Compton needed officials' help on No. 18 because he drove into a vendors tent.
After the ruling and his free drop, he then took a look at what his shot was
going to be and figured out his yardage. Why he didn't do that while waiting
for the ruling is beyond me.
The fact there were 86 players on Monday (Adam Hadwin withdrew prior to
Monday's play) was the biggest issue. Players really need to get penalized
strokes for slow play.
Officials should first penalize themselves for letting 87 players start the
final round. Then, they need to start handing out stroke penalties to slow
players. The LPGA did it last year.
The last time a PGA Tour player was given a stroke penalty for slow play
happened in the 1990s!
Get with it, fellas, or you'll lose fans.
* While it was a good week for Woods at Torrey Pines, three-time winner Phil
Mickelson failed to break 70 en route to a share of 51st place. Mickelson
seems to feel he is just a little off. Maybe he'll find that something in
Phoenix this week, where he has won twice and has nine top-10 finishes.
* No one can accuse Rickie Fowler of mailing it in after his performance at
Torrey Pines. Fowler shot 77 in the opening round and was tied for last
place. He rallied with a 65 in Round 2 to make the cut on the number, then
went 6-under par over the final two rounds to earn a share of sixth place.
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SLAM is a project for checking that software satisfies critical behavioral properties of the interfaces it uses and to aid software engineers in designing interfaces and software that ensure reliable and correct functioning. Static Driver Verifier is a tool in the Windows Driver Development Kit that uses the SLAM verification engine.
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- Yogi is now available to plug into the Static Driver Verifier Research Platform. To install SDVRP and Yogi, see this README.
- The Summer (2011) of SLAM saw two awards and a retrospective article in CACM:
- Most Influential PLDI Paper award for Automatic Predicate Abstraction of C Programs, Thomas Ball, Rupak Majumdar, Todd D. Millstein, Sriram K. Rajamani, PLDI 2001. The first conference paper from the SLAM project.
- CAV 2011 Award. Citation: "The 2011 CAV Award is given to Thomas Ball and Sriram Rajamani, both at Microsoft Research, for their contributions to software model checking,specifically the development of the SLAM/SDV software model checker that successfully demonstrated computer-aided verification techniques on real programs."
- A Decade of Software Model Checking with SLAM, T. Ball, V. Levin, S. K. Rajamani, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 54. No. 7, 2011, Pages 68-76
- Paper:
- SLAM2: Static Driver Verification with Under 4% False Alarms, T. Ball, E. Bounimova, R. Kumar, V. Levin, FMCAD 2010
- The Static Driver Verifier Research Platform (SDVRP) is a release of SDV/SLAM for academic research. It allows the creation and checking of API-specific rules and programs (for general APIs and programs, not just driver APIs and drivers) and contains a repository of Boolean programs and test results.
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- Paper. The Static Driver Verifier Research Platform, Thomas Ball, Ella Bounimova, Vladimir Levin, Rahul Kumar, Jakob Lichtenberg, CAV 2010 tools paper
- Questions? E-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com
- To get started:
- Pointers in SLAM2. Efficient evaluation of pointer predicates with Z3 SMT Solver in SLAM2, Thomas Ball, Ella Bounimova, Vladimir Levin, Leonardo de Moura, March 2010, MSR-TR-2010-24
- Congratulations to the Driver Quality Team on winning a 2009 Engineering Excellence Award for "Improving Driver Quality thru Static Verification". Jon Hagen, Vlad Levin, Adam Shapiro, Donn Terry, Abdullah Ustuner. PREfast for Drivers scans the driver code for issues with concurrency, proper IRQL handling, and a host of other driver challenges. The Static Driver Verifier simulates a hostile environment and systematically tests all code paths, looking for driver model violations. These complementary tools provide both quick and deep driver testing. Both tools have been adopted broadly within Windows and with third-party developers through MSDN and the Windows Driver Kit.
Book Chapter
- Developing Drivers with the Windows® Driver Foundation, a Microsoft Press book, is now in print, including a chapter about Static Driver Verifier, which has new rules to enable analysis of drivers written against the Kernel-model Driver Framework API.
- SLAM and Static Driver Verifier: Technology Transfer of Formal Methods inside Microsoft, T. Ball, B. Cook, V. Levin and S. K. Rajamani, Integrated Formal Methods 2004
The SLAM Process
- Thorough Static Analysis of Device Drivers, T. Ball, E. Bounimova, B. Cook, V. Levin, J. Lichtenberg, C. McGarvey, B. Ondrusek, S. K. Rajamani and A. Ustuner, EuroSys 2006
- The SLAM Project: Debugging System Software via Static Analysis, T. Ball, S. K. Rajamani, POPL 2002, January 2002, pages 1-3.
- Automatically Validating Temporal Safety Properties of Interfaces, T. Ball, S. K. Rajamani, SPIN 2001 Workshop on Model Checking of Software, LNCS 2057, May 2001, pp. 103-122.
- Checking Temporal Properties of Software with Boolean Programs, T. Ball, S. K. Rajamani, Workshop on Advances in Verification (with CAV 2000)
- Boolean Programs: A Model and Process for Software Analysis, T. Ball, S. K. Rajamani, MSR Technical Report 2000-14.
SLAM Specifications
- SLIC: A Specification Language for Interface Checking, T. Ball, S. K. Rajamani, MSR-TR-2001-21.
Boolean Programs
- Bebop: A Path-sensitive Interprocedural Dataflow Engine, T. Ball, S. K. Rajamani, PASTE 2001
- Bebop: A Symbolic Model Checker for Boolean Programs, T. Ball, S. K. Rajamani, SPIN 2000 Workshop on Model Checking of Software, LNCS 1885, August/September 2000, pp. 113-130.
- Predicate Abstraction of C Programs
- Polymorphic Predicate Abstraction, T. Ball, T. Millstein, S. K. Rajamani, ACM TOPLAS Vol. 27, No. 2, March 2005, pages 314-343
- Automatic Predicate Abstraction of C Programs, T. Ball, R. Majumdar, T. Millstein, S. K. Rajamani, PLDI 2001, SIGPLAN Notices 36(5), pp. 203-213.
- Boolean and Cartesian Abstractions for Model Checking C Programs, T. Ball, A. Podelski, S. K. Rajamani, TACAS 2001, LNCS 2031, April 2001, pp. 268-283.
- Predicate Abstraction via Symbolic Decision Procedures, S. Lahiri, T. Ball, B. Cook, CAV 2005.
Abstraction Refinement
- Refining Approximations in Software Predicate Abstraction, T. Ball, B. Cook, S. Das, S. K. Rajamani. TACAS 2004.
- Generating Abstract Explanations of Spurious Counterexamples in C Programs, T. Ball, S. K. Rajamani, MSR-TR-2002-09.
- Relative Completeness of Abstraction Refinement for Software Model Checking, T. Ball, A. Podelski, S. K. Rajamani, TACAS 2002, LNCS 2280, April 2002, pp. 158-172.
- Zapato: Automatic theorem proving for predicate abstraction refinement, T. Ball, B. Cook, S. K. Lahiri and L. Zhang, Tools paper in CAV 2004
- Formalizing Counterexample-driven Refinement with Weakest Preconditions, T. Ball, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Engineering Theories of Software Intensive Systems Marktoberdorf, Germany 3–15 August 2004.
- Parameterized Verification of Multithreaded Software Libraries, T. Ball, S. Chaki, S. K. Rajamani,TACAS 2001, LNCS 2031, April 2001, pp. 158-173.
- From Symptom to Cause: Localizing Errors in Counterexample Traces, T. Ball, M. Naik, S. K. Rajamani, POPL 2003
- Speeding Up Dataflow Analysis Using Flow-Insensitive Pointer Analysis, S. Adams, T. Ball, M. Das, S. Lerner, S. K. Rajamani, M. Seigle, W. Weimer. SAS 2002, LNCS 2477
- Automatic Creation of Environment Models via Training, T. Ball, V. Levin, and F. Xie, TACAS 2004
- The SLAM Toolkit, T. Ball, S. K. Rajamani, CAV 2001
- Wired News: Microsoft's Secret Bug Squasher
- Kampf dem Programmierfehlerteufel
- SDV and PPRC tools mentioned in The Economist
- From reporting of the Microsoft Research Roadshow in Silicon Valley (PC Magazine)
- SLAM and PPRC tools featured in Bill Gates' OOPSLA 2002 keynote address
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Nice map and quite an interesting texture.
Here is a recently completed commission. This was created for the novel "The Healer" by Dani Collins.
It was based on a fairly decent sketch provided by the author. The initial B&W map was created primarily in Inkscape using my own icons, with the layers assembled in Gimp (using 2.8.4 now, and quite happy with it). Some of the featured were cleaned up/added in Gimp directly (like the coast lines and most of the Badlands) In addition, she was looking for a map the seemed printed on hide, which is the version I'm posting here. The texture was created completely in Gimp, from scratch, and the B&W map merged in using about six versions in different blend modes, with a number of spread, blurs and offsets to make it seem inked into the texture.
The land of Kerfdom is west of the mountains, with the majority of the land to the east largely unexplored, hence the lack of detail in that area.
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October 01, 2004
As a high school student, junior Meredith Canada experienced the lack of understanding surrounding depression firsthand when many friends and family members failed to comprehend the severity of her affliction.
"It was 'the everybody gets sad mentality,'" she said.
When Canada heard the jokes and comments sparked by last April's suicide attempt at Ballantine Hall, she was inspired to use the understanding gained through her own bout with depression to educate students about mental illness.
"It's a biological disease, just like cancer or diabetes," Canada said. "You wouldn't hear someone make a joke about someone with cancer."
Canada is now working to start a chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill on campus. With more than 1,200 local affiliates throughout the country, NAMI is a nonprofit support and advocacy organization for the mentally ill, as well as for their family and friends.
NAMI concentrates on four areas: support, education, advocacy and research.
Joan Lafuze, biology professor and chair of NAMI Indiana's Education Committee, said it's important for college students to understand mental illness because incidents of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression are common in young people and because the risk of suicide among the mentally ill is high.
"Mental illnesses, particularly schizophrenia, are illnesses that strike young people," she said. "One in 100 people will develop schizophrenia in their lifetime. Seventy-five percent of males who develop schizophrenia do so between the ages of 16 and 25."
Lafuze said bipolar disorder and depression are also very common in younger people.
Canada said she wants the IU affiliate to focus on issues relevant to college students and would like the group to work on suicide prevention and awareness.
Canada also hopes to begin advocating for the mentally ill through letter campaigns and lobbying state legislators.
According to NAMI's Web site, 15 million Americans currently live with severe mental illness, and suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, with 1,100 students committing suicide each year. The current suicide rate among people aged 15 to 25 is 300 percent higher than it was just 50 years ago.
Canada said the stigma surrounding mental illness often prevents students from seeking help.
"I think a lot of kids are embarrassed by what they're going through," Canada said. She said she hopes having a NAMI chapter on campus will help students coping with mental illness realize they're not alone.
Stigma often surrounds a disease before its biological basis is understood, Lafuze said. Often the family or the individual gets blamed for the illness.
"Cancer used to be considered a dirty disease, a punishment for sin," Lafuze said. "It's a slow journey to come out of the darkness and into the light."
Though Canada decided to do something to combat that lack of understanding, she doesn't expect attitudes about mental illness to change overnight.
"It's going to take generations," she said.
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