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We welcome the dynamic duo of Heather Irmiger and Jeremy Horgan-Kobleski (JHK) are the hosts for the 2013 Colorado League Cyclefest May 31st at the Downtown Denver Aquarium.
JHK is a two time Olympian and they are both National Champions. As members of the TREK Factory Racing team, they are eager to relate their riding and racing adventures from around the world.
Heather has generously volunteered every season and said, "I couldn't be more excited about being a part of Cyclefest in my home state! Colorado is a beautiful place to ride and today's high school athletes have so much to take advantage of - great trails and great opportunities to socialize on two wheels. I'm excited to see this amazing network of friends grow."
JHK stated, "My own mountain bike career began in high school in Colorado, so it's been really exciting for me to watch it take off here. Mountain Biking has a great culture behind it, and so many great people are involved in the sport - it's a perfect fit for the high-school athlete."


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August kick off for Europa campaign
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City's Europa League campaign will begin to be mapped out on August 6, the draw date for the Play Off round that marks the club's entry into the competition.
The two-legged tie which will decide whether or not Roberto Mancini's side goes forward to the group stage will take place on August 19 and August 26.
The draw date for the aforementioned groups is August 27 and there are six matchdays in that section of the competition – two in September, one each in October and November and two in December.
The final is being played on May 18, 2011 in the Aviva Stadium (formerly Lansdowne Road) Dublin.
The Play off round into which the Blues enter consists of 74 teams.
Already through to the same stage are Aston Villa and other luminaries Napoli, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, PSG, Porto, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord.
Liverpool enter in the previous round – the third qualifying round –which takes place in July. Juventus, Stuttgart, CSKA Moscow, and Red Star Belgrade are amongst the teams also kicking off their campaign early.
In all, forty-eight teams will make it into the group stage – the 37 winners from the Play off round containing City, plus 10 losers from the Champions League play-off round and the Europa League holders.
For those wanting to plan the next campaign as early as possible the Premier League fixtures for 2010-2011 are issued on Thursday, June 17 and the action itself kicks-off on the weekend commencing August 14.

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If $R$ is a commutative noetherian ring and $I$ is an ideal of $R$, $M$ is an $R$-module. Does $Tor_i^R(R/I, M)$ is finitely generated for $i\ge 0$ imply $Ext^i_R(R/I, M)$ is finitely generated for $i\ge 0$?
In fact, the two are equivalent. My apologies for the length of this argument - if someone else has a shorter one, I'd be happy to hear it.
Let $(a_1,\ldots,a_k) = I$, and let $K_\bullet$ be the Koszul complex associated to this set of generators. Note that its zero'th homology group is $R/I$, and all the homology groups are finitely generated $R/I$-modules because $R$ is Noetherian.
Let C be a Serre class of R-modules (i.e. one such that for any $0 \to A' \to A \to A'' \to 0$ exact, $A$ is in $C$ if and only if $A'$ and $A''$ are both in C). The result you ask is obtained by letting C be the class of finitely generated $R$-modules (which is only a Serre class because $R$ is Noetherian). We have that the following are equivalent for an R-module M:
The implication 1 => 2 follows inductively by writing $N$ in a short exact sequence $0 \to J \to \oplus R/I \to N \to 0$ and applying the long exact sequence of Tor.
The implication 2 => 3 follows from a hyperhomology spectral sequence.
The implication 3 => 4 is immediate from the definition of the Koszul complex.
The implication 4 => 1 is proved inductively. The hyperhomology spectral sequence $$ E^2_{p,q} = Tor_p(H_q(K), M) \Rightarrow H_{p+q}(K \otimes_R M) $$ first shows $E^2_{0,0} = Tor_0(R/I,M)$ is in C. If $Tor_i(R/I,M)$ is in C for $0 \leq i \leq m$, the above argument implies that $Tor_i(N,M)$ is in C for all finitely generated $N$, which forces $E^2_{p,q}$ to be in C for all $p \leq m$. As the abutment is in C, this forces $E^2_{m+1,0} = Tor_{m+1}(R/I,M)$ to be in C.
Now, there is an exactly analogous string of implications in Ext. The following are equivalent:
However, the Koszul complex has self-duality; the tensor product complex $K \otimes_R M$ visibly has the same homology groups as a shift of the Hom-complex $\underline{Hom}_R(K,M)$. Therefore, the two versions of statement (4) are equivalent.


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Rejoice in the Lord always…I will say it again, rejoice! (Philippians 4:4).
Do you think God wants you happy? I've been rethinking this question lately. Just this morning I was reading a quote where C.S. Lewis remarked, "I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity."
Maybe we shouldn't follow Christ from the happiness motivation, but if we do follow Christ, should it make us happier? I'm beginning to think the answer is "yes". For many years I've made the distinction between happiness and joy. I've distinguished between the two by saying happiness is dependent on external circumstances while joy is a deeper experience that comes from God and is independent of our circumstances. I've also taught that we think we want to be happy, but what we really desire at a deeper level is joy. But are the two mutually exclusive?
A while back I was reading a classic commentary on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. The writer, a well-known minister of his time, pointed to the prophetic text that predicted Jesus would be "a man of sorrows…acquainted with grief," (Isaiah 53:3). Based on this text, the commentator reached the conclusion that Christians should not desire or expect happiness. I immediately thought of the prophetic text that says Jesus "was anointed with the oil of gladness above all his companions," (Psalm 45:7). I think that Jesus experienced times of great sadness and grief. But I also think he might have been a very happy camper much of the time. My hunch is that he was filled with joy, and also experienced happiness.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught a series of principles we call "beatitudes". Most translations use the word "Blessed" to begin each of the phrases. The Greek word in the text is makarios. It can be translated "blessed", but its more normal meaning is "happy". Some translations actually do begin each beatitude with the words "happy are"…
I also have been thinking about how often the Bible tells us to "be glad". It occurs more than sixty times in the Bible! I would suggest that "gladness" includes the emotion we think of as "happiness".
Today's text encourages us to "rejoice in the Lord". To emphasize the point, Paul goes on to repeat, "again I say rejoice". This would indicate that having joy and being happy requires action on our part.
The word Paul uses, chairo, means "to be full of cheer, calmly happy, glad."
So how about trying to "rejoice" more today? I have more thoughts on this subject that I will save for another time. But for today, I'm going to put a "R" on my hand, and every time I notice it, I am going to tell Jesus, "I am rejoicing in you, today, Lord!" I'll let you know if I have a happier day.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. — After an abbreviated night of sleep, Jordan Spieth said the start he got off to on Sunday in the final round of the 78th Masters was better than anything he could have dreamed about, had he been able.
It's what happened after that fast start that, while not a nightmare, is certain to keep the 20-year-old awake at night. Because if not for a missed shot here or a pulled putt there, it might have been Spieth, and not Bubba Watson, winning, and making history as the tournament's youngest champion.
For the briefest of moments — after maybe the best shot of his young life — Spieth was leading in the final round by three strokes. Barely an hour later he was trailing by two, and wound up losing by three. But in his Masters debut, Spieth tied for second with another first-timer, Jonas Blixt.
"I'm very, very pleased, no doubt. Although I feel it's like it's very early in my career, and I'll have more chances, it's a stinger," Spieth said. "I had it in my hands and I could have gone forward with it [but] just didn't quite make the putts, and that's what it came down to."
Actually, it came down to a two-hole, four-shot swing midway through the final round. Spieth began the day tied with Watson at the top but pulled ahead with four birdies over his first seven holes: He birdied No. 2 to take the lead by himself, then incredibly holed a bunker shot at the par-3 fourth, which put him three ahead of Watson, who would answer with his own birdie there moments later. Birdies at Nos. 6 (a par 3, and also matched by Watson) and 7 pushed Spieth to 8 under as he played the par-5 eighth hole.
That's when the momentum changed. Watson birdied and Spieth bogeyed, leaving them tied at 7 under. Then Spieth left his approach shot to the ninth hole short and couldn't save par. With Watson rolling in a 12-foot slider at No. 9, the lefthander now was the one with the two-shot advantage.
"[Nos.] 8 and 9 were the turning points of the day," Spieth said. "When I got to 10, I still believed that I could win the tournament, no doubt about it. And I had a putt on 11 to get back to tied."
He missed that putt and then made the kind of mistake a Masters rookie might make when the heat, even on a warm April day, gets cranked up. He took aim at the flag at the dangerous 12th hole and didn't hit it quite hard enough. His ball landed near the green, but not high enough, catching the bank and slowly coming back, dropping into Rae's Creek.
It led to a bogey, and Spieth made all pars from there, unable to catch Watson. In the process, with things not going the way he wanted, Spieth began to display the kind of body language he described as "embarrassing" a few months ago: knocking clubs to the ground, vocally admonishing himself after poor shots, and showing, maybe not in the best way, just how badly he wanted to win.
"That's just who he is," said Michael Greller, Spieth's caddie. "At one point he told me, once it was kind of obvious it was over, 'I worked my whole life for this moment.' It was just kind of some frustration coming out, and I just reminded him, 'You're going to have a lot of those moments.' It's tough to swallow when you're right there and just come up a little short."
A little short, yes, but definitely not bad for one's Masters debut.
"I feel like I'm ready to win," Spieth said. "It's just a matter of time and maybe a little bit of course knowledge."Michael Whitmer can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeWhitmer.


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Montes Runs Sixth-Fastest 10K Time in Program History
2013: Competed at six meets during her initial season ... Debuted with a 17th-place finish in 19:17.31 in the 5K at the Covered Bridge Invitational ... Placed sixth overall in 18:50.51 in the 5K at UNC Wilmington's Seahawk Invitational ... Ran a season-best 5K time of 18:39.8 and finished 39th overall at the Wolfpack Invitational ... Took third place in 18:50.73 at the Pirate Invitational ... Clocked in at 19:49.71 and finished 80th at the C-USA Championship.
A 2013 State Championship Qualifier in the 1,600-meter run and a District 1 AAA Finalist after earning a third-place finish in the event...In indoor track, was a State Championships Qualifier in the mile run with an 11th-place finish...A 2012 State Cross Country Championships Qualifier...Was named a 2012 cross country scholar athlete...Plans to major in exercise physiology...Born Dec. 30 to Bryan and Bernadette Sheva in Sellersville, Pa.,...Has a younger sister, Marissa, and a younger brother, Cameron.
Sheva's Personal Bests:
Mile - 5:10.38
1,600-meter run - 5:07.22
3,000-meter run - 10:45.18
3,200-meter run - 10:59.16
5,000-meter run - 18:37.00
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"Caitlyn has performed at a high level over a great range of races and comes in with the fastest 3,200-meter PR of any recruit we have had here at ECU. Besides good times, Caitlyn is going to bring a lot of positivity to the team. She smiled more than just about any recruit we've ever had come in, so I know she's going to make the hard practices that much better. Caitlyn was a life-long soccer player and will now be able to focus all of her training on one sport. She has a great foundation and I think that we can really improve her speed as well as her strength on the cross country course."


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OK, so it's less than a month until pitchers and catchers report… and it's about 40 degrees warmer than it was a week ago… but this is the nadir of the offseason: holidays have come and gone, first pass at the player reports written, but the prospect books are still a couple weeks away from hitting the street/inbox.
In the spirit of keeping the site fresh and discussion going, a couple of news items…
• The death march in Western Maryland continues as the folks in Fredericksburg announce a spring groundbreaking while Ballparkdigest is reporting that another affiliated league is interested in moving into the vacated market. Given the NYPL's intention to set up shop in Morgantown, WV (where ground has been broken and the stadium will be built regardless of housing a professional team), that could mean the league is looking for a travel partner. Batavia and Jamestown are generally considered the most likely candidates for relocation due to their attendance and/or financial woes as well as aging (pre-WW2) facilities.
• Meanwhile, the Doubledays announced yesterday that former Syracuse Chiefs assistant GM Michael Voutsinas will be the new Auburn GM — the fifth since 2010. Not coincidentally, attendance has fallen three times over that timeframe, perhaps making Auburn a third relocation candidate in either scenario listed above.
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All of this is making a couple of trips to Hagerstown mandatory. I remember when Hagerstown was a AA city.
Fredericksburg's a vibrant growing area.
Ran across this writeup………. should help with the nadir.
Pretty fair choices. But Pittsburgh wins the title of best farm for 2014 according to BA. Still need to hear from Sickels. They again mention how the Nats lost that title with the Gio trade with Oakland in 2012.
According to BA its not just talent but major-league ready talent? If Giolito pitches a full 2013 would the Nats be in the top 3 – 5? If he gets added to Jordan, Karns, Cole, et al? Of course they just traded Ray … still …
Was in Kinston the other day, and got to stop by the stadium there. Oh how sad….yet I keep thinking that maybe someone, someday will move back there. The Indians banners are still hanging outside, giving a "ran out in the middle of the night" feeling like the old Colts from Baltimore.
The stadium, although small, is really the essence of minor league baseball. I can only hope and dream for baseball only a few miles away from me….. 🙁
Rizzo plan B could now be in house for catching
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Former world No.1 Venus Williams makes her Australian Open 2014 debut versus Ekaterina Makarova, as live stream information and TV schedule start times are available courtesy of ESPN and a Jan. 11, 2014 SI report.
Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, will be the site for this Aussie Open 2014 first-round match. The women's singles action gets underway, Sunday (Jan. 12, 2014) night at 7 p.m. EST (6 p.m. CST/5 p.m. MST/4 p.m. PST) live on ESPN-2.
A free live stream of this Williams-Makarova matchup is also available 100 percent free of charge, courtesy of WatchESPN. For viewing on a desktop, tablet, mobile phone or other internet-operating devices please visit ESPN3, or simply click here to stream it live at the aforementioned TV scheduled start time.
In the twilight of an illustrious career, the 33-year-old American is in search of her first Australian Open title in 2014, as she tries to ass to a resume that includes seven Grand Slams.
Runner-up to her sister, Serena, in 2003, Venus will have the tennis odds on her side in tonight's opener Down Under. Despite being ranked lower than her 25-year-old (Russian) opponent, Las Vegas tennis lines have Venus Williams as a -155 ML favorite over 22nd ranked Ekaterina Makarova [+120 ML].
Venus will be looking to remain unbeaten versus the southpaw, as this will be the third meeting between these lovely ladies. In preparation for what should be an entertaining Australian Open 2014 schedule live stream, here's a look at their overall head-to-head series (WTA):
- 2010 Wimbledon (Grass)
- Venus Williams: 6-0, 6-4
- 2012 Rome (Clay)
- Venus Williams: 7-6, 6-1
Don't miss tonight's Australian Open 2014 schedule opening round action. Watch Venus Williams of the United States take on Ekaterina Makarova of Russia on ESPN-2 beginning at 7 p.m. EST. For tennis fans trying to live stream this match on a desktop, tablet, or other mobile devices, simple head over to WatchESPN or click on the link above for instant access.


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The Mile High City will start off the workweek with a pleasant day in terms of temperatures but strong winds are going to put a damper on any enthusiasm. The mild day will be followed by a slight chance for overnight snow and colder temperatures Tuesday.
For Monday we will start the day with partly sunny skies and those will continue throughout the daytime hours. Temperatures will warm quickly aided by downslope flow and top out near the 70 degree mark in town.
As nice as those temperatures are, the wind however is going to be the dominant condition today. Wind speeds will be increasing as the day progresses and by mid to late afternoon gusts to 45 mph will be possible. Higher speeds to 60 mph will be possible in the foothills and high country.
For all of the Colorado plains just east of Denver, dry fuels and the strong winds will lead to increased fire danger. A Red Flag Warning is in effect until 8:00 p.m. for these areas.
Our next storm system arrives in the state today and will impact the high country today then move east tonight.
Snow accumulations of 4 to 8 inches will be possible in the northern mountains and some areas west of the Continental Divide. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect tonight for the affected areas.
Here at lower elevations we stand just a slight chance to see some light snow develop after midnight. Showers will be possible through Tuesday. No real accumulation is expected; less than a half inch if any at all.
Tuesday's temperatures will be cooler than normal with Denver's high topping out in the low to mid-40s. Winds will continue to be strong tomorrow but less than today with gusts to 30 mph.
For the balance of the week we bounce back nicely with temperatures at or above normal and dry conditions into Saturday.
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Steroid from Mustard Can Help Improve Physical Fitness: A North Carolina Study
by Maulishree Jhawer on January 14, 2012 at 12:50 PM Health Watch - G J E 4
In addition to adding an excellent and pleasant flavor to meals, our traditional herb mustard can help one go from fat to fit.
A recent research conducted by Debora Esposito and colleagues from the Human Health Institute at North Carolina University in Kannapolis, USA, suggested that a compound called homobrassinolide, found in plants like mustard, helps to increase the lean body mass, muscle mass and physical performance in mammals.
Advertisement28-Homobrassinolide (HB) is a brassinosteroid (steroid found in plants from Brassica family) that has a potent plant growth promoting property but has no known function in mammals. The researchers of this study, however, found that homobrassinolide produces an anabolic effect in mammals as well, that is, it helps increase protein synthesis within cells resulting in the build up of cellular tissue which in turn increases appetite and muscle mass along with the number and size of muscle fibers in animals.
The study involved healthy rats receiving an oral administration of hemobrassinolide daily for 24 days. Changes in their body weight, food consumption, and body composition were measured using dual emission X ray absorptiometry analysis. The analysis showed an increased muscle mass in treated animals over those who were not treated.
An increase in the muscle mass means a higher basal metabolic rate. A high BMR assists in a greater caloric burning even at rest and thus helps one to stay lean and fit.
Homobrassinolide was seen to increase protein synthesis and inhibit protein degradation. The research clearly exhibited an increase in the number and size of muscle fibers which is important for increased physical strength and endurance.
Although the above study and results are cited to be still a little unexplored, the study does bring forth many future interventions and prospects in the medical and nutrition science.
Experts suggest that plants like mustard could be engineered for a higher brassinosteroid content producing functional foods which could help one stay lean, increase muscle mass and prevent disease.
In future supplements or medicines incorporating brassinosteroids could also be developed to provide a safe and effective cure for age and disease associated muscle loss. It could also be used as a safe alternative to synthetic steroids with minimal or no side effects by the general population or athletes to build strength and endurance.
In terms of caloric content also mustard leaves score high as they are extremely low in calories. They are high in antioxidants and have anti inflammatory properties. They are also a good source of dietary fiber, iron, magnesium, phosphorous and selenium.
Mustard could be an integral part of the diet in the form of the vegetable prepared with the leaves or seeds used in salads, curds and for tempering. Conscious efforts could be made to consume at least 1 teaspoon of mustard with water or as a part of food to enjoy its benefits.
Reference: Esposito D, Komarnytsky S, Shapses S, Raskin I. Anabolic effect of plant brassinosteroid. FASEB J. 2011 Oct;25(10):3708-19. Epub 2011 Jul 11.
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We all know "Once Upon a Time" Season 4 will have a strong "Frozen" correlation. It seems most of the media attention has focused on that. We've found some spoilers about other aspects of the series we thought we'd pass along. For instance, on Aug 9, Inquistr suggested the fairytale series might be paying a visit to "Wonderland."
Another tip came from TV Line who revealed that ABC was in the process of casting the role of "an elderly, grizzled and unflappable knight who for many, many years has dedicated himself to serving a righteous cause." They suggested that the knight could belong to the Camelot storyline and since we've already met Lancelot, that could be the case. It could just as easily be the White Knight from the "Through the Looking Glass" sequel to "Alice in Wonderland."
Since the "Frozen" storyline will arc over the first 11 episodes, the show will need to set up the second half of the season. With the news that Michael Socha, formerly the Knave of Hearts on "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" joining Season 4 of 'OUAT, a trip to Wonderland seems more likely. Since Disney and ABC are all part of the same family now, the visit could serve to help drum up interest in the new Disney movie, "Through the Looking Glass", a sequel to the 2010 Alice in Wonderland flick that featured Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway.
One of fans' favorite characters is Belle. Belle hasn't gotten a lot of air time in the last season. The Epoch Times reported that her pre-Rumplestiltskin life will be explored this season. There is also a rumor that she will discover that Rumple tricked her and switched the daggers. That can only lead to disaster for the already troubled couple.
In other news leaking out from the show, Sidney Glass/Magic Mirror/Genie of the Lamp will be back. Devoted to Regina, he will attempt to help her destroy those who could prevent her from getting her long awaited happy ending. Henry will start working with his grandfather at the pawn shop and the Charmings will get the chance to go through the process of being parents to an infant. What about Emma and Hook? Reportedly, she will finally be in a stable relationship!
"Once Upon a Time" Season 4 will premiere on Sunday, Sept. 28. We'll keep you posted on more "OUAT" news as it comes along
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Use Case : Semantic Media Analysis for Intelligent Retrieval
Authors: Ioannis Pratikakis, Sofia Tsekeridou
Semantic Media Analysis seen from a multimedia retrieval perspective is equivalent to the automatic creation of semantic indices and annotations based on multimedia and domain ontologies to enable intelligent human-like multimedia retrieval purposes. An efficient multimedia retrieval system [1], must:
- be able to handle the semantics of the query;
- unify multiple modalities in a homogeneous framework and
- abstract the relationship between low level media features and high level semantic concepts to allow the user to query in terms of these concepts rather than in terms of examples, i.e. introduction the notion of ontologies.
This Use Case aims to pinpoint problems that arise during the effort for an automatic creation of semantic indices and annotations in an attempt to bridge the multimedia semantic gap and thus provide corresponding solutions using Semantic Web Technologies.
For multimedia data retrieval, based on only low-level features as in the case of "quering by example" and of content-based retrieval paradigms and systems, on the one hand, one gets the advantage of an automatic computation of the required low-level features but on the other hand, such methodology lacks the ability to respond to high-level, semantic-based queries, and evidently loses the relation among low-level multimedia features such as pitch, or zero-crossing rate in audio or color and shape in image and video, or frequency of words in text, to high-level domain concepts that essentially characterize the underlying knowledge in data that a human is capable of quickly grasping, whereas a machine cannot. For this reason, an abstraction of high level multimedia content descriptions and semantics is required based on what can actually be generated automatically, such as low-level features after low-level processing, and on methods, tools and languages to represent the domain ontology and attain the mapping between the two. Tha latter is needed so that semantic indices are extracted as automatic as possible, rather than being produced manually which is a time-consuming and not always efficient task (attains a lot of subjective annotations). To avoid the latter limitations of manual semantic annotations on multimedia data, metadata standards and ontologies (upper, domain, etc.) have to be used and interoperate. Thus, a requirement emerges for multimedia semantics interoperability to further enable efficient solutions interoperation, when considering the distributed nature of the Web and the enormous amounts of multimedia data published there.
An example solution for the interoperability problem stated above is the MPEG-7 standard. MPEG-7, composed of various parts, defines both metadata descriptors for structural and low-level aspects of multimedia documents, as well as high level description schemes (Multimedia Description Schemes) for a higher-level of descriptions including semantics of multimedia data. However, it does not determine the mapping of the former to the latter based on the addressed application domain. A number of publications have appeared to define the MPEG-7 core ontology (J. Hunter, C. Tzinaraki) to address such issues. What is important is that the MPEG-7 provides the standardised means of descriptors both low-level and high level. The value sets of those descriptions along with a richer set of relationships definitions could form the necessary missing piece along with the knowledge discovery algorithms which will use these to extract semantic descriptions and indices in an almost automatic way out of multimedia data. The bottom line thus is that MPEG-7 metadata descriptions need to be properly linked to domain-specific ontologies that model high-level semantics.
Furthermore, one should consider usually the multimodality feature of multimedia data and content on the Web. The same concept there may be described by different means, that is by news in text as well as an image showing a snapshot of what the news are reporting. Thus, since the provision of cross-linking between different media types or corresponding modalities supports a rich scope for inferencing a semantic interpretation, interoperability between different single media schemes (audio ontology, text ontology, image ontology, video ontology, etc.) is an important issue. This emerges from the need to homogenise different single modalities for which it is possible that:
- can infer particular high level semantics with different degrees of confidence (e.g. rely mainly on audio for infering certain concepts than text),
- can be supported by a world modelling (or ontologies) where different relationships exist, e.g. in an image one can attribute spatial relationships while in a video sequence spatio-temporal relationships can be attained, and
- can have different role in a cross-modality fashion – which modality triggers the other, e.g. to identify that a particular photo in a Web page depicts person X, we first extract information from text on the person's identity and thereafter we cross-validate by the corresponding information extraction from the image.
Both of the above concerns, either the single modality tackled first or the cross-modality (which essentially encapsulates the sinlge modality), require semantic interoperability which will support a knowledge representation of the domain concepts and relatioships, of the multimedia descriptors and of the cross-linking of both, as well as a multimedia analysis part combined with modeling, inferencing and mining algorithms that can be directed towards automatic semantics extraction from multimedia to further enable efficient semantic-based indexing and intelligent multimedia retrieval.
Motivating Examples
In the following, current pitfalls with respect to the desired semantic interoperability are given via examples. The discussed pitfalls are not the only ones, therefore, further discussion is needed to cover the broad scope of semantic multimedia analysis and retrieval.
Example 1 - Single modality case: Lack of semantics in low-level descriptors
The linking of low-level features to high-level semantics can be obtained by the following two main trends:
- using machine learning and mining techniques to infer the required mapping, based on a basic knowledge representation of the concepts of the addressed domain (usually low-to-medium level inferencing) and
- using ontology-driven approaches to both guide the semantic analysis and infer high-level concepts using reasoning and logics. This trend can include the first one as well and then be further driven by medium-level semantics to more abstract domain concepts and relationships.
In both trends above, it is appropriate for granularity purposes to produce concept/event detectors, which usually incorporate a training phase applied on training feature sets for which ground-truth is available (apriori knowledge of addressed concepts or events). This phase enable optimization of the underlying artificial intelligence algorithms. Semantic interoperability cannot be achieved by only exchanging low-level features, wrapped in standardised metadata descriptors, between different users or applications, since there is a lack of formal semantics. In particular, a set of low level descriptors (eg. MPEG-7 audio descriptors) cannot be semantically meaningful since there is a lack of intuitive interpretation to higher levels of knowledge - these have been however extensively used in content-based retrieval that relies on similarity measures. The low level descriptors are represented as a vector of numerical values, and thus, they are useful for a content-based multimedia retrieval rather than a semantic multimedia retrieval process.
Furthermore, since a set of optimal low level descriptors per target application (be it music genre recognition or speaker indexing) can be conceived by only multimedia analysis experts, this set has to be transparent to any other user. For example, although a non-expert user can understand the color and shape of a particular object, he is unable to attribute to this object a suitable representation by the selection of appropriate low level descriptors. It is obvious that the low level descriptors do not only lack semantics but also limit their direct use to people that have gained a particular expertise concerning multimedia analysis and multimedia characteristics.
The problem raised out of this Example that needs to be solved is in which way low level descriptors can be efficiently and automatically linked and turned into an exchangeable bag of semantics.
Example 2 - Multi-modality case: Fusion and interchange of semantics among media
In multimedia data and web content, cross-modality aspects are dominant, a characteristic that can be efficiently exploited by semantic multimedia analysis and retrieval, when all modalities can be exploited to infer the same or related concepts or events. One aspect, is again motivated from the analysis part, that refers to particular concepts and relationships capturing, which require a priority in the processing of modalities during their automatic extraction. For example, to enhance recognition of a face of a particular person in an image appearing in a Web page, which is actually a very difficult task, it seems more natural and efficient that initially inferencing is based on the textual content, to locate the identity (name) of the person, and thereafter, the results can be validated or enhanced by related results from image analysis. Similar multimodal media analysis benefits can be obtained by analysing synchronized audio-visual content to semantically annotate it. The trends there are:
- to conscruct combined feature vectors from audio and visual features and feed those to machine learning algorithms to extract combined semantics ii. to analyse each single modality separately towards recognizing medium-level semantics or the same concepts and then fuse results of analysis (decision fusion) in usually a weighted or ordered manner (depending on the underlying single modality cross-relations towards the same topic) to either improve the accuracy of semantics extraction results or enrich them, towards higher level semantics.
For the sake of clarity, an example scenario is described in the following which is taken from the 'sports' domain and more specifically from 'athletics'.
Let's assume that we need to semantically index and annotate, in the most possible automatic way, the web page shown at Figure 1, which is taken from the site of the International Association of Athletics Federation [2]. The subject of this page is 'the victory of the athlete Reiko Sosa at the Tokyo's marathon'. Let's try to answer the question: What analysis steps are required if we would like to enable semantic retrieval results for the query "show me images with the athlete Reiko Sosa" ?
One might notice that for each image in this web page there is a caption which includes very useful information about the content of the image, in particular the persons appearing in it, i.e. structural (spatial) relations of the media-rich web page contents. Therefore, it is important to identify the areas of an image and the areas of a caption. Let's assume that we can detect those areas (it is not useful to get into details how). Then, we proceed in the semantics extraction of the textual content in the caption which identifies:
- Person Names = {Naoko Takahashi, Reiko Sosa},
- Places = {Tokyo}, Athletics type = {Women's Marathon} and
- activity = {runs away from} (see Figure 1, in yellow and blue color).
In the case of the semantics extraction from images, we can identify the following concepts and relationships:
- In the image at the upper part of the web page, we can get the 'athlete's faces' and with respect to the spatial relationship of those faces we can identify which face (athlete) takes lead against the other. Using only the image we cannot draw a conclusion who is the athlete.
- In the image at the lower part of the web page, we can identify that there exist a person after a face detection but still, we cannot ensure to whom this face belongs to.
If we combine both the semantics from textual information in captions and the semantics from image we may give a large support to reasoning mechanisms to reach the conclusion that "we have images with the athlete Reiko Sosa". Nonetheless, in the case that we have several athletes like in the image on the upper web image part, reasoning using the identified spatial relationship can spot which particular athlete between the two, is Reiko Sosa.
Figure 1 : Example of a web page about athletics
Another scenario involved multimodal analysis of audio-visual data, distributed on the web or accessed through it from video archives, and concerns automatic semantics extraction and annotation of video scenes related to violence, for further purposes of content filtering and parental control [6]. Thus, the goal in this scenario is automatic identification and semantic classification of violent content, using features extracted from visual, auditory and textual modalities of multimedia data.
Let's consider that we are trying to automatically identify violent scenes where fighting among two persons takes place with no weapons involved. The low-level analysis parts will lead to different low-level descriptors separately for each modality. For example, for the visual modality the analysis will involve:
- Shot cut detection and video segmentation.
- Human body recognition and motion analysis.
- Human body parts recognition (arms, legs).
- Human body parts movement and tracking (i.e. "Fast horizontal hand movement")
- Interpretation of simple "visual" events/concepts based on spatial and temporal relations of identified objects (medium-level semantics).
On the other hand, the analysis of the auditory modality will involve:
- Audio signal segmentation.
- Segment classification in sound categories, including speech, silence, music, scream, etc. which may relate to violence events or not (medium-level semantics).
Now, by of course fusing medium-level semantics and results from the single modality analysis, taking under consideration spatio-temporal relations and behaviour patterns, we evidently can automatically extract (infer) higher level semantics. For example, the "punch" concept can be automatically extracted based on the initial analysis results and on the sequence or synchronicity of audio or visual detected events such as two person in visual data, the one moving towards the other, while a punch sound and scream of pain is detected in the audio data.
To fulfil such scenarios as the ones presented above, we should solve the problem how to fuse and interchange semantics from different modalities.
Possible Solutions
Example 1 (The solution)
As it was mentioned in Example 1, semantics extraction can be achieved via concept detectors after a training phase based upon feature sets. Towards this goal, recently there was a suggestion in [3] to go from a low level description to a more semantic description by extending MPEG-7 to facilitate sharing classifier parameters and class models. This should occur by presenting the classification process in a standardised form. A classifier description must specify on what kind of data it operates, contain a description of the feature extraction process, the transformation to generate feature vectors and a model that associates specific feature vector values to an object class. For this, an upper ontology could be created, called a classifier ontology, which could be linked to a multimedia core ontology (eg. CIDOC CRM ontology), a visual descriptor ontology [4] as well as a domain ontology. A similar approach is followed by the method presented in [5], where classifiers are used to recognize and model music genres for efficient music retrieval, and description extensions are introduced to account for such extended functionalities.
As to these aspects, the current Use Case relates at some extend to the Algorithm Representation UC. However, the latter refers mainly to general purpose processing and analysis and not to analysis and semantics extraction, based on classification and machine learning algorithms, to enable intelligent retrieval.
In the proposed solution, the visual descriptor ontology consists of a superset of MPEG-7 descriptors since the existing MPEG-7 descriptors cannot always support an optimal feature set for a particular class.
A scenario that exemplifies the use of the above proposal is given in the following. Maria is an architect who wishes to retrieve available multimedia material of a particular architecture style like 'Art Nouveau', 'Art Deco', 'Modern' among the bulk of data that she has already stored using her multimedia management software. Due to its particular interest, she plugs in the 'Art Nouveau classifier kit' that enables the retrieval of all images or videos that correspond to this particular style in the form of visual representation or non-visual or their combination (eg. a video on exploring the House of V. Horta, a major representative of Art Nouveau style in Brussels, which includes visual instances of the style as well as a narration about Art Nouveau history).
Necessary attributes for the classifier ontology are estimated to be:
- The name and category of the Classifier
- The list and types of input parameters
- The output type
- Limitations on data set, on value ranges for parameters, on processing time and memory requirements
- Permormance metrics
- Guidelines of use
- Links to class models per domain/application and feature sets
In the above examples, the exchangeable bag of semantics is directly linked to an exchangeable bag of supervised classifiers.
Example 2 (The solution)
In this example, to support reasoning mechanisms, it is required that apart from the ontological descriptions for each modality, there is a need for a cross-modality ontological description which interconnects all possible relations from each modality and constructs rules that are cross-modality specific. It is not clear, whether this can be achieved by an upper multimedia ontology (see [4]) or a new cross-modality ontology that will strive toward the knowledge representation of all possibilities combining media. It is evident though, that the cross-modality ontology, along with the single modality ones, greatly relate to the domain ontology, i.e. to the application at hand.
Furthermore, in this new cross-modality ontology, special attention should be taken for the representation of the priorities/ordering among modalities for any multimodal concept (eg. get textual semantics first to attach semantics in an image). This translates to sequential rules construction. However there are cases, where simultaneous semantic instances in different modalities may lead to higher level of semantics, that synchronicity is also a relationship to be accounted for. Apart from the spatial, temporal or spatio-temporal relationships that need to be accounted for, there is also the issue of importance of each modality for identifying a concept or semantic event. This may be represented by means of weights.
The solution is composed also by relating visual, audio, textual descriptor ontologies with a cross-modality ontology showcasing their inter-relations as well as a domain ontology representing the concepts and relations of the application at hand.
[1] M. Naphade and T. Huang, "Extracting semantics from audiovisual content: The final frontier in multimedia retrieval", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 13, No. 4, 2002.
[3] M. Asbach and J-R Ohm, "Object detection and classification based on MPEG-7 descriptions – Technical study, use cases and business models", ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/MPEG2006/M13207, April 2006, Montreaux, CH.
[4] H. Eleftherohorinou, V. Zervaki, A. Gounaris, V. Papastathis, Y. Kompatsiaris, P. Hobson, "Towards a common multimedia ontology framework (Analysis of the Contributions to Call for a Common multimedia ontology framework requirements)", http://www.acemedia.org/aceMedia/files/multimedia_ontology/cfr/MM-Ontologies-Reqs-v1.3.pdf
[5] S. Tsekeridou, A. Kokonozi, K. Stavroglou, C. Chamzas, "MPEG-7 based Music Metadata Extensions for Traditional Greek Music Retrieval", IAPR Workshop on Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2006
[6] T. Perperis, S. Tsekeridou, "Automatic Identification in Video Data of Dangerous to Vulnerable Groups of Users Content", presentation at SSMS2006, Halkidiki, Greece, 2006.


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Jan. 19, 2010
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Alabama Head Coach Anthony GrantOpening comments:"Obviously in the second half (Tennessee) really turned it up. I thought we played with great energy, but their energy got the best of us early in the second half. They were able to get out in transition and get on the glass a little bit and that hurt us and put us in a little bit of a hole. I thought our guys did a good job of fighting and putting ourselves in positions where we had opportunities, but we couldn't capitalize on those."
On Tennessee closing Alabama opportunities to take the lead late in the game:"Tennessee is a very good basketball team. They were able to make some plays today that allowed them to win in a hostile environment. We had opportunities that we weren't able to capitalize on. I think there is a process that we have to go through to learn how to win these types of games. Hopefully this is another learning experience. It's a tough way to learn by losing, but hopefully our guys will develop that resolve, get better and do the things we need to do to win."
On how the Tide held Tennessee to 24 points in the first half:"I think a big part was that (senior forward Wayne) Chism had two fouls in the first half and he is such an important part of what they do. From an offensive standpoint, not having him in the game affected some of the attacks that they hurt us with in the second half. I thought we had opportunities on offense in the first half. We left a lot out there."
Sophomore Forward JaMychal Green On keeping Wayne Chism in check for much of the game:"Coach told us to be `King of the Block' and keep him out of position defensively and offensively get him in foul trouble" On the team's shot-blocking success:"We usually don't block a lot of shots in practice. We try not to foul them and get the ball at the right time." On his emotions during Tennessee's run:"It was frustrating, but at the same time we've got to keep a cool head and fight. We didn't get stops on defense when we needed them." On the giving up the lead in the second half:"I put the blame on myself because in crunch time Chism had two baskets on me. They fought hard and but we stayed together and continued to fight."
Freshman Forward Tony MitchellOn defending Wayne Chism:"We were trying to stop him from getting post position and angles." On if his approach changed as a starter:"It doesn't matter if I start or come off the bench, I just come in and bring it and play good defense." On how Tennessee pulled away in the second half:"Tennessee is a good team, they wouldn't be ranked if they weren't. They just made plays down the stretch." On why he had a career-high five blocks:"I just try to sacrifice myself for the team, whether that be blocking shots or taking charges or doing whatever I can for the team." On preparing for Mississippi State on Saturday:"We just have to come back and not worry about this game and its behind us and we just have to get ready for Saturday."
Tennessee Head Coach Bruce PearlOn winning an away game:"Road wins are hard to come by in league play and this is an Alabama team that is going to finish in the top three I believe. This was a tough one for them because you've got to win your home games and beat the people you can beat and Alabama certainly could have beaten us tonight.
"I thought the fact that in the first half when Wayne Chism was on the bench in foul trouble and we only went down one at half was a real key. Also early in the game we weren't playing very well defensively. They got a lot of good looks but didn't make them. They could have run us out of the building early. We hung around, but continued to play really good defense throughout."
On taking Mikhail Torrance out of the game:"He is the key. He is the guy that they really need. We guarded the ball-screen and we just wouldn't let him get to the ball-screen. We overplayed his left hand dramatically. We provided help with the ball-screen defender in case he refused it and we built a wall on him and it was very, very effective. And that, I think defensively, was probably the biggest key to the game.
"What happened was after Torrance wasn't effective in the ball-screen offense and the spread, they relied on the full scheme and you can see how challenged we were to guard Green on the inside and they had a couple guys, like Hines. But they aren't going to beat us with Hines shooting 16-foot jump shots. He had a nice drive to the basket. But it was just a good solid team defensive effort and that's what you've got to do to win on the road."
Freshman Guard Scotty HopsonOn defending Mikhail Torrance:"We really just wanted to send him into the left and keep the ball out of his strong hand. He's really the life of their offense. He gets them going so I knew that it was important to get him out of his rhythm."
On limiting offense rebounds:"Well we came together around half way through the second half and told each other that we were going to get every rebound for the rest of the game. In the end, that really helped us limit their opportunities down the stretch."
On teammate Kenny Hall:"Kenny Hall is really a great player. When he's on the court he doesn't really look like a freshman, he plays like a sophomore or a junior. He's doing a real good job of backing up Wayne (Chism)."


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If you're questioning the intensity of the rivalry between the Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints, check out this tweet from Saints backup quarterback Chase Daniel. It came just minutes after the team's charter flight touched down in Atlanta on Wednesday night.
@ChaseDaniel: Wow, as we're boarding buses on the Tarmac @ Atlanta airport, we start getting eggs thrown @ us by airport workers! Guess they do hate us!
Saints teammates Jermon Bushrod and Jimmy Graham re-tweeted Daniel's message, which was tweeted at 7:48 p.m. Wednesday.
Graham confirmed Daniel's tweet a few minutes later:
@JimmyGraham: Bus just got egged after landing in ATL by the ramp workers. Classy! "RISE Up" smh
Linebacker Will Herring also confirmed the incident:
First time my bus has been egged by opposing fans! Tomorrow should be fun!! #WhoDatNation
Not all of the Saints were put off by the incident. Wide receiver Joseph Morgan seemed to have fun with it:
@jmthegreat How do eggs make people mad? Cool and hilarious prank #childhood #memories
Nevertheless, Thursday night's Saints-Falcons game should be intense, considering the national stage, recent history of the NFC South rivals and stakes at hand. This incident should only stoke the competitive fires even more.
It adds another chapter to one of the NFL's budding rivalries.
After the Saints' 31-27 victory on Nov. 11, Saints linebacker Scott Shanle referred to the Falcons as "our little brothers" in an interview with Yahoo!Sports and called their pregame actions in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome that day "classless."
Leading up to the game, Falcons wide receiver Roddy White told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "I don't like nothing about the Saints. The colors. The city. Nothing. But they've got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing."


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Hot Shooting Miami Downs UMass 80-53
Dec. 12, 2004
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) - Guillermo Diaz scored a game-high 20 points and Anthony Harris keyed a decisive second-half run to lead Miami to an 80-53 win over Massachusetts on Sunday.
It was the fourth consecutive win for Miami (5-2).
The Hurricanes went into halftime up 37-22, and opened the second half with an 18-2 run, including seven points from Harris.
Miami took a 31-point lead on a 3-pointer from Robert Hite that made it 55-24 with 13:42 remaining. Massachusetts never got closer than 22 points to Miami's lead after that.
Art Bowers (Wilmington, Del.) scored 16 points for Massachusetts (3-3) in the loss. Anthony Anderson (Lynn, Mass.) added 12 points and three steals for the Minutemen, who were coming off a 61-59 win over then-No. 7 Connecticut.
Miami's starting guard trio of Diaz, Harris and Hite combined for 54 points,connecting on 13-of-20 3-pointers. The Hurricanes shot 49.2 percent from the field, including 59.1 percent (13-of-22) from 3-point range, and outrebounded the Minutemen 40-26.
Miami went the first 3:02 without a basket and fell behind 8-3, but the Hurricanes mounted a 10-0 run behind five points from Diaz, who scored 18 of his 20 points in the first half.
"Miami played a great game today. When someone shoots the ball that well, it's difficult to win, especially on the road," said head coach Steve Lappas. "They obviously did a good job scouting us. They got open looks in transition early in the game before getting comfortable with their midcourt offense."
"This was a disapointment for us because of the way we lost. Miami's three guards are some of the best you will see anywhere - truly ACC-caliber guards," said Lappas. "We didn't shoot well, particularly in the first half,and I'm a bit concerned with the way we've been shooting the ball."
Fans are reminded to join Lappas, UMass announcer Bob Behler and selected players on Monday night at the UMass Coaches Show on Monday night at La Cuchina di Pinocchios.
The Minutemen will break for the upcoming exam week at UMass before taking on Davidson next Sunday in the Mullins Center. Tip-off is set for 2:00 p.m.
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Ceremonial masks and colorful Oaxacan animals are the focus of the last two shops on this gallery tour. Puerto Vallarta is justly famous not only for its tropical beaches and colonial charm, but also for its fabulous native art collections. Take home an authentic ethnographic piece of Mexico, not just a tourist tchotchke made in China.
Galeria Olinala, dance masks from all over Mexico
Fiestas and their accompanying ceremonies and parades are embedded into the folk life of Mexico. Fanciful characters strut around in extraordinary costumes with masks to match. Christian and native traditions coalesce to produce masks depicting tigers and bulls, saints and devils, patrons and hermits, Pharisees and Moors. Galeria Olinala specializes in these vintage dance masks from villages around Mexico. Most have been actually worn in ceremonial performances of various ethnic groups.
This beautifully curated collection captures it all against a backdrop of brightly painted walls, each room a different color, perhaps turquoise green, Mexican pink or jacaranda purple. The saturated colors create a delightful effect as you move from room to room. The art literally pops off the walls.
Lucy's CuCu Cabaña & Zoo, whimsical and inexpensive
This fun shop is a great place to stock up on wooden animals from Oaxaca (pronounced wah-HAH-ka). The brightly painted carvings can be amalgamations of more than one animal to create fantastic creatures. Or they can be highly stylized interpretations of a single animal, often in contortionist poses. A relatively new tradition, Oaxacan wood carvings have become wildly popular.
Prices at this small shop are very reasonable and reflect the owners' amusing taste in unusual handmade crafts from many states throughout Mexico.
Check out Galeria Indigena and Peyote People in part 1 of this article series.
Galeria Olinala
Lázaro Cárdenas 274, Emiliano Zapata
Phone: +52 322 222 4995
Open Monday-Saturday 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Lucy's CuCu Cabaña & Zoo
Basillo Badillo 295, Emiliano Zapata
Phone: +52 322 222 1220
Closed Sunday and September to mid-October and during lunch
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I know I adored HBO's "Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward," which debuts Saturday night, during a Wednesday night screening at HBO headquarters in NYC.
But I decided that rather than first share my perceptions of the treatment of the Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward thrillogy, I'd instead show deference to a man who is a role model for me, for his heart, willpower and humility, Micky Ward.
The boxer attended the screener, along with Gatti's manager Patrick Lynch, trainer Buddy McGirt, promoters Kathy Duva and Lou DiBella, and others who were touched so immensely by the courage shown by the two men in the ring, and the touching nature of the bond forged in an unlikely crucible, the square ring.
I asked Ward, now 48, what he'd like viewers to take from the film, which was adeptly helmed by Bentley Weiner, the lady who heads up HBO's 24/7 series, and so skillfully touched all the right buttons, including awe, shock, sadness, hopefullness, sadness and the anger that the film and the sport inspire.
"How great friends we were," said Ward, who stepped away from the ring after his third battle with the Italo-Canadian brawler who made the International Boxing Hall of Fame this past summer. "How great a guy he was, and that you can fight the fight, without the trash talking. You can fight your hardest without trash talking. There's too much BS in this world. You don't need it. Just go in there and try to win."
Other standouts in the film include HBO play by play man Jim Lampley, who gets extremely emotional thinking about the rivalry, and the immensity of heart of the two men who gave so much of themselves in their quest to win, and to entertain us. Ward's wife Charlene steals a scene or two, as when she quips that her guy is "sick" for his ability to withstand punishment and refuse to lose. The ref for the first Gatti-Ward bout, Frank Cappucino, will draw chuckles on Saturday when he explains why he didn't pull the plug on the bout when it appeared to many that too much savagery was on display.
Ron Borges, of TheSweetScience.com, does a bangup job talking about why this rivalry will live on, long past the exploits of men blessed with more talent in the ring, but less of a willingness to risk parts of themselves for the fans, and to satisfy their urge for victory.
Gatti's manger Pat Lynch, it is clear, still struggles with the notion that Gatti might have committed suicide. I asked him after the screening how the film touched him. Was he left feeling wistful, or happy? "Happy," he said. It was good to see Gatti doing what he does best, confounding experts and defying expectations of valor in the athletic arena, he said.
I chatted with Weiner after the screener. She thinks viewers will watch the film and be left with varied emotions. "We all really wish Arturo were here to tell the story himself," she said. She told me that a feature film on Gatti, involving Mark Wahlberg and Mike Strahan, is in the works, and that will continue to build on the legacy of a man taken from Earth too soon. "What these guys gave and the sacrifice they made is amazing," Weiner said. "They sacrificed for us, for the fans, and I'm so happy the fights will be celebrated, after they gave so much of themselves."
I asked Ward what he would say to little Sofia, Arturo's seven year old daughter if, in ten years, she asked Micky about her dad. "I'd say, I knew him very well," Ward said, "and he was a great guy, and he loved you very much and he was a Hall of Famer boxer, but more than that, he was Hall of Fame man."
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This book provides an examination of noble cause, how it emerges as a fundamental principle of police ethics and how it can provide the basis for corruption. The noble cause - a commitment to "doing something about bad people" - is a central "ends-based" police ethic that can be corrupted when officers violate the law on behalf of personally held moral values. This book is about the power that police use to do their work and how it can corrupt police at the individual and organizational levels. It provides students of policing with a realistic understanding of the kinds of problems they will confront in the practice of police work. Key terms supplement each chapter. Provides students of policing with a realistic understanding of problems that arise in police work.
Author Biography
Michael A. Caldero is a former police officer and has presented seminars on the subject of police ethics to police commanders across the United States; he teaches in the Department of Administration of Criminal Justice at Bellevue College. John P. Crank is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. The author of five books, he received the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for Imagining Justice (Anderson Publishing, 2002).
Table of Contents
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|p. 13
|Value-Based Decisionmaking and the Ethics of Noble Cause
|p. 17
|Value-Based Decisionmaking: Understanding the Ethics of Noble Cause
|p. 21
|Values, Hiring, and Early Organizational Experiences
|p. 61
|Values and Administrative Dilemmas
|p. 83
|The Social Psychology of Cops' Values
|p. 103
|Noble-Cause Corruption
|p. 123
|From Economic to Noble-Cause Corruption
|p. 125
|Stress, Organizational Accountability, and the Noble Cause
|p. 149
|Ethics and the Means-Ends Dilemma
|p. 173
|Police Culture, Ends-Orientation, and Noble-Cause Corruption
|p. 201
|Ethics and Police in a Time of Change
|p. 237
|Policing Citizens, Policing Communities: Toward an Ethic of Negotiated Order
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|The Stakes
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|p. 297
|Conclusion: The Noble Cause
|p. 321
|p. 327
|Name Index
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|Subject Index
|p. 347
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Nov 21, 2012 10:55 AM
If you're one of the lucky ducks who isn't hosting the Thanksgiving Day meal, show your gratitude to the cook by bringing a lovely bottle of Pinot in the Thanksgiving Wine Box ($45). Not only does it show how appreciative you are that they're willing to stuff you into a tryptophan-induced midday slumber, but it also classes up your wine presentation. No one will be the wiser that you bought the ten-dollar bottle, and not the twenty-dollar bottle.
You guys should have posted this 2 weeks ago!!! I needed host gifts and this is perfect but its too late to buy. I'll just have to put it in my wish list for next year... Thanks, sort of.
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Freeda L. Daley, 89, passed away Tuesday, July 22, 2014, in Medina. She was born October 22, 1924 in Mt. Gilead to the late Fred Jacob and Hazel Loree (Chilcote) Brown.
Freeda formerly worked at Medina Hospital and was a homemaker. She was a member of York United Methodist Church and the Medina Campers Association.
Freeda was the beloved mother of Gene (Sue) Daley of Evergreen, Colorado, Ronald (Linda) Daley of Medina, and Melvin Daley of Berlin; loving grandmother of Troy, Nathan, Parker, Jonathan, and Krista; great-grandmother of six; and dear sister of Evelyn Taylor of Elyria.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Charles in 2008; and brothers, Eldon and Buford Brown.
The family would like to thank the staff at Medina Meadows for the loving and compassionate care given to Freeda over the last six years.
Services will be held Monday, July 28, 2014, 11:30 A.M., at the Waite & Son Funeral Home, 765 N. Court St., Medina. The Reverend Steven Brown will officiate. Burial will follow at Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman. Family will receive friends 9:30 until 11:30 A.M., Monday, at the funeral home.
Contributions may be made to York United Methodist Church, 6566 Norwalk Road, Medina, OH 44256 or to Hospice of Medina Co., 5075 Windfall Rd., Medina 44256.
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March 11, 2011
TUCSON, Ariz. - The University of Arizona men's golf team currently sits in 14th place after the first round Friday at the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters in Las Vegas, Nev.
Arizona carded an 18-over-par 306 score to open play in the 54-hole event. All six UA players in the event were at least three strokes above par for the day.
Texas A&M posted a first-round 280 (-8) and leads the field by 12 strokes after the first 18 holes. Arizona State (292) is in second place, while four teams - Texas, Georgia Tech, Oklahoma State and California - are tied for third. In the tightly bunched field of 15 outside of the lead, Arizona is just five strokes out of seventh place.
Thirteen of the 15 teams in the field are ranked in the top-50 nationally in Golfstat's collegiate rankings.
Texas A&M's Jordan Russell leads the field by five strokes after pasting a eight-under 64 to open play.
The Wildcats were led by Erik Oja and John Kostis, who both carded opening-round 75s (+3) and are tied for 25th place. Juan Pablo Hernandez carded a five-over 77 and is tied for 43rd place heading into the second round.
Seniors Jonathan Khan and Tarquin MacManus are tied for 59th and 75th places, respectively after opening the tournament with a 79 (+7) and 85 (+13).
Ben Esparza, who is competing as an individual, shot an 80 (+8) in the first round and is tied for 65th place.
The Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters continues through Sunday at Southern Highlands Golf Course, a par-72, 7,510-yard layout. Live tournament scoring is available at www.golfstat.com.
Top-Five Teams
1. Texas A&M, 280=280 (-8)
2. Arizona State, 292=292 (+4)
3. Texas, 294=294 (+6)
Georgia Tech, 294=294 (+6)
Oklahoma State, 294=294 (+6)
California, 294=294 (+6)
Top-Five Individuals
1. Jordan Russell, Texas A&M; 64=64 (-8)
2. Morgan Hoffmann, Oklahoma State; 69=69 (-3)
Conrad Shindler, Texas A&M; 69=69 (-3)
4. Dylan Frittelli, Texas; 70=70 (-2)
Stephen Hale, California; 70=70 (-2)
Scott Pinckney, Arizona State; 70=70 (-2)
Arizona Finishers
T25. Erik Oja, 75=75 (+3)
T25. John Kostis, 75=75 (+3)
T43. Juan Pablo Hernandez, 77=77 (+5)
T59. Jonathan Khan, 79=79 (+7)
T65. Ben Esparza (Ind.), 80=80 (+8)
T75. Tarquin MacManus, 85=85 (+8)


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Two Chefs Hired to Replace Missy Robbins at A Voce
The two chefs have different approaches to Italian food.
Florence Fabricant reports that five months after Missy Robbins's departure, former Marea sous chef Ben Lee has been named executive chef at A Voce, while Filippo Gozzoli has been hired to run the show at the restaurant's Columbus Circle counterpart. Gozzoli left his post at Sirio Ristorante in the Pierre Hotel in July. [NYT, Earlier]


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Autistic Kids are Just Brats?
Savage offered no apology in a message posted Monday on his Web site. He said greedy doctors and drug companies were creating a "national panic" by overdiagnosing autism, a mental disorder that inhibits a person's ability to communicate.Savage is a dope—trying to be edgy, but too cowardly to stick to his guns. I agree that many doctors and drug companies are greedy, but to say autistic kids are just brats is staggeringly moronic.
On his radio show last week, he said: "What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, `Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, you idiot."'
The government estimates about 1 in 150 children have some form of autism. But many experts believe these unsociable behaviors were just about as common 30 or 40 years ago and that the increase is mostly caused by a surge in special education services and a corresponding shift in diagnoses.
Wendy Fournier of the National Autism Association, a parents' advocacy group, said she was invited to speak Monday on Savage's three-hour program by Savage's boss, Mark Masters of Talk Radio Network, which syndicates the show across the country. A spokeswoman from Talk Radio Network did not immediately return a call for comment.
Fournier called Savage's comments "way, way, way over the line and cruel."
"I'm hoping to make him see the reality of what these kids are facing," she said. "You can't fix it by telling a kid to shut up. It's like telling a kid with cancer to stop being sick."


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For more information about this meeting, contact Yakov Pesin, Anatole Katok, Svetlana Katok, Dmitri Burago.
|Boundary rigidity, old and new (a geometric approach)
|Center for Dynamics and Geometry Seminars
|D. Burago, PSU
|A Riemannian manifold with boundary is said to be boundary rigid if its metric is uniquely determined by the boundary distance function, that is the restriction of the distance function to the boundary. Loosely speaking, this means that the Riemannian metric can be recovered from measuring distances between boundary points only. The goal is to show that certain classes of metrics are boundary rigid (and, ideally, to suggest a procedure for recovering the metric). This problem has been extensively studied from PDE viewpoint: the distance between boundary points can be interpreted as the "travel time" for a solution of the wave equation. Hence this becomes a classic Inverse Problem when we have some information about solutions of a certain PDE and want to recover its coefficients. For instance such problems naturally arise in geophysics (when we want to find out what is inside the Earth by sending sound waves), medical imaging etc. In a joint project with S. Ivanov we suggest an alternative geometric approach to this problem. In our earlier work, using this approach we were able to show boundary rigidity for metrics close to flat ones (in all dimensions), thus giving the first class of boundary rigid metrics of non–constant curvature beyond two dimensions. We were now able to extend this result to include metrics close to a hyperbolic one. The approach is based on a very transparent scheme, which however has a few blocks where certain formulas have to be carefully selected, and this turns out to be a rather non-trivial task. The purpose of the talk is to explain this scheme and to explain what is needed from those blocks to make it work. The talk assumes no background in inverse problems and is supposed to be accessible to a general math audience including graduate students (in other words, we will not get into technical details of the proofs).
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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk: Rhythm-A-Ning
The Jazz Messengers
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Atlantic 1278)
Art Blakey (drums), Thelonious Monk (piano), Johnny Griffin (tenor sax),
Bill Hardman (trumpet), Spanky DeBrest (bass).
Composed by Thelonious Monk.
Recorded: New York, May 15, 1957
Rating: 92/100 (learn more)
One of the many strengths of Art Blakey's musical leadership was his ability to bring new musicians on board without sacrificing the overall sound or approach of the Jazz Messengers. Even when Thelonious Monk enters the picture, you may ask? Well, ultimately, yes.
The first half of the track is more like a Monk recording than a Messengers recording. Blakey is noticeably subdued, and although his signature pounding hi-hat pulse is still present, he lightly breaks the rhythm more like Roy Haynes than like Art Blakey. Blakey appears to be taking the backseat and allowing Monk to run the show. As the track progresses and the other musicians begin to solo, however, Blakey raises the intensity level, and the soloists take notice and answer the call. All of sudden, even though Monk's comping presence is felt throughout, the Messenger service is back in full swing – replete with Blakey's big rolls between solos and signature solo licks to conclude the tune. The presence of Monk and his tunes on this '57 session makes for a fascinating study of the collision of dominant jazz personalities.
Reviewer: Eric Novod
Tags: 1950s jazz · drums · hard bop · monk covers · rhythm-a-ning
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This is Manhattan in the evening via Twitter GPS traces. He tracks people's location over 4 hour periods and the lines represent their movements. Movements go from blue to red, so longer trails and more red means people are more on the move. I love the evening picture above. If you go to Jeff Clark's website you get the day broken down into chunks, and a thorough explanation of how he did it.
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BOULDER - Colorado moved up two spots to No. 14 in the third regular season Associated Press Women's Basketball Top 25 Poll released on Monday.
Colorado, now 4-0, received 365 points, up from 316 last week. Monday's showing is Colorado's highest ranking since coming in at No. 13 in the final March 8, 2004 poll.
The Buffaloes have been ranked in 18 consecutive AP polls, their longest run since appearing in all 19 polls of the 2003-04 season. Colorado has a long history of rankings in the AP poll, dating back to the 1980-81 season. This ranking marks the 176th time Colorado has appeared in the AP poll, trailing only Stanford, USC and UCLA among Pac-12 schools.
Colorado moved up one spot to No. 19 in the latest coaches poll released on Tuesday. The Buffaloes received 219 points, slightly up from 213 in the previous poll.
Colorado has three ranked teams on its schedule, all three of which were preseason No. 10 picks. Louisville is No. 3 in the coaches and No. 4 in the AP, Stanford is No. 6 in the AP and No. 5 in the coaches and California is ranked No. 20 in both polls. UCLA and Iowa are receiving votes in both polls.
Colorado is back in action this weekend as the Buffaloes host the 27th Annual Omni Hotels Classic, Nov. 29-30, at the Coors Events Center. Rice and Samford will tip off the tournament on Friday, at 5 p.m. followed by Colorado's game with South Alabama at 7:30 p.m. The consolation game will be played on Saturday at 5 p.m., followed by the championship at 7:30 p.m.


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Given $n$ number of $(x, y)$ points, I want to find out which is the closest (linear distance) to the point of origin $(1, 1)$. Both $x$ and $y$ will always be positive integers.
Due to the magnitude of numbers I am dealing with, multiplication, division, square roots are out of the question. Due to this, Pythagorean theorem is out.
Adding, subtracting or comparing $x$ and $y$ will work but I'm not sure how to achieve this.
I do not want to calculate the actual distance using Pythagorean theorem. I just want to find out which of the points are the closest to the origin. Is there a way to determine this with the restrictions above?


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Both Denzel Washington and Chris Pine presented Golden Popcorn statues at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, and if all goes according to plan, the two actors will be working much more closely together in the fall. MTV News has learned exclusively that Pine is in negotiations to join Denzel's upcoming thriller based on a true story, "Unstoppable."
"I'm going to shoot a movie in the fall called 'Unstoppable' — me and Tony Scott — and Chris Pine's going to do it with us," Washington revealed backstage at the Gibson Amphitheatre. "I hope I'm not speaking out of line. I think they made a deal with him, and I'm supposed to meet him next week."
(He may have been speaking slightly out of line: a Fox spokesperson said on Thursday: "We're in negotiations with him, but no deal yet.")
While Denzel has not yet seen Pine as the new James T. Kirk in "Star Trek," he said, "That's the one movie I do want to see this summer."
Should the deal be completed, this would appear to be Pine's first post-"Trek" role.
Following "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," which comes out June 12, "Unstoppable" would mark the fifth collaboration between Washington and Scott.
"It's like a good marriage," Washington said. "We work well together. We trust each other. He knows how to put 'em together. He knows how to make hits. And he called me!"
Scott described "Unstoppable" to MTV News as " 'Speed' on steroids." "If 'Pelham 1 2 3' will put you on the edge of your seat, this one will put you in CPR in the back of the theater."
Washington is set to star as a veteran engineer who hooks up with a young train conductor to stop a runaway train carrying a payload of toxic chemicals. It's unclear if Pine would play the conductor. The script was written by "Live Free or Die Hard" scribe Mark Bomback.
"It's based on a real event," Scott said. "So it's a real story. I'm going to shoot it like a documentary. Remember 'Touching the Void'?"
The harrowing true story about two mountain climbers stranded in the Peruvian Andes, "Touching the Void" mixed documentary-style interviews with the real-life survivors and re-enacted events with actors.
"So I'm going to steal from everybody!" Scott declared.
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