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Equivalent masking noise estimation could be introduced in conventional broad-band acoustic noise reduction, to provide a new class of modified techniques. The psycho-acoustical facts exploited in this paper, result to a frequency depended parametric Wiener filter. A discussion of classical spectral subtraction, and a proof of equivalence under certain conditions to Wiener filtering, is given first. The concept of parametric Wiener filter is then examined, and a frequency dependence based on the model of pure tones masked by broad-band noise, is introduced. Filter-bank, STFT and wavelet implementations of the new approach, are finally compared to classical spectral subtraction for background noise reduction in old 78 rpm music disk recordings and noisy speech tape recordings.
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
'Twas the week before Christmas
And I was able to sneak off to Petrtol Head Mansion for a last week-end working on ROJ before the new year.
I forgot to take my camera, so borrowed one from the office. I shouldn't have bothered, it was useless. So you'll just have to use a little visual imagination with my narration.
My first job was to fit the front end heat shields – they had been hanging around annoying me so I wanted to get them out of the way.
With much gentle persuasion – often with the aid of a 5lb hammer – I connected up the Watts linkage and the trailing arms. I then had to dismantle the left side to fit the drive shaft. and that's how I've left it the left side with drive shaft, but no suspension. The right with suspension but no drive shaft.
Of course I failed in my expectations of getting wheels on in 2008.
"It's not that you've got unrealistic expectations," said Robert "It's that you've got expectations at all." Gee thanks Rob.
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text: I meet with four CHC's in Chicago and DC to conduct "information exchanges" about the status of behavioral health integration. I set these up OBO of the health reform team of APHA's Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Section (ATOD) with a Chicago colleague. Our small sample reflects the finding Eric reports below. Ann Mahony On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Eric Goplerud <Goplerud-Eric at norc.org>wrote: > I agree with Rodger. We completed a survey for NACHC of integrated > behavioral health services in FQHCs. Integration was either mental health > only or, the minority, mental health and substance use. There was only > one instance of a health center that had a substance use treatment provider > on staff and no mental health staff. > > Eric Goplerud > Senior Vice President > Substance Abuse, Mental Health and Criminal Justice Studies > NORC at the University of Chicago > 4350 East-West Highway, 8th Floor > Bethesda, MD 20814 > 301-634-9525 > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* pc-bh-integration-bounces at lists101.his.com on behalf of Kessler, > Rodger S > *Sent:* Wed 1/4/2012 12:31 PM > > *To:* [National Council's Behavioral Health - Primary Care > IntegrationListserve] > *Subject:* Re: [PC-BH-Integration] PC-BH-Integrationprogram > implementationobstacles > > Sandy, Obviously agree completely. That said, the other side of the coin > is also concerning. The field and survey data I am collecting suggests that > in integrated primary care, it is really integrated mental health, with > little or no attention to substance abuse. That does not work either. Rodger > > > > *From:* pc-bh-integration-bounces at lists101.his.com [mailto: > pc-bh-integration-bounces at lists101.his.com] *On Behalf Of *Blount, > Alexander > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 04, 2012 12:10 PM > *To:* [National Council's Behavioral Health - Primary Care > IntegrationListserve] > *Subject:* Re: [PC-BH-Integration] PC-BH-Integration program > implementationobstacles > > > > This actually raises another "don't do it" and that is: don't integrate > only substance abuse services and not behavioral health even if the most > acute need is around substances. There was a conference recently in > Washington sponsored by the White House Office of Substance Abuse (I don't > have the name exactly right) and SAMHSA. It included physicians and > behavioral health folks, both from the specialty substance abuse field and > from primary care. Some of the folks from the specialty world thought that > integrating substance abuse into primary care as a program was a good > idea. None of the people, physian or behavioral health professional, who > work in primary care thought that was a tenable idea. It just continues > the dichotomizing of patients, using a different dichotomy. I hope you are > in touch with the folks at the Hogg Foundation who have done so much work > in promoting integrated care in Texas. I suggest you look at starting > again with a generalist approach and SA can be a part of that. > > > > Alexander Blount, EdD > Director, Center for Integrated Primary Care > Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry > University of Massachusetts Medical School > Director of Behavioral Science > Department of Family Medicine and Community Health > Editor,* Families, Systems, & Health* > 55 Lake Ave, N > Worcester, Massachusetts 01655 > O. 774.443.2147, F. 774.441.7799 > alexander.blount at umassmemorial.org > http://www.IntegratedPrimaryCare.com<http://www.integratedprimarycare.com/> > http://www.umassmed.edu/fmch/faculty/Blount.cfm > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* pc-bh-integration-bounces at lists101.his.com [mailto: > pc-bh-integration-bounces at lists101.his.com] *On Behalf Of *Linda Benitez > Tavel > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 04, 2012 11:01 AM > *To:* pc-bh-integration at lists101.his.com > *Subject:* Re: [PC-BH-Integration] PC-BH-Integration program > implementationobstacles > > Good Morning Dr. Kern and colleagues, I am in Texas and recently > collaborated with a group of pain management physicians who reported > concerns with their patients who exhibit drug seeking behaviors for other > than pain management. We discussed a co-located behavioral health care > model whereby a behavioral health component could be co-located within > their clinics to add substance abuse screenings, assessments, prevention, > intervention and treatment services as part of their health care management > plans, including drug screenings and breathilizers at each visit. Due to > the high incidence of prescription abuses that occurs within this > population, and in our society, the doctors thought this would be a great > idea. Many obstables occurred with existing medical facilities policies > and once we consulted with an attorney specializing in the area of health > care law, it appeared that present Texas laws will not allow for this > concept. There are a couple of integrated primary care-mental health care > models in Texas among non-profit entities but none with a primary > care-substance abuse integrated model. Within the area of substance abuse, > co-occurring disorders often emerge and management of these mental health > disorders have to occur simultaneously while treating addiction. > > According to NIDA MED, prescription abuse is quickly becoming a > significant health care issue. Present laws in Texas do not support the > integration of private primary care, speciality care clinics with > behavioral health care. > > Linda Benitez Tavel > Vice President > Amexica International Consultants > Tel: 210-446-4606 ext 102 > Fax: 210-446-4549 > > On Jan 4, 2012, pc-bh-integration-request at lists101.his.com wrote: > > Send PC-BH-Integration mailing list submissions to > pc-bh-integration at lists101.his.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists101.his.com/mailman/listinfo/pc-bh-integration > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > pc-bh-integration-request at lists101.his.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > pc-bh-integration-owner at lists101.his.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of PC-BH-Integration digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: One more plea for failures (Bradley, Wendy D) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 04:23:36 -0900 > From: "Bradley, Wendy D" <wdbradley at SouthcentralFoundation.com> > To: "'[National Council's Behavioral Health - Primary Care Integration > Listserve]'" <pc-bh-integration at lists101.his.com> > Subject: Re: [PC-BH-Integration] One more plea for failures > Message-ID: > < > F7D46789D91A08489F0CC2629550F0481D39E2EA19 at SCFExch3.southcentralfoundation.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Great lists so far.... > I will add > > 1) The best thing we ever did was to have the BHCs sit with the providers > in the same space. They end up sharing work rather quickly because BHCs are > able to show providers where they can be helpful and consults happen > naturally throughout the day. Also, it reinforces that BHCs are part of the > team and shifts the BHCs perception from traditional BH to the primary care > culture. > > 2) I also cannot stress enough the importance of finding the right "fit' > for this position. We have found that flexibility, strong communication > skills (confidence), ability to be a team player and having a systems, > solution-focused approach in clinical work is imperative. > > 3) Spend time making sure PCPs know how and are comfortable introducing > BHCs to patients. (not as a saying therapist, social worker etc.) > > 4) Make sure there are "triggers" that get BHCs into the room. (i.e. > screeners). This gets PCPs used to using BHCs. > > 5) Spend enough time training BHCs in the beginning. We have found > "shadowing" is most helpful. Have them shadow all members of the PCP team > (especially PCPs) to help them understand the culture. They should shadow > BHCs and then be shadowed to ensure stated competencies. > I attached a few tools we use. > > Wendy D Bradley, LPC > Improvement Advisor-Clinical > Organizational Development > Southcentral Foundation > Anchorage, Alaska > wdbradley at scf.cc > work 907 729-3378 > cell 907 250-9325 > > From: pc-bh-integration-bounces at lists101.his.com [ > mailto:pc-bh-integration-bounces at lists101.his.com<pc-bh-integration-bounces at lists101.his.com>] > On Behalf Of John Kern > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 8:20 AM > To: 'pc-bh-integration at lists101.his.com' > Subject: [PC-BH-Integration] One more plea for failures > > My final act of 2011 will be to reach out again to all of you to share > with me / us any experiences of failures so far in the implementation of > your programs, things that you would recommend that others not do, to spare > them your own personal agony. > > I am collecting these for a training presentation, and PROMISE that I > won't use any identifying information without permission. AND that my own > failures will be well-documented in the presentation - that's what makes it > fun. > > Thanks in advance. Happy New Year! > > BTW, if you are willing to share, but not to the listserv, I am at > john.kern at regionalmentalhealth.org > > > John S. Kern, M.D. > Chief Medical Officer > The Regional Mental Health Center > 8555 Taft Street > Merrillville, IN 46410 > 219-736-7232 > > > ________________________________ > IMPORTANT WARNING: This message is intended for the use of the person or > entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is > privileged and confidential, the disclosure of which is governed by > applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this information is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. 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Fremont, CA - April 25, 2006 - Antec, Inc., the pioneering and leading global brand of high-performance computer components for the PC upgrade and Do-It-Yourself markets, has launched its New Solution Series line of enclosures. The five innovative cases have been redesigned to incorporate high efficiency features while maintaining the quality performance and cost effectiveness of Antec's original Solution Series.
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LAS VEGAS, NEV. (February 4, 2011) – As they prepare for their own world title battles, multi-division world champions MIGUEL COTTO, NONITO DONAIRE, RICARDO MAYORGA and FERNANDO MONTIEL spoke from their training camps to give their predictions on Sunday's Super Bowl XLV.
MIGUEL COTTO: "The Steel Curtain of Pittsburgh will drop and close the show on the Green Bay Packers. I'm going with the Iron City."
NONITO DONAIRE: "Aaron Rogers is a great quarterback. He throws very few interceptions. He will lead the Packers to victory.
RICARDO MAYORGA: "I'm pulling for Green Bay. They fight hard like me. The Steelers will roll over like Cotto when I dropkick him in our super brawl on March 12."
FERNANDO MONTIEL: "I'm going with Green Bay. They are peaking at the right time."
World Bantamweight Champion FERNANDO MONTIEL defends his title against two-division world champion NONITO DONAIRE, Saturday, February 19, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nev. HBO Boxing After Dark will televise it live beginning at 9:45 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast). Remaining tickets to Montiel vs. Donaire, priced at $250, $125, $50 and $25, not including applicable service charges, can be purchased at all Ticketmaster locations (select Smith's Food and Drug Centers and Ritmo Latino). Ticket sales are limited to eight (8) per person. To charge by phone with a major credit card, call Mandalay Bay at (877) 632-7400 or Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000. Tickets also will be available for purchase at www.mandalaybay.com or www.ticketmaster.com.
World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight champion MIGUEL COTTO defends his world title against two-division world champion RICARDO MAYORGA, Saturday, March 12, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nev. It will be produced and distributed Live on SHOWTIME PPV®. Joining Cotto and Mayorga on the pay-per-view will be former WBA super welterweight champion and future rabbi YURI FOREMAN, in his comeback fight, against Top-10 contender PAWEL WOLAK; World Boxing Council (WBC) female super welterweight champion CHRISTY MARTIN, who will be featured in a special attraction super welterweight battle going for her landmark 50th professional victory, and International Boxing Federation (IBF) lightweight champion MIGUEL VAZQUEZ defending his title against undefeated mandatory challenger LENNY ZAPPAVIGNA.
Cotto vs. Mayorga will be promoted by Top Rank, in association with Cotto Promotions, Don King Productions, Tecate and MGM Grand. Remaining tickets, priced at $400, $300, $200, $100, and $50, not including applicable service charges, can be purchased at all Las Vegas Ticketmaster locations (select Smith's Food and Drug Centers and Ritmo Latino.) Ticket sales are limited to 16 per person. To charge by phone with a major credit card, call Ticketmaster (800) 745-3000. Tickets are also available for purchase at www.mgmgrand.com or www.ticketmaster.com.
As a die hard Michigan fan, I tend to root for the teams with Michigan players come Super Bowl time.. I'm hoping my boy, Charles Woodson gets his ring on sunday since Lamar Woodley already has one.
Steelers by 3, ...ultimoshogun.... we are waiting for the once proud and respected Michigan Blue and Gold to reclaim thier position as a top competitor. kind of miss the Buckeys vs Michigan rivalry.
Being an Indiana man, last time I cared about the Super Bowl is when the Colts won it a few years back. Peyton Manning is quite a quarterback. As for now, if I had to choose, I'd go with the Steelers.
Let's see... since it's a ghost town in here at the moment, I may as well liven things up with some trash talk. My subjects? How about Floyd Mayweather and David Haye? (Who couldn't see that one coming? LOL!) Here we go! Chris Arreola called David Haye a "lower female body part." James Toney called Haye an insult that rhymes with Haye's name. Wladimir Klitschko called Haye a "B##CH." Big brother Vitali called Haye a "chicken and hall of fame trainer Emanuel Steward called Haye a "scared little puppy." George Foreman calls the Klitschkos, "the best heavyweights fighting today" but thinks Wladimir is all around better and basically thinks of Haye as a duck. Mr. former 2 time heavyweight champion of the world who was beating contenders down well into his forties and was robbed blind against a young Shannon Briggs also thinks highly of Manny Pacquiao. Evander Holyfield likes Pacquiao and puts down Mayweather. James Toney likes Pacquiao and puts down Mayweather. Roy Jones Jr. likes Pacquiao and puts down Mayweather. Marvin Hagler likes Pacquiao and puts down Mayweather... Looks like GAME knows GAME right? Paul Williams says Mayweather won't fight him because he doesn't have a "lower female body part." Let's look at the top welterweight contenders since about 2007 or so and who they fought. Antonio Margarito fought Clottey, Cotto, Mosley and Pacquiao (as well as Sergio Martinez, Kermit Cintron and Paul Williams.) Shane Mosley fought Mayweather, Cotto, Margarito and soon to be Pacquiao. Miguel Cotto fought Clottey, Margarito, Mosley and Pacquiao. Joshua Clottey fought Cotto, Margarito and Pacquaio. Manny Pacquiao fought Cotto, Clottey, Margarito and soon to be Mosley. Floyd Mayweather fought Mosley. Hmmmm......... Can you spot the KITTY KAT? LOL!
It's been a long time since my Bears won it all. We got close this year. You know what they say about close. Oh well, at least I dont live in Cleveland. LeBron was right to get out of there. Steelers win 31-28.
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Los Angeles based FM station Hot 92.3 proudly sponsored the first show in their Hot Summer Nights Series at the Greek Theater on Saturday, May 24th with Cheech and Chong, War and the support of the opening act, Family Stone.
It was more than a repeat of last year's performance, the crowd replete with stoners and long time fans that never failed to show their long lasting support by dancing in the aisles and singing along to every song performed. The Greek Theater celebrated the show with a capacity crowd, bringing fans in from all points of Southern California and on what couldn't have been a more warm and clear night, the air lit up with clouds of pot smoke and memories of a time when the power of classic radio spoke to the masses through music that touches the soul.
Family Stone opened the show with "Everyday People," one member shy of a Sly and the Family Stone show, as nobody is quite sure where Sly is these days, but it didn't deter the performance from being top notch. On stage, three founding members, saxophonist Jerry Martini, drummer Gregg Errico and the first lady of trumpet Cynthia Robinson pulled out all the stops, with the originality that made helped make the band a global sensation. Calling out the classics from the years the band was on the charts, songs that ran the gambit of funk, soul and Motown from 1967 to 1983 are easy to spot among classic pop fanatics, and they were on display with Family Stone. To immense fanfare, the band struck up the familiar classics including "Higher," "Dance to the Music" and as fans expected, they closed out their set with what might be their most popular effort ever recorded, and a tribute to Sly before departing, "Thank You For letting Me Be Myself Again."
It was announced that the stage crew needed twenty minutes to re-arrange the stage and fans hit the snack bars, filled their wine glasses and lit their smokes, making their way to their seats in time for the evening sky to dim, the house lights to rise up and for Shelby Chong to take the stage, stunning in a white form fitting dress and high heels. She addressed the audience and foreshadowed what attendees could expect for the evening, and in classic comedic style, she graced the crowd with hilarious stories of her life as the wife of comic legend Tommy Chong while sharing stories from her unique perspective of thirty plus years in the family. She announced that it was Tommy Chong's birthday and took time to crack wise on Charlie Sheen's antics and gave a dissertation on how great marijuana is – with the crowd howling in agreement with wolf whistles and cheers.
WAR came on stage to perform with Tommy Chong playing guitar and Cheech singing along. They brought out classics including "Basketball Jones" and "Me and My Old Lady." Tommy performed a solo and the audience sang along, laughing hysterically to "Save the Whales," featuring a great sax solo by WAR's David Urquidi. Cheech and Chong then sat on stage for fifteen minutes with Shelby asking a round of fan based questions from cards submitted before the show.
Cheech and Chong took a break, letting WAR take the stage to perform classics from their catalogue of hits starting with "Baby Brother" and following a big round of applause, they continued with "Get Up Stand Up," featuring a solo by Dave Stewart on guitar, "Summertime," and "Cisco Kid" where front man and only original member Leroy Jordan took the microphone into the audience to let fans sing to the crowd. One elated girl mistook lyrics and sang, "The Cisco Friend was a Kid of Mine." As mentioned before, there was a lot of pot being smoked down front.
Cheech and Chong returned to the stage performing classic skits. They started with "Dave's Not Here," altering some of the original jokes in the routine to include mistaking the President of the United States as "Go Rock Your Mama" in stead of Barack Obama. The skit remained as classic as it was originally recorded. They then ran straight in to the most popular Christmas comedy routine that circulates on FM annually, their classic tribute to Christmas, "Santa Clause and his Old Lady." They mocked a ride in the car while "Crusin'" and smoking something that might have been "Part Labrador." (This in reference to "His name is Ralph!")
WAR returned to the stage and played "Spill the Wine," "Galaxy" with a bass solo and dueling sax and harmonica solos and a song for the ladies, "So," and wrapped up this part of the set with the fan favorite "Low Rider."
Tommy Chong came out on stage again, this time as fading blues legend Blind Melon Chitlin, raising the hopes of both young and old with the song "Get It Legal." Before cheering attendees could catch their breath, out came Cheech as Alice Bowie, dressed in his pink tutu and jamming out on electric guitar.
Tommy Chong made band announcements, sharing that WAR's new album was available in the foyer and harmonica guru Stanley Behrens brought the crowd to their feet with his rendition of the National Anthem. Cheech sang two hilarious versions of his classics, "Mexican American" and "Born in East LA," before WAR brought out the USC Trojan marching band to perform "That L.A. Sunshine."
WAR rounded out the show with their hit classic "Why Can't We Be Friends" and select audience participants made their way in to the Hospitality Suite where both Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong made a personal appearance, signed autographs and shared drinks, snacks and a huge chocolate birthday cake with fans before calling it a night. Band members from all the acts stuck around long after the arena closed and celebrated what was the start of the Los Angeles 2014 Summer Performances, and the promise of another year to remember before it goes 'Up In Smoke.'
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- Seed Science: Seed Germination
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Think about what one single seed does for you as a farmer. A single corn seed that weighs 1/100thof an ounce has the ability to be placed in dirt, germinate, grow into a plant 7-10+ ft. tall and multiply the grain yield 500 fold. No manmade machine possesses an equivalent ability to perform a comparable feat. Seeds are living organisms. Although seed seems to be dead, it is actually in a state of quiescence. Quiescence means that the seed is at rest until desirable conditions trigger germination, but it is still alive and respiring at a low metabolic rate. Respiration rates are kept low by keeping seed in cool environments absent from moisture, which allows the seed to be kept for years without significant reduction in viability. Below outlines conditions necessary for successful germination of corn and soybean seed.
The critical soil moisture for seed germination to occur is 30% for corn and 50% for soybeans(Copeland). The following is a quick way to estimate soil moisture for clay, clay loam, silty clay loam, sandy clay loam, loam or silt loam soils. At 25-50% soil moisture, a ball of soil formed with the hand will feel slightly moist, form a weak ball when gripped in hand, but it won't leave dirt stains on your hand like wetter soil would, and few aggregates would break off of the ball.(USDA)
Seed-to-soil contact is critical for imbibition to take place. Imbibition is uptake of water into the seed. When a seed swells with water this is not an indicator of seed viability because even dead seed will imbibe water in the same manner as live seed. Soybeans will imbibe two to five times their weight in water while corn only 1.5 to two times its weight.
Minimum and optimum temperature for germination:
- Corn: minimum 46° F; optimum 86° F
- Soybean: minimum 50° F; optimum 77° F (Isleib)
Planting should not occur before soil temperatures are near 50° F for corn and 55° F for soybeans with a positive weather outlook. At 50° F corn will take approximately 25 days to emerge. At 55-60° F corn will take 10-14 days to emerge. At 65-70° F corn only takes five to eight days to emerge (Meyer). How long a seed can last in the soil and remain viable depends on temperature, moisture, and pests.
Oxygen is necessary as respiration increases during the germination process. Lack of oxygen is rarely a concern except for flooded soil conditions, which offer a significantly lower level of oxygen to the respiring seed and can kill the seed if conditions persist.


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Synopsis by William Silvester
Notes and links by Steve Vander Ark and Michele L. Worley
US hardcover edition: pages 228 - 241
UK hardcover edition: pages 167 - 176
UK paperback edition: pages 247 - 261
the end of March,
In which Hermione starts
the teachers pile on extra homework,
HRH visit Hagrid, discover he has a dragon's egg, and later watch it
hatch. As the dragon grows, it becomes harder to hide the illegal pet,
until Charlie Weasley agrees to have it sent to him in Romania.
Norbert is shipped off from the tallest tower, but Harry and Hermione
are caught by Filch on their way back to their dorm.
Interesting facts and notes about the text of this chapter:
As we learn in this chapter, dragons in JKR's world do not
share the characteristics of Tolkien's dragons (which, if Smaug is
typical, have human-level intelligence).
In the weeks that followed he did seem to be getting paler and thinner, but it didn't look as though he'd cracked yet.
The reason for Quirrell's changing appearance is because his body is hosting Voldemort, of course, but Rowling is cleverly diverting us here with a perfectly plausible explanation.
"Hermione, the exams are ages away."
"Ten weeks," Hermione snapped.
The exams are the first two weeks of June, as we learn in PA. So we can count back and determine when this is taking place. Ten weeks before the first week of June is the last week of March, more or less.
"You realize we need to pass these exams to get into the second year?
We can assume that this is true, since Hermione would know. Sure enough, their results come out after the whole confrontation with Quirrell and Voldemort and "both he and Ron passed with good marks." They had hoped that Goyle would be "thrown out," but there's nothing to suggest that people actually get chucked out of school for failing exams. More likely they are made to do a year over, which would be highly embarassing, to be sure. (Note: for a while, the books incorrectly had Marcus Flint in school an extra year because of an error on Rowling's part, and she explained it by saying that he had to do a year over. This error has since been corrected, however.)
"...Easter holidays..."
The Easter holidays are a two week break, as we learn in book five. This break divides the second and third terms of the school year.
the twelve uses of dragon's blood..."
These famous twelve were discovered by Dumbledore, according to his Famous Wizard card. We don't know what they all are, but we do know that one of them is oven cleaner. What isn't clear is why a first year would have to learn this. Probably they don't, but Hermione is being Hermione and memorizing anything and everything that might come in useful on the written exam.
For the film script, Steve Kloves needed to know the twelve uses of dragon's blood. Apparently he wrote a scene with Hermione rattling them off. Rowling reported told him what they were, but the scene never appeared in the final film and the list has never been revealed.
"...who was looking up 'Dittany' in One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi..."
Dittany is called "the magic herb of Crete," which is the only place it grows. It was known in ancient times for its aphrodisiac properties. Hippocrates recommended it for a variety of diseases and maladies, including rheumatism and arthritis. Dittany is called 'diktamo' in Greek and is named after a mountain called Dikti, where it grows profusely. According to some sources, dittany is an ingredient in flying ointments. In the Wizarding world, dittany is a healing agent, one which can, if applied quickly, prevent scarring (HBP24). It is a potion ingredient in the video games, used to create Wiggenweld, a healing potion.
But it's against our laws," said Ron. "Dragon breeding was outlawed by the Warlocks' Convention of 1709, everyone knows that.
A couple of notes on this passage are in order. First of all, Ron refers to "our laws," which indicates an unusual awareness of the exisitence of the Muggle world. One would expect most witches and wizards to just say "It's against the law." Second, Ron mentioned the Warlock's Convention of 1709. We can assume that he didn't pick this up in History of Magic, so this convention is apparently an important event in Wizarding history, as well known to British wizards as, say, the Fourth of July, 1776, is the US Muggles. What is so important about this convention of senior wizards?
Most likely, this convention is part of the process of officially hiding the Wizarding world away from Muggle civilization which was the result of the summit meeting of the International Confederation of Wizards which took place in 1692. That meeting resulted in the passing of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy and as a result the establishment in each country of a modern Ministry of Magic (or the equivelent) to enforce that Statute. The Convention of 1709 was most likely a subsequent conference for the purpose of working out some of the remaining issues that hadn't been resolved by the 1692 Statute. No doubt Mrs Weasley included a study of these formative events in her home schooling of her children.
"Won it," said Hagrid. "Las' night. I was down in the village havin' a few drinks an' got into a game o' cards with a stranger. Think he was quite glad ter get rid of it, ter be honest."
First of all, can you imagine Hagrid, whose hands are the size of dustbin lids (chapter 1), holding a hand of cards? Second, just for the record, the village is Hogsmeade and the bar was the Hog's Head. We'll learn the name of the bar in chapter 16. This is the first we've heard of there being a village near Hogwarts, but we won't learn the its name until the third book. Third, the stranger would have been Quirrell. Where he got a dragon egg is anyone's guess.
"when it hatches, feed it on a bucket o' brandy mixed with chicken blood every half hour."
So we can conclude from this that the milk of a mother dragon is similar in composition to brandy and chicken blood. Interesting. What does that tell us about the nutritional needs of dragons?
"Hagrid, you live in a wooden house," she said.
This bit of information was ignored by the filmmakers, who put Hagrid in a stone house. It really doesn't matter, I suppose, since they also cut almost all of the dragon plot out of the story anyway.
Characters introduced in this chapter:
Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback
(names unknown) Charlie's friends
Characters returning in this chapter:
Filch, Argus
Granger, Hermione
Hagrid, Rubeus
Malfoy, Draco
McGonagall, Minerva
Potter, Harry
Quirrell, Professor
Snape, Severus
Weasley, Ron
Characters mentioned in this chapter:
Dumbledore, Albus
Flamel, Nicolas
Flitwick, Professor
Pomfrey, Poppy
Sprout, Professor
Weasley, Charlie
Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:
Astronomy Tower
Hagrid's hut
hospital wing
Settings and locations mentioned in this chapter:
Exceptional character moments:
Hagrid, who turns out to be somewhat susceptible to flattery.
Hagrid, who's too good a person to just dump a baby animal
in the wild when it becomes difficult to care for the creature.
Links and Resources:
the twelve uses of dragons' blood
books about dragons
House Points - PS
invisibility cloak
Philosopher's Stone
the Warlocks' Convention of 1709
Memorable lines:
Harry suddenly turned to Ron.
"Charlie," he said.
"You're losing it, too," said Ron. "I'm Ron, remember?"
Strictly British:
rabbit (verb)
While we can't narrow the events of this chapter down to specific dates, we do know that the bulk of it takes place toward the end of March, which would be ten weeks before exams, and in the weeks following.


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Little Zylah is one of the many animals helped by the Animal Cruelty Task Force of Ohio (ACT Ohio) since it's inception a month ago. And according to founder Steffen Baldwin, the task force is busier than it can imagine.
Six-month-old pit bull puppy Zylah was found beaten in Lawrence County. The puppy had cracked ribs, hearing loss and neurological damage.
In Marion County, ACT Ohio saved two elderly and emaciated boxers, Candy and Daisy (see their photos in the slideshow). In Harrison County, the task force provided assistance when a box in the snow was found to contain six tiny one-week-old German Shepherd puppies. And in northern Union County, ACT Ohio was there to take care of a starved pit bull found shivering in the snow.
In rural areas, the task force has also been providing bales of straw to keep outdoor animals warm during the frigid temperatures.
Not all Ohio counties have a Humane Agent to fight animal cruelty. The Ohio Revised Code only provides funding of $25 per month for one Humane Agent per county. And the ORC prohibits Humane Agents from enforcing laws outside of the county they live in.
In other words, abused and neglected animals in some Ohio counties have had no one to fight for them. Until now.
When Baldwin, former Shelter Director at the Union County Humane Society, realized the need, ACT Ohio was formed. Currently, the Marion Area Humane Society, PAWS Urbana (Champaign County), the Hardin County Humane Society and the Union County Humane Society have partnered with ACT Ohio, at no cost to these groups. There is a waiting list with half a dozen other rural counties.
"When people ask me how the new business is going," said Baldwin, "I feel weird saying good because of the nature of what we're doing, but as far as new businesses go we have been slammed with work in rural Ohio since day one, putting in over 3,000 miles and going as far east as the Ohio/WV border and as far south as the Ohio River and Kentucky in our first month alone."
In one month's time, ACT Ohio has already saved many animals. Just imagine how many more dogs, cats, horses and other animals will be safe - even alive - thanks to this organization.
ACT Ohio depends on donations. They also need people to foster various animals, including livestock. If you are interested in supporting this much-needed program, individuals interested in fostering animals for ACT Ohio can email Steffen Baldwin at firstname.lastname@example.com. Tax-deductible donations can be made online at www.actoh.org or mailed to ACT HQ, 323 S. Main Street, Marysville, Ohio 43040.
As for puppy Zylah, she still needs to be seen by a neurologist before she can be put up for adoption. The two boxers, Candy and Daisy, will be up for adoption in a few weeks after they have been fully vetted and have put on weight, according to Baldwin.
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On Wednesday, the UK Guardian and Washington Post broke the story on a covert national security operation called Prism. Prism is a data mining process in which information is collected by the National Security Agency via direct connection through tech company servers or from data transfer infrastructure such as cables and over air transmission. Tech companies such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft have summarily dismissed any involvement with the NSA. However, confidential PowerPoint slides acquired by the Guardian indicate that the NSA has in fact mined data directly from their servers.
The lies and deceptions are smoke, which almost always leads to a fire. This fire is merging with the other scandals burning in Washington. And they may be tied at some injudicious level.
As one would correctly assume, and how the government portrays it, Prism was meant originally as a means to collect data from data traffic to analyze it for possible connections to terrorist activity. However, in lieu of the recent IRS targeting of conservative groups, along with other government targeting by the EPA, OSHA, and FBI, Prism may be a means in which the administration collects data in order to harass conservative groups, companies, and individuals. If this is the case, it would make Nixon's "Enemy List" look like a line-up from Hollywood Squares.
Speculation is all over the place, but this is the most probable way it would work. As information is collected by the NSA, true terroristic activity is filtered from the general data stream. This information is used for its intended purpose; to infiltrate and dismantle those activities. However, the remainder of collected data is filtered again using buzz-words that indicate ties to conservative ideals. The IRS used buzz-words such as "patriot" and "Tea Party" in its targeting of conservative non-profit groups.
When those organizations, companies, and individuals are found to be deeply entrenched in conservative causes or candidates, they are referred to other governmental regulatory agencies, which most closely match the entity's profile by the NSA. There they are scrutinized further and made to comply with unreasonable requests or face fines, litigation, or even disbandment.
Essentially, this method is a form of extortion; not extortion in its original sense of stealing money, but stealing dignity in the hope that those entities will stand down from their stance on conservatism. Is it any wonder that the aforementioned tech companies flatly deny their involvement with the NSA and Prism? They too may become victims of this Orwellian monster. However, it is conservatism, which is the only force that can defeat the kind of tyranny emerging from within the administration.
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Staff writer Brendan Prunty contributed to this report
Rutgers sophomore center Gregor Echenique is scheduled to undergo eye surgery today and is expected to miss approximately a month as a result, the school announced Wednesday. Rutgers' official announcement said the 6-9, 260-pounder is having the operation to repair a pre-existing condition, which a person close to the program said was retina-related.
The Scarlet Knights play host to Monmouth Wednesday night.
Echenique has started all seven games for the Scarlet Knights this season, averaging 12.6 points per game and a team-high 7.7 rebounds per game. The former St. Benedict's Prep star is also shooting a team-best 61 percent from the field.


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As wee ones, we were suckers for the gaily hued (yet flimsy) paper parasols our parents found in Chinatown shops. Now, we can bring a bit of childhood to our balconies with this crimson Large Chinese Parasol ($130)! It might not be the trendiest thing out there, or the newest, but it makes us happy as we kick back underneath it, icy Singapore Sling in hand. And, really, that's all that matters, isn't it?
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Safety Changes after Murder of Two State Troopers
Written by Nicole Porter
Last updated on August 29, 2013 @ 6:27PM
Created on August 28, 2013 @ 5:31PM
It was one year ago on Wednesday when a simple traffic stop turned deadly.
That's when a 22-year-old Fayette County man, who was handcuffed, was still able to shoot and kill two state troopers. A deputy and a tow truck driver were also wounded in the tragic events before the initial gunman was killed.
5 News spoke with local police officials to see how things have changed in the law enforcement community since the shooting. They said some agencies have actually changed protocol, while others are more cautious about reinforcing rules that have already been in place.
On August 28, 2012, Luke Baber was pulled over along I-79 near the Clay County and Roane County line. He was apparently drunk in a stolen pickup truck, was arrested, searched and placed in the back of a police cruiser.
However, officers missed a hidden gun and that's how investigators claim Baber was able to shoot Trooper Eric Workman and Corporal Marshall Lee Bailey.
Since the shooting, some departments, including the West Virginia Sheriff's Association, changed their rules to require all officers to wear bullet proof vests. Others have reiterated safety procedures with their officers.
"It's always a safety issue when you're bringing someone in that they've not been padded down properly or while processing them, with their fingerprints and photographs, that they could get your weapon, so, we have a policy against processing a prisoner while armed," said Bridgeport Police Chief John Walker.
Chief Walker said that while most officers know the safety rules, they like to reiterate them just so officers don't get into a careless routine or forget something. He added it's important to follow them every time because one simple mistake could turn into a tragedy.
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This group is for all Navy and Marine Corps parents, friends, loved ones and supporters who are from or live in California, the World's 8th Largest Economy "The Golden State" ...
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To date, my son is currently aboard the USS Anchorage (LPD 23) in Naval Base San Diego... How about you?Continue
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At MEPS in San Diego. He hasn't shared yet when he leaves for basic, his job will be Missile Technician. I work in the South Bay, live in the Inland Empire.
Steven Welcome to the group! :)
John, Gary and Steve Welcome to Proud Californians!...
Congrats to your son Chuck. There is a lot of great history in and around Norfolk. Like Cheri, our son is still waiting for orders. After PIR he stayed at Great Lakes, first for ATT School, then A School which he completed just before Christmas on Dec 16. He earned his rating, and advanced his rate to E-4. He was able to come home for the holidays, and then got 10 days leave starting Feb 7 to come back to California for the birth of his daughter, our first Grandchild! Now he's back at Great Lakes waiting for orders on the date and location for starting C School. Once he gets those orders, his wife and daughter can join him. His been there since 2-21-11, and 2 Illinois winters have not been fum for a Southern California boy. We hope he gets his orders soon.
Well it has been a little while from my last post. Here is the latest. My son made it through BC and A-school. He was home on leave for the last 10 days. That was a great time for me and the family. My son is very happy and doing great. I took him to the airport this morning to fly to Norfolk to his new ship. He is the newsest member of the USS Carr. He is very excited about his new ship. We are very proud of him and all that he has done. I will be on more for updates. God bless our sailors.
Congratulations to you Both! :)
The letter was great, cant wait for the next. does anyone know what the sailors are doing this week?
Thanks Gary
talk to you soon.
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'Footloose': Review Revue
A remake of the 1984 film of the same name, "Footloose" tells the story of a small town where public dancing is banned. An out of town kid, Ren (Kenny Wormald) moves in, finds out about the law and attempts to change it. All the while he gets romantically involved with the preacher's (Dennis Quaid) daughter (Julianne Hough) who just loves to dance.
Read some reviews here.
- "The remake's dance-trained leads, Kenny Wormald (a former Justin Timberlake backup performer) and Julianne Hough (a "Dancing With the Stars" alum), simply do not pop the way Bacon and Lori Singer did, underneath all their collective hair. The result is a film that feels hidebound. And nobody ever called a dance-driven movie "hidebound."" [Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune]
- "This new "Footloose" is a film without wit, humor or purpose. It sets up the town elders as old farts who hate rock 'n' roll. Does it have a clue that the Rev. Moore and all the other city council members are young enough that they grew up on rock 'n' roll? The film's message is: A bad movie, if faithfully remade, will produce another bad movie." [Roger Ebert, rogerebert.com]
- "There are too many close-ups of stomping, swinging feet to suggest he cared about great choreography. And the best songs here are the original versions of the ones from the first movie. But this remake does something less organically fun. It makes kids nostalgic for something they never experienced." [Wesley Morris, Boston Globe]
- "The remake of "Footloose" is sappy, squeaky clean and far-fetched. But thanks to the obvious love director and co-writer Craig Brewer has for the 1984 original, its heart is in the right place…This "Footloose" it's a pleasant reminder of the past for fans of the first one, and an agreeable-enough experience for everyone else." [Billy Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic]


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SeaWorld Orlando have announced new details on their upcoming attraction for 2013, Antartica: Empire of the Penguin.
New details about Antartica from the official Seaworld press release:
- Antarctica Empire of the Penguin will include a first-of-its-kind family adventure ride that utilizes new technology for an experience that can change from visit to visit. Designers also revealed that guests will be able to choose the level of thrill they experience on the ride. Each car seats eight guests.
- Guests will be introduced to a new SeaWorld star a young gentoo penguin. The young gentoo becomes the rides guide and leads guests on an exciting journey through the dangers and wondrous beauty of the Antarctic.
- Antarctica Empire of the Penguin will get SeaWorlds guests closer than ever and out among its colony of penguins including gentoos, rockhoppers, adelies and kings. How close has yet to be detailed, but designers consider the guests encounters with the penguins to be the first of their kind in any theme park or zoo in the world.
- Immersing guests in a colony of penguins means Antarctica Empire of the Penguin will be the coldest theme park attraction in the world. Designers have declined comment on the engineering it will take to place SeaWorld guests among a colony of penguins whose habitat must stay in the low 30 degrees for comfort.
- The footprint for Antarctica Empire of the Penguin is the biggest of any expansion at a SeaWorld or Busch Gardens park. Park execs consider Antarctica Empire of the Penguin an all-new realm, rather than a single attraction. Antarcticas scope includes the ride, penguin habitat, gift shop and restaurant.


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No American woman has ever won an Olympic medal in the sport of cross-country skiing. Alaskan, Kikkan Randall has her sights set on being the first to do so.
A lifetime of skiing, a superhuman work ethic and a training program that uses all the advantages Alaska has to offer are some of the factors that have carried Randall toward her lofty aspirations.
Her mother has jokingly called her an alien, for lack of a better way to explain Randall's tenacious drive for success. Her coach said the best way to describe Randall is to call her a warrior. People in her home town of Anchorage just call her Kikkan.
Recently, I had the good fortune to sit down and talk with Kikkan and some others close to her and her pursuit of Olympic glory.
In the weeks leading up to the Olympics in Vancouver, I will continue to post information about Kikkan's background with Nordic skiing, some insight as to what makes her such a special athlete, as well as some information about the sport itself and what we can expect to see in the Olympics.
Kikkan saw her first Olympics on television when she was five years old.
"I think my parents said I turned around and said I was going to go to the Olympics someday," said Kikkan. She just didn't know what sport she was going to participate in yet.
Kikkan comes from a skiing family. Her mother, Deborah Randall, was a collegiate Nordic skier at the University of Utah. Her father, Ronn Randall, was an alpine skier who grew up in Wisconsin.
Ronn bought Kikkan her first pair of ski boots for her first birthday, before she could even walk. The boots came up to her knees; her smile stretched to both ears and a love for skiing was born.
Kikkan's aunt, Betsy Haines, was a Nordic skier on the 1980 Olympic team in Lake Placid, and her uncle, Chris Haines, was on the 1976 Olympic team. Both lived in Anchorage while Kikkan was growing up.
Aunt Betsy was an Anchorage Junior Nordic skiing coach while Kikkan was in the program as a young girl.
"Growing up, I had heard a lot about the Olympics," said Kikkan. "There were a lot of good role models around, a lot of good, family oriented skiing activity."
Perhaps the biggest highlight of Kikkan's career to this point is her silver medal she won in the 2009 World Championships last February. She became the first American woman to ever win a major championship medal in cross country skiing.


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Wednesday at TechEd was another "linqy" day for me. In the morning I joined the session "LINQ to XML", with speaker Mike Taulty. With LINQ to XML there is a new XML-API as Part of .NET 3.5 which sits in the namespace System.Xml.Linq. LINQ to XML makes it easy to create and edit XML documents without using additional syntax like XPATH or XSLT, but, of course, LINQ to XML won't replace the existing APIs implemented in classes like XmlDocument, XmlReader, XmlWriter or XPathNavigator. It's just another XML-API that let's you use LINQ queries on top of XML.
Mike Taulty showed that LINQ to XML is much closer to XML than the other XML-APIs as part of the .NET Framework. When you create a XML-document with the new API, you can see that your C#-Code is really close to the XML (if you format your code like below and additionally put the XAttribute-Elements on the same line as the XElements they belong to (I hadn't enough space to do so :-))):
XDocument doc = new XDocument( new XElement("TrivadisLocations", new XElement("Location", new XAttribute("City","Basel"), new XElement("Consultants", new XElement("Consultant", new XAttribute("FirstName", "Thomas"), new XAttribute("LastName", "Huber") ), new XElement("Consultant", new XAttribute("FirstName", "Christoph"), new XAttribute("LastName", "Pletz") ) ) ), new XElement("Location", new XAttribute("City", "Freiburg"), new XElement("Consultants", new XElement("Consultant", new XAttribute("FirstName", "Thomas"), new XAttribute("LastName", "Wukasch") ) ) ), new XElement("Location", new XAttribute("City","Zürich"), new XElement("Consultants", new XElement("Consultant", new XAttribute("FirstName", "Patrick"), new XAttribute("LastName", "Spieler") ) ) ) ) ); doc.Save("locations.xml");
The XML generated from the code above looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <TrivadisLocations> <Location City="Basel"> <Consultants> <Consultant FirstName="Thomas" LastName="Huber" /> <Consultant FirstName="Christoph" LastName="Pletz" /> </Consultants> </Location> <Location City="Freiburg"> <Consultants> <Consultant FirstName="Thomas" LastName="Wukasch" /> </Consultants> </Location> <Location City="Zürich"> <Consultants> <Consultant FirstName="Patrick" LastName="Spieler" /> </Consultants> </Location> </TrivadisLocations>
OK, of course, writing XML is not such an amazing thing if you have a query language like LINQ. Reading XML would be more exciting. So let's say you want to read the XML-file we've just created above and you want to get out each location-City where a "Thomas" works. You can just load the document by calling the static Load-Method of the XDocument-class and create a query on top of that document:
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("locations.xml"); var query = from c in doc.Descendants("Consultant") where c.Attribute("FirstName").Value == "Thomas" select c.Ancestors("Location") .Attributes("City").First().Value; foreach (string city in query) { Console.WriteLine(city); }
The Output on the Console is
> Basel
> Freiburg
With the query above you get the cities more than one time if there are more than one "Thomas" in one location. Fortunately the XML above has exactly one or none in each location. By using a simple group by you won't get any cities more than one time, even if there are more than one "Thomas" in a location:
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("locations.xml"); var query = from c in doc.Descendants("Consultant") where c.Attribute("FirstName").Value == "Thomas" group c by c.Ancestors("Location") .Attributes("City").First().Value into grouping select grouping.Key; foreach (string city in query) { Console.WriteLine(city); }
In the afternoon I joined the Session "Entity Framwork: Application Patterns", with speaker Pablo Castro. If you've already had a look at the Entity Framework, maybe you were just thinking about the DataContext class. What is it with this class? Do you keep it in a stateful DataAccessLayer, or is it stateless and you create it each time the BusinessLayer accesses you DataAccessLayer? Pablo's answer is that it's stateless. The DataContext knows the structure and metadata of the underlying database, but it has no state and it is very thin. So in every method like "GetCustomerById(Guid customerID)", you would create a new instance of the DataContext. Normally you would create the DataContext in the header of a using-block, so that it's automatically disposed at the end of that block.


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I thought running
apt-get autoremove without any following argument removes all unused dependencies left on the system, while running
However I discovered otherwise. Running
apt-get autoremove xxx not only removes xxx and its unused dependencies, it also removes all other unused dependencies.
I then tried running
apt-get remove --auto-remove xxx, thinking that this would remove only xxx and its unused dependencies. To my surprise, this also removed xxx, its unused dependencies, and all other unused dependencies.
This leads me to two related questions.
(1) Is this the intended behaviour of the commands?
(2) Is there an easy way to remove xxx and its unused dependencies without removing other unused dependencies?
(It appears that
aptitude remove also behaves in a similar way.)


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By Matt Jannetti
WTSR Music Director
The Shout Out Louds have had a pretty tenuous relationship with music critics, especially after their last album, Work. However, The Shout Out Louds still deserve your attention, and Optica proves that.
Optica starts off with the absolutely catchy song "Sugar." The Shout Out Louds show right off the bat that they are still capable of some really great song construction. The synthy bleeps that show up in the background of the song will get stuck in your head for quite a while.
But the Shout Out Louds are capable of so much more. They manage to create some really cool and beautiful songs such as "Blue Ice" and "Burn." There is some great interplay between male and female vocals, which is highlighted by their airy quality. Frankly, it's nothing new, but it is done particularly well here.
What makes Optica so good is not its inventiveness, but its consistency. Nearly every song on this album has something to offer listeners. It's the kind of consistency in an album that every band strives for but few ever achieve. Optica probably won't be hailed by many as a great album of 2013; however, they might be vastly underestimating it.
This album certainly deserves at least to be recognized for the catchy songs that are on it, but it should be remembered for much more.


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March 3, 2013
TUCSON, Ariz. -
Senior Davellyn Whyte (Phoenix, Ariz.) led the Wildcats with 16 points, nine rebounds, seven assists and three steals, but Arizona women's basketball (12-16, 4-13) fell to No. 16 UCLA (23-6, 14-4), 68-57, on Sunday afternoon at McKale Center.
"She (Whyte) has meant a lot to what we are trying to do," Arizona Head Coach Niya Butts said. "If you look at her complete body of work aside from post-season play, that's all you can really ask for in a player."
Junior Cheshi Poston (Chicago, Ill.) finished her last game in McKale with five points on 2-of-2 shooting and three rebounds.
As a team, the Wildcats forced 17 Bruin turnovers, while only committing 14 and went to the free throw line 24 times, to UCLA's 12.
Arizona came out strong in the first half, starting the game on a 7-0 run, but UCLA soon followed with an 8-0 run. The Bruins controlled most of the scoring from that point, but the Wildcats stayed close and UCLA went into the locker rooms with a 35-27 edge.
In the second half, Whyte and Barnes scored the first six points for Arizona to narrow the score to within five, but the Bruins answered with a 10-2 run. The Wildcats responded with a 7-0 run of their own, but could not close the gap all the way and UCLA took the game, 68-57.
"In the second half, we did better with offensive rebounds and were able to catch up a little, whether it was because they were missing more shots, or we were making more," Butts said. "It's a tough go--I wanted our seniors to go out with a win. We just have to continue to push forward."
Senior Alyssia Brewer and freshman Nirra Fields led the Bruins with 22 and 21 points, respectively.
Arizona will begin postseason play when it travels to Seattle, Wash. for the Pac-12 Tournament, beginning on Thursday, March 7 and continuing through Suinday, March 10.
For complete results and continued coverage of Arizona women's basketball, please visit www.ArizonaWildcats.com, or follow @ArizonaWBBall on Twitter.
Postgame Quotes
Head Coach Niya Butts
Opening Statement
"They were too much in the paint for us today. I think it was 40-24 paint points and that's going to make a big difference. I think in the second half, we did better with offensive rebounds and were able to catch up a little, whether it was because they were missing more shots, or we were making more. It's a tough go-- I wanted our seniors to go out with a win. We just have to continue to push forward."
On Davellyn Whyte's influence on the program:
"She has meant a lot to what we are trying to do. If you look at the stat sheets, even from today, she didn't have the best day scoring but she had all of our assists, she is an all-around player. And if you look at her complete body of work aside from post-season play, that's all you can really ask for in a player."
"She came in and worked. She has done a lot of good things. She is the second all-time leading scorer and those stats aren't something you can take away."
"She has played through injuries and through the pain, she has really toughed it out a lot of days. There are times when it's tough for her to move around but she still gives it her all."
"I think she did a lot of the things we thought she would. She has grown a lot as both a player and a person."
"She's a complete player, she knows the game--she thinks the game. Having the ability to give a girl a ball who wants it and wants to make those plays is always great. She takes charges and throws her body into it."
On Whyte's ability to play in the WNBA:
"I think she'll be even better at the next level. She sees things before her teammates and when you have a bunch of young athletes ready to do that you get to show what you're best at."
On the message to the team going into the tournament:
"Keep pushing. Things haven't gone the way we wanted but we know that anything can happen in March. We just have to keep working and where we are today be better tomorrow."
On UCLA's runs:
"It happens in basketball. We started out hot out of the gate and then they got a run. And [Nirra] Fields came in and picked them up we weren't able to answer."
On Cheshi Poston:
I'm going to hope she can appreciate what she's done here. Obviously she didn't play a full season last year, but I still hope she appreciated her time here."
No. 00 Davellyn Whyte
On her career at Arizona:
"I've grown a lot as a player and a person just by being here. Cheshi [Poston] is a senior too, but I came in here by myself. I've seen people go and I've seen people stay. I've been here through everything, all the ups and downs. Like I've said before, I don't regret anything. It was fun. It was a nice ride."
On transitioning throughout her four years with new players and coaches:
"It was hard because when I came in, I was playing for a whole new coaching staff. And coaches have gone too. You just have to adjust. I think that's what has made me the person that I am and being able to adjust to new coaches and new players."
On impacting the team through ways besides points:
"If your offense isn't working, you can always have defense every night. I just focus on my defense and look for my teammates and then things opened up."
On senior night:
"It felt like just another game. It hasn't hit me that I won't be playing in McKale anymore because I'll still be walking around here every day. It would have been nice to get the win, but I think my team still went out there and played hard. My best memory was beating ASU."
On message to team:
"I think you have to put it all out there. Coach (Butts) said today that you don't really know what you don't have until it's not there. You can't ever go back on something. I think that even though we haven't had the season that we've wanted to, as long as you put everything out on the court, you shouldn't have any regrets. You shouldn't want to go back and do things over. Just play hard always I honestly think this program is on the rise up."
No. 30 Alli Gloyd
On her success tonight:
"I just focused on finishing as much as I could. Davellyn [Whyte] makes plays a lot and defense sucks to her. We tried to make sure we finished."
On senior night:
"It's cool for me to see the seniors, especially Davellyn, because throughout high school and playing her when she was at St. Mary's High School, just knowing her as a basketball player, I've always thought she was really good. I've always admired her game. It was very cool for me to be able to play with her for at least one season. It was nice. In the locker room, Coach Butts had some really nice words for both Davellyn and Cheshi."


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Just days ago Maryland State Delegate Heather Mizeur was endorsed by the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). NORML is a nonprofit trying to "move public opinion sufficiently to legalize the responsible use of marijuana by adults, and to serve as an advocate for consumers to assure they have access to high quality marijuana that is safe, convenient and affordable."
Mizeur is a candidate in the 2014 Maryland gubernatorial election with running mate Christian minister, Delman Coates. Mizeur has a strong stance on the legalization of marijuana and has spoken public about her plans to regulate and legalize marijuana in the state of Maryland if elected governor.
By legalizing marijuana Mizeur hopes to create a stream of revenue that can be invested into early childhood education.
In her plan Mizeur has stated, "As governor, Heather Mizeur will legalize, regulate and tax marijuana generating up to $157.5 million in new annual revenue. The revenue will be used to create a dedicated funding stream for her proposed expansion of Maryland's early childhood education system."
"Under a Mizeur-Coates administration, giving every child a chance for success will be prioritized over locking up non-violent marijuana users, The annual cost of incarceration an inmate in Maryland is a little over $38,000-more than four times the annual cost of in-state tuition and fees at the University of Maryland, College Park."
Mizeur predicts that a lot the regulation will fall heavily on the legislation.
Mizeur states, "As governor, Heather Mizeur will propose executive legislation to legalize and strictly regulate marijuana. The legislation will vest responsibility for implementing the law in the Office of Comptroller of Maryland, and will put in statute or require regulations on everything from licensing to advertising."
Mizeur is the only candidate in the race for governor who has public endorsed and extensively published her plan to legalize marijuana.
Mizeur may have found an issue that connects with Maryland residents. A recent poll from the American Civil Liberties of Maryland (ACLU of Maryland) and Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) have found that 53% of voters in Maryland support taxing and regulating marijuana like alcohol.
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USA Basketball cut Utah Jazz guard Trey Burke even before it started getting into the thick of its mini camp. At that point, you had an inkling the stay for Jazz forward Gordon Hayward in red, white and blue might be a rather short one.
Nope. Hayward is proving that men with Utah Jazz ties can indeed play well enough to stick around on Team USA in this day and age. Not only is Hayward on a cloud after getting a $40-plus million contract and getting married--the dude from Butler is proving he can ball with some of the NBA's best.
Hayward got rave reviews in Las Vegas after he had a seven point, three assist and three rebound effort in the Blue-White scrimmage--halted due to a freak injury to Paul George.
Hayward has lived to fight on for another day, or another mini camp, with the announcement on Tuesday, August 5 that he, along with 15 other hopefuls, have been named as finalists for the World Cup team set to do battle in Spain later this month.
First things first though; Hayward and the other 15 hopefuls--former Jazzman Kyle Korver included--must first compete in yet another minicamp in Chicago before the final 12 players on Team USA will be chosen. Does Hayward stand a chance? Listen to what USA Basketball coach Mike Krzyzsewski had to say.
"Gordon has been a part of our program and this isn't the first time we've had a chance to work with him,'' Coach K said in a conference call Tuesday. "We think he's one of the really good young players in the league. I love his versatility and the fact that he's 6-8 and strong.''
Hayward, who is also branching out into the world of journalism--who isn't?--had his own article on Tuesday outlining the day's events and how it pertained to the man they call G-Time. Like most blogs it had a slew of tweets from Hayward and others and very little in terms of compelling content.
Look, if you just made $40-plus million on a contract you could not only start your own blog, you could probably create your own little media world, too. That's precisely what Hayward has done here. As for former Jazzman Paul Millsap, he was not as fortunate. Millsap was listed among the three players who were cut by Team USA on Tuesday.
Suggested Links
- Utah Jazz 2014: Trey Burke gets opportunity to impress Coach K, USA Basketball
- Utah Jazz 2014: Michigan man who Trey Burke mocked files lawsuit seeking damages
- Utah Jazz 2014: In his prime, former star Paul Millsap could make Team USA
- Utah Jazz 2014: Team opens NBA Summer League with some nice Dante Exum moments
- Utah Jazz 2014: Marvin Williams to leave team, sign deal with Charlotte


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Ozark Weddings is a Three-In-One collection of romance novellas from Barbour Publishing, perfect for summer reading while sunning on a beach of even in your backyard.
Larkspur Dreams features Larkspur Wendell, a delightful and whimsical artist who worries about everyone she knows, including her new neighbor, Everett Holden III. Everett's personality matches his pompous name, but that doesn't stop Larkspur's campaign to make him less of a hermit.
This is a sweet, romantic story that will make you smile and chuckle. Ah--if only real life were as sweet and romantic!
Until next time, God Bless & Good Reading! LIL
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Central Indiana is off to a cool start.
There is patchy fog south of I-70.
Highs will reach the low 80s today. Our normal high this time of year is 73.
Saturday will be another warm with showers moving in Saturday night. More rain is likely with a few isolated thunderstorms Sunday. The 70s are back beginning Sunday!


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Freshman Luke Manget (Conyers, Ga.), a Parade magazine prep all-America, is battling junior Kai Cornwell (Newport News, Va.) for the placekicking job held last season by Brad Chambers, who booted the last-second, game-winning field goal in Tech's victory over Georgia.
O'Leary ended Thursday's practice with a friendly competition.
"I gave the freshman, Luke Manget, a 47-yarder, and if he missed, the whole team had to run, and if he makes it, they don't run," said O'Leary.
"That wasn't too smart of the defense to block the first one. But they were competing, so I gave him another opportunity. Then he hit one that would have been good from 55, 60 yards. He hit that one pretty good. "I'm just trying to keep those kids under a little pressure."
Manget, from Rockdale County High School, was limited by injury to seven field goals as a senior, but he nailed kicks of 53, 55 and 58 yards as a junior. Cornwell, a former second-team prep all-America by USA Today, was good on his only field goal attempt last fall, a 33-yarder against Duke.
At punter, where Tech must replace all-America Rodney Williams, true freshman Philip Newman (Marietta, Ga.) is competing with sophomore walk-on Dan Dyke (Oviedo, Fla.).
O'Leary indicated that competition for both jobs would continue at least through next Tuesday's final scrimmage.
"I thought we got a lot of work done this afternoon," continued O'Leary, whose squad will go through its final day of two-a-day practices on Friday with workouts at 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.
"We don't have too much to install. Now are far as perfecting that, we're still a good distance from where we need to be, but I do think we're getting better every day."
REMINDER: Georgia Tech's annual Fan Photo Day is Saturday, Aug. 21. Beginning at 3 p.m., fans are invited to Bobby Dodd Stadium to 'Pick Your Seat' as all remaining season ticket locations will be marked and available for sale. At 4 p.m., Tech players and coaches will be available for photos and autographs in the Richards Festival concourse area under the West Stands. Admission is free. For more information, contact Georgia Tech Sports Marketing at 404-894-4400.