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Reported May 2009
BLACKSBURG, Va. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Just like bears, many people hunker down and stay inside during cold winter months. But unlike bears, humans would suffer serious health issues sleeping through the cold season. What's a hibernating bear's secret to staying healthy and what does it mean for humans?
Eighty-one-year-old Frances Marshall keeps herself active, but like millions of people, she has a bone disease.
"I was told about 2 years ago that I had osteoporosis and that my bones were susceptible to fractures," Marshall told Ivanhoe.
Osteoporosis makes bones fragile and leads to bone loss and is usually caused by lack of physical activity. There is no cure. Now, population ecologists say sleeping bears could hold the key to preventing the disease.
"One unique thing about bears is that when they go into a hibernating mode, they don't experience bone loss that a human would," Mike Vaughan, Ph.D., a population ecologist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., explained.
Some bears hibernate for almost half a year but show no signs of osteoporosis. People who are inactive that long almost always have bone loss. So what's the bear's secret?
"They're continuing bone growth and we don't know how they do that," Dr. Vaughan said.
To learn more about bear's bones, researchers measured their growth hormones. They learned that bone loss does increase during hibernation, but bone production occurs at the same time. The two processes are balanced out so that little to no bone loss occurs.
"If we can determine how the bears maintain this balance, it might be able to be applied to humans who are in bed rest and avoid this osteoporosis problem," Dr. Vaughan said.
Researchers still have a lot to learn about bear bones but are hopeful it will lead to new therapies for osteoporosis. Instead of curling up on the couch, Marshall's quick pace helps keep her disease in check.
"I don't think osteoporosis has slowed me down one little bit," she said.
She's staying one step ahead of osteoporosis.
Researchers also think they can learn more about human cholesterol buildup from bears. Bears store a large amount of fat in the fall to sustain them through hibernation, yet they don't experience cholesterol buildup like humans.
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA
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A cotton-swab test at the airport? It could be used to catch viruses before they cause a pandemic.
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One in five girls and one in seven boys will become victims of sexual abuse. Records that track convicted sex offenders are outdated and inaccurate. Now a new tool is helping police keep kids safe.
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Whats a hibernating bears secret to staying healthy? What does it mean for humans? Bears may actually hold the secret for better bones in humans.


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Bill Evans: Soiree
Bill Evans (piano, Fender Rhodes)
From Left to Right (Verve 527953-2)
Bill Evans (piano, Fender Rhodes), Eddie Gomez (bass), Sam Brown (guitar), Marty Morrell (drums).
Composed by Earl Zindars.
Recorded: San Francisco, CA, March 26th, 1970
Rating: 95/100 (learn more)
Even though Bill Evans' style and technique have been widely achknowledged and copied by dozens of contemporary pianists and musicians, one thing that he doesn't get as much credit for is his willingness to experiment with new things. As before with Conversations with Myself in which he overdubbed three pianos, Evans became one of the first musicians to record with the Fender Rhodes on this album dating back to early 1970. I know other musicians had recorded with the instrument but none of them added the sensibililtes and touch that Evans brings to the table.
On "Soiree," Evans introduces the melody which is enhanced further by the wonderful guitar work of Sam Brown and the subtle bass drones of Eddie Gomez. I absolutely love how Evans states the melody with the Rhodes but plays harmony with the piano. It's a match made in heaven. Another great song from an American master, Bill Evans!
Reviewer: Jared Pauley
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Phase III: "The Rally," Chapter Nineteen Summary
- Dairyman Crick has a rule that the cows should be milked randomly—if the cow develops a preference for a particular milkmaid or milkman, he ends up having problems after they leave his farm.
- Knowing this, Tess tries to take whatever cows happen to be next in line, but notices that she keeps ending up with the eight or so cows that she particularly likes.
- She realizes that it's because Angel has been sneakily arranging the cows in that order as they come in from the field.
- She accuses him of sending her favorites her way, and he shrugs, and says "So what? You'll always be here to milk them."
- She hopes she will be… but she doesn't know that.
- She later regrets that she called him on it.
- One evening in June, the air is so still that you can hear a pin drop from across the yard.
- Tess hears the notes of a harp out in the garden, and wanders out towards it.
- Tess, as we know, loves music.
- The harp music she hears now gives her the same kind of out-of-body experience that she described before at the breakfast table.
- The description of her reaction to the music makes it sound sexy.
- The music stops, and Tess waits for him to begin again.
- He doesn't, so she tries to slip away unseen, but he spots her light-colored dress against the darkness in the garden.
- He calls her back, and asks why she's afraid.
- She says she's not—at least, not of outdoor things.
- He asks if she's afraid of life in general, and she says yes.
- He says he agrees with her, but asks her why she finds life to be a burden.
- She innocently describes her sense of how oppressive the future is, like an inescapable progression of tomorrows.
- Angel is startled to find such sad thoughts in a young milkmaid, and he finds her even more interesting because of it.
- On her side, Tess is startled to find that the wealthy son of a parson should find life to be a burden.
- Neither of them understands the other, but both are interested in learning more as the opportunity presents itself.
- Every day they learn more about each other.
- She feels daunted by his superior intelligence, so he offers to teach her anything she'd like to know that he's able to teach—history, for example.
- She doesn't see the use in learning history. She doesn't want to know that her own life isn't unique, and that countless others have gone through similar experiences before her.
- All she wants to know is why the world is so unjust.
- Again, he's startled to find so much bitterness in such a young woman, and he walks away.
- Tess is ashamed of her childishness, and wonders what she can do to restore his good opinion of her.
- She thinks about telling him about her D'Urberville heritage, but decides to test the waters a bit first.
- She asks Dairyman Crick if Mr. Clare respects old families.
- Not at all, he tells her. Mr. Clare thinks that old families are all dried up and useless.
- Hearing this, Tess is glad that she hadn't told Angel about her family.
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Today highs will reach the mid 60s, but the weather story is about the rain. Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms are possible at any time today, but the heaviest rain looks to arrive late this afternoon into tonight. One to two inches of rain is expected today and tonight, with some isolated areas picking up, up to three inches of rain.
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AMR Pilots Union in Talks With Lazard
By Mike Spector and Jack Nicas
The union representing American Airlines pilots is in discussions with a Wall Street investment bank to gear up for negotiations on a new labor contract during bankruptcy proceedings.
The Allied Pilots Association is in talks with Lazard Ltd. to represent the pilots during AMR Corp.'s bankruptcy case, said APA President Dave Bates and people familiar with the discussions.
The union, which represents more than 10,000 AMR pilots, has been interviewing firms to analyze AMR's finances for months, and now is close to hiring Lazard, said Mr. Bates, an American pilot for 28 years. An agreement has not been finalized, said people familiar with the matter.
"We've talked to a number of firms, but we think Lazard is top notch," Mr. Bates said in an interview. "The role will take on more importance now that we're in the bankruptcy process."
The union also talked with former White House manufacturing czar Ron Bloom, Mr. Bates said, but Mr. Bloom's "availability is scarce right now," he said. The union is not expecting to retain Mr. Bloom, who is currently working on the restructuring of the U.S. Postal Service.
A Lazard spokeswoman declined to comment. Mr. Bloom didn't respond to requests for comment.
The discussions signal the pilots union is readying for a significant battle over their economic futures and attempting to assemble a roster of experienced negotiators to look out for their interests.
Lazard's restructuring practice represents companies and creditors in many large bankruptcies, and recently negotiated on behalf of the United Auto Workers union during historic contract bargaining and subsequent bankruptcies for General Motors and Chrysler. Lazard and Mr. Bloom teamed in October to negotiate for the union representing U.S. Postal Service letter carriers.
Mr. Bloom, once a Lazard banker himself, has a long history representing unions, including the Air Line Pilots Association. He's also advised the United Steelworkers union and the Teamsters, and more recently helped craft the president's government-brokered restructurings of General Motors and Chrysler.


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Feb. 8, 2012 By Jason Clay
By Jason Clay
Fresno State Game Notes | Tournament Central
Fresno State Kick-Off Tournament
Opening Weekend of the 2012 Season - Fresno State (0-0)
Dates: Feb. 9-12, 2012
Site: Bulldog Diamond (3,288); Fresno, Calif.
Radio: ESPN2 790 AM (Guy Haberman)
TV: None
Live Stats: Gametracker Links
Video Streaming: GoBulldogs.com/AllAccess
FRESNO, Calif. - The Fresno State softball team opens the 2012 season on Thursday with the first of five games over the weekend as a part of the Fresno State Kick-Off Tournament the `Dogs are hosting at Bulldog Diamond.
Toledo, North Dakota State, UC Riverside, Sacramento State and Long Beach State are all traveling to Fresno for the opening weekend festivities.
The Bulldogs kick-off the season at 7 p.m. on Thursday against Toledo and on Friday, also at 7 p.m., Fresno State faces North Dakota State for the first time in program history. The `Dogs play a pair of games on Saturday, at 2 p.m. vs. UC Riverside and at 4:15 p.m. against Sacramento State, before closing out the tournament against Long Beach State at on Sunday at 2 p.m.
ESPN2 790 AM is broadcasting all five Fresno State games this weekend with Guy Haberman delivering the action from Bulldog Diamond. Live stats of all games in the Fresno State Kick-Off Tournament are available at GoBulldogs.com, where video streaming of Frsno State's games is also available under All-Access.
Several promotions are available this weekend. The first 1,200 fans into Thursday nights game will receive free Fresno State ice cream and on Friday fans wearing any type of baseball or softball jersey will get in for Free. Saturday begins a season-long Salute to Saturday's Wounded Warrior Project where anyone with a military ID will get in for free.
Fresno State begins the year with 10-straight home games and it has 35 home games on its 2012 schedule. The 10-straight home games to start the season are the most-ever at the start of a season in the 34-year history of the program.
"We're really excited our first 10 games are at home, and that's exciting for our fans," head coach Margie Wright said. "I'm looking forward to another team being on the other side of the field and find out what we're really made of."
Fresno State, which in 30 years of NCA Division I fastpitch softball is the nation's second-winningest program of all-time (1,442-490-1), returns five starters and 11 letterwinners off the 2011 team that went 35-19 and reached the Stanford Regional in the NCAA Tournament. That kept Fresno State's streak alive of being the only NCAA team to play in all 30 NCAA Tournaments.
The Bulldogs were picked by the league coaches as the preseason favorite to win the WAC and Michelle Moses, Andrea Ortega and Brooke Ortiz were named to the preseason all-conference team.
Fresno State vs. the Field in the Kick-Off Tournament
TOLEDO: The Bulldogs are 5-0 all-time against the Rockets and the last time the two teams met was on March 10, 2007 in the Bulldog Classic. Fresno State won that game 9-0 in five innings behind a four-run second, a two-run third and three more runs in the fourth inning. Toledo has only scored two runs on the Bulldogs in the five meetings, with both of those runs coming in the first-ever game between the two schools (1988).
NORTH DAKOTA STATE: This will be the first-ever meeting between Fresno State and North Dakota State on the diamond. The two schools have only played one another in men's basketball, where the `Dogs hold a 3-1 series advantage. Fresno State's men's team traveled to NDSU on Nov. 28, 2011, but lost the hoops game 78-65.
UC RIVERSIDE: Fresno State owns a 8-1 record all-time against UC Riverside. The one loss in the series was a 3-2 loss in the first game ever played between the two schools on April 1, 2001. Fresno State came back and won the second game of the doubleheaders on that day back in 2001, 8-0, which is one of four shutouts the `Dogs have posted against UCR in the series. In fact, Riverside has only scored 10 runs in the nine-games of the series. The teams last met on Feb. 20, 2010 in the Stanford/Nike Invitational when Fresno State won 10-2 in five innings.
SACRAMENTO STATE: The Bulldogs lead the all-time series against Sacramento State 31-9 and enter the series having won 12-straight games over the hornets. Last year, Fresno State took both games of the doubleheader on opening day. Michelle Moses became the first Bulldog in program history to hit for the cycle in the first game that day, helping lead the `Dogs to a 5-4, 11-inning victory. Fresno State won the second game that day 7-4 behind a two-run homer from Moses and a two-hit game with two runs scored from Brooke Ortiz.
LONG BEACH STATE: Fresno State is 34-14 all-time against Long Beach State with the last meeting between the schools coming on March 5, 2011 in the Campbell/Cartier Classic in San Diego, Calif. The 49ers won that game 6-5 being a three-run bottom of the seventh to overcome Fresno State's 5-3 lead. The Bulldogs own a 6-2 record against Long Beach State since 2000, with the second loss coming in the first of two games between the schools in 2009. That 8-0 defeat on March 1, 2009 in the Mayfair Tournament ended a seven-game winning streak for the `Dogs that started back in 1997.
Bulldogs Picked as Preseason Favorite to Win the WAC in Last Season in League
The Fresno State softball team was selected by the coaches in the Western Athletic Conference preseason poll to win the 2012 WAC regular-season crown. This marks the 14th time in the last 17 years that the Bulldogs have been the preseason favorite to win the title. The 2012 season will mark Fresno State's last year in the WAC, as the `Dogs move to the Mountain West Conference next season. Fresno State has been a member of the WAC since 1993. In the 19 years in the WAC, the Bulldogs have posted a 336-82 (.804) conference record and have won 10 WAC titles and three WAC Tournament championships. Last year, Fresno State finished second in the WAC with a 15-6 league record. The Bulldogs' last regular season championship was in 2009, and the seven seniors on the 2012 roster are shooting for one more WAC crown in their last go-around in the league.
Three Bulldogs Named to 2012 Preseason All-WAC Team
The Bulldogs landed three players on the 2012 Preseason All-WAC team. Seniors Michelle Moses and Andrea Ortega along with sophomore Brooke Ortiz made the list and Fresno State's three selections tied with New Mexico State for the second-most in the conference. Hawai'i led the league with four. Moses was a first-team All-WAC selection in 2011 while Ortega and Ortiz were named to the All-WAC second team in 2011.
Moses/Oakes Set to Embark On Senior Seasons
Seniors Michelle Moses and Mackenzie Oakes are ready to anchor the Bulldogs in the circle in 2012. Last year, either Moses or Oakes was the starting pitcher in 53-of-54 games on the season and the two have combined to start in 106 games with 148 appearances over their careers. Oakes has a 2.56 career ERA and a 37-16 record. Last year, Oakes was third in the WAC and led the team with 18 victories in the circle. Opposing batters have hit just .254 off of her in her career.
Moses has a 2.47 career ERA with a 28-17 record over the last three years. She is nine strikeouts away from becoming the 13th Bulldog in program history to record 400 strikeouts in a career. Moses has held opposing batters to a .210 average over the last three years, including a .197 mark as a sophomore in 2010 when she went 12-3 and had a career-low 2.07 ERA. Last year, Moses went 16-12 in 32 starts with a 2.47 ERA. She'll also be Fresno State's leader at the plate. Her 41 career home runs rank No. 2 in school history and she is ninth with 133 RBIs.
Another Senior Leader
Senior outfielder Andrea Ortega enters her fifth season as a Bulldog. After only playing in six games in 2009, a year she received a medical redshirt, Ortega has since played in 114 games over the last two years and in 169 games overall in her career. A consistent hitter, her .315 career batting average is the highest among all returning players and she has a .469 career slugging percentage. She needs just four more doubles to crack the top 10 for the most in school history and she has 46 career extra-base hits (32 doubles, three doubles, 11 home runs). Over her career she has proven to be very difficult to strike out, as she has gone down on strikes just 46 times in 463 career at-bats (just under 10 percent of the time).
Unique Makeup of 2012 Team
Fresno State is going to be led by a group of seven seniors this year, but you'll also see a mix of talented freshmen on the diamond. Freshmen to look out for include Brenna Moss in center field and Maria Sio at shortstop. Moss broke the all-time California state record for hits (244) and runs scored (187) during her prep career at Bakersfield's North High School while Sio sported impressive numbers at the plate as well, batting .346 as a senior with 68 RBIs and six home runs. Freshman Michelle Solomon will likely split time at third bast with sophomore Vonnie Martin. Then, another newcomer to the Bulldog team who is expected to make an impact this season is sophomore transfer Stesha Brazil. Brazil started 56 games at first bast as a freshman at Houston last year before transferring to Fresno State over the summer. She will play both corner spots in the infield and adds some more power to the Bulldog lineup. Last year when Fresno State played Houston in the Campbell/Cartier Classic in San Diego, Brazil hit a two-run home run to help the Cougars beat the Bulldogs, 4-3, on March 5. Fresno State will be happy to have her belting homers this year for the Bulldogs instead of against them.
Home Sweet Home
Fresno State opens the season with a program record 10-straight games to begin the year and the Bulldogs have 35 home games in all on the 2012 schedule. You have to go back to 2003 to find the last time Fresno State played 35 home games, and it only got to that number by hosting a NCAA Regional. Fresno State, which owns a 389-79 (.831) record at Bulldog Diamond since it was built in 1996, has averaged 26 regular-season home games over the previous 10 years with just 18 last year.
"We Are Your Team" - ESPN2 790 AM is your home for Fresno State Softball and you can always stay connected with Fresno State Athletics on Facebook and Twitter (@FSAthletics).
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Hopefully Ralph will come back to Auckland and get involved on some boards and projects that help NZ Inc - we need his skills right now
New Zealander Sir Ralph Norris will retire as chief executive of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, parent of ASB, in November.
His replacement comes from inside the bank – group executive, business and private banking Ian Narev.
In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange, the bank's chairman David Turner said it was recognised by Mr Norris and the board that it was the right time to appoint the next chief executive.
"On behalf of the board I want to thank Ralph for being an outstanding and fearless chief executive who has made a real contribution not just to banking but to the Australian and New Zealand communities," said Mr Turner.
The former Air New Zealand boss almost doubled his total pay packet to A$16.2 million last year, making him Australia's highest-paid executive and sparking outcry across the Tasman as the public bank-bashing mood escalated.
During his six years in the role Sir Ralph helped steer Australia's largest bank through the tumultuous global financial crisis and its purchase of BankWest for just over $2 billion.
His replacement Mr Narev, 44, was previously a partner at McKinsey & Co and headed the consulting firm's New Zealand office before joining the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
He will be paid a fixed salary of $2.5 million, with potential for that to triple under incentive targets.
One Kiwi leaves, another arrives
Sir Ralph's' departure came as another New Zealand expat, Andy Lark, joined the bank's executive team.
Mr Lark started at CBA on July 1 as chief marketing officer. He arrived from Dell in the US where he was vice president of global sales for the company's enterprise division.
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The perfect role for him and NZ Inc would be if he would becomr MD of the NZX. NZX need a person to focus on customer relationships, a person with people and team building skills, and a person with whiter than white integrity and vision - Sir Ralph fits the bill for all these skills.
Give the man a break! He is not likely to want to be associated with such a shonky outfit like Act. I don't think Sir Ralph will want to get into politics with the problems confronting NZ just now.
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Miami Dolphins critique Chad Ochocinco's first day at OTA's
Chad Ochocinco participated in his first day of Miami Dolphins' organized team activities, according to various Tweets from his new teammates.
So how did it go?
The Dolphins' starting cornerbacks chimed in on their Twitter accounts presumably after having to cover Ochocinco during Tuesday's OTA.
Dolphins cornerback Vontae Davis (@VontaeDavis21):
"@OmarKelly: @VontaeDavis21 yo… How @ochocinco looked today? 1-10 scale." 10 for not knowing playbook he still got it"
Dolphins cornerback Sean Smith (@SeanSMITH24):
"Lol oh yea F what ya heard, 85 (@ochocinco) still got it…."
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Flagler Palm Coast product Gilyard back with Jets
Published: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 10:16 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 10:16 p.m.
Flagler Palm Coast product Mardy Gilyard is back with the New York Jets, according to a tweet Tuesday night on the wide receiver's Twitter account.
Gilyard, who was with the Jets for about a week last season, was released by the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday. He had been with the Eagles since Sept. 11.
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Celldweller - Eon
They say the grass is always greener on the otherside,
If so, do birds dream of walking, while we dream to fly?
our Lady Peace - Automatic Flowers
Meg Myers - Curbstomp
Goyte - Somebody That I Used To Know
Gym Class Heroes - Stereo Hearts
Linkin Park - Wretches and Kings (GBC Remix)
Deftones - Knife Party
THIRD EYE BLIND: Deep Inside Of You
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Vincent van Gogh
Nirvana - Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
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Pan-Poached Pollock Piccata
This recipe uses Alaska pollock. We also have recipes for lots of other ocean-friendly species
You will need
- 4 6-oz. pollock filets
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 stick unsalted butter
- 3 tbsp. capers
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 4 tbsp. chopped chives
- 2 cups cooked pasta
In a sauté pan big enough to hold all the fish bring the water, wine, lemon juice, bay leaf and peppercorns to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes. Place fish in the liquid and simmer for 5 minutes per inch measured at the thickest part of the filet.
When fish is ready, it will flake apart with a fork. Remove fish and reduce sauce to 1/2 cup. Whisk in butter and remove bay leaf. Add the capers and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Serve pollock over pasta, drizzle sauce over the fish and garnish with chopped chives.
Serves 4
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When readers opened their copies of the June 1953 issue of House + Home magazine, a startling coiled concrete block home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright must have struck people like something from another world. The in-depth article illustrated this desert wonder through line-drawn plans and dramatic photos by Wright's favored photographer, Pedro E. Guerrero. In the article, this unique and very personal home designed for Frank Lloyd Wright's son, David S. Wright and his wife Gladys, was held up as a cutting-edge example of the elder Wright's architectural genius and the embodiment of his Organic Principals. Almost 60 years later, it's equally startling that this one-of-a-kind home that was hailed almost instantly as an architectural wonder could be destroyed and lost forever.
The recent drama that has unfolded surrounding the purchase of the Wright-designed residence and its 2 acre property by developers and the uncertainty that these same developers could raze the home sent shock waves through the historic preservation community. Luckily, swift intervention by organizations like the Arizona Preservation Foundation and the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, coupled with the outcry by legions of concerned citizens helped convince the developers to publicly announce their commitment to preserve the home.
This is obviously encouraging news, but the troubling fact remains that historic Mid-century Modern structures like this home are often the victims of demolition simply because that era's architecture is too recent or simply misunderstood by people to make them care about saving it. Yet the Principles embodied in buildings like the David Wright residence are (literally) concrete examples of both American design ingenuity and how we might live more harmoniously with our surroundings. If we remain ignorant to these ideas and opt instead to ambivalently bulldoze them, we'll lose an important connection to our past and lessons for improving our collective future.
The David and Gladys Wright House is unique because it perfectly represents Frank Lloyd Wright's gifted insight that a home and its site are integrally linked and should be considered always as one. The House + Home article mentions Wright's own observation on the special relationship this home has with its environment as:
"...a part of the desert, a plant that grows out of the earth and turns its face toward the sun...a house on piers and yet rooted to the soil, a house as light as air and yet as secure looking as a desert rock."
Imagine if America took the time to learn these lessons and pattern our living spaces and lifestyles in harmony with our environment instead of indiscriminately taking actions that focus only on profits and selfishly short-term gains. Perhaps we'd see less foreclosure wastelands and more vibrant and healthy communities.
As a tribute to these ideas and the irreplaceable nature of the David and Gladys Wright residence, what follows are scans of the original June 1953 House + Home article that showcased Frank Lloyd Wright's "How to Live in the Southwest" design to the world. Hopefully we can continue to celebrate and learn the lessons of this important house for years to come. pm
:: Learn more about the preservation efforts to save the David and Gladys Wright House here
:: Read about the Wright family history connected to the home here
:: Become a member of The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy to help save buildings like this
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|24th January 2013, 12:39 PM
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The only mmorpg i experienced those kind of emotions was Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa.
Too bad Ncsoft killed it.
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|25th January 2013, 05:19 AM
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Honestly didn't see this one coming Trion to publish ArcheAge in the West | Massively
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Can anybody hazzard a guest on when the game will go live in north america?
It will most likely be around the same time as elder scrolls go live.
I will be torn between 2 mmos this and elder scrolls.
Archeage for me has the upper hand in terms of artwork and characters, how ever korean pvp doesn't translate well on western internet, especially if you are playing in australia.
The elder scrolls has this mega server which is going to be awesome, the pvp will be seamless they hve created there own engine for it however elder scrolls is going to be available on consoles, to me this means a dumbing down of the game.
If one is free to play and the other isn't that maybe be the deal breaker for me.
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I just listened to a podcast on GW2junkies, they were talking to 2 of the heads of 2 major WvW guilds, VOTF and LOTD, they mentioned that basically at this point they're just waiting for Archeage to come out, TESO as well, but mainly Archeage.
VOTF have apparently been involved in beta testing and he said that its basically the next generation game that people have been waiting for. From what they said about it I'm a lot more excited for it.
TESO: @twitch_zero - Twitch Aether/Zero/Nova/Shadow
GW2: Miranda Zero - Ele / Twitch Zero - Mes / Aliera Zero - Guard
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I wonder how long it will take before it gets to be released?
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On a KO streak, Magdaleno takes on Perez on ShoBox
Story and photos by Chris Cozzone
Here's what we used to hear at ringside:
"Diego Magdaleno's fighting tonight? Krist, can you spell 'distance?' It's 'D-I-E-G-O.'"
Here's what we hear now: "Diego's fighting? Nice. Shoot quick."
Before last year, no one expected to go home early on a card carrying the Las Vegas fancy dancer, who had just three kayos on a strong of 15 wins. But after four straight wins, cut short at the halfway mark, or less, the kid with the biggest local fan base in Sin City has earned himself a new nickname: "I'm a K.O."
Dig a little deeper and you'll hear the debate: "Ya can't get a knockout punch overnight," says one camp. "Must be Top Rank's matchmakers – dem boys, Bruce and Brad, are geniuses."
While no one in Magdaleno's camp disputes the plan Top Rank has in store for their fighters, both, Diego and younger brother, Jessie, trainer Pat Barry says there is a perfectly good reason his late bloomer has started ending his fights early.
"It didn't just come out of nowhere," Barry said this week after a training session with Magdaleno. "It's been there along but wasn't being shown, or utilized."
What changed, then?
"Early on, it was about going from amateur to pro," says Barry. "We were going four, then six, then eight . . . I think, subconsciously, there was some concern about going the distance. Once he started doing that, he started to listen to what his corner was telling him – to open up."
Magdaleno gestures to his head, not his fists, when explaining his newfound knack for the knockout.
"It's always been about being comfortable in the ring," he says. "And using the strongest muscle you have in your body – your head. Once I had the focus, it was easy to do the rest."
Magdaleno, rated No. 11 in the WBC and No. 6 by the WBA, will have the chance to score the biggest knockout of his life Friday night, when he steps into the ring on the 10th Anniversary of ShoBox Friday night at Texas Station Casino in Las Vegas. Magdaleno, 19-0, 7 KOs, will be up against his toughest foe to date in Alejandro Perez, 15-2, 10 KOs, of Salinas, Calif.
Perez has never been stopped and is coming off the biggest win of his career, an upset KO-in-one over former contender Antonio Escalante. It'll be Perez's second fight at 130 pounds – a weight Magdaleno has been at for his entire career.
"There's more at stake with every fight I have," says Magdaleno, who will be defending his NABF strap. "But I'm motivated by pressure. I know Perez is tough – he's durable – but he's coming up to my weight class. We'll see how that's going to effect him."
Trainer Barry discounts the move up in weight for Perez.
"We know he's trained for this and he's ready," says Barry. "Perez is saying this is his natural weight and he'll be stronger – none of that matters. None of that will change his style and that's what we capitalize on."
"Will he be my toughest opponent?" asks Magdaleno. "I'll determine that after."
Passing on calling out anyone at 130 pounds, Magdaleno says he's fine with letting Top Rank pick the next victim, should he get by Perez.
Barry, on the other hand, doesn't have a problem:
"If they got a belt," he says, "we want 'em."
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Guangzhou Evergrande Ties FC Seoul in Soccer Final
By Alastair Gale
China's national soccer champions are well positioned to give the world's most populous nation a rare taste of success in the world's most popular sport.
Guangzhou Evergrande drew 2-2 against FC Seoul in the first leg of the Asian Champions League final on Saturday night in the South Korean capital. With home field advantage in the second stage of the final on Nov. 9 and the advantage of two goals scored away from home, the favorites are looking good to finish the job in Guangzhou.
China hasn't won Asia's main club tournament since Liaoning in 1990 and the country is a perennial underperformer in international tournaments. The national side hit a new nadir with a 5-1 home defeat to a junior Thailand team in June.
But led by World Cup-winning Italian coach Marcello Lippi, club side Guangzhou Evergrande have been dismantling opposition sides in this year's Asian Champions League, including an 8-1 win over two games in the semifinal.
On a chilly night in Seoul at a packed national stadium, South Korea's capital club took the lead in the 11th minute of the final after a quickly taken free-kick caught the Guangzhou defense flat-footed and Sergio Escudero, a Spain-born naturalized Japanese striker, raced through the center to score.
The Chinese team turned the game around with goals either side of halftime: a header from Brazilian Elkeson after a corner and a close-range snap finish from Chinese forward Gao Lin.
FC Seoul's Montenegrin striker Dejan Damajanovic leveled things up seven minutes before the final whistle with a precise drilled shot from within the penalty area, giving the Koreans a better chance at upsetting the odds and lifting the trophy in China next month.
Recent history in the tournament–South Korea has provided three of the past four winners–and FC Seoul's solid away form in this year's competition will give the traveling fans hope.
But FC Seoul will have to do what no other away team has done in this year's tournament and win in Guangzhou, or score at least two to cancel out the away-goal advantage of the Chinese.
"We are going into a very tough away match but we have experienced players and I believe we can do it," FC Seoul coach Choi Yong-soo said.
Guangzhou coach Lippi will be looking for his South American-dominated strike force to do the same kind of damage they have achieved in scoring 14 goals in the four games before the final. A worrying thought for FC Seoul was that Lippi viewed his side's performance on Saturday as a rare off-night.
"Some players showed today they weren't playing up to 100% of their capabilities," Lippi said. "I am sure in Guangzhou, they'll be at their best."


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Thermotectonic Evolution of Central Namibia
Abstract of PhD Thesis "The Geomorphic Response of the Passive Continental Margin of Northern Namibia to Continental Break-Up and Global Scale Tectonics" by Dr Matthias Raab. A fission track study of central and northern Namibia.
Apatite fission track thermochronology data provide an independent and direct constraint on the spatial and temporal variations of denudation in onshore regions. The method allows the identification of major eroding source areas over time. With this information, a record of the cooling history can be established, potentially identifying offsets across major structures, as well as important periods of accelerated denudation and their distribution along the continental margin. Moreover, if vertical relief profiles are available, a palaeogeothermal gradient can be reconstructed.


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Moodle custom fields
At the recent Hactoberfest Moodle developer meeting, one of the themes was custom fields/metadata. What's the difference? I hear you ask… Well, metadata might be the same property on multiple things e.g licence, learning outcome, whereas a custom field is on one objecte.g. course duration. Some properties might be both/either metadata & custom field e.g. language.
My interest is for OpenLearn which has a range of custom fields on its courses e.g. seo url, educational level, language, duration. I'm also interested in extending licences to apply to more objects and be more useful, and maybe extending tagging which, I believe, is just another sort of metadata. Other places already in Moodle where metadata exists could be rationalised.
The meeting also discussed improvements to custom profile fields to use the same system. There is a desire to offer alternate name field and modern IM ids. The new system should have an improved UI and offer better controls like if you're designing your own moodleform in code e.g. to add help popups. None of this is controversial or difficult to code.
The big decision is on the database backend. There are two options for implementation. Option A: flat tables called _extend for every current table (e.g. user_extend, course_extend) with dynamic creation of new columns in the _extend when new fields are added. Or Option B: generic data tables (one for each data type) with property/value/object columns. Option A matches how OpenLearn currently does its metadata, Option B is used by Remote Learner Moodle partners.
Whichever is the chosen method, we would need to extend the current DB API function calls so that if you get records from user, for example, any user custom fields would automatically be included in your result object.
One suggestion is that option A works for custom fields, and option B works for metadata. Do they really need different treatment? Well, it seems more elegant not to, in my opinion. If the reasons why an implementation is inappropriate for a new metadata/custom field thing is long, then the design is wrong.
Pros and cons
Option B means controlled DB structure changes, but the number of joins required to get single user object back could be huge if there are multiple custom user fields of different types. Some database platforms have limits to the number of joins they allow (apparently) – could we ever reach this? Multiple joins would also be a slower query, and it would be harder to apply indexes on these tables to support search queries. These tables could grow massive over time, and experience problems similar to current log table. Can this solution ever perform well enough?
The flat tables of option A are easier to join and index, so result in quicker queries, but dynamic database change is bad & maybe insecure, and could grow like topsy. Also this method doesn't support cross-object metadata at all. And we could still have problems with joins if there are multiple values for a metadata field e.g. authors.
Next steps?
A detailed SQL investigation is needed to analyse the performance implications of the two options, and wider developer discussion.
Either way should be ok for OpenLearn, so on one level I don't really care what is decided. But Option B just 'feels' more elegant to me if we can only get the queries to perform well enough.


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TEMPE -- The No. 3 Arizona State University softball team suffered its first loss of the season after splitting a Thursday doubleheader to open the Louisville Slugger Invitational in Tempe, Ariz.
ASU defeated Detroit 6-4 in the early game before falling in a dramatic 3-2 decision to SEC standout South Carolina in the second game.� The Sun Devils are now 18-1 on the season.
The Sun Devils will look to bounce back from the loss on Friday night at Farrington Stadium as they face Florida International University at 7 p.m. MT. The game will be live-streamed online for the Pac-12 Network.
Complete recaps of tonight's action can be found below.
South Carolina 3, ASU 2
The No. 3 Arizona State University softball team (18-1) suffered its first loss of the season against the South Carolina Gamecocks (14-2) in the second game of the doubleheader on Thursday night.
Senior pitcher Dallas Escobedo (8-1) hit two batters and gave up five hits and three runs in seven innings. Escobedo did strike out 11 Gamecocks on the night, continuing her streak of double-digit strikeout games.
Escobedo escaped a bases-loaded jam in the top of the second inning but gave up the first two runs of the game on a two-run home run by South Carolina's Chelsea Hawkins.
The Sun Devil bats were silent for most of the game as ASU left six runners stranded on base. However, freshman Chelsea Gonzales had an impressive performance, going 3-for-3 with two doubles.
In the top of the seventh inning, Escobedo surrendered a leadoff double to Hawkins, who eventually scored on a sacrifice fly, giving the Gamecocks a 3-0 lead heading to the bottom half of the inning.
The Sun Devils made a thrilling attempt at a comeback in the bottom of the seventh inning, but it was not enough.
Elizabeth Caporuscio was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning, and then Bethany Kemp hit a two-run home run over the scoreboard in left field, cutting South Carolina's lead down to one.
WATCH - Bethany Kemp 2-Run Shot gives the Sun Devils a chance. http://t.co/iMBVmUBMNp via @Pac12Networks— ASU Softball (@ASUSoftball) February 28, 2014
Gonzales followed with a double to right center and moved to third base on a Nikki Girard single. Jennifer Soria pinch ran for Girard and stole second base.
With no outs and runners on second and third, the Sun Devils failed to tie the game or take the lead as Bailey Wigness struck out and Cheyenne Coyle and Alix Johnson flied out in order to end the game.
After the game, Gonzales called the loss a learning experience for the Sun Devils.
"We're going to come back tomorrow and show what ASU Softball is all about," Gonzales said. "Obviously, tonight wasn't our night, but tomorrow is a new day, so we're going to come back harder tomorrow."
ASU 6, Detroit 4
The Sun Devils weren't put into a position where they had to rally, but they did need to answer the call after a four-run fifth inning made it a 4-4 ball game against Detroit in the opener of the Louisville Slugger Invitational.
ASU put up three runs in the bottom of the third inning after Sashel Palacios was hit my a pitch and advanced by a bunt single from Bailey Wigness. That would said up an Alix Johnson RBI single to the pitcher to score pinch runner Abby Spiel.
Johnson and Wigness would both come home on an RBI double from Haley Steele that put the Sun Devils up 3-0.
After tacking on a run in the bottom of the fourth for a four-run lead, the Sun Devils were forced to make some plays after the Titans batted around the order in the top of the fifth, scoring four runs � only two earned � to even the game up.
Mackenzie Popescue (9-0) entered the game in relief of Alexis Cooper, who pitched 4.2 innings and gave up seven hits and two earned runs.� Popescue allowed zero earned runs and two hits to quell the Detroit rally and give the Sun Devils a chance to win the game.
That chance came with two outs in the bottom of the fifth as junior transfer Sierra Rodriguez entered the game to pinch hit for Nikki Girard with runners on first and second. Rodriguez lined a hard single to right field, scoring pinch runner Allie Butterfield and providing the winning run for the Devils.
WATCH - This Sierra Rodriguez single proves to be the different against Detroit. http://t.co/WskXan0nUr via @Pac12Networks� ASU Softball (@ASUSoftball) February 28, 2014
ASU would go on to add one more run in the bottom of the sixth on a Amber Freeman two-out double to left field that brought home Cheyenne Coyle to represent the final score. Five of ASU's six runs in the game came with two outs.�


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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Some things just have to be done, and tea at the Ritz is one of them. Today was my third time there and the glitter hasn't come off yet. I was treating a friend for her birthday which was a couple of weeks ago but I was late booking. Tea at the Ritz needs to be booked at least three months in advance.
So we finish work and head over on the hot and sweaty tube. Having been to the Ritz before I know which entrance to use. The commissionaire is all brass buttons etc and various gentlemen wave us along plushy carpeted corridors in the direction of the music. The lavatory is called a powder room and you get a little personal towel to dry your hands on. Up a couple of steps and there you are. It's all gilded angels and baroque crenellations. Someone wearing a tailcoat is playing the piano. The waiter says 'Good afternoon ladies' and I look round to see who he's talking to. Ah. It seems I'm a lady for the afternoon. He leads us over to our table.
The waiter pulls the table out and I remember just in time not to sit down till he's pulled my chair out for me too. Similarly not to unfold my napkin because this is the sort of place where they do that for you (just in case you're the kind of oik who forgets napkins). Just behind my friend is a gold plaster goddess wearing half a sarong (bottom half). We choose our tea (lapsang for me, Earl Grey for my friend). It arrives with a warning to let it stand for five minutes. We do so, and pour. The china is beautiful and custom designed for the Ritz.
The sandwiches and cakes arrive. Three tiers, two of sandwiches, one of cakes. There are ten finger sandwiches each, and - trust me - it's a lot to eat. Before we've finished, the waiter's back with scones. And clotted cream. And jam. I am pleased to see that the scones are quite small, but there are two each.
My friend is starting to flag (I've already eaten one of her sandwiches for her). The last half scone is taxing for each of us. Then the waiter comes round with a tray of cake, and we choose a piece each. My friend goes for the strawberry, cream and nut job. I pick the lemon drizzle. It is, of course, divine. Sharp and sweet.
We plough on. The waiter brings us a fresh pot of tea each. I've drunk so much Lapsang I'm kippered (it's smoked, if you haven't tried it). I pick a small cake from the cake stand, but my friend can't. In fact she's unable to even contemplate the cake stand. She's positively avoiding its eye. That last small cake is all I can manage too. Shouldn't have had the second scone, should I? We leave four of them.
I can't begin to score this but I'd guess about 1,200 calories. I don't take milk or sugar in tea, a small mercy.
And no, we didn't take photos. We're not tourists you know. We live here!
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Thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Have been to Fortnum & Masons 4 cream tea what a rip off. The Ritz sounds much better and is high on my agenda.
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Oh I was wishing for some photos for us folks that do not live there I live in Pennsylvania. Sounds like you & your friend had a lovely day at the Ritz. My Mom & I have tea at a special place. The owner's Mother makes the cozies for all the teapots she sends them over to the states , she lives in Wales.Each month there is a different theme. One Oct it was a Scottish tea & she had her friend from Wales playing the bagpipes. She makes the real clotted cream for the scones. We all enjoy the afternoon tea sometimes there is 100 of us ladies.I agree there is plenty to eat.
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|Tabachnikov publishes book, hosts coauthor.
|Professor Sergei Tabachnikov, Director of the MASS program, has published a new book, Mathematical Omnibus: Thirty Lectures on Classic Mathematics. His coauthor, Professor Dmitry Fuchs of the University of California at Davis, will visit our department from late January to late March.
|12 / 17 / 2007
|Mullen and Mummert publish new book.
|Recently Professor and former Department Head Gary L. Mullen, jointly with Assistant Professor Carl Mummert of the University of Michigan, published a book in the AMS Student Mathematical Library book series. The book, entitled Finite Fields and Applications, is based on a MASS course of the same title taught by Mullen in 2004 with Mummert as the Teaching Assistant. Mummert obtained his Penn State Ph.D. degree in 2005 under the supervision of Professor Stephen G. Simpson.
|12 / 14 / 2007
|Sellers to spend Spring 2008 at Cambridge University.
|Associate Professor James Sellers, Director of Undergraduate Mathematics, has been invited to spend the spring 2008 semester as a visiting fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University, United Kingdom. Sellers will take part in an INI program on Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics.
|12 / 13 / 2007
|Department of Mathematics to host conference in honor of Andrews' birthday.
|On December 5-7, 2008 the Department of Mathematics will host a conference: Combinatory Analysis 2008: Partitions, q-series, and Applications. The conference is in honor of the 70th birthday of Evan Pugh Professor George Andrews. An excellent lineup of plenary speakers is already set. The conference will bring together numerous mathematicians interested in partitions, q-series, and related areas.
|12 / 13 / 2007
|Long elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society.
|Lyle Long, Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Bioengineering, and Mathematics, was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Professor Long is currently on sabbatical leave at Caltech as a Moore Distinguished Scholar.
|12 / 12 / 2007
|Vaserstein's paper accepted for Annals of Mathematics.
|Professor Leonid Vaserstein's paper Polynomial parametrization for the solutions of Diophantine equations and arithmetic groups (31 pages) was recently accepted for publication in the Annals of Mathematics.
|12 / 12 / 2007
|12 / 10 / 2007
|Simpson receives grant from Templeton Foundation.
|The John Templeton Foundation has granted $30,000 to support Professor Stephen G. Simpson's research project Degree Theory: A New Beginning. The project is being funded as part of the foundation's initiative, Exploring the Infinite.
|12 / 10 / 2007
|NSF Mathematical Sciences director visits Department of Mathematics.
|On Friday November 16, 2007, Dr. Tony Chan visited our Department of Mathematics and gave a "pizza seminar" talk entitled NSF in a Nutshell. Dr. Chan is director of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences within the U.S. National Science Foundation.
|12 / 05 / 2007
|Andrews delivers Cherry Award lecture.
|On November 13 Evan Pugh Professor George Andrews delivered his Cherry Award Lecture entitled Teaching as an Art in our department. Professor Andrews is one of three finalists nationwide for this award which is created at Baylor University to "honor great teachers, to stimulate discussion in the academy about the value of teaching, and to encourage departments and institutions to value their own great teachers."
|12 / 05 / 2007
|Sabbatical leave applications approved.
|We congratulate Professors Leonid Berlyand, Dima Burago, Victor Nistor, Anton Petrunin, Leonid Vaserstein, Ping Xu, and Ludmil Zikatanov. Their applications for sabbatical leave for all or part of the 2008-2009 academic year have been approved.
|12 / 05 / 2007
|Tapia to leave Department.
|Ron Tapia, our senior computer system administrator for the last five years, is planning to leave our Department at the end of 2007 to pursue an opportunity elsewhere. Ron has kept our computer network operating at peak efficiency through some major transitions. We thank Ron for his service and wish him all the best in his new position.
|12 / 05 / 2007
|Holiday Tea to be held on Tuesday December 11.
|On Tuesday December 11 we will hold what has become a regular departmental tradition - the "Staff Appreciation of the Faculty" Tea. Staff members will supply a feast of seasonal goodies in the Synergistic Room, 113 McAllister. All are invited to enjoy the festivities.
|12 / 05 / 2007
|Andrews elected president of the American Mathematical Society.
|Evan Pugh Professor George Andrews was recently elected to be the next president of the American Mathematical Society. The AMS is well known as the leading professional organization for United States mathematicians. Congratulations, George!
|11 / 19 / 2007
|Higley and Signori receive Graduate Teaching Awards.
|Michael Higley and Daniele Signori are the recipients of the Departmental Graduate Assistant Teaching Awards for Fall 2007. These awards are given by the Department of Mathematics to Teaching Assistants who have made an outstanding contribution as determined by faculty visits, student evaluations, and solicited and unsolicited student comments. The value of each award is $250. Michael and Daniele will receive award certificates at the departmental awards recognition night in April 2008.
|11 / 19 / 2007
|Conference on Undergraduate Research in Mathematics.
|On Friday and Saturday, November 9 and 10, 2007, we will host our first Conference on Undergraduate Research in Mathematics. Over 100 undergraduate students from across the nation will be visiting us to present papers and posters on their research, to hear plenary speakers George Andrews and Frank Morgan, and to meet with other students and Penn State faculty.
|11 / 05 / 2007
|J. Xu hosts visitors.
|Distinguished Professor Jinchao Xu is hosting the following visitors:
|10 / 29 / 2007
|The Department of Mathematics welcomes the following visitors:
|10 / 29 / 2007
|Signori, L. Zhang, Y. Zhu win Pritchard Dissertation Fellowships.
|After reviewing nominations for the Pritchard Dissertation Fellowship, the Graduate Studies Committee has selected Daniele Signori, Lei Zhang and Yunrong Zhu as the recipients of the Fellowship for the Spring 2008 semester. The Fellowships are awarded in recognition of very high quality of the recipients' thesis work. The advisers are Professors Ping Xu and Adrian Ocneanu for Daniele, Qiang Du for Lei, and Jinchao Xu for Yunrong.
|10 / 26 / 2007
|Brannick selected for workshop on Modeling and High Performance Computing.
|Our S. Chowla Research Assistant Professor James Brannick is one of approximately 20 researchers from the US and France who have been invited to participate in a US/France bilateral workshop on Modeling and High Performance Computing, October 22-24, 2007, at Georgetown University and Maison Francaise. The purpose of the workshop is for a select group of young scientists to exchange ideas in applied mathematics, high performance computing, and cyberinfrastructure for modeling in the physical and life sciences.
|10 / 22 / 2007
|Andrews to give special lecture, Teaching as an Art.
|Evan Pugh Professor George Andrews is a finalist for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for outstanding mathematics teaching. In connection with the award process, Professor Andrews will deliver a public lecture on November 13, 2007 at 1:00 PM entitled "Teaching as an Art". This will serve as our Teaching Seminar for this semester.
|10 / 22 / 2007
|Jech wins prize for outstanding expository writing.
|Emeritus Professor Thomas Jech together with his colleague Bohuslav Balcar in Prague, Czech Republic, has won the inaugural Shoenfield Prize for an outstanding expository article in the field of logic. This $1000 prize is awarded by the Association for Symbolic Logic and will be shared by the coauthors. The prize-winning article is entitled Weak distributivity, a problem of von Neumann, and the mystery of measurability and was published in 2006 in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic.
|10 / 18 / 2007
|Simpson to deliver plenary talk at ASL's LC08.
|Professor Stephen G. Simpson will deliver an invited one-hour plenary talk at Logic Colloquium 2008 in Bern, Switzerland, July 3-8, 2008. This is the Annual Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, the leading professional organization for logicians.
|10 / 18 / 2007
|Marker Lectures by Terence Tao.
|Professor Terence Tao of UCLA has agreed to deliver the Marker Lectures in Fall 2008. This will be an event to look forward to! Recently Tao and Green shared a Fields Medal for proving that there exist arbitrarily long sequences of prime numbers in arithmetic progression.
|10 / 15 / 2007
|Bressan wins SIAM Best Paper award.
|A paper by Eberly Professor Alberto Bressan, Vanishing viscosity solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic systems, Annals of Mathematics, 2005, has been selected as the winner of the biennial SIAM Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Best Paper Prize.
|10 / 02 / 2007
|Ocneanu receives 25-year chair.
|The Pennsylvania State University recently awarded Professor Adrian Ocneanu a plaque and a rocking chair in honor of 25 years of service in the Department of Mathematics.
|10 / 02 / 2007
|Rotman receives tenure and promotion.
|Our colleague Regina Rotman has just been awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor. Congratulations, Rina!
|10 / 02 / 2007
|The Department of Mathematics welcomes the following visitors:
|10 / 02 / 2007
|Bressan appointed to Eberly Chair.
|Distinguished Professor Alberto Bressan has been appointed to an important endowed chair, the Eberly Family Professorship of Mathematics. This appointment has been made by the Office of the President, based on the recommendations of colleagues and of the Dean. We congratulate Professor Bressan on this well-deserved appointment.
|09 / 20 / 2007
|Bressan publishes new book on control theory.
|Eberly Professor Alberto Bressan, along with coauthor Benedetto Piccoli, has published Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Control. This new book appears in the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences book series on Applied Mathematics.
|09 / 20 / 2007
|A. Katok chairs Brin Prize committee.
|Shibley Professor Anatole Katok has been named chair of the award committee for the newly announced Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems. This prestigious award will be presented regularly at meetings of the Penn State Workshop in Dynamical Systems.
|09 / 12 / 2007
|The Department of Mathematics welcomes the following visitors:
|09 / 05 / 2007
|New initiative in support of faculty research.
|The Research Support Committee has a modest budget for one-time, small-scale, research expenses that faculty cannot cover from other sources. Guidelines for internal proposals are available, or consult Associate Department Head Diane Henderson.
|08 / 20 / 2007
|Fixed-term faculty and visitors.
|The Department of Mathematics welcomes the following new fixed-term faculty members and visitors:
|08 / 20 / 2007
|Conference on Undergraduate Research in Mathematics.
|A Conference on Undergraduate Research in Mathematics will take place at Penn State on November 9-10. For more information, please contact Associate Professor and Undergraduate Studies Director James Sellers.
|08 / 13 / 2007
|Nigel Higson and Anatole Katok receive ECoS Medals.
|Congratulations to Evan Pugh Professor Nigel Higson and Shibley Professor Anatole Katok, who were recently presented with Eberly College of Science Medals by Dean Larson. Other recipients in our department have been Evan Pugh Professors George Andrews and Paul Baum, Distinguished Professor Alberto Bressan, and Willaman Professor Qiang Du. According to the dean, the purpose of the medals is "to recognize distinguished faculty and supporters of the College."
|08 / 13 / 2007
|Department of Mathematics hosts visitors.
|08 / 07 / 2007
|Meeting in honor of Paul Baum's birthday.
|A meeting in honor of the 70th birthday of Evan Pugh Professor Paul Baum is being held at the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center in Warsaw, Poland, July 30 through August 2, 2007. The subject of the meeting is Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum Groups.
|07 / 30 / 2007
|H. Li receives Teaching with Technology certificate.
|This summer our PhD student Hengguang Li received the Graduate School Teaching with Technology (TWT) certificate.
|07 / 27 / 2007
|J. Xu named Distinguished Professor.
|Our colleague Jinchao Xu has been named Distinguished Professor of Mathematics.
|07 / 23 / 2007
|New Mathematics PhDs.
|Congratulations to our new Mathematics PhDs: Seunghoon Bang, Hunseok Kang, William Keith, Mike Rowell, Jiakou Wang and Ke Zhang. Information about our past PhD alumni and current PhD students is available.
|07 / 23 / 2007
|Papikian named Humboldt fellow.
|Our new colleague Mihran Papikian has been awarded a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. He will use the fellowship to study in Germany for the 2008-09 academic year.
|07 / 23 / 2007
|Edward Green receives courtesy appointment.
|Beginning next academic year Professor Edward Green of the Department of Economics will receive the courtesy title of Professor of Mathematics. Early in the fall semester Professor Green will give an inaugural lecture in the Department of Mathematics.
|06 / 25 / 2007
|Vandemeulebroeke replaces Battaglia as coordinator of GTA program.
|Our Graduate Teaching Assistant Mentoring Program provides detailed advice and feedback to GTAs during their first teaching semester. For many years Jo Battaglia has coordinated the program. At the end of this month, Lynn Vandemeulebroeke will be taking over as the new coordinator. We thank Jo and Lynn for their valuable work.
|06 / 25 / 2007
|Department hosts a visitor from Italy.
|06 / 25 / 2007
|Winnie Li to give invited address for American Mathematical Society.
|Professor Winnie Li will give an AMS invited address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, January 6-9, 2008. The title of her talk will be Combinatorics and Number Theory.
|06 / 22 / 2007
|Pritchard Lab featured in Physical Review Letters.
|The cover of this week's issue of Physical Review Letters features a project of the William G. Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratory here in the Department of Mathematics. The study was carried out by Dr. Andrew Belmonte, Associate Professor of Mathematics, and Dr. Josh Gladden, a Penn State Physics Ph.D. who did a postdoc at the Pritchard Lab with Dr. Belmonte in 2003-2005.
|06 / 01 / 2007
|Jenssen and Zikatanov receive tenure and promotion.
|Our colleagues Drs. Helge Kristian Jenssen and Ludmil Zikatanov have just been awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor. Kris and Ludmil, congratulations!
|05 / 28 / 2007
|Sellers to participate in INI workshops.
|Associate Professor and Undergraduate Studies Director James Sellers has been invited to participate in the Isaac Newton Institute's Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics workshops to be held throughout Spring 2008.
|05 / 17 / 2007
|Andrews named finalist for national teaching award.
|Evan Pugh Professor George Andrews was recently named a finalist in the competition for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching at Baylor University. This is the single largest national award made to an individual for exceptional teaching. The three finalists will lecture at Baylor this fall, and the winner will be announced in spring 2008.
|05 / 17 / 2007
|Ocneanu elected as honorary member of Romanian Academy.
|Professor Adrian Ocneanu was recently elected an honorary member of the Mathematics Institute of the Romanian Academy "for outstanding results in the domain of mathematics, and for a remarkable contribution to the development of the Romanian mathematics school."
|05 / 17 / 2007
|Department of Mathematics hosts visitors.
|05 / 17 / 2007
|J. Xu affilated with College of Information Sciences and Technology.
|Distinguished Professor Jinchao Xu has been made an affiliate faculty member of the College of Information Sciences and Technology.
|05 / 17 / 2007
|Article by R. Ayoub reprinted in Euler volume.
|In honor of the 300th birthday of the great mathematician Leonhard Euler, a commemorative volume edited by William Dunham has been published. The volume includes a reprinted article by Emeritus Professor and former Department Head Raymond Ayoub entitled "Euler and the Zeta Function".
|05 / 10 / 2007
|S. Katok publishes new book.
|Recently the American Mathematical Society published Professor Svetlana Katok's new book p-adic Analysis Compared with Real.
|05 / 10 / 2007
|Mortenson to give seminar at Stanford.
|Eric Mortenson, an S. Chowla Research Assistant Professor in our department, has been invited to give a number theory seminar talk at Stanford University. The talk will take place on May 25.
|05 / 10 / 2007
|Timothy Reluga to join faculty.
|Dr. Timothy Reluga has accepted a position beginning this fall as a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics, joint with the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Tim's research involves mathematical modeling related to public policy issues such as vaccination and the use of antibiotics.
|04 / 27 / 2007
|Michael Dunne to join computer support staff.
|Michael Dunne will join our computer support staff on the MS Windows side, replacing Brian Broking who left us a few weeks ago. Michael comes to us from Accuweather, Inc., where he has worked since June 2003 as a network support administrator.
|04 / 27 / 2007
|Conference in honor of Banyaga's birthday.
|A Conference on Geometry and Its Applications will be held at the Institute of Mathematics and Physical Sciences in Porto Novo, Benin, from June 10 to June 17 in honor of the 60th birthday of Professor Augustin Banyaga. Congratulations, Augustin!
|04 / 16 / 2007
|Srikrishnan receives ZZRQ Award.
|Vivek Srikrishnan has been selected to receive the ZZRQ Award, honoring outstanding achievement by a doctoral candidate who has contributed to the sense of community within the department. This award is made possible through annual contributions from alumni and friends of the Department of Mathematics.
|04 / 13 / 2007
|Brannick invited to speak at Yale workshop.
|James Brannick, one of our S. Chowla Research Assistant Professors, has been invited to speak at a workshop at Yale University.
|04 / 12 / 2007
|Hengguang Li wins SIAM travel award.
|Graduate student Hengguang Li has recieved a SIAM travel award ($1500) to attend the 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Zurich, Switzerland (ICIAM 07). Mr. Li will give a talk and a poster presentation.
|04 / 12 / 2007
|Annual Awards Recognition Ceremony.
|The Department's annual Awards Recognition Ceremony will take place Tuesday April 17 at 6:00 PM in the Synergistic Room, 114 McAllister. Among the awardees will be
|04 / 09 / 2007
|Department of Mathematics hosts visitors.
|Distinguished Professor Alberto Bressan is hosting two visitors:
|04 / 09 / 2007
|Former Ph.D. students obtain tenure-track positions.
|Two former Ph.D. students of Distinguished Professor Jinchao Xu have recently accepted tenure-track positions. Dr. Youngju Lee (2004 Ph.D.) will move to Rutgers from his current position as a postdoc at UCLA. Dr. Long Chen (2005 Ph.D.) will move to the University of California at Irvine from his current position as a postdoc at UMD.
|04 / 09 / 2007
|Seminar by J. Xu cited at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
|In the November/December 2006 issue of LLNL Institutes News Notes, a seminar talk given in March 2006 by Distinguished Professor Jinchao Xu is cited as the catalyst for a recent addition to LLNL's scalable solver library.
|04 / 09 / 2007
|Simpson obtains FRG grant.
|Recently Professor Stephen G. Simpson received a Focused Research Group grant from the National Science Foundation entitled Collaborative Research in Algorithmic Randomness. This project is part of a national research network on algorithmic randomness to be funded by NSF at the level of $523,000 over three years.
|04 / 03 / 2007
|Department of Mathematics hosts visitors.
|04 / 02 / 2007
|Gomez-Calderon receives teaching award.
|Recently Javier Gomez-Calderon, a Mathematics faculty member at the New Kensington campus of Penn State, received the Milton S. Eisenhower Teaching Award. On receiving the award Professor Calderon said: "I am lucky because my dream of teaching mathematics is still alive and because I have been living my dream for more than half of my life."
|04 / 02 / 2007
|Conference in honor of Pesin's birthday.
|In honor of the 60th birthday of Yakov Pesin, a conference on Nonuniformly Hyperbolic Dynamics and Smooth Ergodic Theory will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on June 25-29, 2007. Topics will include nonuniform hyperbolicity, smooth ergodic theory, partial hyperbolicity, thermodynamic formalism, dimension theory in dynamics, and related subjects. Congratulations to Yasha on this special occasion!
|04 / 02 / 2007
|Mike Rowell certified as Teaching Associate.
|Recently our graduate student Mike Rowell completed the requirements to earn status as a Teaching Associate. This is under the auspices of our graduate student teaching certification program.
|03 / 28 / 2007
|New mathematics librarian, John Meier.
|Mr. John Meier has been appointed as a Subject Specialist Librarian for Mathematics and Statistics. He holds an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a BS and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He will work in the Physics and Mathematical Sciences Library in 201 Davey Laboratory, across the street from McAllister Building.
|03 / 28 / 2007
|Patterson joins faculty as Chowla Assistant Professor.
|Dr. Matt Patterson has accepted an offer to join our faculty in Fall 2007 as an S. Chowla Research Assistant Professor. Dr. Patterson's research area is applied mathematics, and he will be affiliated with the Pritchard and SCREMS laboratories in McAllister Building.
|03 / 28 / 2007
|L. Craig Evans to deliver Marker Lectures.
|The Eberly College of Science Marker Lectures will be given by Professor L. Craig Evans of the University of California at Berkeley, during the week March 26-30, 2007. Professor Evans is a leading international figure in the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and has authored several influential books including the AMS textbook Partial Differential Equations, now in its third printing.
|03 / 09 / 2007
|George Andrews to deliver Pitcher Lectures.
|Evan Pugh Professor and former Department Head George Andrews will deliver the Everett Pitcher Lectures on April 16-18, 2007 at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Everett Pitcher was the long-time Secretary of the American Mathematical Society.
|03 / 09 / 2007
|Eisentrager, Papikian, and Xiong join faculty.
|Drs. Kirsten Eisentraeger and Mihran Papikian have accepted offers to join our faculty in Fall 2007 as tenure-track Assistant Professors. In addition, Dr. Maosheng Xiong has accepted an offer to join our faculty in Fall 2007 as an S. Chowla Research Assistant Professor. Drs. Eisentraeger, Papikian, and Xiong will add to our department's already considerable strength in the area of Number Theory.
|03 / 09 / 2007
|Xiantao Li wins Sloan Fellowship.
|Assistant Professor Xiantao Li has been awarded a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. These fellowships are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young researchers in science and technology. Among recent Sloan Fellows in our department are Omri Sarig (2006) and Ae Ja Yee (2004).
|02 / 27 / 2007
|Hengguang Li wins best paper award.
|Graduate student Hengguang Li has been named one of three coequal winners of the Student Paper Competition for the 13th Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, March 19-23, 2007. The award includes travel expenses to attend the conference and present the paper.
|02 / 19 / 2007
|John Roe assumes new editorship.
|Professor and Department Head John Roe is one of the founding editors of a newly launched journal, the Journal of Topology, published by the London Mathematical Society. Professor Roe will speak at a conference March 19-21, 2007 in the UK marking the start of the new venture.
|02 / 18 / 2007
|Simpson wins Grove Award.
|Professor Stephen G. Simpson has been named winner of the Grove Award for Interdisciplinary Research Initiation, funded by the Cada and Susan Grove Mathematics Enhancement Endowment. Simpson's research project, entitled Randomness and Computational Complexity, involves collaboration with Professor Martin Fürer of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
|02 / 16 / 2007
|Conference in honor of Svetlana Katok.
|A conference and banquet celebrating the birthday of Professor Svetlana Katok will take place at the Department of Mathematics, Penn State (University Park) on May 5-6, 2007. The theme of the conference is Dynamics Ideas in Geometry, Topology and Number Theory. Congratulations, Svetlana!
|02 / 12 / 2007
|Brian Broking moves to Dean's office.
|Our Windows System Administrator, Brian Broking, will leave the Department of Mathematics at the end of February to take up a new position in the Dean's office. We thank Brian for all his hard work in our department, and we wish him every success.
|02 / 12 / 2007
|George Andrews named Polya Lecturer.
|The Mathematical Association of America has named Evan Pugh Professor George Andrews as Polya Lecturer for 2007-08 and 2008-09. The MAA established the Polya program in 1990 in order to bring lectures by outstanding expositors to MAA regional conferences.
|01 / 31 / 2007
|Chemerda Lectures.
|This year the Chemerda Lectures will be given by Professor Robert V. Kohn of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The lectures will take place Febrary 5-8, 2007.
|01 / 24 / 2007
|Chris George wins university-wide teaching award.
|Our student Chris George has won this year's university-wide Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award. The list of past recipients shows that we have a very solid tradition of winners in Math!
|01 / 24 / 2007
|Tabachnikov invited to speak at conference.
|Professor Sergei Tabachnikov been invited to give a 1 hour plenary talk at the conference "Different approaches to complexity in mathematics and mathematical physics", Haifa, June 2007.
|01 / 18 / 2007
|Ryan Daut wins poker tournament.
|Recently our first-year graduate student Ryan Daut walked away $1.5 million richer when he won the PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure tournament.
|01 / 15 / 2007
|Carl Mummert gets 3-year postdoc at Michigan.
|Recently Dr. Carl Mummert took up a 3-year postdoctoral position in Mathematics at the University of Michigan. His 2005 Penn State PhD thesis was supervised by Professor Steve Simpson.
|01 / 15 / 2007
|Faculty ranks high in scholarly productivity.
|According to a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education, among all US math departments, ours ranks 10th in faculty scholarly productivity.
|01 / 10 / 2007
|Sergei Tabachnikov to speak at conferences.
|Professor Sergei Tabachnikov will be a principal lecturer at the Summer School on Billiards at the Institute of Mathematics, University of Cologne, in July 2007, and at the Summer Program "Novos Talentos em Matematica" in Portugal (funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation) in September of 2007. He will also give a one hour address at the AMS Southeast Sectional Meeting in the fall of 2007.
|01 / 04 / 2007
|Sergei Tabachnikov to participate in research programs.
|In summer of 2007, Professor Tabachnikov will participate at Research in Pairs program at Mathematics Institute at Oberwolfach (with D. Fuchs). This will be his 6th time to participate in RiP program. In addition, Professor Tabachnikov will spend 3 months at Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik in Bonn in summer of 2008.
|01 / 04 / 2007
|Sergei Tabachnikov publishes two books.
|In 2005 Professor Tabachnikov published two books: Projective differential geometry, old and new: from Schwarzian derivative to cohomology of diffeomorphism groups, with V. Ovsienko, Cambridge Univ. Press, and Geometry and billiards, Amer. Math. Soc. (This book is based on a MASS and REU courses taught by Professor Tabachnikov in 2005.)
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Less than 24 hours after the PM pledged "money is no object", Downing St sources say there will be no new money for flood relief.
07:51, UK, Thursday 13 February 2014
There will be no new money to pay for flood relief, Downing Street sources have told Sky News.
Less than 24 hours after the Prime Minister pledged "money is no object" in the effort to helping flooded communities recover, the Number 10 source confirmed his comments did not mean extra money would be found.
Instead, Whitehall departments would be expected to find the money to deal with the aftermath of the crisis from their existing budgets.
However, at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron continued to insist that "money is no object" and said: "I want communities who are suffering and people who see water lapping at their doors to know that when it comes to the military, when it comes to sandbags, when it comes to restoring broken flood defences, all of those things, money is no object."
At a Number 10 briefing on Wednesday afternoon the PM's spokesman said grants of up to £5,000 would be available to anyone affected by flooding "during the winter period". The Government estimates that 5,500 properties have been affected since early December and 920 since the end of January. So the whole package could reach £37.5m.
For firms hit by floods, business rates will be waived for three months.
Farmers will be able to apply to the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs for cash from a £10m fund for clearing up flood debris left behind.
The spokesman said that RBS, Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC, Santander and Nationwide are making interest free loans available from a £750m fund.
There will also be £31m for a rail resilience programme, although he admitted this money has been announced before.
It was not explained where the money would come from although a Downing Street source earlier suggested it would be from under-spending in existing budgets across the departments. If it is new money then it is unclear how that will be raised.
On Wednesday morning, the Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, said there would be no "blank cheque" when it came to using public funds to deal with the crisis.
The events will trigger concern that there continues to be confusion at the heart of Government over how to deal with the ongoing crisis after wrangling over who is to blame for the problems.
Speaking on Wednesday morning, Mr McLoughlin said: "I don't think it's a blank cheque.
"I think what the Prime Minister was making very clear is that we are going to use every resource of the Government and money is not the issue while we are in this relief job, in the first instance of trying to bring relief to those communities that are affected."
He told ITV Daybreak: "Then we have got to do the repairs of the structures and the railway infrastructure that's been damaged and then the other long-term issues, which will need some careful consideration."
Mr Cameron, who headed a Cobra meeting this morning, on Tuesday appeared to be taking control of the situation after facing significant criticism for being slow to react to the flooding crisis.
He gave his first press conference in 238 days and announced he was cancelling a trip to the Middle East to deal with the situation at home.
"Nothing is more important than dealing with these floods. Money is no object in this relief effort," he said.
"Whatever money is needed for it, it will be spent. We will take whatever steps are necessary.
"There is absolutely no sign of this threat abating, and with further rain and strong winds forecast throughout the week, things may get worse before they get better."
However, his comments were met with significant confusion over where the money would come from, as the Treasury rigorously pursues its austerity agenda.
Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, previously raised the prospect of taking the money from international aid projects.
He told Sky News: "When you get an emergency in this country, it's time to say charity begins at home.
"What are we doing giving £300m a year to India? They've got a space programme, aircraft carriers and they've even got planes on them. So there's a very strong argument that says spend the money here."
His suggestion was swiftly quashed by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles who said it was wrong to "pit helping flood victims at home against those suffering abroad".
"We can and should help both," he said.
However, Mr Farage's suggestion sparked a significant response and a petition has been started calling on the Government to divert the aid spending.
Some 1,600 Army personnel are now on standby to help communities along the River Thames struggling to keep the water from their doors as the weather is to take a turn for the worse with strong winds and heavy rains.
Politicians were out in force visiting flood-hit communities on Tuesday but faced hostility from members of the public who were sceptical of their motives.
In Wraysbury, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond was confronted flood warden Su Burrows, who demanded action. Within hours the Army was on the ground.
Ed Miliband, who was in Reading and Wraysbury, faced criticism after offering sympathy and was told he needed to offer solutions.
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