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FirstGroup is considering legal action against the Department for Transport after its winning bid to run the West Coast Main Line was abruptly cancelled, plunging the entire rail industry into chaos. Analysts say FirstGroup is facing £40m in lost cash flow this year and £50m of operating profits next year. The firm's shares have lost a fifth of their value, falling 50.6 to 193.4p. Karl Burns, at Shore Capital, told The Daily Telegraph that FirstGroup's balance sheet is threatened. "I don't think the dividend looks sustainable," he said.


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The Charlotte Bobcats and Dallas Mavericks will play a preseason game at the Greensboro Coliseum this fall.
The game will take place Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.
The Bobcats, now led by Kemba Walker, last played in Greensboro in 2009. This will be the third preseason game the team has played in town.
The Mavericks won the NBA Championship in 2011 and have three former Tar Heels on their roster.

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Guest of honor, the wonderful Martin O'Grady who founded the Woodlawn House of Music and Arts, was presented with his award. O'Grady noted that if he were to win the lottery, he would dedicate the earnings to opening more locations. He says he is still a "dreamer," and he is certainly a huge inspiration to the entire Irish community in New York and will have a lasting influence for many generations to come.
It was finally time to announce winner of the title of the 2012 New York Rose. All the girls lined up on stage and, unprompted, held hands as we waited anxiously for the winner to be revealed. Sean Ruane teased it out for a few moments, but he finally revealed it was Anne- Marie Lynch, cueing hugs and congratulations from us girls.
Anne-Marie, born in New York, was raised in County Cavan in Ireland. She wowed the audience with her beautiful rendition of 'Caledonia' to which she sang and played the guitar.
While there could only be one winner for the New York Rose, the common motto goes that 'Once a rose, always a rose.' The fourteen other girls and I who competed undoubtedly formed a bond and were already chattering about when and where our next reunion will be.
Of course, there are many thank yous to be had for the whole experience. Michelle Carroll fearlessly stepped up and is now affectionately known as 'Mama Rose' for organizing several events in the months prior to selection day that not only raised publicity about the New York Rose competition, but helped foster new friendships. Unateresa Gormley organized the New York Rose center and its selection with help from Ursula McIntyre at Empire Casino in Yonkers. 2012 roses Erin Loughran (New York), Orlaith Carroll (Limerick) and Caitlin McNeill (Big Apple) all also dedicated their time and efforts to creating a great event and making us contestants feel welcome. Surely, countless others were a part of the big day, all of whom deserve many thanks as well.
Undoubtedly, some naysayers have said that the Rose of Tralee competition as a whole is outdated and even antiquated. While I'm personally not much of a fan of pageants myself, the Rose of Tralee competition is in a league of its own. As a competition, if you can even call it that, it looks for the brightest young women who are aiming to make an impact within their communities. With that and its ever welcome tourism boost in Ireland, I hope to see the Rose of Tralee contest around for many more years to come.


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…a Rosemary Chicken Spa Lean Cuisine. I keep some healthy frozen meals on hand for rushed days like today, and I really like the spa versions as they use whole grains for those meals. I also like to add something to the lean cuisine meals though, to give them a little more staying power, so today I had a 100% whole wheat pita and some spicy hummus on the side. This lunch had approximately 430 calories, 58g carb, 12g fat, and 24g protein.
This afternoon I started to get hungry well before dinner, so I grabbed a fourth of a cup of Emerald's Sweet and Salty Chocolate and Peanut Butter nut blend for an easy snack. It's a great way to satisfy the craving for something sweet and for something salty all for 150 calories.
For dinner tonight, I tried a new recipe for a chicken sausage and fennel pizza, which I made on a whole wheat thin crust. It was a great combination of flavors and a unique twist to my usual pizza toppings.
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CSDL Home IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence 2011 vol.33 Issue No.12 - December
Issue No.12 - December (2011 vol.33)
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Kaiming He , The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jian Sun , Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing
Xiaoou Tang , The Chinese University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong
In this paper, we propose a simple but effective image prior—dark channel prior to remove haze from a single input image. The dark channel prior is a kind of statistics of outdoor haze-free images. It is based on a key observation—most local patches in outdoor haze-free images contain some pixels whose intensity is very low in at least one color channel. Using this prior with the haze imaging model, we can directly estimate the thickness of the haze and recover a high-quality haze-free image. Results on a variety of hazy images demonstrate the power of the proposed prior. Moreover, a high-quality depth map can also be obtained as a byproduct of haze removal.
Dehaze, defog, image restoration, depth estimation.
Kaiming He, Jian Sun, Xiaoou Tang, "Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol.33, no. 12, pp. 2341-2353, December 2011, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2010.168


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Homeschooling is indeed legal all throughout America and even in other parts of the world. This is good for parents who prefer to be hands-on when it comes to the education of their children. Still, parents do not have free rein all throughout because there are state regulations surrounding homeschooling – and these can differ from one state to another. Thus, if you are considering homeschooling your child, it would be wise to educate yourself about these state regulations.
Homeschooling has long been treated as a legal alternative in all states in America. At present, 2/3 of this population of states has implemented specific laws and regulations when it comes to the authorization and regularization of homeschooling.
There are similar laws and regulations to some extent. However, there are certain differences that should be noted because these would have a great impact on how you would go about your particular homeschooling program for your child. Here are some of those regulations that you need to keep in mind.
No Notice
For this state regulation, this would indicate that the state does not require you, as parents, to contact the state for regular reports and updates of your child's homeschooling progress. This means that the state is somewhat lenient when it comes to monitoring the progress of homeschooled children. Each of these No Notice states still has its own set of specific regulations though. Texas, in particular and being a No Notice state, requires the homeschooling family to treat their homeschool as a private school. Your homeschool operations then would be carried out quite like the way a private school's operations would be carried out. More importantly, homeschooling in Texas would require parents to teach the following subjects: math, good citizenship, grammar, spelling, and reading.
Low Regulation
Homeschooling parents in low regulation states are required to notify the states of just of the status of their children's homeschooling education. That is all they need to notify about – the status. Each state will still have its own regulations, depending on the preferences of the states themselves.
To give an overview, California, being one of the low regulation states, actually offers four homeschooling options that are considered legal, namely using a private tutor, qualifying as a private school, enrolling in an independent study program that is offered by a public school, or enrolling in a satellite program that is offered by a private school.
Teacher certification is mandated only if parents opt to do the teaching on their own as private tutors. However, if you decide to hire a private tutor instead, then you do not really need to conform to a specified number of hours or days in attendance. Case in point, the homeschooled child is only required to log 175 days for each school year, with roughly 3 hours' worth of instruction and school activities for each day.
If you choose to declare your homeschooling program as your very own private school, then you need to send official notice to your state still. Case in point, you need to file yearly affidavits and present these to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. However, if you choose to enroll in an independent study program offered by your local public school, then there is no need to present official notice anymore because your enrolment itself would already be your notice.
Moderate Regulation
In moderate regulation states, homeschooling parents must notify the states of their children's progress, providing test scores and even professional evaluation. Similarly, moderation regular states will still have specific regulations. To give an overview of these regulations, here are the legal options offered to homeschooling parents in Florida, namely establishing and operating a homeschool and qualifying and operating as a part or subsidiary of a private school corporation.
By definition, a private school corporation is comprised of an incorporated group of homeschooling families based within a particular state. Homeschooling parents are required to fine a notice of intent to the local superintendent. This, however, is not required yearly and there are no attendance requirements for the homeschooled children. All that you need for attendance is a total of 180 school days per year and it is up to you how you spread these days out, as well as the number of hours you dedicate to homeschooling for each day.
No subject requirements or teaching qualifications are mandated; just the maintenance of a portfolio of school records and teaching materials. This portfolio should also be matched with just one of the following options:
– A certified teacher should administer a standardized test
– A certified teacher evaluates the student in terms of progress "
– A licensed psychologist evaluates the student in terms of IQ and EQ"
– The student is evaluated by the state itself using other means approved beforehand
High Regulation
In high regulation states, homeschooling parents are mandated to send notifications, including achievement test scores, professional evaluation, teacher qualification, state approved curriculum, and the like. As needed, home visits might be conducted to assess the academic environment at home for evaluation. There are still specific regulations per state but in New York, which is one of the prominent high regulation states, only one legal homeschooling option is offered. This is the establishment and the operation of a home school.
As parents, you then need to file annual notices of your intentions with your local school superintendent. Apart from that, you also need to submit your IHIP or Individualized Home Instruction Plan. As for attendance, a log of 180 school days must be established; or, this figure could be spread out over 900 school hours for grade 1 through grade 6. But for grades 7 and onwards, a total of 990 school hours is required.
Homeschooling parents do not really need to provide teacher certification here. However, attendance records should be maintained and annual assessment tests and quarterly reports should be filed with the local superintendent. More importantly, the student must reach a percentile rank of at least 33, to maintain the operations of the homeschool program. Otherwise, the program itself may be placed under probation.


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STRONG AND STEADY ASCENT: Dave Black's expertise with off-camera lighting has served him well throughout his career. Above, he used light painting to illuminate world renowned ice climber Chris Alstrin's ascent of an Ouray, Colorado ice wall at night. For detailed lighting tips, visit Black's Web site.
When Bob Krist, Nancy Brown and Dave Black began their careers, the path for a photographer was fairly straightforward. Sit-down portfolio reviews with editors of the most renowned publications were a reality. And photography was a medium requiring a conscious development of the practice, not yet a mode for the level of instant gratification digital technology has imparted.
Entering a Brave New World
If the 20th century marked an era for recording the decisive moment, then the 21st century must be a whole lot more interesting. With an eye to the future, our hands on the hottest new gear, and our brains programmed for social networking, we are no longer discriminate about captured moments. Today, Facebook boasts more than 250 million photo uploads, and Flickr, more than one million—daily—making the case that more people than ever consider themselves a photographer to some degree of the word.A lot has changed since many university photo programs were designed, and much of the academic sphere is striving to catch the swiftly progressing current of industry development. Yesterday's imagery du jour may have been über-Photoshopped and hyper-realistic HDR; today it's light-leaks and digitally produced vintage film grain; tomorrow we could discover vivid new realms with plenoptic lenses or be back relearning the analog techniques that landed us here in the first place—or both. But who has time to perfect the style of the day when one's life is consumed with Web site updates, blogging, tweeting, posting and enhancing one's online identity? Let's face it, to be competitive as a photographer today, you must not only have stellar camera skills but also be versed as a videographer, designer, journalist and savvy business person.
Our featured photographers are photo business legends from whom we can glean some knowledge: Each emerged from a different avocation to build a solid career with a distinct focus; each survived the transition from film to digital; and each reaps the benefit of a rewarding career today. Although trends and technologies will always keep us on our toes, these industry veterans divulge a few core principles that are here to stay and in turn offer hope for the emerging brand of multidisciplinary imagemakers.
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INTREPID TRAVELER: For a Travel & Leisure magazine story about the Palace on Wheels, a luxury train in Rajasthan, India, Krist joined a camel safari in the Thar Desert.
Follow Your Passion and Trust Your Instincts
Bob Krist had an acting career in mind when he took a leave from his English and theater studies at Springfield College in Massachusetts to travel with a theater company in Europe, purchasing a camera to record his adventures. A fellow actor who moonlighted as a photographer took Krist under his wing. After graduate school, Krist supported his acting career by taking headshots, earning more money shooting than acting. He got his first full-time job at a now defunct New Jersey newspaper, The Hudson Dispatch. "I went to the interview in a suit and tie and was given a three-week tryout," he says. "I had the best luck ever, stumbling on more spot news than I could imagine. I got hooked on journalism—I thought it was good research for acting."
Nancy Brown modeled in front of a camera for 20 years before she decided to take her interest in photography seriously. Although she often photographed her family and friends, she had never taken professional photo courses. After she enrolled in classes taught by successful art directors at the New School and the School of Visual Arts, one of her instructors realized Brown's talent and helped land her first gig shooting for Woman's Day magazine. Before long, Glamour magazine also picked her up, and Brown's commercial career took off. It was these first jobs that supplied her with the confidence to shoot, she explains.Dave Black was a gymnast throughout his adolescence and collegiate years. He studied commercial graphic design and drawing at Southern Illinois University, where he also took a black-and-white photography class to fulfill his degree. Similar to Brown's story, his instructor recognized Black's potential and assigned him additional photography projects. "This allowed me to continue to be interested in something that I hadn't planned on doing," he says. After college, Black took a job coaching a gymnastics program in Colorado, always with a camera in hand. "I would bring prints to competitions and show people. It was fun, and people liked seeing pictures of their athletes," he says. Black's acquired knowledge through direct experience as a gymnast allowed him to excel at photographing the sport, and before long, the U.S. Gymnastics Federation approached him with a job offer to be team photographer.
Find Your Niche, and Keep Your Footing
Today, setting yourself apart from others takes perseverance and a strong recognition of talent. For Brown, Krist and Black, it was taking risks and developing their strengths that allowed them to corner their respective markets.
After five years shooting for a local newspaper, Krist had become adept as a photojournalist. Armed with a portfolio, ten story ideas and accolades in the field, he secured a meeting with Bob Gilka, then National Geographic's director of photography. "Gilka tore my portfolio apart, but he liked my proposal for a story on New Jersey." It was Krist's ability to present a well-written story proposal that made Gilka notice him, paving the path for future assignments.
Dave Black's big break came when he photographed the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Women were making their big debut, and he photographed the major accomplishments of these female athletes. "If Mary Lou Retton hadn't won the gold, I'm not sure if my career would have accelerated so quickly. Doors just opened up," he says. These groundbreaking images of female athletes put him on the map as a reputable sports photographer and served as his launching pad for coveted sports assignments with major industry publications including Sports Illustrated, Newsweek and Time.
Adapt to Change and Diversify for ResilienceBlack says it was his ability to specialize that set him apart. "I was concentrating on one thing," he explains. "If you bounce all over the place, you just become average at several things. People like to recite the Benjamin Franklin quote as saying a 'Jack of all trades, master of none,' but it's actually 'Jack of all trades, master of one.'" He says photographers should focus foremost on shooting but have an understanding of several other disciplines. Black became an expert at lighting, first lighting action sports on location when others were not, then focusing on long-exposure light painting. In contrast to his high-profile assignments covering 12 Olympic Games, Black's most treasured career highlight is a commission for the National Geographic compilation book Where Valor Rests, which allowed him access to light-paint in Arlington National Cemetery.
Krist's penchant for writing proved beneficial to his success as a travel photographer. "In 1987, my photographs were on the covers of Islands, National Geographic and Travel and Leisure, but I couldn't get the attention of companies like Nikon or the Maine Photography workshop. Travel and Leisure threw me an assignment to write about photography—it wasn't until I started writing that these companies began paying attention to my photography." Later in his career, when travel photography began to lose its luster, Krist decided to tell visual stories with video. "I had to be able to do something that the guy on the photo tour couldn't reproduce," he explains. After going fully digital in 2003, he began shooting videos of communities in his hometown and on his travels. "I caught the right part of the wave. It's all about being in the right place at the right time," he says, "and being willing to chase stories. Finding the water in the desert is the skill."
Brown relocated from New York City to Florida around the same time digital was beginning to dwarf film. "It was a huge change," she says. "I had to hire someone to teach me how to use the computer." She says her success came with recognizing the evolving business and adapting without changing her photographic style. "I like the digital world now that I'm in it. I feel lucky my timing has been right so far. But you have to be willing to invest in what you're doing, and you have to be able to market yourself. You bury yourself if you get discouraged," she explains. Alongside her studio work, Brown teaches workshops, has worked on many how-to books and always keeps up her abundant stock image portfolio. In 2005, she fell in love with Chinese culture, during a trip with the American Society of Media Photographers; she has made six trips to China to date and in 2011 published the book Simply China, with sponsorship from Nikon.Making it in Today's Market
Brown and Black agree that many university programs lack photo classes that teach the medium's fundamental principles. Both point to lighting as one of these invaluable skills. "Being able to control light opens up a creative world that is so much broader," Black explains. "If you learn how to control light, you will be so much ahead coming out." He believes that assisting photographers while in school is one of the best ways to learn the trade.
Brown strongly advises budding photographers to learn video. "If you want to be a photographer, go for it. But it's the other skills that will help you survive. You have to know more than how to make images. Motion will make your stills better. You must shoot a lot to hone your skill and get rid of what you don't like," she explains.Krist is also a strong proponent of video, pointing out that, as his still photography assignments have slowed down, his stories with moving content have become increasingly valuable. "You must self-assign stories," he says. "Don't specialize—you need more than one discipline going for you. You have to generate your own projects and nurture your own portfolio. If you're doing something intelligent and passionate, there will always be a market for it. There is no clear-cut path, and I'm not sure what the new paradigm will be. You have to be willing to adapt or die." Krist is excited by this new Golden Age of photography but believes a new model for making a living in the field must be developed, since the market is oversaturated with imagemakers.
Black's advice is equally charged. "Keep branching out with your specialty. Those who can shoot great images to capture the action and use off-camera lighting at the same time become double threats," he explains. "The bar is really high. You have to get really great at something. As we say in sports, 'you gotta knock someone out to be the undisputed champion.'"
Photo © Nancy BrownSYMBOLIC SIGN LANGUAGE: A group of young Tibetan monks give the A-ok in West Sichuan Province.
Brown, Krist and Black each count on Nikon gear for image making excellence. Here's the full list of the cameras, lenses and lighting they each carry.
CAMERAS: Nikon D7000, Nikon D5100
LENSES: AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 12-24mm f/4G IF-ED
AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED
AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G
LIGHTING: Nikon SB-800 Speedlights
CAMERAS: Nikon D4 for sports and Nikon D800 for portraits and Light paintings
LENSES: AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II
AF-S NIKKOR 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
AF-S NIKKOR 200-400mm f/4G ED VR II
AF-S NIKKOR 400mm f/2.8G ED VR
AF-S Teleconverter TC-14E II and AF-S Teleconverter TC-17E II
PC-E Micro NIKKOR 45mm f/2.8D ED
LIGHTING: Nikon SB-900 Speedlights
Nikon SU-800 Commander
Elinchrom Ranger RX 1100 ws AS
Elinchrom 600 RX
Elinchrom 1000R Sport
COMPUTERS: Office: Custom built PC by 2 Doors Design, Travel Laptop: HP Pavillion dm1z
SOFTWARE: Latest versions of Windows, ACDSee Photo Manager 12, Nikon Capture NX and PhotoShop.
BAGS: Lightware
ADDITIONAL GEAR: RadioPopper PX wireless system to trigger Remote Speedlights, Pocket Wizard Multi MAX to trigger Remote cameras, Pocket Wizard FLEX with HyperSync to trigger Elinchrom Strobes. FourSquare by Lightware Direct softbox and mount to hold multiple Speedlights.
CAMERAS: Nikon D90, Nikon D200 and Nikon D700.
LENSES: AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED
AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
LIGHTING: Nikon SB-800 Speedlights, Dynalite strobes
COMPUTERS: Two Mac desktops and a laptop for travel
SOFTWARE: Camera Raw, Photoshop and Lightroom
BAGS: Pelican
ADDITIONAL GEAR: SanDisk cards, ThinkTank card holders and two backup hard drives on location. Light tripod, which is rarely used.


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Addabbo Skirts a Challenge
August 5th, 2008
Joseph Addabbo Jr., the Democratic institution�s choice to defeat state Sen. Serphin Maltese and wrest the Senate majority from the Republicans, has sidestepped a blow from rival Democrat Albert Baldeo that threatened to nullify his candidacy with the Working Families Party.
Baldeo teamed up with an insurgent WFP employee to bring a lawsuit to the state Supreme Court yesterday accusing Addabbo of collecting invalid signatures. But Judge Lawrence Cullen threw out the charges late yesterday afternoon, and the Addabbo campaign can breathe a quick sigh of relief in what has been a heated campaign.
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Lewis Holtby is bad buy
Holtby is a superb player, he didn't play well yesterday, but he has only been in the league for 3 months and is yet to recieve a first team run, so you'd be advised to reserve judgement.
Holtby will be amongst our best 5 players next season, you mark my words!
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The first few games I saw him play for Spurs I thought he showed promise. He had some very nice touches and passes. The last few games he has seemed a bit lost, but I also believe he will prove to be a good buy in time. COYS
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Ditto. When (if) we settle on the strikers, I'd like to see him play the 10 role behind
If I had to guess right now...I would say he is worth sticking with. He works hard for the team (which you can't say about everybody....Ade!), he has a good left foot and he wants to attack. I am just not sure where his best position is? But so far, he has done enough to warrant more time to settle in. He has the potential to be a great player IMO.


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Nicole Hill holds up her past due water bill at her home in Detroit on June 25, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Paul Sancya
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WINDSOR, Ont. - Activists in Windsor, Ont., plan to lug 1,000 litres of water across the river to Detroit today to help residents who have had their water cut off.
The protest by the Windsor chapter of the Council of Canadians comes after Detroit's utility shut off water to thousands of residents.
Those suspensions were paused on Monday for 15 days.
The utility says it is trying to educate customers on how to make payment plans, and that it is owed nearly $90 million on past due accounts.
The Canadian group says it will also call on U.S. President Barack Obama to declare a state of emergency, saying water is a human right.
A convoy of people will carry 50 jugs of water to Detroit and then hold a rally.
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Several years ago, when Dave and I still lived in a Oak (No) Park (ing), I was making a trek back from St. Charles, when Dave called my cell phone. When I answered, he asked if I needed anything from the local CVS–mecca well before there was my delightful Target within spitting distance–as he was there picking up Twizzlers.
"Yeah," I told him. "I need some Slim-Fast. The strawberry shit, not the chocolate stuff. It's delicious AND refreshing."
"If you say so," my husband said. "I think it tastes like donkey ass. But whatever, where is it?"
"It's over by the dietary stuff, against the south wall," I informed him. "I thought YOU were all directionally superior to me!"
"Dude, not here. The layout to this place makes zero sense," he snipped, annoyed that I was mocking his directional sense for the eighty five hundredth time that month, after he'd gotten lost in Wisconsin, WHERE HE CAME FROM.
"Okay, so do you want the 200 calorie or the 300 calorie stuff?" He asked me, standing in front of the dietary aids.
"Wha…?" I asked him while lighting a cigarette. "SlimFast comes in one variety and it's all about 200 calories."
"Well, all they have here is generic in your high falutin' STRAWBERRY flavor," he replied. "Do you still want it?"
Knowing that drinking the generic stuff was far better than being tempted by the bacon and eggs he and Ben would be having for breakfast the following morning, I reluctantly agreed to have him grab the 200 calorie stuff.
About a half an hour later, I pulled into our shared garage, about 4,000 years away from our actual building and about 20 minutes after that, I was finally up the twenty billion stairs, and standing in our teeny-tiny kitchen.
Where I noticed, sitting jauntily on the counter, was a case of Ensure. Generic, Strawberry flavored, ENSURE. Which, were I a geriatric with digestive issues trying to pack on the pounds, would probably be a delicious and high calorie snacky-poo. But, since I was a 23 year old with digestive issues trying to REMOVE the pounds, I wasn't so thrilled.
"Dave…" I trilled into the house, "Honey?"
He walked into the kitchen to give me a hug hello.
"Baby…" I asked him hesitantly, wondering if he were punishing me for singing Rod Stewart at the top of my lungs when he was in a bad mood the previous night. "Baby, are you mad at me?"
"No," he replied, genuinely confused, "why?"
"Because you bought ENSURE. Not SlimFast. Are you trying to fatten me up? Or are you just trying to give my guts a low-residue treat?"
"WHAT?" He asked, now looking more closely at the box of cans. "I totally thought this was SlimFast!"
"No baby, that isn't even close to SlimFast. This shit is for people who have no colon left. And maybe in 30 years, I'll need it myself, but for now? Not so much."
That same box of ENSURE sat on my kitchen counter, then moved into my fridge, until months later, we sold our condo. We'd forgotten to return it, because it was far more a pain in the ass than it was worth, and neither of us knew a soul that might have a use for it.
Today, however, the box long gone, and my Maybe Crohn's flaring up mightily, I'm thinking that perhaps suddenly I really COULD use it. Which is perhaps the LAST situation I ever thought that I might be in. Especially a mere 5 years later.
Goes to show you never can fucking tell.
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Yeah, but totally expired. Just saying.
Crohn's flare: icky! I feel for you!
Thank god I haven't needed to go on that 'gorgeous' ensure stuff yet…
You're patient keeping a box of ensure for that long…I would have given it to charity ;-)!
Very funny story but! 🙂
Hahahahahahahaaaa! How funny-he paid a whole helluva lot more for that 'generic' ensure than he would have for real slimfast! I got a couple of cans of ensure for my 40th birthday from a funny (not) friend, and the KIDS sucked that shit up like milkshakes…they couldn't get enough of it!
..and this is where you thank him for being on the ball those 5 years earlier– he must have known!!
oh yeah– and I am totally awaiting your arrival!!
OMG! I can't stop laughing over this…
I am forever keeping crap because I might need it later, and this here is proof that it's true, I might need it later.
When I was 15, and had my wisdom teeth out on Thanksgiving wknd (evil bastards – I didn't "have to miss so much school" that way OR eat t-giving. WTF) and they tried to feed me my great-grandma's ensure. I preferred pureed campbell's vegetable soup. It was THAT nasty.
That having been said, I'm so sorry you're in a position to perhaps wish that case back!! 🙁
It doesn't expire?
That is SUCH a male thing to do. I literally have to send mine picture text messages so he can buy the right thing OR I have him send me one of what he is getting. LOL Yes, Yes it is that bad.
My husband would sooooo do that. Except maybe he'd bring back vanilla Ensure, because he's all contrarian like that. And then he'd probably drink a can to make a point.
But I digress. Can someone just make you a homemade shake including things delicious and calming? Is that possible?
Having just bought AN ELBOW BRACE, I can relate in a sort of way. Who would ever think I would need such a device? Not me.
Next will probably be the Ensure.
But while I'm here, let me ask- what would the difference be between 200 calories of Ensure and 200 calories of Slimfast?
Mmm… Nothing beats a chilled low-residue treat.
Isn't it just freaking amazing that what we considered "old people mess" in the not so distant past would come around to bite us in the butt? I have become an Excedrin Back and Body addict ….because I'm knocking on 40 and my body hates me. You can totally look on the bright side….there's always coupons for ensure in the Sunday paper. :))
My niece got really sick when she was about 3 years old and she kept losing weight. Ensure is what they gave her to get her weight back up, haha.
I'm sorry you feel bad. That was a cute story, though.
Mine would do it too. Mine likes to get the stuff HE wants me to have instead of what I request. Not that I request stuff from him much, cause I don't and I know now, why. The thing that caught me first in your story was that he even called to see if you needed anything! Who does that? Please tell me, he no longer does it, so I kind of feel better. Please.
I read that last sentence too quickly. I swore it said "Go to fucking hell."
I just have to say this – I totally agree with the Daver about CVS. Everytime I walk into that place, I'm like, WTF were they thinking when they designed this store? The aisles are all weird and shit and I can never find anything anywhere that makes any sense.
My husband loves CVS. I think they suck!
oh, gosh, this made me laugh.
Oh, poor baby contemplating a liquid diet while you're pregnant!
hommie, i say drink whatever you can keep down and that will give you some energy. it totally sucks ass that you are going through this. when is the babe making her arrival???
i know it must be soon because you have to be farther along than i am.
All that stuff is nasty. I did something like that when the doc wanted me to lose 30lbs before he'd do my gastric bypass (like 250lb lost already wasn't enough to give him room to root around in there). I drank nothing but SILK soy milk for a month. It worked though!
I could totally imagine my husband doing the same thing! That's so funny. I'm surprised he didn't argue with you though, that since it's still the same amount of calories, it was basically the same thing. Come to think of it… what IS the difference? I'm now curious and want to research the nutritional info on them both…
That flare still hasn't gone away, huh? That sucks. Get whatever you need to calm it down – calories be damned!
Generic Vanilla Ensure tastes like chalk. Real Vanilla Ensure is okay. Chocolate is pretty good. Butter pecan? I have to keep myself from drinking it for a dessert when I'm perfectly healthy. It sure went down easy when I had some nausea last summer. The real stuff is worth the extra 25 cents a can :/
I also drank Ensure in my 30s, during times I was too depressed/lazy to feed myself.
Probably if you pour in a little guar gum or whatever to make it feel more filling, it would be pretty much the same as Slim Fast.
hmmmm I always wondered who actually drank Slimfast…or Ensure for that matter. and you are a nurse? lol just saying
Hi Aunt Becky,
I've been away too long…I love your new theme.
Oh bless your heart. Pregnant and digestive issues flaring up must = a very unhappy Aunt Becky. I can only imagine how much it must suck.
Hope you get to feeling better.
Slim-fast is nasty. I'd rather lick a chalk board clean. So far I have no experience with Ensure, but like you said, you can never tell.
i'm laughing. should i be laughing? because i'm laughing.
but not AT you.


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Rigging Upgrade for Outdoor Theatre
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MLB Standings Get More Sophisticated
As of today, the National League East-leading Philadelphia Phillies are 61-50, 7-3 in their last 10 games — and have a 65% chance of making the playoffs. The first two figures are familiar to any baseball fan. The last one — forward-looking, uncertain, unverifiable and instant grist for debate — is a relatively new beast.
For the past month, ESPN.com's Major League Baseball standings have included postseason probabilities, broken down by chance of winning the division and winning a wild card. It's a brave step forward for standings, longtime fixtures of newspaper agate and more-recent staples of online sports sites. And ESPN isn't yet sure playoff probabilities, as supplied by an online standings provider called Coolstandings, are here for the long term. "We're working with Coolstandings to see whether this is something that resonates with our readers," spokesman Paul Melvin told me. So far, there are no plans to add the playoff probabilities to standings for the NFL and NBA when those leagues return to action.
The playoff probabilities make use of teams' so-called Pythagorean records, which I wrote about last year. These records, which project how well a team should have done based on the number of runs it scored and allowed, have been shown to better predict performance in the future. After each day of games, Coolstandings runs a computer simulation of the rest of the season one million times, using Pythagorean records and other factors including home-field advantage, strength of opponents and performance the prior season to calculate the probability of winning each remaining game. Coolstandings assigns more weight to recent games and regresses teams to the mean, based on historical data, to account for extreme results that arise by chance. For each of these virtual seasons, a playoff slate is assigned; a team's postseason probability is the percentage of these virtual seasons in which the team is still playing in October.
Baseball Prospectus also calculates teams' playoff odds using one million simulations and teams' run differential. But the results are different because of methodological differences — for one thing, Baseball Prospectus adjusts runs scored and runs allowed to account for fluky results and schedule strength. Coolstandings gives the Tampa Bay Rays a 72.4% shot at the playoffs, a probability that rises to 89.8% in Baseball Prospectus's reckoning. Other big discrepancies center around the Minnesota Twins (48.6% vs. 35.9%), the Milwaukee Brewers (45.2% vs. 62.3%) and the Los Angeles Dodgers (45.3% vs. 35.6%). A winning streak that propels a team from second place to first can shake up the probabilities quickly.
"We're happy with the accuracy we see now, but we would like to improve it," Greg Agami, founder of Coolstandings, told me.
The probabilities are estimates, hardly predictive. That's part of the fun. And things get tougher in playoff series, when teams tend to be evenly matched and one lucky at bat can turn a series around. Among 21 MLB playoff series over the last three seasons, Coolstandings correctly predicted the victor 12 times; choosing the team with the better regular-season record would have nailed the outcome 11 times. Among 99 series across MLB, the NBA and the NFL, Coolstandings was right 70 times; the team with the better record won 65 times.
More on baseball numbers: The San Francisco Chronicle's John Shea explains how the NL West could be the worst division in 40 years of divisional play. And the Cornell researchers whose study of Joe Dimaggio's hitting streak I wrote about in April have updated their findings and published them more fully.


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The Hammer of Ban
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:55 pm
Post subject: Anyone else pissed off with ACIII's glitches?
I've been playing ACIII since launch and have so far loved it but the past few times I played it I have noticed more and more glitches creeping in. Some aren't a big deal like mouths not moving with speech but others are pretty major:
1. The final liberation missions don't always trigger after the small missions are completed. Sometimes the icon vanishes and sometimes the character ignores you meaning recruitment of your contact isn't possible.
2. The lock picking animation is sometimes too high for the chest leading to the picks twisting thin air.
3. One of the traitors I was requested to follow caught on to me and triggered a fist fight. I couldn't fight back so I ran back to the mission start hoping to lose him and trigger the mission again. I started it over and the aggressive little fucker caught up with me AS A COPY OF HIM SPAWNED AND STARTED WALKING. I had to exit the Animus to sort it out.
4. The glitch that persuaded me to make this topic: Lock picking sometimes resets even if you were successful meaning you have to pick the lock again. I'm currently on my 7th attempt at picking the same goddamn lock and I've been successful each time only to have it reset.
5. Not really a glitch but the Homestead missions are only available for a finite time and once a particular (and undefined) main mission is complete you can never attempt that Homestead mission. One of my friends has missed out on at least two extra characters on the Homestead because of this ridiculous oversight.
It's a great game but these glitches and stupid design decisions almost ruin it for me and considering how long this game has had to be polished and perfected AND how many games the studio could refer to for guidance it's inexcusable.
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I honestly don't agree with the GR review grade because of them. Plenty other games get minuses because of these things, and Ass. Creed Tres should be no different.
I've only watched my brother play the game, but he's ran into some of those. My favorite was seeing a comrade of his do an aerial assassination on a poor, defenseless dog, instead of the guard right next to him.
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Yeah, you're right about people being crazy. That's why I keep my bow and arrows in my trunk. My batarang and slingshot in a middle compartment of my vehicle.
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Does it use DX12?!?
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:19 am
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Im angry Im still waiting for the pc version. I guess this means the pc version could have glitches fixed by then because of the consoles but meh.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 3:29 am
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I've since discovered how to get around the Liberation mission glitch: it's not a glitch per se, more a horrible design oversight. The viewpoints don't unveil the whole map even when they have all been found and synchronised so the small Liberation missions before you meet your contact don't all show up meaning the contact doesn't give you your final mission to liberate the area either. To find the missing missions you have to search the shrouded areas. Simple but time consuming.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 5:42 am
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maca2kx wrote:
I started it over and the aggressive little fucker caught up with me AS A COPY OF HIM SPAWNED AND STARTED WALKING.
Have you ever been so mad you split yourself in 2 just so 1 of you could kick someones ass while you go on about your day?
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Im angry Im still waiting for the pc version. I guess this means the pc version could have glitches fixed by then because of the consoles but meh.
No, no it won't. This is Ubisoft, remember? It'll have even more glitches.
Honestly, too many games these days are coming out glitchy as hell. I'm aware that games are big and complex in this HD era and that delaying the game costs a ton of money, but surely developers can use those weeks/months between sending the final version of the game for printing to the release date working on a day-1 patch, after having a bunch of testers with constant feedback in the months leading up to printing.
Hell, what about all those people who don't have good or reliable internet? There's still fairly large populations of Australia who are stuck with dial-up (unless you want to pay upward of $100/mnth), can you imagine a 30mb patch on a 56k?
Imagine how people with that sort of internet feel when they get something like New Vegas for the PS3?
It's gotten to the point where it's ridiculous. Apart from my 2 latest purchases (horizon and halo 4), i generally wait a month or 2 after a release for the price drop and a patch or 2 to come out these days, and that just seems like the best way to do it.
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Does it use DX12?!?
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:37 am
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Technically it did have a day 1 patch. Its just not the bugs your experiencing. Spoil alert to those who haven't played.
Bug Fix
- Animus Synching tutorial, fixed an issue where the player could think he's stuck in an infinite loading when getting to Boston after the end credits
- Fixed a bug where counter-killing with the bow does not always work
- NPCs spawned too far away could end up being of the wrong type
- Camera could remain stuck after the player being respawned
- Player could remain stuck after diving from a waterfall
- Player could remain stuck if he exits a slopped hay stack at a certain angle
- player would always get immediately detected when performing an unarmed stealth assassination in another guard's back
- Under rare circumstances, the crowd would stop spawning
- Fixed an animation glitch when interrupting the reception from high profile jump
- Fixed various occurrences of missing sounds
- In some cases, the Animus Database sound ambiance was not stopped when exiting
- Various stats and leaderboards were not showing up properly
- Online shop could sometimes appear empty if fetching the data from Xbox Live is taking too long
- Mission "RETURN TO ABSTERGO" - fixed a bug where the player would lose control over Desmond during a fight if he lures and kills some guards in the wrong area
- Mission "A DEADLY PERFORMANCE" - Mission would not continue if the player decides to climb the wall instead of using the ladder
- Mission "JOHNSON'S ERRAND" - fixed a bug where the game would remain stuck if the player runs during the black screen that occurs after exiting the tavern
- Mission "THE SURGEON" - Charles Lee could fall in the water and die while following the player, causing the mission to fail, if the player decides to take a certain path that involves jumping over the water
- Mission "THE SURGEON" - fixed a bug where we would show the desync effect if the player throws one of the target in the water, even though the mission is not really failed
- Mission "WELCOME TO BOSTON" - The courier side-quest next to the general store would not start properly
- Mission "EXECUTION IS EVERYTHING", fixed a bug where the mission would not continue if the NPCs you are eavesdropping react to a dead body
- Mission "THE BRADDOCK EXPEDITION" - Mission would not continue if the player kills all enemies in the camp, killing the required target last, without triggering open conflict
- Mission "FEATHERS AND TREES" - NPC's would not detect beams properly, preventing them from performing the trunk around move
- Mission "FEATHERS AND TREES" - Mission would not continue if the player doesn't follow the expected path
- Mission "HUNTING LESSONS" - Mission giver could not be there if the player goes away and comes back
- Mission "SOMETHING TO REMEMBER", fixed a bug where the screen could become all white or black for the remainder of the mission if the player set his brightness option to anything else than the default value
- Mission "ON JOHNSON'S TRAIL", fixed a bug that could cause the optional objective "Use powder kegs to destroy smuggled cargo" to not be saved properly if the player reloads during the mission
- Mission "THE TEA PARTY'' - Optional objective "Dump crates of tea in the water" could not be completed if the player threw all crates before having killed all guards
- Mission "THE MIDNIGHT RIDE" - Mission could not be completed if the player interacts with the delivery quest giver along the way
- Mission "BRIDEWELL PRISON", Player could remain stuck prison cells
- Mission "PUBLIC EXECUTION" - Crowd NPCs could be spawned in or walk through a cart during a cinematic
- Mission "SOMETHING ON THE SIDE" - Optional objective "Perform a successful static eavesdrop" could not be completed.
- Mission "MISSING SUPPLIES" - Optional objective "Do not hide in the hay cart while following the convoy" not being saved properly if the game is reloaded during second part of the mission
Crash Fix
- Possible crash that could happen if the player blends in a crowd group where some NPCs haven't spawned yet, and while blended performs a kill.
- Possible crash that could happen if the player triggered a loading while being in a covert escort formation with his brotherhood trainees
- Possble crash that could happen when calling a brotherhood trainee with the snipe ability
Naval Mission
- "OAK ISLAND" - Player could pass through the ground when diving into the cave
- "OAK ISLAND" - Wolves could stop attacking the player and remain stuck
- Possible crash if the player spams the swivel guns with the semi-automatic cheat enabled
- Mission "HAPPY EXPECTATIONS" - Game could remain stuck on a white screen when starting the mission
- On the Homestead, fixed a bug where the player could remain stuck if he performs a corner pose on the left side of Norris' cave's entrance
Side Quest
- Brawler Challenges 3 - Task "Own every weapon available in the stores" would not complete when the player expects it to.
- Fort Monmouth and Fort Division - Quest objectives would fail too early without the fort resetting properly
- New York delivery mission - Game asked for a different item (deer heart) than what was showed to the player (venison)
- New York Liberation Missions - Possible that the game would wrongly display that 2 of the districts were completely liberated when it's not the case yet
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I certainly didn't have the trouble you're going on about. If I had suffered that many bugs I probably wouldn't have scored it so highly. Are you on Xbox?
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Yeah, X360, Dan. I've spent the last few days playing the hell out of Halo but I picked AC back up today and haven't encountered any glitches but I've already done all the liberation missions (using the method I mentioned above), and I haven't picked any locks so it's probably just that I haven't been in a position to see a glitch.
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I know lead development was on PS3 so that could be a contributing factor (I'm on PS3). Still pretty shitty. Launch model 360 or slim? That might be another factor. My 360 has had hard times with bugs since the slim came out and no one else has really had similar problems.
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I'm on a glossy 250GB Slim so new style but not a brand new model number. The fact that production was on PS3 could definitely be a major factor though.
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danielrbischoff wrote:
I know lead development was on PS3 so that could be a contributing factor (I'm on PS3). Still pretty shitty. Launch model 360 or slim? That might be another factor. My 360 has had hard times with bugs since the slim came out and no one else has really had similar problems.
Theoretically the drop in die size shouldn't change performance that badly, but i have noticed my fat tends to run up to 5FPS slower than my friends slim at certain points. Easily noticeable in 30FPS games like Halo.
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Not to mention the shitty firearm controls...
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I hate using guns or the bow and arrow. It feels terrible.
Sorry to spoil but her... potential spoilers below:
There's a mission where Connor gets arrested and put in a prison. You get released from your cell to be bought in like, the courtyard with all the other prisoners. While I was following the guard leading me out of my cell, a nearby other guard pushed me, then followed me with a bloody yellow triangle above his head, which turned red, and triggered combat.
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What did you say about his mother, Craig? You know they're sensitive about that!
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Connor can be a bit of a wanker sometimes, saying offensive things about the guard's mothers...
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So far on the pc when i shoot someone the bodies stretch out and fly around. horse carriages disappear sometimes even allowing me to run through them. And last shadows casting double shadow and strobing(I think its a SLI issue.)
Maybe nvidia will release another set of drivers soon
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"I do like metaphorical heroin and my heroin dealer. EA"
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So far when on the PC i've noticed Ubisoft live up to their reputation.
My heavily overclocked HD6870 that let's me run BF3 maxxed with AA on @ 1080p.
1280x720, lowest possible settings, crippling lag issues.
Fucking excellent.
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So far the only issues I've run into have been a set of graphical issues particularly related to 200 series Nvidia cards. Shiny RGB hair under certain light in cut scenes. Very bizarre. Otherwise, not any real noticeable glitches. Maybe just a few things not showing up on the mini map.
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daylight savings time was introduced under a democratic congress. pretty clear that this is part of the liberal global warming farce, if we are extending daylight hours, of course temperatures will rise, THERES MORE DAYLIGHT!
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Yeah its not a issue I have but on my tech forums people are livid that no fix has been announced for it.
For a moment I thought I was having a acid flashback.
*unstretched -daniel
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|Should the Celtics draft Austin Rivers?
|03.23.12 at 2:55 pm ET
Austin Rivers, the talented son of Celtics coach Doc Rivers, will reportedly declare for the draft after just one season at Duke, per Jeff Goodman of CBSSports. Austin Rivers began the year as the one of the nation's top recruits but concerns over his lack of ideal scoring guard size — he's 6-foot-4 — and playing style — high usage rate, undersized shooting guard — sent him from the preseason lottery to the middle of the first round in most draft projections.
Rivers averaged 15.5 points, and shot 43 percent from the floor and 36 percent from 3-point range with 3.4 rebound and 2.1 assists. He also had more turnovers than assists, which indicates that he's probably more of a scoring guard than a point guard, but he's still just 19 years old and has the time to develop and figure it out.
Rivers is also undeniably talented. Even if you barely watched him play, you no doubt saw his fluid game-winner that beat North Carolina. Here's part of the scouting report from Draft Express, who has him ranked 18th at the moment:
"It was Rivers' athleticism and scoring instincts that made him the catalyst for the Blue Devils offense and defined his role as freshman. According to Synergy Sports Technology, Rivers's total number of pick and rolls and isolations used this season (356 over 34 games) ranks in the top-5 in the NCAA. Perhaps the only player on Duke's roster dynamic enough to consistently distort defenses with his dribble penetration and generate his own shot in a pinch, Rivers may not have been his team's primary ball-handler, but he was the creative force behind his team's offense all year long, for better or worse."
It's worth reading the whole report because he improved steadily in the second half of Duke's season and again, he's just 19 years old. (Prediction: Rivers will rise back to the late-lottery).
The Celtics have two first round draft picks in 2012: Their own, plus the one from the Clippers that was acquired from Oklahoma City in the Kendrick Perkins trade. The pick is top-10 protected, but the Clippers seems well on their way to the playoffs, even if they implode along the way.
Those picks are in the 17-18 range for the Celtics and 20-21 for the Clippers, which is exactly where Rivers is slotted to fall at the moment. Even if he was available, it would be surprising if Danny Ainge selected the coach's son.
First, there's the simple matter of a coach who is demanding on rookies — a notion the coach says is overplayed — who would also happen to be the rookie's father. Second, they already have a guard who needs the ball in his hands in Rajon Rondo, a legitimate All-Star point guard, who also happens to have a complicated relationship with the coach.
Coach Rivers has been cagey with his answers about the question. This is what he told Dennis & Callahan in January:
"I would love the opportunity, I guess. It would be uncomfortable. I just think that would be a strange thing to do. Having that said that, I wouldn't mind. He can score, and I think that would be great for us."
Doc Rivers has clearly enjoyed watching his son play, often rushing to ACC games during off-days in the Celtics' schedule. It would be a fascinating story, no doubt, and as coach Rivers said, an argument could be made either way. Still, the educated guess here is that the Celtics will avoid what could be a potentially awkward arrangement.
|Kevin Garnett and Celtics respond to Doc Rivers and his bitter 'beer face'
|03.10.12 at 10:49 am ET
Everyone associated with the Celtics – from players and coaches to support staff – was embarrassed by Wednesday's 32-point loss to the Sixers Wednesday night.
"That didn't sit well with anybody," Kevin Garnett said after Friday's 104-86 redemption at the hands of the Blazers. "Tough schedule. Philly, they kicked our ass, plain and simple. This was about getting on the right track, taking care of home, and more importantly, creating that momentum going on this long road trip."
That's why no one was particularly surprised to see Doc Rivers with a special edge Friday morning during the team's shootaround.
"Doc comes in, and you can tell how he's looking, like he's had no sleep and his hair standing on top of his head and he has the beer face," Garnett said. "What happened in Philly wasn't us but it happens and we accept it.
"[Friday] was a defensive mindset all the way through. A team we're going to see only once, it was important for us to start the game with a force. Paul kept saying in the huddle, before we went out [to start the game] that it was important that we get this game to start the road trip. I've always said for the momentum, you've got to get games like this. This is kind of like playing on the road because we are going to be away from home for a while so this game was very important."
As for this eight-game haul, a haul that began early Saturday morning with a cross-country flight, and will include a walk-through when the team lands in LA, Garnett said it's important not to be overwhelmed.
"One game at a time," he began. "When you look at it, it's actually kind of quite scary, just because of the lack of rest, the back-to-backs, the travel. But when you take it a game at a time… it's still what it is, actually.
"I was going to dress that up like it was something else. Nah, it's all messed up, it's all messed up. It is. I want to use another word but I won't. It's difficult but we're going to take it a game at a time. This is the longest I can remember."
Certainly the longest in his head coach's career as Rivers said he can never remember a trip like the one the Celtics are about to embark on.
'In my career, I've been in the league for 26 years," Rivers said, when asked if it's the longest one in several years. "It's a long road trip but I do think there's rest in it. The first two games are tough because of the long flight, you play and then you play the next day. But then after that, there's days off in between. I think the other one is the last, the Denver game before we go back East, that's a hard game. Whenever you play Denver on a back-to-back, that's a hard game because there's no oxygen.'
The Celtics hope they aren't grasping for too much air by the time they return home on March 25 to battle the Wizards.
|Doc Rivers on D&C: Relationship with Rajon Rondo is 'very good'
|03.08.12 at 11:23 am ET
Celtics coach Doc Rivers joined the Dennis & Callahan show Thursday morning to discuss his team's 103-71 blowout loss to the Sixers, his reported relationship troubles with Rajon Rondo, and the outlook for the rest of the season.
This lockout-shortened season has been mediocre at best for the 20-18 Celtics, who, after Wednesday's loss, remain seventh in the conference. Wednesday's loss marked a definitive low point, as the Celtics had a chance to take over the top-spot in the Atlantic Division against a Sixers team that lost eight of its last 10. Instead, Boston never stood a chance. The 32-point blowout was the worst of the Big Three era, and the 71-point effort matched a season-low in total points. The Celtics also did not make a single three-pointer, going 0-for-8 from beyond the arc in the worst three-point performance since an 0-for-10 showing against the Utah Jazz on Dec. 21, 2005.
"Two stats [stand out], really," Rivers said. "The '0' stands out and the eight. We usually take more threes, number one, and we usually make a couple. What's amazing, the first half, that's when I was concerned because we were getting really good shots, open shots and everything was front-rim, so you just knew it was going to be one of those nights."
The schedule only gets worse for the Celtics, who will play one game at home before embarking on an eight-game, 12-day road trip. Rivers said the road trip will be especially difficult for his team, as they are older and not in typical form after the lockout altered their preseason preparation. Rivers admitted that he underestimated how much the lockout would affect the team, and said he thinks some of the results of the lockout are manifesting in his team's play.
"I underestimated a couple of things," Rivers said. "Number one, the lack of practice time, how that all was going to affect us and every team. And you know, one thing we didn't do where some teams did, I don't think all of our guys came in to the beginning of camp in great shape. And I thought when you're an older team and you're not in great shape and you don't have a lot of time to get in shape, I thought that really affected us."
In spite of the many issues currently facing the Celtics, Rivers said a reported personnel feud between Rondo and him is a non-factor. Rivers denied any personal problem with Rondo despite reports from multiple media members to the contrary.
"We have had arguments," River said. "So have Paul [Pierce] and I. … You don't get along all the time. But when it becomes personal is when I think you have a personality clash. Our personal relationship is very good. So it keeps coming up and I guess it will. I don't know why."
Following are more highlights of the conversation. To hear the interview, go to the Dennis & Callahan audio on demand page. Read the rest of this entry »
|Dog days of March could lead to glory days in May for Celtics
|03.07.12 at 9:31 am ET
At the end of the season, we'll look back at the schedule and see the Celtics' 97-92 come-from-behind overtime victory over the Rockets in early March. The box score and game details will show that Boston was down 10, with just over 5½ minutes left, and coming off an emotional overtime win over the Knicks. All of these components add up to the type of game that galvanizes a team.
Not in the 2011-12 season, though. This was ugly basketball at its finest (or sloppiest, depending on how you want to look at it). Tuesday night's game featured more candidates to be on Sportscenter's "Not Top 10 Moments" than actual sound basketball plays. But after 53 grueling minutes of basketball, the Celtics were the ones that don't have to look back regretting they lost a game neither team deserved to win.
"It was a no-energy game," Doc Rivers said. "You can feel it. I even said at halftime even the building had no energy. It's just one of those nights. And our guys kept talking about grinding the game."
The Celtics fell behind by seven after one quarter. Uncharacteristically, Boston had a great second quarter, and took a six-point lead into halftime. The C's bolstered the margin to double digits in the third quarter. The Rockets responded by going on an impressive 35-11 run that propelled them to a 10-point lead with just over 5½ minutes left.
"It was definitely a strange game," Paul Pierce said. "It was a battle of wills. One team wanted it one quarter, then the [other the next]. Like a seesaw battle. They make a run, we make a run, they make a run. Nobody could really just put the other team away."
As the Celtics' four-game winning streak appeared to be in jeopardy, they turned to the foundation that this team has been built on these past five seasons — defense. Their rotations were crisp. Houston muddled around the perimeter, and with every swing pass the recipient was greeted by a Boston defender. The imposing defensive style forced consecutive shot-clock violations, and with just under two minutes left the Houston lead had dwindled to just three.
"The defensive energy picked up," Ray Allen said. "When they went on a run, we weren't getting any stops. They kind of dictated how the game was being played. We changed that by pushing them up away from the basket. Everything that they had was contested, and we got rebounds."
|Rajon Rondo makes his point and joins Wilt Chamberlain and Magic Johnson in rare air
|03.04.12 at 7:41 pm ET
It's almost as if Rajon Rondo wanted to make one final grand gesture to Danny Ainge that he'd be making a big mistake by trading him.
Rondo went out Sunday and posted the most impressive triple double in the NBA since Wilt Chamberlain in 1968, scoring 18 points, dishing out 20 assists and hauling down 17 rebounds in Boston's 115-111 overtime win over the Knicks at TD Garden.
Chamberlain was the last player in the NBA to match all of those numbers when he had 22 points, 25 rebounds and 21 assists in a 131-121 Philly win over the Pistons on Feb. 2, 1968. Why is that comparison so significant?
Many NBA historians recall that as the best statistical game in league history, the only double triple-double ever recorded. Rondo was just two points and three rebounds shy of joining Chamberlain as the second ever with 20 in three different categories.
All the while the numbers were piling up, Rondo said he had no idea.
'No, I didn't, honestly," Rondo said. "Just tried to make some great play calling and just worked out that my numbers showed up like they did.'
One thing Rondo has been more than aware of lately are the trade rumors involving his name that don't show any indication of quieting. If anything, Sunday's game might just perk up the eyes and ears of a GM or two.
"[Rondo] was more than above average," Kevin Garnett said afterward. "Trade talks are a really, really big motivator for him."
Another hall of fame name was thrown around after the game Rondo had. Magic Johnson was the last NBA player with at least 17 points, 17 rebounds and 17 assists in a game before Sunday. Johnson had 24 points, 17 rebounds and 17 assists on April 18, 1989.
'I'm just playing," Rondo said. "The biggest thing is we got the win. You know, [Paul Pierce] made that shot to send us into overtime, and that was big for us. You know, if you get those type of numbers and you lose, it's kind of irrelevant.'
Of all the great numbers he had, the 47 minutes and 47 seconds of playing time might have been the most impressive of all.
'I'm tired now. I wasn't tired during the game. I had no time and no room to get tired.' Read the rest of this entry »
|Kevin Garnett: 'Sometimes you need a swift kick in the [gluteus maximus]'
|03.01.12 at 11:54 am ET
Celtics forward Kevin Garnett entered the locker room after receiving his massage, coming back down to earth or whatever it is that takes him an hour following each game to conduct his postgame interview, sporting a pair of Chrome Hearts glasses (approximately $2,000) he found around the house during the NBA All-Star break.
When a reporter jokingly suggested KG's specs looked similar to his, the former MVP who has made a quarter of a billion dollars in his career and models himself after no one reminded everyone, "There's only one Garnett."
To remind yourself just how true that statement is, take the time to read Paul Flannery's column after the C's 102-96 victory against the Bucks, entitled, "The under-the-radar greatness of Kevin Garnett." Note the rarefied company of possibly none KG joins in the eyes of veteran teammate Keyon Dooling and coach Doc Rivers.
There are glue guys, and then there is Kevin Garnett. Rarely will you hear that from the 14-time NBA All-Star, but it's there if you read between the lines of Wednesday night's postgame press conference.
|Rajon Rondo: 'I'm at my best when I'm in transition'
|at 1:36 am ET
For whatever reason, 26-year-old Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo and the aging Big Three haven't been on the same page all season. Hence the team's 17-17 record. Whether that's the result of the All-Star point guard's stubbornness or the unwillingness of three Hall of Famers to follow a younger, better leader or any number of other reasons is free to debate.
But one thing is certain: When Rondo plays the way he did in a 102-96 win over the Bucks Wednesday, recording his third double-double of the season while orchestrating the offense to near perfection, these Celtics might actually have a chance to salvage this season.
"We did a better job executing offensively tonight," said Rondo (15 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists), as usual simplifying the game to its most basic elements. "We got into our sets, and we executed — and we scored."
Paul Pierce knows it. Kevin Garnett knows it. And Doc Rivers knows it. When Rondo runs the floor and sets the table early, he puts everyone in a better position to win ballgames.
"He got us organized earlier," said Rivers. "The second half, he called 12 different sets, and we got to the first option, second option, and it just looked organized and good. And that's who we were, and that's who we have to be. And I thought it was Rondo's doing."
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Winthrop Kellogg joined the Psychology faculty at the newly expanded Florida State University in 1950, after a distinguished research career at Indiana University. He was 52 years old. Until he retired in 1963, he carried out pioneering research at FSU in echolocation by porpoises and by humans. His presence on the faculty provided significant momentum for the Department to attract vigorous new faculty and graduate students to Psychology, and significant federal funding. It is not an exaggeration to say that Kellogg's influence in the 1950s laid the foundation for the Department's striking growth in years ahead.
On this site, you will find an emphasis on Kellogg's work at FSU. However, you can gain a broader perspective from an overview and appraisal of his entire career, written on the occasion of FSU naming its Psychology Research Building in Kellogg's honor, and from an obituary written by one of Kellogg's doctoral students at the University of Indiana.
We hope this site provides a good look at how a distinguished researcher, newly arrived at an embryonic university in the South in 1950, turned his curiosity about animal behavior to an entirely new research problem -- the amazing ability of porpoises to navigate. Kellogg's approach to this problem is a textbook case of how a rigorous scientific approach can reveal the foundation of complex behavioral phenomena. His subsequent attempts to understand the function of echolocation in blind and sighted humans provide a wonderful example of how basic research with animals can suggest important approaches to human behavior.
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Definition of sixth in English:
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1Constituting number six in a sequence; 6th: her sixth novel the sixth of the month to the original five categories we add a sixth
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- I had realised some time ago, after completing my sixth novel, The Juicy Beaks, that I wasn't much of a writer.
- In his sixth novel, Harvey layers narratives and characters on top of one another.
- In 1997, pneumonia and influenza constituted the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
1.1The sixth finisher or position in a race or competition: he could only finish sixth
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- He said the players who went for last year's championship in Namibia complained that they could have finished better than sixth position had they been dressed properly.
1.2chiefly British The sixth form of a school or college: the naughtiest girl in the sixth
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Back in vogue: Nyckelharpa
If the nyckelharpa sounds a little unusual, it looks utterly bizarre – like a violin morphed into a relic from the set of The Goonies. It's a sort of fiddle-cum-hurdy-gurdy; a violin with extra 'resonating' strings and a chromatic keyboard that sits under the arm and produces a zingy, eastern-inflected tone – part kazoo, part squeezebox, part Strad.
And as with a Strad, you know when you've heard one. Aside from its tonal qualities – a distinct depth and edge, heard against the gentle clacking of the keys – the nyckelharpa is enthused with a touching, honeyed melancholy that's all its own. 'What makes it stick out is the fullness and roundness of the sound at the same time this silver-glittering treble', says Swedish nyckelharpist Emilia Amper. 'That's a wonderful mixture and I think it's why people react to the sound.'
Amper provided my first sonic experience of the nyckelharpa on the 2L album In Folk Style (2L 2L-068-SABD), where her instrument is pitched in languorous, addictive reels against the modern strings of the Trondheim Soloists. Here it finds its own momentum, bypassing the technical vulnerability of a comparable string instrument – to the violin what the organ is to the piano: a mechanical, near-infallible fiddle.
But the nyckelharpa has acute warmth and sensitivity, too. It was born somewhere in Northern Europe but survived only in Sweden, incubated by the folk music tradition which still cleaves to the instrument (it also adorns on the reverse side of Sweden's 50 kroner note). It came into its own in the fifteenth century, undergoing a wave of revivals in the twentieth.
Something about the plaintive, strophic folk song tradition of the north speaks so readily through the nyckelharpa. Perhaps the best way in which to hear the instrument unalloyed is in one such strophic song, Sonnet No.1 from Karuna's recent album Hyvää matkaa. Some other fascinating instruments are in full-throttle here, but it's when the nyckelharpa soars upwards that you feel its agility and expressivity so acutely.
And it looks as though the nyckelharpa is increasingly venturing beyond Nordic shores. It has no shortage of fine advocates in the UK, recently weaving its way through Delphian's album The Revenge of the Folksingers, where in the hands of Clare Salaman it shoots a ribbon of mourning into Olivia Chaney's tracks Swimming in the Longest River and The King's Horses.
You have to wait for it, but then it arrives: initially underneath Chaney's lyric 'Freud never got to beloved Egypt' in the first song, the crux of the most moving non-Nordic track I heard this summer. Salaman told us of the pure, 'other-worldly' sound of the instrument, 'a result of the playing strings being stopped by keys rather than by fingers, and the sympathetic or resonating strings which create a sort of sonic aura around the core of the sound.' That it's bowed, she says, gives it an extra expressive capacity.
Salaman also has a pretty neat website which is a decent resource for anyone who wants to sort their Hardanger from their Hurdy-Gurdy.
And stand by for the humble old nyckelharpa to emerge on its very own solo album next year, when Emilia Amper records for the Swedish label BIS. 'The album will be a mixture of traditional tunes and my own compositions and arrangements,' Emilia tells us. There will be percussion, more appearances from members of The Trondheim Soloists, and contributions from Persian singer Bahram Bajelan.
Robert van Bahr of BIS is already billowing with excitement about the project; he sees a chance to thrust the nyckelharpa into the consciousness of a much wider public – a man caught off-guard by its alluring, curious sound. He's not alone.
– Andrew Mellor
Listen to Emilia Amper playing a movement from her own quite for nyckelharpa and strings, Abrégé, courtesy of our friends at Gramophone.