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SOMERVILLE — Janice Dyer has moved far away from the Bridgewater house where burglars broke in and stole her jewelry more than two years ago, but she said her sense of security is "lost forever."
"We didn't want to live there anymore. It took so much away," said Dyer, who now lives in Florida. "It does take your security."
Dyer offered those remarks after appearing this morning for the sentencing of Jerry Montgomery, one of the three Bergen County men charged in the April 14, 2011 burglary at her Hodge Drive residence. Dyer was not home at the time of the break-in.
Montgomery, 32, of Teaneck, was sentenced to five years in state prison after being convicted in July on charges of burglary, theft and criminal mischief. He will receive credit for nearly 10 months of time served, and there is no period of parole ineligibility.
His co-defendants -- Jason Mikell, 43, and his nephew, Diandre Mikell, 27, both of Teaneck – pleaded guilty in June to the same charges. They have not been sentenced yet.
The burglary was uncovered as part of a Bergen County Burglary Task Force investigation into a burglary crew targeting homes in northern New Jersey, according to an arrest affidavit for the three men.
Through a GPS monitoring system, authorities tracked a Nissan Altima to the Hodge Drive area, and later stopped the vehicle on Route 22 East in Green Brook, the affidavit states. The three men were inside the vehicle, along with a safe and a pillow case containing items stolen from the residence, authorities said.
Dyer said her valuables were ultimately returned to her.
During today's hearing, Montgomery did not make a statement, but his attorney, Gerald Saluti, said his client has let down Dyer and his own family.
"He's let...the system down," Saluti said.
Superior Court Judge Julie Marino told Montgomery that Dyer will continue to bear the trauma caused by the burglary and "that's a sentence that goes forever."
"And that's the impact that you've made so far and you need to consider that, that that's your impact on the world right now," Marino added.
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De Lemos and colleaguesArticlereport results of a randomized
trial of patients following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The trial compares
early initiation of intensive simvastatin therapy (80 mg/d) vs delayed initiation
of 20-mg/d simvastatin on a composite end point of cardiovascular death, nonfatal
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Stings across state to crack down on alcohol sales to minors ahead of spring break
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Spring breakers hoping to use a fake ID to buy booze may want to reconsider.
Liquor stores figure to be on high alert as the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission cracks down on anyone selling and distributing alcohol to minors in coming weeks.
Before the start of spring break, the agency plans to conduct "minor sting operations" at a minimum of 600 licensed beverage retail locations statewide.
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Some Hippies Find That High-Tech Industry Can Keep Them Happy Down on the Farm
Haight-Ashbury is just a street corner now, not a state of mind, and the only people who still wear flowers in their hair are debutantes in their summer dresses. But the hills near tiny Summertown, Tenn. (pop. 800) are alive with the sound of hippies. Dungareed and ponytailed mamas and papas and their tie-dyed offspring are out in force this spring, grooving on the sun and the rock music being pumped from the stage in the meadow below. Is this a '60s time warp? No, just standard operating procedure during "boogie day" on the Farm, the largest hippie commune in the U.S. and one of the few places anywhere the counterculture ethic is alive and flourishing.
Some 1,300 free souls live on the Farm's 1,700 acres trying to prove that the ideas of the '60s can survive in the '80s. But the Farm owes its longevity (it was founded in 1971) to the unapologetic capitalism of the high-tech era. These flower children don't tool leather or make turquoise jewelry or sell loose joints—at least not for a living. Down below the horse pasture, past the two-holer where Farmers sometimes use the Wall Street Journal for bare necessities, stand three mobile homes that house the Farm's $170,000-a-year Solar Electronics Company. Here a gaggle of flower children solder, calibrate and assemble a variety of intricate electronic devices. As the community's own FM station blares out the acid rock of an earlier era, long-haired, bearded chief inspector Douglas Stevenson, 28, encourages his crew: "Come on, we have to get 50 out by Wednesday!"
Most of the workers are assembling hand-held radiation detectors. Designed and test-marketed by Farm hands, the Nuke Busters, as they are called, are smaller (three inches by five inches by one inch) and cheaper by half than similar Geiger counters. Priced at $150, they are intended for private watchdogs who wish to sniff out radiation leaks in consumer products and at nuclear plants. Two hundred are sold each month through catalogs. The Nuke Buster is the creation of Mark Long, 31, a ham radio buff at the Farm who found himself relaying messages from Central America to a relief agency in the U.S. after a 1976 earthquake in Guatemala. A humanities major in college, Long began thinking of other electronic needs. "We were always talking about what we could do to take care of ourselves and help other people," he says. "This began to seem like a way."
The Nuke Buster is just one of a product line that would please many a CEO. Solar Electronics has designed an ultrasound device that monitors a fetus's heartbeat during delivery; these are being sold in the U.S. and Third World countries for safer home and clinic births. It also advertises, for $4,000 and up, a satellite TV receiver system with an eight-foot dish that does the job of most 12-foot dishes. The Farm's biggest money-maker is a $600,000-a-year publishing business, featuring The Big Dummy's Guide to CB Radio, which has sold over a million copies. Another project, Farm Foods, sells vegetarian products, including an ice-cream substitute called Ice Bean. Their solar energy company installs water heaters. The community's excavation company operates a fleet of retread road graders and back hoes; its audiovisual studios hire out to small recording groups. And, not to stray too far from its roots, the Farm offers a free midwife service and has sent volunteers to run a free ambulance service in the South Bronx.
"We came with a flower-child, high Brahman attitude," recalls Stephen Gaskin, 47, the Farm's mild-mannered founder. "We still believe in a lot of stuff the mainstream may not believe in." A former English instructor at San Francisco State, Gaskin led a caravan of 300 pioneers, headed by a rainbow-colored bus, out of San Francisco, where the "scene" had gone sour. At the time he was known throughout the Haight for his Monday Night Class—a giant confab to discuss the war, drugs and current problems. Gaskin still thinks of himself as "a pretty advanced hippie with a lot of real nice friends." His philosophical writings provide the heart of the Farm's spiritual agenda of love and peace. Gaskin concedes that "we've changed," but he denies any selling out of essential beliefs. "Hippies have traditionally been into electronics through rock 'n' roll," he observes. "To use computers to take a good look at ourselves, or to use electronics, is just to enter the flow of our century."
Farm members are also entering the flow of their community. Farmer Leslie Hunt, 44, is running for a seat on the Lawrence County Commission—and the native he may unseat, Homer Hull, says that is fine with him. "It is all right," Hull allows. "I live next door to them, and they don't bother me."
The Farm's mores are surprisingly conventional. Members are monogamous, abortion is not condoned, and singles are discouraged from casual sexual encounters. The Farm itself is governed by 50 elders, not including Gaskin, who is the Farm's spiritual leader and emissary to political demonstrations across the country. Some of the elders are teenagers, and their work is supported by a network of committees dedicated to "figuring things out," jointly and rationally. Especially striking are the educational facilities for the children. While the Farmers live two and three families together in funky, ramshackle dwellings and exist on approximately $1.50 apiece per day, the kids learn their sums in a new solar-heated brick schoolhouse. The parlance may differ from that heard in other Tennessee classrooms. "How many of you went to the boogie yesterday?" first-grade teacher Christine Davis, 29, asks her charges. But otherwise things are familiar. The students sit at neat rows of desks. Samples of cursive script are on display. Spanish and science and even sign language are among the subjects offered by the 12 college-educated teachers, all of whom are certified to teach in the state.
The vibes are good down on the Farm, although the life is not for everyone. While there is a waiting list of 700 people who want to join, 50 to 100 leave every year. The Farm grows its staples—wheat, soybeans and green vegetables. Liquor, meat, cigarettes and hard drugs are off limits. Some adults hunger for store-bought goodies brought in by visitors. Jewish members, who make up a quarter of the population, speak wistfully of bagels. And some Farmers are wearied by the endless palaver of democracy in action, practiced in unstructured communal meetings which can grow tiresome.
Stephen Gaskin is polite, even cautious, when he speaks with outsiders. But enveloped by his people, his talk becomes a kind of freewheeling comic meditation. Just back from a foray to San Francisco, he tells about "the 71-year-old Pentecostal virgin" he met on the plane. "She asked me if I believed in God," raps Stephen. "I had to admit, 'Yes.' And she was relieved, even though I looked pretty strange to her." But finally, like all country preachers, he gets around to a more general message: that there's a world of "short-haired hippies" outside the collective who look to the Farm as a kind of flagship, preserving Aquarian ideals in the face of a violent, greedy, competitive world. "We can't get cynical," he says. "We got to keep that good, sweet, flower-child taste."
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Shark attacks could be tied to migration
HONOLULU - Scientists are seeing growing evidence that eight shark attacks in Hawaii may be connected to the seasonal migration patterns of tiger sharks.
The University of Hawaii study involves about 10 years of information and tracking more than 100 tiger sharks with sonar and satellite monitoring devices, according to Tuesday's Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
University of Hawaii assistant researcher Carl. G. Meyer said a preliminary study indicates the tiger sharks migrate in deep water as well as in shallow areas where people swim and surf.
Tiger sharks migrate from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to the main Hawaiian Islands in October and November to give birth. The Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology says they are the most wide-ranging predator in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, routinely swimming hundreds of miles.
State officials have said most shark attacks occur during September, October and November.
Three of the recent attacks on Maui are thought to have been from tiger sharks.
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HONOLULU - Two new pavilions will be dedicated during a Veteran's Day ceremony this weekend at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
One pavilion includes Vietnam War battle maps complementing existing World War II and Korean War battle maps. The other pavilion will serve as an orientation center.
Outgoing U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka will deliver the keynote address during Sunday's ceremony.
Former U.S. senator from Georgia and current secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission Max Cleland will also speak.
The two pavilions were built at a cost of $4 million. They sit next to two flag poles flanking the processional stairs of the Honolulu Memorial.
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HILO - The trial has been set for a Big Island couple charged with drug crimes.
The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports that Hilo Circuit Judge Greg Nakamura on Monday ordered 53-year-old Gilbert Espiritu and 56-year-old Patricia Morby to appear for trial on March 18.
The Ainaloa couple was arrested Oct. 18 after police served a search warrant on three properties.
Police say what they found was an indoor marijuana-growing site, as well as other drugs including heroin and hydrocodone.
Female nene killed at Hawaii park
HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, - Hawaii Volcanoes National Park officials are urging motorists to slow down and watch out for endangered nene after one of the birds was killed there.
Park officials say a female nene was killed early Friday morning along Chain of Craters Road inside the park.
The bird's mate is still near the site. The pair were preparing to nest.
The park has placed nene crossing signs on roads where birds are known to congregate or cross, and where vehicles most frequently hit and kill the birds.
Park wildlife biologist Kathleen Misajon says it's imperative that drivers use caution in all nene crossing zones.
The nene is the state bird. There are only about 2,000 of them in the wild.
Surfer rescued at Sandy Beach
HONOLULU - A high- surf advisory remains in effect for north- and east-facing shores of Oahu.
Ocean Safety officials said a surfer was pulled from the water at Sandy Beach on Sunday afternoon after a snorkeler noticed that he was in trouble and alerted lifeguards.
Lifeguards reached the man using a paddleboard and got him out of the water.
Paramedics arrived and the man was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Man accused of stabbing relative
HONOLULU - A young man has been charged with stabbing his 70-year-old grandmother in her Honolulu apartment last week.
Charles "Kealii" Amoy, 19, was charged with second-degree attempted murder Sunday. His bail was set at $500,000.
The stabbing occurred Friday. Aileen H. Amoy was taken to The Queen's Medical Center with multiple stab wounds. Police said neighbors had heard a woman screaming for help.
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Mark Segal was watching television at his Philadelphia home Monday when President Obama equated the civil rights of homosexual Americans with the historic struggles of women and blacks, the first time a president had used the word gay in an inaugural address to refer to sexual orientation.
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On August 31st, 2013, I bought an XBOX 360 E, and I am planning to get XBOX LIVE Gold and a headset soon.
However, I'm a bit worried that nobody is going to be on Xbox LIVE for the 360 because everybody is going to upgrade to Xbox One. Is there going to be anybody on Xbox LIVE for the 360? Is everybody who owns the 360 going to upgrade to the XBOX One? Will Microsoft shut down the XBOX 360 servers?
I'm just worried that I'll be alone online and none of the XBL friends I'll eventually accumulate will be online.
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Microsoft have said that they plan to support the Xbox 360 for a number of years after the launch of the Xbox One and they have also said that Live membership will be transferable between Xbox 360s and Xbox Ones. With news games being released for the 360 as well as the One and, of course, the thousands of Xbox 360 games still out there, you will definitely not be alone for some years to come. :-)
Don't worry, as others have already said, Microsoft will continue to support the 360 for years to come. Some servers may be turned off by developers independent to microsoft but many games will continue to be supported for a long time. New games will continue to be released for the console as well. As for players, I know the majority of my friends will be sticking with their 360 when the Xbox One comes out this fall and most of them probably won't advance into the next generation next year either. You will have plenty of other players online to play with, dont worry!
Thanks for your answers, everyone! :D I am now much more confident in my purchase of an Xbox 360.
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I came to this post because I am 13 and got my 360E for Christmas I am glad to know that there is hope :)!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A game developed by Arc System Works and Sammy, with a non-synthesised soundtrack and characters by Daisuke Ishiwatari. Beats Street Fighter and Tekken in terms of speed.
"Play Guilty Gear now or I will rip your nipples off!"
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Guilty Gear is a good game.
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The GOD of 2D fighters. Don't listen to the fuckers who say we only like it for it's graphics, the gameplay is ALL that matters.
Guilty Gear raped Street Fighter into the ground.
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"We're in an exciting cotton market now," said O. A. Cleveland, Jr., Mississippi State University Extension professor emeritus, at the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation's annual commodity conference at Jackson, Miss. "It's not the $1.50 to $2.00 excitement we saw in 2010, but it is impressive from the standpoint that many analysts and market experts have been suggesting prices in the 45 cents to 60 cents range."
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DENNIS REGINELLI, from left, Mississippi State University Extension Service, Starkville; Carla Taylor, Baldwyn, Miss., dairy farmer; Keith Maloney, area director, USDA Cotton Classing Division, Dumas, Ark.; and Betty Mills, Winona, Miss., producer, were among those attending the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation's annual commodity conferenece.
Chinese importing cotton yarn
However, Cleveland says, the Chinese are importing yarn. "There is no tariff on importing yarn; it comes in duty-free, which allows the mills to get around the problem of buying expensive cotton. By importing yarn instead, they can compete in the world textile market. Pakistan, India, Vietnam, South Korea, the U.S., are selling yarn to China.
It's cheaper to import quality U.S. cotton and spin it in China than to buy quality Chinese cotton and spin it in China."
The Chinese government is preparing to set the 2013 cotton price, he says. "We have no idea what it's going to be. They've not set prices for wheat or other commodities yet, but we're anticipating they will lower the price of cotton, which will certainly have an impact on their plantings. We expect they will increase their acreage of food grains and feed grains, and information I'm seeing suggests they will reduce cotton production by 10 percent to 15 percent. We're certainly looking for them to have a significant decrease, as is the case in the U.S."
The Chinese government, Cleveland says, "is attempting, and more than likely will succeed, to move their cotton production area from the eastern seaboard to the arid far west, where there are very large mechanized farms.
"This is an area that is basically controlled by the Chinese army, which manages all the economic resources of the region. They have six-row equipment and miles ofutility lines for irrigation — it's as modern as anything we have, and is highly efficient, but the ground and yields aren't as good as the U.S. But they apparently plan to take the high yielding eastern seaboard area out of cotton so they can increase their production of grains.
"They also have new leadership, with tremendous exposure to western education. All the press has been commenting that the new leadership will be very consumer friendly, and their people will be expecting them to deliver on this. They're expecting the entire market to be consumer friendly and for the government to pay more attention to them.
"While China is still very much agrarian country, it's catching up fast in many ways, and many, many people have moved into the middle class. In 10 to 15 years, many analysts are predicting their economy will be larger than ours.
"This is why U.S. cotton exports are considerably larger than what we originally expected," Cleveland says. "The USDA originally had forecast exports at 11. 2 bales, but that has been creeping up to about 12.2 million bales. Based on what's been happening, I think we will probably export as much as 13 million bales to China this year, which is over 800,000 bales more than the current USDA estimate.
"I fully believe we're on a pace to export 12.8 to 13.2 million bales. There is a strong demand for cotton, and the USDA has been slow to recognize this. I have a tremendous respect for USDA and ICAC analysts, and I know they have constraints on their analyses that I don't have to contend. But I know too that they're paying a tremendous amount of attention to all that cotton in China and why it's not on the market."
The USDA's current estimate of global mill consumption is about 106 million bales, Cleveland says, but "I would anticipate they will increase that by at least 1 million, maybe 2 million bales. By the end of the marketing year, I think world consumption will be 110 million to 111 million bales — which is 4 million to 5 million bales more than the USDA is projecting right now.
"We're seeing increases in Bangladesh, Turkey, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, South Korea, and other countries with growing textile operations. Their mills are spinning to export yarn to China.
"Also, Chinese textile mill owners and textile investors are moving cotton outside out of China into these countries, and building new mills because China is becoming more expensive. The Chinese working class is expanding, people are moving away from the farm and subsistence agriculture into town and businesses. China is no longer the lowest price textile producer, but Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Pakistan are still low cost wage countries."
India is "the bright star on the horizon as far as cotton goes," Cleveland says. "Their yields have more than doubled in the last 10 years, and they're in for another 50 percent increase, if not more.
"It's still a country with lots of very small fields and very inefficient production, but as they begin to become more efficient they will become more and more a player in cotton. They will one day out-produce China and spin more cotton than China, whether it be 10 years from now or 15 years from now."


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John Warakomski turned off the electric motor on the back of his 14-foot drift boat as the sun slowly set on the western shore of Skaneateles Lake Tuesday evening.
"Over there ... at 11 o'clock. Several rises," he said.
Warakomski was referring to what appeared to be several nice-sized trout feeding on insects some 40 yards away. Every so often you could see a fin or tail break the water's surface.
Warakomski and nearly a dozen other fly fishermen were out in small boats Tuesday, clustered along the lake's shore near the state boat launch on Route 41A. All were hoping to take advantage of the lake's prolific brown drake hatch.
This annual insect hatch is not unique to Skaneateles Lake, but its size is something to see. Each year, it attracts fly fishermen from throughout Central New York and beyond.
Warakomski, 68, who with his wife, Rose, runs the Redd Rose Bed and Breakfast near the hamlet of Mandana, has been a fishing guide for years, specializing in the Delaware and Salmon rivers and West Canada Creek. He has a Web site, jwtrout.com. He's not guiding much these days, he, but this time of year he gets calls.
"I had a guy from New Jersey call me, asking how the hatch was going," he said. "He drove up here, fished an evening and drove back. He only caught three small trout."
Warakomski pointed out that fishing the brown drake hatch "is not usually an activity where you're going to catch a large quantity of fish. You need ideal conditions. Sometimes there's too many bugs; other times not enough. Sometimes there's too much wind."
Sometimes you can get caught up in seeing all the rises from fish feeding all around you, he said, thinking you're going to cash in. But catching fish under these conditions is not easy.
The challenge is to creep up on the feeding fish and cast your fly just where they're feeding or slightly ahead of where they're traveling. Keep in mind they have hundreds, even thousands of real flies around yours to choose from.
"When you catch a fish you've accomplished something," Warakomski said.
Under Warakowski's guidance, I used my 8-weight fly rod and an artificial fly that he tied. I caught a small Atlantic salmon and a slightly bigger rainbow trout, along with a 14-inch smallmouth bass and a rock bass.
The brown drake (Ephemera simulans) is a type of mayfly. This bug is dinner for a multitude of fish on the lake — trout, bass, perch, rock bass, catfish.
For the beginner, Warakowski recommended going out with someone who knows what he's doing, or just spending an evening on the lake where other anglers are fishing and watching.
He advised using a 5-7 weight fly rod with a floating line. He prefers a 9- to 11-foot leader and a foot or two of tippet line tied on to that.
"When you start seeing the rises, cast your fly into that area and watch it a bit. If nothing happens, slide it back carefully and cast it near the next rise you see," he said.
Warakowski explained the trout and Atlantic salmon are more prone to cruise and move around, while bass, perch and other panfish usually stay in a small area.
"With the trout, you should try and figure out which direction they're moving and see if you lead them with your cast," he said.
The hatch usually starts around mid-June and finishes up by July 1. He said the best time to be out on the water is between 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Chris Knight, of Syracuse, was out Tuesday fishing from an inflatable, one-person pontoon boat.
"I've been coming out for 18 years," he said, adding his biggest fish was a 19-inch perch.
Nick Kirby, of LaFayette, was enjoying himself casting his fly from an 8-foot kayak.
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For the sixth year in a row, Erie County's third-largest employer has been named to the Ward Group's list of the top 50 performing companies.
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BRIDGETON -- The first few school days have resulted in transportation-related headaches for parents, students and school district employees alike in recent years.
The first day of the 2007-2008 school year was no different, although it appeared it was going to be a relatively smooth start to the school year for most of the day Thursday.
This year, police were called on in a big way to help resolve transportation-related issues, when dozens of students were late getting home either because they were dropped off at the wrong bus stops or their buses showed up to their schools late.
A delay in getting bus passes mailed to students' homes, coupled with the summertime redistricting of six K-8 schools, created some confusion among parents and students Thursday morning.
Those two factors undoubtedly contributed to myriad afternoon busing issues.
To make matters worse, police announced Wednesday it still is short on crossing guards, immediately needing at least four more people for the $20, two-hour per day job, acting Chief Mark Ott said on Thursday.
The first morning of the school year didn't go too badly as far as Superintendent Dr. H. Victor Gilson is concerned.
"It was a little atypical because of the redistricting and the mix up with the bus passes," Gilson said. "But parents either saw it in the newspaper, or used their good judgment and went to where their children got on the bus last year or called the office (to find out where and when to go)."
There were, however, reports Thursday morning that some parents sent their children to the wrong schools, apparently unaware that the district in July moved about 80 students to different schools to address overcrowding concerns in several schools.
Gilson noted that the district sent letters to all students' homes after the redistricting plan was finalized in July. The News also ran a list of students' school assignments on July 27 and Aug. 27.
It's worth noting the News did not receive any calls from parents agitated by transportation issues on Thursday, at least not within the first few hours after the school day had ended.
And that's something that definitely could not be said the first days of school in recent years.
Gilson sent students home with letters regarding the bus pass snafu.
"I apologize for the confusion and any problems you experienced today as a result of not receiving your child's bus pass. ... I appreciate the understanding of parents who did not receive the bus passes," he wrote to parents.
Getting students home from school in the afternoon likely became problematic as a result of many students not having their bus passes.
The bus passes did not arrive to students' homes until Thursday. Several reports of students having been dropped off at the wrong bus stops were aired over police and emergency response radio between 4 and 5 p.m.
Some buses reportedly were late arriving to schools to pick up students.
The district dropped of the bus passes as bulk mail last Thursday. There was a delay getting them back to the city from the United States Postal Service's South Jersey processing center in Bellmawr, where they were sent from the Bridgeton post office last Friday.
"It might be a few days (late)," Gilson responded when asked if the bus passes should have been dropped off to the local post office sooner. "But you wouldn't think it would take a whole week to mail something in Bridgeton to people in Bridgeton."
The district will send out bus passes as first-class mail in the future, Gilson said.
Ray Daiutolo Sr., a USPS spokesman, acknowledged the passes probably should have been delivered by Wednesday.
"I checked with our mailing requirement folks regarding the turn around time for standard business mail - as this mail was not sent first-class," he wrote in an e-mail Thursday morning. "They said that although we would generally have processed and delivered that local standard mail before today, the service time provided is in line with the standard for that class of mail ‹ about 5 to 7 days."
The fact that USPS was closed on Monday for Labor Day did not help to expedite the delivery process, Daiutolo said. Daiutolo noted the district could have requested that the bus passes be sorted at and distributed from the Bridgeton post office if it was concerned about the passes arriving late, as many apparently did.
Bridgeton postmaster Daniel Mayo did not return a message seeking comment.
While the police department still is seeking crossing guards, Sgt. Thomas Speranza, who heads the department¹s special services unit, noted the city's busier intersections are being manned.
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- Two thought-to-be returning crossing guards only recently informed police they could not return for the start of the school year ‹ one for family reasons, the other due to injuries sustained in a car accident.
Speranza also noted the June retirement of the longtime head of crossing guards, Gladys Birdsall, has made his transition to the special services job, which he was assigned to just two weeks ago, more difficult.
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After 15 years of noteworthy service to NOWCC, five years on the Board of Directors and 10 years as a respected member of the staff, Dr. Joel Reaser is heading into a second retirement at the end of June. Dr. Reaser's initial foray into 'retirement' occurred in November 2001 when he retired after 17 years with AARP as the head of its SMaRT (Statistics, Methods and Research Technology) Department. Those who know Joel where not surprised at the short duration of that hiatus when he joined the NOWCC staff four months later where his IT skills, experience with applying technology to operations and commitment to creating opportunities for older workers were a timely match.
Dr. Reaser's contributions to NOWCC, and to promoting the value of the older worker in the face of a changing workforce, were as diverse as his myriad interests. Joel played leadership roles in many areas within NOWCC, from leading the process of creating the first strategic plan for the organization to improving the enterprise-wide system to support the older workers who are the 'enrollees' in the grant programs we support for two federal agencies. During one of his many speaking opportunities Joel connected with a federal manager in the audience who was interested in the skills and experience of older workers; their subsequent conversations resulted in the creation of the Agriculture Conservation Experienced Services (ACES) Program within the Department of Agriculture.
By his nature and character, Joel also impacted the culture of NOWCC. He served as a positive role model of an older worker himself, personally demonstrating the values of 'experience' and a multi-generational workforce. His commitment to fitness (he lead the staff in the annual push-up contest he started) and an integrated and balanced work-life also challenged, in a positive manner, preconceived notions of his younger colleagues as well as those he met while promoting NOWCC.
Though entering another 'retirement', Dr. Reaser has already lined-up new opportunities to continue to engage and give-back. His perspectives and energy will be missed, but we know we will stay connected because of his deep commitment to addressing the challenges facing the older worker and a society just beginning to understand the potential of this new natural resource.


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Or perhaps approach from the small tablet direction with a Nexus 7?
The line between the two is fading.
I'd recommend getting a standard phone for a reasonable price and an excellent tablet such as the Google Nexus 7. Together, this should cost less than the S3 or Note.
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I have the Note.. came from a small HTC Wildfire S and a BB 8820 before that.
It's brilliant really. It fits in all my pockets and isn't too big (for me) to use with one hand most of the time. To be honest I use two hands for my phones anyway, so no difference to me.
Haven't had the opportunity to take massive advantage of the fact it's a tablet yet (because its summer.. so no education!) however you can use MS Word/Powerpoint/Excel and they work brilliantly.
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The landscape had changed over time. The cottonwood and salt cedar trees weren't here when his forefathers arrived. "It was just tall prairie," he said. And the Red River, which runs about a quarter-mile north, has, at times, snaked closer to this spot, its flow changing with Mother Nature's whims.
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MOBILE, Alabama --You'll see fog early, then cloudy skies for the rest of the day along the Gulf Coast.
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Holiday travelers dont have a lot to fear from the blast of the first winter storm tonight, or weather in general until Christmas. But watch the forecasts and watch out for icing, experts say.
The blizzard that dumped a foot on snow in the Rockies will sweep rapidly across the Lowcountry this evening about sunset, with the threat of thunderstorms and high winds,said meteorologist Julie Packett, with the National Weather Service, Charleston. It should move out in about two hours. For regional travel, the mountains will be the biggest concern because of snow, gusts and rain.
After tonight, its colder and dry through Tuesday, Christmas Day. Temperatures could dip below freezing Friday and Saturday nights nearer the coast, and into the upper 20s inland.
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The only Ole Miss points came after a three-play possession that covered just two yards after the Tigers fumbled a punt in the second quarter.
"I was pleased with the way I played," says Gunn, who is fifth on the team with 30 tackles. "After our loss last week, we came out and did what we should have done."
Junior defensive end Marquies Gunn makes a sack vs. the Rebels.
Gunn and the Tigers improved their record to 4-1 in the SEC and 6-2 overall as they prepare for a road game on Saturday in Lexington vs. the Kentucky Wildcats, who are 1-3 in the league and 2-5 overall following last Saturday's 13-7 victory over Mississippi State. Kickoff is set for noon CST and there will be no television coverage of the contest.
Gunn's honor is the seventh for an AU player this season from the Southeastern Conference. Others honored include safety Will Herring (defensive player of the week Sept. 10), tailback Brad Lester (freshman of the week Sept. 17 and Oct. 1), quarterback Blake Field (freshman of the week Sept. 24), linebacker Travis Williams (defensive player of the week Oct. 1) and tailback Kenny Irons (offensive player of the week Oct. 15).
Gunn says Auburn's success against the Rebels was partly due to a good game plan from first-year defensive coordinator David Gibbs and the rest of the defensive coaching staff. "We were prepared for everything they did," Gunn notes. "Coach Gibbs' game plan showed us everything we needed to get prepared."
Auburn held the Rebels to just 23 rushing yards and 186 passing. Gunn says that a goal line stand in the first quarter set the tone for the day defensively. "That was big," Gunn says. "T.J. (noseguard Tommy Jackson) made a big play that made it happen."


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SALEM - Mayor John Berlin said he received notification Tuesday that a project to extend a sidewalk along the north side of State Street from the Salem Plaza to Cunningham Road "can move forward as originally planned."
The notification came from Greg Gurney, Ohio Department of Transportation District 11 LPA Manager, who sent copies of an email to the mayor, city Service/Safety Director Ken Kenst and Howells & Baird engineer Jon Vollnogle.
According to the email, District 11 determined the project could go foward based on newly released proposed accessibility guidelines for pedestrian facilities in the public right-of-way. Berlin explained the project had been held up for years because it was being linked to another project located in downtown Salem. He said ODOT wanted to have intersections downtown all updated, but now they'll be able to replace ramps and sidewalk there when they're needed instead of all at once.
The email said the new guidelines remove the connection of the new sidewalk project to the prior work done downtown. Berlin had the sidewalk project on his priority list for projects this year. "I don't want to see people walking in the street," he said.
The preliminary drawings for the project were done several years ago and turned in. He said ODOT will need to review the plans and complete an environmental impact study. He said the funding is already in place and will come during ODOT's fiscal year 2014, which begins in July 2013. The city will have to contribute 20 percent of the funding for the project originally estimated at $250,000, Berlin said.
He also said ODOT provided the city with a list of possible paving projects for fiscal year 2014 which could include sections of state Routes 14, 344 and 9 within the city limits. The city would pay 20 percent of the cost and the state would cover the rest.
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The Canadian Open was anything other than Rogers Cup as Federer followed Murray and Nadal out of the Montreal Masters. The three of them have one more chance to build their hard-court momentum in time for the US Open at this week's Cincinnati Masters.
The shocks in Canada came almost at once and turned the bottom half of the Montreal Masters on its head. Two of the top quartet in the men's game, slated to play one another in the semifinals, lost their opening matches: No. 2 and semifinalist last year, Rafael Nadal; and No. 4 and defending champion, Andy Murray.
All eyes therefore turned to the standout contest of the third round between No. 3, last-year's finalist Roger Federer, and No. 13, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. This one had scores to settle, both fresh and old.
Federer suffered his first Grand Slam loss from a two-set advantage at this year's Wimbledon—to Tsonga. But at the forefront of Federer's mind, judging from his pre-match comments, was their quarterfinal meeting in Montreal two years ago. In that, too, Tsonga made a remarkable comeback from 1-5 down in the final set to win the match in a tie-breaker.
Their meeting, once again, lived up to expectations as the sparkling Frenchman, finding his old uninhibited tennis without the help of a coach, beat Federer, this time surging through the final set, 6-1.
One man, though, stood by his ranking, form and reputation all the way to the Montreal title. Novak Djokovic, like his elite colleagues, was making his first return to the tour since Wimbledon and he, like them, looked a little rusty in his opener against Nikolay Davydenko.
He avoided the dangerous waters of Del Potro—Marin Cilic found his rhythm in a rain-disrupted match to beat the Argentine, but then fell to the Serb.
With some matches under his feet, Djokovic then hit cruise-mode to take out an in-form Gael Monfils in just 73 minutes and an injured Tsonga in the semis. He saved the best for last in an impressive and resilient three-set victory over Mardy Fish in the Final.
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Objectives: To describe our initial experience with single-site robotic cholecystectomy (SSRC) and its applicability to a broad segment of patients.
Background: At the initiation of our study, there were only 3 published reports on SSRC. These initial studies had limited inclusion criteria. We present our experience with the technical aspects and patient outcomes of SSRC in a broadly inclusive patient population.
Methods: Prospective cohort study from January 2012 to January 2013, in which 95 patients underwent SSRC. Procedural times, postoperative complications, delayed hospital discharges, and re-admissions were evaluated.
Results: Patients were predominantly female (71.6%) had mean age of 45.2 ± 6.1 years and mean body mass index (BMI) of 30.1 ± 7.1 kg/m2. Overall, mean total operative time (TOT) for all patients (n = 95) was 88.63 ± 32.0 (range: 49–220) minutes. SSRC was not completed in 8 (8.42%) patients: 6 conversions to laparoscopy, 1 conversion to open, and 1 aborted case. The group of patients who were able to complete SSRC (n = 87) had a mean TOT of 83.5 ± 24.5 minutes and mean operative robotic time (RT) of 39.6 ± 15.2 minutes. RT was longer in patients with intra-abdominal adhesions (P = 0.0139) and higher BMI (P = 0.03). A minority of patients required hospital admission (11.6%), readmission (6.3%), or reoperation (1.1%). No bile duct injury or death occurred.
Conclusions: SSRC is safe and has a manageable learning curve. Patient factors, such as obesity, did not significantly affect conversion rates or TOTs. SSRC is a promising new technique, which can be offered to a wide array of patients.
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ALDERSON, Andrew, ALDERSON, K.L., ATTARD, D., EVANS, K.E., GATT, R., GRIMA, J.N., MILLER, W., RAVIRALA, N., SMITH, C.W. and ZIED, K. (2010). Elastic constants of 3-, 4- and 6-connected chiral and anti-chiral honeycombs subject to uniaxial in-plane loading. Composites Science and Technology, 70 (7), 1042-1048.
ALDERSON, Andrew, ALDERSON, Kim L., MCDONALD, Samuel A., MOTTERSHEAD, Beth, NAZARE, Shonali, WITHERS, Philip J. and YAO, Yong T. (2013). Piezomorphic materials. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 298 (3), 318-327.
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MOHAMMED, Isah Yakub, ABAKR, Yousif Abdalla, MUSA, Mukhtar, YUSUP, Suzana, SINGH, Ajit and KABIR, Feroz (2016). Valorization of Bambara groundnut shell via intermediate pyrolysis: Products distribution and characterization. Journal of Cleaner Production, 139, 717-728.
NAZARÉ, Frank and ALDERSON, Andrew (2015). Models for the prediction of Poisson's ratio in the 'alpha-cristobalite' tetrahedral framework. physica status solidi b, 252 (7), 1465-1478.
PLENDERLEITH, Richard A., PATEMAN, Christopher J., RODENBURG, Cornelia, HAYCOCK, John W., CLAEYSSENS, Frederik, SAMMON, Chris and RIMMER, Stephen (2015). Arginine–glycine–aspartic acid functional branched semi-interpenetrating hydrogels. Soft Matter, 11 (38), 7567-7578.
SANAMI, Mohammad, RAVIRALA, Naveen, ALDERSON, Kim and ALDERSON, Andrew (2014). Auxetic materials for sports applications. Procedia Engineering, 72, 453-458.
SÖKMEN, Münevver, TATLIDIL, İlknur, BREEN, Christopher, CLEGG, Francis, BURUK, Celal Kurtuluş, SIVLIM, Tuğba and AKKAN, Şenay (2011). A new nano-TiO2 immobilized biodegradable polymer with self-cleaning properties. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 187 (1-3), 199-205.
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Associate Professor
Library & Information Science Program
Information & Computer Sciences Department
Hamilton Library 3C
2550 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808) 956-5838
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lquiroga (at) hawaii (dot) edu
Ph.D. School of Library and Information Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1999.
M.Sc. Autonomous National University of Mexico, Mexico City, 1984.
B.Sc. Universidad Industrial de Santander, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 1971.
Professional Background
2012- Associate Professor, Information and Computer Sciences Department / Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawaii
2000-2012 Assistant Professor, Information and Computer Sciences Department / Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawaii
1999-2000 Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1997-1999 Graduate research assistant, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
1996-1999 Computing consultant, University Information Technology Services, Indiana University, Bloomington
Fields of Interest
Information Retrieval, Information Filtering, Digital Libraries, Representation and Organization of Information.
User-Centered Database Design, Content Access (Classification, Indexing), Access to Internet Resources, Internet in Latin America, Distance Education, and Computer Mediated Communication.
Recent Courses Taught
LIS 647 Systems Approach to Library Operations
LIS 672 Library Automation
LIS 674 Database Design & Creation
LIS 678 Information Filtering
ICS 421 Database Systems
ICS 491 Special Topics
ICS 691 Information Architecture
Current Research Interests
Personalized Information Organization: Acquisition and Modeling of User's Interest Profile in Information Filtering Systems. In collaboration with Dr. Javed Mostafa, Information Science & Informatics. Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana University.
Virtual meetings: advantages and limitations. In collaboration with Charlotte Ford and Catherine Davis Collins, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. Contact: Dr. Matt Gredley, Senior Project Officer, APEC & North Asia Section, International Science and Technology Policy Branch, Australian. Federal Department of Industry, Science and Resources
Technology skills for Information Professionals. Expectations and needs as perceived by employers, professionals and students. Implications for curricula developments.
Conferences, Workshops and Invited Presentations
Collins, C., Quiroga, L.M. & Ford, C. "An Exploratory Study of the Advantages and Limitations of a Virtual Conference". 63th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Nov. 11-16, 2000
Quiroga, L.M. & Dalbello, M. Technology: What the employers want and what the students think the employers need. In SIG: Curriculum. [Convenors: Marija Dalbello (Rutgers) and Luz M. Quiroga (Hawaii)]. ALISE Annual Conference, Washington D.C., January 9-12, 2000
Selected Publications
2000 Quiroga, L. & Mostafa J. "Empirical evaluation of explicit versus implicit acquisition of user profiles in information filtering systems". In Proceedings of the 63th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 37.
1999 Quiroga, L.M., & Mostafa, J. "Empirical Evaluation of Explicit versus Implicit Acquisition of User Profiles in Information Filtering Systems." Proceedings of Digital Libraries '99. The Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries. University of California Berkeley.
1998 Ford, C. & Quiroga L. M. "Academic libraries in Colombia". In: Libraries: Global reach – Local touch. Kathleen de la Peña McCook, Barbara J. Ford and Kate Lippincott (eds.) p. 31-38. American Library Association, Chicago and London, 1998 (Book chapter)
1998 Mostafa, J., Quiroga, L.M. & Palakal, M. "Filtering Medical Documents Using Automated and Human Classification Methods." Journal of the American Society for Information Science. Vol. 49, n.14.
1997 Jacob, E., Mostafa, J., & Quiroga, L.M. "An Approach to the Evaluation of Automatically Generated Classification Schemes." In: P. Solomon (Ed.), Advances in Classification Research, Vol. 7 (pp. 78-98). Medford, NJ: Information Today.(Book chapter)


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Olympus TG-3 Review
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The Olympus Stylus Tough TG-3 digital camera follows on from last year's TG-2 iHS, and although it has a strong family resemblance, it brings changes in a number of key areas -- including one feature which the company says is a first for a digital camera.
Its restyled body is still extremely rugged, being waterproof to 50 feet (15m), shockproof to 7 feet (2.1m), freezeproof to 14°F (-10°C), crushproof to 220 pounds (100kgf), and dustproof. However, its controls have been refined slightly, and it sports a new sensor, new processor, refined connectivity and geolocation features, and a unique focus stacking function. These improvements are accompanied by a slightly lower-res LCD monitor and a subtle decrease in battery life.
Starting with the redesigned body, the Olympus TG-3 forgoes the rear-deck zoom buttons of its predecessor, in favor of a more traditional top-deck zoom rocker. This frees up space for a new Info button, and allows Olympus to move the movie button nearer the top right corner of the rear panel, for a more comfortable reach.
The new image sensor is still a 1/2.3-inch type, backside-illuminated CMOS chip, but it increases total pixel count by one third to 16 megapixels, up from the earlier camera's 12-megapixel chip. The new sensor is accompanied by a current-generation TruePic VII image processor. Together, these allow the same sensitivity range and burst-shooting performance of the earlier camera, despite the smaller pixels and higher pixel count. The TG-3 provides a sensitivity range of ISO 100 to 6,400 equivalents, and can shoot full-res images at five frames per second for as many as 100 frames.
The Olympus TG-3's sensor sits behind the same 4x optical zoom lens featured in the TG-2. It provides 35mm-equivalent focal lengths ranging from 25 to 100mm, and has a maximum aperture that starts at a bright f/2.0 at wide angle, but falls to a rather dim f/4.9 by the telephoto position. Actual focal lengths are 4.5 to 18mm, and it's worth noting that it's only a three-step aperture: you can choose from f2.0, f2.8 or f8.0 at wide angle, and from f4.9, f6.3 or f18.0 at telephoto.
On the plus side, the lens focuses to an unusually close 0.4 inches (1cm), and does so at 30 to 100mm equivalents, making for a fairly respectable macro performance. And to help combat blur from camera shake, Olympus has included mechanical, sensor shift-type image stabilization. There's also a five-mode flash strobe to help illuminate nearby subjects.
On its rear deck, the Olympus TG-3 sports a 3.0-inch LCD monitor. While it's the same size as the 3.0-inch Organic LED display of the TG-2, the resolution is a bit lower. The TG-2's screen had a dot count of around 610,000, where the TG-3 has some 460,000 dots.
The TG-3 supplements the GPS radio of its predecessor with a Wi-Fi radio, allowing for quick and simple sharing with your Android or iOS smartphone or tablet. As we've seen in a number of past models, Olympus forgoes any additional hardware for quick Wi-Fi connection, simply displaying a QR barcode on the camera's LCD display with which to provide your smart device the information necessary to pair -- so long as it has a barcode-reading app installed.
Once established, the Wi-Fi connection allows both remote live view, and remote shutter / zoom control. You can also adjust white balance, ISO sensitivity, shutter speed, and aperture remotely, select the autofocus area, shooting and drive modes, and enable the self-timer. The free Olympus Image Share app is used to control the camera from Android or iOS devices, and you can also transfer JPEG and MOV files using the app, but not AVI files. (That rules out sharing time-lapse or high-speed movies through your phone.)
Although the GPS receiver was already extant in the TG-2, it too has been improved in the newer camera. According to Olympus, it has lower battery drain, is more accurate, and connects more quickly, with a claimed ten-second lock time. As well as standard GPS satellites, it can also now locate satellites from the competing, Russian GLONASS network. As in the earlier model, the geolocation is supplemented by an electronic compass and a manometer, with the latter tracking air / water pressure and using them to estimate altitude or depth. Cleverly, the manometer is also used to display a depth warning when the camera feels you're nearing its maximum safe depth underwater.
According to Olympus, the focus stacking function of the TG-3 isn't just new to the camera, but a world's first. Until now, you needed to combine multiple images with variant focus on your computer to achieve expanded depth of field for macro shooting, but the Olympus TG-3 can now do this in-camera. To do so, it shoots eight frames in quick succession, varying the focus distance between frames. The sharpest areas in each photo are then combined to create a single image with a depth of field covering several centimeters. So long as your subject is reasonably static, that could be the difference between a usable macro shot, and one with an unidentifiably-blurred subject. If you prefer to merge images yourself, though, the TG-3 can also bracket focus without combining images in-camera.
Also new to the TG-3 are Olympus' Art Filter and Photo Story functions. Art filters are pretty self-explanatory: they tweak the look of images in a number of creative ways. Choices include Pop Art, Soft Focus, Pale & Light Color, Grainy Film, Pin Hole, Diorama, Dramatic Tone, Fish Eye, Sparkle, Reflection, and Fragmented (although the TG-2 had a similar set of effects but they were called Magic Filters). Photo Story function, meanwhile, combines multiple shots in-camera to create one of several collage layouts. The Olympus TG-3 also sports a new underwater macro scene mode, and supports interval shooting, with a time between shots of one second to 24 hours, and a 99-frame shot limit.
As well as still images, you can also shoot 1080p (1,920 x 1,080 pixels; Full HD) movies using the Olympus TG-3, and these are saved with H.264 compression in a .MOV container. As well as standard movies, the TG-3 also supports high-speed and time-lapse movies, both of which use Motion JPEG compression in an AVI container. Time-lapse movies can be as long as ten seconds, and play back at ten frames per second, for a total of up to 100 video frames. These have a maximum resolution of 720p (1,280 x 720 pixels; HD). High-speed movies have a much lower resolution of VGA (640 x 480 pixels) at 120 frames per second, or a non-standard 432 x 324 pixels to achieve 240 fps.
Images and movies are stored on Secure Digital cards, including higher-capacity SDHC and SDXC types, or in a not-so-generous 36MB of built-in memory. Connectivity include Type-D Micro HDMI for high-def video output, and a combined multi-connector that allows USB 2.0 High Speed data, DC power input, and standard-def audio/video output. Power comes from an LI-92B rechargeable lithium-ion battery said to be good for 380 shots on a charge, up slightly from the 350 shots of the TG-2.
Like its predecessor, the Olympus TG-3 is part of an expandable system, with accessories such as cases, float straps, an underwater protector, fish-eye conversion lens and tele conversion lens available. There's also an interesting new accessory, though: the LG-1 LED light guide. This acts like a macro ring light, but doesn't need a power source. Instead, it simply redirects light from the TG-3's built-in LED, located next to the flash strobe, and allows it to shine from a ring around the lens. The result is a source of illumination for nearby subjects, an important feature given the near-impossibility of ambient light illuminating your subject when focusing from the minimum distance of just 0.4 inches (1cm).
Available from June 2014, the Olympus TG-3 ships in black or red versions with a list price of US$350. That's just slightly lower than the US$380 list price of its predecessor, despite the new features.
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Frothiest senator ever!
Eli didn't ask for more ponies?
This is a gold mine. Too many great captions to mention. In respect to the rest of the Kommentariat, I'll just go with my team and comment on the Dallas one. "You should totally come." That's gotta leave a sour taste in his mouth for sure.
It isn't his fault he didn't understand how bounty payments work now the coaches can't use flip charts anymore . . .
/too soon?
Final pic: "I'm ready to go in, coach, just give me a chance. I know there's a lot of riding on it, but it's all psychological. Just gotta stay in a positive frame of mind. I'm gonna execute a button-hook pattern, super slo-mo."
A very popular movie to quote, but well played sir.
/slow clap
Yeegads! Those are some seriously unsexy underpants.
Loosey whities?
It's nice to see Lions fans wearing paper bags again. Some traditions just shouldn't die via Josh Brent car ride.
Alt text/image title on the last one. Perfect.
I'd bet a million dollars that jort wearing Dolphin fan lady is a huge Jimmy Buffett fan.
And those jorts are barely concealing some mean Mekong Delta bush.
isn't everyone?
Dammit, Jimmy, I was having breakfast!!
I am just shocked that there is a girl wearing a Henne jersey, or is it an AJ Feeley jersey?
Coughlin will get a better performance out of Eli this week by putting an Elf on the Shelf on the sidelines.
1) I stared at the last one for a minute before I realized that wasn't a man in drag but an actual woman.
2) And then it took me another minute to notice you misspelled "perfect."
Uproxx usually picks their copy editors up in front of Home Depot every morning. They must have been busy with the Christmas trees.
Still utterly convinced everyone is using speech to text software. Human brains aren't that fuck.
Its crazy that Miami fans are still wrapping themselves in the flag of that perfect season. Its getting to the point where some of these people weren't even alive then, although clearly the jort-creature is one of the undead so they were there in some form. Also how are you going to never win a Super Bowl with Dan Marino? You were spotted 3-4 touchdowns every game for 15 years and still nothing….
Ok, hovertag on Santorum FTW.
I'm going to have nightmares about those jorts for months, possibly years. I hope you're happy.
Rick, if you touch that railing, you might catch gay germs.
Santorum: *running up and down in place* Ow ewwww! Get it off me! Get it off me!
Actual headline:
"David Brooks To Teach 'Humility' At Yale"
Not actual headlines:
"Andy Reid To Teach 'Clock Management' at Penn."
"Mark Sanchez To Teach 'Throwing Accuracy' at Columbia."
"Antonio Brown To Teach 'Ball Security' at Carnegie-Mellon."
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/I can make that joke because my best friends commit suicide
Because they were your friends?
I have to say the rent-a-Mountie did bring that streaker down face first with authority after a 70 yard sprint. It was a thing of beauty. Also, the Bills defenders looked like they'd never seen that move before in their lives.
the one of the cowboys idea is so going to my wall now
complete with virginia slims in the pocket of the jorts….


text: "Valentin Micic" <> wrote: > >As you've said -- it is a workaround. Consider that under some circumstances >such workaround may cause problems -- think of it this way: You're not >really solving the problem, just shifting it elsewhere. But that was precisely what he *wanted*: the possibility to note the problem and deal with it "elsewhere" (i.e. his sender will maintain its own queue and eliminate useless data there). >Under normal circumstances (as you've outlined), if sender and receiver are >not in some kind of "synchronous" engagement, in other words, if your next >send does not depend on receiving something from a remote peer; and you have >a "sluggish" remote receiver, your process would block once local buffer is >full. If you change this by introducing intermediate server, as suggested -- >call it a REALY; you are not changing the fact that this RELAY will block >when local sending buffer gets full. However, as the sending process is now >sending "normal" Erlang messages, it will have no way of figuring out that >RELAY's buffer is full, thus, it will keep sending, eventually clogging >RELAY's process message queue. You didn't read my suggestion carefully enough - try again. >OTOH, if one assumes that O_NDELAY would return immediately once the local >buffer is full, this would help solving the problem you're referring to, by >allowing a programmer to find the most suitable solution to a given >problem - anything from immediate disconnection/reconnection to some form of >internal buffering (which, mind you, cost only in terms of memory, and not >so much in CPU cycles). IMO, exposing O_NDELAY/O_NONBLOCK at the Erlang level would be a huge mistake. Networking (and many other "interactions with the environment") is so simple in Erlang because it just hides all the gory details that you get immediately thrown in your face when using a C interface to the same functionality. And when you really need some functionality provided by the gory-details interface but not by the Erlang counterpart, there's often a nice Erlangish way to achieve it, that just wouldn't be possible at the gory-details and/or C level. This case is an excellent illustration of that - in Erlang, you don't want a send() that says "sorry, I only managed to send N bytes of your complex nested list/binary structure, you need to re-send the rest" - but you might want a send() that doesn't block, but just sends you a message when it's done. Which is exactly what my "relay" process suggestion implements, and which *could* be provided as a standard gen_tcp(3) API function - but it's probably an uncommon enough need that doing that isn't motivated. --Per