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Daniel Radcliffe acquits himself reasonably well in his first adult big-screen role, a man haunted by "The Woman in Black."
He plays a young lawyer, a single father and widower with enough conviction to make this spooky period piece credible, though one might wish for a little more fear in the character and in his performance when confronted by the supernaturally sinister.
Arthur Kipps is a failing young barrister in the Britain of the early 1920s. He still grieves for his wife, who died in childbirth, and pays a little too much attention to the spiritualist ads in his local newspaper. That's how much he longs to see her again.
But he has a young son to support, so he seizes one last chance to prove himself to his firm — a trek to the north of Britain, to the marshy east coast where he must rummage through the papers of a family whose long-abandoned mansion, Eel Marsh, is to be sold.
The residents of the dank, grey and backward little village of Crythin Gifford aren't very welcoming. There's no room at the inn, no smile at any door. They want him gone, and quick. And as the film's opening scene has shown three village girls hurl themselves out of a window, we know there's tragedy there.
Only the county's wealthiest man, Samuel Daily (Ciaran Hinds), will give Arthur the time of day. He hints at an explanation for the apparition Arthur has seen at Eel Marsh, but he dismisses it: "Don't go chasing shadows, Arthur."
There's a lot of atmosphere, but not a lot of urgency to this James Watkins ("Eden Lake") film. The back story may be only sketched in, but the chilling moments arrive with a bracing, hair-raising jolt.
I love the way he uses the simplest effects — the way Arthur, holding a candle, is followed across the room through the reflection of the candle on an old doll's glass eye, a simple look of doomed resignation on a child's face, an unearthly hand slapped against a window.
I was less impressed with the efforts the film makes to push adulthood onto Radcliffe. Is he really that close to the towering Ciaran Hinds in height? Too little effort is spent explaining Arthur's fearless acceptance and seeming understanding of the ghost he sees and pursues.
Those quibbles aside, the bottom line on "The Woman in Black" is that it is a very spooky movie. Old-fashioned and old school, it makes a convincing case for life after death and, for Radcliffe, life after Harry Potter.


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September 30, 2016 - 07:03 GMT
So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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A car bomb in New Cairo wounded one person, and is suspected to have targeted a leading Egyptian judge.
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You better believe it.
September 29, 2016 - 06:04 GMT
HE so deserves it.
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Would you just leave her alone already?
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September 28, 2016 - 09:59 GMT
The film was not funny nor entertaining.
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Tips x Clips is a new web series that stars Egyptian songstress Mai Selim as a cook.
September 28, 2016 - 05:28 GMT
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They really don't care about their guests
I just read another review here regarding confusion with booking a room and connections with Expedia, but it sounds like they're just coming up with any excuse. In my case, I had booked online VIA THEIR OWN WEBSITE and they still didn't have record of my booking when I arrived (thankfully, I had arrived with a printout of my reservation). Then they had the nerve to quote me a higher price, using the excuse that the rate on the website was out of date.
Woke up the next morning with the maid out in the hallway slamming the vaccuum cleaner into my door.
The creperie is mentioned in their website, and even listed in their information guide inside the room. But upon ordering breakfast the next morning, I was told the creperie had shut down months before and they could bring me bagels and muffins instead. I opted out, but decided to order a muffin and coffee the following morning. That next morning, I was told they only had one type of bagel available (somebody forgot to order fresh baked goods?)
Forget about renting movies from them - I requested a movie from their list, only to be told by the very unhelpful clerk downstairs "We don't have that title; no, we don't have that one, either" several times. I gave up after trying SIX TITLES.
Room feels cheap, smells of mold, and the AC is loud and vibrates the bed so sleeping was very difficult.
Oh, and I almost forgot: when I arrived, I was dragging two heavy pieces of luggage with a very obvious limp as I had just injured myself skiing the day before. Any place else, I'm sure someone would have at least offered some assistance, something better than the desk clerk shouting out my floor to me as I laborously boarded the elevator...
I wouldn't recommend this hotel for any reason.
Hotel Luna...what a loss
I was planning a trip to Denver from Phoenix to enjoy St. Patricks day with some friends there. I had made reservations five weeks ahead of time in order to ensure my trip ran smoothly. Upon arrival, the front desk informed me that my reservation didn't exist and I wasn't in the system as ever having called. Then, the room I requested had already been rented to someone else. They offered me two rooms for the night, and since I was traveling alone I thought this was ridiculous. I get up to the room they gave me and they offered me a bottle of champagne; nice touch if my inconvenience was worth $10. They made multiple mistakes when it came time to charge my credit card, a mistake of over $200, so I was forced to complain once again. The staff was clueless and seemed to be "checked out" most of the time. The rooms were advertised as contemporary, maybe by K-Marts standards or IKEA at best! MY ADVICE to others thinking of staying here: Spend the extra $35-$50 and stay at the Hyatt near the convention center. The Hyatt is expecting visitors, has an adequate reservation system and is much more contemporary in design. Please think twice before staying at this dump!
Confirm before you show
We booked a 2 night stay at the Hotel Luna through their website 5 months in advance. It took 15mn for someone to show up at the front desk and he looked like he didn't want to be there.
We were then informed they did not have our reservation and that the hotel was full anyway. Thankfully, we had a printed confirmation to prove we had booked. Management informed us that when booking through their website, it actually connects to Expedia with whom they have had similar problems in the past.
So beware of this problem and book on the phone not to have any bad surprises.
In hindsight, we were glad not to stay at the Hotel Luna as they were hosting a product launch and the lobby looked a nightclub.
The management did find us a room at a nearby hotel and helped us with the luggage.
So many nicer places to stay in Denver - don't waste your time @ the Luna!
We stayed here on a Saturday night in September, the night of our wedding. We reserved the largest suite at the Luna Hotel because we had plans to get together with out-of-town friends that evening, since we weren't leaving for our honeymoon until a few days later. It was a nice suite for all of us to hang out in and have some drinks before we went to dinner, so it served it's purpose. And the location is ideal as we were able to walk everywhere.
However, the room was much smaller than I thought it would be for the price and for some reason, when we ran the water in the bathroom sink, it smelled like sulfer - it was so bad that we decided not to shower the next morning and just wait until we got home that afternoon. The room looked nice but up close, everything was cheap, inadequate, and dirty - like fixtures falling off the walls, lamps with missing light bulbs, A/C that was loud and barely worked, dirty carpets with pieces of who knows what on them, and a balcony with a "view" that had a high metal barrier you couldn't see over unless you were standing on a chair.
Also, they advertised on their website and in literature that they deliver crepes and fresh coffee to your door in the morning...however, when we called down that morning, they informed us that the creperie closed down a few months ago. They did bring us bagels and coffee, but we could have had that anywhere.
It was very disappointing and we couldn't wait to leave that morning and get back to the comforts of our own home. I would never recommend this hotel - there are so many nicer places to stay in Denver, and within the same price range!
Good option for your LoDo evening out
Our room was very clean and stylish. The staff was very low key and helpful. It was Saturday night and there was noise from the street and even from the hotel's bar, so keep that in mind if that might bother you. We didn't mind. This place a good value if you're looking for an upscale place to crash after a night out.
The weekend Rocked
I was a little hesitant about staying here reading some of the reviews, however, a friend of mine mentioned she always wanted to stay at the Luna so I thought I would try it out. My husband I arrived on a Friday and checked right in. We thought the Flow Lounge was ultra hip and we wondered if we would even fit in with the crowd later on. Our room was perfect, especially the bed. Everything worked in the room, and our view was right in front of the hotel which was nice to people watch. Saturday morning we woke up and called down to get the complimentary breakfast brought up and that was wonderful. The hotel was in a great location to catch the market street shuttle to the Bronco game. After the Bronco game, we came back and hit the lounge for some dessert fondue! Yum. The one minor issue was that Saturday night there was a party going on in the bar and our room was directly above it so we could hear everything until about 2:00 am. It wasn't that big of a deal for us, and actually was entertaining sometimes.
Overall, the weekend was great and we couldn't have been happier with the Luna!
Don't waste your time
I had high hopes but I couldn't take a shower in the morning as something was wrong with the water. Still awaiting reply from the management after three letters.
Not so cool...
My boyfriend and I stayed one Sunday night at Hotel Luna in October 2004. I hate to admit it, but I made the reservation for Hotel Luna based upon a recommendation from Elle Magazine. I was expecting a hip, fun boutique hotel. What I received was a pretentious lobby, filthy rooms and non-existent service.
We checked in at 4:30pm -well after the 3pm check-in time. We were told to wait in the lobby for 5 minutes while the cleaning staff put the finishing touches on our room. For some reason the music in the lobby was as loud as a Friday night lounge yet the place was empty (except for a couple of yuppie guys --hanging on to previous night, I suppose.)
After 5 minutes we went up to the room in the elevator (illuminated with a red light). Upon exiting the elevator we were confronted with overfilled trash bags. Dirty and clean linens draped over the cleaning carts, and worst of all --food trays PILED UP with leftover room service.
We watched as the housekeeping staff frantically scrambled to "clean" the room. In ten minutes they were off to another floor with their carts, yet for some reason they left the dirty food trays in the hall. They were still there when we left the next morning!!!
The room was bright with a tiny TV and a teeny tiny bathroom. The DVD player was a nice addition and the balcony overlooking the alley was wonderful. The oh-so-hip mini-bar with a French coffee or tea press and extras like Dean and Deluca candy and Fiji water were impressive. That is until I found stray chocolate covered peanuts on the carpet from previous guests and was charged for the water -- despite the fact that we never touched it.
I thought the whole place was trying too hard to be cool. I would have sacrificed the "cool vibe" for cleanliness and better service. Now I know and I will NEVER go back.
Loved the Luna
I have stayed at Hotel Luna several times and will stay again. The bed is wonderful, the hotel is pristine and the staff is very gracious. The selection in the mini bar is great (no alcohol...if you want a drink they'll bring it to your room). The crepes are wonderful, too. The cost is comparable to other hotels in the area.
Shabby nouveau
Unfortunately the cost of the one-night stay did not live up to the rave of this hotel. First one must know that the hotel was quickly remodeled into a chic, ultra mo-dern, "boutique" style hotel. I wouldn't call this a boutique hotel at all. It sure had some neat looking Ikea furnishings, but did not have the impressive woodwork or finishing touches that make it a one of a kind place. There were plenty of over-looked details. Sure our room provided us with a uniquely styled "artisian" water bottle... only to find the seal cracked and the water partiallly used. (Which would point fingers at us to pay for the goods). All the rooms provide mini bars of sorts... for example a cd mini bar... meaning, you have to break the seal of a cd in order to hear it, and then you must pay for it. There was also a Dean and Deluca snack mini bar... any missing brushed steal tins the next morning upon check-out get charged a pretty price. I should also mention the shabby-chic linens on the bed-- holes in the shams, and marker on the sheets -- and the poor workmanship installing many of the room's fixtures. The toliet paper dispenser, for example, literally dangled from the wall... everytime paper was drawn from it, the roll fell to the ground. This was all-inclusive in one of the Penthouse suites. (After upgrade).Perhaps this place might look very cool, and you might actually feel "important" upon entering the property... but look beneath the surface just a tad, and you will quickly realize the money you have spent is not quite worth the shabby nouveau.The overall service was excellent though-- in addressing the very things they should not have looked-over. I should also mention that the crépes for breakfast were wonderous.I would strongly urge you to look further than the Luna Hotel, unless you wish to be bothered by the very things that you hoped would be perfect upon arrival.
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Season In Review: Penn State Nittany LionsPosted by jnowak on April 18th, 2013
Penn State may be the most interesting case study of all teams in the Big Ten this year. Just based purely on numbers and record, they were by and large the worst team in the conference. They nearly went winless in conference play, and after Tim Frazier went down with a season-ending injury early in the year, it was unclear how this team would function at all. While it was indeed a really steep and slow learning curve, a couple really talented players emerged and kept the Nittany Lions' season interesting. For that reason, there are few teams in the conference with as much intrigue surrounding them heading into next year. Let's take a look back at Penn State's season:
- The good: In some ways, we're really grasping at straws here. We're talking about what looked like it would be the first team to go 0-18 in the Big Ten before it pulled off an incredible upset against Michigan on February 27, and then put away Northwestern on March 7 to finish with two wins in their last five games. That Michigan win, all things considered, could have been the biggest upset of the college basketball season (apologies to TCU). But on a larger scale, the emergence of Jermaine Marshall and D.J. Newbill gave fans a great deal to be excited about next year. Believe it or not, they will represent the conference's top two returning scorers after the departures of the likes of Cody Zeller, Victor Oladipo, Trey Burke and Deshaun Thomas. Granted, their production came largely because there was little to no supporting cast around them, but scorers are scorers and Penn State will have a few of them next year. It also bears mentioning that the Nittany Lions put together a nice four-game winning streak through much of December. It was against some pretty bad teams, sure, but it's still something.


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Pop Danthology 2013: Listen to the Year's 68 Hottest Pop Songs in 6 Minutes Flat!Laurie White
Have you checked out DJ Daniel Kim's 2013 Pop Danthology?
You'll probably want to do that now.
This year's mix has Kim's signature mix of all of the best songs from this year, all mashed up in what he calls a "Danthology," or an "anthology of various creative works arranged by Daniel Kim." You can find the track list (in alphabetical order, no less!) and the lyrics and song titles, too, on his site. He also breaks down his workflow and technique in what he says is 180 hours total of work.
I believe him. 2012's mix featured 50+ songs, so he's ramping up by the year, it appears.
I can't keep track of all of my favorite songs this year, in 365 days that had me recommitting to enjoying pop music with no shame whatsoever, so I'm thrilled for the help from DJ Dan. It was Miley's "Wrecking Ball" video that seemed to get all the hype, for instance, but have you listened to the song? It's really pretty great, so now that the noise has died down, give it a listen. I think you might like it, if you didn't know that already. I was also a big fan of Icona Pop's breakout single, "I Love It," and I cannot even tell you how many times I listened to Daft Punk's "Get Lucky," from the day it got leaked pre-release to, well, ten seconds ago. So good. Other faves? Mary Lambert, stepping out from vocals on Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's hit to her own spotlight, Lady Gaga, Anna Kendrick, and oh, so many more.
Who were you listening to in 2013? Chances are Daniel Kim highlights it here.
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The adventures of Barney, President George W. Bush's top dog
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Barney had his cinematic side, too. The dog starred in a series of "BarneyCam" tours of the White House, including "Barney's Holiday Extravaganza" in 2006.
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The Bank Of Princeton's Lambertville Community Art Gallery hosted its first town wide scavenger hunt Aug. 15th – Sept. 15th. 17 winners were drawn on Sept. 24. Patti Coluccio and her daughter Kati who participated in the event said, "running in and out of stores all over town in the pouring rain was the most fun they had in years." "It was tougher than we thought, but our family had a great time doing it!" said Edy Doan. Marianne Rosato, the gallery curator, created the event to promote community and found store owners and hunters equally enthusiastic about the event. She said the only regret was not being able to include many businesses that wanted to participate due to time constraints. She promises that next year's will be bigger and better.
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- Coluccio of Lambertville – Sunday brunch for 2 at The Lambertville Station
- Briggs of Lambertville – Gift valued @ $50 from Blue Racoon
- Kienzler of Lambertville - $50 gift certificate from Park Place Jewlery
- Lews of Pennington – (2) 12ox bags of artisan roasted coffee beans from Rojo's Roastery
- Coluccio of Hamilton – Case of beer from River Horse Brewery
- Tettemer of Lambertville – Dessert & coffee for 2 at Deanna's
- Burstein of New Hope – Gift valued @ $30 from Zinc
- Kenner of Morris Plains - $25 gas card from Breanna Fulper Financial Advisor
- Doan of New Hope - $25 gift certificate from Bucks County Dry Goods
- Eick of Lambertville - $25 gift certificate from The Chocolate Box
- Tuft of Lambertville - $25 gift certificate from Crabtree & Evelyn @ Bear Apothecary
- Dibenedetto of Lambertville - $25 gift certificate from River Queen Gallery
- Tarlini of New Hope - $25 gift certificate from Finkels Hardware
- Corrado of Lambertville - $25 gift certificate from Homestead Market
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A work day is planned for 8:30 a.m.-noon April 28 at Miller Conservation Farm.
For more information, call Danielle Vent, wildlife specialist with Seneca Soil and Water Conservation District, at (419) 447-7071.
Short-term fishing licenses can be purchased by phone
COLUMBUS -Anglers now can purchase one-day and three-day fishing licenses by telephone, according the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife.
Customers have two telephone options to purchase a license by using a credit card.
Call (866) 703-1928 5 a.m. to midnight to reach a live operator, who will walk the customer through the transaction. A $5.50 fee is included with this option.
Or call (855) 764-3474 any time for an interactive voice response system. Callers should have a nine-digit customer identification number, which can be obtained at no cost from the Wild Ohio Customer Center at www.wildohio.com. This option includes a $3.25 fee.
In both cases, the customer is issued a 10-digit license number and instructed to carry it, along with a picture identification, as proof the angler is licensed properly.
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FINDLAY - State Wildlife Officer Scott Sharpe has been assigned to Hancock County, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife.
Sharpe is a 1999 graduate of Liberty Center High School in Henry County. In 2003, he received a bachelor's degree from Bowling Green State University.
As the county wildlife officer, Sharpe is responsible for enforcing laws on public lands as well as private property and assisting to other law enforcement.
Ohio anglers should be aware of fish filleting rule
COLUMBUS - With many Ohio anglers taking advantage of early fishing opportunities, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife would like to remind anglers of a new rule affecting their catch.
Anglers must leave the fish they catch in public waters in the round (whole) or as a complete fillet with skin attached until they reach their home.
This regulation is necessary to deter over harvest of certain species of fish.
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FINDLAY - Spaces are available for adults, groups or conservation clubs with an interest in taking kids fishing and want to become certified fishing instructors, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife.
A free workshop is planned 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 16 at Wildlife District Two, 952 Lima Ave., Findlay.
Passport to Fishing is a one-day instructor training program that qualifies individuals to become Division of Wildlife certified fishing instructors, similar to a hunter education instructor.
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Dave and Jeannie Eller
Dave and Jeannie Hogan Eller of Greene Township are happy to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. They were wed on Sept. 1, 1973, at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Toms River, N.J.
Dave and Jeannie recently returned from a family trip to Ireland, the birthplace of Jeannie's grandparents.
The couple are the proud parents of Brandi Eller Frazer, a music teacher at the Olentangy School District in Columbus, Ohio, and HM2 Bethany Eller, USN, who is currently stationed in Germany. Dave and Jeannie are blessed with two grandchildren, Bryce and Jordyn Frazer.
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Match-Play Component Evens Playing Field in NCAA Men's Golf Championship
You'd be hard pressed to come up with a plausible argument as to why Oklahoma State University isn't going to win its 11th NCAA Championship this week. The Cowboys are not only ranked the No. 1 college team on every meaningful list, the tournament is being held on their home course where they won the Ping/Golfweek Preview in September by four shots from UCLA, and the 2009 NCAA Central Regional by 22 over Arkansas.
The team has won four of its last five events (eight all season in 12 starts) and will tee it up at Tom Fazio-designed Karsten Creek in Stillwater following its fifth straight victory in the Big 12 Championship in which it beat runner-up Texas A&M by 13 strokes at Prairie Dunes in Hutchison, Kans., and its ninth win at NCAA Regionals following an 18-stroke triumph over Colorado State University at Colorado National GC.
Leading the team, which will be making its 65th straight appearance in the national championship, will be Peter Uihlein - the current U.S. Amateur champion and the No. 1 amateur in the world according to the R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking, and No. 2 college player on the Golfweek/Sagarin list. OSU also boasts the third-ranked player on the R&A list, Kevin Tway, and No. 8 Morgan Hoffman.
For the two remaining spots coach Mike McGraw has a number of quality players from which to choose but, if he sticks with the side that won so convincingly in Colorado, he will go to freshman Talor Gooch and sophomore Sean Einhaus. Gooch, currently averaging 73.57 a round, finished third last week and has played all 12 events for the Cowboys in 2010-11. Einhaus, who has won 13 national amateur titles in his native Germany, has played seven tournaments this season with a stroke average of 73.27. He tied for fourth in Colorado.
It's clear then that the stats and stories point to an OSU victory. But then similarly significant numbers have suggested much the same for the last couple of years, and yet Oklahoma State hasn't won the NCAA Championship since 2006.
OSU's undoing has been the same thing that allowed unheralded PGA Tour journeymen like Jeff Maggert, Keith Sutherland and Steve Stricker (long before he was a top-five player) to become world champions. It is that which made it possible for less-than-prolific winners such as Jim Turnesa, Walter Burkemo and Bob Hamilton to become major champions. It was largely responsible for the man (Tiger Woods) who won 14 professional majors in 11 years compiling such an unimpressive Ryder Cup record. In short, it's the form of the game which, though potentially very exciting, can make the formbook irrelevant.
Match play was reintroduced to the NCAA Championship in 2009 after a 44-year absence. Now, three rounds of medal play are used to identify the top eight teams which advance to the match-play bracket while the other 22 go home. In both 2009 and '10, Oklahoma State went into the match play section having led through 54 holes, but both times lost out to teams who surely would not have been a match for them had the old format of 72 stroke-play holes remained in place. Two years ago, OSU lost in the first round to Georgia, while last year it came up against an inspired Augusta State team, led by sophomore Patrick Reed, which beat the favorites 3½-1½ in the final to win its first national championship.
The change has not come without controversy. Besides the fact the team universally considered the best in the country has not won the national title since match play was reinstated, and that the winner of the last two championships - Texas A&M at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, and Augusta State at the Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tenn., began the week as long shots, the increase in interest and drama has not materialized to the degree the NCAA hoped it would.
Of course, interest levels would go through the roof (a fairly low roof admittedly - this is college golf remember) if local boys Oklahoma State progressed to the championship match and there met the No. 2-ranked team, UCLA. Then, if the first four matches were shared and the result hinged on the final encounter in which Uihlein was up against Patrick Cantlay, the top-ranked college golfer in the country and the player Uihlein beat in the semifinals in last year's U.S. Amateur at Chambers Bay, one quick look through the telescope would confirm the NCAA's stars had indeed aligned in perfect formation. It would be the ideal ending for the 114th playing of the event.
To reach Sunday's final, teams will not only need to be loaded with talent, but also possess prodigious stamina and saint-like patience. Karsten Creek, opened in 1994 and named after Ping Golf founder Karsten Solheim, who contributed generously to the OSU golf program, will be 7,416 yards long and full of potential disaster holes. None will be more intimidating than the 471-yard 17th, which played to an average of 4.97 during the NCAA Championship in 2003. That year, Clemson won the team title with a four-round total (pre-match play) of 1,191 - 39-over-par, and Arizona State freshman Alejandro Canizares was the only player to finish under par, completing the 72 holes in 1-under 287.
Given the unpredictability of match play (not to say golf itself), there is a number of potential winners besides Oklahoma State and UCLA. Alabama, led by fourth-ranked Bud Cauley and No. 10 Cory Whitsett, has won five times this season; Florida features three players ranked inside the top 18 - Bank Vongvanij, Phillip Choi and Andres Echavarria; and the equally classy Georgia Tech team has three players in the top 14 - Kyle Scott, JT Griffin and James White.
Conference champions USC (Pac-10) and Illinois (Big Ten) are peaking at the right time, and who's to say Augusta State can't repeat its 2010 victory? The Jaguars have seven top-three finishes from 10 events this season and four members of the team that won the NCAA Championship last year will likely start this week, with Olle Bengtsonn replacing Taylor Floyd.
At the other end, it's tough to see either Kennesaw State or Colorado State mounting much of a challenge. 57th-ranked CSU, whose assistant coach Brian Guetz played for Oklahoma State, is making its first appearance since 1999, and Kennesaw State - half an hour from Atlanta and ranked 44th - will be the only team making its debut. The Owls have four wins this season, including the Atlantic Sun Conference title, and coach Jay Mosely insists his team won't be there just to make up the numbers. But going up against the top programs in the nation and beating them on so long and demanding a course will surely be a huge task.
But if they can make it to match play, anything's possible.
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Friday's reflection on the great March snowstorm of 1993 - is it possible that it was really 20 years ago? - brought a flood of notes and comments from readers whose thoughts were again on snow, because of Nemo. Here are some of the emails I received since the piece appeared:
I will never forget this blizzard as it was the day my son was born, March 15, 1993. We had to have a town snowplow come plow a path through four feet of snow from our parking lot to the road just so we could get to the hospital. We also had to divert to a closer hospital than the one we had planned on going to all along, because the journey would have been too far with that much snow!
Greg Adams
Hey Sean:
Thanks for the reminder -- I was an evening charge nurse on a surgical unit at St. Joe's. Around 8 p.m., I looked out the windows and gathered the staff to tell them that most likely no one would be coming in to relieve us at 11 p.m. We prepared a plan to continue through the night shift and take care of our patients. Thankfully, it was a relatively low census that night and all went well.
The next morning we were met with eerily quiet as the day staff was unable to get to the hospital. We carried on, and our patients were wonderful. One day staff nurse actually walked several blocks through the piles of snow to get to work because she knew her services would be sorely needed. She arrived around 8:30 a.m. Other day staff slowly filtered in throughout the morning. I was finally able to leave at 2:30 p.m. Thankfully, my car had been parked in the garage the entire time, so I didn't have to shovel. But, I remember driving through the city to our duplex on Rockland Avenue. It was a white winter wonderland. I barely recognized our street, but by the time I arrived my husband and his best friend (who lived downstairs) had managed to shovel a space for my car and create a tunnel of sorts through the snow to the front porch steps!
I will never forget that 24-hour period!
Judy Holmes
Syracuse, NY
My husband and I were looking to buy a home. We were looking in Cazenovia and both of us work in Syracuse. Then the blizzard of 93 hit. As a result, we realized the commute would be too much for us and we bought a home on Onondaga hill in the summer of 1994. We have been very happy here ever since !!
Lisa Rigge
To: Sean Kirst
I loved the storm! I was living about 1 km from a beach in Fiji as a Peace Corps volunteer! It was a great Second Goal opportunity to explain 42 inches of snow in a place it never gets colder than 15C!
Linda Lamach
Do you remember that by the following weekend, it was in the '60s? I took my 8-year old daughter to the zoo. The zoologists were in coats and ties in the parking lots helping people to park around the mountains of snow. In the courtyard outside the restaurant, a family was having a picnic lunch on one of the benches!
James Savage
Hi Sean,
I smiled when I read about your memory of the kids next to the snow. I also have a memory and picture of my preschool daughter and the mountains of snow. As I recall the weather was warm a day or two after the storm.
I was living in Tully then with a very long driveway. That storm left so much snow we couldn't clear the driveway, and the plow truck couldn't either because it was uphill from the road. It took a week to get the driveway cleared because we had to wait for a farmer to bring his front end loader to dig it out. And he needed to get his barns & loading areas cleared first.
Our cars were stuck at the top of the driveway. We shoveled a walking path to the road and a friend came by and picked me up for work. We learned after that to park a car at the bottom of the driveway if a big snow storm was expected. J
Ann McIntyre
Worked at Bristol Myers at the time. Stranded there for three days. Worked as a skeleton crew to keep the processes going. Found enough food at the cafeteria to keep us for days until relief came. Lived outside of Fulton at the time and took a fourth day to get down my road.
Spencer Martin
During the Blizzard of '93 I was in high school and was a part of the Cicero-North Syracuse Dance Ensemble. We traveled each year to places out of state for competitions because there weren't any in our area. That particular year was our trip to compete in Texas. We were operating under a tighter budget that year so our trip was to be shorter than normal. We got to Texas and the snow fell in Syracuse. We enjoyed the sunshine down there and got stuck down an extra day. The good news was it allowed us a day of sight seeing at the Alamo and other places in San Antonio. We got plenty of updates from family over the phone and we have great videos of our team enjoying the sun and talking on camera about what was going on at home. It certainly was a sight to see when we arrived home!
Joelle Greer
Cicero resident
I was on break from Wells College- what I mostly remember is that we had access to some cross country skis. I'd never skied cross country before. It was so much fun skiing through suburban streets to visit with friends! Hard to believe that was twenty years ago... Still on the bucket list to try it again sometime.
Nice article about the blizzards. I am a Le Moyne graduate so I remember a storm or two from those days. In '93 I was living in Chenango Bridge (near Binghamton) in my first home which I had moved into the year before. I remember getting a call from my friend in Norwich, where I was working. I don't remember what day of the week it happened, but we were talking about the roads and how bad the conditions were since I had a commute to work. I had forgotten that Syracuse got a whopping 42+ inches. In Binghamton as I remember it was about 27 inches, which is the most I had ever seen.
Just after that storm my mom fell and broke her hip, and I recall thinking that I was thankful it hadn't happened just a few weeks before during the blizzard. This time it looks like we will get less than a foot of snow, so that won't be too bad.
Happy shoveling!
Don Nellenback
Sean, in response to your '93 snow storm column I was (at the Big East Tournament in New York City) with friends and remember standing in the middle of Madison Ave knee deep in snow without a cab in site. Quite a trip
Bob Daino
I was working for a lumber yard in Rome. The weather forecast was for about 10". I have family in Pa. They were going to get 2 ft or more. Wow did that feel great. By 11:00 in the morning things changed, I was considering closing early. By 12:30 we closed we had about 24" on the ground and I had 20 miles to get home. The 20 minute drive turned into 90 and after helping 3 different car out of a snow bank I made it home. The storm dropped @ 45" on us in Rome and it all took place between 8:30 AM and 4:00. I remember it like it was yesterday!
Dave Bass
The very day the storm started, I was busy purchasing a new fishing and diving boat at Fremac Marina with Capt. Tony Buffa helping to sort out the particulars with me. Not that I considered the Great White I experienced during the negotiations as any kind of Omen, but the drive home from Bridgeport to B'ville was one of the most harrowing I have ever done.
When I got home, I told my wife Megan what we bought, which we had been discussing for some time, and she just nodded. She said something about " once this snowstorm melts in the spring we probably could use the boat in our front lawn, and asked me when I'd be starting our hard water machine, the trusty Ariens snow blower. The 6 foot drift across our driveway took nearly 5 hours to vanquish, which gave me plenty of time to reflect on the variety of ways precipitation keeps us occupied throughout the year in a number of ways.
Jim Sollecito
From Twitter:
Had a 1 month old and an 18 month old with pneumonia & had to get to hospital in the height of the storm. The good old days!
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Overnight at the Ronald McDonald House because we couldn't make it home to B'ville from the hosp.Drove home next AM. All plowed.
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I was 8 and remember playing in the snow in the road on Stinard Ave with the neighbors. We thought it was the coolest thing ever!
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I remember driving through it with my dad - all the way from Malone (!!) to CNY. Up there for a family funeral. Took us 8+ hrs.
From Twitter:
The massive drifts at SU's South Campus. I thought this Buffalo born fellow knew snow. Then I moved to Syracuse.
From Twitter:
I remember some snowmobiles whizzing around the North Side for like a day and a half after the storm.
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The Xbox 360 is back in black
March 29, 2007 After more rumours (and denials) than you can shake a stick at, Microsoft have officially announced the new Xbox 360 Elite, and somehow managed to leave us with more questions than answers. What we can safely tell you is that it's got an HDMI port, comes with a 120GB HDD...and it's black.
There's no official word on which revision of HDMI was used, so we can't tell you anything more than 'it'll do 1080p.' Given how chuffed some PlayStation 3 owners are with the HDMI 1.3 port in their consoles, we'd be surprised if Microsoft dropped the ball on this one.
The 120GB hard drive finally gives users the space to store decent amounts of HD video content alongside the gigabytes of game demos and Live Arcade games that once fought for the prior 20GB. A cable will be included to transfer data from an existing 20GB drive to the new 120GB drive.
We've heard mixed reports regarding whether the Elite will be a permanent SKU, or a limited-edition run for the upgrade-junkies and collectors before the existing Premium console absorbs the HDMI port and larger HDD.
The Xbox 360 Elite will be released in the US on April 29th and will cost US$479. The 120GB HDD will be available seperately and cost $179.


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Former North Carolina coach Butch Davis offered his son, Drew Davis, a football scholarship, the Raleigh News & Observer reported Thursday. The offer came as a surprise to UNC chancellor Holden Thorp.
Drew Davis is a senior quarterback at East Chapel Hill High. Thorp said he would have appreciated being told by Davis about the offer.
"I found out about that a couple months ago when I saw it online," Thorp told the paper, "and yes, I was disappointed that neither the athletic director nor I knew about that."
Davis was fired last week as the UNC coach. North Carolina is being investigated by the NCAA for numerous violations, including academic fraud and players receiving impermissible benefits.
"Drew is a good kid and I feel bad for him in all this," Thorp said, "and for all I know, we would love to have him on the football team. But with everything going on, it would be good for the athletic director and the coach to talk about that and probably for all three of us to talk."


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Our panel title is "The Aftermath of War: Dislocation and Dispossession." The two papers are, "Territorial Effects of WW I on Indigenous Populations" and "Property Confiscation
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It's no secret that after Collin Klein's performance in Morgantown last Saturday, he has become the apparent favorite of the Heisman Trophy race.
While it is going to be a huge challenge for the Texas Tech defense, stopping Klein will not be the only challenge presented to Tommy Tuberville and his 14th ranked Red Raiders.
The Kansas State defense has held all opponents they have faced to less than 21 points in every game this season. K-State has arguably one of the most disciplined defenses in the country and that has become very apparent through the midway point of the season.
The head man at Kansas State sees the significance in this statistic but if there is anyone who can keep his team grounded, it's Bill Snyder.
"Well, I think it's significant in this day and age, and certainly it just addresses the somewhat continued improvement that we have made on that side of the ball," he said. "I think we have gradually gotten a little better and a little better, and that's again newer guys fitting in with the older guys, becoming a little more acclimated to what we are doing. The experience of playing a variety of different types of offensive schemes, you know, granted that most everybody is spread out but you get to see both. It is just a natural habit of improving over the course of the year."
Tech quarterback Seth Doege is also well aware of the types of challenges this K-State defense presents to his offense.
"I haven't gotten to watch a whole lot of film on them yet," Doege said. "But from last year, I know that they were so disciplined in what they did. They play extremely hard, and they didn't give up a whole lot of big plays. They force you to make a mistake or turnover the ball, and I think that's what they thrive on doing."


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Monday, July 7, 2014
Calling all girls!
The Berkeley Lady Stags cross country team needs girl runners and Coach Melissa Hicks has put out the call for any and all female student athletes interested in running cross country this fall.
Hicks wants to field a girls running team. In her three years as the BHS cross country coach she has managed to entice a handful of girls to run, but never more than three in a season and not enough to qualify as a complete Region 8AAA team.
One year I had only one female, she said.
In order for the girls to compete as a team five runners are needed, however, seven is usually considered a complete team.
Hicks has three girl runners this summer so far but would like more. At this point none of my three girls from last year are returning to the team. One graduated, one had knee problems, and the third,
I am hoping we can work something out with her busy schedule and have her back on the team with us, she said.
The three runners Hicks does have are two rising seventhgraders and a rising freshman.
They are showing up to every summer conditioning practice which is very promising, she said.
Hicks has two more that are interested but both have busy schedules this summer.
If Hicks can keep the interested runners she has through the summer until the start of the 2014-2015 school year she may be able to field her first-ever Lady Stags competitive cross country team.
I plan on attending the ninth- graders Stag Stampede in August at the high school and try to recruit more runners at that time, she said.
Hicks has enjoyed unprecedented success at the helm of the schools cross country program, taking the boys team to the state meet in 2013.
It is difficult for me to recruit at the high school because I teach at the middle school, she said.
I would love to see both the boys and girls teams field a total of 20 or more runners. This will give us enough runners to have a varsity and junior varsity squad.
Attrition hits her cross country program hard as Hicks continues to lose about six to eight boys a year due to graduation.
However, I am usually able to add those back with the new boys that come out each year, she said.
The girls team has been more of a struggle.
I have a great bunch of kids and anyone that wants to join our team will develop great friendships, improved work ethics, and a love for fitness and being healthy.
The teams run three nights a week at the Pinopolis United Methodist Church on Pinopolis Road in Pinoplis at 6:30 p.m.
Interested runners can check the Berkeley Cross Country group page on Facebook or contact the Berkeley High School athletics office at 843-899-8805.
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Playwright August Wilson is topic of lecture at Johnson C. Smith University
Charlotte, N.C. (February 7, 2012) -- Lou Bellamy and Sarah Bellamy will visit Johnson C. Smith University on Feb. 14 to give a lecture on August Wilson and the staging of his plays. The lecture will take place at 1:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre at Johnson C. Smith University's Arts Factory on Beatties Ford Road near the main campus.
Lou Bellamy is a personal friend of August Wilson's and is considered "the foremost living interpreter" of Wilson's plays. He is founder and artistic director of Penumbra Theatre in Minneapolis and served as associate professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota for 35 years. His recent directing includes: Radio Golf at Indiana Repertory and Cleveland Play House, Two Trains Running at Penumbra, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom staged in Phoenix, Tucson and Minneapolis, and I Wish You Love staged at Penumbra, The Kennedy Center and Hartford Stage.
In 2009 Bellamy received the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Award for Public Leadership and was inducted into The College of Fellows of the American Theatre. He received the 2007 Obie award for Best Direction; the 2007 National Black Theatre Festival Lloyd Richards Award for Directing; and the 2006 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award.
Sarah Bellamy is associate artistic director at Penumbra Theatre who specializes in educational outreach. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College where she studied creative writing and postcolonial theory. She holds an M.A. in the Humanities from The University of Chicago.
She served as the dramaturge for several of August Wilson's plays and is currently compiling first-hand accounts of Penumbra Company members on the ensemble technique formed in presenting Wilson's plays.
Founded in 1867, Johnson C. Smith University is the premier independent urban liberal arts university located in the heart of Charlotte, N.C. It offers a progressive liberal arts curriculum with 26 fields of study to nearly 1,600 students. The University prepares students for success through excellent academic programs with a focus on servant leadership, civic engagement and global responsibility.
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Brisbane — The Proteas' celebrated pace attack took a hammering in the first Test against Australia and has much to prove in next week's second, but batsman Hashim Amla believes it remains the best pace attack in the world.
The tourists fielded a four-pronged pace attack in Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander, Morne Morkel and debutant Rory Kleinveldt, but conceded centuries to Ed Cowan and Mike Hussey as well as an unbeaten 259 to Australia captain Michael Clarke.
Amla, the top-ranked batsman in the International Cricket Council standings, scored a century in South Africa's first innings as the Proteas took early charge of the match and then played a key role to hold off Australia's fired-up quicks and eke out a draw on Tuesday.
"Australia has a good attack, obviously they had home conditions and so on," said the quietly spoken Amla. "In world cricket there are a lot of good attacks. In my opinion, we have the best attack and Australia and England are also up there."
South Africa had the Australians on the ropes at 40/3 on day three of the Test before Clarke joined Cowan at the crease for a record stand to wrest the momentum back.
Bowling coach Allan Donald thought his attack had performed well in parts on a surface that offered little movement.
"I thought we created some chances for long periods," he said on Monday. "We could have had Michael Clarke caught a couple of times with some really good, telling deliveries that fell into spaces. You go through those periods as batsmen, you ride that pressure and I thought that Australia rode that pressure really well."
That said, figures of 1/129 for Steyn, 0/103 for Philander, 3/127 for Morkel and 0/97 for Kleinveldt did not make attractive reading for the South Africans.
For Philander it was a first real setback since the late bloomer burst onto the Test arena and started his meteoric rise to No2 in the world rankings behind Steyn.
"He knew at some stage that he would run into something like this. He is a class bowler," said Donald. "Australia have done their homework pretty well and came out of their crease a little bit more to nullify the lbws.
"You are going to get those days where you are going to have to slog it out, you are going to get those days when you are going to toil for long periods of time.
"Vernon is the honest businessman, he comes to the party most of the time. That's why you have a group of players, if someone's having a tough time, someone needs to help him out."
South Africa's progress after a dominant day one was halted by the second day being washed out for rain and they also played most of the Test with 10 men after JP Duminy ruptured his Achilles in training. Having lost Duminy for six months, there seems little chance South Africa will leave spinner Imran Tahir out for the Test at the Adelaide Oval. While batter-friendly, the pitch can deteriorate markedly towards the end of a five-day match.
Kleinveldt is almost certain to make way for Tahir after a difficult debut, if nothing else because of the 12 no-balls he bowled.
"I think he bowled well in patches, nobody thinks you are going to get an easy ride on your Test debut. I think he did okay," said Donald.
South Africa, unbeaten in an away series since 2006, are likely to give up the No1 Test ranking if they lose the series.
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If you're just joining us, we've had two webcasts the end of September and early October.
This is our first webcast of the fall challenge and today we'll be talking about how to analyze a HiRISE image.
If you've never joined us for the challenge yet or this is your first time to view a webcast, we have a couple webcasts archived from our spring challenge.
So I encourage you to go to the website and look at those.
Today what we'll do is be analyzing the HiRISE image.
Can I have the next slide, please?
And basically to analyze HiRISE image what we want to you do is get a feeling for where the image is taken. Because the HiRISE image is so close up you don't see the surrounding area very well.
We want you to swait yourself on Mars and ask yourself, where is this image located and what are the features?
Is it located within a canyon or crater or large volcano whereon Mars is this?
Is the surface seem very old or young, are there lots of craters surrounding this area or very few craters.
Then I'd like you to be able to look at the full HiRISE image and when you do that, you'll see the image but you won't see a huge amount of detail. But I want you to pick out some prominent features and what can these features tell you about the geology of the area. Then I'd like to you zoom in on some of those interesting areas and tell us what you -- describe the area and say what do these features look like, what are the textures of the area.
Keep zooming in until you're zoomed in at full resolution and describe some of the things about the image that you haven't seen before.
Are there interesting textures about the surface, do you see gullies, do you see boulders at high reds laoution, do you see different textures?
And then finally, we'd like you to look at the color image, which is the central portion of the HiRISE and central 20%.
And that gives you quite a bit of information about what the surface is made of, what is the composition is made of.
What it will tell you is are there differences that reflect different compositions, usually within the surface. So I'd like to you look at that.
So next slide please.
So what we'll do is we'll start in by looking at a couple HiRISE images.
We'll be looking from the broad areas to swait you to let you know where these features are located, then we'll progressively zoom in and finally look at the color images.
So we'll start by looking at gullies and craters.
There is a purple area to the right, that is a large impact basin called basin.
And the gullies are located to the west of that large impact crater.
It's located in the ancient crater.
If you zoom in on some of the other context images or Viking images in HiWeb you'll see there's lots of craters in this area.
The image on the right shows another image.
The HiRISE images we'll show you next is the image as outlined on the white box and you can see the next image I'll be showing you is located on the north slope of an impact crater.
Next slide.
So when you zoom in to HiRISE image the top part of the impact crater you can see a ridge of boulders at the very top of the image and then there's a smoother area and then as you go down you start to see the head waters of the gullies.
The gullies start at different elevations down the slope, some start from the fine layers, some just start from the top of the crater rim. Next slide.
If we look at this slide, this is the color image.
The top of the image is near the top of the crater rim.
It has like a blueish color and the center part shows more of a gold color.
If you look closely, if you have downloaded our presentation.
You'll see the patterns in that slope and those are likely caused by permafrost conditions with ice in the subsurface moving around the soil into patterns and then the gully is farther in the surface.
So likely the surface composition has changed from the top through the middle toward the bottom.
Next slide, please. OK.
And lastly this is the middle and end part of the -- of the gullies, the lower elevation.
And you can see the middle part -- most of the image shows the middle part of the gully which has a defined channel.
I'm going to get down to the bottom and it starts to form the deposit of material. So all that material that was removed from the crater slope is being deposited down near the bottom of the crater.
Next slide.
So let's look at another HiRISE image.
This image is actually suggested by Steve's class of leap charter academy in New Jersey and this was actually suggested during the spring challenge, but we still need a image caption for this one.
Any group out there that would like to help us write an image caption, you can do so. This is a black and white image here, you can see the red star.
That star is located on the southwestern plank of Mons.
So the image is of a fracture system off the flank of this large volcano. So let's move to the next one.
Now this is the HiRISE image of that area, it's right at the intersection of those two fractures.
You can see the one on the right on the top is the much shallower than the one that dominates most of the HiRISE image.
Below you can see an image that gives a perspective of this area, you can see the deeper area with the fracture going across.
As we zoom into this image, next slide, please, we can see that the deeper part of the cavern, the one that was running from the top left to the bottom right, is the a much deeper cavern. If you look at the upper parts of the walls, you can see some light and dark regions.
We also see some dark streaks and then the rest of the wall is fairly bright and is probably containing a lot of debris that's sheding off the top.
Next slide, please.
This is a close up of some of the top area.
These are more resistant to erosion than other layers.
You can see the top part of the plateau, this is like a a fairly dusty area, that's fairly easily erode able.
So it's very different than the cliff wall.
And also the very upper part of the cliff wall you can see a little bright layer and dark layer going through it.
These are likely made up of different materials, some are more resistant, some just have different coloration which suggest different compositions.
Next slide, please.
Now this is the part of a color image, and the color image you can see a lot of variations, you can see the overall cast of the image is kind of a gold cast, you can see some dark areas and see some hints of dark layering as you go down the slope.
If you very in really far, you can see boulders.
Even at this area you can see boulders going down the slope.
Next slide, please.
This is a close up of one of those dark streaks earlier. These are slope streaks.
And they're from removal of the dust layer and the bright area.
And it's found there's darker material underneath it and they -- because these slopes are so steep, the material -- the dust rolls or just moves down the slope under gravitational forces and leaves a dark streak as it does so.
And this is just a close up picture of using the HiRISE image of this intersection of the two caverns.
And next slide.
And just another area of this -- of this intersection showing the wall of the deeper cavern.
And you can see that there's various dark lines which may or may not are horizontal, some are not.
There's some distinctive resist ant areas down the slope.
Next slide.
Now I'll turn it over to Doctor Davatzes.
First of all, if you're joining us here today, please be sure to get your questions in earlier.
We'll talk about further examples of how to answer the image.
Make sure to get your questions in early.
And, also, I wanted to let you know that the slides are on line for reference, so you can follow along with us on the webcast, but you can also download this entire presentation from the web.
That's on that page that you used to sign in.
Let's go back to analyzing some of these images here. As Ginny mentioned, we are now looking at an image of dune fields from an area near the south polar region.
On the lower last of this image, you can see a black and white image which shows the south pole is that center portion of the image, a brighter feature, that is actually the south pole. Let me see if I can show it here.
It's kind of -- it's a little trick toy work.
But that's the south pole. And then down at the lower portion of the image down here is where this image that we're looking at today.
On the right side is -- the star shows this is within a crater.
So now let's move onto the next slide to we can look at the image itself.
So here's the full-scale image of this south polar dune field.
This boundary here marks the boundary of the dune field.
The outer portion of the crater floor.
And you can see a few of these wavy features in through here.
These are actually the individual dunes of the crater.
And this broad overall scale we can see some Jen textures, we see there's some darker areas, darker patches, especially right in through here and up a little up through here.
We see all these dark spots. But it's a hard to tell what they are, if we zoom in a little more we can tell more about this area, the geologic history of this area.
Let's move to the next slide.
Here we've zoomed in a bit more.
On the right side here you can see a box, which outlines the area that we're looking at on the left side.
And again these bright white lines mark the crust of these dune fields, of the dune.
And then we see these dark streaks again.
And what they appear to do, they appear to be sliding down the side of these dunes.
So these bright white lines mark a peak, and then these black lines are coming out of the deep wall of the dunes.
If we zoom in even closer, we can see in detail what these black streaks actually look like.
We can see they start as a larger spot and then form little streaking lines that come down the wall.
Now as we move from observing different characteristics of this area to interpreting what this might mean, sometimes you think that maybe what these are is actually material, icy material, either carbon die oxide.
So what happens is that ice just did he naoej the surface actually changes from on ice to a gas, and as it does that, it may form a small geyser and pull material from the underlying areas beneath this frosted cover to the surface.
That's bringing this dark material.
That dark material then comes up and then slides down the surface of the dune.
And so we see this is happening all along the crust of one of these individual dunes right in through here. The other thing we can see is that on top of these dunes are even smaller dunes.
We can see some down through here and some over here, and we can see multiple stages of winds that are forming these dunes.
These are all aeolian processes making these.
And aeolian means wind-driven.
So all of these dunes are forming on top of existing dunes.
We can see multiple layers upon layers of this geologic history. If we move to the next slide, next week see the color of this area. Again, here are some of these dark spots that are again probably some sort of sublimation of ice or gas. Around these dark spots are brighter area.
So the color can actually give us more of an indication of what's going on, and the dune face itself is actually yellow.
It's providing us more clues that, yes, that is probably material being brought up from beneath the surface.
So move onto the next slide.
So now what we've done is we've kind of taken you through just a brief example of how to -- how to analyze these images.
Maybe, let's stop for a moment and do some introductions of the two of us and return back.
I'm Doctor Alex Davatzes.
>> I'm Doctor Ginny Gulick.
>> As soon as I take you through a little more about the next steps that we'll be doing in this process, please remember to submit questions you may have into the chat room so we can answer those.
So let's shift back to that slide.
So what we're going to do now is we've just finished taking about 25 of your images that you guys have suggested and we're putting them up on a website right now that you can actually use to look at your image and do the same thing we did in the last few slides.
Actually look at the big, broad-scale image and zoom closer and closer and analyze the image.
What we're doing now is setting up the website and Doctor Gulick will send you an e-mail as to how to access this website. We have 25 images currently and about five more are planned to be taken in the next month. So those will all be up shortly.
Just a reminder the challenge will end December 14th.
We'll need your full reports then.
And so let's take a look at what you will see when you log into the site.
So at the top of this website, there's going to -- in the main part of the image here, the image will be right here that you'll see.
And you'll be able to download either the broad scale image or full-scale image.
Next slide, please, next step.
Then what you'll be able to do is actually download report form from the website.
So up where you see the red arrow is where you'll click, and this will download the report form, you'll be able to fill that out.
And the questions are set up so they'll try to help you get to the point where you can actually write a figure caption. Actually, the last image that I just discussed, a student from Hungry actually captioned it. So as soon as you fill out this report, you can use the white button to upload it.
You can upload a figure caption just to the -- let's see, just to the right of that button.
So, for example, if your image doesn't get taken or you want to look at some of the images from the spring challenge and write a figure caption, you can do that.
You don't have to write a figure caption for your own image, but you can do it for any of them.
You can post it on the web and you'll get credit for that for all the world to see.
Then next.
Again, you'll see the red arrow is moved here.
What we also set up was a discussion group, if we don't get to your questions today during the webcast, we've set up a Google group where we can answer questions.
You can also try to answer each other's questions and talk about ideas and have an exchange of ideas.
Part of the scientific process. We hope that will be helpful to you, as well.
That gives you a clue with how to go on with the next step. Again, this week you will get an e-mail telling you how to access the images, then you'll be able to go to those images, download the report and fill out the report and caption the figure captions.
Once you do that, we'll start posting new student images.
If you haven't seen those, go to the main HiRISE website, type students and you'll see all of the student images of the week that have been posted so far.
So next slide.
Do we have any questions?
>> OK. We don't have an abundance of questions.
People have sort of checked in, checked out and so forth.
But hopefully those who are in the chat room now can go ahead and put some questions in and we'll pass them on.
I have one from W. Pen.
How do you submit the written report, do you e-mail it?
>> I think Doctor Davatzes just answered that question.
You go to the website that we'll provide you, and then up above on each image you will see download the report.
So you'll download the report, it's a Word document.
Once you're finished, you staef and upload it from your computer to -- to our website.
And so that's basically how you do it.
It's very easy.
It's menu driven, so if you have any questions, you can feel free to e-mail us and we'll try to help you through the process.
Michelle from Mrs. J.'s class has several questions.
Have you found water on Mars?
>> Well, we haven't found liquid water on Mars.
But there's definitely water in the form of ice.
But that's something we're still looking for.
>> Following up, she says, where?
>> Like I said, there's water ice on the polar caps but no liquid ice.
>> A lot of the things we talked about show there's ice below the surface.
We talked about the sublimation of the ice.
Ginny described a terrain she saw another the dunes.
That's another indicator there's ice below the surface and there's also ice at the poles.
>> There's also gullies, those are recent and they were formed by liquid water.
We don't know how recent.
They could be 100 years ago, could be yesterday or could be longer, or could be 1,000 or more.
They're fresh, so they're not ancient features.
>> Between Trinity and Michelle.
They have questions, they sort of summarize how much water do you think is on Mars or in the area?
>> Well east of the volcano.
That area is a series of fractures, integrated fractures along the Valles Marineris area.
It's likely there was water there early ago, but probably not so recently now.
>> Also, just a plug, if you are interested in that area, we took one from the HiRISE challenge in the spring. If you go to the spring website, there's a link to that on the main HiRISE page, you can actually see that image and write a caption, if you'd like to see that. >> OK.
I'm trying to answer someone who is having trouble getting on the video.
We have a question, we're having trouble analyzing the images because there is no scale on the image. We'd like to know the elevation and scale of the pixels.
The go to windows are hard for us to understand.
Is there any Google Earth life planned to make it easier to find?
>> If you look at the browse images, you will see there is a scale bar on the browse images.
So that should help. That's probably all we have right now.
But there will be information the actual scale of the image as posted along with the image.
>> All images are about six kilometers across, or most of them are.
And so that will give you a pretty good idea of what type of scale you're looking at. As far as elevation changes, we need to use stereo images.
You can also use another scale, it will give you a little idea.
There's also a profile on HiWeb.
If you've used HiWeb to suggest your image, you can actually go back into HiWeb and there it will give you some information, you can try clicking around on some of the buttons and you can experiment with using this elevation profile and also give you the broad context of where this image is located.
Same person, question, maybe clarifying a little.
The in and out method.
We can't do them on our small screen. >> Well, that can be difficult.
The basic thing is what we use as geologists, find something you know is a negative/positive feature and then look at where the sunlight is coming from.
If it's a negative feature and there's a shadow cast on one side, just think about where the sun is associated and then the sun is coming -- or the slope is facing the area that's -- that the sun is illuminating.
Just remember that craters are generally easy to see on the surface and those are negatives. Then you look at the craters and go to the other features and see if it's a positive feature or negative features. >> When these images are released, they're released with the information about where the sun is coming from, then you can use that information to see where the shadows are to tell you if it's down, a negative feature or a positive feature.
We're running out of questions here, except people who are having some problem getting into the video.
I'm not sure what the problem is, they're saying the password.
Maybe they're talking about accessing the website.
Maybe this is a good time to talk about registering. >> So if you have registered for this -- for this quest challenge, this HiRISE Quest challenge, you will have been sent an e-mail about how to access HiWeb and user name password associated with that.
But also for the new website that will have the images suggested during this challenge for the fall challenge, that will be password protected.
And I will be sending you all an e-mail that have registered information -- sorry, there was a little bit of an interruption here.
>> Information on how to access that.
It will be password protected.
I have not sent that out yet because the website is not ready.
For those of you who participated in the spring challenge, anyone can go to the spring website.
I'm just making sure that folks that are having a little trouble with the video know that sometimes the fire wall issues in their schools and things like that can be a problem. Anyway, the archive of this webcast will be up shortly after we're done and there shouldn't be any fire wall issues with getting a look at it at that point.
I think -- let me just do a fetch here.
I have gotten a couple of people saying we have to go to class.
Any closing words that you have?
>> Let me just remind you that this webcast will be archived, but we also have an archived webcast from the spring challenge, which talks about how to use HiWeb and questions about Mars.
You can check that out.
We also did two webcasts earlier during September and October that answered some questions.
So if you have any questions, you might also be able to look at those and that will provide you more information.
>> Of course, you're always welcome to e-mail us if you have specific questions.
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Again, there is the chat area open that you can ask questions from.
Don't forget to register, if you haven't already.
We'll see you next time.
Hopefully you'll be watching as the new images are posted.
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JDev 11.1.2: Differences in Table Behavior
By Steven Davelaar on Jul 28, 2011
While building a simple ADF application in JDev 11.1.2 I encountered some strange runtime behavior. I built another application with the same behavior in exactly the same way in JDev 18.104.22.168 and there things worked smoothly. However, in JDev 11.1.2, the addRow and deleteRow functions didn't work as expected. In this post I will share my tough journey in founding out what was happening, and discuss the difference in behavior and the changes required to make it work in JDev 11.1.2.
When using the add row button (the green plus icon in the screen shot below) an error message for the required JobId dropdown list was shown immediately.
Some investigation using the Google Chrome Developer tools revealed that two requests instead of one are sent to the server, with apparently the second request causing the validation error to appear. (Although, the validation error is a client-side error, so still not sure how the second request can trigger the error.)
At first I thought this was caused by the partialSubmitproperty on the addRow button, which was set to true. Setting this property to false (or removing this property) fixed this problem, but caused table rendering to hang. Weird, but I didn't investigate that further. I decided to build the same app in JDev 184.108.40.206 which worked smoothly and then opened this app in JDev 11.1.2. After the auto-migration, I ran the app but much to my surprise the "Selection required" message didn't show up. I compared the page and page definition of both apps over and over again, and couldn't see any difference. Eventually, I started comparing all the files in both projects. This lead me to the adf-config.xml file, located in the .adf directory under the root directory of the application, also visible under the Resources panel. In this file, one property existed in the JDev 11.1.2 application that was not present in the JDev 188.8.131.52 version: changeEventPolicy="ppr".
By removing this property, things started to work again, and only one request was sent again.
Note that the really tricky thing here is that when you upgrade an application from JDev 220.127.116.11 this property does not get added, but new JDev 11.1.2 apps will have this property setting, causing difference in behavior between a migrated app and a new app. At this point, my recommendation is to remove this property (or set it to none) for new JDev 11.1.2 apps. If memory serves me well, in some JDev 11.1.1.x version, dragging and dropping a data a table on a page, added the changeEventPolicy="ppr" property to the iterator binding in the page def. In a later JDev 11.1.1.x release this property was gone again. Looks like it is back in a different form (this time in adf-config.xml), but still with undesirable implications.
The next error I hit was in the delete confirmation dialog, when trying to delete a row. Regardless of which button I pressed (Yes or No), I got validation errors on the underlying new row, and the dialog was not closed, nor was the row removed.
Now, I think this error has to do with the ADF Faces optimized JSF lifecycle. Since the table needs to be refreshed when the row is removed by clicking yes in the dialog, the af:table component requires a partialTrigger property that refers to the af:dialog element. With this partialTrigger property in place the ADF JSF optimized lifecycle causes the table items to be submitted (and validated) as well when clicking the Yes or No button in the dialog. Now,I am speculating here, but may be this wasn't supposed to work at all in JDev 126.96.36.199, but it did because of a bug in the optimized lifecyle code, that has now been fixed in JDev 11.1.2...?
Anyway, what feels like the most logical and easy way for me to solve this issue, is setting the immediate property on the af:dialog to true, so the dialog listener method would skip the JSF validation phase. However, the af:dialog element does not have such a property (logged enhancement request). Two other solutions remain:
- No longer use the dialoglistener property, but instead define custom Yes/No buttons using the toolbar facet on the af:dialog. On these buttons I can set the immediate property to true, bypassing client-side and server-side validation.
- Do not specify the af:dialog as partial trigger on the af:table component, instead, add the table or a surrounding layout container element as partial target programatically after deleting the row. This is the solution I chose, since it only required one line of code in the managed bean class that deletes the row.
Links and references:
- Sample JDev 126.96.36.199 application
- Sample JDev 11.1.2 application
- Bug 12813544: adf-config setting changeEventPolicy=ppr causes premature table row validation
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