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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
If you dont have a visible numeric address on your house, dont be surprised if you get a ticket. Williamsburg County Emergency Management Division (EMD) Director Tiffany Cooks said they would soon begin to issue warnings for those who do not have the required 911 addresses displayed in plain view. Cooks presented the information during a July 21, Kingstree Town Council meeting which is part of an ongoing effort to inform local municipalities of their ongoing projects.
Its not uncommon to see emergency responders riding up and down streets with their blue or red lights flashing. They arent on a joy ride; rather, they are more than likely searching for an address that isnt posted. We need citizens to post those numbers, make them visible, said Cynthia B. Williams, EMD Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordinator during an interview at the agency. Especially when we live in a community that has Circles and Loops. Well call them and theyll say, Im in the third trailer. Well, is that the third trailer on the left or the third trailer on the right? At what end of the Loop?
In order to combat the problem, the county is enforcing state law. According to the state code, numbers must be conspicuously placed immediately above, on, or at the side of the appropriate door so that the number is visible clearly from the street. In cases where the building is situated more than 50 feet from the street or road, the building number also must be placed near the walk, driveway, or common entrance to the building, or upon the mailbox, gatepost, fence, or other appropriate place so as to clearly be visible from the street or road.
Keonta Moore, EMD Chief of Planning, is in the process of identifying business properties and making contact with the owners to gain vital information that will go into a database for emergency management as well as E-911. In the event something should happen and an officer needs the owner, or the first or second person to respond out here, were capable to contact someone that can respond to the business.
Residents, businesses, owners, or others who fail to comply with this subsection are guilty of a misdemeanor, triable in magistrates court, and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 30 days. Each day in violation constitutes a separate offense. First-time offenders will receive a warning giving them 21 days to comply. I dont think our citizens realize how important emergency management is, said Linwood Cooper, EMD Public Information Officer. I recently spoke to a resident that was upset because it took so long for the ambulance to get to her house...First question was asked; do you have a house number visible? She said oh, I really dont know.
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2. "Twinkies? I wanted Zingers, you stupid bitch!" Michael Moore prepares to beat down another personal assistant for her insolence.
3. "Where's my money, ho!" Jermaine had made the successful transition from pimp to middle management, but old habits died hard, and he maintained the office coffee jar with a firm hand.
4. Bill's killing spree would later be traced to getting "I Wanna Love You Tender" stuck in his head.
5. "No, Bill, really. I think your nipple piercing is cool. Um, could you button back up now?"
In honor of my last day at work before moving on to a new employer, this little piece was 'borrowed' from a required corporate on-line course in sexual harassment - V
Best of The Man
Jack Bauer Appreciation Day is not until May 9th, but V the K likes to keep his coworkers on edge by accusing them of being moles and going into a Flank 2 position next to the copier machine.
Best of Rodney Dill
As if Al Franken wasn't scary enough by himself, the office personnel would really panic when confronted by Franken-weinie.
Best of andthenblammo!
"Uh, Arlene. Yeah. It's just that we're putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports *before* they go out now. So if you could just remember to do that from now on, that'd be great. All right!"
"Ahh, Arlene, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in on Sunday, too..."
Best of T. Harris
"Hold it right there, Bill. I believe there's been a little misunderstanding. I was just jokin' around when I said that I really enjoyed a good puppet show."
Best of Walstib
"V, I told you before, I don't want to be a 'Thursday Hot Chick'"
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Damn, Bill. Isn't supposed to be bigger?
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Look babe, wear Cowboys colors in this Raiders office? 'Best plan on unecessary roughness is all I'm saying...
Sasha found it disconcerting that the ex-pres was always humming "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" in the Harlem office...
Best of Prince of Leaves
"These are not the chi-chis you're looking for! These are not the chi-chis you're looking for!"
Desperate to avoid yet another of his unwanted advances, Sheila attempts a Jedi Mind Trick on Bob's 'lesser brain'.
Best of Attmay
Lakesha was dumbstruck as she saw her longtime co-worker begin his transformation into The Hulk.
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Shaniqua says, "Excuse me, did you just say you were a student at Duke?

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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- In theory, the entire Alabama depth chart is wide open heading into a 2014 season bent on redemption. Nick Saban detests depth charts so much that he only releases one, and it doesn't see the light of day until the week leading into the season opener.
For many positions, especially the ones with returning productive starters, it can be safe to consider this a formality. It's hard, for example, to consider returning senior linebacker Trey DePriest anything but a slam-dunk bet to be a season-opening starter.
But in Alabama's secondary, which often has five or six players on the field because of the amount of nickel and dime defense Saban loves to implement, there's a shortage of "sure things." The departures of safeties HaHa Clinton-Dix and Vinnie Sunseri and cornerback Deion Belue and the inconsistency of most other Alabama defensive backs in 2013 leaves the Crimson Tide with strong safety Landon Collins as the only one able to be penciled in to a projected depth chart.
That makes Wednesday's addition of five-star cornerback Marlon Humphrey all the more significant. True freshmen have consistently cracked the playing rotation in Saban's secondary, and there hasn't been this many clear-cut openings in years.
Humphrey's commitment gives Alabama an expected four new faces in next year's secondary. Barring a last-minute surprise, the Crimson Tide's recruiting of defensive backs appears to be done for 2014.
He's one of two cornerbacks, joining fellow five-star Tony Brown, who is already on campus. Both Brown and Humphrey will also be members of the track team.
They'll join a group of cornerbacks that experienced its fair share of growing pains during a season that saw it repeatedly struggle against top-flight receivers. Whether it was Texas A&M's Mike Evans blistering whoever guarded him for seven receptions, 279 yards and a touchdown or Oklahoma's trio of wide receivers finding regular openings in Alabama's stunning end to the season, it never looked easy for a position group Saban works with more than any on the roster.
"We are not used to that," defensive coordinator Kirby Smart said in the days leading up to the Sugar Bowl. "We've always had a staple guy there, then kind of an understudy that was the other one who was an up‑and‑coming corner. Hasn't been that way this year. It's been frustrating."
Belue was the closest thing to a staple, but he was rarely -- if ever -- 100 percent because of a variety of injuries that kept him completely out of two games and had him regularly missing key series and practices. CBSSports.com projects Belue as a fourth- or fifth-round selection.
There were a handful of highlights on the other side of the field -- freshman Eddie Jackson's breakout performance against Ole Miss certainly rises to the top -- but injuries and inconsistent play were a more dominant theme.
Both Jackson and fellow freshman Maurice Smith, who started once and saw the field regularly, came to Alabama with the typical high rankings associated with Crimson Tide recruits. They just weren't in the same category as Humphrey and Brown, whom 247Sports considers to be No. 1 and No. 2 cornerbacks, respectively, in the class of 2014.
In nearly all of Saban's recruiting classes at Alabama, at least one defensive back has snatched significant playing time as a true freshman.
In 2013, it was Jackson and Smith. In 2012, it was Geno Smith, who finished the season as Alabama's starter at Star, the extra defensive back used for its nickel formation. Dee Milliner (2010) received significant playing time as true freshmen and Clinton-Dix saw regular action in 2011. Future first-round pick Dre Kirkpatrick (2009) primarily played on special teams before emerging as a sophomore.
Barring any position changes -- and that's certainly a possibility, as Alabama experimented with three new additions during last year's spring practices -- the Crimson Tide has six returning cornerbacks. Four -- Jackson, Maurice Smith, Bradley Sylve and Cyrus Jones -- started opposite of Belue at some point last season. Anthony Averett and Jonathan Cook were redshirted in 2013.
Juniors Jabriel Washington and Geno Smith have both played cornerback at some point in their careers, but each finished 2013 at safety. Smith is presumably among the front-runners to replace Clinton-Dix at free safety, a position he shifted his focus to midway through the season.
Even if Brown and Humphrey aren't able to land a significant role at one of the cornerback spots, opportunities abound elsewhere in the secondary.
If Jarrick Williams slides into the spot vacated by Clinton-Dix, the Star position could be ready for a new face. There's also Money, the extra defensive back spot used when Alabama goes to its dime defense. Though that position is typically occupied by a player in the safety mold, the trickle-down effect required to fill that position could create another opening.
Needless to say, cornerback was one of the biggest positions of need in Alabama's 2014 class. Humphrey and Brown might not be immediate solutions, but they provide the Crimson Tide with two talented, ready-made options in a wide-open competition.


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A person wearing dirty spectacles corrects images by observing an extended object and moving his or her head. Details that do not appear to move with the observed object must be due to optical imperfections. In the same manner, the relative pixel gains of a CCD camera observing through a movable optical system can be calculated. The result is a flat field table that may be used repeatedly to correct subsequent images. A fast flat fielding algorithm has been developed for solar observations that uses only two exposures to compute a flat field. During each exposure the source image is linearly scanned across the field of view. The two images are then mated together. The method is valid in cases where the intensity of the observed source changes slowly with respect to the camera exposure time, where the optical configuration remains constant during the scans, and where the path of motion is known or can be deduced from the images. For a camera with 2048x2048 pixels the computation requires about 30 s of processing time on a Sun 450 and yields a result that is comparable to a Kuhn-Lin flat field, which requires one hour of processing time on the same system.
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If you heard a groan late last night coming out of Maplewood, Livingston and Berkley Heights that was likely related to the confirmation that Northern Highlands's top two sabre fencers, Cindy Oh and Allison Lee, would not be at the World Cup in Phoenix this weekend as some had originally speculated.
The fact that the pair is staying put to compete in the District 4 tournament effectively diminishes the probability of the outcome that the District 3 teams were hoping for—that Northern Highlands would not win the District 4 overall title and therefor the District 3 teams would avoid a collision course with the Allendale power before the finals.
Still this year, more than the past two years, legitimate contenders have emerged to threaten Northern Highland's crown. Indian Hills and Bergen Tech have pushed their way into The Star-Ledger Top 10 and refused to leave. Both teams boast strong epee lines that play against Northern Highlands third weapon. Bergen Tech, boasting a real ace in sabre, Claudia Kulmacz, seems particularly built to possibly challenge Northern Highlands in a dual meet. Whether that translates into challenging the reigning queens of District 4 in their tournament remains to be seen.
Lakeland, Holy Angels and Ramapo are the most likely candidates to battle it out for the final playoff spot in the District. Quietly, Lakeland has defeated every one of the contenders in the district with the exception of Northern Highlands in dual meets and finished 8th at the Santelli in epee, so don't be surprised if the team winds up with a medal or more (They could easily jump over Bergen Tech and Indian Hills to take second). Ramapo's foil has proven dangerous (8th at Santelli) and Holy Angels turned some heads with a 7th place finish in sabre at the Santelli.
Overall Prediction: Northern Highlands.
With two top of the line A strips in Cindy Oh and Allison Lee, Northern Highlands should dominate this event. Throw into the mix Anna Parzecki the C strip that could be the A strip on 90% of the teams in the state and you have simply a withering combination. Don't be surprised if the trio generates the maximum possible victories in the team pools to create a huge lead for Northern Highlands in the overall standings early on in this tournament. They really are that good.
The battle for second is shaping up to be a contest between Bergen Tech and Holy Angels. Holy Angels held a 5-4 edge in sabre when the two teams met at the beginning of the year, though it is unclear whether Kulmacz participated in the meet. Either way the two teams are expected to grab silver and bronze in some order, though don't be surprised if Indian Hills led by Eden Lewicki crashes the party.
The individual competition will be pretty intense. All three Northern Highlands fencers will be expected to be in the mix, with Parzecki entering the contest as the reigning district sabre champ, as well as Holy Angels Nicole Caulfield, and Bergen Tech's Kulmacz, to name a few. Those could be your five state qualifiers from the district, though history has shown someone (Indian Hills's Lewecki?) will arise out of the field of teams to stir things up.
Squad Prediction: Northern Highlands
Individual Prediction: Allison Lee, Northern Highlands
This could be interesting. Northern Highlands might be the favorite in this event though there certainly are some very real contenders. Ramapo and Indian Hills both had strong showings in this weapon at the Santelli and Indian Hills foilists, led by Stephanie Lo have been effective for the team all year. Bergen Tech finished reasonably high in the weapon (9th at the Santelli) and is a fourth team in the mix.
The individual competition will be hard fought. Northern Highlands Audrey Lee will look to grab the foil crown vacated by her team mate Liana Yamin. Lee, one of the true backbones of Northern Highlands great three year run is exceptionally well equipped for the task. But she will face competition from all sides, including possibly her own team mate Sophie Holmqvist. Fair Lawn's Anastasia Muravyeva is a real contender and could very well seize the district foil crown on her first try.Indian Hill's Lo was part of last year's four-way fence-off for first and certainly could claim the crown this year. Look for Lakelands Violet Rooney to play the role of wild card in this event.
Squad Prediction: Northern Highlands
Individual Prediction: Audrey Lee, Northern Highlands
Epee was very well represented by the district at the Santelli, with Indian Hills (3rd), Bergen Tech (4th) and Lakeland (8th) all fencing their way into the final A pool at the tournament. Any of those three teams could take a district epee title, and all three should medal. The rest of the field will just have to hope one of those teams stumbles.
The individual event will be competitive with Inidan Hill's Gwen Mowell, Lakeland's duo of Mia Volpe and Summer Johnson and Bergen Tech's Helen Sakharova heading the list of contenders. Sakharova appeared particularly effective at the Santelli and has been a consistent force for her team much in the same way that Volpe has been for Lakeland. Johnson won the district last year and must be considered a top contender in the event. Mowell finished third last year and is skilled enough that she certainly won't need to be an alchemist to turn bronze into gold.
Squad Prediction: Bergen Tech
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Germany surrendered in May of 1945, Japan in September 1945. But a mere few weeks before World War II would end, Furman Kugler was killed at Okinawa while serving with the U.S. Navy and Carl Anderson was killed in Belgium while serving with the U.S. Army.
The two buddies were among the brightest bicycle racers in the country, and their names flower every time New Jersey celebrates Memorial Day.
Of course, it would be incongruous to cite just two casualties in the second War to End All Wars, which followed the first War to End All Wars 27 years earlier, and surely there were fateful deaths even as peace treaties were being signed. Fate, the obscene, double-crossing, two-timing deviate, will either bless you or destroy you.
Actually, we will never know how many perished in that second war, which ended when we introduced the nuclear bomb in Japan. And there's no disguising what a third War to End All Wars would bring on a planet that is now nuclear from one end to the other, with a mad man here and a mad man there.
Military and civilian deaths in World War II are just a guess. Estimates of overall casualties range from 60 million to 80 million, mostly civilian.
Russia gave up 25 million, Germany 7 million. The U.S. lost 500,000, mostly military. More pessimistic tabulations range up to 80 million.
There are probably wars of various magnitudes in process most everywhere in the world today, and the count goes on. Maybe war, like bacteria, is an evolutionary process for thinning out the human herd.
World War I also had a respectable haul on killings. Germany lost 1.8 million, Russia 1.7 million, France 1.3 million, Austria 1.2 million and Great Britain 975,000. The U.S.A. lost "only" 137,000 military, but George M. Cohan sent us "Over There" a little late.
So we come back to Furman Kugler and Carl Anderson.
Ron Czajkowski, the accurately anointed armchair historian for the Kugler-Anderson Memorial 50-mile bicycle race Monday starting in front of the Somerville courthouse, assures me that Kugler would have been a U.S. Olympian had he survived. He's right. I saw Kugler and Anderson race on the weekly race programs at Newark's Weequahic Park before the cyclists went to war, and they were ghostly fast.
Some 200 racers, including a number of foreign stars, will gather for the Monday race and its reward of $15,000 in prize money and to hear the early cheers as they pedal the first mile through Somerville.
Memorial Day in New Jersey would be incomplete without the race and the memories of Furman Kugler and Carl Anderson.
The race itself originated in 1940, when Fred (Pop) Kugler, at his son's request, got the town to arrange one. Furman promptly won the first two, and his good friend Anderson the third. They were last seen going to war.
Pop Kugler, as noted, lost his son in the Pacific, but in 1954, he personally invited the national Japanese cycling team to Somerville, as a gesture of friendship.
Snap shots
Identifying the Super Bowl by hard-to-read Roman numerals ought to be junked. As a public service, the next one, listed as XLV, will be the Arabic 45th.
If boxing had a sensible, single commission, as in years back, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao would have been obligated to fight within a designated period or lose whatever titles existed between them.
Today it's the promoters in control, and they'll decide as soon as they agree on the money for what will be easily the richest bout in history. The two welterweights are the best in the world, measured by that mythical pound-for-pound method.
Rugby is a very social sport, Ralph Scoville of Denville writes me. After beating each other up, he says, they adjourn to eat, drink and rap at a place called the Rattlesnake Ranch Cafe in Denville. He invites me to see my first rugby game ever, and maybe one day I will.
Tiger Woods' neck injury is said to be more complicated than the leg problems which also caused him to miss tournaments. It is not remote that he never will be the same as a player.
Aside to Joseph Lakatos of Warren: Joseph, I called Woods a "national treasure" when he was one. What was was.
My recent "numbers define the greatest" drew this from Anthony Candelmo of Parsippany: "People seem to forget Joe DiMaggio's hitting in 56 consecutive games 69 years ago. There is also his .900 winning percentage in World Series games: he played in 10 World Series, won nine. Yogi Berra played in 13 and won 10, not exactly a shabby .770. I believe DiMaggio's records will be harder to reach than Tiger Woods' goal of 18 majors."
Anthony, if Woods doesn't remain a pain in the neck, he'll get there.
Harry Snyder, vice president of the Newark Athletic Hall of Fame, has taken on the tough job of raising monies for scholarships. He wants golfers for a tournament at Francis Byrne golf course in West Orange June 14. For $200, entrants will get breakfast, lunch and dinner, and help some worthy Newark kids into college. Call Harry at (732) 859-4175.
Want a line on the World Cup? Spain and Brazil are 4-1, England 5-1, Germany 7-1 and Argentina 9-1.
The good ol' U.S.A.? A bargain 55-1. Soccer grows more popular every day in our elementary and high schools. Soccer moms like the fact that it is safer than our more standard sports: football, baseball and basketball.
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1913 Conn Circus Bore Cornet
Early 1970s Getzen Eterna Flugelhorn
1972 Olds Pinto Bb Trumpet (Weird Horn!)
1969 Conn 38B Connstellation Bb Trumpet
I was playing once and afterwards, a little boy approached me and stated that he played the trumpet. I asked, "Do you play like I do?" and he replied, "I used to."
So I always hear on this site by the biggies that if your breathing correctly and if your not using too much pressure it takes little effort to play the trumpet. If this is the case you should be able to eat a good meal and your energy will go towards digesting your food in that you dont need as much energy since your playing correctly ?? So which is it ? Just kidding here, I dont like to eat before I play either ..
I am a fan of the old adage: "Eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch, and a pauper for dinner". Granola with fruit and yogurt and some green tea for breakfast, lads, that will do it. And, invest in a water-pik and use it faitfully before practicing. That will lengthen the life of your horn.
Conns: 2B ('48) 48B ('51) 58B ('32) 62B ('46 Pan Am) 80A ('53)
Olds: Ambassador Cornet ('52) Ambassador Trumpet ('52)
Kanstul/FBessons: 609; 709 Trumpets
Martin: Deluxe Committee Model Trumpet ('52)
Reynolds: Contempora Trumpet (LB) ('56) Contempora Cornet (LB) ('62)
Schilke: B6L Trumpet (2009)
Stomvis: Elite Flugelhorn; Elite Cornet; Forte Pocket Trumpet
Actually, we really only have to pay for alcohol as most places we play pay for our meals. Is this not true for others out there.
1991 King Silver Flair
1953 Olds Super (LA)
1979 King KG1055T (pre UMI) Silver Flair
1940? Olds Ambassador (LA) tenor trombone
I'm not responsible for offending people -- people are responsible for themselves taking offense at me
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By Paul Fricker, MathWorks
Researchers in fields as diverse as optometry, astronomy, and photonics face a common challenge: how to accurately measure structural deformations in circular optical elements such as ocular lenses or corneas (in optometry), mirrors (in astronomy) or optical fibers (in photonics), or the aberrations in optical wavefronts caused by these deformations.
In optical systems, both the measurement devices, which are constructed using lenses, optical fibers, or other optical components, and the subjects being measured, such as a patient's eye or a telescope mirror, are often circular. As a result, measurement data is usually expressed over a circular domain. When researchers need to characterize the structure of measured deformations and aberrations using Fourier analysis they most often use Zernike functions because these form a complete, orthogonal basis over the unit circle.
Using pre- and post-operative corneal topography data from a LASIK surgery patient as an example, this article describes the modal analysis of optics data using Zernike functions implemented in MATLAB. The Zernike function M-files used in this article are available for download. Using these M-files, computing the spectrum of Zernike modal amplitudes can be performed with a few simple lines of MATLAB code.
The Zernike functions (Figure 1) are a product of the Zernike radial polynomials and sine- and cosine-functions,
The index n = 0,1,2,… is called the degree of the function or polynomial, while m = -n to +n, with (n-m) even, is called the order. The radial polynomials are usually defined using their series representation as a finite sum of powers of r2:
Although this expression looks complicated, the Rmn(r) are, in fact, simple polynomials (Table 1).
|2r2 – 1
|3r3 – 2r
Table 1. The first six Zernike radial polynomials
The first 10 Zernike functions, evaluated using equation 1, are listed in Table 2. The low mode number functions are used so frequently for analyzing optical data that many are given common names.
|r2 cos 2θ
|2r2 – 1
|r2 sin 2θ
|r3 cos 3θ
|(3r3 – 2r) cosθ
|(3r3 – 2r) sinθ
|r3 sin 3θ
Table 2. The first ten Zernike radial functions and their common names.
These functions are useful as a basis for decomposing complex functions or data because they are orthogonal over the unit circle, meaning that they satisfy the following relation:
The factor (2n + 1)-1 on the right is usually used as a normalization constant for the functions. Using this orthogonality, any function f(r,θ) defined on the circle can be expressed as a sum of Zernike modes, just as sine and cosine functions are used in familiar 1-D Fourier analysis
By representing data in this way we can summarize a complicated structural deformation or aberration in terms of a small number of coefficients associated with the dominant Zernike modes.
The coefficients in Equation 2 are evaluated by inverting the equation,
The anm can be determined directly from this expression if f(r,θ) is a known function, or computed numerically if f is a set of measurement data. In the latter case, the formal approach to computing these integrals is to use a numerical quadrature routine.
In our example, we use a faster and simpler alternative: we analyze the LASIK surgery data by computing approximate coefficients, evaluated by truncating the original summation after a finite number of terms N, and compute the required Zernike functions at the data grid point locations (ri,θi),
This truncation produces an overdetermined system of linear equations in the unknown coefficients ap, which we can solve as a matrix equation using the MATLAB left matrix division operator,
This operator computes the numerical solution to this system in the least squares sense. Since this calculation is essentially a regression analysis, the computed coefficient values depend on the number and nature of the basis functions that we use. Therefore, after completing the analysis we must confirm whether we have used enough Zernike modes to accurately characterize the original data.
The corneal topography data was collected before and after a patient underwent LASIK surgery to correct an astigmatism. The patient has a significant primary corneal astigmatism in each eye (Figure 2). Zernike analysis will enable us to quantify the size of the corneal deformation before surgery and to assess whether the surgery was successful.
We could use any number of Zernike modes to compute the Zernike spectrum. We will use the first 36 modes, which correspond to the full set of functions from n = 0 to n = 7, as this is the set most commonly used in practice.
The number of modes required to accurately characterize the data is dictated by features of the data itself, particularly the amount of fine-scale structure. Once we have decided how many modes to use in the analysis, we can easily assess the quality of the resulting data fit by using the computed Zernike spectrum to reconstruct the data and comparing the reconstruction to the original. However, since the coefficients will be computed using a least squares fitting procedure, we must use all the functions from (n,m) = (0,0) to (n,m) = (7,7) inclusive.
The scanned image data has been resampled onto a 301 x 301 grid to keep the size of the data manageable. The data has been cropped so that the center of the eye is at the center of the data matrix, and the edges of the matrix correspond to the boundary of the pupil.
We begin by creating grid coordinate matrices expressed in polar coordinates.
L = size(eyedata,1);
[x,y] = meshgrid(X);
x = x(:); y = y(:);
[theta,r] = cart2pol(x,y);
Next, we compute the required degree and order values from n = 0 to n = 7, inclusive.
for n = 0:7
N = [N n*ones(1,n+1)];
M = [M -n:2:n];
Finally, using the function
zernfun.m, we compute the required Zernike functions for all grid points within the unit circle using the MATLAB left divide operator "\".
is_in_circle = ( r <= 1 );
Z = zernfun(N,M,r(is_in_circle),theta(is_in_circle));
a = Z\eyedata(is_in_circle);
Figure 3 shows the computed coefficients.
In addition to the constant offset (Z00), the dominant modes in the data include the astigmatism and defocus (Z±22) and defocus (Z02), the secondary astigmatism (Z±24), and the much higher-order Z06 mode.
To quickly assess the quality of the results, we reconstruct the topology data from the computed Zernike coefficients and compare it to the original.
reconstructed = NaN(size(eyedata));
reconstructed(is_in_circle) = Z*a;
Qualitatively, the agreement between the original and the reconstructed data is very good (Figure 4).
Numerically, we can estimate the quality of the fit by calculating the absolute difference between the original and derived data sets and normalizing by the maximum difference value (Figure 5).
The post-LASIK-surgery corneal topography data for the patient's left eye is shown in Figure 6.
Clearly, the surgery has removed most of the corneal deformation observed in the original data. To quantify the improvement, we compute the Zernike spectrum using exactly the same procedure that we used on the pre-surgery data.
Figure 7 shows that the large amplitudes associated with the primary and secondary astigmatisms have been eliminated.
Overall, the amplitudes in the post-operative data are smaller than those in the pre-operative data. Any remaining small modal amplitudes are caused by remnants of the original deformation around the perimeter of the affected area. Fortunately, these ridges are very small and are away from the central axis of the eye.
The example in this article demonstrates how practitioners, physicians, and medical researchers can use MATLAB to investigate the structure and important features of their measured aberration and deformation data. The numerical analysis techniques described in this article can be used in all fields of optics, from astronomy to photonics, to medical optics. For optical scientists and engineers who want greater control over the manipulation of their data or who need to perform custom analyses not provided by their measurement instruments, MATLAB is an ideal tool for developing an efficient, robust implementation of optics functionality like the Zernikes, and for using these tools to characterize their data.
The Zernike function M-files used in this article are available for download.
Frederik (Frits) Zernike was born in Amsterdam on July 16, 1888. He graduated with a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Amsterdam in 1915. That same year, Zernike became a lecturer in physics at the University of Groningen, becoming a full professor in 1920.
For the next decade, Zernicke focused his research on statistical mechanics, turning to optics in the 1930s. He invented phase contrast microscopy, a technique that exploits the phase differences produced by different materials or tissues when diffracting light. These phase differences, which cause changes in intensity, can be used to image living tissue without using dyes or stains.
Zernike received a patent for this invention in 1936, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1953 He received numerous other awards and honors, including an honorary doctorate in Medicine from the University of Amsterdam, and the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society in 1952. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
Zernike functions, denoted Zmn(r,θ), are an infinite set of orthogonal functions defined on the unit circle r Ε [0,1], θ Ε [0,2p]. Because of their orthogonality, and because the set of Zernikes provides a function for every allowed (n,m)-pair, they are the most commonly used basis for performing modal analyses of optics data.
Astigmatism is an abnormal curvature in the shape of the cornea or lens, usually due to an ellipsoidal or egg-shaped distortion of the eye. This deformation blurs the vision because it prevents light rays entering the eye at different locations from meeting at the correct point.
LASIK surgery (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) corrects the shape of the eye by removing thin layers of tissue from the corneal stroma, the thick middle layer of the cornea.
Corneal topography measurements are used before surgery to identify the amount of corrective reshaping that must be performed.
Paul Fricker is a MathWorks Principal Consulting Engineer. Paul has more than 15 years' experience in signal and image processing, modeling and simulation, and application development. He holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Dalhousie University, an M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The thing I have trouble with, however, is grip.
1. I can't seem to do anything with cornering. I change values, but I have no idea what values did what. For now, I copy those from a nippy car into one I want to make nippy.
2. I can't seem to get ABS to work properly. If I put a 4 in the proper spot, for ABS_ALT_STD, the car drives as if I had left the 0 there. IF I put a 1 in, for ABS_STD, the vehicle gets stuck in P and won't move, nor will the engine rev if I have the handbrake pulled. I did succeed in adding ABS to the police car, however. I put a 1 in, and the ABS works fine! This is very puzzling indeed...
3. My engines can make ANY vehicle accelerate like the space shuttle. Thing is, they usually do so while roasting all tires. My edited police car will do 0-175mph in 4 seconds flat, while leaving two deep black marks on the pavement behind it. While I like this acceleration, I would like to have the grip to use it with 2WD, so I can get better turn-in and not have to slow to about 10 or so for every single corner.
I have done some nice mods, tho. My Blista Compact accelerates quickly and is VERY easy to turn, sometimes too easy. Being an FWD, even while it burns out it turns on a dime. I edited the Benson to behave pretty much like a 25 foot long Coquette, and it has 0 for every damage multiplier(And if you saw all the stuff I hit with that thing, you'd understand why ). My Rancher can be a bucket of lulz, but it suffers the AWD push problem as well, or it just does donuts if I try to torquesplit it any. It almost pulls wheelies tho!
Does anyone know how to make sense of the traction modifiers? They behave NOTHING like San Andreas, where I could make any vehicle behave how I wanted it to. My SA values for the Sultan, for example, turn that thing into a bulldozer.
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The superhump phenomenon observed in cataclysmic variable systems with mass ratios 0.03 < q < 0.33 is the result of a tidally-driven disk oscillation. Common (or ``positive'') superhumps are observed in disks undergoing high mass transfer rates during superoutburst or in some nova-like systems where the disk extends to the 3:1 eccentric inner Lindblad resonance. Numerical simulations show that over one oscillation period as viewed face-on, the tidal field pulls the disk into elongated shape, followed by relaxation back to a nearly circular shape. The axis of the positive superhump oscillation precesses slowly and progradely in the co-rotating frame, resulting in a superhump period slightly longer than the orbital period.
In recent years a handful of systems have been observed to show ``negative superhumps,'' in which the oscillation period is shorter than the orbital period. It has been suggested that nodal regression in a disk tilted with respect to the orbital plane could be the origin of the negative superhump phenomenon. The energy production curves we obtain from artificially tilted disks largely confirms this model, although some details of the observations remain unexplained.
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Tour of the new World Trade Center site
A decade later, his sister Jessica Schoenholtz is one of the thousands working to rebuild and revitalize the World Trade Center -- and honor the memory of those lost.
"I come to work with a passion I can't even describe," Ms. Schoenholtz said.
Ms. Schoenholtz, 34, who lives in Manhattan now but was raised in Todt Hill, was standing in what will be the 34th floor of Four World Trade Center. Looking out the massive holes covered in netting where windows will eventually be installed reveals the footprint of the each tower, with orderly, peaceful rows of trees between them.
Ms. Schoenholtz started her job as marketing and communications manager for Silverstein Properties -- the company that leases the World Trade Center and is currently building three of the four new high-rises there -- just six months ago. Among her duties is showing the site to potential clients who might want to lease office space in the new towers."I have moments when I'm like, I can't believe this is where my life has led me," she said. "But it has been great."
She walks through the site all the time, past the footprints of the old buildings, past the new towers that attract the attention of tourists on nearby sidewalks as the structures start to rise, steadily day by day, floor after floor above ground level.
Some days when she walks through the site, she thinks to herself, "This is where it actually happened," she said. She looked down at the memorial from the skyscraper in progress.
"The first time I went out there, it was so breathtaking. I was overwhelmed with emotion," she said.
It has been especially interesting to work at the site in the lead-up to the tenth anniversary, with so much attention focused on the project.
"The anniversary is one thing, but for me, and the family members, it's more than that," she said. "It's hard every day."
The World Trade Center site is buzzing with activity. Seen from above, it's a patchwork of dirt and steel and plywood, dotted with workers in construction hats.
But as Ms. Schoenholtz walked through a security gate, all of that faded away. The noise of construction vehicles gave way to the tranquil sound of rushing water. The smell of asphalt faded into the smell of a park, all fresh trees and water.
There are rows of trees: Living, breathing things planted in memory of the dead. They are all oaks, save for one; a callery pear known as the Survivor Tree, plucked from Ground Zero and nursed back to life after surviving the attacks.
The footprints of the Towers have become massive pools, with waterfalls cascading down each side. Surrounding the pools are bronze panels, the name of each victim inscribed on them.
Ms. Schoenholtz has watched the incredible progress at the memorial. It means something to her family, she said, that she's there to witness things. Last week, she looked again at her brother's name on the memorial.
"I saw this about a month ago," she said. "I went on my own."
She was at work. All the names on the memorial were still covered up then, but she asked someone she knew if she could see her brother's. When she came to the right spot on the memorial, the cover was lifted and there it was: Alexander Robbins Steinman. "It was really sad, surreal" Ms. Schoenholtz said. "It was bittersweet."
Mr. Steinman was just 32, but a rising star at Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, where he was a vice president in the equities sales division. He was remembered for his great sense of humor and his devotion to his family.
Ms. Schoenholtz was just 24 years old when her brother was killed. It was a horrible, painful experience, she said.
The memorial is a place she can visit, she said, and think of her brother. But his name on that bronze panel will never bring him back. Nothing will.
Silverstein Properties is erecting office buildings, Ms. Schoenholtz said. But her job is more than that. It's revitalizing all of Lower Manhattan, bringing back business and restaurants and people.
"After 9/11, they took away the lifestyle downtown. Our way of life," she said.
Larry Silverstein, 80, secured the lease on the World Trade Center from the Port Authority the July before the Towers fell. He went from passively owning and leasing out a building that was already almost full of eager tenants, to starting completely from scratch amid tragedy.
"First we were confronted with the reality of millions of square feet of tenancies deciding that they didn't want to stay downtown anymore. They wanted to get out of here," Silverstein said in a telephone interview, to places like New Jersey, Midtown, or Connecticut. "That was heartrending."
Then, people who lived in Lower Manhattan started leaving, too. "You got the feeling of, 'Will the last one out please turn out the lights?'" Silverstein asked.
But now the site bustles day and night with work designed to bring Lower Manhattan back. The memorial, which is not being built by Silverstein, will open to the public tomorrow. One World Trade Center, the tallest so far and the one being build by the Port Authority, and Four World Trade Center, with 50 of 72 stories completed, are visible signs of progress. Seven World Trade Center , where Ms. Schoenholtz has an office, was the last building to fall that day ten years ago, but has been open for five years.
World Trade Center 2 and 3 are just inching into public view; the 9/11 Memorial Museum, located mostly under the tree-line plaza, and its visible glass atrium will open in 2012. Nearby, between towers three and four, will be the WTC Transportation Hub, linking many lines of mass transit. Greenwich Street will be built through the site, connecting Lower Manhattan to Tribeca.
The buildings will all be "green," feature cutting-edge technology, and are designed to be safer in an emergency, both structurally and in the way people would flow out during an evacuation.
World Trade Center 2 will have a diamond-shaped summit, pointing down at the memorial.
"It's designed so that no matter where you are in Manhattan," Ms. Schoenholtz said, "you can see where the memorial is."
Silverstein is confident companies will want to lease space there. Conde Nast recently announced they would move to One World Trade Center.
"The reason I feel confident that they will want to come to these buildings is because the quality of what we're building is better than anything else that exists in the City of New York," he said.
Tenants need high-tech, energy efficient space the can only find in new buildings, he said, and will be attracted by the 13 mass transit lines serving the center. Silverstein's Seven World Trade Center is already full.
His company faced many odds, he said, and had to balance sensitivity to the past and rebuilding for the future.
"Some people said you can't build here, families of lost ones say this is sacred territory, this is hallowed ground," he said.
But Silverstein hopes they've accomplished that delicate balance, and that people will like the new World Trade Center when it's complete.
"My hope and prayer is that people will feel that we've done a superb job to the best of our ability in creating something that is really quite beautiful, quite exquisite, in terms of the memorial," he said.


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In the 1960s famed Dixieland jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain always closed his New Orleans club around the Independence Day holiday in order to celebrate his birthday on July 3.
He and his wife, Beverly Lang Fountain, are shown here on one such excursion, outside the Broadwater Beach Hotel in Biloxi. The couple married in October 1951.
Their son, Kevin Fountain, who submitted the photo, says he believes it was taken around 1965.
Fountain was first mentioned in The Times-Picayune on March 4, 1948, when police reported the theft of two of his instruments, worth $250, from Warren Easton High School.
The following February his photo was featured in a Werlein's ad congratulating his Junior Dixie Land Jamboree Band for winning on the Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program, a national radio talent show which was a precursor to American Idol.
After evacuating for Hurricane Katrina, Fountain is back living in New Orleans, but his son reports he has been in East Jefferson General Hospital for the past three weeks. All his fans wish him well today on his 81st birthday.
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The University of Arkansas-Little Rock used a 16-0 run midway through the second half to key its 74-61 first round Sun Belt Conference Tournament victory against Troy on Thursday night at UNO's Lakefront Arena. The victory sends the fifth-seeded Trojans (15-16) into the second round to face fourth seed and rival Arkansas State on Friday at 6 p.m.
UALR point guard Josh Hagins, who finished with 15 points, eight rebounds and six assists, led the charge. He hit two 3-pointers in the run and guided the Trojans half-court offense to perfection.
Eighth-seeded Troy (11-20) struggled from the field throughout the game but stayed close and was tied, 44-44, with 13:29 to play after a basket by Kevin Thomas.
But UALR, which shares the same nickname as Troy, held its counterpart scoreless for the next 8:35 and scored 16 unanswered points to take a 60-44 lead with 5:53 to play.
The Trojans from Arkansas were good on 6 of 7 shots from the field in the run while Troy missed 13 straight shots and committed one turnover. Troy went almost 10 minutes with a made field goal, from the 13:29 mark to the 3:40 mark.
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GULFPORT, Mississippi -- Joseph Stephen Paglia, 26, of Bedford, Texas, was sentenced to 46 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a stolen firearm and escape from federal custody, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
This sentence will run consecutive to his sentence in Texas for possession of stolen mail. He was also ordered to pay a $6,000 fine.
Paglia was first indicted on July, 10, 2012, for possession of a stolen firearm arising out of the theft of a firearm from a Biloxi casino parking lot.
He was arrested in a traffic stop by Gautier police, who discovered the stolen gun.
The escape indictment was transferred to the Southern District of Mississippi from the Northern District of Texas where Paglia walked away from a federal prison camp while serving a sentence for possession of stolen mail.
The case was investigated by the United States Marshal's Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Biloxi Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Annette Williams.


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All seven members of Alabama's delegation got at least one earmark in the House labor, health and education spending bill mentioned in my previous post, according to a tally by the Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Their 20 projects are worth almost $3.8 million, the 29th highest amount among the states.
The smallest is $75,000 for facilities and equipment at the Limestone Community Care Inc. Medical Clinic in Elkmont. The largest is $350,000 for a cancer screening program at the Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan.
Spencer Bachus and Artur Davis, both of the Birmingham area, each had two earmarks. Bachus' went to Hueytown and Argo. Davis' went to Demopolis and Tuscaloosa.
New House rules requiring each member to be publicly identified with his project, well before the final vote, are changing the way taxpayers can evaluate congressional spending.
Check out the lists for yourself, some of which are easily searchable at www.taxpayer.net, and see if you can decide which are worthwhile and which are potential boondoggles.


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'Smoke Alarm Saturday' March 13
MARYSVILLE — Firefighters in Snohomish County will be encouraging citizens to check their smoke alarms, and installing free smoke alarms in some areas, on "Smoke Alarm Saturday," March 13.
In Marysville, firefighters and community development staff will be at Crystal Tree Village and Glenwood Mobile Estates to check and install smoke alarms, and to replace batteries.
This is the third time the Snohomish County Fire Prevention Association has sponsored Smoke Alarm Saturday countywide. Smoke alarms save lives by providing the early warning needed to escape in a fire.
"Smoke alarms detect and alert people to fire in its early stages, giving people the time needed to escape safely," said Robert Marshall, president of the Snohomish County Fire Prevention Association. "That's why it's so important for every home to have working smoke alarms."
"Get out alive" home fire safety steps:
• Install smoke alarms on every level of your home, in each bedroom and hallway. Test batteries monthly and change your battery once a year, unless it's a 10-year long-life battery.
• Fire drills aren't just for schools. Practice escapes at home too. Develop an escape plan with two ways out of every room, then practice so everyone knows what to do when the smoke alarm sounds.
• If at all possible, install residential sprinklers in your home.
Each year, approximately 1,100 Americans aged 65 and older die as a result of home fires. Compared to the rest of the U.S. population, their risk of death in a fire quadruples. With a few simple steps, older people can dramatically reduce their risk of death and injury from fire.
Never smoke in bed. Put your cigarette out at the first sigh of feeling drowsy. Use deep ashtrays, and don't walk away from lit cigarettes or other smoking materials.
Never leave cooking unattended. A serious fire can start in just seconds. Always wear short or tight-fitting sleeves when you cook. Keep towels, pot holders and curtains away from flames. Never use the range or oven to heat your home, and double-check the kitchen before you go to bed or leave the house.
Keep fire in the fireplace, by making sure you have a screen large enough to catch flying sparks and rolling logs. Keep flammable materials at least three feet away from heaters. When buying a space heater, look for a control feature that automatically shuts off the power if the heater falls over.
Smoke alarms that are more than 10 years old should be replaced. Aging smoke alarms are unreliable and often are the source of nuisance alarms. "Borrowing" a smoke alarm battery can be deadly. Removing a smoke alarm battery for another use takes away its lifesaving benefits and puts your family at risk.
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All thou this is not a baby fawn, but believe it or not its still part of the deer family, The chipmunk.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Although the government has been shut down since midnight Oct. 1, Huntsville International Airport Executive Director Rick Tucker said that federal operations affecting airports still remain "largely intact, at least in the near term."
"For airports nationwide, the shutdown has not really impacted them," he said. "TSA is still functioning, FAA as it relates to airport operations is still going good, customs, all those things continue to function and operate. The big thing for our community is the fact that a lot of our business activity is related to what goes on at Redstone Arsenal."
Tucker, who spoke about the shutdown during the monthly
Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority meeting Tuesday morning, said the return of
civilian Department of Defense employees to work is a positive for the
airport, which saw passenger traffic decline 7.9 percent and rail cargo traffic jump 5.8 percent year over year in
About 90 percent of all Department of Defense, including Army, workers are back at work, but more than 2,000 employees at NASA in Huntsville are still furloughed as the government shutdown continues.
"Until the shutdown is finished, we're not going to be able to get back to a sense of normalcy," he said. "How long that's going to last – I don't know, but I do think the civilian workforce going back into the Army is going to lessen the impact because most of those people are the ones that are traveling."
In the long term, Tucker said the prospect of continued disruptions resulting from FAA, TSA and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) budget cuts remains a threat with sequestration looming in the background.
Tucker said cutting Airport Improvement Program funding doesn't appear to be on the table, but sequestration may eventually force lawmakers to target the program again as they did earlier this year.
In September, the airport's peak parking day average was 2,090 vehicles compared to 2,409 a year earlier. The drop in parking represents a 13.24 percent decline for the month and a year-to-date decrease of 16.23 percent.
On Sept. 19, the airport received a $350,000 discretionary FAA grant to develop an Airport Sustainability Management Plan.
"We are in the process of completing the required FAA consultant selection process," said Deputy Director Luther Roberts. "We anticipate being able to make a consultant selection recommendation to the board by the November board meeting."
Last month, the board approved a resolution to grant ad valorem tax abatements of $207,020 over 10 years to Huntsville-based Advanced Systems Technology, which is planning a $3.7 million relocation to Jetplex Industrial Park.
Director Brooks Kracke said a prospective aerospace company visited with Jetplex recently to discuss the possibility of a wide-body finishing center. The company, which was not revealed due to confidentiality reasons, is at capacity in other locations and is looking at an expansion.
Kracke said an unnamed automotive company that was considering opening a new operation at the Jetplex park has tabled the project for at least a year due to market conditions.
Officials are still in talks with an existing Jetplex tenant that is considering an expansion. The service-related company is growing throughout north Alabama and into Tennessee, Kracke said.
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POVevolving Gallery Presents the Movers & Shakers Exhition
This site was specially created for the Movers & Shakers POVevolving Gallery in February of 2009. There was a Limited Edition Box Set of prints of over 70 artists from the world of Pop Surrealism. It was a great show. When I saw this domain was available to buy I scooped it up with the idea of using archived information and other sources to rebuild the site. Artists can never have too much exposure and I wanted their artwork and news of this exhibition to remain alive on the web for all our viewing pleasure.
I remember the opening very well since I was in the middle of a family crisis. My mother was hospitalized with complications arising from an IVC filter implant. Apparently this medical devise which is recommended to people who have deep vein thrombosis (DVT) when anticoagulant therapy cannot be used or is ineffective. The devise is designed to prevent blood clots from reaching the heart or lungs via the inferior vena cava. My mother's IVC filter was a retrievable filter that would provide short-term protection. However the filter fractured and perforated her vena cava wall. It had been touch and go for about a week. I had recently learned from a friend that there were individual and class action lawsuits going on against several makers of IVC filters. Before the opening I had had an appointment with an IVC filter attorney to see if my mother had a case. So the state of my mind was grim when I finally arrived at the opening. But the reception was the perfect antidote. I was blown away and delightfully distracted. One conversation I overheard had to do with who was the best online site that sold wholesale paper towels and other janitorial supplies. Really! I listened in. The person speaking was insisting that CleanItSupply was the best. Not only were their selections wide ranging, but they offered a large array of eco friendly, green paper and cleaning products. Plus, the online site sold to both large companies and organizations on a wholesale basis, as well as to regular consumers. I actually checked out the site later and am buying my eco friendly paper product and cleaning supplies from them.
If you went to the Movers & Shakers exhibition you get to remember some great art. If you do not know any of these Pop Surrealist artists, you are in for a treat.
Let's Travel Back to Early 2009
The POVevolving Gallery Presents: "Mover's & Shaker's"
Opening Reception:
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
7 - 11pm
POVevolving is proud to announce its upcoming Valentines Day Exhibition, curated by Los Angeles collector Gino Joukar. This show features over 70 artists from the world of Pop Surrealism. The majority of the participating artists will be contributing brand new pieces, which have never been exhibited. A group show such as this caliber is certainly not common. Don't miss Mover's & Shaker's.
Participating Artists Include:
- Alex Pardee
- Amy Sol
- Amy Casey
- Ana Bagayan
- Anthony Ausgang
- Ben Kehoe
- Blaine Fontana
- Brandi Milne
- Brian Despain
- Brian Viveros
- Buff Monster
- Cathie Bleck
- Chet Zar
- Chris Peters
- Chris Ryniak
- Damon Soule
- Dan Quintana
- Darren Goldman
- Dave Bondi
- Dave Cooper
- Dave Pressler
- David Horvath
- David Lanham
- Doktor A
- Dylan Sisson
- Ekundayo
- Eric Fortune
- Eric Joyner
- Erik Alos
- Eric White
- Gris Grimly
- Ian Millard
- Isabel Samaras
- Jack Long
- Jaime 'Germs' Zacarias
- Jaime Zollars
- James Naccarato
- Jasmine Worth
- Jeff Soto
- Jesse Hernandez
- Johhny "KMNDZ" Rodriguez
- Joshua Clay
- Kelly Vivanco
- Kevin Peterson
- Kukula
- Mari Inukai
- Mark Nagata
- Mark Murphy
- Martin Wittfooth
- Melissa Haslam
- Meredith Dittmar
- Mia
- Michael Page
- Naoto Hattori
- Nate Frizzel
- Nathan Spoor
- Nicoletta Ceccoli
- Nimit Malavia
- Paul Barnes
- Retna
- Robert Pokorny
- Ron English
- Sara Antoinette Martin
- Scott Belcastro
- Scott Radke
- Scott Scheidly
- Sean Christopher
- Tessar Lo
- Tim McCormick
- Yoskay Yamamato
- Yosuke Ueno
- and more...
Exhibition Detail
Group Show
Movers & Shakers
Curated by: Gino Joukar
POVevolving Gallery & Print Studio
939 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012
February 14th, 2009 - March 8th, 2009
February 14th, 2009 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Each print in this set is printed on Museo Max 365 gsm archival rag paper. The sheet size of each print has a maximum height of 11" and a maximum width of 8.5". The set will be housed in a black archival box with a foil stamped logo on each box. Also, each box will include a letter pressed Certificate of Authenticity. This set of prints will be limited to 50 Boxes. This set is available now at POVeditions.com
POVevolving Fine Art Printing Studio, Los Angeles is a gallery and fine art printing company / press based in Los Angeles. Their services include Large Format Archival Printing, Limited Editions Production, Scanning and more. They really excel is in the realm of fine art and photography digital output. Offering a very collaborative approach with each customer POVevolving Fine Art Printing Studio makes sure that every client leaves satisfied. If you're looking for this type of Fine Art printing studio go to: http://fineartprinting.la/
"Our goal is to be the premier location for Photo Printing and Fine Art Printing in Los Angeles."
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Mental illness begins early in life. Half of all
cases that last a lifetime begin at age 14, and 75 percent begin by age 24.
Anxiety disorders often begin in late childhood. Mood disorders tend to develop
in late adolescence. Substance abuse tends to begin in the early 20s.
Mental illness affects people in the prime of their
life. Many other illnesses are more likely to happen to people who are
older. Mental illness, on the other hand, happens to people when they would
otherwise be at the most productive phase of their lives.
There are long delays between the onset of a mental
illness and the time when treatment begins. These delays can lead to more
frequent and more severe episodes. Additionally, the longer a person waits to
get treatment, the harder the illness is to treat, and the less effective
treatment can become. Social implications can include failure in school, teen
childbearing, unstable employment and unstable and violent marriages.
The earlier an illness appears, the less likely a person
is to get treatment. In other words, the people who need treatment the most
are least likely to get it.
Individuals with one mental disorder are at high risk
for having a second one. This is called comorbidity. Forty five percent of
the people in the survey who met the criteria for one disorder also met the
criteria for one or more additional disorders. And the severity of their
conditions was higher when comorbidity was present.
The message for all of us is that if you are experiencing
symptoms of a mental disorder, or if you have a child who seems to be having
these kinds of symptoms, see your doctor. Treatment can literally change your
life, improving your relationships and your ability to use your talents and
abilities to your greatest potential.
Read more about depression
here. Read about panic attacks, obsessive
compulsive disorder and phobias
Source:Archives of General
Psychiatry, 6 June 2005; National Institute of Mental Health, National
Comorbidity Survey Replication; A Kleinman and B Good, Culture and Depression:
Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and
Disorder, University of California Press, 1985; The New York Times,
"Who's Mentally Ill? Deciding is Often All in the Mind," 12 June 2005; The Washington Post,
"U.S. Leads in Mental Illness, Lags in Treatment," 7 June 2005.


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Gas is 12 cents higher in Central New York than it was this time last year, says Sen. Charles Schumer.
The senator places part of the blame on big oil companies holding back production. In a telephone news conference with reporters, Schumer today will unveil a senate energy bill that would crack down on price gouging and ramp up alternative fuel supplies. During the discussion scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m., Schumer also will provide details on region-specific gas price increases.


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"Don Mattrick, the president of Microsoft's Xbox business unit, warned audience members at the Web 2.0 Summit that they better get their Kinect units in the next week if they want them by Christmas. The company has sold a million units in less than two weeks, and the device is already hard to find online." | more
Amid all the hubbub over Google DNS on Thursday, the search giant also released two more helpful tools to help you get a richer search experience and improve your language skills. Google launched its dictionary project, offering a feature-rich resource that goes beyond simple definitions of words; and its new translated Web search makes it easier to find Web pages written in more than 40 languages.
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Looking Forward To Boxing Day By Looking BackPosted: December 24, 2012 Filed under: Foolishness | Tags: Boxing Day, Christmas, Grover Cleveland, holiday, humor, postaweek 6 Comments
No new post today on Blurt.
As I was finishing my shopping today, I was thinking ahead to that most neglected of holidays – Boxing Day.
A few years ago I told you what no one else ever has about Boxing Day, including outing the political corruption of President Grover Cleveland, the man who destroyed that wonderful day's status as a holiday.
I contend that there is no "war on Christmas", but there was a war on Boxing Day. Boxing Day, and the rest of us, lost. The proof is in the pudding, which is a stupid place to keep proof.
Take a look back at my Boxing Day post. There is still time to plan your Boxing Day celebration!
Merry Christmas! Hail Punchicus!
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An Analysis of Moisture Fluxes into the Gulf of California
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Okay, "balmy" is an overstatement. But natural-gas traders are taking cues from weather reports Monday. They're driving the commodity's futures sharply lower, taking some heavily traded exchange-traded funds with them.
Gas futures were down sharply in afternoon trading, falling by more than four percent. The United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG) is down 4.1% at $22.06 recently. The United States 12 Month Natural Gas Fund (UNL) has fallen 3.2%.
From Dow Jones Newswires' John M. Biers:
WSI Corp., a private forecaster, said the weather would be "unseasonably mild" for most of the country in the six-to-10-day period ahead.
MDA Earthsat, another private forecaster, showed a map of the U.S. dominated by red signifying heat. There is a "much warmer forecast than what was shown last week," MDA Earthsat said in its report.
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i have a playlist on both Spotify and Xbox Music and i just start using Spotify alot more because on Spotify i can organize my Music. Per exemple i have an artist in order by name and their songs...
On Xbox Music is a mess, everything is messed around wtf the musics you added at last go to last and so on... i want everything organized by artist in my playlist not this confusion.
Xbox Music interface is beautifull, Spotify is a simple thing but it gets the job done in simplicity wich for Music is what really matters.
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Xbox music isn't Spotify, Rhapsody, Nokia Music, Pandora or anything else. Its just a utility that can play a few music formats. Nothing more and nothing less. Its still experimental and it is not a priority for Redmond. Its there for music like notepad is for simple text documents. In case you need to listen, you can. But it probably will never blossom into anything that can compete with Windows Media.
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BATTLE CREEK - We're getting closer to another six-pack so we decided to revisit the brewery where it all began, with another brew from Arcadia Ales in Battle Creek.A BREWER'S DOZEN: PART IX
London Porter
Brewed by: Arcadia Ales, Battle Creek.
Potency: 7.2% ABV.
Beer notes
Ingredients: This smoked porter uses seven different varieties of European malted barley and UK Goldings hops.
Our notes
Aroma: Sweet malt, and coffee notes.
Appearance: Poured black with a nice creamy head.
Flavor: Lots of malt with chocolate and coffee flavors balanced with some nice earthy hop notes, a really nice departure from some of the other beers we have featured.
Finish/aftertaste: Smoky, toasty and sweet.
Try it with: An apple tart, Tiramisu or sharp cheddar cheese.
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© Gainesville TimesThe arrangements for the viewing and service for Officer Chris Yung have been finalized and are open to all county government employees.
The viewing/wake will be held Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Hylton Memorial Chapel, 14640 Gideon Drive in Woodbridge.
The service will be held Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, at 10 a.m., also at the Hylton Memorial Chapel. Interment will be private.
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text: Pause Kitchen is easy to miss while cruising down North Interstate Avenue, but this garage-chic bar, with its concrete floors, high ceilings and modern fixtures, is a neighborhood gem. The great food makes up for the lackluster view of the old highway—Pause's meatloaf ($10) is thinly sliced and well seasoned; the fries combine the taste of a crispy fry and the body of a thick fry. Along with well-made cocktails, other highlights include the baked mac 'n' cheese ($8) and naan-and-hummus appetizer ($7).


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If the difficulty Gov. Bobby Jindal faces in balancing next year's budget with $1.6 billion less in revenue isn't bad enough, Treasurer John Kennedy is running loose on the land with his plan that makes it all sound easy.
While Jindal is tied down with his book tour and fund-raising events around the country, Kennedy is making the rounds of Rotary clubs and chambers of commerce with his 16-point plan to save the state over $2.6 billion without seriously affecting higher education or healthcare.
Kennedy's plan causes added heartburn for Team Jindal because it positions the treasurer as the state's leading fiscal hawk, while it implies that the governor is not keen enough, tough enough or here enough to balance the budget without doing it on the backs of college students and the ailing poor.
While Jindal has done his level best to ignore Kennedy, Commissioner of Administration Paul Rainwater, the state's chief bean counter, has waded in to challenge the treasurer's numbers while trying not to pick a fight. But when it comes to talking the talk, he is not in Kennedy's league.
The most sweeping of the treasurer's points, pegged at saving $500 million per year, is to leave vacant one-third, or 5,000, of the 15,000 jobs that turn over each year for the next three years. Kennedy would also shift more job cuts onto the bureaucracy, especially mid-level managers, so as not to hit higher education so hard.
Brilliant! Except, Rainwater points out that the turnover of full-time positions is closer to 12,000. And that the highest turnover rates, ranging from 30 to 70 percent, are among prison guards, support staff in hospitals and nurses at veterans' homes. Since we are not about to start cutting prisoners loose or leaving aging vets uncared for, more jobs would have to be eliminated in other departments. But if 40 percent of state employment is in higher education (including LSU-run public hospitals), how can it be spared? It can't be.
Rainwater points to a more gradual 9.7 percent reduction in state employment over the past two and a half years, as well as the Department of Health and Hospitals' plan to lay off 420 workers in response to mid-year budget reductions.
Yes, fine, but Kennedy has moved on to his next target, 16,000 consulting contracts that he wants shaved by 10 percent, or $750 million, with no damage to anyone, except those conniving consultants who would have to find honest work.
Why didn't Jindal think of that? Perhaps because, by Rainwater's count, there are fewer than 4,000 consulting contracts, which are reviewed each year and were cut 10 percent last year at a savings of $48 million.
Rainwater further states that Kennedy is counting many cooperative endeavor pacts in which federal money flows through state accounts and straight to local governments and universities.
Kennedy's prescriptions for Medicaid include some best practices the administration already has adopted, but at a fraction of the savings he imagines.
On many points, Kennedy and Rainwater agree in principle, but their numbers vary widely.
No matter. Kennedy's plan already has a taker in the Legislature, Rep. Dee Richard, an independent from Thibodaux, who intends to file bills to mandate the 5,000-per-year job reduction and 10 percent contract-cutting points.
Plans like Kennedy's are what happens when the governor isn't answering the question so many have of just how will he balance the budget without crippling universities and closing hospitals. Jindal prefers not to say for now, as Rainwater explores every option (besides raising taxes), including cuts to be made, one-time money to be found and dedicated funds to be raided, while hoping economic conditions and tax receipts improve before the executive budget is presented in March. In the meantime, Jindal told agency heads and college leaders to quit whining -- his most assertive comment yet on the matter, sounding almost like Kennedy.
But the governor's silence leaves the treasurer free to hawk his plan with the claim that it requires only common sense and political courage. While some may read into this that Kennedy would challenge the governor for re-election, he won't. He doesn't have to. As long as Jindal continues leaving him so much room on the right, Kennedy is content to fill it, and wait.
John Maginnis is an independent journalist covering Louisiana politics. He can be contacted at www.LaPolitics.com.


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New sports bar in downtown Jackson getting closer to opening
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Allen Homminga sweeps the floor at Chase sports bar in downtown Jackson which will tentatively open in late March. The bar will feature a racecar that was driven by NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace that can be seen hanging from the wall on the left. (Shelby Mack | MLIve.com)
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HILLSBORO – No. 1 Sherwood came into Saturday's 5A state championship beating teams by an average of 51.5 points per game and sought to lay claim to the title of "greatest 5A team in Oregon history."
Instead, the Bowmen left it as a footnote to one of the state's biggest championship game upsets, as No. 2 West Albany stunned the Bowmen 21-20 in overtime.
"Wow, I'm really proud. There (weren't) very many people who gave us a chance," Bulldogs coach Randy Nyquist said. "I knew we had a chance. If we get into a situation like this, and you give me my kids and my coaches, like I said, all I know is there are two teams left and we've got a chance. And we did it."
Despite struggling to move the ball throughout the game, Sherwood appeared as though it would hang on to win in regulation.
Tied at 14-14, the Bowmen marched down the field inside the 20-yard line with two minutes left before West Albany senior Matt Soot forced a Keegan Lawrence fumble at the 9, which was recovered by Bulldogs junior J.T. Valenzuela.
"My kids have great character. They don't ever give up," Nyquist said. "My message to them tonight at halftime was, 'Just get up. Get up every play – fight, scratch.' I said, 'I don't know how we're going to win this game, but we're going to win.' "
After a three-and-out by West Albany and a minor scare by Sherwood, the game headed into overtime.
Sherwood started with the ball and quickly scored on a 15-yard touchdown run by Lawrence to make it 20-14, but the extra point was blocked by Soot, setting the stage for West Albany.
The Bulldogs made it down to the 11-yard line – with the help of a pass interference call – before senior Jake LaCoste took a carry to the outside and dove for the endzone, barely grazing the pylon with the tip of the football to tie it at 20-20.
"Last play of the game – haven't run that all year long," Nyquist said. "Something I had up my sleeve. Kids did a great job executing. ... We got the ball out to Jake in space. He's pretty tough when you do that."
After a Sherwood timeout, West Albany senior kicker Matt Wiest made the extra point to give the Bulldogs their first state championship since 2008.
"I couldn't watch it," Nyquist said. "I didn't see it. … I had to look at my coaches. I said, 'I can't watch.' And I saw everybody jumping and screaming and I knew he made it. I don't know, I'm pretty speechless."
For Sherwood, the loss was especially difficult to swallow, as it has now lost by one point in two of the last three 5A state championship contests.
"It's always tough when you lose by one – an extra point. It happened to us two years ago," Sherwood coach Greg Lawrence said. "They are hard (to take), but we fought hard. My hat is off to West Albany. They came out, had a great gameplan and gave us some trouble."
West Albany and Sherwood have now combined to win five of the last seven 5A state titles. However, that streak is sure to end next season, as both will move up to 6A.
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Raymond Hightower had his doubts.
Yoga. Yeah, well, maybe.
On Monday afternoons, WT football players this fall have been meeting in the weight facility for about 40 minutes of yoga. Players who were on campus during the summer also participated in yoga sessions.
It's the idea of Sarah Ramey, WT's strength and conditioning coach. What yoga does for the players, she said, is improve their flexibility. Also, the sessions are quiet ... well, as quiet as it gets for a roomful of football players. After a game Saturday and lifting weights Sunday while nursing a variety of bumps and bruises, yoga provides a brief respite during a week of hard knocks.
Ramey said coaches Ryan Leaf and Kris Kocurek used yoga while in the NFL, "and that helped convince the players." Veteran starters Jared Brock, Jon Granger and Charly Martin bought into it, and that also helped change some players' perceptions of a spiritual practice that originated in India.
"The first time, I was thinking, 'I don't know about this.' But it makes you feel better," said Hightower, a senior defensive end who is a yoga convert. "I'm a big believer in flexibility, and it'll help in the long run because we are trying to go to Alabama (site of the Division II national championship game)."
A big fan of yoga is redshirt Tanner Woods of Follett. Woods actually goes to other yoga sessions and does yoga at home, he said.
"I heard of people like Nomar Garciaparra and Mia Hamm doing it, along with some NFL guys," he said. "I tried Pilates in high school when I was playing baseball."
He said he has become more flexible this fall through yoga.
"It helps your balance," he said.
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A wild crash in downtown Reading created tense moments for everyone involved late Wednesday morning.
The car narrowly missed a child after it careened out of control and slammed into a building.
The front end of a black Acura TL was destroyed after it was sent on a collision course at South 4th and Franklin streets around 11:30 a.m.
Jayleen Rios held her baby girl extra tight as she described the crash as a nightmare.
"A car comes right on the sidewalk and almost through your door, my daughter could have got killed," said Rios, who was watching TV when she heard the big bang.
Rios' 1-year-old daughter, Aliannie, was playing only feet away when the car hopped the stairs outside and smashed into their apartment building.
"She opened the door and glass was flying, I had to grab her real fast," recalled Rios.
Travis Alequin admitted the crash was his fault. He was driving down South 4th Street in his Dodge Durango and told police his brakes failed causing him to run the red light.
"I went to stop and my brakes didn't work, so I tried to avoid her, go around her, and she hit the side of my car and ran into the house," said Alequin.
Yudelka Monegro was inside the Acura and swerved to avoid impact at the intersection when her car veered out of control. She was driving down Franklin Street on her way back from class at RACC.
"It was scary, but I try to control my car but they lose brake," said Monegro, who only suffered a scrape on her hand and neck.
Monegro's car hopped the curb, narrowly missing two cement poles and a tree, drove across the sidewalk, hit a tree stump and then slammed into the building, said officials.
Alequin's mother rushed to the scene and feared the worst. She said her nerves have been shot ever since her other son, Rafael, was murdered in December in the 1100 block of Franklin Street.
"He said you need to come now, so I knew it was bad. I was thinking about the other person. I didn't know if there were kids in the car," said Michelle Noe, who left work to see her son.
Two signs were also taken out and concrete steps in front of the building were broken apart, but miraculously no one was hurt.
The crash is still under investigation.


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7:04 a.m., Deputy McCormick was dispatched to W. Michigan Ave. and Ellis for a car vs. deer traffic crash where the driver received minor injuries.
7:14 a.m., Deputy Leighton was dispatched to I-94 near mile marker 128 for a pick-up truck vs. Semi-truck traffic crash.
9:41 a.m., Deputy Roberts was dispatched to Gibbs near Herrick Rd. in Parma Township for a car vs. deer traffic crash.
10:12 a.m., Deputy Deland took a Fail to Return Borrowed Vehicle Report in the lobby of the Sheriff's Office.
1:45 p.m., Deputy Leighton was dispatched to W. Michigan Ave. for a retail fraud report.
2:17 p.m., Deputy McCormick was dispatched to Overhill for a domestic assault report.
5 p.m., Deputy Long went to McConnell Dr. in Blackman Township to pick up a subject on a mental health petition.
6:25 p.m., Deputy Freeman responded to Gibbs Road for a suicidal subject who took several painkillers.
7:51 p.m., Deputy Ruge stopped a car on Palmer Street near South Jackson. The driver was arrested on an outstanding warrant.
8 p.m., Deputy Carter responded to Airport Road for a Larceny report.
8:20 p.m., Deputy Lewis conducted a traffic stop on Morrell Street near Water Street. The driver was cited for driving on a suspended license.
9:18 p.m., Deputy Beard responded to Countryside Lane for a reckless driver report.
9:32 p.m., Deputy Ruge stopped a vehicle on Francis near Hillside. The driver was in possession of Marijuana.
11:52 p.m., Deputy Ruge stopped a car on Kibby Road near Denton Road. The driver was arrested for OWI 1st. Mr. Dawson was also in possession of cocaine. The suspect's 15 year old nephew was in the car and was transported home.
12:28 a.m., Deputy Rybicki stopped a car on Michigan Avenue near 17th Street. The driver was cited for driving on a suspended license.
1:23 a.m., Deputy Rybicki responded to Bryant for a possible overdose of prescription medication.
3 a.m., Deputy Rybicki responded to Oak Grove for a suicidal subject.