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Home List of Titles Thermal and optical properties of the femtosecond-laser-structured and stress-induced birefringent regions in sapphire
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- Title
- Thermal and optical properties of the femtosecond-laser-structured and stress-induced birefringent regions in sapphire
- Author(s)
- Morikawa, Junko; Orie, Akihiro; Hashimoto, Toshimasa; Juodkazis, Saulius
- Abstract
- Temperature diffusivity of laser micro-structured regions in sapphire is determined by a temperature wave method with a lateral resolution reduced to ∼10 μm using a directly sputtered micro-sensor and heater. A record high reduction of the temperature diffusivity of sapphire by 12% from its (1.26±0.02) × 10-5m2/s in-bulk value inside the femtosecond laser-structured volumes is determined; in a BK7 glass (∼4.8×10-7 m2/s), a 2% decrease of the thermal diffusivity has been observed. Origin of the reduction is consistent with disorder and scattering of phonons around the laser photo-modified micro-volumes. The stress-induced birefringence is directly measured by polariscopy together with its radial distribution, and azimuthal orientation of the polarization ellipsis near the laser structured regions in sapphire. The maximum birefringence of Δn ≃ 1×10-3 is achieved without crack formation and corresponds to a local stress of ∼1.3 GPa. The stress (and birefringence) decay radially with a single-exponential constant of τR = 24 μm while the azimuthal orientation of the polarization ellipsis is spiraling around the laser structured volume. Such structures are promising in waveguiding and lasing applications of optical vortices where spatial control of birefringence and optical activity are required.
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- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Micro-Photonics
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- Optics Express, Vol. 18, no. 8 (Apr 2010), pp. 8300-8310
- Publication year
- 2010
- FOR Code(s)
- 0205 Optical Physics; 0903 Biomedical Engineering; 1113 Ophthalmology and Optometry
- Keyword(s)
- Femtosecond laser pulses; Optical properties; Sapphire; Stress-induced birefringence; Thermal properties
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- Optical Society of America
- 1094-4087
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Volunteers are tapped as History Heroes
WELLSBURG – Phil and Mary Greathouse want to make sure everyone knows the new Brooke County Museum and Cultural Center was a team effort.
That's why the pair, particularly Mary, was hesitant to accept the West Virginia Division of Culture and History's History Heroes award, which was given in recognition of their efforts at moving the county museum to its new location in the former G.C. Murphy building at 704 Charles St. and incorporating its many artifacts into a variety of displays recreating a one-room schoolhouse, kitchens, dining rooms and other scenes from the county's 200-year past.
"It would have been nice if the whole board could have accepted it," she said, adding fellow board members and many volunteers and public officials had a hand in creating the new museum, which will hold a grand opening at 10 a.m. Saturday.
A representative of the West Virginia State Glass Museum will be on hand to join them in celebrating the 200th anniversary of glass production in the state, which began at Duvall Glass in Wellsburg.
The Greathouses were among 48 residents from throughout the state named History Heroes by the state Division of Culture and History for their efforts to preserve and promote state and local history. John George Pandelios of Weirton also received the honor for his efforts for the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center.
Vickey Gallagher, the board's president, said the two are correct that many had a hand in creating the new museum but said they went above and beyond, putting in easily more than 1,000 hours each.
"You would think they were on the payroll. They would be a lot richer if they were paid, and we're richer for their efforts," Gallagher said.
She noted over the last several months the two could be seen there on an almost daily basis, often accompanied by their little dog Max, whom the museum board considers its mascot.
Gallagher said Phil was involved in construction, plumbing and electrical work needed to bring the new location up to code. She added Mary assisted in arranging various historical items donated to the museum over the years in appropriate displays.
Mary also selected background wallpaper or paneling suited for the period and setting of such exhibits as a 1920s kitchen or 1890s dining room. With the help of her daughter, Tammy Withers, she also created photo guides detailing the once common but now obscure household items found in many of the areas.
Withers and her daughter, Amanda, are using a computer to catalogue the museum's many artifacts.
Mary said the wallpaper has been a particularly fun aspect of the project, aided by the owner of Peerless Wallpaper and Blinds of Pittsburgh. She enjoyed putting together many of the displays and doesn't have a favorite, but she does rank the intricate pink and green flowered wallpaper for the 1890s dining room as her favorite background.
The hard work hasn't dimmed the Greathouses' excitement about the new site.
Phil said the new building provides much more display space and everything currently is on the first floor and more accessible to people in wheelchairs.
At the old museum, a chairlift was used to transport handicapped visitors to the second floor.
She's also pleased with the idea of making the museum a cultural center where musical performances and student art exhibits may be held, an idea suggested by state Commissioner of Culture and History Randall Reid-Smith, who helped the museum to secure a $90,000 state grant to purchase the building.
The Greathouses said also contributing in various ways were fellow board members Gallagher, Ruby Greathouse, Phil's sister and the museum's unofficial curator for many years: Leonard and Delores Ginier, Joan Beck, Luella Tokas, Chuck Hawkins and Withers.
They added teens in the Brooke Hills Free Methodist Church youth group tore out portions of 75 cubicles once used by a telemarketing firm at the site and widened to serve as display areas.
And staff and volunteers with Brooke Hills Park transported hundreds of artifacts from the old museum at Sixth and Main streets to its present site.
"Brooke Hills Park saved us because they had all of these kids working out there one day last summer. They came in at 7 p.m. and I don't think they stopped until after 11 p.m.," Mary recalled.
She said even at its new, larger location, the museum continues to grow. A military room containing uniforms, memorabilia and other items dating from the American Revolution to the present has been expanded to two.
In addition, signs from the former G.C. Murphy Store were found upstairs and incorporated, with a display case containing assorted goods that would have been found in the five-and-dime store, into a section paying homage to the building's earlier use.
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One of the greatest NBA coaches ever, Pat Riley, and two of the best players in the game today, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, still couldnt convince Baron Davis to sign with the Heat last December.
Davis already knew where he wanted to sign for the veterans minimum: the New York Knicks.
I spoke to Pat Riley. D-Wade, LeBron, they texted me and asked me what was up, Davis said. But I pretty much knew I wanted to come here and play in the Garden and play in front of these fans and play for this organization. I always wanted to play here, so this was really like my first choice.
James Plans on Guarding Jeremy Lin
February 23, 2012
Thursday could be the ultimate test for Jeremy Lin. Not because his Knicks will be taking on Miami Heat. But individually, because LeBron James, one of the best on-ball defenders in the game, says hell likely guard Lin some.
I know Im going to end up guarding Lin at some point, LeBron told reporters Wednesday.
LeBron, as Im sure you recall, switched to guard Derrick Rose for lage parts of the Eastern Conference Finals and essentially locked down the MVP. And while Jeremy Lin has had quite the start to his time in New York, hes not Derrick Rose.
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Beyond psyched for this game. My Lin shirt should finally come in the mail today, hopefully it's a sign of good luck.
JS3 - nice! i always love going back and revisiting that rivalry. Those battles were a driving force for getting me into basketball as a 10-15 year old kid. I remember JVG being on Alonzo's leg, Booing Pat Reily, i remember the running jumper, all the battles between ewing and alonzo. man just some great basketball there. Quality ball. It's too bad about the brawls that happened. I think if those hadn't happened the knicks would have gone on to win a chip.
I'm excited for Knicks/Heat basketball again. This is gonna be HUGE.
Miami rivalry - Pacers rivalry - Bulls rivalry - Nets (city) rivalry - Celtics rivalry
Everybody hates us - but we don't care!
another fantastic and important game thread from the porkiest pirate of them all! congrats on your all-Knick fantasy team tonight. too bad you're playing against a dead man, could have been interesting...
Duh-Wade and el BJ are two of the best, smartest players in the league, offensively AND defensively, and know how to play transition O and D.
KEY: The Knicks ability to play transition defense, in order to prevent easy buckets.
Lin will need to pass first, drive second, because if LeBone is guarding him, could spell danger. can Miami defend the P&R with all of our starters taking part in this basic play? can Jeremy speak volumes with his court vision?
Key: Girafferies vs Boosh. Offensive rebounds. ya gotta give it up to Jafferie Jefferies recent performances, his contributions will be needed.
Key: Melo in the flow. no holding the ball. no driving into triple teams.
Key: Stevie Novak and Junior Swish's ability to hit the 3 consistently. Last game vs Miami, Knicks pretty much were ALL about the 3's, and gave up any other game plan (they called it Macaroni), which fell apart in the 4Q, predictably.
This is a new team, with a quality bench. When LeBong and LeRaptor and WyaneyWade are sitting, the Knicks are going to have to strive hard and push the ball. Baron von Davis, we need you to shine...
I smell a win.
No other team in the league I hate more than the Celtics, but Heat are a close 2nd.
Most vital game of the season, will determine who we are as a squad.
Doubt Lebron's gonna really guard Lin. The main rivalry here is Carmelo vs Lebron. Carmelo always brings it against Lebron and if he's playing Lin, who's gonna handle Melo? Exactly.
I also love how all Heat fans think Lin is going to be completely shut down this game. I don't see that happening. Lin did it before and he'll do it again.
If the Knicks compete this game, I'm talking down to the last possession, then I consider it a win. But it'll be that much sweeter to get that .500+ against the best team in the league.
Melo's team record against Lebron 9-4. Last head to head was on Feb. 27 2011 NYK 91 Miami 86. Melo brings it against Lebron, he will do well against Miami esp if Spoelstra tries that sh*t guarding Lin with Lebron.
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"Five Elements of Effective Thinking"
September 14, 2012
Edward Burger '85, the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, is looking to change the way you think.
In "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking" (Princeton University Press, 2012), Burger and co-author Michael Starbird from the University of Texas at Austin, explore new ways for people to increase their effectiveness and creativity by embracing practical and straightforward habits of mind.
The authors draw on real-life examples from education, business and the arts to illustrate success that comes from retraining how you think, allowing you to realize any goal in a more creative, intelligent and effective manner. One of the stories included in the book involves Dr. Lester Reiss, beloved Connecticut College professor of philosophy.
Other topics include exploring deep understanding; using failure as a positive step in the thinking process; learning to create leading questions; how to see the world of ideas within context rather than in a vacuum; and methods for embracing change. Burger and Starbird hope readers will open their minds to new ways of looking at, and engaging in, both the creative process and the world.
"People are often surprised that, though I teach math, I spend a good deal of time talking to my students, as well as lifelong learners and professionals, about concepts, ideas and connections – modes of thinking that transcend all vocations and disciplines," Burger says. "I like to encourage people to always see the bigger picture."
"I've found that individuals tend to innovate and synthesize information quicker and more effectively when they explore ideas rather than merely memorize facts. My hope has always been to provoke thought and offer new ways of learning – not just for those few early years while we are in school, but for our entire life's journey," continues Burger.
It's a lesson that Burger began learning in his early days at Connecticut College.
"I arrived at Connecticut College in the fall of 1981 with the (supremely geeky, yet sincere) notion that college was all about serious, hard work: I was to be an intellectual sponge and absorb as many facts as possible," Burger says.
But it was a notion he quickly moved beyond.
"By the time I graduated, my attitude had dramatically evolved. I realized how important the collective experience is," he continues. "The true promise of education is to mess things up – to challenge the basic assumptions we have about who we are and who we want to become while also discovering our intellectual passions."
Through the book, the authors hope to encourage everyone to become "lifelong learners." Burger especially sees the book as a useful tool for the college community, including students, teachers, parents and alumni. And "effective thinking" is beginning to spread – schools around the country are adopting the book in a variety of disciplines and programs. Burger has been invited to introduce these practical modes of innovation and creativity at a host of institutions and companies, including Microsoft, the World Bank, and even the United States Department of the Interior.
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At least one family was displaced after a fire Tuesday morning at an apartment complex on the 1300 block of 4th Street South in La Crosse.
La Crosse Fire Department Division Chief Jeff Murphy says crews were able to contain the fire to one room in the lower level of the eight-unit building.
No one was injured and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
The American Red Cross is helping the family displaced by the fire. The La Crosse Municipal Transit Authority bus was on scene to keep the people evacuated warm.
Division Chief Murphy says the bitter cold made it difficult to fight the fire, but they were able to put it out within ten minutes.
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Skip to comments.OBL: Mission to kill al-Qaeda leader was so secret I didn't even tell Michelle, reveals Obama
Posted on 05/10/2011 12:50:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PRESIDENT Barack Obama was so keen to ensure the mission to nab Osama bin Laden was successful he even kept it secret from his wife.
The al-Qaeda chief was shot dead in his bedroom at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, last week.
Obama, 49, said: "I didn't tell most people here in the White House. I didn't tell my own family.
"It was that important for us to maintain operational security."
The president kept the plan secret from wife Michelle, 47, and spent the weekend before the raid visiting tornado victims, speaking at a space shuttle launch and attending the White House correspondents' dinner.
Obama added: "I made the decision Thursday night and then we flew off to look at the tornado damage, to go to Cape Canaveral to make a speech. And then we had the White House correspondents' dinner on Saturday night.
"This was in the back of my mind all weekend."
Obama spoke for the first time about how he watched the "tense" 40-minute raid live from the White House situation room, after earlier easing the tension with a game of golf.
He said: "It was the longest 40 minutes of my life."
Yesterday, a Washington Post poll found Obama's approval rating had jumped eight per cent to 57 per cent since the killing of Bin Laden.
CIA data experts are probing information found in Bin Laden's bolthole for leads on tracking down other al-Qaeda members. The data has already revealed details about a planned attack on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
Last night, a US intelligence source said the data suggested that al-Qaeda were interested in hitting Washington, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Pakistan have launched a probe into how Bin Laden was able to live in the country undetected for at least six years.
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani branded allegations of Pakistani complicity and incompetence as "absurd".
Gilani said: "We are determined to get to the bottom of the how, when and why regarding his presence in Abbottabad. We did not invite al-Qaeda to Pakistan."
Yeah, since when is the first moochess privy to secret info?What a charrade....
He reminds me of a 9 year old who has to impress his parents with his good deed..."Look Mommy! I even cleaned my room!"
Not only is 0bama the meanest, baddest, most lethal SEAL there's ever been, and single handedly took out OBL; now he's James Bond.
They're laying it kinda thick. Anything to prop up their puppet.
UNSEEMLY! Please tell me the Sheeple won't fall for this.
Barack, Barack Obama will never sound as good as Bond, James Bond.
He didn't tell his wife, because the grownups didn't tell him until the last minute..
Wow' little Barry deserves a gold star and a cookie
WOW...Great. He actually did what any enlisted man would do automatically.
Obama, 49, said: "I didn't tell most people here in the White House. I didn't tell my own family.
I wish that the operation was implemented without telling you.
"This was in the back of my mind all weekend."
The operation should have been front and center all weekend. What a jerk. 'Let me think for a moment. White House Correspondent Dinner or daring raid to get Osama. I'm kinda hungry, those Seals will be Okay'.
He said: "It was the longest 40 minutes of my life."
Your presidency will be the longest 4 years of my life.
Gee, and exactly what is Michelle's security clearance again?
Oh, what's the use? It's completely amazing that Obama himself has ANY security clearance.
If, prior to his election to the Illinois State Senate, he had applied for a job on any US Military base, I doubt seriously he could have swung a Secret clearance.
The world is absolutely bizarre, and getting worse.
Why would she be told? Good grief.
Well, I'm sure first ladies do hear alot of info from the president husbands.
Reggie Love, on the other hand, shared a pillow with Barry but "cross my heart" promised not to tell.
OBL: Mission to kill al-Qaeda leader was so secret I didn't even know, reveals Obama
"Obama was so keen to ensure the mission to nab Osama bin Laden was successful he even kept it secret from his wife. "
IOW he tells her all the highly classified information routinely, this was one of the very few things he didn't tell her.
He was also boasting that he didn't tell most people at the WH — meaning that he usually tells everything to everyone in the WH. I wonder how many maids and cooks do they have who spy for China and Al Qaeda.
He clearly cannot be trusted with national security.
It's one of life's mysteries. You take a braggart, obnoxious jerk and they will invariably attract followers.
People will fall for this crap.
That is witty.
After the news came out he probably gave her an extra tamale to console her about not being included.
It was so secret, 0 didnt know.
He means it was so secret that Michelle and
Valerie didn't tell him until it was finished.
Whataguy...he is truly my new hero.
I think it was so secret that the Zero didn't even know.
So, who told Dawyne (The Rock) Johnson? How did he tweet about it so soon in the day on May 1st? Could the Birther circus and Trump?s personal destruction tour been all part of Obama?s pre-bin Laden blitz? The world has gone completely ape sh*t and the middle east is getting ready to pounce on Israel - no Osama picture required.
That makes more sense.
They will.
Obama just cant seem to help himself talking about his murder of Bin Laden. Its like weekend at Osamas he just keeps propping the body up for display.
Pile it on, and pile it deep...
It already seems like 40 years...
"In other words, Obama kept his loose lips from big hips."
Can't tell what you don't know? /s
When he's not lying, he's tediously stating the obvious.
Wonder how much safer the world would have been if he hadn't been told and we were able to act on the information gathered.
Oh my!!
And again the lie that his daughter had meningitis when she was a baby.
Clearly that is why that part of his story has not been played and replayed.
Barry was afraid his linebacker wife would say "Hell No" or she'd run off to tell Oprah!
"Well, Im sure first ladies do hear alot of info from the president husbands."
They are both attorneys and they are very good at not discussing confidential issues with their spouses.
And I know, as I am married to an attorney.
You'd be surprised at how a spouse is considered such an integral part of the person with the clearance, that it is assumed that some info will be discussed with them. Spouses are checked almost as in-depth as the person getting the clearance.
In fact, this mission was so secret Obama didn't even hear about it until he was on the 9th hole.
So he didn't tell Moochelle
.... but did his caddy know?
Presidents don't have to get Security Clearance.
It automatically goes with the job.
The press is the only ones who could have vetted him, and we all saw how they handled that.
The grown ups didn't even tell him it was going down until they pulled him off the golf course to come watch
they are no longer atttorneys- both surrendered their law licenses ... that's a whole nother story the press has never explored
suffice it to say Valerie Jarrett probably has the goods on both of them ... and vice versa
The president kept the plan secret from wife Michelle, 47
Wonder why a journalist thought telling us their age was relevant to the story? Odd..
Right! That explains why he looks so grumpy in the "situation room."
The mission was so secret that even I didn't know about it. Obama rimshot
The question begs to be asked: what classified info does he share with the missus?
Wouldn't he also have had to not tell Valerie in order to keep it from Michelle?
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Hopefully this works for tonight's game. High hopes everyone…
Next time you're found with your chin on the ground, there a lot to be learned, so look around.
Just what makes that little old ant think he'll move that rubber-tree plant? Anyone knows an ant can't move a rubber-tree plant.
But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes.
He's got high apple pie in the sky hopes.
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I got my own rally post going as well. Not trying to spam PN but I am sick of reading all the "woe is me. we lost" garbage by our"fans." Get off your asses, stop crying, and support your damn team!
I'm wearing my white loafers to the game tonight….don't sleep on Harry
Never retreat! Never surrender!
Lee goes 8 innings of 1 run ball. Phils win 5-2
Pedro goes 6 innings of 4 run ball. Phils win 10-6
Happ throws a gem in Game 7, throwing 7 innings of 1 run ball. Phils win 6-3 and repeat.
We can dream I guess. But in all honesty, if the offense wakes up, this series is not over. Just take it one game at a time.
I love this post. It seems like this site is now flooded with Yankees fans and people who have lost phaith. It isn't over yet guys. We got cliff on the mound tonight, let's send it back to NY. Take it one game at a time. Come on let's let this post be all about positive comments and let people who still have phaith to express their thoughts! Go phils!!
Also, I'm really happy we're facing Burnett tonight. Hopefully facing a righty will help our bats wake up and we can carry that into New York.
I truly believe this is going to game 7. Under any circumstances, I like Lee against Burnett, esp Burnett in a pressure game with only 3 days rest. Same goes with Pedro against Petite (they hit Petite well last time,…., plus Pedro's swan song in Yankee stadium). My thought for game 7 – start Hamels, if he gets hit, go Blanton, Happ, Durbin, Park, Eyre, Myers,…. Throw out a different guy every inning if that is what it takes. Go Phils!
The pressure is on the Yanks if we can just win this one tonight!!
What the f*** happened to the Philadelphia I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Ooh, we're afraid to watch the game with you, we might lose." Well just kiss my a** from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this!
Harry is a sucker for the post-season drama. He's up there – or wherever in the ether one goes in the afterlife – watching us squirm down here praying that the Phellas can pull off the (almost) impossible. I have a feeling he'll be the 10th man on the field for the Phightins over the next few nights.
This team's got heart, and lots of it. The HK badge is placed over it for a reason. Enough screwing around … time to let the bats and gloves do the talking, send this back to NY, and finish them damn Yankees off.
Do it for Harry the K.
I was really glad to see this post today. It really helped to keep the spirits up. After we win tonight, we can beat Pettite on short rest and CC looked tired at the end of last night so i think he will be out of gas for game 7. high hopes
Nothing Like Harry to pick up your spirits!!
COME on BOYS win this one for HK!!
think about what the players will feel when the place is rocking like we were possibly clinching tonight. these guys are down, we can pick them up. lets do it.
That's right Pat, these guys deserve our support no matter what the outcome, and instead of the negative chants which are directed at the other team, we need to pump up OUR team with positive energy filling every nook and cranny of CBP!
I'm on my way to philly with my Chooch Panamania t-shirt! I have high hopes! Let's go Phils!!!!!!!!
It's do or die! Now it's OUR turn to win 3 in a row! LET'S GO PHILLIES! HIGH HOPES!!!!!!
But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!….I see a Rocky comeback story in the making…by next week we are going to be looking back and saying how can we ever doubt these boys again…Lets go get what's ours!
Big night for the offense…Rollins will provide the spark and Howard the will become the catalyst once again. Repeat boyz…no said it was going to be easy…High Hopes!
Fightin Phil for Life!
We miss and love you HK.
One game at a time, we turn the tables. Starting tonight!! I want to hear the crowd more pumped up than ever. If you're going to the game, tonight is THE night. Send it back to the Bronx where we'll face an aging Pettite on 3 days rest. Let's shock the world!!
Look out Yankees, we're coming for you.
If Cliff Lee does what 98% of the Philly fanbase thinks he will tonight the key to the rest of the series will be game 6 Wednesday night.
The forecast for NYC on Thursday for what would be game 7 is not good, rain/snow/windy with temps in the 30s as another nor'easter moves up the coast. Doesn't look good for Friday either.
If the Phils win tonight, somehow pull out game 6 Wednesday (with Burnett on 3 days rest and Pedro having another start anywhere remotely close to last week, that would be a distinct possibility) we could be looking at the following situation for game 7 if the HK Express (yes, that's what I'm calling the Nor'easter) moves up the coast:
Lee tonight
Day off
Pedro Wednesday
Rainout Thursday
Rainout Friday
Lee on Saturday, regular rest, for Game 7.
We've got, High hopes!!!
Being from Philly all we know how to do is hope. We hoped for years for a championship and now we hope for another one. I agree with Oakland, we get the win tonight…pull off something in game 6 and hope for rain. If we get this to an epic game 7…Let's just say, I love our chances behind Lidge.
the guy with the link to his blog. Chambles is done. Who still considers him the ace? People in a mental institution? Luckily for us and Cole we wont be seeing him anymore. That he isnt available in the pen for a potential game 7 speaks volumes for how fast he has fallen.
Great video though ! I posted it on my facebook
Optimistic no
hope yes
One game at a time.
If the fightins can miracle it to game 7 i love happ in that game. he should have started game 3 and the other 2 starts that Chambles had in the post season. Because he earned it. Go phils
We can still do this. We are the Fightin Phils for a reason. Do not lose faith guys!!! This is a team of destiny. The chips are down and we play best with our backs against the wall. Never lose faith in a team as resilient as the Phillies! LET'S GO PHILLIES! If we come back and take this in 7 games it will be more triumphant than winning in 4 or 5 or 6. Stop talking about who will start game 7. Stop making your predictions. The series starts tonight. We need to win tonight before we can even think about Wednesday. Get your rally towels out. I'm lighting my Rally-O-Lantern pumpkin I carved that is moldy and smells like ass but that I refuse to shatter until the WS is over. I am taking all of the proper superstitions I need to take. This team will do it. The Yankees are the better team, but the Phillies are good enough to beat anyone 3 games in a row. This is like if we were Rocky Balboa and the Yankees are Apollo Creed.
We have learned alot. Manuel makes terrible baseball moves. Brad Lidge not only cant pitch but doesnt cover an open base. Chase Utley has become an average fielder. Ryan Howard cant hit in clutch situations. Raul Ibanez has gone missing. Cole Hamels the Princess is a one year wonder. Jimmy Rollins the biggest mouth in baseball doesnt back it up with his bat and dreadful season. SHUT UP BIG MOUTH. Yankees in 6 because of Lee.


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To make it worse when she finishes a feed or suddenly gets distracted she keeps pulling her head away without even opening her mouth and it really hurts.
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#117885 - 12/17/03 09:15 AM Squaring the circle
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I cannot claim to have any real understanding of what this phrase means, but I was wondering whether you all would agree with the meaning as it's put here:
The Pharaoh's stairway to the Heavens. This is a simulated view looking north. The pole star is in the center of all of the rings. Each band or layer of the pyramid represented five degrees of the dome of the sky (with the exception of the base layer due to other considerations). The circular pathways of the stars intersect with the pyramid as they rotate in the sky and become infused into the quadrangular tiers of the structure. This provides an insight into the esoteric meaning of 'squaring the circle': the circle is celestial and the square is terrestrial.
The picture that this is the caption for is the last one here:
Thanks, Jo, for a very interesting site!
#117886 - 12/17/03 10:26 AM Re: Squaring the circle
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Dunno bout no esoteric meaning. Its exoteric meaning is perty easy to splain.
#117887 - 12/17/03 10:36 AM Re: Squaring the circle
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Each band or layer of the pyramid represented five degrees of the dome of the sky
this (5º) is a common 'celestial' increment-- a full moon is about 5º of the 'arc' of the sky (which from horizon to horizion is about 180º)--its a handy 'measurement' to know, since your 'thumb' held at arms lenght is just about the right size to 'cover the moon'.. so you can use a 'rule of thumb' to measure celestial distances.. useful when a news article says 'planet X can be seen 20º to the south of the moon at 9PM' --as they are want to do.. knowing the 'size of the moon is 5º, its easy to figure out 20º, or any other odd number, not precicely, but close enough._________________________
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#117888 - 12/17/03 12:18 PM Re: Squaring the circle
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"Squaring the circle" refers to the problem of taking a given circle and constructing a square with the same area. One was probably limited to just using a straight-edge and compass.
The site you gave was using this as a play on words, as the curved lines of the orbits about the north star blend into the ends of the lines marking each layer of the step pyramid (the base of a pyramid being a square).
There are three issues with the claim:
1. It's not all that miraculous that the ancients would know what North is.
2. Precession. The earth doesn't just rotate on its axis. It wobbles. The wobbling has a long period, but over time the north star changes. Unless the step pyramid is mounted on a swivel, it's not likely that the picture looks so obvious as what the portray. (I think the ancient egyptians considered alpha draconis - and not Polaris - as the North Star.)
3. The concentrentric circles they draw to illustrate their point just happens to be through stars whose "orbits" take them into the edges. Considering the number of stars in the night sky - particularly in those ages before urban light pollution - it would have been much more impressive had they noted that those "orbits" were absent of stars.
#117889 - 12/17/03 01:29 PM Re: Squaring the circle
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The area of a circle is pi times the diamer. Pi is a number that starts 3.141.......... and has been computed out to over a hundred thousand places. So there is no possible square root of such a number. So it is impossible to find the area of a circle given as the square of a number.
I cannot help being skeptical of some of the theories about the intentions of the builders of the pyramids. I was much more interested in a book I read about eight years ago, by a French authority on geopolymers, of which Portland cement is an example, that the blocks of the Great Pyramid were not cut out of stone, but were cast in place using crushed limestone. I could find nothing improbable in his arguments.
out of print - First edition: The Pyramids, An Enigma Solved
by Joseph Davidovits and Margie Morris
ISBN 0-87052-559-X Hippocrene Books, New York 1988
ISBN 0-88029-555-4 Dorset Press, New York 1990)
#117890 - 12/17/03 02:03 PM Concrete pyramid blocks?
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Interesting site. Don't think I've ever heard anyone suggest the blocks were concrete. This is really remarkable if there's evidence to confirm it.
"The area of a circle is pi times the diamer."
Minor misremembering. That's the circumference. The area is pi*r^2. PI's a transcendental number (i.e., it's not the solution of any polynomial equation with integer coefficients).
#117891 - 12/17/03 06:26 PM Re: Concrete pyramid blocks?
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I've been reading a book by Margaret Visser "The Geometry of Love" in which she delves into the historic, artistic and symbolic and entymological background and significance of every item, including architectural elements, of a small church founded in the 7th century, outside the walls of Rome. The octagon was a very symbolic shape for the people of that time period as it combined the square, representing the physical and earthly ( 4 directions, 4 elements etc) with the circle representing heaven (eternal, unending, perfect.)
The book is very detailed but not dry as you might expect.
#117892 - 12/17/03 07:18 PM Re: Concrete pyramid blocks?
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Area of circle - another senile moment.
#117893 - 12/17/03 09:11 PM Re: Concrete pyramid blocks?
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Dr. Bill and Keith, here's a link that supports that theory:
http://www.geopolymer.org/archaeo.html. If you click on (Are Pyramids made out of concrete?), near the bottom, you are invited to view a documentary in RealPlayer format verifying this.
#117894 - 12/18/03 05:31 AM Re: Concrete pyramid blocks?
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I think this is great. I love it when ages-old questions are figured out in a completely different way from what everyone was expecting.
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- Despite wild swings in estimates, cotton market remains steady
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Despite wild swings in USDA's Sept. 12 estimate of U.S. cotton yield, when all was said and done, overall U.S. cotton production and the cotton market remain steady to higher.
"Just in the yield calculations alone, there were yield changes in 16 of 17 states," said Mike Stevens, cotton analyst and commodity trading advisor, speaking at the Ag Market Network's September conference call. "Six were up and 10 were down. But it didn't change the bottom line."
Stevens said recent trading sessions in the cotton market "have ignored the traditional influences like the value of the U.S. dollar, the lack of export demand and even technical signals. December is clearly overbought, but it really doesn't seem to matter. We have now moved the trading range up to $1.09 to $1.15. The next target will be $1.17 to $1.22. I would not bet against that.
"Traders continue to trade the long side due to the competitive strength in the December-March spread. The market's failure to move back toward carrying charges has got everybody really antsy because of the lack of deliverable supplies."
Stevens added that mills "have woken up to the fact that they can paint themselves into a corner with unfixed positions just like last year. Until something proves different, it looks like this market is going to stay firm."
John Robinson, Extension economist, Texas A&M University, said the changes in yield across states was surprising. "I was expecting a reduction in the Texas number, but they only whittled it down from 636 pounds to 631 pounds. I would have expected it to come down more than that. Maybe that's still true, but it will take another month or two for that to happen."
There were significant changes in some cotton states. For example, Louisiana cotton yield increased from 800 pounds per acre in August to 926 pounds in September, a 25 percent increase. Yield declined by 154 pounds in Virginia, however.
O.A. Cleveland, professor emeritus, Mississippi State University, believes the Louisiana cotton crop had probably been underestimated in previous months. This, plus improvements in the crop since then, resulted in the significant increase in estimated yield.
Cleveland also noted that Arkansas, Missouri and west Tennessee "have the most outstanding crop there is, period. Missouri's yield of 1,092 pounds is just unheard of for the state. West Tennessee producers are very pleased with their crop."


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Professors may be moving toward e-text books for their students, but students are not yet using e-readers to access those books.
The same poll that I cited in my last entry in this space -- produced by the Educause Center for Analysis and Research -- shows that only 16 percent of undergrads have an e-reader. That's up 4 percentage points from last year, though, so the growth is so-so.
That is not the case for the growth in ownership of tablets, which is up 15 percent year over year, and smartphone ownership, which rose 14 percent year over year.
Today, nearly 90 percent of undergrads have a laptop, and 76 percent have a smartphone.
Nearly 60 percent of them have three or more Internet-capable devices.
That tells you something about what they are spending money on, doesn't it?
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How to Make a Beverage Tub
Use these easy step-by-step instructions to learn how to make this clever beverage tub, perfect for your next summer party.
Our senior set stylist, Jenny Bradley Vent, created this awesome "Chill Out" decal featured in the June/July 2011 issue (page 65) of Simple & Delicious. Here are Jenny's tips on how readers can do it at home.
First, we bought our beverage bucket from target.com.
Then, Jenny sketched out a few ideas for the design before teaming up with S&D art director Kristen Johnson to create a digital pattern—download a copy here.
Alternatively, you can use store-bought stencils or download a stencil from sites such as spraypaintstencils.com.
Jenny used an interior acrylic latex paint. She recommends using enamel spray paint for stencils.
Next, she cut out the stencil design and taped it to the tub, gently outlining the stencil with a pencil. If using spray paint, cut the pattern accordingly, leaving the stencil taped to the tub and carefully spritzing in short blasts until you see how the paint adheres.
Some paints may need more drying time than others. Inexpensive or disposable gloves may come in handy when using spray paints.
If painting on your design, remove the stencil pattern after lightly tracing. Jenny painted the light green background color with a sponge brush in the oval space. Then she painted the surrounding light green dots by hand with a small paintbrush, doing two coats—cleaning the brushes and letting the paint completely dry in between.
When the light green color was dry, Jenny used a #2 pencil to color all over the back of her printed oval design, then placed the pattern with the graphite side down on the green oval. With her pencil, she traced over the letters to transfer them onto the light green oval.
Next, using dark blue paint, she painted a line around the oval with a small paintbrush; then painted the lettering over the light pencil marks before placing a tiny blue dot inside each green dot. Again, she did two coats—cleaning the brush and letting the paint completely dry in between.
Let's see how you did! Send us photos of your designer drink tubs at firstname.lastname@example.com. Cheers!


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Wii U Nominations
A quick rundown of this year's nominees for GameSpot's 2013 Game of The Year on the Nintendo Wii U.
A quick rundown of this year's nominees for GameSpot's 2013 Game of The Year on the Nintendo Wii U.
Has GTA V turned you into a fiend for open world games? Join our Open World Game Appreciation Fan Club and discover some games that do things better than even ...
We play catch-up on hump day for all the games we missed during PAX East and GDC. FISH ON!
The villains are featured in what could possibly the last webisode for LEGO City Undercover.
Natalia Kowalski is featured in the fifth webisode for LEGO City Undercover.
With Danny out sick, Seb and Sarah have taken the helm to play through LEGO City Undercover. Apparently, it's the GTA of LEGO games.
This week we check out LEGO City Undercover, Gears of War: Judgment, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, Assassin's Creed III - The Betrayal, Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory and Trials Evolution: Gold ...
Miner McCain uses his bricks to build a Cable Car in order to cross the watery cavern.
Dressed as a robber, Chase McCain navigates rooftops in order to reach Blackwell who has been abducted.
After working his way through the prison, Chase lures the Warden into a make shift cell.
Kevin VanOrd sends LEGO's flying everywhere in this video review for LEGO City Undercover.
Meet Frank Honey in the latest LEGO City Undercover webisode.
Meet Chief Dunby in the second webisode for LEGO City Undercover.
Learn how Lego City Undercover is taking one of video gaming's most controversial genres and tempering it with a lot of bright, colorful blocks.
Here's the first of a series of webisodes for LEGO City Undercover featuring Chase McCain.
Check out some of the vehicles and missions you'll be taking on in LEGO City Undercover.
Check out some gameplay action in Lego City Undercover.
Nintendo's latest "Nintendo Direct" brings news from Satoru Iwata about the Wii U and new software!
We get a Nintendo Direct update for Lego City: Undercover
New gameplay from the US Nintendo Direct Presentation
Check out the newest trailer for LEGO City Undercover.
On today's show, Guy and Jane take a look at the big Wii U announcements from Nintendo's E3 presentation. Zombies have taken over London, LEGO goes undercover, Scribblenauts takes its ...
Nintendo shows LEGO City Undercover at it's E3 2012 press conference.
E3 2012: Solve crimes using the Wii U remote and much more in LEGO City Undercover.
E3 2012: Kurtis and Maxwell let you know what to expect from LEGO City Undercover.
Check out the E3 2011 Nintendo Press Conference!
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Invented with teenage skin in mind
Cupcake is our one fresh face mask that was created for a bit of fun. At the time, our inventor's daughter was a young girl having slumber parties with her girlfriends every weekend, so he whipped up a chocolate mint mask for young, oily skin (officially solidifying him as the coolest dad ever). If you suffer from oily or spotty skin, slather it in this cocoa concoction. With spearmint oil to cool, vanilla absolute to calm redness and Rhassoul mud to deeply cleanse- Cupcake is a sweet savior for young faces. Smothering yourself in chocolate for clearer skin? Every teenage girl's dream.
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Should Python and XML Coexist?
by Uche Ogbuji | Pages: 1, 2
There Is Such a Thing as Overdoing It
It's one thing to say that XML is often not the best choice for configuration and scripting in Python applications, but one has to be careful not to overstate this fact. Phillip comes close to doing so in his post Python Is Not Java.
This is a different situation than in Java, because compared to Java code, XML is agile and flexible. Compared to Python code, XML is a boat anchor, a ball and chain. In Python, XML is something you use for interoperability, not your core functionality, because you simply don't need it for that. In Java, XML can be your savior because it lets you implement domain-specific languages and increase the flexibility of your application "without coding." In Java, avoiding coding is an advantage because coding means recompiling. But in Python, more often than not, code is easier to write than XML. And Python can process code much, much faster than your code can process XML. (Not only that, but you have to write the XML processing code, whereas Python itself is already written for you.)
He goes on at length, but it's really just different ways of restating this core paragraph. The second sentence is where overstatement comes in: if XML is used where it should best be used, and ditto for Python code, it shouldn't even make sense to try to compare the two in the same terms. Unfortunately, one sees a lot of misguided overgeneralization starting with valid complaints about where XML is not suitable. The rest of the quoted paragraph is more careful, and it's clear Phillip is not claiming, for example, that people use Python code rather than HTML (or XHTML) to express Web pages. XML is no more a good code format than Python is a good document format.
XML is the result of the meeting of two very distinct worlds: the database/data structure worlds and the document management world. As a result, XML is reasonably suitable for expressing data structures, and reasonably so for documents as well. I personally argue that XML is much more suited for documents than for data structures, but this is a long-standing debate in the XML community. I do, however, observe that dissatisfaction with XML seems to emerge much more loudly when XML is used to express data structures. The biggest complaints of the document crowd with XML, in my estimation, are its lack of minimization tricks (as in SGML) and its lack of support for overlapping markup. On the other hand, programmer types are much more prone to call in the entire reason for XML's being, sometimes to the point of overreacting.
I personally consider this to be evidence that the trend toward injecting more and more of the character of programming languages and databases into XML is deeply misguided. W3C XML Schema and XQuery do even more to blur the line between applications and semistructured data. Developers in languages such as Java see this as a good thing because they already rely so heavily on XML that ever-closer union seems natural. Unfortunately, the message is not always clear that users of dynamic languages should consider less complex and rigid alternatives such as RELAX NG and XPath. I have long said that I would rather use Python and XPath to access XML documents and even XML data stores than XQuery, but being familiar with Java/XML APIs, I can understand why XQuery would be attractive in that case.
In an interesting twist on this whole matter, even in languages such as Java, there is some backlash emerging against overuse of XML. Some developers rue the need for complex XML in scripting scenarios where it might have been better to use a language such as Jython, which is already tightly integrated into the host language, and is far better suited to writing code than XML.
There is plenty of room for discussion about where XML can be useful to Python programmers, and where it can be a hindrance. There is also plenty of room to discuss which XML-related technologies are well suited to use with Python, and which might be best avoided. I'll cover such matters in coming articles. Meanwhile, it's great to see that the Python community has been doing a lot more than just complaining about XML.
Starting close to home, I pushed Amara XML Toolkit to version 1.0. I've covered Amara here in the past (Introducing the Amara XML Toolkit and Making Old Things New Again). Amara's centerpiece is Bindery, a very Pythonic XML API. The biggest change is a package option that incorporates the prerequisites (from 4Suite), in order to remove one installation step. You no longer need anything except for Python to install Amara from one package in one step. See the announcement.
Walter Dörwald announced XIST 2.11, which I covered in the recent article Writing and Reading XML with XIST . It's a very capable, open source package for XML and HTML processing and generation. The biggest change is script, xml2xsc.py, which parses a sample XML instance and generates sub classes for XIST. See the announcement for the full catalog of changes, including many more fixes and a few minor API updates.
Christof Hoeke just keeps on pushing out packages. This time it's cssutils 0.8a3, "a Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets." cssutils implements portions of DOM Level 2 Stylesheets CSS interfaces. See the announcement.
Alexander Schremmer announced MoinMoin 1.3.5. MoinMoin is a widely used Wiki server written in Python. It offers several XML features, including Docbook content and XSLT rendering, which saw some work in this release as the 4Suite compatibility was improved. Many more details in the announcement.
Also in Python and XML
EaseXML: A Python Data-Binding Tool
John Holland announced pyx12 1.2.0. "Pyx12 is a HIPAA X12 document validator and converter. It parses an ANSI X12N data file and validates it against the Implementation Guidelines for a HIPAA transaction. By default, it creates a 997 response. It can create an html representation of the X12 document or can translate to an XML representation of the data file." This release focuses on XML-output format adjustments and additions, with some bugs and performance tweaks. See the announcement.
J. David Ibáñez released itools 0.10.0, a collection of utilities.
It includes some XML-related modules including:
itools.xml (a parser
with some similarities to pulldom),
itools.rss (RSS
itools.xliff (XLIFF--XML
Localization Interchange File Format),
itools.tmx (TMX--Translation
Memory eXchange). It also includes Simple Template Language (STL), a
language for embedding template-processing instructions in XHTML. See the announcement.
Julien Oster announced xmlrpcserver 0.99.1. "xmlrpcserver is a simple to use but fairly complete XML-RPC server module for Python, implemented on top of the standard module xmlrpclib. This module may, for example, be used in CGIs, inside application servers or within an application, or even standalone as an HTTP server waiting for XML-RPC requests." See the announcement, which includes a complete code example.
Following up on my article Wrestling HTML I wrote a couple of articles detailing further experiences turning an HTML mess into clean XHTML. In Use Amara to Parse/Process (Almost) any HTML I showed how to use the HTML tidy command line to feed HTML to Amara. In Beyond HTML Tidy I give a workout to John Cowan's TagSoup command line tool as well as BeautifulSoup.
Leslie Michael Orchard announced a module xslfilter.py for WSGI--Python Web Server Gateway Interface. It uses lxml to optionally run XSLT transforms against XML produced by server code, and send the result to the client.
Radovan Garabík's announcement of unicode 0.4.7 is a nice follow-up to my last article, which included discussion of the Python Unicode database module. Radovan's tool is a "simple python command line utility that displays properties for a given unicode character, or searches unicode database for a given name," building on that database.
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2010-06-18 20:00:37 fiwedding
- Odd synopsis of article
2005-09-01 22:18:52 Uche Ogbuji
- XML/RDF/OWL vs. MKR
2005-08-30 04:37:44 Richard H. McCullough
2005-08-27 08:52:13 gedave
2005-08-29 15:48:56 Uche Ogbuji
2005-08-26 08:12:00 Martijn Faassen
- weblog entry on Python and XML
2005-08-29 15:40:00 Uche Ogbuji
2005-08-25 14:40:57 antont
- python wrappers to xml
2005-08-29 15:38:42 Uche Ogbuji


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June 30, 2011 —
NARROWSBURG, NY — "Peaceable Kingdom," an exhibition about the world of animals curated by the Outsider's Studio Collective, opens at the Loft Gallery at the Delaware Arts Center on Friday, July 1, with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. The show will be on view through July 23.
The exhibit examines aspects of the animal world in nature and in relation to artists. Nine artists are represented: photographer Elizabeth Ennis; painters Andrea Brown, Jan Harrison, Michael Staats, Patricia Sprott, and Susan Moody Ward; multimedia artists Joanna Hartell and Margaret Hillary Moore; and sculptor Joni Wehrli.
The Outsider's Studio is a mobile arts event entity dedicated to "Bringing the Arts to Other Places and Spaces" in and around the Catskills, showcasing artists, filmmakers, writers and musicians. Visit www.artsalliancesite.org [1].