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This is the second of a two-part series on creating QuickTime movies "from scratch" in Java. By that, I mean we're creating our own media data, piece by piece, to assemble the movie. Doing things at this low level is tricky, but I hope you'll agree after this installment that it's remarkably powerful.
Part 1 began with the structure of a QuickTime movie as a collection of tracks, each of which has exactly one
Media object that in turn
references media data that can be in the movie file, in another file, or out on the
network. The
Media has tables that indicate how to find specific
"samples," individual pieces of audio, video, text, or other content
to be rendered at a specific time in the movie. Part 1 used easy-to-create
text tracks to show how to build up a
Media structure, first by
creating a simple all-text movie and then by adding textual
"time-code" samples as a new text track in an existing movie.
In this part, we'll move on to creating video tracks from scratch, building up a video media object by adding graphic samples.
The goal of this article's sample code is to take a graphic file and make a movie out of it by "moving" around the image — you may have seen this concept in iMovie, where Apple calls it the "Ken Burns Effect," after the director who used it extensively in PBS' The Civil War and other documentaries. There is also a shareware application called Photo to Movie that does much the same thing.
Source Code
Download the source code for the examples.
We can make this work because of the concept of persistence of vision, which says that the human eye perceives a series of images, alternated sufficiently quickly, as motion. To do an image-to-movie effect, we show slightly different parts of the picture in each distinct image or "frame," creating the illusion of moving from one part of the picture to another.
In creating text tracks, the approach was to:
Media object to it.
MediaHandler and use that to add samples to the
The same approach generally works for video, except that the
VisualMediaHandler doesn't do anything for us. Instead, we need
to create a compression sequence, or
CSequence, to prepare
samples, encoded and compressed with a codec supported by QuickTime. We'll
then add these samples directly to the
CSequence class has a method called
compressFrame, which is what we need to generate samples. Its
signature is:
public CompressedFrameInfo compressFrame(QDGraphics src,
QDRect srcRect,
int flags,
RawEncodedImage data)
throws StdQTException
That doesn't look too bad. We just need a
QDGraphics as the
source of our image, a rectangle describing what part of the image to use, some
behavior flags, and a
RawEncodedImage buffer into which to put the compressed
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GWorld with
"So what's a
QDGraphics?", you might be wondering. The name is
presumably meant to evoke thoughts of the AWT's
Graphics. Indeed,
the two are remarkably similar: each represents a drawing surface, either
on-screen or off-, containing methods for drawing lines, circles, arcs,
polygons, and text strings.
One clever thing that
QDGraphics does under the covers is to
offer an isolation layer to hide whether the drawing surface is on-screen or
off-screen unless you specifically ask for it, and what native structures
CGrafPort and
GWorld) are involved. One odd
side effect of this arrangement is that while there are many
getGWorld() methods throughout the QTJ API, there's no
GWorld class to return, so you get
In fact, the
GraphicsImporter offers a
getGWorld(), and if you guessed that this class offers a way to get an
image into QuickTime, you're right. So now we have some idea of how we're
going to connect the dots to make a movie from an image:
GraphicsImporter can read an image file.
getGWorld() that returns a
QDGraphics can go to
CSequence.compressFrame() as the
src parameter.
RawEncodedImage created by
compressFrame can be added to our
Media with
One strategy for getting the frames is to:
Get starting and ending rectangles, where a rectangle is a
QDRect representing an upper-left corner point and width by height
Step One
Calculate a series of intermediate rectangles that take us from the
startRect to the
Step Two
For each of these intermediate
fromRects, call
compressFrame to make a frame from that portion of the original
image. Add each frame as a sample.
Step Three
If you have QuickTime 5 or better, you can see the result here.
This strategy works, but it is limited by the size of the original image. This is pretty much a fatal flaw. If the image is only slightly larger than the movie size (i.e., the size of the rectangles), there isn't much room to move around. If it's smaller than our movie, then it won't work at all. On the other hand, if the image is much larger than our desired movie dimensions, then we might not be able to get the parts of the picture we want — it's not very useful if we can't get someone's entire face in the movie, and instead settle for a shot that moves from their nose to their chin.
Scaling the image would be a nice improvement, but we can actually do better
than that. If we could scale each
fromRect, then we could
"zoom" in or out of the picture by using progressively larger or
smaller source regions. But how do we do this?
Matrix Reloaded
Part 1 demonstrated how QuickTime's
Matrix class could be used to define a spatial transformation. Mainly, we used it to move text located at
(0,0) to a point at the bottom of a movie, but look at the javadocs and you'll
see some intriguing methods, like
rotate() and
The key to our improved strategy is a method called
that combines a coordinate mapping with a scaling operation. This allows us
to use any source rectangle and scale it to the size of the frames we're
compressing for the movie.
To make this work, the sample code creates an offscreen
QDGraphics and tells the
GraphicsImporter to use this
for its
draw()s. The new
QDGraphics's dimensions are
the same as those of the frames we intend to compress. That means its bounds
are a
QDRect with upper-left corner 0,0 and constant dimensions
VIDEO_TRACK_WIDTH by
VIDEO_TRACK_HEIGHT (which I've
set to 360 by 240, but you're welcome to change in the code). For each
fromRect, we create a
Matrix to map from
fromRect's QDRect to our
QDRect's bounds.
The revised process looks like this:
QDRect representing an upper-left corner point and width by height
Step One
startRect to the
Step Two
fromRects, use a
Matrix to scale the rectangle into the bounds of an offscreen
QDGraphics, draw it into the
QDGraphics, and then call
compressFrame to make a frame from the offscreen
QDGraphics. Add
each frame as a sample.
Step Three
Given that strategy, let's step through the code that makes it all work.
We'll skip over creating the movie itself, which we covered last time.
Similarly, creating and adding the
VideoTrack and
VideoMedia are a very straightforward analogue to last article's
TextTrack and
TextMedia setup.
If this is your first time compiling and running QuickTime for Java
code, see my earlier article, "A Gentle Re-Introduction to QuickTime for Java," for information on how to work out
CLASSPATH and Java versioning issues.
To get things started in this example, we need to know the source image
file, as well as the
startRect and
endRect rectangles
that define the movie we are to make. The sample code expects a makecsequence.properties file to be in the current directory, with
entries that look something like this:
If this file is absent, the user will be queried for an image file at runtime, and the rectangles will be chosen randomly.
Given a
QTFile for the image file, creating the
GraphicsImporter is quite straightforward:
GraphicsImporter importer = new GraphicsImporter (imgFile);
Next, we create the offscreen
QDGraphics and tell the
GraphicsImporter to use it for its drawing:
QDGraphics gw =
new QDGraphics (new QDRect (0, 0,
importer.setGWorld (gw, null);
Notice that I inadvertently called the variable
gw, as in
"GWorld". The use of that term in the API and Apple's docs is
really pervasive!
One thing we have to prepare early is a block of memory big enough to hold
the largest possible frame that the chosen video compressor could create. To
do this, we call a
getMaxCompressionSize() method, allocate a
block of memory of that size (as referenced by a
QTHandle), and
"lock" the handle so it can't move while we're working with it.
Finally, we can create a
RawEncodedImage object with this buffer:
int rawImageSize =
QTImage.getMaxCompressionSize (gw,
QTHandle imageHandle = new QTHandle (rawImageSize, true);
RawEncodedImage compressedImage =
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CODEC_TYPE is a constant defined early in the sample code.
It is an
int that indicates which QuickTime-supported compression
scheme we've chosen to use, "codec" being the term for a
scheme by which video is encoded and decoded. Many of these are provided as
constants in the
StdQTConstants class. Among the popular choices
kCinepakCodecType. Cinepak is a widely supported codec dating
back to the early 90s. However, its image quality and compression ratios
aren't very compelling anymore.
kSorensonCodecType. Sorenson Video pretty much replaced
Cinepak for a lot of QuickTime users with its higher quality and great
kH263CodecType. H.263 is a codec originally
designed for videoconferencing but widely used in other environments. It is
also supported by Windows Media Player, the Java Media Framework, and is a simple form of MPEG-4 video.
kAnimationCodecType. A compressor meant for use with
synthetic images. Apple's demo code uses this a lot, but that's because their
sample apps create their own image data. Our photo doesn't compress well with
the Animation codec, so only use it here if you want to be shocked by how big
the resulting file is (hint: make sure you have at least 15MB free!).
There are more supported codecs than QTJ lets on, but you have to look in
the native API's
ImageCompression.h to find them. Two great
options are:
Sorenson 3. A newer version of the Sorenson codec, Sorenson 3 is available in QuickTime 5
and up. The identifier for this codec is
SVQ3, so to create the
int that QuickTime wants, we take the bottom eight bits of each
character (we pretend that we've gone back in time and Unicode doesn't exist
yet). Since
S is
V is
Q is
0x51, and
3 is
0x33, the
int value is
MPEG-4. You can use MPEG-4 video in a regular QuickTime
container, with the caveat that only QuickTime will be able to read it —
to create a real
.mp4 file, you'd need to use a
MovieExporter, as shown in the article
on the QuickTime File Format. For our current purposes, the codec type of
MPEG-4 video is
mp4v, which translates to the
The next thing we do is to create a
CSequence. This object
provides us the ability to compress frames. We have to call this with each
frame to compress, in order, and there's an interesting reason for this. If we
were using a compression scheme meant for single images, such as JPEG, we could
do the images in any order, since each frame would have all of the information it
needed to be decompressed and rendered. This is generally not true of
video compression schemes, which often use "temporal compression":
techniques to compress data by eliminating redundant information
between frames, such as an unchanging background. Because of this approach,
decoding a given frame might depend on information from one or more previous
frames, which is why we have to do our compression through an object that
understands that we're working with a series of images.
CSequence constructor looks like this:
CSequence seq = new CSequence (gw,
These arguments are, in order:
QDGraphics src: the
QDGraphics from which to get image data. In our case, the offscreen
GWorld into which we draw.
QDRect srcRect: the portion of the
src to use.
In our case, the whole thing.
int colorDepth: an
int indicating the likely
depth (4-bit color, 32-bit color, etc.) at which the frames are likely to be viewed. Pass
0 to let the Image Compression Manager choose for you.
More info lives in the docs for the native function.
int cType: the codec type, as described above.
CodecComponent codec: often used to request a specific
behavior of the given codec, such as the
CodecComponent constants
bestFidelityCodec, or
int spatialQuality: a quality setting for the images, from
codecMinQuality, through low, normal, and high, up to
codecMaxQuality and, in for codecs that allow it,
codecLosslessQuality (all in
int temporalQuality: the quality setting for inter-frame
compression, with values as above.
int keyFrameRate: the maximum number of frames allowed between
"key frames," which are the frames that have all of the information they
need, and that may be needed for multiple subsequent frames to decompress.
ColorTable clut: a custom color lookup table, often set to
null to let QuickTime use the table from the source image.
int flags: one or more behavior flags, logically
OR'd together. One interesting option is
codecFlagWasCompressed, which hints that the source image was
previously compressed and gives the codec a chance to compensate for the
artifacting and other image degradation that occurs when an image has been
compressed with a lossy codec (like JPEG).
Once we've created the
CSequence, we get an
ImageDescription object, which we'll need later when adding
samples to the
Now we can start the loop to draw, compress, and add frames. We calculate a
fromRect, inside of the original image. This will be the
source of this frame. Next, we create a
Matrix that maps and
scales from its original location and size to the offscreen buffer's location
and size; in other words, a rectangle at (0,0) with dimensions
VIDEO_TRACK_WIDTH by
VIDEO_TRACK_HEIGHT. Calling
GraphicsImporter.draw() performs the scaled drawing of the region
into the offscreen
Matrix drawMatrix = new Matrix();
drawMatrix.rect (fromRect, gRect);
importer.setMatrix (drawMatrix);
Next, we compress the image that was drawn into the offscreen
CompressedFrameInfo cfInfo =
seq.compressFrame (gw,
The arguments to this call are:
QDGraphics src: the source image to compress.
QDRect rect : what portion of that image to use.
int flags: behavior flags. Among the most useful is
codecFlagUpdatePrevious, which is used for codecs that use
temporal compression. Another interesting option not needed here is
codecFlagLiveGrab, which you'd use if you were generating images
from a live source, possibly image capture, and needed to compress frames as
quickly as possible. In the typical QuickTime style, the desired flags are
OR'd together.
RawEncodedImage: a
RawEncodedImage into which the
compressed frame will be written. This is the object we made sure was big
enough with that
getMaxCompressionSize() call earlier.
compressFrame call returns a
CompressedImageInfo object, which has an important method called
getSimilarity(). This value represents how similar the compressed
image is to the one compressed just before it. A value of 255 means the images
are identical. 0 means the compressed frame is to be a "key frame,"
meaning it has all the image data it needs, it does not depend on other frames,
and other frames may depend on it. Other values simply represent image
difference, where low values mean low similarity.
With the frame now compressed into the
RawEncodedImage, we can
add a sample to the
VideoMedia, with the
method inherited from the
Media superclass:
videoMedia.addSample (imageHandle,
(syncSample ?
The arguments to this method are:
QTHandleRef data: a reference to the sample data; in this
case, to the
int dataOffset: an offset into the
data. This is
0 in our case, since we're using all of the
RawEncodedImage that was populated by
int dataSize: the number of bytes of
starting at
dataOffset, to use. Again, we're using the whole
int durationPerSample: how long this sample lasts, expressed
in units of the media's timescale. Since our timescale is 600, a duration of 20
equals 1/30th of a second.
SampleDescription sampleDesc: an object that tells the media
what to do with the sample data being passed in. This is why we got an
ImageDescription from the
CSequence earlier.
int numberOfSamples: the number of samples provided by this
call. For video, this is typically one frame. For other kinds of media, there
are some performance considerations described in the native docs.
int sampleFlags: behavior flags. The interesting value here
is whether or not this is a "key frame," also known in QuickTime as a
"sync sample." We set the
mediaSampleNotSync flag if
our earlier call to
CompressedFrameInfo.getSimilarity() returned
non-zero. Note that failing to set this flag correctly is a popular cause of
movies that "blur" when scrubbed or played from any point other than
the first frame, as explained in an Apple tech note.
Once the loop finishes, we do the same clean-up tasks as with the text-track samples in Part 1 -- declare that we're done editing and insert the media into the video track:
videoTrack.insertMedia (0, // trackStart
0, // mediaTime
videoMedia.getDuration(), // mediaDuration
1); // mediaRate
Finally, we save the movie to disk, exactly as before.
Here, for those with QuickTime 5 or 6, is a videotrack.mov movie produced by the sample code. If you recompile and re-run the code with different codecs and different sizes, you'll see some fairly dramatic differences in file size and image quality. I've used 160x120 to keep the file size small, in order to avoid abusing O'Reilly's bandwidth, and the compression artifacts here are more visible than in the 320x240 version.
Also remember that while we just copied a scaled section of an image into
the offscreen buffer, you can do any kind of imaging with this buffer before
compressing it into a frame. For example, you could do the drawing commands in
QDGraphics class, or use the
QTImageDrawer to use
Java 2D Graphics methods to draw into the QuickTime world. With some
bit-munging, you might even find a way to render 3D graphics from JOGL into QuickTime ... anyone up for rendering Finding Nemo directly into a QuickTime movie?
This completes our tour of QuickTime media structures, in which we've gone from the high-level view of what makes up a movie to the low-level mucking around with individual samples. This is a little "closer to the metal" than QTJ usually requires, but if you believe in keeping simple tasks easy and complex tasks possible, this has been an example of the latter.
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POWELL, Barbara Jane, 60, of Burgettstown, PA, passed away Friday, February 8, 2013, at her home.
Born March 13, 1952, in Kittanning, PA, she was a daughter of the late Leslie and Betty Forringer Brice. She was also preceded in death by her brothers, David and Randy Brice.
Mrs. Powell was a dedicated and devoted homemaker and was a member of the Church of Christ. Barbara loved cooking for her family, gardening and painting.
She is survived by her husband, Carl F. Powell of Burgettstown; son, Christopher (Jamie) Powell; daughter, April Dawn Powell (Clinton) Simms all of Colliers, WV; brother, Leslie (Betty Anne) Brice of Ford City, PA; sister, Betty Joe (Dave) Mantuscin of Leechburg, PA; grandsons, Hunter and Ryder Simms and Austin Powell; granddaughter, Taylor Powell; sister-in-law Darlene Corwin and brother-in-law, Larry Powell.
Visitation will be held Monday from 1-5 p.m. at the Greco-Hertnick Funeral Home, 3219 Main St., Weirton, WV, where funeral services will follow at 5 p.m. with Pete Cole officiating.
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SGML ("Standard Generalized Markup Language") is not an actual format, but a specification for writing markup languages; the markup language "formats" themselves are called DTDs ("Document Type Definitions"). When you write a document in an SGML DTD, you write input as a plain text file with markup tags -- such as "this" for emphasized text..
The various SGML packages on Linux are currently in a state of transition; the original SGML-Tools package (now "SGMLtools v1") is considered obsolete and is no longer being developed; however, the newer SGMLtools v2 (aka "SGMLtools Next Generation" and "SGMLtools '98") is still alpha software, as is SGMLtools-lite, a new subset of SGMLtools.
In the meantime, if you want to dive in and get started making documents with the early SGMLtools and the linuxdoc DTD (the DTD long-used by the Linux Documentation Project), it's not hard to do. While the newer DocBook DTD has become very popular, it may be best suited for technical books and other very large projects. For smaller documents written by individual authors, such as a multi-part essay, FAQ, or white paper, the linuxdoc DTD still works fine.
And since the Linux HOWTOs are still written in linuxdoc, Debian has decided to maintain the SGMLtools 1.0 package independently; you can download both the Debian package and the original source code from http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/text/sgml-tools.html.
Many of the same SGML tools are available for BSD and can be found in the "textproc" section of the ports or pkg-src collection. Both the linuxdoc and DocBook DTDs are available.
A document written in an SGML DTD looks a lot like HTML -- which is no coincidence, since HTML is a subset of SGML. A very simple "Hello, world" in the linuxdoc DTD might look like this:
<!doctype linuxdoc system>
<title>An Example Document
<author>Ann Author
<date>4 May 2000
This is an example LinuxDoc document.

Hello, world.
The SGMLtools package comes with a simple example file,
example.sgml.gz, which is installed in the
sgmlcheck to make sure the syntax of your SGML document is
correct -- it outputs any errors in the document you specify as an
argument. For example, to check the sgml file
myfile.sgml, you'd type:
$ sgmlcheck myfile.sgml RET
Now for the fun part -- generating output from your .sgml input file.
The following table lists the available SGML converters and the kind of output they generate:
Generates HTML files
Generates a GNU info file
Generates a LyX input file
Generates a LaTeX input file
Generates a file in Microsoft Rich Text Format
Generates plain text format
Each of these tools takes the .sgml input file as an argument and writes the output to a file with the same base file name but with an extension that reflects its format.
For example, to make a plain text file from
myfile.sgml, you'd
$ sgml2txt myfile.sgml RET
This command writes a plain text file called
To make a PostScript or PDF file from an .sgml file, first generate a LaTeX input file, run it through LaTeX to make a DVI output file, and then process that to make the final output (processing LaTeX files was the subject of a previous column):
$ sgml2latex myfile.sgml RET
$ latex myfile.latex RET
$ dvips -t letter -o myfile.ps myfile.dvi RET
In this example,
sgml2latex writes a LaTeX input file from the
.sgml source, and then the latex tool processes the LaTeX file to make
DVI output, which is processed with dvips to get the final output, a
PostScript file called
myfile.ps with a paper size of US letter.
To make a PDF file from the PostScript file, you need to do one
more step, and use
ps2pdf (part of the gs or Ghostscript package) to
convert the PostScript to PDF:
$ ps2pdf myfile.ps myfile.pdf RET
Next week: LyX, a "document processor" application.
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PCR AdventuresSaturday, December 8th, 2012 by Carson Wills '14
Hi everyone! So unfortunately, our third attempt at PCR didn't work… and neither did our fourth attempt. We started our fifth attempt this morning (and we're going to end up running over 90 tubes this attempt!) so let's hope we get something this time. After our third round of PCR didn't work, we hypothesized that we might not have enough genomic Anopheles DNA, so we decided to use another group's DNA that we knew worked. At the same time, we decided to raise the extension times and play with the annealing temperatures to try to get a band on our gels. To be able to move on to the next step of this process, ligation, we would have needed to see bands by last Monday. Since we didn't see anything, we knew we wouldn't be able to continue on and finish everything by the end of the quarter, so we decided to just focus on troubleshooting our PCR. We decided that since we're just going to focus on PCR we would also troubleshoot Canoe, in an effort to get SOMETHING. Unfortunately, at this point we still haven't gotten any bands on our gels, which makes us think there may be something wrong with the primers that we're using to extract the genes. This weekend we're going to try running a variety of semi-nested PCR reactions to test to see if any of the primers are defective. Had our PCR worked, as most groups' did, we would have ligated our PCR product into plasmid vectors, and then transformed these vectors into competent E.Coli bacteria, similar to what we did in Superlab last quarter with our bacterial DNA. After transformation, we would have prepared mini-preps of the DNA from bacterial cultures, sent the samples away to be sequenced, and then analyzed the sequences to determine if they were what we were expecting to find. If our PCR this weekend works, we may still be able to ligate and transform, but unfortunately we're so close to the end of the quarter we won't have time to send it away for sequencing and get it back before the end of next week, which is disappointing, but that's science! This coming Friday, we're going to give in-class presentations about what we did this quarter and our results, so we anticipate our presentation having a LOT of PCR!


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Who knew?
Apparently not the Air Force. And if those at the top of the service did know, they didn't act.
And therein lay the reason Gates chose to oust simultaneously and unceremoniously the Air Force's top uniformed leader, Gen. Michael Moseley, and its top civilian official, Michael Wynne.
Gone. Just like that. One of the rare times in history that the top two officials of a military service have been dumped at the same time.
At a Pentagon news conference, Gates said his decision was based mainly on the damning conclusions of an internal report on the mistaken shipment to Taiwan of four Air Force electrical fuses for ballistic missile warheads. And he linked the underlying causes of that slip-up to another startling incident: the flight last August of a B-52 bomber that was mistakenly armed with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles.
The report made the stunning determination that the Air Force's nuclear standards have been in a long decline, a "problem that has been identified but not effectively addressed for over a decade."
Gates said the investigation found a common theme in the B-52 and Taiwan incidents: "a decline in the Air Force's nuclear mission focus and performance" and a failure by Air Force leaders to respond effectively.
In a reflection of his concern about the state of nuclear security, Gates said he had asked a former defense secretary, James Schlesinger, to lead a task force that will recommend ways to ensure that the highest levels of accountability and control are maintained in Air Force handling of nuclear weapons.
In somber tones, Gates told reporters his decision to remove Wynne and Moseley was based on the findings of an investigation of the Taiwan debacle by Adm. Kirkland Donald. The admiral found a "lack of a critical self-assessment culture" in the Air Force nuclear program, making it unlikely that weaknesses in the way critical materials such as nuclear weapons are handled could be corrected, Gates said.
Gates said Donald concluded that many of the problems that led to the B-52 and the Taiwan sale incidents "have been known or should have been known."
The Donald report is classified; Gates provided an oral summary.
"The Taiwan incident clearly was the trigger," Gates said when asked whether Moseley and Wynne would have retained their positions in the absence of the mistaken shipment of fuses. He also said that Donald found a "lack of effective Air Force leadership oversight" of its nuclear mission.
The investigation found a declining trend in Air Force nuclear expertise — not the first time that has been raised as a problem, Gates said — and a drifting of the Air Force's focus away from its nuclear mission, which includes stewardship of the land-based missile component of the nation's nuclear arsenal, as well as missiles and bombs assigned for nuclear missions aboard B-52 and B-2 long-range bombers.
Gates also announced that "a substantial number" of Air Force general officers and colonels were identified in the Donald report as potentially subject to disciplinary measures that range from removal from command to letters of reprimand. He said he would direct the yet-to-be-named successors to Wynne and Moseley to evaluate those identified culprits and decide what disciplinary actions are warranted — "or whether they can be part of the solution" to the problems found by Donald.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said that President Bush knew about the resignations but that the White House had "not played any role" in the shake-up.
Early reaction from Capitol Hill was favorable to drastic action.
"Secretary Gates' focus on accountability is essential and had been absent from the office of the secretary of defense for too long," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "The safety and security of America' nuclear weapons must receive the highest priority, just as it must in other countries."
Gates said he would make recommendations to Bush shortly on a new Air Force chief of staff and civilian secretary. Gates has settled on candidates for both jobs but has not yet formally recommended them, one official said.
Gen. Duncan J. McNabb is the current Air Force vice chief of staff.
Moseley, who commanded coalition air forces during the initial invasion of Iraq in March 2003, became Air Force chief in September 2005; Wynne, a former General Dynamics executive, took office in November 2005.
Wynne is the second civilian chief of a military service to be forced out by Gates. In March 2007 the defense secretary pushed out Francis Harvey, the Army secretary, because Gates was dissatisfied with Harvey's handling of revelations of inadequate housing conditions and bureaucratic delays for troops recovering from war wounds at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Wynne and Moseley issued their own written statements.
"As the Air Force's senior uniformed leader, I take full responsibility for events which have hurt the Air Force's reputation or raised a question of every airman's commitment to our core values," Moseley said.
Wynne said he "read with regret" the findings of the Donald report.


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Note to self: Do NOT take a selfie anywhere near a trumpeter swan.
Steven Takata was visiting the Great Bend Zoo in Kansas with his brother-in-law Jeff recently, when Jeff decided to snap a selfie with a trumpeter swan standing behind him.
The swan wasn't too happy, bobbing its head up and down before taking a bite out of Jeff's arm.
Takata captured the incident on camera and posted the video to YouTube.
The really ironic part?
"(Jeff) was trying to get the picture to send to his friend that got attacked by (a swan) years earlier to show him they weren't that bad," Takata wrote on YouTube. "It didn't turn out exactly as he planned."
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January 30, 2013 —
PORT JERVIS, NY — The Port Jervis High School Drama Club will host an evening of food and entertainment at the third annual Taste of the Tri-States on Friday, February 1 at 6 p.m. in the Port Jervis High School gymnasium. Some of the area's eateries will prepare specialty dishes for the event, and entertainment will be provided by the high-powered Irish rock band, EMISH.
Proceeds will be used to cover costs for the high school's spring production of "Little Shop of Horrors," to be presented March 15 through 17.
Tickets cost $15 and can be purchased at the high school main office, from cast and crew members, or at the door the night of the performance. Call the Port Jervis High School Music Department at 845/858-3100, ext. 11825.


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The Filibuster
Looks like the Tigers made a deal. Will Washburn be our savior now or is Jake Peavy the nail in the coffin for the White Sox?
Farmington Hills, MI
question Mandy. And it's pretty amusing that Peavy ended up on the
White Sox after all those rumors about him going to the Cubs. Man,
Piniella must be spittin' mad right about now. But I digress. You asked
about Washburn and to Washburn we will go. And the simple answer is, I
don't know.
See, starting pitching really hasn't been the
Tigers' problem this year. They have Verlander and Jackson in the
rotation and both of them are All-Stars.
Washburn does improve the rotation but that isn't going to matter much
if the Tigers' hitters continue coming up short and if the bullpen
can't hold a lead. Zumaya is out for the rest of the season, Lyon has
been a bust and Rodney may be converting most of his save opportunities but
he's shaky enough that you almost wish Todd Jones was still there.
The main problem with your question, Mandy, is that it's
irrelevant. I don't say that to be mean, it's just that the American League central, and, by extension, your question, is
irrelevant. Whether the Twins, Tigers or White Sox take the crown, they
can't possibly measure up against a loaded Angels club or the Red Sox and
Yankees. The talent, like the rivers, flows from the continental divide to the coasts and,
despite occasional flukes, there's a reason that the same teams from
the same cities tend to be in the hunt every year.
Does Peavy
make the White Sox better? Sure. Does Washburn make Detroit better? Of course.
But does it matter when the Red Sox already have a stacked pitching
staff and then added Victor Martinez behind the plate? Or how about
the Phillies with the addition of Cliff Lee and Pedro Martinez?
Now Mandy, don't get me wrong. I think the rest of the season in the AL Central should be a dogfight and it will probably go right down to the wire. The couple of wins that a Peavy or a Washburn can get you might make all the difference. But that difference doesn't amount to a hill of beans when you get to the playoffs and face these other teams.
There is good news, though. Although it sometimes seems like everything is going wrong and the Tigers' chances are as barren as nonagenarian cloistered sister, I always have someplace I can turn. And that, Mandy, is worth it's weight in gold.
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Thank you for being so understanding of the superior Boston Red Sox! lol! And the video – priceless!😉
I dont think Piniella can get angry anymore i think someone stole his angry gene… it shames me that Astley is english, it looks like he should live in San Francisco…(now I'll get hate mail from the Giants fans) ooops!
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Why so down on your Tigers, Allen? They could win the division! Ah, I'm sensing a fear of success. I know a good shrink I could recommend.
Apparently Washburn learned a new pitch, and it has turned his career around. He is having a great season, so it might be true. I think he is a good pick up, maybe even better than Peavy.
I was hoping to see both the Jays and Tigers contending when I go to Comerica in September. At least I'll probably see one of them. Although it will be a battle for Detroit. I rooting for the Tigers. I hoping for October in the 'D.' … and the corny song.
i like the RSBS mailbag. i would like to send in a question sometime as well. only problem is i gotta find something logical to ask
Pittpeas — Anytime, man. You can email it to us at firstname.lastname@example.com or you can write it as a comment. No prob.
Allen — Your readers are asking you questions. Answer them, dude. Btw, Tigers will fail. They will.
All I can say is, the Sox BETTER take care of Victor! If not- they will..uh..I dont know, exactly. But I will totally go on strike if they dont treat Vic good. http://tribechick.mlblogs.com/
All I can say is, the two moves that these teams made are going to make the race in the Cenral a lot more interesting. Both pitchers are good enough to make that kind of difference.


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March 25, 2008
ISBE DELL e-Broadcast 2008.102 - ISBE Board March 20, 2008 Final Recommendations Regarding ELL and Assessment
In an ongoing effort to keep you informed about the issues impacting ELLs, we have included an attachment produced at the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) Board meeting on March 20, 2008. This attachment can also be found at http://www.isbe.net/board/meetings/march08/eppc_7.pdf.
In sum, this attachment includes background information, assessment plans for 2009, budget implications, recommendations from the State Superintendent and next steps to be taken by staff at the ISBE.
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Even modern technology can fall short
When technology makes it possible for the grocery store to track a shopper's habits to tailor coupons on the back of the receipt, a doctor in another city can review a patient's medical exams and the cell phone signal leaves a trail telling authorities where the phone has been, it seems impossible that a Boeing 777 can simply cease to exist.
But, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has indeed, for now, vanished.
It will be found, either on the ocean floor or in the Vietnamese jungle or somewhere else, but it will be found. Objects as big as a 777 don't just fall off the face of the planet.
In the age of instant information, where people can ask their telephone a question and receive an answer in real-time moments later, it seems impossible that an Amelia Earhart situation can still occur.
But, though the technology for tracking aircraft has improved since the pioneering aviatrix disappeared on her around-the-world trek in 1937, the over-the-ocean portions of flights aren't tracked as closely as non-aviators might suspect.
Positions are determined via GPS, but the signal is not constant. There is not an air traffic control center in constant contact, monitoring a radar return constantly. There is no radar return to follow over the ocean.
The mere lack of information since Flight 370 disappeared in the early hours of Saturday is breeding conspiracy theories. But the issue is far more basic. Sometimes, despite all the technology, there are holes in the network.
It took five days before debris from an Air France jet that went down in the Atlantic in 2009 was found, and two years before the main part of the wreckage was located. It took 10 days to find the wreck of an Adam Air jet in Indonesia in 2007.
Planes don't disappear as often as they did in the 1940s and 1950s, when the high-frequency radio transmission on a schedule from the airliner was used to give positions that were calculated by a navigator using a sextant and star chart.
The system still has gaps that are not technologically impossible to fill. The question is how to cover the costs of the technology that would be needed to cover every square inch of ocean with full and constantly monitored air traffic control and airplanes in constant data contact with a monitoring system somewhere. It would take an international system paid through all transoceanic aviating nations.
We're wondering how airplanes that offer Wi-Fi can disappear, given the ability of tracking the location of our cell phones, but the technology doesn't work that way. Location technology is not part of the transoceanic Wi-Fi aboard airplanes.
Absent an aviation-only effort, patience is what's left, and the inability to have patience is where conspiracy theories arise in an always-on, always-connected world.


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Evelyn, Bub and their youngest brother, Charles Lee Wheeler, enjoyed an idyllic childhood in Tilden, Texas. They rode horses, raced goat carts, and swam in the Frio River. Evelyn played point guard on the Tilden girls' basketball team – since they had just enough girls to make a team, there were no substitutions and all five girls played the entire game. Their team went undefeated.
Evelyn went to live with relatives in Kingsville when she was in her teens in order to finish high school, as the school in Tilden only went up to the tenth grade. Kingsville was where Evelyn met Camille "Sis" Horner (née Terrell). The two became fast friends and founding members of a girls' social club, the Best Kids in Kingsville, a.k.a. the BKKs. The BKKs remained close throughout their lives, getting together whenever they could to laugh, giggle and catch up.
Evelyn graduated from Kingsville High School, and attended Texas A & I for two years before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin. Evelyn pledged Gamma Phi Beta sorority, was nominated as a Bluebonnet Belle, had the fattest "control" rat in her chemistry lab, and graduated in 1942 with a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition. Evelyn was the first in her family to graduate from college.
After college and during WWII, Evelyn worked in a chemical plant in El Dorado, Arkansas, where unbeknownst to her, they were making components for the atom bomb. With a mother's intuition, Nora Wheeler sensed Evelyn's work was dangerous. In fact, Nora was so eager for Evelyn to stop working at the chemical plant that she didn't bat an eye when Evelyn announced that she was joining the WAVES and taking a troop train to Northampton, Massachusetts for training.
Admiral Nimitz did not want women in the Navy, but Evelyn was glad that Uncle Sam did, as that gave her a chance to serve her country and see the world.
Evelyn's final posting as a WAVE was to the Naval Station Great Lakes in Chicago. It was there that she met and worked with another naval supply corps officer, Sigurd "Sig" Ernest Swenson. However, it wasn't love at first sight; they needed an assist from the U.S. Post Office.
After the war, Evelyn left the Navy and went to live in an apartment near Gramercy Park, in New York City. Evelyn enrolled in Columbia University and began work on a Masters degree in social work. When Evelyn learned that Sig was now stationed in New York City, she sent him a Christmas card. And the rest, as they say, was history.
Evelyn and Sig married and honeymooned at Pinehurst, North Carolina, where Evelyn learned to play golf – a game that she and Sig enjoyed playing into their eighties.
Evelyn and Sig were married almost 60 years, had two children (Peter and Anne), and courtesy of the U.S. Navy were lucky to live in a multitude of places, including Norway where Evelyn learned to ski, because as she said, "That was the only way down the mountain!" The friends they made in the Navy from all across the world remained their friends for life.
Over the years, Evelyn served as a den mother, Girl Scout troop leader, and homeroom mother. Evelyn learned how to write grants while volunteering on the Board of Directors of the San Antonio YWCA. A major accomplishment for Evelyn while serving on the Y Board was securing funding from the Ewing Halsell Foundation to build a pavilion at the Y's Camp Idlewilde, located outside Comfort, Texas. Evelyn also served on the Board of Directors for the McMullen County Bank.
Evelyn said that her talent was organizing, but organizing was more than a just a talent for her; it was her superpower. Whether it was running her home, or coordinating a fundraising drive for charities such as the American Cancer Society, to hosting a PEO gathering, Evelyn was organized. And she never left the house without applying a little lipstick first!
Evelyn loved gardening and cooking; enthusiasms she shared with her son, Peter, and granddaughter Karin. Evelyn enjoyed dining al fresco and her lush, shaded backyard endures as a place for peaceful reflection during the hot San Antonio summer.
Evelyn also loved to travel: anytime, anywhere. Evelyn joked that if a car slowed down, she would hop in. Evelyn and Sig traveled to Alaska, Turkey and the Greece. Evelyn and her daughter also took a number of trips with the Flying Longhorns, traveling to China, Russia and Scandinavia (on a Russian icebreaker just back from Antarctica), Iguazu Falls, Argentina (to better see Halley's Comet in 1986), England, Scotland, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Canada and Machu Picchu.
Evelyn also traveled to New Zealand (green, lush and dotted with sheep – a land that Evelyn thought was just about the prettiest place she had ever seen) and Australia (with beasts more wondrous than Texas' Jackalope, because these creatures were real!).
Evelyn, a proud and lifelong Texas Democrat, is survived by her son, Dr. Peter Clifton Swenson and his wife, Fran; daughter, Anne Evelyn Swenson; beloved granddaughters, Karin Swenson, and Meredith Swenson Paine and husband, Eric; great-grandson, Caiden Walker Adams; sister-in-laws, Jean and Gloria Wheeler; nieces, Katie Leon and Nancy Plumlee; nephews, Cliff, Forrest and Lee Wheeler; as well as a host of cousins, friends, good neighbors, and her ever-faithful feline companion, Flinky.
Evelyn would be the first to say that she lived a full life, and it is perhaps the fullness of her life that serves to magnify her loss to all of us lucky enough to have known her – especially those of privileged to call her Mom and MorMor. We were the light of her life and she let us know that every day.
Visitation was held at Hurley Funeral Home, 118 W. Oaklawn Road in Pleasanton on Friday, July 11, 2014, from 4 PM to 5 PM, followed by a memorial service held at 5 PM.
For those wishing to do so, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the charity of your choice or the YWCA San Antonio, 314 N. Hackberry, Suite 101, San Antonio, TX 78202; the Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas, 811 N. Coker Loop, San Antonio, TX 78216 or the McMullen County Community Center, Tilden, Texas 78072.
Anyone wishing to leave condolences for the family, share memories or sign the guestbook may do so at www.hurleyfuneralhome.com.


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Defensive Pressure Leads to Jacksonville Win
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Spring break is a
time for rest and relaxation for most, but for the Jacksonville
women's lacrosse team it is business as usual. The Dolphins
helped celebrate their spring break on Tuesday with a 17-7 win over
Marist at D.B. Milne Field.
Behind heavy defensive pressure from JU (6-3) on the ride, the Dolphins rolled out to an 8-1 lead and never looked back.
"Our ride was very good especially early on in the first half," said JU Head Coach Mindy McCord, whose team forced Marist into six unsuccessful clears in the first period. "We caused a lot of turnovers and gave ourselves some second opportunities."
With Marist unable to clear the ball into their offensive zone, the Dolphins used a balanced offense to capitalize. JU had seven different players score their first seven goals.
Controlling possession was also key to the big first half as the Dolphins held a 9-2 edge in draw controls for the period. Credit senior Rachel Hannon (Annapolis, Md.). Coming off a season in which she set an NCAA record with 131 draw controls a year ago, Hannon secured a season high eight draw controls against the Red Foxes.
Using an efficient offensive attack Marist (1-7) managed to keep the game interesting in the early stages of the second half. After Morgan Derner (Lake Mary, Fla.) scored the second of her four goals in the opening minutes of the period, the Red Foxes scored three of the game's next four goals.
The spurt by Marist cut the deficit to 10-5 with 17 minute to play.
Insert sophomore Holly Ventimiglia (Medford, N.Y.). Ventimiglia quickly set up a goal by junior Ali Hoffman (Gambrills, Md.), then scored a goal herself to put the Dolphins back on track. She would later add another goal and another assist in the half. Hoffman meanwhile finished with three goals as did freshman Kelsey Wiglesworth (Towson, Md.).
"The extra possession on our ride and the draw controls gave us the ability to get 43 shots today," said McCord. "That is who we are and what we want to do. We just have to be able to convert our shooting percentage and get a few more stops on the defensive end."
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text: Well, I have always loved and respected my mother. She has been my rock in many occasions. She was very skeptical to say the least about my BFing. Jokingly she stated that if I was still BFing past a year she would call SS on me. (She never really would, but it still hurt my feelings) Anyway, AJ turned one and I am trying to wean him some. He's becoming a big boy now and it's time to start learning how to act like one, weaning included. I figured I would wean a meal a day until he was on his milk and then I would start night weaning. Welllll, little man began to wean perfectly the first 4 days. Eating and drinking like he should. Then the drool started. Then the grumpiness started. I do believe he's started teething again. Well to make a long story short, I was telling mom that he has reverted back to his old nursing way with the teething and she was like "well, maybe it's just not the right time right now." she said "it's just like any other thing with being a mommy, you have to have a strategy and sometimes you have to wait until the right time. You both will know when that is." I COULD HAVE KISSED HER!!! I was afraid she was going to start the chastizing and blah, blah, blah, but she didn't. Even my Ped said not to force the issue right now because it would just make both of us miserable. She said that nursing was a source of comfort for him when he's not feeling well. I just love my mom and my Ped!! OK, I'm done, I just had to brag.


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Many students have earned a bachelor's degree in one discipline and then discover a different major holds new interest for them.
Changes in the job market and economy, the desire to pursue a different professional goal, or simply interest in a new field of study are all reasons to consider earning a second degree. And, credits from your first undergraduate degree (if earned at an accredited institution) may apply toward your second undergraduate degree. With more than 180 programs of study to choose from, you won't have to settle for second choice when choosing your second degree.
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Admission to UWM as a second-degree student normally requires a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution with a minimum 2.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Some programs may have additional specific requirements.
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For nursing applicants, priority consideration is given to applications received by March 1 for Fall and December 1 for Spring. Architecture applicants for fall have a June 1 priority deadline. After the priority date, applications are considered on a space-available basis. For art & design or music, apply by February 15 for scholarship consideration.
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You may pay your fee online when you submit your application. Or, you may log back into your application to submit your fee online later. We also accept a check or money order. Students who are transferring directly from a two-year UW-College or who have previously attended UWM as a degree-seeking student do not need to pay this fee.
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We require official transcripts, sent directly from the college or university, for each institution attended (if you have attended more than one). If you are currently taking college classes, please include a list of your current college classes on the application form. If your first degree is from UWM, we do not require a UWM transcript.
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If you have taken Advanced Placement exams (AP), International Baccalaureate exams (IB), or the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) exams and would like UWM to evaluate these scores for possible credit, please have your results sent from these testing agencies. Students whose native language is not English and who were not educated in an entirely English-speaking country will likely need to submit results from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Visit international admissions for more details.
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Every high school student learns math and science, but lessons in leadership and ethics are harder to come by.
That's why nearly 200 high school juniors from 10 area schools got together at the La Crosse Center Tuesday morning for a "Responsibility Retreat."
It was an opportunity to talk to fellow students about respect, being a role model, and taking care of their schools.
Many of the students never met each other before the event, which means they're hearing different ideas from a variety of perspectives. "It's good to get to know other people and see what people have to say outside of your school and what kind of ideas they have as far as respect and treating other people nicely," said Central High School junior Morgan Klaeser.
Organizers say the event is all juniors because next year they will be the ultimate leaders in their schools.


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It may be about another month and a half before some 400 city workers get to park in a lot new lot after it has sat mostly empty for more than a year.
But city officials say design work on a new traffic light is just getting underway.
"That traffic light will help the flow of traffic out of the parking lot when it's full," said city transportation services director Mike Formby.
Only about 40 workers with the Honolulu Police Department use the structure.
The city has to now consult with the unions on just who else gets to park
now that a federal restriction that hung up its use has been cleared.
"The unions want to make sure we are fair and equitable with our process, now there is a wait list for employees at the civic center lot of about 200," Formby said.
Formby said this will also allow other city workers interested in getting parking on the list.
Formby believes there will be enough workers on different shifts which will help avoid a traffic problem.
"I don't think it will be a problem, but we will have to monitor it. Hopefully, it won't be," said Formby.
Besides the new light, the city is also studying a plan to move the Cooke Street crosswalk and bus stop.
Formby says it doesn't make sense to have motorists to stop for pedestrian traffic twice in one block area.
But in addition to those changes, a city is looking to put in a new standard for bike lanes on King street.
"So the bike lane will be inside on the curb, and parking will be on the outside. So, you don't have biking right alongside the motorist. It's done all over the United States and its done all over the world, and is predominate in Europe so it would be a separated bike lane," said Formby.
All of these changes for King Street are in the works before the actual traffic management center is built.
Construction on the new building is slated to start next year. The plan is to have it up and running in 2016.


text: Can anyone tell me if it's okay to let an almost 7 mos. baby suck/chew on raw vegetables? I seem to remember reading that we're not to give raw vegies to babies because they can't digest them yet. However, I'm not sure how much she actually gets and she really likes them. I think it's mostly a teething thing (a nice cold, hard baby carrot) and an imitating Mom and Dad thing. But I'm a bit worried that it's not good. Any ideas? (She has no teeth yet, and we only give it to her in her high chair when we're watching closely in case she manages to bite off a chunk, which she does manage!)


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Tony @ Eldora 7/28/12 (Yes)
Here's Tony's own words: I'm planning on going to Eldora on Saturday night to run my Sprint cars and I'm going to treat it just like another week. It will be a big weekend for us but I seem to be doing better when I'm staying busy, so having Saturday night to run my car at Eldora is going to be a lot of fun.
"We know that Mother Nature is a woman. If she were a man, there would be no rain on race day."


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Golden Slipper Club and Charities
Through a variety of philanthropic endeavors, Slipper fosters an atmosphere of giving and friendship. We boast about our "hands-on" approach, and it's true. Our members give from their hearts - financially, through their expertise, their time, and their teamwork - to help the organization maintain and grow an unmatched summer camp for children, a college scholarship fund for deserving students, a welcoming center for senior citizens, and many other initiatives.
Slipper is comprised of hundreds of individuals of all ages who give back to the Club year after year, generation after generation because they are passionate about what Slipper does.
In return, members "get" infinitely more than they "give." Namely, the pride of helping the community, the joy of seeing the fruits of their labor come to life, and the camaraderie that comes with being actively involved.
This passion dates back to 1922, when a group of Jewish Masons gathered regularly to socialize and play cards. They'd divide up their winnings and distribute them to families in need of money for food, coal, and other essentials. These selfless acts of kindness are the roots and the inspiration of Golden Slipper Club & Charities, now nearly 600 members strong.
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UVM, Vermont Law School in closed-door talks over future
The University of Vermont and Vermont Law School have begun holding closed-door meetings to discuss the future of their business relationship. At a meeting of the Royalton Select Board this month, a resident asked about a rumor circulating around town. Word had it, the resident said, that UVM was going to buy up Vermont Law School and move operations to Burlington.
Ever since the UVM board of trustees convened an ad hoc work group in January to explore the universitys relationship with VLS, questions have surfaced about what exactly the schools are up to. Asked about prospects for a merger, the heads of the institutions issued a joint statement this week. It said the schools were exploring programmatic and academic opportunities between the institutions.
Larry Trottier, chairman of the Royalton Select Board, said VLS officials have indicated to him that theyll have more information about talks with UVM later this spring. But Trottier said he doesnt see the law school moving.
If it came out that, you know, the law school was going to move out of the town of Royalton and go to UVM, you know that might hit hard, Trottier said. But I dont think that that is going to happen. When I say that ... my gut feeling is no.
The meetings of the UVM work group are closed to the public. The board has indicated that the meetings are held in executive session for the purposes of discussing contracts. But at least three UVM trustees have confirmed that the possibility of UVM acquiring VLS outright is one of many scenarios the work group is examining.
Rep. Sarah Buxton, D-Tunbridge, a former trustee whose district includes VLS, said the possibilities for partnerships are myriad.
That might include everything from partnering with particular degree programs and online services to, you know, moving all the way to sort of the full contemplation of a relationship would be some sort of unification of the two institutions, Buxton said.
Buxton resigned her post on the UVM board over fears that the interests of her constituents in Royalton might not align with the goals of UVM, should it decide to acquire VLS.
The schools entered into a degree-sharing program last year.
VLS financial troubles have been well documented. Class sizes for the law program had been forecast to drop significantly last year. The school relies on tuition for revenue and does not have a large endowment to fall back on. It has resorted to layoffs and buyouts to balance the ledger.
Trottier said the law school plays a critical role in the commerce and culture of Royalton.
I mean the town would really look a whole lot different if the law school was not in the town of Royalton, if it was gone, Trottier said.
UVMs law school work group last met Feb. 27. The board has not announced its next meeting, and UVM officials have declined to comment on what specific issues the group is discussing.MORE IN Vermont NewsMONTPELIER Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. Full StoryVermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell plans to join the U.S. Full StoryAs Rutland prepares to welcome Syrian refugees to its community, some are continuing to voice... Full Story
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Home List of Titles Adsorption-induced inactivation of heavy meromyosin on polymer surfaces imposes effective drag force on sliding actin filaments in vitro
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/5947
- Title
- Adsorption-induced inactivation of heavy meromyosin on polymer surfaces imposes effective drag force on sliding actin filaments in vitro
- Author(s)
- Hanson, Kristi L.; Solana, Gerardin; Vaidyanathan, Viswanathan; Nicolau, Dan V.
- Abstract
- Actin and myosin are of interest as potential force-generating elements in engineered nanodevices. Such applications require surface coatings which are both biocompatible and amenable to nanolithographic processing, but the manner in which surfaces modulate motor protein function has not been rigorously studied. Here we examine motor protein surface density and bioactivity on a variety of polymer surfaces, and compare the results to in vitro actomyosin motility characteristics. Filament velocities were found to be controlled by the proportion, rather than density, of active heavy meromyosin (HMM), consistent with the imposition of an effective drag force by inactivated HMM due to weak actin-binding interactions. Interpretation of the results with respect to previous models suggests that the inactive HMM fraction has no force-generating ability, and that the effective drag imposed on polystyrene is lower than that on methacrylate polymers and nitrocellulose, consistent with a higher degree of protein denaturation on aromatic surface structures.
- Publication type
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Industrial Research Institute Swinburne
- Source
- Proceedings 2006 International Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology, Okinawa, Japan, 09-12 May 2006, p. 151-154
- Publication year
- 2006
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- Actin-binding interaction; Active heavy meromyosin; Actomyosin mechanics; Actomyosin motility characteristics; Adsorption; Adsorption-induced inactivation; Aromatic surface structure; Bioactivity; Drag force; Engineered nanodevices; Force-generating elements; In vitro motility assay; Microbalances; Molecular biophysics; Motor protein function; Nanolithographic processing; Nanolithography; Nitrocellulose; Polymer films; Polymer surface coating; Protein adsorption; Protein denaturation; Proteins; Quartz crystal microbalance; Sliding actin filaments; Surface density
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The ONU – Solve Problem Group has been recognized in the journal Fibonacci Quarterly. The group's solution to Problem B-1103 is published in the journal's current issue in the article "Elementary Problems and Solutions." In addition the group is listed among people/groups submitting correct solutions to Problems B-1101 and B-1102. Drs. Mihai Caragiu and Mohammad Zaki are advisors to the student group.


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Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting place for many of our nation's most cherished HEROES. Its history dates back to the Civil War when the U.S. Government foreclosed on the estate of CSA General Robert E. Lee. Overlooking Washington … Continue reading
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Sony invented a display module to make your eyewear a wearable device
Sony announced the development of a display module that transforms your eyewear into a wearable device.
They also revealed that they will show the display module and its concept model - SmartEyeglass Attach! - at the 2015 International CES that will be held in Las Vegas in the U.S. beginning Junuary 6.


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Nearly 40 days after President Barack Obama nominated James Comey as FBI director, the Senate on Monday approved the appointment of the former deputy attorney general who worked in the George W. Bush administration.
The vote came after Sen. Rand Paul dropped his opposition to a confirmation vote on Comey, clearing the path for the Senate to vote on the president's nominee.
In the 93-1 vote, Paul was the only senator who voted against the confirmation.
Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, had blocked a confirmation vote this summer while demanding answers from the law enforcement agency about the legal use of surveillance drones in the United States.
The FBI had responded to his questions twice as of last week, saying they acquire a warrant before using a drone when a suspected individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy. But Paul sent another letter Thursday asking for more clarification on the FBI's understanding of a "reasonable expectation of privacy."
Paul announced Monday that the FBI had responded again, reiterating that the Supreme Court's interpretation of a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment would "apply to all of our investigations and any collection of information."
Although he wasn't satisfied with the answer, he decided to withdraw his hold on Comey's nomination.
"I disagree with this interpretation. However, given the fact that they did respond to my concerns over drone use on U.S. soil, I have decided to release my hold on the pending FBI director nominee," Paul said in a statement.
On Monday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy called on senators to support Comey so the FBI could have a confirmed director before Congress breaks for its month-long August recess and before the 12-year tenure of the current director, Robert Mueller, ends in September.
The Vermont Democrat noted this was the first time an FBI director nominee had been filibustered in history. Obama nominated Comey on June 21.
"We should be voting to confirm James Comey tonight. It has already taken twice as long to bring this nomination up for a vote in the full Senate as for any previous FBI director," Leahy said in a statement. "No other FBI director has waited longer than 20 days from nomination to confirmation. The FBI director plays a vital role in our national security, and the Senate must put an end to these routine delays."
In his role as deputy attorney general during the Bush administration, Comey received both praise and criticism from outside groups. Comey testified to a Senate committee in 2007 that he had considered resigning his high-profile position over a disagreement three years earlier about the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program.
Government officials had told CNN that Comey had "vigorously opposed" aspects of the warrantless wiretapping program and refused to sign off on its continued use. The program was eventually reauthorized.
Comey's nomination came as the Obama administration has wrestled this summer with its own controversy surrounding NSA surveillance.
Human rights groups have criticized Comey's alleged support of other controversial Bush-era national security policies such as indefinite detention and detainee treatment programs such as waterboarding.
Since leaving government, Comey has worked in executive positions at defense contractor Lockheed Martin and the financial management firm Bridgewater and Associates.
Most recently he worked in academia as a senior research scholar and Hertog Fellow in National Security Law at Columbia Law School.
For his part, Paul has been a leading voice on seeking answers about the legal use of drones by the U.S. government in counterterrorism operations overseas. He led a filibuster earlier this year, blocking a vote on Obama's nomination of John Brennan as CIA director while he pressed for answers about the government's policy for drone strikes in the United States.
In its previous correspondence with Paul, the FBI revealed in an unclassified letter dated July 19 that it has used unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance in 10 cases on U.S. soil - eight of them criminal and two involving national security.
"None of the unmanned aerial vehicles used by the FBI are armed with either lethal or non-lethal weapons, and the FBI has no plans to use weapons with UAVs," wrote FBI Assistant Director Stephen Kelly.
Drones were authorized for surveillance in three other criminal cases, but they were not used, according to the letter.
While CNN previously reported the FBI has used drones on U.S. soil about a dozen times, the recent letter marked the first time it broke the number down between criminal cases and national security cases.
The letter listed examples of drone use, including in the case of a 5-year-old child held hostage in an underground bunker in Alabama earlier this year.
But Paul said last week the new information was not enough to answer his questions.
Paul first issued a letter about drone surveillance last month asking Mueller about the FBI's policies. When he received no response, he sent a second letter on July 9, saying he would object to the consideration of Comey as Mueller's successor until he received "adequate answers" to his questions.
The FBI sent two responses this month, one classified and one unclassified.
In the unclassified version, the FBI went on the record about the 10 cases of drone surveillance. The FBI also maintained that it would acquire a warrant before using a drone when the suspected individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Paul sent a new letter on Thursday, asking for more clarification on the FBI's understanding of a "reasonable expectation of privacy."
"I am concerned that an overbroad interpretation of this protection would enable more substantial information collection on an individual in a circumstance they might not have believed was subject to surveillance," the letter stated.
He also pressed for copies of educational and training material the FBI uses on such matters.


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Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
Kyle's Fresh Cranberry Relish: a happy accident
I was first introduced to raw cranberry relish at my mother-in-law's table, before I was married. It was a Prast family favorite. When it was time for me to host my first turkey dinner, I made what I thought was like my husband's mother's recipe. It wasn't. As it turned out, everyone liked my variation better!
This relish is ridiculously easy to make and is good at any time of year with pork, ham, chicken, and of course, turkey. You will need a food processor though, or it won't work.
1 bag, 12 ounces, of fresh cranberries, washed (*frozen berries can be used too)
1 navel orange, scrubbed
¾ to 1 cup sugar (I use ¾ because we like things on the tart side-it is also less sugar!)
3 ribs of celery, diced-not the dark green outer ribs but the more mild flavored medium to light green ones
½ to 1 cup of coarsely chopped walnuts (I do this by hand as
it yields a more even texture)
The Process:
First, cut the ends off of the orange, just far enough to reach the flesh of the orange. Trim off any blemishes on the peeling. Cut the orange in half and then each half into quarters.
Place the 8 pieces of orange, still with the peeling on, into the food processor, with the chopping blade installed. Pulse until the orange is chopped into approx ¼ inch bits. Some will be smaller, some larger. Set aside.
Next, put the cranberries into the food processor (no need to wash the work bowl). Pulse until the berries are at least quartered. Again, some pieces will be smaller, some larger. (Some people like them more finely chopped, I don't.)
Place the chopped berries into a mixing bowl and add the oranges, sugar, celery and walnuts and stir. It takes a few minutes for the sugar to dissolve. Serve. Coarsely chopped fresh pineapple can be added too for a different twist.
This salad can be made the day ahead of Thanksgiving, but I like to keep the ingredients separated. I just put the chopped berries in the serving bowl first, then the pile of chopped oranges. I put the sugar in a zip loc bag, celery in another small zip loc and walnuts in a 3rd bag. I place the baggies on top of the berries and oranges and cover the whole bowl with plastic wrap and put in refrigerator until the next day. An hour or two before serving time, I just mix all the ingredients together. I found this delayed mix method works better-it makes a prettier presentation. If mixed too early, the red bleeds into the orange, walnuts, and celery. (It still tastes fine the next day though).
*Fresh cranberries aren't available all year, so I make sure I buy extra bags for the freezer.
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I had a 30 weeker recently (almost 2 weeks ago)
they are pressuring me to use HMF. I have refused so far, but they are coming at me everyday...I need more info.
I had a 30 weeker recently (almost 2 weeks ago)
they are pressuring me to use HMF. I have refused so far, but they are coming at me everyday...I need more info.
I do not know much about HMF, but i wanted to welcome you.
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thanks so much.
it just seems wrong to be working so hard pumping for my little guy to turn around and mix his milk with cows proteins anyway!
do they want it to replace your milk?
I would think they would let that be up to you.
Is baby nursing any at the breast yet?
I know sometimes they push the fortifier when baby isn't gaining weight well.
You could call your local leader for some more info.
the information i have is very limited, as i never questioned it, but here is what i know.
I had a 33weeker. (one month ago) They also fortified her milk. She was put on 22 cal NeoSure. They explained to me that this was essential not only for her to gain weight and regulate her boddy temperature, but that it was also nessisary for her to help with brain and organ growth. at 3 weeks, she had gained enough weight that i was able to stop fortifying her milk.
Im sorry i dont know much more then that, but maybe you can try google?
This is something i foound that might be worth a read.
Good Luck
thanks for sharing Melissa~MomOf2
thats what I was thinking to if it was just used to boost weight gain for a few days that wouldn't be the end of the nursing world for mom or baby.
There is a Dr. Jack Newman hand-out on HMF's
It seems like some babies do well with it, others don't tolerate it very well. I would talk to the doctors about why exactly they want to use it with your baby and what the risks and benefits are. Ask what happens if you start it, what happens if you refuse?
Sorry this isn't much info!
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Congratulations on your new little one. It sounds as if he must be doing well. And how lucky he is that you are providing him with his mother's own milk! Your little guy is also lucky that he has a mom who is acting as his advocate and wants good reasons before agreeing to some treatment...
I'm wondering whether the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) nurses, neonatologists or dietitians have explained to you why your baby may need his mom's milk with some type of fortification for awhile? The NICU staff are the ones who should provide you with info and answers to your questions (until you feel comfortable with their answers) for ANY treatment or intervention suggested/recommended for your baby. If they are not able to explain the reasons for a recommendation, one wonders why they are working in a NICU?!?
Mom's own milk is an incredible product -- just as breastfeeding is an incredible process! However, over the tens of thousands of years that Mother Nature has been developing breastfeeding and human milk for human babies, she didn't completely take into account the advances in care that would be made during the 2nd half of the 20th century for preterm babies. Amazingly, she did make it so most premies between 30 or 35 weeks could latch on and suckle briefly, even though most are not yet mature enough to transfer enough milk during breastfeeding -- they need more time and maturity to get to that place.
It's similar for mom's milk. Amazingly, Mother Nature did make preterm milk somewhat different and "specialized" from term milk for the first weeks. It's higher in a number of its disease-fighting properties and certain vitamins and minerals. But Mother Nature didn't count on needing "special" preterm milk for several weeks to months in order to compensate for the rapid growth that occurs in the weeks prior to full-term birth.
Fortifying human milk may be needed so baby can get more calories and/or certain vitamins/minerals in less volume of fluid. (Too high of volume can be overwhelming for premies.)
You could let the NICU staff know that you are a reasonable person by thanking them for recognizing you as having a major role in making this decision. You could tell them that you're not against -- or for -- fortification but you need a thorough understanding of the reasons for its recommendation, since your baby is depending on you to be his advocate.
All the best -- keep pumping that good disease-fighting milk for him and keep us posted on this progress.
My son was born at 30 weeks. He had my milk mixed with HMF. It's not actually formula. Just a little packet they add to your milk. He now eats directly from the breast after 3 long weeks of trying to get him to!! So hang in there...he will be able to do it. And congrats. I'd love to talk to you seeing as I was in this exact same boat 7 weeks ago!! My little guy just came home


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text: i hope i'm posting this to the best forum. i nursed my second child til just past 3 y/o. she quit nursing almost 8 years ago. recently, i've found that i'm still lactating. it seems very strange to me. it's not problematic, but i do find it weird. it's kind of fascinating in that it makes me wonder if i've still been producing milk all this time. do you have any info on how this happens or why it happens? i saw dr. christiane northrup on oprah a couple of years ago. she said that lactation is where that expression "milk of human kindness" comes from, and she said something about how women can still have the "let down" feeling years after finishing nursing. i just was really surprised the first time it happened.