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News Release
For Immediate Release
October 26, 2012
Janice K. Rundles, Senior Assistant Attorney General
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New Hampshire Attorney General Michael A. Delaney and Manchester Police Chief David J. Mara announce that the person of interest, 29 year old Evan Smith, who was being sought in connection with the shooting incident that occurred on Hevey Street in Manchester today has been located. The public need no longer to be concerned with attempting to locate this individual.
The investigation into the suspicious death is ongoing.
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Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper
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This online visualization tool supports communities that are assessing their coastal hazard risks and vulnerabilities. The tool creates a collection of user-defined maps that show the people, places, and natural resources exposed to coastal flooding. The maps can be saved, downloaded, or shared to communicate flood exposure and potential impacts. In addition, the tool provides guidance for using these maps to engage community members and stakeholders. The current geography includes the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico.
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Does anyone know how i can shut down my computer wiht a VC++ comand?
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Does anyone know how i can shut down my computer wiht a VC++ comand?
ExitWindowsEx(EWX_SHUTDOWN, 0) should be adequate, but check MSDN for more parameter options.
thank you, it works for win9x but not for winXP... does anyone know why?
When attempting to shutdown or restart a system with Windows XP, you must first call the AdjustTokenPrivileges function to enable the SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME privilege.
Check out: AdjustTokenPrivileges()
It will give you information on the function and how to use it in order to do this. Once you have access to shutdown the system, you can call ExitWindowsEx in order to shut the system down now.


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Yodaphone--the latest product pitch from Star Wars Inc.
UK mobile phone company Vodafone is the latest to recruit Star Wars characters to sell their widgets. This time it's Yoda interrupting diners at a sushi restaurant to help them transfer contacts from an old phone to new one. Seriously.
But "Jedi training" is not needed thanks to some boring new Vodafone product, the informatively-named Red Box. Sushi Eater #1 tells Yoda to mind his own business while Sushi Eater #2 (SE#1's date) stares incredulously, nearly rolling her eyes, at the bad-mannered Dagobahn swampdweller. Put in his place, Yoda mumbles to himself and turns back to his sushi.
I keep thinking it can't get worse. But it does. And there are apparently more Yodaphone ads to come. As Gizmodo UK puts it, "The shameful ruination of the Star Wars brand continues."
Gizmodo: Star Wars Lowers Itself to Selling Mobile Phone Contracts


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Woodrow "Woody" Wilson Tinsley, Jr.
Woodrow "Woody" Wilson Tinsley, Jr., 43, husband of Dana Landry Tinsley of Seneca, SC, passed away Sunday, December 29, 2013, at Oconee Medical Center.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, January 4, 2014 at 2:00 PM at Davenport Funeral Home Chapel.
The family will receive friends from 6:00-8:00 PM Friday, January 3, 2014 at Davenport Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to GHS Children's Hospital, 701 Grove Road, Greenville, SC 29605, or Oconee County Humane Society, 1925 Sandifer Blvd., Seneca, SC 29678.
The family is at the residence.


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Family Law Questions? Ask a Family Lawyer Online.
HelloWell, no. Not necessarily. But I suggest you better get the Grandmother to put into writing that she has a temporary guardianship as provided by the daughter and that you are taking authorized to care for the child and that should be notarized.
Thank you. What happens if the mother cannot be located? Can we proceed with permanent guardianship and adoption based on abandonment using a private attorney, or does Children's Services always have to get involved?
And if we are able to find the mother, we would be able to proceed with a private adoption without CPS?


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This column is part of Globe Careers' new Leadership Lab series, where executives and leadership experts share their views and advice about the leadership and management issues of today. There will be a new column every weekday. Find all Leadership Lab stories at tgam.ca/leadershiplab
It's not uncommon for highly accomplished leaders to see themselves through a distorted mirror. This is especially true for executives who are young, female, part of a minority group or from a socioeconomic background that's different from their peers.
In the 1980s, pioneering psychologist Pauline R. Clance named this the imposter phenomenon. It's the state of feeling like a fraud, despite the fact that the person is very good at what she does. Dr. Clance found that there are certain individuals who consistently demonstrate a high level of success, yet nevertheless fail to incorporate their competency into their identity.
In other words, their mirror is distorted.
For my recent book, The Empress Has No Clothes: Conquering Self-Doubt to Embrace Success, I interviewed numerous well-known, high-level leaders in academia, corporate America, the entertainment industry, and the sports world, all of whom suffered from imposter syndrome for a time during their careers. Early in my own career, I too felt like an imposter, despite the fact that I kept getting promoted to ever-higher positions of power and responsibility, and received continual recognition from my colleagues and industry.
Imposter syndrome is surprisingly common. Many of us have to work hard to get to a place where we can evaluate our own performance, skills, and assets clearly and accurately.
Here are three ways your mirror may be distorted – and what you can do about it.
You're petrified others will discover the "truth" about you.
People with imposter syndrome spend a lot of time and energy being secretive, guarding themselves against the possibility that their colleagues will find out that they're frauds. As a result, they hide their feelings, don't talk about their education or background, and often isolate themselves from their peers.
If this describes you, resolve to share your feelings with a coach or a trusted colleague. This will give you another's perspective and help you gain some relief from all that pent-up fear. I invite you to entertain, for a moment, the possibility that the way the rest of the world sees you – as competent, knowledgeable, accomplished, and successful – is actually more accurate than the way you see yourself. After your many years of struggling with the anxiety of feeling like an imposter, I assure you that learning to see yourself clearly will bring joy and balance back into your professional life.
No matter how hard you work, it's not good enough for you.
A common theme among the stories of people who suffer from the imposter syndrome is that they tried to alleviate feelings of not being worthy by working harder and longer and more diligently than their peers. Of course, there is a limit to just how much one person can work. And ultimately, it is never enough, since the external validation we're so eager for often doesn't make our feelings of being unworthy really go away.
The way back from this fruitless pursuit is to ask yourself what it means to you to be worthy in your own eyes. This is not an easy question to answer, but it is essential to ponder as you prepare to reclaim the joy, zest, and power of your life. Channel some of your considerable energy and expertise into learning how to internalize external validation. When someone compliments you on the amazing work you're producing, resist your habitual negative response and just let the information sink in.
You lack compassion for yourself, and forget your own accomplishments.
The imposter syndrome affects our perceptions. We can readily see others' skills and talents, but not our own. We can excuse others for their mistakes, but we're incredibly hard on ourselves.
There are several ways to counter this tendency to use a double standard. One way is to consistently ask yourself the question: What did I do to get here? Another way to correct your mirror is to make a list of your accomplishments and valuable traits and read it daily. Also, practise seeing other people as they actually are. See their strengths and their weaknesses. This may allow you to see yourself in the same way, with compassion and understanding.
Bottom line: If you're a successful leader who is rising up through the ranks of your profession, yet still see yourself reflected in a distorted mirror, know that you're not alone. It takes time and focus to view yourself the way others view you. Ultimately, though, learning to do this will make you an even better leader.
Want to find out whether you have imposter syndrome? Take a free quiz here.
Joyce Roché is the author of The Empress Has No Clothes: Conquering Self-Doubt to Embrace Success (@empresnoclothes). She was the president and chief executive officer of the U.S. non-profit advocacy organization Girls Inc. until her retirement in 2010. She is a corporate director for AT&T and spent 19 years with Avon (@AvonInsider).Report Typo/Error
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The biggest attention-grabbing racial story of the day has not been a recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action. It is not a concern that some states could be making it harder for minorities to vote. It is about an 80-year-old married guy thinking he was talking to his early 30s girlfriend while actually talking to the world.
That's the way things work in a new America in which there are recording devices in every nook, cranny and pocket. If the speaker happens to a be a billionaire who owns a professional basketball team and what he says is a racist slur, you can bet he is going to end up on a website spreading celebrity gossip. By the time the digital world, TV and radio had spent next to no time on this, Donald Sterling was a household name, his reputation was dirt and his continued ownership of the team questionable.
Good. He had slogged away on his racism for years, and it was time his despicable diligence caught up with him. But while this one-person incident points to how this kind of vile bigotry continues to slither through our society, there's a bigger question. Is the incident illustrative of a widespread regress despite the historic election of a black president and an array of other positives? I think the positives are winning.
Even the reaction to Sterling is one of those positives. Look at the immediate, loud, unhesitating protest of advertisers, NBA players and owners, media commentators and a slew of others and then tell me we are still a people that abide this sort of thing.
Consider as another convincing positive that the racial habits of some of the old are far from being adopted by many of the young. I was recently at a conference concerning the millennial generation born between 1980 and 2000. A millennial virtue, it was said, is that racial prejudice is out the window.
But wait. What about that Supreme Court ruling that Michigan voters had the right to disallow affirmative action in public institutions? A lawyer on the losing side characterized it as racist, a major step backwards.
An answer to him is that affirmative action itself is a system of racial preferences that can give advantages to the privileged over the disadvantaged. At the least it endorses a skin-color test once viciously used against blacks and hardly rendered just when employed in a different direction. Nothing in the ruling, in the meanwhile, would prohibit any university from offering special opportunities to disadvantaged minorities and others in tough circumstances as long as there is no racial discrimination.
It's supposedly racism again when states act to prevent voter fraud with ID rules that apply equally to everyone and are a snap to comply with. It is true that we do not know the full extent of voter fraud today, in part because too few laws enable close scrutiny, but we do know that something like 1.8 million dead people are registered to vote on top of 2.75 million live people registered in more than one state.
As much is reported by Robert Popper, a former U.S. civil rights official who argues in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that the reasons for caution are legitimate and the reasons to worry about vote-squashing state responses aren't. He notes minority voting has gone up or stayed roughly the same in states that have passed ID laws.
We have much to despise in our racial history, from the slavery none of uswitnessed to the segregation many of us saw up close. Racism is still with us and evinces itself in ways more deeply painful than remarks by Sterling. We must never grow complacent. But I believe we continue to be headed in a better direction.
Jay Ambrose is an op-ed columnist for McClatchy-Tribune. Readers may email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
And now you call Rev.Al Sharpton old,white stupid and a Republican.That about it buzzy?
How long will buzzy deflect from answering a simple question?If Obama had an R behind his name would you feel the same way about his administration?
How long will conservative deflect from their registered republican racists? Look, bagger, old, white and stupid is no way to go thru life. You need to take ownership of your racists or Hillz is gonna crush-a-lot.
Donald Sterling: Says racist comments, gets burned at the steak and business taken away.
Al Shaprton: Says multiple racist remarks and gets his own tv show on a liberal network.
Who are the real racists?
Lets drill down into "human racists" and we see all racists are Republican. Also fox news is #1 with racists. Sorry these are inconvenient facts.
Not all humans are "Racist" but all "Racists" are human, explain to me Buzz what a being a racist means to you and I will explain what it means to me, and I think we will both find, we judge and we categorize,very much the same. Welcome Buzz to the club based on color, belief or non belief in a God or Gods, economics,left handed, right handed, sexual based orientation, married or unmarried,Democrat, Republican, or Libritarian, free speech or censored, Global warming or not, I don't have any more time to add to the list but I am sure others have their own lists to add to this one. Buzz, your arguments are old and tired, but it won't be me telling you to stop.
So Rev.Al Sharpton isn't a racist buzzy?
Not all Republicans are racist, but all racists are Republican.
It's not hard for anyone to vote, just ask the minority woman convicted in Cinncinati for voting multiple times,and they had ID. As for the Old men from another time,they speak out just like the registered Democratic well known race baiters like Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Larry O'donnell,Clyburn,Shelia Jackson, Charlie Rangle, Ed Shultz, and the list goes on and on.
When these registered Republican racists like Bundy and Sterling speak it needs met with a steamroller crushing. This is the only thing teabagger understands.
Republicans have made it harder for the poor, minorities, students and the elderly to vote just like Jesus would do.


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J. Lo introduced the pair, and, guys, J. Lo is a big, big fan and apparently recently worked with azalea.
azalea—then Amethyst Kelly—was born in Sydney and moved to Miami when she was 16.
Something named Rita Ora performed with azalea, looking like Rihanna and singing like Katy Perry and lacking any of their energy.
In any case, azalea instead performed her new single, "Black Widow."
Every artist is inspired by other musicians, and azalea has even said that Stefani has influenced her sound.
She had eaten nothing since the day before, only sipping the coffee azalea had brought her.
I looked in my memorandum book for the address of azalea Adair.
When the milk and wine had been brought the doctor soon revived azalea Adair.
azalea Adair breathed a soft apology and went to investigate the sound.
Just a week or two ago the dominant odor among these was the sticky sweetness of the azalea.
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But many of her flourishes are straight out of one famous Japanese neighborhood, Harajuku. Tokyo's hippest teen and twentysomething hangout district has long been known among locals for its shoppers' outlandish outfits.
A Sunday stroll down Takeshita Street, Harajuku's main drag, gives people-watchers glimpses of fashion trends so wild, it's hard to imagine them ever catching on in the USA.
Yet, lately, fashion designers such as Stefani have been looking to Harajuku for ideas, borrowing not just silk or kimono fabrics, but also corsets and camisoles.
Hello Kitties and Cats
Been dying to dress up in bunny ears and makeup like your favorite cartoon character, and can't wait for Halloween? No problem: Kosupure (Japanese for "Costume play" or "cosplay") is a Harajuku standby. Spend a few hours walking on Takeshita or Cat Street, and you'll see any number of anime icons brought to life, often with full makeup, headgear and skimpy Lycra outfits.
Just as the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show brought out Tim Curry dress-alikes and movie-goers toting shopping bags of rice and bread across America, certain anime movies (such as Miyazaki Hayao/Disney films) are bringing out fans in cosplay around the USA, especially in and around universities. Girls dress up as sexy schoolgirls in Sailor Moon uniforms, guys cross-dress as their favorite female cartoon idols or wear full-blown costumes of Japanese superheroes.
The website Cosplay.com lists more than 100 cosplay conventions worldwide in 2006, many of them in the USA.
Mixing, not matching
What exactly is Harajuku style? Its trends defy easy description. How about camouflage legwarmers and matching microshorts with black garters, boots and teeny-bopper ponytails? Sure. Platinum-dyed hair, hot-pink lipstick and piercings? Of course.
What would be jaw-dropping elsewhere is ho-hum in Harajuku. Here, mohawked punks, flower-child hippies and ghost-pale goths are quaintly vintage. Old school, if you will.
Currently, the most popular fashion in Harajuku is a French twist on the Goth look. Dubbed "Lolita" but generally known as GothLoli, it means that in addition to traditional whitened faces, black clothes and hair, you dress like a Victorian-era French maid. Think shockingly short frocks, frills and lace — and don't forget the matching hairpiece and a parasol.
GothLoli was forged out of anime fantasies and brought into the mainstream by cult movies such as Kamikaze Girls (a mix of Tarantino-esque craze and Amelie-like sweetness). And as anime's popularity grows in this country, so does the GothLoli look among teens searching for a new way to stand out.


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Astorino comes to Buffalo with aspirations
Rob Astorino came to Buffalo on Wednesday to tell every Republican he could about his November re-election to a second term as Westchester County executive.
Not just any victory, he will tell you, but a clear and convincing victory. He touted winning 61 percent of the Hispanic vote and 25 percent of the African-American vote, and emphatically points out it all took place in a county where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1.
He says he can translate that success into a statewide GOP candidacy against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo next year, even in overwhelmingly Democratic New York State. And he sounds very much like the man who wants to do it.
"I've come here to meet with party people, potential donors and business owners," he said Wednesday, "and to tell them why Gov. Cuomo needs to be replaced."
Indeed, during an interview with The Buffalo News in Erie County Republican Headquarters, Astorino laid out the basics of a Republican campaign against Cuomo that seems to lack only a formal declaration. He said he will challenge Cuomo's economic development plan that features the governor's choices of firms receiving state incentives rather than fostering a favorable business climate for all.
"It's hard for him to make the case that we're making progress when we're still 50th in the U.S. in business climate," he said.
Astorino, 46, made his first post-election foray to upstate Wednesday to attend the Erie County Republican Committee's holiday party in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. Though Chairman Nicholas A. Langworthy sponsors the event every year to raise money and gather the party faithful, this year he was showcasing Astorino to top party people and rank-and-file alike. As a result, the visit is being viewed as a significant development in Astorino's efforts, which are growing in public stature on an almost daily basis.
But as Langworthy squired him through hordes of officials, donors and other chairmen from around Western New York, even Astorino acknowledged his most important meeting in Buffalo may very well be with the 2010 Republican candidate for governor, Carl P. Paladino.
The Buffalo real estate developer has yet to hint at any interest in Astorino's candidacy, even complaining that he "hangs out with RINOs (Republicans In Name Only)." And Paladino continues to threaten another run – this time on the Conservative line – if the GOP nominates a Cuomo opponent with little money or name recognition and who does not represent true "conservative" values.
Astorino was slated to meet with Paladino late Wednesday and expressed no fears earlier in the day about its outcome. He said he will point out that he is pro-life, opposes Cuomo's strict new gun-control law, has lowered taxes in Westchester County and can prove acceptable to the Conservative Party – all very much in sync with Paladino. "Carl and I agree on almost everything," he said. "Our styles are different, but our views are the same."
But no Republican has won statewide office without Conservative support since 1974, a fact that has not escaped Astorino as Paladino eyes the line. "If we talk in the same voice and are on the same team, we can win this race," Astorino said. "It's very important for Carl Paladino and the Republicans and Conservatives to unify."
"As Carl gets to know who I am and what I've done in Westchester – a 2-to-1 Democratic county – he'll see I absolutely govern as a conservative," he added.
Though he has made no commitments, Langworthy appears to be an early fan – even with Paladino lurking.
"I think this guy is the real deal and can get the job done," he said of Astorino. "And I think he can beat Andrew Cuomo."
A former radio executive who hosted a Catholic satellite program, Astorino also was executive producer of a show hosted by New York Yankee announcer Michael Kay and another show on the MSG Network. He says he brings to his effort a mixture of private and public experience as well as media savvy.
Astorino ticked off a list of gripes against the current administration that sounded much like Paladino's platform of 2010 – upstate population exodus, high unemployment, high taxes and an unfriendly business climate. He says he will highlight his Westchester experience.
"We are one of four counties in the state that has a smaller budget than four years ago," he said. "That's significant. And it didn't happen with smoke and mirrors and the same old gimmicks."
He also said Cuomo has veered down a leftward path that makes him more vulnerable in 2014 than in the first two years of a middle-of-the-road term marked by cooperation with legislative Republicans. But he said the governor's style has changed with his advocacy of gun control and expanded abortion rights.
Astorino said he has ideas how to revive Western New York's lagging economy but is not ready to discuss them in detail.
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Garasia, Rajput
A language of India
|Rajasthan, Sirchi, Pali, Udaipur districts; Gujarat, Banaskantha District.
|Alternate names
|Dhungri Garasia, Dungari Garasia, Dungri Grasia, Girasia, Grasia, Rajput Garasia
|Rajput Garasia do not understand Adiwasi Garasia [gas] but intelligibility is high the other way. Lexical similarity: 94%–99% with Gujarati [guj] and Rajasthani [mve] dialects, 75%–93% with Adiwasi Garasia [gas] dialects; 76%–84% with Patelia [bhb] dialects; 79%–86% with Wagdi [wbr]; 67%–84% with Marwari [rwr] dialects.
|Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Bhil
|Language use
|Positive attitude. A few also use Hindi or Gujarati.
|Language development
|Literacy rate in L2: 15%–25%. Bible portions: 1998.
|Writing system
|Devanagari script. Gujarati script.
|A Scheduled Tribe in Rajasthan. Speakers are Warrior Caste. Separate language from Dungra Bhil [duh]. Dungra Bhil is sometimes used as an alternate name for Adiwasi Garasia [gas] and Rajput Garasia but probably refers to more than 1 group living in the hills (Dungra means hill). Agriculturalists: maize, wheat, sesame seed, aniseed, mustard seed, lentils; laborers during dry season. Traditional religion mixed with Hinduism.


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When can you file for a fast and speedy trial in Georgia? How long after filing for a speedy trial do you have before trial starts? 90 days? 120 days? 180 days?
Every Superior/State court has what is called a term of court, for example DeKalb Superior Count has a term of court that lasts two months. You can file a statutory demand for speedy trial during the term that you are indicted or the next succeeding term of court. Your trial must be during the term you filed the demand or the next succeeding term of court, except for certain crimes in which the State gets an extra (third) term of court. So in order to answer your question the information needed is: what is the person charged with and in which court in which county.Ask a similar question
Mr. Pines is correct. The only thing that I have to add is that terms of court can range from 2 months to six months. The smaller the circuit, the longer the term. Lowndes County has 6 month terms. So, it could be up to a year before a speedy trial demand is complied with. In circuits such as this, statutory speedy trial demands are not too effective. However, sometimes there will be a constitutional speedy trial issue. For instance, if a felony case takes more than a year to get to trial after indictment, and the defendant has either been incarcerated for that entire time or some exculpatory evidence has been lost, there may be grounds for a dismissal of the charges based upon a constitutional speedy trial violation. One of the factors for consideration in regards to this issue is whether the defendant has asserted his speedy trial rights. Therefore, generally, a defendant must file a speedy trial demand to make this an issue. Constitutional speedy trial arguments are very complex. Your son will need the assistance of an attorney to determine the best course of action in his case.
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Could you please cite Georgia code for speedy trials and filing for discovery?
The trial has to be during the term the demand is filed or the next one. In capital cases, it is an extra two terms.
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Be careful what you ask for. Often times a criminal case will get better for the defense with age. There is a time an place to ask for a speedy trial and a time and place NOT to.
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Five Baseball Standouts Among NCAA's Top Prospects
Feb. 1, 2013
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Kentucky baseball had five players listed among the top NCAA prospects in their respective class, including Kyle Cody, Austin Cousino, Jerad Grundy, Corey Littrell and A.J. Reed, it was announced by Baseball America on Friday.
As part of its extensive college baseball preview edition, Baseball America ranks the top 50 prospects in each NCAA class, with five Wildcats earning spots on the prestigious lists. A 6-foot-7, 230-pound right-hander, Cody was ranked as the No. 39 freshman, Cousino the No. 6 sophomore, Grundy the No. 8 senior, Littrell the No. 36 junior and Reed the No. 16 sophomore.
A native of Chippewa Falls, Wis., Cody was one of a school-record five UK signees that were picked in the 2012 MLB Draft, going to the Phillies in the 33rd round. The strong right-hander was named the Wisconsin Gatorade High School Player of the Year in 2012.
Cousino, a 5-foot-10, 180-pound native of Dublin, Ohio, is a preseason All-America by Baseball America, Louisville Slugger and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. The 2012 Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year was a consensus freshman All-America in 2012 while leading UK in average (.319), doubles (20), triples (two) and steals (15), adding nine homers and 41 RBI. After the season he joined the USA Collegiate National Team, leading the club in average en route to a bronze medal during Honkbal Week in the Netherlands.
A 6-foot-1, 200-pound southpaw, Grundy elected to return to Kentucky for his senior season after a stellar campaign in 2012 as UK's Saturday starter. A native of Johnsburg, Ill., and a transfer from Miami (Fla.) and Heartland CC, Grundy went 6-3 with a 3.78 ERA in 16 starts as a junior for the Wildcats, including posting a 2.88 ERA in his last seven starts of the campaign. Grundy is a three-time MLB Draft selection, also going in the 42nd round in 2011 and the 46th round in 2009.
The 2010 Louisville Slugger Kentucky High School Player of the Year out of Louisville Trinity, Littrell enters the season as a preseason All-America selection by the NCBWA and Louisville Slugger. The 6-foot-3, 195-pound lefty went 9-2 with a 2.74 ERA as a sophomore in 2012, including posting a 1.48 ERA and a 9-1 record in his 10 quality starts. Littrell earned All-SEC honors, won the Rawlings Gold Glove as the NCAA's top defensive pitcher and was a semifinalist for the College Baseball Hall of Fame NCAA Pitcher of the Year Award.
Reed became the first consensus first-team freshman All-America in program history in 2012 as a two-way threat. The 6-foot-4, 245-pound lefty/first baseman enters the year as a preseason All-American by the NCBWA. A semifinalist for the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award as a freshman, Reed posted a 5-3 record and a 2.52 ERA on the mound and hit .300 with four homers and 43 RBI at the plate.
No. 8 Kentucky opens its 2013 season on Feb. 15 in Spartanburg, S.C., against UNC Asheville at Russell C. King Field on the campus of Wofford.


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The 'Bourne Legacy' actor posts an elaborate announcement on Facebook in hopes of getting his missing dog soon.
Academy Award-nominated actor Jeremy Renner has turned to Facebook for some help in finding his lost dog Hemi, who has been missing since July 19 from his home near Runyon Canyon in Los Angeles. The Hawkeye of "The Avengers" star posted an elaborate ad on the social networking site announcing a $5,000 reward to the person who can bring his beloved buddy back.
Renner lost his 1-year-old French bulldog when a power outage occurred in his L.A. home that caused the front gate to slide open. Although he wears a collar, the neutered pooch does not carry a microchip nor identification tags. The "very friendly" 25-pound Hemi needs to get back to his owner as soon as possible as he apparently requires special medication for a hip condition.
Hemi is one of two Frenchies Renner brought home last year. "The Bourne Legacy" star had already lost one to a heart attack caused by overeating, when his doggie Franklin died during a Little League baseball game. He is so keen on getting Hemi back that aside from the Facebook ad, he has sent out flyers within their neighborhood and is said to be checking dog shelters regularly.
Renner is set to reprise his role as Hawkeye in "Avengers: Age of Ultron" coming to theatres in May 2015. He is hoping to do a "Bourne" film with Matt Damon, who played Jason Bourne in the first three films, before Renner replaced him as new lead character Aaron Cross.


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Kirkwood Historical Society
- Founded in 1961, dedicated to the preservation of Kirkwood history, maintains Mudd's Grove as a museum house, maintains a reference library useful for local research, collects oral histories of older residents and former residents.
Museum of Transportation
- Maintains an extensive collection of trains and streetcars, a reference library which includes a streetcar photo archive and a Meramec Highlands file, works with volunteers to lay track and hang wire for operating streetcars. Operated by St. Louis County Dept. of Parks and Recreation.
State Historical Society of Missouri
- Founded in 1898 by the Missouri Press Association and a trustee of the state since 1901, the State Historical Society of Missouri is the preeminent research facility for the study of the Show Me State's heritage. Housed in Ellis Library on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus, the Society is well located geographically and institutionally to meet the needs of scholars, genealogists, family and local historians, historic preservationists, journalists and others. Maintains an extensive file of Missouri newspapers on microfilm.
Missouri Historical Society
- Dedicated to St. Louis and Missouri history. Maintains a great museum and a library/research facility. The archives in the research facility are a gold mine. Provides a a link to the Missouri Historical Society Press. A link to search 60% of the library collection is provided, though a visit to the center will be more rewarding in finding what is needed.
City of Kirkwood
- Welcome to Kirkwood, Missouri! Turn-of-the-century homes, and a thriving business community await you in the City of Kirkwood, Missouri. Established in 1853, Kirkwood has long been known for its down home charm, community pride, nationally recognized schools, vibrant business community, and its involved residents. Welcome to the official City of Kirkwood website! Click on Meeting Agendas then Landmarks Commission for meeting minutes. Click History, then "Historic Kirkwood Landmarks" guide. It takes a bit of time to load, but has a clear photo and description of each Kirkwood landmark. Meramec Highlands Historic District as well as the individual landmarks in the Meramec Highlands area are prominent. Click on Ordinances to view the Landmark ordinance. Contains useful links to Missouri government.
Metro St. Louis
- Check out current streetcar transit via Metro-Link. A Bi-State timeline is found under "About BSDA" other transportation links provided.
Kirkwood R7 School District
- Meramec Highlands school district was taken over by the Kirkwood public schools. This site provides current information about the district, resources for the teachers and parents, and other education and local Kirkwood area links.
Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation
- Nonprofit organization that promotes, supports, and coordinates historic preservation activities throughout Missouri. Maintains the 10 Most Endangered Property list which in 2001 included Meramec Highlands Frisco Depot. Provides yearly awards for noteworthy preservation of historic structures.
St. Louis County Library
- Ask a reference question on line. With a library card, patrons have access to Heritage Quest Online, local and family histories, US Census records online and numerous publications. Great links for Genealogy. The library maintains an archive of early city and county newspapers, the source of a great amount of information for "Glimpses of Meramec Highlands." Search the catalog for Meramec Highlands.
St. Louis Public Library
- Catalog contains, "Glimpses of Meramec Highlands." Site has access to numerous special collections that address numerous city and county history and resources, access to numerous search engines, extensive genealogy resources, has on-line copies of the quarterly Gateway Family Historian.
National Register of Historic Places
- National Registry of Historic Places is maintained by the National Parks Service. The site provides excellent on line publications on aspects of preservation and for nomination of a property for the registry. A link is provided for technical assistance.
Western Historical Manuscript Collection
- Owned jointly by the State Historical Society and the University of Missouri. Numerous collections are of interest, such as the Frisco Railroad papers, Francis Scheidegger's Kirkwood photograph collection, and photo archives from various other St. Louis photographers. Loans microfilm via inter library loan.
Mercantile Library
- Located in the library at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Numerous special collections of interest -- some accessible on line.
A historian's delight!
Missouri Historic Preservation Office
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St. Louis County Parks Dept
. - Here you will find the Historic Inventory of County Buildings. The Hazelwood-Kirkwood section contains Meramec Highlands structures. Provides the e-mail of the county historian who is most helpful with information about research on historical properties. Publications about historical buildings in St. Louis County are available for purchase.
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Megan Fox Cover Shoot
For ELLE's annual Body Issue, Megan Fox arrived in a relaxed ensemble of sweatpants, New Balance sneakers, a white T-shirt, and aviators. The actress's undercover entrance was pitch-perfect for the shoot's Bond Girl theme—which conjured images of iconic stunners such as Ursula Andress and Honor Blackman. On location at a private villa in Malibu, Fox danced seductively to Prince's "Kiss" in a black mesh Alexander Wang minidress before hitting the beach. Once surf-side, the petite beauty zipped herself into a Michael Kors swimsuit and scuba bottom by Alexandra Cassaniti, channeling Andress's Honey Rider in Dr. No. Foxy indeed.
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Lost and Found: Reflections on Sunday's Scriptures
By Bruce Epperly
Reflections on the scripture texts for Sunday, September 12, 2010
- Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28
- Psalm 14
- 1 Timothy 1:12-17
- Luke 15:1-10
Prophetic words are difficult words to hear and also to speak. We often deny the impact of our actions or assume that everything is going to be all right, despite our inaction or failure to remedy dangerous situations. Prophets are seldom popular because the truth hurts, even when the truth is good for us. Even the presentation of a creative and life-giving alternative can be threatening to those whose power depends on the status quo. Yet, grace can emerge unexpectedly when we open to the whole of life -- recognizing our waywardness and disease can be the prelude to healing.
The divine indictment, described in Jeremiah, is severe -- the people are foolish, stupid, immature, ignorant, and malevolent. The only thing they don't excel in is good works. Their behavior has led, and continues to lead, to serious consequences for themselves and others -- to chaos, destruction, and desolation, indeed, to the undoing of creation as the balance of order and novelty, described in Genesis. All creation will suffer as a result of their waywardness.
We would do well to be convicted as we read these words from Jeremiah. The people of Israel lived in denial and so do we. The patient (person, nation) has a life-threatening illness, but acts as if nothing is wrong and that things can, and will, continue indefinitely as they were. The symptoms were obvious for Jeremiah's uncomfortable listeners and they ought to be obvious for us. Oil spills and drifting icebergs tell us that all is not well with the planet. The rise of states' rights movements, tea partiers, militia, and racism, not to mention corporate greed, executive bonuses, and scorched earth politics signal that the body politic in which the many are joined as one is diseased and may not recover, and yet we act as if life is going on as usual. We figure that if we take care of ourselves and our family, abandon the vulnerable as economic nuisances contributing to deficit spending, and stay out of the way, we will escape the gathering storm.
But, denial leads to destruction; those who shout loudest for the old ways today deep down know that time is not on their side. The world -- indeed, the divine -- is leading us past individualism and self-interest. Only clear-eyed and heart-felt confession of the way things are -- acceptance of our condition personally and corporately -- can "save us," or at least improve our chances of survival. In turning away from God's vision of Shalom, we have turned away from divine possibility and healing.
The question is: Is it too late to have a change of heart? Do we still have time to turn back to God and God's ways of justice? Will such turning open the door for life-transforming and life-saving possibilities and the energy to achieve them? Jeremiah's listeners did not know the answer to these questions, and, frankly, neither do we! The earth and the nation are in the balance, and we pray that our confession of our situation and willingness to change our ways will tip the balance toward health and wholeness for our churches, communities, nation, and planet. The good news here is that when we receive the diagnosis of our corporate, personal, or physical ailments, there is now the chance for a life-saving remedy!
Bruce Epperly is a theologian, spiritual guide, pastor, and author of twenty one books, including Process Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed, Holy Adventure: 41 Days of Audacious Living, and The Center is Everywhere: Celtic Spirituality for the Postmodern Age. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com for lectures, workshops, and retreats.
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i1 display pro question
not going to help you with your exact question but just wanted to share the fact that there is something called "calibration" and something called "profiling".
Calibration appears to be adjusting settings inside your screen's hardware (if the monitor supports it) - something they call LUT table. So you measure the screen output with the sensor and the measurements are than communicating back to the screen so screen can fix the output.
Than there is profiling - the screens is unable to do any changes to itself so to have right colors you are basically putting a filter on your existing screen to pull some values down or up.
Not sure if this helps but I just spent all Saturday trying to get the colors look right on my screen so I feel solidarity with you. Good article I went through: http://www.ronmartblog.com/2012/01/choosing-right-display-calibration.html
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Question: My mother is 77 years old and is in good health although she continues to smoke. Our family generally leads a healthy lifestyle including keeping up-to-date on well-doctor visits. My mother is the exception. For the past three years she has refused to get a mammogram. This is very disturbing to me and my siblings. What can I do to persuade her to just make an appointment and do it? Many thanks.
Dear B.D.:
You clearly want the best for your mother. Let's discuss two aspects of your question: whether mammograms make a difference in later life and the issue of free will.
"Mammograms: Who in the World Are They Good For?" was the title of a forum held at the Harvard School of Public Health and the topic of an article in the Washington Post (June 13, 2011) by Abigail Trafford, a journalist and author who moderated the panel.
Forum speaker Dr. Mette Kalager, a surgeon at Oslo University Hospital and visiting scientist at Harvard, found that mammography screening seems to play less of a role in reducing mortality in Western countries. That may be true for older women in particular, according to Kalager.
In Europe, mammography screening typically is recommended for women ages 50 to 69, although it varies among the countries.
Kalager and colleagues studied breast cancer patients ages 70 to 84 who were not screened; they were diagnosed by physical exam. The reduction in mortality for these older unscreened breast cancer patients was "largely the same" as for younger patients who were screened, Kalager noted. The key for both groups was access to good care.
This research did not settle the debate on whether mammograms were right for older women.
Note: Do not use just this single piece of research in making a decision whether to have a mammogram. Consult with your health care professional.
The other part of your question deals with the right to refuse a diagnostic procedure and treatment.
I had the opportunity to speak with Lillian, 77, and Harriet, 87. Both adamantly have no intention of being screened for breast cancer since neither would act upon a positive finding.
Here is part of our conversation that may help explain your mother's thinking:
Lillian says such a decision depends on two questions: "Do you love your current lifestyle?" and "Are you afraid of death?"
Lillian enjoys how she lives - working as a volunteer at a museum, entertaining, cooking, reading, going to the theater and symphony, spending time with family, collecting antiques and more. She is fully engaged with life, doing what she loves to do and is not afraid of death.
She said, "Everyone has to die sometime … if it kills me, fine, I've had a wonderful life."
Lillian finds treatment of any kind out of the question and is unwilling to sacrifice her lifestyle for a recovery that may take six months to a year or even more. When it came to discussing the subject with her children, she knows they would never agree with her so she just accepts the fact.
The key question according to Lillian is, "How do you want to live the rest of your life?"
Harriet had similar thoughts. Her reply: "In no way. I've had a very good life and want it to stay that way. I am not interested in surgery, chemotherapy or radiation. If I were 30 years younger, I would have a different philosophy."
Then there is Susan, who is 74. She has survived thyroid and endometrial cancers and continues to have yearly mammograms. As long as Medicare covers the cost, she will continue the yearly screening.
"When you've had as much as I have had and survived, you are willing to play the odds," she said. "If they find something, I know I'll be OK. And if not, I'm fine with that. For me, I feel liberated and a sense of freedom."
Clearly, the decision is personal.
B.D., perhaps there are a few messages here. First, we can't make loved ones do something they do not want to do. Second, individuals have free will and your mother is exercising that right. And finally, consider having a conversation with your mother and try to understand her reasoning.
An added thought: Assuming your mother is important to you, make the moments, hours and days with her count. We all live on a slippery slope. And with age, the slope becomes a bit more slippery.
Thank you for your excellent question and sharing your concern.
Helen Dennis is a specialist in aging, with academic, corporate and nonprofit experience. Send her your questions and concerns in care of the Daily Breeze, 21250 Hawthorne Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503, or email to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The most important work on older driver safety that needs to occur in the next five years is on refining screening and assessment tools and getting them into the hands of the users who need them. People who will find the tools useful include medical providers, social services providers, law enforcement personnel, licensing personnel, older drivers, and caregivers.
Screening detects the presence of possible indicators of increased crash risk, such as the presence of slowed walking speed; assessment is the process by which a driver is tested to determine whether a functional limitation influences the person's ability to drive safely. In the case of the example above, assessment would determine the reasons behind the slow walking speed (e.g., diabetes, arthritis, and muscle weakness) and whether the individual could quickly and accurately move his right foot from an accelerator to a brake pedal.
The state of the art in screening tools is advancing rapidly. A growing body of evidence, first reported in the Model Driver Screening and Evaluation Program from NHTSA and continued by researchers funded by the National Institute on Aging, suggests that divided attention tasks and tasks that require the individual to visualize missing information are the best predictors of prospective crash involvement. These tools focus on cognitive issues.
The understanding and validity of screening tools that detect vision deficits is less clear. Research suggests that screening of contrast sensitivity might be more predictive of crash involvement than screening of visual acuity, though the evidence is mixed. Declines in physical function, absent declines in vision and cognition, can be predictive of increased crash risk, but they are generally amenable to vehicle adaptations and retraining.
There is a great deal of variability in the practice of driver assessment. There is no standard assessment protocol. There appear to be two primary causes for this: client needs and assessor preferences. The category of "client needs" means an assessment can be tailored – and shortened – based on functional deficits the client presents. The "assessor preferences" appear to be based on education and experience, the availability of equipment, and the client's history with screening tests (the selection of a different test because the client has recently been tested using a particular test, with the goal of eliminating practice effects).
Based on these issues, NHTSA's efforts will focus on screening and assessment and attempts to standardize within the range and variability of client needs. NHTSA has identified the following steps to take in screening and assessment, and plans to develop a program of research and demonstration projects to address them.


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Mr. Ulysses "Skip" Bennett '67
Bennett received his bachelor's degree in business administration from BSC and his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has served in posts for the Internal Revenue Service, General Mills, and at Mobil Corporation, where he was vice president of finance and CFO of its then-Signature Group in Chicago. He also worked briefly as an insurance agent and planner for Connecticut General and New England Financial before starting Bennett Financial in 1985 in Arlington, Texas. He was the first African American graduate of Birmingham-Southern College.
Dr. H. Newton Malony '52
Maloney is Senior Professor of Psychology in Fuller Seminary's School of Psychology. He has a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University and a PhD from George Peabody College. He is a scholar and author of several books in his field. He is also a licensed psychologist and an ordained United Methodist minister, with professional involvement in many professional associations. His areas of specific expertise include: transactional analysis, clinical psychology, psychology of religion, integration of psychology and theology, and religious tolerance.
Senator J.T. "Jabo" Waggoner '60
Waggoner currently serves in the Alabama State Senate and represents Jefferson and Shelby counties' 16th district. He has the longest record of service of any legislator from Jefferson County in Alabama history. He received his B.A. degree from BSC and his law degree from the Birmingham School of Law. His career began in the Alabama House of Representatives where he served for 17 years. He has served in many roles on state congressional committees and for the Republican Party. He has won numerous community and professional awards for his outstanding service and serves on a number of boards and professional society committees.
Outstanding Young Alumni Award Recipients 2013
Craig Langford '00
Langford serves as Senior Advisor to AARP's Executive Vice President who oversees the organization's social mission operation—including government relations and advocacy, education and volunteerism. AARP, a nonprofit with a membership of more than 37 million Americans, works to strengthen communities and advocates for issues such as healthcare, job security and retirement planning. Langford came to AARP from the Home Depot Corporation, where he helped pioneer a strategy to partner with national nonprofit and governmental organizations to create talent pipelines for more than 1,700 retail stores. He began his career as a Mickey-Leland Bill Emerson fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center. He received his B.S. from Birmingham-Southern in Business and Finance.
Morgan Murphy '94
Murphy is a best-selling author, food critic, and decorate naval officer. "America's funniest food critic" has appeared on the TODAY Show, Fox & Friends, CNN, Sirius/XM, Food Talk, Car Talk, NPR, and the Speed Channel. He served as the travel editor, food critic, and national spokesperson for Southern Living. He then joined Forbes, where he covered many of America's best-known entrepreneurs. As a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy, he has served on four continents and has many military decorations. He has an MBA from the University of Oxford, is a member of Exeter College, and was elected by the university as the MBA of the Year. He is a cum laude graduate of BSC where he majored in English.
The Distinguished Alumni Awards are the highest
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recipients of honorary degrees, are eligible. Each spring, two to three
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Any member of the Alumni Association may submit
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He has index cards, says the Holy Man. And on those index cards are names. He prays in his chapel nightly for the names on those index cards.
They're the names of children molested - even raped - by priests in his charge.
"I was naive" about abuse, says the Holy Man. "I'm sorry," he says.
Which is not what he says in internal church documents, 30,000 unredacted pages worth, finally brought into the light of day after years of foot-dragging, stonewalling and legal maneuvering.
The Holy Man is the former head of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony.
In these documents we find the Smoking Cassock proving Mahony complicit in the cover-up of the worst crime short of murder, child molestation.
"This is all intolerable and unacceptable to me," Mahony wrote in 1991.
Yet he continued to tolerate it. He continued to accept it.
What the Holy Man wouldn't tolerate or accept was the potential legal liability, loss of church assets and disastrous bad press.
"That really scares the daylights out of me!!" wrote the Holy Man with double exclamation points while dismissing the suggestion he take to the pulpit and report to his parishioners directly on the Rev. Michael Baker's notorious crimes against children.
"We could open up another firestorm - and it takes us years to recover from those."
Clearly unconcerned about how many years it would take Father Baker's victims to recover.
Cardinal Mahony and his chief lieutenant, then-Monsignor Thomas J. Curry, strategized on how to thwart possible criminal investigations, with Curry actually suggesting notorious abuser Michael Wempe be sent to "a lawyer who is also a psychiatrist" which would keep any psychiatric reports out of the hands of investigators under "the protection of privilege."
This is the dialogue of Holy Men? It reads more like outtakes from "The Sopranos?"
Despite warnings from Monsignor Richard Loomis that the cover-up was "immoral and unethical," Mahony and Curry schemed to send rapists and molesters out of state and out of the reach of investigators.
They were warned repeatedly by Loomis and other priests disgusted and horrified by the crimes perpetrated in their ranks, including graphic details of serial abuser, Monsignor Peter Garcia, who specialized in preying upon illegal immigrant children - at least one of whom he raped and then threatened to have deported if he said a word.
Mahony still has his defenders, first and foremost the Archdiocese's Minister of Propaganda, Tod Tamberg, who never misses an opportunity to blame the victim or shoot the messenger.
However, while the Holy Man's years of inaction had previously been spun as a good man's naivet , the written record proves the opposite. It places Mahony at the center of a very active conspiracy to subvert any criminal or civil investigation into the systemic sexual abuse of children by the priests he supervised.
There will be no justice for the victims until Curry, now a bishop in Santa Barbara, and Cardinal Mahony are made to answer for this outrage in a court of law.
If the law does not allow for prosecution, the law is unjust.
Doug McIntyre's column appears Wednesdays and Sundays. You can reach him at email@example.com.


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Over decades, sensors were high-precision devices but their function was simple and one-dimensional. And they were analog. Nowadays, the world no longer is that simple " sensors get digital and their properties are defined by their algorithms. This creates a new complexity that calls for methods to handle.
Sensors this are these little devices that transform non-electrical physical units into voltages or currents, right? For instance, pressure in voltage or, in less straightforward cases, resistance in frequency or so. Simple. Pressure (or temperature or whatever) in, voltage out. Not much more difficult to handle than a resistor.
But even the simple sensor world is growing more complex. Not because an increasing percentage of sensors deliver their data not only or not at all in analog form but via a digital interface. No, this would be easy to handle; after all, it is just one complexity level up. What makes the world of sensors complex and interesting is that nowadays they start to combine several different physical units and combine these values by means of algorithms. Microprocessors and digital signal processors increasingly become integral part of the sensor landscape.
At the Sensor + Test trade fair in Nuremberg, innovators displayed their achievements, hinting at future developments. In their sensors to measure lubricant oil degradation, even vendors of relatively simple devices combine several MEMS with signal digitalization circuitry, signal preprocessing, calibration and temperature compensation. All digital, of course.
An more complex example showed the Fraunhofer Technology Development Group (Fraunhofer TEG) from Stuttgart. They combined low-cost three-axis inertial MEMS platform with a camera that translates visual patterns into spatial information, creating a highly precise navigation system which is completely independent of GPS or other external signals and thus suited for indoor use. All digital and, unnecessary to mention, the actual intelligence was not in the silicon nor in other parts of the hardware but in the algorithms.
Some people in this situation ask "are these still the sensors we used to use?", but I think this is the wrong question. The more interesting topic is that the applications possible with this class of sensors are much more complex than we could create with simple analog pressure or temperature sensors, and we have to find ways to handle this complexity. This question still waits to be resolved.
And, by the way, the simple analog sensors don't go away. They will continue to be around since simple solutions for simple problems will need to be resolved also in the future.


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The townspeople's opinions about Chillingworth change greatly within Chapter 9 of The Scarlet Letter. First, all of the townspeople seem to be thrilled with Chillingworth's appearance because they know that he is known as a great doctor. "He was now know to be a man of skill; . . . like one acquainted with hidden virtues to common eyes" (120). Further, the townspeople's feelings for their pastor (Dimmesdale) supersede their own needs as they begin to see God's "Providence" in sending the physician to their ailing pastor's side. "Individuals of wiser faith, indeed, . . . were inclined to see a providential hand in Roger Chillingworth's so opportune arrival" in order for him to attend to their ailing clergyman, Dimmesdale (120). It isn't long before Chillingworth arranges to live in Dimmesdale's very home "so that every ebb and flow of the minister's life-tide might pass under the eye of his anxious and attached physician" (123). "There was much joy throughout the town when this greatly desirable object was attained" (123).
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I felt that he was a good shooter who needed more time to evolve. Last year, he shot 40% from deep on the road. It would not surprise me if he gets above 40 on the year
I'm hitting the hay early. Someone posted a comment on another thread that Iverson will sign the deal in the morning. I'll deal with it then if he does.
I think having an athletic guy who can shoot at a high percentage is a very valuable tool. The fact that he can't contribute much else means he might be a bench player on a contending team, as of right now. If he develops into a 20ppg/5rb/3ast player I would be happy.
Of course as we all know he still has room to grow, but that will mostly come in terms of playing effective team basketball and being a reliable scoring threat. Thus, a valuable team player or a good trade candidate.
No defense, no rebounding, poor passing? Is Thad just a taller Billy Green with more potential?
Sounds like the ideal Eddie Jordan player, right?
Nah, Thad can actually hit his shots, not just take a ton like Willie.
Green is actually shooting a higher percentage on his jumpers (both this year and last year). Plus, Green gets to the line more often. I'm just curious as to why everyone (including me) gives Thad a break and kills Green no matter what he does. Is it because Thad isn't a ball-hog? Younger? More potential? All of the above?
Willie just has poor shot selection, he can take shots at the worse times (and tends to miss them when they matter most). If Green is shooting jumpers better than Thad it also has to mean Green is finishing worse at the basket, as I'm quite sure Thad's overall FG% is higher.
And don't get me started with Willie's effort on the defensive end. Thad has been below par but Green has been a poor defender for years.
Yes, Thad finishes much better. But as for his defense, I could argue that he's actually worse than Green.
One thing I don't understand, the improvement in his jumper has coincided with a severe drop in his free throw shooting. Suddenly he's shooting worse from the line than Iggy?
I know he can score, but he does need to do a bit more to be an effective starter in this team, especially if AI is really going to come and start. His rebounding has to improve at least slightly whereas as long as he puts in enough effort defensively he should be fine.
His assists and steals being down must have to do with playing the 4 more but how can his rebounds not go up.Watching Iggy play Sheed a while back makes me think he is a better 4 than Thad, I hope our coach didn!t hear that !!! Guys, if L.Will. and Spieghts didn!t get hurt what would our record be ? We aren!t defending but seem to be scoring better, typical Jordan team, but would we be close to 500?
I think one game better off. 6-12.
I'd say we'd be in stiff competition with Toronto rather than the Knicks. And by that I mean, the sixers probably would've won the Memphis and Washington games (I think Speights would've made that much of a difference, anyway).
I will say this (not a Thad lover). I think (and always have thought) Thad is a reserve player on a good team until he improves his defense substantially.
I can handle the lack of ball skills, no right hand, no passing game, weak rebounding, lack of free throw attempts and general softness if he defending his ass off consistently. Then he could be a starter and command starter minutes.
But when you only impact the game when you shoot and nowhere else I can't see how you can justify him being anything more than a scorer off the bench.
I like Thad, I don't love him and never understood the hype surrounding him. He has played the same way for 2 years and 18 games. His jumper hopefully keeps improving but I just don't believe he will ever become a complete player.
And you know what, that's okay. Whenever this team gets better we will need solid offensive players who don't turn the ball over to come off the bench to spell our top guys. We just have to hope in a year or two when it's money time the Sixers don't blow their load unjustifiably on a one-dimensional player.
Allen Iverson informed the Philadelphia 76ers Wednesday morning that he will accept their one-year, non-guaranteed offer. The contract is for a pro-rated veteran's minimum of $1.3 million.
"In light of the recent injury to Lou Williams, which will sideline him for close to eight weeks, we felt that Allen was the best available free agent guard to help us at this time," team president Ed Stefanski said.
lol peter luukko says "it's purely a basketball move"
Sure it is Peter...he took bath in his own oil this morning, making him that slick
...lol peter luukko cares about anything other that hockey
I'll add my 2c about Thad before the board goes back to all AI all the time...
I see Thad ans Speights as being similar right now in terms of development. Right now Thad (at 21) has a limited skill set. If he goes out of his comfort zone and tries to create and draw fouls then he struggles. He lacks the handle or polish to be effective.
But if he sticks to being a scorer, and thinks less about being a complete player, he can be a dangerous weapon. Same thing works for Speights. He's a good scorer right now, knows it, and goes with it. If Speights tried to get fancy he would not be as effective.
Both players should be able to add to their all around game with time. But right now their ability to score is way ahead of the rest of their game. Especially their defense.
For now be more one dimensional, because that is how you will best help the team. Just like we want Kapono to shoot and not play PG. We want Thad and Speights to score and shoot over 50%. I expect the rest of their game to round into form over the next 3 years.
You can't look at players 21 or 22 and expect all aspects of their games are polished.
What does any of that have to do with defense or rebounding? Everything you talked about speaks to being a more robust offensive player.
I don't get this line: "For now be more one dimensional, because that is how you will best help the team."
So rebounding and defending wouldn't help the team? Maybe I am misreading your comment.
Speights has 2 maybe 3 more years. Thad has one to show he can be a more complete player before the Sixers have to commit real money to him.
How do you suggest the Sixers handle that situation when it arises if his numbers and game is the same as it is now - Efficient scorer, nice person (i guess) no other impact on the game?
You raise some good points. My post was only discussing why his scoring and efficiency went up while assists and FT's went down.
First rebounding and defense...
Thad was a lousy rebounder for his size in college. Draft express pointed it out before he was drafted (only player at least 6'8" to grab less than 4 reb/36min I believe.) He has good length (8'10" reach) but flat out is not a good rebounder. Nor does he protect the cup or block shots well.
I do not see Thad as a legit starting PF in the NBA now or in the future, unless he really bulked up and changed his game (which is unlikely.) I see Thad at PF as a gimmick, change of pace sort of thing. Good only for short runs.
At SF Thad's defensive issues are different. I think (but could be wrong) that he just needs more time and coaching to become a good wing defender. he has the tools and desire, but his positioning is wrong. He plays the wing like you are coached to play inside. He flows to far away from his man and can't recover to stop 3pt shots.
This is correctable. It is even understandable given how little time Thad has spent outside the lane in his life. I see it as more of a temporary issue, but I could be proven wrong with time.
As for an extension in summer 2011, that is a common problem when 22-23 year olds come up for extensions. There were big question marks in terms of long term development when Lou and Josh Smith came up for extensions. They had proven themselves as NBA players, but after 4 years were they just starting to tap into their potential, or were they pretty much already in their prime?
I want to see Thad at SF for the next 1.75 seasons. That should be enough time to learn if he can play the position on both ends. Enough to see if he has a chance to be an elite SF or is he headed to be a variation of Hakeem Warrick.
If Thad is a effecient scorer and solid defender at SF by the end of next year you have to at least consider giving him big money (8-10M/yr.) I say consider, because it could be an issue if by that time we learn that Iguodala can't thrive at SG. Right now we don't know for either player. I fear we won't know because EJ will leave them at SF/PF most of the time (Bebop's refrain.) Really, this should have already been worked on going back to last season.
If Thad can't establish himself at SF (on both ends) then I think he should get top reserv e type money (MLE+) in order to be a combo forward off the bench. Even as a one dimensional scorer he should have real value- but might hurt you if used as a starter or in the wrong line-up.
Do they still do that 'big man' camp thing and would Thad benefit from it at all learning how to rebound?
His numbers really are pathetic
A bit off-topic, but I saw this article and the last part of it made me want to throw up.
"It will be interesting to see whether Eddie Jordan reinserts Elton Brand as a starter. Willie Green has taken over that spot and has played extremely well. He has averaged 20 points in the last two games, both starts, and has done his usual stellar job on defense . . . "
What games has this guy been watching???
He probably hasn't been watching, or just doesn't know what the hell is going on. Honestly, I bet this is Eddie Jordan's assessment of the situation as well.


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Hans Rosling at The University of Oslo: "Fact Based World View".
How to be a Global Citizen. Hans Rosling is amazing speaker/professor/thinker. Must see.
Hans Rosling makes complicated facts and stats sound like music to your ears. On August 22nd the world-renowned Swedish professor lectured at The University of Oslo to kick off the autumn Global Citizen lecture series.
Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life http://www.gapminder.org/


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Of all the skin sins, going out unprotected is the worst. UV rays cause 90 percent of wrinkles, sun spots and other signs of aging. And although face lotions with sunscreen ward off burning UVB rays, not all fully shield you from UVA, the deeply penetrating light that ages skin. What to look for: If your skin is sensitive, zinc oxide or titanium dioxide are natural minerals with stellar UVA coverage; otherwise, you may want the longer-lasting protection of chemical-based SPF with UVA-blocking avobenzone or octocrylene.
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