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Original post made on Jan 5, 2010
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 4:29 PM
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a resident of Blossom Valley
on Jan 5, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Run the bums outa town NOW!!!
a resident of Whisman Station
on Jan 5, 2010 at 10:51 pm
leave those bums alone they hella chill as people on the real.
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jan 6, 2010 at 3:14 pm
The homeless people are not the real issue here, if the building is 'abandoned' as described the property owner should be fined for letting it deteriorate. Where is code enforcement? I would like to see an interview in the Voice with the head of code enforcement explaining what steps have been taken to address this issue. That place has been closed for almost three years ago (April 2007).
Just for the record... MV supposedly does have code enforcement....
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jan 6, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Oh those wacky guys. They were just giving each other haircuts. Must of slipped when they passing the whiskey.
a resident of another community
on Jan 28, 2010 at 9:32 pm
You bet there is 'code enforcement' in Mountain View... They are partly responsible for Ron's Farmhouse "Bar" closing when it did. The other responsible party was the "new" landlord who kept raising the rent. How do you like the place now, Mountain View? Good Luck with everything from an former resident, business owner(2) and manager of Ron's.
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High on the list of College priorities is the provision of more and better library space. The library of the future will be a combination of historic and futuristic spaces and purposes. The library will be the focus of information storage and retrieval, whether from some of the collections of rare volumes that the College now possesses, or databases, or the internet. Not only will books be kept as one source for learning (the general collection will continue to grow), but there will also be myriad ways to garner information electronically. The College plans to combine the Library and the Computing Center. What will be different about the new library building will be the range of opportunities for study and interaction. Individual carrels will be network-linked so that users can use notebook computers to gain electronic access to catalogs and databases. Group study rooms, reflective of trends and developments in business and education globally, will facilitate interactive learning and team projects, activities that cannot freely occur in a traditional open library setting. Networked instructional facilities will also be included in the new facility, both for instruction in library research and for a general instructional resource.
The American College and Research Libraries (ACRL) space analysis suggests the need for 65,300 NSF, net square feet, of useable area, an increase of nearly 30,000 useable square feet over the existing Eggleston Library. The campus plan study examined several development alternatives for the library, which included building all new space and the renovation and expansion of existing space. After consideration and assessment, the campus plan proposes reusing 12,000 NSF of space in Winston Hall, once in fact the College's library, and adding 56,000 NSF more to accommodate both the Library and Computing Center.
As Winston Hall is already occupied by academic, administrative, and student service functions, phasing of the library construction is dependent either upon the availability of new space or swing space (i.e., temporary relocation). As the College does not have vacant space anywhere, relocation of academic functions will require new construction. One potential phasing strategy would be to construct the new library space and let Winston remain as is, to be renovated after new space for fine arts could be constructed and spaces elsewhere could be renovated for the other units.
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PNWER is a consortium of legislators from the 10 western states, provinces and territories of the United States and Canada.
The "Hot Potato" award is given to one individual each year who has stepped up to tackle a difficult international issue, a "hot potato" as it were. PNWER noted the importance of the border to trade and Canadian-American relations, and how inefficiencies at the border are both problematic, and contentious. The organization praised Alper for his leadership in studying problems at the border and finding solutions to make it more efficient.
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All-Star Trip (Part 1)
Sometimes I equate the NBA All-Star Weekend madness to the TV show "Cheers"… I just feel like singing, "sometimes you want to go, where everybody knows your name"… except in my rendition, I think they should replace 'name' with 'face.' After being in the NBA for nine seasons now (geez, I'm old) and after going to four of the last five All-Star Weekends, you pretty much can't walk more than 10 feet without running into someone you know… or at least someone you know but can't remember their name, so you give the courtesy hello… or the person who knows exactly who you are, but you can't place that person for the life of you. Anyhow, you get the idea. The players' hotel lobby is chaos, with NBA players and agents mingling about, along with some random kids who somehow managed to sneak in getting everyone's autographs (you aren't even allowed on the premise without a room key); the scene outside the hotel is even more chaotic with fans scrambling to catch a glimpse of their favorite player; and the events themselves are a star-studded who's-who affair of famous actors, singers and the occasional reality TV star. Welcome to All-Star Weekend.
11:10 a.m.: I arrive at the gate at Orlando International Airport a half-hour early only to find that the entire flight has already boarded. Since when did airlines start boarding an hour before they left? Am I missing something here? I hop on the plane and head right to my seat just a few rows behind our team security guard and Assistant Coach Brett Gunning. Also on the flight are Nik Vucevic, Andrew Nicholson, GM Rob Hennigan and Assistant GM Scott Perry.
12:30: About an hour into the flight, I head up to Nik's seat (where he's watching an "ESPN 30 for 30" film) to do a short in-flight interview of him for our website coverage. After I'm done, he says, "No way is Drew going to be awake. That guy always sleeps on the plane." Sure enough, I head to try to interview Andrew, but just as Nik predicted, he's dead asleep.
1:10 (Central time): Welcome toHouston! #TeamMagic, as I am now calling our group, congregates inside the terminal where there is a cart waiting to take us to the luggage claim. Nik says he's always wanted to go on one of those but Andrew says they're only for older people, so we need to walk. Nik argues back that their legs have logged many miles this season already and they need to take advantage of it, which finally convinces Drew to hop on the cart. Meanwhile, Hennigan and Perry waste no time and start walking. A few minutes later, we all wave to them as we swiftly pass by them en route to baggage claim! In no time, we're headed to downtown Houston, which is about a half-hour drive from the airport.
3:30: The guys' first official duty at All-Star is to do a media circuit, which is luckily right there in the hotel. I meet them there and they each do a circuit that includes stops on NBA TV, NBAE, ABC, NBA Photos and Sirius XM Radio. After seeing some of his fellow rookies/sophomores dressed down, Nik laments to me that he feels overdressed (he's the only guy in a button-down and blazer). A great piece of advice I was always given, and we both agree upon, is that it's best to be the best dressed guy in the room and not the worst.
3:45: Ever the UK fan, Brandon Knight and I talk a little Kentucky basketball while he's waiting for a room to open up on his circuit.
4:30: The guys finish up with their duties and head back to their rooms until their mandatory 5:30 rookie/sophomore players meeting at the hotel.
5:00: I head across the street to try to get my credential at the convention center, but was stopped at every checkpoint and asked for said credential. I think someone forgot to tell me that I needed a credential just to go pick up my credential. Again, welcome to All-Star Weekend.
5:30: I arrive back at the hotel and the hotel lobby is even more abuzz than before. Anthony Davis stands in one corner with at least 20 people around him, while Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Kemba Walker aimlessly roam about. MKG leaves for an appearance and the Charlotte PR guy explains to me that he and Walker are heading out to find a mall. Apparently the Bobcats are coming off a long road trip and Walker has no clean clothes, so he needs to go buy new ones. Can't make this stuff up, folks!
8:00: After a workout in the nicest hotel gym I've ever seen (complete with indoor lap pool on the top floor overlooking the city), I head to my room to shower and change into clean clothes that I did not have to go to a mall to buy, and meet up with my fellow colleague from the Indiana Pacers for dinner. I was delighted to find out that Mexican food in Houston was every bit as delicious as I thought it would be!
10:00: Seriously, if you want entertainment, just people watch in the hotel lobby. In about an hour period of talking with some fellow PR staff from around the league, we see Jeremy Evans come back from dunk contest practice with a sandwich board in tow (clue of what's to come??), Stephen Curry walking across the lobby with his wife carrying dozens of red roses (I had forgotten it was even Valentine's Day until that very moment), and in what seemed to entertain us the most, we watched an NBA Hall-of-Famer go into the hotel gift shop, spend about 45 minutes shopping and emerge with 3 bags of stuff he had bought, which brings up two questions – 1) How in the world could someone spend that much time or money in a hotel gift shop? 2) Maybe Walker should've just shopped there with him?
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Freezer cooking today did not go as well as I'd hoped. I did get a lot of recipes done, but six of them are still going to have to be done tomorrow.
It started going downhillwhen my kids started running fevers late Saturday. They continued their fevers all day today, but the weird thing is that there are no other symptoms…..no sore throat, headache, runny nose, cough, diarrhea, nothing! But they were incredibly fussy and clingy, which is why I didn't get much done while they were awake.
I managed to start the Harvest Summer Soup and the Harvest Cinnamon Roll dough first thing in the morning, but all the other recipes were cooked during naptime. Luckily, they took pretty decent naps!
Here are the meals that are done:
2 Harvest Cinnamon Rolls meals
3 Summer Harvest Soup meals
2 Stuffed Buffalo Chicken meals
3 Lemon Chicken meals
3 Tomato Pasta Sauce meals
3 Tangy Marinated Steak meals
2 Bacon & Bleu Burgers meals
3 Tomato & Basil Burgers meals
That's 21 meals so far, so I guess that's really good, considering the amount of time I had to work on it.
Tomorrow, I need to do:
Fruity Breakfast Burritos
Frozen Fruit Cups
Grilled Chicken Pesto Wraps
Black Bean and Mango Chicken Salad
Buffalo Chicken Wraps
Beef-Potato Dinner Wraps
I was also going to make Italian Flank Steak Pinwheels, but honestly I think I would get too frustrated with that recipe. I'll just freeze those steaks in their original packaging and use them in a different recipe in next month's menu.
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He decided to build a model. His first try didn't work—some water was pumped back up, but not enough. But surely that could be taken care of by putting in a gear train to make the screw run faster? Disappointingly, he found the water wheel had a tougher time turning the screw faster, and he needed to supply a lot more water over the wheel, so he was back to square one. Increasingly ingenious but unsuccessful fixes finally convinced him that in fact there was no solution: there was no way to arrange a machine to do work for nothing. This lesson stayed with Mayer for life.
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Now, Lavoisier had claimed that the amount of heat generated by burning, or oxygenation, of a certain amount of carbon did not depend on the sequence of chemical reactions involved, so the heat generated by blood chemistry oxygenation would be the same as that from uncontrolled old-fashioned burning in air. This quantitative formulation led Mayer to think about how he would measure the heat generated in the body, to equate it to the food burned. But this soon led to a problem. Anyone can generate extra heat, just by rubbing the hands together, or, for example, by turning a rusty, unoiled wheel: the axle will get hot. Does this 'outside' heat also count as generated by the food? Presumably yes, the food powers the body, and the body generates the heat, even if indirectly. Mayer was convinced from his childhood experience with the water wheel that nothing came from nothing: that outside heat could not just appear from nowhere, it had to have a cause.
But he saw that if the indirectly generated heat must also be included, there is a problem. His analysis ran something like this (I've changed the illustration slightly, but the idea's the same): suppose two people are each steadily turning large wheels at the same rate, and the wheels are equally hard to turn. One of them is our rusty unoiled wheel from the last paragraph, and all that person's efforts are going into generating heat. But the other wheel has a smooth, oiled axle and generates a negligible amount of heat. It is equally hard to turn, though, because it is raising a large bucket of water from a deep well. How do we balance the 'food = heat' budget in this second case?
Mayer was forced to the conclusion that for the 'food = heat' equation to make sense, there had to be another equivalence: a certain amount of mechanical work, measured for example by raising a known weight through a given distance, had to count the same as a certain amount of heat, measured by raising the temperature of a fixed amount of water, say, a certain number of degrees. In modern terms, a joule has to be equivalent to a fixed number of calories. Mayer was the first to spell out this 'mechanical equivalent of heat' and in 1842 he calculated the number using results of experiments done earlier in France on the specific heats of gases. French experimenters had measured the specific heat of the same gas at constant volume (Cv) and at constant pressure (Cp). They always found Cp to be greater than Cv. Mayer interpreted this with the following thought experiment: consider two identical vertical cylinders, closed at the top by moveable pistons, the pistons resting on the gas pressure, each enclosing the same amount of the same gas at the same temperature. Now supply heat to the two gases, for one gas keep the piston fixed, for the other allow it to rise. Measure how much heat is needed to raise the gas temperature by ten degrees, say. It is found that extra heat is needed for the gas at constant pressure, the one where the piston was allowed to rise. Mayer asserted this was because in that case, some of the heat had been expended as work to raise the piston: this followed very naturally from his previous thinking, and the French measurements led to a numerical value for the equivalence. Mayer understood the sequence: a chemical reaction produces heat and work, that work can then produce a definite amount of heat. This amounted to a statement of the conservation of energy. Sad to report, Mayer was not part of the German scientific establishment, and this ground-breaking work was ignored for some years.
Meanwhile, in
Finally, it dawned on him that the electrical intermediary was unnecessary: the heat could be produced directly by the force, if instead of turning a dynamo, it turned paddle wheels churning water in an insulated can. The picture below shows his apparatus:
The paddle wheels turn through holes cut in stationary brass sheets, churning up the water. This is all inside an insulated can, of course. In this way, Joule measured the mechanical equivalent of heat, the same number Mayer had deduced from the French gas experiments.
Joule's initial reception by the scientific establishment
was not too different from Mayer's. He,
too, was a provincial, with a strange accent. But he had a lucky break in 1847,
when he reported his work to a meeting of the British Association, and William
Thomson was in the audience. Thomson had just spent a year in
Mayer and Joule, using entirely different approaches, arrived almost simultaneously at the conclusion that heat and mechanical work were numerically equivalent: a given amount of work could be transformed into a quantitatively predictable amount of heat. Which of the two men deserves more credit (not to mention other contenders!) has been argued for well over a century. Briefly, it is generally conceded that Mayer was the first to spell out the concept of the mechanical equivalent of heat (although closely followed, independently, by Joule) and Joule was the first to put it on a firm experimental basis.
In fact, by the 1840's, although many still believed in the
caloric theory, it had run into other difficulties. Before the 1820's, almost everyone believed,
It transpired, though, that the difficulties in reconciling Carnot's theory and Joule's experiments were not as insuperable as Thomson had claimed. In 1850, a German professor, Rudolph Clausius, pointed out that Carnot's theory was still almost right: the only adjustment needed was that there was a little less heat emerging from the bottom of the 'caloric water wheel' than went in at the top—some of the heat became mechanical energy, the work the steam engine was performing. For real steam engines, the efficiency—the fraction of ingoing heat delivered as useful work—was so low that it was easy to understand why Carnot's picture had been accepted for so long. For the first time, with Clausius' paper, a coherent theory of heat emerged, and the days of the caloric theory drew to a close.
Books I used in writing these notes…
Caneva, K. L.: 1993, Robert Mayer and the Conservation of
Cardwell, D. S. L.: 1989, James Joule: A Biography,
Cardwell, D. S. L.: 1971, From Watt to Clausius,
Joule, J. P.: 1963, Scientific Papers, Vol. I, Dawsons of Pall Mall,
Magie, W. F.: 1935, A Source Book in Physics,
Roller, D.: 1957, 'The Early Development of the Concepts of Temperature and Heat: The Rise and Decline of the Caloric Theory', in J. B. Conant and L. K. Nash (eds.), Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1957, 117-215.


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 And if you're not going to Camp, then consider going! It'll be amazing. Yeah, it's all the way in Germany. And, yeah, planes are kinda expensive. But it's probably the best thing you could be doing with your time from 10-August through 14-August.

There will be a whole lot of talks, and workshops, and food, and music, and art, and awesome people. Software, hardware, music, art, security, social, political, humor, space exploration, food, . . . -- lots and lots of topics. I'll be organizing the workshops at the huge Hardware Hacking Tent, which will be hopping all day and all night throughout Camp.

Although it is called "Camp", the only thing "camp" about it is that you'll be sleeping in a tent. Everything else is in huge bunkers in the ex-Soviet military airport (complete with old Mig fighers strewn about), or in huge event tents. And there's plenty of showers and great food.

Chaos Communication Camp only happens once every 4 years. The previous one is *the* direct cause of Noisebridge, and the entire hackerspace movement. What will happen as a result of this one? Whatever world-changing events transpire, you could be there to be a part of it.

Mitch.

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Heart to Heart Hopes To Beat Red Bank Foes
A field of established turf runners will compete in the Red Bank Stakes, but most are seeking a reversal of recent form in stakes company as they compete over the one-mile distance.
A field of established turf runners will compete in the Red Bank Stakes, but most are seeking a reversal of recent form in stakes company as they compete over the one-mile distance.
Northern California trainer William J. Morey Jr., a member of the California Thoroughbred Breeders' Association Hall of Fame, died April 10 after a long battle with cancer.
Ramsey 6-year-old homebred will face six opponents and carry topweight of 121 pounds in the 1 1/8-mile grass test
Odds-on choice Coalport, shipping from Florida for Ken and Sarah Ramsey and trainer Mike Maker, dominated the $200,000 John Connally Turf Cup (gr. IIIT) Jan. 24 at Sam Houston Race Park for his first graded stakes victory.
Daddy's Kid could be the class play as he takes on eight opponents in the $200,00 John B. Connally Turf Cup (gr. IIIT) at Sam Houston Race Park the night of Jan. 24. Also on the bill is the $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic.
King Leatherbury's Ben's Cat, the top cat in turf sprints in the Midlantic region, ships to New York for the June 7 Jaipur Invitational Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the Belmont Stakes undercard.
Martin Racing Stable's Marchman strung together his second straight graded stakes win in three weeks with a decisive victory May 2 in the $167,550 Twin Spires Turf Sprint (gr. IIIT) at Churchill Downs.
The graded stakes-winning son of Speightstown has won one of two stakes starts so far this year.
Martin Racing Stable's Marchman wasn't highly regarded in the $100,000 Shakertown Stakes (gr. IIIT), but his 23-1 odds didn't keep him from the winner's circle April 12 at Keeneland.
A patient ride from jockey Juan Vargas and a grinding late run brought Potomac River to the winner's circle at the end of the 1 1/8-mile turf event Nov. 23 at Churchill Downs, trainer Sergio Baez's first graded stakes score.
TimeformUS Weekend Plays from Delta Downs, Churchill, and Betfair Hollywood Park read blog
Cathy and Bob Zollars' Daddy Nose Best will attempt to notch his fourth consecutive victory when facing a full field of 13 other rivals in the Nov. 23 River City Handicap (gr. IIIT) at Churchill Downs.
TimeformUS Weekend Plays from Aqueduct, Churchill and Betfair Hollywood Park read blog
Favored Temeraine, given a rail-skimming trip by Hall of Fame rider Gary Stevens, slipped through for a neck victory in the $399,000 Kentucky Turf Cup (gr. IIIT) on a stakes-filled afternoon at Kentucky Downs Sept. 14.
Seven 3-year-olds, all in search of their first graded stakes victory, are signed on for the $100,000 Ohio Derby (gr. III) July 27, the signature race at Thistledown.
Donegal Racing's multiple grade I winner Dullahan takes on two-time Arlington Handicap (gr. IIIT) victor Rahystrada in the July 13 renewal of the 1 1/4-mile turf event at Arlington Park.
Opening day at Keeneland offers one of the last gateways to a spot in the Xpressbet Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I), and it's a wide open contest.
Kentucky Downs saw a significant increase in wagering as its brief meet got underway Sept. 8 in Franklin, Ky.
Essence Hit Man, last year's Canadian champion sprinter, should get a stern test from undefeated Eternal Rule in the $150,000 Bold Venture Stakes (Can-III) on the night of July 18 at Woodbine.
Unleashing a strong turn of foot entering the stretch, longshot Riding the River rallied from last to first under jockey Todd Kabel to post an upset in the King Edward Stakes Presented by TVG (Can-IIT).
Silverton Hill's homebred Havelock returns to Woodbine Race Course for the first time since a 2011 upset in the Play the King Stakes (gr. IIT), heading a field of seven entered in the $250,000 King Edward (Can-IIT) June 24.
Canadian-based Simmard took the lead at the head of the stretch and held off Joinem to win the $115,200 Louisville Handicap (gr. IIIT) in stakes record time at Churchill Downs May 26.
Simmard was assigned high weight in the Louisville Handicap (gr. IIIT) at Churchill Downs at 1 1/2 miles May 26, and it's easy to see why.
With a well-timed ride by jockey Florent Geroux, Silverton Hills' Havelock got up in the final strides to overtake favored Lonesome Street to win the $150,000 Hanshin Cup (gr. III) by a neck.
One race before trainer Graham Motion saddles Went the Day Well in the May 19 Preakness (gr. II) at Pimlico Race Course, he will send out Augustin Stables' Smart Bid, the 7-2 overnight favorite in the Dixie Stakes (gr. IIT).
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Purple was someone's favourite colour.
I'm not sure what this place was but apparently it was closed because the block at this particular place in the city has been sold to make way for condos. This is just north of the North East corner of Yonge and Davisville. The building is on the corner of Yonge and Millwood. Just south of this place is another huge empty retail place that was an LCBO. Weird that the LCBO up there has been so nomadic.
The light in here was brilliant. I'm going to return tomorrow and see if perhaps I can get crisper files. Right now these images are quite grainy because it's all low, available light. I'd love to shoot them on large format film, but that's not going to happen soon and I bet this place is torn down before then. That's even more likely because it will be a while before I get my act together with the large format. I should get a new bellows for the thing in a week and that's a good step in what I'm sure will be a long journey of discovery.
It's definitely a lot of purple. It also has the feel of a financial institution on the exterior. It's very TD-Canada Trust looking but I doubt I'll ever know what it was. It's also been empty for a very long time. The Google Streetview image doesn't give anything away, but you can see it was a bank at one time.
The light is truly spectacular. There are a lot of windows on two sides of the building. It also helps that there is nothing too tall in the area surrounding so the morning sun can make it's way through the glass despite the crazy sunrise angle.
The shots I got today will be uploaded tonight, and they are much more subdued. There was no sun this morning but as I expected they are way more crisp, which i like for the possibility for printing large which has become sort of a habit. Although I love the sunlight, I like the images without it way more. See below.


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Josh Noble, Todd Anderson, and Abey George are all hard at work on the print version of the Flex 3 Cookbook for O'Reilly Media. They're writing new recipes and incorporating some of your recipes from the online Adobe Flex Cookbook. Get yours in now!
Deadlines are Nov 15 and Jan 1 for the topics. Check out the complete list of topics in my original post.
I'll be updating that list with these ideas, which just arrived in my inbox from Josh today!
– Accessibility and Creating Accessible Components Module
– RSL library tricks, advice, recipes (I think we've got a pretty good range of stuff there but I'm sure we missed something and it is a big topic).
– Working with Bitmaps, BitmapData, and Images
Best of luck to you in getting into the O'Reilly print book!


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Matrix protein structure
The research in my laboratory focuses on the structure and growth factor regulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins. Many ECM molecules undergo polymerisation to form fibrillar assemblies, the novel application of structural biology and biophysical techniques is revealing exciting insights into their molecular assembly and structural organisation. We are using a range of techniques including small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), cryo-TEM with single particle analysis and electron tomography to tease out the structural details.
Regulation of growth factor signalling by the extracellular matrix
The bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are powerful growth factors, crucial in maintaining normal tissue structure and function and for essential processes in early embryonic developmental. Extracellular regulation of BMPs is of therapeutic interest in relation to a broad range of pathologies including cancer, vascular disease and arthritis. Large extracellular proteins form inhibitory complexes with these growth factors, thereby preventing receptor activation. One such regulator, Chordin, acts by binding to BMPs thereby preventing their association with BMP receptors on the cell surface. We have recently shown that Chordin has a horse-shoe shaped structure that supports BMP-binding in a co-operative manner (Troilo et al., PNAS USA 2014).
Tolloid proteinases have important roles in tissue assembly and developmental patterning, two fundamental processes in mammalian biology. They process a diverse range of extracellular protein precursors. The tolloid proteinases play an essential role in collagen fibrillogenesis which is necessary for processes such as bone growth. They also release growth factors from inhibitory complexes regulating signalling important for tissue homeostasis and developmental processes. We have shown that dimerisation of mammalian tolloid limits substrate access to the active site, a novel mechanism of internal regulation for controlling binding of substrates (Berry et al., PNAS USA 2009).
Structural analysis of microfibrillar assemblies from elastic tissues
Fibrillin is an elastic fibre protein that has a principal role in the structure and function of organs that require elasticity, such as large arteries, lung and skin. Using SAXS and TEM, a very compact region of the molecule has been identified that was previously thought to be rigid and rod-like, significantly this region contains the binding motifs for integrins and heparan sulphate. At the next level of hierarchy,we are analysing whole microfibrillar assemblies, using cryo-TEM and treating the repetitive microfibrillar structure as a string of single particles.With these new methods we have identified individual molecules within the microfibril repeat and have described their organisation in a concertina fashion which reveals a mode of extension.
Elastin enables the reversible deformation of elastic tissues and can withstand decades of repetitive forces. Tropoelastin is the soluble precursor to elastin, the main elastic protein found in mammals. We determined the nanostructure of tropoelastin using small angle X-ray and neutron scattering, allowing us to identify discrete regions of the molecule. Tropoelastin is an asymmetric coil, with a protruding foot that encompasses the C-terminal cell interaction motif (Baldock et al., PNAS USA 2011; Yeo et al., PNAS USA 2012).
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February 17, 2009
"Ask God what your grade is"
Maybe you've read about this one already--but maybe not. While academic bloggers were all over the Denis Rancourt case--and all over Stanley Fish for suggesting that it was somehow indicative of a lack of self-policing among faculty members--they are strangely silent about this one.
Yes, Fish went a bit far in his lust for professorial exhibits. But that doesn't mean there aren't faculty out there who go badly astray when it comes to bringing their politics into the classroom. And surely, for consistency's sake, the folks who rounded on Fish (and opportunistically used his post to argue that self-governance is just fine, thank you very much, and that professors who abuse their classroom prerogatives are taken care of swiftly and decisively by their colleagues) should be talking about this case, and should be doing some of that self-policing stuff.
This case has everything in it: a professor verbally abusing a student for expressing his beliefs, written documentation of a professor withholding a grade to make a point about his contempt for the student's beliefs, threats, and a lawsuit--which rather suggests that the faculty did not take care of things internally, and which also means that the administrators failed in that regard, too.
Here's the summary from the Alliance Defense Fund, which is representing the student:
Jonathan Lopez is working toward an associate of arts degree at Los Angeles City College in California. One of his required classes: Public Speaking. The additional lesson in his free speech rights was not something he anticipated.
In that class, Lopez delivered one of his assignments--an informative speech. Lopez chose the topic of faith and marriage. Mid-way through, his speech professor John Matteson interrupted, calling Lopez a "fascist bastard" in front of the class for speaking about his faith, which included reading the dictionary definition of marriage and reciting two Bible verses. Instead of allowing Lopez to finish, Matteson told the other students they could leave if they were offended. When no one left, Matteson dismissed the class. Refusing to grade the assigned speech, Matteson wrote on Lopez's evaluation, "Ask God what your grade is."
"Christian students shouldn't be penalized or discriminated against for speaking about their beliefs," said ADF Senior Counsel David French. "Public institutions of higher learning cannot selectively censor Christian speech. This student was speaking well within the confines of his professor's assignment when he was censored."
But the harassment did not stop in class. One week later, after seeing Lopez talking to the college's dean of academic affairs, Matteson told Lopez that he would make sure he'd be expelled from school.
Further, Matteson's treatment of Lopez during his speech follows an earlier incident in which the speech professor told his entire class after the November election, "If you voted yes on Proposition 8, you are a fascist bastard."
"Professor Matteson clearly violated Mr. Lopez's free speech rights by engaging in viewpoint discrimination and retaliation because he disagreed with the student's religious beliefs," said French. "When students are given open-ended assignments in a public speaking class, the First Amendment protects their ability to express their views. Moreover, the district has a speech code that has created a culture of censorship on campus. America's public universities and colleges are supposed to be a 'marketplace of ideas,' not a hotbed of intolerance."
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom have filed a lawsuit against officials of the Los Angeles Community College District in regard to this situation. You can read the complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in the lawsuit Lopez v. Candaele by clicking here.
So where are all the principled academic bloggers, do you think? What's the problem? They were so righteous and principled last week when defending their honor against the insinuations of Stanley Fish. But, you know, shooting down Fish last week was a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Now, they are nowhere to be seen. Is Jonathan Lopez beneath their notice? Is behavior like Matteson's fine with them?
Forgive my speculations. But I have to wonder what the problem is. And there are other, more toxic possibilities. I have noted in my years writing this blog that, more than once, I have been characterized as a religious zealot by critics who see me defending religious students. Now, that amuses me very much, since I wasn't raised within a religion and don't have one now. But I got the point. In academia, to stick up for the rights of religious students is to be cast as a Bible thumper yourself. Horrors!!
And so I wonder: Could it be that there is no outcry about this case because one would have to defend an evangelical student in order to stand up for the principles of fairness, free inquiry, and responsible teaching? I hope not.
Michael Berube made a great point on his blog a few weeks ago. He said that if critics of academe wish to be taken seriously, they have to take particular care to differentiate themselves from frivolous and inflammatory commentary that masquerades as serious critique. He's right. But that knife cuts both ways. If academics want the public to respect them and their professional ways--if they want to preserve academic freedom and the independence and autonomy it confers--they have to self-police with consistency and with thoroughness. That means that the commentators--the ones who write columns and blogs that touch on The State of Academe, the ones who are positioning themselves as public intellectuals and, on some level, as representatives of their profession--have a job to do in moments like this one. Just like I have one to do when Family Security Matters puts out its sorry lists of dangerous courses.
One last note: hamfisted pedagogy (if you can even call it pedagogy) is not the only kind of incompetence plaguing Professor Matteson. This is what he wrote at the bottom of Lopez' evaluation: "Prostheletyzing is innappropriate in public school." Maybe LA City College should be giving spelling tests to prospective teachers?
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Matteson should certainly be censured or, if previously warned about such behavior, fired.
But there's no evidence in the ADF's materials that Lopez went through any of his school's own procedures for addressing such grievances. Can we blame administrators or other faculty if they are never brought into the situation? The ADF's promotional text makes it sound like Lopez went from being denied a grade by a prof to filing a lawsuit.
So either (a) Lopez wants this to be a legal issue and didn't even bother to deal with department chairs, deans, ombudsmen, etc., or (b) the ADF doesn't know how to promote the ethos of its clients.
Finally: has anyone ever drafted up some sort of, say, contract that would make professorial rights and responsibilities quite clear? I don't know what the paperwork for an academic job looks like (I was always an adjunct).
From the LA Times: "Lopez also said the teacher threatened to have him expelled when he complained to higher-ups." Also, it looks as though the school is a) responding to Lopez' complaint only in reaction to the filing of the suit, and b) that it is confused about whether Lopez himself is a perp for offending people with his views:
"...in a letter to Alliance, the district said it deemed Lopez's complaint "extremely serious in nature' and had launched a private disciplinary process. In the letter, Dean Allison Jones also said that two students had been 'deeply offended' by Lopez's address, one of whom stated that 'this student should have to pay some price for preaching hate in the classroom.' Hacker said the district's response was inadequate. 'What they didn't do was ensure this wouldn't happen to other students,' he said. 'The dean accused Jonathan of offending other students.'"
And from CNSNews.com: "'When Mr. Lopez informed one of the deans of the college about what happened, and his desire for a grade, the professor saw him doing this, and came up to him afterward and said, 'I'm going to get you expelled,' Hacker said."
So I think part of the issue is that the school has a speech code that helped create this mess--and that threatens to perpetuate it by disciplining Lopez.
Robust education in free speech, academic freedom, and the ways and means of dissent and debate would seem to be in order for students, teachers, and admins alike.
Suppose we divide all recent college graduates into three categories:
Group (1) consists of those who have learned from their college experience how to develop a logical argument, how to have an open mind toward arguments presented by others, how to disagree civilly, and how to conduct a formal debate, developing the strongest arguments for both sides of an issue.
Group (2) consists of those who have learned that it's safest to keep your mouth shut until you learn what opinions are favored by those in authority, and also that it is fun and profitable to join in ad hominem attacks on those who dissent from the orthodoxy.
Group (3), for logical completeness, consists of those who haven't been influenced in either way.
I wonder what % are in each category?
Lopez wants this to be a legal issue and didn't even bother to deal with department chairs, deans, ombudsmen, etc.
If in fact Lopez and the ADF are more interested in publicizing what certainly looks to be an abuse, as opposed to getting satisfaction from LACC, I have no problem with it. For one thing, the resulting negative publicity might help keep the LACC administration on its toes in the future. For another thing, well, I remember that when I was 18 I was pretty intimidated by some of my teachers, not to mention my department chair. If I was in a fix like Jonathan's, and someone from outside the school approached me sympathetically and said "Don't worry, kid--we're on your side and we'll handle this," I'd have been more than happy to let them handle it.
The Speech Department's Forensics Program has both a strong Policy Debate program and an Individual Events program. In 2006 the debate term was ranked 4th in the nation among Community College Policy Debate teams....
The 'co-director of forensics' is...John Matteson!
You can't make this stuff up.
David Foster,
Why stop there. In the interests of completeness, shouldn't we add:
4) Those who take offense when faculty instruction challenges their preconceptions, and attribute their own academic failings to faculty bias.
5) Those who conflate the encouragement of civility and mutual respect with censorship.
Point not badly taken Mr. Shoemaker. One might note that in the case the person taking offence at a challenge to his preconceptions was the instructor (and two others in the class) and the one being uncivil and disrespectful was the instructor. And said instructor is employed (among other things) to teach debate on public policy questions.
PeterS...it is common for professors to imagine that they are boldly challenging "preconceptions," apparently under the belief that the student's father is a small-town businessman, a rock-ribbed Republican, and a member of Rotary, the mother is a stay-at-home cookie baker, and the student himself is a regular attendee at Sunday School. Actually, Dad is probably a nonprofit executive, mom is a "public interest" lawyer, and the student has spent his entire life so immersed in the professor's worldview that he can't even imagine any alternatives.
Art Deco: If this account is indeed accurate, the instructor's behavior is certainly appalling. But it's worthwhile noting that the information here comes from a petitioner in a legal proceeding, not an objective third party. Perhaps this is at least part of the reason the "principled academic bloggers" are holding their tongues. We *know* what Fish said in the NYT. We don't know exactly what happened in the classroom in question. Or perhaps Erin is right, and the "principled academic bloggers" are uninterested in these kind of cases. There's really no way to know.
For what it's worth, I agree that speech codes just muddy the waters even further.
David Foster,
Without denying that some instructors act in bad faith (or in simple ignorance) when they claim to challenge preconceptions, I think that you're missing my point. I teach at a Catholic institution and have enraged students when, in the course of teaching the Reformation in a humanities survey, I have presented the theological views of Calvin and Luther and tried to explain why they might have been appealing to their contemporaries. I have heard similar reports from faculty who teach at state universities and who are confronted by evangelicals coming from the opposite side of the great Christian divide. It is important to acknowledge that the dubious "right not to be offended" is not solely a phenomenon of the left and the academia is a far more complicated and diverse world than many are willing to admit. Not everyone teaches in a secular institution where radical pedagogy is the rage.
PeterS...interesting case study. The preconceptions one encounters probably vary a lot from institution to institution.
A few years ago, I sat in on a philosophy class at a university attended mainly by smart (but usually not brilliant) kids from affluent families. The professor developed a pretty sophisticated analysis of cultural relativism and why it might be problematic as one's philosophy of life. Most of the students seemed to be...not *offended*, exactly, but confused, even disoriented...you could see that they had never considered any alternative to the idea the right/wrong should be entirely determined by the mores of a given society.
"PeterS...it is common for professors to imagine that they are boldly challenging 'preconceptions,'..."
Boy, I remember that in my day. I and most of my classmates were from small towns in the South and we were going to a small southern school, and I do remember getting the impression that the professors thought they were opening us up to new ideas that we might have trouble even contemplating; and how irritating that was, except that they were very nice about it. I remember them boldly talking to us about evolution, and us basically saying, "OK, and ...?"
But there were the people that Peter Shoemaker talks about, too, who get very anxious if they are exposed to anything outside their narrow worldview. One supposes that deep inside they're afraid that with any challenge their house of cards will come tumbling down; which presupposes that they see their own beliefs as houses of cards, which is very sad.
And I've had conversations not too long back with a person who appeared to put all of the onus of moral attitudes and behaviors onto "society" (as if there really is such a thing) and was puzzled as hell when I suggested that he should have a moral compass all his own. Seriously, he was baffled by the idea. Don't know how that happens.
I taught philosophy classes for a couple of years in the 1990's at a state university. When I lectured on ethics and discussed some rational criticisms of ethical relativism, many students would get offended or become uncomfortable. One girl dropped by during office hours in such anxiety over the lecture she was shaking. It made me wonder what personal (almost religious?) investment they had in ethical relativism. I told her I'm not telling you that you have to change your beliefs, I'm just presenting criticisms of this position, just like others we've studied all semester long.
Anxiety over having beliefs scrutinized and examined is not exclusive to people in one camp.
I'll paraphrase the words of Aristotle...
The ability to entertain an idea without accepting it is the mark of an educated mind.
Peopele on either side of ANY issue need to remember this quote at all times.


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Hey Mitch,

I've never been to the baltimore node and I hear you're supposed to be there this weekend. Maybe I'll make a trip up!

I'm working on a low cost version of an ECG amp front that can be assembled as a kit. Once that's working I'll refine it with an instrumentation amp and add more electrodes. Then I have to work on ADC and signals processing. I have a Xilinx Spartan-3E board with some onboard ADC hardware that might work well as a processing host with the picoblaze soft processor loaded up. Still ironing out the kinks in getting my computer to talk to the board though ;) I'm also interested in what cheap microcontrollers might be able to handle.

EEG seems considerably more ambitious than ECG, but I'd like to move onto EEG once I get the hang of ECG for sure.

I'm open to working on any kind of human machine interface project, but this is what I'm focusing on right now as an entry point into bio signals. I'd be interested in biofeedback related stuff, driving robots or other systems with the heart signal, etc.

-Daniel

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 The ECG would be a way fun project to show off!Ā I'm also copying the EEG and Cyborg lists here,Āsince there's probably projects that could all fitĀnicely together.Ā North Paw wouldĀcertainly be one.Ā Any other Cyborg projects that would be cool to show off at The Next HOPE?ĀĀ
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> Awesome, can't wait.
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> I'm be down for helping organize, and likely so would several other
> folks here at HacDC. Not just because it falls on my birthday, either.
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> Since I'm NB alum, maybe we could share a project. I'm building very
 > basic ECG equipment at the moment, and hope to use microcontrollers
> and FPGAs (I have the boards) to do real time processing on these and
> other signals. July is enough time for me to work up to a much nicer
 > ECG design and do some software, especially with help. We could set up
> a booth where people can come in and get hooked up and maybe have an
> artificial heart pump to their real heartbeat or something fun that
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> wearable/cyborg stuff.
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> Anyway, congrats and good luck guys!
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Tony Kerridge is on a mission to give back to the Salvation Army after they helped him through a tough period in his life.
"For me, I lost my way a fair bit," Mr Kerridge, 40, said.
"I ended up being a drug addict and I couldn't function without drugs.
"I spent a long time in prison and caught up in that lifestyle of wanting to do good but I just couldn't."
He explained that in prison he found God and was able to turn his life around, with the help of the Salvation Army.
In 2012, Mr Kerridge completed a 43-week recovery program at the Salvation Army's Moonyah Recovery Services Centre at Red Hill.
Mr Kerridge is now a support worker at the Moonyah centre, helping others recover from drug and alcohol abuse.
He's also a leader at his local church, God's Sports Arena, in Milton.
He said his role as a support worker was about helping others to complete and plan the steps needed to break addiction.
"A lot of it is just sitting down listening – having empathy for those guys," Mr Kerridge said.
He said while rehabilitation is hard, it was rewarding to see someone's life transform.
"They come alive again," he said.
"A lot of the drug addicts had lost their life completely, and they don't know who they are anymore.
"I just love doing it now."
He will oversee the Salvation Army's Red Shield Appeal this weekend, which is a doorknock to raise money to help others regain a hope and a future.
"There is hope," he said. "It's not easy, but there is definitely a way out, and that's through Jesus Christ."
For assistance with an addiction, contact The Salvation Army's Recovery Services Centre, Moonyah on (07) 3369 0922


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As you know, we are studying Church History. Before we move on to the 'please, dear emperor, accept us' I thought we'd take a break and study —
Ignatius of Antioch
This week, we are getting into the early 2nd century where we will encounter the need for Christians to establish themselves as a state religion in the Roman Empire. Contrary to what you've may have heard, Rome did not really care about your personal religion. What they respected was 'hollowed antiquity.' This is why the Jews could get away with not worshipping Jove or the other gods and goddess. Because they could show by their Scriptures just how ancient they were.
In come the Christians whom the Jews said weren't really Jews. That means the Christians were new — or, in the eyes of the Romans, atheists. They were suspect. So, for the next few centuries, we will encounter intellectuals who sought to present the Christian faith as ancient and politically supportive of the Empire while maintaining certain independent positions previously afforded only to the Jews.
Before that, we must encounter Ignatius of Antioch. His letters survive in (generally) two forms — the longer and the shorter. Many scholars see the shorter versions of the epistles as the more authentic (some settle for what they call a middle recension) so we will only quote from them.
Ignatius is best remembered, perhaps, for inventing two words — apostolic and catholic.
Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the holy Church which is at Tralles, in Asia, beloved of God, the Father of Jesus Christ, elect, and worthy of God, possessing peace through the flesh, and blood, and passion of Jesus Christ, who is our hope, through our rising again to Him, which also I salute in its fulness, and in the apostolical character, and wish abundance of happiness.[1]
Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic church. It is not lawful without the bishop either to baptize or to celebrate a love-feast; but whatsoever he shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.[2]
As regards to this, we might better read it church universal, or, universal church. Why is this designation important? I would point to one reason — Ignatius understood ecumenical missions better than most today. He was a bishop of a long-standing Asian (note, this is according to Roman geography) church going to Rome to be executed. Later, the Asian Churches and Rome would have severe disagreements — and these disagreements are still manifest today in the Great Schism. For Ignatius, however, the Church is founded on Christ, so regardless of other differences, if Christ is present (and no doubt, present in the Eucharist), then it is the Church.
Other things to note from Ignatius — he has established a hierarchy that is far more reaching than the Roman one we saw in Clement. While the Church is founded on Christ, the Bishop/Elder/Overseer is who brings Christ to the Table.
See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God[3]
One final thing Ignatius provides for us is an early view on the nature of the bread and the wine,
Let no man deceive himself. Both the things which are in heaven, and the glorious angels, and rulers, both visible and invisible, if they believe not in the blood of Christ, shall, in consequence, incur condemnation. "He that is able to receive it, let him receive it." Let not [high] place puff any one up: for that which is worth all is3 faith and love, to which nothing is to be preferred. But consider those who are of a different opinion with respect to the grace of Christ which has come unto us, how opposed they are to the will of God. They have no regard for love; no care for the widow, or the orphan, or the oppressed; of the bond, or of the free; of the hungry, or of the thirsty.[4]
The discussion this week will focus on Ignatius. Some of the questions to consider as you read Ignatius are
- Who is Jesus Christ to Ignatius?
- Why did he feel the need to be martyred and not otherwise rescued (or his freedom purchased)
- What does 'catholic' mean?
- Can we find his view of the Eucharist anywhere today?
- Can we find his view of the Church Government anywhere today?
- And of course, does this matter to our faith, in this modern world, right here, right now while the world is waking up from history?
[1] Ignatius of Antioch, "The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians," in The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus (ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe; vol. 1; Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1885), 166.
[2] Ignatius of Antioch, "The Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnæans," in The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, 190.
[3] ibid, 189.
[4] ibid, 188–89.
Related articles
- Ignatius of Antioch (late 1st century – c. 115) on the reality of Christ's human nature vis-à-vis Docetism (deovivendiperchristum.wordpress.com)
- Trinitarian and Cultic Imagination: Ignatian Christology (Part II) (swilhite.wordpress.com)
- St. Ignatius of Antioch: . . . if anyone follow a schismatic . . . (orthodoxchurchquotes.com)
- Jesus as a Divine Human: Ignatian Christology (Part III) (swilhite.wordpress.com)
- Ignatian Christology (Part I) (swilhite.wordpress.com)
- How early are the doctrines of the Incarnation and the Trinity? (winteryknight.wordpress.com)


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We all know that content is king but as the internet is turning away from being text driven to be more about media, a shift that happened years ago with faster internet speeds, you need to adapt the sites you build. One foolproof method of making your website more engaging is to use the right images. Here are suggestions on what you think about.
Quality is King
Regardless of which tips you use below, one this is for certain.Don't even try to add low-quality images that are heavily compressed or scaled up from a small size. All you are doing is planting a bad feeling with your visitors. If you are going to use images (and you should), make sure they are tack sharp!
It isn't enough with images that are technically right in exposure and sharpness though. A common snapshot isn't enough. Hire a professional photographer to take engaging photos specifically for your site that capture the feeling that you want to convey.
Show Your Physical Location
Obviously, this point only applies if you have a physical location such as a store or showroom or if you provide services dependent on a location. Don't be afraid to show off your offices on your website as this can be a big selling point. Example: You sell flowers. Showing a well decorated store full of flowers will have your potential customers wanting to go to your store because it looks nice. Another example: You are a law firm. Displaying your modern offices to clients will fill them with a sense that you are professional and want to visit you.
You don't want to place these photos anywhere on the site. Inserting them on a page specifically describing your store/showroom/offices is perfect. If you don't have a page like that, consider adding them to your "about us" page.
Staff Photos Can Make a Difference
Read carefully. This first bit is very important. Some industries should be very cautious about taking this advice. If your company does medical care or deal with unstable people, you might want to consider not having staff photographs on your website. Instead of being a positive element, it may put employees at risk. Before making a decision to put photos online, speak to your employees and see how they feel about it.
That being said, business is built on trust. Humans are going to trust a face more easily than a name. By having photos and descriptions of your staff on your website, you help to connect the expertise that you want to show with your potential clients. Instead of only reading about whom they are about to deal with, they can see the face of the person. At the end of the day, you are much more likely to gain a client this way.
Use Faces To Your Advantage
Following from the previous point, faces are good in general on your website as humans react to human faces. People spend more time looking at your site when they are able to connect with a fellow human being, even if it is through an image.
In a little experiment, Usable World tracked visitors eye movements across sites with faces. Interestingly enough, it is not just the presence of an image that matters but where they are looking. People tend to look where the person in the photo is looking. Use this to your advantage. Place a photo on your website that looks over where you want your visitors to look and watch the conversion rate go right up.
Images are truly powerful in making your pages more engaging. Perhaps the most interesting bit is that people look where a subject in a photo is looking.
While the concept of images are easier implemented on some types of websites, most companies online today should be able to take advantage of images to raise the conversion rate of their pages.
These are just some tips on how images make your site more effective and we know there are more. Do you have a good example of how images made a site better? What has your experience taught you? We'd love to hear your stories!


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Astros and Legacy Fine Jewelers to introduce Fan of the Year award06/22/2012 8:29 PM ET
By Hunter Reed / Greeneville Astros
Greeneville, TN - The Greeneville Astros along with Legacy Fine Jewelers have introduced a new Legacy Award for the Astros Fan of the Year. The lucky recipient of the award will receive a beautiful Fan of the Year trophy, sponsored by Legacy Fine Jewelers, as well as a $500 gift card to Legacy Fine Jewelers. The presentation of the award will take place during a pregame on-field ceremony on Fan Appreciation Night, August 28.
All Greeneville Astros season ticket holders will be eligible for the award. Fans simply need to register or be nominated at the Astros customer service booth, and then cheer on the Astros during every home game throughout the 2012 season for their chance to be named the Astros Fan of the Year, courtesy of Legacy Fine Jewelers.
Astros season tickets are available now at the Astros Administrative office, located at Pioneer Park on the campus of Tusculum College. The office is open Monday-Friday from 9:00am-5:30pm. For more information on this award, call the Astros at (423) 638-0411, or stop by Legacy Fine Jewelers, located in the Greeneville Commons.


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FIREFIGHTERS from Kendal were called to a fire on Aldercroft in the town last night.
A short statement from Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service today said the incident happened at 6.10pm when they were called to Aldercroft in Kendal, where they extinguished 'a small fire in the woods'.
No further information was given.