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Under the hood: Patterson's childhood moniker 'Buss' follows freshman guard to Syracuse
It's rare for a freshman to have a noteworthy nickname before stepping on a college court, but Ron "Buss" Patterson is an exception. Yet when those close to Patterson were asked about the origins of the moniker, an answer was elusive.
Criss Beyers, founder of Patterson's former AAU program, Indiana Elite One: "I really don't know much about 'Buss.'"
Bob Pryor, Patterson's coach with Indiana Elite One: "I never really got to the bottom of 'Buss.' I know he spells it funny, not like a bus, but I don't know where it came from."
When Patterson, now a freshman guard at Syracuse, was asked about the name, he smiled and cleared the air. He said he cried a lot as a baby, so his grandmother started calling him Buster, because that's how Snoop Dogg identified babies and cowards.
Then he shortened the name to Buss, "just to be different," he said.
Patterson's nickname yields more about his basketball persona than its origin indicates. Throughout his ascension to a top-notch Division I program, Patterson has exuded characteristics that have seen "Buss" almost completely replace "Ron."
"In Indiana, you never hear anyone call him Ron," said Chris Hawkins, another coach who worked with Patterson with Indiana Elite One. "I hope it catches on in Syracuse and I'm sure it will, because the name really describes him."
Though Patterson is years removed from crying on his grandmother's lap, he turned that emotion into competitive drive and carried it throughout his basketball career.
When Patterson walked into the gym for his first practice with Indiana Elite One, Pryor asked some of his players if "that was Ron Patterson."
They answered, "No, Coach, that's Buss."
Right away, Pryor knew he had a very skilled player. As a sophomore in high school, Patterson could shoot the ball, penetrate a man-to-man or zone defense and defend any player on the court. What he didn't know was that he also had a player with a rare gene.
Patterson would avoid losing at all costs.
"You often say that guys care and that guys will do anything to win, but that doesn't tell the whole story with Ron," Pryor said. "He just hated to lose and was upset and took it personally when we did. Made him a dream to coach."
Pryor said he remembered when the team traveled to a showcase tournament in Wilmington, Del., and lost a close game. Afterward, Patterson was quiet, introspective and stayed seated on the bench while the rest of the team shook the opposition's hands.
When Pryor asked what was on Patterson's mind, he told his coach "that he had to be better and that there was absolutely no excuse for losing the game."
For two weeks, Patterson only left the gym to eat and sleep. Pryor didn't know it, but he was watching "Buss" in his rawest form. Instead, Pryor created his own story behind the name.
"You know he's a big guard, and although a lot of the guys would always joke about the different reasons for the name, I made my own," Pryor said. "Sometimes he looked like a big yellow bus coming down the court or driving into the lane."
And that was before the peak of Patterson's physical development. Now the shooting guard is 6 feet 2 inches and 200 pounds, which makes him the heaviest guard in the Orange's rotation. Patterson is working to crack the guard rotation, and could provide depth behind Tyler Ennis, Trevor Cooney and Michael Gbinije.
Although he hit three 3-pointers in five attempts in Syracuse's scrimmage against Holy Family on Friday, his wide frame makes him more than a spot-up shooter. Patterson uses his size to protect the ball when dribbling and, most importantly, to complement his quickness on the defensive end.
"I try to move my feet quicker," Patterson said, "and when taller guys try to body me, I can use my frame to get in front."
His physical makeup and unquestionable will led both Pryor and Hawkins to call Patterson's defense his biggest strength on the court. Hawkins said it allows him to "really get up in people." Pryor added that he's just "bigger and faster than most guards."
But whether "Buss" is a big-bodied guard, fierce competitor or whining baby doesn't matter. The name is a part of Patterson and accentuates his distinctive versatility.
Where does "Buss" come from? Syracuse will most likely figure that out for itself.
"I always said that wherever he went would be a very lucky place," Hawkins said. "So get ready Syracuse, because Buss is going to do some great things."
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|Council gives final approval to annexation of 1,274 acres
|Bruce Alsobrook | News-Telegram Editor
Nov. 8, 2006 - Sulphur Springs City Council members Tuesday finalized the annexation of almost 1,300 acres of property, a move that will increase the city's land area by about 10 percent.
The council, meeting in regular session at City Hall, approved the second and final reading of the ordinance without dissent.
The annexation covers 1,274.6 acres and approximately 11 families. The area is generally adjacent to the southern city limits between State Highway 154 and State Highway 19.
In other business, City Manager Marc Maxwell reported that the city of Sulphur Springs is now the only entity pumping water from Cooper Lake.
"I reported last week that the North Texas Municipal Water District stopped pumping from Cooper Lake," Maxwell told the council. "I am pleased to report to you at this time that the city of Irving has also stopped pumping."
Maxwell said, however, that the city of Sulphur Springs will also stop drawing water from the reservoir in a few weeks when plans call for dredging silt from around the water intake facility to allow access to more water.
The reservoir is currently 17.2 feet below normal elevation.
The council also gave the latest owner of apartments in the 1200 block of Texas Street more time to repair the facility.
The structure was heavily damaged by fire in September of 2004 and the city has received numerous requests that the property be condemned.
The property has changed ownership twice since the fire, and current owner Ed Rosamond told the council Tuesday he was working on plans to rehabilitate the structure.
He submitted a letter from a licensed architect stating the building could be repaired, and told the council he is working on plans to refurbish the facility.
"Our intent is to bring the property up to code, up to standards," Rosamond said.
Residents who live near the structure also spoke at the meeting, saying they just want something done, and noting that children have been seen going into the burned out apartments through open doorways.
"Let the man get it fixed, get it liveable, or tear it down," said Tina Stout. "This is an unsafe structure for kids to be around."
Phil Smith urged the council to "tear it down or get it fixed."
Robert Stout reiterated the plea for quick action.
"I ask the city to do something about this ASAP," he said. "Condemn it, tear it down, or let the man do what he wants to do."
The council gave Rosamond until February to obtain a permit and get started on the rehabilitation. Councilman Oscar Aguilar also asked that the building be secured so that children could not get in. Rosamond indicated he would be able to do so.
The council also gave John Beezley until January to obtain a permit to repair another substandard structure, this one at 722 South Davis St.
The council also voted to proceed with abatement of a substandard structure at 218 Ross St.
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TWO second-half goals in as many minutes saw Rylands Reserves grab an all-important three points in a scrappy Cheshire League affair at Gorsey Lane.
The first half had few chances, with both sides' defences restricting opposition attempts on goal from a distance, however one golden opportunity for Rylands was missed when new signing Dan Lichman lost control of a neat through ball from Nick Jordan.
The visiting side's best chance of the half came from a Jamie Smithers header, which flew narrowly wide of Matt Latham's goal.
After the interval, the game came to life, Lichman hit the bar when well placed, and after 70 minutes, the deadlock was broken.
A scramble in the Middlewich box saw Jordan tripped by a Middlewich defender, and the referee awarded the penalty.
Kenny Rushton's spot kick was acrobatically pushed on to the post by the visiting 'stopper, but Aaron Williams was the fastest to react, and drove home off the post.
Minutes later the home side doubled the lead, a neat interchange between Chris Trowbridge and Williams put Craig Mather through on goal, and the striker calmly slotted home underneath the advancing keeper.
As the latter stages of the game approached, Middlewich threw players forward in a desperate attempt to save the result, and Dan Garner saw his effort kicked away by Latham in the Rylands goal.
Shortly into stoppage time, the visitors grabbed a consolation goal, when substitute, Tom Brain, broke away from his marker from a corner, and shot in to the roof of the net, despite the efforts of Latham, and Rushton on the post to keep it out.
Rylands managed to hold on to the lead, and secure a victory in only their fourth game of 2014.
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It's easy to transport yourself south of the border—just visit a Mexican restaurant or hit the "Mexico" button hidden inside every car's glove box. Escape with this Groupon.
Choose Between Two Options
- $15 for $30 worth of Mexican cuisine and drinks
- $25 for $50 worth of Mexican cuisine and drinks
The menu includes traditional dishes such as a blackened-Gulf-shrimp quesadilla with dijon-horseradish sauce ($9.99), a spicy Diablo chimichanga ($9.79), chicken breasts sautéed in tequila and triple sec ($14.99), and a vegetarian burrito stuffed with rice, beans, olives, and guacamole ($11.99).
Casa De Nana
Casa De Nana lives up to the warmth and tradition implied by its name, which translates to grandmother's house. Founded in 1968, the cantina still retains many of the same Mexican recipes designed by its founders. The chefs make their own chips, salsa, and hot sauce and whip up favorites such as spinach enchiladas, blackened-shrimp tacos, and Nana's Diablo, a spicy chimichanga with ranchero sauce, pico de gallo, and jack cheese. At the bar, the staff serves Mexican beers and specialty margaritas crafted from more than 30 types of tequila as televisions practice broadcasting live sports.


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Friday, 14 June, 2002, 23:07 GMT 00:07 UK
Curlers celebrate again
The women's curling team who became Britain's first Olympic gold medallists since 1984 are celebrating another win after being included in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Rhona Martin, 35, from Dunlop, Ayrshire, Margaret Morton, 33, from Ayr, Debbie Knox, 33, from Lochgelly in Fife, and Inverness pair Fiona MacDonald, 27, and Janice Rankin, 29, were all awarded MBEs for services to curling.
The Scots swept to victory in February after securing gold for Britain at the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
Martin, who captained the team, said: "I was totally surprised when I received the letter telling me of the award. It was a very big shock.
"It is absolutely fantastic and a great honour for all of the team to have received this honour as well as a great honour for the sport of curling and for Scotland.
"This whole year has been a whirlwind of experiences following the Olympic success we had - and this caps it off.
"The whole team has deserved the success and it is great honour that everybody is being recognised in this way.
"Our achievement has given the sport a tremendous boost, with people in countries now playing a sport which they had never heard of before."
The team claimed Britain's first winter gold since ice dancers Torvill and Dean at Sarajevo in 1984.
Following their victory, the curling team went from unknowns to celebrities and were hailed as heroes on their return to Scotland.
Watched by some 5.6 million people, a record figure for a television programme at midnight, Martin famously claimed the victory over Switzerland with her last throw.
MacDonald has since announced she is to retire from competitive action.
The 27-year-old account manager wants to concentrate on her career but will play exhibition matches.
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DAYTON, OHIO-Medical students at the Boonshoft School of Medicine are highlighting current issues in global health at their Third Annual Global Health Symposium and Silent Auction. Doctor Victor Sidel, co-founder of the organization, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize, is the invited speaker for the event. He will address "War and Public Health." The event will be Monday, April 7 from 6-9:00 p.m., in the Rotunda of Dayton's Historic Old Courthouse, 7 North Main Street in Dayton. The event is Free and open to the public. R.S.V.P. is requested.
The Global Health Symposium and Silent Auction annual event not only raises awareness about global health issues but serves as a fundraiser for medical students to help offset the cost of international student travel. The silent auction includes donations from local restaurants, salons, Dayton Ballet, and more. Completion of the silent auction will conclude the evening's festivities.
Victor W. Sidel, M.D., is a Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., and Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City, and past president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
Also speaking during the evening will be Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine alumna Katharine M. Conway, M.D., ('05). She is now chief resident in the Family Medicine Residency at Case Medical Center/University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Conway has been enrolled in the International Health Track throughout her residency, taking several trips to Guatemala for clinical participation and research.
Global Health Initiative (GHI) was established by Wright State's medical students to educate and promote issues on global health and the growing impact these have on the United States. The organization's mission is to enhance the education of medical students by exposing them to the medical issues facing both people in other countries and immigrants to the U.S., and in so doing, to inspire greater compassion, social justice, and empathy within Wright State's future physicians.
GHI provides medical students with encouragement and opportunities to travel to developing countries where health issues are prevalent. For example, Wright State's fourth-year medical students have participated in several medical service trips lasting from two weeks to a month in Nigeria; Ecuador; and Guatemala, and have participated in medical service trips to Belize, Haiti, Swaziland, Honduras and Costa Rica.
For more information about the event or to register, contact the Office of Advancement at (937) 775-3903, by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com, or online at med.wright.edu/whatsnew/GHI_08.html. Silent auction donations are gratefully accepted, with all business contributions recognized in the program.


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November 3, 2003
Thomas A. Quadracci, president and chief operating
officer of Quad/Graphics Inc., and four others recently
have joined the Carroll College Board of Trustees.
Quadracci, who helped found
Quad/Graphics in 1971 with his brother, Harry, now
presides over a company that has grown from 11 original
employees to 11,000. Today, Quad/Graphics has annual
sales of $1.8 billion with plants on three continents.
Before being named president in July 2002, Thomas
Quadracci was the company's executive vice president, a
member of the board of directors and president of
Quad/Tech, the company's research and design division.
Quadracci, a graduate of Regis
University in Denver, attended Stanford University's
School of Chemistry. He lives in Hartland with wife,
Susan. The couple has two sons.
Others who joined the Carroll
College Board of Trustees are:
Philip C. Brown, executive presbyter
of The Presbytery of Milwaukee. From 1982 to 1988, he
served on the board of directors of Maryville College,
where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1964. Brown
earned graduate degrees at McCormick Theological
Seminary in Chicago in 1968 and 1982. He was ordained by
the Presbytery of Chicago in 1969 and joined the
Presbytery of Milwaukee in 1996. He and wife Lynn Tucker
have two adult sons.
Jeffrey T. Cummisford, a 1973
graduate of Carroll College. He is a former senior vice
president for lending at First Financial Bank and at TCF
Bank of Wisconsin. In 1997, Cummisford joined three
other executives from Fleet Mortgage Group to form
Amerihome Mortgage Inc., where he is now senior vice
president and partner. The company, a Future 50 Award
Winner and the fifth largest mortgage company in
Milwaukee, delivers personalized mortgage financing
services at locations in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
Massachusetts, California and Michigan. Cummisford, who
has served on the Carroll College Alumni Council, was
inducted into the college's Hall of Fame in 2002. He and
wife Lynn, also a 1973 Carroll graduate, live in the
town of Waukesha and have two children.
Steven C. Miller, a 1976 graduate of
Carroll College and president of BeneCo of Wisconsin,
which specializes in customizing benefit solutions based
on clients' needs. He is a former sales representative
for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, where he rose to manager of
brokerage sales and national accounts. Miller also was
involved in the formation of Take Control, a health
promotion company for Blue Cross, and was its president.
He joined BeneCo in 1986. He is also a benefits
consultant to local and national employers, associations
and organizations. Miller, who was inducted into the
college's Hall of Fame in 1990, is married to Nancy.
They live in Okauchee, Wis., and have three children.
David J. Vetta, a 1976
graduate of Carroll and now leader of the Private Client
Services Account Management team at Banc One Investment
Advisors. He also represents insurance and investment
services for Banc One's Investment Management Group.
Vetta, who now lives in Dublin, Ohio, has a long record
of community service in the Waukesha area. He is a
former president of the Board of Directors of the
Waukesha Memorial Hospital Foundation, and has held
volunteer positions with the United Way in Waukesha
County, the Waukesha YMCA, the Waukesha YWCA and the
Waukesha Area Chamber of Commerce. He was inducted into
the Carroll College Hall of Fame in 1990. He and wife
Katy, a 1978 Carroll graduate, have three daughters.
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@article {14518, title = {Hysteresis During Cycling of Nickel Hydroxide Active Material}, journal = {Journal of the Electrochemical Society}, volume = {148}, year = {2001}, month = {04/2001}, pages = {A969-A980}, chapter = {A969}, abstract = {
The nickel hydroxide electrode is known to exhibit a stable hysteresis loop, with the potential on charge being higher than that on discharge at every state-of-charge (SOC). What we show here is that this loop created during a complete charge and discharge (i.e., boundary curves) is not sufficient to define the state of the system. Rather, internal paths within the boundary curves (i.e., scanning curves) can be generated that access potentials between the boundary curves. The potential obtained at any SOC, as well as how the material charges and discharges from that point, depends on the cycling history of the material. The implication of this phenomenon is that the potential of nickel-based batteries cannot be used as an indication of the SOC of the cell. Analysis of the boundary and scanning curves suggest that the electrode consists of a number of individual units or domains, each of which exhibits two or more metastable states. The cycling behavior of the nickel hydroxide electrode is discussed within the context of previously developed theoretical arguments regarding domain theory. Although the specific cause for the metastability in each domain is not understood, considerable insights are provided into the history-dependent behavior of the nickel hydroxide electrode. Finally, an empirical procedure is developed to predict the scanning curves based on the boundary curves.}, keywords = {electrochemical electrodes, hysteresis, nickel compounds, secondary cells}, doi = {10.1149/1.1385846}, author = {Venkat Srinivasan and John W. Weidner and John S. Newman} }


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Say what you will about Tom Cruise -- the man is still an absolute badass action star.
A new trailer for his latest "Mission: Impossible" film, "Ghost Protocol," has hit the web, teasing some of the craziest stunts the star has ever pulled. The film puts Cruise's Ethan Hunt and his team in the nasty position of having being abandoned by the US government following a terrorist attack on the Russians, leaving the IMF team to take the blame unless they can find the real killers. Still, these films are less about plot than sweet, sweet action, and so the trailer is more remarkable for the wild danger it features Cruise putting himself through.
After all, he does his own stunts, which is proven in a video that came out on Wednesday, featuring Cruise climbing and swinging from the tallest building in the world. Director Brad Bird, making his live action debut after a career at Pixar, can't believe it himself. Perhaps this can prove the doubters of his ability to play Jack Reacher wrong; or, at least, get people excited for the next slate of action films he has coming after MI4, including "Oblivion."
The film also features Jeremy Renner, the supposed successor to the franchise throne, as well as Paula Patton and Simon Pegg, who brings some much needed levity to the festivities. The film hits theaters December 21st.WATCH:


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Installing rb-gsl on Snow Leopard
Published on October 18, 2009 by Jesse Storimer
I wanted to try experimenting with SVD recommenders in Ruby (via this fantastic blog post http://www.igvita.com/2007/01/15/svd-recommendation-system-in-ruby/) and was having a hell of a time trying to install Ruby's linalg. When I saw that there was also an example using rb-gsl, I was thrilled because rb-gsl is available from MacPorts. No problem, right? Wrong!
Currently if you try to install rb-gsl form MacPorts (on Snow Leopard) you will get a build error. If you download the latest release of rb-gsl (1.10.3 at the time of this writing) you will get the same build error. It appears to have some code that doesn't work on Snow Leopard. Here is how I got it installed.
- If you haven't already, install MacPorts for Snow Leopard (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=720035)
- Install the GSL library
$ sudo port install gsl plotutils
- Because of the incompatibility of the current rb-gsl and Snow Leopard, you will have to install from the latest svn checkout.
$ svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rb-gsl
$ cd rb-gsl/trunk/rb-gsl
$ sudo ruby setup.rb config --prefix=/usr/local
- Then we need to edit two lines in the generated ext/Makefile
- Open up the file for editing and change these two lines to look like this:
LDSHARED = $(CC) -pipe -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup
- Then continue with the build and you should be on your way
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Company Overview
Dunelm is a fast growing specialist out-of-town homewares retailer which provides a comprehensive range of products to a wide customer base, under the brand name Dunelm Mill.
Dunelm was founded in 1979 by Bill and Jean Adderley, selling curtains on a Leicester market stall. The business developed into a successful chain of high street shops in the Midlands specialising in soft furnishings and other homeware. Today the major focus is out-of-town retailing always with the company's original principle of "Simply Value for Money" firmly in mind.


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Designed for the resort, the Ravenna provides full protection in a trim, refined fit that moves with your body. The waterproof, windproof, breathable N70s-4 3L GORE-TEX® fabric offers four-way stretch...
Designed for the resort, the Ravenna provides full protection in a trim, refined fit that moves with your body. The waterproof, windproof, breathable N70s-4 3L GORE-TEX® fabric offers four-way stretch to hold the fit while providing exceptional comfort and freedom. A brushed flannel backer adds warmth. Features are thoughtful. The removable DropHood™ integrates with an insulated collar for coverage and comfort on frigid lifts, a powder skirt seals out snow, and a sleeve pocket holds your RF pass.
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- Micro-seam allowance (1.6 mm) reduces bulk and weight
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- GORE-TEX® three-layer construction
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Sarah Michelle Gellar Goes Big in Monique Lhuillier For the Golden Globes!
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Sarah Michelle Gellar Goes Big in Monique Lhuillier For the Golden Globes!
Sarah Michelle Gellar made a bold gown choice for the Golden Globes — what do you think of her Monique Lhuillier? SMG said that her daughter Charlotte helped pick out the dress, which was paired with Jimmy Choo shoes and Bulgari jewels. Sarah Michelle attended the show without her husband Freddie Prinze, Jr. He opted out to watch Sunday football instead! Sarah Michelle's show, Ringer, isn't up for any nods this evening. However her outfit is sure to be one of the most talked about. Make sure to weigh in on all of our love-it-or-hate-it polls!


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This virtual tour of the Supreme Court building draws generously from the description of the concept provided by its designer, of effie lentin architects, Swakopmund.
The architectural language of the building makes liberal use of references to North African architecture. The architect believed the civic architecture of independent Namibia should be different from that of the preceding regimes and that the inspiration for its design could fruitfully be found elsewhere in Africa rather than merely copying a European model.
The concept of the airy semi-covered street with its lacy roof covering which is found in abundance in other African countries, for example, is used to great effect in the building. The colour study gives some idea of the interesting shadow-play created along the colonnaded walkways by means of horizontal prefabricated concrete slats which serve to distil the raw sunlight.
The design concept envisaged the hierarchy of space consisting of what may be conveniently called the public, semi-private and private domains of the building. The ordered progression from public to private domain is characterized by the front façade with its large glass areas, columns and walkways leading to the rear of the building. An important aspect of circulation the architects took into account in the design concept was accessibility to the building by the physically challenged. Accordingly, a series of pedestrian ramps on either side of the front façade offer alternative routes to the entrance and the gardens. The majority of visitors will use the very impressive flight of stairs leading to the main entrance.
The public domain consists of the public entrance and foyer, an open courtyard with a courtroom on either side, public galleries and court rooms as well as a memorial garden.
A visitor intending to enter the spacious public foyer-cum-waiting area on the next level of the building may use any of the two staircases or a small glass-fronted lift. It is in the foyer or waiting area that the general public and members of the media may wait and stroll before and/or after a court hearing.
There is a secondary staircase on either side of the foyer that a visitor may use to enter the public galleries of any of the two courtrooms. Less conspicuous perhaps are the entrances to the legal practitioners' robing rooms in front of each courtroom.
The public gallery and media corner of each courtroom is raised from the level of the Court to enable the utilization of the space underneath. Each gallery can accommodate up of 36 persons.
Should the carrying capacity of the gallery prove inadequate, when, for example, a high-profiled case is being argued, the public foyer would act as an overflow to which sound could be relayed.
The bench for the Judges is substantially raised so as to correspond with the entrance from the Judges' chambers behind. Also slightly raised is what may be called the Judge's clerk's bench just below the bench for the Judges. The rest of the space in the Court is taken up by the benches for the legal practitioners and the litigants.
The memorial garden is incorporated in the open courtyard, right in the center of the building. The memorial garden was initially incorporated in memory of the late Chief Justice Hans Berker, our first Chief Justice, who played a pivotal role in the creation of this imposing building.
Following his passing, a white marble bust of Chief Justice Berker was unveiled in the memorial garden. This was followed by the erection of a bust of the late Chief Justice Ishmail Mahomed, our second Chief Justice (and later Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa).
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"Selecting a Reader" by Ted Kooser
Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools, Hosted by Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001-2003
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Selecting a Reader
First, I would have her be beautiful, and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, her hair still damp at the neck from washing it. She should be wearing a raincoat, an old one, dirty from not having money enough for the cleaners. She will take out her glasses, and there in the bookstore, she will thumb over my poems, then put the book back up on its shelf. She will say to herself, "For that kind of money, I can get my raincoat cleaned." And she will.
—Ted Kooser
From Sure Signs, 1980
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Copyright 1980 by Ted Kooser.
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About the Poet
Ted Kooser (1939- ) served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. He is the author of twelve poetry collections, including Splitting an Order (Copper Canyon Press, 2014).
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Hey, and here comes my second post.
He says I am the singin', danci' crap of the world (Hope I quoted it right [watched the german version, because I'm from germany]).
Why does he do that? I have really no clue.
Showing that he's different from the society with his ideals of ground zero and freedom? That the society wont accept him?


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Before you start
This tutorial provides an implementation solution for provisioning of users to a company's intranet platforms. The solution makes use of the Tivoli Security products to provide an integrated solution for doing so. Specifically, it highlights an integration scenario common to many customers environment, where a HR repository controls the lifecycle of a user within an organization, and the Tivoli security portfolio provides the provisioning framework for accounts on internal systems.
In many internal customer environments, a single HR repository holds the master definition of a user. The advantage of deploying Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM) architecture is that it provides this repository. However, in many situations, the HR repository is not controlled directly by an organization's identity management team (IMT). This causes the IMT to require a feed of user data from this repository on registration and de-registration of the user. This tutorial presents a practical solution to such a scenario using IBM products as follows:
- Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM) - responsible for provisioning of user accounts for a newly created user.
- IBM Directory Integrator (IDI) - provides a feed of the data from the HR database to the Identity Manager solution.
- Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) - the end point for provisioning of accounts for a particular user.
- IBM Directory Server (IDS) - used as the LDAP repository for TIM and TAM as well as for the purposes of simulating a HR feed to the TIM server through IDI.
Although this tutorial presents a solution for a single scenario, it introduces concepts that can be applied to varying customer problems around user provisioning. By the end of the tutorial, you should have a good understanding of the value of the Tivoli Security portfolio for solving varying customer requirements for user provisioning.
Anyone interested in the integration capabilities of the Tivoli Security products (using TIM and IDI specifically) may be interested in taking this tutorial. It provides you with an overview of many of the concepts surrounding identity management and user provisioning, and provides an example implementation that makes use of the Tivoli Security portfolio.
You should have the following skills before you start this tutorial:
- Tivoli Access Manager installation and configuration: This will allow you to implement a simple agent that provisions user accounts within TAM.
- Tivoli Identity Manager installation: This tutorial requires you to install and configure the TIM product.
- TIM agent installation and configuration: You should have some knowledge of installing and configuring TIM agent software.
In order to successfully complete the steps as demonstrated in this tutorial, you will need the following:
- A client machine hosting the software for providing the HR data feed to the TIM
infrastructure, which includes the following components:
- IBM Directory Server: This is IBM's LDAP Directory product. Within the solution two instances of the IBM Directory Server are deployed: One for simulating the HR feed for TIM, and the other for the directory to be used by the TIM and TAM products. .
- IBM Directory Integrator: To obtain this software, please consult your Tivoli sales specialist.
- IBM Tivoli Identity Manager infrastructure. To obtain this software, contact your
local Tivoli sales representative. This infrastructure includes the following software:
- IBM Directory Server is the user data store for TIM and TAM.
- IBM WebSphere MQ is for user provisioning workflow within TIM.
- IBM WebSphere hosts the TIM application.
- Tivoli Access Manager 4.1 Agent is also required within this tutorial for showing the provisioning capabilities of the TIM product. Agent software can be obtained from your Tivoli sales team.
- You'll also need Access Manager Infrastructure, which
includes the following:
- IBM Tivoli Access Manager Base and Policy Server
- IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL
Note that the TIM and TAM infrastructure will share the IBM Directory for user and group storage.
In order to limit the scope of the solution while demonstrating as many concepts as possible, we've made a number of assumptions about our hypothetical environment:
- The customer uses an HR database store that can alert other components when updates occur. In this tutorial, we'll use the IDS for the HR store, and use the changelog functionality provided by IDS to notify the Identity Manager solution when an update occurs.
- Many customers will have their own solution for data feeds out of their HR systems. In this tutorial we use IDS and IDI to simulate the creation of an account and subsequent HR feed to the TIM product.


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Winston-Salem drops road trip finale
Dash finish rough road trip 2-5 after last at-bat loss
By Winston-Salem Dash | April 14, 2014 9:00 PM ET
Wilmington, Del. (April 14, 2014) - Winston-Salem rallied to tie the score in the top of the eighth inning, but Wilmington responded with a pair in the bottom half of the frame to edge the Dash 3-1 on Monday night at Frawley Stadium.
As a result, the Dash (4-7) finish their first road trip with a 2-5 record, and the club only mustered two runs in this four-game series. That single-series total is the lowest for a four-game set in the Dash era (2009-present).
One of those runs knotted this contest in the eighth inning. Wilmington (5-6) reliever Aroni Nina (1-0) plunked Grant Buckner to kick off the frame, and Adam Heisler entered as a pinch runner. Heisler advanced to second on a Jacob May sacrifice bunt and third on a wild pitch.
With two down in the top of the eighth, Courtney Hawkins laced a single to left for his Carolina League-leading 15th RBI to deadlock the score.
However, Wilmington loaded the bases with nobody out in the bottom half against newcomer Evan Crawford (0-1). Raul A. Mondesi hit a grounder up the middle, and Joey DeMichele made a diving stop at second base. His throw, though, kicked away from Martin Medina, and two runs scored to put the Blue Crew ahead for good.
Winston-Salem would bring the tying run to the plate in the top of the ninth inning thanks to a Medina two-out double, but righty Mark Peterson would shut the door for his second save.
Both starters shined in no decisions on Monday night. J.B. Wendelken's lone blemish came in the fifth inning when Daniel Rockett looped a single to right, and Cam Gallagher drove him home with a double to the gap in right-center field.
In all, Wendelken held the Blue Crew to four hits in six and a third strong innings, the longest effort by a Winston-Salem starter in 2014. The Dash boast three quality starts thus far this season, and two of them belong to Wendelken.
Blue Rocks southpaw Sean Manaea limited the Dash to four hits in five shutout innings in his second professional start. The 34th overall pick in last year's MLB Draft, Manaea struck out five and only allowed one Dash runner to reach base.
After a tough road trip, the Dash head home for a seven-game homestand for the first of three against the Frederick Keys on Tuesday at 7 p.m.. Right-hander Brad Goldberg (0-1, 8.64 ERA) toes the rubber for Winston-Salem against southpaw Matt Taylor (0-0, 0.00 ERA). Pregame coverage begins at 6:45 p.m. on wsdash.com/broadcast.
Tuesday is All-You-Can-Eat Night at BB&T Ballpark. All fans received all-you-can-eat hot dogs, hamburgers and cheeseburgers through the seventh inning, and normal ticket prices apply. For tickets as low as $7, log on to wsdash.com.
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Length: 5.84 km
Altitude start: 426 m
Altitude top: 625 m
Ascent: 199 m
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For Release Sunday, June 20, 2010
Local governments have strengthened their capacities multifold during my professional life. I recall vividly working with some that once keep financial records by hand, depended on snail mail for communications, and only responded to their neighbors under court order. Conversely, I have seen local governments earn the respect, and accompanying tax dollars, to provide state-of-the-art roads and sewers, public safety and recreation programs, and even bus service and affordable housing.
Yet in spite of this increased competency, individual local governments have been losing the ability to address many of their toughest challenges — the ones that cut across jurisdictional boundaries — at an increasing pace since the turn of the century. If there has ever been a time for innovation in local government, it is now.
Crosscutting challenges are not new. Some were predetermined by our natural environment. For example, local governments realized that taking drinking water out upstream and dumping waste water downstream only worked for the jurisdiction at the headwaters. Everyone else was going to drink someone else's pollution. The same was discovered when the jurisdictions drawing on a common aquifer exceeded its ability to replenish itself and had to keep digging deeper wells. Neighboring local governments realized that they needed to negotiate watershed plans to assure adequate and potable drinking water. Ditto for airshed plans to breathe clean air.
Similarly, the natural environment often shapes the path of physical development, requiring roads and rails, water and sewer lines to follow benign topography. Again, local governments have to come together to negotiate compacts to shape future regional growth and pull in the reigns of escalating infrastructure costs.
Yet while local governments are learning to respond cooperatively to some tough environmental challenges, they still act as if they can divide up one of its most important living organisms — human settlements.
Human settlements are just as much part of the natural environment as deer or mice. They have vital organs — downtown business and cultural districts, suburban employment centers and shopping malls, residential neighborhoods and recreational areas — all tied together by the sinews of transportation, the arteries of commerce, and the protoplasm of community.
Yet over the last century, human settlements have been divided up by dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of local governments, especially the more urban ones.
Now enter the era of limited resources. Local governments have hit financial ceilings, limiting their responses, to any tough challenge. They have reached the limit of their capacity to sustain their services, maintain their facilities, and finance employee health care and retirement.
Even if individual local governments want to continue to be independent of their neighbors, they can no longer deny the need to work cooperatively to address their toughest challenges.
All is not hopeless. Local governments have come together in ad hoc and ongoing ways to address their cross-cutting challenges. They have formed councils of governments and special districts to address transportation, air and water quality, and sometimes affordable housing and natural resource preservation. They have supported regional funding for transit, sports stadia, arts, cultural, and library facilities. They have developed regional agendas to pursue state and federal government funds. They have developed common plans to safeguard their citizens in natural and terrorist disasters.
Yet all of that has usually been on a piecemeal basis. Local governments have been reluctant to invest in creating sufficient ongoing capacity to take advantage of crosscutting opportunities and brunt common threats. Witness, for example, the response to the American Recovery and Revitalization Act. Some regions had already invested in cooperative plans and programs for transportation, emergency preparedness, weatherization, or broadband communications, and were prepared to take advantage of the largest infusion of federal funds in this and probably many decades to come. Yet many others had to play catch up and will probably not be as successful in securing adequate funds to address common challenges.
Bottom Line: The future of human settlements depends on local governments being able to work together. Region-by-region, local governments need to design and build a "regional charter" that empowers then to work together, as effectively as their individual charters empower them to work independently. Only a few regions have wrestled with this task, usually under the mandate of state governments, such as the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Portland (Oregon) and San Diego regions — and even the agreements there do not encompass their entire human settlements.
A regional charter worth its salt would require redrawing the boundaries of many regional councils of governments, recasting them as regional charter councils with adequate staff and resources to address the tough challenges. Regional charter councils would also have access to predictable funding streams for implementing critical actions, including the ability to submit funding options to the public in regional referenda. They would engage regional stakeholders, from all sectors and the general public, but be controlled, or heavily influenced, by local governments. Most importantly, they would be held accountable by the public, such as through annual reports on their activities and periodic citizen reviews of their charters.
Regional charters would transform local governments. Elected officials would have to learn to negotiate carefully with their neighbors. Staffs skilled in network management, administering collaboratively what it cannot do alone, would be required.
Most importantly, regional charters will require the public to become practicing regional citizens.
Of course, many of those challenges will require state and federal government support — and, at times, some gentle or not so gentle prodding. However, if local governments are coming together regionally, as opposed to engaging in interjurisdictional food fights, it should increase their influence, and clout, at higher levels of government.
How can we start building regional capacity? Gather existing regional citizens to design a vision and strategy for building a regional charter, probably incrementally. Build on activities that already demonstrate some of the characteristics of regional charters, such as Metropolitan Planning Organizations for planning and distributing transportation funds. Plan sewer and transit facilities jointly. Establish a regional organization, possibly called the Regional CitizenShip, to educate the public on how to practice being a regional citizen. Test the regional charter by negotiating a compact to shape future regional growth. And challenge both the state and federal governments to provide priority funding for regional initiatives.
Regional charters can provide the capacity to negotiate sustainable, affordable, regional growth compacts and provide the confidence to address the toughest regional challenges. And maybe, most importantly, they might help our grandchildren be proud of their local governments!
Bill Dodge is looking for a few good local governments that are interested in designing regional charters to strengthen their capacity to address tough common challenges. He is the former Executive Director of the National Association of Regional Councils, author of Regional Excellence, is writing a new book on regional charters, and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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If you've ever experienced a bad sunburn, you know the damage that ultraviolet (UV) light can cause to living cells (like your skin). Out in space, where the level of radiation from the sun can be even higher, it can damage sensitive electronics aboard in-flight spacecraft.
The dangers of UV light have prompted scientists to search for versatile materials that block UV and can withstand long radiation exposure times without falling apart. Now a group of researchers in China has developed a new method to create transparent, glass-based materials with UV-absorbing power and long lifetimes.
The team demonstrated that the new glass effectively protects living cells and organic dyes, and believe it could also be developed as a transparent shield to protect electronics in space. They describe their results in Optical Materials Express, a journal of The Optical Society.
The researchers used a metal oxide - cerium (IV) oxide (CeO2) - well-known for its ability to absorb UV photons to craft the composite glass-based UV absorber.
Other key features of the final composite material are the optical transparency of the glass and the material's ability to suppress the separation of photo-generated electrons and holes. The later feature slows down a light-induced reaction that would lead to the ultimate breakdown of the material under prolonged exposure to UV radiation.
The method the team developed is based on the self-limited nanocrystallization of glass.
"Self-limited nanocrystallization of glass can be achieved by taking advantage of the rigid environment of the solid-state matrix, rather than the conventional solution and vapor conditions to modulate the ionic migration kinetics," explained Shifeng Zhou, School of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. "It allows us to create glass-ceramics embedded with a CeO2:fluorine (F) nanostructure."
The viscous glass matrix involved poses a considerable constraint for oxide (O2-) and F- ion diffusion, so the group gradually etches trifluorocerium (CeF3) by O2- ions within an oxide matrix until F - doped CeO2 is generated in a controllable manner. It's important to note that this technology is also routinely used to prepare other UV absorbers such as zinc oxide (ZnO) and titanium oxide (TiO2).
"This work establishes an effective approach for the functionalization of glass," said Zhou. "And it allowed us to demonstrate the construction of a novel glass-based UV absorber."
The group's innovative approach for fabricating the UV absorber has important implications "for the construction of novel glass materials with new functions via microstructure engineering," he added.
Among the group's key discoveries was finding that the self-limited nanocrystallinization of glass is indeed an effective way to functionalize it. The special glass they created suppresses photocatalytic and catalytic activity, while boasting an extremely high UV-absorbing capacity.
"Our glass shows excellent optical quality, and it can be easily fabricated either in bulk form or as a film," said Zhou. "It effectively protects organic dye and living cells from UV radiation damage."
Potential applications for the group's work include radiation hardening of electronic devices, serving as a biological shield, and preserving cultural artifacts and relics.
"In space, the high-energy radiation environment encountered by electronic equipment aboard spacecraft can be quite damaging," noted Zhou. "Fortunately, in the future, if you add a radiation-blocking coating onto the surface of the package - a transparent glass/polymer material - the device would be well protected, and its service lifetime may be prolonged."
In terms of applications as biological shields and to preserve cultural artifacts and relics, the special glass can "protect cells from UV-induced damage," he added.
Going forward, the group plans to focus their efforts on developing other novel and effective glass-based UV absorbers, using the self-limited nanocrystallization method.
"We'll explore ways for large-scale fabrication of this type of film, which is extremely important for practical applications," said Zhou. "Our group will also further study the functionalization of glass based on its microstructure engineering, because we believe this fundamental research may have great significance for the glass industry."
Science Paper: Glass composite as robust UV absorber for biological protection
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Muzaffarpur, Nov. 27: The district police have asked all banking institutions to install closed-circuit television (CCTVs) cameras inside and outside the buildings to keep a tab on criminals.
The directive came after two criminals looted Rs 5.8 lakh from Radha Kant Thakur, a retired policeman, on November 24 near the main branch of the State Bank of India at Red Cross building in Companybagh. Thakur was looted at gunpoint in an autorickshaw.
Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Rajesh Kumar said a gang of criminals from Katihar district are operating in Muzaffarpur town and are targeting the bank customers.
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The district police have taken a strong exception to the snag and have asked the bank authorities to set it right.
It was carelessness on the part of the bank officials, who did not have a clue that the CCTV installed in the building was not functioning, Rajesh Kumar said. Deputy inspector-general (Tirhut range) Bacchu Singh Meena said he has directed the station house officers of Mithanpura, Kazi Mohammadpur, Town, Sadar, and Barhampura police stations to press the bank officials to install CCTVs in the banks under the jurisdiction of the police stations.
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PUNCHING power raised £1,000 for East Lancashire Hospice and Clayton Amateur Boxing Club on a knockout night in East Lancashire.
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The Australian sharemarket slumped as the horror run for resources companies continued amid falling commodity prices and concerns about the strength of the global economy.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index dropped 80.2 points, or 1.6 per cent, on Thursday to close at 4924.4 points.
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Australia's biggest goldminer, Newcrest Mining, continued its demise, plummeting 7.1 per cent to $15.89.
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Small to mid-sized gold companies also suffered.
Alacer Gold plunged 10.3 per cent per cent to $2.44, St Barbara dropped 8.9 per cent to 71.5¢ and Regis Resources was down 4.7 per cent at $3.28.
Chinese home prices rose by 3.6 per cent in March compared with a 2.1 per cent gain in February, in a development that may entice monetary tightening.
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Boart Longyear, a drilling provider with exposure to the gold sector, was belted.
The stock plummeted 15 per cent to 82.5¢, and is down by 36 per cent in the last week.
Bradken was off 5.6 per cent at $5.05 and Monadelphous fell 3.7 per cent to $19.61.
Defensive stocks fared better, but were still sold off
Telecommunications behemoth, Telstra Corporation was 3¢ weaker at $4.79. The telco announced on Thursday it had won a $1.1 billion defence contract with the Australian government. The stock is trading at near five-year highs.
The banks had a mixed day. Commonwealth Bank of Australia slipped 29¢ to $69, while Westpac Banking Corporation rose 3¢ to $31.85.
Westpac has a market capitalisation of $98.85 billion, and is fast approaching the psychologically important $100-billion mark. ANZ Banking Group fell 11¢ to $28.89 and National Australia Bank shed 24¢ to $32.
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