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Take time to compare apples to apples relative to your electricity choice, said Erin MacLellan, public information officer for the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO).
"Everyone has been inundated with letters and postcards asking you to switch from your present electric company to another. That's fine, it's your choice. In fact, having a choice of an energy supplier has been around since the 1990s -- But, be sure you know what to look for in order to compare rates. You have potential to save money on your energy bill," said MacLellan. "Go to the PUCO website and check our the Energy Choice Ohio Program. Puco regulates providers of all kinds of utility services, including electric and natural gas companies, local and long distance telephone companies, water and wastewater companies, and rail and trucking companies. And PUCO regulates your rates for utility services where you do not have choices."
The website is also a free resource for consumer rights and protection.
"You have the option to buy electricity and natural gas from someone other than your local utility. It's the same as shopping for insurance or phone service, cars, etc. You need to compare your rate with other companies. A typical electric bill provided by AEP shows exactly what you are paying for, you just need to know where to look. Near the bottom of the bill after the due date in bold letters it says Price to Compare. Follow the directions."
A new website -- EnergyChoice.oh.gov -- to help you make a decision will be up and running Feb. 20.
In other Rotary business:
• Student guest was Luke Larson, John Glenn High School senior, was introduced by Susan Larson, talented and gifted specialist at JGHS, and his mother.
Luke said he is a member of the National Honor Society, student council, and plays football, baseball and wrestles. He is not sure where he will attend college in the fall, either Kent State or Muskingum University.
• Jim Taylor announced the website for the Jeep raffle fundraiser is up and running. Tickets are $50 each and will be available through April 1. There will be an early bird drawing April 2 for $1,000. The grand prize ticket will be drawn May 31 for a 2014 Jeep or $35,000. Additional tickets will be drawn for $1,500, $750, $500 and five $250 prizes.
Choice of a Grand Cherokee Limited or a Wrangler Unlimted Sahara. Purchase tickets at www.RotaryClubRaffle.com, or from any Cambridge Rotarian. Tickets can also be purchased Saturday at the entrance to Riesbeck's Market in Cambridge.
• Song leader Carol Wilcox-Jones led Rotarians with "God Bless America."
The Cambridge Rotary Club meet at noon Wednesday at Mr. Lee's Restaurant & Banquet Room, 2000 E. Wheeling Ave.
For more information about the club, visit cambridgeohiorotary.org.

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Creating Milestone Rewards For Weight Loss
Should We Reward Ourselves For Weight Loss?
OnSugar blogger Losing Emily has made a pledge to not indulge in something she loves until she loses 20 lbs.
A dog rolls over, he gets a cookie. An employee does well at work and receives a raise. When playing FarmVille on Facebook, farmers get points for feeding their chickens — oh so addictive game. But should we reward ourselves for weight loss? I go back and forth on this.
Of course I am not talking about rewarding ourselves with food — a chocolate here, or a soda there — because that will not end well. I am talking about rewarding yourself with something you like when you lose a certain amount of weight. I am sure that in the end it's inevitable that we'll all end up with new wardrobes seeing that we'll all get lost in our baggy clothes of the past. But what about little milestone rewards?
To see what Losing Emily's reward is,
I was considering something like, every 10 or 20 pounds go to a movie (seeing as I don't do that much) or maybe buy make-up I want. Would this be a good motivator? I think it might be. Although, the only way it could truly work is by rewarding ourselves with something we don't do on a daily basis so that the small prize is that much more excitable. And who knows, maybe this will even help us save money? I know I spent way too much in the past couple of months. This process could not only be a rewards system for weight loss goals, but also a hiatus on spending!
So let's do it! I pledge to you, whoever you may be, that I will not spend any money on cosmetics until I have lost another 20 pounds. That will make me 235 llbs, eek! I have to be honest, when I typed that, my hand was itching for the backspace button, but I want to see if this is a good system. And I know you may be thinking, "Oh she won't spend money on cosmetics, big whoop." If you're a cosmetic junkie, I dare you to watch any beauty guru on YouTube without running to your nearest MAC.
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Lleyton Hewitt smashes his way to victory over Morocco's Mehdi Tahiri to claim the record as Australia's most successful Davis Cup singles player
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Lleyton Hewitt ruthlessly disposed of Moroccan Mehdi Tahiri in their Davis Cup relegation tie match at Perth's Royal Kings Park yesterday to become Australia's most successful singles player.
Hewitt's 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 thrashing was his 25th singles triumph in the event, overtaking Adrian Quist as the most successful singles player in Australia's 99-year Davis Cup history.
The host nation holds a 2-0 lead on day one after Wayne Arthurs won the opening singles match against a Moroccan side missing its two best players, Younes El Aynaoui and Hicham Arazi.
Arthurs gave Australia the ideal start with a 7-6, (8-6) 6-4, 6-3 win over Mounir El Aarej in his first live singles rubber in two years, but the focus was on Hewitt and the US Open finalist did not disappoint.
The world No. 3 raced to a 6-0, 1-0 lead over Tahiri, who received a huge ovation when he won his first game to even the second set at one game apiece.
But Hewitt upped the ante to win the second set 6-2 and open up a 5-0 lead in the third.
Tahiri strung the next two games together, breaking Hewitt's serve for the first time in front of a 3618-strong crowd, but the Moroccan's comeback was shortlived.
Hewitt broke Tahiri's next service game to win the match and give Australia a commanding lead.
Hewitt, who took part in Davis Cup wins in 1999 and 2003, said the teams competition brought out his best.
"Davis Cup is one thing I'd like to play for a long time," he said. "I really enjoy being around the guys and we don't get to have that team atmosphere for the rest of the year.
"It's a real pleasure and I think that's why the best comes out of me."
Earlier, Arthurs produced a dominant serving performance to overwhelm El Aarej, a player ranked No. 428 in the world.
He sent down 21 aces and lost one point on serve in the second set to comfortably defeat the Moroccan after a slow start.
Arthurs was down a set point in the first-set tiebreak but a single service break in each of the next two sets was enough to give him a straight sets win.
"It's always very difficult to play someone you haven't seen," Arthurs said.
"You never know what they're going to throw at you.
"It was pretty ugly. My tennis was not the purest I've ever played."
Australian captain John Fitzgerald was thrilled with the results, but admitted he had nerves as Arthurs struggled early against El Aarej.
"It was terrific and it's not without some nerves," he said.
"As Wayne said he was pretty nervous in the first set, that's what Davis Cup's all about."
Arthurs will partner Todd Woodbridge in today's doubles rubber as Australia looks to wrap-up the tie and ensure a berth in next year's world group.
Meanwhile, Spain needs only to beat an under-strength French team to secure its place in the Davis Cup world group final, while Britain looks to the experience of Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski in its world group play-off with Austria this weekend.
Spain, seeking a place in the final for the third time in five years, has every right to feel confident in its semi-final on the red clay of a converted bullring in Alicante.
Already missing Sebastien Grosjean because of a thigh injury, France did not pick Nicolas Escude, an anchor in this year's wins over Croatia and Switzerland.
Instead, Paul-Henri Mathieu meets in-form and sixth-ranked Carlos Moya, and Fabrice Santoro, selected on the strength of his performance in training, will then take on Juan Carlos Ferrero, who appears to have recovered after a 2004 season that was plagued by injury and illness. agencies


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The National Society, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) is seeking an Operation Ancestor Search (OAS) Project Manager based at their headquarters located at 1000 South 4th Street, Louisville, KY 40203. Additional information about the organization can be found at http://www.sar.org/. Further information regarding the program and their partnership with Ancestry.com can be found at http://www.sar.org/News/Ancestrycom-Supports-NSSAR-Operation-Ancestor-Search
Operation Ancestor Search (OAS) project started with the DC Chapter of the SAR working with returning vets at the Walter Reed Hospital. SAR members volunteer at hospitals and work with both the vets and in some cases family members on helping the soldiers focus on something other than their injuries by using genealogy as that tool. The program's official sponsor, Ancestry.com, partnered with the SAR from the very beginning to provide wounded warriors with resources through their online and software services.
The program has been so successful and has spread to a second location in TX. This past year the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) has developed this as a national program to roll out to other VA/Fisher home locations. Additional information about this project can be obtained through the SAR office or "Wounded Warriors: Building a Bridge to the Past" published in SAR Magazine, Fall 2011 pp. 8-9.
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George Bush faces a decision that will determine how many more Americans will die: whether to start the ground war now or later. The choice hinges largely on how well the air assaults are going. -- Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. support for the war will fall if casualties soar, but the equation may be more complicated. -- By...
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So far I've spent about half of my life in the US, half in Turkey. The populations of both countries are insane. That is, the vast majority in both countries are too fond of religious and nationalist forms of enthusiasm for my taste.Sometimes, though, I really don't know how to respond to a particular example of weirdness. I hear that a Turkish TV channel is going to put on a reality show in which representatives of world religions get to compete in order to convert an atheist each time. This … [Read more...]
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Summary of every book on the state of Islam written by a Muslim
Here, as a public service, is a summary of every single book on the state of Islam ever written by a devout Muslim in modern times:The Muslim world is in crisis. But none of this indicates any fault with my version of Islam, which in its core precepts is divine and perfect. Muslims, however, have misunderstood Islam, and have therefore fallen into unfortunate circumstances.There. That should save you from having to read through an awful lot of books. You're welcome. … [Read more...]
Stained glass
I was in Europe earlier this month, adding to the list of Gothic cathedrals I've visited. I like the stained glass windows the best. Here is a small sample: a window from Chartres, a detail from Bourges, and a single pane from Bern:You'll notice I especially like the hell or judgment themed ones. Most windows are more pedestrian; I like more of an element of the fantastic. And even if hell, devils, and the day of judgment are damnable doctrines, they're pretty good for fantastic and fearsome … [Read more...]
Freedom is to act as one's real and true nature demands and so only the true exercise of that choice which is of what is good can properly be called 'free choice'. A choice for the better is therefore an act of freedom . . . Whereas a choice for the worse is not a choice as it is grounded in ignorance . . . it is then also not an exercise in freedom because freedom means precisely being free of domination by the powers of the soul that incites to evil.A statement by a conservative Catholic, … [Read more...]
(Not) Defending the Quran
I read way too much apologetic literature, of both the Christian and the Muslim kind. It's always hard to be confident I'm getting a representative sample; after all, I also ignore a lot that seems boring to me when I flip though a few pages. Still, I'll risk a broad-brush comparison.The Christian stuff I run into tends to be either not overly concerned with the Bible, or, if it's fundamentalist in character, will often at least gesture toward detailed reasons why the Bible is completely … [Read more...]
Why moral absolutism requires the transcendent
In my last piece, I mentioned that moral absolutists cannot be satisfied with any secular account of morality, and in particular, no naturalistic account of morality. I should clarify why this is so.The issue is not moral relativism, moral pluralism, or error theory, or any similar godless account of morality that explicitly denies objective moral realities. I think that if you want to have an accurate picture of the place of morality in the natural world, you should go in that direction, but … [Read more...]
Moral absolutists
Reading defenses of religion, I often encounter the complaint that the modern, secular world is caught up in moral relativism. What we need, however, are moral absolutes. We have to have a secure direction by which to orient our lives. Monotheistic religion is attractive to such moral absolutists, because conservative monotheism proclaims absolutes. It may do so in the form of divine law, but it also presents ideals such as stories of saintsimages of lives oriented toward an unshakable … [Read more...]
The French way, or the Anglo-American way?
Some French politicians are indicating their displeasure with ultra-Islamic women's coverings again. Nicolas Sarkozy just said that "The burka is not a sign of religion, it is a sign of subservience. It will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic."From an Anglo-American liberal point of view, this can easily come across as an example of the state overstepping its bounds, interfering with individual practices in order to impose a notion of the good. The liberal state should be … [Read more...]


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Establishing your own family office to manage your wealth means you are in the same league as the Rockefellers, right? While family offices are an option for only the super affluent, their ranks are growing, and many banks and trust companies are responding with family office services.
The Family Office Exchange, a Chicago-based advisory group, suggests that a family have at least $50 million in assets to make maintaining a family office worth the cost. But, for example, the sale of a valuable private business could suddenly put a family in that ballpark.
Family offices are created to preserve and grow family wealth from generation to generation. The duties of the office can range from money management to handling other financial and legal needs. A family office could be responsible for taxes and accounting, transferring businesses from one family member to another, and developing philanthropic goals and strategies.
However, in many cases, wealthy families are not always able to preserve the financial legacies of their successful progenitors. There are plenty of people who had a wealthy grandparent or great grandparent whose fortune has dissipated over time. Few family estates endure beyond the third or fourth generation - but they could last much longer if well managed.
Maintaining and managing collective wealth of many family members can ultimately generate more money than it could if the family fortune were divided among family members and individually managed. While all of the heirs may be wealthy, they may not be able to afford the expensive services that a family office can provide to everyone in the family. The more members the family office serves, the more costs will be spread out.
Family offices are not new - some date back to the mid-1800s. Many have been notoriously inefficient over the years because paying a staff can be extremely expensive. As a result, many family office services have developed within banks and trust companies as both the family and its wealth grows. Banks sometimes set up family office units to provide separate advisory services. It's important that these services remain independent - families with such complex finances need neutrality and objectivity.
A family office can be structured to meet the specific needs and goals of the family. It could have as few as three to as many as several dozen employees. It could outsource most services or be completely autonomous. Family members usually act as advisors to the office's managers.
The very wealthy need a committed team with a full understanding of the family's needs and goals now and in the future. Finding the right partners in the legal, tax, and financial communities is critical. If all of the partners work together with the family's best interests in mind, the family is better positioned to achieve its wealth transfer and preservation objectives.
This article is for informational purposes only and is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the sale of any financial product or service or as a determination that any investment strategy is suitable for a specific investor. Investors should seek financial advice regarding the suitability of any investment strategy based on their objectives, financial situations, and particular needs. This article is not designed or intended to provide financial, tax, legal, accounting, or other professional advice since such advice always requires consideration of individual circumstances. If professional advice is needed, the services of a professional advisor should be sought.


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If you want people to take you seriously, stop being violent, stop stealing, stop raping, stop the rampant drug use, and stop being an aimless group.
There is no way I can get behind such a group. They need to stop calling themselves the 99%. Right now they represent less than 10% with behavior like this.


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Sometime in December 1975, a Kodak engineer named Steven Sasson captured the first digital photograph. Sasson's prototype camera took 23 seconds to record an image onto a cassette tape. The picture was black and white and only 100 by 100 pixels in size before being interpolated to be viewed on a television set.1 In the nearly forty years since that day digital camera resolution has improved by approximately an order of magnitude per decade, a curve of improvement reminiscent of the legendary Moore's Law that predicted the geometric rate of increase in affordable computational power that has so changed our contemporary world. (See chart.)
I believe that this geometric increase in available image capture capacity (or the More Pixels Law, if you will) is changing our world in a manner analogous to the much better recognized Moore's Law. This piece aims to explore the mechanisms by which this change will happen and to suggest some of the consequences for visual culture, the arts, and design of a world where first 100 megapixel and then gigapixel cameras are available and, eventually, ubiquitous.2
I will argue that the combination of the More Pixels Law with accompanying revolutions in mobile computing and computer vision is transforming the use of images in our culture. Digital images are moving from being pictures to being data. Rather than capturing solely what things look like, they've begun to capture something of what they are – albeit always filtered through the specific textures of digital sensing, storage, and computation. As a result, the visual vocabulary of data processing and computation is entering the realms of traditionally pictorial visual culture. And, further, cameras are taking their place at the center of a whole new kind of art and design practice that uses them not to create images, but to sense and track the world in order to create interactions.
The alchemy transmuting digital images from pictures into data involves three ingredients: high resolution cameras, an increase in the computational power available to process these images (especially in mobile devices), and radically improved software techniques for extracting interesting information from these images.
What does a higher resolution camera get you? We can get a sense of this by peaking ahead at the results of the next order-of-magnitude increase coming from the More Pixels Law. A group of researchers at Duke University working for the Defense Department recently announced the existence of a gigapixel camera, constructed from an array of small sensors usually used in smartphones. The images created with this camera capture so much of the scene that the researchers provide a Google Maps-style interface for diving deep into their details.
Images of this resolution make even objects that are quite small in the scene available to be detected by computer vision algorithms. In fact, as you can see in the wired.com illustration above, they capture details that are far smaller than could be distinguished by the human eye, details like faces, license plate numbers, and sign text that can be processed by current computer vision techniques, but would usually be too small in images captured with current cameras.
Obviously, a gigapixel camera produces huge image files that would be incredibly computationally intensive to process. Today, most consumer camera-computer setups cannot even stream 1080p video at 30 frames per second (a typical minimum standard for "real time" applications) let alone process the input from a gigapixel camera in order to detect the distant people and objects revealed by its incredible resolution.3 In fact, many contemporary computer vision projects use cameras such as the PS3 Eye, whose 640 by 480 resoultion (which would have been top-of-the-line in 2000) is well below that of contemporary DSLRs, specifically because the lower resolution image means fewer pixels for the algorithms to process and, therefore, better performance. On the other hand, most high resolution cameras (for example, your typical 20 megapixel DSLR) are attached to incredibly primitive computers meant only to drive the user interface and store the images captured by the sensor.
The rise of the smartphone is changing this dynamic. Smartphones are rapidly becoming both the world's most widely used computers and cameras. While smartphones still have less computational power than top-tier desktop computers, Moore's Law is conspiring with the fierce competition in the market to improve them rapidly. One relevant point of comparison: the processors in today's iPhones are more powerful than the SGI workstations that were used to do the 3D rendering for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in 1999.4
Another factor accelerating image processing capacity is the rise of GPUs, or Graphical Processing Units, chips that are purpose-built to manipulate high resolution images and 3D graphics in real time. The rise of powerful, programmable GPUs is the most recent large-scale change in computer hardware design and existing computer vision software and research approaches are still being reconfigured to take full advantage of it. Similarly, powerful GPUs are just beginning to become widespread on smartphones where their capabilities are central to the performance of touchscreen interfaces and rich graphical games, but their power consumption is a major challenge for mobile battery capacity. We can expect to see dramatic improvements both in mobile GPU capacity and in programming techniques that take advantage of it.
The result of these improvements is that most consumer cameras today are connected to what would have been considered supercomputers less than a decade ago. These cameras' resolution is improving on a curve equivalent to higher-end cameras. The sensors on current iPhones, for example, are as good as any that existed, even at the high end, only a few years ago (see the lower line on the chart). And these smartphones come with a vigorous market for applications that use these cameras in new and creative ways, from Microsoft's Photosynth to Autodesk's 123D Catch to an endless parade of augmented reality aps. This market constitutes a powerful pipeline for turning computer vision research into new interactions and aesthetic experiences for a huge set of people.
So what is this computer vision research doing? What data has the field managed to extract from images? The last few years have seen a number of prominent breakthroughs in computer vision from the Google self-driving car to the Microsoft Kinect. The field is so rich and diverse that its progress is difficult to summarize concisely. I've written before about its history and evolution. In this section, I've chosen to highlight three recent research projects I find especially intriguing from an art and design perspective. They're intended to capture some of the field's diversity, and suggest some of how it operates, in the briefest possible surey. They range from detecting the most intimate biological processes of individuals to tracking objects in the home to analysis of the behavior of mass numbers of people in public space, all by extracting data from camera images.
First, take this 2012 SIGGRAPH paper demonstrating Eulerian Video Magnification. This technique allows researchers to amplify small changes in videos such as small movements or changes in color. In their impressive demonstration video, they use the technique to take a person's pulse by amplifying the flush of their face and they track an infant's breathing by exaggerating the movement of their chest:
As you can see in the video, this technique enables computer vision applications to substitute in situations that formerly required attaching sensors to people such as heart rate and breath monitoring. This is a theme, I'll return to below when disucssing the role of the camera in interactive art and design.
Another recent project from the University of Virginia focuses on tracking objects instead of people: Kinsight: Localizing and Tracking Household Objects Using Depth-Camera Sensors. Kinsight uses a series of Kinects to observe the movement of people in an enclosed space. It performs object recognition so that it can tell what objects are present in each area before a person arrives and after they depart and it uses the resulting information to track objects as people move them around. Kinsight combines many current approaches in computer vision: it uses machine learning to determine what objects are visible from each Kinect, it uses depth cameras to track people and objects in space5, and it uses the Kinect's skeleton tracking capability to determine which objects people interact with. The result is a comprehensive object monitoring system built with cameras as the only sensors.
Where the first project analyzed something as intimate as the flush of an individual's skin and the second one tracked objects and products in the home, this third project deals with the movement of large numbers of people in public space.
In the last few years, Oxford University's Active Vision Group has conducted a sustained research project on Coarse Gaze Estimation in Visual Surveillance. They've demonstrated the ability to detect large numbers of people simultaneously, locate the position of their heads, and estimate the direction that they're looking, all from low resolution color video.
While this work has obvious security and commercial applications, as an artist and designer I can also imagine a myriad of ways to use it in an installation or museum context, from making work that directly addresses issues of surveillance itself to building a system to provide metrics for museum designers to measure engagement with exhibits.
These techniques (and the many hundreds more published in computer vision journals every year) will only become more sophisticated and add new capacities as the More Pixels Law does its inevitable work in the coming decades. Further, applications which now seem infeasible due to limited camera or computational capacity will rapidly come within reach. We'll be able to extract ever more data from our images and we'll be able to do it on the tiny camera-computers we carry with us at all times.
Moore's Law has been in effect for more than 50 years. In 1965, when Gordon Moore published his paper describing the effect, he cited data dating back to 1958. Even with that sustained rate of growth, the real cultural impacts caused by powerful affordable computation didn't hit until the 80s with the popularization of the personal computer.
The More Pixels Law has been in effect for barely half the time of Moore's Law. It has just entered its 80s stage, with cultural effects just beginning to accumulate. In the coming decades we can expect to see those effects grow as the impact of computation did in the 90s and 00s with the rise of the internet and smartphones. The tenuous experimental trends we see now will blossom into something enormous.
In these last sections, I'll take a look at how artists and designers have reacted to the results of the More Pixels Law thus far. First, I'll describe how the data derrived from computer vision is being used to construct a new photographic rhetoric of realism. Artists and designers are applying (and in the process modifying and reinventing) long-established ideas about the source of authenticity in photographs – from Roland Barthes' Reality Effect to the idea of the Photographic Trace established by early photographers like Henry Fox Talbot – to the new images that are the result of computer vision: debug screens, heads-up displays, data visualizations, and depth data.
Secondly, cameras have become the center of a new style of interactive art and design. Cameras and computer vision algorithms are used to track the movements of people which are then incorporated into the visual output of the pieces. These pieces sometimes use the data extracted by the computer vision algorithms to enhance the photographic images of the people themselves in a manner analogous to the visual effects used in movies. Other times they use the tracking data to embed the viewers in an embodied version of the data visualization vocabulary common to the Reality Effect.
In his essay, The Reality Effect, Roland Barthes described how literary realism creates an impression of authenticity by the inclusion of "superfluous details" such as "notations, data, descriptive details". The annotated images produced by computer vision applications represent a contemporary, visual version of this Reality Effect. They add a forest of machine-generated "notations" on top of the original images lending the results a sense of realism analogous to the literary effect described by Barthes, but now backed by the objective, scientific aura of computer science research.
A great example of this can be found in Max Gadney's account of in-screen sports graphics. Gadney describes the advances made by the company Sportsvision in capturing data about sports and integrating it into live broadcasts that cover sporting events. Gadney holds up the results as a model for designers working with data in other fields.
The in-screen graphics that Gadney praises use computer vision techniques to track objects in the scene being captured so that the graphics appear to be physically integrated into the scene even as objects move within it and cameras move around it, an approach that maximizes the visual density of the graphics and hence their reality effect.
Further, much of the funding for computer vision research in the last two decades has come from military and intelligence sources. As Matt Webb tweeted back in 2010 when the Kinect launched:
WW2 and ballistics gave us digital computers. Cold War decentralisation gave us the Internet. Terrorism and mass surveillance: Kinect.
It is partially because of this heritage that images overlain with computer vision-derived data displays carry such a strong sense of authority. The field's military heritage extends the long tradition in photographic theory of leaning on photography's scientific basis as a source of authority and objectivity.
In his 1844 book, The Pencil of Nature, early photography pioneer Henry Fox Talbot argued that unlike drawings, in which the artist necessarily intervened, photographs were scientific instruments created "by optical and chemical means alone" without human interference: "nature's painting".
In a similar vein, designers and artists have found themselves fascinated with the debug screens and technical illustrations frequently included in publications of computer vision research, artifacts which contain a strong sense of this objective, impersonal point of view.
Timo Arnall of design and invention firm Berg London has made maybe the masterpiece of this genre, a short film called Robot Readable World, which aggregates a large number of videos from scientific and technical demos showing the debug displays of various computer vision systems.
Robot readable world from Timo on Vimeo.
At their best these kinds of explorations go beyond merely borrowing the authority of computer vision's Photographic Trace or Reality Effect for their own purposes and undertake a deep investigation of the texture of these systems and how they penetrate our daily lives. The New Aesthetic blog by James Bridle was a great example of this kind of work at its best, collecting everything from Adam Harvey's deconstruction of the Viola-Jones face detection algorithm to the operation of Google's self-driving car's vision system.6
At their worst, designers and artists borrow directly from the computer vision visual style in a simple attempt to appropriate its authority. A brazen example recently was the movie Prometheus by Ridley Scott. Prometheus appropriated the appearance of point clouds that are captured by depth sensing systems such as the Kinect for the design of a super-advanced 3D display created by the film's godlike "engineers", including adding distortion and noise to the points in an attempt to represent the great age of the recordings.
For a decade or two, artists and designers have used physical sensors to track users in order to create interactive experiences. In his classic blog post Physical Computing's Greatest Hits (and Misses), NYU ITP professor Tom Igoe catalogued some of the most common approaches from Sensor Gloves to Floor Pads to "Remote Hugs". These projects use an array of sensors to locate people and track their movements (accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt sensors, rangefinders), identify objects (RFID tags and readers, NFC chips), and monitor the users' bodies (heart rate monitors, galvanic skin response circuits, stretch sensors to detect breathing).
Despite their long heritage and plethora of cool applications, sensor-based projects are plagued with problems. Physical sensors are expensive, fragile, and complex to work with. For a user to interact with a physical computing project they frequently have to attach a sensor to their body. Even though sensor components have gradually fallen in price they can't compete with the results of Moore's Law or the More Pixels Law in improvement and affordability. Accelerometers don't get orders of magnitude better after you buy them due to software improvements like cameras do. Finally, in order to build sensor-based projects, artists and designers must master some degree of embedded electronics as well as programming making for a steeper learning curve and more barriers to entry.
There is a striking resemblance between the computer vision applications I described earlier and the sesnsors used in the physical computing projects in Igoe's blog post. Kinect skeleton tracking and approaches like those described in the Oxford coarse gaze estimation work can track people's bodies in place of accelerometers and gyroscopes; object-tracking techniques like those used in Kinsight can stand in for sensor systems based on RFID and NFC; and Eulerian Video Magnification can perform heart rate monitoring and breath detection used in many of body-sensing projects.
For these reasons, more and more interactive media art projects are using computer vision instead of physical sensors to track their users. Chris Milk's The Treachery of Sanctuary is a canonical recent example. Engineered by a team lead by artist and programmer James George, The Treachery of Sanctuary uses a Kinect to track the movements of its viewers, transforming their shadows into a flock of birds:
Like many other camera-based installation pieces, The Treachery of Sanctuary combines camera input with computer graphics to create a visual vocabulary that closely resembles that of modern cinematic visual effects. Rather than the Reality Effect of the photographic trace, these pieces integrate fantastical elements into an optically convincing image.
Another example of approach is Face Substitution by Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro. McDonald and Castro used a sophisticated face-tracking technique to replace the user's face with those of a series of famous figures from Steve Jobs to Salvador Dali, Fidel Castro and Marylin Monroe:
Face Substitution from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.
Other projects have pursued aspects of the data visualization aesthetic I described above in an interactive context. A notable recent example was the release of the Google Interactive-Spaces toolkit, a suite of open source tools designed to embed interactive data displays into physical spaces.
Interactive-Spaces participates in a tradition that includes Jeff Han's legendary TED touch-table demo. Projects in this tradition use interaction to construct the sensation of immediate and intuitive access to large and otherwise abstruse sets of data. They mix the immersive "special effects" quality of projects like The Treachery of Sanctuary and Face Subsitution with the Reality Effect produced by dense data "notations" I described earlier to create a powerful result that combines fantasy with authority.
It is easy to underestimate phonomena like the More Pixels Law that change at a geometric rate. We have a powerful tendency to imagine the future through linear extrapolation of current trends. We tend to think something like: "Sure digital images are improving quickly, they'll probably improve as much next the next ten years as they did the last ten." However, in reality, the geometric rate of increase means that the next order of magnitude improvement will be nine times larger than the last one. In absolute terms, the quality of our sensors, the capabilities of our algorithms, the power of our computers all of these things will increase more in the next decade than they have in their entire history. And that's not including any unexpected paradigm-shifting breakthroughs that speed things along.
It is time for us to start thinking about what we're going to do with that capacity. How we will contextualize the output of these new mobile camera-computer systems? How will we train our artists and designers to work with them? How will they operate in an image culture where techniques described in computer vision journal articles are as important as those practiced by Renaissance masters and photographic virtuosos?
If the More Pixels Law holds, DARPA's gigapixel camera will probably arrive in our homes and pockets around the time of the 50th anniversary of Sasson's invention. By then our culture will have shifted based on our answers to these questions and the products and creative works that embody them. There are times, once or twice a century, when we reimagine how images work and build new practices around them. This, right now, is one of them. Say 'cheese'.
See Steve Sasson's account of the creation of the camera for more details, including images of that first digital photograph on a television screen.↩
Of course, improvements in camera technology are not just about capturing more pixels in each image. While convenient to measure and compare, raw resolution is a seriously imperfect metric of image quality. Sensor size, filter pattern, glass quality, and many other factors all play a role. However, none of these factors seem to be scaling up at the rate of resolution and higher resolution sensors will be able to take advantage of these parallel improvements at least as well as low res ones.↩
An additional limiting factor beyond processing power, USB bandwidth, plays a major role here, creating a significant difficulty getting the data from 1080p cameras to computers fast enough to be processed in real time. New i/o technology such as Thunderbolt will help with this problem, shifting the burden back onto processors to keep up. This i/o issue is another advantage for smartphones whose cameras are internal and therefore don't have to travel over potentially slow peripheral connections such as USB.↩
See Star Wars: Episode I "The Phantom Menace" rendered on SGI for details. There were many SGI workstations used to render Episode I and they were run continuously for a long period of time, still the specs themselves illustrate the rate at which mobile computing is following its larger-scale counterpart and points towards some of what it should be capable of.↩
In the last year and a half, many notable computer vision applications have used the Kinect depth sensor as their camera of choice. The Kinect is not a traditional digital camera; it also includes an infrared projector that sprays a grid of dots onto the scene to facilitate the computer vision algorithms that are able to extract depth information from the camera's input. I believe that this, and other, "augmented" camera approaches represent a temporary phase where supplemental hardware acts a stopgap for the primitive state of current computer vision algorithms. As the software improves, I expect these specialized hardware setups to disappear; the advantages of having an application that works on the billions of exisiting traditional camera sensors will simply be too overwhelming. And we're already seeing instances of this with, for example, Dense Tracking and Mapping, an approach that extracts Kinect-like depth information from a simple color camera.↩
I wrote more extensively about The New Aesthetic a while back for the Creator's Project here: What It's Like to Be a 21st Century Thing.↩


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In addition to receiving complimentary pickup of the old refrigerator or freezer, participating AEP Ohio customers will receive a $50 incentive check and be entered into a drawing for a chance to win one of four $250 VISA gift cards.
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ORRVILLE -- The 18th annual Administrative Professionals Day will be held April 24, in the J.M. Smucker Multipurpose Room of the University of Akron Wayne College's Student Life Building. The program is a presentation of the college's Office of Continuing Education and Workforce Development.
Featured speaker will be Julie Ann Sullivan, professional speaker and consultant, who will present "Change Reveals Opportunity" and "Laugh Often -- Live Well."
The event is $89 per person, which covers breakfast, lunch, the presentations, vendor giveaways and door prizes, including centerpieces donated by the J.M. Smucker Co. Store and Cafe.
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MASSILLON -- Meals on Wheels of Stark & Wayne Counties received a $10,000 grant from the Nationwide Insurance Foundation.
The grant will be used to replace two 75-gallon gas water heaters used in the commercial commissary.
"The Nationwide Insurance Foundation grant comes at a time when equipment in our commissary is reaching the end of a normal life expectancy," said Teresa Barry, CEO of Meals on Wheels of Stark & Wayne Counties. "It has been 15 years since we moved into our current building in Massillon and we have prepared thousands of meals to the homebound, aged and disabled in that commissary, but commercial equipment suffers wear and tear and needs updated. We are grateful for the grant support of Nationwide."
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No matter what I do, my legs just won't move.
Mindy's starting to get really scared. And to be honest, I am too. I mean, I don't want to die when I'm this close to getting the hell out of here. I'm terrified that even though I'm this far, the doctors will still pull the plug.
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A few weeks ago, I was at a crossroads with my NL LABR team, specifically with Padres first baseman Brad Hawpe. He began the day May 1 hitting .149 with no homers and two RBI -- and with my team in the lower half of the standings, I needed an offensive jolt.
I had Florida's Emilio Bonifacio (hitting .318 at the time) available to plug into the outfield spot Hawpe was occupying, but because of LABR's restrictive reserve rules, I would have to cut Hawpe ($8 salary) in order to make the move.
Ultimately, I stuck with Hawpe -- who's rewarded me with a .323 average, two homers, 11 runs scored and eight RBI so far this month. As Week 8 begins, I'm still tied for ninth in the 13-team experts league, but it could have been worse.
The point of this charming little story is something I discuss in my new Sports Weekly column -- one of the toughest decisions in fantasy baseball is determining the right time to cut a player loose.
Also in NL LABR, Razzball's Rudy Gamble made the decision last week to cut Marlins pitcher Javier Vazquez after giving up a season-high six earned runs that pushed his season ERA to 7.55. But all Vazquez did in his last start on Saturday was toss seven shutout innings to defeat the Tampa Bay Rays.
One start or one hot streak at the plate doesn't always signal a turnaround is imminent. It's no secret Vazquez's velocity was down this spring and his fastball is still averaging only 88.4 mph. His strikeout rate this season (5.2 K/9) is by far a career low and his walk rate (5.0 BB/9) is a career high. He's been unlucky with his strand rate (56.2%), but his FIP is still 4.83.
Yet in this week's FAAB bidding, Vazquez was snapped up for $21 by Rotowire.com's Dalton Del Don. Of course, that purchase price doesn't include those seven shutout innings against the Rays.
Was it a good move to cut bait or was it smart to think Vazquez can rebound? Since there's no option to bench him, I think it made sense to move forward -- despite Vazquez's strong start the next time out.
In my Sports Weekly column, I take a similar look at Derek Jeter, Raul Ibanez, Brian Roberts and Justin Morneau.
As I conclude, cutting a player too soon can lead to a season's worth of regret, but holding onto an unproductive player too long can be even worse.
So which players have pushed you to your limit? Does a player's draft-day price tag affect your thinking?
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The Farm at Black Mountain College: A History in Five Acts with Lessons for Today
This talk byProf. David Silver, University of San Francisco, presents the history of the farm at North Carolina's Black Mountain College (1933-1956). Widely regarded as the most influential art school in the history of U.S. higher education, Black Mountain College's faculty-student roster reveals a "who's who" of late 20th century artists and ideas. At the same time, the college was heavily experimental in developing rich and collaborative living-learning environments--especially with their work program, which had students, professors, and staff working side by side to help the campus thrive and, at times, survive. Much of this work took place on the campus farm. Tracing the farm's physical existence, its personnel, its buildings and structures, and its produce, crops, and livestock, grown and raised for both college consumption and much needed income, Silver reveals the farm's vital role to BMC's work program and the college's goal to be self-sustaining and point towards some valuable lessons for today's "green campuses."
David Silver is an associate professor of media studies, environmental studies, and urban agriculture at the University of San Francisco. He teaches classes on media history, social media, and green media. He is currently on sabbatical working on a history of the farm at Black Mountain College.
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Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the inimitable co-chairmen of Miramax Films, have extended their contracts with The Walt Disney Co for another seven years, scotching any speculation that they might be lured away from the company they co-founded in 1979."It is our pleasure to continue our association with Disney," said the brothers in a statement. "Since we began this relationship in 1993, we've grown from an independent film company into a fully fledged media company. We couldn't ...
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Top Dodgers prospect knocks fourth homer in six games
By Jonathan Raymond / MiLB.com | August 19, 2013 8:36 PM ET
Double-A Chattanooga's Joc Pederson has already built himself a very good season, but he's not coasting toward the finish line at all.
The top Dodgers prospect smacked a three-run homer and doubled in the second half of Monday's doubleheader for Chattanooga in a 7-0 blanking of Jacksonville. The win secured a twinbill sweep for the Lookouts after a 2-0 blanking of the Suns in the first game.
Pederson has homered four times in his last six games, delivering a late-season power surge in late August as he's rebounded from a rough stretch that followed the All-Star break.
"I'm just trying to get a good pitch, put a good swing on it. Our hitting coordinator [Eric Owens] was in town and we just started putting some things together, trying to keep going with it," said Pederson.
The 21-year-old has also hit safely in seven of his last eight games, starting on Aug. 13. In those eight contests, he's batted .400 (12-for-30) with 11 RBIs.
His first long ball came on Aug. 15 against Tennessee and he drove another one out the next day. On Sunday, he went 3-for-5 with a homer in the first game of the series against the Suns.
Then he went 0-for-3 on Monday in the first game of the doubleheader before he added to his home run tally in the nightcap.
He'd hit just .203/.324/.373 in 17 games in July and began August in a 3-for-28 slump before he began his recent run with a 2-for-4 day on Aug. 13.
"It was just about finding a comfortable spot," he said. "There's a lot of games left, so I'm just trying to finish strong, do my best. Come to the park every day and help the team win."
The 2010 11th-rounder, who earned himself a selection to Team USA at this year's Futures Game, now has an overall line this season that reads .281/.380/.494 in 112 games in the Southern League.
He has 19 homers, 23 doubles and 55 RBIs as well as 29 steals in 36 attempts.
It's been a year that's shown the outfielder was no flash-in-the-pan in the Class A Advanced California League last year, where he hit .313/.396/.516 in 110 games for Rancho Cucamonga on the traditionally hitter-friendly circuit.
Pederson hadn't run into much trouble this season until July, with OPS figures of 1.001 in April, .801 in May and .939 in June before the extended slump.
He's lifted his August line to .259/.377/.500 in 16 games, and he said finding his stroke again was simply a matter of riding out the natural ups and downs of a baseball season.
"I'm just trying to become more consistent, gotta keep working on it, stay at it," he said. "I've been starting to feel a little bit better, and just have to try to keep going with it. Stick to the routine I've been on and the other drills and stuff."
Jon Garcia tripled and drove in a run and Miguel Rojas went 3-for-4 for the Lookouts in the second game. Andres Santiago (4-12) tossed a seven-inning two-hitter, walking two and striking out three.
In the first game, sixth-ranked Los Angeles prospect Chris Reed (4-10) scattered six hits and a walk with eight strikeouts in his own seven-inning complete-game shutout.
Jonathan Raymond is a contributor to MiLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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CA – I hope you have fun with RP today and that you have a nice run tonight. Glad M sort of missed you while she was with Grandma. I am sure you enjoyed some time with just 1 baby.
Arm – Hope you get your run in today. I am with you on the messy room. The one thing that makes me so angry with J is when he deliberately throws all his food all over and than smears it into things (clothes, rug, floor, high chair, etc). I am with you on the house. We looked at so many and finally just had to settle but I think we would have to build to get our dream home.
Jm – Have a great 6 miler today. OMG your SIL is mighty ambitious. She might have a change of plans when she actually gets going. What a cool idea your friend has with the running club. When I taught 5th grade some of us organized a workout fit club for the girls…they loved it and were proud of their accomplishments.
Shelby – Don't be so hard on yourself with the running…you have a lot on your plate and running will always be there for you. I think you are doing amazing right now but you would hate to burn out.
Spike – My biggest worry right now is to run or not. Even though I was just in the bathroom feeling the urge to be sick…I fought it off and am still at work. Ugh. So cute about the sweatshirt DH is getting R! I need to get J's haircut again…it grows so fast.
Good Morning!
ER: I had to post today because I actually did something! Swam last night. A short, pathetic swim of less than 1000 yards but hey, it was more than I've done in weeks so I will take it! Baby steps. Hoping to do a walk at lunch today if my stomach is settled.
TR: WHY is he suddenly waking up early again? We were getting 6:30-7:30 consistently every morning for weeks. Now all of a sudden it is 6am on the dot. The time change is going to be brutal.
NRR: DS's b-day is next week. I declared a month ago there was no way I was throwing a party. Well dh made me feel all guilty so now at the last minute I am throwing a very small, very half-assed party this weekend. I didnt want to have it at my house so it is at the beach. Now the weather needs to hold or I will be screwed. Right now the forecast is for high 50's and sunny. Cross your fingers for no rain!!!
bb for personals.
chiming in on the dentist - our dentist likes for them to come in within 6 months of getting their first tooth. Em has her first "play" appointment end of Feb. Like others have mentioned, it's just to get them used to the chair, tools, etc. and start the routine with both parent and child of coming in every 6 months for check-ups. Our dentist did say no toothpaste needed until they can spit productively. LOL. Some kids can do it around 3-4, others is closer to 5. Em LOVES chewing on her tooth brush and brushes every morning and every night. (Mostly because she can open the drawer and reach the tooth brush). She lets us do it for about 10 brushes and then she takes over. She does a pretty good job, ya know for being 16 months old. She brushes back and forth and imitates us when we all brush together and do a little dance in the bathroom. And if you prompt her to "brush" she shakes the toothbrush around in her mouth. haha. I'm sure most dentists that take children patients have seen it all, so no need to worry. If he freaks out, so be it. I'm sure they've seen worse. <-- or just tell yourself that.
I'm with shelby - i love getting my teeth cleaned.
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RunningUphill- I kinda want to do a tri, but I swear I would need to do swimming lessons again before I could train for one. Good job on your swim.
Jen- I never actually threw up or got the runs, I sure felt like I was going to though! Plus a headache and felt ice cold.
2 Mile: 17: 11 5k PR: 27:45 5 Mile: 44:11 10K: 59:01 Half: 2:15:59 Marathon: 5:50:07
runnergirl: Sorry your mom has to go : (
Zorbs: I keep putting off the dentist. Our ped told us to go at 2 but my dentist actually said we could wait until 3. Now he'll be 3 in a week and we still havent gone!
Ernie: Nice about the throwing arm : ) Good to know she wont throw like a girl.
Jen: So sorry about the intestinal bug!! I have something similar but I am assuming it is just pg related. Hopefully it goes away quickly!
ctimes2: I always was so embarassed when ds clearly didnt like someone that he should like.
Bermy: I agree that if the parent seemed aware of the behavior and is attempting to fix it, keep going. Or just go and keep your sweet ds away from the bully. It is probably ideal to learn to survive in the rough jungle, but it is hard to knowingly put our kids in those situations. We want to shield and protect them from all things bad, forever!
Zack: My ds is waking up early too. It's like they know the time change is coming and want to make sure it is EXTRA miserable.
Mer: Sorry about the sad dreams : ( I hate stuff like that. I leaves me feeling icky all day.
CA: Are you and RP both on mat leave for a year? So fun to have a good friend to hang out with!
On to page 2. . .
Arm: Can you make a plan like 20 minutes every night before dinner is designated "clean up their rooms" time? That is kind of what I am hoping to do when ds is a little older. I remember when we were kids, we had to clean our room saturday mornings before we could do anything with our friends. If we were sleeping over somewhere friday night, we had to do it friday.
Jmmiller: Wow that would be a busy week for SIL! I LOVE the idea of the running club in the bronx. I actually have been really wanted to be a coach here for younger girls but havent been able to find a program to be a part of, and am too busy right now to start one. I am pretty sure there is no GOTR chapter anywhere nearby. If you ever hear of one, let me know! The school my dad was principal at for awhile had a program for 5th graders and I ran with them as a kid. It was so great!
Shelby: Who watches your ds when you are in school? I am constantly amazed at how much you accomplish in a day. And as essentially a single mom. You are amazing. I hope you are giving yourself lots of credit!
I feel like I need to make a blanket apology for my lack of punctuation in my posts. . .All of my other programs do it for me so now I am too lazy to do it myself!
Spike: Do you have a masters club around you? My coach is awesome and will totally give technique tips and critique if you ask for it.
spike - i went on youtube for some freestyle swimming tutorials and drills when I was tri training, well, years ago now before getting pregnant with Em. It was really helpful! I was swimming freestyle within 3x in the pool, albeit slowly due to swimming fitness and pacing. I even watched videos on those cool flip turns at the end of the lane and started being able to do those too within about a month (mostly from working up the nerve to try it!).
Er - walk with Em and dogs.
FR - DH suggested going out last night and I happily obliged. We went to a burger place that just opened called crave. OMG. I had the BBQ pulled pork sandwich with FRIED pickles and onion strings. I was in heaven. Seriously. I'm sure I was a total pregnant cliche, but I don't care. The guy at the table next to us got the burger that had glazed donuts as the bun so I didn't feel so bad about my choice. haha. Em was great at the restaurant even though we were there past her bedtime.
TR - <TMI alert> had a really hard poop this morning that made her cry, there was a little bit of blood too, I assume from the straining, hardness. (Wasn't throughout the stool so I'm not worried about a larger digestive issue). Poor girl. We are going back to the veggies & fruits at home. I was lazy on sunday/Monday and let her eat mostly carbs with the superbowl and feeling tired and stuff. Lesson learned.PGR - belly is growing, people are making comments. the usual. appetite is all over the place. one day i can't eat enough, next day I don't eat half of the food I bring to work. shrug. it is what it is. MIL is starting to send spring/summer clothes for Emily and baby boy. I'm just trying to stay on top of it and getting it washed/put away as it comes in. I appreciate the generosity, but man is that woman a shop-a-holic! Seriously. Right now Em has about 10-11 outfits and it fits in her dresser perfectly when it's all washed. I just don't think kids need more than that. Oh well, if it makes MIL happy, then who am I to judge.
NRR - DH chiro appointment went well. Xrays show that he doesn't have any developing vertebrae issues, just the usual gaps/compressions of a mid-aged man. He is going back on Friday. I'm so happy he's taking the initiative with his health and wellness. He's been great about the dentist, following up on his cancer stuff, and now with the chiro I think he'll find a lot of relief from regular care there too. I will probably go after this kid is born as my back felt sort of "off" after having Emily.
Becky: I just read your weight-loss/escape of illness story. So amazing. You are such an inspiration. Keep up the good work!! It is easy to forget that we didn't all grow up with healthy roll models and healthy living hasn't always been a part of everyones lives. Having to learn that lesson on your own later in life and defy the diagnosis of the doctor takes SO much strength and willpower. You are amazing. Your son is so lucky to have to you.
Shelby: Your training is amazing! Definitely don't beat yourself up about it. You have a lot going on and still seem to get good quality runs in. Its four days out from the race and I'm still sore. Only trail running does this to me. I think its the downhills bc walking down stairs is pretty painful. I really want to get onto training for Boston so this soreness needs to go AWAY!
Uphill: Great work on getting out for a swim!! Are your arms sore this morning? I really need to get back into it.
QOTD: A guy friend of mine asked me to go on a trail run on Saturday. He's married with a new baby. Is it weird if I go? If it was a group I wouldn't even ask but it would be just the two of us. I guess I will just talk to DH about it.
5K - 21:44 10K - 44:54 15k - 1:09:37 HM - 1:39:05 Marathon - 3:28:48
jmmiller: My initial reaction was- of course it's not weird! You should definitely go if you want to! But my more honest reaction is- well, it sort of depends. I feel like I would feel fine about it if it were a few guys (although dh might still not like it) but I might feel a little weird if it is one-on-one. UNLESS it is someone you have known forever, have a long established relationship with, etc. Actually, now that I think of it, I did run one-on-one with a guy once but he was a good friend of dh's so I think dh felt ok about it. I would have run with him more but he was way too fast for me. I dont know. I am curious what everyone else will say. I think it's fine as long as it doesnt make dh too uncomfortable. We are allowed to have male friends, right? Then again, I would not love it if dh went surfing alone with a girl. Sorry, I'm rambling. I dont know the answer!
mrsz/ ca - no thankfully they didn't schedule a honeymoon... they're going to go away later.. so far, no signs of strep from DH, C or myself...
rocky - fried pickles seem to be common around here, and nearly everyone I know loves them, except me! I don't like pickles in general, maybe that's why..
uphill - Great job on the swim!! I can't swim when not pg I don't know how you do it pg. LOL. I hope DS's birthday turs out fine...I am sure the weather will hold out for you. Sorry he is waking up early. I hate those phases. J is pretty inconsistent in his wake-ups these days.
Rocky - Glad you had a good dinner out last night. Sorry about E being a bit constipated. I am sure she will be fine with a slight change in her diet. Her little body probably wasn't used to all the carbs. J usually only eats carbs so he is used to it
jm - I would go on the run if you and DH are both ok with it. I ran with my neighbor (a guy) for a while and it was fine. There was no romance...just running and someone to run with.
Spike - Yep...those are EXACTLY my symptoms. Ugh.
Finally heard back. Of course they couldn't just tell me and now I have to have a meeting next THURSDAY ugh. She mentioned a makeup assignment so hopefully it isn't too much work.
uphill - H goes to daycare but we try to pick him up by 3, so if I am in class my parents get him and watch him until I get home.
5k - 21:32 FM - 3:27:40
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ernie - every night I *could* go to bed early, I stay up and chat on MSN. Sad.
jen - hope you feel better soon.
bermy - B is the aggressive one and he pushed some smaller kids at playgroup (the couple times we actually went) who cried..honestly I thought the other kids were wimps.
cx2 - B has been in daycare since he was 4 weeks old, so I guess I am used to that.
mrszm - I haven't read the chi running book, but I did read the article in the most recent RW and know the basic premise from a running seminar I took a few years ago. The guy doing the seminar didn't call it chi running but named all the same points about the 180 cadence etc. I do think the 180 steps per minute makes a big difference and it is ingrained to me now.
mer - yes I do make my own. here is the recipe. http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/sweet_and_sour_chicken/ I don't do that pseudo breading thing, I just stir fry the chicken.
becky - the annoying boss lady at one of my piano jobs is now thankfully absent most of the year and definitely during work hours. When she does show up, it is super annoying.
CA - lately I've been going to be around 1 am..and I get up at 4:30.
5K - 24:10 | 8K - 40:41 | 10K - 51:40.6 | HM - 1:51:10 | 30K - 2:44:54 | Marathon - 3:59:26


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We loved the beach view from our balcony, atmosphere and beautiful location of the hotel. The breakfast each morning was delicious and abundant. It was easy to take a beach stroll, and the hotel desk staff provided us with a map and information as to where to go, depending on what kind of beach area we wanted. The beach directly in front of the hotel is surfer friendly and decent for a stroll, but not for swimmers, at least during the red-flag conditions at our time there. Walking westward on the beach however, provides great views, some more shallow and calm wading areas, and even some coral and sea life sightings! We would definitely stay again - it is an affordable place to stay that is located a reasonable distance from El Yunque Rainforest, San Juan sights, and the ferry to Culebra island for a day trip. The neighborhood was not the classiest, but we felt safe enough to walk the beach at night. We appreciated the gated parking and locked entry to the hotel as an extra assurance.
Fantastic location in the forest with incredible views; extremely helpful owner (we had some special needs because of our schedule, and the owner did everything to help us, our big thanks to him).
We were so happy here. It was exactly what we needed after a long couple of days driving around the island. It is peaceful and safe, and you can hear the sounds of the jungle all around you. Everyone there was so friendly, down to the dogs. Breakfast was barely a snack! It was more of a social event than an actual meal, so I wish we had been fed properly since we expected not to have to buy that meal.


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On Sunday, Dec 23, we celebrated Christmas at out house with Nana and Grandpap.
They had both been sick so we had a quick pizza lunch and opened gifts.
This is Brady's gift.
Big Boots.
I had never heard of it but he knew exactly what it was.
Apparently, he and Nana have been to Target several times and have played with this.....
There are little people with this truck who have big boots and remind me of weebles....they wobble but they don't fall down.
It also came with a dinosaur.
Because dinosaurs and men who travel on a truck that can eject them are soooo from the same time period.
He loves it!
Allie got Molly's party dress.
Just what she asked for!
She may be 11, but she loves her American Girl dolls and I'm happy for it!
Lillie got McKenna's performance set.
She was hoping that Santa would bring McKenna (the American Doll Girl of the Year)!!
Maggie got Argos -- Marie Grace's (also an American Girl) dog.
Just what she asked for, too!
{Sorry for the blurry pics}
Later that afternoon we went Christmas Caroling with the church.
It was really a lot of fun!
Singing to our friend, Kelly, who is still in quarantine
After we finished singing we headed back to church to eat supper.
Taco Salad. It was delish!!!
Our friends, Kerri and Manning had told us about a couple of houses in a nearby neighborhood where they had Christmas lights on a timer to music.
We went to check it out after supper.....
The next day was Christmas Eve.
Jenny and Tripp met us for lunch and came back to our house for a visit.
We always love having them visit!
Christmas Eve was also my birthday.
Allie took a lot of pics of me unwrapping my present.
A Dick's Sporting Goods Gift card.
Hubs said he wasn't about to try and pick out running clothes for me himself.
SO, I get to go do it myself!! YEAY!!
The kids and I went to two of the three Christmas Eve services.
Our Associate Pastor, Linda, did the earliest service.
It was a Family Service. The kids sang and Linda shared a wonderful Christmas story.
Hubs did the 8 and 11 pm candlelight services. He shared a great message on how the light always conquers the darkness.
Before he went back to church for the 11 pm service, and just before getting the kids tucked in their beds, we did our Advent reading for the night.
Then we got the kids in bed, hubs went back to church,
and I did some cooking for Christmas morning and finished wrapping gifts.
Long, but great day......
Tune in for Part 3, soon!!


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Professor Horace Basil Barlow FRS (born December 8, 1921) is a British visual neuroscientist.
In 1953 Barlow discovered that the frog brain has neurons which fire in response to specific visual stimuli. This was a precursor to the work of Hubel and Weisel on visual receptive fields in the visual cortex. He has made a long study of visual inhibition, the process whereby a neuron firing in response to one group of retinal cells can inhibit the firing of another neuron; this allows perception of relative contrast.
In 1961 Barlow wrote a seminal article where he asked what the computational aims of the visual system are. He concluded that one of the main aims of visual processing is the reduction of redundancy. While the brightnesses of neighbouring points in images are usually very similar, the Retina reduces this redundancy. His work thus was central to the field of statistics of natural scenes that relates the statistics of images of real world scenes to the properties of the nervous system.
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County Clare, Ireland Genealogy
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County Clare (Irish: Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the province of Munster.
The county name comes from the Irish word Clár, meaning a bridge of planks, and a bridge was used to cross the River Fergus at the town Clare (now Clarecastle town). The county covers 1231 square miles (3188 sq km). Its greatest length is 67 miles from Loop Head to the boundary near Lough Atorick on the northeast corner and the greatest breadth is 37 miles from Black Head to the shore west of Bunratty.
In the old Gaelic system, this county was part of the Kingdom of Thomond. This area was subject to raids by the Danish Vikings during the ninth to the eleventh centuries; which were eventually defeated by the O'Briens (a major family in Thomond). The Normans then invaded the area and the land was granted to Thomas de Clare, who never gained control of the area. The English established the county boundaries in the sixteenth century. Initially, Clare was part of Connaught and it became part of Munster in 1639. Following the defeat of the 1641 rebellion of the Catholic Confederacy, Clare was set aside to accommodate the "delinquent proprietors", i.e. those proprietors whose land was confiscated because they did not actively oppose the rebellion. Parts of the lands of the existing Clare landholders were confiscated to accommodate these landholders.
Clare is also known as the "banner county" after the custom of carrying banners to political meetings. Daniel O'Connell was welcomed by many banners at the Clare election in 1828 and the freeholders marched with banners to the Ennis courthous to cast their votes for O'Connell on that occasion.
The population was 208,089 in 1821 and grew to 286,394. It was greatly affected by the potato famine and its population decreased to 212,440 in 1851. The population continued to decrease until it was only 95,064 in 1926. In 2006, the population was 110,950. The predominant religion in the county is Roman Catholic. In 1871, 97.7% of the population were Roman Catholic followed by the Church of Ireland at 2% with 0.2% being Presbyterian. Overtime there has been a slight increase in the percentage of Roman Catholic to 98.8% in 1926. In 1926, the Church of Ireland decreased to 0.87% with 0.06% and 0.01% being Presbyterian and Methodist, respectively.
General County Research Information
- Further information about County Clare is available at the GenUKI site.
Civil Jurisdictions and Parish Research Information
- List of County Clare Parishes
- 1885 County Map: Courtesy of London Ancestor
- De Breffny,Brian. Magistrates of Co. Clare in 1792. List of Magistrates of Co. Clare, is copied from the original Commission of the Peace of William Spaight of Corbally dated June, 1792. Article in The Irish Ancestor, vol.VII,no.1.1975, pages14-15. Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i v7-8. Also Magistrates of Co. Clare in 1837. List of Magistrates of Co. Clare, copied from original Commisssion of the Peace of Henry Speight of Corbally 1837. Magistrates are listed in order of seniority. Article in The Irish Ancestor, vol. VII no. 2. 1975, pages 99-101. Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i v7-8
- Contributed by Scott, Gyritha. Magistrates of Co. Clare in 1819. List of magistrates of Co. Clare in 1819, copied from the original Commission of the Peace of William Scott of Knoppogue Castle. Article in The Irish Ancestor Vol.VIII.no.1.1976 pages16-17, Family History Library Ref 941.5 B2i v7-8.
- Collected by Ffolliott, Rosemary, Some Game Licences of 1802. A list of name, places of abode who took out Certificiate of Game Licences issued in 1802, covers Counties Armagh, Clare, Down, Kilkenny, Louth, Tipperary. Article in The Irish Ancestor, vol..VIII, no.1. 1976, pages 35-47. Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i v7-8. Also Game Licenses in Co. Clare. 1803-1821, Notices was also given to those who hunted without a license and were caught, would be prosecuted. The Irish Ancestor, vol. XIV, no.2. 1982, pages 95-98, FHL Ref. 941.5 B2i Collected by Ffolliott, Rosemary. Businessmen of Ennis, Co. Clare, early in the Napoleonic Wars. Three lists of busnessmen listed in Clare Journal, 13 Fev. 1797. 17 Dec 1799 and 5 May 1803. Article in The Irish Ancestor, vol. XVI, no. 2, 1984, pages 6-8. Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i
- The Debtors of Daniel Croghan, Ennis, Co. Clare, 1735. This document is of great interest as it contains 174 names of persons resident in or near Ennis in 1735. Records for this area are rare. The names of these individuals, are "small people" as hardly any of them have either a Prerogative or Killaloe will. Article in The Irish Ancestor, vol. IV, no. 1. 1972, pages 43-44. Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i
- Abstract of Wills. many contributors. List of heirs of Benjamin Brady of Carhurley, Co. Clare dated 8 Jan. 1717. The Irish Ancestor, vol. VIII, no. 1, 1976, Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i v7-8
- Contributed by Mahony, Dr. S. C. and Ffolliott, Rosemary. Co. County Clare Voters in 1768. A list of 496 persons who voted in 1768, Parliamentary General Election. It gives Freeholders name, residence and value. Article in The Irish Ancestor, vol. XVIII, no. 1. 1986. pages 14-26, Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i
- Contributed by Ffolliott. Gentlemen of the Counties Clare and Limerick Who Were In Favour of the Union in 1799. The Ennis Chronicle posted two lists of gentlemen in favour of the Union from Co. Clare, and Co. Limerick in Autumn 1799. Article in The Irish Ancestor, vol. XIV no.1, 1982 page 30-35. Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i
Web Sites
- FHLFavorites.info
- County Claire Library
- County Clare Old Age Pensions (information gathered from the 1841 & 1851 Ireland Censuses before they were destroyed).
- Looking 4 Kin Genealogy & Family History Network - Claire


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September 27th, 2013 by Brendan Dunne
Did you make it out to Sneaker Con's recent stop in our nation's capitol? If not, there's plenty of coverage on this very site to help you fill in the gaps as far as figuring out what you missed. You already saw the event recap, as well as the always hotly debated on-feet recap, now check out the video coverage. This quick clip brings you inside the frenzied event with one of the scene's most entertaining voices-Dallas Penn. See the complete video recap for Sneaker Con DC right after the break and remember that Miami is the next stop on their 2013 tour.