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An understanding of the distribution and extent of marine habitats is essential for the implementation of ecosystem-based management strategies. Historically this had been difficult in marine environments until the advancement of acoustic sensors. This study demonstrates the applicability of supervised learning techniques for benthic habitat characterization using angular backscatter response data. With the advancement of multibeam echo-sounder (MBES) technology, full coverage datasets of physical structure over vast regions of the seafloor are now achievable. Supervised learning methods typically applied to terrestrial remote sensing provide a cost-effective approach for habitat characterization in marine systems. However the comparison of the relative performance of different classifiers using acoustic data is limited. Characterization of acoustic backscatter data from MBES using four different supervised learning methods to generate benthic habitat maps is presented. Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC), Quick, Unbiased, Efficient Statistical Tree (QUEST), Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) were evaluated to classify angular backscatter response into habitat classes using training data acquired from underwater video observations. Results for biota classifications indicated that SVM and RF produced the highest accuracies, followed by QUEST and MLC, respectively. The most important backscatter data were from the moderate incidence angles between 30° and 50°. This study presents initial results for understanding how acoustic backscatter from MBES can be optimized for the characterization of marine benthic biological habitats.
Quantitative analysis of acoustic backscatter intensity from multibeam echo-sounder (MBES) provides valuable information for mapping of seafloor habitats. The importance of preserving the effect of incidence angle from angular backscatter intensity to characterize seafloor types is well established [
Generally, angular backscatter from MBES and side scan sonar are a product of two acoustic scattering processes; volume and interface scatterings [
The characterization process can also use important features from angular curves. Extracting simple characteristics (e.g., mean and slope of angular backscatter intensity) from angular domains [
Use of a single classification for an entire backscatter response curve may result in habitat maps of low spatial resolution [
In this study we compare the relative performance of four supervised learning methods using a MBES image and angular backscatter with towed video for ground truthing to classify seafloor biota and substratum habitats. Secondly, we compare the relative importance of angular backscatter at different incidence angles to gain an understanding of the contribution of different angular domains in the classification process.
The study area is located on the western side of Cape Duquesne in Discovery Bay, south-eastern Australia. Depth ranged from 12 m to 80 m (
Acoustic data was acquired on the 6 and 7 of November 2005. The acquisition system consisted of a hull-mounted Reson Seabat 8,101 MBES. The Seabat 8,101 operated at a frequency of 240 kHz, designed specifically for shallow water surveying purposes. This swath system consisted of 101 individual beams and each with a beamwidth of 1.5° (along and across track). Horizontal positioning was accomplished using Starfix HP Differential GPS system (±0.30 m) integrated with a POS MV (Positioning and Orientating System for Marine Vessels) for heave, pitch, roll and yaw corrections (±0.02° accuracy). Real-time navigation, data-logging, quality control and display were made possible using the Starfix suite 7.1 software (Fugro Survey Pty Ltd.). Daily sound velocity profiles were collected to correct for water column sound speed variations. For backscatter data, raw amplitudes were post processed using the Centre for Marine and Technology's (CMST) software [
A georeferenced towed underwater video system (Pro 3 VideoRay Remotely Operated Vehicle) was used to provide ground truth information for model building and evaluation. Underwater acoustic positioning of the towed video system was achieved using a Tracklink Ultra Short Base Line (USBL) acoustic tracking system, with vessel errors (roll, pitch and yaw) corrected using a KVH motion sensor (KVH Industries, Inc.). Wide area Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) (OmniSTAR) was used to fix the vessel location and apply corrections for the acoustically positioned video (±2.5 m accuracy). The recorded video data was then classified according to the Victorian Towed Video Classification scheme to identify the benthic biota and substrata classes. The classification scheme followed the guidelines published by the Interim Marine and Coastal Regionalisation for Australia [
Four supervised learning methods were used in this study to classify the angular backscatter intensity; Maximum Likelihood Classifiers (MLC), Quick Unbiased Efficient Statistical Tree (QUEST) decision tree, Random Forest (RF) decision tree and the Support Vector Machine (SVM). These supervised learning methods were used to combine ground truth data and angular backscatter response to predict habitat classes for the remaining angular backscatter data. We used 71 variables, each representing angular backscatter intensity strength at one degree incidence angle from 0° to 70°.
The MLC is a well-known parametric supervised classification approach that has been widely used in remote sensing applications [
A decision tree recursively partitions a dataset into smaller subdivisions on the basis of a set of tests defined at a branch or node in the tree [
Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a non-parametric technique developed from statistical learning theory [
For generation of habitat maps utilizing previous classification results from angular response curves, a spatial segmentation was applied to backscatter image. This technique segments the backscatter image into clusters of similar backscatter values. In terms of benthic habitat classification and mapping, the concept of spatial segmentation of backscatter imagery has been previously applied to assist with object image analysis and classifications [
Error matrices were used to assess map accuracy utilizing 30% of ground truth observations that were not used in the classification process. For each map overall accuracy and kappa coefficient were calculated. The user and producer accuracy was also calculated to investigate individual class accuracy [
At each bootstrap iteration of the RF process the resultant tree is used to predict those data not included in the training process ('out of bag' or OOB observations) and calculate a misclassification rate [
The overall accuracy varied from 69.9% to 84.8% for the biota classifications (
Per class accuracy measurement (average of user's and producer's accuracy) illustrated that most of the classes were able to be distinguished, except for the MLC which was not able to differentiate the MB class (0%) (
Characterizing substratum types using the same classifiers exhibited similar results as the biota classifications (
In general, all biota habitat maps showed considerable agreement in terms of the spatial location (KLoc from 0.70 to 0.90) and quantity (KHisto from 0.75 to 0.98) (
For substratum habitat map comparisons all map comparisons produced good KHisto values ranging from 0.83 to 0.97. Further, the QUEST, RF and MLC represent the highest map similarity with KHisto of 0.97 (QUEST and RF) and 0.95 (MLC and QUEST, MLC and RF). The RF and SVM revealed the highest similarity of spatial location (KLoc = 0.94).
The variables at the moderate incidence angle (
In this study we have applied four supervised learning methods to classify the angular response from MBES data to distinguish biotic and substratum habitats. Generally, all classifiers were capable of using angular backscatter data for predicting different habitat types, with SVM (biota) and RF (substratum) achieving the highest accuracy. The application of automated classifiers using angular response data are becoming more common [
Classification comparisons suggested that the three non-parametric classifiers (SVM, RF and QUEST) mostly performed better compared to the parametric method (MLC) for classifying biotic habitat classes. Although MLC is a standard and widely used approach for classification of satellite imagery, the disadvantage of a parametric method is that a Gaussian frequency distribution is assumed in feature space for each class. Normal distribution (
RF, QUEST and MLC classification of substratum was slightly better or more consistent than the biota classifications. The SVM approach is sensitive to parameter values especially choice of kernels, regularization parameter and kernel width [
The comparison between two categorical maps is commonly applied in terrestrial applications, and is becoming increasingly important for applications in benthic habitat mapping [
For classifications of biota and substratum, the variables at the moderate incidence angle were the most important. This is in agreement with previous studies [
The application of classifiers at a single angle is useful for discriminating sediment types [
This study extends the approach presented by Rzhanov
In this study four supervised learning approaches were evaluated for acoustic characterization of seafloor habitats using multibeam echo-sounder backscatter data. To construct a full coverage habitat map, classified angular response data were combined using a backscatter image segmentation process. It was possible to achieve overall classification accuracies between 69.9% to 84.8% (kappa values of 0.51–0.75) for biota and 74.5% to 83% (kappa values of 0.59–0.71) for substratum maps. SVM performed best for biota (84.8%, kappa = 0.75) and RF produced best results for substratum (83%, kappa = 0.72) with no significant difference between classifier performance. QUEST achieved lower accuracies than RF for biota and substrata (79.6% and 80.2% respectively) and significantly lower accuracies than SVM for biota (79.6%). MLC achieved better overall accuracies for substratum than biota (74.5% and 69.9% respectively), however, results were significantly lower than the other classifiers tested. Maps produced from all classifiers were showing moderate to good similarities in terms of pixel quantity (KHisto from 0.75 to 0.98) and location (KLoc from 0.69 to 0.94). The small number of classes and relatively large areas may contribute to the high map similarity measures observed. This study also quantifies the relative importance of angular domains, with moderate incidence angles (30°–50°) contributing most to the class differentiation process. The near nadir angles (0°–30°) and outer angles (60°–70°) also showed small contributions to class discrimination however the influence of local depth gradient and slope warrants further investigation. The approach presented has the advantage of class discrimination using the full angular backscatter response in conjunction with the spatial resolution achieved by integrating an image segmentation method.
This work was supported by the National Heritage Trust and Caring for our Country as part of the Victorian Marine Habitat Mapping Project with project partners Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Parks Victoria, University of Western Australia and Fugro Survey. Thanks to crew from the Australian Maritime College research vessel
Bathymetric map from multibeam echo sounder survey of the study area. The grey circles represent the ground truth data from georeferenced towed underwater video observations.
Habitat maps of biota and substratum classifications from the best model (the Support Vector Machine for biota and the Random Forest decision tree for substratum).
Per class accuracy (mean value between user and producer's accuracy) for five biota classes and four different classifiers. *Note that the average accuracy of MB = 0% for Maximum Likelihood Classifier. MB = Mixed Brown algae, INV = Invertebrates, MRI = Mixed Red algae and Invertebrates, NVB = No Visible Biota, MBI = Mixed Brown Invertebrates.
Per class accuracy (mean value between user and producer's accuracy) for three substratum classes and four different classifiers.
Variable importance (overall and individual class) from Random Forest model scaled from 0 to 1 for biota classification. The horizontal axis represents incidence angle at one degree interval while the vertical axis represents the value of the variable importance. (
Variable importance (overall and individual class) from Random Forest model scaled from 0 to 1 for substratum classification. The horizontal axis represents incidence angle at one degree interval while the vertical axis represents the value of the variable importance. (
Accuracy comparison from four different classifiers.
|Maximum Likelihood Classifier
|QUEST decision tree
|Random Forest decision tree
|Support Vector Machine
Z values from pairwise comparison of error matrices between different classifiers. MLC = Maximum Likelihood Classifier, QUEST = QUEST decision tree, RF = Random Forest decision tree, SVM = Support Vector Machine.
Significant at the 95% confidence interval (critical value Z = 1.96).
Results from habitat map comparisons. KLoc = measure for the similarity of spatial allocation, KHisto = measure for the quantitative similarity. MLC = Maximum Likelihood Classifier, QUEST = QUEST decision tree, RF = Random Forest decision tree, SVM = Support Vector Machine.


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The most remarkable thing about Ray Kurzweil is not that he is convinced that he will never have to die. It's that his ideas have gone mainstream.
He has just released a new book, the modestly titled, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. Meanwhile, over the past six years, the 64-year-old American futurist and inventor has been on the cover of Time magazine and has been the subject of a feature-length documentary. Forbes magazine dubbed him "the ultimate thinking machine." He has 19 honorary doctorates and commands speaking fees of as much as $50,000.
All this stature stems primarily from his conviction that by 2040 we will be able to transfer our minds to machines.
As the promotional text proclaimed on his 2006 book The Singularity Is Near, "Our intelligence will become increasingly non-biological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today." This will give birth to the Singularity – a time of total transformation in which we will merge with our computers, cast off our bodies, extend our lives indefinitely and have near-infinite intelligence at our disposal. (Mr. Kurzweil didn't invent the idea, but he certainly popularized it.)
I reach Mr. Kurzweil at his home in Massachusetts and ask him if the predictions he first made in 2006 are still accurate. "We're very much on that course," he tells me. "We are right on the curve." The curve is a graph showing, as he explains it to me, "the law of accelerating returns, the exponential growth of every form of information technology."
We can actually see this happening in our everyday lives, he says, via ever-more-powerful smartphones, self-driving cars or supercomputers such as Watson, which bested the top human Jeopardy champions last year.
This has created a more receptive audience for his ideas. At first, people "thought it was some kind of fringe movement," but now "a wide range of mainstream institutions and major universities" are entertaining his predictions about the future, he says. There is even an annual Singularity conference.
Not long ago, the Singularity was just one more far-fetched idea. Its renown first came courtesy of science-fiction writer Vernor Vinge, who wrote several novels anticipating the Singularity and then published a 1993 essay, The Coming Technological Singularity, in the underground journal Whole Earth Review. Nearly 20 years later, it has moved from fiction to an idea that a wide range of influential institutions has embraced as potential fact.
But Mr. Kurzweil has as many critics as he has "Singularitarian" supporters. A recent New Yorker magazine article about the new book cites the biologist PZ Myers, who once wrote, "Ray Kurzweil is a genius: One of the greatest hucksters of the age."
Right or wrong, the idea of the Singularity is a perfect fit with our future-obsessed, gadget-oriented, me-first culture. For at least the past hundred years, the narrative of our society has been one of hyper-individualism, of empowering people to "own the future," a phrase we are hearing more and more often.
In 2006, the year Mr. Kurzweil released The Singularity Is Near, Time proclaimed "You" the person of the year. The magazine editors were inspired by the rise of an easily accessible, ubiquitous cyberspace – just the latest chapter in a story about an endless, instantaneous supply of customized lifestyles for all: "Have it your way."
This fantasy of specialness – that each and every one of us can, should and will have our dreams come true if we just believe hard enough – is now the core message of pop culture from comic-book superheroes to America's Got Talent. Governments and institutions from hospitals to schools and even corporations increasingly articulate their role as giving individuals the tools to succeed, then getting out of the way.
Looked at this way, the Singularity isn't some bold new vision, but a continuity – a believable climax to the just-do-it epic of You.
When I ask Mr. Kurzweil what the average individual should do to prepare for this purportedly radical shift, the answer is tellingly familiar: "If you find yourselves having a passion," he says, "it could be music or journalism or history or any subject, pursue that – those are the areas that are going to become enhanced."
In other words, like so many others in popular media, Mr. Kurzweil is urging us to follow our dreams, to never give up on our specialness – rather than spell the end of individualism (as the idea of a machine-networked consciousness logically might do), the Singularity, apparently, will simply enhance it, in ways we cannot yet imagine.Report Typo/Error
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Workers at
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The ship had lain undisturbed since the 1700s, archeologists estimate.
"By Wednesday, the outlines made it plain: a 30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel had been discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the World Trade Center site, the first such large-scale archaeological find along the Manhattan waterfront since 1982, when an 18th-century cargo ship came to light at 175 Water Street. The area under excavation, between Liberty and Cedar Streets, had not been dug out for the original trade center."
While the workers may have cursed Tuesday's rainy skies, the wet weather may have helped preserve the fragile, 200-plus-year-old wood, which started crumbling as soon as its protective covering of dirt was removed.
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"The take-home message from this study is that women are more susceptible to lung cancer than men," says TIME medical writer Christine Gorman. These results, warns Gorman, should not be interpreted as a green light for women to go ahead and light up, figuring that genetics are predetermined and that resistance is therefore futile. "While we can't do anything about our genes, we can determine whether we smoke or not," Gorman says. "And although this gene is active in women who don't smoke, especially relative to nonsmoking men, it's even more active in women who do." And while a woman's risk for lung cancer declines steadily for years after she quits smoking, this study underscores the risk of picking up the habit for any length of time: Women tend to develop lung cancer at alarming rates even after minimal exposure to cigarette smoke.
Put This In Your Pipe. Just Don't Smoke It
Medical research has been playing a game of catch-up in recent years, scrambling to overcome a legacy of considering only the male physiology in tests and studies. Now, leafing through the growing pile of papers addressing women's health issues, it looks like no news might have been better. The outlook for female patients is grim on multiple medical fronts: Women are contracting AIDS at higher rates than men, they are suffering from myriad heart problems, and they seem to be more prone to lung cancer. A study released Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that a gene thought to cause lung cancer is active in more women than men. Researchers speculate that this could explain why women smokers are more than twice as likely to develop lung cancer than their male smoking counterparts.


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Armstrong rallies to beat Latrobe, 10-6
In running its winning streak to five games, Armstrong hockey collected its most impressive victory to date.
The Riverhawks scored the final four goals of the game to break a third-period tie and beat reigning state champion Latrobe, 10-6, on Monday at the Kirk S. Nevin Arena in Greensburg.
Christian Miller posted a hat trick for the Riverhawks (5-2-0), while John Phelps, Luke Gross and Hunter Grafton had two goals each.
Phelps broke a 6-6 tie by scoring an unassisted goal with 8:03 left in the game.
Nick Long had Armstrong's other goal, and Taylor Smouse made 15 saves. Brendan Johns had two goals to lead Latrobe (3-3-0), including the goal that tied the game early in the third period.


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Is that for real? So hard not to laugh while watching this at work.
On another note, for my wireless security research paper I've gotten 2077 wireless networks with NetStumbler. 888 of them are unencrypted, and 770 of them are default SSID. Kinda funny that most people don't even change the SSID. I wonder how many people connect to the wrong "Linksys" while at home.


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What can you claim for?
Tax claims are not only limited to the most recent tax year, but to the last four tax years as well. This means that you can submit a claim for expenses incurred over the past four tax years, provided you haven't claimed during this period.
Anyone working in the healthcare profession could be eligible. If you wear a uniform or protective clothing, subscribe to any professional bodies or use your car for work purposes, chances are you will be eligible for a refund.
For example, if you wear a uniform or protective clothing and pay for the cleaning yourself, you could be reimbursed for these cleaning costs. In certain instances, the costs of nurses' tights and shoes will be refunded – HMRC currently allows an amount of £6 for tights and £12 for shoes per tax year.
By the same token, if you use your car for work purposes, for instance to visit or drop off medicine for a patient, you could be eligible for a rebate on these travel costs.
Subscriptions to professional bodies can also be reimbursed as part of your professional tax rebate. These include fees paid to Unison, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN), Association of Occupational Health Nurse Practitioners (AOHP), UK MS Specialist Nurses Association (UKMSSNA), Neonatal Nurses Association (NNA), Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the Association of Radical Midwives (ARM).
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Ratings: Some NCAA games not drawing; NFL drops Sunday night
New Orleans' 62-7 blowout of Indianapolis on NBC Sunday night shows why parity is so important to NFL TV ratings: The game's rating was down 49% from comparable coverage of a Minnesota-Green Bay game last year.
The Colts, winless so far, end up in primetime slots because the team has been a reliable TV draw -- when it had Peyton Manning. But last night's Saints win drew just an 8.2 overnight, translating to just 8.2% of households in the 56 urban markets measured for overnights.
Fox's World Series Game 4, by drawing a 10.1 overnight, managed to beat the NBC primetime NFL game. But that 10.1 overnight is still the lowest-ever overnight for a World Series Game 4. While Fox's Game 5 Monday night faced weak NFL competition from Monday Night Football's Baltimore (4-2) at Jacksonville (2-5), Fox might be on track for the lowest-rated Series ever -- especially if this Series doesn't go seven games. The current lowest-rated World Series came last year and in 2008 -- with both tied for the lowest-ever ratings.
In college football, CBS' Auburn-LSU drew a 3.5 overnight -- down 26% from when the same two teams played last year. And what channels air your games can still matter. Consider that Oklahoma St. was 6th-ranked when it played Missouri Saturday, but drew just a 0.5 overnight on FX, while Boise State was 7th-ranked when it played Air Force Saturday but got just a 0.3 on Versus.
One rating point equals 1% of the USA's 77 million overnight TV homes in Nielsen Media Research's 56 selected major markets. Cable rating converted to broadcast equivalent.
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Day, time (p.m. ET)
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|NFL main game: Green Bay Packers-Minnesota Vikings
Sunday, 4:15
16.3 (12.6 million)
|Comparison: Up 8% from last year's comparable coverage led by a New England Patriots-San Diego Chargers game.
|Spin on the spin: The Vikings giving the mediagenic Packers a close game predictably gets a big rating.
|College football: Auburn-LSU
Saturday, 3:30
3.5 (2.7 million)
|Comparison: Down 25% from the same teams playing on the same weekend last year.
|Spin on the spin: Auburn had a better team last season, and a pretty big star in Cam Newton.
|College football: Washington-Stanford/Texas Tech-Oklahoma
Saturday, 8
2.2 (1.7 million)
|Comparison: Down 52% from coverage of an Oklahoma-Missouri game last year.
|Spin on the spin: A weather delay pushed the main-game coverage -- Texas Tech-Oklahoma -- to finish after 1 a.m. ET.
|College football: Wisconsin-Michigan State
Saturday, 8
2.1 (1.6 million)
|Comparison: Down 19% from coverage of an Alabama-Tennessee game last year.
|Spin on the spin: The game knocking Wisconsin from the ranks of the undefeated with a last-second Hail Mary draws a respectable rating.
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MILI-The Healthcare Marketplace
Medical Industry Leadership Institute 6990
January 22, 2018 to March 5, 2018
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This course is designed for:
The outcome of this course will be to provide a future manager with an awareness of the entire scope of the medical industry.
Course overview:
The healthcare market place constitutes nearly three trillion dollars spent in the U.S. and several trillion spent globally. With the growing demand for medical technology and the aging of the population, the scale and complexity of the health care supply chain is expected to dramatically increase over the next two decades. The health care sector is comprised of several markets for goods and services including physician services, hospital services, insurance, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and information technology. This course will provide a survey of the health sector to understand the scale, the interactions and interrelationships of the health care markets, the market opportunities offered by different sectors of the health economy, and the barriers in this expanding and global industry.
This course is taught online.
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By the completion of this course, students will have acquired a broad perspective on the health sector. Specifically, the course will provide students with the skills to:
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Tokorozawa Shooting Range
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The Tokorozawa Shooting Range is a firing range located in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan. It hosted the trap shooting part of the shooting events for the 1964 Summer Olympics in neighboring Tokyo.
- 1964 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 138–9.
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Your plastic surgeon may discuss the pros and cons of surgery on your opposite breast, even if it's healthy, so that it more closely matches the shape and size of your reconstructed breast. Surgery to remove your healthy breast (contralateral prophylactic mastectomy) can double the risk of surgical complications, such as bleeding and infection. Also, there may be less satisfaction with cosmetic outcomes after surgery.
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Who makes their cricket bats?
Have you ever wondered why professionals tape the edges of their cricket bats? Or don't you ever think to yourself that surely Virender Sehwag's Honda cricket bat was not made by a car company?
The answer to such questions is not such a secret. In different countries around the world there are privately owned cricket bat factories which custom make bats to the required specifications of professionals and amateurs alike. Once the bat has been designed and fitted the player just has to add the stickers of his sponsors and that's that. It's as simple as buying spider man stickers and plastering them all over ones scrapbook only here it's professionals who are being paid to use a bat with a cricket company's sticker on it.
This being said we must state that this is a minority of cricketers and the majority of cricketers do in fact use a bat manufactured by the company whose stickers are pasted on the cricket bat.
Companies like GM and GN have in house bat makers who care for every need that their pro's have and custom make each bat to the professionals needs.
We can go through various countries and various cricketers to determine where in fact their bats are actually made.
In the UK there are cricket bats that are made by Robert Pack who is responsible for many of these "private label cricket bats" in the UK. Notably in England there is an underground network of tunnels perhaps the 'corridors of uncertainty' commentators always speak about that are used to smuggle cricket bats stemming from a small barn owned by Tim Keely who producers bats made of the finest willow specified to the customers, who are generally famous professional cricketers, personal needs. A certain Jacques Henry Kallis was rumored to love a Keely made cricket bat as do many South Africans when they tour English shores. In an article published last year it was stated publicly that the great Brian Lara actually called Mr Keeley to hand make him a bat.
Robert Pack cricket bat making video.
In Australia a gentleman by the name of Julian Millichamp is rumored to manufacture bats for the majority of the Australian national team. He is also the person who was responsible for producing those awesome Puma cricket bats Adam Gilchrist crunched many a team with. Australian opener Aaron Finch who uses a New Balance bat recently posted a picture on Instagram of him picking up his bats from the b3 factory In the UK, he even hash tagged #b3.
Moving on to India which is most likely to provide bats to the rest of the sub-continent. SS and SG are two of the largest bat manufactures in the whole world. Obviously players like Kumar Sangakkara who bats with a SS use bats manufactured by SS too. But SS also produce bats for other brands and other individual players while those players paste their own stickers on it. Those of you who are observant will notice that on all SS bats there is the symbol SS on the edge of the bat. This could possibly be the tape that all of us wonder about such as the tape seen to be used by AB De Villiers in the most recent IPL. SG is also a major manufacturer who apparently make bats for Kookaburra who no longer produce their own bats.
Slazenger is another cricket bat company who no longer produce bats. The famous Duncan Fearnley which Ian Botham wielded made the 2013 Slazenger V12 Limited Edition bats. The rest of Slazenger bats are now produced by FC Shondi. The Hunts County cricket bat which was famously used by Darryl Cullinan is no longer seen on the international circuit. This however does not mean they are not still around, they are one of the main manufacturers for large companies around the cricketing world.
After making all these discoveries I'm left with an unanswered question. If this is the case where bats are not produced by the companies that we perceive to be making them, then how long until other brands start catching on? I'm looking forward to the day where Samsung and Apple take their battle to the cricket field.
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|Eric, Erik, Erick
Title page from 1891 edition of the book Eric, or, Little by Little, whose popularity is credited with increasing the use of the name Eric in Britain
|Name day
|May 18
(Sweden & Norway)
|Old Norse
|"sole ruler",
"eternal ruler",
"ever powerful"
|Other names
|Variant form(s)
The given name Eric, Erik, or Erick is derived from the Old Norse name Eiríkr (or Eríkr in Eastern Scandinavia due to monophthongization). The first element, ei- is derived either from the older Proto-Norse *aina(z), meaning "one, alone, unique",[1] as in the form Æinrikr explicitly, or from *aiwa(z) "long time, eternity".[2] The second element -ríkr stems either from *ríks "king, ruler" (cf. Gothic reiks) or from the therefrom derived *ríkijaz "kingly, powerful, rich".[3] The name is thus usually taken to mean "sole ruler, autocrat" or "eternal ruler, ever powerful".[4]
The most common spelling in Scandinavia is Erik. In Norway, another form of the name (which has kept the Old Norse diphthong) Eirik is also commonly used.[5] In Finland, the form Erkki is also used. The modern Icelandic version is Eiríkur,[6][7][8] while the modern Faroese version is Eirikur. Éric [eʁik] is used in French, and in Germany Eric, Erik and Erich are used.[9]
Although the name was in use in Anglo-Saxon England, its use was reinforced by Scandinavian settlers arriving before the Norman Invasion. It was an uncommon name in England until the Middle Ages, when it gained popularity, and finally became a common name in the 19th century. This was partly because of the publishing of the novel Eric, or, Little by Little by Frederick William Farrar in 1858.
In Norway, Sweden and Finland, the name day for Erik and Eirik is 18 May, commemorating the death of Saint Eric of Sweden.
The feminine derivative is Erica or Erika.
- Eric II of Denmark, king of Denmark between 1134 and 1137
- Eric III of Denmark, the king of Denmark from 1137 until he abdicated in 1146
- Eric IV of Denmark, king of Denmark from 1241 until his death
- Eric V of Denmark, son of Christopher I
- Eric VI of Denmark, son of Eric V
- Eric of Pomerania, king of the Kalmar union
- Eric of Pomerania, the hereditary king of Norway
- Eric I of Norway, the second king of Norway
- Eirik II of Norway, the king of Norway from 1280 until 1299
- Eiríkr Hákonarson, earl of Lade, ruler of Norway and earl of Northumbria
- Erik the Red, the son of Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson
- Alaric and Eric, two legendary kings of Sweden
- Jorund and Eirik, two legendary kings of Sweden
- Erik Björnsson, one of the sons of Björn Ironside
- Erik Refilsson, Swedish legendary king
- Eric Anundsson, Swedish legendary king who ruled during the 9th century, may be the same as Erik Weatherhat, a more or less mythical Swedish king
- Eric the Victorious, king of the Swedes during the second half of the 10th century
- Eric and Eric, two pretenders around 1066
- Eric IX of Sweden, Swedish king between 1150 and 1160, called Saint Eric, Eric the Lawgiver, Eric the Saint, or Eric the Holy
- Eric X of Sweden, the King of Sweden between 1208 and 1216
- Eric XI of Sweden, the son of king Erik X of Sweden and Richeza of Denmark
- Eric XII of Sweden, rival King of Sweden and to his father Magnus IV from 1356 to his death in 1359
- Eric XIII of Sweden, Eric of Pomerania
- Eric XIV of Sweden, King of Sweden from 1560 until he was deposed in 1568
Given name[edit]
Eric, Erich, and Erik are very common given names. The below list is a sampling. See All pages beginning with "Eric", All pages beginning with "Erich", and All pages beginning with "Erik" for comprehensive lists.
- Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist
- Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian artist
- Eric Bana, Australian television and film actor
- Eric Benét, American singer-songwriter and actor
- Eric Marlon Bishop, American actor and musician known by the stage name Jamie Foxx
- Eric Arthur Blair, English author known by his pen-name George Orwell
- Erik Gustaf Boström, Prime Minister of Sweden
- Erik Breukink, Dutch racing cyclist
- Eric Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player
- Eric Burdon, English vocalist, songwriter and frontman of The Animals
- Eric Cantona, French footballer
- Eric Cantor, American politician
- Eric Carle, children's author
- Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, Cameroonian football player
- Eric Church, American country music singer and songwriter
- Eric Clapton, English guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter
- Erik De Vlaeminck, Belgian racing cyclist
- Eric Decker, American football player
- Erik Dekker, Dutch racing cyclist
- Eric Dickerson NFL Hall of Fame Running Back
- Erik Durm, German footballer
- Erik Edman, Swedish footballer
- Erik Erikson, German-born American developmental psychologist
- Eric Esch, American boxer
- Erik Estrada, American actor
- Eric Felton, American football player
- Erik Ivar Fredholm, Swedish mathematician
- Erich Fromm, German sociologist and writer
- Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish writer, historian, and composer
- Erik Guay, Canadian alpine skier
- Erik Hamrén, Swedish football coach
- Eric Harper, New Zealand sportsman
- Eric Harris (disambiguation), multiple people
- Erich Hartmann, German WWII fighter ace
- Eric A. Havelock, British classicist
- Eric Hayes, British soldier
- Eric Hayes (American football), American football player
- Eric Heiden, American speed skater
- Erik Heinrichs, Finnish military general
- Eric Himelfarb, Canadian ice hockey player
- Eric Holle, American football player
- Eric Holmback, American professional wrestler, also known by the ring name Yukon Eric
- Erich Honecker, (1922-1993), former East German Leader
- Eric Hosmer, American Baseball player, 1st baseman
- Eric Hutchinson, American singer-songwriter
- Eric Idle, English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer, and comedic composer
- Eric Johnson, American guitarist and recording artist
- Erik Johnson, American hockey player for Colorado Avalanche
- Erik Jorpes, Finnish-born Swedish physician and biochemist
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish Nobel Prize winning poet
- Erik Karlsson, Swedish hockey player and captain for Ottawa Senators
- Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist
- Erik Keedus, Estonian basketball player
- Erik Kynard, American high jumper
- Eriq La Salle, American actor and director
- Érik Lamela, Argentine footballer
- Eric Lange, American actor
- Erik Lidbom, Swedish songwriter and music producer
- Eric Liddell, Scottish athlete, rugby union international player, and missionary
- Eric Lindell, American singer-songwriter
- Eric Lindros, hockey player
- Erik Lorig, American NFL football player
- Eric Mabius, American actor
- Erich von Manstein, German field marshal
- Erik Mariñelarena, Mexican screenwriter, director and producer
- Eric McCormack, American actor
- Erick McIntosh, American football player
- Eric The Midget, Television actor, radio personality
- Eric Medlin, American artist, photographer
- Erik Mongrain, Canadian composer and guitarist
- Eric Morecambe, English comedian
- Eric Hilliard Nelson, better known as Ricky Nelson, American actor, singer/songwriter and musician, son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson
- Eric Nkansah, Ghanaian sprinter
- Eric Nystrom, American hockey player for Nashville Predators
- Eric Owens, American opera singer
- Erik Palladino, American actor
- Eric Parker, American football player
- Eric Prydz, Swedish disc jockey and producer
- Eric Ravotti, American football player
- Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), German writer (All quiet on the Western Front)
- Erik Rico, American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and DJ
- Eric Ripert, celebrity chef and co-owner of the New York restaurant Le Bernardin
- Eric Roberts American actor
- Eric Saade, Swedish singer/songwriter
- Erik Satie, French composer
- Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google and 136th-richest person in the world in 2011
- Eric Sevareid, American journalist
- Erik Solbakken, Norwegian television presenter
- Eric Staal, Canadian hockey player for Minnesota Wild
- Eric Stanley, American violinist and composer
- Eric Still, American football player
- Eric Stoltz, American actor, director and producer
- Eric Sykes, English radio, television and film writer, actor and director
- Eric Thomas, multiple people
- Eric Tsang, Hong Kong film actor, producer and director.
- Erik Turner, rhythm guitarist of glam metal band Warrant
- Eric Vale, voice actor, script writer, ADR director, and head writer at Funimation
- Erik Verlinde, Dutch theoretical physicist
- Erik von Detten, American actor
- Erick Wainaina, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Eric Welch, an intelligence officer
- Eric Wennström, Swedish hurdler
- Eric Whitacre, composer and conductor
- Erik White, American director
- Erik White (Canadian football), Canadian football player
- Eric Wilkerson, American football player
- Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Finnish internist (von Willebrand disease)
- Eric Lynn Wright, American rapper known as Eazy-E
Fictional characters[edit]
- Erik the Red (comics), fictional character in the Marvel Comics comic book universe
- Erik, the titular character in Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera.
- Flat Eric, low-tech, yellow puppet character from Levi's commercials for Sta-Prest One Crease Denim Clothing
- Eric Cartman, main character in the TV series South Park
- Eric the Cavalier, a character in the TV series Dungeons & Dragons
- Eric Tiberius Duckman, the title character in the American animated series Duckman
- Prince Eric, the love interest of Princess Ariel in the Disney movie, The Little Mermaid
- General Erich Von Klinkerhoffen, the boss of Colonel Kurt Von Strohm, Captain Alberto Bertorelli, Captain Hans Geering and Lieutenant Hubert Gruber in the TV series 'Allo 'Allo!
- Eric Feeble, the title character in the British animated series Stressed Eric
- Eric Murphy, fictional character on the comedy-drama television series Entourage.
- Eric Needles, one of the main characters from the Canadian animated series Sidekick
- Eric Northman, the love interest of Sookie Stackhouse in the Southern Vampire Mysteries novels and the TV series True Blood
- Eric Draven, man brutally murdered that comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder in the movie The Crow
- Eric Thursley, a thirteen-year-old demonologist featured in Terry Pratchett's ninth Discworld novel Eric
- Eric is the name of all the pets of John Cleese's character in the Monty Python's "Fish Licence" sketch
- Eric is one of the twins Sam and Eric in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Eric, one of the Princes from the Chronicles of Amber
- Erik Von Darkmoor, fictional character appearing in the novels of Raymond E. Feist
- Erik Lehnsherr, also known as Magneto in the Marvel Universe.
- Eric Matthews, a main character from the TV series Boy Meets World and its spinoff Girl Meets World
- Eric Foreman, major character from the TV series House M.D.
- Eric Forman, the main character in That 70s Show.
- Eric Myers, the Quantum Ranger, from Power Rangers Time Force.
- Eric van der Woodsen, Gossip Girl character
- Eric Jonrosh, author of The Spoils of Babylon.
- Eric Wimp (Eric Twinge in the TV series), the alter ego or Bananaman.
- Eric Deeds, a character from the 2014 film The Drop played by Matthias Schoenaerts
- Eric, a character from the novel and film adaption "Divergent"
- Micheal Eric (born 1988), Nigerian basketball player
- Dobrica Erić (born 1936), Serbian writer
- Jelena Erić (born 1979), Serbian handball player
- Nenad Erić (born 1982), Serbian football goalkeeper
- Slađana Erić (born 1983), Serbian volleyball player
- Zoran Erić (born 1950), Serbian composer
See also[edit]
|Look up Eric or Erik in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- ^ Entries "Æiríkʀ", "Æi-", in: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002) by Lena Peterson at the Swedish Institute for Linguistics and Heritage (Institutet för språk och folkminnen). Entry "EIN" at Nordic Names. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ Entry "Erik" at Nordic Names Wiki. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ^ Entries "Æiríkʀ", "Ríkʀ" and "-ríkʀ" in Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002) by Lena Peterson at the Swedish Institute for Linguistics and Heritage (Institutet för språk och folkminnen).
- ^ Frank Nuessel (1992). The Study of Names: A Guide to the Principles and Topics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 11. Retrieved 11 September 2013. – via Questia (subscription required)
- ^ In November 2008, there were 20,000 men named Erik in Norway (appr. 0.9% of the male pop.) and 13,000 named Eirik (0.8%). Source: Statistics Norway, http://www.ssb.no/navn/)
- ^ Behind The Name
- ^ Etymology Online
- ^ United States Social Security Database
- ^ Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS): Beliebteste Vornamen. Gfds.de. Retrieved 1 February 2013.


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Federal authorities think they may have their men in one of the biggest known cybercrimes ever.
The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday said it charged 11 people in the theft of millions of credit and debit card numbers of customers for nine major U.S. retailers, including TJX, the parent company of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and other stores.
The massive computer data breach at TJX may have affected 94 million Visa and MasterCard accounts — nearly double the previous estimate by the retailer — according to court filings last year.
The charges name three people from the USA, three from the Ukraine, two from China, one from Belarus and one from Estonia. The final individual is known only by an alias online.
The ring was spearheaded by a Miami man named Albert "Segvec" Gonzalez, 27, who hacked into the computer networks of retailers including TJX, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21, DSW and Dave & Buster's, the Justice Department said.
The stolen information was allegedly stored on computer servers in the USA and Eastern Europe, and sold via the Internet to other criminals. The stolen numbers were "cashed out" by encoding card numbers on the magnetic strips of blank cards that were used to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from ATMs, authorities said. The money was allegedly laundered through banks in Eastern Europe.
Gonzalez, who is being held by New York authorities on another hacking charge, was charged with computer fraud, wire fraud, access-device fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy, authorities said. He faces life in prison if convicted of all charges.
In a statement, TJX thanked law enforcement and said more cooperation with banks and credit card companies is needed to fight fraud.
The TJX digital break-in has been the whopper among a series of breaches in recent years that have bedeviled companies and vexed customers.
Until Tuesday's charges, no one had been arrested for breaking into TJX's computer systems. Six people were convicted in Florida last year for their roles in a ring that used stolen TJX customer data to buy gift cards and goods worth at least $1 million.
Cybercrime tops $100 billion a year, outpacing global drug trafficking, according to industry experts.
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How are you going to survive the end of the world on December 21? According to Chevrolet's new Super Bowl ad, the only way to make it is by driving a Chevy Silverado.
The 30-second Super Bowl commercial takes a look into the very near future to give us a glimpse of what's going to happen once the Mayan apocalypse comes to pass. One lucky survivor emerges from the rubble in his Chevy Silverado to survey the damage (and it looks like we met our end at the hands of aliens and giant robots). He meets with his friends at a specified meeting point… well, except for Dave. He was driving a Ford and didn't make it.
And it looks like the rumors are true – Twinkies can survive anything, as our fortunate heroes find out. However, it doesn't look like any women survived the apocalypse. You can discuss amongst yourselves if this is a positive or negative consequence.
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A Brenau University delegation was in Hong Kong when a devastating earthquake struck southwestern China on Saturday, school spokesman David Morrison said.
The disaster didn't disrupt the trip by Brenau President Ed Schrader and a couple of other school officials, Bill Lightfoot and Pete Miller, who are expected to return Thursday from the country.
They have been in China "nurturing relationships and talking with prospective students," Morrison said by email earlier this week.
"We have ongoing relationships with three universities in China and attract a number of students from China, particularly in the (master's in business administration) programs."
Morrison said Brenau has a couple of students in China, and the delegation was visiting them as well.
The earthquake in mountain-flanked Lushan has killed 192 people and injured more than 11,000.
Hall County Board of Education OKs minor projects in district
The Hall County Board of Education voted Monday night to OK a slate of minor projects throughout the district.
"We're gearing up full speed for summer projects," said Damon Gibbs, facilities director.
"All of them have to do with renovation or upgrades to a variety of our campuses — anywhere from media centers to flooring (improvements)."
He noted that work is being done at Lanier Career Academy at 2723 Tumbling Creek Road in South Hall to prepare for a new horticulture program.
Mobile library planned for three schools this summer
Superintendent Will Schofield said the system also plans to have a "mobile library that's going to go around to three of our most impoverished schools this summer, creating an opportunity for children in their neighborhoods."
For the effort, the district has gutted a school bus and installed shelves, "where we can keep literacy materials in the hands of our children," Schofield said.
"Nothing is more dear to our mission than getting young children reading well and reading often," he added.
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Moscow (Jun. 22)
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Further measures to bring about the economic revival of the Jews in the small towns will be discussed at a special session called by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party in the Ukraine.
The measures to be undertaken in behalf of the Jews in the small towns will be outlined at the forthcoming session which will be held soon.
The agronomist Finkelstein was appointed the temporary representative of the Ozet, the society for the settlement of Jews on the land, in the Bureya region, where the Ozet has undertaken colonization work.
A resolution demanding that the Great Synagogue in Moscow be turned into a Jewish workingmen's club was published today in the "Rabotchaia Moskva." The resolution was adopted at a workers' mass meeting.
Shortly after the death of Leland Jacobson, young member of the Callfornia State Assembly, it became known that Governor C. C. Young, on the eve of Jacobson's death, had signed the papers appointing him a justice of the peace in San Francisco. He would have succeeded the late Judge A. T. Barnett who died a month ago.


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It never fails. Every time I speak before any group about A SILENCE OF MOCKINGBIRDS, someone will approach me, usually quietly, and confide one of the following: – They were abused as children – They have a grandchild who has been abused – They have a friend or family member who is being abusive [Read More…]
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I've never been to Africa or Haiti, and I wouldn't know the first thing about running a non-profit organization. I sometimes worry that I've disappointed God with my lack of imagination. I spend most of my days alone, sitting in an upholstered red chair next to a window where I can feel the warmth of [Read More…]
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text: You want the consumer who frequently buys expensive stuff they really do not need from Lululemon ( LULU) and shops for groceries multiple times a week at Whole Foods Market ( WFM). For better or worse, these people are not, by and large, buying cars that Ford and GM produce. When I look at a stock, with few exceptions (the big media space being one), I do not create an industry profile. Rather, I consider whom the company targets and the business model it uses to go after the market that provides it with revenue. That's what matters. I really do not need to know much about the auto industry to know that both Ford and GM face uphill climbs as they target the mass market. Certainly, both stocks have gotten "cheaper" over the last year, but, after you consider the outlook for the Ford and GM's target customers, you should realize the reasons why. True value plays exist, but without a feasible narrative that describes a realistic way forward, you're better off speculating elsewhere, buying into the broader market if you're generally bullish or going with blue-chip stocks that present fewer question marks. At the time of publication, the author held no positions in any of the stocks mentioned in this article. This article is commentary by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.


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Written in early 1997.
One of the most important advantages of the computer over print media is hypertext. Hypertext binds related documents together on a computer or network. With hypertext, highlighted text in a document represents a reference to another document. When the reader selects highlighted words with his mouse, the computer displays the referenced document. These "hot links" add an interactive dimension to the text. They work much like the "Choose Your Own Adventure" book series, in which the reader makes decisions throughout the book, turning to a certain page based on his choice of action. Catering to America's short attention span, an extensive hypertext document allows the reader to read in a stream-of-consciousness style, with complete control over the topic.
When the concept of hypertext is applied to the Internet, the reader is still following his interests, but on a global computer network. The geographical location of a document is no longer relevant: the reader may browse documents archived in Canada, Switzerland, or Australia that are thematically linked together with hypertext. Networked hypertext also has an intrinsic ability to weed out noise through natural selection: the author of a document chooses which references are desirable for their reader.
Researchers will benefit from networked hypertext, as they must often travel to distant libraries for information. With the Internet, one piece of information is accessible from millions of computers around the world. A researcher may need to travel no further than her computer to find a document in a virtual library 3,000 miles away. As the Internet continues to grow, those doing research will have a greater advantage by acquiring Internet connectivity than by searching far and wide for books.
Information on the Internet is easily accessible, but it is extremely transient. A document on the Internet can be copied, changed, or deleted forever very easily, while a book cannot be revised without reprinting and rebinding a new copy. On the Internet, one person's document can be altered and republished by another, and older revisions of documents are rarely saved. This brings up questions of copyright law, which is a great deal harder to enforce on the global Internet than with print media.
In twenty years, print media may not be able to keep up with the exponential growth of information. Because the density of information on a computer is far greater than that of a book, the Internet already holds more data than any physical library. A typical computer hard drive can hold around 2,000 novels—and a survey by Network Wizards (http://www.nw.com) estimates that there are over 3,000,000 computers housing information on the Internet today. In addition to their seemingly unlimited storage capacity, computers also provide much faster access to information. For example, looking up words in a dictionary might take a few minutes while computers can give the definition for any word, and pronounce it for you, immediately. The computer's speed and space will make it a necessity technology as we move into a new millennium.
The future will bring even greater advantages to the computer over the book. Soon, computers will have screens that are crisper and more comfortable to view than a printed book. Currently, a computer screen has around 72 dots per square inch (dpi), while a laser-printed piece of paper is around 500 to 600 dpi. Future technology by companies such as Sony and Xerox will produce 600 dpi computer screens. With this technology, computer screens will no longer strain the eyes, and it will become feasible—even desirable—to read an entire novel on a computer screen. Technology will soon produce a computer that is as compact, durable, and comfortable to read as a book but that could contain thousands of books in electronic form.
Today, however, there are still some disadvantages to using the computer in place of the book. A good computer costs five thousand dollars, while a good paperback costs only five dollars. Many people cannot afford a computer and do not even have access to one. The Internet is an expensive service in most areas of the world, and there are monthly charges for it beyond the price of the computer. Though computers will be less expensive in the future, they will always cost considerably more than a book.
A book has much greater authority than information conveyed by a computer. By the time a book goes to press, it has been through the hands of the author, publisher, designer, and the editor. Information on the computer does not necessarily go through such a rigorous selection process. With very little effort, anyone can publish a document on the Internet; anyone can be an author. As a result, there tends to be a lower signal-to-noise ratio on the Internet.
Computers will never completely supplant books, but we may soon rely on them more than print media. Computers will meet our needs for information storage and distribution, and will be a convenient way to hold more information in less space than today's book.
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The Childhood Collection contains objects made by children, reflecting their world views, and collections about children and childhood. It also encompasses photographs, documents and audiovisual material, and records material culture and intangibles such as play lore, experiences and ideas.
The collection commenced in the 1980s, and now comprises around 2200 objects, including games, dolls, toys, school material, clothing and costume, domestic items, and child-related organisations and issues.
Two marionette puppets from the Le Forgeron Marionette Theatre: Spanish Woman and The Sultan. (HT 1411 and HT 1409)Source: Museum Victoria
This collection is a rare surviving example of the travelling marionette/puppet troupes that regularly toured throughout Australia until the 1960s.
The collection of marionettes were made and operated by the donor's grandfather, Alex Smith, and his family from the late 1920s until the mid 1950s. A scrapbook of programs and clippings revealed that they performed all over Melbourne, receiving rave reviews in the press. It was not until the introduction of television in 1956 that their popularity began to wane, and the company folded a short time later.
Le Forgeron Marionette Theatre Collection on Collections Online
Photograph of Ron Blaskett, with Gerry Gee and Geraldine Gee dolls made by the Sterne Doll Comany, circa 196. (MM 131949)Source: Museum Victoria
The L. J. Sterne Collection features objects from the Sterne Doll Company, including the well-known Gerry Gee puppet and associated paraphernalia, plus doll-making materials and equipment.
The collection is particularly significant as it is one of the few surviving collections related to an Australian toy and doll manufacturer, a once-thriving local industry. Established by Austrian refugee Leo Sterne after he arrived in Melbournein 1939, the Sterne Doll Company became a thriving Carlton business. In addition to Gerry Gee, Sterne also manufactured soft toys representing other Australian children's television characters, including Humphrey Bear (from Here's Humphrey), and Fredd and Fifi Bear (from The Magic Circle Club). The company survived into the 1970s.
Sheep knucklebones collected during the Aboriginal Children's Play Project from Barbara Impey (later Hoppner), then aged 52, who played Jacks with sheeps' knucklebones as a child. (SH 990058)Source: Museum Victoria
A significant component of the collection is the Australian Children's Folklore Collection (ACFC), acquired in 1999. This comprises over 10,000 card files listing children's games, rhymes, riddles, jokes and superstitions, from the 1940s to the present; 500 photographs; extensive video and audio collection; over 300 play artefacts; research files and fieldwork files.
The ACFC was placed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register in 2004, which recognises collections of long-term and wide-ranging international significance.
Envelope from the Ginger Meggs Club addressed to Billie Boyd, 1956. (HT 30698)Source: Museum Victoria
The William Boyd Childhood Collection includes most of the childhood possessions of William (Bill) Boyd.
Most of us have a few treasured mementoes from our childhood, but Bill Boyd had over 700 of them. His mother Lillian carefully preserved mementoes of his childhood in Maryborough, in central Victoria, in the late 1940s and 1950s. Bill suffered ill-health as a child, and his long hours in bed encouraged him to also become a collector. Encompassing toys, books, clothing and other items, the William Boyd Childhood Collection is rare in its comprehensiveness.
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I don't wanna go down to the basement … unless it's filled with craft beers themed after The Ramones. Fortunately, an East Village basement bar called Idle Hands (a mere 54 blocks from 53rd and 3rd) really was serving attendees of New York's first Get Real Beer Week brews celebrating the Queens punk rockers. It's a sound pairing. In the 70s, The Ramones created a new breed of pop music when it seemed like there wasn't any room for innovation. In that spirit, four New York breweries experimented with single casks in fun and interesting ways that most beer makers wouldn't try. Here's what they came up with:
Blitzkrieg Hop (pictured, above on left)
SingleCut created a very drinkable light and creamy session ale with some slight spice notes. But there's not much of a Ramones tie-in beyond the optimal name. Though the beer was born in Queens, so there's that.
Rocket to Avenue B (top right in photo)
Another Queens-based brewery, Alewife Brewing Co., made what they called a dark session IPA. It tasted like iced coffee, which might be something you'd crave after a bender, but it would be hard to hit back several in one sitting. They said "it pairs perfectly with 2-3 minute long punk rock songs," and that's an accurate statement.
Sheena is a Pale Lager (center, right in photo)
Butternuts, a Cooperstown joint, came with the strongest pun of the lot, but also the weakest brew — a yellowy lager. This was the 1987 "Halfway To Sanity" of Ramones beers. That is to say, try it once and then you'll avoid it.
Ryemonda (bottom, right in photo)
The Bronx Brewery threw a bunch of habanero peppers in the mix when making their rye pale ale. Heat built up as you drank it. Ignoring convention and what anyone might think, this is the kind of beer that would hang out behind CBGB in a black leather jacket.
Here's hoping more Ramones beers come out, or I Wanna Be Your Beerfriend will be a missed opportunity.


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World Travel Awards 2010
Australasia's Leading Boutique Hotel
New Zealand's Leading Boutique Hotel
The George Christchurch is delighted to announce that not only has it been voted New Zealand's Leading Boutique Hotel for the 5th consecutive year, it has also for the very first time been named Australasia's Leading Boutique Hotel in the prestigious World Travel Awards.
General Manager, Bruce Garrett, was at the awards ceremony, held in Delhi on 14 October 2010, in person to accept the awards on behalf of The George. To his knowledge this is the first time that these two awards have been won by the same property and the first time any property has won the NZ title 5 years consecutively. Bruce Garrett credits this continued recognition to The George's owners continued investment in the property and by the way that each and every one of the team go about living out the hotel's mission statement: "A passion to exceed our guests' expectations by providing a unique, personal and memorable experience".
Such unwavering commitment of The George to the mission statement is reflected in the experience of its many guests whose feedback in turn influences industry professionals from around the world who vote for category nominees.
Competition is stiff in what is considered to be the most prestigious and comprehensive awards program in the Travel and Tourism industry, with well known properties such as Huka Lodge, Medusa Hotel, Sydney, The Lyall Hotel & Spa, Melbourne, and The Spire Queenstown among the contenders for the Boutique Hotel categories.
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Stones River, a Virtual
Stones River National Battlefield
The Slaughter Pen
(April 2012)
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The Slaughter Pen interpretive marker (older photos display abandoned
artillery behind this marker)
(April 2012)
Enlarge Cannon displayed outside of the
pen / east side of pen
(April 2012)
Enlarge Cannon sits outside of pen at Tour
Stop : 2 / north side of pen
(April 2012)
Detail Limestone rocks (cover & concealment)
Slaughter Pen
(10-2000) View from
Sheridan's position in the Slaughter Pen. Confederates
charged repeatedly over the field in front. (facing south-east)
(3-95) Slaughter Pen, south view from tour stop
parking area. Near here, the men of Gen. Philip H.
Sheridan and Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas warded off determined Confederate
assaults. In an attempt to crack the Union line at this point the
Confederates wheeled up their guns to within 183 meters (200 yards) of
Sheridan's position, but attack after attack still failed with costly losses
to both sides. Eventually, however, Sheridan abandoned his position. His
delaying action during the withdrawal had given Union troops time to form a
new line along the Nashville Pike. Site Marker: Dec. 31, 1862, 10
a.m. - noon. Despite stiffening Union resistance, the Confederate tide swept
on. The Federals made stand after stand, only to give ground again. Take
this short trail to a Union position among the woods and rock outcroppings
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Diving Deep To The Edge Of Play: IndieCade @ E3
Noah J Nelson on Friday, Jun. 10th
The show floor at E3 can be an overwhelming visual calvacade. The latest in technology used in megadoses in order to batter down the will of retailers and journalists alike into submission. Mood lighting, explosions, and more spandex and bare flesh than can be legally fit into a strip club.
At the edges of of the Los Angeles Convention Center's West Hall an oasis of creativity and DIY innovation was found in the form of the IndieCade booth.
"We're trying to be the Sundance for video games," said Sam Roberts, Festival Director for IndieCade– the International festival for independent games which is held in Culver City each October. "We're trying to help young creators make cool games with great ideas, bring those games to a mainstream audience and get released through mainstream platforms."
IndieCade's presence at E3 is one of the fulcrum points where the large indie game scene connects with major publishers and platform holders. New studios like Haunted Temple Enterprises, who were at the booth showing off Skulls of the Shogun, benefited from expo buzz. The studio is comprised of industry professionals who've struck out on their own after years of toiling away at megapublishers like EA.
Yet Indiecade was showcasing more than video games, with no-tech board, card, and participatory games on demo, which might seem strange for a show that is almost obsessively focused on bigger and badder imagery. The games of Ninja and Humans vs. Zombies which were played in a taped off area at the edge of their booth were a reminder to all who passed by that play is a human instinct, and that we don't need a $5000 computer or a 3D TV that can generate separate images for each viewer in order to have a good time.
It was one of these non-video games that provided my most memorable experience of E3.
Deep Sea is the creation of Austin, Texas based sound designer Robin Arnott.
The game requires that the player wears a gas mask whose goggles have been blacked out and headphones. The player's breathing is monitored, and that sound is fed back through the headphones along with sonar pings, and the "rumbles made by unseen terrors". The objective: to use sonar to pinpoint the location of your enemy and sink them before they can find you in the darkness of the ocean.
The seed for the game came from Arnott's experience as a sound designer for games.
"We're asked to bring the immersion to games," Arnott tells me. "We bring the element that people don't notice but kind of makes them feel transported. Deep Sea is an experiment in immersion using sense deprivation as a strategy for achieving a greater level of immersion"
The feeling of accomplishment that accompanied sinking my unseen opponent was greater than anything I'd managed to eek out of L.A. Noire. The game challenged my senses in a way that few games have before, plugging into a skill set I rarely get to use. I found the experience meditative, which might not quite be what Arnott expects, as he says the primary emotion he's playing with is fear.
For his next project, Synapse, Arnott is exploring the other end of the emotional spectrum.
"We're trying to achieve a kind of euphric synesthesia with sense pleasure, and using dance and play and rhythm." Dancing in front of a Kinect camera will unlock music and psychedelic projections. Arnott's team has been "working on it for a little while, but unfortunately our funding just fell through and we started a Kickstarter [recently] to get some of that back."
If all goes according to plan, Synapse will make it's debut at this year's Burning Man. Meanwhile the next crop of indie games will be on display at the next IndieCade, submissions are still open until June 15th, and the festival will run October 6th-9th in Culver City.
Deep Sea • E3 • Humans vs. Zombies • indie games • IndieCade • L.A. Noire • Ninja • Robin Arnott • Sam Roberts • Skulls of the Shogun • Synapse • video games


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The course was not worth the money!! The scenery was beautiful except for the mowers and tractors on the holes we were actually playing at 11am.
Sunkist CC located 2 milse south of I-10 Exit #44 Cedar Lake exit, is a well manacured 18 hole, Par 72 open to the public course. Rates vary from $40 to $25 for 18 holes. Very nice driving range/practice facility. Open 364 days a year. Bar & Grill (great food) and all with a great view of Biloxi's Back Bay area. Although the course is short for todays golf courses, 6440 yds Blue, 6061 yds White, 5157 yds Red the course is layed out along beautiful lakes and plenty of trees, the undulation putting surface is where the course gets it's revenge. Come see us and you will see and feel real southern hospitality. You will have a great time at Sunkist CC in Biloxi MS......
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Mon, 10/28/2013 - 02:40pm
This Friday, Nov. 1st we will be holding our Mother/Son Night from 6-9 p.m. in the school cafeteria . All male stingrays and their mothers (or other significant female in their lives) are invited to join us for this fun filled event. The event will include games, art, sports and other activities run by SA Parks and Recreation. We will also have a guest speaker, Dr. Brenda Jones, who will address the importance of a mother/son relationship. If you have any questions about the event, please feel free to contact the counseling department at 397-5732 for more information or to RSVP. We hope to see all our male stingrays and their moms at this event. And don't worry female stingrays and Dads - we will have a Father/Daughter event in the spring for all of you - keep watching for more information.


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window shopper still .
I just sold my clk55 and moving on to the big sedans. :)
Im in the market for a 2002-03 black 745i . After narrowing down from a lexus ls to s500 to infiniti to 745li ,. There is nothing that drives quiet like a bimmer . Not even a benz. :)
i might pull the trigger on this one.
all but the sports package . Is there a difference in the way the bumpers look on the sports package ? Like mercedes amgs
I plan on upgrading the wheels to 22s anyways.
beside carfax . Anything I should look out for ?
thanks guys./gals
Yes, the 7 drives like nothing else in the world, not even other bimmers. It's simply fantastic.:thumbup:
One thing you might want to look out for on that one is the miles, make sure it has a warranty and has all the keys and manuals to come with it.
In terms of exterior aesthetics, Sport Package models have black shadowline trim in place of chrome (window surrounds, etc.) and different 19" rims on pre-2006 models. The shape of the bumpers themselves are not different.
I drove a 745li to compare . the 745i fits my style better.
I checked and the gentlemen did all the upgrades including the cpt9000.
The only thing is it doesnt have the heated steering wheel/rear seats . NOt that I need it but you know........
I m gonna have to learn to live without it I.
If you end-up buying the car in the link and decide to up-grade your wheels, i'm interasted in buying the wheels that are on the car now. please email me email@example.com
are you considering 745li?
there is one for sale only $37k. I almost bought that one untill I find another dealer who can work out some of my special need.
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What is it?If you have a web-enabled cellphone, you can read a text-version of the Mount Wilson Observatory clear sky chart. Because of the limitations of cellphone displays, the cellphone chart is simplified. However, it still displays hourly cloud-cover, transparency and seeing forecasts.
How do I see the Mount Wilson Observatory cellphone chart?Enter this url into your cellphone's browser:
The url is case sensitive.
(Actually, it's excruciatingly tedious to type urls into cellphones. Check to see if your cell service provider provides a web page that will allow you to download bookmarks into your phone.)
Why don't all charts have cellphone versions?Because of the extra cost of generating and hosting cellphone versions, they are only available for sponsored charts.
This one is thanks to Michael Rudy .
Unfortuneately WAP 1.0 cell phones do not support color graphics or horizontal scrolling. So a normal chart display is out.
Instead, a cellphone chart is a vertical list of text.
Each row is for a particular hour. The columns are the cloud-cover forecast, transparency forecast and seeing forecast.
The forecasts have been reduced to a 1 to 5 numeric scale with the meanings:
A display of 0 for transparency or seeing means those forecasts were not computed because it was too cloudy. In practice, when the forecast display is 0, conditions are terrible to unusable, rather than unknown. The transparency forecast is not computed, and displayed as 0, when cloudy cover is over 30%. The seeing forecast is not computed, and displayed as 0, when the cloud cover is over 80%.
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