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This paper presents a grid-based distributed event detection scheme for wireless sensor networks. The network is divided into square-shaped grids of predefined grid size, where sensor nodes in each grid form a cluster with a cluster head. Event detection at each grid alone based on the readings of its member nodes is limited in event detection performance, especially for a small event region compared to the grid size. To improve the performance, each grid is further divided into 2 × 2 sub-grids of equal size. The decision on an event is made by finding a square region of 2 × 2 sub-grids, not necessarily in the same grid, that passed a predefined threshold. This process is conducted at each cluster head in a distributed manner by inter-cluster communications. Event detection is initiated when a cluster head receives an alarm from its member nodes. The cluster-head communicates with its neighboring cluster heads to exchange the number of nodes reporting an alarm. The threshold for event detection can be dynamically adjusted to reflect the number of sensor nodes in a grid and event size, if known. High event detection accuracy is achieved with a relatively low threshold without sacrificing false alarm rate by filtering most errors due to transient faults and isolating nodes with permanent faults. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can achieve high detection accuracy, while maintaining low false alarm rate.
Wireless sensor networks, composed of a large number of small sensor nodes with sensing, computing, and wireless communication capabilities, often operate in an unattended mode to monitor various environments and detect events of interest [
Several fault-tolerant event detection schemes have been proposed in [
Meanwhile, energy efficient data aggregation and routing in grid-based sensor networks have been investigated in [
In wireless sensor networks, in general, due to a strong tradeoff between event detection accuracy and false alarm rate it is difficult to maintain high event detection accuracy for relatively small events or/and high fault probabilities, unless the tradeoff is greatly lessened.
In this paper, we present a grid-based, distributed, event detection scheme for wireless sensor networks, covering even relatively small event regions. To lessen the tradeoff the proposed scheme employs a smoothing filter to reduce the effect of transient faults. In addition, it maintains confidence levels of sensor nodes to isolate faulty nodes exhibiting errors for some extended period of time. Event detection locally at each grid based on the readings of its member nodes might achieve poor performance when an event region lies across multiple grids. To cope with this variations, a sensor network is divided into M × N square grids, each of which is further divided into 2 × 2 sub-grids. An event is detected by finding a square region of 2 × 2 sub-grids, not necessarily in the same grid, that passed a predefined threshold.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, network structure, fault and event models are described. The proposed grid-based event detection scheme is presented in Section 3. Simulation results are shown in Section 4. Section 5 concludes the paper.
In sensor network research, faults and events are often handled separately. Hence techniques for detecting faults in a wireless sensor network might not perform well as intended when both faults and events coexist in the network. Similarly, event detection techniques might not show the expected performance if fault behavior deviates from the predefined simplified model. In order to present our event detection scheme in the presence of various types of faults, we briefly describe our grid-based sensor network structure and fault/event model to be used throughout the paper. Grid-based sensor networks have been proposed for energy efficient data aggregation and routing. Our fault-tolerant event detection scheme is thus developed to conform to the basic protocol of the hierarchical networks.
The sensor field is assumed to be divided into
Although each grid can make a decision on an event based on the sensor readings of its member nodes, the accuracy might not be high especially for a relatively small event region. When such an event region lies across four neighboring grids, for example, each grid might have insufficient number of event-nodes to apply the well-known majority voting. In that case, high detection accuracy can only be obtained by lowering the threshold, resulting in a considerably high false alarm rate, except for low fault probability.
In order to cope with poor performance in the case of a small event region, we further divide each grid (in solid lines) into four sub-grids (in dotted lines) as shown in
An improved detection accuracy can be obtained if event detection is performed at each SR, along with the original grid. This extension requires inter-grid communications between neighboring cluster heads to send the information regarding the sensor readings at each sub-grid. As an illustration, the event region, in dotted circle in
The reason for using only 2 × 2 sub-grids is two-fold. First, any further divisions require additional memory and computation, and inter-grid communication overhead. Second, the resulting performance gains would be marginal unless a threshold test needs to be applied at a smaller sub-grid level.
Various types of faults may occur in sensor networks. Among others we focus on faults in sensor readings, due to malfunctioning sensors and noise. Some communication faults may also be covered as long as they can be modeled as faults in sensor readings.
Faults are assumed to occur in any nodes in the sensor network with the same probability. Each sensor node is assumed to know the range of normal readings. For clarity, we define "normal readings" to be the acceptable sensor data in the case of no-event. Any readings outside the normal range are named "unusual readings" for convenience. In other words, correct sensor readings in an event region are also called "unusual readings". Hence each sensor node can make a binary decision on its own sensor reading, where a "1" indicates an unusual reading. Nodes in an event region will report a 1, although the range of sensor readings cannot be well defined, unless the nodes are faulty or some errors affect the correct readings.
Sensor readings of a faulty sensor node may lie in any range, including the normal and event ranges. Both permanent, transient, and intermittent faults are included in our fault model. Faults exhibiting errors for some extended periods of time may also be covered without modifying the proposed scheme. Transient faults are assumed to occur randomly and independently with the same probability. In the case of a permanent fault, both stuck-at-0 (normal) and stuck-at-1 (unusual) are assumed to occur with the same probability. In other words, sensor nodes with a stuck-at-0 fault always measure normal data, and they thus report a 0 even if they are in an event region.
Fault-free sensor nodes in an event region are expected to measure some unusual values, reporting a 1 to the cluster head. In a fault-prone sensor network, however, incorrect reports due to faults are likely to occur, causing a false alarm. To cope with the false alarms while correctly detecting events, reducing the effect of faults along with a proper threshold is required. More specifically, the threshold needs to be sufficiently high to greatly reduce false alarm rate and low enough to achieve high event detection accuracy. In setting the threshold, the area of an event region plays an important role. For convenience we assume that an event region is a circle with radius
Detecting events at each grid cluster alone in a grid-based wireless sensor network might be easy for a relatively large event region (e.g.,
As fault probability increases, the number of nodes reporting a 1 in the case of no-event also increases. Hence a voting scheme may have difficulty in distinguishing between faults and events using a threshold. The negative impact of faults can be greatly lessened by effectively reducing the fault probability. To realize it most of the erroneous readings due to transient faults are first corrected by employing a filter. In addition, nodes with permanent faults or reporting incorrectly for some extended periods of time are identified and isolated. Each cluster head maintains confidence levels of its member nodes indicating their records in reporting correctly. Sensor nodes with a permanent fault lose their confidence levels gradually, and they eventually reach the lower bound to be isolated from the rest. This fault management reduces the number of incorrect reports, allowing us to lower the threshold for event detection without sacrificing performance even for a relatively small event region. Two performance metrics, detection accuracy (DA) and false alarm rate (FAR), will be used in evaluating the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. DA is defined to be the ratio of the number of times that events are detected to the total number of event occurrences. FAR is defined as the ratio between the number of grids reporting an event, in the case of no event, and the total number of grids.
Transient faults may occur at any sensor nodes even though they are functional. Treating sensor nodes with transient faults as faulty nodes will reduce the number of usable sensor nodes, and it thus needs to be avoided. To effectively deal with transient faults, we employ a simple filter to correct most errors due to the faults. The reason for employing a filter is that an event will cause the sensor readings to be 1 for an extended period of time, while measurement errors due to transient faults might occur randomly and independently.
Filtering out most errors induced by transient faults will effectively reduce the transient fault probability
The reduction in
Permanent faults, unless the number of faulty nodes is negligibly small, also degrade the event detection performance at the cluster head. Since the number of faulty nodes is expected to increase with time, it is desirable to isolate them as soon as they are detected and identified. In our grid-based event detection, each cluster head receives reports from its member nodes, and makes a decision
If some existing sophisticated techniques are employed to figure out the exact boundaries,
Sensor nodes are logically removed from the network and cannot participate in the event detection process when their confidence levels reach the lower bound (0 in this paper). Hence a sensor node
The proposed grid-based fault-tolerant event detection scheme consists of five steps. Initially each cluster head
In Step 3, each cluster head receives the four numbers
Due to the inherent tradeoff between DA and FAR, the value of
Correcting most transient faults and isolating permanent faulty nodes allow us to lower
Our proposed event detection scheme can be depicted as follows:
Step 1. Given sensor reading
Step 2. Each sensor node with
Step 3. Obtain
Step 4. Count the number of 1's for each of the SRs and apply a threshold test with Step 5. Update the confidence levels.
Grid-based distributed event detection
Step 1. Given sensor reading
Step 2. Each sensor node with
Step 3. Obtain
Step 4. Count the number of 1's for each of the SRs and apply a threshold test with
Step 5. Update the confidence levels.
An illustration of the proposed event detection scheme is given in
Although we described that each cluster head applies the threshold test for eight SRs for convenience, in reality, it needs to apply the test to three SRs at most, in E, S, and SE directions. At the cluster head in grid A, for example, it needs to apply the test to SR
Computer simulation is performed in a sensor network where 1,024 sensor nodes are randomly deployed in a 256 × 256 square area. The network is divided into 8 × 8 grids. Each grid is further divided into 2 × 2 sub-grids. Hence each grid has 16 nodes on average. Detection accuracy (DA) and false alarm rate (FAR) are employed as the performance metrics.
Experiments are conducted in the following order. First, we estimated the performance improvement due to the smoothing filter. We then evaluated the proposed grid-based event detection to show its effectiveness in achieving high performance even for small events. Finally, the effect of flattening
In the first experiment, only transient faults are assumed to evaluate the effectiveness of filtering. Four different values of
For both CDF and CD almost perfect detection performance has been achieved, as expected. A significant difference, however, is noticed when FAR is compared. When
We then conducted simulation to evaluate the proposed grid-based event detection scheme. The performance is evaluated for four different values of
Event detection accuracy may change with the event size. In a relatively large event region, the simple majority voting will achieve high performance. As the event size becomes smaller, increasing
As addressed in the previous section, stuck-at-0 nodes can be detected when they are in an event region and the event boundary is identified. They can also be detected if sensor readings of a stuck-at-0 node are confined to a relatively small range over a long period of time compared to the readings of a normal node. If stuck-at-0 nodes are isolated, some additional gain can be expected. The improvements are shown as shown in
Finally, we conducted simulation to see the performance changes due to flattening
In this paper, we presented a grid-based distributed event detection scheme for fault-prone wireless sensor networks. Sensor networks are divided into square grids to detect events locally with low communication overhead. To maintain high performance even with wide variations in node distribution and event size, each grid is further divided into 2 × 2 sub-grids. Events are then detected by finding a square region of 2 × 2 sub-grids that passed a predefined threshold. To reduce the impact of faults in decision making process, most false readings due to transient faults are smoothed out and sensor nodes with a permanent fault are isolated. Moreover, sensor nodes exhibiting incorrect readings for some extended period of time are temporarily isolated until they become stabilized. Computer simulation results have shown that a high DA can be achieved while maintaining an extremely low FAR for a wide range of fault probabilities, even for a relatively small event region.
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2011-0007187).
Sensor network structure for fault-tolerant event detection.
An illustration of the proposed grid-based event detection.
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The 2010 blowout of the Macondo well in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico resulted in the region's largest oil spill in U.S. history. As the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) incident unfolded, in an effort to prevent the oil from coming to the surface and reaching coastal and marsh ecosystems, chemical dispersants were injected at the wellhead.
These powerful dispersants, typically used to break up oil slicks at the sea surface had never been used in such large quantities and over such a prolonged period of time in the deep ocean.
A new study published in Environmental Science and Technology, led by University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Associate Professor of Applied Marine Physics Claire Paris, is the first to examine the effects of the use of unprecedented quantities of synthetic dispersants on the distribution of an oil mass in the water column, based on a modeling approach.
The team of researchers included UM Rosenstiel School Assistant Scientist Matthieu Le Henaff and Research Associate Professor Villy Kourafalou, UM Center for Computational Science (CCS) Scientist Judith Helgers and Research Associate Professor Ashwanth Srinivasan, Ph.D. Candidate Zachary Aman from Colorado School of Mines, Research Associate Professor Ajit Subramaniam from Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, and Professor Dong-Ping Wang from the School of Marine and Atmospheric Science of SUNY at Stony Brook.
Together they developed and tested models to show that the application of oil-dispersing chemicals had little effect on the oil surfacing in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Deepwater drilling into large, high-pressure reservoirs of oil and gas located far offshore and hundreds of meters below the ocean's surface involves risks for which we were not adequately prepared," said Paris.
"As the oil gushed uncontrolled into the Gulf, injection of chemical dispersant into the deep ocean may have had little effect because the oil was coming out with such pressure that it was already dispersed in small droplets.
It is impossible to know whether the synthetic dispersant was well mixed with the oil as it was injected. Our models treat both scenarios, and regardless of whether you have the dispersant in the water mixture or not, the amount of oil reaching the sea surface remained relatively unchanged."
The researchers estimated the distribution of oil droplet sizes with and without injection of dispersant at the wellhead.
They then applied a novel oil-mass tracking model of the Connectivity Modeling System (CMS) developed shortly after the DWH incident with a RAPID award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and presented a three-dimensional simulation of the DWH spill showing the unfolding of the disaster to examine the effect the synthetic dispersant may have had on the oil transport in the water column.
The model indicated that the dispersant injected at BP's Macondo wellhead was not necessary to break up the oil. The subsea application of dispersant did not have its expected outcome.
"This study is notable because it presents a comprehensive estimate of the Macondo blowout from the microscopic oil-water interface through the macroscopic transport of crude oil." said chemical engineer Aman. The work served as a milestone in assessing the three dimensional transport of oil in the water column.
"Since the beginning of the spill our model accurately predicted the decoupling between the surface and subsea oil transport, and was unique in showing the southwest extension of the deep plume," said physical oceanographer Le Henaff. "Correct assessment of upwelling and downwelling currents for the circulation model created a realistic scenario that we then used to test the effect of the injection of dispersant on the oil partition."
As global deep-sea oil exploration expands, the model will be helpful in quantifying the utility of synthetic dispersants for deep water oil leaks. "The CMS oil model was able to predict the strange layering of oxygen deficit anomalies that we observed during our field sampling and provided us a three dimension view of a phenomena that was constantly changing in time.
For us, it was like being able to track the ghosts of the oil plume because the oil itself had been consumed by the microbes and all that was left were the oxygen anomalies and the model was critical for us to understand what we were observing in the field," said biological oceanographer Subramaniam.
These findings expand on a previous study published earlier this year in which the team studied the crucial role of wind-induced surface drift on the fate of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
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This study was supported by the NSF-RAPID OCE 1048697 award to C. Paris. The contribution of Paris and Kourafalou were also made possible in part by grants from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, to the Center for Integrated Modeling and analysis of the Gulf Ecosystem (C-IMAGE) and the Deep Sea to Coast Connectivity in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico (DEEP-C), respectively. The Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography was essential in bringing a chemical engineer, Zachary Aman, to the team via the NSF-RAPID DRL-10-55381 to Sunshine Menezes.
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Making Love Visible
Fourth Sunday of Easter
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1 John 3:16-24
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dude i've always loved T-Will. will be fun to see him play a prominent role.
watch Turner just run over everybody in this summer league. dude is gonna kill it.
yo brian how the heck am i gonna catch summer league sixers games in nyc? pls lemme know.
hope i didnt say anything which might get me crucified here...i just love the 76ers i hope thats cool
joey the game are on the nba channel. If you have direct then your in like Flynn, if not then you need to check if your cable company has nba tv.
Hey Brian,
Where can we watch summer league games? You mentioned NBA.com, but do you need some kind of league pass or is it free? You think comcAst will broadcast the first game b/c of the chance to see evan turner live in his first game as a sixer?
Happy 4th yall.
I think it's on NBA TV, if you have that.
It's about 15 bucks. Go to nba.com and you should see an advertisement for it at the top of the screen. Follow the directions from there.
Likely, ATDHE.net will have it
Do any of you guys watch the whole games live ?
Just wondering. I will DVR it--looking forward to seeing the team, and favors.
I'm looking forward to the games- but watching the last few Summer Leagues has prepared me for some ugly basketball. Nothing resembling an NBA or College game. Closer to what you might see at a high end rec league. Lots of dribbling, lots of fouling and almost entirely one on one.
I remember Salmons, Lou Williams nd Lou Amundason dominating. I remember Speights putting up 20 shots and 10 fouls. And Jrue and Thad looking very lost on offense their rookie years.
So I'm not sure what to expect. I'm certain that Jrue and Turner will be amongst the best NBA players in the league- but not really sure how that will translate. So I guess I'm looking forward to seeing some Sixers basketball, but don't come in with expectation.
You are very right, it is really ugly basketball. Way too much one on one and fouling. With Speights, Jrue and Turner, I hope the Sixers play a more unselfish brand, but we'll see. The one thing I don't want to see is Speights put up 30 shots. I know he can do that.
Says here the game's at 7, not 5:
If you're setting your DVRs, the games are running (unsurprisingly) an hour behind...if you only set it for the two hours on NBA TV - you'll probably miss half of the game
the dalembert trade was great, iggy is terrible. :)
So who is the better GM, Rueben Amaro or Ed Stefanski?
Rueban Amaro traded 3 prospects for Cliff Lee. Then he traded his 3 best prospects for Roy Holliday. Since the Phillies were over the payroll he had to give up Cliff Lee for prospects that were worse than the ones he gave up. If he let Cliff Lee walk in FA he would have gotten two first round draft picks. If he had'nt resigned Jamie Moyer or signed Raul Ibanez he would have had the money to keep Cliff Lee.
Ed Stefanski has made three bad moves so far as a GM, signing Elton Brand, hiring Eddie Jordan and trading Dalembert.
Being forced to trade Lee because of budgetary reasons isn't something Amaro can control - if he was forced to rush into a Lee deal - that's on ownership - not on Amaro
As for 'if he hadn't signed ibanez' - it's not like that's a vacuum - the phillies would have needed a left fielder the past two seasons, and even average ones aren't cheap.
They're both pretty terrible, but i would say amaro is slightly less terrible as he got the best pitcher in the game while keeping onto the number one prospect in the game
Michael Taylor has been pretty dreadful thus far in the Jays system. Read that Drabek threw a no hitter yesterday in AA. I have less respect for Amaro because he adopted a very successful roster. Giving 3 year deals to aging veterans isn't an excuse to be handcuffed financially. The Howard deal will be a nightmare for those of us who believe in advanced statistics and the rapid decline of power hitters in their 30's...
While I don't think much of Stefanski, he has a lot less to work with than Amaro does.
While I don't think much of Stefanski, he has a lot less to work with than Amaro does.
The phillies are still contending, the sixers have gotten worse each season since stefanski took over.
It's impossible to predict the AMOUNT of injuries the phillies have had this year.
I'm no amaro fan, I hate the howard contract, i hate the organizaitonal approach to many things (but that's not amaro's fault) - but stefanski just sucks
Jime Thome ?
You can't retro-fit Ibanez with the Cliff Lee trade - they needed a LF and he was fine last year (Burrell was and still is horrific - they knew when to cut ties there). Moyer is another story but as John noted, a lot of this was passed down from ownership. I always cringe when people say "they could have just kept lee" - well no shit and i'm sure Amaro would have been fine with that too. He's not a moron. He just wanted Halladay locked for 3 years and Lee was no guarantee. He wasn't given the option for both.
A. Burrell wasn't horrific in Philly - just a victim of the irrational hatred of the fanbase much like Abreu was
B. They jumped the market on Ibanez and gave him too big and too long a contract - it was a mistake - it panned out for a year - but it's a 3 year deal - so those 2 years count.
No, no - I meant after they let him go. He was an albatross last year. I was never a hater of Abreu or Burrell - I used to loathe the WIP talk about Abreu. Lot of idiots out there unfortunately.
I think he is saying that Pat is bad now.
They could have gotten two first round picks if they had just let Cliff Lee walk after this season
They could have gotten two first round picks if they had just let Cliff Lee walk after this season
It's not that simple - and there are a lot of first round busts in the MLB draft (especially when you're the phillies and follow slot recommendations)
My biggest problem was linking the two deals, they didn't have to trade Lee right away before starting to pay him (I was also bothered that all 3 teams involved had the pat gillick stain on them - a little too incestuous of a deal)
Could've kept Burrell and gotten, admittedly, a fraction of the production last year, but no one could've predicted that in 2008. And, Burrell is hitting with the Giants since they picked him up.
It's more complicated than that, Burrell didn't really want to stay and the phillies didn't really want him (cause they're idiots)
Um... the Phillies not wanting to keep him is on the GM, right?
We're next!
Jrue looking like a savvy vet!
Evan Turner is a bust
I kind of feel the first half of the first summer league game is a little early to make that decision.
I kind of feel he was making a joke.
Only thing I saw in the first half of the summer league game worth mentioning is that Speights still is useless on the defensive end and not much of a passer - gets away with a lot of moving screens/picks though
Someone posted the other day about how bad these games are to watch. They weren't kidding. Tons of whistles, but still - its real (allegedly) Sixers basketball on NBA TV (and in HD).
Turner had a nice strip of Favors that led to a break in the first half. Lot of fouls as he's all over the ball (even helping out on bigs).
yea, I was just joking.
couple of points:
Derrick Favors looked impressive
Jrue Holiday looks like a stud
Speighs has can not play interior offense or defense all he can do is shoor jupshots
Evan Turner has been a little sloppy
Jodie Meeks may end up being a nice bench player
I think Turner has looked good. He has out rebounded Favors, and been very active.
Anyway, I think NYK gave Amare a reasonable deal. How much do they have left on their salary cap? They still need a SG, PG, C, and a SF.
I predict that they sign Raymond Felton, David Lee, and Ray Allen
5 years 100 million for Amar'e is reasonable?
yea, compared to Joe Johnson it looks reasonable. He will only be 33 when his contract expires. I would have tried to get an extra two years of salary. I haven't seen his contract but I thought he could have had his 20 million dollar annual salary escalate as the years progressed.
The knicks gave amar'e 5 years 100 million dollars.
The suns were going to renounce their rights (Had to) to sign warrick.
NO TEAM could have offered him more than a 5 year contract, you could have tried to get 2 more years, but you wouldn't have been able to as it would have been a violation of the NBA Rules.
Just because the hawks gave joe johnson too much money doesn't mean Amare isn't getting too much money - at least joe doesn't have a serious injury history like amar'e has.
Thsnks for the lesson. I didnt know that the max amount of years was 5.
Report cards from game 1 are in...of the players who we should care about:
Jrue: A+ (Only knock on his play is he needs to hit the free throws)
Meeks: A- (Really like how decisive he was when he got the ball...Also needs to make his free throws. He could be a viable scorer off the bench)
Turner: B- (On the negative side, saw the turnover propensity, looked a little rusty. On the positive side, made it to the free throw line and made them count, filled out the stat sheet with rebs, steals, and assists)
Speights: F (looked like garbage. With all that meat ud think he would take it hard to the basket rather than shooting fade away jumpers. He just looks out of shape and slow on his feet.)
Nice drive by Turner on Favors
Nice pass by Turner, good finish by Simmons
There were a couple moments where Evan Turner also showed his ball handling and court vision abilities which is an asset on a team that is going to be looking to run - Holiday, Turner and Iguodala can all run the break pretty well and find the open man...
Sorry DVR time
I would've liked to see Turner score the ball more. Holiday looked fantastic, and perhaps Simmons can make the team. He's talented enough. Interestingly, Ndudi Ebi, former next-Kevin-Garnett, first-round pick out of high school, productive Euro player in a bad league, is on our summer league team. Didn't play a minute.
With as bas as Speights looked tonight...I think we might regret not having taken Favors when we had the chance!
I didn't get to see the game. Would anyone say that Favors force Speights into his 1-11 performance? Speights dominated this league last year so I wonder if the horrible night was because of Favors defense. I wanted Favors personally but I'm ok with Turner.
Wait, what?
The Speights comment was about his offensive performance last year in the summer league where I think he averaged close to 30 ppg. I'm not saying it was all good shooting and good basketball but his performance was much stronger last year compared to game 1 tonight, 1-11 is pretty terrible. I didn't see the game so I don't know how it played out. I just saw the final stat line.
Oh, ok that makes more sense
And no - favors didn't 'shut him down' - speights was bad offensively all by himself.
And on defense, all the nets big men pretty much seemed to do what they wanted
OK, Thanks.
So you are saying all those low-carb wraps Speights has been eating has not improved his laughable defense? lol I'd like to see what kind of adjustments that Collins will be able to make from Game 1 until the last game and see if Speights shows any intent on listening to what his coach is telling him.
BTW, I think that Aaron McKie is coaching them but Collins is in Orlando working with the team. Is that correct?
That's the rumor yeah - Mckie was on the bench - Collins was watching...I don't know if you can get speights to be better - I mean this is the knock on him from the moment he was drafted - work ethic/dedication.
I wonder what he can do with Thad's defense. He has all the ability to be a good player on that end but he hasn't shown the desire. The thing that stands out to me is his comments after Turkaluv scored the winning bucket against his in the playoffs 2 years ago where he just seemed indifferent to losing the game by playing so far off his man. He just said something like "Well, that's something that I will learn as I play in this league so it's not a big deal." I don't remember the exact quote but that is how I interpreted it.
I don't believe Thad has as high a basketball IQ as first determined...I think that's his problem - can you teach a higher bball iq?
I don't think you can. That is the big difference between Turner and Favors IMO. That is why you see people like Aaron McKie and Eric Snow who played solid defense against a young Kobe have success against elite players while they lacked the overall athletic ability. I even think Kobe at one point said that Eric Snow played the best defense against him over anyone else in the league back in 2002-03.
Aren't you being a little hasty? You haven't seen him play one game under a real coach with a legitimate defensive philosophy. Even Iguodala had a sub par year defensively compared to previous years.
Speights hasn't ever played defense...not even in summer league, watching him pushed around by rookies and second stringers was pathetic
I just looked it up and I spelled it really wrong, Hedo Turkoglu. I was referencing the game 3 or 4 when he his the 3 pointer to win the game when Thad was guarding him.
It was good to see Turner go up against an elite athlete like T. Williams (who I am a fan of, he has a lot of Iguodala in him.) But would have preferred to have this match up after a couple of warm up games :)
Like Jrue last year, Turner will have to learn to adapt to a higher level of athlete. But even in a game like this one you can tell his high BB IQ, and I'd expect he will adapt and get the most out of his talent.
Did Evan Turner play SG, SF, or PG?
I was more focused on baseball, but I had a few thoughts on what I saw. I was in and out throughout the first half and saw almost all of the second half.
1. A lot of basic offense, which I liked. Basic motion sets with pin downs for Meeks and Turner. Pick and roll with Jrue and whoever. Vanilla stuff, which should suit this team well. They have about as much talent and experience (especially with their starters) as any team there, so no need to go crazy with intricate offense. Let these guys try and make plays.
2. Jrue was awesome. One thing that the Sixers should do going forward is try put an emphasis on guys that can knock down wide-open shots consistently. Sure what we really need are defensive rebounders, but hopefully they also can knock down open shots, because Jrue will find them. Maybe even Spencer Hawes will be able to make defenses pay when Jrue finds him :) Jrue could have had more assists tonight if he even had a willing shooter from the post like Brand. He reminds me of a quarterback the way he disects a defense to find open men. A true dual/threat guy like an earlier version of McNabb. Only problem was he took a few plays off on defense, maybe he was tired? Well, he had no help defense and Williams threw down a hellacious dunk on one of the plays.
3. Speights was really discouraging. His defense was terrible and he took jump shot after jump shot. He's kind of like an Iverson type as a big guy, taking a lot of tough fadeaway type shots. I wasn't disappointed that he was missing them, but some weren't great shots and were bad decisions. His rebounding and D were not good either. As of now, this guy is slated to play heavy minutes for this team, which is worrisome.
4. Turner was just getting settled, and I didn't think he was bad at all. He looked a little shy on the offensive end in his first game, but at least he didn't force things. He had a difficult matchup with Damion James and got overpowered a few times, but he learned and stripped the ball from him. I loved the play with a minute left when he got the ball at the top of the key trying to put the game out of reach, that's why we got him. I felt comfortable and he found Plaisted(?) for a three point play. Good to see him in a 76ers uniform.
5. I loved the way they were pushing the ball offensively off defensive boards. The one thing Speights did well was outlet the ball and Jrue/Turner/Meeks got easy buckets. Reminded me of a few years ago. The difference was that it was done by the pass, not just Andre Miller dribbling up the floor.
6. Last thing- I was fascinated by Collins watching the team on the other side of the court. He was clapping for the players when they made good basketball plays (Mike Green's stop and go, Turner's behind the back moves, Turners P and R at the end, anything Jrue did) and not on bad plays (anything Speights did).
All and all, it's great to be away from Eddie Jordan. I like basketball again.
Jazzy about to chat Sixers.


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In recent years, Judilla has worked on the team of the Multi-Agency Investigation Task Force of the Glorietta 2 Explosion, investigating the cause of the 2007 Glorietta blast. Also in 2007, he began working with a team appointed by the government to develop an electric car, the Philippine Electric Vehicle (PEV). The following year, he started working on the development of a remote-control bomb disposal robot with a team which included Mapua students. He designed the MAC robot and shared the patent with the school and members of the research and development team out of gratitude for assistance in completing his master's degree. He was inspired to develop this robot out of inexpensive local materials after seeing television footage of PNP officials handling possible bomb packages.
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- Glorietta 2 Explosion Report (Accessed January 22, 2009).
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£40 per marathon runner and £120 per team for the relay race.Discount for entries received by close of business Friday 24 February 2017: £30 per marathon runner. £100 per team for the relay race.
Seeing is Believing (SiB) is Standard Chartered Bank's global programme to help tackle preventable and curable blindness. Through our funding, we've helped to bring affordable eye care to some of the poorest communities across the globe. Since launching in 2003, SiB has helped over 45 million people, giving more than 2.91 million people their sight back. In September 2011, we pledged to raise USD100 million by 2020 for sustainable eye-care programmes, aiming to reach 50 million people. We make sure your donation has the maximum impact, thanks to our partnership with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and leading eye-care organisations. Raising sponsorship is not a pre-condition of taking part in the marathon but we ask that if you do raise funds, we ask you to consider using this opportunity to raise funds for SiB. Sponsorship forms may be obtained from the Bank or downloaded from our website. All entry fees and any money raised on the day will be donated to SiB.
Should be made to Standard Chartered Bank, Stanley either by hand to the Enquiries desk during office hours (8:30 to 3:00, Monday to Friday, except Wednesday 9:00 to 3:00) at Ross Road, Stanley or by mail to PO Box 597, Stanley, Falkland Islands FIQQ 1ZZ. No faxed or emailed forms can be accepted.
All successful entry applications will receive a confirmation of acceptance.
Applicants from MPA are warned that in previous years, some entry forms posted at MPA were misdirected to the UK (in MOD mail) and a couple were not received in time for the race. They may wish therefore to contact the bank to confirm the application has been received.
Only applicants submitting their forms by close of business Friday 24 February 2017 (and thereby allowing time for ribbons to be printed) can be guaranteed a medal on the day upon successful completion of the distance. (Overseas applicants may advise by fax or email the submission of an application by this date to guarantee their medal and certificate but the actual application will not be deemed to have been made until received in its original form).
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The route will be marshalled to give advice, assist with safety and to check that runners stay on the correct route. Please note, it is not possible for roads to be closed so it will be important for runners to stay aware of their surroundings at all times.
On the above route the approximate handover points on the relay will be: Runner 1 to runner 2: The start of the bend at Surf Bay. Runner 2 to runner 3: Near the gate to the track leading up Sapper Hill. Runner 3 to runner 4: On the hill leading up to the airport.
The race has full AIMS (Association of International Marathons and Road Races) accreditation and is officially the world's most southerly certified marathon.
Marshals will be posted along the course to mark off runners as they pass certain points on the route. Participants will have had to pass all checkpoints to qualify as a finisher.
In line with usual marathon provisions water stations will be provided along the course at approximately 2½ to 3 miles apart. Some stations will have isotonic drinks as well (although runners are advised to avoid isotonic drinks unless they have trained with them) and some stations will have basic first aid kits (such as sticking plasters and Vaseline) to be self-administered.
The race will start at 10:00 am. (Registration starts at 8:30 am and closes at 09:40 am). The finish will close at 4:00 pm. This allows 6 hours to complete the race.
There is no walkers' race as such but as with previous years those who wish to walk the course are welcome to take part. However, please note that drinks stations along the course may have to close and marshals return to the finish as consistent with the 4 o'clock close. Anyone finishing after 6 hours may receive a medal and certificate but the time might be shown only as 6:00:00+.
The weather in the Falkland Islands is unpredictable and the wind especially can be difficult for the runners. March has been chosen for the race in the hope that the summer winds will have died down but the temperature not dropped too much. Nonetheless, it is possible that the weather on race day will be windy and running into the wind can be particularly uncomfortable. It is unlikely that the race will be cancelled due to the weather but if it is especially bad the start may be briefly delayed (if a delay might help runners) and/or the finish close later (to allow longer to complete the course). Runners should note that experienced marathoners have described the course as one of the toughest they have run. Nonetheless, the tougher the race the greater the feeling of achievement upon finishing!
Although times may be taken around the course and participants may have their own stop watches there shall be one official time keeper and the times recorded by this time keeper will be the undisputed official times.
It is advisable for all persons wishing to participate in the marathon or team event to review the following questions before completing their entry form.Has a doctor ever said that you have a heart condition and that you should only do physical activity recommended by a doctor?Do you feel pain in your chest when you do physical activity?In the past month have you had chest pain when you were doing physical activity?Do you lose your balance because of dizziness or do you ever lose consciousness?Do you have a bone or joint problem that could be made worse by a change in your physical activity?Is your doctor currently prescribing drugs for your blood pressure or heart condition?Are you pregnant?Do you have insulin dependent diabetes?Do you know of any other reason why you should not do physical activity?
If you have answered yes to any of the above questions we strongly recommend that you seek advice from your doctor before you register and forward your entry for the race(s).
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Whilst every reasonable precaution will be taken by the organisers to ensure the participants' safety participants run at their own risk and the organisers shall not be liable for any loss and/or damage whether personal or otherwise and howsoever arising.
A runner must retire from the race immediately if required to do so by any member of the official medical staff.
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by Todd Shepherd | Colorado Watchdog
BOULDER — Tensions between election watchers in Boulder County and the clerk and recorder's office have now spilled over into legal action.
A lawsuit has been filed against Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall, alleging Hall has blocked certified election watchers from observing the receiving and handling process the Clerk's office is using for military and overseas voters.
The free-market think-tank Independence Institute* is a partner in the suit with lead plaintiff Ralph Shnelvar, who is an authorized election watcher in Boulder County.
Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that Hall has violated state law by denying the election watchers, "the ability to meaningfully observe the handling of mail-in absentee ballots and Uniformed Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) ballots, at each stage of the election…"
In addition to providing general access to the ballot handling process, the lawsuit asks the court to direct Clerk Hall to provide the canvass board and election watchers the following provisions as well:
- Witness the duplication of ballots to verify accuracy of voter intent.
- Observe the tabulation process or display screens of voting equipment at any time that the voter is not in the immediate area for purposes of voting or casting his ballot.
- Witness hand count tabulations as they are being conducted.
Tensions between the canvass board and Hall had been brewing earlier in the month, when the Boulder Weekly reported that the canvassing board accused Hall of denying them access to the printing of ballots. According to the Boulder Weekly, "Hall is sticking by her story that it was the printing facility, not her office, that refused to grant activists access to the local ballot-printing operation (in early October)."
The canvassing board in Boulder this year has a distinctly different makeup, thanks in part to Tom Tancredo's run for Governor as a member of the American Constitution Party (ACP) in 2010. Because the percentage of statewide votes Tancredo received even in defeat, the ACP is currently considered a "major" political party by state law. Therefore, the board previously would have typically consisted of three Republicans and three Democrats. This year, the make up is two Republicans, two members of the ACP, and two Democrats.
The canvassing board is the "umbrella" agency charged with overseeing the integrity of an election. Members of the canvassing board can be election watchers, but if someone is an authorized election watcher, that does not mean they are not necessarily a member of the canvassing board.
Hall could not be reached for comment.
*The Independence Institute is the employer of the author of this article.
Contact Todd Shepherd at [email protected]


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by Nancy Campbell at Above Rubies I remember someone saying to me when I was raising our children, "There is never a convenient time to have a baby!"How true. If we wait for the perfect time, it will … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: A Convenient Time?
Another Duggar Baby On The Way
Turns out that Josh and Anna Duggar just announced they are pregnant with number three. People magazine ran this piece in their magazine and website: The pitter-patter of little feet may sound more like a stampede at a Duggar get-together – and this summer the volume … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Not a Coincidence?
by Michelle Duggar on The Today Show -August 3, 2010 "When we look at Josie — we were just talking about it this morning — and I thought, even knowing that we went through the challenge that we did, we would do it again," the supermom told TODAY's Meredith Vieira Tuesday … [Read more...]
Does Evangelical Christianity Cause Emotional Damage: Part 2
by Brucer GerencserEvangelicalism is dominated by Bible literalism. God said it, and that settles it. There can be no debate, no argument. An infallible God has spoken. Whatever the Bible teaches, the Evangelical is duty bound … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: What is Quiverfull?
by Jimbob and Michelle Duggar pages 92 to 93 in their book "A Love That Multiples" We find it amusing how many reporters copy and paste information they find about us that someone else has copied and pasted without checking the facts. For instance, even though Wikipedia … [Read more...]
Happy is the Man That Has His Quiver Full of Them
by Bruce GerencserWhen Polly and I married in 1978, we planned to have three children. We wanted to wait a year or so before we started having children, but six-weeks into marriage Polly became pregnant. Our son Jason was seven weeks before our first wedding anniversary.In 1981, Nathan … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Risking What?
by Gary Knapp on the Joe Bayly Blog - February 15, 2013 I must confess that I am a little confused... For years in the abortion debate we have been told that abortion must be available to protect the life of the pregnant woman. It would seem that staying alive has been very important to our women to the degree that if a baby … [Read more...]
Should Christians Use Birth Control? A Guest Post
by Ian - Guest writer from Bruce Gerencser's blog The Way ForwardI am writing this in response to thoughts put out by Pastor Steven Anderson. Guys like this are sick in the head and very dangerous. Given the right opportunity, he would call his followers to take up … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Not Wanting Children?
Lori Alexander from the blog Always Learning - February 4, 2013 She is young and happy in love. She loves her job. If she is unhappy at home, she becomes happy when she goes to work. Having children frightens her. She will have to give up … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Give To Receive?
Kelly Crawford from Generation Cedar - February 7, 2013 I have lived through turbulent economic crises, we have been the scorn of those wondering why we would be so "irresponsible" to have children on such a tight budget, we have been to the desperate … [Read more...]


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By Donna Smith
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Shoppers walk past the Aerie by American Eagle store at Westfield Belden Village Mall in Jackson Township. While the mall is a one of more popular shopping locations for local residents, the Jackson Belden Chamber of Commerce is reminding consumers to shop local and visit small businesses this Saturday. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Another hot trailer for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
More plot, and more girl-on-girl action.
There is a new, second trailer out for David Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
The first trailer was quick cut, sexy and rock-and-roll. This one give the audience more of a teaser of the character dynamics and the plot (and it also includes about 46 mentions of Lisbeth sleeping with women, in case you missed that fact.)
I love the "They're encyrpted." "Please." lines. Looks like Fincher will prove himself right with his surprising casting of Rooney Mara as Salander.
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You Got People This Public Service Announcement brought to you by a Unitarian Universalist minister who has just been creatively reminded by the universe of this important truth. Beloveds, in the crush of this season of holidays, remember that YOU GOT PEOPLE. Contrary to the images of loneliness and unworthiness being projected onto us during [Read More…]
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On Jan. 16, 1978, NASA announced that it had selected the first group of space shuttle astronauts; it was the agencys first co-ed and multiracial astronaut class. Three African-American men, one Asian American man and six white women were included in the newest selection of 35 astronauts. In recognition of Black History Month, JSC celebrates the first three African-Americans to be named to the Astronaut Office: Guion S. Bluford, Frederick D. Gregory and Ronald E. McNair. Bluford came to Houston from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, having just defended his doctorate in aerospace engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Bluford, like many of his classmates, was a Vietnam veteran who had flown combat missions in Southeast Asia. He and McNair had been selected as mission specialists, scientists who would conduct scientific research in the orbiter and use the shuttles arm to capture satellites and maneuver EVA crew members. Gregory, the oldest of the three and only one named as a pilot astronaut, was a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He served as a rescue helicopter pilot in Vietnam. When he returned to the States, Gregory attended test pilot school at Patuxent River and eventually became a research test pilot at the Langley Research Center. At the time of the announcement he held a masters degree in information systems from George Washington University. McNair had grown up poor in the segregated community of Lake City, South Carolina, where he also faced racial discrimination. He excelled in academics and became valedictorian of his high school class. In 1976, he earned a doctorate in physics from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and upon graduation, Hughes Research Laboratories offered him a position at their lab in Malibu, California. All three men relocated to Texas and reported for duty in July 1978 to the Johnson Space Center.
Guion Bluford exercises on a treadmill device during his first flight.
In 1982, NASA released the names of the astronauts assigned to STS-7, 8 and 9. STS-7 included a female crew member, Sally K. Ride, and Bluford was one of four men assigned to the next flight, STS-8. In August 1983, he would become the first African-American in space. Five months later McNair flew onboard Challenger with a five-member crew. The highlight of STS-41B was the first use of the Manned Maneuvering Unit, a backpack unit allowing astronauts to fly free of the space shuttle in Earth orbit. Gregory, the last of the trio to fly, was assigned to STS-51B, a Spacelab mission. As he circled the Earth, Gregorys global perspective evolved. From space you cant see discernible borders and you begin to question why people dont like each other, because it looked like just one big neighborhood down there. The longer I was there, he said, the greater my [ideas about] a citizen of changed. Bluford completed a second mission sponsored by West Germany in the fall of 1985 known as D-1 (STS-61A), Challengers last successful flight.
Astronaut Ronald McNair stows his gear as he and STS-41B crewmate Robert Stewart prepare for reentry.
Challenger and the crew of STS-51L, which included McNair, were lost just a few months later, on Jan. 28, 1986. Gregory, then sitting at the CapCom console in Mission Control, watched the tragedy unfold and spent the next few days protecting the astronaut families from the media. Bluford dedicated himself to ensuring that future crews would fly in a safer spacecraft. Crews passed along mock keys for each orbiter, and 61A had not had a chance to present the Challenger key to 51L before the launch. After the accident, Bluford later recalled, I continued to display the Challenger key in my office as a reminder to all that flying in space was dangerous and that we needed to be vigilant if we were going to pursue this profession safely.
Frederick Gregory participates in AsCan training in Building 9.
Bluford and Gregory went on to fly two additional shuttle missions each. Gregory moved from JSC to NASA Headquarters in 1992, where he served as the Associate Administrator for the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance for nine years, Associate Administrator for the Office of Space Flight and finally as NASA Deputy Administrator from 2002-2005. He resigned in the fall of 2005, just a few months after the flight of STS-114, the return to flight following the Columbia accident. Bluford left NASA in 1993 to work for private industry. To read more about the careers and experiences of these remarkable astronauts, including NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, who was selected in the 1980 astronaut class, visit the JSC Oral History Project homepage at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/oral_histories.htm A selection of excerpts from interviews and links to the oral history interviews conducted with some of the African-Americans who contributed to NASAs history can be found on the JSC History Portal: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/special_events/BHM.htm.
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I have been CLEARED to work out!!!
One of the benefits of being Facebook friends with my OB/GYN is that she saw a series of statuses I made in the last week or so, lamenting the fact that I was not able to enjoy the beautiful and chilly Florida weather with a run because I thought I was still waiting to get clearance for working out post-baby.
(The recovery process is like whoa, folks. I knew getting Audrey out would be a challenge. I had no idea that it would be two weeks before I could comfortably sit down, go to the bathroom or walk upstairs. Humbling.)
So when she sent me a message telling me that as long as I promised to listen to my body and take it slowwwwwwww, it was fine to start moving again, you know I jumped up and down.
It's been about eight weeks since I could really do anything to break a sweat, and while it was very challenging to take a time out, it was the right thing to do for my baby and my body. Now, I'm revved up to ramp up my activity, and I feel like the possibilities are endless!
I'm going to be smart, and assume that I'm essentially starting over in terms of my fitness level. I am also going to set longterm goals, looking 6-12 months in the future.
So what will be my first MAJOR post-baby goal — a 5K? A triathlon? Round 3 of P90X? A yoga challenge? Something else?
I just had to share how exciting it is to be back to my old self — I'll keep you posted on the plans!


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Jewish Writings
Judith Butler writes:
'You know the left think that I am conservative,' Hannah Arendt once said, 'and the conservatives think I am left or I am a maverick or God knows what. And I must say that I couldn't care less. I don't think the real questions of this century get any kind of illumination by this kind of thing.' The Jewish Writings make the matter of her political affiliation no easier to settle. In these editorials, essays and unfinished pieces, she seeks to underscore the political paradoxes of the nation-state. If the nation-state secures the rights of citizens, then surely it is a necessity; but if the nation-state relies on nationalism and invariably produces massive numbers of stateless people, it clearly needs to be opposed. If the nation-state is opposed, then what, if anything, serves as its alternative?
Corey Robin writes:
Though Arendt had a long, often sympathetic involvement in Zionist politics, she was wary of the project almost from the start. 'I find this territorial experiment increasingly problematic,' she wrote in a 1940 letter, just one of the fascinating documents gathered by Jerome Kohn and Ron Feldman in their splendid collection of Arendt's Jewish writings, many of which have been translated for the first time. In 1948, she confessed to her complete 'opposition to present Zionist politics'. Her opposition was rooted in three concerns: the correspondence she saw between Zionism and Fascism, the Zionists' dependence on imperialism, and her growing awareness of what she called 'the Arab question'.
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As a New York State elected official I was recently invited by the Port Authority of NY and NJ to tour and inspect the site of the World Trade Center reconstruction project. The Port Authority is racing to complete enough of the project to open the site on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 that destroyed the towers.
In 1965, when I was working for the New York State Supreme Court, I would often eat my lunch at the then-new World Trade Center site. While the towers were under construction it was interesting to look down into the foundation, which the workers called "the bathtub," to see the PATH tubes (which were enclosed in a metal casement) running about one flight above the floor of the "tub."
Last week, 46 years after I stood and looked down into the foundation of the Towers, I was able to stand in the PATH station and look at the concrete casing that holds the 1 Train line and other hidden parts of the World Trade Center complex. I hope you find these pictures as interesting as I do.
Farrell overlooks the World Trade Center reconstruction project. For more pictures click here.
The Port Authority, founded jointly by the states of New York and New Jersey 90 years ago, oversees a number of the New York metropolitan area's transportation infrastructure as well as the World Trade Center site. The Port Authority oversaw construction of the original Trade Center site during the 1960s. As a New York State elected official, Farrell was granted the opportunity to visit the site where more than 3,000 workers are striving to finish the vast project.
The 16-acre site, which is bounded by Liberty, Church and Vesey Streets and Route 9A/West Street, will eventually include five new skyscrapers, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, the WTC Retail Complex, a Vehicular Security Center, a Performing Arts Center, and Liberty Park.
One World Trade Center, a glass and steel office tower seen as the crown jewel of the project, is half complete. As of this week, 52 stories have been built, half the finished size of the building, which now stands 600 feet above street level. When complete, One World Trade Center will stand 1,776 feet including an illuminated antenna on top of the building, making it the tallest skyscraper in the United States.
A 2003 master plan for the site calls for construction of a memorial and museum at the center of the finished site. The six-acre memorial site between Fulton and Liberty Streets will include a reflecting pool and other tributes to the nearly 3,000 persons who died September 11, 2001.


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Adolescent health center project at Northeast High School
The Foundation's Community Care Funding Partners Program is an eight-year matching grant program designed to encourage community and regional corporations and foundations to support small-scale local health centers serving the medically indigent.This grant supports a primary care health center at Northeast High School. In addition to students at the High School, the Clinic will serve an adjacent junior high located on Northeast's campus. Together the two schools enroll 2,000 students, half minority and half from blue collar white families. Operational management of the project will be provided under contract with the Adolescent Resources Council, which is a nonprofit agency. The Wayne Miner Health Center will provide medical backup for the project. The Kansas City Department of Health will provide statistical monitoring and assessment of the volume and content of care. The school system will assign a half-time nurse to the project and underwrite the costs of space and related maintenance and utilities.
Grant Details
Amount Awarded $391,517.00
Awarded on: 10/24/1985
Time frame: 11/1/1985 - 7/31/1990
Grant Number: 10271
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
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Kansas City, 64105-1575


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I had a user come in with a new toshiba laptop with Windows Vista Home
Premium. I downloaded the newest version of ConfigFree - a wireless utility
to connect to ap's. Anyway, I downloaded the utility but couldn't install it
due to a permissions issue. I checked the account - Owner is the name but
doesn't have enough permissions to install this utility. Is the
Admininstrator account disabled by default? How can I enable the account if
the one and only account on this laptop cannot install this wireless utility?


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The "UFO " that hovered over the crowd protesting the questionably honest but inevitable re-election of Vladimir "Action Vlad" Putin to the Russian Presidency turned out to be just a radio-controlled remote taking pictures of the crowd for a citizen-journalist TV network.
I can't be the only one who immediately assumed Putin was somehow involved, and not only because of his obvious overuse of the puppet strings controlling current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Putin has worked so hard to craft his image as a man of action – the one always first in line to respond in manly ways to emergencies, wild animals or what is apparently an insatiable Russian appetite for pictures of 56-year-old men with their shirts off – it would have been more surprising to discover Putin controlling the tiny copter from some dark control room than it would have been to learn he'd had himself miniaturized so he could fit in the tiny spy copter and fly its missions in person.
Putin actually spent the last four years in the largely ceremonial role of prime minister – to which Medvedev appointed him after Putin resigned in 2008 after serving the maximum two consecutive terms as Russian president.
Putin livened up the wait between sessions on the Medvedev remote controller with a string of TV and other media appearances in which he seemed to be auditioning either for the next James Bond movie, or one of those Most Interesting Man In the World beer commercials.
As Action Vlad, Putin criscrossed Russia demonstrating his obsessive physical fitness and a range of macho, outdoorsy skills during photo opportunities in which he pulled off a series of increasingly unlikely feats, but demonstrated a lack of consistent ability to keep his shirt on his back.
"Action Vlad" Putin in The Most Interesting (publicity stunt-generated image of a) Man in Russia
Among Putin's most publicity-generating, least likely accomplishments:
- A July 2010 stint as copilot of an amphibious firefighting plane dumping water on widespread forest fires in Central Russia;
- Hunting Siberian tigers and polar bears (with tranquilizer darts, but he saved the TV crew when the tiger woke up);
- Hunting whales with a crossbow (missed three shots before penetrating far enough to plant the transponder);
- Fishing and horseback riding shirtless while entertaining Prince Albert of Monaco (which inspired a 'Putin goes fishing' doll);
- Piloting a mini-sub to the bottom of Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake;
- Discovering archeologically significant sixth-century ceramic jugs in full view of underwater television cameras he brought with him on an August dive in the Black Sea. The dive, one of Putin's first, generated news stories worldwide after the great man found the amphorae lying exposed on the sea floor almost immediately after submerging. His press secretary later admitted it was a hoax.
Putin also put out a Judo instructional tape in which he was shown defeating world champions. Falls in instructional tapes are regularly staged, even with celebrity "attackers," and Putin apparently has a legitimate black belt in Judo, so that stunt was self-aggrandizing but not all that unlikely.
Now that he's "won" the most recent presidential "election," Putin is almost certain to take over the presidency for at least another four years, despite a massive but inconsistent and so-far ineffective campaign to nullify the election over charges of fraud.
That means Action Vlad will be too busy in the Kremlin to venture out for more adventures, even one as exciting as changing into Tiny Vlad to take the mini spy copter for a little look-see around the walls of the Kremlin.
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