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AROUND TOWNwill Trump's Deportation Force start in Woodside and Atherton, looking for workers without documentation?
All those "illegals" mowing lawns and scrubbing bathrooms seem like the natural target for the Trumpian dystopia, correctomundo? Seems...Original post made by Fountain of Youth on Oct. 29, 2016
Last comment by No on Hilliary, on Nov 1, 2016 at 5:55 pm | 13 comments | 653 Views
OTHER TOPICSCommittee outlines potential plane-noise recommendations
A multi-city and county committee tasked with finding ways to reduce overhead noise from airplanes going to and from San...Original post made on Oct. 23, 2016
Last comment by Tired of Cronyism, on Nov 1, 2016 at 4:31 pm | 3 comments | 2262 Views
MENLO PARKUSGS to leave Menlo Park for Moffett Field
Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey say they intend to shut down the agency's West Coast science center in Menlo Park...Original post made on Sep. 20, 2016
Last comment by zztop, on Nov 1, 2016 at 2:18 pm | 23 comments | 6696 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDSSaywell, Gupta top spenders in Menlo Park school district election
The two top spending candidates in the Menlo Park City School District race, Scott Saywell and Alka Gupta, have each spent...Original post made on Nov. 1, 2016
Last comment by Menlo Voter., on Nov 1, 2016 at 2:04 pm | 2 comments | 2484 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDSHinshaw endorses Ackerman and Gupta
While I appreciate people's support, to be clear I am not running for election to the Menlo Park School Board. A few weeks...Original post made by Scott Hinshaw on Oct. 14, 2016
Last comment by Vickie Mrva, on Nov 1, 2016 at 10:01 am | 12 comments | 1127 Views
AROUND TOWNDistrict looks at cost of non-resident employees' kids attending district schools
This year, 67 students in the Menlo Park City School District live outside the district, but have parents who work for the...Original post made on Oct. 25, 2016
Last comment by Stats, on Nov 1, 2016 at 9:36 am | 40 comments | 4077 Views
PORTOLA VALLEYPortola Valley surveys residents on license-plate cameras
The town of Portola Valley is using an online survey to gather community opinion on the use of cameras that photograph the...Original post made on Oct. 27, 2016
Last comment by Michael G. Stogner, on Nov 1, 2016 at 8:21 am | 4 comments | 2181 Views
MENLO PARKMenlo Park school district sending survey to all registered voters
Beginning this week, the Menlo Park City School District is mailing every registered voter in the district an invitation...Original post made on Oct. 28, 2016
Last comment by Menlo Voter., on Oct 31, 2016 at 9:46 pm | 21 comments | 2462 Views
OTHER TOPICSAssembly race splits Democratic establishment
Unlike in recent years, where the district's anointed Democrat rolled to a comfortable Election Day victory, this year's...Original post made on Oct. 31, 2016
Last comment by Dem, on Oct 31, 2016 at 5:08 pm | 2 comments | 2470 Views
MENLO PARKMenlo Park not ready to join Atherton in fiscal scrutiny of Menlo Park fire district
Menlo Park seems to have sidestepped flared tensions between the town of Atherton and the Menlo Park Fire Protection District,...Original post made on Oct. 31, 2016
Last comment by Observer, on Oct 31, 2016 at 12:36 pm | 1 comment | 1991 Views
AROUND TOWNMenlo Park: Website is social network just for those 50 and up
When Noopur Pandey's mom asked how she could meet new friends while visiting family in Menlo Park, Ms. Pandey had a Silicon...Original post made on Oct. 28, 2016
Last comment by resident, on Oct 31, 2016 at 8:05 am | 3 comments | 4278 Views
AROUND TOWNSparks flying between Atherton and Menlo Park fire district
The relationship between the Menlo Park Fire Protection District and the town of Atherton has become strained since the town...Original post made on Oct. 21, 2016
Last comment by Peter Carpenter, on Oct 30, 2016 at 1:46 pm | 66 comments | 5919 Views
AROUND TOWNPortola Valley: Home invasions rattle some, galvanize others
It's been a disquieting week and a half in Portola Valley. Anxiety is up after an Oct. 18 daytime residential burglary, an...Original post made on Oct. 25, 2016
Last comment by Stan Urland, on Oct 30, 2016 at 10:24 am | 3 comments | 2246 Views
AROUND TOWNPortola Valley council says 'no,' again, to fixed license-plate cameras
After a two-hour discussion Sept. 28 revisiting the question of whether to install automatic license-plate-reading cameras...Original post made on Oct. 6, 2016
Last comment by LawAndOrder, on Oct 29, 2016 at 11:31 am | 9 comments | 2435 Views
MENLO PARKMenlo Park: Ground broken for boutique hotel on El Camino
"To prosperity, new beginnings, and managed growth," Menlo Park Mayor Rich Cline toasted to a small crowd gathered around...Original post made on Oct. 27, 2016
Last comment by New to Woodside / formerly MP, on Oct 29, 2016 at 10:05 am | 16 comments | 4337 Views
WOODSIDEFormer Woodside mayor Susan Crocker dies at 75
Susan Crocker, who served on the Woodside Town Council from 1991 to 1995, and was mayor in 1993, died at her home in Woodside...Original post made on Oct. 28, 2016
Last comment by Eric Mills, on Oct 28, 2016 at 4:27 pm | 1 comment | 2894 Views
MENLO PARKNew York Times: Racist comment to customer in Draeger's
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/15/opinion/how-dictatorships-are-born.html?_r=0 The Trump effect even here: "Speaking...Original post made by Morris Brown on Oct. 16, 2016
Last comment by R Buck, on Oct 28, 2016 at 2:03 pm | 14 comments | 1118 Views
MENLO PARKMenlo Park: 'Tent City' video bristles against Facebook plans
A homespun music video by Menlo Park resident Bill Coggshall that was posted on YouTube last week takes on Facebook's huge...Original post made on Oct. 26, 2016
Last comment by really?, on Oct 28, 2016 at 1:18 pm | 4 comments | 1987 Views
AROUND TOWNNew York Times: The 281 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List
Unreal. The whole list for those too Moral to folow or link to "the short fingered vulgarian." http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.h...Original post made by Windy City Tres Cubs on Oct. 24, 2016
Last comment by Westbrook, on Oct 27, 2016 at 11:03 pm | 27 comments | 1929 Views
MENLO PARKMenlo Park: Competition, rising rent force yoga studio to close
Nineteen years ago, Fran Philip arrived in the U.S. from Australia with her husband and an L-2 visa, which meant she wasn't...Original post made on Oct. 27, 2016
Last comment by Annabelle, on Oct 27, 2016 at 4:35 pm | 1 comment | 2596 Views
Opening alert: Kyosho Sushi in Menlo Park
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Love is a Verb
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Umeboshi - The Macrobiotic Antibiotic
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On Voter Databases and Election Systems
By Stuart Soffer | 2 comments | 236 views
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JUSTINE Henin's unseeded status ensured her Australian Open draw would be a lottery, and an early rematch with Belgian rival Kim Clijsters is a possibility.
The Brisbane International finalists have both landed in a loaded third quarter of the draw at Melbourne Park, but it is another compatriot, 80th-ranked Kirsten Flipkens, that Henin will play first.
The 27-year-old winner of seven grand slam titles is the wildcard, in every sense, of the women's draw, and yesterday's events only added to the intrigue. Should the unranked Henin beat Flipkens, as she did 6-4, 6-4 in the Charleroi exhibition that launched her return in November, the Belgian could potentially play fifth seed Elena Dementieva in the second round, and Australian Jelena Dokic in the third. Clijsters, the US Open champion, drew a qualifier for her first match in Melbourne since 2007, and faces the probable fourth round against third seed Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Defending champion Serena Williams will share the top half of the draw with her sister Venus, eliminating the possibility of a Wimbledon finals rematch between the sisters, with top-seeded Serena opening against 71st-ranked Urszula Radwanska of Poland.
Roger Federer will start against Russia's world No. 36 Igor Andreev, but for Federer it was also about who he will avoid meeting before the final on Sunday fortnight, with No. 2 and defending champion Rafael Nadal, US Open champion and fourth seed Juan Martin del Potro, No. 5 Andy Murray and No. 7 Andy Roddick all in the other half of the draw.
Not that Federer's path will be easy, with a possible fourth-round meeting with Australia's only seeded man, Lleyton Hewitt, a quarter-final against in-form Nikolay Davydenko or 2009 semi-finalist Fernando Verdasco, who beat him last week at Doha, and his 2008 Australian Open conqueror and third seed Novak Djokovic possibly waiting in the semis.
Hewitt will open against a qualifier, which represents a kinder draw than last year's appointment with Fernando Gonzalez, and then face either Christophe Rochus or another qualifier, but could then run into Marcos Baghdatis, who beat him in the Sydney quarter-finals on Thursday, with Federer looming next. Hewitt's Davis Cup teammates will also have some work to do, Peter Luczak having drawn Nadal and Carsten Ball to play ninth-seeded Verdasco, although Bernard Tomic will meet a qualifier. So will women's 13th seed Sam Stosur, as Jelena Dokic faces a testing rematch against Russian Alisa Kleybanova, the 27th seed she defeated during her emotional run to the quarter-finals last year.
Federer is outright men's favourite, and after yesterday's draw he firmed from $3.50 to $3 on TAB Sportsbet, with Betfair tightening his odds from $4.10 to $3.95. Davydenko has been backed in from $100 to $14 on Betfair over the past month, while TAB Sportsbet has him firming from $41 to $13 and then to $11 after the draw.
Henin drifted from $5.50 to $7 on TAB Sportsbet and from $6 to $7 with Betfair. Serena Williams is outright women's favourite at $3.75 (TAB Sportsbet) or $4 (Betfair).
(22) Lleyton Hewitt v qualifier
Peter Luczak v (2) Rafael Nadal (Esp)
Carsten Ball (WC) v (9) Fernando Verdasco (Esp)
Marinko Matosevic (WC) v Marco Chiudinelli (Sui)
Nick Lindahl (WC) v Jarkko Nieminen (Fin)
Bernard Tomic (WC) v qualifier
Jason Kubler (WC) v (24) Ivan Ljubicic (Cro)
(13) Sam Stosur v qualifier
Jelena Dokic v (27) Alisa Kleybanova (Rus)
Anastasia Rodionova v (3) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus)
Jarmila Groth (WC) v qualifier
Olivia Rogowska (WC) v Sorana Cirstea (Rou)
Alicia Molik (WC) v Julie Coin (Fra)
Casey Dellacqua (WC) v Anastasiya Yakimova (Blr)
(1) Roger Federer v (6) Nikolay Davydenko
(3) Novak Djokovic v (8) Robin Soderling
(7) Andy Roddick v (4) Juan Martin del Potro
(5) Andy Murray v (2) Rafael Nadal
(1) Serena Williams v (7) Victoria Azarenka
(4) Caroline Wozniacki v (6) Venus Williams
(5) Elena Dementieva v (3) Svetlana Kuznetsova
(8) Jelena Jankovic v (2) Dinara Safina
$3 Federer
$5 Nadal
$6 Djokovic, Murray
$7 Del Potro
$3.75 S Williams
$4 Clijsters
$7 Henin
$8 Sharapova
$15 Dementieva, V Williams>
With JAKE NIALL

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Only two more days before the slight nagging sense of incompleteness that has been around since May evaporates.
My cousin is having his wedding reception at the Forest ground tomorrow as well, so it will be like the last couple of tedious months had never happened.
Nothing now can stop us.


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Seeing Double: On Multiplicity
January 3, 2012
Multiplicity features contemporary prints from the museum's permanent collection. All of the prints are editions and each impression is considered a work of art. Also of interest is the fact that the works on view represent a collaboration between artist and printer.
Ed Ruscha's Western Veritcal and Western Horizontal are color lithographs on paper from 1986. They were acquired by American Art five years later. Each captures the feel of wood grain and the poetry of fleeting, found light. I'm more used to seeing Ruscha's work that includes words or type such as O.K. also in the museum's collection. The pair of "Westerns" feels quiet in comparison, allowing the viewer to create--if not dream--his own narrative.
There are more than eighty works by forty-five artists in the exhibition, including prints by Kara Walker, Sol LeWitt, Kiki Smith, and a surprising set of seven by composer John Cage. Some of the media used make me want to learn more. Mary Heilmann's Mint Boy from 1998 is described as "color aquatint with spit-bite on paper," while Linn Meyers' (who was born in D.C.) Untitled from 2007 is a "sugar-lift etching on paper." To find out more about some of the artists in the show and their printmaking techniques, view a discussion they had with curator Joann Moser.
With so much to see, I'd say Multiplicity is worth multiple visits. The exhibition remains on view through March 11, 2012.
Posted by Howard on January 3, 2012 in American Art Here
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In 1887, Herman Hollerith filed the application, which would become U.S. Patent 395,781, entitled "Art of compiling statistics." It was for a punch card calculator, or tabulating machine. It meant a machine could read data on a medium (the punch cards), a technology which was crucial in completing the 1890 U.S. Census. Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company, which later formed a part of IBM.
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Herman Hollerith :: Wikipedia
Hollerith was born in Buffalo, New York, where he spent his early childhood. He entered the City College of New York in 1875 and graduated from the Columbia University School of Mines with an "Engineer of Mines" degree in 1879. In 1880 he listed himself as a mining engineer while living in Manhattan, and completed his Ph.D. in 1890 at Columbia University. He eventually moved to Washington, D.C., living in Georgetown, with a home on 29th Street and ultimately a factory for manufacturing his tabulating machines at 31st Street and the C&O Canal, where today there is a commemorative plaque placed by IBM.
Norwegian census in 1900 (using a Hollerith machine)
When cards have been prepared for a sufficient number of municipalities and towns, the cards are brought over to electric counting machines, as seen on the following drawing. Using these complicated, American enumeration machines, the clocks attached to the machine count the statistical characteristics corresponding to the different punched holes. By tuning the machine, the combination of e g age, marital status, occupation, birthplace etc can be counted simultaneously. For each card put into the machine, one pointers in the clocks corresponding to the relevant holes moves one stroke from 0 to 99, and the shorter pointer moves one stroke for each hundred counted, so that in all 9999 individuals can be counted on one clock. At the same time, the cards are sorted into the pigeon holes in the special sorting machine to the right of the counting machine.
The father of modern automatic computation :: Columbia University
Hollerith's ideas for automation of the census are expressed succinctly in Patent No. 395,782 of Jan. 8, 1889: "The herein described method of compiling statistics which consists in recording separate statistical items pertaining to the individual by holes or combinations of holed punched in sheets of electrically non-conducting material, and bearing a specific relation to each other and to a standard, and then counting or tallying such statistical items separately or in combination by means of mechanical counters operated by electro-magnets the circuits through which are controlled by the perforated sheets, substantially as and for the purpose set forth."
Anatomy of a Hollerith Card :: University of Delaware
Hollerith cards have 12 rows and 80 columns. Decimal digits are encoded in rows 0-9, one per column as shown above. Other characters are encoded using these rows plus rows 11-12 above row 0. Programmers prepared input using the IBM 407 Printing Calculator and IBM 026 Card Punch, which were entirely mechanical. The 026 produced copious amounts of rectangular chad which we used in place of rice at weddings.
Formed the formed the Tabulating Machine Company :: US Census
In 1896, Hollerith formed the Tabulating Machine Company, opening a shop in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. He provided machines for the 1900 census count, but had greatly raised his leasing prices. Hollerith, secure in his monopoly over the technology, knew that the Census Office would have to pay whatever he demanded. It did, but when the office became the permanent Census Bureau in 1902, it began to explore other options… As for the Computer Tabulating Recording Company, in 1924, the resurgent enterprise changed its name to the International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM.
The 1890 Census :: HiveMind
In 1888, the Census Bureau decided to hold a competition to find a more efficient method for processing its national census. Candidates would have to process data collected from four areas in St Louis and the time needed to come up with the results would determine the ultimate winner. Three people registered for the competition and started to work. The three candidates captured the data in 144.5 hours, 100.5 hours and 72.5 hours (the latter was Hollerith's time). Then the data was processed by each candidate's machine; this took 44.5 hours, 55.5 hours and 5.5 hours. The impressive result of 5.5 hours was achieved by Hollerith's tabulator. Hollerith was the clear winner and he received the contract to process and tabulate the 1890 census data.
Problems of Indian Census :: New York Times, February 25, 1900
Census taking is not the political picnic that many people imagine. Few appreciate the magnitude of the work; the eleventh census cost more than $11,000,000, and in the twelfth census an office force of more than 2,000 for about two years and a field force of over 50,000 for from two weeks to a month, will be employed. Then, too, the Hollerith tabulating machines, by which the population is counted and the returns tabulated, make census taking a huge industrial process.
The Art of Computer Programming :: Donald Knuth
The operator would insert a 6 5/8″ X 3 1/4″ punched card into the "press" and lower the handle; this caused spring-actuated pins in the upper plate to make contact with pools of mercury in the lower plate, wherever a hole was punched in the card. The corresponding completed circuits would cause associated dials on the panel to advance by one unit; and furthermore, one of the 26 lids of the sorting box would pop open. At this point the operator would reopen the press, put the card into the open compartment, and close the lid. One man reportedly ran 19071 cards through this machine in a single 6 1/2-hour working day, an average of about 49 cards per minute!
Job ad from 1918 :: New York Times, July 13, 1918
The Commission announces for Aug. 7, at the N. Y. Custom House, an examination for coder, for both men and women. Vacancies in the War Department and other branches of the service, at entrance salaries ranging from $900 to $1,200 a year, will be filled from this examination. Appointees will be required to code information furnished them by numerical codes. Competitors will be examined in spelling, 10; arithmetic, 10; letter writing, 10; penmanship, 10; copying from plain copy, 30; training and experience, 30. Applicants must show that they have coded for the Hollerith, Powers, or Pierce tabulating equipment for at least one month.
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Park City All Stars in Real Snow
Fan voting for the 2013 X-Games Real Snow voting just opened and two Park City All-Stars wound up head to head in the first round. Check out Bode Merrill and Dan Brisse's video parts as they're both amazing...then vote your favorite but be quick, because voting in the first round only runs through January 14th!
Day 5 of Holy Bowly
We had an incredible time with Lib Tech and all those that participated in The Holy Bowly this year. It was amazing to be part of and everyone involved absolutely loved it. It was a celebration of snowboard culture and lifestyle that we were happy to be a part of and we will never forget.
Park City Grand Prix Slopestyle Day Two
Photos from day two of the Men's Slopestyle in King's Crown Terrain Park at Park City Mountain Resort.
Park City Grand Prix Slopestyle Day One
Photos from day one of the Men's Slopestyle in King's Crown Terrain Park at Park City Mountain Resort.
Opening Week
3 Kings was set ablaze this past week and the park crew kept us guessing as to what sweet feature would be put in next. Enjoy our 50th opening week!
Neffland Opening Day
It was a crazy good time for the opening of Neff Land - check these pix out if you don't believe us.
It's a Hit: "IRPC" Debuts to a Great Crowd
Saturday evening was a perfect night to grab a chair under the stars on Town Lift Plaza and catch the world premiere of our original snowboard film, "IRPC" - and it turns out a whole lot of you agreed. Chairs went early and our crowd spilled into standing-room-only sections around the plaza deck before overflowing back onto Town Bridge over Park Ave. What a crowd! The film, shot entirely in the terrain parks at Park City Mountain Resort, proves anything is possible when it comes to the creative riding going on here. Did you miss the film's debut, or just can't wait to see it again? "IRPC" will be released in sneak peek edits, once a week through October, right here at the blog before posting in its full length November 1. Check it out!
Friday Night Jib Fights Series Finals
Utah has always been known as a state that breeds talented rail slayers. The Friday Night Jib Fights series showed that there is no changing of the guard in the future. These kids are determined and know how to drop some hammers.
Spring Conditions in Full Effect
Blaze Kotsenburg enjoying the sun with a backlip to firecracker.
Handplant Session
A quick little handplant session with Griffin Siebert in upper 3 Kings.
Rocky Maloney Night Moves
Rocky Maloney documents Tim Gage, McRae Williams, Joss Christensen and crew getting dirty on the street-style 24 stairset in 3 Kings.
February Park Update
February has seen some solid night sessions and a gnarly jump line in Quicksilver. Enjoy these selects from the past month and get ready for a night edit from "I Ride Park City" dropping this week.
New 3 Kings Jump Line
Tom Wallisch and Joss Christensen enjoying the hefty new jump line on Quicksilver Run.


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|3 Daze Lost West Yorkshire trio
|53/12 Rock covers band from Bradford
|A Foreigners Journey Like Foreigner? Like Journey? You'll like this band!
Adam Bomb hardworking New York guitar rocker! Plays a lot in the Northern venues.
|Adverse Camber familiar band! Myspace site.
|After Dark Different repertoire to the norm
|Age of Paranoia rocky punky ramonesy lively stuff.
|Airbourne Aussie rock a la AC/DC
|Almaboobies Anglo/Aussie rock babes! They're so good and so cute, we've adopted them!
|Amelia Carter Band Girl guitar vocals
|Angel of Sin West Yorkshire female led covers band
|Anything But Cute Rapid rise to prominence.
|Aquilla Cas Vegas local band with a good set of lads with excellent influences.
|Arena Stadium band tribute
|Armarda Nottingham based rock covers band. Check out their ace logo!
|Atlanta Country rock,rockin country!
|Atlanta Roots rhythm and blues band
|Aynt Skynyrd Myspace
Aynt Skynyrd but it sure sounds like 'em!
|Audio Engineering Services PA hire, repairs and sales (RotN approved)
|Bad Dog Great rock band with female lead.
|Bangkok Messiahs of Groove Entertainment value High!
|Band Of Oz ****new link
|Barnsley Ents She's back by popular demand! Lynne's famous and best South Yorks website for club bands and what's on in South Yorks! Welcome back Lynne!
|Barnstock website for the August Festival
|Baron Greenback Gav ,Tim and Liz's evolving ex Black Abba band. (That alright Tim?)
|Bazooka Band another new link
|Beetlejoos great band who put on one hell of a show, beetlejoos...beetlejoos...beetl..
|Beckett North Eastern veteran band with history
|Bellhouse Road Club. Sheffield's top rock club!
|Big D's Another biker haven road house in deepest West Yorkshire
|Big Day Modern/Classic band with a great reputation.
|Big Fish Band Some experience in this band!
|Biker Guide The world of bikes and rallying
|Birdwell Venue Excellent promotions venue.
|Black Flag Rehearsal Studios In Castleford. Value for money high quality rehearsal studios.
|Black Flag Venue Wakefield - bringing top acts to Wakefield city centre.
|Black Rainbow Good fellows all! Great classic rock in the Ronnie James Dio style.
|Black Rising Another Pete Goodfellow band!
|Black Rose classic rock covers
|Blitz Myspace
|Bloodshot Donny Band
|Blues Matters THE leading voice of the blues in Britain. Value for money magazine.
|Blue Rock Band Hailing from South Yorks
|BluesRockers A great US/Norwegian site of like minded people, with great reviews and info.
|Blueflies Miles' sorts this one out!
|Blueflies Myspace
|Blueniks blues band from Bradford
|Bobtje Blues A nice blues site from over The North Sea run by a nice person called Bob!
|Bon/DC Pete Goodfellows Bon Scott era DC tribute band.
|Bonnie Mac Blues based band with female lead,experienced musicians
|Bravado New Rush Tribute Band from the South Yorkshire area.
|Break Out quality musicians
|Britrocks full decade by decade rock
|Broadband girl fronted rock!
|Brown Bottle Band Sheffield veteran band.
|Burns Unit sounds hot!
|Burnwylde classy rock band.
|Buzz Room rock and other things
|Cardinals check 'em out!
|Cargo ****new link
|Caught Off Guard covers band
|Chantel McGregor female guitar bluser, and good with it!
|Clowne Blues Club Still a great way to finish the weekend
|coAst "Non stop classic rock covers from the sixties to the naughties"
|Cold Flame Like Jethro Tull? You'll like these then.
|Cold Gin South Yorks Rock
|Contraband Excellent Rock Covers band from Bradford
|Coyote A band doing good things
|Cross Keys Friday and Saturday nights. Attracts some excellent bands.
Crosscut Saw Leeds premier blues trio
|Crossfire and at www.myspace.com/crossfirehull
|Charlie Don't Surf South Yorkshire rock band...nothing like The Beach Boys!
|Chasing Amy CLASSIC ROCK BAND
|Chasing Amy GOTH BAND
|Clubland Rockers Sadly this has been discontinued despite our support.
Chris Janssen Dutch bassist and promoter in the Rock and Blues field.
|Creme-Brulee rock covers band in West Yorkshire
|Crush and The Mighty Rhythm Could be off the wall knowing these chaps.
|Daddy Cools Harrogate night spot with live music.
|Damian Twigg Photography -great images of rock musicians
|Dave Jackson Band
|Dam-Nation Rock covers from "Tarn"....(Barnsley)
|DC/79 Rock and Roll Damnation! AC/DC tribute.
|Delirium Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Rainbow, Cult, Darkness, Jet etc
|Desilva "Yorkshire's finest rock covers band" quote-Google! Good site to visit.
|Danny Gartside Rock Photography Just like it says on the tin!
|Danny Bryant's Redeyeband Rock Blues at it's best
|Daze Young lads playing good classic rock
|Dickens Live new venue for 2010
|Dont Shoot The Messenger Rock through the decades
|Do$ch superb rhythm and blues band and a nice website . Comical songs to identify with!
Down Your Street Middlesborough club site ran by two great guys
|D Railed Take a look!
|Dropoutdogs Rock band with good repertoire. Myspace
Dr Blue Wakefield's veteran blusers with humours!
|Dufflegoat ****3 piece rock band
|Dylan Brierley. Young singer songwriter from Morley, Leeds.
|Echopark a new band to us. Check 'em out!
|Edible Underwear definitely not pants.
|Egypt Rock Blues band of long standing evolved from The Groundhogs and Dumpy's Rusty Nuts. Bikers know the score here! Listen to their MP3....wow...
|ElecTech Robin of GDI Band's electrical service
|Eleventh Hour Young band but very impressive own material
|Elkie Brooks Pearls a singer but Elkie rocks! Queen of the UK's rock'n'blues.
|Emerald excellent rock covers
|Empress Female led band
|Export A good time band from Leeds. Book 'em for your party or your rally.
|Fade2Black Following the great tradition of blues bands...mp3 available too.
|Firey Biscuits West Yorks band
|Fireball Ex Live Wire of York, veteran international rockers still rocking....oh yes!
|Flashback 1960's style rock band from York via Hamburg, Liverpool's Cavern, etc
|Flatliners another band full of other band members equals good fun.
|Forming Bands dedicated to registering musicians and forming bands. Great idea!
|Fraser Callum Guitar set ups
|Free Official Myspace
|Free Lucy Piller's excellent and best website for all things Free and Bad Company
|GDI Band Rocking blues to rock. Quote: "rockers who rock"
|Galaxy Music Castleford music store
|Gasworks Bar Max's excellent bar in Bradford Central. The tops!
|Gavin Coulson Gav's website telling all about him and his exploits!
|Gavin Coulson Group Rocking Blues!
|Get Vegas must be good with a name like that!
|Gina Dootson a talented young lady who is sure to go far. Avril Lavigne.........eat ya heart out!
|Girl Kills Boy Young highly talented trio
|GLAM glam rock band!
|Go Kommando great band making all the right noises!
|Green Lane WMC Featherstone. Promoting RotN bands.
|Grumpy Old Men Wakefield geriatric power trio
|Guitartutorleeds Guitar tuition
|Gun Law Modern rock delivered so well.
|Hard Shoulder Rock covers band
|Harry Coffey Band Classic Rock band
|Hall Cross Rock Bar Rock/Biker pub in Hall Cross, Doncaster Central. Nice website. Live Bands.
|Hells Bells Rock Disco You never know when you might need one
|Helter Skelter Young band great repertoire
|Here's Jonny Jonny Kanvas new band
|Henry's Carpetskip New Young band
|Huddersfield bands Phil Munt's facility for the Hudds area.
|Hubert Sumlin Guitar hero's guitar hero, Right hand man of Howlin' Wolf, and Muddy Waters.
|Howard Ellis Great guitar player and more.
|Howden-Live East Yorkshire live music venue with an enthusiastic promoter.
|Iain Hearfield A Red Herring....call him Ed, never call him Red!
|Ian Parker Internationally renowned singer/guitarist / songwriter.
|Idle Pop Bradford band
|Infinity Highly recommended band
|Invisible Idols destined for fame?
|Invisible Sons new band
|In the Name Of Young original material band from Rotherham. Very good.
|Iron-On Maiden tribute to the kings of dramatic British rock. Brilliant vocals.
|Jackhammer Rock/blues boozy flatulent band. That's what we like about 'em!
|Jamontop Studios West Yorkshire studio
|JD Band From three other bands comes a great repertoire.
|Jagged Edge W.Yorks top class clubrock band with incredible lighting FX
|Jagged Edge Forum
|James Cannon and the Sinners Irish style rock!
|Jamie Mallender ace bass player with Let There Be Rock
|Johnny the Fox Reformed Lizzy tribute
|Johnny H Band ex Voodoo Van Boogie guitarist website also at here
|Julian Sas Dutch rock blues hero. Great riffy guitar player in the style of Rory Gallagher
|Justice Rising classic rock and metal covers band also myspace
|www.myspace.com/jptsoundservices affordable pa and lighting rental.
|Kev Richardson Drum Tuition amazingly nice guy (Kev says!) Check it out!
|Kick The Habit rockin for ya!
|Killin Floor Experienced band
|Kingcrows 4-piece Leeds-based sleaze punk band playing original material. Also here.
|Kneivel **** New Link
|Last Gang in Town Yorkshire punk!
|Last Orders Great Music for discerning old farts.
|Laughing Gravy Rock covers and a bit of humour!!!
|Laurie Morvan Great female guitar player from the US. Nice website.
|Lawless female rocker lead
|Leeds Rock School New school of musical excellence
|Legion South Yorkshire Rock Covers Band
|Lets Zeppelin Cheshire based tribute
|Limehouse Lizzy The most succesful of all Lizzy Tributes..probably the best.
|Live @ Dickens Keeping the legendary Rotherham venue alive.
|Live in Leeds John Keenan's site. John's a good promoter, take a peek to see who's on at The New Roscoe and Irish Centre.
|Live Music Promotions Nick's myspace for live Shipley gigs
|Loaded ****New Link
|Loud Promotions Wilbarston's finest rock blues promotions
|Mag 7 Veteran musos with rock/blues feel.
|Matt Black Yorkshire vocalist
|Must Ash Wishbone Ash tribute
|Maiden England a tribute to one of England's proudest bands.
|Mark Abrahams Ace Yorkshire guitar player
|Maryport Blues Festival One of this country's most prestigious blues festivals.
|Mary T Female blues guitarist/singer on the U.S. Festivals circuit . MP3's available
|Meanstreak Anyone for Y&T? Plus many others....
|Men of a Certain Age Well some of us are there already
|Metalphetamine metal covers band
|Metalworks Awesome rock band from the Royston, Barnsley area. Nice site, brilliant show.
|Millitia Young metallica tribute band
|Mick Clarke World renowned rock/blues guitar player. A real trooper. Ace player!
|Mojo blues rock band from Leeds. Brilliant!
|Monkey Dust a right set of monkeys!
|Morley Music Trust looking after Leeds bands
|Motiv young band
|Motus original material band with Graham and Liz from the PLC Band
|Mourning For Autumn - four ladies
|Mr E new link
|Mr Chief Top classic rock band ! Excellent!
|Miss Chief Mr Chief but with a difference!
|New Music Label newly allied to RotN
|Nick Davies Band Superb rockin' blues band
|No Mercy for Percy young improvers from Castleford
|No Quarter Ace West Yorkshire rock band! RotN favourites.
|Northern Rokk new band fro Bradford
|Northern Vinyl Another excellent Brit rock band from the local area.
|Nottinghambands Gary's website of bands and venues around Nottingham.
|Nuclear Blast Clothes shopping in Germany. T-shirts, Celtic stuff etc. We've used them for really good service, quick, good quality, secure.
|Number 10 Dickens Bar Another good rock bar in Rotherham. Tributes R Us !
|One Fat Spider Arachnorock! Modern Music, Nice People.
|Optic Nerve Three piece AC/DC tribute doing a five pieces job
|Overdrive rock!
|Paddy McGuire Band Rockin' Blues
|Parrocks Our Italian friends...who rock! If you like Deep Purple, see this band.
|Paul Flanaghan Alcatraz's bass players website. Check out the gallerys! Sharonnnnn!
|Paul Jeffery Band cool sounds!
|Paul Marshall Photography Great images from the RotN area
|Paul Rodgers Myspace site
|Permission to Rock Another fine band from The Midlands
Pete Feenstra London's Premier promoter . Another great Rob White site.
|Phil Brodie Band These veteran blues rockers still know which buttons to press (and invariably do!) This is Bev Turner's fabulous and truly amazing website. One of the best!
|Phoenix Rising Classic rock with a good light show
|Picturedrome Holmfirth host to some great acts
|Plan B rockin blues band
|Planet Rock Our favourite Classic Rock radio station!
|Plastillica Young new band from Castleford
|Polish Club Barnsley
|Psi Phi Doncaster band. Very interesting music, check 'em out.
|Project 552 Interesting band with a different repertoire.
|Pro Sound Leeds PA Lighting FX
|Pro Two Woodlands Castleford's own recording studios
|Rakkiteers Some good lads and a naughty girl on bass!
|Raindogs ****New Link
|Ransum Loud and Proud Rocking South Yorks covers band
|Rattlers Female lead rock covers band aka The Rattlers
|Razorbach Huddersfield superstars!
|Reckless Barnsley rock band
|Recycled ...check 'em out!
|Renegade Lizzy like it says on the tin
|Resurgence Good time band from Leeds with pink girl-power lead !
|Red Mosquito South Yorkshire rock covers band
|Red 13 Myspace Lighting and PA. Mike Smith makes you look and sound good.
|Red 13 Lighting and PA. Mike Smith makes you look and sound good.
|Reverb Nation A bit like Myspace
|Revival Classic rock band
|Revival Myspace
|Richard Boyles Webmaster Extraordinaire .Walter Trout Fan Club President an
|Ripley Blues Club Three miles from Harrogate. Aristocratic blues!
|Roadhouse Gary Boner's famed band. Rocking blues at it's best.
|Roadkill Rock cover band with a bit of edge!
|Roadstunner Berwick on Tweed touring band.
|Robin Elvin Ex-boxer, Rock'n' Roll artist...good guitarist too...from King's Lynn.
|Rock Forces AOR website
|Rock Junkies New link
|Rock Knight Radio Rock radio online 24/7
|Rocket Queen Susi's German rock website.
|Rockdogz classic rock big band
|Rock Solid Rock through the ages!
|Rock Train a band with a huge repertoire
|Rodger South Yorkshire covers band
|Rogue Hearts Young band with loads of potential
|Royal Orleans Led Zeppelin tribute
|Rosewell Amps Dave Gascoigne's bespoke amplifier site.
|Ryan Mitchell Smith Chip off the old block harp/guitar/vox in "The Heat"
|Sack Sabbath tribute to Ozzy and the Sabbs
|Saracen Epic rock band from the past, now resurrected.Listen to the MP3's! Wow!
|Saiichi Sugiyama The Japanese Blues Master
|Scandal rock band
|Shieila Mac Songstress. Three tracks to listen to.
|Scooby Undisputed bucket record holders!
|Shield of Steel Signed rock band
|Shrood Ryan Mitchell Smith Band
|Sidewinder ****New Link
|Silverburn club/pub rock
|Silverthorn rock.
|Sincerley Yours Rock Pop Band
|Sinnerboy Lively Rory tribute band from Glossop! Noisy burgers and great with it!
Sleeze Beez Dutch mega band big in the US
|Snafu There's a lot of bare-arsed cheek at this venue! More "G" than "E" strings here!
|South Wales Bands Same mentality as ROTN -Support Live Music!
|South West club pub band
|Soul 7 Party band ! Even your grandma will like this band!
|Space Cadets Comedy rock
|SoundHouse rock band from Selby
|Sour Mash Rock Covers band from South Yorkshire
|Splash Alley Veteran rock band with stadium style light show
|Splinter Excellent Leeds rock covers band...great repertoire!
|Squealer East Yorks Band
|Stageside Photography Phil Ross's photography and Filming site. Bands a speciality.
|Steve French Band rockin' blues with a reputation that goes before them.
|Steve Pickles Guitar player/club and publand stalwart
|Storm West Yorkshire band!
|Straighten Out "Walkin' on the beaches looking at the peaches" Stranglers tribute!
|Straight Razor Angels **** new link
|Sugarbullets Bit of punk from West of the Pennines
|Sugarmamas ladies blues band!
|Sully's Heroes legendary band
|Styckleback Another great band from Leeds. Steppenwolf to Arctic Monkeys!!!
|Stumble Sheffield/Chesterfield band with diverse repertoire
|Suicide Blonde Rockers, Rollers,almost outta controllers.
|Suite Zero Sheffield based rock covers band
|Sumdysdad another good West Yorkshire band
|Sun City Slackers new link
|Swansong Female fronted band from Sheffield.
|Tantrum **** New Link Veteran band still kicking ass!
|Theory1 myspace
|The Biker Guide 'Great site for Biker with Rallies, News and Directory'
|The Blueflies 3 piece power trio from York
|The Branch Pub Shipley
|The Broadfield New venue that used to be a live venue long time ago
|The Brew. Formerly Strange Brew. Great band!
|The Chasing Dark new band
|The Coniston Up in Idle village!
|The Carnival legendary Sheffield band!
|The Despoilers Rock covers band
|The Dots Covers band from ancient to modern.
|The Dunwell Brothers destined for fame from Pudsey!
|The Erics Fun band but with excellent musicianship and no strangers to charity fundraising.
|The Fabulous Clog Iron Brothers Seventies music specialists
|The Fallen check 'em out
|The Forgotten ****New link hope we've got it right this time!
|The Foresters Arms Mid week gigs Wakefield
|The Fuel **** New Link
|The Grimshaws Halifax based classic rock at it's best
|The Heat A brilliant duo featuring Antonio Lulic and Ryan Mitchell Smith
|The Interiorz "Dig That Goddam Rock'n'Roll"
|The Irregulars new young band
|The Rattlers Rock covers band with female lead singer
|The Rejexx Good varied repertoire in a punky kinda style we think!
|The Lion
|The Love Vandals
|The Measles rock band
|The Moccassins original and covers band
|The New Inn (Walton) Wakefield suburbs Tuesday live music night.
|The New Inn Leeds music venue in Churwell South Leeds
|The Remedy New link
|The Reprobates New band great repertoire
|The Ship Royston's rock pub!
|The Sharpees London's Max R&B band
|The String Surgeon Top Quality Guitar builds and repairs by a top class musician.
|The Senators great band
|The Stag's Head Pub Myspace
|The Strats 2 piece Irish band on the Blues Matters record label, Check the MP3's!
|Suicide Blonde rock!
|The Survivors rock band
|The Supermodels from York
|The Tat a band with an unusual name
|The Tempus A good band- upwardly mobile.
|The Snooty Fox Wakefield live music venue 6 days a week.
|The Theory modern covers
|The Victorzulus Myspace
|The Victorzulus A Yorky playing in Manc land.
|The Whatevs female fronted band
|The Wellington Eccleshill, Bradford
|The Unforgiven rock/blues band
|Thunder in Toytown Britpop britrock
|Tiger Bay Leeds Band
|Time Machine Doctor Who's house band..only kidding!
|Top Gun Rock covers band making a good reputation for themselves!
|Top Notch Excellent young band from Bradford
|Total Confusion Superb punk/rock band from Barnsley also at Myspace.com/t0talc0nfusi0n
|Trip Manhatten East Yorks based female lead covers and original music band
|True Brit The Who,Kinks, Jam and Paul Weller material. English rock!
|Touch2Much it's just a touch...too much! Another tribute to the maestros from Oz.
|Twist of Fate West Yorks Rock Covers band
|Twin Lizzy The boys are back...the boys are back
|Tush Rotherham Band
|Unbroken from South Yorkshire
|UK Foo Fighters Just like it says on the tin
|Undercovered Excellent band doing more in the RotN area lately.
|Under Fire with members of Contraband so this band will be good
|Urchin Child Young gifted and from Yorkshire
|Unleashed Mick (Metalworks) Howarth's band
|Us4/U2 Tribute to Bono and the boys!
|Welsh T Band **** New Link
|West Street Live A new gig in Sheffield featuring good bands
|Walter Trout King of the Hot Rod Blues
|Wild Hogs Rock'n'roll !
|Wild McBride wild boys from South Yorkshire!
|Valley Trucking for your next tour-transport and logistics solution.
|Vagabond West Yorks quality rock band
|Valkyrie West Yorks veterans
|Vamp Great band from Barnsley...great band? MEGA band!
|Van Hooligan tribute to Van Halen and AC/DC...great band!
|Versonic Recommended band
|Versatonic Modern and Indie band
|Vintage The Band
|Vinyl Years Nostalgic material to please everyone
|Vision Guitars Local internet based company and Castleford shop.
|Volume Zero Modern rock and quite possibly destined for fame
|Voices Made Me Do It Funky!
|X-Rippers Punky! also at
|Yardbirds Rock Club Rock bands ,bikers,does life get any better than that? Grimsby high profile venue.
|Yorkshire Bikers A good bikersite who support the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
|Zuel Classic Rock Band
|ZZ Eliminator West Yorks boogie band outta Texas....


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A well-known nugget of investing wisdom says that when a key leadership group stumbles, it's a bearish sign for the rest of the market.
This year has already brought underperformance for retail stocks and small caps, and now another group can be added to the list: industrials.
Industrial stocks have been one of the key engines of this bull market, rallying off their depressed post-crisis levels to deliver strong outperformance in the recovery. In the five years ended June 30, the Industrials SPDR (XLI) delivered an average annual return of 22.24%, thumping the 18.69% return of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY).
This story has changed considerably in July. XLI has lost 2.1% so far this month through July 29, trailing the 0.6% gain of the S&P 500 Index. Among the key culprits in the shortfall have been General Electric (GE), United Technologies (UTX) and Boeing (BA).
Underperformance of less than 3 percentage points might not sound like much, but from a technical standpoint, it carries a great deal of importance.
XLI Is Walking on Shaky Legs
XLI's slump has taken it below a well-established, two-year-old trendline, making it the only one of the major sector ETFs to be exhibiting this type of weakness.
Further, Thursday's weak open put XLI within striking range of its 200-day moving average. As of late Thursday morning, XLI was trading just above $52 — pennies away from its 200-day moving average at $51.85. This places the industrials sector in immediate jeopardy of a breakdown, and investors should heed this as a danger sign.
This is an important development not just because of industrials' leadership status, but also because the sector has acted as a warning signal in the past.
In 2011, for instance, XLI broke down several days before the broader market declined more than 18% in reaction to the first debt ceiling crisis.
This comparison isn't intended to act as a prediction that the stock market is on the verge of a similar meltdown this time around. Instead, it's an alert to investors to keep a close eye on XLI's 200-day MA, and to monitor this sector for continued weakness.
If industrials can't gain traction, it's unlikely the rest of the market will be able to do the same.
The Trouble With International Exposure
There's another message to be gleaned from the underperformance of the industrials sector in July.
Even as U.S. data shows signs of an acceleration here at home, companies with above-average international exposure are vulnerable to the ominous economic signals coming out of Europe. Growth has begun to slip once again, and the region is perilously close to sliding into deflation. While the increasingly aggressive European Central Bank might address this by announcing a quantitative easing policy — which would surely reverse any concern about international exposure — for now it doesn't pay to have a large portion of revenues coming from outside of the U.S.
This goes hand in hand with the rally in the U.S. dollar in July. While the move in the greenback still is in its early stages, the fundamentals are in place for the uptrend to continue. If this indeed proves to be the case, companies with high non-U.S. dollar revenues — a group that includes industrials — will be in jeopardy of downward estimate revisions.
Bottom Line
Industrials are at ground zero of a number of important trends in the financial markets, so keep a close eye on XLI's behavior around its 200-day moving average — it could be a clear indicator that the long-awaited market correction is finally in the offing.
As of this writing, Daniel Putnam did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
An intelligent sensor for light wavelength readout, suitable for visible range optical applications, has been developed. Using buried triple photo-junction as basic pixel sensing element in combination with artificial neural network (ANN), the wavelength readout with a full-scale error of less than 1.5% over the range of 400 to 780 nm can be achieved. Through this work, the applicability of the ANN approach in optical sensing is investigated and compared with conventional methods, and a good compromise between accuracy and the possibility for on-chip implementation was thus found. Indeed, this technique can serve different purposes and may replace conventional methods.
The use of wavelength measurement has a wide range of applications, varying from fiber-optic communication to biological purposes, such as DNA sequencing, including many engineering applications. This increase of applications has provided motivation to improve all elements of the optical sensing chain, as well as the photodetector fabrication process, conditioning circuits and readout algorithms. In this sense, the most state-of-the-art BICMOS (combination of bipolar and CMOS technology) optical sensors involve a trade-off between implementation cost and readout accuracy.
In general, the well known methods for either color identification or wavelength measurement use color filters. In principle three photodetectors are covered respectively by red, green and blue filters which increases both silicon surface and implementation cost due to the deposition of optical filters (nonstandard BICMOS processing) [
In the past few years, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have emerged in many engineering applications as a learning technique to achieve complex tasks, as well as image analysis, high nonlinear modeling and system control [
The basic structure of the CMOS BTJ is illustrated in
Obviously, the device can detect either light intensity or wavelength variation. Indeed, the resulting currents are proportional to both variations, while the photocurrent ratio is sensitive to the optical wavelength [
This asymmetric response is illustrated further in
ANNs are powerful data modeling tools, where the advantage lays in their ability to represent both linear and non-linear models by learning directly from data measurements. In this field, the multilayer perceptron (MLP) is the most used ANN concept, according to the well known ANN state-of-the-art. It's demonstrated in [
Based on measurement values, input/output dataset vectors, arranged as:
For these different architectures, both train and test MSE is evaluated and compared, the results are shown in
For this structure the MSE test is equal to 2.2 which represents a full scale error less than 1.5%. Thus, the selected network has one hidden layer containing seven neurons. The ANN optimized parameters are summarized in
The resulting currents of one BTJ cannot be directly exploited; therefore a typical acquisition chain is employed. One pixel path contains an analog interface circuit for BTJ conditioning, analog multiplexer, analog to digital converter (ADC), on chip temperature sensor and digital part for logical and mathematical calculations including ANN model (either on-chip FPGA or CPU implementation is possible). The complete embedded system top level diagram is shown in
The wavelength row sensor performances is tested and evaluated with Cadence post simulation tools, based on the above diagram and high accurate BTJ model. For one pixel path, a row of different wavelength lights is applied starting from 400 up to 780 nm. At room temperature, the estimated wavelength and both current ratios are plotted in
The use of an artificial neural network approach to achieve wavelength readout is promising. Indeed, the ANN can learn the BTJ sensor properties, and thus they can produce the inverse model, which is used as readout interface to improve sensor performances. Both ANNs model and BTJs can be implemented in one chip, using standard BICMOS process, featuring a good agreement between obtained performances and the implementation cost. The challenge of such application is how to keep a good chip-yield when the chip is in mass production; in fact, devices mismatch and tolerance, which refers to the used technology, decrease the system performances. Depending on both targets the maximum error and the chip-yield, the ANN weights adaptation for each pixel is needed. However the required space memory for such weights storage is relatively low compared to an on-chips VLSI memory capacitance. Furthermore, increasing applications of artificial neural networks carries the motivation for intensive research in this field. Thus dramatic improvements are yielded every year; such as, ANNs on-chip learning techniques. This topic provides good perspectives for the present work.
This work was accomplished as a feasibility study; it was carried out at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin). The authors express theirs thanks to Prof. Manck from the TU Berlin and to the members of his working group.
Cross-section view of BJT.
BTJ Spectral responses [
Photocurrent ratios
MLP-based wavelength readout (training set).
MSE of test and training for different architectures.
ANN model validation.
Top level simulation diagram.
Estimated wavelength, I1/I2 and I1/I3
Readout error
Comparison of ANN and analytical approach.
Statistical MSE distribution.
ANN optimized parameters.
|Normal feed-forward MLP
|Hidden layer
|Training algorithm
|Number of neurons
|Input layer
|Hidden layer
|Output layer
|Transfer function
|Hidden layer
|Output layer
|Output range
|Wavelength (nm)
|Data base size
|Training set
|Test set


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3D Visibility Representations by Regular Polygons
Stola, Jan (2010) 3D Visibility Representations by Regular Polygons. In: Graph Drawing 17th International Symposium, GD 2009, September 22-25, 2009, Chicago, IL, USA , pp. 323-333 (Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11805-0_31).
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We study 3D visibility representations of complete graphs where vertices are represented by equal regular polygons lying in planes parallel to the xy-plane. Edges correspond to the z-parallel visibility among these polygons. We improve the upper bound on the maximum size of a complete graph with a 3D visibility representation by regular n-gons from 2O(n) to O(n4 ).
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Is it possible to set a post as a sticky item for a category in WP. I want to be able to click on the category link and then when I am taken to the category page (Where all the post are shown) Have one that stays on the top of the stack.
I want these for all of my categories? Is that possible?
Is this not possible? I cant seem to find any information about it.
Take a look at this
Thanks, I have read that, and have struggled to implement it.
On the page that displays all the posts for a category I want a sticky post at that top (To kind of introduce the category).
If I just make that post a sticky, then it will stick to the top on my home page.
I am trying to change/play with the code in the codex to exclude all the other categories.
Then go through and do the same for each category.
Is this how you would go about this? or is my method wrong?
Thanks for the link.
If you are not planning to use tags anywhere else you could make use of Wordpress tagging system. Tag a post as sticky, than loop through the same query two times. For the first time use conditional statement to detect if post has tag "sticky", if not than continue (ommit the post). Than re-loop, but this time ommit "sticky" posts and display only posts without "sticky" tag.
It's just an idea, you know, try playing around with it
If this is to "To kind of introduce the category" then depending on the type of information you need to display you can easily use a category specific image and the category's name and description as text.
Let me know if you need some example code


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The faculty at the University at Albany have been great--Warren Robert's dedication to history and art, Anne Hildreth's passion for politics, Ron Berger's constantly open door, and Michael Malbin's Washington, D.C. connections that brought in great lecturers, and great experiences.
The friends and experiences I have gained through UAlbany's extracurricular activities have also been great--cheering on the Great Danes football team to victory, visiting senior citizens, the great discussions in debate team. In something that surprised even me, I pledged a fraternity and made lifelong friends. There are just so many great opportunities out there.
I love politics. I knew I was going to major in that before I came to the University, however, I was unsure where I was going to minor. I had the pleasure of taking a course with Dr. Ron Berger in European History. He made history come alive in his lectures, brought in different topics, texts, and even music. I decided that I had the time to take a double major.
The University has been great for exposing me to new and different cultures, a Long Island accent, as well as forcing me to become more outgoing. Professionally, I've been able to gain great experience working with student athletes, working for the Research Foundation, as well as learning about new ways of making a living and using political science. Socially, as I have mentioned, I have been able to meet new people, and make valuable connections with people that I will treasure as lifelong friends. I have also developed a taste for new music, different ethnic foods, and a great appreciation for the world around me.
Pivotal or life changing experiences…
I have had many small experiences during my stay at UAlbany that have changed my life. A shy, tubby reserved high school graduate has been transformed into an outgoing, not as tubby, and not as reserved University graduate. There were great times discussing current events in the dorms, hacking at some samplers over at Denny's and commiserating about a professor or three.
Probably one of my fonder memories happened off campus in D.C. Six (of the eight) of us interns decided to go see the District. We started by looking at the White House, The Hotel Washington, and The Washington Monument. We walked, chatted, and learned more about each other, and talked about our future plans and how we hoped our internships would go. As we were walking back to the Metro, we wound up bumping into Richard Schiff and the cast of NBC's West Wing. We took some pictures, had a great time, and joked that we eventually wanted his job.
The other fond memory had nothing to do with academics. Pol Pot, when he took over Cambodia, evacuated the cities and made all of the bureaucrats and academics work in the fields. While Pol Pot was wrong, the idea that all of us need to work together is not, and the Campus Cleanup days have been great for that. During Campus Cleanup Day 2001, I got to plant a tree between Indian Quad and the Campus Center. It was such a great experience working out in the sun, grooming the ground, and putting the tree in place, along with the red cedar chips, and the small plants. That is something I can see every day. When I head towards that end of campus I still see that tree, and it makes me sentimental to think that if I have kids and they go here, that tree will provide shade for them to study under. It also tells me that each of us can make a small impact in making our campus a better place.
Special people…
What's ahead?
The University has given me so many skills, and good experiences that I feel ready to embrace my future. Right now, I am planning to pursue graduate study in political science at UAlbany. Eventually I would like to get my Ph.D. and maybe go into government service or research and teaching.
As I am pursuing graduate study here at UAlbany, I still see myself being connected to the University; however this relationship will last a long time. When I fly into Albany the one thing I look for are the four towers and the carillon. To me, that is the sign that I am home; in my office during my internship, I pinned up a postcard of the uptown campus.
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Well, when the Mets signed Moises Alou, they knew they would be lucky to get 120 games from him. So this down time shouldn't come as a surprise. The thing about a strained muscle is these things take time to heal … longer when you're 40-plus.
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Hey....I take pictures too. Well, it's not really a hobby of mine but I do snap a few when I find something interesting to capture.
I went to Iowa during the month of July. My grandfather in law was passing away. It was a really rough time for my husband and his entire family.
While I was there I took several pictures. I realize now that they really captured a somber moment in time.
I want to add, none of these trinkets were staged for these shots. This was exactly how the house was at that time. While everyone was inside mourning, these fake critters were outside as happy as can be. Some were broken and beaten down and they were still smiling. The broken and beaten down ones reminded me of us, because when we were around him we tried to maintain a happy look. We did not want him to worry. We just wanted to let him know that we loved him.
Anyway, he loved Johnny Cash, so play this song while ya watch ------- or else.
This was my grandfather in law's house. We spent time here with him on his final days. I'm only going to post a few. There are a lot of them.
I took these next pictures at the farm. My in-laws own a dairy farm in Iowa.
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Earthjustice today called Senate Republicans' strategy to hold up appropriations bills in an effort to pressure Democrats to rush through more nominees to lifetime federal judicial posts a reckless approach to the confirmations process. Since they assumed control of the process in July, Senate Democrats have continued to hold hearings and confirm judges, but Republicans have prevented consideration of the foreign operations bill in an attempt to force a greatly accelerated pace of judicial confirmations.
"A rush to judgment on federal judicial appointments would be dangerous and inappropriate. These judges will decide whether to strike down or enforce environmental and other laws that protect our safety, health, and communities," said Glenn Sugameli, senior legislative counsel for Earthjustice. "The Senate should only act after it fully and carefully considers each nominee's record and views on critical environmental and other legal issues."
Federal judges, once confirmed, hold their positions for life, suggesting that rash confirmations could be especially damaging. Environmental groups place particular importance on a sensible approach to reviewing nominees for the federal bench.
"These judges will be deciding for decades whether or not to uphold the very laws Americans depend on to protect their environment and public health," Sugameli said.
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Tuesday, 3 December, 2002, 17:08 GMT
Saddam's palace opens up
Iraqi guards kept them waiting at the gates for several minutes before finally allowing the inspectors in.
In the past, the Iraqis have said their presidential palaces are off-limits but under the tough new UN mandate, the weapons inspectors are allowed to go where they want, when they want.
So when the inspectors turned up at the huge gates of the al-Sijood palace in Baghdad it was an acid test of Iraqi co-operation.
The inspectors got on their radios, their walkie-talkies. It did not appear they were allowed access immediately.
But then the gates opened up and their convoy of white UN land cruisers rolled into the spectacular sprawling grounds.
Open doors
It was always going to be a real crunch for the weapons inspectors as to whether they could get access to these enormous, sprawling sites where Western intelligence agencies have alleged that weapons of mass destruction - or parts of them - could be hidden.
One UN car stayed parked by the gates, blocking them off so no-one could get in or out, sealing the palace off for the period of the inspection.
The Iraqis insist they have nothing to hide in palaces like this one.
More than anything this was a symbolic visit by the weapons inspectors but their mission here in Iraq has now moved up a gear.
Luxury retreat
After the inspectors left, the waiting journalists were invited in for a brief visit of our own to the presidential palace.
Its grounds are lavish, with an imposing drive that is lined by palm trees and that leads up to the three-story palace building.
Gardeners carried on with their work, tending the roses, as reporters ran towards the palace doorway in a chaotic, frenzied throng, almost tripping over ourselves to see inside.
We could hardly believe we were being allowed in.
What greeted us was a glimpse at the spectacularly beautiful entrance hall and then a sumptuous octagonal atrium, in the middle of which stood a table bearing a detailed scale model of the entire palace.
The atrium was carved white marble, illuminated by a vast gold and crystal chandelier.
Something for everyone
We were not shown any other parts of the palace and we were not allowed to stay for more than half an hour but the Iraqis seemed keen to open up this previously "sensitive" site not only to the inspectors, but also to the world's media.
It must be impossible to search a palace and grounds as vast as this in the course of less than two hours and presumably the inspectors will be back.
Even so, everyone gained something today: the weapons inspectors proved that nowhere is off-limits to them, the Iraqis showed they are co-operating with the United Nations and we journalists covering the crisis here managed a rare peek into some of the grandest architecture Iraq has to offer.
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Victories buoy Steelers' hopes of reaching postseason
They're not even close to being in it yet, not at 2-4 — a record they've had only twice in the past 10 seasons. This isn't where the Steelers wanted to be, expected to be or even dared to worry they might be.
But it could have been worse.
They could have lost Sunday to the Ravens and watched their season effectively end before Halloween, leaving them little to play for over the next 10 weeks except internal pride and draft position.
No, as coach Mike Tomlin said, beating Baltimore, 19-16, in the most typical of Ravens-Steelers games — physical, close and down to the last minute — made them "relevant" again in a season that was slipping away.
"We're not out of it. I think that's the big thing," safety Ryan Clark said. "We can come in this week and say, 'We won the game, now we have an opportunity to win another game that pushes us a step closer to our goal.' "
That goal is?
"Being in the hunt," Clark said.
To get there, the Steelers have much work to do, especially with road games upcoming against the Raiders (2-4) and Patriots (5-2). They've lost their past two in Oakland and seven of their last 10 to New England.
"We've got two wins. Now, we've got to get to three," wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders said. "That's all that matters."
If the Steelers can reach midseason without being all but mathematically eliminated from the AFC playoff race, they have a chance of being more than relevant during a second half that begins with home games against the Bills (3-4) and Lions (4-3).
Five of their final eight are at Heinz Field — including three of four in December, when the Dolphins (3-3), Bengals (5-2) and Browns (3-4) visit.
Their road games are in Cleveland, Baltimore and, in the only trip of any distance, Green Bay.
But they're going to need help: They made the playoffs only once the previous 12 times they started 2-4.
Since the NFL adopted a 16-game schedule in 1978, only 18 of 213 teams that were 2-4 made the playoffs, or just more than 8 percent.
The fast starts by the Chiefs (7-0) and Broncos (6-1) are a major problem.
Barring a monumental collapse, both will be in the playoffs — the Chiefs probably need only three more wins to get there — and that would leave only one remaining AFC wild-card spot. Seven AFC teams are at .500 or are a game above or below.
The Steelers still have a chance in the AFC North, where they trail the Browns (3-4) and Ravens by only a half-game, but even a few more wins by the Bengals (5-2) will make them difficult to catch.
And the Steelers already have played and lost to Cincinnati, leaving only one more "double jeopardy" game, as Clark calls them.
"It gives you an opportunity to give a team you're competing directly against a loss, but it also gives you a win," Clark said. "You have to win those. You can get a lot of things accomplished."
The Steelers have four more such division games: at Cleveland and Baltimore and at home against Cleveland and Cincinnati.
"There's still a lot of football left to be played, and we've still got to get back in the hunt," wide receiver Antonio Brown said. "We've got to keep it going. We've still got a long way to go."
But it's better than having nowhere to go.
Alan Robinson is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at email@example.com or via Twitter @arobinson_Trib.


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Michael Farmer, the London-based hedge fund manager and Conservative Party co-treasurer, has generated a third year of double-digit returns, bucking a losing trend that has dogged global commodity funds in 2013.
His Red Kite physical metals fund is thought to be up more than 40 per cent this year. Two more Red Kite funds have generated around 15 per cent returns each.
Dubbed "Mr Copper", Mr Farmer is often responsible for shipping around 15 per cent to 20 per cent of China's copper supplies. His hedge fund group, RK Capital Management, is one of the biggest metals investment firms in the world, managing $US2.4 billion in assets. The group aims to generate profits from both physical trading and commodity hedge funds.
Other big commodities investors have struggled in volatile markets. Clive Capital, a metals and energy investor with about $US5 billion under management at its peak, closed last month after three years of losses. Armajaro, a $US1 billion commodities fund, was reportedly up about 3per cent on the year to October.
Astenbeck, a $US4bn commodities fund, was thought to be down 5 per cent earlier in the year. Mr Farmer refused to confirm the exact performances of his funds but said there had been a "general disillusionment" with commodities among investors recently which Red Kite had not shared.
"The base metal markets are fundamentally under-invested. There has been a focus on equities, treasuries, bonds and other markets and a general withdrawal from commodity funds in the past couple of years," he said.
"In our assessment, the demand for metal this year has been higher than people anticipated. There has been higher than expected consumption and very good demand."
The financier said that "two underlying stories" had dominated commodity investing recently: that the Chinese economy was slowing down and that metals producers were raising production levels.
"But in reality, demand in China has held up while production has not held up, particularly in copper," he said. "There has been a list of production problems, from mine slides to smelter issues, that meant supplies have been lower than expected."
He added that 2014 will start with "a very low stock situation" and, although it is forecast to be a year of surplus, supplies will be rapidly snapped up and "from 2016 onwards deficits can be expected".
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TransWorld SURF: Last time we talked was in the lead up to your movie. What's been the most surprising response to it?
Jamie O'Brien: When people that have known me my whole life said they learned things about me. Like "I didn't know you were deaf," or, "I didn't know you were retarded." (laughs) Some people that have hung out with me my whole life didn't know some of that stuff.
There was a lot of talk about you not seeing the movie before it premiered. I'm not sure I'm buying that.
Dude, I didn't see anything. The guy packed up his stuff from Hawaii and went to edit it in California. I wanted to see a semi-finished product, but it never happened. I honestly didn't see it until the movie premiere. I was sitting in my chair thinking, 'This is bad.'
Bad that you didn't get to see it beforehand?
Yeah. But it turned out cool. I guess it took me not to make it to find out who I really am. But that was part of the plan, me not having control of it.
Well, we dug it. So the reason you came by was to announce that you signed an endorsement deal with Body Glove. Do you think in some way the success of the movie helped you find a sponsor?
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Bill O'Brien called from the road Thursday. The Penn State coach may have just won the two major coach of the year awards from the Big Ten and been hailed as the national coach of the year by ESPN.com's Rick Reilly, but there was no time to rest on that accomplishment. He is out recruiting for next year.
"I think every day is a challenge as a program," he told ESPN.com. "You're always trying to improve and work as hard as we can. Those [awards] are great rewards for this season, but next year's team will be a totally different team, and we have to start looking forward to that right now.
"It was a great beginning, but there's a lot of work to do. And that starts with me. I'm always looking at ways to improve my performance."
His performance included an 8-4 record and wins in eight of the Nittany Lions' last 10 games. That success came despite several offseason transfers and harsh NCAA sanctions leveled late in the summer, including a bowl ban. And remember, O'Brien had never been a head coach before this season.
"It's a humbling award for me, personally," he said. "But it's very much a program award. I believe when you get an award like that, it's about a lot of different people. It starts with the coaching staff, and when we first came here we tried to put together the best coaching staff around. The players went out and played hard and did everything we asked them to do from Day One. There are a lot of people behind the scenes, whether it's strength coaches or trainers or others. So it's very much a program award, a team award."
A major benefit from having such a good first year is that now O'Brien has a lot to sell to recruits, even though the team will be ineligible for the postseason for three more years. Heavy scholarship cuts are still on the way, so O'Brien and his staff can't afford to make many mistakes in recruiting.
"One of the things I've been most impressed about through the year is probably the reception of the kids on the road in recruiting," O'Brien said. "There's so much interest in Penn State football, and that's really a good thing. I think people enjoyed watching the 2012 team play because they played so hard. It wasn't always pretty, but they played hard.
"We have to be really precise in [evaluating], which is why it's good to have a veteran staff. We've got a bunch of guys who've been around the block a few times, though this is an unprecedented situation. I think we have a good system of evaluation and I think we're on the right track. Are we going to be 100 percent perfect? No, but we're going to try to be."
O'Brien hopes he doesn't have to answer recruits' questions about his loyalty to Penn State. Though he didn't give a direct answer when asked flatly if he'd return to State College a couple of weeks ago, O'Brien's agent said the coach wasn't going anywhere on Tuesday night.
"I don't understand when there's no story there why we're making it a story," O'Brien said. "I felt like it would be awfully presumptuous of me to sit up there and pound my fists and say ... obviously, I'm the Penn State head coach.
"I never really thought about it, to be honest with you. I just think about the next step. And the next step right now is recruiting, making sure our kids finish up strong academically."
Penn State fans sure hope O'Brien is their head coach for the long haul. But there may never be a year quite like 2012 again.
"It was a challenging year, but it was a very rewarding year, personally," he said. "When the sanctions came out and some guys chose to leave but the majority stayed, that was a rewarding couple of weeks there. I knew then we had a bunch of kids who were committed to the 2012 team. It was a fun year to coach."
Some other thoughts from O'Brien:
On how convinced he is that current star players will stay and not transfer before next season: "I'm not a mind reader, but I think our players believe in what we're doing. They see the can accomplish big-time goals here, both as an individual and as a team."
On the departing senior class and the "2012" plaque at Beaver Stadium: "It's hard to put into words what they meant. The No. 1 thing about putting the '2012' on that wall is, I want people to know how much respect I have for the championship and undefeated teams on that wall. The reason why it went up is because this team took the field under some special circumstances and fought through a lot of adversity. It would be hard for any senior class to match what they did. These were a bunch of kids who were wise beyond their years."
On defensive end Deion Barnes winning Big Ten freshman of the year: "Deion still has a huge, huge future in front of him. He's only going to get better. He's a hard working kid, a fantastic kid. He still knows how much he can improve."