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|30 juil. 1996
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|16 sept. 1994
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|29 sept. 1993
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|Antoine Collet-Billon, Raoul Mallart
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|U.S. Philips Cororation
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The present invention relates to a three-dimensional (3D) echography system, including a host ultrasonic echograph equipped with a TV monitor, an ultrasonic probe with 3D scanning connected to the echograph, for analyzing a subject, first electronic acquisition means which include a control card in charge of the azimuth scanning of the probe and a memory card storing the acoustic lines originating from the echograph, a workstation consisting of a microprocessor assembly equipped with an echography memory for storing 3D echographic data on the subject, the probe, the electronic means and the workstation being linked together by a specific bus.
More generally, the subject of the invention is a method of 3D echography consisting, in the first place, in performing the acquisition of echographic lines distributed in a volume and passing through the point of application of a 3D echographic probe against a subject, in converting these lines into the form of digital volumetric image elements (voxels), identified in spherical coordinates, then in converting the coordinates of the said voxels into Cartesian coordinates.
Traditional medical echography consists in forming, in real time, images of biological structures (of a subject) by using ultrasound as an information source. To do that, a plane identical to the emission plane is chosen as the plane of reception of the echo, while illuminating the chosen subject by a very brief signal. Advantage is then taken of distance information to locate the non-uniformities in the subject in the emission/reception plane through the radius and the center of curvature of the reflected wavefront, and also by taking account of the time τ of arrival of the start of this wavefront at the reception plane:
z: distance from the target to the emission/reception plane
C: speed of propagation of ultrasonic waves in an aqueous medium (1540 m/s).
A shot can thus be taken in a direction substantially perpendicular to the emission/reception plane. In order to produce an image, it is sufficient to repeat the shots while regularly moving the probe so as to obtain the required information. In preference, angular displacement is carried out in a plane, perpendicular to the emission/reception plane, which constitutes a sectional plane of the subject to be viewed, in such a way as to obtain the echographic data in polar coordinates, the nose of the probe remaining applied at the same spot against the subject. Sectorial scanning in the sectional plane is generally performed electronically, at a fast frequency, so that, at any instant, it is possible to display, on the TV monitor associated with the echograph, the echographic contents of the sectional plane seen by the probe, that is to say a plane passing through the axis of symmetry of the probe which is described as two-dimensional (or 2D probe). The use, in the probe, of linear arrays of transducers makes it possible, by rapid electronic switching, to achieve a high image rate, of the order of 50 images per second, i.e. the possibility of real-time imaging.
Starting from this technological background, which remains in accordance with the usual practices of the practitioner who thus always performs an echographic analysis by displacing the probe against the body of a patient, it is now known to perform three-dimensional echography which, using three-dimensional (or 3D) probes, allows rapid acquisition of echographic data of a predetermined volume portion of a subject. In order to do this, a specific 3D probe is preferably used, consisting of two-dimensional, sectorial, annular arrays and including electronic and mechanical means respectively for performing first and second crossed sectorial scans respectively, the probe emitting at a frequency lying between 3 and 8 MHz.
As an echograph to be fitted to the 3D probe for acquiring volumetric data, identified from now on in spherical and no longer polar coordinates, it is possible to use an extension of a high-performance 2D system. In addition to one or more 3D probes, this system further includes acquisition electronics in control of the scanning along the third (azimuthal) dimension and of the position-locating of the probe in this direction, and a unit for control of the system and for 3D data processing. The latter is a workstation consisting of a microprocessor, fitted with its usual peripherals. Its task is, on the one hand, the control of the system and, on the other hand, the post-processing of the volumetric data, in particular a first operation which consists in converting into a Cartesian coordinate scan the 3D data previously acquired in spherical coordinates.
The above-mentioned hardware is described, in more detail, in the journal: "Innovation et Technologie en Biologie et Medecine" [Innovation and Technology in Biology and Medicine], Vol. 13, Special No. 1, 1992, in the article: "Imagerie echographique 3D" ["3D echography imaging"], pages 117 to 125, by Messrs A. Collet-Billon, Y. Le Guerinel, F. Bernard, and J. M. Levaillant.
The procedure for using this hardware unfolds in successive phases.
In a first exploration phase, the 3D probe is used as a conventional 2D probe, offering the same possibilities for real-time imaging on the screen of the monitor of the 2D-3D echograph indicated above. The user searches for the best position of the probe and checks the contents of the region explored by modifying the incidence of the scanning plane with the aid of knobs on the probe.
The acquisition phase which follows is triggered by pressing on another knob. The probe then automatically scans the volume in a few seconds. For this duration, any movement of the probe or of the patient must be avoided.
After the acquisition, the data are transferred to the workstation in a few seconds. The user can then delimit a region of interest in the data acquired, before running the scan conversion, an operation which consists in converting the spherical geometry of the acoustic lines into a Cartesian geometry which is better adapted to the visual display.
Next the interpretation of the data can take place: the user can view the volumetric data via a graphics user interface, completely controllable by a conventional mouse. In particular, any section, of arbitrary orientation, may be obtained simply from anatomical reference points (3 points) designated with the mouse. Views known as hidden views, that is to say which are perpendicular to the direction of the echographic shot, and usually inaccessible with a 2D echograph, can be easily obtained. Dynamic sequences of repeat sections, from front to back or in rotation, can also be viewed. The multi-sectional views allow rapid inspection of the 3D vicinity of any point of the data set. In the same session, images obtained from several data sets can be displayed simultaneously and compared, etc. All these possibilities for display, for rendering volume in perspective, and yet others are within the scope of the person skilled in the art, guided by the practitioner who himself has a medical training. However, the 3D echographic data contained in the workstation might conceivably be interpreted in a way which is completely adapted to the customs and practices of the echographist, and the latter might be provided with means for exploring the said 3D echographic data by making exactly the same movements as for a conventional, real-time, 2D echographic exploration, this constituting the basic idea of the invention.
Without prejudice to the known mode of interpreting 3D echographic data described above, the invention aims to solve the technical problem which consists in being able fully to exploit the experience and the competence of a practicing echographist without having to trouble him or her with the running of a workstation for which he or she may not have been trained, and by means of which he or she would obtain an insufficiently interactive visual display, or at the very least an unfamiliar one.
Still within the context of the visual display of 3D echographic data, another subject of the invention, which determines the main application of the latter, is a learning aid for real-time, 2D echographic examination, learning to do such examination is a lengthy process and difficult as it is often subject to faulty interpretations. As this learning may, according to the invention, take place off-line, without the presence of a patient, it becomes possible to devote a great deal of time to it, to make repetitive manipulations and, as the 3D data are fixed, to carry out, for example, a systematic search on sections which would be determined in advance by an instructor practitioner. Moreover, several students can work at the same time on the same 3D database.
The above-mentioned technical problem is solved since that the 3D echography system defined in the first paragraph is noteworthy in that it further includes, for reading the said echography memory, a device for viewing the data in the said echography memory, consisting, on the one hand, of a dummy which simulates the said subject, and, on the other hand, of a 3D orientation sensor connected to the workstation via a 3D coordinate indicator, and second electronic display means in the said workstation, which, at each position of the said sensor to be manipulated like a two-dimensional (2D) echographic probe simulator in proximity to the dummy, make the sectional plane which the sensor defines towards the dummy correspond to the equivalent plane contained in the form of volumetric image elements (voxels) in the echography memory, and which display this plane on the screen of the said TV monitor.
Likewise, the method of 3D echography defined in the second paragraph is noteworthy in that the viewing of the said voxels in Cartesian coordinates, in the form of sectional planes, takes place by simulation of a 2D echography session or sessions, by conventional manipulation of an 3D orientation sensor, which simulates a 2D echography probe against a dummy which is simulating the said subject, a predetermined homothetic ratio being established between the size of the subject and that of the dummy, and the addressing of the said voxels, in the form of sectional planes through the volume which the said voxels represent, being proportional to the variations in displacement and in orientation of the said sensor against the said dummy.
The 3D orientation sensor, which here replaces the mouse usually connected to the workstation, or which is linked to the workstation in addition to the latter by way of an additional peripheral, is preferably of the type with three electromagnetic coils which detect the magnetic fields emitted by a fixed source emitter arranged in proximity to the said dummy, the said sensor and the said source emitter being connected to electronic equipment which is itself connected to the said workstation.
Such a sensor, accurate both in spatial position and in angular position of precession, of nutation and of characteristic rotation, is manufactured especially by the American Company Polhemus, P.O. Box 560, Colchester, Vt. 05446 or also by the American company Ascension Technology Corp. P.O. Box 527, Burlington, Vt. 05402.
The description which follows, with regard to the attached drawings, all given by way of example, will make it clear how the invention can be carried out.
FIG. 1 represents a 3D echography system as in the state of the art.
FIG. 2 shows the basic principle of the invention.
FIG. 3 is, in essence, a block diagram of the 3D echography system according to the invention.
The system of FIG. 1 allows the exploration of echography data distributed in a volume. It consists of an extension of a top-of-the-range 2D echograph. This system includes a 3D ultrasonic host echograph, 1, which is essentially a 2D echograph, equipped with a TV monitor, 2, which allows real-time display of sections taken in conventional 2D echography in the course of the analysis of a subject.
For adapting to 3D, the conventional 2D probe is, in the first place, replaced by one or more 3D probes, such as 3, able to carry out an additional scanning in azimuth, associated with electronic control means (not represented). A workstation 4 consists of a central processing unit 5 and of its usual peripherals, such as the monitor 6 and the mouse 7. The workstation adopted is a "SUN" machine for example the "SUN SPARC 2", with an extended memory shown symbolically at 8, a large disk space and an Exabyte unit. Its task is, on the one hand, the control of the system, and, on the other hand, the post-processing of the volumetric data. Moreover, an electronic acquisition assembly 9 is also necessary, when changing from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, which includes a control card 11 in charge of the additional scanning and of the recording of the azimuth positions of the probe, as well as a memory card 12 for storing the demodulated and digitized acoustic lines originating from the echograph 1. A specific bus 13 links the elements 1, 9 and 4 in pairs and bidirectionally. This takes the form, for example, of a VME bus.
The 3D probes used, such as 3, are preferably 2D sectorial annular arrays, an extension of the conventional 1D annular arrays. The annular arrays offer a decisive advantage with respect to the other probes (linear arrays included): the possibility of position location-tracking in the out-of-plane direction, that is to say perpendicular to the plane of the image, i.e. the possibility of controlling the sectional thickness over the whole field explored. In order to facilitate acoustic access to the organs examined, the imprint of the nose of the probe is as small as possible; its design minimizes reverberation. Moreover, in contact with the skin of the patient during the acquisition, which is done in spherical coordinates, the nose of the probe remains immobile; there is therefore no movement of tissues which would be caused by sweeping. Three knobs make it possible to control the successive phases of an acquisition. In preference, the usual 2D sectorial scanning is done by electronic means, and the crossed azimuthal sectorial scanning by mechanical means.
To the electronic acquisition assembly 9 it is appropriate to add a slave processor card 10 inserted in a rack of the echograph 1, which makes it possible to obtain the acoustic lines immediately after they have been digitized, as well as the various synchronization signals necessary. The manual 2D scanning of the annular array is taken charge of by the host echograph.
The workstation includes dedicated software, within the scope of the average information technologist, which is, preferably, organized into 5 modules: exploration-configuration, acquisition, 3D scanning conversion, visual display, archiving and management of the system. The method of using the system of FIG. 1 unfolds in successive phases which have already been described above before the description of the figures.
Concerning the acquisition phase, the echograph functions sequentially, that is to say that an acoustic shot is triggered only after reception of the preceding acoustic line. Considering a data set whose line density is similar in the plane of the image and in elevation, and with identical angular aperture in these two directions (about 90°), the total number of acoustic lines is of the order of 100×100. Assuming that the depth of acquisition is 20 cm, the minimum acquisition time is 2.7 s, owing to the speed of sound in the tissues (1540 /ms on average). The acoustic lines, digitized, are stored in the memory 12.
After the acquisition, a series of images which are reconstructed from raw data is displayed on the screen 6 of the workstation, so as to check that the acquisition phase has taken place correctly. If so, the data are transferred from the memory 12 to the workstation in a few seconds. A region of interest is then selected in the data acquired, then spherical coordinate Cartesian coordinate scanning conversion is triggered, for this region, for the volumetric pixels (or voxels) selected and stored in memory at 4.
At this stage, the interpretation of the echographic data can be carrried out, by any known means, especially by means of the mouse 7.
The simplest means for seeing the 3D data on a 2D screen consists in offering the possibility of displaying sections in the volume acquired, along any orientation, in real time. A tomographic section is, in fact, an image which the echographist is accustomed to interpreting. When he uses the echograph, the doctor searches for the most favorable orientations of the probe, that is to say those which contain relevant clinical information; this mode of use is only possible in practice because the echograph offers an image rate said to be in "real time", i.e. from 10 to 50 images per second.
The system according to the invention which is described below makes it possible, especially for the doctor, to perform scanning through 3D data previously acquired on a virtual patient, that is to say a dummy or a phantom, in the same way as if it related to a real-patient environment.
FIG. 2 makes it possible to explain the basic principle of the invention. A workstation 14, comparable to the station 4, includes a central processing unit 15 with a memory 18 and a monitor 16. The memory 18 contains data on a subject, distributed in a volume (3D data or voxels), which are addressable in Cartesian coordinates, and from which sections 19, 21 can be displayed on the of monitor 16, by any known means, especially by means of a keyboard or of a mouse (not represented). According to the invention, for the display of the sections, by way of a 3D mouse, a distance identification device is used which, in the embodiment of FIG. 2, consists of three elements, and the essential element of which is a 3D sensor, 22, which supplies its own position in space (attitudes and coordinates, i.e. three non-coplanar angles and three distances), precisely and in real time, at the rate of 50 positions per second. The second element is a source emitter 23 which emits an (electro)magnetic field picked up by the sensor 22, the elements 22 and 23 being connected to an electronics cabinet 24, 3D position and orientation indicator (with 6 degrees of freedom), itself connected to the microprocessor 15. At 15, a dedicated processing unit 25 has the function of performing a calculation of sections, that is to say of deducing, from each sextuple position supplied by the sensor 22, a corresponding sectional plane, in a one-to-one way, so to say through the voxels contained in memory 18. More precisely, from an initial positioning point and from an initial orientation which are chosen as references, at the start, a constant homothetic ratio is established between the displacement of the point of positioning of the probe and the displacement of the reference point of the corresponding sectional plane and, in a similar way, the variations in orientation of the sensor 22 in space are faithfully reflected between the sectional planes corresponding to these variations on the screen 16. The processing unit 25, by means of appropriate programming, left to the initiative of the person skilled in the art, thus carries out a specific addressing calculation for the voxels, at 18, aiming exactly to copy the volume described by the sensor 22 in free space in proximity to the source emitter 23, to the volume stored in memory by the voxels at 18. In order to give even better concrete expression of this effect, and thus to offer a physical support for the manipulation of the sensor, it is permissible to fill the free space in question with a scaled phantom of the subject, the interior of which is imaged by the voxels from the memory 18. If the voxels constitute 3D echographic data on the body of a patient, the phantom is then a dummy 26 which represents this patient (on the scale of 1 for a homothetic ratio of 1) and the sensor will be able to be manipulated by a practitioner 27 in the same way as a 2D echographic ultrasonic probe. Advantageously, the sensor may be built into a housing, or a simulator of a housing (not represented) of such a probe. Thus a complete simulation of a conventional 2D echographic analysis session is obtained, from 3D echographic data, which although fixed, are real. It is also possible, simultaneously and in real time, to display several sections, for example the section which the probe would give when used conventionally and a section called C-scan, which is oriented perpendicularly to the acoustic beam (to the line of the echographic shot) and which is impossible to obtain with a conventional echograph.
FIG. 3 shows a preferred embodiment of the invention, applied to ultrasonic echography, in which figure are again found the majority of the elements (or equivalents) described above separately with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. In this figure, a host ultrasonic echograph 31 equipped with a TV monitor 32 and, if appropriate, with a 2D probe (not represented) makes it possible to perform conventional 2D echographic analysis. In order to adapt it to 3D echography, it further includes a 3D probe, 33, of any known type, electronic means 40 (called third electronic means) for supplying acoustic lines measured by the probe 33. The echograph 31 is associated moreover with first electronic acquisition means 39 which include a control card 41 equivalent to the control card 11 of FIG. 1 and a memory card 42 equivalent to the memory card 12 of FIG. 1. A workstation 34, equivalent to 4, allows management of the above-mentioned 3D echographic system, a specific bus 43 linking the elements 31, 39 and 34, in pairs and bidirectionally. The workstation 34, including a microprocessor 35 and a screen 36, is equivalent, as to its structure, to the workstations 4, FIG. 1, or 14, FIG. 2 and its functions constitute a hybridization of the functions described for 4, FIG. 1 and for 14, FIG. 2. The central processing unit 35 includes electronic scanning conversion means 28, called fourth electronic means, a 3D echography memory, 38, and electronic data processing means 29, called second electronic means, equivalent to the processing unit 25, FIG. 2. These second electronic means, as well as the other elements situated below and to the fight of a dashed line 30 constitute the core of the invention. The 3D sensor, 52, the source emitter 53, the 3D position and orientation indicator, 54, and the dummy 56 are equivalent to the respective elements 22, 23, 24, 26 of FIG. 2. The reference 58 designates a housing or a simulator of a housing of a 2D ultrasonic echographic probe.
When it is desired, with the system indicated above, to make a simulation of a 2D echographic analysis, it is necessary to set the sensor 52 to its origin with respect to the dummy 56. In fact, one orthonormal axis system ox, oy, oz is associated to the sensor, and another one is associated to the source 53. In order to set the sensor to the origin, it is necessary to place two orthogonal three-axes reference systems, with their corresponding axes parallel pairwise, which provides the zero for the angles. Moreover, with a predetermined sectional plane taken as origin, in memory 38, and displayed on the monitor 36, it is necessary to associate the corresponding point with the above-mentioned orientation, for the position of the sensor, with respect to the dummy 56. (It relates, for example, to a plane which passes in the middle of the voxels, at 38, following a pre established, privileged axis). By initializing the system for this origin position, the angular and spatial zero sought is obtained, on the basis of which the real-time 2D simulation will be able to be performed, all the subsequent movements of the probe then being measured with respect to this starting position. The additional degree of freedom which is the variable homothetic ratio offered by the system, as already set out above is, for its part, fixed in advance, by programming (easy, for the person skilled in the art) with, possibly, a prior calibration, in order to obtain as close a correspondence as possible between the voxels of the dummy seen by the sensor 52 and the corresponding voxels contained in the memory 38, from original sectional planes coinciding during the zero-setting.
The invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments described above. In fact, the 3D data collected in the memory 8, 18 or 38 could be of any other nature than data of ultrasonic origin, obtained by echography. They could, in particular, be synthetic voxels representing a figurative, or other, three-dimensional image. The dummy which, in every case, is to give a visual image of the envelope of the volume represented by the voxels, could, in particular, be a hologram. Moreover, the sensors with their associated electronics, other than those described above, are usable, such as for example a 3D sensor with gyroscope, or orientation indexing devices based on the principle of reflection of acoustic waves from obstacles or surrounding walls, picked up by several microphones, or also based on a triangulation obtained on the basis of several cameras which continuously film the 3D sensor.
On the applications front, in addition to the applications to real-time 2D echography described above, the invention is of interest in teaching, for example for the study of human or animal anatomy or of botany, or for popularizing science, by making it possible, in a simple manner, to view the section of a model seen along any angle whatever.
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We have always wanted a crepe pan to make our blintzes, and yes, crepes. These two food creations are close cousins- until it comes to the country of origin and the fillings. When we make crepes, we usually top them with a lovely orange preserve liqueur, or lingonberries and a generous sprinkle of powdered sugar. And then, there are the times we make blintzes – using our beloved heirloom recipes. We fill them with farmer's cheese or cream cheese and dollop sour cream on top; similar to the recipe for Ratner's Copycat Kosher Blintzes.
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PLATTE CITY, Mo., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A Missouri high school football player was charged with misdemeanor assault after an alleged attack on an opponent during a game, prosecutors said.
The unusual move came Tuesday, after an Oct. 18 game in which Colin Byrd, 17, of Platte County High School in Platte City, Mo., allegedly twisted the helmet off the head of an unidentified player on the opposing Winnetonka High School team as the two tumbled out of bounds, then struck the opponent in the head with the helmet, court records said.
The alleged victim, 17, has concussion symptoms, including memory loss and nausea, that have kept him from returning to school since the incident, Platte County prosecutors said.
An official ejected Byrd from the game and penalized his team for his conduct, the Kansas City Star reported Wednesday.
"It is our allegation that it went beyond the game of football and became an assault," said prosecutor Eric Zahnd, adding he was aware of only one similar case, in Pennsylvania high school sports.
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'Criminal Minds' spinoff debuts well in ratings
Thursday, February 17, 2011; 10:35 PM
Once again demonstrating that a show's best lead-in is another episode of the same show - or the mothership show from which it was spun off - CBS's unveiling of "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" handily won its 10 p.m. time slot Wednesday by attracting 13 million viewers.
"Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" - and can we all agree that's the worst show name . . . ever? - built on its "Criminal Minds" lead-in crowd of 12.8 million.
"Criminal Minds: SB" made succotash of ABC's doctors-in-bikinis, amortizing-"Lost"-set-costs drama "Off the Map" (4.3 million viewers) and NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (7.3 million). "Off the Map" was down more than 23 percent and "SVU" 8 percent compared with the previous Wednesday, when they aired against the less competitive "Blue Bloods" on CBS.
"CM:SB" delivered CBS's biggest audience in that hour time slot among viewers of all ages since February 2010. That also holds true among those viewers ages 18 to 49 - the brass ring for broadcasters.
That's not great news for the Jim Belushi lawyerly drama "The Defenders," which got assigned to the time slot last fall.
But the night's big news was the first-ever battle between "American Idol's" dreaded Hollywood-in-Pasadena Week on Fox and a "Survivor" season debut on CBS.
"Survivor: Redemption Island" came out of the fight most bloodied - down to 11.2 million viewers, which is the franchise's smallest opening audience, and about 3 million people shy of last spring's unveiling. "Idol," meanwhile, took a 1.3 million hit week to week, attracting nearly 23 million people.
Against the second hour of the two-hour "Idol," the second episode of ABC's new Matthew Perry comedy, "Mr. Sunshine," attracted 7 million viewers - 33 percent less than the premiere the previous week, which did not run up against Fox's singing competition.
A shot across the Cowell
"American Idol" executive producer Nigel Lythgoe got on the phone Thursday afternoon with The Reporters Who Cover Television to chat about this and that. In the course of the call, he suggested that Simon Cowell - who left "Idol" at the end of last season to launch his like-minded "The X Factor" on Fox in the fall - might be out of step with the times.
"When we brought ['Idol'] to America, we said Simon had a role to play of Honest Judge," Lythgoe told the reporters, who were liking this story a lot.
"We said he's going to be tough and honest. . . . He might cross the line - not as far as Ricky Gervais - but he might cross the line."
Lythgoe's Gervais reference was to the most recent Golden Globes show, in which Gervais approached his hosting duties like a cook throwing handfuls of salt on a plate full of snails and then watching them shrivel up and die.
"Simon made a star of himself around the world," Lythgoe continued merrily. "Nobody is able to do it with the honesty Simon has done. . . . He became the benchmark."
But now, what America needs isn't honesty - it's warmth, Lythgoe insisted.
"We need to know the positions we find ourselves in, we are going to get ourselves out of at some point. . . . We need to think we have a future," he said, "and if we can translate that. Kids coming on to the show, going from flipping burgers one day to star of a television series - showing everybody we have a way out of our lives at this time.
"Now is the time to have that warmth."
Watson and 'Jeopardy!'
About 9 percent of the country's homes tuned in Wednesday night to see Watson the IBM computer's triumph over "Jeopardy!" super-geeks Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.
Watson won the three-episode competition Wednesday after wagering $17,973 that "Who is Bram Stoker?" was the correct question to the clue: "William Wilkinson's 'An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia' inspired this author's most famous novel."
But the second night of the three-episode man-vs.-machine February sweep stunt on the syndicated game show scored the biggest crowd - 9.5 percent of the country's TV homes. That's the show's biggest audience since the May 25, 2005, final episode of the "Ultimate Tournament of Champions," which, by the way, also featured Jennings and Rutter.
That second night was maybe Watson's most dramatic, when, in the final moments, the computer speculated that the U.S. city with a large airport named for a World War II hero and another, less large airport named for a World War II battle was . . . Toronto. It had wagered only $947 on his answer. The two humans correctly answered "Chicago" and had bet big. But they were still hopelessly behind Watson.
Final numbers for Watson's three-episode television debut won't be available for several more days. But it's unlikely that Watson is going to break the "Jeopardy!" recent ratings record of more than 22 million viewers, which was set in January 1994.
For comparison's sake, the last episode of Jennings's streak - he holds the show's record for winning the most consecutive games, 74 - in Nov. 30, 2004, attracted nearly 18 million people. That episode had scored 13 percent of TV homes, according to the early numbers for it.
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Dementia tops cancer cost
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
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Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer's is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail.
The biggest cost of Alzheimer's and other types of dementia isn't drugs or other medical treatments, but the care that's needed just to get mentally impaired people through daily life, the nonprofit RAND Corp.'s study found.
It also gives what experts say is the most reliable estimate for how many Americans have dementia — around 4.1 million. That's less than the widely cited 5.2 million estimate from the Alzheimer's Association, which comes from a study that included people with less severe impairment.
"The bottom line here is the same: Dementia is among the most costly diseases to society, and we need to address this if we're going to come to terms with the cost to the Medicare and Medicaid system," said Matthew Baumgart, senior director of public policy at the Alzheimer's Association.
Dementia's direct costs, from medicines to nursing homes, are $109 billion a year in 2010 dollars, the new RAND report found. That compares to $102 billion for heart disease and $77 billion for cancer. Informal care by family members and others pushes dementia's total even higher, depending on how that care and lost wages are valued.
"The informal care costs are substantially higher for dementia than for cancer or heart conditions," said Michael Hurd, a RAND economist who led the study. It was sponsored by the government's National Institute on Aging and will be published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia and the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.
Dementia also can result from a stroke or other diseases. It is rapidly growing in prevalence as the population ages. Current treatments only temporarily ease symptoms and don't slow the disease. Patients live four to eight years on average after an Alzheimer's diagnosis, but some live 20 years. By age 80, about 75 percent of people with Alzheimer's will be in a nursing home compared with only 4 percent of the general population, the Alzheimer's group says.
"Most people have understood the enormous toll in terms of human suffering and cost," but the new comparisons to heart disease and cancer may surprise some, said Dr. Richard Hodes, director of the Institute on Aging.
"Alzheimer's disease has a burden that exceeds many of these other illnesses," especially because of how long people live with it and need care, he said.
For the new study, researchers started with about 11,000 people in a long-running government health survey of a nationally representative sample of the population. They gave 856 of these people extensive tests to determine how many had dementia, and projected that to the larger group to determine a prevalence rate — nearly 15 percent of people over age 70.
Using Medicare and other records, they tallied the cost of purchased care — nursing homes, medicines, other treatments — including out-of-pocket expenses for dementia in 2010. Next, they subtracted spending for other health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes or depression so they could isolate the true cost of dementia alone.
"This is an important difference" from other studies that could not determine how much health care cost was attributable just to dementia, said Dr. Kenneth Langa, a University of Michigan researcher who helped lead the work.
Even with that adjustment, dementia topped heart disease and cancer in cost, according to data on spending for those conditions from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Finally, researchers factored in unpaid care using two different ways to estimate its value — foregone wages for caregivers and what the care would have cost if bought from a provider such as a home health aide. That gave a total annual cost of $41,000 to $56,000 per year for each dementia case, depending on which valuation method was used.
"They did a very careful job," and the new estimate that dementia affects about 4.1 million Americans seems the most solidly based than any before, Hodes said. The government doesn't have an official estimate but more recently has been saying "up to 5 million" cases, he said.
The most worrisome part of the report is the trend it portends, with an aging population and fewer younger people "able to take on the informal caregiving role," Hodes said. "The best hope to change this apparent future is to find a way to intervene" and prevent Alzheimer's or change its course once it develops, he said.
Alzheimer's information: http://www.Alzheimers.gov
National Institute on Aging: http://www.nia.nih.gov
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Potomac Eagle is generally hauled by some combination of three General Motors locomotives, built by their Electro Motive Division.
- Baltimore & Ohio F7A #722, previously in Potomac Eagle livery, was originally Bessemer & Lake Erie 722 built in 1952. This is the only engine owned by Potomac Eagle.
- Baltimore & Ohio GP-9 number 6604 was built in April 1955. The 6604 spent time on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and later the Chessie System who took ownership of the B&O in 1969. It is owned by the South Branch Valley Railroad.
- Chessie System GP-9 number 6240 was built in August 1957 as Chesapeake & Ohio 6240, later Chessie 6240 when Chessie was formed from the merger of the B&O and C&O. It is owned by the South Branch Valley Railroad.
The Bessemer 722 spent its life hauling iron ore pellets from the Conneaut, OH ore docks to hungry steel mills in Pittsburgh, PA.The 6604 and 6240 spent the early parts of their career in passenger train service; after the decline of passenger service they were relegated to freight duties.
On most of the Potomac Eagle's trips, you'll find an open-air car or two just behind the locomotives on the south end of the train. One of them is an open-top gondola car that had been used to carry freight like pipes or railroad ties. That car has been outfitted with benches, so passengers can step outside to partake in the view of the Trough.
The second open-air car is covered, but has large wide-open windows where you can lean out a little bit to get a better look. This car is one of several where restrooms are located.
Regular passenger coaches are coupled to the north of the open-air cars. Most of these cars came from commuter rail service on the Canadian National. Typical seating in these cars are cushioned, reversible seats where passengers can move the seat-back in order to face in either direction. In the photo on the right, the seats are adjusted to face one another.
We have three cars that feature table-style seating, which is convenient for those bringing picnic lunches or passengers enjoying a bit from our on-board snack car. These cars are also regularly used by charter groups. For charter group trips, catered meals are available, contact us for details.
In the middle of the train is the ever-important concession car. Here, you'll find a selection of hot dogs, nachos, candy, chips, popcorn, and other snacks. Beverages include hot coffee, soda, Gatorade, and water.
On the north end of the train are our Club Cars. These lounge cars, Eagle Cañon and Chessie Club, feature couch/loveseat style seating with tables, are climate-controlled, and include meal service. Club is available on all trains. The Eagle Cañon and Chessie Club Cars have a classic, stylish look invoking memories of long-gone days of luxury rail travel. This look is complemented by Chesapeake & Ohio railroad china and tableware, just as was done years ago.
Learn more about the Chessie Club car from the C&O Historical Society (Fall 2013) – Chessie Club Car article. Included is a diagram of the car. The seating areas of both the Chessie Club and Eagle Cañon are very similar.


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Alex Winter Confirms New Bill & Ted Sequel is in Development
by Ethan Anderton
September 23, 2010
Source: MTV
Back in March some most excellent news came directly from Keanu Reeves who confirmed that certain people were in the midst of working on a another sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure to follow the second installment of the time traveling Wyld Stallyns exploits in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. Now the other half of the radical duo has opened up about a potential sequel as MTV spoke with Alex Winter who said, "Now the cat's out of the bag, and the truth is that, yeah, we have finally hit upon an idea that we think is pretty great." This is certainly some exciting news for the decades old series, but don't expect it to happen immediately.
It's good to hear that recent rumblings from Reeves again saying that work was being done on a sequel isn't just smoke up our asses. Though he doesn't reveal any story details, Winter elaborates on the progression of the sequel:
"We kicked around the idea over the years and had always thought if we could make something that was as kind of genuine in spirit as the originals and without falling prey to kind of retro cynicism or something that was unnecessary, it would be worth doing. We've been working on it for the past couple of years, honing that idea and getting it into shape. [Screenwriters Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon] are working on it now. The bottom line is that we still all feel like we need to sit down and look at a script and see if it's everything that it can be before we set about doing anything with it."
Since they're approaching these characters 20 years later, it only makes sense that we would see Bill and Ted 20 years later as well. Winter comments on how they're approaching the sequel:
"The essence of what we've always wanted to do is to make a 'Bill & Ted' movie. We don't want to make a cynical 'here's Bill and Ted — you guys are our kids, now YOU guys go be Bill and Ted and the franchise can live for another 25 years!' It's not that. It's a straight up, what's the funniest and most surprising take on where Bill and Ted would be right now if we stopped back in on them? That's what we're doing."
Sounds perfect. But what about losing one of the most integral parts of the Bill and Ted movies with the tragic death of comic George Carlin who played Rufus? Winter has an answer for that too:
"We're working our way through it right now. It's really complicated. He was such a big part of the spirit of the originals, and we've been trying to be clever about making a new one that can handle the Carlin issue. It's actually stopped us in the past — why do it without Rufus? We've been delicate about moving around him."
They won't be re-casting the character so there's no worries there, but now the biggest question is how soon the project will get off the ground. Winter simply says, "it's a question of when the script is done, when Reeves is free, when I'm free, and getting the whole damn thing up and running. It's a whole process. The first thing we have to do is see if we've got a script that we all agree on." Well I hope Matheson and Solomon move swiflty on the script, because I'd love to see both Reeves and Winter back in rare form as Bill and Ted. We know Reeves is up for the reunion. How about you?
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* Antoinette gives you an extreme curve to your waist maximizing your hourglass shape
* Deduct 4-5 inches from your waist to determine your Antoinette Extreme corset size
* Designed to fit cup sizes B-F
* Steel busk front opening with laced back, combination of 10 flat and spiral steel bones
* Each corset is made by hand by one corsetier from start to finish
* Specialist dry clean
Steel boned corset with an 18th century inspired balconette neckline and extreme cinched waist.
Our Antoinette Extreme corset shaves two more inches from the waist than our standard Antoinette Corset in order to maximize your hourglass shape. For example, the size 26" will have a 26" waist but is has the bust and hip size of a 28" standard Antoinette.
This corset features an historical bustline, which flattens the breasts and pushes them up. While this looks amazing when the corset is worn as outerwear, it makes it less suitable for wearing under clothing.
The sizes below are reduced waist sizes (ie, the corset size when it is closed). You will need to deduct 4-5 inches from your waist to determine your corset size. Please see our Sizing Notes for more information. Our Antoinette Extreme corset is made to order, please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.
Size & Fit
This is an Extreme version of our Antoinette Corset. It's cut to the same pattern but an extra 2 inches has been shaved from the waistline: for example, the size 26" will have a 26" waist but is has the bust and hip size of a 28" standard Antoinette. If you are new to corsets we advise starting with our standard Antoinette corset unless you have a greater then 10 inch difference between your natural waist and hip.
These corsets are designed to work hard and reduce your waist by up to 4 inches. Please deduct 4 to 5 inches from your normal waist measurement to work out your corset size: a natural waist of 29 inches will give a corset size of 24 inches, whilst a natural waist size of 30 inches will give a corset size of 26 inches.
* length along busk 14.5"
* from under arm to waist 7.5"
* from waist to bottom 7"
I am still seasoning this corset but the fit and comfort is already apparent and I am looking forward to finish seasoning and to be able to tight lace in this corset. The extreme silhouette is not for the faint hearted but the results are stunning. The only things I have changed is to fit longer laces but that is only because I do cinch down more then the norm and the standard laces were too short for me but most people would not have this problem. The other thing I changed was to lace in the inverted bunny style as that is the style I prefer to give a better waist cinch. I am very excited about this corset and am looking forward to many years of comfortable wear. And with a great waist.
Michael with all the cats.
catmichael, 17 Nov 2016
Got this corset in peach and I really love what it does for my shape. Also pretty comfortable! My only complaint is the neckline; I have small, kind of empty boobs, and this corset gets rid of them faster than my binder does! And then the little horn things stick out and the top line is very noticeable under clothes. :( But I let a friend of mine, with the same-ish waist and hips but a bigger bust, borrow it, and she didn't have any such problems. Fantastic quality, just watch out if you're small-chested!
Hi Shoshanna, a good trick is to bend over and scoop your chest into place! You can also wear a little padding if you choose to. Thanks, Aimee
Shoshanna, 14 Feb 2014
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Grief, loss and pain taunt her - "you will never be the same." Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, she rises and spreads her new wings as she brushes off the ashes an
It was $450.
And it helped us move forward. I have had independent verification that my H was telling the truth as well.
Worked for us.
We found one in the phone book. He was an ex cop, used to do them for his department. The cost was steep. I think somewhere around $350. But when he saw we were parents of three and I was pregnant, he cut us a break.
He helped us form I think it was seven questions that could be answered with a yes or no. I gave my XWH one last chance to say anything else, and the cop also stressed that the test would detect his lies. He fessed up to one last minor thing, took the test, and passed it.
I left feeling such relief. I knew there was a chance he was still lying and the test was false...but I decided it was the closest I could get to the truth. I needed that peace, and it's what finally helped me move forward.
The marriage didn't last. We D. But I will never regret the money spent.
Them : in the past, where they can stay.
The very best stats I have heard are 93% accuracy. I think 7% is too much to risk, especially with the high cost. Also, I fully believe that the percent of accuracy is only as high as it is because people "believe" the test will know if they are lying, so they are therefore more likely to tell the truth, or have what is called parking lot confessions before going for the actual tests. Many say that helps them, but it is not something I would do or recommend.
It showed no lies and I didn't lie. For us it was helpful.
H googled polygraph examiners in the area, interviewed a few on the phone, looked at their credentials, emailed back and forth, and made his choice. I think it was somewhere around $400.


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By DAN GOLDMAN
In what has become an early spring tradition, the Columbia College basketball team once again got the short end of the seeding stick when the Northern California playoff bracket was released yesterday.
Instead of getting a first-round playoff game at Oak Pavilion, the No. 19-seeded Claim Jumpers (19-12, 9-5 Central Valley Conference) will visit the 14th-seeded American River College Beavers of Sacramento (16-15, 6-4 Bay Valley East) for a 7 p.m. tipoff Friday.
This despite the fact that Columbia won more overall games, won more conference games and won the head-to-head criteria matchup used to determine seedings with American River.
"Well, we're going to have to wins games no matter where we are," Columbia coach Andy Vasher said. "I figured that's who we'd play. I just figured it would be here instead of there."
The top 16 teams in the 32-team NorCal field host first-round playoff games.
The CVC, as a whole, garnered little respect from the seeding committee this year. Although all eight league teams made the postseason, seedings left a lot to be desired from the CVC standpoint.
CVC champion and No. 1-ranked Fresno (33-1, 13-1) could not be denied the top seed, but CVC runner-up College of the Sequoias (18-11, 11-3) barely rated a home game, falling all the way to No. 15 after losing its regular-season finale to Merced on Saturday.
The Columbia-American River winner will play Wednesday, March 5, against either No. 3 Diablo Valley of Pleasant Hill (31-2) or No. 3 Porterville (11-21).
In addition to Columbia, other CVC teams in first-round action on Friday will be No. 15 COS (18-11) vs. No. 18 Shasta (14-16); No. 20 Modesto (15-17, 7-7) at No. 13 Yuba (21-10); No. 21 Reedley (13-18, 5-9) at No. 12 Skyline (18-14); and No. 23 Merced (14-16, 5-9) at No. 10 Chabot (26-5).
On Saturday, No. 1 Fresno (33-1, 13-1) vs. No. 32 Alameda (12-18); Porterville at Diablo Valley; and No. 31 West Hills (10-19, 4-10) at No. 2 Santa Rosa (25-6).


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Up to £10,000 for your youth project
Making a difference to young people in Dorset
Dorset County Council has launched #CrowdfundDorset with a £200,000 Youth Fund for projects that aim to give young people in Dorset, aged between 10 and 19, places to go and stuff to do.
Eligible projects could be from a parent teacher association (PTA), a club or community group. You could be a Girl Guide, Scout or school society. You could be a voluntary group who has an initiative that helps inspire or engage young people.
The fund is also to support projects run by young people who have a great idea.
Find out about our 'Crowdfunding for youth projects' LIVE learning series running now.


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All That Glitters / Should You Take a Tip From the Big Boys?
That 'insider information' you overheard at the sushi bar may not be all you think it is
There you are, at a cafe or restaurant in central Tel Aviv, when you happen to recognize the two guys at the next table. They're big shots in one of the larger institutional investment companies, lapping up lunch. You hear one remark to his colleague, "We have a ton of Teva stock. Our portfolios are bursting with it."
You are a dabbler, an amateur investor, and you are absolutely thrilled. It's your first-ever tip, first-hand, from a player! You have information other people don't! You bolt the rest of your own meal and scurry off, whipping out your cell phone as you stride down the street.
But wait a minute. Should you phone your broker and tell him to go deep on that share?
What is the true significance of what you overheard? Is it actually worth anything?
Note that the big shot didn't say he was about to buy a truckload of Teva shares, he said he'd already done it. His investments vehicles are awash in the stuff. You don't know when the shares were bought. You don't know if he means to buy more. You don't know if in fact that giant chunk of Teva he holds is worrying him, and he's thinking about unloading some of it.
All you know is that until recently, at least, one institutional investor thought Teva was an especially toothsome investment prospect. You also know that this institutional investor has an army of experienced analysts who studied the issue.
This is not a theoretical exercise, and you don't have to loiter on Rothschild Boulevard to glean tips. The listed companies and brokerages are publishing their financial statements for 2010. By law the big institutional investors must disclose the state of their holdings at year-end. With a little work delving into Israel Securities Authority databases or the companies' own websites, you can determine the most popular stocks. That information will be two to four months behind, but when it comes to investor favorites the information is likely to still be relevant.
Goldman Sachs recently pulled off this very trick regarding hedge funds - theoretically, the smartest, fastest investment vehicles around - and hired the brightest traders. If lots of hedge fund managers choose a given stock, you'd think it would make sense to get into it too.
So what were the hedge funds' faves? First and foremost, Apple, in which 195 hedge funds were invested at year-end 2010. It paid off for them: Apple is near its all-time high.
Next were three banks (Citigroup. JP Morgan and Bank of America ), followed by four more technology companies (Microsoft, Google, Cisco Systems and HP ), drugs (Pfizer ) and General Motors, fresh from bankruptcy proceedings. These were the 10 biggest tips from the brightest minds on Wall Street.
They are among the world's larger companies. The shares are liquid. Anyone can buy them.
Israel doesn't have much of a hedge fund scene, and the funds it does have don't have to announce their holdings at year-end. The closest thing we have is mutual funds. The favorite among mutual fund managers at year-end 2010 was Teva, which also placed 34th on the American hedge funds' managers list: 306 of them had shares in the Israeli company.
After Teva in the Israeli top 10 were the four big banks, followed by Bezeq, Israel Chemicals, Makhteshim-Agan Industries and Delek Group. (Note that both the Americans and the Israelis were betting on drugs, banking, oil and chemicals. )
But does aping the big boys promise you success? Not really. In Israel, at least, the top 10 list is very much like the TA-25 index, meaning it's a "market portfolio". The mutual funds aren't picking stocks, they're picking indexes, with a tweak here or there. It isn't that they're crazy about this or that company, it's that there's nothing else. The one thing the Israeli mutual fund managers want is not to underperform the index and their colleagues.
In the United States, too, being on the favorites list doesn't assure you'll beat the market in the future. Clever people at hedge funds have a sense about when to get out of a stock. The moment they decide its risk is greater than its reward, it'll be bye-bye Charlie with no parting kiss. Nobody can assure they won't be dumping that stock on the very day you decide to get in.
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No. 4 Florida at Vanderbilt, 6 p.m. Saturday, ESPNU, 620-AM
The Gators (5-0, 4-0 SEC) have won 21 consecutive games over the Commodores (2-3, 1-2), dating to a 24-9 victory in 1988. Vandy will have its first sellout since 2008 — also a game against the Gators. Florida has the nation's sixth-best scoring defense (11.4), but it will be tested again this week by a mobile QB in Jordan Rodgers and the Commodores' duo of WR Jordan Matthews and Chris Boyd — currently the SEC's top receiving duo (170.8 ypg). Rodgers, the brother of Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, was a handful for the Gators in last season's 26-21 Florida victory, passing for 297 yards. UF defensive coordinator Dan Quinn said Rogers can hurt you with size and speed. Vanderbilt is 10th in the nation in pass defense (162.40) and the Gators are last in the SEC in passing offense (158.6), but UF offensive coordinator Brent Pease said this week he won't hesitate to continue to use the run as much as necessary.
Watch out for …
Florida has to guard against what UF basketball coach Billy Donovan calls "the human element." One week after a win over No. 4 LSU and facing a team with a losing record, the last thing Florida can afford is to look past Vanderbilt toward next week's showdown with South Carolina. The Commodores earned their first conference win last week, played South Carolina tough to open this season, and remember how close they came to an upset over the Gators last season. It's a road game in the SEC and the Gators have to remember that.
Antonya English, Times staff writer


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Avram Grant's wife: He loves massages
Portsmouth manager Avram Grant's wife has claimed her husband only visited a "massage parlour" because he is "crazy about massages".
Israeli Mr Grant, 54, was pictured by a Sun photographer leaving a "massage parlour" near Portsmouth's training ground, on an industrial estate near the village of Horton Heath, where prostitutes allegedly charge £130-an-hour.
TV personality Tzofit Grant, who has been married to Avram Grant for 16 years, told the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv: "It's nobody's business what he does with his body. He can get a Thai massage when he wants and how he wants."
She said he is not intending to sue the Sun newspaper which took the pictures.
She said: "'Avram is a private man and can do whatever he wants.
"I don't understand what the noise is about… Avraham is crazy about massages. He also likes Australian massages and Japanese massages, and he also likes Thai women to give him a massage.
"When he doesn't get a massage I get angry at him. I swear, on my children's lives, that is the truth and the whole truth"
Mr Grant is said to have admitted to the Sun reporter that he knew the place was a massage parlour, but the paper has been unable to print his identity due to privacy laws.
Today, however, the Daily Telegraph revealed his identity in the wake of the landmark ruling by Mr Justice Tugendhat last week.
It removed an injunction on newspapers over the affair of Chelsea and England captain John Terry with the ex-girlfriend of fellow England star Wayne Bridge.
Mr Grant's name had been widely circulated on the internet in connection with the allegations before his name was revealed.
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Welcome to Orrin Pilkey's Research site….
Brief Bio:
Orrin is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, and Founder and Director Emeritus of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS – http://www.psds-wcu.org/) which is currently based at Western Carolina University.
He received his B.S. degree in geology at Washington State College, his M.S. degree in geology at the University of Montana, and his Ph.D. degree in geology at Florida State University. Between 1962 and 1965, he was a research professor at the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island. He has been at Duke University since 1965, with one year breaks with the Department of Marine Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, and with the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Pilkey began his career with the study of abyssal plains on the deep sea floor. As a result of the destruction of his parents' house in Waveland, MS, in Hurricane Camille (1969), he switched to the study of coasts, a field in which he is well known internationally. His research centers on both basic and applied coastal geology, focusing primarily on barrier island coasts. His first task involved co-editing and co-writing a 22 volume Living with the Shore series of books, intended to inform the public about the hazards of beachfront living. In 1996, Pilkey, with co-author and graduate student, Kathy Dixon, published The Corps and the Shore, a critical view of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' projects on American coasts. In the book Useless Arithmetic (2007), written with his daughter, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, they argue that the outcome of natural beach and barrier island processes cannot be accurately predicted (for engineering purposes) by mathematical models. The Rising Sea, written with Rob Young in 2009, focuses on the global threat from sea level rise. The World's Beaches, published in 2011, is a beautiful and informative "Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline" that looks at the role of beaches in history, beach classifications, threats that beaches face today, and the future of beaches in a rising sea. Beautiful batik art by Mary Edna Fraser embellishes Global Climate Change: A Primer. This popular 2011 volume was written with his son, Keith, and provides an excellent discussion of the subject, along with debunking climate change myths. In 2012, he published his latest book (co-edited), Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization, which offers a global view of the pluses and minuses of holding shorelines in place during a time of rising sea level.
Pilkey has received numerous awards, among them the Francis Shepard medal for excellence in marine geology (1987), public service awards from various organizations, and the Priestly Award (2003). Most recently (2012), Duke University honored him with the naming of a building at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, NC: The Orrin Pilkey Marine Sciences and Conservation Genetics Center, which is under construction. You can follow the progress of its construction on a Marine Lab webcam at http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/marinelab/facilities/webcam-pilkeycenter.
Orrin has published more than 250 technical publications and has co-authored or c0-edited numerous books. Further articles by Pilkey can be found in the Coastal Care web pages, a site that focuses on coastal and beach issues and education. http://coastalcare.org/ He has written a number of op-eds on the subject of response to coastal erosion and sea level rise and is a popular speaker at meetings and events.
Pilkey, O.H., et al. Rethinking Living Shorelines. http://www.wcu.edu/WebFiles/PDFs/PSDS_Living_Shorelines_White_Paper.pdf
Thieler, E.R., et al., 2000. The Use of Mathematical Models to Predict Beach Behavior for U.S. Coastal Engineering: A Critical Review. JCR 16(1):48-70.
Pilkey, O.H., 2000. What You Know Can Hurt You: Predicting the Behavior of Nourished Beaches.
Selected Books include:
Cooper, J.A.G. and Pilkey, O.H. (Eds.), 2012, Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization: Selected Case Studies: Springer, London, 333 p.
Pilkey, O.H., W.J. Neal, J.T. Kelley, J.A.G. Cooper, 2011, The World's Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 283 p.
Pilkey, O.H., and K.C. Pilkey, 2011, Global Climate Change: A Primer: Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 142 p.
Pilkey, O.H., and R. Young, 2009, The Rising Sea: Island Press, Washington, D.C., 203 p.
Kelley, J.T., O.H. Pilkey, JA.G. Cooper (Eds.), 2009, America's Most Vulnerable Coastal Communities: Special Paper 460: The Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, 179 p.
Neal, W.J., O.H. Pilkey, and J.T. Kelley, 2007, Atlantic Coast Beaches: A Guide to Ripples, Dunes, and Other Natural Features of the Seashore: Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, MT, 272 p.
Pilkey, O.H., and L. Pilkey-Jarvis, 2007, Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future: Columbia University Press, New York, New York, 230 p.
Pilkey, O.H., T.M. Rice, and W.J. Neal, 2004, How to Read a North Carolina Beach: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 162 p.
Bush, D.M., W.J. Neal, N.J. Longo, K.C. Lindeman, D.F. Pilkey, L.S. Esteves, J.D. Congleton, O.H. Pilkey, 2004, Living with Florida's Atlantic Beaches, Coastal Hazards from Amelia Island to Key West: Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 338 p.
Pilkey, O.H. and M.E. Fraser, 2003, A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands: Columbia University Press, New York, New York, 309 p.
Bush, D.M., N.J. Longo, W.J. Neal, L.S. Esteves, O.H. Pilkey, et al., 2001, Living on the Edge of the Gulf: The West Florida and Alabama Coast: Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 340 p.
Pilkey, O.H., W.J. Neal, S.R. Riggs, C.A. Webb, D.M. Bush, J. Bullock, and B. Cowan, 1998, The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 318 p.
Mason, O., O.H. Pilkey, and W.J. Neal, 1996, Living with the Alaska Coast: Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 348 p.
Bush, D.M., O.H. Pilkey, and W.J. Neal, 1996, Living by the Rules of the Sea, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 179 p.
Pilkey, O.H., and K.L. Dixon, 1996, The Corps and the Shore: Island Press, Washington, D.C., 272 p.
Kaufman, W., and O.H. Pilkey, 1979, The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 336 p.


text: |Fishermen harvest fish on the Ulunggur Lake in Fuhai County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Jan. 19, 2014. The annual winter fishing tourism festival, which opened here Saturday, attracted numerous tourists despite the cold weather. As a cultural tradition and an impulse of local economy, the ice fishing has become a special scenery in the cold winter of Xinjiang. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)


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"Any time you can disrupt the flow of someone's offense with hard defense like we were playing, it's kind of a dagger to the other team."
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"In life, events change us. They define us. They leave scars to remind us of that time in our lives. The scars will never go away, nor begin to fade. They'll be there forever, whether we like them or not. And we'll look at them everyday, and... everyday they will remind us of our strength, of the power we have within ourself to maybe not be able to get over something- but be able to get through it."


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Gardening with daylillies presentation
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Susan Shaw of Camden will present "Daylilies and Companions: Four-season Gardening in the Midcoast" on at the Lincolnville Community Library at 208 Main Street in Lincolnville Center. Shaw will show how she brings her passion for daylilies and her love of color, form, fragrance and texture into four-season gardening. For more information, call 763-4343 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Blue Mountain Nilgiri Oolong Tea (Glendale)
This Oolong from one of the finest estates in the Nilgris district is a true cup of surprise. The long, slender, greyish green leaves have a distinct tropical aroma. The liquor is a bright sunny shade. Each sip offers a nutty freshness infused with tropical fruits and a hint of a bouquet of orchid, cherry and orange blossoms. A luscious experience, quite unlike flavours of the region. Add a drop of honey or a little sugar to enhance the flavour and set the tone for a memorable evening.
Doke Rolling Thunder Bihar Second Flush Oolong Tea
Doke Rolling Thunder Oolong is a semi fermented tea, giving pale brew with a refreshing honey flavor. The taste is reminiscent of spring vegetation and differs from occidental varieties having golden brew and a different flavor.
It is cultivated on the lowlands of the Bihar region. The tea garden lies pristine in pure and natural environment, away from road traffic, free of pollution and use of pesticides. The tea is manufactured traditionally by hand. Oolong tea can be had throughout the day, with and between meals
It is cultivated on the lowlands of the Bihar region. The tea garden lies pristine in pure and natural environment, away from road traffic, free of pollution and use of pesticides. The tea is manufactured traditionally by hand. Oolong tea can be had throughout the day, with and between meals
Doomni Imperial Assam Second Flush Oolong Tea
The Assam region rarely produces an oolong which makes this a treasure. Loaded with fragrant notes of sweet peaches and white flowers like peony and lily with honeyed undertones and a touch of apricot ad pears, this is an incredibly flavourful tea. Apart from being wonderfully smooth from start to a sweet finish, it also carried a distinct hint of green amid all the luscious goodness packed into this single tea.
You will certainly want more of this tea which is delightful in its second steep as well. It also makes for a surprisingly refreshing iced tea.
High Mountain Darjeeling Second Flush Oolong Tea
A blended oolong rated as one of the favourites of our master blender. The liquor is smooth, full- bodied and tipped with fruity flavours. The tea taste strengthens with every sip and has soft notes of grapefruit flavour in the finish. Enjoy the tea with an early morning breakfast to a perfect start of the day. Curated by blending premium second flush teas from some of the most sought after high elevation tea plantations in Darjeeling.
Himalayan Flowery Oolong Tea
An exclusive oolong tea loose leaf harvested from the foothills of the Himalayas by small growers. This exquisite mellow tea offers a beautiful floral aroma, a bright liquoring cup & smooth mellow finish.
Maharaja Earl Grey Oolong Tea
This Earl Grey Oolong brings together Exotic summer flavours of oolong and bergamot extract. Lifted floral bouquet of bergamot and orange blossom defines the aromatic profile of this tea. A sip reveals an additional note of jasmine which further embellishes the floral makeup of this tea. Mellow, smooth and intensely fragrant, treat your senses to a unique rendition of this Maharaja Earl Grey Oolong which is sure to please.
Maharani Chai Spiced Oolong Tea
Our Maharani Chai Spiced Oolong, is a tea fit for royalty. The perfect counterpart to our Maharaja Earl Grey Oolong, this concoction was created by our master blenders by combining a unique variety of Indian oolong tea with leaves of cardamom, and spices like cinnamon, cloves along with black pepper. The liquor leaves a hint of spiciness as a aftertaste along with clonal character of a classic Darjeeling oolong. This is a delightful tea that warms and soothes.
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Western Himalayan Kangra Oolong Tea (Dharamsala)
A popular estate from the western Himalayan region in India, this is a surprisingly clean tea that is suited for all times of the day. It has heavy vegetal notes fused with a nutty start and ends on fresh tobacco and burnt wood. The flavours do not linger for too long on the palate and is a great choice to start the day on a low caffeine note. Serve with sugar or honey.
It makes for a great complement to ricotta cheese, tofu, steamed fish, and cured meats.