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The loss lingers | Mr. Burke goes to Washington | Boston cool on Okafor
No. 1: The one loss turned Team USA golden — It has been almost an entire decade since Team USA lost in international play. That came at the World Championships in Japan back in 2006 when the U.S. were whipped in the semifinals by Greece. It was the start of the collaboration between new director Jerry Colangelo and head coach Mike Krzyzewski and the loss not only stung, but provided the necessary impetus that has put Team USA back on top of the basketball world, says Brian Windhorst of ESPN.com:
"The shock and disappointment was real. We didn't know what to expect in terms of playing the next game," Colangelo said. "As we look back now, it was very important. We haven't looked back since."
During that summer 10 years ago, Krzyzewski was guilty of hubris and it carried over to his team. In his first year on the job he'd promised to pay respect to the international game and the non-NBA players who'd given the Americans six losses combined in the 2002 World Championships and the 2004 Olympics.
Yet he quickly declared that he'd never play zone defense despite having zone master Jim Boeheim on his coaching staff. Then during the tournament he sometimes was so unfamiliar with the opponents that he referred to them by jersey number instead of name.
"The stuff we had done up to that point, we realized we didn't know what we were doing yet and what we were supposed to do," Krzyzewski said. "It was a continuation of so-called failure. It wasn't just the game, it was a 'oh here we go again.' I don't think anyone was afraid of what people were going to say, it was what we felt. No one could say anything to make us feel worse."
Krzyzewski started LeBron James at point guard in that bronze medal game, his first move in which he realized he needed to give James more responsibility going forward.
He worked together with Dwyane Wade, who had one of the best games of his international career that night.
Krzyzewski then went through with numerous other changes, including installing a zone defense for use in the FIBA Americas tournament in 2007 and upgrading the scouting to make sure the team was always more prepared for the opposition.
"Out of adversity comes opportunity," Colangelo said. "It was a wake-up call, even though it was just at the beginning of our journey, that no matter how much talent you have on any given night, you don't get much more of a learning experience than that."
No. 2: Burke needed a change — He was a national college player of the year when the Jazz made Trey Burke their first round draft pick in 2013. But after three seasons of sliding steadily down the depth chart, the former University of Michigan guard says it was time for a change and he's looking forward to a fresh start next season with the Wizards. Lev Facher of the Detroit Free Press has the details:
"It was definitely time for a reset," Burke said. "A lot of the things that happened, I didn't understand. Just to have an opportunity again, being able to play with an All-Star-caliber point guard in John Wall, I look at it as an opportunity to go deep in the playoffs and win games."
Burke's first three years in the NBA essentially marked the first success-free stretch of his career. In two years at Michigan, he propelled the team to two straight NCAA Tournament appearances and a run to the national championship game his sophomore year.
Utah, by comparison, didn't have a winning season in Burke's three years there. By the end of his first NBA run, Burke had fallen off the bottom of Utah's rotation, playing in just two of the team's final 14 games in 2015-16.
"My entire career, I've always won," Burke said. "To be in Utah, it was up and down. We had some success there, but just to be on another team that has the opportunity to make the playoffs again feels great."
No. 3: Celtics won't overspend for Okafor — If the 76ers are going to break their logjam of big men by trading Jahlil Okafor, it's looking less and less like it will be with a trade to Boston. Or at least not at this time. That's the dish from Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Word out of Boston is that the Celtics will not give up much for the 6-foot-11, 257-pounder.
They have concerns about his playing in the city after being involved in two street fights there in the early hours of Thanksgiving morning. Nor do they like the fact that the center saw a gun pointed at his head in Old City and that he was stopped for going 108 mph over the Ben Franklin Bridge.
The Celtics have a practice of minimizing the risk when acquiring guys who have had what they view as a character flaw.
Former St. Joseph's standout Delonte West is a prime example. A source said that general manager Danny Ainge loved West. However, Ainge only gave him a minimum deal even though talent-wise West was deserving of mid-level exception money.
And he's just one example.
So the Celtics probably won't offer anyone or anything the Sixers would perceive as equal value for Okafor. At least they won't at this time.
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: Gerald Green returns to Boston and Celtics also re-sign Tyler Zeller … Chris "Birdman" Andersen signs with Cavaliers … David Stockton signs three-year deal to play in Croatia … If you still need a Kevin Durant Thunder jersey, there's a sporting goods store in OKC selling them for 48 cents … Steph Curry was trying to make sweet music with his golf swing while playing with Justin Timberlake


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Robert Fawcett: "I only know whether things look right."
"By the time he was 19, Fawcett had saved $1,000 which was enough to pay for two years at [London's Slade School of Art]. He trained there from 1922 to 1924. In those days the school prided itself in stripping away all gimmicks and artifice and focusing on pure drawing skills.
Fawcett recalled, "At Slade, academic and searching drawing was so insisted upon that draftsmanship became second nature. I did nothing but draw from the model for eight hours a day for two years."
Fawcett never took classes in anatomy. When he arrived at school he assumed all artists needed to know anatomy so he attended a lecture at a nearby medical college. However, he quickly decided he was better off relying on his own powers of observation than on memorizing anatomical diagrams. "I am not interested in exploring the figure by scientific means."
"Patella, clavicle, femur and pelvis are medical terms, not the language of drawing. It is difficult to know what to say when confronted by the disbelievers who say, 'but of course you must know anatomy - you've got to!' I can only repeat that I do not."
Similarly, Fawcett never took a class or received formal training in the rules of perspective.
Later in his career Fawcett said, "I know very little of academic perspective -"
" - I only know whether things look right."
The new Robert Fawcett book is available now from Auad Publishing.
* Some of today's images are taken from Robert Fawcett's "On the Art of Drawing" ©1958 Watson-Guptill Publications
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So... basically he learned everything the hard way?? ;)ReplyDelete
Heh, just kidding - not everyone has an analytical left brain to go along with the artistic right brain. Everyone who learns art learns in a different way, and formal study is less comfortable to some people than just doing work directly and learning from experience.
Two years of 8-hour days drawing from model is at least 2,000 hours of practice. I think anyone with an artistic bent could get really good in that amount of time!
Jeff; yeah, it is - and I think Fawcett was also trying to say that as artists, we learn from observation and from understanding basic construction. We don't need scientific understanding ( of muscles and/or perspective ) to know when something does or doesn't look right. In fact, having that knowledge can sometimes results in technically perfect but also "static-looking" work. That's my interpretation anyway ;^)ReplyDelete
AND THE BOOK IS KILLER! Get it!ReplyDelete
Leif, I think both you and Jeff Z make good points. When teaching, I found that some students picked up drawing skills and perspective, without a lot of formal training, while others struggled, even with a lot of formal training. Recently, an amateur fine artist friend struggled with perspective, and just couldn't get it right. She knew it looked wrong, but she wasn't drawing what she was observing. She couldn't see the visual logic behind perspective. She began studying the principals of perspective from books, and her perspective has improved considerably. She just needed to learn the formula. I also have known artists who draw all the time over several decades, but the human proportions are always whacky. They maintain they just can't draw academically. However, they are consistent with their individual style.ReplyDelete
I learned perspective and anatomical proportions before I went to art school, by just drawing what looked right to me. However, art school helped refine and further develop those skills, along with other necessary skills.
Tom Watson
Not long ago I listened to an interview with Jack Kirby. When asked how he learned to draw Kirby said he kept drawing until it looked right.ReplyDelete
Simple enough but as you know it's never that easy.
This book looks great. Thank you Leif for spending the time to highlight it. I plan on ordering a copy.
I just wanted to say that I love your blog! My friend just shared your site with me ... I only wish I had this when I was an illustration student! Thanks for all of the FANTASTIC inspiration - I will definitely be checking back frequently! :)ReplyDelete
- Remo8:46 AM
Well, obviously he did have an understanding of perspective as you can see his pale radiating lines in the pencil drawn interior.That's pretty key to creating a sense of spatial depth with interiors and street scenes.ReplyDelete
Al Dorne, who I don't usually bracket with Fawcett, also claimed to rely solely on observation rather than anatomical knowledge.Although this can make you reliant on models or photo reference.
- Don Cox9:35 AM
I think Ernest Norling's - "Perspective Made Easy" is the best introduction to perspective for beginners. It is a low cost Dover reprint of a 1930s original.ReplyDelete
Very clear and practical. Some perspective books are aimed at the (extinct) architectural renderers, and are much too mathematical.
There is, in my opinion, no need for perspective in a picture to be mathematically correct, so long as it conveys a clear idea of the space the characters are in. The viewer needs to know at once where he is standing.
Remo; just to clarify my point: what I think Fawcett was saying is that one needn't study medical anatomy - often considered very key by many students and many professionals - to know how to draw well. If Fawcett is on the one hand in this regard, perhaps one could say Burne Hogarth or George Bridgeman would be at the opposite extreme of that opinion. Similarly, in regards to perspective, what Fawcett is practicing when he draws those faint key lines, I learned at age 13 from "How to draw Comics the Marvel Way". There may be some scientific basis for this simplified understanding of perspective, but its not hardcore mathematical perspective. Still, it was enough for me to be able to know how to draw things so they 'look right'. At age 17 in my senior year drafting class, our teacher taught us mathematical/scientific perspective. Very dreary, overly complicated (for the artist) and absolutely mathematically accurate. But, as Fawcett said, he didn't know this type of perspective and didn't believe it was important (again, for the artist) to know it. I agree.ReplyDelete
- Remo11:10 AM
I think what you say is correct.
Armed with a few basic principles and the ability to see and think, it should be possible to solve most drawing problems.
1 Superficial rather than deep lying anatomy and
2 Vanishing points and Eye level for perspective.
I think How to Draw the Marvel Way is a somewhat under-rated book.John Buscema was a first class figure artist with a great sense of design and construction.His 60s work on the Avengers an Silver Surfer is as dynamic as it is solid.
On the subject of Burne Hogarth's contribution I'm not so sure.And Bridgman is fine if you want to create Renaissance sculpture,his figures never look like real living forms to my eyes.
But that's just my opinion, others may really rate them.
I think Loomis's books are probably as good as it gets for study.
Wow! I better start sketching more:)ReplyDelete
I have the book and it is INCREDIBLE. Everyone get it. Now.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:59 PM
nice sketches !ReplyDelete
like like like :]
I have the talent of drawing, but I Have the right part of brain stronger so it was easy for me. And I think I learn quickly to draw different things. So it is pretty amazing that the author was so stubborn :D
Leif, I had to smile when you mention learning at age 13 from " How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way". That was the one and only book that was a requirement for my students, when I taught drawing for storyboards. It' s an excellent, easy to understand way of drawing dramatic perspective, character studies and proportions that look right, even if they are exaggerated. There wasn't another book that I knew of that had everything I wanted my students to learn for storyboard illustration. A few students turned their nose up, because of the comic book connotation. So, as I gave them their supply list, I requested they bring the book to class each time.. that when doing storyboards, you don't have time for a model session, and therefore have to draw from your imagination.ReplyDelete
I would recommend the Marvel book for any illustration student along with the Fawcett book, regardless of what direction they are thinking of going. Quality art never loses their validity.
Tom Watson
Just got my copy of this great book, thanks Leif. I completely agree with what you and Tom say. IMO doing comic books the traditional way requires a fair combination of basic formal training and observation, so that you can develop your own ability to draw from imagination with professional results..ReplyDelete
That will help you to do a good job when you don't have the perfect reference, and prevent you for being too static when you rely on photos. The Buscema book is a must-read to me! (sorry for my english)
I've just installed iStripper, so I can watch the sexiest virtual strippers on my taskbar.ReplyDelete

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charmir wrote:Here are three to think about then.
The gameplay seems to be overly complicated for such a small map. Even your legend takes up a third of the map.
The capitals are very close together. This will stifle the larger games.
You have very limited attack routes on this map. This means the strategy for the map is very basic and each starting position only has limited ways to go.
qwerts map may of been simple in game play, but because of these three alone, no matter how well you do the graphics, this is likely to be an inferior copy. Sorry oneyed, but I have to tell it as I see it.
looks that you have some good detections. it´s quaint that I see just these two posts in the Map Foundry... you should come more often to the foundry .
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All We Can Expect Is The Unexpected
The Sprint Cup boys ran the first "competition" race of the 2013 season Saturday night behind the wheels of the new Gen-6 cars. All I can say is watch out!
When they unleash those new cars on the high banks of Bristol in just four short weeks, who knows what's going to happen? As we promoters like to say, "You gotta be here to find out!"
Well-seasoned Bristol veterans know, and first-timers soon will discover, that particular statement truly means something different at Bristol.
At Bristol there is a clear and distinct difference between sitting in the stands versus being parked in front of your TV.
The sights, the sounds, the smell, the emotion and the anticipation of what's going to happen next contribute to a racin' recipe you can't taste anywhere else.
On TV, or even at many other tracks? You get may get asampling. But in a seat here at "The World's Fastest Half-Mile" you can see and experience everything.
How do drivers feel about it?
Believe it or not, Bristol scares these guys. We talked to 2012 Sprint Cup Series Champ and defending Food City 500 winner Brad Keselowski about the first time he came here. We asked him if he was scared and he said, "Um… yeah!" So much, so that when he removed himself from his car his hands were shaking and he needed some significant time to calm down. For the full interview, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ss6nDysEHM.
So… Combine the new Gen-6 car with the anxiety already built into these drivers, and coming off an August '12 IRWIN Tools Night Race that will go down in the Bristol history books (to relive, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieLJLWy0BFU), watch out!
It will all go down under the beautiful Tennessee sky on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th.
Are you ready yet? Good! I'll see you at the race.
P.S. On behalf of everyone at Bristol, Congratulations to Danica Patrick on making history Sunday by qualifying first for the Daytona 500, the first woman ever to win the pole for a Sprint Cup Race.
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GE Healthcare Nuclear Medicine Systems: Class I Recall - Serious Injuries or Deaths Could Occur
[Posted 07/29/2013]
AUDIENCE: Nuclear Medicine, Radiology, Risk Manager, Biomedical Engineering
ISSUE: GE Healthcare became aware of an incident at a VA Medical Center facility in the US. A patient died due to injuries sustained while being scanned on an Infinia Hawkeye 4 Nuclear Medicine System. On July 03, 2013 GE notified hospitals that they were recalling several Nuclear Medicine Imaging Systems because serious injuries or deaths could occur due to the failure mode associated with this recall.
BACKGROUND: These Nuclear Medicine systems are used to perform general Nuclear Medicine imaging procedures for detection of radioisotope tracer uptake in the patient's body, using a variety of scanning modes supported by various acquisition types and optional imaging features designed to enhance image quality in Oncology, Cardiology, Neurology and other clinical diagnostic imaging applications.
Affected products include: Infinia Nuclear Medicine Systems, VG and VG Hawkeye Nuclear Medicine Systems, Helix Nuclear Medicine Systems, Brivo NM615, Discovery NM630, Optima NM/CT640, Discovery NM/CT670 (refer to the Recall Notice for a list of affected Models).
RECOMMENDATION: Healthcare facilities are instructed to cease use of their Nuclear Medicine system until a GE Healthcare Field Engineer is able to do a complete inspection of the system and perform any necessary repairs at no cost. A GE Healthcare representative will contact the hospitals to arrange for the inspection.
Healthcare professionals and patients are encouraged to report adverse events or side effects related to the use of these products to the FDA's MedWatch Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program:
- Complete and submit the report Online: www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/index.cfm
- Download form or call 1-800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre-addressed form, or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178
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On February 13, 1996 I was sitting in a maths lesson at school trying to disguise the fact that I was listening to a Sony Walkman through headphones.
I was 15 and waiting with baited breath as Take That were due to hold a press conference which was being broadcast on Radio One. There had been rumours that they were splitting up but I couldn't bring myself to believe that this was true. They would never do this to us, their loyal fans.
As my maths teacher explained algebra to the class, or some such mathematical equation (you won't be surprised to hear I got a E in maths), Gary Barlow's voice came over the radio 'I'm afraid the rumours are true, Take That are no more.'
When the announcement was over I slowly rose from my seat - holding back the tears - and with a quivering lip asked my teacher 'Can I go to the toilet please?'
I then locked myself in a cubicle and sobbed my heart out. For a long time after that I was known by most of the school as 'the girl that cried in the toilets when Take That split up'.
Many fans were so devastated they called Childline. I didn't do that. Instead, myself and my best friend went to another fellow Thatter's house and talked about it for hours, mainly asking 'why?' what on earth would we do now?
I would like to say I'm over my Take That obsession but when they announced they were reforming I went to the comeback tour three times, and queued all day on each occasion to get to the front.
If I added up all the hours I've spent queuing outside arenas and stadiums to see Take That it would probably amount to a week.
The fact that there are only three of them now doesn't make any difference. Last summer I was there, front row of course.


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Stealing a Christmas tree from a Lady Foot Locker goes off without a hitch for under-appreciated – and sloshed – moms Carla, Amy and Kiki in Hollywood's A Bad Moms Christmas.
In real life, though, out-of-control holiday shopping excursions often come with massive financial hangovers in late January and February.
And the cold reality for many people sets in a few months after Christmas when the bills arrive.
"Our busiest time of the year is the third week of January to March because people are looking for ways to handle the statements that are coming in the mail," said Jeff Schwartz, executive director of the Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada, which helps people navigate through the bills.
Early indicators show retailers in Atlantic Canada are expecting a robust holiday shopping season this year with Black Friday deals stretched into a week-long sales events and sophisticated, online marketing techniques used to boost store revenues.
"(Retailers are) cautiously optimistic," said Jim Cormier, the Retail Council of Canada's Halifax-based director for Atlantic Canada. "You're seeing the economies of the Atlantic Canadian provinces – and especially the Maritime provinces – rebounding."
This is the make-it-or-break-it time for many retailers.
"They call it Black Friday for a reason," said Cormier. "It usually takes 11 months of the year for retailers to get into the black. From late November to the end of December is an important time of the year for many retailers."
In A Bad Moms Christmas, the trio of rebellious moms decide to just say "No!" to the obsessive need to create Norman Rockwell-esque Christmas perfection. In a moment of drunken self-indulgence in a shopping centre food court, they put a screeching halt on their excessive, guilt-laced gift buying. And in typical Hollywood style, the results wind up being a strange hybrid of the drunken college party and teen angst.
The real secret to emerging unscathed from holiday shopping, though, is much simpler.
"Make a budget before you go," said Cormier. "Have a plan. You can do your research before you even go into a store."
That's exactly what second-year Saint Mary's University student Sarah Westhaver does as a smart, personal shopper for seniors and parents in late November and early December. With an ad on Kijiji and referrals from satisfied customers, the 19-year-old picks up a bit of extra money at Christmas by saving her customers time and money. She charges them 20 per cent of their shopping budget and handles everything.
"I do it for a lot of seniors that can't go out and shop for themselves … for the grandchildren … and middle-aged people 35 to 40 years old with kids.
"They give me an amount of money and I look for the best sales. There are a lot of websites that you can look at to get sales and, for grocery shopping, collect coupons."
Think Groupon.com.
In November, the deals-and-coupon-shopping website had deals like personalized, soft-cover Dinkleboo Christmas story books for kids for only $6, or 76 per cent off the regular price. A Turtle Beach Ear Force X32 wireless gaming headset was going for about $54, or 61 per cent off the regular price of about $137. A $30 lunch for two at Stayner's Wharf Pub & Grill in Halifax was selling for 53 per cent off, or only $14.
Even though these seem like good deals, shopping experts warn would-be bargain hunters to beware and check out competitors' prices.
A Barbie Dreamhouse was advertised on Groupon in November at about $219, or 17 per cent off the regular price of almost $265. That was a good price. But the savings were not quite as huge as many consumers might expect when compared to what the competitors were offering. At The Source, the same little girl's dream toy was listed online, at www.thesource.ca, for about $230 and Wal-Mart was offering it for about $240 on its website.
According to Westhaver, going online and comparison shop is a must for deal hunters, whether it's for Christmas gifts or picking up the groceries for the turkey or ham dinner with the family. She's always scoping out the deals at sobeys.ca, superstore.ca, and walmart.ca and checking out the weekly fliers and deals at No Frills. The savings can add up.
"One time, I got a turkey for $5 with a $10 coupon at Sobeys," she said.
In another deal, she was able to scoop up a Power Rangers action figure toy for about a third of its regular price.
Failing to comparison shop during the Christmas shopping season can be a costly mistake.
"The biggest mistake is seeing the sale signs and going straight for that and thinking that's the best price you can get," said Westhaver.
It's a lesson she learned the hard way. A few years ago, Westhaver walked into a store, saw big, bright yellow signs advertising a sale, and snatched up a pair of shoes. They seemed like such a deal.
"A few days later, I went into another store and saw they had them for $20 less," she said.
In its online Holiday Survival Guide at www.consolidatedcredit.ca, Consolidated Credit Counseling Services reminds those struggling with their finances to put the gift-buying binges in check by remembering Christmas isn't primarily about the gifts.
"Focus on experiences, not gifts," states the agency's guide. "You probably can't remember the majority of the gifts you gave or received as a child. You may however, have fond memories of events or family traditions that you treasure."
A great way to avoid getting caught up in the holiday hoopla, clever merchandising and constant bombardment of marketing messages is to prepare an old-fashioned shopping list.
"Make a shopping list and stick to it," said Schwartz. "Go in with a budget. Keep your shopping on track."
But it's not just about the price tag.
Gifts, unfortunately, sometimes miss the mark. What the giver thinks is an ideal gift might be met with, well, a ho-hum reaction by the person receiving it. When that happens, being able to return the item can be important, especially when shopping online.
"Can you return that item and, if you can, what will be the cost of returning it? Will there be a $40 fee? You want to make sure the terms and conditions are something you understand," said Schwartz.
Online shopping can also be fraught with perils as fraudulent websites. Schwartz advises consumers to only do business on websites they trust.
A solid strategy for the use of credit cards is especially important during the shopping frenzy. For many people, credit cards offer up an irresistible temptation to spend more money than they can afford. They buy on impulse.
That's the down side.
Those people should limit themselves to using cash or debit cards to keep their spending in check, said Schwartz.
But there is an upside to using credit cards. These are essentially free loans for those people who religiously pay off their balances.
"If you're using your credit card and paying off the balances, then there are advantages in using your credit card," said Schwartz. "There are rewards – cash back, gas or travel points. There's a level of organization for managing your purchases … and often there's a level of insurance (on purchases). I've seen them add up to a year of warranty on top of the manufacturer's warranty for using a credit card."
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Just how much of Europe can be achieved in 8-days? A whole damn lot when you look at the Western Rocker, starting in Rome and parading through Switzerland and France before arriving in London. Laze around the Leaning Tower of Pisa and attempt snails & devour champagne in Paris. Europe, you are such a dream.
Buon giorno! Welcome to the Eternal City. Head out and explore some of the sights before tonight when you'll get a chance to meet your travel squad over dinner and plan your next epic week together!
We may be hitting the road again, but we're not done with Rome just yet. Make the most of it this morning with our Local Guide's optional tour of the Vatican Museums, including the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica. Then afterwards, we hit the road as we have one more city in Italy to lust over…For those of you not familiar with the whole Florence deal, we have two words for you: it's heaven. Potter along the River Arno, be totally Tuscan with a drop of Chianti wine, and take in the beauty of the city and its protruding Duomo Cathedral.
Today is a perfect balance of guided wisdom and free time to roam. We'll uncover the beautiful art of traditional leather & explore streets bursting with heritage. Take to the local markets, down some gelato & tonight you can choose to end your Tuscan love affair at an optional dinner - think olive oil tasting, each meal matched with a locally produced wine and more.
Hopefully by now you are head to toe in fresh leather, you've eaten your bodyweight in antipasto, and you're feeling fresh as a daisy and ready to farewell Florence.No trip around Europe is complete without seeing the world's most famous #AwkwardLean, the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Once you've got that perfect snap of you holding the thing up like you're Arnold Schwarzenegger, we'll be on the fast-track to the Swiss Alps.Bunking down amid fairytale snowcapped mountains tonight shows how far we've come since golden Florence this morning, and that right there is the magic of Europe. Tomorrow we'll set out to explore this magical land of cheese, chocolate and watches.
Open the window of your room & drink in the incredible view - if you can find words or photos that do it justice, we applaud you! If you're feeling audacious, catch a cog rail to Europe's highest railway station on Jungfrau Mountain, keeping your balance on what's known as the 'top of Europe'.
Out with the altitude, in with the inner-city Parisian bliss. Once we've crossed the border out of Switzerland we will be coasting through the pretty wine producing region of Burgundy before our arrival in Paris.Lamp-lit bridges, a sparkling Eiffel Tower, & evening coffee haunts, tonight we fall in love with everything Paris. Our Trip Manager fills us in on the city's secrets, then to celebrate our first night in the city, we'll pop the champagne & experiment with escargot.
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FORT MEADE, Maryland (CNN) -- A military judge plans to announce Wednesday morning what sentence she'll give Pfc. Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army intelligence analyst who stands convicted of what prosecutors believe was the biggest leak of classified materials in Army history.
The judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, reconvened the sentencing phase of Manning's court martial Tuesday morning, and noted the soldier has 1,293 days -- or 3 1/2 years -- of detention credit to consider. Manning's defense attorney previously argued that his client deserves additional consideration for the harsh conditions he suffered during part of that detention.
Lind's deliberations officially began after court recessed Tuesday morning. Later Tuesday, she told both sides that she intends to announce a sentence at 10 a.m. ET Wednesday.
Prosecutors have said Manning acted as a "determined insider" in leaking classified information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and should be locked up for at least 60 years.
Manning's lawyer contends he can be rehabilitated and should not "rot in jail."
Manning faces up to 90 years behind bars. Lawyers for both sides wrapped up their sentencing arguments Monday.
"There may not be a soldier in the history of the Army who displayed such an extreme disregard" for his mission, Capt. Joe Morrow, the prosecutor, said Monday.
Manning's arrogance, Morrow said, meant that he "felt he alone was knowledgeable and intelligent enough to determine what information was to be classified."
Morrow asked that Manning, 25, serve a minimum sentence of six decades behind bars, saying his actions created grave risk, disrupted diplomatic missions and endangered lives.
Defense attorney David Coombs did not ask for a specific sentence, but said that his client was an excellent candidate for rehabilitation and that he should not be left to "rot in jail."
"Perhaps his biggest crime was that he cared about the loss of life that he was seeing and couldn't ignore it," he said of Manning's decision to turn over the explosive information to WikiLeaks.
"This is a young man capable of being redeemed," Coombs said in final remarks. "The defense requests, after the court considers all the facts, a sentence that allows him to have a life."
Lind convicted Manning of numerous counts at his trial in July, including espionage-related charges. He avoided a potential life sentence when Lind rejected charges that his actions aided the enemy.
In addition to prison, prosecutors also want Manning to forfeit pay and benefits and pay a $100,000 fine.
Officials indicated a single sentence would cover all of the guilty counts.


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Major Section: RELEASE-NOTES
We fixed a soundness bug due to a conflict between user-supplied package
names and internal package names (obtained by prepending a Lisp constant,
*1*-package-prefix*) and user-supplied package names. For example, the
(defpkg "ACL2_*1*_MYPKG" ()) is no longer legal. Thanks to Robert
Krug for asking a question that led directly to the discovery of this bug.
We fixed a soundness bug that allows
logic mode functions to call
program mode functions. The fix furthermore prevents functions
with guards verified from calling functions with guards not verified.
We had thought we already prevented all this, but there was a problem with
the interaction of
local definitions and redundancy checking
(see redundant-events).
We fixed a soundness bug that could occur when built-in functions were called during macroexpansion (a hole in so-called ``safe-mode'').
Fixed a minor bug in system functions
genvar1 and
genvar, where
eq had been used in place of
eql. This bug was discovered during
the plugging of a hole in safe-mode, mentioned just above.
We fixed handling of the
:inline keyword for
defstobj, which
previously could cause raw Lisp errors in OpenMCL and CMU Common Lisp.
Thanks to John Matthews for bringing this issue to our attention.
Calls of
include-book could result in a state for which some function
definitions were not compiled that should have been. The result could be
performance degradation or even stack overflows. This situation could arise
in the following two ways.
We fixed some performance bugs that can increase the speed of
o Inclusion of a book with an absolute pathname that differs from the absolute pathname at certification time, presumably because of the use of soft links. Thanks to Bob Boyer and Warren Hunt for bringing a stack overflow to our attention that led us to this fix.
o Large
mutual-recursionnests (more than 20 functions) are executed in a superior book.
include-book calls by a factor of close to 2. Thanks to Eric Smith for
asking if we could speed up
include-book processing; we have done so in
the past, but primarily focusing on large
mutual-recursion nests (which
have nothing in particular to do with the current improvements). Also,
thanks to Rob Sumners for a very useful remark early in the process that kept
us from drawing an incorrect conclusion at that point.
We fixed
pl so that it can be run on a form that returns multiple
values, which it could not do previouslly. Thanks to Eric Smith for pointing
out this problem.
Fixed a bug in the Allegro ACL2 trace utility (see trace$) that was causing
10>'' to be printed as ``
9>'', ``
11>'' to be printed as
10 >'', ``
12>'' to be printed as ``
11 >'', and so on.
Fixed a proof-checker bug that was preventing the use of the
command (or a numerical command) on
let expressions. Thanks to Bill
Young for pointing out this problem.
Fixed a bug in a comment on how to set
ACL2_BOOKS_DIR in the makefile.
Thanks to Dave Greve for pointing out this problem.
Fixed a potential soundness bug in the linear arithmetic routines. Thanks to Jared Davis for noticing this problem and to Robert Krug for implementing the fix. (Technical details: We had been assuming that polynomials were being normalized -- see the definition of good-polyp in linear-a.lisp -- but this assumption was false.)
When the macro
open-trace-file is opened twice in succession, it now
automatically closes the first trace output channel before opening another.
It is now possible to use
make to build ACL2 on Windows systems that
make. Thanks to Pete Manolios and Mike Thomas for pointing out
the problem, to Jared Davis and Mike for helping us to analyze the problem,
and to Jared for testing the fix.
Fixed a bug in the guard of
with-output that was causing a
needless guard violation.
The new events
add-default-hints and
remove-default-hints allow
one to append to or subtract from the current list of default hints. The
set-default-hints continues to set the list of default hints,
discarding the previous value of the
default-hints. Note that
set-default-hints is still
local to the
encapsulate or book
in which it occurs, and
add-default-hints has the same property,
although neither is implemented any longer using the
acl2-defaults-table. New events
remove-default-hints!, and
set-default-hints! are the same as
remove-default-hints, and
set-default-hints, respectively, except that the former three events
are not
local to their enclosing
encapsulate or book. Thanks to
Jared Davis for suggesting these enhancements.
OpenMCL's tracing routines have been modified in a similar manner as those of Allegro CL. Thanks to Robert Krug for providing this enhancement.
Guard-checking can now be caused to happen on recursive calls. See ``GUARD-RELATED CHANGES'' below for details.
Advanced users can now inhibit compilation of so-called ``*1* functions''
with the
:comp command; see comp. Thanks to Rob Sumners for suggesting
this enhancement.
Added new legal argument
hard? for the
er macro, which is now
documented. See er. Thanks to Rob Sumners for a discussion leading to this
change. Also, the three legal first arguments to
er --
hard?, and
soft -- may now be in any package (thanks to Jared Davis
for bringing this issue to our attention).
We have removed the requirement that for a rule's hypothesis
(bind-free term var-list), at least one variable must occur free in
term. For example, the expression
(bind-free (bind-divisor a b) (x))
was legal because
a and
b occur free in
(bind-divisor a b); but
(bind-free (foo (bar)) (x)) was not legal. The latter is no longer
disallowed. (Technical note: this allows
bind-free to be used to create
explicit substitutions in metafunction hypotheses.)
The following two enhancements have been implemented for rules of class
meta. Thanks to Eric Smith for requesting more control of
reasoning with
meta rules, which led to these enhancements, and to
him and Robert Krug for helpful discussions.
A new command
o It is now possible to control backchaining in rules of class
metaby providing a
:backchain-limit-lstargument, as was already allowed for rules of class
linear. See rule-classes. However, unlike those other two rule classes, the value for
:backchain-limit-lstis prohibited from being a non-empty list; it must be either
nilor a non-negative integer.
o (For advanced users.) It is now legal for hypothesis metafunctions to generate, in essense, calls of
bind-free, handled essentially as they are handled in hypotheses of
linearrules. We say ``essentially'' primarily because both
bind-freeare actually macros, but hypothesis metafunctions must generate translated terms (see term). The enterprising advanced user can call
transto see examples of translated terms corresponding to calls of
trans! has been added, which is like
trans except that
trans! ignored issues of
single-threadedness. See trans!. Thanks to Eric Smith for suggesting this
pf command now works when the argument is the name of a macro
associated with a function by macro-aliases-table.
The simplifier has been changed slightly in order to avoid using
forward-chaining facts derived from a literal (essentially, a top-level
hypothesis or conclusion) that has been rewritten. As a practical matter,
this may mean that the user should not expect forward-chaining to take place
on a term that can be rewritten for any reason (generally function expansion
or application of rewrite rules). Formerly, the restriction was less severe:
forward-chaining facts from a hypothesis could be used as long as the
hypothesis was not rewritten to
t. Thanks to Art Flatau for providing an
example that led us to make this change; see the comments in source function
rewrite-clause for details.
The rewriter has been modified to work slightly harder in relieving
hypotheses. Thanks to Eric Smith for providing an example that inspired the
following, which illustrates the issue. Suppose we introduce functions
foo and
bar with the (non-
local) properties shown below.
(encapsulate (((foo *) => *) ((bar *) => *))Consider what happens when ACL2's rewriter is used to prove the following theorem.
(local (defun foo (x) (declare (ignore x)) t)) (local (defun bar (x) (declare (ignore x)) t))
(defthm foo-holds (implies x (equal (foo x) t))) (defthm bar-holds-propositionally (iff (bar x) t)))
(thm (foo (bar y)))With ACL2's inside-out rewriting,
(bar y) is first considered, but
rewrite rule
bar-holds-propositionally does not apply because the context
requires preserving equality, not mere Boolean (
iff) equivalence. Then
the rewriter moves its attention outward and sees the term
(foo (bar y)).
It attempts to apply the rule
foo-holds, in a context created by binding
its variable
x to the term
(bar y). It then attempts to relieve the
x of rule
foo-holds in that context. Before this change,
ACL2 basically assumed that since rewriting was inside out, then
(bar y)
had already been rewritten as much as possible, so the rewrite of
x in
the aforementioned context (binding
x to
(bar y)) simply returned
(bar y), and the attempt to relieve the hypothesis of
failed. The change is essentially for ACL2's rewriter to make a second pass
through the rewriter when the attempt fails to rewrite a variable to
this time using the fact that we are in a Boolean context. (We mention that
source function
rewrite-solidify-plus implements this idea, for those who
want to dig deeply into this issue.) In our example, that means that the
rewriter considers
(bar y) in a Boolean context, where it may apply the
bar-holds-propositionally to relieve the hypothesis successfully.
t) has been executed,
non-linear-arithmetic can now be applied in some cases for which it
previously was not. Thanks to Robert Krug for supplying this modification
and to Julien Schmaltz for providing a motivating example.
We modified the rewriter to avoid certain infinite loops caused by an
interaction of the opening of recursive functions with equality reasoning.
(This change is documented in detail in the source code, in particular
rewrite-fncall and
fnstack-term-member.) Thanks to Fares
Fraij for sending us an example that led us to make this change.
executable-counterpart of function
hide is now disabled
when ACL2 starts up. This removes an anomoly, for example that
(thm (not (equal 1 (* (hide 0) a))))succeeded while
(thm (equal (foo (equal 1 (* (hide 0) a))) (foo nil)))failed. Now both fail.
The theory
*s-prop-theory* is no longer used by the proof-checker;
it has been replaced by
(theory '
minimal-theory. We have left
the constant
*s-prop-theory* defined in the source code in support of
existing books, however. This change eliminates annoying theory warnings
printed upon invocation of proof-checker commands
Terms are now kept in an internal form that avoids calls of primitive
functions (built-ins without explicit definitions; see code for
for details), in favor of the constants that result from evlaluating those
calls. So for example, the internal form for
(cons 1 2) is
(quote (1 . 2)). This change was made at around the same time as changes
in support of
bind-free; see above. One consequence is that the
splitting of goals into cases (technically, source function
clausify and
even more technically, source function
call-stack) has been modified,
which can cause subgoal numbers to change.
Guard-checking can now be caused to happen on recursive calls, where this was
formerly not the case for
program mode functions and, perhaps more
important, for
logic mode functions whose guards have not
been verified. Moreover, a warning is printed when ACL2 does not rule out
the exclusion of guard-checking on recursive calls. See set-guard-checking.
Thanks to David Rager for bringing this issue to our attention, and to Rob
Sumners and the Univ. of Texas ACL2 seminar in general for their feedback.
Guard violations are reported with less of the offending term hidden. Thanks to Jared Davis for suggesting that we look at this issue.
We fixed the proof-checker so that diving works as you might expect for
a macro call
(op a b c) representing
(binary-op a (binary-op b c)).
In the past, if the current term was of the form
(append t1 t2 t3), then
(DV 3) (and
3) would dive to
t3 even though the corresponding
function call is
(binary-append t1 (binary-append t2 t3)). This is still
the case, but now this behavior holds for any macro associated with a
function in
binop-table (see add-binop). Moreover, users can now
write customized diving functions; see dive-into-macros-table, and also see
books/misc/rtl-untranslate.lisp for example calls to
add-dive-into-macro. Of course, the old behavior can still be obtained
using the proof-checker's
DIVE command; see proof-checker-commands.
runes command in the proof-checker now shows only the runes
used by the most recent primitive or macro command (as shown by
unless it is given a non-
nil argument. Also, proof-checker command
lemmas-used has been added as, in essence, an alias for
(The following two items are also mentioned above under ``BUG FIXES.'')
Fixed a proof-checker bug that was preventing the use of the
command (or a numerical command) on
let expressions. Thanks to Bill
Young for pointing out this problem.
The theory
*s-prop-theory* is no longer used by the proof-checker;
it has been replaced by
(theory '
minimal-theory. We have left
the constant
*s-prop-theory* defined in the source code in support of
existing books, however. This change eliminates annoying theory warnings
printed upon invocation of proof-checker commands
Fixed a problem with building ACL2 on CMUCL in some systems (source function
save-acl2-in-cmulisp). Thanks to Bill Pase for bringing this to our
The installation instructions have been extended to include instructions for building on GCL in Mac OS X. Thanks to Jun Sawada and Camm Maguire.
Initial pre-allocation of space has been updated for GCL to reflect more current GCL executables (we considered GCL 2.6.1-38). This can help avoid running out of memory for large ACL2 sessions.
The main
Makefile has been replaced by
GNUmakefile, in order to
enforce the use of GNU
make. If you use another
make program, you'll
get an error message that may help you proceed.
(GCL only) SGC is no longer turned on for GCL 2.6 sub-versions through 2.6.3
si::*optimize-maximum-pages* is bound to
T, due to an apparent
issue with their interaction in those sub-versions. Also, we have eliminated
preallocation for all versions after 2.6.1 because GCL doesn't need it
(comments are in source function
save-acl2-in-akcl). Thanks to Camm
Maguire for excellent GCL help and guidance, and to Camm and Bob Boyer for
useful discussions.
We have removed support for so-called ``small'' images. Thus,
pe and
and other commands are fully supported in ACL2 saved images. Because of this
and other changes in the generation of the so-called ``*1*'' logical
functions, related to guards (as described above in -GUARD-RELATED CHANGES'',
and related to the discussion of safe-mode in ``BUG FIXES'' above), image
sizes have increased substantially.
We no longer
time or run ``
nice'' the certification of individual
books. The file
books/Makefile-generic had done these by default, and
some individual distributed and workshop book directories had
that did so as well. Thanks to Mike Thomas, who pointed out the lack of
nice on some Windows systems (and we decided on this simple solution).
Overall targets in
books/Makefile still
time their runs by default,
and the partiular
time program is now controlled by a
Failures during
make certify-books or
make regression now show up
in the log as ``
**CERTIFICATION FAILED**'', regardless of the operating
system (as long as it supports
make). Formerly, one searched for
**'' but this did not appear in openMCL runs.
We have eliminated ``Undefined function'' warnings that could occur in OpenMCL.
Reconciled the definitions of
firstn in
books/ordinals/ordinal-definitions.lisp, and
books/data-structures/list-defuns.lisp. Thanks to Ray Richards for
bringing this issue to our attention.
Distributed book
books/misc/defpun now can handle stobjs where it
did not previously. Thanks to John Matthews for bringing this issue to our
The "make" variable
COMPILE_FLG in file
formerly only had an effect if there was a
cert.acl2 file present. That
oversight has been remedied.
"books/arithmetic/certify.lsp" was missing a
command for
"natp-posp". Thanks to John Cowles for noticing this
deficiency and supplying a fix. (This file is of use to those who want to
certify the
"books/arithmetic/" books without using
A few small changes have been made to
Small changes were made to books
misc/symbol-btree and
misc/rtl-untranslate. In particular, the definition of
was strengthened.
We made a minor fix to
books/ordinals/e0-ordinal.lisp, adding
(verify-guards ob+) and hence
(verify-guards ocmp) as well. This was
necessitated by the fix prohibiting functions with guards verified from
calling functions with guards not verified (see also the related discussion
under ``BUG FIXES'' above).
Further sped up processing of large
mutual-recursion nests (extending
what was done for Version_2.7), perhaps by a factor of two in some cases.
As promised in Version_2.5 (see note-2-5), structured pathnames are no
longer supported. So for example, the argument to
include-book must
now be a string constant.
Some documentation has been improved, for stobjs thanks to suggestions by John Matthews and much of the rest thanks to feedback from Eric Smith.
The function
current-package is now available to users (it has been
taken off the list of so-called ``untouchables''). Thanks to Jared Davis for
bringing this issue to our attention.
The documentation for topic using-computed-hints-7 has been improved. Thanks to Doug Harper and Eric Smith for inspiring this improvement.
We added several symbols to
set-case-split-limitations, and
Thanks to Jared Davis for suggesting most of these.
Now, a
table event that sets the value for a key,
(table tbl key val :put), is redundant (see redundant-events) when it
does not change the value associated with an existing key of the table. In
define-pc-macro is now fully redundant when it does not
change an existing proof-checker macro-command definition. Thanks to
Bill Young for bringing the latter issue to our attention.
The definitions of unused system functions
ev-w and
ev-w-lst have
been deleted.
ACL2 now prints a warning if a
defpkg event introduces a package name
with lower-case letters, since there is opportunity for later confusion in
that case. Thanks to Frederic Peschanski for bringing this problem to our
attention and Sandip Ray for encouragement.
ACL2 now works in Version 19 of CMU Common Lisp.
The function
sys-call has been modified so that for ACL2 built on
Allegro Common Lisp in Unix or Linux, the existing environment is used.
Thanks to Erik Reeber for bringing this issue to our attention.
The function
disabledp can now be given a macro name that has a
corresponding function; see macro-aliases-table. Also,
disabledp now
has a guard of
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Session properties - Journal of Omnifarious
May. 30th, 2011
05:01 am - Session properties
I've been puzzling over a minimal and orthogonal set of properties for a session. I at first thought there were 3:
- Message boundaries preserved
- Whether or not your messages are delivered in discrete units, or whether they are delivered as a stream of bytes in which the original sizes of the send calls bear no relevance to how the bytes are chunked together on the other end.
- Ordered
- Whether or not data arrives in the order you sent it
- Reliable
- Well, this has a tricky definition. For TCP it means that failure to deliver is considered a failure of the underlying connection. But after such a failure you can't really be sure about exactly which bytes were delivered and which weren't.
But, as is evidenced by my description of 'reliable', these properties are not as hard-edged as they might seem. I also thought about latency, for example a connection via email is relatively high latency, and a connection between memory and the CPU is generally pretty low latency. But I'm looking for hard-edged, yes/no type properties that are in some sense fundamental. Latency seems like a property that's rather fuzzy. It exists on a continuum, and isn't really a defining feature of a connection, something that would drastically alter how you wrote programs that used the connection. In an object model, it would be an object property, not something you'd make a different class for.
But I find TCP's notion of 'reliability' very curious. It isn't really, in any sense, particularly reliable. I've had ssh connections that died, but when I reconnect to my screen session, I discover that a whole bunch of the stuff I was typing made it through, it just wasn't echoed back.
It also interacts with 'ordered' in an odd way. It might make sense to have an unordered connection that was 'reliable', but what does that really mean then? If it's a TCP notion of reliability, you could just deliver the last message and have the connection drop. Also, what would it mean to have an unreliable, but ordered connection? Would that mean you could send a bunch of messages and have only the first and last ones delivered? And would it make any sense at all to have an unordered, unreliable connection in which message boundaries were not preserved?
So I've come up with a different division...
- Message boundaries preserved
- Whether or not your messages are delivered in discrete units, or whether they are delivered as a stream of bytes in which the original sizes of the send calls bear no relevance to how the bytes are chunked together on the other end.
- Ordered
- Whether or not data arrives in the order you sent it
- Must not drop
- This means that if a message does not make it through, the connection is considered to be in an unrecoverable error state, and no further messages may be sent. Though you may not know which message didn't make it through.
- Delivery notification
- Whether or not you can know that a message made it to the other side or not.
These are not fully orthogonal. For example, if message boundaries are not preserved, then, in order for a connection to be in the least sensible, it must also have the 'ordered' and 'must not drop' properties. Also, if you must not drop messages, I'm not sure that it would then be sensible to have out-of-order delivery.
One of the rules of the system I'm designing is that any property that is not required may be provided anyway. This makes non-orthogonality much easier to deal with. So the prior cases aren't really a problem.
Can any of you think of a better set of properties, or important properties that I left out?
Some good discussion also happens in this Google Buzz post that mirrors this entry.
Please reply to my original post on Dreamwidth. If you don't have an account there you can log in using your LiveJournal account. Just login using OpenID and give
http://<LJ account name>.livejournal.com/ as your OpenID. For example, for the LJ user rosencrantz319 that would be
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David Hale takes a Silicon Valley approach to ramping up a computer reference guide for drug-related emergencies.
David Hale takes a Silicon Valley approach to ramping up a computer reference guide for drug-related emergencies.
Ask David Hale at the National Institutes of Health what makes him most proud about the creation of Pillbox, a computer program that can help emergency physicians and other health care providers save lives, and he will tell you it is the interagency collaboration that has made the project possible.
Hale, who works for the National Library of Medicine, is project manager for Pillbox, which is still in the development stage. The program allows doctors to scan a database of photographs and descriptions to identify unknown substances in drug-related cases. The idea resulted from meetings of the National Capital Poison Control Center, the Veterans Affairs Department and NIH.
The Food and Drug Administration also plays a large role in the development of Pillbox, Hale says, by establishing standards for high-resolution drug imaging.
Hale says he took design and development cues from Silicon Valley startup companies to make the project publicly available as soon as possible, launching it in beta mode in 2009.
"We let the public be a part of the development process, instead of keeping it hidden and sequestered," he says. "It's not new, but maybe it's new for government."
Up next in the pipeline is a mobile version of Pillbox, but first there are some hurdles to cross. "As long as we're in beta we can't release the iPhone version," Hale says.


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MIDDLEBURY — She's been visiting Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center (HPHRC) just about every Tuesday for more than three years, but the senior residents still line up for her arrival, hoping to get some eye contact and a handshake or two. No need for an exchange of words.
Not that the celebrity in question can speak in complete sentences; her vocabulary is confined to the occasional "woof."


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Sweetpeas on the left, chive flowers on the right
Wednesday morning I made it to the Union Square Greenmarket for the first time in ages. Though yesterday I pined for my California market, I will admit late May's bounty here in New York ain't bad. I stuffed my bag full of strawberries, rhubarb, asparagus, spring onions, radishes, baby romaine, and the chive flowers pictured above.
The radishes and baby romaine cried out for a creamy dressing, so I cracked open my trusty Joy of Cooking and found a Green Goddess dressing recipe that easily adapted to my ingredients at hand. I used the purple chive flowers instead of chives, and as the dressing sat on my salad, it's color shifted to a subtle lavender. The flowers have the same taste as their younger, greener stems you normally see in the store. The added benefit is the lovely bouquet gracing your table until you cut up and use all the flowers.
This delish dressing is my entry for Kalyn's fab Weekend Herb Blogging event, hosted by Wandering Chopsticks this week.
Green (Purple) Goddess Dressing
This makes more than enough for one large individual salad
scant 1/4 c. creme fraiche (for a low-fat version, sub fat-free plain yogurt)
splash of lemon juice
splash of champagne vinegar
approx. 1 tbsp. chopped parsley
approx. 1 tbsp. chopped chive flowers
salt and pepper to taste
Whisk all ingredients together. Voila--you have salad dressing.


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Basketball News
Greg Turcott to take over Shoreline Men's Basketball Program in Interim Position
SCC's men's basketball coach Butch Estes gave his letter of resignation to Athletics Director Doug Palmer on Monday, June 28, 2010. Estes has accepted a full-time coaching position at Palm Beach Community College in Florida.
Due to a timing restraint, Palmer will not be able to complete a full scale search for Estes' replacement before fall, so he has hired Greg Turcott in a temporary interim position for the 2010-11 season.
The decision to hire Turcott came easily for Palmer. Estes had named him as his top assistant for the 2010-11 season and he had loads of experience.
"He is already familiar with the players and recruits so he will be able to keep the continuity of the program together," Palmer said.
Turcott reached success as the head coach of the basketball programs at Archbishop Murphy High School and Kamiak High School. He was named Coach of the Year at Archbishop after leading the team to a league title, and he led his team to qualify for district tournaments during his tenure as head coach at Kamiak. He was also an assistant coach at Bishop Blanchett High School.
Growing up the son of a college coach, Turcott worked with his father running a basketball program. His experience included helping run a basketball camp, scouting opponents, helping players develop skills, evaluating talent and recruiting.
Turcott says that he has had a lot of experience in the coaching basketball arena. "I have seen first hand how a successful and positive basketball program can energize a college environment," he said.
Turcott learned from some of the best coaches in the basketball business, spending time at campus with the likes of athletes like Rick Majerus, Bill Evans, Joe Scott, Jeff Hironaka, and Fred Litzenberger.
Turcott has been connected to basketball community in Seattle for the past 12 years, running tournaments and camps. "I have also made friends with college coaches and high school coaches alike, and have started an AAU program," he said. He pointed out that the relationships he has made with college and high school coaches could be great resources for recruiting efforts for Shoreline.
Estes, who has been head coach at Shoreline for two seasons, took the struggling program from last place to first place in the league during his two-year tenure.
"We were 0 and16 the year he came on board in 2008-09," Palmer said, "and by the end of his second season, we placed first in the Northern Region (of NWAACC) with 13 wins and only three losses." Estes' overall record was 25 wins/28 losses.
SCC/Donna Myers


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Suspect steals pizza delivery, chase ensues
One man is in custody after police say he led them on a high-speed chase through Beaumont's North End.
According to a BPD press release, on Saturday, Nov. 23 at about 11 p.m., patrol officers near Concord and Carlisle tried to stop a vehicle they labeled as 'suspicious.'
After running a stop sign, the 2006 silver Honda Civic did not stop when officers attempted to pull the vehicle over and led police on a chase through Beaumont's North End.
As the chase made its way westbound on Harrison Street, police say the Honda crossed Gulf Street and skidded out of control, off the road and into the rail yard west of Gulf Street.
The press release said the Honda flipped several times and the driver was ejected.
When officers reached the ejected driver, it seems he was less-than-willing to be taken into custody, fighting police with a nearby rail spike, according to the press release.
Once in custody, the suspect was uncooperative with officers who said they were unable to get the man's name before he became unresponsive and was taken by Beaumont EMS to St. Elizabeth Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Shortly after the wreck, police received a call from the Honda's owner, a Domino's Pizza delivery driver who reported that his vehicle had been stolen from the St. Elizabeth Hospital parking lot, where the suspect had just been admitted.
Police later identified the driver of the Honda as 23-year-old LaCarlos Landry of Beaumont. Police said Landry was released from St. Elizabeth Hospital and booked into the Jefferson County Jail about 10 a.m. Sunday morning on several undisclosed charges, according to the press release.


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Astronomers use STIS to hunt for black holes. The light emitted by stars and gas orbiting the center of a galaxy appears redder when moving away from us (redshift), and bluer when coming toward us (blueshift). STIS looks for redshifted material on one side of the suspected black hole and blueshifted material on the other, indicating that this material is orbiting an object at very high speeds.
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