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MILLEDGEVILLE - The last three men's basketball meetings between Georgia Southwestern and Georgia College had been decided by a combined eight points, so there was little surprise that Tuesday night's game at the Centennial Center was a neck-and-neck affair that ended with the Hurricanes grinding out a 63-59 victory.
GSW has won three-in-a-row and improved its mark to 5-2 overall and 1-0 in the Peach Belt Conference. Georgia College drops to 3-3 overall and 0-1 in the PBC.
In a series that has been controlled by Georgia College since GSW joined the NCAA ranks in 2006-07, the Hurricanes earned only their second win in 13 meetings with the Bobcats, but both victories have come in the last five games.
The Bobcats scored the first seven points of the game and put GSW in a hole early. Scott Ferguson connected on a jumper with 14:01 left in the first half to give GC its biggest lead of the night at 14-5.
GSW answered with a 15-4 run over the next eight minutes, capped by a Daryl Davis layup at the 6:04 mark, to grab its first lead at 20-19. Davis accounted for six of GSW's final nine points of the half and lifted the 'Canes to a 27-25 halftime advantage.
Back-and-forth the two sides would go over the opening seven and a half minutes of the second half exchanging the lead 10 times. An Alan Arnett jumper with 12:27 to play not only put the 'Canes up 41-40, but would prove to be the final lead change of the night.
Tyler Gunnett dropped a jumper with 7:48 to go and connected on a pair of free throws two minutes later to give GSW a team-high eight-point lead on both occasions. Gunnett and Matt Shaw combined for all 10 of GSW's points over the final eight minutes.
Hurricanes head coach Mike Leeder received a complete team effort with four players scoring in double figures. Shaw and Milos Kleut scored 11 points apiece and combined to make 8 of 13 shots. Gunnett and Arnett both came off the bench to add 10 points apiece and Davis was right behind with nine points. Kleut came up a rebound short of a double-double after grabbing a game-high nine boards.
Ferguson led all scorers with 16 points. Aaron Robinson added 13 and David Wagner chipped in 10 for the Bobcats.
GSW controlled the inside with a 36-16 points in the paint advantage and a 38-29 rebounding edge. Major bench contributions from Gunnett, Arnett and Davis gave the Hurricanes a substantial 29-10 advantage in bench points.
Something had to give as the Hurricanes came into the contest ranked third in the PBC in field goal percentage and GC had the lowest opponents field goal percentage in the league while also ranking ninth in the country in NCAA Division II. GSW shot over 50 percent in the second half for the third time this season and finished the game at 47.1 percent, 10 points higher than the Bobcats opponents average.
Southwestern returns home to host Clayton State on Saturday afternoon. Tip time is set for 3:30 p.m. in the Storm Dome.


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I'm am enlisting your help (testers needed) -- details at the end of this post *.
For many years now, fans of CineForm compression have been wanting a single frame version in addition to streaming AVIs/MOVs, as this would be particularly handy for frame based render-farms. Yet there is a catch-22 for supporting any new image format, as too many tools need to support the format before it is viable, prevented the new format's creation. This is very different for streaming formats like AVI and MOV, as most tools use a registered codec infrastructure, like those provided by QuickTime, DirectShow or VideoForWindows, enabling new compressors to be created without modifying the calling application -- we added CineForm compression to FCP without Apple's need to change FCP (even though we wish they would.) For still formats we can't just add our compression to TIFF or PNG, and expect existing tools to support it. Unfortunately still image formats don't use the same codec model like that of QuickTime, slowing down the implementation of new image formats (consider how digital cameras still mostly use JPEG, even though there have been better formats for years.)
CineForm has an idea to help bridge some of that catch-22, to enable support for a CineForm compressed frame format more quickly -- the idea is compressed DPX, I'm call them DPX-C. By using existing DPX structures, some level of backward compatibility can be obtained. Of course we are not expecting existing tools to magically open the compressed data of a DPX-C file, so we add a thumbnail of image that visually reports that the image is compressed (a text overlay within the thumbnail image.) The compressed data remains within the proprietary data fields of the DPX file. While the thumbnail greatly helps for image browsing, we still need a way to full resolution decoding. The first basic step is to provide free tools that convert DPX-C back to DPX, or DPX-C back into a streaming format like AVI or MOV as needed. But we also thinking about file system virtualization, so that a directory of DPX-C files is seen a standard DPX files that load within existing tools without tool modification (** more on this to follow.)
CineForm file virtualization has been done before such that 2K DPX files can be played in real-time (24p) off a bandwidth limited device like a thumb-drive (this was done at a facility outside of CineForm -- there are some very smart users out there.) As the CineForm compression (and decompression) is so fast, the increase in CPU load is often less that percentage of bandwidth load that uncompressed DPX consumes. e.g. DPX playback might take 70% of you RAID bandwidth, yet DPX-C would use 30% of modern CPU for the same playback rate and only 10-15% of RAID. This means DPX-C is will produce greater throughput even as is moves some of the disk load to CPU load -- it is a good trade-off.
Encoding can be virtualized in the same way, enabling a render farm to export standard 10-bit RGB DPX files to a volume that automatically stores DPX-C files, greatly improving network performance at the same time. This DPX to DPX-C virtualization solves the problem of trying to render farm frame directly in a stream media file -- frames don't arrive in order, and CineForm is a variable length format, meaning some frames are bigger than others. DPX to MOV virtualization would require file padding or a constant bit-rate designs, both are undesirable -- not such issue with DPX-C files. While a wide range of virtualization configurations are possible, DPX to DPX-C is the simpliest, particularly as file naming would be identical, allowing switching between virtualized and extracted DPX files as needed.
The ultimate goal is to virtualize DPX to those tools that need it, while encouraging native support in existing tools. DPX-C files will contain any the CineForm compression types from 422, 444, 4444 and RAW (anyone for a DPX-C CineForm RAW still camera?) The first tools to add DPX-C will be CineDDR and Drastic's DDR recorders and virtual decks. The DPX-C was needed for better VTR emulation, allowing telecine sessions to operate with normal inserts without creating overlapping AVI/MOV files, that may need to be re-ordered into the virtual tape. With these products the DPX-C file sequences can be simply and losslessly parsed into MOV or AVI streams for archive or downstream processing.
* While all this sounds great, it hasn't completely happened yet. I need your help in determining the best way to extend DPX with the widest range of compatibility with your tools. This download: www.miscdata.com/DPX/dpxc.zip contains five DPX-C files with subtle variations on how the data is stored, like thumbnail first following by the compressed data or vise-versa, and how the extra data is flagged. The files labeled A through E, are 1920x1080 frames compressed from 8MB to around 715k (422), some or all will load in you existing video tools -- I would like to know which work and which don't in your existing DPX applications. So far I have only tested PC based tools; these work for all DPX-C files: AE CS4, Combusion 2008, Vegas 9 and XnView. C, D and E files work in AE CS3 and Photoshop. So something works in all tools tested so far. So please report back you own findings with these tools or others, and with different versions (note the behavior change between CS3 and CS4.)
** We looking for a developer who has implemented virtual file systems based of FUSE or similar for all platforms (Windows, OS-X and Linux -- we will need Win/OS-X versions first.) We believe a FUSE/MacFUSE implementation would be straight forward, we just have too many projects internally at the moment, and will consider contracting this part out. Of course if we can't find the right person or team, links to good samples would be helpful, as we want this to happen as soon as we can.
---- Update March 15, 2010 ----
Several developers are now using this format, thinks to all the testing users performed for us. We end up using a variation on type-E, being the most compatible and extra useful in image browsing systems as the thumbnail was stored before the compressed image data. For the more complete technical specification on DPX-C, please visit the CineForm Techblog. Within v4.3 or (greater) of Neo and Prospect PC tools, the DPX2CF and CF2DPX utilities now support the DPX-C foramt.

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A structured handbag. This Diane von Furstenberg lovely makes for a bright pop of color, but we're also craving duo-tones as well as graphic and exotic prints on handbags.
Patterned pants. Speaking of prints, they're still all over pants this fall (Rachel Zoe pictured) and looking best when just a little quirky and boldly mixed with other patterns.
Contrast collars. Add a little unexpected flare to that button-down with contrasting collars, plackets and cuffs. The snake-print trim on that Equipment shirt definitely has our attention.
Graphic skirts. An overarching trend on everything from handbags to dresses, but bold graphics on skirts is an eye-catching way (and flattering—see that Jason Wu contrasting panel number) to update a wardrobe staple.


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Death of rebel leader seen as key loss to Syria's anti-Assad forces
A rebel commander who built the most effective faction in northern Syria of the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army has died of wounds he suffered last week in an airstrike on a meeting of high-level rebel and opposition figures, his unit announced Monday.
Abdul-Qadir Saleh had been taken to Turkey for treatment of the injuries he'd suffered Thursday when forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad targeted the building where he was meeting with other key rebel leaders outside the contested city of Aleppo. His unit, the Liwa Tahid brigade, initially reported that his injuries weren't serious, but he died shortly after arriving at a medical facility in Gaziantep, Turkey. His body was returned to his hometown in Syria for burial over the weekend, the group said Monday.
Three other high-ranking commanders were killed and the group's political director was wounded, the group said.
Saleh's death was seen as a massive setback for the future of moderate Islamist rebel factions, which have suffered a series of defeats recently at the hands of the Assad government and al Qaida-affiliated rebel groups with which they've clashed. Widely seen as the U.S.-backed rebellion's most effective military leader, Saleh had a reputation not only for driving his group's battlefield prowess but also for being able to work effectively with the broad range of anti-Assad groups, from Western donors to al Qaida-inspired militants.
"The martyr leader Abdul-Qadir Saleh was one of the bravest men of the Syrian revolution," said Salar al Kurdi, a rebel activist from Idlib. "He had an excellent reputation and he was well mannered. It is a loss to us because we lost a gentleman and an honest fighter, someone from whom we never heard any lies or betrayal."
Western officials appeared to agree.
"It's a real blow that probably puts an end to the question of whether there are moderate rebel factions effective enough to do business with," said a Western military attache posted to Beirut, who regularly visits southern Turkey to meet with the rebels. The attache, lacking permission to speak on the record to reporters, spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
"He was backed by Qatar, at least until recently, and knew how to make Western figures comfortable with his goals for Syria, while at the same time commanding the same sort of battlefield respect from (ordinary) Syrians usually reserved for the more radical factions," the attache said. "The rebels and the West just lost the one commander who might be willing to talk to the regime about a sort of peace and actually be able to deliver some sense of it."
Saleh, who was said to be 33, had worked as a trader and smuggler before the civil war. His skill at organizing factions throughout the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria's largest city and the country's economic capital, helped him become one of the best-known faces of the insurgency and his group became one of its largest, with an estimated 10,000 fighters. He was a charter member of the American-backed Supreme Military Command, a Free Syrian Army umbrella group, but in September he joined with more than a dozen other rebel factions to renounce any ties to the Syrian Opposition Coalition, the civilian group that the United States has declared to be the sole representative of the Syrian people.
A devout Muslim and devoted Islamist, Saleh claimed to support democracy for a post-Assad Syria, though that democracy would be based on Islamic law. His position was considered much more moderate than the more extreme system advocated by his occasional allies in the al Qaida-linked Nusra Front or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, though his decision to formally align himself with Nusra in a new rebel coalition in September had raised questions about the group's orientation.
After last summer's rapid gains took a large swath of Aleppo from regime control, Saleh and his allies in the Free Syrian Army suffered a series of internal and external setbacks that had clouded the direction of the rebellion recently.
In recent weeks, his group had fought pitched battles with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in at least five towns in Aleppo province as well as several crucial neighborhoods in the central portion of Aleppo city. Allies blamed that fighting for creating a distraction that allowed pro-Assad forces to recapture at least eight strategic locations in and around Aleppo and to launch efforts to seize another 20 or so.
According to the Syrian Support Group, a Washington-based organization that helps raise money for the Free Syrian Army, government forces have begun a campaign on three sides of Aleppo to regain control of the city.
The Syrian Support Group said Saleh was meeting with his fellow commanders near a rebel-held army infantry school in Aleppo's northern suburbs when the Syrian government attack came.
Saleh's death raised the question of whether the meeting's location had been communicated to government authorities.
"It may have been, for the Assad planes bombed the site where they were all headquartered. But at the same time it may be a coincidence, and thus far the Liwa haven't said anything," said Kurdi, the Idlib activist. "People are discussing the issue of betrayal among each other; one story is that a GPS chip was planted on the site of the command headquarters."
Activists said that in light of gains by pro-Assad forces, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and other rebel groups had agreed to halt fighting with one another in order to better respond to the government offensive.


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Yeah a little behind on the GM series. We'll get back to that. Tonight I sat through a 2 hour 43 minute 2-0 game. There should be a law against games in which 8 runners are stranded and 2 runs scored cannot last more than 2 hours 15 minutes.
Anyway, some random thoughts.
- Why in the world did Anthony Rizzo not start this game? Rizzo has actually had the most success against lefthanded starters (.194 batting average). Yeah that's still below the Mendoza Line, but still. One would think a guy with his long swing would match up pretty well against a guy who throws a lot of junk. Besides, Rizzo has demonstrated better plate discipline than Alberto Gonzalez has this season.
- Gonzalez looked absolutely flummoxed up there against Ted Lilly. After he looked at two curve balls and swung at a pitch in the dirt for strike 3 in the second inning, all I could think of was Pedro Cerrano. He popped to first and tapped out weakly to Lilly in his other 2 ABs versus the Dodger lefty.
- Dodgers had 2 extra base hits. Both of them came around to score. Padres were oh-for-7 with runners in scoring position.
- Did you know Matt Kemp has a shot at the triple crown? I didn't. After his 426' HR to the deepest part of Petco, he is tied for the league lead in HR, leads the league in RBI, and trails Ryan Braun/Jose Reyes in AVG by .002. Sabermetrics has taken a lot of the luster out of 2/3 of those statistics, but if he does something no NL hitter has done in 74 years? That's pretty special.
- Wade LeBlanc dominated as he has not dominated since pitching against the Phillies way back in May. He struck out 10, including the side looking in the seventh following Kemp's HR. The high strikeout total may have been helped by all the AAA hitters in the Dodger lineup...
- Three of the first 5 Dodger hitters tried to bunt. Only one of those was a sacrifice attempt to move a runner over. Weird.
- I didn't see the balk play clearly, but I will say it is unusual in my experience for the home plate umpire to call a balk, unless it is because the pitcher flinched, i.e., started then stopped his windup. LeBlanc didn't flinch. Neither the second nor first base umpires thought it was a balk, and first base umpire Todd Tichenor had the best angle.
- Speaking of Angel Hernandez, Friday's home plate umpire, his strike zone was ridiculous and inconsistent. It looked to me some of his inconsistency on outside pitches derived directly from how the catcher caught the ball. If the catcher set up off the outside corner and the pitcher hit his glove, even if it was a ball, they generally got the strike call. If the catcher set up somewhere else and the pitch missed the target (like for example, he sets up inside and the pitch is outside so he has to reach across to catch it), even if the pitch was a strike Hernandez called it a ball.
Fully 24 of the 54 total outs were by strikeout. That's 45% of all the outs in this game. Of those, a third were looking. Ted Lilly strikes out about 7 hitters per 9 innings. He did that tonight in 6 and 1/3.Wade LeBlanc strikes out about 5 per 9. Tonight he struck out 10 in 7. Methinks an inconsistent strike zone had a lot to do with that.
- Aaron Cunningham made a bad baserunning play with one out in the seventh, trying to advance to third on a ground ball to third. Ultimately it didn't matter - Jeremy Hermida walked, so the Padres had runners on first and second with two out anyway - but it was still a bonehead play. He should have waited until Dodger 3B Justin Sellers went to first before taking off for third.
Padres need to win all their remaining games to avoid losing 90 this season. No odds will be given on that happening.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
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A Pan-African Vulture Summit has urged governments to conserve and reduce threats to vultures across the continent. The Summit resolved to respectfully urge the governments of countries in Africa, and particularly the national custodians of wildlife in these countries to, among other things, ensure appropriate levels of protection and management for vultures and their breeding sites. Governments have also been called upon to legislate and enforce stringent measures to prosecute and impose harsh penalties on perpetrators of poisoning and those illegally trading in vultures and/or their body parts.
Speaking at the Summit, IUCN Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Ali Kaka pointed the need to ensure that equal emphasis is placed on creating awareness among policy and decision makers, and general public on the importance of the species to our wellbeing. He noted that this will be vital in mobilizing support outside the conservation fraternity.
The Vulture Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, working with the Birds of Prey Programme of the Endangered Wildlife Trust and The Peregrine Fund and their partners in the African Raptor Network, aimed to assess the population status of all African vulture species. They also set out to identify and initiate the implementation of appropriate conservation interventions and actions to attempt to effectively address the key threats to these birds from a continental perspective. This initiative was generously sponsored by the US Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife without Borders Programme and Sasol Limited.
To achieve this, a Pan African Vulture Summit was convened in the Masai Mara, Kenya with the support of the Masai Mara Authorities on April 16-20, 2012 and invited input from a wide range of vulture specialists, researchers and government wildlife representatives from across the continent to provide input from a local perspective and to devise and promote the implementation of a Pan-African Vulture Conservation Plan that will address the above needs.
The participants have called for the effective regulation of the import, manufacture, sale and use of poisons, including agricultural chemicals and pharmaceutical products known to be lethal to vultures. They would like to see that all new energy infrastructures is vulture-friendly and that existing unsafe infrastructure is modified accordingly.
In addition, the participants are calling upon governments to support research, capacity building and outreach programmes for the conservation and survival of healthy vulture populations.
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$1 million public-private partnership funds national Millennium Project for Public Libraries
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today that 512 public libraries in communities throughout the nation have been selected to receive 50 recently published volumes from The Library of America collection, the distinguished series of American literature and history. The libraries join 293 others that were awarded the volumes earlier this year. A list of the libraries is available in the box to the right.
The awards are part of the Millennium Project for Public Libraries, a partnership initiative of NEH, The Library of America and the American Library Association. Carnegie Corporation of New York is funding the initiative and awarded $1 million to NEH last year to develop and administer it.
The initiative is designed to help public libraries build their collection of American literature and history and expand opportunities for educational programs within their communities. As part of the program, libraries will host a program or event to increase community awareness of the nature and content of The Library of America volumes, encourage patrons to read the volumes, and promote their long-term use. Smaller libraries participating in the program are also eligible for programming stipends to help defray the cost of a program or event.
"Public libraries serve as vital centers for learning in every community in the nation. By enriching the collections of these 800 libraries across the country, The Millennium Project for Public Libraries is helping to make the humanities more widely accessible, " said NEH Chairman William Ferris. "This initiative honors the fundamental place of public libraries in American community life. The Library of America's editions of our nation's great writers are outstanding humanities resources that libraries can use to develop reading and discussion groups, lecture series and displays. We hope that every American will have an opportunity to discover the pleasures of reading and the treasures of knowledge that The Library of America volumes provide."
"We are grateful to NEH and Carnegie Corporation of New York for helping libraries build their core collections in the humanities. These are editions that all libraries want but not every library can afford. The programs organized to promote the collection will entice many more readers to experience great American writing-perhaps for the first time-an accomplishment that would make Andrew Carnegie proud," said The Library of America President Cheryl Hurley.
"Partnerships like this help libraries not only build their collections, but also provide opportunities for libraries to increase their communities' awareness of great American writers," said American Library Association President Nancy Kranich. "The initiative is especially beneficial for smaller libraries, which are eligible for programming stipends through ALA's Public Programs Office."
"This investment in regional libraries commemorates Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic work 100 years ago," said Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. "Our founder believed that ignorance was the enemy and knowledge man's answer to most problems. We hope that thousands of men and women, young and old will find and explore ideas and gain knowledge through these volumes."
More information about the Millennium Project for Public Libraries can be found at http://www.ala.org/publicprograms/millennium/.
Each library will receive the following 50 Library of America volumes:
African-American Writers
- JAMES BALDWIN, EARLY NOVELS Go Tell It On The Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country (Toni Morrison, editor)
- JAMES BALDWIN, COLLECTED ESSAYS incl. Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time (Toni Morrison, editor)
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (Henry Louis Gates Jr., editor)
- ZORA NEALE HURSTON, NOVELS AND STORIES incl. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Jonah's Gourd Vine (Cheryl Wall, editor)
- ZORA NEALE HURSTON, FOLKLORE, MEMOIRS, AND OTHER WRITINGS incl. Mules and Men, Dust Tracks on a Road (Cheryl Wall, editor)
- SLAVE NARRATIVES (William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editors)
Colonial and Revolutionary America
- THE DEBATE ON THE CONSTITUTION, PART ONE: September 1787 to February 1788 (Bernard Bailyn, editor)
- THE DEBATE ON THE CONSTITUTION, PART TWO: January to August 1788 (Bernard Bailyn, editor)
- JAMES MADISON, WRITINGS 1770-1830 (Jack Rakove, editor)
- THOMAS PAINE, COLLECTED WRITINGS Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason (Eric Foner, editor)
- GEORGE WASHINGTON, WRITINGS (John Rhodehamel, editor)
Nature & Travel
- JOHN J. AUDUBON, NATURE WRITINGS, JOURNALS, AND LETTERS (Christoph Irmscher, editor)
- WILLIAM BARTRAM, TRAVELS AND OTHER WRITINGS (Thomas P. Slaughter, editor)
- HENRY JAMES, COLLECTED TRAVEL WRITINGS: GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA (Richard Howard, editor)
- HENRY JAMES, COLLECTED TRAVEL WRITINGS: THE CONTINENT (Richard Howard, editor)
- JOHN MUIR, NATURE WRITINGS incl. The Mountains of California, My Summer in the Sierra, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (William Cronon, editor)
Fiction & Essays
- JOHN DOS PASSOS, U.S.A. The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money (Daniel Aaron and Townsend Ludington, editors)
- WILLIAM FAULKNER, NOVELS 1942-1954 incl. "The Bear," Intruder in the Dust, A Fable (Joseph Blotner and Noel Polk, editors)
- WILLIAM FAULKNER, NOVELS 1957-1962 (Noel Polk, editor)
- SARA ORNE JEWETT, NOVELS AND STORIES (Michael Bell, editor)
- SINCLAIR LEWIS, MAIN STREET AND BABBITT (John Hersey, editor)
- VLADIMIR NABOKOV, NOVELS AND MEMOIRS 1941-1951 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight; Bend Sinister; Speak, Memory; (Brian Boyd, editor)
- VLADIMIR NABOKOV, NOVELS 1955-1962 incl. Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire (Brian Boyd, editor)
- VLADIMIR NABOKOV, NOVELS 1969-1974 Ada, or Ardor; Transparent Things; Look at the Harlequins (Brian Boyd, editor)
- JOHN STEINBECK, NOVELS AND STORIES 1932-1937 incl. To a God Unknown, Tortilla Flats, Of Mice and Men (Robert DeMott, editor)
- JOHN STEINBECK, THE GRAPES OF WRATH AND OTHER WRITINGS 1936-1941 incl. The Harvest Gypsies, The Long Valley, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Robert De Mott and Elaine A. Steinbeck, editors)
- JAMES THURBER, WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS incl. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," Fables for Our Time, My Life and Hard Times (Garrison Keillor, editor)
- GERTRUDE STEIN, WRITINGS 1903-1932 incl. Three Lives, Portraits, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Catharine Stimpson and Harriet Chessman, editors)
- GERTRUDE STEIN, WRITINGS 1932-1946 incl. Stanzas in Meditation, The Geographical History of America, Brewsie and Willie (Catharine Stimpson and Harriet Chessman, editors)
- EUDORA WELTY, COMPLETE NOVELS incl. The Robber Bridegroom, The Ponder Heart, The Optimist's Daughter (Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling, editors)
- EUDORA WELTY, STORIES, ESSAYS, AND MEMOIR incl. A Curtain of Green, The Golden Apples, One Writer's Beginnings (Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling, editors)
- NATHANAEL WEST, NOVELS AND OTHER WRITINGS incl. The Day of the Locust, Miss Lonelyhearts (Sacvan Bercovitch, editor)
Twentieth Century Journalism
- REPORTING WORLD WAR II, American Journalism 1938-1946 (2 vols.)
- REPORTING VIETNAM, American Journalism 1959-1975 (2 vols.)
- AMERICAN POETRY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, (John Hollander, editor) (2 vols.)
- AMERICAN POETRY: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (2 vols.)
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON, COLLECTED POETRY (Harold Bloom and Paul Kane, editors)
- ROBERT FROST, COLLECTED POEMS, PROSE, & PLAYS (Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson, editors)
- WALLACE STEVENS, COLLECTED POETRY AND PROSE (Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson, editors)
Mystery and Crime
- CHARLES BROCKTON BROWN, THREE GOTHIC NOVELS Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, Edgar Huntly (Sidney Krause, editor)
- RAYMOND CHANDLER, STORIES AND EARLY NOVELS The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window, Pulp Stories (Frank MacShane, editor)
- RAYMOND CHANDLER, LATER NOVELS AND OTHER WRITINGS incl. The Lady in the Lake, The Long Goodbye, Playback (Frank MacShane, editor)
- CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1930s & 40s incl. The Postman Always Rings Twice, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Nightmare Alley, I Married A Dead Man (Robert Polito, editor)
- CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1950s incl. The Killer Inside Me, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Pick-Up, Down There (Robert Polito, editor)
- DASHIELL HAMMETT, COMPLETE NOVELS (Steven Marcus, editor)
Religion and Spirituality
- AMERICAN SERMONS: THE PILGRIMS TO MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (Michael Warner, editor)


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Here's Who's Behind This Fall's Few TV Theme Songs
Dec 4, 2012 9:32 AM EST
Music is just about everywhere on TV these days — except in most shows' opening credits. The glory days of the TV title song may be long gone, but a few new series are keeping the theme alive. Most notably, ABC's comedy Malibu Country boasts a… Read more


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Today, a lawyer from Philadelphia is coming to our house to talk to us about our meeting tomorrow, with our mortgage company. It seemed like forever ago when all of this mess began. I remember the day that we went to the sheriffs office, and were served with our foreclosure papers. I was shaking, as I signed my name. We walked to the car in courthouse square. It was gray out, and very cold. We got into the car, and David was not speaking. He looked so incredibly stressed. Almost breakable, like if I said the wrong thing to him at that moment, he would have just been reduced to a pile of glass in the drivers seat.
So I said nothing. I began to read the legal paperwork that was in my lap. The paperwork that was ultimately telling me how much time we had to get out, and what would happen if we didn't. The paperwork that was telling me that our hard work, and the dream that we wanted for our family, was over. It was all coming to an end, and our future seemed so very bleak. I can still remember how depressing Main Street looked, as we drove in silence, and how it almost felt like it was going to snow.
We drove to Olivia and Charlotte's school, for their Halloween parade. I tried to make small talk with the parents I knew. I recall listening to a woman speaking to me. Her lips were moving, but I didn't hear a word she said. I looked beyond her, and saw David, nuzzling Molly. She was dressed as a pea in a pod. She had the chubbiest cheeks you ever saw. She looked adorable. David was smiling, and kissing her, as he held her tightly. I thought I was going to scream. Like I wanted to run around like a mad woman, yelling at the top of my lungs. But I couldn't. So I listened to the woman talk, and nodded my head, and responded when it was appropriate, even though, inside, I was running and screaming. I was a mad woman.
The parade began, and all of the kids came out in their costumes. Olivia was dressed as a rock star, and Charlotte was a snow princess. I kept holding back tears, as they came around. I felt like we were on the verge of losing something, and disappointing our girls. I know that sounds silly, but it all seemed to be out of our control. Beyond what we could do. It all seemed out of reach.
But it wasn't. And that mad woman got to work. I read, and re-read every thing I could. And what I found out was compared to a giant bank, I am but an ant. Yelling and screaming will get me nowhere. My shouts were inaudible, even though I knew what they were trying to do to my family wasn't right. But when an ant suddenly gets legal representation, stuff happens.
So, today is the beginning of something. To right a wrong. To fight for what is ours. To tell the big bank that they just can't do what they want.
They have to play by rules too. Just like us.
Today is the day.


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Chad Warner
December 26, 2012 at 5:24 am |
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Playing a chip shot from a greenside uphill lie can be very challenging. First, it may be difficult to establish your stance on the slope. Then, knowing what club to use and gauging how far the ball will fly and roll can be confusing. Here is a simple method for addressing and playing this challenging shot.
When playing from a severe upslope by the green; THE SET UP Play the ball position off of your back foot and stand with your shoulders level to the surface of the green. This will place most of your weight over your back foot where it remains through the entire shot. By keeping your shoulders level to the green surface and playing the ball position back in your stance, you hands will be well ahead of the ball. This effectively DELOFTS the golf club, making it necessary to use a lofted wedge such as your sand or lob wedge. If you do not have a lob wedge, ask your PGA Professional which one is right for you.
THE TAKE AWAY Remaining balanced with your shoulders level, swing the club straight away from the ball. There is no "Up Swing" to this takeaway. Keep the club low, swinging level with your shoulders in a short, flat backswing. No weight shift is needed. "HIT THE HILL" Accelerate forward to the ball on the same level path as the club went away. Don't try to lift into impact; hit hard into the hill and the ball will gently lift over the slope and roll smoothly on the green surface. No traditional follow through finish needed here; keep your weight steady on your back foot and pop the club head into the hill.


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Throw Pillow Covers. Individually cut and sewn, features a 2 sided print and is finished with a zipper for ease of care.
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FABRIC: Spun Poly Poplin. Medium weight high quality fabric that is durable and slightly textured and suitable for pillows and drapery.
UNIQUE PROCESS: I am a fabric designer and so all of the prints you see in my shop are created by me. This means that you will not be able to find these fabric prints anywhere else. After you place an order with me, my design is printed to the fabric (same process as fabric purchased in a store). The fabric is then cut, sewn, and finished with a zipper. All edged are reinforced for continued use and durability.
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BioCurious: a hackerspace for biotech
Our mission
We believe that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone.
We're building a community biology lab for amateurs, inventors, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to
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