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Finally I get to post to the "Just Had It" section of this site, instead of "Thinking About It"!! Sorry for the long post, but here is my story so far:
Had PRK on my right eye (dominant) down in the Boston area yesterday (Friday Oct 12 2007)
- Prep Work: Started taking Vigamox 1 drop 4-times per day on Tuesday the 9th. My doctor provided the Vigamox as well as well as all other eye drops I need.
- Procedure: Arrived at the center about 1 hour before the scheduled start time. My wife and I first went into room number 1. I was given a single X-n-x pill, they collected my consent forms, and we went over the post-op instructions. We then moved over to room #2 where I received anesthesia drops and they cleaned around my right eye. The nurse then drew a large purple X over my right eye brow. The surgeon came in said hi and off to the surgery room I went; my wife to the viewing area to watch.
After getting seated in the chair, they first began by taping my eyelids up/down. Just like the tape used to dress IV sites, they used this to get my eyelashes out of the way. In the end they actually completely taped over my eye, and then the surgeon cut a hole in the tape to expose my eye. My left eye was then loosely bandaged and I was instructed to keep it open. Lots of anesthesia drops were added in - basically the nurse kept putting drops in my eye until I said they didn't sting anymore.
Next was really the only uncomfortable part. The doctor placed some type of ring around my eye and told me I would feel some pressure. He applied a bit of pressure and then immediately released it - and said "thats what its going to feel like and it will last 25 seconds." I said okay, and this ring then applied a lot of pressure on my eye. My vision essentially disappeared at this point and the nurse started counting out loud backwards from 25. Absolutely no pain whatsoever, just a bit weird to have someone pushing on your eye (in some strange way, I think I'm okay with pushing versus the suction of LASIK...). At the end of the 25 seconds, the doctor said okay your vision should come back now, and it did. I believe this pressure was the alcohol bath used to loosen up the cell layers.
Next came some more drops and what appeared to be sponges wiping my eye. From a vision perspective, it simply looked like someone was cleaning a window in front of me. There was no feeling at all, so you can't really tell they're touching your eye at all. Next comes the laser, and that lasted a very short time - your told to just look at the red dot, but its real straight forward.
Next step was the Mitomycin-C application. This was some type of disc applied to the eye, and again the nurse counted backwards from 25. Compared to the initial pressure ring, this was a non-event other than you can't see while they're doing it. Following the Mitomycin-C they then put in a bunch of VERY cold drops. Not sure if this is simply to wash away the Mitomycin or if its an early application of ice to aid the healing. Regardless, for me there was no "brain freeze" involved. It just felt like cold liquid on my eyes.
For the home stretch, the doctor said he was cleaning up the edges to help out my healing, put some punctal plugs in to keep my eye hydrated, and then dropped the bandage contact lense in. To give you an idea of how little you can see during the procedure, I never even saw the contact get put on. I can assure you my eye was open the whole time, I just never saw it!
From there they pulled the tape off my eye, removed the bandage from my left eye, placed an eye shield over my right eye, and told me I was half way there.
I stood up, and my wife and I left the office maybe 10 minutes later. I took 2 aleves to get some pain meds on board right away but I was in no pain at this point. All in all I was in the office a total of 1.5 hours, and I was sitting in the chair maybe 8 minutes.
- Post Op: Once at home, I went to bed and slept about 2 hours. After that I got up and basically did normal stuff around the house for the rest of the day. Vision out of the right eye was better than before the surgery but certainly not 20/20. Next day, saw the doc, said things looked good, and I go back on Tuesday for the contact lense removal. Vision has some what gotten worse over the course of the day - but everyone tells you this will happen.
At this point, I'm about 30 hours out from the surgery and I have had really no pain at all. I'm sticking with the Aleve every 12 hours, but thats more of a just in case. The doctor told me to expect pain and that it will show up - but it hasn't yet.
As for drops, I'm now doing Vigamox and EconoPred 1 drop 4 times a day. I also did 4 doses of Nevanac in the first 24 hours following surgery.
I'll post again as my recovery continues. Left eye is scheduled for October 25th.


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What's With All the Offensive Names For Booze These Days?
In reference to yet another great American booze controversy, the question has been asked – should manufacturers of alcoholic beverages like Five Wives Vodka be allowed to sell products with names that an overly uptight society will find offensive? While most booze hounds encourage it, some state lawmakers are saying "no."
Earlier this year, Utah-based Ogden's Own Distillery, which produces Five Wives Vodka, gained some national recognition when the state of Idaho got its panties in a wad over the bottle's label depicting 19th century women in petticoats holding cats between their legs. The state was worried about the label being offensive to women, Mormons, and possibly even cat lovers so they outlawed the sale of the beverage.
So why are booze manufacturers giving their beverages potentially offensive names with sexist innuendos?
Most of it has to do with the booze market being so heavily saturated with competition that it is hard to get noticed. Many manufacturers have decided to pull out the heavy artillery by utilizing dark, politically incorrect, potentially offensive humor as a means for helping their bottle stand out in a crowd among all those drunkards with discriminatory tastes.
The truth is, most of the people who find these products offensive will likely never take a swing from the bottle anyway, but they certainly do help generate attention. Very few people had ever heard of 'Ogden's Own' until a couple of whiners started complaining – now millions have heard of the once elusive Five Wives Vodka.
Meanwhile, you cannot buy a Dirty Bastard in Alabama, good luck finding a Polygamy Porter in Utah, and just try getting your hands on a bottle of Führer Cabernet anywhere in the country.

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text: Soybeans, Corn Rise as Hot Weather May Threaten Argentine Crops December 20, 2013 09:24 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email Soybeans gained the most in almost two weeks and corn rose on speculation that hot weather will hamper crop development in Argentina, the world's top exporter of oilseed-based livestock feed. Wheat climbed. Temperatures as high as 105 degrees Fahrenheit (41 Celsius) in the next 10 days will increase stress on plants with immature root systems, World Weather Inc. in Overland Park, Kansas, said in a report. Warm, dry weather in parts of Paraguay and southern Brazil will also begin to threaten some crops, the company said. "The fear of reduced crops in South America is boosting the markets," Gregg Hunt, a broker at Archer Financial Services Inc. in Chicago, said in a telephone interview. "No one is going to be rewarded being short with the adverse weather forecasts." Soybean futures for March delivery advanced 0.9 percent to close at $13.31 a bushel at 1:15 p.m. on the Chicago Board of Trade, the biggest gain for a most-active contract since Dec. 9. The oilseed rose 1.3 percent this week, snapping a two-week decline. Corn futures for March delivery added 0.6 percent to $4.3325 a bushel, capping a weekly increase of 1.8 percent. The price tumbled 38 percent this year as the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast that production will jump 30 percent to a record. Wheat futures rose from a 19-month low on speculation that low temperatures next week will boost the risk of yield damage to some fields in the U.S., Hunt said. The nation is the biggest producer. About 10 percent of the soft-red winter crop from Arkansas to Ohio may be damaged from sub-freezing temperatures next week, Commodity Weather Group LLC said in a report. Wheat futures for March delivery gained 0.5 percent to $6.135 a bushel, paring a third consecutive weekly decline. Earlier, the price touched $6.0725, the lowest since May 16, 2012. Back to news


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2011: American actor Jackie Cooper, the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination, dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Santa Monica, California. Cooper was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor at the age of 9 for the 1931 movie "Skippy," making him the youngest actor to be nominated for the award. For nearly 50 years, he would remain the youngest Oscar nominee in any category, until he was surpassed by Justin Henry's nomination, at age 8, in the Best Supporting Actor category for 1979's "Kramer vs. Kramer." As a child actor, Cooper also appeared in the "Our Gang" comedy series and also appeared in movies such as "The Champ," "The Bowery" and a 1934 version of "Treasure Island." As an adult he worked as a TV executive, producer and director, with his work directing episodes of "M*A*S*H" and "The White Shadow" earning him Emmy Awards. He also found renewed fame in the 1970s and 1980s as Daily Planet editor Perry White in the "Superman" film series. [ + - ]
2010: United and Continental airlines announce that the two companies will merge, creating the world's largest airline. The merger became official the following year, with the new company retaining the United Airlines name. [ + - ]
2007: American astronaut Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, dies of a heart attack due to malignant mesothelioma at the age of 84 in La Jolla, California. Schirra, who was the fifth American to fly into space, is the only person to fly in all of America's first three space programs (Mercury, Gemini and Apollo) and logged a total of 295 hours and 15 minutes in space. [ + - ]
2006: Earl Woods, the father of professional golfer Tiger Woods, dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Cypress, California. A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran, the elder Woods introduced his son to golf when Tiger was 2 years old and coached him for his first years in the sport. Earl Woods was an athlete himself as a single-figure handicap amateur golfer who had been one of the earliest black college baseball players at Kansas State University. [ + - ]
2002: The superhero action movie "Spider-Man," starring Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco, and directed by Sam Raimi, premieres in theaters. The film would become a critical and financial success, earning $821.7 million worldwide to rank as 2002's third highest-grossing film. [ + - ]
1999: The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing 48 people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was just one of at least 66 from an outbreak of tornadoes across Oklahoma and Kansas on the day. It also produced the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph. [ + - ]
1991: The prime-time soap opera "Dallas" airs its series finale after 14 seasons. [ + - ]
1988: The White House acknowledges that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule President Ronald Reagan's activities. The closely guarded secret was outed in a memoir by former White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan, who wrote that the first lady first turned to astrologer Joan Quigley in 1981 after John Hinckley's attempted assassination of the president. [ + - ]
1984: Professional dancer Cheryl Burke, best known for the dancing competition show "Dancing with the Stars," is born in San Francisco, California. Burke became the first female professional dancer to win the competition, pairing with with 98 Degrees member Drew Lachey in the second season, and won again in the third season, that time pairing with former Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith. [ + - ]
1979: Margaret Thatcher is elected to her first term as prime minister of the United Kingdom. [ + - ]
1978: The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States. [ + - ]
1975: Actress Christina Hendricks, best known for her role as Joan Harris on the TV series "Mad Men," is born in Knoxville, Tennessee. She also had recurring roles on "ER" and the short-lived sci-fi series "Firefly" and has appeared in movies such as "Life as We Know It," "Drive" and "I Don't Know How She Does It." [ + - ]
1973: The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building. It would hold that distinction for 25 years, until the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, opened in 1998. [ + - ]
1970: Actor Bobby Cannavale, best known for his TV work on the shows "Third Watch," "Will & Grace," "Nurse Jackie" and "Boardwalk Empire," is born in Union City, New Jersey. Cannavale also appeared in movies such as "The Station Agent," "Snakes on a Plane" and "Shall We Dance?" [ + - ]
1968: Dr. Denton Cooley of the Texas Heart Institute performs the first successful heart transplant in the United States on Everett Thomas, whose heart was damaged from rheumatic heart disease. Thomas lived for 204 days with the heart donated from a 15-year-old girl. In 1969, Cooley would become the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart into a human. [ + - ]
1960: The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands. [ + - ]
1957: Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley agrees in principle to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California, during a meeting with Los Angeles city officials. The team would move following the 1957 MLB season. [ + - ]
1951: Singer-songwriter and music producer Christopher Cross, whose 1979 debut album earned five Grammys and who is known for hits such as "Sailing," "Ride Like the Wind" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)," is born Christopher Charles Geppert in San Antonio, Texas. [ + - ]
1951: The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman. MacArthur was relieved of overall command in Korea for making public statements that contradicted the Truman administration's policies. The decision led to a storm of public controversy for Truman, with polls showing the majority of the public disapproved of the decision and his approval rating falling to 22 percent by early the next year. [ + - ]
1948: The U.S. Supreme Court rules, in Shelley v. Kraemer, that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable. [ + - ]
1947: Magician Doug Henning, who started his career with a live theatrical magic show and became a TV star in the mid-1970s, is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Henning earned a Tony Award nomination in 1974 for his Broadway show "The Magic Show" and more than 50 million viewers tuned in for the December 1975 broadcast of the TV special "Doug Henning's World of Magic," in which he recreated Harry Houdini's famous and highly dangerous water torture escape. The show was the first of seven annual broadcasts that would eventually bring Henning seven Emmy nominations. He died of liver cancer on Feb. 7, 2000, at the age of 52. [ + - ]
1946: TV sportscaster Greg Gumbel is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. The older brother of news and sportscaster Bryant Gumbel, he became the first black announcer to call play-by-play of a major sports championship in the United States when he announced Super Bowl XXXV for CBS in 2001. [ + - ]
1937: Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [ + - ]
1936: Future Baseball Hall of Fame great Joe DiMaggio, familiarly referred to by the nicknames "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper," makes his major-league debut for the New York Yankees. DiMaggio, who played only for the Yankees during his 13-year career and is best known for his 56-game hitting streak during the 1941 season, helped the team to World Series titles in each of his first four seasons and added five more championships before he retired in 1951. [ + - ]
1934: Pop singer Frankie Valli, best known for hits such as "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like a Man" and "Rag Doll" recorded with The Four Seasons, is born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio in Newark, New Jersey. Valli also had No. 1 hits with the solo songs "My Eyes Adored You" and "Grease." [ + - ]
1933: Singer-songwriter and music producer James Brown, one of the founding fathers of funk music with a career that spanned six decades, is born in Barnwell, South Carolina. Known as "The Godfather of Soul," Brown built a reputation as a tireless live performer and charted 17 No. 1 singles on the R&B charts, including "Try Me," "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," "I Got You (I Feel Good)," "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" and "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud." He died of heart failure on Dec. 25, 2006, at the age 73. [ + - ]
1926: Actress Ann B. Davis, best known for playing housekeeper Alice Nelson on the sitcom "The Brady Bunch," is born in Schenectady, New York. She died at age 88 on June 1, 2014, after hitting her head in a fall and suffering a subdural hematoma. [ + - ]
1921: Sugar Ray Robinson, often hailed as the greatest boxer of all time, is born Walker Smith Jr. in either Ailey, Georgia, (according to his birth certificate) or Detroit, Michigan, (according to his autobiography). Robinson held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, and also won the world middleweight title in the latter year. He retired in 1952 following a loss while attempting to win the world light heavyweight title, but returned in 1955, eventually recapturing the middleweight title. He lost and reclaimed that title two more times over the next three years. He retired for good in 1965 with a career record of 173–19–6 and died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 67 on April 12, 1989. [ + - ]
1921: West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax. However, the state wouldn't implement the tax until a number of years later due to issues surrounding its enforcement. [ + - ]
1919: Folk singer-songwriter and activist Pete Seeger is born in Patterson, New York. Seeger became a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s and had a string of hits during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, including their recording of the song "Goodnight, Irene," which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. The writer of songs such as "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?," "If I Had a Hammer" and "Turn, Turn, Turn!," he became a prominent singer of protest music in the 1960s. He died of natural causes at age 94 on Jan. 27, 2014. [ + - ]
1906: Actress Mary Astor, best known for her role opposite Humphrey Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon," is born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois. Astor began her acting career as a teen in the silent movies of the 1920s. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for 1941's "The Great Lie" and also appeared in movies such as "Dodsworth," "Red Dust," "The Palm Beach Story" and "Meet Me in St. Louis." She died of respiratory failure due to pulmonary emphysema at age 81 on Sept. 25, 1987. [ + - ]
1903: Singer and actor Bing Crosby, one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century and the star of movies such as "White Christmas," "Going My Way" and "The Bells of St. Mary's," is born Harry Lillis Crosby in Tacoma, Washington. Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Actor for "Going My Way" and was nominated again for "The Bells of St. Mary's." He died of a massive heart attack at age 74 on Oct. 14, 1977. [ + - ]
1901: The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida, when a fire caused by a boiler explosion at a candle factory spreads to a nearby mattress factory. Over the course of the next eight hours, the fire burned 146 city blocks, destroying more than 2,368 buildings, killing seven and leaving almost 10,000 residents homeless. [ + - ]
1898: Golda Meir, the teacher and politician who became the fourth prime minister of Israel in 1969, is born Golda Mabovich in Kiev, Russian Empire. [ + - ]
1877: Tecumseh Park in London, Ontario, Canada, hosts its first baseball game, a contest between the London Tecumsehs and its junior team, the London Atlantics. Now known as Labatt Memorial Park, the stadium is today considered the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world. [ + - ]
1802: Washington, D.C., is incorporated as a city. [ + - ]
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Merkel Visits Greece as Debt Talks Remain Locked
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Greece while the country remains locked in negotiations with its creditors over a package of austerity measures. Dow Jones's Jenny Paris discusses the latest developments. Photo: AP
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Custom skins for your Minecraft characters are now available for Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition. Here's how to create your own Steve or Alex.
You can select a ready-made skin or create your own. Websites such as minecraftskins.com have a selection of skins for you to choose from, as well as an editor to give your skin that personal touch.
Once you've created or selected your skin, you'll need to get it onto your Windows 10 device. Every Minecraft skin website that lets you create or choose a skin should have the option to Download or Save your skin. When prompted to save the file, select Save.
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I talked to someone yesterday who despite being aware of the current issues with unrequested inclusions in System96 cullet , was still ready to buy it. It didn't matter to the individual if it had stones or not. It was really easy.
Maybe crappy cullet is fine to use when the finished product isn't going to be very good anyway. Is it a rental studio or a teaching facility?
I'm just glad that I don't need to use cullet. That seems like a very weak link, considering the supply. I'm still trying to understand why anybody, besides folks with wire melters, would want to melt cullet.
This isn't life threatening if you get a stone in your gather. Just pick it out.
Obviously I would be pissed that I paid for good glass and found a stone, but it's not like you have 2000 pounds of unusable product.
I thought I could just bite my tongue.
I started mixing batch moved over to spruce pine for convienence. Started melting spectrum cullet because it fit the system 96 colors we pot melted. I never liked the late nights staying up to the wee hours feeding the furnace. I've melted tons and tons of spectrum everything from the system 96 scrap to the new 2.0.
It is very unfortuanate spectrum has turned out some cullet from an obviously failing furnace. It does sound like they understand what happened and I'm sure they will rectify the problem.
The dog pile that's happening here is obviously an amusement for many. I find it childish and honestly surprising. If your not melting spectrum maybe you should just step aside and let this problem resolve itself. If I was a representative from spectrum it would be very difficult to post here with any info with all the haters on this board.
We are still a small group mistakes happen. I know many of the color companies have sent out color that is not perfect. (Yes I have some) Spruce pine had bad cullet problems and had to retool. A crucible company that tried to hide voids and flaws. No one here is perfect everyone and every business has it's set backs. They still fill a need with what is normally a good product. I would be happy to place pieces I've made with spruce pine batch and the new spectrum 2.0 in anyone's hands and No One would be able to tell me which is what.
I think if spectrum was not willing to fix the problem or deny the problem we would have something to bash them on. This has not proven to be true.
The flawed cullet is showing up in bags that are dated over a six month period. That in my mind is a long time if that's your business.
When Spruce Pine was having quality control issues melting at Fenton, They voluntarily withdrew the product from the market almost immediately.
If you have 200 seconds made from a glass where you only make one gather pieces, that's a lot of seconds.
I see no signs of change here at all. I do hear that OCR has replaced or will replace glass for two clients. I see no information coming forth regarding correcting the problem. That would be nice.
I don't have a dog of any kind in this fight. I use neither cullet or commercial batches. While I do agree that all manufacturers have production issues from time to time, I would say that it's not so much that the errors occurred, it's a question of what the company does after the errors have occurred. I happen to think six months is a long time when that's all you do.
In my experience, I have found stones to be hard to see frequently when you're in the middle of a piece, particularly a large one. I have found it really difficult to remove stones from large pieces without doing substantive damage to the design of the piece as well. What I do know is that a potential buyer will find them every time and if they are of sufficient size, the piece will likely check.
So, Sky, we simply disagree. I haven't seen any statement from Spectrum at all.
Where are we going and why am I in this basket?
Spectrum called yesterday with a lot of apologies and will be sending out a new pallet of clean glass from the new pot......
Now, what to do with 1100 lbs of cullet with "ceramic aventurine"? Ideas? rent a cement mixer and polish them all for landscape rocks?
Thank you craft web - you are a beautiful thing!
I'm glad Spectrum called you. Take it to your local recycle. Most of that glass gets crushed up and does not go back to being bottles since there's already a boatload of crap in the recycle bin. Or, give it to a school for beginning students.
Where are we going and why am I in this basket?
I talked to Spectrum yesterday also. My contention was that 1000 lbs of my new shipment had dates of 3/15/15 crossed out and 6/28/13 put on it instead. My worry was that this was about the time that they switched their formulas and I was not confident that this was not the "old" glass.
I spoke to Kate, who was very pleasant and accommodating.She explained that this glass was definitely from the new formula. They had stockpiled 100,000 pounds of the new glass as a "super-set" before they released it in 2014. They wanted to be sure that once the glass hit the market that they would not have trouble keeping up for the demand. The date change was because they mark the bags in batches and these bags were already marked, so instead of taking new bags, they crossed off the dates and put the correct dates to correspond to the dates of the glass that I was getting. I explained my concerns and she readily agreed to take back the bags that I did not feel confident in using. They would pick them up once I palletized them and send me replacement bags. It was a pleasant and seamless exchange. This is the first time that I have dealt directly with Spectrum and by my experience, I give them an A+ in customer service.
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There is no reason to bash Spectrum. They have been nothing but nice once they found out about our problem through Phil from OCR who has also been very instrumental in getting this problem resolved.
What is the "new formulation"? I didm' know this part. Hopefully it will solve the stuff we find inside ornaments after time?
I have to wonder whether the response would have been the same if a light had not been shined on the subject. You are slow to anger and quick to forgive. A virtue.
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This thread is the reason for the phone calls and solidifies the value of craftweb.
That said, while j would be upset about finding stones, I would not throw away 1,000 lbs. I'd just sort through it and use the good nuggets and toss the bad.
One of the individuals who has the stony stuff also says that it has semi melted lumps as well and forms crystals after some time. The glassy lumps would be really hard to see in nugget form. It's really a type of cord and it would imply to me that there was a real lack of homogeneity in the melt. These are not new batches.
It's really difficult t say how much of it is out there. It's not isolated certainly.
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Not just stones but black scum and metallic bits
The last 2 50lb bags I cleaned and inspected took me 4 hours to go through and I tossed almost half. But it's not just about the stones. I posted months earlier about hour our glass has been crappy all season. Ornaments from the fall are cloudy and have weird crystals or scum sealed inside but were beautiful when made. The outside surfaces of vessels feel bumpy but nothing is visable. There are random bubbles galore inside of bowls that I made months ago, enough that I quit making them. I make all my work for fall shows I during the winter and store it for summer cold working. We tried changing our charging schedule several times but finally in April decided to go through every nugget.
We shut down In 3 weeks for the summer and until then I'm pretty much a one person operation. We should be getting our replacement for our last order next week. It was finally shipped last week.
We always assumed something was wrong with our process. Never did it occur to use that the glass we were melting was bad before we started. Talk about a losing battle....
Oh and by the way Pete. I'm angry as hell!
well, quick to anger and quick to forgive and then get angry again. How do you really feel? Mad, Glad, Sad, afraid? Tell us more about your feelings. Even worse, maybe there is something wrong with your process.
I could not explain bubbles forming in bowls and I kind of doubt that one. If you think of glass formulated as molecular structure, Silicon has four spaces to hook up with other stuff so they call it the silicon tetrahedron. If you count the molecules of silicon going into a glass- and you really can do that, you can calculate how many molecules you want to get into a matrix without junk kind of left over and hooking up in rather random ways you didn't expect, or not hooking up at all. That method of calculating a glass is really the method used by Appen and is casually referred to as mole formulation. It's not the way I do it but I know I really should. It's way more accurate than doing base percentages derived from pounds of the chemicals making up the glass.
What I think you've got ( think mind you, not know) is a bunch of stuff that never really melted completely in the first place and that the ratios were perhaps not right. So, you had some excess sodium carb in the mix and over a period of time it disassociated from the original melt as little crystals forming on the surface and then sweating as temperatures and humidity altered them. The little bumps would be really tiny unmelted glassy stuff. I would be at a total loss to explain bubbles forming well after the glass had cooled. John Croucher might well know better but I'm pretty sure he's avoiding this hot potato.
It has always been the case that the spectrum stuff was off loaded with the reaction incomplete which is why there were a lot of complaints about stuff gassing off and dissolving the refractories and crucible in the furnace. This was really a big difference between the SP cullet and the Spectrum stuff. Tom has told me he finished the melts which would make it more expensive to produce. I don't know that as fact although the stuff I tested for him initially was fined out. I do know the Spectrum stuff is not completely done when it is off loaded so, in a furnace that is already dumping refractory stones it wouldn't surprise me to see the operators wanting to get the glass out really fast so it didn't get more stones and in the process really under cooked the product. That is pure speculation on my part. You however have a product in your hands that would get produced that way and I'd be hard pressed to think of another way of doing that. People I'm hearing from privately are saying they thought it was them, not the glass. Melting glass really requires that you not take shortcuts. It's why I don't like clocks in a melt sequence. It bites you in the ass every time you try. It happens at every level of manufacturing imaginable right up to 100 ton melts blowing out in Seattle and Anchor Hocking having the side of the furnace give way. You gotta love what you do to keep doing it.
I suspect the story has yet to play out.
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Unmelted glass is a whole different story..
It speaks volumes as to what can occur when you sub out part of your process.
Think "airbags".
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Or it could be sunspots.
"...machines and digital equipment are breaking down or going on the fritz for no reason, the #1 most common side effect of Mercury Retrograde."
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The moon is in Feces.
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This is how I feel....
you need lightning bolts! ( Miss you Brian)
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Will work on that...
I have been using Spectrum Premium for the last couple of years without issue. The last two pallets I received were far different from everything else. The initial issue was the bags were splitting and the nuggets had been trashed alot - there were alot of tiny pieces of glass in the bags. I spoke to Phil at OCR who saw the bags and agreed that it was not acceptable. He was going to talk to Spectrum about it. Then I heard about the issues with everyone else and took more time while charging to look at the individual nuggets. I don't have the issues with cords or metal but I did find this lovely piece of flat opaque white glass in the middle of one bag recently! oh my!
Phil texted me from the GAS conference and asked if we had received our new glass yet (No, maybe monday). This week I found new things in the glass, like milky patches in a bunch of nuggets. Yesterday's cleaning was mostly black scum and stones. Our glass is much cleaner now that I'm spending precious blow time to sort and wash all of the glass, tossing our about 1/4 -1/2 of each bag.
maybe they have a disgruntled employee?
That's always an interesting possibility.
I have a book on "Refractory and Chemical defects in Glass" ( profusely and luridly illustrated) and one of the case texts is about stones in one BK melter at Corning. After talking about Corrundum stones a good deal, The case history ended saying " After discovering a worker was throwing an asbestos glove into the furnace at the end of every work shift, the problem ceased." I'd imagine that was true of the employee too.
I have this great Library.
I do not think that simply getting rid of the visible stones is going to make it all go away. The stuff which you describe as bumps are in my opinion probably semi melted glass. That will continue to show up later and would be really hard to see. They might show up in a polariscope better.
The stuff that Barb sent the photo of looks more like floor sweepings. Does it all look like that? I would have to think for a while about the opalescent stuff but the floor does come to mind. It certainly looked pretty dirty or is that how it always looks?.
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Last week we blogged about the CFCA Scholarship Program, focusing on our project in Guatemala.
Today's blog post explores the community service component, which is one of the program's most important aspects.
Scholarship students provide valuable service hours to CFCA projects and serve as positive role models and mentors for younger children.
|Maintaining the scholarship
|Students reapply for a scholarship each year. CFCA in Guatemala requires students to maintain a 70-percent grade average in each subject, participate in program activities and perform community service projects.
CFCA scholars in Guatemala must perform 30 to 40 hours of community service per month. The project offers areas where students can volunteer their help.
Education: Students provide this service at the CFCA office in their community by tutoring sponsored children in math or language.
Health: Students help at their community health center during vaccination campaigns, performing health surveys or providing educational talks on hygiene.
Environment: Students work with the local municipality or community development committee on reforestation projects, cleaning streets or collecting trash.
Office work: Students may work with children in their local parish or they can organize documents and records of sponsored children at the local CFCA office.
Agriculture: Students in Guatemala can also work on livelihood projects involving farm animals or crops to meet their service requirements. While not traditional community service, the project staff encourages scholars to engage in personal livelihood projects so they can learn new skills, work near their home, consume their products and earn extra income to help offset their expenses.
The CFCA scholarship does not meet all of the student's economic needs. Families and students also help cover education costs.
"Besides the financial support, we work heavily on motivating these kids to enable them to focus on their educational goals," said Jose Manuel Bajan Buch, who oversees CFCA education efforts in Guatemala's Hermano Pedro project.
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Dr. Ruth Frankey Smith
ROCHESTER — Dr. Ruth Frankey Smith, 77, died Dec. 27, 2007, at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury. She was born in Stockton, N.Y., on Aug. 2, 1930.
She studied at Columbia University and served as librarian of the faculty of Yale University Medical School before moving to Vermont. She was employed as a psychotherapist both in private practice and at the Brandon Training School.
She moved to Rochester from Shelburne in 1999. According to family, she enjoyed oil painting, cooking, traveling, good music and being in the great outdoors. She was a writer and was working on an historical novel.
She is survived by a niece and a grand-niece.
She was predeceased by her husband, Harold Smith.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, Jan. 7, 2008, at 2 p.m. at The Miller and Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon. The Rev. Richard White, pastor of the Brandon Congregational Church, will officiate.
Private burial will take place, at a later date in Stockton, N.Y.
Memorial gifts may be made to a charity of one's choice.
A. Elizabeth (Betty) Fuller
BEVERLY COMMONS, Mass. — A. Elizabeth (Betty) Fuller, 101, died Jan. 2, 2008, at home in Bristol. She was born July 22, 1906, the daughter of Zeno Elwell and Mirinda Jane Willett of Essex, Mass.
She worked 22 years at United Shoe Machinery Corp. in Beverly, Mass.
In late life she enjoyed traveling throughout Canada, Europe, and Asia, according to family.
She is survived by a son, William E. Saunders of Bristol; a daughter, Madelyn Willett Mann of Connecticut; a brother, David Elwell of Massachusetts; grandchildren, William Dean Saunders and Gertrude of Maryland, Lee Saunders of New Haven, Todd and Barbara Saunders of Bristol, Cheryl and Danny Heath of Bristol, Tom and Sibylle Saunders of Middlebury, Hal Saunders of Lincoln, Eugene, Jonathan, and Christopher Mann of Connecticut; 12 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; four nieces; and a nephew.
She was predeceased by three husbands, William Edward Saunders, Roy Shannahan, and George Fuller; a brother, Gilman Elwell; and a sister, Mary Lillis.
Burial services will be at First Church at Wenham, Mass., in the spring.
Memorial contributions may be made to Beverly Hospital, Asthma Control Unit, Beverly, Mass., or First Church, Wenham, Mass.


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Whoever, by force, intimidation, or threat of procuring dismissal from employment, or by any other manner whatsoever induces any person employed in the construction, prosecution, completion or repair of any public building, public work, or building or work financed in whole or in part by loans or grants from the United States, to give up any part of the compensation to which he is entitled under his contract of employment, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
[18 U.S.C. 874 (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 740 and 862, eff. Sept. 1, 1948) replaced the former sec. 1 of the Copeland Act of June 13, 1934 (48 Stat. 948). Prior to 1948, Section 1 of the Copeland Act was codified as 40 U.S.C. 276b. P.L 103-322, (Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147), substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $5,000".]
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(a) In General.—The Secretary of Labor shall prescribe reasonable regulations for contractors and subcontractors engaged in constructing, carrying out, completing, or repairing public buildings, public works, or buildings or works that at least partly are financed by a loan or grant from the Federal Government. The regulations shall include a provision that each contractor and subcontractor each week must furnish a statement on the wages paid each employee during the prior week.
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No-flush niacin vs. cholesterol & triglycerides
Nelson, For those of us that can't stand the "niacin flush", is there any indication whether the no-flush niacin (inositol hexanicotinate) works as well as regular "live" niacin? I've been taking the no-flush niacin for many years and it was working well until I was switched to lexiva and norvir, and my triglycerides level skyrocketed. Subsequently switched from lexiva to reyataz and niacin doubled, and levels are back coming down. Larry
I am sorry it took me a while to reply. It took me a while to research this important question!
As you know, many people living with HIV have very low HDL (high density lipoprotein) blood levels. HDL is the "cleaning agent" that removes what the dirty guy (LDL) deposits in the blood vessels. Niacin is known to increase HDL better than any medication.
Regular over-the-counter niacin or nicotic acid, usually taken at a dose of 300-500 mg 3 x day, is a B3 vitamin shown to effectively increase good cholesterol, HDL, with some modest decrease in LDL. Many people take it along with a statin for best results. There have been concerns about liver toxicity and insulin resistance with niacin use, but HIV related studies have found no such problem. But it has a flushing effect can make you feel like your skin is burning and itching a lot, which usually goes away after 20 minutes. Some patients say that taking a baby aspirin (81 mg) 30 min to an hour before taking Niacin really helps to minimize the flushing. Start with lower dose of 250 mg a day and build up slowly up to 1000 mg per day. Get your doctor to check your fasting lipids (and liver enzymes) after a month of being on 1000 mg a day to see if this dose needs to be increased to 1500- 2000 mg a day.
Niaspan (KOS Pharmaceuticals) is a prescription form of extended release niacin. A placebo-controlled, double-blind trial in 122 HIV-negative patients with primary dyslipidemia compared Niaspan 1000 and 2000 mg/ day with placebo. Niaspan reduced LDL cholesterol significantly compared with placebo. In addition, triglyceride levels were decreased 21% with the 1000-mg/day dosage and 28% with the 2000-mg/day dosage. Approximately 85% of the patients taking Niaspan had some flushing, but this reaction did not differ in frequency, intensity, or duration between the two dosages. In two patients the aspartate transaminase level (liver enzyme) was more than twice the normal level, and in one the alanine transaminase level was elevated to more than three times normal.
Good sources of niacin include yeast, meat, poultry, red fishes (e.g., tuna, salmon), cereals (especially fortified cereals), legumes, and seeds. Milk, green leafy vegetables, coffee, and tea also provide some niacin.
Inositol hexanicotinate, a chemical cousin of nicotinic acid, is marketed as beneficially raising HDL cholesterol the same as nicotinic acid but without the skin flushing side effect. But critics argue that studies done to support the cholesterol-regulating properties of inositol hexanicotinate are out of date because they were conducted in the early 1960s. They also argue they were not conclusive.
There has been some debate as to whether or not flush-free niacin lowers cholesterol levels. In fact, there have not been enough studies to support or deny this. One study has indicated that up to 2,400 mg of flush-free niacin each day (in divided doses) is needed to lower cholesterol levels, whereas other studies have indicated that flush-free niacin is ineffective in lowering cholesterol.
One interesting study examining different forms of niacin measured the amounts of free nicotinic acid (the main compound in regular niacin) found in the blood after the no flush product was ingested. The study found that after 1.6 grams of inositol hexaniacinate was taken, only 0.6 micromoles/L of nicotinic acid was detected in the blood.
In comparison, taking one gram of the immediate-release nicotinic acid resulted in 240 micromoles/L detected in the blood, while taking two grams of sustained-release nicotinic acid resulted in an average of 31 micromoles/L detected in the blood, both of which are enough to lower cholesterol.
So, with very little nicotinic acid in the blood seen in this study, as well as the lack of evidence seen in other studies, it is doubtful that flush-free niacin is effective in lowering cholesterol.
Lexiva has shown some of the largest increases in lipids in the protease class.
Exercise and a low single carbohydrate diet may also lower triglycerides, but there are no studies using these two approaches in HIV+ patients using protease inhibitors like Kaletra or Lexiva, both well known triglyceride inducers. I doubt that a drug induced triglyceride increase can be managed completely with non prescription options.
I am glad you are on your way to control your lipids again! Just keep in mind that you may need higher doses of the no flush niacin, which in fact may cause the same side effects as regular niacin.
I hope this helps.
Dib JG, Dedeyan S. Purported benefits of niacin niacinate. Am J Health Sys Pharm. 2004;61:307-308.
No Flush Niacin Lowers Side Effects. But Is Cholesterol Lowered, Too? By Jennifer Moll, About.com Guide
Inositol hexaniacinate. Altern Med Rev. 1998;3:22-223.
Meyers CD, Carr MC, Park S, and Brunzell JD. Varying cost and free nicotinic acid content on over-the-counter niacin preparations for dyslipidemia. Ann Intern Med 2003;139:996-1002.
Norris RB. Flush-free niacin:dietary supplement may be benefit-free. Prev Cardiol. 2006;9(1):64-65.


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Hungover in Orlando? K Restaurant's Got You Covered
Just what the doctor ordered.
K Restaurant in Orlando is quite practiced in the art of curing hangovers. They don't always serve brunch, but when they do, they do it up right. Served only on the second Sunday of every month, their brunch menu is packed so full of hangover helpers it's hard to know where to even begin.
The awesome Creole BBQ Shrimp ($13) served with plenty of buttery sauce over an oozing pile of creamy Logan Turnpike grits would be a good place to start, as would the Fried Chicken ($19) that comes smothered in sausage gravy with a side of cheese biscuits.
But the real star is the Pork Belly Benedict ($17). A couple thick slabs of pork belly from Palmetto Creek are braised until fork tender, then fried until crisp and bubbly. They come perched not-so-delicately on top of a slice of tomato (this is Florida, where good tomato season comes more than once a year) and a split biscuit. Soft poached eggs from nearby Lake Meadow Naturals and a thick coat of hollandaise sauce finish it off, unless you count the scattering of microgreens, which are more just a polite gesture than an actual functional ingredient.
This is one of those hangover helpers that was so effective at stuffing my aching body with tasty, buttery fat that I actually needed a hangover helper helper to take the edge off as I started to come down off my pork-and-egg-fueled high. Best thing for the job? How about a bit of the hair of the dog?
The Deviled Eggs ($6), made with more of those Lake Meadow Naturals eggs come with creamy, mustardy yolks, a tart tomato jam, and a sprinkle of crisply crumbled bacon.
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New science standards have America's educational publishers turning the page
The release of proposed new national science standards, including the emphasis of manmade climate change, will alter the classroom landscape for millions of students in the United States, as well as for at least one education publisher readying for the "major" undertaking.
The Next Generation Science Standards, which were released Tuesday after development by 26 states and several national scientific organizations, recommend that educators for the first time identify climate change as a core concept and stress the relationship between that change and human activity.
"Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth's mean surface temperature (global warming)," according to the elementary school standards, which are not federally mandated and will be adopted on a state-by-state basis.
"This is a major undertaking, but one that should result in students with greater ability to reason critically in an increasingly complex world."
The process to implement the new guidelines — the first time in nearly 15 years to change the science K-12 education nationwide — could take years in some cases, but some of the nation's major education publishers have already taken notice.
Kelly McGrath, a science editor at Pearson, one of the so-called "big three" education publishers alongside McGraw-Hill Education and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, said its materials will need revision to "reflect the depth of coverage" in the new guidelines.
"With the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards, we will need to revise our coverage of climate change and many other science core ideas, to reflect the depth of coverage in the new standards and the shift to focus on scientific practices," McGrath wrote in an email to FoxNews.com. "In a digital learning environment, we'll have greater capacity to deliver materials that meet the news standards, and teachers and students will benefit from the personalization capabilities that digital provides."
For example, one of the new middle school science standards recommends that teacher ask questions to "clarify evidence" of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures throughout the past century.
"In order for students to demonstrate their understanding of this performance expectation, we will need to incorporate new experiences into our curriculum materials," McGrath's email continued. "Our materials will need to provide access to multiple examples of the evidence, as well as give students and teacher the support to know how to ask clarifying questions about this topic."
Teachers will also need support to determine what successful demonstration of that expectation might look like, McGrath said.
"This is a major undertaking, but one that should result in students with greater ability to reason critically in an increasingly complex world," McGrath's email concluded.
Officials at McGraw-Hill Education, meanwhile, told FoxNews.com the company will wait to see which states adopt the guidelines before revising their materials.
"At McGraw-Hill Education, we work closely with educators to develop products that meet the needs of our customers," vice president of product marketing Lisa O'Masta wrote in an email. "One common need of our customers is for materials that align to state or national education standards. Our current science offerings for the K-12 market are tightly aligned to address the existing National Science Education Standards and individual state standards. In the weeks and months ahead, we will be paying close attention to the adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards by states across the country. Our development of new products will focus on a deep alignment to the standards that states choose to adopt."
At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, materials are currently being reviewed for "alignment" with the new standards, according to Leigh Ann Garcia, HMH's director of product management and strategy for grades 6-12 in math and K-12 in science.
"We are currently reviewing HMH programs for their alignment with NGSS and will make the necessary revisions to support NGSS implementation," Garcia wrote FoxNews.com.
The new guidelines, which are based on a framework by the National Research Council, were released at a critical juncture, as jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are expected to grow by 17 percent from 2008 to 2018, compared to just 9.8 percent for non-STEM jobs. Despite those figures, only 8 percent of college graduates enter the workforce with a STEM degree, according to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
Frank Niepold, climate education coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Program Office, said the key underlying effort behind the new guidelines is to make students "really deeply understand" key topics like climate change, physical science and biological evolution rather than mere memorization.
"We're really not getting mastery, that's the fundamental drive here," Niepold told FoxNews.com. "And the reality is that this a very positive improvement to the standards, there's no way around that It's a very sizeable improvement."
Asked about potential blowback to standards regarding climate change, Niepold said there was nothing in the 93-page document that wasn't "well-established" by science. Others, however, said the very presence of climate change instruction in classrooms will create controversy.
Neal McCluskey, associate director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute, said climate change is undeniably a "very hard" topic to handle delicately.
"It's something that's very hard to strike a balance on," McCluskey told FoxNews.com. "There's nothing wrong with talking about climate change in science classrooms, but this opens up the huge possibility that interpretations of climate change or analysis that a lot of people disagree with will still be taught. The degree to which human beings are impacting the climate and how bad that impact may be is controversial."
Some state Department of Education offices, including those in Pennsylvania and Florida, told FoxNews.com that no meetings have been scheduled in connection to the new standards. In California, the state Board of Education is expected to vote on them in December. In Kansas, it's believed they'll be voted upon as early as this summer and educators in Colorado will conduct a "thoughtful and sequenced" review of them following the adoption of new science standards there in 2009. Texas, meanwhile, has indicated they will not adopt the guidelines.
Regardless of if and when they're adopted, Richard Hull, executive director of the Text and Academic Authors Association, said he welcomed the new guidelines and downplayed the potential impact of politically-divisive topics like climate change and evolution.
"The influence of political and religious views on evaluators and adopters in state education departments should be minimized by these new standards.," Hull wrote FoxNews.com. "Students who are educated in accordance with them will have a far better chance for success in college courses and in competition on the employment market than those steeped in creationism design, new earth theory, and other alternative accounts."


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By dusting off the Suggs package, Cam Cameron showed he still has old tricks up his sleeve. Remember that zany Suggs package, the set of gimmick plays the Ravens unveiled during Joe Flacco's rookie season? The ones that utilized misdirection and the athleticism of former Ravens quarterback Troy Smith to trick defenses by putting Flacco and Smith on the field together? (It got its name after Terrell Suggs said that Smith should get more playing time.) Well, apparently, offensive coordinator Cam Cameron was digging around his attic this week and stumbled upon an old scrapbook or something. With Thursday night's game versus Cleveland scoreless in the second quarter, the Ravens might have caught the Browns off guard by putting both Flacco and backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor in the game inside the red zone. Taylor, a second-year scrambler, lined up near the right sideline at the Cleveland 18-yard line, drawing the attention of veteran cornerback Sheldon Brown. Wide receiver Torrey Smith lined up over a Browns linebacker in the right slot. At the snap of the ball, Torrey streaked up the seam and inside of safety Tashaun Gipson, who was covering the deep right half of the field in a Cover-Two shell, to catch a perfectly placed throw from Flacco. Taylor's presence created a mismatch for Smith. After the game, as Taylor chatted with Anquan Boldin's son in the locker room, I asked him if he was just a decoy or if we should expect to see him catching passes from Flacco in the near future. Taylor chuckled. "All options are available. As a receiver, I could get the ball in that situation. It goes to the open man, and it was Torrey on that play," he said, then joked, "They know not to play man when I'm in the game." Of course, Taylor might have just said that in the hopes that I would write about it and opposing teams would read about it, but Ravens coach John Harbaugh also talked during the preseason about finding ways to utilize Taylor's athleticism. A few of you have asked me about this possibility on the Twitter. The problem with putting the ball in Taylor's hands under center is that it takes it out of Flacco's, and I'm not sure that's such a good idea with the way that Flacco has played in the season's first four games. But Cam Cameron is a thinking man's coordinator, and I wouldn't put it past him to dust off the old Suggs package again this season whenever his team is in need of a spark. It worked Thursday night, didn't it?
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text: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- (Apologies for multiple postings) THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Methods for the automatic acquisition of Language Resources and their evaluation methods Invited Keynote Speakers Kara Warburton Delegate at ISO TC37, LISA and Manager of Terminology at IBM and Julio Gonzalo UNED group in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010) 23 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Center, Valletta, Malta http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=LREC2010_Acquisition_Workshop Deadline for submission: 26 February 2010 Temptative Workshop Agenda 9:30-9:45 Welcome, Workshop Presentation 9:45-10:30 Kara Warburton "Extracting, evaluating, and preparing terminology for large-scale translation jobs". 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-11:30 Julio Gonzalo "Benchmarking and Evaluation Campaigns: the good, the bad and the metrics". 11:30-12:00 Andrejs Vasiļjevs "ACCURAT: Metrics for the evaluation of comparability of multilingual corporaâ 12:00-12:30 Núria Bel & Valeria Quochi âPANACEA: Evaluation in a factory of language resources and derivativesâ 12:30-13:00 Béatrice Daille âTTC: Evaluation procedures of multilingual terminology acquired from comparable corporaâ 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Poster session 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-17:30 Discussion session. A strategy for assessing the potential and future impact of acquisition techniques: criteria for the evaluation of methods. While methods for the Automatic Production of Language Resources are being described in scientific papers, the proposed techniques and their results are somehow unrelated because the lack of a common forum where to share experiences and to compare results. FlaReNet Working Group on âMethods for the automatic construction and processing of Language Resourcesâ in cooperation with FP7 projects: ACCURAT (Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation), PANACEA (Platform for Automatic, Normalized Annotation and Cost-Effective Acquisition of Language Resources for Human Language Technologies) and TTC (Terminology Extraction, Translation Tools and Comparable Corpora) organizes this LREC workshop whose aim is to be the beginning of a series of meetings that will be an enduring forum where researchers in the field can exchange information and compare results. The two main objectives of the workshop are: • First, to start the compilation of information about current initiatives and available and proved applications for the automatic acquisition of Language Resources and, • Second, to start the creation of common materials for the evaluation and comparison of the results of these methods and techniques. This first workshop is organized in a series of presentation talks and an open poster session. For the open poster session, the organizers welcome contributions related to the techniques and applications of the automatic acquisition and production of language resources and their evaluation in one of the following areas: • Automatic extraction and pre-processing of corpus • Alignment techniques for parallel and comparable corpus • Bilingual dictionaries extraction, including terminological resources • Lexical Information Acquisition • Tree-bank automatic building • Grammar induction • Automatic acquisition of multimodal resources • Automatic acquisition of sign languages Poster papers (in the LREC format available at the conference web page and that should not be longer than 6 pages, references included) may describe past evaluation exercises as well as work in progress. Keynote Speakers The confirmed keynote speakers are Julio Gonzalo, UNED group in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval and Kara Warburton, Canadian delegate at ISO TC37, Elected chair of the Terminology Special Interest group for LISA and Manager of Terminology at IBM. at IBM. Gonzalo is a member of the nlp.uned.es research group, where he conducts research on the application of Language Engineering to Multilingual Information Access problems and in particular in the development of evaluation metrics and methodologies. He has been involved in the coordination of CLEF (the international evaluation campaign for Multilingual Information Access applications) and WePS (Web People Search evaluation campaign). Warburton is head of terminology development for IBM and is a recognized expert in terminology management. Elected chair of the LISA Terminology SIG, she is currently the project leader for the TBX submission to ISO and member of the ISO Terminology committee. Important dates Deadline for submission: 26 February 2010 Notification of acceptance: 18 March 2010 Final version due: 25 March 2010 Workshop: 23 May 2010 Submission Procedure Submission will be electronic using START paper submission software at the following link https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/FLaReNetAcquisition2010/ When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. For further information on this new initiative, please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources Authorâs Kit and Template  Authors are requested to format their manuscripts according to the guidelines specified in specified style sheet at the following link: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/Author-s-Kit-and-Templates.html. Papers which do not adhere to this format will NOT be accepted for publication in the Conference Proceedings. Workshop Organizing Committee Núria Bel Universitat Pompeu Fabra - IULA Barcelona, Spain Béatrice Daille Université de Nantes Nantes, France Andrejs Vasiljevs Tilde - www.tilde.com Riga, Latvia Confirmed Program Committee Members to date: Gregor Thurmair Linguatec Munich, Germany Adeline Nazarenko LIPN - The Computer Science Lab of the Paris-Nord University Paris, France Anne Vilnat LIMSI - Lab. d'Informatique Mécanique et Sciences de l'Ingénieur. Orsay Cedex, France Eric de la Clergerie INRIA - I. 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