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A story on our front page today is about a controversial movie which will be shown next month in the area.
A story on our front page today is about a controversial movie which will be shown next month in the area.
The movie is "FrackNation," and is a counter to Josh Fox's "Gasland" documentary which gained national fame, especially for one scene in which water from a faucet was lit on fire.
FrackNation will feature some familiar Wayne County faces. They will be giving their views on why they believe responsible fracking would be a huge benefit to this area.
To say this is a hot-button issue would be an understatement.
Fracking has been a controversial issue nationwide and is even becoming so around the world.
But the situation in Wayne County is quite unique.
There is fracking taking place all across Pennsylvania and in places which neighbor Wayne County.
But because of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) which was established by President John F. Kennedy, the rules for Wayne County are different.
We are in a multi-state coalition because of the DRBC and it will take action by that group to make anything happen.
To date, no action has been taken, much to the frustration of those who want fracking in Wayne County.
Opinions in this area are sharply divided when it comes to fracking.
Some in the pro-fracking camp believe that outsiders and extreme environmentalists are the main reason nothing has happened on the issue of gas exploration. They say some want to keep this part of the country free from fracking.
Those who are against fracking say they don't believe the science is there to have responsible fracking practices. They say the Delaware River watershed is too precious to risk it, no matter the economic benefits.
The argument is likely to continue for years.
And the opinions are likely to continue to be as sharp as they have been for years.
There may never be agreement in the next steps to take when it comes to fracking.
But it would seem that at some point, a final decision has to be made. Yet the DRBC continues to kick the can down the road and that draws the ire and anger of those who want to see exploration and drilling started in Wayne County.
Who is right and who is wrong will probably not be known until history eventually tells the tale. And at some point, that tale will be told.
In the meantime, the fight continues.
No matter which side your loyalties fall, the one thing you should do is hear all sides of the matter.
The anti-fracking people should attend the showing of FrackNation and hear what the other side has to say. It's the only way you can at least get some understanding of their reasoning.
Those who want fracking should go out of their way to read why those opposed feel so strongly about the matter. Fox's second movie is also about to come out and they should watch it, as well.
Both sides should also be respectful of each other and stop the name calling. Both sides are guilty of such behavior and it serves no useful purpose.
The issue of fracking remains controversial and Wayne County is right in the middle of the controversy.
That' something that may never change.


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Kotaku - Also there are sand dragon things, which are not soft and smooth. The latest batch of screenshots for Final Fantasy XIII Sequel Two: I Guess You Guys Wanted to Play as Lightning shows off the Dead Dunes, a land of dunes and deadness in the world of Nova Chrysalia.
This better be the last one. If you're gonna make another one, just make it into a new IP. I still think the Final Fantasy name can regain the prestige title it once had. If it's a new IP, gamers will become happy there's a new IP, or if it fails, it won't tarnish the FF name anymore than it already is.
...but Japanese gamers like Lightning according to polls, so we might see FFXIII-4
I just want this game to be finished already so we can move on and expect new things for the franchise instead of more Lightning and garbage FF13.
This is good to know, I'm gonna give Gaara a call to take her out once and for all.


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The latest issue of American GQ looks set to be an exciting issue. While not the most fashion-forward of magazines, GQ manages to provide consistent style advice and it usually has at least a few good features.
In this issue, we have Justin Timberlake posing in a variety of stylish albeit bland looks and one of the most interesting looking features looks set to be their 'Top 10 Most Stylish Men in America' feature. Check back soon for the entire list with pics!


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DADE CITY, Fla. -- Jared Dalga and Scott Smyers share a common bond as Buccaneers junior men's golfers. Now they and the rest of their teammates are connected on an even greater level in the aftermath of capturing the program's first Sunshine State Conference Championship.
The No. 2-ranked Buccaneers shot 287 in the final round at the 7,094-yard Lake Jovita Golf & Country Club course, beating No. 1 Nova Southeastern by a stroke for the league title in the nine-team field. It is Barry University's 49th SSC championship within the 12-sport athletic program's history.
Dalga tied for third with Lynn's Daniel Young at 4-under 212, putting together his third straight rock solid round for his best 54-hole score as a Buccaneer. Dalga, who sank a five-foot eagle putt on the par-5, 549-yard second hole, tied for second at a tournament earlier this year, albeit three strokes higher than he did in the SSC Championship.
Smyers finished fifth, a stroke behind Dalga, following a closing-round 1-under 71.
"The team's feeling great," Dalga said. "We're definitely going to build off what happened, and take this to regionals."
Barry will compete in the South/Southeast Super Regional May 6-8 at Mission Inn Resort in Howey in the Hills, Fla.
Dalga's eagle in the final round matched Smyers for a team-leading four this season. Smyers had one a day earlier on the same hole.
"That really got the round kickstarted," said Dalga, who knocked a 4-iron from 220 yards out into the wind within five feet of the cup on a green tucked over a bunker.
He birdied three other holes on the front nine to make the turn at 3-under.
"I was definitely feeling good," said Dalga, who had 14 birdies in the three-day championship event. "I loved the position I was in. I was jazzed up."
Smyers, who has six top-9 and three top-5 finishes this year, eagled the same hole in the second round to recover from a double bogey. He hit driver, 6-iron to within 15 feet of the pin before sinking the eagle putt after switching to a new putter following the first round.
"The putter's a keeper," Smyers said.
In Tuesday's final round, he reeled off six birdies, giving him 12 for the tournament. His third-round 71 followed up his tournament-low 68 a day earlier.
"The game is getting better and better," Smyers said. "It's been a good year, pretty consistent."
Nova's Ricardo Celia won the tournament with a 7-under 209. Eckerd's Jeff Evanier was second, a stroke ahead of Dalga and Young.
Barry's Adam Svensson finished eighth after shooting 1-over 217. He birdied the 534-yard ninth Tuesday before parring out the rest of the way on the back nine. Svensson had nine birdies in the three-day event.
Marcus Segerstrom shot par in the final round, making three birdies to finish tied for 24th at 225. Simon Forsslund shot 75 to finish tied for 21st. He birdied two of the 500-plus-yard par-5 holes in the final round.
"To be able to contribute to the first championship tournament," Smyers began, "it feels really good."
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Seven Herb Chicken & Mushrooms - Salt-Free Sugar-Free Magic Seasoning Blends™
Serves 4
A healthy twist on Woodsman Chicken.
4 (8-10 ounce) boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut in half
1 cup crimini mushrooms, quartered
¼ cup celery, small dice (¼ inch)
¼ cup onion, small dice (¼ inch)
¾ cup fresh tomato, ½ inch dice with seeds
1 cup chicken stock (no salt added)
½ cup Chardonnay, dry
3 tablespoons Chef Paul Prudhomme's Magic Seasoning Blends Seven Herb®
2 tablespoons all purpose flour
4 teaspoons vegetable oil
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Mix all purpose flour and 2 tablespoons of the Seven Herb together in a bowl. Place chicken in the flour mixture and mix to coat evenly. Place chicken 2 tablespoons of chicken stock then back into the seasoning mixture. Preheat a 10-12 inch non stick sauté pan and add oil. Place floured chicken medallions in the pan and evenly brown on each side. Remove the chicken from the pan and set aside. Place the onions and celery in the pan and quickly sauté until translucent. Add the mushrooms and sauté until they begin to brown. Add the tomato sauté for 1 minute. Add remaining flour mixture remaining in the bowl and remaining seven herb seasoning, and mix in thoroughly. Add Chardonnay and mix until thickening begins. Place chicken back into sauce, turn every minute. Simmer for 5-7 minutes until sauce reached desired thickness and chicken breasts are firm. Remove and serve over pasta or brown rice.
NOTE: Any of the savory Salt-Free Sugar-Free Seasoning Blends™ will work well in this dish and each will produce a unique and vibrant flavor. Be sure to put a bottle on the table for use as a shake-on seasoning. Apply generously for extra flavor.
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The Venice Questionnaire #18: Vadim Zakharov
Vadim Zakharov is a prolific theorist and historian in addition to being a leading figure of Moscow Conceptualism. In the many decades of his career, Zakharov has produced installations, performances, videos, and objects. Since 1978, he has participated in exhibitions of Unofficial Art, a movement in reaction against Soviet Socialist Realism, in favor of highlighting discord in Soviet Russian life. Zakharov also works in reaction to what he considers fundamental trademarks of Russian art—icon painting and the avant-garde. His works are sometimes based on archives, religion, or history; they have included photo and video documentaries of exhibitions, encounters, and his own activities.
Russian, b. 1959, Dushanbe, Russia, based in Berlin & Moscow
The Venice Questionnaire #18: Vadim Zakharov
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Sep 2012 14:51 UTC, submitted by MOS6510
Written by Scott Cleland: "With so many fanboys spinning Silicon Valley history, it's sometimes easy to forget about the real chain of events that led to the ongoing Apple-Google thermonuclear war, how the romance turned to hate. This timeline presents an interesting case about why, despite patents and prior art, Steve Jobs had plenty of personal reasons to despise Schmidt, Page, and Brin." Cleland has a very, very good point; quite coherent and well-reasoned... That is, if you haven't got a single shred of historical sense and completely and utterly ignore the 30-odd years of mobile computing development that preceded our current crop of smartphones. It's hard not to be reminded of how certain groups of people dismiss millions of years of fossil records because this record inconveniences their argument. In any case, a comment on the article answered the question properly: "Jobs was a businessman. He was angry he was losing money. Simple."


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The first issue of the new journal Evolution: Education and Outreach is now available on-line, and it's a doozy! Featured are original scientific articles by Daniel R. Brooks and Eric P. Hoberg, Niles Eldredge, and William Miller III; lesson plans and thematic expansions by Anastasia Thanukos, Michael A. Gaspar, and Gregory Eldredge; reflections on evolution by Ian Tattersall, John N. Thompson, David Ziegler, and T. Ryan Gregory; and curricula focusing on evolution from Joseph Fail Jr.
NCSE congratulates Bruce Alberts of the University of California, San Francisco, on his appointment as editor-in-chief of Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He succeeds Donald Kennedy, who served as editor-in-chief since 2000.
The Institute for Creation Research, a young-earth creationist organization, has cleared the first hurdle in its quest for authorization to issue master's degrees in science education in Texas. "The nonprofit Institute for Creation Research in Dallas wants to train future science teachers in Texas and elsewhere using an online curriculum.
Selected content from volume 27, numbers 1-2, of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on NCSE's website, including Tim Heaton's report on his visit to Answers in Genesis's Creation Museum and Eugenie C.
Over two weeks after it was first reported that Christine Comer was forced to resign from her post at the Texas Education Agency, apparently because she forwarded a brief e-mail announcing a lecture on "intelligent design" by Barbara Forrest, the state's newspapers continue to provide a steady stream of news and commentary. And groups with a stake in the integrity of science education in Texas continue to voice their concern.
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icreativecanvas necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 123 diseños de 44 diseñadores freelance.
Our company needs a logo redesign. I've created several design ideas that just aren't coming together. I really want to get other designers input in our company logo, as you guys all know how we can get in a mental block with our own creative marketing.
Our company name is iCreativeCanvas. I came up with this name based on the idea of "i(Internet) Creative Canvas(The blank canvas of photoshop - graphic design, web design, etc)". The idea is that we create amazing designs on the internet. I'm sure you guys get the idea.
So, that being said, I've created a few ideas. They are nothing great. You can view them at http://www.icreativecanvas.com/new_logos.jpg. We want to see a new approach at our logo.
Our website can be seen at http://www.icreativecanvas.com. We are redesigning our site but want to be set on an awesome logo before we begin the redesign. Our new site will be fresh, clean, bright, but edgy.
We target everyone from mom and pop businesses to major corporations. We specialize in website design but also offer SEO services, as well as print and graphic design. We want to look professional but edgy. Set us apart from everyone else.
- We think we want the name iCreativeCanvas spelled out horizontally. If you have a better idea, lets see it.
- We are interested in a "tick" or icon on the left side of our name. Maybe even elsewhere. It is not required.
- We would also like to incorporate the slogan "Creative Marketing. Powerful Results."
- As far as color combos, we are open to just about anything. I prefer blue, black, grey, or anything edgy. Maybe blacks and greys? Maybe Aqua/black?
- It must be able to go on black or white. Therefore, please submit one version on black, and one version on white.
- The logo should have a bit of depth. Not many drop shadows but something to make it more then just a flat design.
We want to set ourself apart from our competitors. Other then that, have fun with it.
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I wear flip flops almost every day and have done so for nearly my entire life. Therefore, I wear flip flops while shooting. This seems to upset some people when I post photos or videos online, so I'll take a moment to explain further.
Train How You Fight
I have said this a few times lately, but it really is important to "train how you fight." A long time ago, I was working on the "Lifesaving" merit badge. I had the fastest rescue time in part due to my ability to kick off flip flops much faster than the other kids could remove their shoes. Someone complained to a counselor, who said, "Andrew always wears flip flops, so he should wear them here, too." The same principle applies to concealed carry.
When I go to the range to practice drawing from concealment, I use the exact belt, holster, pistol, and clothing setups that I use for everyday concealed carry. Most people seem to agree with this sentiment – after all, it's pretty silly to do all of your shooting practice with a 1911 from the low ready if you carry a .38 snubnose in an ankle holster. I simply extend the concept to include my footwear.
While many people see flip flops as a detriment or drawback, I see them as comfy and easy to put on/take off. Did I mention comfy? I live in an area where triple digit temperatures are common, but even when I lived in Alaska I wore them during the summer.
There are occasions during which I wear shoes or boots: when I'm riding a motorcycle, when I'm on a long hike or walk, and some of the time when I work on cars, motorcycles, or airplanes. I will therefore sometimes wear shoes while shooting. For example, if I ride my motorcycle to the range, it would make sense that the shooting that day would include shoes.
Most of the time, however, I wear flip flops… so I wear flip flops while shooting. There are a number of reasons why people find this objectionable – here are the more common criticisms.
"But You'll Get Hot Brass Between Your Toes And Then Shoot Someone"
There are a number of arguments against shooting while wearing flip flops, and one of the least valid (to me, at least) is the "hot brass" argument. I can simply say from experience – shooting three or four times per week, every week for years on end, wearing flip flops at least 60% of the time, that I have only had hot brass land on my feet or between my toes a few times. For me, it is a non-issue. I have no problems maintaining bearing and muzzle discipline while I make a minor movement to rid myself of the troublesome case, whether it lands inside my shirt or between my toes. However, I have a higher pain tolerance than most people seem to have, at least in this regard.
"But You'll Lose A Flip Flop And Then Shoot Someone"
If you take a look at the above photo, you'll see that my right foot is curved in an odd manner and my little toe is sticking out somewhat. This is due to how I run while wearing flip flops: I curve my feet so as to keep the footwear attached. Yes, I (used to, before I hurt my knee) occasionally run while wearing flip flops. My all-time best mile run while wearing flip flops and carrying a 30lb backpack is 8:16. It is almost entirely avoidable to lose a flip flop while running, if proper methods are used.
I do sometimes have a flip flop fall off of a foot while I am moving backwards or stepping over or near obstacles – the back edge of the footwear will catch on something and be propelled off my foot. To avoid this, I keep my heels high if I am backing up or stepping over obstacles while wearing flip flops. Unlike keeping them on while running forward, this is not entirely avoidable. However, like the brass hitting my toes, it has almost no discernible effect on my shooting. I will simply finish whatever the string of fire may be and then retrieve my errant footwear.
"But You'll Hurt Your Foot And Then Shoot Someone"
Because I wear flip flops every day, I am rather used to stubbing my toes or people stepping on my toes or getting splinters or cactus spines stuck in my feet and so on. I even had a toenail ripped out once. Therefore, it is not a big deal when these same things happen while I am shooting. As I said before, it is not a problem to maintain muzzle discipline when something unexpected happens. If it is hard for you to not dance around pointing a gun at people with your finger on the trigger when a minor problem occurs, maybe you should not own or use guns.
Valid Reasons To Not Wear Flip Flops While Shooting
I can think of two valid reasons to not wear flip flops while shooting:
– My feet get really dirty if I'm shooting all day
– It doesn't look entirely professional
So in the future when I'm teaching a class, I might avoid wearing flip flops, simply because it might not present the professional image someone might expect when they pay good money for training. However, for day-to-day practice, I will continue to use whatever footwear I happen to be wearing when I leave for the range.


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February 11. 2013 11:25PM
School board: Leathercraft, needlework will no longer be Manchester classes
By TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER - Say 'bye' to needlework and leathercraft.
The Board of School Committee voted Monday to approve a pared-down list of course offerings for next fall that will be nearly uniform at each of the three high schools.
At the same time, the board voted to specifically eliminate the hands-on electives that had previously been considered untouchable because they were geared toward English-language learners and special education students.
"Rather than needlework and leathercraft, they should be reading a book, learning the language. Those are educational opportunities," Mayor Ted Gatsas said at Monday's meeting, referring to the English Learner (EL) students.
EL students make up 66 to 77 percent of the students in the two courses, according to district officials.
The vote was the culmination of months of work in the Curriculum and Instruction Committee.
At the previous school board meeting, the committee presented a list that eliminated many courses but still preserved the system of having specialized offerings at each school, particularly at Central, which has considerably more courses than the other two high schools.
The list approved Monday essentially takes 36 school-specific courses, such as Shakespeare and Women's Literature at Central, and makes them available at Memorial and West as well.
The courses would be held only if a sufficient number of students enrolled. Superintendent Thomas Brennan said he would back an effort to get students to finalize course registrations by June.
Brennan said he believed teachers at each of the schools could be reassigned to teach the newly offered courses.
"Our teachers are highly qualified," he said.
He indicated that the main potential expense was for textbooks.
The school board voted unanimously to approve the program of studies.
While the course listing does away with needlework and leathercraft, it still includes some hands-on courses, such as regional foods, baking and creative sewing.
Brennan said the decision to target the needlework and leather-working courses was based on an assessment of how the classes functioned. "Whether they are EL students or anyone else, I get concerned," he said. "I think it's an insult to any student when you have to go to courses as holding places."
In backing the elimination of the courses, Gatsas alluded to a controversy in August, when local members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights decried the way the district taught its immigrant and minority students. Upset by the lack of data cited by the group, Gatsas cut short its presentation.
"I'm not sure if the group I asked to leave knew that we had EL students taking needlework and leather-crafting," Gatsas said.
West principal
In other action Monday, the school board voted against a motion to halt the hiring of John Rist to serve as the interim principal at Manchester High School West.
The proposal was made by board member Art Beaudry, who has criticized the hiring of Rist because the former longtime principal at Central High is collecting a pension and would only be allowed to work 32 hours a week, under state regulations.
"We're paying an individual for part-time work 90 dollars an hour. We're paying more for a part-time individual than if we had someone full-time in there," Beaudry said.
The vote against the motion was 12-2, with board member Debra Gagnon Langton joining Beaudry in voting for the measure.
Rist was tapped to replace MaryEllen McGorry, who resigned earlier this month following a probe into wrongdoing, the nature of which the district has not disclosed.


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Manage Microsoft Stream: Admin Capabilities
Ashish Chawla, Principal Program Manager, mardi 15 novembre 2016
Today we are pleased to announce the eagerly anticipated update to Microsoft Stream which includes a rich set of IT admin capabilities for managing your company's video content. Ever since we launched, we were aware that IT admins play a key role in an organization and this is our first step in realizing this capability.
These experiences are a direct result of the feedback you all have provided us as you use Microsoft Stream and that helped us guide our designs. In this release, we focus on the 4 core admin experiences –
- Assigning Stream Admins – Starting today global tenant admins will be able to delegate admins for Microsoft Stream to manage the day to day operations.
- Restricting Uploaders in Microsoft Stream – Stream Admins can now allow only specific users or security groups to upload content.
- Adding guidelines to Microsoft Stream and Employee Consent – Stream Admins can now also add guidelines to company policies and these will be visible throughout the portal. In addition, admins can also require employees to agree to the company policies before uploading content.
- Enabling Stream Admins to manage content – Finally, Stream Admins get controls over both organizational and custom content to edit/delete the video and or video metadata, by entering admin mode.
Get Started
If you are a Stream Admin you can go to https://web.microsoftstream.com/admin and try out the core experiences.
If you are not a Stream Admin yet and you think you should be one, contact your Global Tenant Admin so they can make you one.
Looking for more information? Start reading through our online documentation.
Let us know your thoughts / feedback.
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Reunion shows aren't quite the mystical occasion they once were. From the Pixies to Suede to Led Zeppelin to Pulp, long-missed musical heroes are now a staple head to the line-up of summer festivals. The Stone Roses reunion, however, sits outside the realms of regular reunion shows . Following an acrimonious split, it's been 16 years since the original line-up …
Primal Scream play concert hosted by Diesel Black Gold
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Bobby Gillespie et al played a gig recently to promote Diesel Black Gold, the premium collection launched by the Italian brand this Spring. Bassist Mani sported a Gallic ensemble of red and white striped top and white jeans but I don't think he had Liz Hurley in mind.


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Been Down So Long It looks Like Up To Me was the title of a novel written in the 1960s by the late Richard Fariña, perhaps better remembered as the husband and musical partner of Mimi Baez Fariña, sister of folk singer Joan Baez. Too bad the title is already copyrighted. It might make a great description of the current economic outlook, particularly by the more optimistic.
By late February, many in the ferrous scrap and steel industries had written off March and said they were hoping that April and the second quarter would bring a recovery. Their pessimistic critics didn't share the belief that the market might rebound soon.
Even with the $787-billion economic stimulus package approved by Congress and signed by President Obama, economic recovery may be a long time coming. It takes time to get even "shovel-ready" infrastructure construction projects started. In any case, a new bulldozer pushing dirt around and workers with a few more bucks in their pockets aren't likely to make this nation's battered economy do an about-face overnight. Something fundamental has been severely damaged—trust.
The public's trust in banks, both commercial and investment, is one example. Instead of safely watching over our savings, they were betting the house on highly leveraged mortgages and hoping that the flimsy house of cards would not fall. With trust has gone consumer confidence. Home foreclosures, job losses and personal bankruptcies have weakened the foundations of the economy. Those facing personal financial crises have no money to spend, while those who still have a home and a paycheck may be figuring they'd better hold on to all they can.
What's needed is not simply a government spending plan or a tax cut, but a renewed belief that those at the top can be trusted and are not driven just by avarice; that like the sermons they preach to stockholders and employees, they also want their companies to grow and prosper; that motivation isn't driven simply by stock options, year-end bonuses and a corporate jet; that rewards (monetary and otherwise) come to those who do the job well, not simply because they occupy a corner suite.
The late Ken Iverson, former chairman and chief executive officer of Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., once explained that his steel company had a bonus program for its employees. When business was good, managers and blue-collar workers benefited by varying degrees. When the market was doing badly, the company had another program. Iverson called it "Feel the Pain" and said, in brief, that higher-paid employees like him would face steeper pay cuts.
Analyst Michelle Applebaum, managing director of Michelle Applebaum Research Inc., Chicago, wrote recently that the U.S. steel industry has managed to survive what were some of the toughest times any industry has faced. Applebaum was taking on the critics of the "Buy America" provision in the economic stimulus package, but in her argument she also pointed out that the industry has revived itself from near death in the past decade and is now one of the most competitive in the world.
"To the casual observer," she wrote, "the American steel industry most probably looks like the boy who cried wolf; the import-whining has been going on for 50 years. The casual observer also most probably believes that Japan is still the low-cost producer and our steel industry is a rust-bowl dinosaur. Hogwash and ancient history. Today, America is globally acknowledged as one of the world's lowest-cost places to make steel; witness the dozen or so American steel companies acquired with rubles, rupees, yen and euros over the past half dozen years?.?.?.?"
There is one thing we can safely lose in this economic downturn the arrogance that afflicts some who climbed the corporate ladder. These "success stories" often regard all below as lesser creatures that don't deserve what they have attained.
Not too many years ago, while attending an industry conference, I was dismayed—but not surprised—by the remarks of a corporate executive. He complained about a demolition contractor who had bid for a job dismantling one of his company's abandoned factories. The guy showed up at his office driving an expensive 4?x?4, he said with an air of utter shock in his voice.
Knowing that most scrapyard owners and demolition contractors spend a lot of time outside in their yards or on-site at a dismantling job, I thought it probably was well earned and perhaps one of the few rewards that a demolition contractor could bestow on himself. Today, many own 4?x?4s and if you've ever driven through a scrapyard you know why—the gullies and ruts can do a number on the average car's axles.
Also, when scrap dealers reap rewards it's not in the millions of dollars. Most are still small family owned and operated companies. If they have a corporate jet, it probably was bought at a Defense Department scrap metal sale and will soon be turned into feedstock for a secondary aluminum smelter.
Fortunately, though, the scrap industry often is the first to feel a strengthening of the nation's industrial activity, a bellwether that economic times are improving. Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan was fond of tracking scrap metal prices and saw them as a leading indicator of economic recovery in hard times.
Perhaps a scrap dealer driving a gas-guzzling 4?x?4, rather than Wall Street's financial wizards, will be best able to tell when the economy truly is on the rebound. MICHAEL MARLEY
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I'm sorry if the question has already been asked, but I am making my first Bow Tucks and it says 5"x WOF for the handles. My fabric is not 44" long. What is the proper length for the Bow Tucks handles?
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GraphLint: Creating a Domain Specific Language for Graph Validation
Written by Kenny Yu
Kenny Yu is currently a sophomore at Harvard College where he is studying computer science. In the summer of 2011, he interned at Knewton as a software engineer. During his internship, he built a new source review and release process and created a graph validation engine based on configuration schemas. He interned at Knewton again in January 2012 and rebuilt the graph validator by creating a domain specific language. The following blog post is a summary of this project and the process he used to design the language and the new validation engine.
The Question
At the core of the Knewton Adaptive Learning Platform is the course structure that brings all the lessons, concepts, and content into one connected graph. This graph is so large that checking it by hand is infeasible. Thus, Knewton's graph datastore needed a validation system to check the structure of its graphs.
The validator idea is simple: given a graph, how can we tell if it is "well-formed"? How can we create a set of rules to express what edge and node types are acceptable in a given graph? My mentors, Jordan Lewis and Trevor Smith, decided that I should build a domain specific language (DSL) for writing the ontology schemas to solve this problem.
Developing the Language: "Onto"
Before creating the DSL, I had to understand the use case of the language I was building. After speaking with developers and content creators at Knewton, I composed this list of considerations that would drive my planning process:
- Expressiveness of the language — Above all, the language must be capable of encoding complex relationships between nodes and edges.
- Simplicity and ease of writing the language — The language must be easy to write and so easy to understand that non-developers can think and write in it.
- Ease of implementing the language — It should be easy to take the language and parse it into a form that can be used for graph validation.
- Graph validation run-time — Once the ontology had been parsed from the DSL into usable form, how quickly can we validate a graph using the provided ontology?
The graphs I worked with are directed multigraphs, where edges and nodes may have associated data with them. In Knewton's case, both nodes and edges have types (e.g. "Concept", "Module" and "Contains", "Represents"). Using these types, we want to assert relationships like:
For all nodes m of type Module, there exists exactly 1 node c of type Concept such that the directed edge (c,Contains,m) exists in the graph.
We also want to express logical combinations like the following:
For all nodes c of type Concept:
there exists exactly 1 node m of type Module such that the directed edge (c,Contains,m) OR (c,Represents,m) exists in the graph
there exists exactly 0 or 1 nodes m of type Module such that the the directed edge (c,Contains,m) exists in the graph.
I used statements like these as inspiration to create the DSL. The DSL consists of these statements:
- Universal quantifier statement: for all <variable> in <node type> <statement>
- Existential quantifier statement: there exists <number rule> <variable> in <nodetype> such that <statement>
- Edge rule assertion statement: (<variable>,<edge type>,<variable>)
- And statement: <statement> and <statement>
- Or statement: <statement> or <statement>
- Xor (Exclusive or) statement: <statement> xor <statement>
- Not statement: not <statement>
Thus, the above two statements, written in the DSL, look like this
and the second one:
Lacking creativity, I decided to give ontology file names the ".onto" extension, and thus the Onto language was born.
Language Implementation Choice
It was difficult to determine which language I would use to implement this project. Having recently taken a compilers class in OCaml and knowing the benefits of OCaml's strongly typed system and functional programming language features (and my personal preference for coding in OCaml), I thought that OCaml seemed like the natural choice for this kind of project. However, after I considered the reusability of this project with other systems in the company, I realized that OCaml would not be the best choice. The company recently decided to move towards Java and possibly other JVM-based languages. I had researched Java-OCaml bindings and discovered that existing options couldn't meet this project's need. As a result, I chose to implement this project in Java to make it more compatible with other systems at Knewton.
Having only used ocamllex and ocamlyacc to create parser generators, I needed to research other parser generators for Java. My mentors suggested ANTLR. I found ANTLR to be a high quality project that was incredibly easy to use.
Validation Algorithm
Now that I could successfully parse ontology files into memory, how would I validate a graph? I decided to implement the algorithm in a functional way: traverse the abstract syntax tree (AST) generated by the parser and for each statement node, create a closure that, when provided an environment — a mapping from variable names to actual nodes in the graph — and called, would return "true" or "false" (and thus represent whether the graph passed validation on that statement). After traversing the entire AST, one closure would be produced and would represent the validate function. A list of errors would be generated if the graph failed validation.
For example, I did the following for the Universal quantifier statement:
for all <variable> in <node type> <statement>
- Generate the closure by traversing the AST in <statement>
- Iterate over all nodes with type <node type> in the provided graph, and for each node:
- extend the current environment by mapping: <variable> to current node
- call the closure on this new environment, and ensure the closure returns true
I followed a similar procedure for the rest of the node types in an ontology.
Unfortunately, closures are not directly accessible in Java. Instead, I had to generate wrapper classes that wrapped methods representing the closure. In addition, because of the lack of match statements in Java, I used the visitor pattern to traverse the AST.
Testing and Profiling
After unit testing the validation engine on small graphs and simple ontologies, I moved on to a real life error-riddled data set. The graph in the data set had 53,377 nodes and 53,960 edges. When I initially tried to validate this graph, the JVM exploded. Even with 2GB of memory, the JVM still did not have enough heap space to validate this graph in half an hour. After profiling, I discovered that over a hundred million Strings were being generated by error messages for failed validation. As a result, I made several changes to make the validator more memory efficient: I used the flyweight pattern when allocating space for environment variables, node and edge types, and I lazily generated the error messages, only creating them when necessary.
This solved the memory problem. However, the run-time of the validation algorithm was still horrible. Each nesting level of a for all and exists statement added a factor of V to the asymptotic run-time (where V is the number of vertices). For example, if an ontology had three nested for all statements, the run-time would be O(V³). Fortunately, since edges could only connect two vertices (unlike in a hypergraph), I could optimize the exists statement to only check in the neighboring set of the current node. With this optimization, exists statements no longer multiplied the computational complexity. As a result of these memory and time optimizations, the run-time for the 50,000+ node data set went from 30+ minutes to less than 4 seconds. Changing the run-time from V² to V makes such a big difference!
Looking Back, and Next Steps
It's a rare opportunity to go back and rebuild old projects from scratch. It's an even rarer opportunity to get complete freedom (as an intern) to design a central component of the company's system. At Knewton, I was fortunate to have both opportunities. Knewton tasked me with rebuilding the graph validation engine, and I had complete freedom to design the project however I wished. Even more remarkable — this project allowed me to to work at a scale (50,000+ nodes!) that I would rarely ever touch at school.
There are several things that in retrospect I would have done differently. The lack of functional language features in Java made it difficult to implement the validation algorithm. As a result, if I were to redo the project, I would probably implement it in Scala. Using Scala's interoperability with Java and its functional language features (especially the ability to create closures and use case classes) would have made the implementation easier to write and more concise. Furthermore, there are many optimizations I could have implemented to make the validation engine faster: I could have used properties of second-order logic to transform quantifier and logic statements into equivalent statements with a faster run-time, and I could have parallelized the algorithm to make use of concurrency. But this is pretty good for working just two and a half weeks!


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Today on this chilly Saturday morning I thought I would share how I organize my genealogical research in hopes of providing insight and ideas to anyone interested in the subject.
For my genealogical research, I have one main 4-drawer filing cabinet. This filing cabinet was one that my grandfather used and had in his office until he died in the early 90s. It's no ordinary flimsy filing cabinet like the sorts they make today. This thing is built to last. It's extremely tough, weighs more than a volkswagon, has the sorts of doors that automatically lock in a shut position, etc. Yes, it's serious, just like Grandpa.
The top shelf has mostly office supplies in it. I'll use this drawer to expand my holding of organized records. The second drawer has mainly what I consider personal important papers. These include things like my own birth certificate and other things of that nature that I have yet to put into any other organized form other than their prominent place in my filing cabinet. They're stored sort of like what you might find in a vertical file, except, well, they're horizontal. More of a pile, really, at the moment, but enclosed and contained nicely by the second drawer of the filing cabinet.
The third drawer contains all my oldest files and papers organized in file folders by surname. I have a very sophisticated method for storing information that pertains to more than one family: I put the information in a file folder for the surname to which it primarily pertains, then I use a complicated system of "remembering" which other families the information might pertain to. When I come to one of those families for which I have remembered information, I use my "remembering" system to guide me back to the information labeled under the primary surname of the information.
Within each surname I maintain a very flexible system for ordering my surname information. This system allows me to order my information in a number of ways depending on how the organization of my information can best facilitate my research on that surname at any given time. For example, if one file contains more currently applicable information, I might put it at the front of the files for that surname. If I know the information I'm looking for is something I've had for a really long time, it might be more towards the back of the listing for that surname, unless I had recently added information for that surname and shuffled things around in the process, as often happens. Also, some information I have planned to include in this collection is in three other boxes in various states of readiness for inclusion, but drawer 3 of my filing cabinet is full, and I haven't wanted to redesign the storage for the other things I have stored in this cabinet. Unfortunately, since these other three boxes are more or less, sort of ready to be included in my highly organized filing system, I sort of keep them in quarantine frmo my other boxes and piles and heaps of records, because I don't want them to get any bad ideas and fall into any old, bad habits, so I mostly don't get into them much. This can be a bit problematic, but I make it work. Where was I?
Oh, drawer 4 of my filing cabinet actually is busting full with, I know it sounds a little odd, old genealogical society issues from the Fayette County (Illinois) Genealogical Society. These issues of Fayette Facts weren't bound too well, and they tend to be fragile as a result. These are really unbelievable gems, as this society has published about 100-120 pages of transcribed records, cemetery listings, local genealogies every single quarter for what will be 40 years next year. Amazing material, really. I even wrote some articles for them in the 1980s. This collection is very important to me, and while perhaps boxing them up might serve the same purpose, unfortunately I don't have any boxes because most of my other records already are in boxes, and I don't have any more.
My next category of recordkeeping probably houses the bulk of my records: Boxes. I have many, many stacks of boxed records. Some of the boxes are closed and some are open. The closed boxes usually represent something I feel is more for safe keeping more than immediate reference, although, as always, there is a lot of flexibility built into this system. The boxes that are open tend to have records sorted into what might be called "piles," or "heaps" for the larger boxes, but these piles and heaps are nicely contained by the box itself, so they don't mix or get confused with the other materials in my other boxes or the heaps or pile I have on any of the various workspaces I use, unless I actually take the records out of the boxes to look at them.
My last category of storage for records is a little unusual, as it was something I came up with after I ran out of boxes. This is my collection of records in plastic grocery sacks. The last 2 or 3 times I have moved or significantly shifted my records I had already run out of good boxes, as I mentioned above. In these cases, I decided to use plastic grocery sacks, because hey, who doesn't have those?
My records in plastic grocery sacks are records I was working on or I had out on a workspace at my last two or three places of residence or rooms of the house I was using for genealogy at that time. These tend to be smaller collections of information, obviously, and since these storage methods are considered to be more temporary, I have only used them when I plan to only temporarily move the records then start right back up and work on those same areas, freeing the records from their temporary enclosures that have little other organization. The last couple of times I moved genealogy rooms I didn't actually add to these collections, so I know anything in plastic paper sacks is probably from a move at least six years ago, probably. All I have to do is remember what I was working on 6 years ago to know what's in these sacks.
Now we get into my organization system for the things I have on my various workspaces. You might call these piles or heaps. Before I recently moved my genealogy room, I had one group of records on a particularly big workspace that was (how shall I say) structurally unsound. It acted more like a glacier, or on bad days, a mudslide. This hampered my organizational methodologies from working optimally. However, I solved this problem during my last move of my genealogy by using one of the methods above: boxes.
Right now my workspace areas are mostly under control. My piles and heaps aren't more than about 6 inches high, so I'm feeling pretty good about them. Should the Big Earthquake hit, I don't feel I would be in personal danger from the piles. The boxes might get me, but boxes move with more predictability than do heaps, so I think I could make it.
One other critical aspect of my system is that of chronological stratification. I use this a lot, so it's important to mention. This is so simple, it's easy to miss its genius: The stuff I've placed on top is my newest stuff. (This also makes it easy to get to.) The farther you go down into my piles on my workspaces, the longer ago I was working on it! I know! Genius! So all I have to do to find something is go back to the area where I was working on it, then go down in my piles to the right level, and presto! There it is. Sometimes. Obviously, lots of times I walk around or work on things in different places or the phone rings or the dog wants out or someone has something they want em to help with that will only take a couple of minutes that takes all day, and, well, in those cases finding things I was working on can be a challenge.
Well, anyway, this is how I organize my genealogy. If any of these methods can help you, please feel free to use them. However, I cannot be held responsible for any injury, whether physical or mental, of the use of these methods. Please use them at your own risk.


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As a retired Roman Catholic priest, I can see many religious reasons to support the civil marriage equality law ("Scare tactics on Question 6," Oct. 18). Both Scripture and Christian theology are supportive and persuasive.
In the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus tells his followers to give back to Caesar (civil government) what belongs to Caesar. In the letters of Paul and Peter there are instructions to respect civil society. Don't mix the laws of the state with those of the church: Jesus' kingdom is not of this world.
St. Augustine, in his great work "City of God," reminds the Christian community that it is part of a political society where Christians must be open to the whole of humanity. Christians must learn to exercise their decision-making in civil society by promoting what is good for the human race overall. In civil society it's not about church institutions having control but about the way in which human beings live together.
I have always favored St. Thomas Aquinas over St. Augustine, especially in his opposition to legislating morality, which he summarized in the axiom "he who bloweth his nose too strongly maketh it bleed."
Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty urged members to exercise freedom responsibly in their judgments about social actions. Conscience and a sense of duty to contemporary need, not coercion, should lead one to seek truth.
Supporting civil marriage is not to oppose religious institutions but rather to seek a place in civil society for all God's children. By law, the government must strive to protect stable human relationships. Civil marriage is one step in that direction.
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9/11 WTC remains to stay in more secure facility
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City chief medical examiner's office says the remains of Sept. 11 World Trade Center victims will be kept at a forensic laboratory building because the previous location was damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
The medical examiner's office said Tuesday the remains were moved as a precaution before the late October storm.
The old space was in Manhattan's Memorial Park area, next to the medical examiner's office.
Officials decided it could be vulnerable in future storms. So they will continue to keep the remains at the new state-of-the-art DNA Forensic Biology Laboratory Building nearby.
The remains include those of identified and unidentified victims of the 2001 terror attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
Families that wish to see the new facility may contact the medical examiner's office.


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DUNEDIN, Fla. – The Tour de France is a long way from the Toronto Blue Jays' spring training clubhouse. But a Utah-based company has managed to find a home in both places for its products.
Lizard Skins started selling cycling accessories such as handlebar grip tape back in 1993 and now distributes to 84 countries. Seven years ago it developed a special tape for road bikes and took the technology to baseball in 2012 by offering its DSP (DuraSoft Polymer) bat wrap.
The company says its bat grip tape combines softness and tackiness while reducing vibration. And with 18 colours, including nine versions of camo, there is an element of style.
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2009 • Volume 1, Number 2
In this issue:
OPINIONQIBA Collaborates with Imaging ManufacturersBy ANDREW J. BUCKLER, MS
TECHNIQUES Calculating Quantitative
PET SUV from DICOM Images By PAUL
KINAHAN, PhD, and DAVID CLUNIE, MBBS, FRACR
ONRSNA 2009 Activities May 2009 QIBA Meeting
BIOMARKERS IN THE LITERATURE PubMed
Search on the Imaging Industry and Biomarkers
QIBA Collaborates with
Imaging Manufacturers
By ANDREW J. BUCKLER, MS
Efficient, valid methodologies are
required that use imaging biomarkers as surrogate endpoints for changes in the
health status of patients. These methods can be applied in clinical research,
optimal patient care, and development of new therapies, such as
The deployment of qualified imaging
biomarkers has not kept pace with the advances in technology that allow
manufacturers to fulfill demand for them. Large scale deployment has been limited
by variation across manufacturers and lack of consensus about which biomarkers
need to be used and validated.
Efforts by individual manufacturers
to qualify quantitative imaging biomarkers are cost-prohibitive and make it more
difficult to establish the standards needed by the healthcare
QIBA Models Profiles after
As a collaborative alliance, QIBA's goal is to establish a methodology by which
multiple stakeholders test various hypotheses about the technical feasibility and
medical value of imaging biomarkers, starting with volumetric CT,
fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT, and dynamic contrast
material-enhanced MR imaging.
This process benefits the imaging
device industry by providing a mechanism to share the cost of qualifying mature
biomarkers to increase utilization while also encouraging the development of new,
innovative markers. Broad use of qualified biomarkers to assess treatment
response in clinical practice helps clinicians and patients, while industry
stakeholders such as interventional device companies-including
radiation therapy and minimally-invasive devices for prevention and
therapy-and biopharmaceutical companies benefit from
cost-effective development programs and more effective use of imaging.
QIBA Technical Committees are
developing Profiles to organize their activity and capture the results. Adapted
from the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE®) model, a Profile is a document that specifies
claims-which tell a user what can be accomplished by following
the Profile-and details, which tell vendors what is required
for their products to comply with the Profile.
After key scientific questions and
concepts requiring validation have been identified and refined, QIBA coordinates
the research and other groundwork needed to resolve these questions so the
Profile definition can proceed.
It is envisioned that manufacturers
will seek to comply with completed Profiles in response to the demand of clinical
users for Profile-compliant equipment. Users will be motivated to require
Profile-compliant devices based on the result of clinical trials that used
Profile-compliant equipment to improve their effectiveness. Increasingly the
standard of care in the clinic will call for these benefits as well.
It is anticipated that this method
will be robust enough to be recognized as a regulatory pathway for the
registration of such products with the FDA. For manufacturers, qualification data
accepted by regulatory bodies could be used in 510(k) applications (or premarket
notifications) more cost effectively than if companies pursued the qualification
Future development and implementation of quantitative imaging relies on
coordination among industry players, regulatory organizations and practicing
clinicians. Patients and the entire healthcare industry will benefit from the
appropriate use of imaging in the diagnosis and management of disease, which can
be supported by validation, standardization, and comparative effectiveness
While manufacturers must remain
attuned to development cost and time-to-market, every stakeholder will benefit
from technological, commercial, and utilization advances in imaging
[1] Why QIBA is a Good Thing for Radiology in General, and the Imaging
Manufacturers in Particular. Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance
(MITA), February 2009.
Andrew J. Buckler, MS,
is an imaging analytics specialist who has worked in the medical device
manufacturing sector for over 20 years. He serves as co-chair of the QIBA
Volumetric-CT Technical Committee.
Calculating PET SUV from
DICOM Images
By PAUL KINAHAN, PhD, and DAVID CLUNIE, MBBS, FRACR
Although PET/CT imaging of cancer
has recently become a standard component of oncology diagnosis and staging, it
does not necessarily require assessment of numeric pixel values.
Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies
are using quantitative PET/CT imaging to evaluate potential therapies even though
the FDA has yet to accept the modality as a qualified or validated biomarker for
surrogate endpoints.
At the clinical level, the relative
tracer uptake by a lesion is now routinely reported, which creates compelling
reasons to understand and improve the quantitative accuracy of PET/CT
The use of PET/CT to determine
response to therapy is highlighted in the May 2009 supplement to the Journal
of Nuclear Medicine, which includes a comprehensive survey of the factors
that affect the bias and variance of PET/CT imaging. [1]
Factors Impact Calculation
of SUVs
Numerous factors impact the calculation of uptake values from Digital Imaging and
Communications in Medicine (DICOM) images.
To account for variations in the
injected dose and patient size, generally preferred units for image
interpretation are standardized uptake values (SUVs) defined as
SUV=R/(D/W) where R (kBq/ml) is the activity concentration at
each point, D (kBq) is the decay-corrected injected dose, and W
is the patient weight.
Patient weight is typically used as
a surrogate for the volume of distribution, although the estimated lean body mass
or body surface area is sometimes used instead of weight. Proper calculation of
SUVs, therefore, requires knowledge of several parameters encoded in the image
"header" in addition to the spatially varying activity concentration encoded in
the image pixel data. A partial list of these parameters includes injected dose,
radionuclide half-life (to account for radioactive decay of the isotope), time of
injected dose, time of scan, patient weight, scanner calibration factors, sex
(for lean body mass calculations), height, as well as image scaling methods and
scale factors.
Parameters are encoded in DICOM
header elements of PET images by the scanner as specified by the DICOM Standard.
Some variation exists between scanner manufacturers in how these values are
stored and in which elements they are stored. In principle, the DICOM
Conformance Statement published by the manufacturer should describe these
details and the DICOM Standard defines how different elements should be
interpreted. However, experience has shown that there is room for
misinterpretation, ambiguity, error, and suboptimal choice. For example, the time
to be used for decay correction is potentially stored in several different data
elements, while only one may be appropriate for a given scanner operated in a
particular manner.
A relatively large number of
important data elements are needed for correct calculation of SUVs, which is
further complicated by the need to interpret DICOM images on display station
systems not manufactured by the original scanner provider. Also, the original
scanner provider's workstation may be limited and have the capability to
implement fewer variations in the use of DICOM Standard elements, not support
legitimate variations from other vendors, and consequently may display incorrect
Further, a particular vendor may add
features using private elements understood only by their own systems that modify
the calculation of SUVs and result in different values from those computed
strictly according to the DICOM Standard.
QIBA Studies DICOM
To address these issues, the QIBA FDG-PET/CT Quantitation Computation
subcommittee is evaluating the generation and interpretation of the DICOM data
elements used by the PET/CT scanner manufacturers and display station vendors.
The committee comprises representatives from scanner manufacturers, display
station vendors, pharmaceutical companies, clinical research organizations,
professional societies, physicians, and physicists.
In the first phase, the subcommittee
used surveys to obtain a description of which DICOM data elements were populated
and their expected use from manufacturers and display station vendors. In
addition, a Digital Reference Object (DRO), a set of test DICOM images, is being
constructed to compare SUV measurements on different display stations. Because
the DRO-which has demonstrated known
truth-is being used as the test object, results obtained on
different display stations should ideally be identical.
Results of these surveys and studies
are posted at qibawiki.RSNA.org along with
meeting summaries and other information. Comments and participation are always
welcome. The authors acknowledge helpful comments from Jeffrey Yap, PhD, of the
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Reference:[1] Standards for PET Image Acquisition
and Quantitative Data Analysis. J Nucl Med 2009 May; 50 (suppl1):11S-20S.
Boellaard R., et al.
Paul Kinahan, PhD, is
a professor of radiology, bioengineering and electrical engineering and director
of PET/CT physics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is chair of the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)/SNM Task Group on
Quantitative PET/CT Imaging and participates in SNM, AAPM, and RSNA initiatives
on quantitative medical imaging as a biomarker.
David Clunie, MBBS,
FRACR, is a neuroradiologist and chief technology officer at RadPharm, Inc, which
specializes in independent review and core lab services for imaging clinical
trials for regulatory approval of oncology drugs and biologics. He is editor of
the DICOM Standard, co-chair of the IHE Radiology Technical Committee,
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STOCKTON - Tips from citizens have helped authorities apprehend two of the three men believed to be responsible for an October shooting that wounded a man in south Stockton, police said Saturday.
STOCKTON - Tips from citizens have helped authorities apprehend two of the three men believed to be responsible for an October shooting that wounded a man in south Stockton, police said Saturday.
The Stockton Police Department released photographs and footage from surveillance video Thursday showing three men who were wanted in connection with an Oct. 27 shooting near Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and South Grant Street. A 22-year-old man who was shot in the leg ran to his car, attempted to flee the area and then collided with two cars, police said.
Since the release of the video and photographs, authorities have arrested Leonardo Robaina, 23, and Filmore Tadao, 29, said Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the Police Department. Both were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and a number of other crimes, police said. Silva credited tips from the community and "the power of social media" for the arrests.
Police are still searching for Jose Robaina, 25, of Stockton. He is described as a Latino man who was last seen wearing a red Sacramento Kings jacket and a red New York Yankees baseball hat. He was driving a green four-door Lincoln, California license plate 5KWA187. He is considered armed and dangerous, police said.
Anyone with information about this case is encouraged to call the Stockton Police Department at (209) 937-8377, the Investigations Unit at (209) 937-8323 or Crime Stoppers at (209) 946-0600. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards up to $10,000. Callers can remain anonymous.
Cellphone users can text information to 274637 (CRIMES) by entering the keyword "TIPSPD" followed by their tip. Internet users can visit the Police Department's Facebook page and click "Submit a Tip."
STOCKTON - A man discarded a loaded, stolen gun and a large amount of marijuana while fleeing from police Friday night in south Stockton, authorities said.
Community Response Team officers and members of the multiagency San Joaquin County gang task force attempted to conduct a traffic stop about 8:55 p.m. near Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Aurora Street, but the driver fled at a high speed, police said. Officers initially lost sight of the vehicle but located it several blocks away moments later.
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STOCKTON - Two teens were shot late Friday night in a north Stockton neighborhood, authorities said.
The shooting occurred about 11:30 p.m. in the 8700 block of Cherbourg Way, just north of Valverde Park. A 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl were standing next to a friend's vehicle when a man dressed in black clothing rode by on a bicycle and opened fire, police said.
The gunman fired several rounds at the victims, striking both teens, officers said. Both were taken to a hospital for treatment, but their wounds were not believed to be life-threatening, authorities said.


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Rich Robbins loves a challenge.
Upon being informed that his Buffalo (N.Y.) Canisius program would not be among those listed when the preseason RivalsHigh 100 rankings of high school football teams is announced beginning July 29, he was ready to get back to work in the weight room and on the recruiting front.
As coach of a program on the rise, Robbins said he understands the perceptions of teams in his area but believes that the group he will field this year is exceeding expectations and could prove deserving of recognition.
"When we got here two-plus years ago as a staff, we made a plan for the future and it included being in the RivalsHigh 100 rankings," Robbins said. "I can show you the paper to prove it -- by year five we wanted to be ranked nationally, and I think we are ahead of that plan.
"At the time, we probably wouldn't have been in the discussion for the top 250 teams in the country, but with the group here now -- especially our defense -- if we are undefeated again and play like I expect, I do not think that top 50 is out of the question."
Canisius will start the year on the outside looking in, but it is much closer to inclusion than many teams from the state have been historically.
The Crusaders are well within the top 250 and sit atop the preseason rankings for the New England Region -- a group of non-power states that includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont -- which historically has had at least one team included in the preseason and final polls.
New York has had just three programs included with the nation's elite, and only once has it had a member represented in the final poll -- when Melville (N.Y.) St. Anthony went 14-0 and ranked No. 100 in 2011.
Robbins is originally from Wexford (Pa.) North Allegheny, which won the state title last season and finished No. 12 in the RivalsHigh 100. He said he knows what good football looks like and that his school is playing it.
"We are building it right here," he said. "I have coaches on the staff with experience playing and coaching in Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Texas -- all over, really -- and what we have done is change the culture at Canisius.
What's in the Can(isius)?
The talent pool at Canisius got deeper with the addition of Tyrone Wheatley, but what does the combination of Wheatley and Qadree Ollison bring to the field? Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell has seen both in action during the Rivals Camp Series presented by Under Armour, and he breaks down their games:
Qadree Ollison, three-star RB, 6-1, 226
"Ollison is a big back who I think will be effective in short yardage as well as the passing game. He isn't a burner, but once he gets going he can be a load to stop. His surprisingly sure hands help to make him a difference maker in high school and should help get him on the field at the next level."
Tyrone Wheatley, class of 2015 DE, 6-6, 245
"He's a ball of clay right now and just needs to get molded. The athletic ability is there, without question. He could be a defensive end or a tight end, but he also has the frame to become a very active offensive lineman if he wants to. I am sure he has no plans to be on the line, but you can see that he can do so much. I think with his talent that he could not have picked a better school to go to in Buffalo."
"We improved our strength and conditioning program to get bigger and stronger, and we have improved our academic support system for kids. This is a private Jesuit school, and it challenges kids to be the best academically as well as athletically. I compare it to an Ivy League experience."
Last year, the Crusaders won the Monsignor Martin League and went 11-0. This season, CHS returns 14 starters -- eight on defense -- but a major part of the improvement has been made by attracting new talent.
Canisius recently welcomed Brad Zaffram from Amherst (N.Y.) Sweet Home, Mitch Thomas from Atlanta, and Tyrone Wheatley from Manlius (N.Y.) Fayetteville-Manlius.
Wheatley is the son of former NFL running back and current Buffalo Bills assistant coach Tyrone Wheatley. The class of 2015 defensive end has offers from Alabama, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Penn State, Syracuse, Washington and Wisconsin.
Zaffram and Thomas could join class of 2015 defensive back Josh Huffman and class of 2014 middle linebacker Mike Sharpe, a three-year starter, as prospects who land offers.
The supporting cast will surround three-star senior running back Qadree Ollison, who has narrowed his list of schools to Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse and Wisconsin.
Ollison said the new faces make him feel more comfortable and confident.
"There is more talent here than I have seen before," he said. "Now I don't have to worry as much, to be honest. I know there are guys who can make the plays or at least be in the right spot to make the play.
"It makes you feel good to know that you don't have to get outside of your game to make a spectacular play. There is trust all around the field right now."
Robbins makes it known that his goal is to be in the RivalsHigh 100 consistently and that the way to do that is by getting more good players into the system as early as possible.
"I want every kid who shows top-level potential in eighth grade to want to come to Canisius," he said. "We do not make contact with kids once they are into a program because that is not professional, but I want it to be a no-brainer for kids to pick us over places like St. Francis or St. Joe's.
"We still battle schools for kids, and I don't look at our desire to have the best on the football field any differently than our band director wanting the best young saxophone player or our English teachers wanting the kid who won a Shakespeare Award. We all want to have the best and the brightest, and that extends to the football field."
The most recent example is getting Wheatley.
He is a talented but raw prospect who had a choice of schools when his father was hired by the Bills after spending three seasons on staff at Syracuse with Doug Marrone.
Robbins and his staff went after him hard.
"Like a lot of schools in the area, we had a meeting with the family and knew that we had a great academic message as well as athletic opportunities," Robbins said. "Tyrone was an Academic All-American, so we knew we weren't going to get anything by him. But what won him over, I think, was the diversity of our staff and the campus.
"T.J.'s mom didn't want him to go to a private school, so she was more difficult. We were making pie charts and graphs, and sending her information in the mail. We compared SAT scores, GPAs, how much scholarship money was being earned by each school, and we got her that information and then she started opening up to us.
"Our football, basketball, academics and facilities really should sell themselves," Robbins said. "But some people need to see it all and really feel comfortable with the decision and we want to make sure that is what happens. We have great support from our administration and alumni; that is putting things in place that no one else in Buffalo has. We are doing football like it is in Pittsburgh, like it is in Texas, not like it is in Buffalo."
RivalsHigh New England Preseason Top 10
For the first time in six years there will not be a team from the New England cluster of states represented in the preseason RivalsHigh100, but that does not mean there are not quality teams within the borders of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. Here are the top 10 teams from the region as the season approaches:
1. Buffalo (N.Y.) Canisius: This is the clear No. 1 team in the region and a viable candidate for the national rankings. A lot will be determined by how it performs against Cardinal Mooney because programs from this region have struggled mightily when taking on teams from higher-profile states.
2. Danvers (Mass.) St. John's: There is a solid gap here, but St. John's was another easy choice as the top team in its state. Led by running back Johnathan Thomas, a Maryland commit, it figures to be an easy pick to win the Super Bowl.
3. Reading (Mass.) Memorial: With a very good offensive line, a good defense and two-star quarterback Drew Belcher, this program should roll into the semifinals without facing much of a challenge.
4. Norwich (Conn.) Free Academy: Boston College commit Marcus Outlow is the top player in the state, and the running back should have his team in the finals. He was hurt last year and couldn't finish the job, which provides motivation this year.
5. Ansonia (Conn.) High: This is not a deep squad, which causes concern, but having running back Arkeel Newsome on the field helps. The three-star is committed to Connecticut, and he has a 3,000-yard season to his credit.
6. Everett (Mass.) High: A program that has been ranked nationally in the preseason and at the end of the year is in a bit of a rebuild on offense. The defense should be good enough for the team to advance in the playoffs, but scoring points could be interesting.
7. Orchard Park (N.Y.) High: One of the finalists to land Tyrone Wheatley, this public school returns four starters on the offensive line and could be one of the better squads in the area.
8. Melville (N.Y.) St. Anthony's: The last team from the region to make the RivalsHigh100 returns an experienced group that suffered a 59-21 loss at the hands of Oradell (N.J.) Bergen Catholic last season.
9. Syracuse (N.Y.) Christian Brothers: Following an 11-1 season, there are many people who believe this is the team that could emerge from New York Class AA. Dual-threat quarterback J.R. Zazzara is a big reason for that thinking.
10. Natick (Mass.) High Led by two-star Troy Flutie, nephew of former NFL quarterback Doug Flutie, this program could contend for a title in Massachusetts. The younger Flutie is a two-star receiver but plays quarterback in high school. His athletic ability can take over games on this level.
Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell said college programs are taking notice.
"Trust me, there is not a college coach who wants to make a trip to Western New York, but that staff and those kids are making it a must stop," Farrell said. "There is a really good group of players there right now, and all signs point to that continuing."
Robbins said the added presence of college coaches makes it easier for his message to spread.
"I'll tell you what, nothing is better than when I am walking around the campus with parents and have Wisconsin coaches coming to talk to me and Rutgers coaches are there, too," he said. "I can't plan it better than those things happening, and I know that we are unique in that experience. Our kids are being recruited, and I don't think that is happening at many other places in this area."
Ollison said he sees the increased intensity in the weight room because of the attention.
"I have my coaches coming in, and there are coaches who are on T.J. that will be here, too, and that makes more opportunities for the young guys to get seen and they want to take advantage," he said. "We have a couple of guys who I think are legit Division I players and they are going to get seen, but it makes everyone work harder."
Ollison said he is starting to get to know Wheatley at voluntary team lifting and he sees the potential that he brings to the team. Wheatley also shadowed Ollison for a day while he was deciding where to attend high school.
"We got to talk when he was here, and he seemed cool," Ollison said. "I think he can help the team and help the other players."
With his five-year plan accelerating, Robbins said his next step is to go from attracting top players to landing top opponents.
This year, the team will play Rochester (N.Y.) Aquinas Institute, Youngstown (Ohio) Cardinal Mooney and Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio) Walsh Jesuit. It has played Erie (Pa.) Cathedral Prep and Cleveland (Ohio) St. Ignatius in the last five years.
The transformation has taken the schol from a 58-0 loss to Walsh Jesuit in 2009 to a 14-7 victory last season, but Robbins knows that is not enough to silence doubters.
"It was a knuckles-out win last year, and we are proud of it," he said. "We went into games against teams like St. Iggy and Erie Cathedral and didn't have it in the trenches and they put it on us, but we are a different program now and are ready to add more challenges.
"We have a mandatory five games with our league, but as the program grows we want to take on better teams. We hope to be calling on the Don Boscos of the world soon; if there is a spot on our schedule, we will play anyone because that is what the elite programs do. Win or lose, they want the challenge."
Come December, there could be a different look to the RivalsHigh100 and a smile on the face of Robbins.
"It is OK to not be ranked now, because I know that the poll changes so much during the year and what the last poll looks like is more important," he said. "We play a different brand of football here, and we are leaps and bounds ahead of where we were; I am proud of that, but we still have goals that we haven't accomplished."
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Could anyone translate these forms so that I can see the difference between them or provide meaningful examples?
Another question is: why do I encounter ginomai in Mounce and gignomai in my Greek-French dictionary? Is ginomai koine Greek for gignomai?