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I'm a Cyborg (UK - BD)
Chris Gould takes a look at the latest feature from director Park Chan-wook
Young-goon (Lim Soo-jung) is a pretty young woman who is convinced that she is, in fact, a cyborg. Refusing to eat, Young-goon instead 'charges' herself by licking batteries and spends an awful lot of her time 'talking' to her transistor radio. After slashing her wrist and wiring herself directly to the mains supply, Young-goon is admitted to a mental institution. It is here that she meets Il-soon (portrayed by Korean pop sensation Rain, credited here as Jung Ji-hoon), a fellow patient who believes he has the ability to steal the traits of those around him (but then he also believes he's slowly turning into a dot). When Young-goon refuses to eat, Il-soon makes it his mission to help her and they soon embark on an odd romantic affair.
I'm a Cyborg is about as far removed from Park Chan-wook's previous films as you could hope for. If I had to compare it to another Korean film I think I'd have to go for Jang Joon-hwan's Save the Green Planet, which is another feature where the characters' perceptions are largely different from reality (and the audience's). Even with the slightly disturbing subject matter—after all, Young-goon and Il-soon are schizophrenics— I'm a Cyborg is a much lighter film than Park's previous work. Apparently the director had enough of the darkness of his vengeance-themed movies and decided to make something his young daughter could enjoy. The result is just about the strangest romantic comedy I've ever seen.
There are some real 'laugh out loud' moments contained within the 107-minute running time, many of which are the result of some quite broad physical comedy, something you wouldn't really associate with the director of dark films like Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. Still, there are plenty of the surreal sequences that punctuated Park's previous works, although here they're ramped up to hitherto unseen levels. This ranges from pretty innocuous stuff like Young-goon's toes glowing when she 'charges' herself, to her transformation into gun-slinging cyborg killer, and even a strange little sequence where she shrinks and goes on a magical ride with a ladybird.
I can't move on without a quick word about the actors. I'm not too familiar with Lim Soo-jung, but she does a fantastic job with the character and according to the interview on the disc Park rates her as his favourite actress (which surprised me given his use of Lee Young-ae in previous films). I was also pleasantly surprised by Jung Ji-hoon (aka Rain), mostly because I'd heard negative things about him prior to watching the film. Obviously I don't get the subtle nuances of Korean-language performances, but I thought he did a pretty good job with his character. He shares some genuinely touching moments Lim Soo-jung.
I'm a Cyborg arrives with a 1.78:1, 1080p/AVC widescreen transfer, and looks pretty damn good. The film is packed with many bold images featuring lots of bright, primary colours, which are very well-rendered by the Blu-ray. Much of the film takes place in the brightly lit fluorescent environment of the mental institution, but the few darker scenes there are feature pleasing shadow detail and black levels are decent enough. I didn't notice any issues with edge halos, bleeding or compression, which were all problems reported with the Thai DVD release recently reviewed by our own Gabe Powers. According to the IMDb the film was apparently shot in HD, which would account for the apparent lack of grain.
It's genuinely a lot harder to critique Blu-ray transfers than DVD, because the standards seem to be a lot higher than they were in the early days of that format. Almost every Blu-ray release I've seen looks good, if not great, with only one or two falling below the standards I'd expect from a next-gen platform (and then only because of poor source material). I'm a Cyborg is a visually pleasing film with a good transfer, but it's not right up there with the very best the format has to offer in either artistic or technical terms, which I hope explains the final score.
The disc, one of Tartan's latest batch of Blu-ray releases, includes not only standard Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, but also Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. Including two lossless tracks might seem like overkill, but I for one am glad that they did. My player will decode the Dolby TrueHD track to PCM just fine, but with the DTS-HD track I only get the legacy Core (1.5Mbps) track. This was a problem I encountered with Tartan's release of Oldboy. Both tracks are lossless, so theoretically neither should have an edge over the other...
However, while the TrueHD track provides a solid aural experience, I did find that the overall volume was somewhat lower than the DTS-HD track. It's long been known that DTS tracks a bit louder than the Dolby equivalents, but I thought we'd seen the last of that with supposed 'lossless' audio. I guess it could be down to the fact that I'm only hearing the Core track, but I have no way of confirming that. Either way, the DTS track only really sounded louder, not 'better' (if that makes sense). Maybe Tartan should just have provided PCM instead of two lossless tracks? Who knows?
In any event, I'm a Cyborg features an impressive soundtrack that is quite similar in tone to the director's last film, Lady Vengeance. There's plenty of 'ornate', even upbeat string music; in fact, Jo Yeong-wook's score is probably the standout element of the entire mix. The audio is generally more front-orientated than Park's previous films, with lots of clear and centred dialogue and less aggressive utilisation of the rears and LFE channel. However, one of the more aurally impressive moments occurs when Young-goon undergoes a startling metamorphosis into a machine-gun fingered killing machine and starts spraying the hospital wards with bullets, which can be heard from all angles. I wouldn't say that either track (TrueHD or DTS-HD) is up there with the best, but they do provide an enjoyable listening experience.
First up is an exclusive interview with director Park Chan-wook, filmed at London's Barbican Centre. The interview is conducted in Korean with a translator communicating the moderator's questions to the director, which means that the hour-long runtime is actually slightly misleading. With that said, it's still a pretty decent length for an interview, and if you can get past the slightly odd set-up Park reveals some interesting snippets of info. In addition to answering questions from the moderator, Park also fields some from the audience, which is a nice touch.
A 'Making of' documentary comes next, following a similar path to that of the in-depth Oldboy documentary found in the Vengeance Trilogy boxed set. By this I mean that we're shown the cast and crew hard at work on the set in a documentary fashion, rather than lots of talking heads interviews complete with voice-over (as is customary in most Hollywood promotional featurettes). Unfortunately the documentary is nowhere near as comprehensive as the one featured in the aforementioned boxed set, but it does provide some insight into the creative process.
A music video for Rain's 'With U' follows. The music video is great if you like cheesy Korean pop, but unfortunately I don't. I'm not familiar with Rain as a artist, but I am reliably informed his popularity extends far beyond his native Korea. Apparently he's massive in Thailand, at least according to a relative who just returned from a year-long teaching post. I'll have to take her word for it...
The film's theatrical and teaser trailers round things off, again presented in standard definition and looking more than a little ropey. It's nice that the trailers are included, but couldn't a better source be found? Actually, come to think of it, couldn't we have them in high-definition?
I'm a Cyborg is about as far removed from director Park's previous body of work as you can imagine, but it's still a great little film in that quirky, Korean way. This Blu-ray Disc is a little light on bonus features, but the solid A/V presentation goes some way towards redressing the balance. After all, most of us buy these discs to watch the films, not hours of additional material (well at least I do). At any rate this is currently the only Blu-ray release of the film that I know of, so if you're after another next-gen slice of Park Chan-wook magic, look no further. Bring on the Blu-ray release of Lady Vengeance!
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Chris Gould
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This'll work in my player, right? Just the extras will fail?
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Then give it here.
I'm going to have to go with no on that one
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I hear this will be the last of Tartan's UK BDs to have PAL extras.
PCM isn't legacy compatible on many players. I'd prefer DTS-HD over it as the legacy track on that is almost always full-rate, unlike the secondary DD5.1 found on PCM discs.
Thanks for the review btw Chris. I hear this is good.
PCM isn't legacy compatible on many players. I'd prefer DTS-HD over it as the legacy track on that is almost always full-rate, unlike the secondary DD5.1 found on PCM discs.
Thanks for the review btw Chris. I hear this is good.
I'm pretty sure PCM is mandatory for Blu-ray. The FAQ certainly seems to think so.
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I meant Legacy as in compatible with SPDIF (Optical/Coaxial) Amps and outputted in Multi-Channel. I'm thinking you meant something else.
Oh right, you're on about the output, not whether they support PCM. Yeah, supposedly two-channel only over S/PDIF, but luckily most half-decent amps have six-channel inputs (like mine).
To be honest, I'm of the opinion that as long as legacy audio (Dolby 5.1) is also available, it shouldn't matter if the HD audo is only represented by PCM. That's probably because I did a fair bit of research and made sure my amp could handle it though
To be honest, I'm of the opinion that as long as legacy audio (Dolby 5.1) is also available, it shouldn't matter if the HD audo is only represented by PCM. That's probably because I did a fair bit of research and made sure my amp could handle it though
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Release Date: 26th May 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Korean, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Korean, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Korean
Subtitles: English
Extras: Tartan UK Exclusive Interview with Park Chan-wook, Making of' Documentary, Music Video, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Park Chan-wook
Cast: Lim Soo-Jung, Jung Ji-hoon, Kim Byeong-ok, Oh Dal-su
Genre: Comedy, Drama and Fantasy
Length: 107 minutes
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Should I use WS-* or REST? Should a service provide access over HTTP, MOM, or XMPP? These are the wrong questions for architects to ask when first conceiving a service. By concentrating on how to build, we lose focus on what to build.
Debates about whether to use REST or WS-* interface styles are seductive. But, these are the wrong questions to ask first. Interface style and middleware decisions should be based on consumer requirements. The primary service design principle emphasized in a service model is maintaining a clean separation of capability ('what') from interface concerns ('how'). If we are arguing at all we should be arguing about what services to build, and why.
What is a service? This question cannot be answered in the abstract. Service modeling is an entirely contextual activity.
Despite their rich history, service design practices remain nascent. The identification and definition of sharable and reusable services is still more art than science. In this paper (Burton Group subscribers only) published today, I examine the neglected art of service modeling. When people hear "model" they immediately think of formalism, notation, and tools. My definition of service modeling is not a formal model or modeling notation. It's thinking about the answers to these questions in a repeatable way.
Can you answer these questions? Do you have places in your service development process where these questions are answered in a consistent way? Service modeling is a set of software architecture practices for providing us with a way to get at answers to these questions and document them in a way that's valuable for everyone who has a stake.
Near where I live, in Dublin, is an extensive park called St. Anne's Park. It's part of what was the Guinness estate (yes, that Guinness!). This is a Greek Temple, built in the park as tea house by the Guinness family. It's has very ornate mosaics on the floor, and is almost perfect classical design.
But, it's a Folly. Follies are buildings, or parts of buildings that have no purpose other than as an ornament; they are purpose-built as ornaments; they are often eccentric in design or construction; there is often an element of fakery in their construction.
The Guinness family built this because they were wealthy, just because they could. We can't afford to do that in our organizations any more. What we build must be relevant, driven by the right business context, and play its part in a portfolio. As you can see from its state of repair, there's no great motivation to maintain the tea house. It's not valuable any more, if it ever was...
Put simply, if you create services without a service model, then you are creating bespoke application integration interfaces and not doing service oriented architecture. If context is not driving you to create the right services, then they are most likely not adding value to your applications architecture, they are making it worse.
Let me know what service modeling means to you. If you're going to the Burton Group Catalyst conference next week in San Diego, I'll be giving a session on service modeling on Wednesday afternoon in the "Whither SOA: What's next?" topic.


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No. 18 Baylor beats Chaminade 93-77 in Maui
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Baylor wasn't about to become the latest upset at Maui despite the best efforts fo Christope Varidel.
Gary Franklin scored 22 points and the No. 18 Bears easily beat Division II Chaminade 93-77 on Monday night at the Maui Invitational, dominating in the second half after allowing the Silverswords 11 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes.
The Bears overcame a 42-point effort from Chaminade's Christophe Varidel, who fell one point shy of the tournament record set by Gonzaga's Adam Morrison in a triple-overtime game in 2005. Varidel's 10 3-pointers tied another tournament record.
"The first half, I kept thinking about the words 'Maui Magic' because Christophe was definitely on fire," Baylor coach Scott Drew said.
Four players besides Franklin scored in double-figures for the Bears (5-0), who outscored the Silverswords by 13 points in the second half after going into halftime with a 3-point lead, 50-47.
"We saw on film that they shoot the ball very well. We wanted to get out and contest every shot," Franklin said. "We didn't expect it at all, but we made the adjustments we needed to win."
Cory Jefferson had 15 points and nine rebounds, including an alley-oop dunk and layup early in the second half that game Baylor its first double-digit lead over Chaminade (2-1). Brady Heslip had 14 points and Royce O'Neale added 12.
Besides Varidel, nobody scored more than eight points for Chaminade and nobody had more than seven rebounds.
The 16-point win was Baylor's most lopsided win so far this year.
Before transferring to Chaminade, Varidel was a bench player for three years for Florida Gulf Coast, including last year's team that earned the nickname "Dunk Coast" for becoming the first 15-seed to get to the Sweet 16. According to Chaminade, Varidel transferred "because he wanted to experience life in Hawaii." Varidel became a popular topic on Twitter as he piled up 3-pointers in the first half.
"I wanted him to have a shot. I just looked at him and asked him if he wanted to go back in and he said yeah," Chaminade coach Eric Bovaird said. "He could have said his knees were aching."
Baylor trailed for two stretches in a tournament built on big upsets. The Bears move on Tuesday to take on the winner of No. 11 Gonzaga and Dayton, who were playing Monday night.
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To meet our ever-growing need for speed, the IEEE is working on Enhancements for Very High Throughput for operation in bands below 6 GHz, commonly known as the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard. Wi-Fi certified products based on a draft of this standard will likely emerge by mid-2013, boosting maximum data rates above 1 Gbps. By late 2014 or early 2015, products aligned with the final 11ac standard will nudge the Wi-Fi speed limit closer to 7 Gbps. For IT, 11ac promises room for growth by focusing on less-cluttered 5-GHz channels, doubling or quadrupling channel widths, using more efficient encoding, doubling maximum spatial streams and eventually letting wireless access points service multiple clients simultaneously.
These benefits are appealing, but IT teams that have barely finished migrating to 802.11n may justifiably wonder why they can't sit back for a year or so. After all, didn't 11n just increase speed an order of magnitude over the 11a/g standard?
Yes, but many 11n WLANs are already suffering growing pains. First off, the small, crowded 2.4-GHz "junk band" has grown far too congested; 11ac kicks migration to 5 GHz into high gear by avoiding 2.4-GHz channels entirely. Second, while many applications operate fine at 11n speeds, some need higher throughput. For example, delivering uncompressed high-definition video to a Wi-Fi display requires 1.5 Gbps to 3 Gbps. Finally, and perhaps most painfully obvious to IT, bring-your-own-device programs have caused an explosion in the number and diversity of Wi-Fi devices access enterprise WLANs. And wireless carriers are encouraging people to off-load smartphone browsing to Wi-Fi to conserve scarce spectrum.
To keep your company's mobile initiatives on track, you'll need 802.11ac. The spec really does make some technological leaps. A biggie is multiuser multiple input, multiple output, or MU-MIMO, an advanced option that lets 11ac access points (APs) simultaneously service as many as four devices at once, using diverse spatial streams to communicate with each other. Today's APs operate similarly to how a single-core CPU handles multiple application processes "at the same time" -- in fact, it's really just rapidly switching among them. With MU-MIMO, an 11ac AP can operate similarly to a multicore CPU -- that is, using different transmit/receive chains to communicate with different users simultaneously.
This report includes :
- A breakdown of the key differences between 11n and 11ac
- Guide to when products with 802.11ac improvements will hit the market
- Top migration considerations
The new spec also brings incremental improvements in key areas, including modulation, channel width, spatial streams and transmit beamforming. We discuss these in our full report.
Bringing 11ac To Market
As usual, we'll see two distinct Wi-Fi product waves. The first will be based on Draft 4.0 of the emerging IEEE 802.11ac amendment, followed by a second wave aligned with the final IEEE specification, which is expected in the first quarter of 2014. The Wi-Fi Alliance plans to launch a draft AC program in the first half of next year, focused on elements that are in near-final form. "We will avoid areas that we expect might undergo more work in the IEEE," says the group's technical director, Greg Ennis. "However, we're expecting there won't be significant changes to the text of the final standard."
Some consumer "pre-11ac" products are already available from vendors such as Buffalo, D-Link, Netgear and Cisco/Linksys. As for the enterprise, Broadcom product line director Michael Powell says adoption will be driven by the wave of phones, tablets and laptops that employees are bringing to work and that IT teams are scrambling to support. Powell expects to see notebooks with 2x2 11ac by year's end and 3x3 in early 2013. By the third quarter of 2013, 70% of smartphones will ship with 11ac -- mostly single-stream, he says. Still, enterprise WLAN vendors are actively developing 11ac while continuing to sell 11n APs; we break down their plans (see on next page).


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Plummers Island is a small (12-acre) wooded island (see Map) in the Potomac River in Montgomery County, Maryland, just downriver from the American Legion (Cabin John) Bridge between Maryland and Virginia for the Beltway (Interstate 495). It is separated from the Maryland shore by only a narrow channel and is nine shore miles northwest (upriver) of the White House. It lies between Locks 10 and 12 of the C&O Canal. The island was purchased by the Washington Biologists' Field Club in 1908, along with 35 acres of the mainland between it and the canal, to which was added 3.5 acres in 1924, for a total of 38.5 acres of mainland. Ownership of the island andmainland acreage passed to the National Park Service in 1961 with an agreement that the Club could continue indefinitely to do research on the island and adjacent mainland and to maintain and use the cabin it had built on the island for club functions.
The island has a high rocky center, where the cabin is built, which drops down in varying degrees of steepness to floodplain on the east and south sides. This topographic relief, with floodplain and rocky outcrops, has given rise to habitat diversity despite the small size of the island. Major floods have scoured the lower parts repeatedly over the years and in the process renewed the flora, which accounts in significant measure for the relatively large flora that has been recorded for the island. "Present Plant Communities on Plummers Island" by Elizabeth F. Wells describes the three main types of plant communities: riparian, terrace, and upland forest.
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From the outset, the Club has encouraged and sponsored research on the natural history of the island and adjacent mainland. A long series of scientific papers and books, "Natural History of Plummers Island, Maryland" (see the 1935 "Flowering Plants and Ferns"), has been published to date in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. The present Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Plummers Island, Montgomery County, Maryland is published in the Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 14 (2006), pp. 1 - 58. For a draft of the Checklist, click here for full document** [updated August 2005], and here for brief explanation of how to use the Checklist. The Checklist, by Stanwyn G. Shetler, Sylvia Stone Orli, Elizabeth F. Wells and Marcie Beyersdorfer, includes all the vascular plants of the flora--the ferns, fern allies, gymnosperms, flowering plants--that have ever been reported growing in the wild on Plummers Island and the Mainland. Previous publications on the vascular plants were:
- Flowering plants and ferns, by E. P. Killip and S. F. Blake. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 48: 118-134. 1935.
- Flowering plants and ferns–Supplement 1, by E. P. Killip and S. F. Blake. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 66: 31-38. 1953.
The total number of species in this Checklist is 885, as compared to the previous total of 846. Of these, 75 have been found only on the Mainland, and 704 are native, 181 naturalized. One of the 885 species, bloodleaf (Iresine rhizomatosa), was first discovered by science on the island, but unfortunately this species has since disappeared from the island.
The Checklist is based on the Plummers Island Herbarium, maintained as a separate part of the DC Herbarium. For each species, the number of specimens in the herbarium is given in parentheses after the common name(s) and the most recent voucher specimen on file is cited; otherwise, the source of information is cited. An asterisk (*) denotes a species found only on the Mainland, and a plus (+) denotes a species that is new to the flora since the earlier lists.
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A couple of weeks ago I taught a Windows Server 2012 deep dive in Copenhagen. One of the first things I asked attendees was what tool they would use to install a feature on 50 new servers running Windows Server 2012.
After thinking about it, everyone answered that they'd turn on Remote Desktop and use RDP to remotely connect to each server to perform their admin tasks.
This isn't a bad answer. It's exactly how you'd do it if you were running Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008. However, if your first step when setting up a server running Windows Server 2012 is to turn on Remote Desktop, then you don't "get" the Windows Server 2012 Server Manager.
Sysadmins have a mental toolkit. This toolkit hosts the tools and techniques we use for solving particular problems. One reason that experienced admins are paid more than those new to the industry is that we have a larger toolkit. We know how to solve more problems and perform more tasks because we've built a mental solutions toolkit after dealing with these things over the course of our career.
It's part of human nature that if we come up with a technique that works reliably, we'll stick with it. Because we're happy that the tool works, we might not notice that a new tool has come along that makes the task easier and faster.
This is especially true with problem solving tools. When you are under pressure dealing with a critical problem, you don't want to faff about trying something new. You go with a tool you know works. It isn't so much "if you have a hammer all problems look like nails", it's more "last time I had to deal with a nail, the hammer did the trick, so I'll do that again".
When it comes to Windows Server 2012, all administrators are going to notice that the Server Manager console is substantially different to what it was in Windows Server 2008. Even though you notice that change, like my students in Copenhagen, most of you are going to keep doing things the way that you've always done them. Why change if the tools still work? You have noticed that the console changed but have you spent time wondering why the console changed?
Microsoft is many things, but it's rarely whimsical. They changed the console for a reason. They are giving us better tools for our toolkit.
Consider the following task. You want to install the Windows Server Backup feature on 50 servers. How would you go about it?
Many admins will simply use remote desktop to connect to each server and then manually install the feature. That gets the job done.
People who have kept up to date with PowerShell might use a specially configured PowerShell command to accomplish this task. However, as awesome as PowerShell is, for many administrators it's quicker to RDP into each server and add the Windows Server Backup feature than it is to figure out the correct PowerShell syntax for this specific task.
Windows Server 2012 allows you to perform this task, and many others, across many servers, from the one console. You can do all this without having to use PowerShell and you don't need to open a single Remote Desktop session. A task that might have taken an hour (connect to server using RDP, open Server Manager, install feature, repeat 50 times) might only take a few minutes.
In Windows Server 2008 - Server Manager, descended from the Computer Management Console, is a tool for managing one server. In Windows Server 2012, Server Manager is a tool for managing many servers. With Server Manager in Windows Server 2012, you are able to perform administrative task against many servers by group selecting them and running the task.
Server Manager reflects how the role of systems administrator has changed. When I started out in the 90's, I was responsible for managing two servers. Today some systems administrators are responsible for managing hundreds of servers. The new Server Manager console in Windows Server 2012 allows you to do your job in a way that the tools in your existing sysadmin toolkit do not. Server Manager changed not for the sake of whimsy, but because it needed to evolve with job.
In future blog posts I'll talk about this new toolkit some more - and talk about some of the changes in Windows PowerShell ISE that make using PowerShell to perform remote management tasks an order of magnitude easier.


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David Olan, interim associate provost for humanities and social sciences, announced on April 1 that the Graduate Center has awarded dissertation fellowships to eighty-six Level III doctoral candidates for the 2014–2015 academic year, for a total of $1,693,000 in stipends.
Olan congratulated the winners and thanked the faculty members who served on the review panels and undertook the meticulous process of ranking the 275 proposals received. Listed below are the names of the award-winning students, along with the names of their fellowships, their programs, and the titles of their dissertations. Most fellowships carry tuition coverage and, unless otherwise noted, are for $22,000.
American Studies Dissertation Year Fellowship
Frances Tran (English), "Animate Impossibilities: On Racialization, Knowledge Politics, and Alternative Humanities"
IRADAC Dissertation Year Fellowship
Christopher Ian Foster (English), "'From Négritude to Migritude': Global African Literature and the Politics of Movement"
The Leon Levy Center for Biography Dissertation Fellowship
Meredith Benjamin (English), "Creating Feminist Identities: The Autobiographical Across Genres in the 1970s and 80s"
Christopher Silsby (Theatre), "African American Performers in Stalin's Soviet Union"
Martin E. Segal Dissertation Fellowship
Jessica Del Vecchio (Theatre), "Queer Millennial Feminism and Experimental Theatre in New York City"
The Schomburg Archival Dissertation Fellowship
Paula Austin (History), "Narratives of Black Interiority: Every Day Lives in the U.S. Capital, 1919–1942"
Dissertation Year Fellowships
Naomi Adiv (Earth and Environmental Sciences), "The Amphibious Public: A Historical Geography of Municipal Swimming and Bathing, New York City, 1870–2013"
Dory Agazarian (History), "Making History: Academic and Consumer Appropriations of the Past in Victorian Britain"
Paul Agnello (Psychology), "Examining the Properties and Boundary Conditions of Pseudowords in a Cognitive Ability Testing Context"
Zachary Aidala (Psychology), "The Role of Avian Visual Perception in Parasitic Egg Rejection: Mechanisms, Behavior, and Sensory Coevolution"
Stephanie Anderson (Psychology), "(Dis)entangling Sexual Orientation, Gender Nonconformity and Race in Antigay Discrimination: An Intersectional Approach"
Catrin Andersson (Criminal Justice), "Revisiting the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis: A Multilevel Application to Cross-National Violence Rates"
Gizely Andrade (Psychology), "Seeing Schizophrenia: Neurophysiology, Genetics, and Risk-Assessment"
Chris Arettines (Mathematics), "Applications of Combinatorics to the Study of Hyperbolic Surfaces"
Sara Bauer (Psychology), "Using Behavior Analytic Interventions to Teach Exploratory Motor Behavior to Infants with Down Syndrome"
Zachary Bernstein (Music), "Reconsidering Organicism in Milton Babbitt's Music and Thought"
Andrew Brooks (Anthropology), "Uncommon Wealth: Fracking and the Dynamics of Social Structure in Rural Pennsylvania"
Kristi-Lynn Cassaro (English), "The Geometry of Pragmatism"
Jonathan Davis (Sociology), "'Managers' in the Classroom: The Impact of Classroom Management Coursework in Teacher Education Programs"
Jorge Florez (Mathematics), "Reciprocity Laws on Higher-Dimensional Local Fields"
Donatella Galella (Theatre), "Performing (Non)Profit, Race, and American Identity in the Nation's Capital: Arena Stage, 1950–2010"
Nicholas Gamso (English), "The City and the World: New York and the Global Imagination"
Michael Goyette (Classics), "Language and Imagery of Illness in Seneca and Celsus"
Stephanie Grace (French), "Seeking Holiness: The Contribution of Eleven Vernacular Narrative Texts from the 12th to the 14th Centuries"
Kerry Greaves (Art History), "Helhesten and the Danish Avant-Garde, 1934–1946"
Pablo Guerra (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages), "The Canarian Intellectual Field: The 'Canarianness' and the Canarian Academy of Language"
Jan Haldipur (Sociology), "'Searching for a Place to Stand': An Ethnographic Look into How 'Stop, Question, and Frisk' Differentially Bears on Community Members in a South Bronx Neighborhood"
Daniel Hauptvogel (Earth and Environmental Sciences), "Antarctic Ice Sheet Extent in a Higher CO2 World"
David Houpt (History), "Political Parties and the Deliberative Process: Political Mobilization in Pennsylvania, 1783–1809"
Aline Hubard (Physics), "Avalanches in Granular Materials"
Cara Jordan (Art History), "Joseph Beuys and Social Sculpture in the United States: Suzanne Lacy, Rick Lowe, and Mary Jane Jacob"
Alexandra Just (Theatre), "The Interdependence of Theatricality, Gender, and Race in Cinematic and Performative Representations of New Orleans—from Jim Crow to Hurricane Katrina"
Yael Lavender Smith (Comparative Literature), "Interfictional Hybrids: Transformation and Dissimulation in Four Early Modern Texts"
Jacob Lederman (Sociology), "Turning to Culture in Times of Crisis: Traveling Paradigms of Urban Restructuring in Contemporary Buenos Aires"
Shana Lessing (Anthropology), "'In Service of Those Who Serve': Psychologists, Ethics, and the Care of Soldiers"
Yin-Wei Liao (English), "The Bodily Present: Physical Potentialities and Alternative Temporality in Asian American/Diasporic Literary Practice"
Jamie Lindsay (Philosophy), "Toward an Ethical Validity Claim for Discourse Theory"
Eric Lynch (French), "Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Mass Media and Technology"
Jesse Margolis (Economics), "Merit Pay and Intrinsic Motivation: The Persistent Effect of the New York City Teacher Bonus"
Katherine McBride (History), "Every Day a Captive: Inmates, Officers, and New York's Crisis in Corrections, 1955–1990"
David McCarthy (Music), "Political-Aesthetics and the Audible Comedy LP, 1957–1973"
Christina McCollum (Art History), "Exhibitions of Outsider Art since 1947"
Susan McCullough (Urban Education), "Middle School Girls in Postfeminist Times"
Michael Miller (Political Science), "The Political Economy of Information: Political Control over Media in the United States and China"
Sarah Murphy (English), "Staging Liminal Bodies: Corpses, Statues, and Ghosts in Early Modern Drama"
Edward Myers (Biology), "Testing for Ecological Speciation over Recent Divergence Times"
Marie Narcisse (French), "Rhetoric of the Self in Haitian Autobiographical Writing"
Akemi Nishida (Psychology), "Creating Interdependent Care Relationships under Neoliberal Care Structures: Subject Formation and Solidarity Building among Disabled Care Recipients and Their Care Providers"
Katharine Pace (Educational Psychology), "The Effect of Orthographic Mapping and Context on Sight Word Learning for Native and Non-Native English-Speakers"
Nicholas Palmisano (Biology), "Endocytic Genes Required for Dauer Development and Autophagy"
Cameron Pearson (Classics), "Alkmaionid Epigrams and the Framing of Archaic Monuments"
Ian Pervil (Psychology), "Ways of Thinking about Illness Representations of Cancer"
Ben Phillips (Philosophy), "Seeing and Perceptual Content"
Michael Plunkett (English), "Work Poets Do: English Renaissance Poetics as Aesthetic Taskscape"
Cassandra Ramdath (Criminal Justice), "Traumatic Brain Injury and Antisocial Behaviors among Adolescent Jail Inmates in New York City: A Mixed Method Study"
Amber Ruf (Criminal Justice), "Pimps of Harlem: Talk of Doing and Quitting in the Illicit Market to Build a Social Typology of Pimp Labor"
Paul Schweigert (History), "When George Washington Spoke French: French Liberalism in Transatlantic Perspective"
David Siegel (Political Science), "State Formation in Post-Soviet Central Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Territorial Governance in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan"
Melissa Silvestrini (Biology), "The Role of Autophagy in Lipid Homeostasis in C. elegans"
Robert Steger (Psychology), "Physiological Differences in Upright and Inverted Pyramidal Cells in the Rodent Neocortex"
Ruirui Sun (Economics), "Effect of Electronic Medical Record on Hospital Cost, Efficiency and Inpatient Safety"
Shannon Vittoria (Art History), "Nature and Nostalgia in the Etchings of Mary Nimmo Moran (1842–1899)"
Lloyd West (Mathematics), "Moduli Spaces of Rational Maps"
Rebecca West (Psychology), "Computerized Cognitive Interventions in Older Elderly"
Zhendong Zhao (Economics), "The Effect of Expected Longevity on Retirement and Social Security Claiming"
Dissertation Year Fellowships ($12,000)
Jose Laguarta (Political Science), "Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Structure and Strategy in Puerto Rico's Movement in Defense of Public Education"
Laurel Turbin (Earth and Environmental Sciences), "Geographies of Desecration: Race, Indigeneity, and the Militarization of Hawai'i"
MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship ($23,000)
Colin Ashley (Sociology), "The Affective Policing of Space–Producing the Christopher Street Piers"
Andrew Hernann (Anthropology), "Peripheral Ethics: Politics, Islam and Crisis in Timbuktu, Mali"
Fabienne Snowden (Social Welfare), "What Condoms Can't Cover: Do Structural Factors Predispose Blacks, African Americans and Latinas/os Between the Ages of 18–30 in Harlem and the South Bronx to Engaging in HIV Risk Behaviors?"
Lorena Tezanos (Art History), "The Architecture of Nineteenth Century Cuban Sugar Mills: Spaces of Creole Power and African Resistance in Late-Colonial Cuba"
Athena Pollis Fellowship ($12,000)
Priya Chandrasekaran (Anthropology), "Millets from the Margins: Understanding Major Controversies around 'Minor' Grains"
Randolph L. Braham Dissertation Award ($12,500)
Paul Fadoul (French), "How to Be a French Jew: From Proust to Derrida"
Jay Oppenheim (Sociology), "Once Removed: A Comparative Study of 'Russian Jews' in New York and Berlin"
Ralph Bunche Dissertation Fellowship ($12,000)
Paul Alois (Political Science), "Do International Organizations Matter? A Case Study of Better Work"
Center for Place, Culture and Politics Dissertation Fellowship ($10,000)
Briana Brickley (English), "Follow the Bodies: (Re)Materializing Difference in the Era of Neoliberal Multiculturalism"
Priya Chandrasekaran (Anthropology), "Millets from the Margins: Understanding Major Controversies around 'Minor' Grains"
Kathleen Griffiths (Anthropology), "Precarious States: Women, Work and the Politics of South Africa's Care Economy"
Jose Laguarta (Political Science), "Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Structure and Strategy in Puerto Rico's Movement in Defense of Public Education"
Laurel Turbin (Earth and Environmental Sciences), "Geographies of Desecration: Race, Indigeneity, and the Militarization of Hawai'i"
Pamela Whitefield (Political Science), "Reactivation? An Examination of Occupy Wall Street's Influence on Organized Labor in New York City"
Martin M. Spiaggia Dissertation Award ($5,000)
Casey Henry (English), "Both Into and Out of the Cage: New Media, Transgression, and the Remaking of Literary Connection, 1975–1999"
Dissertation Year Awards ($5,000)
Elan Abrell (Anthropology), "Saving Animals: Everyday Practices of Care and Rescue in the US Animal Sanctuary Movement"
Flannery Amdahl (Political Science), "Big Brother's Keepers: Liberal Religious Organizations and the Development of the American Welfare State"
Miciah Hussey (English), "Talking to Myself: Narrating Solitude in the British Novel, 1840-1940"
Natalie Musteata (Art History), "From Radicality to Romanticism: The Institutionalization of the Artist as Curator, 1970–2010"
Melissa Phruksachart (English), "Cherry Blossoms in Bryant Park: Mediating Asiatic Racialization on Cold War Television"
European Union Studies Center Dissertation Fellowships
Ervin Kallfa (Political Science), "Unfaithful Allies: Local Resistance and the Failure of International Statebuilding," $3,000
Joselyn Muhleisen (Political Science), "EU-US Institutionalized Cooperation in Finance Regulation," $5,000
Submitted on: APR 1, 2014
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Ex-Mass. cop convicted of perjury in Ruggiero case to report to prisonBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
May 27. 2013 9:34AM
BRENTWOOD – A former Massachusetts police officer convicted of perjury for his role in the Kristin Ruggiero case will turn himself in at the Rockingham County Sheriff's Department next week to begin serving a two- to four-year prison sentence.
Brendan Bisbee, 36, lost a bid before the state Supreme Court earlier this month to overturn his October 2011 perjury conviction.
Bisbee was ordered to report to the sheriff's department in Brentwood on June 3 at 9 a.m. Deputies will transport him to the state prison in Concord.
Judge Kenneth McHugh, who presided over the trial, signed off on the turn-in date for Bisbee allowing him to get his affairs in order before serving his sentence. The date was agreed upon by county prosecutors and public defenders.
A jury convicted Bisbee of five counts of perjury on Oct. 21, 2011, for aiding Ruggiero, his then-girlfriend, by lying under oath during her trial on charges that she had set up her ex-husband and had him jailed while they were going through a bitter divorce.
Ruggiero was ultimately convicted of falsifying physical evidence for using a disposable cell phone, and having it registered under her ex-husband's name, to convince police she received several threatening text messages.
She was found dead in her prison cell on Dec. 28, 2011, the same day the state Supreme Court upheld her conviction. She was serving a 7- to 14-year prison term. The state Medical Examiner's Office concluded that she committed suicide by overdosing on propranalol and bupropion.
Bisbee was a 10-year veteran of the Barre, Mass., police department before getting romantically involved in 2007 with Ruggiero (a.k.a. Kristin McDonald), and later left his job while the two were dating.
Assistant County Attorney Jerome Blanchard argued at Bisbee's trial that he used his former law enforcement experience to skew the investigation into Ruggiero.
Bisbee wrote letters to attorney generals in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, with one suggesting the man who unraveled Ruggiero's scheme - East Kingston Police Chief Richard Simpson – was somehow corrupt, according to Blanchard.
Bisbee appealed the prison sentence handed down by McHugh to the state's Sentence Review Board, which refused to amend his punishment in October.
The state Supreme Court also rejected Bisbee's arguments that the indictments in his case failed to articulate his crimes, or that it was improper for Blanchard to call Bisbee a "mope" and "dirty cop" during closing arguments at the trial.


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One of the main reasons why Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Carolinas has enjoyed such tremendous success is because of its experienced and well-oiled leadership team. Each member brings to the table passion, excellence, and expertise that have allowed the entire organization to expand and run seamlessly over the years.
Thomas W. (Tommy) Camp is President and Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Carolinas Realty, one of the largest residential real estate firms serving the three major metropolitan areas of North Carolina and upstate South Carolina - the greater Charlotte, Triad and Triangle regions.


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A new report by Life & Style magazine is now blowing the lid off just how much MTV is paying its Teen Mom stars.
The reality show, which has now become a mega hit for the network, averaged millions of viewers per episode for it's second season. A series insider tells Life & Style magazine exclusively that the "stars earn $60,000 to $65,000 per season." Not too shabby for some teens who's claim to fame was getting knocked up, though their Jersey Shore counterparts did earn over $300,000 each for their upcoming 3rd season.
And while the Teen Mom stars are earning way more than most of their peers, it seems Amber Portwood and on and off again boyfriend Gary Shirley are not good savers. Gary's best friend, Jordan Sanchez, tells Life & Style that "Gary says he's broke." Adding that "the money is the only reason he's willing to do the show. You can't walk away from money like that."
As we have reported, MTV has already began filming the third season of the hit show.
In other Teen Mom news, Maci Bookout is now shutting down the reports that she is getting her own spin-off show with fellow teen mom Bristol Palin. Maci tells the HollywoodLife blog that the story is false and that the two have no plans for a reality show in the future.
As for the status of her relationship with boyfriend Kyle King, she says, "It's not getting more serious. We are just chilling out, trying not to rush anything and just enjoying our time together."


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Reevoo, the cloud-based social commerce solution provider, announced a series of new integrations with IBM Smarter Commerce,.
Reevoo's social engagement platform addition to the IBM Retail Industry Framework will provide IBM's retail customers with options to deploy Reevoo's rich social content across systems, enabling enterprises using IBM solutions to access higher value customer intelligence and attribution modelling. Reevoo will verify customer product and service reviews.
These integrations encompass WebSphere Commerce V7.0 Feature Pack 5, WebSphere Message Broker 8 and Digital Analytics (formerly Coremetrics). Reevoo can also use Unica email to send messages to verified purchasers to solicit reviews and ratings.
Reevoo's integrations will also further increase IBM Smarter Commerce value to the enterprise by expanding its ecosystem of social plug-ins.
The Reevoo product suite and IBM integration provides the following:
"A customer review can provide intangible values that a simple description of functionality never can: trust and reassurance. People trust other people, and bringing this social element to buying reassures customers that they are making the right choice," said Reevoo CEO Steve Hurn in a statement. "Trust increases customers' loyalty and enables IBM to optimize its service based on insight into customers' wants and needs."
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The world's most famous sled dog race, the Iditarod, kicks off Saturday with an 11-mile-long trot through Anchorage, Alaska's largest city. The race consists of a grueling 1,000-mile trek through unpredictable wilderness to the old gold rush town of Nome on Alaska's western coast. Whoever reaches Nome first wins a new truck and a cash prize of $50,400. The rest of the $600,000 purse will be split between the next 29 mushers to cross the finish line. The iconic race, however, seems to be about more than a monetary prize for most involved: a competition of human versus wild.
Here's a gallery of pictures looking back at more than 30 years of "The Last Great Race."


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Janice Mezzacappa 7/17/2009 8:35:53 PMStunning lighting, colors and reflections in this beautiful palace capture Emmanuel!! #1155727
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The must-read story of the day if you're into practical jokes has to be The Wall Street Journal's piece headlined "Walk The Prank: Secret Story Of Mysterious Portrait At Pentagon."
As Melissa Block and Audie Cornish will explain later on All Things Considered, last year some pranksters hung a portrait on a hall in the Pentagon with a plaque saying it was "Ensign Chuck Hord. USNA circa 1898. Lost at sea 1908."
There is no such person.
The guy in the frame is retired U.S. Navy Capt. Eldridge "Tuck" Hord III, who is very much alive. His portrait was commissioned by his proud parents after Hord's 1982 graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy and over the years was copied by the photographer and turned into something of a running joke by his friends.
It is, after all, a remarkable likeness. A dimple-jawed Hord gazes confidently at you. He looks like he could be from almost any decade from the past 100 or 150 years — except, perhaps, for that perfectly coiffed hair.
According to the Journal, one copy attended Hord's "farewell party [in 2005] when he left the Pentagon office to take a new post in Diego Garcia, an Indian Ocean atoll where the Navy has a base. He left the portrait with his officemates, who placed it on the wall above his old desk."
Then last July, one of those buddies had the bright idea to put the "Ensign Chuck Hord" plaque on the frame and hang it "on a previously unadorned hallway."
"I said, 'you know, it shouldn't be stuck in this small office here in the bowels of the Pentagon," says the main prankster, Canadian Lt. Col. Brook Bangsboll tells NPR. "It should be somewhere more prominent." He and his team embarked on "The Project," their code name for the secret prank.
The portrait stayed on the wall for seven months, until the Journal "asked Pentagon officials about the long-lost sailor's suspiciously modern hairstyle."
So now, Ens. Hord is leaning against a cubicle wall on the floor of an office where Hord once worked. Until, we suspect, he appears in some other mysterious spot.
Once, in the long corridors of the Pentagon, there hung a portrait of a sailor as a young man, sharing the same hallowed walls as pictures of storied generals, such as George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The young man's name, according to its plaque: Ensign Chuck Hord, United States Naval Academy, circa 1898, lost at sea, 1908.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL BROOK BANGSBOLL: It was a lot more interesting saying lost at sea than, you know, whatever.
CORNISH: Well, whatever is more like it. That's Lieutenant Colonel Brook Bangsboll of Canada, who used to work in the Pentagon's liaison office. He covertly hung the portrait in the hallway early one morning last July.
BLOCK: We read about it today in The Wall Street Journal. The portrait is not a painting. It's actually just a textured photograph. And it was taken after the sailor graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1982.
CORNISH: That explains the subject's anachronistic coif. Hello, 1980s.
BANGSBOLL: He obviously does have quite poofy, blown-dried hair, which kind of made it fun.
BLOCK: And actually the sailor's name isn't even Chuck. It's Tuck. That's a nickname. More formally, he is Captain Eldridge Hord III.
CORNISH: And he wasn't lost at sea. He lives in landlocked Burke, Virginia.
BLOCK: So why was his portrait on the wall at the Pentagon? Turns out, the picture had become a sort of joke among his friends. And when he retired a couple of years ago, he left it with his officemates, where it sat and collected dust.
CORNISH: Until Lieutenant Colonel Bangsboll had an idea.
BANGSBOLL: I said, you know, it shouldn't be stuck in this small office here in the bowels of the Pentagon. It should be somewhere more prominent. So that's what kind of led us to the plan to actually put it up in a more conspicuous place.
BANGSBOLL: To keep it somewhat secretive, it was referred to as The Project.
BLOCK: Well, the project was successful for about seven months. It hung on a Pentagon wall until The Wall Street Journal inquired.
CORNISH: Now it leans against a cubicle wall in the office where Captain Hord once worked. He never liked the photograph. But his friend, Lieutenant Colonel Bangsboll, says the prank was worth it.
BANGSBOLL: It's gone exactly the way I think myself and my fellow colleagues wanted it to go. We wanted it to be something that was bigger than life and that had a history of its own.
BLOCK: And now it does. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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With the summer practice schedule now complete, Barbee and the team has used its extra practice time to continue to bond.
"This summer has been really good for us," Harrell said. "As a team we have gotten so much closer. This has been the best summer that I have been a part of as far as camaraderie and how close we have gotten. This trip has helped us a lot. Practice has been great, we have gotten better execution-wise. Everyone knows what we are planning to do and our identity so this has been really good."
"More so than winning the two games it was the process of really laying the foundation for this program," Barbee said. "This summer was huge, it was the best summer we have had since I have been at Auburn in terms of the production we have gotten out of everyone individually and how they have worked collectively. We have really become a family."
The team returns to Auburn on Friday.
Asauhn Dixon-Tatum – 2pts, 9 rebounds
KT Harrell – 21 points
Allen Payne – 8 points
Chris Denson, 19 points
Dion Wade – 8 points
Tahj Shamsid-Deen – 9 points
Matthew Atewe – 3 points, 6 rebounds
Malcolm Canada – 2 points
Chris Griffin – 7 points, 5 rebounds
Jordon Granger – 4 points
Benas Griciunas – 5 points, 6 rebounds
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