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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – At 4-2, the Yale women's lacrosse team is off to its best start since 2008. In order to get to 5-2 -- which would be the team's best start in 10 years -- the Bulldogs face a tough challenge: win on Saturday at Penn (12:00 p.m.). The Quakers have won or shared the last six Ivy League championships and made three appearances in the NCAA Final Four in that span. The Yale attack, which is on pace for nearly 200 goals this season, must overcome a Penn defense that leads the Ivy League in scoring defense.
Yale (4-2, 0-1 Ivy League) has a three-game winning streak after beating Sacred Heart 15-9 Tuesday afternoon at Reese Stadium. That is the Bulldogs' longest winning streak since the 2008 season. With 76 goals in the first six games, Yale is on pace for 190 goals this season, which would be the team's best total since scoring 195 in 2007.
Leading the way for the Bulldogs' attack is senior attacker Devon Rhodes (E. Northport, N.Y.), Yale's captain, who leads the Ivy League in goals (19) and is tied for the league lead in points (26). Junior attacker Jen DeVito (Wading River, N.Y.) is tied for the league lead in assists with nine. With 11 goals on 19 shots, DeVito is sixth in the league in shooting percentage (.579) among players with 15 or more shots -- and Rhodes (.576) is right behind her.
Bulldogs dot the Ivy League leaders in other categories as well. Junior goalkeeper Erin McMullan (Wading River, N.Y.) leads the Ancient Eight with 35 saves, and sophomore midfielder Christina Doherty (Bernardsville, N.J.) is tied for second in the league in ground balls with 14 -- followed closely by junior defender Adrienne Tarver (Pikesville, Md.), who is tied for fifth with 12.
Doherty is also tied for fifth in the league in draw controls with 14, right behind freshman midfielder Nicole Daniggelis (St. James, N.Y.). Despite missing two games due to injury, Daniggelis is fourth in the league with 16 draws. That includes seven in the win over Sacred Heart Wednesday.
There are four Pennsylvania natives on the Yale roster: freshman midfielder Britta Hjelm (Devon, Pa.), junior defender Ashley McCormick (Paoli, Pa.), junior midfielder Julie Mongan (Malvern, Pa.) and freshman attacker AnnaElise Morello (Glen Mills, Pa.).
Last year in New Haven, the Bulldogs spotted the Quakers a 5-1 lead before rallying to get within 6-4 early in the second half. A 6-1 run by Penn then put the game out of reach before Avallone finished off her hat trick with a goal in the final two minutes.
Penn (1-3, 1-0 Ivy League), which lost its first three games before beating Harvard 14-5 last Saturday, had gone 25 years without an Ivy title before starting their run of six straight in 2007.
Midfielder Iris Wiliamson leads the Quakers in goals and points (9-0-9). Midfielder Maddie Poplawski, a unanimous first team All-Ivy League selection last year, is second in both categories (5-2-7). Midfielder Shannon Mangini, who had a career high five points on four goals and an assist against Yale last year, has two goals and one assist so far this season. Mangini is tied for the team lead in ground balls (seven) with goalie Lucy Ferguson and tied for the team lead in caused turnovers (four) with Poplawski. Midfielder Meredith Cain leads the team in draw controls with nine.
Ferguson, a five-foot-10 transfer from William & Mary who was fourth in the country in saves last year, leads the Ivy League in save percentage (.484) and goals-against average (8.19). Thanks in large part to her work, Penn leads the league in scoring defense (8.25 goals per game).
Saturday is Alumnae and Alumni Day for Penn, with the Quaker men's team hosting Princeton after the Yale-Penn women's game.
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This publication presents a method for determining the break-even price, revenue and unit sales of value-added agricultural products. Although this method can be applied to any product, this publication is developed from the perspective of a producer in a post-farmgate business. This publication is designed to help producers understand how to establish the break-even price, revenue, and units sold from a cost perspective. While break-even revenue and units sold are calculated for making financial and management decisions, break-even pricing is calculated to assist in helping market the product. Break-even pricing is important for producer-owners of value-added businesses because they need to know how to price a product as compared with pricing a commodity.
Producer-owners of value-added businesses must assess the profit potential of their new business by its competitiveness in the market. Profit potential is calculated by computing production costs, establishing an expected selling price based on substitute goods, and determining whether the product can be produced for that price. Price premiums are based on end-user demand and profit goals. Much of this discussion also applies to producing commodities in the farm business. However, commodity producers are price takers and not price makers. The producer-owned, value-added business should operate as a price maker.
Typically there are two costs associated with production: variable and fixed costs.
Ideally, the budgeting process allocates all costs evenly across production units. However, the reality is that projecting unit sales is difficult. Businesses typically err by overestimating demand. Sales lower than expected sales result in an increased per-unit cost of products sold. To cover this error, many producers reduce their owner salary so that outside income subsidizes the business. With a producer-owned, value-added business, one may find the farm business subsidizing operation of the value-added business, or vice versa. While businesses are encouraged to be optimistic in their projections, developing a sensitivity analysis table is suggested. Sensitivity analysis tables show expected break-even price, revenue, and unit levels from ranges of decision variables. This allows the value-added business owner to determine best- and worst-case scenarios.
In commodity agriculture, the break-even price is referred to as the per-unit cost of production. As commodity price takers, farmers develop marketing plans to obtain a price that is higher than their per-unit cost of production. For instance, if a producer produces 20,000 bushels of corn, then knowing the variable and fixed cost of production easily provides the per-unit cost of production, and the producer would sell when the market (market price plus government subsidies) is above the per-unit cost of production. Just as the producer in the example sets prices based on per-unit cost of production, value-added businesses, or price maker businesses, set prices after calculating their break-even price.
The break-even pricing method is applied to the example of producing soybean candles (Table 1). To compute the break-even price for the fictitious Soy Candles, L.L.C., it is necessary to project the number of units sold. This can be tricky. A poor projection can cause the calculated break-even price to vary significantly.
Table 1Establishing the break-even price for soybean candles manufactured by Soy Candles, L.L.C.
Soy Candles, L.L.C. projects sales of 20,000 units next year. From Table 1, the per-unit variable cost is $1.45. Fixed cost is $44,760. Use the following equation to calculate the break-even price.
Table 2 summarizes the break-even prices computed for different projected unit sales. For projected unit sales of 20,000 units, the break-even price is $3.69 per candle. Suppose actual unit sales reach only 18,000 units. Then, the break-even price should have been $3.94. If the candles were underpriced by $0.25, revenue would decline by $4,000 (20,000 units 3 $0.25 per unit).
Table 2Break-even price sensitivity around changes in annual projected unit sales.
Even for small differences between the expected and the actual number of units sold, the break-even price changes substantially. For large quantities, variable cost per unit may differ because of purchasing volume discounts of inputs. However, for this example, variable cost is held constant because target sales are 20,000 candles, and inventory shortage or surplus could be adjusted by ordering more inventory or carrying inventory forward to the next year. After the projected break-even price is projected a markup pricing strategy must be set. Once a producer has projected an asking price, break-even revenue and units can be determined.
Break-even revenue is computed from the selling price and from variable and fixed costs to determine the amount of revenue needed so that the business neither makes nor losses money.
The selling price is based on market research and prices of substitute goods. In the example of 20,000 unit sales of soybean candles, suppose the variable cost per unit is $1.45 and the selling price per unit is $5.
For Soy Candle, L.L.C. to break even, revenue for the year must total $63,042.25. Table 3 is a sensitivity table for break-even revenue for alternative selling prices.
Table 3Break-even revenue sensitivity around changes in selling price.
Calculate break-even sales from the selling price and the variable and fixed costs to determine the amount of unit sales needed so that the business neither makes nor losses money.
The selling price is established based on market research and prices of substitute goods. For the example of soybean candles, suppose the variable cost per unit is $1.45 and the selling price per unit is $5.
For the Soy Candle, L.L.C. to break even, total unit sales for the year will have to be 12,608 units. Table 4 is a sensitivity table for break-even units for alternative selling prices.
Table 4Break-even sales units sensitivity around changes in selling price.
The key to establishing break-even revenue, units sold, and price is to know production costs. Keys to profitability include knowing your break-even price and being realistic in your cost, price, and sales projections. A critical management aspect of producer-owned, value-added businesses is that producers are involved in the operation of two businesses — the farm business and the value-added business. Thus, it may be difficult to allocate costs between the farm and the value-added business. It is best to charge all input costs into the value-added business using market prices instead of your cost of production. Careful management and financial planning are required to ensure the long-term success of both businesses.
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Denise Warner Limoli performed with American Ballet Theatre in the major opera houses of the US, South America, and Europe, appearing in the company's great classical and contemporary repertoire. She is Associate Professor of Dance at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, where she teaches all levels of ballet technique, repertoire, choreography, history, and pedagogy. Prior to Skidmore, she was ballet faculty at the College/Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati and at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Ms. Warner Limoli is a regular faculty for the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensives, the Nutmeg Ballet International Summmer Intensive, and Kaatsbaan Extreme Ballet. She serves on the Board of Directors for the National Museum of Dance and curated an exhibit for the museum:
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Unlikely given that alternative energy sources don't pack the same power punch as fossil fuels. You also need fossil fuels to build and maintain alternative energy sources.kirtu wrote: We can push energy costs to next to nothing as solar furnaces and abundant wind and solar power are brought online worldwide over the next century.
Nuclear power's by-product unfortunately has to be isolated from people and the environment for spans of geological time. Not a wise source of energy.However we will also find that we still need nuclear power and will think through safer nuclear design. Additionally we could also revisit Dr. Gerald K. O'Neil's ideas on large solar arrays in space.
You also need fossil fuels to build, maintain and decomission nuclear power plants.
Almost the entire world is gambling on solutions appearing that will allow the privileged part of the world to maintain a comfortable middle-class lifestyle with enormous quantities of consumption.Oil production: over the next century we will begin synthesizing critical materials using micro and nanotech technology. So energy will be tight for a while relative to our past abundance but by the end of the century these specific problems will essentially have solutions.
This is called the religion of progress. There are ecological limits and we've overshot them already unfortunately.


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KZRV Redefines StoneRidge Luxury Fifth-Wheel
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Shipshewana, Ind.-based towable builder KZRV LP has redefined its Stoneridge luxury fifth-wheel line with the introduction of new innovative features, interiors and exterior options.
According to a press release, the redesigned StoneRidge will make its debut during next week's Elkhart County RV Open House at the company's display at the corner of County Road 6 and County Road 15 in Elkhart.
The new StoneRidge fifth-wheel features a bold exterior that offers one standard exterior graphic package, two partial paint exteriors choices and two full-body paint options. Eight models range from 38 to 40 feet in length.
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Full TitleCognition in Older Breast Cancer Survivors: Treatment Exposure, APOE and Smoking History
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In this study, researchers are studying older women who were treated for breast cancer (either with or without chemotherapy) and comparing them with older women who never had cancer. Investigators will also examine the influence of smoking history and APOE (the gene for apolipoprotein E, which has been linked with cognitive decline). Participants will be asked to complete questionnaires and neuropsychological testing assessing thinking and memory ability, and to provide a blood sample to be tested for APOE.
This study includes women age 65 and older who were treated for breast cancer five to 15 years before entering the study (age 60 or older at the time of their diagnosis). The study will also include older women who never had cancer. All participants must be able to understand English so they can complete the assessments.
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Various alumni, individuals, foundations, and corporations have donated funds to establish scholarships for Clarkson students who meet certain criteria. These criteria may include, but are not limited to, specific majors, GPA, evidence of leadership, geographical location of hometown or high school, class year, financial need and extracurricular activities. Endowed scholarships provide assistance to students in perpetuity. Sponsored scholarships provide assistance on an annual basis.
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[ Editor's Note: This is Steve's column from last week, which was unfortunately delayed by my absence. Please accept my apologies, and look for another TOQ post very soon! ]
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Rosalind Russell has always had a special place in the hearts of gay movie fans. She starred in two of the greatest gay cult films, The Women (1939) and the legendary Auntie Mame (1958). It was in The Women that she first displayed her amazing comedic abilities. Director George Cukor hadn't considered using Russell, since she'd usually played second banana in big films and serious leads in "B" pictures. However, the ever-ambitious Russell challenged Cukor to give her a shot at comedy and campaigned vigorously for the part of the gossipy overbearing Sylvia Fowler. She prepared six different interpretations of the part and the last, being the most over the top and outrageous, was the one he chose. Russell had misgivings about using this particular interpretation, fearing that her co-stars, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer would murder her, never the less, this is what the director wanted and this is what he got. Her overwhelming success in the role led to her next main stream comedy, the classic His Girl Friday (1940) with Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hawks. Their comedy styles and timing blended perfectly and Russell was typecast as the "know-it-all-screwball for the next ten years, putting out a series of comedies where she usually dominated her leading man until the last reel, when she succumbed to his charms and agreed to "act like a woman, instead of a female." By the early 50's she was in her mid-40's and roles were hard to come by. The ever resourceful Roz, packed her bags and headed for Broadway, where she made a spectacular debut in Wonderful Town, the musical version of a movie she'd gotten an Oscar nomination for called; My Sister Eileen. She then gave a strong performance in a character part in the movie version of Picnic, before heading back to the Great White Way, where a play version of the popular novel Auntie Mame had been tailored specifically for her. It was a smash and was eventually sold as a package deal along with Russell to Warner Brothers. The movie version proved to be the biggest moneymaker of 1958 and snagged Roz her final Oscar nomination.


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It better qualify, making Mt Vic means you did some mega-serious climbing! Huge well done Sandy. And like Ryan said, what are the FPRs' becoming? Scary man!


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He is the grinning boy in the video flashed around the world, the one police say clubbed a homeless man with a baseball bat.
He is 17, his days now spent writing to an ex-girlfriend from the Broward County Jail:
... All I do is think about you, but the thing is, is that I don't think I'll ever get out. ... Even though I didn't do it I was still there, and that makes me an accesorie. Which is just as bad in everyones eyes. That's why I think that you should just tell everyone to forget about me... .
Tom Daugherty is the youngest of the three teens charged with beating three homeless men for sport, killing an Army veteran who made his home on the streets of Fort Lauderdale's arts district.
The Jan. 12 attacks stunned a community, but court records and interviews show these teens had long been troubled.
Daugherty dropped out of high school, fought with his father, shuttled between homes in South Florida and Tennessee, and was diagnosed with a "mental health issue" just before the crime, according to friends and Daugherty's attorney.
Billy Ammons, 18, had been the target of at least 10 police complaints -- some filed by his mother, who told police she could not control her defiant son.
Brian Hooks, 18, bragged openly about beating up homeless people, friends later told investigators.
At least six friends told investigators that some or all of the teens had "beat up bums" before Jan. 12. That night, friends told police, the teens were high on liquor and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax.
"I told them, 'One time, you're going to get busted,'" friend Johnny Aiello, 17, said in an interview with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "I knew they were going to take it too far."
Joey Griffith was with them the night they did, police said. Griffith, now the prosecution's key witness, described the night of Norris Gaynor's murder in an interview with the Sun-Sentinel.
"I thought we were just going down for a ride on the beach," said Griffith, 16.
Then, he said, Hooks and Daugherty started talking about beating up a homeless person.
"I was shocked," Griffith said. "I should have just punched all of them and stopped them from doing it."
Instead, Griffith said, he stayed in Ammons' black Chevy Blazer during two of the beatings and then went home after they drove back to Ammons' house. Scared, he said he went straight to sleep.
After security camera footage of the beatings hit the news, more than 100 people came forward -- friends, co-workers, teachers, assistant principals and an athletic director.
They tried to reconcile the violent images with the teenagers they thought they knew: working-class kids who fused their friendship in South Florida's outdoors, fishing for tarpon and wahoo in the ocean and Intracoastal, wakeboarding in west Broward canals, playing paintball and partying.
"We're not a bunch of gangbangers," said Aiello, whose friendship with Hooks brought the trio together. "We've got the life that most kids would want."
All three teens remain in the Broward County Jail, awaiting trial on murder charges. Their parents declined to comment for this story. Some said it was too painful to talk. Others said they had no answers to give.
Despite accusations from the NAACP and the family of Norris Gaynor that the beatings were racially motivated -- two victims were black, one Hispanic -- Aiello says that's not true.
"It's not a racism factor like everyone's saying," he said. "It's not their fault that all the bums on the benches were black."
All three young men grew up in neighborhoods where driveways are lined with work trucks and vans. The accused trio and Aiello all had "toys" -- boats, ATVs, paintball guns -- and worked hard to earn them, Aiello said.
"I paid for my four-wheelers and stuff with my own time and money," he said. "Why can't the bums get a job? Why are they on the street asking people for a dollar? I do have a lack of sympathy for them. There's some reason you're a bum and why don't you fix it?"
Aiello's mother shared his sentiment.
"I can understand why people get angry," Hull said. "I'm working for a living. I'm trying to make ends meet, why can't you do the same?" Still, she added, beating the homeless is "not at all justifiable."
Still unexplained is how a group of young people, who heard their friends were beating up homeless people, didn't go to police until after the killing.
McDavitt, Daugherty's friend, told police he warned his friend to stop during winter break. "I was like, 'Dude, it's not right. ... It's not the way to go, and you need to quit doing it.'"
Aiello said he wouldn't participate in the attacks, even though his friends asked. "I'm not the only one, I'm sure, that's said, 'I'm not down with that and I'm not going.'"
As he speaks, Aiello switches from anger toward his friends' alleged actions to exasperation for those who try to understand how this could happen.
"There's no explanation, no reason 'why,' no anything," he said. "They beat up some bums."
Staff Writers Brian Haas, Jon Burstein, Paula McMahon and Bill Hirschman contributed to this report.
Staff Writer Tonya Alanez can be reached at 954-356-4542 or email@example.com.
Norris Gaynor, 45, was beaten to death while sleeping on a bench in Esplanade Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Those who knew him say he critiqued the area's skyscrapers, loved the free downtown jazz and was sad when the big clock stopped at the nearby Museum of Discovery and Science.
"If we started to be less comfortable categorizing people, maybe that will go toward bringing back the humanity that some of us seem to be missing," said his sister, Simone Manning-Moon, 44, of Stone Mountain, Ga.
Jacques Pierre, 58, was the first beating victim that night. A surveillance camera captured the attack at Florida Atlantic University as he tried to fend off two teens striking him with baseball bats. After he was released from the hospital, investigators placed him in an assisted-living center.
Raymond Perez, 50, the third to be attacked, had been sleeping at the Church by the Sea. He told investigators his assailants laughed as they beat him, but he said he forgives them. Perez was later briefly reunited by phone with New York relatives who had searched for him for 14 years.
Police say Thomas "Tom" Daugherty was the grinning boy videotaped beating Jacques Pierre in front of Florida Atlantic University in downtown Fort Lauderdale. They say Daugherty then delivered the blows that killed Norris Gaynor as he slept on a park bench at nearby Esplanade Park.
Their friendship began in clubs at Tropical Elementary. After school, they cheered up the elderly in nursing homes and rallied against drugs, tobacco and alcohol with the Just Say No club.
The image of a teen beating homeless people doesn't mesh with the friend Lexie Dailey has known since third grade.
"Tom was never the type of person who wanted to get into a fight," she said. "If someone would say something to him, he would just leave it."
Like Hooks, Daugherty grew up in Plantation Isles, a family-oriented suburb where streets are backed by canals and American flags fly. At Tropical Elementary and Seminole Middle schools, he was known as a shy follower who nonetheless, with his goofy sense of humor, made friends easily.
Dailey and other friends remember a boy who earned B's and C's, excelled at track and wore hip-hop gear. After school, he'd ride a bus to downtown Fort Lauderdale and skateboard on the steps of the public library.
Wakeboarding was his passion. He spent hours practicing his moves in Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach and down the New River Canal in Plantation.
His parents divorced before he turned 4. In court documents his father filed to obtain custody, he accused Daugherty's mother of "violent tendencies" and using drugs "in an excessive and compulsive manner."
When Daugherty was 7, his parents agreed his father, Thomas, should have full custody. As Daugherty grew older, friends said, he and his father often quarreled.
"His dad and him would fight about everything," Dailey said.
In the summer before ninth grade, Daugherty went to live with his mother, Bridget, in the small town of Sparta, Tenn. Friends say he had a hard time there, living in a small house with five other people -- his mother, two aunts, an uncle and cousin. It marked the beginning of a turbulent 16 months of packing and unpacking between two states, Dailey said.
One friend, McDavitt, told police that Daugherty started using methamphetamines in Tennessee, records show.
By the time he returned to Florida in late 2005, "he wasn't shy, quiet Tommy anymore," Dailey said. "He was moody. He started hanging out with people he started getting in trouble with."
He gave up on school, quitting in ninth grade. He hung out with Brian Hooks, who lived blocks away and already had graduated.
Just before the beatings, Daugherty was diagnosed with a "mental health issue," said his attorney, Michael Gottlieb, who would not elaborate. Gottlieb said drugs and alcohol also may have contributed to the crime.
Now in jail, Daugherty worries that he could face decades in prison. Will his parents even be alive when he gets out? Should he ask his ex-girlfriend (she did not want to be identified in this article) to wait for him? In another letter, he writes to her:
Its so hard now, I try hard as hell not to cry. ... What wrys me the most is life or even 20 to 40 years. ... I pray every day for a second chance.
The night of the beatings, police say, William "Billy" Ammons drove the group around downtown Fort Lauderdale in his 1997 black Chevy Blazer, stereo blasting. Authorities say Ammons pelted Norris Gaynor with paintballs as he lay dying.
The calls to police began when Billy Ammons was 12, each complaint more serious than the one before. Yet he was seldom punished.
April 2000: Reportee complains that her son is out of control.
October 2002: Made contact with Dianne Ammons who stated her son did not come home last night.
November 2004: [Victims] both positively identified [Billy Ammons] as the person who had knocked them off their go-peds and helped steal [a] go-ped.
November 2005: [Elderly neighbor] stated that approx. 30 minutes prior, 2 [white male] teenagers attacked him.
As police investigated the 2004 scooter theft, Ammons cursed them out and swung at an officer, reports show. Police arrested him on a robbery charge, but dropped the case when the victims didn't cooperate, police said.
The following year, neighbor Harold Furber, 73, told police Ammons and other boys repeatedly harassed him. Police reports show that in July, someone threw firecrackers at Furber's front door. In October, someone snaked a garden hose into the house and flooded it. In November, two young men jumped him, smearing axle grease in his eyes. A witness reported that two teens ran into Ammons' house as the retiree cried out for help.
Police made no arrests. They said they did not have enough evidence and Furber was uncooperative. "They just got worse and worse and worse," Furber said. "They were never disciplined. They don't have a damn thing to do but get in trouble."
Griffith, the friend who grew up two blocks from Ammons, said Ammons' family life was tense. "He wasn't a troublemaker," he said. "He'd just fight a lot with his parents. He would get tired of it and just get mad."
Ammons' parents separated when he was 6. His father, Bert Ammons, 50, a self-employed yacht captain, had been arrested three times, accused of carrying crack pipes and stealing. He pleaded no contest in 1994 to possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia and was sentenced to drug treatment and three years' probation, records show. He was also sentenced to three months in federal prison in 2001 for illegally smuggling refrigerant chemicals into the country.
Ammons stayed with his mother, Dianne Franklin, an office administrator for a Fort Lauderdale yacht broker. As he entered adolescence, fights with his mother brought police to their home in River Oaks, a working-class neighborhood in southwest Fort Lauderdale.
Aiello grew up four blocks away. He called Ammons a "crazy little head-banger" who liked the thrill of skateboarding off a ramp on the roof of his house. A slightly built kid with closely shorn dark hair, acne and a swagger, Ammons sporadically attended Stranahan High, dropping out in 2004, his freshman year. He transferred to Whiddon-Rogers Education Center, an alternative school, and, Aiello said, later earned his GED.
Ammons occasionally worked, laying tile or painting murals. He had a steady girlfriend who accompanied him to his grandmother's Port St. Lucie home for Thanksgiving.
"He was well-behaved, he helped me in the kitchen. He whipped cream for me, and potatoes," said his grandmother, Mary Coronato. "He was very helpful. He didn't drink."
Aiello had recently persuaded Ammons to join him in a marine mechanics class at McFatter Technical Center, and taught him how to install TVs into car seat headrests.
It was his way of reaching out to the friend who was drifting away.
"Me and Brian, about six months ago, we got into a confrontation," Aiello explained. "[Billy and Brian] started doing dumb s---. I didn't want to be part of that. They partied too hard. Every kid parties, but they were doing it too much."
Ammons was booked into jail five days after the murder, on Jan. 17. His first day of class at McFatter would have been the next day.
Police say security camera footage shows Brian Hooks swinging a bat at Jacques Pierre. Later that night, police say, Hooks watched as Daugherty killed Norris Gaynor.
Whap ... whap ... whap ...
Police followed the sound to a parked white pickup and Brian Hooks.
It was summer 2005, just before midnight, and Hooks told Davie police he had been shooting paintballs at a trash bin in the parking lot next to the restaurant where he bused tables.
Inside Hooks' truck, police found a bag of marijuana, a digital scale and baggies in a book bag. Hooks told police he had just bought an ounce for $50 and sold quarter ounces for $20.
Police arrested him on a charge of marijuana possession, and his parents picked him up.
Life was a party for Hooks. At South Plantation High, he had been captain of the inline hockey team. He went to the prom. He got a job at Lefty's Tavern and Grille on State Road 84.
He graduated in May 2005, and then had time to pursue his interests -- fishing, hanging out with his buddies. Some friends told police his time also was spent looking for homeless people to beat up and bragging about his exploits.
"Brian liked to run his mouth about the stuff he did," Ryan McDavitt, 18, a friend of Daugherty's who has known Hooks for four years, told investigators. "Brian was basically the boss ... the instigator."
Friend Luciano Delmoro, 18, told police that Hooks was rumored to have beat up homeless people before.
One story he heard, according to court documents, started with Hooks driving by a homeless man and yelling something at him. The man said something back. A fight started; Hooks won.
"He just came back laughing about it," Delmoro said. "He actually hurt his fist on that."
Aiello and his mother, Jennifer Hull, saw Hooks' good side. As children, the boys fished, went trick-or-treating and exchanged gifts at Christmas. Childhood pictures of Hooks adorn their refrigerator.
"That kid doesn't have a mean bone in his body," Aiello said of Hooks. "[At a] New Year's Eve party, Brian got punched in the mouth and had to go to the hospital and get stitches. But he wouldn't hit the kid back. That's how Brian is."
Others remember a tough, mouthy boy who was well-known but not necessarily well-liked.
Lexie Dailey, 16, said Hooks had a reputation as a jock at South Plantation High School. She recalled that he once wore a Confederate flag on his backpack.
"Brian, he's not necessarily a bully, but he's rough around the edges," she said.
His parents hoped he would go to college. By all accounts, they were a stable force in his life. They have lived in their Plantation Isles home for almost a dozen years. His father, Brent, works for an elevator company; his mother, Brenda, is a legal secretary. The couple hired a lawyer from a prominent law firm to defend their son.
The notion of Hooks as a murder suspect is difficult for Billy Curtiss, owner of Carl's Bait & Tackle on Davie Boulevard. He remembers the "cute" and "talkative" little boy who came into the store with his father.
At 11, Hooks made headlines when he caught a 150-pound tarpon in the canals near his home. Until recently, Curtiss kept a photo of Hooks, on a dock with a 10-pound dolphin, on his refrigerator.
"I tore it up after the beating. I was tired of having people asking for it," he said. "They were mischievous teenagers. They did nothing none of us haven't done, except they took it a step too far. They ruined their lives."


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Fencing placed in front of The Waterways, an empty and unsold housing development in the village of Keshcarrigan, County Leitrim, Ireland, on Jan. 28, 2012.
Reuters photographer Cathal McNaughton reports on the lasting effects of Ireland's financial crisis:
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An electrical cable is used to secure a security fence surrounding Cnoc an Iuir, an empty and unsold housing development in the village of Drumshanbo, County Leitrim.
"If you build it, they will come." The iconic quote from the film Field of Dreams seems like a rebuke to Ireland's misguided builders and planners as the depressing sight of rows of newly built empty houses – windows broken and doors flapping in the wind – stretch out in the distance.
I'd come to Co Leitrim, in the west of Ireland, to see for myself the so-called ghost housing estates that first came to the public's attention four years ago as the Celtic Tiger collapsed leaving thousands of developers bankrupt and projects half finished. Surely in four years, something would have been done about this national embarrassment – so obvious a sign of the demise of Ireland's once envied economy?
But the only solution that seems to have been put into action is fencing off the estates – hiding the embarrassing problem behind huge sheets of wood – leaving the houses to crumble into disrepair away from the gaze of despairing neighbours who paid full price for an identical house just 200 yards away.
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Unfinished houses at The Waterways, Keshcarrigan.
Hardly a town or village in Leitrim – the least populated county in Ireland and the worst affected by the over-enthusiastic builders – has been untouched. Pretty lakeside villages with perhaps just 200 residents now have 50 empty 'dream homes' in new developments where fading advertising signs boast of private moorings and roof gardens. Larger market towns have row upon row of once smart new town houses – clearly built with the upwardly mobile commuters who were supposed to move to the countryside as part of the government's largely ignored decentralisation project – now with brambles growing over the gardens, potholed roads unfinished and adorned with graffiti by the kids who use them as drinking dens.
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Fenced-off houses at The Waterways, Keshcarrigan.
Impressive holiday homes with 'stunning sea views' lie vacant with at most one unlucky tenant sharing their ghost street with long-abandoned builder's rubble and broken advertising signs banging in the wind at night keeping them awake.
Surprisingly many of the houses aren't even for sale any more – even if a buyer could be found in the precarious Irish financial market.
One resident – the sole home owner in a once stunning lakeside development – explained. "These were all sold but the developer needed more money from the bank to finish it and they refused. He went bust and that was that."
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The ironically-named Crest Of A Wave, an empty and unsold housing development in the village of Bundoran, County Donegal.


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However, Glyn Moody points us to a report noting that despite this being a near total non-event, it appears some publications around the world used photos from other events with their own news coverage to imply that they were actually from the "protests" in China. Here are a few examples, though there are a bunch more at the link. I was unable to confirm much of this, since I speak almost no Mandarin, and read even less (i.e., none) so if there are more details please feel free to let us know in the comments:
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This newly built summer house, designed by architect Mette Lange, is located in North Zealand, Denmark. The large windows and sliding doors offer excellent views on the nearby lake.
The interior is kept simple with main colors being white and black.
The house offers plenty of room for the entire family. There are bunk beds (bottom right image) for the two daughters.
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We're looking forward to seeing you in Taiwan at IROS 2010! If you're interested in checking out what Willow Garage has been up to lately, come check out our keynote presentation, workshops, and research talks. We'll be hosting a booth in the hall from Tuesday through Friday so you can come check out PR2 and chat with the Willow Garage team there, too.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010, in the Plenary Hall
The Status of ROS and the PR2 Beta Program
Steve Cousins, CEO
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Tuesday-Friday, October 19-22, 2010
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Monday, October 18, 2010, 9:00-17:30, in Room 201E
Defining and Solving Realistic Perception Problems in Personal Robotics
Rusu, Pantofaru, Bradski, Konolige
As personal robotics platforms, such as the Willow Garage PR2, become increasingly available, there will be an emphasis in the research community on creating algorithms that are successful in the real world. Many robotics problems, such as planning or grasping, are currently addressed in simulation, where the state of the world is known. However, in the physical world, the assumption of a known world model falls apart and perception becomes a serious bottleneck. In this workshop, we will explore perception problems that are sufficiently well-defined and constrained to have proven solutions, and that enable interesting robotics research and behaviors.
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Semantic mapping and autonomous knowledge acquisition
Holtz, Duckett, Rusu
As robots and autonomous systems move away from laboratory setups towards complex real-world scenarios, both the perception capabilities of these systems and their abilities to acquire and model semantic information must become more powerful. For example, a general-purpose service robot collaborating with a human user needs to know human spatial concepts and have an understanding of three-dimensional objects, their use and functional relationships between them. More generally, semantic perception and mapping must become a resource for the robot, which links sensory information to the robot's knowledge base and high-level deliberative components. A key issue is the robot's ability to autonomously acquire and model the perceived semantic information, as well as (exploration) strategies for deciding where and how to acquire such information.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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Open Source Robotics
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Afternoon in Room 202B
Workshop Paper - RoboEarth Towards a World Wide Web for Robots
Ciocarlie, Bradski, Hsiao, Brook
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
11:20-11:40 in Room 101A, Session: Mapping I
Sparse pose adjustment for 2d mapping
Konolige, Grisetti, Limketkai, Burgard, Kuemmerle, Vincent
Pose graphs have become a popular representation for solving the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. A pose graph is a set of robot poses connected by nonlinear constraints obtained from observations of features common to nearby poses. Optimizing large pose graphs has been a bottleneck for mobile robots, since the computation time can grow cubically with the size of the graph. In this paper, we propose an efficient approach for optimizing 2D pose graphs that takes advantage of their sparse structure by efficiently constructing and solving a sparse linear sub-problem. Our method, called Sparse Pose Adjustment (SPA), outperforms all existing approaches in terms of convergence speed and accuracy. We demonstrate its effectiveness on a large set of indoor real-world maps, and a very large simulated dataset. An open-source implementations in C++ and matlab/octave and the datasets are publicly available.
15:20-16:40 in 1F Corridor, Session: Interactive Session IA
Contact-Reactive Grasping of Objects with Partial Shape Information
Hsiao, Chitta, Ciocarlie, Jones
Robotic grasping in unstructured environments requires the ability to select grasps for unknown objects and execute them while dealing with uncertainty due to sensor noise or calibration errors. In this work, we propose a simple but robust approach to grasp selection for unknown objects, and a reactive adjustment approach to deal with uncertainty in object location and shape. The grasp selection method uses 3D sensor data directly to determine a ranked set of grasps for objects in a scene, using heuristics based on both the overall shape of the object and its local features. The reactive grasping approach uses tactile feedback from fingertip sensors to execute a compliant robust grasp. We present experimental results to validate our approach by grasping a wide range of unknown objects. Our results show that reactive grasping can correct for a fair amount of uncertainty in the measured position or shape of the objects, and that our grasp selection approach is successful in grasping objects with a variety of shapes.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
10:50-11:10 in Room 101C, Session: Range Sensing I
Fast 3D Recognition and Pose Using the Viewpoint Feature Histogram
Rusu, Bradski, Hsu
We present the Viewpoint Feature Histogram (VFH), a descriptor for 3D point cloud data that encodes geometry and viewpoint. We demonstrate experimentally on a set of 60 objects captured with stereo cameras that VFH can be used as a distinctive signature, allowing simultaneous recognition of the object and its pose. The pose is accurate enough for robot manipulation, and the computational cost is low enough for real time operation. VFH was designed to be robust to large surface noise and missing depth information in order to work reliably on stereo data.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
9:30-9:50 in Room 201E, Session: Haptics and Haptic Interfaces I
Multi-DOF Equalization of Haptic Devices for Accurate Rendering at High Frequencies
Wilson, Chan, Salisbury, Niemeyer
Previous work has shown that high frequency content is important for realistic haptic feedback, while stability considerations limit the ability of closed-loop control to effectively generate high frequencies. Open-loop playback of high frequencies offers a promising way to generate rich contact transients and textures, but complex high frequency dynamics cause distortion. This paper explores the equalization and dynamic decoupling of multi-DOF haptic devices for accurate open-loop playback. Toward this end, a user study is performed to determine the frequency limit of human force direction sensitivity at 35Hz. This information together with experimental system identification techniques is used to develop a strategy for equalization in different frequency bands. Finally, MIMO equalization is accomplished through online simulation of the system model under the control of an LQR tracking controller.
12:00-12:20 in Room 101B, Session: Force Control II
Examining the Benefits of Variable Impedence Actuation
Walker, Niemeyer
Variable impedance actuators provide the ability to robustly alter interaction impedances mechanically, without bandwidth, power, and stability limitations. They can achieve the physical benefits of an elastic transmission and also recover characteristics of traditionally controlled, inelastic motors. We review previously explored benefits of variable impedance actuators for energetic tasks and impact safety. We then focus on benefits in low frequency force interactions. We examine impedance and force dynamic ranges and illustrate how they are significantly increased by physical impedance variation. Theoretical analysis is confirmed by experiments on a 1-DOF testbed with three impedance settings.
15:40-16:00 in Room 101C, Session: Telerobotics I
Mutli-DOF Model-Reference Force Control for Telerobotic Applications
Hart, Niemeyer
For a wide range of telerobotic applications, the slave device needs to be a large, powerful, industrial type robot in order to achieve the desired tasks. Due to the large frictional forces within the gearing of such robots, a force-feedback controller is necessary to precisely control the forces the robot applies when manipulating its environment. This paper proves passivity, and therefore guarantees stability, of a model-based force controller in one degree of freedom (DOF) when subject to viscous and Coulomb friction. The controller is then expanded to muli-DOF systems. In addition to maintaining the robustness of the 1-DOF controller, the multi-DOF controller provides additional freedom to design the closed loop dynamics of the robot. This freedom allows the control designer the ability to shape and optimize how the system feels from a users perspective. The robustness of the controller is experimentally validated and the freedom to modify the closed loop dynamics is explored using a 2-DOF device.
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