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TAUNTON — The state's plan to close the inpatient unit at Taunton State Hospital reflects a philosophical shift that emphasizes community-based services over institutional care, a mental health official said Friday.
"When I started in the field, recovery wasn't something anyone talked about. It was symptom management," Department of Mental Health Deputy Commissioner Clifford Robinson said. "People tend to recover and rehabilitate better in a non-institutional setting, like the community. In the past 30 years there have been massive changes, and we think there are an awful lot of exciting possibilities out there."
For the third straight year, the state is proposing to move all inpatient beds from Taunton State Hospital to the new Worcester Recovery Center. In each of the past two years, the state faced staunch local opposition. As a compromise struck in the Legislature, 45 beds currently remain at Taunton State, which used to have approximately 170.
Many local legislators, including state Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton, House Speaker Pro Tempore Patricia Haddad, D-Somerset, and Rep. Shaunna O'Connell, R-Taunton, have said they plan to fight the state's plans again.
On Friday, Clifford discussed plans to redevelop the Taunton State Hospital campus, which may include bringing in state, city and private entities.
While plans call for shutting down the Department of Mental Health's inpatient treatment program at Taunton State Hospital, moving the beds to Worcester, Clifford said other services will continue to be provided on the Taunton State campus.
The vision, he said, includes consolidating the 80 Department of Youth Services beds currently on site into one secure space. The 120-year-old Howland Building, where some of the DYS beds are currently located, is recommended for demolition. Design and planning are underway to renovate and expand the Goss building.
The campus also includes a 16-bed vendor-run mental health program for intensive residential treatment.
Additionally, High Point Treatment Center will open a 40-bed drug treatment unit on the campus early this year, Clifford said. The vendor-operated program is being coordinated and funded through a division of the state Department of Public Health.
In total, the state plans to invest $6 million in expanding community-based mental health services in southeastern Massachusetts.
Clifford discussed other possible uses of land on the campus. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, he said, has expressed interest in relocating its regional operations center from Bridgewater to Taunton. State agencies have also discussed the possibility of creating an electronic data management center on site.
Discussions with the city on potential municipal use for the land are also likely, he said.
"I think there are a lot of things that can happen on the Taunton grounds that would benefit the community, other state agencies and clients and families of the Department of Mental Health," Clifford said.
Many local opponents of the plan say that transferring the inpatient mental health treatment services to Worcester will burden patients and families in southeastern Massachusetts.
In a statement released Wednesday, the Massachusetts Nurses Association called the move an "abandonment of the mentally ill."
Longtime Taunton State Hospital nurse Karen Coughlin said there are some patients who require care that can only be administered in an inpatient setting.
"We always want to have patients be able to receive services in a community no matter what the level of care is," she said. "I understand there's a community first movement, but it's not a community only."
Clifford said he recognizes challenges associated with implementing the plan.
"We agree that there will always be some number of clients who require a continuous care bed in a hospital," he said. "We would like folks who need that level of care to get that level of care in the best possible hospital."
He lauded the quality of care provided by staff throughout Massachusetts, including at Taunton State Hospital, but said the new Worcester Recovery Center was designed and physically built around the modern approach to care. The architectural design, he said, promotes recovery and a return to independent living.
"Because we have this opportunity to build it from the ground up, we were able to design a facility that reflects where we are philosophically, in a burgeoning client empowerment movement," he said.
He pledged to use the department's resources to help keep transferred patients connected to their communities.
Pacheco, who has led the fight in the Senate to keep Taunton State Hospital open, said he is concerned that the state's plan would remove the local "safety net" and that people in southeastern Massachusetts won't be able to get inpatient mental health care in their home region.
He also disputed the state's claim that the additional investment into community-based mental health services in southeastern Massachusetts will create 120 new local jobs. Those jobs, he said, will take the place of current Taunton State Hospital jobs that are due to be transferred elsewhere.
The Department of Mental Health expects to have enough positions available within the department as options for current Taunton State staff.
O'Connell, who serves on the Mental Health Advisory Committee, said she supports an expansion of mental health services in Taunton that includes an inpatient treatment facility.
"All mental health services cannot be concentrated on one portion of the state," she said. "I think what we need in Taunton, or southeastern Mass., is a facility like Worcester, with long-term and short-term care and various other services."


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Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2009
#9: A Computer's Spot in the Sun
Dark blemishes on the Sun have been known since antiquity; when the setting Sun's disk is dimmed by dust in the air, you can sometimes see sunspots against its reddened face. Those are monster spots, and very rare, but even the normal run-of-the-mill sunspots aren't well understood.
But that's changing. In the 1850s came the first hints that sunspots were magnetic in nature, and over the past 15 decades we've made quite a bit of progress. We now know that sunspots are manifestations of the Sun's seething and complex magnetic field. Where the field lines erupt from the surface, the hot solar gas is constrained like a prisoner in a cell. The gas cools, but cannot sink back down beneath the surface. It stays put, looking dark against the Sun's otherwise blinding light.
Magnetic fields are incredibly difficult to model mathematically, but as computers improve, so does our ability to understand magnetic behavior. That picture above looks just like a sunspot, but it isn't: it's a computer-generated simulation of the flow of gas on the Sun as it is squeezed by the solar magnetic fields. It's the first time a sunspot has been modeled in three-dimensions, and is a breakthrough for scientists studying how the Sun works. It's also a first for my Top Ten posts: a picture that's not of a real object! But how could I leave it off? It's so awesome!
And this affects you too. In 1989 a giant magnetically-driven ejection of material from the Sun caused a massive power outage in Quebec in winter, and did billions of dollars of damage. Understanding how the Sun works in this way can help us predict when these events are likely to happen. That'll save money and lives. And we're expecting the Sun to start ramping up on sunspots again in just a few years…
Credit: Matthias Rempel, NCAR
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Couldn't agree more. Good choice Phil.
All I am seeing in #2 is someone's nude posterior with some sort of tribal tattoo..
Great choices, they are all mind-blowing.
Phil, Phil, Phil. Not the Hubble ultra deep field in the near infrared? That is in my view the most important and striking astronomical photograph ever taken, just barely ahead of the original visible light ultra deep field.
I agree with Rowan. Without the hint of scale, #2 looks positively humanoid.
Picture #2 was my desktop at work for about a month before I saw the beautiful Galactic Center picture from Chandra.
Picture #1 is printed and stuck to the wall of my cubicle not 4 feet from where I currently sit, always there reminding me how freakin' awesome humanity is.
#6 reminds me of the TOS episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
Phil, nicely, nicely done. I used to be an astronomer myself before budget cuts forced me into a new line of work. I must say that I've been a little more than inspired by your work to find a way back into the field "by hook or by crook." Though I may not land a paying gig any time soon, you've helped me realize there's no reason I cannot re-embark on the public outreach side of astronomy. I'll be starting a new blog and continuing to offer my services to give public talks. Thanks again Phil for reminding me why I got into this business in the first place. Have a wonderful holiday season.
Phil, your comment on Pandora's Galaxy (#10) reminds me of the game Euphloria: "I rather like the poetic image of babies erupting out of the galaxy like dandelion seeds on the intergalactic wind."
I remember the Apollo 11 landing, which happened in the evening. My family stayed up to watch the live pictures. So did the rest of the world with access to TV, except for the "lunar deniers" apparently.
A few months later, I attended a convocation at Purdue University, where Neil Armstrong was awarded an honorary doctorate. Needless to say, that was a highlight of my college experience.
Wow! I don't envy you the task of culling images for the Top Ten list this year! I can't help but wonder which was the Number 11 you tweeted about? That glorious and ginormous shadowy Saturn at equinox..? The impact on Jupiter..? But yes, truly the number one image of the year is indeed the Apollo lander.
That photo, unfortunately, reminds me of the Columbia disaster.
I thought #2 was the BA's tatoo. Maybe it is.
@AstralProjectile … saw his tattoo at TAM London, it's actually quite different 😀
Love the Spinal Tap reference!
Wow! I am always amazed at the staggering beauty of the universe we live in!
Nicely done.
Hmmm. This is the first year you've done this segment that I've disagreed completely with you. Not a single one of those images would have been in my top ten of 2009. 9 out of my 10 would have come from Cassini though, and I suspect that you wanted some variety.
Speaking of which, I just had an idea that you may or may not like: perhaps next year you could do a "best picture in AAAA category", with 10 or 15 different categories:).
What, no Saturn equinox pictures? I'm surprised considering how many times you've posted them.
I'm sorry, since I just don't have a sense of wonder, I cannot fully appreciate these photos.
Nevermind that some of them nearly moved me to tears!
I love the crescent earth, but I guess it's not very exotic compared to some of the others.
Ooooh! Aaaaah! Oooooh! Aaaaah!
Wow, what a post Phil! And what pictures. I don't comment much, but I follow your blog and your work pretty much daily. Please keep on doing it!
Great choices! I do not envy your task of of leaving out so many others, but I feel that you made so very good picks. My favorite is #10, for some reason, I just love looking at different kinds of galaxies. By the way, I really like the meshing of the Nietzsche quote into the title of #7.
#6 reminds me of Red Dwarf… "Coke Adds Life"
#2 was my desktop since you put it up until about a week ago when I switched to "Hothmas".
I love love love that picture and that's awesome it was your #2
I don't like the "Top Ten Astronomy Pictures Of 2009" banner image… Phil, you should really do something of better to introduce such amazing images.
When I first saw that image of Mars' surface, I thought it was a tattoo!
Pandora's galaxy looks just immense – something James Cameron would be proud of !
I have an idea Phil. Perhaps next year, in addition to your top 10 pictures, each of us can submit a picture that we feel is left out. It would be like a supplemental to the top 10 list. You can filter out the people who post similar pictures. Perhaps, it can be a special link that Discover can set up; considering that you have power and influence over the Hive Overmind, it's certainly possible.
Can't… Quite… Reach…
Whoa. #9 has a bonus feature – it moves.
Cosmic Sausage would make a great band name.
Anyways, really amazing image.
On Number 6, you can easily see it's the hand of Adonais. That is, if you squint your eyes to turn that orange sausage into the USS Enterprise.
7 could be the death star!
I was sure, Saturn's equinox and the shadows across the rings of the small perturbations would be included in the list. Well, I was wrong.
Still: Nice choices! Thanks a lot, Phil. This is a year-review I always enjoy (not those horrible TV shows…)
I'm amazed this image didn't make it into the Top 10…
After all, it's a transit of two human spacecraft across the face of a star and a pretty spectacular shot at that. I understand why Apollo 11 would be number one and completely agree with that, but this should be at least #3…
I agree with #1 for sure.
The giant blue 'hand' made me think of one character in particular. Doctor Manhattan anyone?
When the sun goes and the nebula forms, what happens to outer planets…what will happen to Neptune, etc. Will they be reached by the blast, ripped up…or will they drift off afterwards or float around in the nebula?
Number three is really pretty. I'd love to go there one day.
And I still maintain that number six is Master Hand reaching for the Brawlers, being controlled by Tabuu *grin* (And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, get thee to a Wii!)
Wow! This is early – the year still has a few weeks to run – I was kinda expecting these in January 2010! New Years day maybe? 😉
But I'm not complaining – I love this yearly tradition of yours and the images are always breath-taking! 😀
Thankyou Bad Astronomer, Dr Phil Plait, sir. I love these! 8)
@ 48. Lewis Says:
I agree with #1 for sure.
The giant blue 'hand' made me think of one character in particular. Doctor Manhattan anyone?
No, Londo Mollari actually from Babylon 5. Plus the Vorlons and Shadows.
"… A great hand reaching out from the stars.."
I am surprised by the absence of the Milky Way's core (composite Chandra HST & UVE) & the Hubble Deep Field. I felt sure they'd be in there & the shuttle-ISS as human sunspots one too.
Still love them though – maybe you should expand it to atop 20? Or top 40 even? Its not like there's a shortage of candidates! 😉
THanks BA.
There you go again. Do you know how many people you annoyed in the past year alone by not posting astronomy topics? Then you go and do this. You CAN'T call this blog 'Bad Astronomy'!! I demand the name be changed to 'OH WOW! Is that ever neat Astronomy…'
Stay warm!
#2 was surely the work of the Intelligent Designer! 😉
For # 9 – 'A Computer's Spot in the Sun':
Dark blemishes on the Sun have been known since antiquity; when the setting Sun's disk is dimmed by dust in the air, you can sometimes see sunspots against its reddened face. Those are monster spots, and very rare, but even the normal run-of-the-mill sunspots aren't well understood.
As I understand it, Galileo Galilei was the first to see sunspots back in 1609 and before that it was wrongly believed the Sun was flawless and "unblemished" by any markings.
Given 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy in commemoration of Galileo's remarkable first year of telescopic observations I would've thought the BA would have been a bit more aware and mentioned this fact rather than erroneously claiming we always knew of them.
Basic history of science FAIL there – bad Bad Astronomer! 😉
True, monster sun spots have been recorded visually but I'm pretty sure those observations were made after Galileo & so not in "antiquity" – unless the Renaissance or seventeenth century counts as "antiquity"! 😉
Also 'A computers spot in the Sun'? A computer inside the Sun would vapourise in a nano-second. Poor choice of words there BA. You mean, I'd think, 'A Computerised Sunspot' or 'A computer spots like the Sun' maybe?
I must confess I'm a little disappointed by some of your choices here, BA – the impact on Jupiter (how *could* you have left that one out?), the Hubble Deep Field, more galaxies, the ISS and shuttle captured transiting the Sun and a few more of Saturn would have my preferred pictures. As well that composite image our Galactic centre, some of the dramatic meteorites we've had and the Norweigan rocket spiral would all have been on my list instead – although I guess the latter may not strictly count as astronomical. Your blog and thus your choice but I am feeling a bit puzzled & let down to be perfectly honest.
However, having the Moon landing site photographed from Lunar orbit as this year's no. 1 – now that I do agree with!
thanks, mister Plait!
if you haven't seen vista pictures yet, i think it is time to take a look there
the pics are just…amazing
Amazing selection Phil. Looking forward to what 2010 will show us.
@ spectroscope:
I may be wrong (there's always a first), but I believe sunspots were observed many centuries before Galileo screwed up his eyes by pointing his optik tube at them.
I think there are references to sunspots in seriously ancient Chinese records (ca. 1st century CE), and a European monk or two made note of them in the middle ages.
RE: Sunspots.
Extract from Wikipedia — Sunspot (History):
Apparent references to sunspots were made by Chinese astronomers in 28 B.C.E. (Hanshu, 27), who probably could see the largest groups of spots when the wind-borne dust filtered the Sun's glare in Central Asian deserts. A large sunspot was also seen at the time of Charlemagne's death in C.E. 813. On 17 March 807, the Benedictine monk Adelmus observed a large sunspot, which was visible for eight days. Adelmus thought he was observing a transit of Mercury. Sunspot activity in 1129 was described by John of Worcester. Averroes also provided a description of sunspots in the 12th century. However, these early observations were misinterpreted until Galileo gave the correct explanation in 1612.
They were first observed telescopically in late 1610 by the English astronomer Thomas Harriot and Frisian astronomers Johannes and David Fabricius, who published a description in June 1611. At the latter time Galileo had been showing sunspots to astronomers in Rome, and Christoph Scheiner had probably been observing the spots for two or three months. The ensuing priority dispute between Galileo and Scheiner, neither of whom knew of the Fabricius' work, was thus as pointless as it was bitter.
That looks a bit like a tattoo on someone's bottom
I saw it when you first posted it, and I've seen it many times after, but I still get really close to tears whenever I see the pictures showing our first steps onto another world. I just looked again for the second time tonight, and I was still just as moved by that image. I also love your line, as much as it has been said in some form or another, about a clear demarcation in human history.
Just wow, and thanks.
I think #6 looks more like a hand grabbing at a banana, thus proving Ray Comfort is correct in whatever it is he's claiming. I love #1 and had a feeling you'd use it or another like it as the #1 pic of the year.
Yes, I was joking with that first part
Hi Phil, thanks for a nice collection of images. For me, though the Hubble IRDF was a special picture, it's not a 'good' picture. You have to know what you're looking at to get the awe from it. The "tattoo" ones of Mars, when I had that as my desktop thanks to your headsup I think half the people who went past my desk liked the pic.
I must confess to some dismay at none of Cassini's lovely pictures of Saturn, but hey.
The only one I disagreed with was the sunspot one, on some logical level my mind revolts at an "artist's representation" being an "astronomy pic" but I get the significance of it. Either way, thanks for the pics! The pictures you've chosen, and the detail and enthusiasm with which you present them to us is fantastic. I enjoy the way you wrote up the moon landing.
Totally agree with you phil! There's one thing I still feel confident to predict: #1 2008 will not be beaten anytime soon!
"Amaizing Perfection". It was all so beautiful…Enough said for us who were around for the start of the space race and remember Apollo 11 like it was yesterday….AND all this we are viewing, will it be some type of reward to play about once we're gone? The young and upcoming to toy with in reality I bid good luck & give you my blessings, while I continue my mortal voyage & reach the apex to the ultimate question we all await inside in shear terror…..maybe it won't be so terrifying afterall…….cek
Mike (49) said:
When the sun goes and the nebula forms, what happens to outer planets…what will happen to Neptune, etc. Will they be reached by the blast, ripped up…or will they drift off afterwards or float around in the nebula?
Good questions!
If only some astronomer would write a book about things like that, then we could have the answers at our fingertips…
Spectroscope (67) said:
Also 'A computers spot in the Sun'? A computer inside the Sun would vapourise in a nano-second. Poor choice of words there BA. You mean, I'd think, 'A Computerised Sunspot' or 'A computer spots like the Sun' maybe?
Yeah, but "in the sun" also has the figurative meaning of "in the sunshine". Have you never heard of people holidaying "in the sun"?
Thus, Phil's title takes on what I assume is an intended double meaning.
It's too bad this jaw-dropper missed out:
There's some confusion of terms in the text accompanying a few of these images.
#9 Magnetic fields don't have that sort of effect on neutral gas but they will collimate a plasma. So the description of the sunspot needs amending. The "hot solar gas" in question is a charged plasma and it's not looping back to the Sun's surface because it cools but because it follows the magnetic field. It's also worth noting that because the charged particles in the plasma are moving they're also generating further magnetic fields.
#6 There is no such thing as a magnetic wind. There are winds which comprise neutral gases or there are electrical currents which contain charged particles and their associated magnetic fields.
#4 Gas doesn't glow until you ionise it and then it becomes a plasma even if a tiny percentage of its constituent atoms/molecules are ionised. It's interesting to note that the electromagnetic force is a 10^36 times stronger than gravity so there might be something a bit more significant than gusts of wind in shaping this phenomenon.
Great shots brought to us by superior technology and the spirit of man. The amateur shots I saw at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, amply demonstrated that high quality photography is now in the hands of the masses. We reach out, we share, we learn.
I was stuck, amongst all these wondeful pictures, by #3, which shows a rainbow. It's the arc to the left of the monolith and to my eyes clearly seperates the red, yellow and blue hues. Off hand, I cannot think of another rainbow picture photographed at night, and I wonder what the light source was?
@ 71 Kuhnigget & 72 IVAN3MAN :
Okay, you're right. Some obscure Chinese astronomers and a monk or two saw & recorded sunspots earlier than Galileo without knowing what they really were. As later on & with more knowledge did Galileo's contemporaries, the two Fabricus'es, Harriott & Scheiner. Thanks for that extra info quoted there I didn't know or remember all of that.
However, it is still true that Galileo was first to correctly understand and publicise them which is significant and could have been mentioned. It is also true that most people before Galileo thought of the Sun as flawless and without blemish and Galileo's overturning of this belief – aided & complemented by the likes of Thomas Harriot, Christoph Scheiner and Johannes & David Fabricius, – was a major event and paradigm shift in our understanding.
I still think the BA could have mentioned Galileo's role there in doing that esp. given the reason why 2009 is the IYA. The good Doctor Plait could also have mentioned the earlier observations briefly too – a line like :
"Although earlier observations of sunspots had been made incl. some back in ancient China and medevial monastries, Galileo was among the first and the best known astronomer to draw attention to sunspots and overthrow the Ptolemaic, church sanctioned mindset that held the Sun to be perfect and unspotted. This is one of the reasons's why this year has been designated the IYA in his honour."
Would have been nice.
It's certainly true that Thomas Harriott, for one, has been unfairly overshadowed by Galileo's brilliance but then we all know the high personal price Galileo paid for his prominence.
@ 81. Nigel Depledge Says:
… Yeah, but "in the sun" also has the figurative meaning of "in the sunshine". Have you never heard of people holidaying "in the sun"? Thus, Phil's title takes on what I assume is an intended double meaning.
"In the sunshine" has a slightly different sense because we're talkingabout sunlight as oppsoed to shade which make sense. But "holidaying in the Sun" has always struck me as a really dumb saying. I know its metaphorical but still. Call me a pedant if you like but I kind of like accuracy in language.
@ 90 Paul Newman Says:
… Off hand, I cannot think of another rainbow picture photographed at night, and I wonder what the light source was?
The Moon as the BA mentioned in the accompanying text. Moonbows are rare but do occur and have occassionally been photographed before.
These are all incredible images (Of the ones you chose Enceladus is my favourite), but I think you forgot about Fomalhaut b! Hubble saw an extrasolar planet!
Edit: My bad, that was 2008
@ Spectroscope:
Call me a pedant if you like
@ 10. Phil Plait Says:
scibuff (#9): that one was in my list of choices, but I simply couldn't fit them all in. RBH (#5): I liked that one too, but I liked the NGC 4522 one I posted better, and it has lots of little galaxies too. I try not to have the pix overlap in content too much, which is one reason the choice is so hard every year. I may yet collect the ones I didn't post and make a second entry for them.
Please do that! Please!
I'd love to see more of these. I've been looking forward to this post all year and ten just isn't enough! 😉
@ 93 John V : Indeed – but also don't forget about the less memorably named and less bright (although still visible with unaided eyesight) HR 8799 which had its trio of exoplanets imaged on the same day as Fomalhaut's.
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fo0r more incl. a good finder chart photomap.
Perhaps we should grant HR8799 a proper name too rather than the current merely numerical deisgnation?
I'd suggest "Gadolabove" signifying this individual star being a unique combination of Gamma Doradus variable, Lambda Bootis metal poor star and Vega-style dusty protoplanetary disk star … But that's just me! 😉
PS. Its okay by me John V – Fomalhaut b was if I recall announced right at the end of the year anyhow. Besides Flying Sphaghetti Monster knows I'm as fallible as anyone else maybe even more so! 😉
Of course other groups have posted their own favorites.
From The Crew Earth Observations Team some ISS photos:
This blog entry made it on a romanian television
December 1, 2009
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2009
Once more, we enter the month of December and the traditional western Holiday Season, and once again, I'd like to present a Hubble Space Telescope imagery Advent Calendar for 2009. Keep checking this page, because every day, for the next 25 days, a new photo will be revealed here from the Hubble Space Telescope, some old and some new. I have felt extremely fortunate to have been able to share photographs and stories with you all this year, and I wish for a Happy Holiday to all those who will celebrate, and for Peace on Earth to everyone. – Alan (25 photos total – eventually) [previously: the 2008 calendar]
Water on MARS !!!
i watched the July 1969 lunar landing with my grandmother, who was bedridden, and who would die later that year. she was 74 at the time, and while we were watching men land and, then walk, on the Moon, she told me about the first car that had come through our town in 1899. that's the year her grandfather died, and being a prominent local man, had quite a funeral. they weren't expecting out of town visitors to appear in a horseless carriage though. she was only 4, but apparently the entire funeral was disrupted with everyone mesmerized by this vehicle. can you imagine, in one's lifetime, seeing a car for the first time, and living to see a man on the Moon? her sense of wonderment and amazement has never left me.
Noticed that at the end you took the chance there to slide in your own idiosyncratic views about the future of manned space flight. Very subtle…
The Hubble telescope did good after all it been punched a lot of holes from light speed traveling dust.
It's spooky how celevr some ppl are. Thanks!


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Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee told WPRO-AM on Tuesday that state economic officials are doing "everything possible" to keep retired All-Star pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company, 38 Studios, financially solvent and viable.
The reportedly struggling company moved to Rhode Island from Massachusetts in 2010 when Rhode Island offered them $75 million in loan guarantees after 38 Studios promised to create 450 jobs in the state over a three-year span.
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The developers first game, "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning," was released to largely positive reviews in February. The game has sold a modest 330,000 copies in its first month on the retail market, but was bogged down by big name releases from established publishers. The brain-child of Schilling, who has publicly expressed a love of MMORPGs the likes of "World of Warcraft," Reckoning is a blend of action adventure games "God of War" and "Assassin's Creed" and the mega-hit RPG series "The Elder Scrolls."


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Religion Professor Robert Royalty's new book, The Origin of Heresy (Routledge, 2012), has been reviewed by Greg Carey in Thursday's edition of the Huffington Post.
The book traces the construction of the idea of 'heresy' in the rhetoric of ideological disagreements in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian texts and in the development of the polemical rhetoric against 'heretics,' called heresiology.
Carey is Professor of New Testament at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. He is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, and wrote the review of Dr. Royalty's book for the Post's blog.
Carey writes, "An important new book by Robert M. Royalty Jr. points out that Christian heresy did not emerge when some misguided Christians deviated from a 'pure' and 'original' orthodoxy. 'Orthodoxy' did not precede 'heresy.' Instead, diversity marks Christianity as far back as we can see. Those who claimed an orthodox identity invented heresy by labeling others as deviant. Some Christians began identifying other Christians as 'false teachers' or "heretics" in the attempt to privilege their own way as 'orthodox.'
Read the entire review here.
According to the book's description, Royalty argues that "one finds the origin of what comes to be labeled 'heresy' in the second century. In other words, there was such as thing as 'heresy' in ancient Jewish and Christian discourse before it was called 'heresy.' And by the end of the first century, the notion of heresy was integral to the political positioning of the early orthodox Christian party within the Roman Empire and the range of other Christian communities.
"This book is an original contribution to the field of Early Christian studies. Recent treatments of the origins of heresy and Christian identity have focused on the second century rather than on the earlier texts including the New Testament. The book further makes a methodological contribution by blurring the line between New Testament Studies and Early Christian studies, employing ideological and post-colonial critical methods."


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Chestnut Hill Hospital's board of trustees welcomes Anuj Gupta to its 10-member team, composed of local physicians and professionals.
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I normally use Gold Metal Bread Flour because it is the only brand I can convenelently purchase where I live. I believe it's protein is somewhere in the 12% range (?).
Recently, I added 6% Vital Gluten to my French dough receipt to see if I could tell a difference in the baguettes.
I used the same procedures during the process as always and other than a longer "relax" time before forming the baguettes I could not really tell a difference.
Has anyone tried the addition of VG and if so what were your results? Also, it would be interesting to hear any thoughts on this subject......
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ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — What's the most surprising thing about John Wall? Is it his superhuman speed? Is it how he returned from injury last season to post the best numbers of his career, averaging 18.5 ppg to go with 7.6 assists per? Or maybe it's that even though he's entering his fourth NBA season, he's still just 22 years old?
It may be the last point that is most relevant, because as Wall is quick to point out, he's a player still in development. And this season he's looking to build off his superb second half and get the Wizards to the postseason.
Last week just before the Draft, I caught up Wall in Los Angeles at an adidas event.
ME: So how are you feeling?
WALL: I'm feeling good. Just making sure I'm staying healthy this summer, that's my main thing. Getting the right treatment, taking care of my body, and making sure I'm getting stronger in the right places. That's the main thing for me, just trying to have a full, healthy, 82-game season.
ME: What do you mean, getting stronger in the "right places?"
WALL: Just getting stronger around my thighs and leg area, my knees. Having tendonitis and playing so many minutes, that's a lot of wear and tear, especially at a young age. So I just want to make sure my quads are strong, my hamstrings are strong, and all the joints and ligaments around my knee are fully healthy. I've had check-ups and they're doing great.
ME: And you have to be 100 percent because you kind of only have one speed. I remember I saw you play pick-up ball in Vegas during the lockout and you were the only guy who went full-speed in every game. You were taking some hits, getting up and down the floor.
WALL: That's all I know how to do, is go 110-percent when I play. Even when I play pick-up, I play against guys who are serious about it. This is a game I love, this is what I love to do, I don't just do it for fun. So I feel like when I'm out there playing. Even if it's just against a little kid, I end up playing harder than I'm supposed to. That's a bad thing, but it's just my competitive edge that I had growing up.
ME: No, that's good! That's what you need! You should always try to dominate, right?
WALL: Yeah, I dominate when I play my nephew. He's like 11th grade, and I dominate him. I feel like whenever I'm between those lines, I have to be competitive. I can't take it for fun. Like, I went to a camp in Kentucky and was playing knockout against some little kid, and the little kid almost beat me, and so I just got serious at the end. I started playing serious. I was like, "I can't miss any shots!" (laughs)
ME: What was it like last season for you, dealing with the injury?
WALL: It was the longest I've ever been out. I think it made me mentally stronger. And I think it made me a better leader. I already loved and respected the game, but I think now I respect it to another level. Especially being there with my teammates on every road trip, knowing I can't play. Being there early to work out and make sure I'm getting treatment. I could have stayed back in D.C. while my team was traveling, but I wanted to be a leader, be the guy just sitting right beside the coaches and help guys learn, help guys out. That was my main focus. When I came back and played, they all knew what I was capable of and they accepted me for who I was.
ME: Was having to sit and watch frustrating for you?
WALL: It was really frustrating. But my teammates and my coaches did a great job of just making sure I stayed level-headed. And I think that made me stronger, mentally. Because I fought through a lot. Going into the last part of the season and getting tested, it was like, "If this doesn't go good, you're done for the season." So I was nervous. I was kind of excited, and then kind of not excited. I just went out there and tried to some jumping and cutting and nothing happened. I went out there for three or four days straight and nothing happened, so I was able to come back and play last season.
ME: Damian Lillard told me when he broke his foot in college, it took him three or four months even after he came back to feel like he could fully trust that he was healed.
WALL: I felt exactly how he felt. When I first came back, I played pretty good against Atlanta but I just didn't have the legs to shoot. I got fatigued — I ran down the court like two times and I was already tired. It was different from practice. So it took me a while to get into a rhythm, where I knew I could play and get back And then you also have to think, you're playing twenty minutes (per game). You can't really get into a rhythm when you're playing twenty minutes, because you're playing five minutes a quarter. Sometimes I'd play one minute in the third quarter, because my coach wanted me to finish the game in the fourth quarter. So I was really just trying to help my team out as much as I could by being out there.
ME: How do you feel about the way the team played the second half of the season, once you were back and healthy?
WALL: I feel like my team played well without me there, it was just they lost a lot of close games. I don't think we had the closer we needed to close games out down the stretch, but we did a good job of playing hard and playing for our team. We had a great second half of the season. I feel like we don't want to keep hearing about a playoff push, but I feel like if we were healthy, we were definitely a playoff team last year.
ME: Do you think you will be this season?
WALL: Yeah, that's my goal. I'm not even trying to make predictions, but I have to get to the playoffs. This is my fourth year, and the point of being a franchise player or a leader, as a point guard, is you have to be known as a winner. I don't want to be someone who didn't get their team to the playoffs. So, that's one of my goals.
ME: I keep hearing you talk about being a leader. Leadership is interesting because it's not really something you can work on in the weight room or on the practice court by yourself.
WALL: See, how I grew up is lead by example. Lead by example is great, but sometimes you have to speak up. And you just have to learn which ways you can talk to certain players. That's something I was capable of doing when I was at the University of Kentucky, and it's what I'm doing with the Wizards. I'm learning ways to talk to certain players and certain teammates, and be able to take criticism when they something to me.
ME: So you're learning which buttons to push with each guy?
WALL: Some people you have to bite your tongue. Some people you can yell at. Some people you just have to talk to on the side. And then you can't control how some people take it. Especially when you need a person on his game, you don't want to mess up their rhythm. So you have to know how to talk to them.
ME: And you have to do all that in the middle of an NBA game when everything is sort of frenzied and out of control.
WALL: That's why point guard is not an easy job. I see why head coaches need their point guards, because you're basically a second head coach on the court. Your coaches have to be able to trust you, just like your teammates have to be able to trust you to call the right plays and do the right things.
ME: Where do you think the Wizards can improve next season?
WALL: Well, I feel like if we bring the same team back, and then if we bring in a couple of veterans or whatever we do with the Draft pick, I feel like we can be a great team. We do a good job on the defensive end, we just have to know how to do it for 48 minutes. We can do a better job of winning games on the road. We did a good job of protecting our home court, we just have to learn how to win more games on the road.
ME: It feels like that's something that comes with experience.
WALL: Yeah, it comes with experience, and it comes with just being healthy, trusting each other on the road. And knowing you're not going to have your fan base behind you, you've got the other crowd behind you.
ME: And then what about yourself? What part of your game are you working on this summer?
WALL: I'm working on jump shots. I think my midrange got a lot better when I got confidence. I'm knocking down threes off the dribble, catch-and-shoot. And especially my floater. Just trying to keep improving everything.
ME: It's funny how everybody has a floater now, right?
WALL: That's a key part. You can take hits when you drive but you won't last long in this league. I think the best floater shooter to me is Tony Parker. He just makes it look so easy.
ME: I just don't remember the floater being such a prevalent part of the game six, seven years ago.
WALL: I think he kind of invented it. You've got to add stuff to your game every day, and he's one of the best at doing that.
ME: What's next for you? You're leaving for China on this adidas tour, right?
WALL: Yeah, I'm excited to go over there. I've never been, so I'm excited to go. It'll be great to have this Quick vs. Fast tour.
ME: Which team do you belong on?
WALL: I'm a Quick.
ME: Not fast?
WALL: No, I like to be quick, because quick ain't fair.
ME: Well, I think you should be on the fast team. I've seen the video of you going coast to coast in, what was it, under four seconds?
WALL: (laughs) Maybe so, I don't know.
ME: You know. I saw it! This happened!
WALL: (laughs) I think it was the Cleveland game I did that?
ME: Yes.
WALL: OK. But yeah, I'm on the quick side.


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Twelve athletes, two teams, two coaches, and an honorary member make up the first class to be inducted into East Hampton High School's Hall of Fame at the homecoming football game with Southampton on Sept. 22.
The announcement was made May 23 by Jim Nicoletti, the president of East Hampton's Hall of Fame committee, and Joe Vas, the school district's athletic director, who suggested that such a committee be formed last summer.
"We're really thrilled about our inaugural class — it's a great one," said Nicoletti, who not long ago retired following a very successful baseball and tennis coaching career at the high school.
"There were many nominees, from coaches, teammates, family members . . . and many nominees who were worthy but did not get in this year will in time get in. Those who remain on our list will continue to be considered for the next 10 years, along with future nominees. We're hoping that this will spark an interest in the community."
Nominees must have been out of the high school for at least 10 years, "and what they did while here is the chief consideration," said Nicoletti.
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The other athletes to be inducted individually are Leroy DeBoard, Howard Wood, Margaret Dunn, Ed Budd, Kenny Wood, Ross Gload, and Ellamae Gurney.
DeBoard, a 1951 graduate, was a four-sport athlete here (football, basketball, baseball, and track), and in 1994 was named to the Benedict College football Hall of Fame.
Howard Wood, a 1977 graduate, led East Hampton to a state basketball championship and later, following a stellar career at the University of Tennessee, played in the National Basketball Association and in Spain's premier leagues.
Margaret Dunn, a 1979 graduate, was a four-sport athlete (field hockey, basketball, volleyball, and softball), and for a number years held the single-season scoring record in girls basketball.Ed Budd, a 1983 graduate who went on to UConn, was named to all-county teams here in football, wrestling, and baseball.
Howard Wood's younger brother, Kenny, led East Hampton to a state basketball championship in 1989, his senior year, played for the University of Richmond team that upset highly-seeded Syracuse in the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament, and went on to a professional career in Spain and South America. He was named to the University of Richmond's Hall of Fame in February 2011.
Ross Gload, a 1994 graduate who played soccer, basketball, and baseball, and who was the Carl Yastrzemski Award winner in his senior year, an award given to the best baseball player in Suffolk County, went on to set records at the University of South Florida and to a Major League baseball career with a half-dozen teams, most recently, in 2011, with the Philadelphia Phillies.
Ellamae Gurney, also a 1994 graduate, was a three-sport athlete (field hockey, basketball, and softball). She played on the 1993 county championship field hockey team, which advanced to the state tournament's semifinals. At Brown University she played varsity softball.
The two coaches to be inducted are the 100-year-old Fran Kiernan, who coached football, basketball, and baseball here from 1945 to 1960, after which he served as athletic director for the better part of a decade, and Ed Petrie Sr., who, over a 52-year career, oversaw numerous championship teams and became the winningest public high school boys basketball coach in New York State. A member of the Frank McGuire Foundation Hall of Fame and Suffolk's Hall of Fame, Petrie was last honored here in January 2011, when the high school's basketball court was named for him.
The two teams to be inducted are the undefeated, untied 1952 football team, which Kiernan coached — the only undefeated, untied team in East Hampton football history, which dates to 1923 — and the 1989 state-finalist field hockey team.
The '52 football team included, among others, John Tilley, Jim Clark, George Cafiso, Fred Yardley, Bob Yardley, Rich Cooper, Dave Cheney, Fritz Schenck, Charlie Gould, Bob Taylor, Don Bovie, Billy DeBoard, Augie Dragotta, Bob Lynch, Charles Kaiser, Russ Peele, Joseph Brubaker, David Kerstein, and Joe Green.
On the '89 field hockey team, its coach, Ellen Cooper, said, were Jen Vish, Megan Barnett, Dawn Da Costa Faro, Meredith Diefendorf, Renee Grau, Michelle Hammer, Paula Hatch, Rebecca Libath, Diana Lys, Shana Menu, Bridget McSweeney, Carolina Vargas, Danielle Ficeto, Nicole Ficeto, and Andrea Wyche.
"That team was a terrific bunch," Cooper said. "They gave girls sports here a big boost."
The honorary inductee is this writer, who took over The Star's sports beat in 1979.


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How to improve wireless performance?
Within the house, can a wireless connection ever be as good as wired ?
I am trying to improve my wifes wireless connection to the router which is located upstairs about 60' as the crow flies.
The only things in between that I can see are a staircase, bannisters, and a landing. She can see the router from her position if that helps.
She is always yelling at me about the ceaseless buffering when she watches her videos.
Well, yesterday I ran a 100' ethernet cable from her pc to the router and she is in bliss.
The hardware involved are:
Router: ATT, 2WIRE 3800, using channel 7 as that is the least cluttered.
Wireless adapters tried: Asus USB N53, D-Link DWA-130, Rosewill RNX-N180UBE, and whatever is built in for the Toshiba Laptop.
I have also tried attaching a repeater by wire about 1/2 way between her and the WAP with no luck
Also, I had laying around a Cradlepoint CTR-35 that I tried to figure out how to make use of it via Wifi-as-WAN but no luck. I think I could get it working but it was unreliable.
Maybe I will stick with the unsightly cable until guests come over. The Router does not have a provision for an external antenna.
Any ideas ?
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If you can't attach an antenna, then the only thing I can think of is to switch to wireless N. You'd have to get a new router and the appropriate receiver for the laptop. There's no guarantee it would solve your problem, but it's all I can think of to try. I guess it's also possible that the USB port in the laptop is the bottleneck.
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Posted: Sat 08 Jun 2013, 11:48
Post subject: Re: How to improve wireless performance?
Hetejas wrote:
Within the house, can a wireless connection ever be as good as wired ?
a. NO.
I'm no super-expert, but that's my belief from information seen in my travels.
b. Was a time when I used a USB dongle network interface to connect my Sony Smart TV to my router.
It wasn't fast enough, unreliable, and eventually failed to function [inadequate signal strength].
c. I now use this
Devolo 1409 dLAN 200 AV Wireless-N Starter Kit
In use since Feb 2012.
Costs about £77. has 3 sockets, and a wireless connection.
You can position it in any convenient power socket...
Unit-1 near the router and connected by cable.
Unit-2 [I have mine connected to a power strip, and see no problems] right beside where it's needed, and I prefer to connect things by cable.
VERY reliable; ALWAYS works, no hassle.
FAST data transfer via your home mains power cables.
d. At present I only connect by wire, as follows:
My Smart TV, and my Raspberry Pi [both connected at the same time].
I use the smart TV and the RPi to stream movies from the web, and very seldom is there ever any buffering, or slowness.
My broadband cable speed is 60 Mb/s max, and the router & modem can both handle that.
I have 1 wired and 1 wireless connections going spare.
e. You could choose to position unit-2 really close to where your wife sits using her laptop, and use/try the wirless [wired would be better] connection to the "Powerline Adapter".
f. My wife connects her "Nokia Lumia 610" Smart Phone, wirelessly direct to the router upstairs, and data transfer seems rather slow.
My 2 daughters each connect their laptops wirelessly direct to the router upstairs.
They haven't complained of slow connection, but perhaps they get and expect that.
I've never asked.
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Thanks folks, and I have seen a recommendation similar to what Sylvander mentions, namely Ethernet over a Powerline.
I will give that a try and return it if it doesn't satisfy.
Oops, that is not what Sylvander suggests. His is a different approach entirely so worth a look.
Lol, I guess it pays to read before posting, as apparently the Devolo
Ethernet over Powerline plus an "N" router.
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The throughput speed of a wireless connection has nothing to do with the signal strength. Rather, it is limited by the wireless protocol, the hardware used (both sides) and the possible speed difference between the ethernet and wireless protocols.
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amigo wrote:
The throughput speed of a wireless connection has nothing to do with the signal strength. Rather, it is limited by the wireless protocol, the hardware used (both sides) and the possible speed difference between the ethernet and wireless protocols.
That's very interesting amigo.
Does the consumer have a choice as to wireless or ethernet protocol ?
As to hardware, I guess that I am subject to the whims of the manufacturer.
Other than reading reviews and picking the supposedly best hardware, I don't know if there is much I could do. Though I have seen articles about unloading some of the load from the router by attaching another to handle DHCP and wireless traffic. I have yet to try it.
I bought and installed a TRENDNET TPL-406E2K KIT, and it is blazing fast.
The wife is very pleased.
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I'm a recovering Windows-aholic, and am happy to report that I have been Windows-free for two years. Though I'm off the Microsoft juice, I've substituted a big gulp of Apple Kool-Aid in its place. Apple's user-centric design, reliability, and style all mouseclick neatly with my techno-Zen sensibilities.
I say that to preface what comes next.
I've taken a look at the new iPad. As pads go, I think it's beautiful – typical game-changing Apple elegance. The only problem I have is that I don't know what problem pads solve.
I've been watching various pads and ebook readers for about 20 years. It seems like every few years, a company will rediscover e-book readers for the very first time, dump a boatload of money into them, get beat up, then beat a hasty retreat from the market to lick their wounds and assign blame. Amazon is responsible for the latest ebook cluster frenzy, with the launch of their Kindle. Of course, the iPad is more than an ebook – it's a computer without a keyboard or a monitor stand.
Before I speculate about whether there's a market for keyboardless computers, I'll first say a few words about ebooks. Will people read an ebook on the beach? I doubt it, but then again, fewer and fewer people read anything on the beach (or anyplace else). I think the fundamental problem with ebooks has been positioning – historically, they've been positioned as content for mainstream recreational consumption, entirely missing their true calling in education. I think etextbooks are a no-brainer. Who wants to haul a backpack full of books when you can tote a Kindle instead? There are caveats, of course, such as whether the market for students that can't afford an ebook-reading laptop is large enough to float an ebook reader industry. There are also usability issues, including the ability to easily highlight text, dog-ear pages, and add marginalia, though these seem to have been addressed in the iPad. Amazon appears to be making an attempt to speak to academia with the Kindle DX, though this seems like more of an e-afterthought than a mission statement.
Now to the iPad. The iPad is much more than an ebook reader. It's more like a floor wax/desert topping combo. Some analysts have tried to wedge the iPad into a fictional computing market somewhere between smartphones and laptops. I don't think a market resides at that address, but we'll see.
Similar to ebook readers, I think the issue (and opportunity) with the iPad is in its positioning. While I don't think it's likely that people are going to prop pads on their knees for two hours to watch a movie (iStand, anyone?), I do think there's a real opportunity in vertical markets for smart clipboards. Smart clipboards could be used to capture data, interact with company databases, call up information (such as profiles and MRI images), and perform simple computing chores such as email and web searches. The potential problem is that historically, Apple has not been big on enterprise applications. Much of the success of the iPad may come down to the availability of these kinds of third party vertical apps. As the success of the iPhone App Store suggests, these apps will come, provided that Apple provides a sufficiently liberal API for iPad developers.
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They were truly the best thing that could have happened to any kid from Western Pennsylvania. To this day, the players names come rolling off my tongue as if I were a 12-year-old boy again: Roberto Clemente, Dick Groat, Bill Mazeroski, Bob Friend, Bill Verdon, Elroy Face, Harvey Haddix, Smoky Burgess, Don Hoak, Mickey Vernon and Bob Skinner.
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It's probably time now for a full disclosure. My abilities as a baseball player were, to say the least, somewhat limited. In other words, I kinda stunk.
Don't get me wrong, not unlike those professional golfer guys who wear those matching outfits, I looked great. If no one ever saw me play, they could be convinced that I looked like a real sandlot ball player.
Seriously, I had that look, minus the side chew. But when it came time for amazing fielding plays, great hits, fast base running, well, let's just say that I was usually one of the last guys to get picked. Because we had no left-handed batters on either team, I was always selected to play right field. In six years of sandlot, I remember about three baseballs coming anywhere near me in right field. Truthfully, the quasi-rejection of being picked in the last round of the draft never thwarted my enthusiasm.
We didn't know anything about hydrating, suntan lotion, or hygiene. We washed our hands before supper. No Purel hand sanitizer, no endless bottles of water, no Coppertone. We just played, slid into the bases, chewed sugar-filled bubblegum, got dirty, and had fun.
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