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Shuangge Steven Ma, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Research Interests
Economics; Neoplasms
Public Health Interests
Bioinformatics; Biomarkers; Biostatistics; Cancer Epidemiology; Cancer genetics; Cancer Survival; Cardiovascular Disease; Genetic epidemiology; Health Policy; Mental Health
Research Organizations
School of Public Health: Ma Lab | YSPH Global Health Concentration
Yale Cancer Center: Cancer Prevention and Control
Office of Cooperative Research
Research Summary
I conduct independent research in multiple statistical areas, including bioinformatics, survival analysis, and semiparametric analysis with support from multiple funding agencies. I provide statistical support to multiple studies conducted at Yale and VA CT Healthcare System in the areas of cancer, mental disorders and health economics.
Extensive Research Description
Develop novel statistical methodologies for complex data;
Study epidemiology and pathogenesis of multiple cancers, including breast cancer, NHL, melanoma and lung cancer;
Conduct survey studies in mainland China and Taiwan, investigating health insurance utilization and impact;
Provide statistical support to multiple biomedical studies.


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March 9, 2012 > Fishing Day
Milpitas Rotarians assisted by family members, Milpitas Police Officers, Milpitas Firefighters, and volunteers from Milpitas High School's Rotary Interact Club held Milpitas Rotary Fishing Day for about 60 Fourth Grade students from Rose School at Ed Levin Park's Spring Valley Pond on Saturday, March 3, 2012.The pond, previously stocked with catfish, was provided with fresh trout this year. Each participating student was furnished with their own tackle box and the use of a "Fishing In The City" rod and reel set. Lunch was provided by Rotary to the participants and volunteers. Five big fish were landed at this event.

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If you asked me what library related activities went on this week, I'd be hard pressed to give an answer. The Digital Public Library of America launched on Thursday to much social media fanfare. The Circulating Idea podcast Kickstarter was also launched and within two days was fully funded. After those two events, I can't really think of anything else significant this week. Something I read in one of the regular columns in Library Journal made me want to punch the screen but that's nothing new either. No, it wasn't the Annoyed Librarian because both of their columns were rather banal this week. No, it wasn't John Berry's piece either even if it lead to an epic ALA Think Tank thread.
No, what I can tell you about this week is that it was bookended by the bombing in Boston as well as the (currently unfolding) hunt for the bombers. It was a fertilizer factory in Texas blowing up, well, most of the town (This is a map of the blast area with landmarks via Reddit. Skip it if you don't want to be additionally horrified.) Congress dropped the ball on passing a gun purchase background check amendment to a bill despite widespread support. Chicago got all manner of weather, suggesting that the Bermuda Triangle may now run through Hinsdale. The Gosnell "House of Horrors" trial continued to unfold in ways that would give Stephen King the willies. Iran experienced a scary giant earthquake. I'm stopping here because, unfortunately, I really could go on.
Without a doubt, it has been a rough week. In an age of instant information transmission, it's hard not to avoid breaking stories which bring all of the incomplete uncertainty with it. Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook can send rumors, speculation, and inaccuracies around the globe in moments. To be fair, it can also send corrections, confirmations, and official accounts in the same time frame as well. But doesn't lessen the resulting moments of confusion.
The human brain doesn't like information gaps so it tries to fill those with anything it has on hand, be it real or imagined. Rationalizations play Monday Morning Quarterback to our thoughts as a way of finding reconciliation and closure using causation and correlation that doesn't necessarily follow through. Elsewhere in the brain, our primitive risk calculating system (best thought of as "the gut") makes risk calculations that are based on emotional factors, not logic. This can push aside our better judgments in favor of immediate action, whatever that may be.
It's hard to sit tight and wait for events to unfold so that a bigger clearer picture emerges. Like many people, I want to know what is going on and a lack of larger perspective stymies that. I'm going to try to step away from the computer for a bit to allow things to develop, but I know I'll have one eye on the screen as I pass it. I try to keep in mind that, as rough as this week has been, this too shall pass. We'll come out on the other side of all these things a bit older, a bit wiser, and hopefully a bit stronger. It's just a matter of getting there.
In the meantime, be kind and try to take care of one another.


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Our holdings include hundreds of glass and film negatives/transparencies that we've scanned ourselves; in addition, many other photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs) in the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) They are adjusted, restored and reworked by your webmaster in accordance with his aesthetic sensibilities before being downsized and turned into the jpegs you see here. All of these images (including "derivative works") are protected by copyright laws of the United States and other jurisdictions and may not be sold, reproduced or otherwise used for commercial purposes without permission.
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December 12, 1915. "Mrs. Raymond Belmont." In a court case that dragged on for years, Mrs. Belmont, the former chorus girl Ethel Loraine, sued her husband, of the banking and equestrian dynasty, for desertion when he abandoned her eight days after their wedding. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
Washington, D.C., 1924. "High school track meet, Central Stadium." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
June 1942. "M-3 tanks in action. Fort Knox, Kentucky." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.
October 1913. San Antonio, Texas. "Lionel Perry, 9-year-old newsboy. Starts out at 5 a.m. usually, 4 a.m. on Sundays. Sells after school." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee.
1865. "Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. View of Maryland Heights at confluence of Shenandoah and Potomac rivers." Wet plate glass negative (detail) by James Gardner. Civil War glass negative collection, Library of Congress. View full size.
Vienna, Virginia, circa 1922. Summer residence of Iowa senator William S. Kenyon and family. View full size. National Photo Company glass negative.
June 8, 1909. "Living on a skyscraper." Roof of a New York apartment house. View full size. 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
Another view of Mott Street in New York's Little Italy (now Chinatown) circa 1910. The building in the middle, 156 Mott, with the Italian pharmacy, is now the Foot Reflexology Center in this Google Street View. The address on the right, 156 Mott, is now just two stories. Most of the basement entrances have been covered. 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.


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Well, I've been so excited for the agility season to arrive. (still covered in over 3 feet of snow... it's not arriving SOON!) I was sorting through pics and found some "new" ones.
btw: Anyone who's ever seen a pic of them on the agility course knows they don't look flattering :rolleyes: ...
First though... Jenny in a wedding gown!!! I didn't get ANY good pics of it... stupid thing kept falling off. Zara calls this one "It's fine, mum, stop fussing" hehehe
I'm only posting the jump ones, because they are the ones that turn out the best... BTW: for anyone who cares... this was an agility "game" we had an egg on a spoon and we had 3 minutes to get as many points on the jumps and tunnels as we could, without dropping the egg. I'm pleased to say Jenny and I got first place. Whoo hoo!!! *Big Grin*
Jump Jenny, Jump!
A nice pain of legs...
I love how her legs are crossed in this one... LOVE IT!!! :D
Jumpin' Jenny!


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A little over a year ago, while researching the Confederacy's economy, I stumbled across this unnerving graph charting the value of America's "stock of slaves" in the last decades before the Civil War.
This graph tells the real story behind the South's secession: the value of the South's "slave stock"—the property of the ruling class — soared as secession approached, reaching an almost 90-degree angle in those final years before Harper's Ferry. The South's ruling class seceded to protect their riches, period.
From afar, if you didn't know that human "slave stock" was the asset being charted, you could easily mistake this graph, and its parabolic trajectory, for one of the many destructive asset bubbles this country has suffered right up through our own time.
Up close, this graph drips greed, mass murder and shame — it strips away the historical revisionism that falsely ascribed the South's "cause" to an almost selfless, tragically romantic attachment to "tradition" and "culture"; it gives lie to the myth that slave owners kept their slaves to the detriment of their own bottom line.
Like the worst wars and the worst of history's villains, the Confederacy's one percenters seceded and fought in order to continue profiting from their most valuable investment properties — their human slave stock.
The graph comes from a grim working paper, "Capitalists Without Capital," written in the late 1980s by a UC Berkeley economist, Richard Sutch, and a UC Riverside historian, Robert Ransom.
As they showed, slavery produced huge profits for southerners who invested in slave capital — to the detriment of all other portfolio investments, as the value of slaves soared in the mid-19th century. By that time, by far the largest cotton-growing states' wealth was in slave stock, not in real estate or other investments.
The slave trade was outlawed in 1808; but the slave population quadrupled from 1 million in 1800 to 4 million in 1860 — encouraged by slaveowners who "bred" their human stock, thereby multiplying their profits as the value of each slave rose.
Slavery is often portrayed by revisionist historians as somehow antithetical to market capitalism; in reality, slavery was a winning portfolio investment, the very incarnation of just how evil "free-market" capitalism can be. As the authors write:
"If slaves ... were an investment included in the asset portfolio of the planter/entrepreneur, they helped satisfy the owner's demand for wealth. But unlike most other forms of capital, which depreciate with time, the stock of slaves appreciated. Thus, the growth of the slave population continuously increased the stock of wealth."
What makes this graph so disturbing for us in 2012 is what it suggests about today's "1 percent" — and how they view the rest of us. It gives form to the brutal crackdown on the Occupy protests — and suggests darker things to come as we try to free ourselves from their vision of civilization, and our place in it.
Contrast that with this McKinsey report put out a few years ago by the director of the consulting group's New York office. Titled "The New Metrics of Corporate Performance: Profit Per Employee," the report argues that the best performing firms in our increasingly financialized era are those companies that have learned to squeeze ever-larger profits out of each employee — and not by the more traditional "return on investment" metric.
The McKinsey report looked at the world's 30 largest companies between 1995 and 2005, and found that their return on human capital more than doubled, from an average of $35,000 profit per employee to $83,000, leading to this rather frank and nauseating conclusion:
"If a company's capital intensity doesn't increase, profit per employee is a pretty good proxy for the return on intangibles. The hallmark of financial performance in today's digital age is an expanded ability to earn 'rents' from intangibles. Profit per employee is one measure of those rents. If a company boosts its profit per employee without increasing its capital intensity, management will increase its rents."
Extracting rent from "employees" as a business strategy: This is supposed to be the language of feudalism, not modern advanced capitalism — and yet this is the cutting edge in 21st century capitalist thinking, unashamed and unvarnished:
"One way to improve a company's profit per employee is simply to shed low-profit employees. But if they generate profit greater than the cost of the capital used to support their work, shedding them actually reduces the creation of wealth."
As with slave stock in a Southern investor's portfolio, the McKinsey report argues that as a corporation learns to successfully extract rent from its employees, the more employees it extracts rent from, the greater its aggregate profits.
To compare "the 99 percent" to African slaves would be crude; but the mindset of "the 1 percent" then, as now, is eerily consistent. They view the rest of us not as human beings with rights, but as livestock whose meat is "rent" to be extracted.
This is the language of plutocratic capitalism, a brutal system totally incompatible with democracy and antithetical to republican government and civilization. It is the language of misery, and misery is what "the 1 percent" is promising "the 99 percent" for years to come, in ever-greater doses.


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The music-streaming application is the latest push in RIM's strategy to court the casual market.
BlackBerry users will be able to access the Internet radio service Pandora on the go.
Pandora is a streaming-music service that uses an analysis system called the Music Genome Project to create personalized radio stations for a user based on any song or artist the consumer wants. The service will be free, but Pandora will serve visual and audio ads. The music application will run over a BlackBerry's Wi-Fi, 3G, or EDGE connection...
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* Larger-than-expected U.S. corn stocks, big planting seen
* Weather risks remain for growing season
* Lower corn price takes 2 years to impact beef - economist
By Veronica Brown and Tom Polansek
* Larger-than-expected U.S. corn stocks, big planting seen
* Weather risks remain for growing season
* Lower corn price takes 2 years to impact beef - economist
By Veronica Brown and Tom Polansek
LONDON/CHICAGO, April 8 (Reuters) - Consumers can't yet bank
on a year of cheaper food, despite predictions for bulging grain
crops in the United States and other major global producers that
have dragged futures prices back from last year's record highs.
The forecasts, analysts say, are just that - with seeds not
yet in the ground for the all-important U.S. corn crop that is
used to feed cows and produce cereal products and other foods.
The next few months will be crucial in determining prices,
as weather conditions will ultimately determine the size of the
"There's not enough assurance here yet of lower grain prices
in the long run to start marking down those food items," said
Steve Meyer, president of Paragon Economics.
After a bruising 2012, which featured a historic U.S.
drought, dryness in Eastern Europe and the third spike in global
food prices in four years, farmers have dusted themselves off to
start a new growing season.
Grain prices, which touched record highs late last summer,
have been under pressure recently as some livestock producers
have cut herd sizes due to high feed costs. Meanwhile, the
acreage dedicated to key crops has increased and reserves look
fatter than previously thought.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in a report
issued on March 28, forecast that U.S. growers will harvest a
record 14.6 billion bushels of corn and a record 3.4 billion
bushels of soybeans - bumper crops that would help replenish
razor-tight supplies.
The USDA also said corn inventories as of March 1 were 8
percent higher than traders expected, sparking the biggest
weekly loss in corn prices in 21 months last week at the Chicago
Board of Trade.
Prices are down 25 percent since reaching a record high in
Investors have been turning their backs on commodity index
funds, which take long positions in a range of commodities
including grains, due to higher returns offered by equity
The Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB index, which
tracks a range of commodities, has fallen around 8 percent in
the last six months while the Dow Jones Industrial Average index
has risen about 10 percent over the same period.
USDA's planting intentions survey fulfilled expectations
flagged by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO), whose food price index has stabilised from historically
high levels.
Still, the markets may have run ahead of themselves, FAO
chief economist Abdolreza Abbassian said.
"There has been a price correction, but that probably tended
to give too much credit to optimism over very favourable growing
conditions in the coming months," Abbassian told Reuters.
"Right now we're in a situation of a generally good and
favourable outlook for 13/14 for nearly all the crops, but it
all depends on the next few months' growing conditions and
nobody today can predict what those will be," he added.
"We're not out of the woods yet."
A steep decline in nearby grain futures, compared to
deferred contract months that represent the crops that will be
harvested in the autumn, reflects USDA's larger-than-expected
stocks estimate and lingering uncertainty over the size of the
upcoming U.S. harvests.
Front-month July corn has tumbled almost 14 percent
since the USDA issued its report, compared to a roughly 6
percent drop for December corn.
Wariness on the final outcome for crops cannot be ignored,
given the drama of recent years and resulting food emergencies.
Early predictions for a record-breaking 2012 U.S. corn crop
proved wrong after the worst drought in more than half a century
drove yields to a 17-year low, while the Black Sea breadbasket
saw poor weather slash its collective wheat crop by more than
A resulting surge in food prices last year revived memories
of the 2007/08 food crisis, which the UN estimated added 75
million to the number of chronically hungry people in the world.
If the United States produces a large corn crop in 2013,
sending grain prices lower, it will take two years before
cheaper feed prices impact beef prices, Meyer said. The lag is
the time needed to produce a new cow for slaughter.
Chicken prices could weaken in late 2013 and pork prices
could drop in 2014 due to shorter turnaround times, he said.
"Until we see that this crop has been made, I don't think
you're going to see a response from the protein sectors," Meyer
Goods like bread and breakfast cereal won't cheapen much
either, said Bill Tierney, chief economist for AgResource Co and
a former principal grains economist for USDA. The cost of corn
and wheat is "inconsequential" in many bakery products,
overshadowed by packaging, transportation and marketing costs,
he said.
"The cost of a plastic wrapper is more than the cost of
wheat that goes into a loaf of bread," he said.
U.S. shoppers paid about 2 percent more for a basket of food
at grocery stores in the first quarter of 2013 than they did in
the last quarter of 2012, according to a study issued last week
by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Food prices will likely rise by 3 percent to 4 percent
during 2013 because of tight meat supplies, slightly exceeding
the average rate of inflation over the past decade, said John
Anderson, the Farm Bureau's deputy chief economist.
A drop of $1 in the corn market "is probably not even going
to be a blip at the retail level," he said.
"Right now we're focused on planting, and we're having a
late spring," Anderson said, referring to concerns about cold
weather slowing the start of U.S. planting.
"There are million things that can happen between now and
when we know what the size of this crop will be."
(Additional reporting by Nigel Hunt in London, Naveen Thukral
in Singapore, Colin Packham in Sydney and P.J. Huffstutter in
Chicago; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)


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My maternal 4th-great granduncle, Larkin M. SWAFFORD, was married on this date in 1850 in Monroe County, Indiana to Catherine Jan STILES. Larkin was the son of Larkin and Nancy (________) SWAFFORD, and the younger brother of my Peter Kirkipatrick SWAFFORD. Larkin was born circa 1830 in Tennessee. Catherine was born circa 1830 in Indiana, of unknown parentage. They raised a family of 7 children in Bean Blossom Township, Monroe County, Indiana. The last record I have for Larkin & Catherine is the 1870 census. Nothing further is known.
My paternal 3rd-great grandaunt, Catherine JACOBS, was born on this date in 1818 in Warrington Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Catherine was the daughter of David and Barbara (BYERS) JACOBS, and the older sister of my Susan JACOBS. Catherine married November 17, 1836 in Wayne County, Ohio to Josiah Jeremiah KANAGY. I do not have dates of birth or death for Josiah. Catherine died March 19, 1892. Nothing further is known.
My paternal 2nd-great grandmother, Mary Jane SHERRICK, was born on this date in 1844 in Ashland County, Ohio. Mary was the daughter of David and Susan (JACOBS) SHERRICK. Mary married October 14, 1862 in Ashland County, Ohio to George Washington HALEY, son of George J. and Rachel (GARY) HALEY. They had 7 children. George died December 16, 1892 in Jay County, Indiana. Mary married secondly to Robert N. KIMBLE on May 8, 1897 in Jay County, Indiana. Robert was born August 1841 in Ohio. Mary died January 15, 1916 and is buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery, Jay County, Indiana.
My paternal 5th-great grandaunt, Mary WOOLSTON, was born on this date in 1766 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Mary was the daughter of Samuel and Cyllania (WOOLSTON) WOOLSTON, and the younger sister of my Lettice WOOLSTON. Nothing further is known.


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Now that Jackie is an only cat, it's time to start looking for a friend for him. I got Jackie from a kill shelter thinking he was in more dire straits than a cat in a no kill shelter. Generally kitties in no kill shelters aren't under a time frame for euthanasia like kill shelter kitties are.
However, this time I feel I need to know more about the cat before bringing it home. With Jackie being blind, I need a kitty that is a real sweetheart and doesn't have a problem with Jackie bumping into her on occasion. When he accidentally bumped into Robin, she got all bent out of shape and hissed and swatted at him - not knowing what was coming next, he generally cowered, and even though Robin was a total daddy's girl, Terry got really upset when Jackie cowered. Therefore, there will be no tolerance of a new kitty being mean to Jackie - thus my need to know more about them before bringing them home.
I've been on petfinder.com and there are a few ladies I'm interested in, but we're not quite ready to adopt yet since we're not "home" yet and a few other various reasons. So my question is, is it ok to send inquiries about the girls I'm interested in or should I wait so I don't get anybody's hopes up unnecessarily?
Robin kind of just "fell into our lap" after Peanut died, so Terry kind of wants to see if that will happen again, but I guess I'm a little more impatient.......it's so quiet around here......
Anyway, let me know what you all think - do I inquire or do I wait? It should only be a week or two more before we're ready for a new personality. :)


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The report released Monday afternoon into the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown has failed to identify a motive for the attack.
According to the report, Adam Lanza, 20, acted alone and was solely responsible for the horrific events of that day. In addition, the report said, "Unless additional and at this time unanticipated evidence is developed, there will be no state criminal prosecution as a result of the crimes."
On the morning of Dec. 14, 2012, Lanza, who was heavily armed, shot his way into the locked building with a Bushmaster Model XM15-E2s rifle. At that point, the report said, Lanza shot and killed the principal and school psychologist in the north hallway of the school. The report said they were responding to the sound of gunfire when they were both shot and killed.
"Caller is indicating she thinks there's someone shooting in the building," according to the 911 call.
The report said Lanza also shot and injured two other staff members who were in the hallway before heading back into the main office. The report said Lanza didn't see the people hiding inside, and returned to the hallway.
After leaving the office, the investigation showed Lanza then walked down the hallway and entered first-grade classroom 8 and first-grade classroom 10.
Officials said they do not know what order Lanza walked into the rooms.
He then killed 15 children and their teacher in classroom 8 and five children and their teacher in classroom 10.
The investigation showed that all of the killings were done with the Bushmaster rifle.
At that point, the report showed, Lanza killed himself with a Glock 20, 10mm pistol in classroom 10. The report said the Bushmaster was found in the same classroom as Lanza's body and all of the shell casings recovered from inside the school came from that weapon. The Glock that was also next to his body was determined to be the one Lanza used to shoot himself.
The report showed Lanza also had a Sig Sauer P226, a 9mm semi-automatic pistol on him, but there was no evidence that the weapon had been fired. An Izhmash Saiga-12, 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun was found in Lanza's car, which was parked in front of the building. The report showed that the weapon had not been fired.
At Lanza's home, where his mother, Nancy Lanza, was found dead, a Savage Mark II rifle was discovered and four bullets were found during the autopsy of Nancy Lanza.
All of the firearms were legally bought by Nancy Lanza, the report said. All of the different ammunition types that were found were also bought by her and there was no evidence to show anyone else had purchased ammunition.
Even though Adam Lanza lived with his mother, the report stated he hadn't interacted with her directly in months and communicated only by email.
"The shooter disliked birthdays, Christmas and holidays. He would not allow his mother to put up a Christmas tree. The mother explained it by saying the shooter had no emotions or feelings," the report stated.
However, a Christmas check from his mom to buy a new gun was also located by investigators.
In Adam Lanza's room, found on his computers hard drive were videos showing suicide by gunshot. There were images of Lanza holding a handgun to his head and a dramatization of children being shot.
People have been questioning the police department's response to the shooting and information on how the department responded after getting word of the shooting was included in the report.
Adam Lanza also had a large amount of materials on the Columbine shootings and other mass murders. He had materials advocating for rights of pedophiles and a spreadsheet listing mass murders by name.
The report stated investigators found the video games Left for Dead, Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto in Adam Lanza's room.
Adam Lanza loved the video game Dance, Dance, Revolution and often went to a local theater with a version in the lobby. He played almost every Friday through Sunday for four to 10 hours at a time.
Investigators said Adam Lanza, who attended Sandy Hook School from first through fifth grade, said he loved the school and liked to go there. He never told anyone or indicated of the violence he was about to unleash there.
"It's in spite of the fact that the hard drive hasn't been examined yet that the case has been closed," said Peter Valentin, who is a UNH Forensic Science professor and retired state trooper. "Under normal circumstances when you have that piece of information yet to be understood, you would hold out the possibility that more could be coming."
Both his mother and father indicated Adam Lanza had been bullied growing up, but some teachers and peers contradicted those reports.
According to the report released Monday, the police response began at 9:35:39 a.m. when the first 911 call was received by the Newtown Police Department. The report said as soon as the call was made, the police response began, and it took less than four minutes for police to arrive at the school.
The report said it was fewer than five minutes and one minute after the arrival of the first police officer that Lanza killed himself.
It was fewer than six minutes from the time the first police officer arrived at Sandy Hook Elementary School to the time the first officer entered the building.
In less than 11 minutes, Lanza had shot and killed 20 children and six adults.
"My thoughts today are with the people who lost a loved one at Sandy Hook Elementary School, as they have been nearly every day since the tragedy," Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a statement on Monday afternoon. "The release of this report will no doubt be difficult on them. But if there is one thing that I believe we must do, it's that we must honor the lives that were lost by taking steps to protect ourselves from another horror like this. I hope that the information in this summary and in the supporting documents that will be released by the State Police takes us closer to that goal."
The biggest question that remains is, why?
"Unfortunately," the report said, "that question may never be answered conclusively, despite the collection of extensive background information on the shooter through a multitude of interviews and other sources."
The report concluded that it was clear that Adam Lanza planned all of his horrific actions, including killing himself, but it may never be known why he did it or why he targeted Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The report speaks of the initial reports of a second shooter. Police initially saw what turned out to be a parent running with a cell phone outside the school and also found two zip-up sweat jackets outside Adam Lanza's car.
They're confident now that Adam Lanza conspired and carried out the Sandy Hook attack on his own.
The state's attorney mentions how difficult this report must be for the families and others involved. He thanked those who acted heroically inside the school, saying many lives were saved.
"My thoughts and prayers remain with the families of the 26 victims and the entire Newtown community; all have remained resilient and resolute in the face of unspeakable tragedy," U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, said in a statement Monday afternoon. "My hope is that this report adds momentum to the push to prevent gun violence and that it provides the families with some closure in the wake of their tremendous loss."
The Newtown community, for the second time, now faces a difficult time in the coming weeks with the release of this detailed report on the shooting investigation and with the one-year anniversary of the incident.
Newtown First Selectwoman Pat Llodra said people should quietly mark the day by coming together and supporting local businesses.
The report released Monday was just the summary of the full report expected to be thousands of pages long. That report is expected to be released early next year.
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Three Things to Inspire Your Weekend
- Kempt Staff
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July's a tricky month in the world of printed menswear.
Because even though summer only officially started last Friday, we've been talking about it since early May—and the last thing on our minds in the sweltering heat we're all now starting to feel is fall tweeds.
It's this "trickiness," among other things, that led the gents at two of our big three men's rags to the same decision years ago: July wasn't worth the hassle of its own issue, so they tacked it onto the end of June's. Which has given us the rare opportunity to look past those dusty old stalwarts to a few of the other menswear mags out there.
So without further ado, we take the pulse of this month in menswear journalism, after the jump...»


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2009-10 Women's Basketball
Hanover 84, Bluffton 44
Bluffton no match for Panthers at Hanover
February 6, 2010
By: Brent Schroeder, sports information assistant
HANOVER, Ind. - The Bluffton University women's basketball team struggled on both ends of the floor against a strong Hanover team, losing 84-44 on Saturday, February 6, 2010. Bluffton dropped to 4-9 in the Heartland Conference and 7-14 overall, while the Panthers jumped to 9-4 in the HCAC and 15-6 overall.
The game began with four lead changes in the first eight minutes. Sophomore Alicia Amis (Woodstock/Mechanicsburg) got Bluffton on the board early with a layup to tie the game at two. Three possessions later sophomore guard Brittany Stegmaier (Garfield/Trinity) nailed a three-pointer to give the Beavers a 5-2 lead four minutes into the game. The Panthers battled back to go ahead 6-5 on a Molly Martin jump shot with 14:50 left in the first half.
Bluffton and Hanover battled back and forth, and following a three-pointer by Hanover's Torin Franz, senior forward Ginny Buckingham (Bluffton) got free in the paint to tie the game at nine. However, with 13:04 left in the first half, Hanover's Liz Sparks hit a layup to give Hanover a 13-10 lead and the Panthers never looked back. The home team ended the half on a 28-4 run, heading to the break with a commanding 45-18 lead over Bluffton.
The Beavers began the second period hoping to strike early to gain momentum. However, Hanover eradicated any hopes of a comeback by putting together a 23-7 run that capped a monstrous 51-11 jag that encompassed nearly twenty minutes. The Hanover spurt ended on a three-point shot by sophomore guard Becky Ruble (Grover Hill/Wayne Trace) which made the score 68-28 with 11 minutes left on the clock. The game ended with both Hanover and Bluffton chipping in 16 points apiece, making the final score 84-44 in favor of Hanover.
For the Beavers, senior Ginny Buckingham and sophomore Alicia Amis both pitched in six points with junior Kim Miller (Delphos/St. John's) pulling down a team-high 10 rebounds. Bluffton's bench put up 22 points with sophomore guard Kirstie Runion (Cincinnati/Cincinnati Christian) adding five points. The Beavers turned it over 23 times and made just 14-of-56 shots from the field (25.0 percent). Hanover won the battle on the glass (45-37).
The Panther offense was led by Molly Martin who lit up the scoreboard with 20 points, shooting 9-of-12 from the field. Holly Vogel and Torin Franz were also in double figures with Vogel dropping in 14 points and Franz helping out with 12 points, including 2-of-2 from three-point land. Molly Martin also led the way on the glass with 12 rebounds, giving her an impressive double-double effort in the win.
Up next on the slate is the Beavers' final road contest of the season. Bluffton travels to Manchester on February 10 at 7:30 p.m.


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Housing Works Activists Travel to Boca Raton to Put HIV/AIDS on the Electoral Issues Map
October 23, 2012
The activists began their day very early yesterday, attending the filming of two influential shows, "Morning Joe" and "Way Too Early," where they met MSNBC host Mike Barnicle, NBC news correspondent Andrea Mitchell, and former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. In fact, after speaking with C2EA activists and the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS, Ford Jr. signed the AIDS Vote petition that would make HIV/AIDS a top-priority for the next President and his Administration. (You can see a photo of Ford Jr. on our Facebook page!).
After their early "Morning Joe," the activists continued their message that "HIV/AIDS is an election issue" by walking the streets of Boca Raton, carrying signs reading, "Our next President must commit to Getting to Zero New HIV Infections" and wearing t-shirts that read, "I have HIV."
Housing Works and C2EA were joined by activists from the Condomize! campaign and a number of women's rights groups.
Although the Presidential debates are over and we are officially two weeks away from the election -- nay, THE ELECTION -- Housing Works, C2EA and other AIDS activists will continue to push for the country's leaders to take the steps to end AIDS in the country and around the world.
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Let Kentucky have the past. Kansas owns the present.
And with a few more performances like this, the loaded Jayhawks might be making some more history of their own.
Chicago native Julian Wright scored 15 of his 21 points in the second half, Brandon Rush added 19 and top-seeded Kansas romped past Kentucky 88-76 in a matchup of two of the game's most storied programs in the second round of the NCAA tournament Sunday.
Mario Chalmers added 16 for the Jayhawks, who shot a blistering 57 percent to win their 13th in a row. Kansas (32-4) will play fourth-seeded Southern Illinois on Thursday in the West Regional semifinals in San Jose, Calif.
Kentucky is the winningest program in college history while Kansas claims Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of the game. The Wildcats had won 19 of the previous 24 meetings between the two teams, but Kansas has had the edge recently.
This rout was practically a repeat of last year's meeting between the teams in Lawrence, Kan. Rush led the way in that one, a 73-46 blowout that was Kentucky's worst loss in Tubby Smith's 10 years as coach.
The eighth-seeded Wildcats didn't have Randolph Morris in that one, as he served out a 14-game suspension for entering the 2005 NBA draft. But his presence Sunday made little difference as Kentucky (22-12) lost for the seventh time in 11 games.
Morris finished with 22 points, including 14 from the line. Bobby Perry added 21.
The loss is sure to create more problems for Smith. Despite winning a national championship and five Southeastern Conference titles in his 10 years at Kentucky, Smith has been criticized by the Wildcats faithful in recent weeks for "underachieving."
Athletic director Mitch Barnhart gave Smith a vote of confidence after the SEC tournament, but the fact it was needed shows just how far from favor Smith has fallen.
Rush opened the second half with a 3 that gave Kansas a nine-point lead, its largest of the game to that point. Perry responded with back-to-back 3s that pulled Kentucky within 39-36 with 18:51 left to play.
But Morris left the game after picking up his third foul with 17:46 still to play. And just like last year, the Jayhawks steamrolled Kentucky with Morris on the bench.
Wright made a jumper and scored on a follow as Kansas ran off eight unanswered points as part of a 13-2 run. An irritated Smith called a timeout, and Sheray Thomas stopped the Kansas run with a layup afterward.
It had all the effect of a speed bump. Wright scored again, this time on a layup, and Rush hit another 3-pointer that extended Kansas' lead to 54-40 and brought the Kansas faithful - including Chicago Bull Kirk Hinrich, a member of the 2003 Kansas team that lost to Syracuse in the NCAA final - to its feet.
Morris returned with just over 12 minutes to play, but the damage was done. Kansas had found its legs.
Jackson beat the shot clock buzzer on a layup, and Collins fed Robinson for a fastbreak layup that put the Jayhawks up 62-47 with 9:02 to play. It was showtime after that, as the Jayhawks put their considerable skills on display with a dizzying array of fast breaks, slick passes and shots that Hinrich's NBA colleagues would envy.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved
You can watch the game beginning at 5:06 p.m. on WYMT with all the highlights tonight on Mountain News NightWatch.


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Penn State presidents' success measured by ability to turn vision into reality
Penn State presidents' success measured by ability to turn vision into reality
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Although Eric Barron is getting ready to settle into his role as Penn State's 18th president, the time will inevitably come when his accomplishments as chief executive will be compared with those of his predecessors. How should the success of any college or university president be measured?
At Penn State, at least, the most successful leaders have articulated an overarching vision for how the institution could become an even more effective force for creating and disseminating knowledge, and also have succeeded in transforming that vision into reality.
Take Edwin Erle Sparks, for example. A former history professor at the University of Chicago, he came to Penn State in 1908 declaring that "the cloister aspect of a college is a thing of the past." Public higher education must serve the masses. So Sparks dedicated himself to "taking Penn State to the people," as he liked to say.
Under his leadership, the then-Pennsylvania State College inaugurated statewide cooperative extension programs in agriculture and home economics, and at Williamsport and Allentown established the first of a series of far-flung technical institutes — pioneer workforce education programs that equipped industrial workers with the engineering and supervisory skills they need to advance in their careers.
To be sure, a few presidents have demonstrated no vision, or the wrong kind. Joseph Shortlidge, who was named president of the college in 1880, had spent his career in secondary education. He was out of his depth in higher education and spent barely 10 months at Penn State's helm. Shortlidge "exhibited a lack of wisdom, poise, tact, and executive ability," wrote Wayland Dunaway in his History of the Pennsylvania State College (1946), and "was a complete failure as president."
Then there have been presidents who manifested remarkable vision but failed to bring their grand ideas to fruition. John Martin Thomas, an ordained minister who had served as president of Vermont's Middlebury College, is a good illustration.
Thomas, who began a four-year stint at Penn State in 1921, sought to transform a rural agricultural and mechanical college into a nationally known university in name and in fact. A university needed to offer a comprehensive program of advanced-degree and professional studies, Thomas reasoned, and he presided over the creation of the Graduate School in 1922. He lobbied hard among alumni and state lawmakers to rename the institution the Pennsylvania State University, but his plan was scuttled by traditionalists among alumni and by leaders of other public and private institutions who believed their own schools' status would be diminished if Penn State became "the" state university.
Thomas also was the first president to appreciate the important role private support could play for Penn State, which was turning away thousands of qualified applicants each year because it had no room to accommodate them. He launched the Emergency Building Fund campaign, aiming to raise $2 million from alumni and friends for expansion of campus facilities. Under fire from critics who said a public institution should not be asking for private dollars, the campaign netted only $1.3 million (still enough to be combined later with state appropriations to help erect such landmark structures as Rec Hall, the new Old Main and Ritenour Building).
Thomas was far ahead of his time. Where he stumbled, Milton Eisenhower succeeded 30 years later. When Eisenhower became Penn State's president in 1950, he saw immediately that the institution was doing university-level work, yet because it styled itself a college, it was not receiving the national recognition it deserved. He sensed the time was right for a change, and with little fanfare petitioned the Centre County Court of Common Pleas to approve a name change. The Pennsylvania State University became the legal title in 1953.
At Penn State, the most successful leaders have articulated an overarching vision for how the institution could become an even more effective force for creating and disseminating knowledge, and also have succeeded in transforming that vision into reality.
Penn State returned to philanthropy during the seven years (1983-90) of the presidency of Bryce Jordan, a musicologist and senior administrator in the University of Texas system. Jordan made private fundraising a top priority. Private support was essential to fulfilling his vision of propelling Penn State into the ranks of the nation's top 10 public universities. "I emphasized our ambition over our need," he said later. Under his watch, Penn State secured chairs and professorships, endowed programs, scholarships and other academic enhancements that distinguish a great university from an ordinary one.
The Campaign for Penn State raised $350 million over six years, against an initial goal of $200 million. Other major capital campaigns followed under later administrations, including For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students, which recently celebrated surpassing its $2 billion goal as it heads toward its conclusion on June 30.
The president who arguably has possessed the broadest vision for what Penn State was and could be was Eric Walker, who began his career as an electrical engineer and who led the University from 1956 to 1970. Walker was an unabashed expansionist — growth drove practically every major initiative he undertook. Total enrollment at all levels grew from 13,000 to 40,000, research expenditures soared from $8 million to $36 million, and a seemingly endless list of construction projects at University Park campus pushed the value of the physical plant past a quarter-billion dollars. He scored an unprecedented coup in building a medical school literally from the ground up, as Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine was opened in 1967.
But it was the University's geographic reach as an undergraduate institution that really blossomed. Walker maintained that Pennsylvania had failed to nurture a network of community colleges that made available the first two years of a baccalaureate education at low cost, close to home for many students. Thus was born Penn State's system of Commonwealth Campuses (so-named during the Walker years). A few locations (some evolved from the old technical institutes) already offered lower-level degree work but by 1967, the University had 17 campuses statewide.
Walker successfully played the role of builder because the University was able to benefit from generous allotments of state revenues — perhaps the only time in its history that the institution had enjoyed such largesse. It was the Cold War, post-Sputnik era and bolstering higher education was seen as a way to make sure the U.S. remained competitive with its Soviet nemesis.
In the coming months, Eric Barron will outline a vision for Penn State. The context in which he will lead the University is much different from the Walker era and the Jordan era and all the other presidential eras. But the criteria by which his success will be measured are likely to remain unchanged.
Michael Bezilla is author of three books on Penn State history, including Penn State: An Illustrated History (Penn State Press, 1985).


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A man convicted of killing a Lexington doctor will spend the rest of his life in prison. A judge gave that sentence to Marty Roe for the 2011 murder of Dr. Martha Post outside her Lexington practice. Dr. Post's family was there as Roe learned his punishment.
A jury made their recommendation of life in prison two months ago, and Thursday a judge followed suit. Roe's attorneys already announced they plan to appeal.
Judge James Ishmael said the evidence against Roe is overwhelming, proving that he is responsible for the shooting death of Dr. Martha Post of Lexington. It happened outside her Lexington dermatology office two years ago. Convicted of murder, tampering with physical evidence, and harassing communications, Roe's fate is now officially behind bars. The harassing communications charge was a result of Roe calling and leaving messages for Dr. Post constantly. His obsession with her was what the jury said drove him to kill her when she didn't reciprocate.
Roe's attorneys tried to reason with the judge to get years knock off his sentence, but the judge wouldn't budge. He says because Roe did not cooperate in giving a DNA sample or a pre-sentencing interview that he felt no need to postpone Roe's sentencing. And the Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Larson says he couldn't agree more with what happened today in court.
"Of course we are pleased that this yo-yo has been sent to the penitentiary," said Larson. "He deserves it. He's earned it."
Judge Ishmael and Larson both say they have the deepest sympathy for the Post family because of everything they've been through in this trial, especially knowing Dr. Post was such a nice woman.
"The only thing trials ever do for the families is just rip the scab off," said Larson.
Roe's charges will be served concurrently, meaning all at once, because Kentucky law states they must be when one is a life sentence.
Roe has served 771 days in prison already, which is just over two years. He is being credited for that time served. The judge also commented that Kentucky law does not allow the possibility of probation in this violent case.


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The American Repertory Theater's circus-themed production of "Pippin'' was nominated Tuesday for a Tony Award for best revival of a musical, one of an impressive 10 nominations the show received.
Only "Kinky Boots,'' with 13, and "Matilda the Musical,'' with 12, received more Tony nominations than "Pippin.'' Close behind are "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella,'' with nine nominations, and "Golden Boy,'' with eight.
A 1972 musical with a score by Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson, "Pippin'' opened last week on Broadway. It premiered in January, after weeks of previews, at the ART's Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge.
ART artistic director Diane Paulus, who helms "Pippin,'' was nominated for a Tony Award for best direction of a musical. Patina Miller, who portrays the Leading Player in "Pippin,'' was nominated for best leading actress in a musical, and Andrea Martin, who plays Pippin's grandmother Berthe, got a nod for best featured actress in a musical.
Terrence Mann, who plays Charles, was nominated for best featured actor in a musical. Nods also went to Chet Walker for best choreography, Scott Pask for best scenic design, Dominique Lemieux for best costume design, Kenneth Posner for best lighting design, and Jonathan Deans and Garth Helm for best sound design.
The acrobatic "Pippin,'' whose circus routines were devised by Gypsy Snider of Les 7 Doigts de la Main, will compete against "Annie,'' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood,'' and "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella'' in the best musical revival category.
It was announced last week that the Huntington Theatre Company will receive the 2013 Regional Theatre Award at the Tony Awards ceremony, which takes place at Radio City Music Hall on June 9. The Huntington, headed by artistic director Peter DuBois and managing director Michael Maso, was saluted in the announcement by the Tony Awards Administration Committee for its support of new plays and emerging playwrights.
Movie star Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut in "Lucky Guy,'' was nominated for best actor in a play. Hanks will contend against fellow nominees Nathan Lane for "The Nance,'' Tracy Letts for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,'' David Hyde Pierce for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,'' and Tom Sturridge, for "Orphans.''
(Some other big names did not fare as well as Hanks: Al Pacino was not nominated for "Glengarry Glen Ross,'' and neither were Scarlett Johansson for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' or Bette Midler for "I'll Eat You Last.'')
The contenders for best actress in a play are Cicely Tyson for "The Trip to Bountiful,'' Laurie Metcalf for "The Other Place,'' Amy Morton for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,'' Kristine Nielsen for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,'' and Holland Taylor for "Ann.''
In the category of best musical, the contenders are "Kinky Boots,'' "Matilda the Musical,'' "Bring It On: The Musical,'' and "A Christmas Story: The Musical.'' The nominees for best play are "Lucky Guy,'' by the late Nora Ephron; "The Assembled Parties,'' by Richard Greenberg; "The Testament of Mary,'' by Colm Toibin; and "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,'' by Christopher Durang. Nicholas Martin, former artistic director of the Huntington, was also nominated for best direction of a play for "Vanya."
Miller, of "Pippin,'' will compete for the Tony for best leading actress in a musical against Stephanie J. Block for "The Mystery of Edwin Drood,'' Carolee Carmello for "Scandalous,'' Valisia LeKae for "Motown the Musical,'' and Laura Osnes for "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.'' Nominees for best leading actor in a musical are Santino Fontana for "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella,'' Rob McClure for "Chaplin,'' Bertie Carvel for "Matilda the Musical,'' and Billy Porter and Stark Sands, both for "Kinky Boots.''
Playwright Larry Kramer ("The Normal Heart'') will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award for his work in cofounding Gay Men's Health Crisis.
The nominations were announced Tuesday morning in New York by Sutton Foster, winner of two Tony Awards, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who plays Mitchell on ABC's "Modern Family.''
The Tony Awards are presented by the nonprofit American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League, a trade association of producers.Don Aucoin can be reached at aucoin@globe


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Abstract: Giving Back Identity to Human Remains: Why Forensic Anthropology is Important
There are no two skeletons alike. To give back identity to human remains has become a key issue nowadays in society. Also, in the global world, the knowledge of the cause and manner of death are of major importance in solving cases such as crimes against humanity or some violent deaths. Forensic anthropologists play a foremost role in identification of human remains, since they are experts in generating osteobiographies as well as documenting violence on the basis of skeletal remains. The benefits to society are both obvious and worthwhile. Through the presentation of a variety of case studies, including routine cases, crimes against humanity, and mass disasters, the importance of this growing forensic science is shown. Emphasis will be given to an ongoing project in Africa, called "Memories Preservation", which is mainly the recovery and identification of the bodies of Portuguese soldiers who died during the Colonial War in Africa during the sixties and seventies.
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Killer Game Programming in Java: A 3D Checkerboard, Part 2
Pages: 1, 2, 3, 4
The Colored Tiles
ColouredTiles class extends
Shape3D and defines the geometry and appearance of tiles with the same color. The geometry uses a Java 3D
QuadArray to represent the tiles as a series of quadrilaterals (quads). The constructor is
QuadArray(int vertexCount, int vertexFormat);
The vertex format is an ORed collection of
static integers, which specify the different aspects of the quad to be initialized later, such as its coordinates, color, and normals. In
ColouredTiles, the
QuadArray plane is created using this line of code:
plane = new QuadArray(coords.size( ),
GeometryArray.COORDINATES | GeometryArray.COLOR_3 );
size( ) method returns the number of coordinates in the supplied
ArrayList. The coordinate and color data is supplied in
createGeometry( ):
int numPoints = coords.size( );
Point3f[] points = new Point3f[numPoints];
coords.toArray( points ); // ArrayList->array
plane.setCoordinates(0, points);
Color3f cols[] = new Color3f[numPoints];
for(int i=0; i < numPoints; i++)
cols[i] = col;
plane.setColors(0, cols);
The order in which a quad's coordinates are specified is significant. The front of a polygon is the face where the vertices form a counterclockwise loop. Knowing front from back is important for lighting and hidden face culling, and by default, only the front face of a polygon will be visible in a scene. In this application, the tiles are oriented so their fronts are facing upward along the y-axis.
It's necessary to ensure that the points of each quad from a convex, planar polygon, or rendering may be compromised. However, each quad in the coordinates array doesn't need to be connected or adjacent to the other quads, which is the case for these tiles.
Since a quad's geometry doesn't include normals information, a
Material node component can't be used to specify the quad's color when lit. I could use a
ColoringAttributes, but a third alternative is to set the color in the geometry, as done here (
plane.setColors(0, cols);). This color will be constant, unaffected by the scene lighting.
Once finalized, the
Shape3D's geometry is set with:
The shape's appearance is handled by
createAppearance( ), which uses a Java 3D
PolygonAttribute component to switch off the culling of the back face.
PolygonAttribute can be employed to render polygons in point or line form (i.e., as wire frames), and to flip the normals of back facing shapes:
Appearance app = new Appearance( );
PolygonAttributes pa = new PolygonAttributes( );
Once the appearance has been fully specified, it's fixed in the shape with
The Floor's Axis Labels
The floor's axis labels are generated with the
labelAxes( ) and
makeText( ) methods in
CheckerFloor( ).
labelAxes( ) uses two loops to create labels along the x and z. Each label is constructed by
makeText( ) and then added to the floor's
BranchGroup (see Figure 15-5):
floorBG.addChild( makeText(pt,""+i) );
makeText( ) uses the
Text2D utility class to create a 2D string of a specified color, font, point size, and font style:
Text2D message = new Text2D(text, white, "SansSerif", 36, Font.BOLD);
// 36 point bold Sans Serif
Text2D object is a
Shape3D object with a quad geometry (a rectangle), and appearance given by a texture map (image) of the string, placed on the front face. By default, the back face is culled; if the user moves behind an axis label, the object becomes invisible.
The point size is converted to virtual-world units by dividing by 256. Generally, it's a bad idea to use too large a point size in the
Text2D( ) constructor since the text may be rendered incorrectly. Instead, a
TransformGroup should be placed above the shape and used to scale it to the necessary size.
The positioning of each label is done by a
TransformGroup above the shape:
TransformGroup tg = new TransformGroup( );
Transform3D t3d = new Transform3D( );
t3d.setTranslation(vertex); // the position for the label
setTranslation( ) only affects the position of the shape. The
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"I thought it might be a double. It was more of a line drive than most. And I'm by far not a home run hitter."
(Willie Harris, via Washington Post, 5/31/2008)
Nats 7, Diamondbacks 4: Willie Harris delivers big fly, now out homering Wily Mo 2-1.
None of this news on Zim's shoulder sounds promising. Trip to the DL to be announced any day now.
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Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959.
His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), Symbolic Images (1972), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art (1979). His book, The Preference for the Primitive, which he completed before his death, was published by Phaidon in July 2002. The long-awaited English translation of A Little History of the World (Eine kurze Weltegeschichte für junge Leser), authorised by Gombrich himself, was published by Yale UP in October 2005 and republished in a newly illustrated edition in 2011. A selection from his work, The Essential Gombrich was published by Phaidon in 1996. A full bibliography of his publications to 2000, edited by J. B. Trapp, E. H. Gombrich: A Bibliography, was published by Phaidon in 2000 (the Trapp numbers in this archive refer to that volume). Visitors to this website might like to know of the new publication by Louis Rose, Psychology, Art, and Antifascism: Ernst Kris, E.H. Gombrich and the politics of caricature, New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2016. Also A Study Guide for E. H. Gombrich's "Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation" (Nonfiction Classics for Students) Kindle Edition by Cengage Learning: Gale 2016.
This website has been constructed by Richard Woodfield [Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Art History at the University of Birmingham]. The site presents previously published material that does not appear in the Phaidon collection of Gombrich's work. It is undergoing constant revision and expansion. Feedback and contributions are very welcome. Every effort is being made to obtain permissions from copyright holders in addition to the permissions obtained from the Estate of E. H. Gombrich.
The Warburg Institute Archive now also incorporates the working papers and private correspondence of E. H. Gombrich, consisting of some 10,000 catalogued items. To access those items that are open to readers, permission must be obtained in advance from the Literary Estate of E. H. Gombrich, 6 Celia Road, London N19 5ET. Please allow sufficient time for a response, which may not be immediate, before making travel or other plans. On obtaining permission, please contact the Warburg's archivist in the usual way.


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ELMHURST – Anyone who has observed Batavia pitcher Colby Green pitch knows he wears his emotions on his sleeve. But Green carried a little extra emotion into Saturday's regional championship game against Willowbrook.
Green's grandfather died in Oklahoma on Wednesday, making his start against the Warriors all that more meaningful. Green responded in kind, allowing just a sixth-inning double to help Batavia capture the IHSA Class 4A York Regional title with an 8-1 thumping of Willowbrook.
After a nail-biting, 10-inning win over Bartlett in the regional semifinal, Batavia played a near-complete game against Willowbrook. The Bulldogs (31-3-1) rapped out nine hits – including three from Laren Eustace – and scored eight runs to give Green ample support.
The senior took care of the rest. Green said he scrapped his curveball early in the game and relied exclusively on a low-80s fastball and a darting split-finger that had Willowbrook (21-12) guessing all game.
Batavia earned its first regional title in five years and a date with West Chicago on Wednesday in an IHSA Class 4A Schaumburg Sectional semifinal.
Mike Rothmund's RBI double in the sixth was the only blemish off Green, who was otherwise in complete control. Aside from Rothmund's double and three walks, Green cruised the rest of the game. Afterwards, Green was openly emotional about his week.
"I pitched this game for [my grandfather] – I know he really would have wanted to be here," said a tearful Green. "Everything was working. The guys got me some runs. After I got the news Wednesday, [Batavia coach Matt Holm] told me he was going to let me go today. I knew the way my grandpa was, he would have wanted me to pitch this game."
Batavia scored a run in the first on an RBI infield single from Micah Coffey that scored Eustace, who singled to leadoff the game. The Bulldogs scored four more in the second on two Willowbrook errors and a Jeremy Schoessling RBI single.
The Bulldogs chased Willowbrook starter Jeremy Knable in the fourth as Eustace ripped an RBI triple – his second triple of the game – that scored Reagan McReynolds. Schoessling's deep sacrifice fly off newly inserted Warriors reliever Matt Pizur made it 6-0. The RBI was part of a 2 for 3 day with three RBI for Schoessling, who has taken off offensively since being inserted in the 2-hole early in the year.
"He's over .400. These bats, when they took the juice out of them, averages dropped," Holm said. "For a kid to maintain .400 through the season like that – he was actually hitting not all that great at the bottom of the order. We moved him up and started hitting behind Laren and he started getting more pitches to hit."
Eustace, Schoessling and Coffey combined for seven of Batavia's nine hits while accounting for all of the teams' RBIs. Schoessling and Coffey each had RBI extra-base hits in the sixth as Batavia scored a pair to go up 8-1.
"Our goal is just to go out there and have fun because it just means another game that we get to play together," said Eustace, who hit his seventh and eighth triples of the year. "We enjoy each others's company so much. It was a lot less stressful than the last one. We're not taking anyone lightly like we did last year. We're just taking it one game at a time and staying focused."
Meanwhile, as Batavia played a near-flawless game, four early errors doomed Willowbrook. In the second inning, Knable got an out before a walk and an infield error behind him put runners on first and second. Knable snared a soft liner off the bat off McReynolds, but his attempt to pick off Andrew Siegler at second went into center field and allowed Siegler to score.
After playing one of its best games of the year in its regional semifinal win over York, Willowbrook struggled against Green and gave Batavia too many outs on offense.
"I think we had them scouted pretty well but you can't give them five runs right off the bat – that's tough to come back from," Willowbrook coach Vic Wisner said. "That kind of hurt of us a little bit. But, the way we battled against York and all of the things we showed against them shows tremendous character. Even the way we battled back today. With those errors it could have been a 15-0 game. We hung in there, kept it as close as we could. That showed the resiliency and character that we have."
Green set down Willowbrook 1-2-3 in the seventh that included his signature fist-pump after retiring AJ Nolen to end the game. Green's complete-game effort included seven strikeouts and big props from his coach.
"He had a lot on his mind but he's usually pretty focused and he was on a mission today," Holm said. "He came out and told me yesterday before practice what was already working. He was just fantastic. That fastball today, boy, he was just pounding it up there today."


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Gov. Bobby Jindal spent the weekend in Washington, D.C., attracting widespread attention with a set of speeches. Many national pundits think Jindal is laying groundwork for a presidential bid in 2016.
Following the governor's speech at the winter meeting of the Republican National Convention on Thursday in Charlotte, Jindal went to D.C. for a conference with the nation's top conservative thinkers, like Paul Ryan and Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
Jindal closed that conference with remarks similar to those directed to the RNC. He urged the Republican party to re-craft its image to become more accepting, and move away from narrowly appealing rhetoric. Ryan and Walker had similar talking points.
Robert Mann of LSU's Manship School of Communications is a local political pundit (and, full disclosure, a WRKF board member) who says Jindal isn't practicing what he's preaching in Louisiana.
"He has been one of those intolerant republican leaders, very much opposed to gay rights/marriage equality, pushing teaching creationism in public schools, dismantling the social safety net in Louisiana."
Mann notes that Jindal's been overlooked for a spot on the national stage before, and that a potential presidential campaign will hinge on Jindal's fundraising ability.
"Because the kind of money you have to raise to put on a presidential campaign, you can't do that in secret, so we'll know soon enough if he's able to put anything together."
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After years of a mixed relationship with the US retailer, Apple will try selling its full product line in a limited number of Best Buy stores, each staffed with Apple employees to help boost sales.
Sources said that the programs are planned for the St. Louis and Philadelphia markets, where Apple has already begun hiring Apple Solutions Consultants. ASCs are retail representatives charged with working with the stores to sell Apple's products, maintaining Apple's display, and training the stores' sales staff.
An insider cautioned that the contract has not yet been signed. However, the two companies are expected to come to an agreement soon.
The news comes amid reports that Apple will test a similar program in Canada's Future Shop stores, beginning in Toronto. Future Shop, Canada's largest consumer electronics retailer, is owned by Best Buy. Sources said there are plans to expand that program in late summer.
For the past two years, Apple has pushed this type of retail effort in CompUSA stores, and has expanded the program to locations nationwide as it has seen sales increase. Apple continues to expand its CompUSA program, hiring new employees to staff stores, and has said that it would try similar programs with other channel partners.
The results at the Best Buy and Future Shop test locations will not only determine Apple's involvement there, but also the companies' future relationships. Apple has had a rocky relationship with Best Buy over the years, and the retailer currently sells only Apple's iPod for Windows. Best Buy dropped sales of the fruit-flavored iMac due to Apple's demand that it stock an equal selection of all five colors, leading to inventory issues.
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I hope it works this time. I use to work at Best Buy when I was in high school. I remember Best Buy having 2 racks of Apple software in the software section usually behind the PC games ... and it was late '99 when they quit selling and Mac software at all.
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yea, but there are mac/win games.. and so ide still buy from best buy.
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Well, if Future Shop is going to make any impact on the Canadian market it will have to pull its socks up.
A year or so ago, when I was looking around for an iMac, I saw a couple on display in the local Future Shop store. I asked the assistant if they stocked any Mac applications. He told me that they did not stock any "as far as he knew" and then went on to ask "Why would you want to buy a Macintosh anyway?".
I have heard of others having a similar experience.
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Well, this would be great, as long as the Apple Section is run by Apple people, not BestBuy! Im in New York, and I hope it comes soon, becuase "I'm getting pretty tired of either driving 30 mins to CompUSA or 45 mins to an Apple Store. I'd much rather drive 15 mins to BestBuy!
Wow, this reminds me of all last summer - my friend and I would go to the CompUSA and check out the Macs. The Apple rep there knew his stuff! I kept telling him I was gonna get a Mac so after I did I e-mailed the store to let him know. But now there is an Apple store just 8 miles from my house and I go in there a lot - can't wait to get my iPod and Powerbook
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Bonds finished off a particularly weak trading day Tuesday as markets position themselves ahead of Friday, when we'll see the Labor Department's October employment report and get a better idea of how the Federal Reserve might regard the economy at its next policy committee meeting in December. The Fed is right back under the microscope lately after some unexpectedly strong economic indicators since late last week have everyone talking about tapering again, which has made bonds a lot twitchier in recent days than they were expected to be for the rest of the year.
Here's Adrian Miller, fixed-income strategist at GMP Securities, with his take on today's market moves:
Despite a fair amount [of] price fluctuations across a number of risk and safe assets, in truth not much has changed from a fundamental or a monetary and fiscal policy perspective. Of course, not to be deterred, the market found reasons to trade equities, credit, FX, commodities and sovereigns merely on the back of shifts in expectations and subtle changes in the pitch of speculation noise….
At the risk of stating an almost certain long-in-the-tooth theme, the principal catalyst to the weakness in bonds was the Fed and the market's view on the start of the taper. If that sounds familiar it should since this is the same exercise the market became obsessed with in June and July when every data point and Fed speak was scrutinized as to what it may mean for when the Fed is likely to start its taper.
With all eyes on Friday's October U.S. jobs report, Tuesday's exercise among bond investors was gauging the health of U.S. and global growth environment…. [W]hile the overall bias is for the Fed to begin its taper at the March 2014 FOMC meeting, there is a growing chorus of speculative narrative that suggested a taper could actually happen sooner than March.… From our perspective, despite better than expected headline results in the U.S. regarding the state of the manufacturing and services sectors, the underlying data within the ISM figures suggest a very mixed economy. And it is this mixed economy that many Fed members have expressed reservations about which in turn was once of the drivers for the Fed to postpone its taper decision in September.
The ten-year Treasury note finished the day down 18/32 in price, per Tradeweb data, lifting its yield to 2.67%, while the 30-year bond fell 1 13/32 to yield 3.77%. The iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) lost $1.30, or 1.22%, to $104.99.


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Yeah, but using Mediawiki for read-only content is not the smartest thing to do, it prohibits caching.
If Mediawiki would allow proxies to cache their content (maybe there is a plugin, but Wikipedia doesn't allow it either), a lot of trouble would go away. And does Wikileaks need uncached requests? No.
I am not talking about (web) server-side improvements [mediawiki.org], I am talking about the problematic 'Cache-Control: private, s-maxage=0, max-age=0, must-revalidate' HTTP header. HTTP caching is so misunderstood. http://w [mnot.net]
Freenet has been slow and hard to use in the past, but its improved quite a bit. It is the obvious platform for something like Wikileaks. Of course, there is nothing to prevent people from mirroring content on the web (since installing Freenet, like any piece of software, is a hassle). But at least there will be an unimpeachable backup of all data on Freenet.
It seems that Wikileaks should operate over Freenet [freenetproject.org]. Leaks could be submitted anonymously that way, and also distributed anonymously. The advantage would be that it would be entirely decentralized, so there would be no organization vulnerable to legal action.
Freenet has been slow and hard to use in the past, but its improved quite a bit. It is the obvious platform for something like Wikileaks. Of course, there is nothing to prevent people from mirroring content on the web (since installing Freenet, like any piece of software, is a hassle). But at least there will be an unimpeachable backup of all data on Freenet.
I wish a comprehensive group of security experts with varying backgrounds and specialties would get together and try to compromise both Freenet and Tor to see just how secure and anonymous they really are. By this I mean in an open, public, collaborative sort of way. This could only be a good thing, as any vulnerabilities or weaknesses could potentially be addressed. Then we could be a bit more confident about the confidentiality of those who contribute documents to sites like Wikileaks. I am sure that many such folks are doing so at great risk to themselves, especially when they live under repressive regimes, yet they believe in our right to know and are willing to take that risk. It really would be nice to know they are a bit safer doing it.
TOR is already proven to be pretty unreliable since the exit node can sniff all the traffic, have enough exit nodes and you can track your target.
That was probably the point to begin with. All of the hidden services (.onion links) I've been to seem like honeypots for LEA or contain nothing of interest (so why are they up?).
Tor is a giant filter through which suspect traffic may pass and the powers that be laughing over the whole inhumane rodent-glue trap.
PS: If you use Tor, block the 149.* domains by exluding them in your torrc file, along with the "bloxor" nodes (search through your cached-descriptors file for them, they are a plague!)
TOR is already proven to be pretty unreliable since the exit node can sniff all the traffic, have enough exit nodes and you can track your target.
Even without compromising or joining up exit nodes, deanonymizing (see: 1 [ckers.org] 2 [dewinter.com]) is a problem for the uninformed users of onion routing and proxies.
From the site [freenetproject.org]:
For best performance, Freenet will run continually. It should not interfere with your computer usage, as it requires around 200MB of RAM and 10% of one CPU core, plus some disk access.
And no wonder considering that it is written in Java...
Not all PCs have Java installed. First. Second. With that kind of resource utilization, I do not see Freenet catching with average consumers.
Probably they should invest into a lightweight C/C++ client. That even I would let run on my systems.
Oops. Was a reply to GP.
Yeah, it really should be rewritten in Python (or what is the cool language today).
Seriously, I much rather pay the memory penalty of Java than fight against the numerous security bugs C/C++ program would give.
The problem with Freenet is that no-one uses it. Wikileaks kicks real-world arse because it's on the World Wide Web, where everyone else is.
Put it on Freenet, and few people will read it because it's hard. The Powers That Be then win, and probably don't try to stop it.
Might be a good idea for dual-deployment, however, if it would take any load off the http.
Put it on Freenet, and few people will read it because it's hard. The Powers That Be then win, and probably don't try to stop it.
How do they win if journalists are among the few that read it?
Sure, I may think too highly of journalists in general, but I think that's a problem with journalists, and not a Wikileaks on Freenet.
What has Wikileaks done so big? I ask because I have not seen anything earth shattering on it and a lot that is nothing but tabloid press level junk. Just some examples would be nice.
Setting up a torrent tracker would be a much better idea.
Heck, skip the centralized tracker there and use Magnet links instead.
Sites would only need to serve the latest news stories (to let people know if there's anything new and/or interesting), and then a zip with a Magnet link pointing to it.
Why not that of which we do not speak?
It's distributed world wide, mirrored about everywhere, everyone has access to it, it's fast as hell (maxes out my connection), you can post massive binaries to it, text files. Most places have up to 400 day retention now. It would be trivial to setup a script to repost stuff every 100 days. Put everything in a 7za and it shouldn't take up too much space.
If the RIAA/MPAA hasn't figured out how to touch it, I doubt many will.
If "that" is what I think it is, it's not exactly a place where common folk go. Now, there are http caches... But it can also be a great jumbled mess. How do we verify authenticity of posts? Cause lets face it, that frontier is a place where everyone can contribute... Everyone...
If "that" is what I think it is, it's not exactly a place where common folk go. Now, there are http caches... But it can also be a great jumbled mess. How do we verify authenticity of posts? Cause lets face it, that frontier is a place where everyone can contribute... Everyone...
There are moderated ****groups.
Can you mention a good one to use (or email me the name of one? I don't hide my email address.)
I have looked into this but find it difficult to know where to start.
I know each server has different groups or rooms that have different content. Do servers mostly have the same content (just different group names?) If I was interested in scifi information, would one be better than another?
Not necessarily; even though people are struggling there are always people who are doing very well. Just a few of those pitching in can help considerably.
It never hurts to ask, the worst that can happen is "no".
Not necessarily; even though people are struggling there are always people who are doing very well. Just a few of those pitching in can help considerably.
I have the feeling that most of the people that are doing "very well" these days are not particularly interested in supporting a project that reveals secrets.
What's with the negativity? Even if most = 99.9%, there's still enough potential support to make asking for help a worthy effort, especially since it didn't cost anything. So just read gp post again, and ggp, and see if there's anything new in your comment.
In fact, since the entire purpose of the site is to protect most people from those few who try to keep secrets, times like these are when help is needed the most.
They're also one of the few places where I feel we can see the facts behind some of the reasons so many people are struggling right now.
Seriously - We get fed all sorts of BS from the news agencies... WikiLeaks posts the stuff that can often verify or debunk much of that BS.
Wouldn't "The Cloud" solve all of WikiLeaks problems?
I downloaded ba-038-air-traffic-control-tape.wmv from wikileaks and distributed it to a few co-workers and friends. I don't have the resources to run a full mirror but I would be happy to mirror that file. If wikileaks had the ability to point to mirrors for specific files and verify the MD5s of the files on an ongoing basis then some load could be taken off their servers.
I suppose a sneaky mirror host could serve different files to different IP addresses though but I can't immediately see a reason for that.
Change the files to install malware to collect a list of potential troublemakers?
I'm suddenly reminded of a scene an early Simpsons season. It goes something like this.
Homer searches through the couch, while looking for a dropped peanut. He finds a bunch of stuff including a $20 bill.
Homer Simpson: Awww
Homer's brain: 20 dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer Simpson: Explain how!
Homer's brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
Homer Simpson: Woo hoo!
So... why not exchange those donations for goods and services?
...that I can't afford to be the legal test case for running a Tor exit node or a Wikileaks server, much as I believe in both of these projects. And I would imagine there are many who, while they possess the desire and the technical know-how to engage in such activities, simply cannot be expected to do so without some form of legal immunity (or at least a guarantee of unlimited legal representation). Until that time comes, I simply don't see many people stepping forward with offers of hosting assistance.
Perhaps an effort should be made to secure guaranteed legal representation from the EFF, FSF, and other groups for those who volunteer to run exit nodes, servers, etc.
simply cannot be expected to do so without some form of legal immunity
Anyone volunteering to pitch this to AT&T?
I'm at the point in my life that I can't afford to stand for what I believe.
There, fixed it for you. Enjoy your "safe" life.
Wow, an AC criticizing somebody for not standing proud for his beliefs.
If Wikileaks' biggest problem is that it's overwhelmed with readers, wouldn't our simplest and most direct way to help solve the problem be to simply not read Wikileaks?
I'm a big fan of Wikileaks. I run a local caching proxy (sorta like a mirror) that I and others access it through, and I certainly would encourage everyone to send a few bucks their way whenever possible (and I do try to follow that advice myself).
However, what comes to my mind when I read about the legal troubles of sites like that is a paraphrasing of a famous Alexander Haig quote: "Let them march all they want, as long as they pay their taxes." Winning back your right to march (or to Wikileak) is comm
The day Wikileaks decided to publish private members addresses of political parties, they stopped (in my eyes) being part of the 'Freedom of Speech' movement, and part of the system that prevents speech they don't approve of.
When they became unethical, I stopped being interested in supporting them..
For the rest of your post, it'll give me some fun reading to follow up on! Looks interesting..
I've often wondered if it is possible to involve the community in hosting websites like Wikileaks and Wikipedia. A large part of the cost these organizations have is the hardware and bandwidth required to serve the content. However, this content is mostly static. It seems to me it ought to be easy to set up an extensive mirroring system for such content. It also seems to me that it ought to be able to set up a system where people can contribute a bit of disk space and other computer resources and form part of a sort of distributed hosting system. I think Freenet does something like this, and even optimizes things by moving frequently requested content closer to where it is being requested.
Can we set up such a system for the worldwide web? Is there any existing software package that makes this possible? Can we write one? Or can we perhaps modify open source web browsers so that distributed hosting can really work?
I think I speak for many others when I say that I have plenty of disk space, bandwidth, and CPU cycles available, but my capacity to support worthy causes financially is rather limited. So if I could contribute my computer resources, I think I could help out a lot more then I can by making donations. So if we have the technology to make that possible, let's start using it! And if we don't have the technology, let's build it!
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