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Eagle girls surge by Tigers
VERGENNES — The Middlebury Union High School girls' basketball team picked up a much-needed win on Tuesday, 42-18, at the expense of visiting Vergennes.
The Tigers used smothering defense — VUHS did not score in the first quarter — and what Coach Cindy Atkins called a more poised and patient approach on offense to snap a six-game losing streak and improve to 3-6.
"I saw a lot of growth tonight. I'm really happy. I saw some nice things offensively, and we showed more of a spark defensively," Atkins said.
The Tigers' setbacks had included close games at home to Otter Valley and Colchester and at struggling Milton, which had lost to VUHS.
Atkins said the Tigers had kept their morale up, but the added confidence from Tuesday's better performance will boost their confidence.
"We've had three games where I feel they should have won, and they feel they should have won," Atkins said. "They've bounced back. This will certainly help. They needed this really big-time tonight."
Coach Billy Waller saw his Commodores drop to 3-8. They were coming off a 56-34 win at Missisquoi and other encouraging recent results in their past six games, including wins over Milton and Harwood and a six-point loss to Division 1 Mount Mansfield.
But Waller said the better results are tied to strong starts, and wants his team to show more toughness when they fall behind early.
"We've practiced very well now for seven or eight straight practice days, and then didn't play a very good game. When you have a game that doesn't match how you just practiced and played, it's disappointing," he said. "Any game that we start quick we win. And if we don't start quick, we don't fight enough. You've got to buckle down."
Waller said at times the Commodores seem to lose focus.
"You can only say it's one of those nights if it's one of those nights, but we've had a few of those nights," Waller said. "So it goes beyond that. It goes into adjusting to all the surroundings and into stop trying to control the things you can't control."
Waller also credited Middlebury's "good, physical guards" for not allowing the Commodores to get into their offensive sets. VUHS turned the ball over 26 times against MUHS, 15 times in the first half, which ended with the Tigers leading, 24-7.
"One of the things we can control is taking care of the basketball, which we didn't do a good job of tonight," Waller said. "In our last game we were able to get the ball to spots on the floor that made our players effective. And tonight we just didn't do that. We really need to get the ball below the foul line as often as possible. And we just didn't do that."
The Tigers led after one, 13-0, as guard Katie Ritter knocked down seven of her game-high 19 points. Forward Rachel Scholten contributed a putback and a nice assist on one of center Nicole Brown's two hoops. Meanwhile, VUHS turned the ball over nine times and saw leading scorer Ali Provost pick up three quick fouls.
A three-point play by forward Chrissy Ritter and a converted steal by Katie Ritter pushed the MUHS lead to 18-0 early in the second quarter before junior center Hannah Curler's free throw at 5:38 put VUHS on the board. That free throw sparked a 7-2 run that gave VUHS some hope: Curler converted a three-point play and hit another free throw, and Provost sank two free throws.
But Provost soon picked up her fourth foul, when Jordyn Smith alertly took a charge. MUHS closed the quarter with a Brown free throw and a Katie Ritter three-point play at 0:08, and the lead was 17 at the break.
Four points apiece by each Ritter gave MUHS an 8-0 run to open the second half, and it was 32-7. Soon Curler and VUHS point guard Alexa Higbee also had four fouls — it was clearly not the Commodores' night.
Brown added 11 points for MUHS, and Chrissy Ritter finished with eight. Curler led VUHS with seven, Provost had five, and Brooke Bougor finished with four. VUHS ended with a 30-28 edge on the boards, thanks largely to Curler.
Waller said the Commodores also held their own on defense.
"Forty-two points, that's a workable number," he said. "Most times when you hold a team in the low 40s, you should give yourself a chance to win."
Atkins said the Tigers have been talking about taking the games after last week's exam break as a second chance to establish themselves.
"Our message has been we've got to keep working to get better … We've got 12 games left (before Tuesday). This is a new season," Atkins said. "D-II is wide open. We've just got to put this together and move forward."
Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at [email protected].


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Will Israel's War Become America's War?
President Donald Trump, who canceled a missile strike on Iran after the shoot-down of a U.S. Predator drone to avoid killing Iranians, may not want a war. But the same cannot be said of Bibi Netanyahu.
Saturday, Israel launched a night attack on a village south of Damascus to abort what Israel claims was a plot by Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force to fly "killer drones" into Israel, an act of war.
Sunday, two Israeli drones crashed outside the media offices of Hezbollah in Beirut. Israel then attacked a base camp of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in north Lebanon.
Monday, Israel admitted to a strike on Iranian-backed militias of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq. And Israel does not deny responsibility for last month's attacks on munitions dumps and bases of pro-Iran militias in Iraq.
Israel has also confirmed that, during Syria's civil war, it conducted hundreds of strikes against pro-Iranian militias and ammunition depots to prevent the transfer of missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Understandably, Israel's weekend actions have brought threats of retaliation. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has warned of vengeance over the deaths of his people in the Syria strike.
Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani reportedly tweeted from Tehran, "These insane operations will be the last struggles of the Zionist regime." Lebanese President Michel Aoun called the alleged Israeli drone attack on Beirut a "declaration of war."
Last Friday, in the 71st week of the "Great March of Return" protests on Gaza's border, 50 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli live fire. In 16 months, 200 have died from gunshots, with thousands wounded.
America's reaction to Israel's weekend attacks? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Netanyahu to assure him of U.S. support. Some Iraqi leaders are now calling for the expulsion of Americans.
Why is Netanyahu now admitting to Israel's role in the strikes on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq? Why has he begun threatening Iran itself and even the Houthi rebels in Yemen?
Because this longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history, having surpassed David Ben-Gurion, is in the battle of his life, with elections just three weeks off. And if Netanyahu falls short—or fails to put together a coalition after winning, as he failed earlier this year—his career would be over, and he could be facing prosecution for corruption.
Netanyahu has a compelling motive for widening the war against Israel's main enemy, its allies, and its proxies, and taking credit for military strikes.
But America has a stake in what Israel is doing as well.
We are not simply observers. For if Hezbollah retaliates against Israel or Iranian-backed militias in Syria retaliate against Israel—or against us for enabling Israel—a new war could erupt, and there would be a clamor for deeper American intervention.
Yet Americans have no desire for a new war, which could cost Trump the presidency, as the war in Iraq cost the Republican Party the Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008.
The United States has taken pains to avoid a military clash with Iran for compelling reasons. With only 5,000 troops left in Iraq, U.S. forces are massively outmanned by an estimated 150,000 fighters of the pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces, which played a critical role in preventing ISIS from reaching Baghdad during the days of the caliphate.
And for good reason, the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, with its crew of 5,600, which Trump sent to deter Iran, has yet to enter the Strait of Hormuz or the Persian Gulf. It remains in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Oman, and, at times, some 600 nautical miles away from Iran.
Why is this mighty warship keeping its distance?
We don't want a confrontation in the Gulf, and as ex-Admiral James Stavridis, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, says:
Anytime a carrier moves close to shore, and especially into confined waters, the danger to the ship goes up significantly. …It becomes vulnerable to diesel submarines, shore-launched cruise missiles and swarming attacks by small boats armed with missiles.
Which is a pretty good description of the coastal defenses and naval forces of Iran.
Netanyahu's widening of Israel's war with Iran and its proxies into Lebanon and Iraq—and perhaps beyond—and his acknowledgement of that wider war raise questions for both nations.
Israel today has on and near her borders hostile populations in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. Tens of millions of Muslims see her as an enemy to be expelled from the region.
While there is a cold peace with Egypt and Jordan, the Saudis and Gulf Arabs are temporary allies as long as the foe is Iran.
Is this pervasive enmity sustainable?
As for America, have we ceded to Netanyahu something no nation should ever cede to another, even an ally: the right to take our country into a war of their choosing but not of ours?
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever. To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.

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New patented technology for improving cardiac CTs receives National Institutes of Health support
With funding from the National Institutes for Health (NIH), researchers from Virginia Tech and GE Global Research Center are developing novel cardiac computed tomography (CT) architectures and methods, including a newly patented approach to a long-standing challenge in local CT image reconstruction (Patent 7,697,658 "Interior Tomography and Instant Tomography by Reconstruction from Truncated Limited-angle Projection Data" issued April 13, 2010).
The research team will also evaluate the performance of various cardiac CT system designs to determine the most promising designs and demonstrate their clinical feasibility and utility.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death globally and a tremendous burden on the healthcare system. Better detection of hardening or clogging of arteries and other blood vessels before symptoms occur is needed.
Better image quality at lower radiation dose is the immediate need being addressed by the research project led by Ge Wang, the Pritchard Professor and director of the Biomedical Imaging Division of the Virginia Tech–Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, and Bruno De Man, a CT authority at GE Global Research Center.
Faster, dynamic imaging to capture the beating heart and algorithms or computations that can present the most exact images from X-ray projections are also among project goals. "Cardiac CT technology needs major improvements to capture a fast beating heart with better clarity at lower risk," said Wang.
In traditional X-ray CT imaging, data is recorded behind the patient. Everything is superimposed along the X-ray path through the patient. In other words, an X-ray projection of the heart includes the bone and muscle along the way to the detectors. With current CT, the X-rays probe the patient along multiple wide beams focused on the patient including a region of interest, such as the heart, from various orientations. That is, the source of the X-rays rotate around the individual as he or she lies inside a large aperture, then a computer program reconstructs images from the exposures. This CT process increases radiation exposure but generates a lot of different views to be analyzed by physicians for diagnosis.
In many cases, like cardiac CT, the area of interest is just a relatively small region within the larger body. "It was realized long before that one could reduce the radiation dose by sending X-rays just through the region of interest from different directions, and then reconstruct that region from resultant local data," said Wang.
Depending upon the algorithm used, the resulting images can, to different degrees, portray sharp borders or edges from tissue or bone within the region of interest but cannot show X-ray linear attenuation coefficients accurately. "This has been known for decades as the 'interior problem'," said Wang.
A method known as lambda tomography addresses the interior problem by producing changes in the density of the image. "However, physicians need quantitative images, and hence lambda tomography has not been clinically used," said Wang.
His group at Virginia Tech, in collaboration with Professor Yangbo Ye at the University of Iowa, developed the now patented "interior tomography" method for interior reconstruction of a region of interest image to replace lambda tomography. "We assume a known sub-region within the region of interest – such as an air gap, a blood area, or an implant in the heart. With a known sub-region, we can solve the interior problem in a theoretically exact and mathematically stable fashion – we can produce an accurate image!" said Wang.
Interior tomography is a theoretical breakthrough, and Wang and colleagues as well as peer groups have been developing it and publishing results. The patent application was filed in 2007. The proof of concept was an important basis for the aforementioned National Institutes of Health grant.
"We have been using different mathematics to reconstruct the images on a region of interest and have compared the results to the conventional CT images reconstructed from a so-called "complete dataset," which was acquired with wide beams of X-rays, and not truncated. It becomes clear that interior tomography has practical implications," said Wang. "We have data that shows its promise. While medical CT can presently only perform global image reconstruction, we look forward to having precise local reconstruction from a highly truncated dataset."
By applying interior tomography to medical CT, radiation exposure can be reduced, and a large patient can be accommodated because the focus will be on the region of interest and not the entire body.
A scheme is also being developed for faster imaging based on interior tomography (Medical Physics, Vol. 36, No. 8, August 2009). "Cardiac motion limits image quality, but of course you want the heart to be beating," said Wang.
Hardware solutions consist of multi-source imaging, examples of which have already been introduced, including a dual-source cone-beam scanner from Siemens just three years ago. "However, the bulkiness of the detectors and limited space inside a CT gantry still make it impossible to collect a large number of projections simultaneously," Wang said. "And it is expensive and cannot accommodate a large patient."
His group proposes a multisource interior tomography concept. For example, the individual is surrounded by a half dozen or more X-ray tubes and detectors. X-rays are focused in narrow beams on the region of interest and the detectors are also small, not requiring much room. More than 10 views per second are possible, and interior tomography software can potentially provide accurate images of the beating heart.
A greater challenge occurs when physicians introduce an unknown agent into the image field. "Introducing contrast material complicates the situation," said Wang. "The material alters blood density in unpredictable ways. Contrast material disperses quickly as the heart beats and physicians want to see that happen, so we are working to improve interior tomography to create image results without precise sub-region knowledge."
The solution by Hengyong Yu, the associate director of the CT laboratory at Virginia Tech; Jiansheng Yang and Ming Jiang of Peking University; and Wang is based on compressed sensing, a mathematical method for reducing the number of unknowns based on some sparsity model (Yu and Wang: Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 54, number 9 (2009), 2791–2805). "Among all the images that are possible solutions, we select that with the minimum variation and have proved that this approach would give the unique solution assuming the image being piece-constant or piece-polynomial. Reconstruction for interior tomography thus could do the job even if we do not have precise knowledge on a sub-region. That is a promising direction we are working along," said Wang.
Co-PIs on the National Institutes of Health project are Yu with Wang's group; Kai Zeng, electrical engineer at GE Global Research Center; Hao Lai, manager of the GE Global Research CT and X-ray systems and applications laboratory; and Darin Okerlund, manager of GE Healthcare's applications engineering team.
The patented approach to interior tomography and instant tomography by reconstruction from truncated limited angle projection data was developed by Wang, Ye, and Yu. Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. has filed numerous patent applications for inventions by Wang's team, most of which improve the performance of biomedical imaging. Research has been funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Cancer Institute, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies.
Wang has collaborated with GE Global Research for a number of years. The company, based in Niskayuna, N.Y., is a world leader in medical equipment development and manufacturing. "It has critical technologies to the proposed program," said Wang. "In addition, GE's healthcare business integration will ensure successful transfer of improved technologies into the market place for the benefit of patients."
Wang said that he expects that the cardiac CT systems and methods identified by the National Institutes of Health-funded project will significantly improve diagnostic performance and therapeutic outcomes.
The School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Biomedical Imaging Division at Virginia Tech is partially supported by Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science.


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Eusebio Caceres (© Getty Images)
Spain's Eusebio Caceres and USA's Barbara Pierre were crowned as 'the best performers' at the Meeting de Madrid, the annual IAAF World Challenge Meeting in the Spanish capital on Saturday (19).
However, gusting winds that picked up throughout the evening meant their impressive respective winning performances, 8.16m for Caceres in the long jump and 11.08 by Pierre over 100m, were wind-aided.
In the long jump, the last field event to finish, South Africa's former world and Olympic silver medallist Godfrey Mokoena was the early leader with a 7.93m effort in the opening round but the reigning European under-23 champion Caceres leapt 7.97m in round two to take the top spot.
However, it would be his fellow Spaniard, Jean Marie Okutu, who would be the author of the first 8.00m-plus leap with 8.05m in round three.
USA's Tyron Stewart, who can boast of a personal best of 8.39m set in April, came close to the lead when he reached 8.02m with his fourth jump but the fireworks only took place in the final round when the 22-year-old Caceres landed at a wind-assisted 8.16m to win the contest ahead of Okutu and Stewart, with Mokoena in fourth also reaching 8.00m
Caceres, who finished a fine fourth at last year's IAAF World Championships in Moscow, commented: "I felt very strong physically but I still have to improve my technique."
Asked of his expectations for the European Championships next month, a cautious Caceres said: "I only think now about my next competition which will be the Spanish Championships next weekend, but I'm optimistic of my chances in Zurich."
As was the case 12 months ago, Barbara Pierre took the win in the women's 100m although the 27-year-old US sprinter could not run as fast as last year and had to settle for an 11.08 clocking, despite a tailwind of 2.6m/s.
Pierre was pushed to the finish line by Jamaica's Kerron Stewart, who was given the same time but not the verdict.
"I like the new track, I think it's fast but it will faster when time goes on," said Pierre, who has a career best of 10.85. "I'm very consistent this season running under 11.10 and hope to dip under 11 (seconds) soon."
Nazarov beyond 80 metres again
The men's hammer throw, part of the 2014 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, saw Egypt's African record-holder Mostafa Hicham Al-Gamal take an early lead with with an opening throw of 76.00m but soon was overtaken by Dilshod Nazarov's 77.61m second effort.
Al-Gamal regained the lead from the prolific Tajikistan thrower, with Madrid being his 13th contest already in 2014, in round two thanks to a 78.23m effort but Nazarov's response in the third round was a huge toss of 80.51m to head the contest at the halfway point. It was his second-best throw of the year and his third best ever, just 20cm short of his career best set last year.
Neither Nazarov nor Al-Gamal could go further with their remaining three attempts and so the victory went to the 32-year-old Nazarov, who finished fifth at last year's World Championships in Moscow.
Nazarov consolidated his second place in this year's IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, in which the best three competitions are taken into account and metres are converted into points. He now has 241.37 points but he is still effectively more than two metres in arrears of challenge leader Krisztian Pars from Hungary.
There were two sparkling performances over one lap of the track from Jamaican women.
Jamaica's world indoor 400m silver medallist Kaliese Spencer took the women's 400m hurdles in 55.08. This season's world leader was still fresh after her commanding win at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco the night before, where she ran 54.09.
"To be honest, I felt a little bit tired after yesterday's race in Monaco," she said. "In addition, it was quite windy and it also hampered my performance. I'm now heading to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow where my primary goal will be to set a career best (52.79). If I can do that, I should win a medal there."
Getting on the podium in Glasgow would ease her frustration at major championships successive fourth places at the 2009 and 2011 World Championships and the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Ukraine's Hanna Titimets came home a solid second in 55.49.
No blues for McPherson on new track
Jamaica's Stephenie McPherson, fourth at the World Championships, ended a five-month drought in her favourite event when she won the 400m comfortably in 50.45. Spain's Indira Terrero finished a distant second in 51.65.
Cuba's rising star Orlando Ortega was the overwhelming favourite in the 110m hurdles following his massive personal best of 13.01 in Monaco the night before, but the 23-year-old felt some discomfort on his right leg and decided to give up the race after only negotiating the first two barriers.
Ortega confirmed afterwards: "the injury is not important, I just dropped out of the race as a precautionary measure but I'm OK."
With Ortega out, USA's Alec Harris proved to be the quickest and won in a windy 13.18.
A powerful second-round heave of 20.91m gave USA's two-time world indoor champion Ryan Whiting an easy win in the men's shot put ahead of Jamaica's O'Dayne Richards, who was second with 20.33m.
Latoy Williams of The Bahamas was an impressive winner of the men's 45.17, holding off Trinidad and Tobago's fast-finishing Renny Quow who had to settle for second in 45.36.
The 15-event programme was held at a newly refurbished blue track in the Madrid suburb of Moratalaz on a windy evening which saw temperatures steadily drop over the main two-hour programme, finishing at about 16 degrees Celsius.
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LEXINGTON, Va. – On August 17, the Virginia Military Institute held matriculation, and among those present that day, 14 were recruited lacrosse players. All 14 of those players survived the Institute's Hell Week, and head lacrosse coach Brian Anken has announced the incoming class for the 2013-14 academic year.
"We are all very excited about this class. They have all successfully completed their Hell Week requirements and are focused on the start of classes and the rapidly approaching first day of practice," said Anken, who begins his fourth year on Post. "This class includes some tremendous athletes that will be expected to compete for playing time Immediately. Most importantly this group possesses the character and maturity necessary to be successful both on and off the field at VMI. We are all looking forward to the opportunity to begin working with this group."
Below is a brief bio of the members of 2014+3, along with their hometowns and high schools.
Tom Brown (Baltimore, Md.) – Not only was Brown one of the top defenseman at the highly-touted Boys Latin School of Maryland, but he was ranked No. 33 on Inside Lacrosse Magazine's Top 40 Defensemen in the publication's recruit rankings. Brown was a two-year letterwinner for coach Shriver at the perennial powerhouse and was named an MIAA second team All-Star by both the Towson Times and Baltimore Sun. Brown also collected second team All-Metro honors. Additionally, Brown was a member of the Baltimore CRABS Lacrosse Club, and participated in the Vail Shootout. A versatile athlete, he was a three-year letterwinner on the gridiron for coach Schell, playing both left tackle and defensive end, earning first team All-Conference honors, according to the Baltimore Sun. Brown plans to major in economics and business at the Institute.
Frank DiGiacomo (Sloatsburg, N.Y.) – DiGiacomo was a three-year standout in goal for Mike Springer at athletic power Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, N.J., seeing his team to a state championship as a senior. DiGiacomo was also active at the club level, playing for both the Trilogy All Stars and the Tri State All Stars. Off the field, DiGiacomo was the class president and served as a high school ambassador. DiGiacomo will look to major in economics and business at VMI.
Nick Dodd (Loudonville, N.Y.) – Serving as a captain at Shaker High School in Latham, N.Y., Dodd was a three-year letterwinner for Shawn Hennessey as a midfielder. He was named a first team Suburban Council All-Star his senior year, potting 34 goals along with 20 assists in the process. Dodd was also a member of the Albany Power Lacrosse Club. A dual-sport athlete, he was a four-year letterwinner on the wrestling mat for Dan Gibson, also serving as a captain. In his senior campaign, he collected 34 varsity wins and was named second team All-Suburban Council. Out of the athletic venues, Dodd was a member of the National Honor Society. He plans to major in international studies at the Institute.
Dan Ferrel (Naperville, Ill.) – No stranger to the military process, Ferrel comes to Lexington from the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Ind. The defenseman was a four-year letterwinner for Jon Posner at the Academy. He also played for True Lacrosse, in addition to playing defensive tackle on Culver's football team, earning one letter for Tom Baumgardner.
Joe Funaro (Smithtown, N.Y.) – Coming from one of the traditional hotbeds of lacrosse, Long Island, Funaro was a three-year letterwinner at attack for coach Lambert at Smithtown High School East in St. James, N.Y. Funaro was active on the Team Smithtown East lacrosse club. A three-sport athlete, he played forward on the basketball team and was a tight end on the football field. College athletics runs in his family; Funaro's father, Joseph, was a pitcher at St. John's University. During his time at the Institute, the younger Funaro plans to major in business and economics.
Andrew Givens (Spotsylvania, Va.) – A Virginia native, Givens was a three-year letterwinner at Riverbend High School in Fredericksburg, Va. as a midfielder. A two-time captain, Givens holds the school record for single season goals (27), assists and groundballs (89), earning him MVP honors in 2013. Givens also played for Team Virginia in 2011 and the Dominion Capitals in 2010 and 2011, both teams playing in the summer. During his high school days, Givens participated in the Brine Shootout, Champ Camp with Team Virginia and attended the Stonewall Lacrosse Boot Camp at VMI. In the falls of 2009 and 2010, Givens was a member of his high school's cross country team. Off the field, he was a member of the National Honor Society and graduated with distinguished honors. He earned an Army ROTC scholarship to VMI, where he plans to major in civil engineering. His sister, Lauren, is a member of the cross country and track teams at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
Michael Hutwelker (Lahaska, Pa.) – Another product of a military system, Hutwelker comes to VMI from the Valley Forge Military Academy in Radnor, Pa., graduating in 2012 and spending the following year at Mercersburg Academy as a college prep year. Hutwelker lettered in two seasons for coach Pat Ryan, starting as a sophomore goalie and making saves on 60 percent of the shots he faced. For another two years, he lettered under Jay Peaky, earning team MVP honors while stopping shots at a 65-percent clip. While at Mercersburg, he lettered once under Mark Schindler, making saves nearly 70 percent of the time. In the club scene, Hutwelker was active with LB3 Lacrosse, Braveheart Lacrosse and the Penn Charter Club, a team with which he participated in the Brine Shootout. He was named All-League in the Mid-Atlantic Prep League, Metro Independent Lacrosse League and the Independent Parochial School League. Off the field, he was a chairman for Keystone Boys State and was in the Anthony Wayne Legion Guard at Valley Forge. He finished second among all cadets in oratorical competition and won the Chaplin's Award for outstanding service at Valley Forge. Hutwelker was also named the Best New Cadet. College lacrosse is part of the Hutwelker family, as his cousin, Steven Hutwelker, played for four years at St. Mary's (Md.) College. Hutwelker will look to major in mechanical engineering at VMI.
Anthony Izzo (Hillsborough, N.J.) – Izzo won a letter his senior year at St. Joseph High School in Metuchen, N.J., playing for Marc Moreau. He was also a member of the football team as a defensive tackle for Bob Molarz. Not to be trifled with, Izzo is a first degree black belt in the taekwondo discipline. Izzo plans to major in business and economics during his time on Post.
Kasey Kettle (Annandale, Va.) – Another Virginian, Kettle lettered all four years at the Flint Hill School in Oakton, Va., including three for Adam Rice as a midfielder. He also lettered for coach Eldridge, earning offensive MVP honors that season. Kettle participated on the FCA, SMS and VLC club teams, earning an FCA regional scholarship. During his senior season, Kettle helped lead Flint Hill to the state playoffs. A dual athlete, he lettered in one season in football, playing outside linebacker and wide receiver for Mike Verbanic. His father, Kevin, was a club rugby player at the University of Richmond. The incoming freshman plans to major in economics and business at VMI.
Dale Mattice (Victor, N.Y.) – Another incoming freshman who opted for a year at prep school, Mattice competed at Bridgton Academy in 2013, following a four-year career at Victor High School. During that span, he lettered all four seasons as a midfielder for Nick Ballou in ninth and 10th grade, while Mike Gottko coached him in his final two seasons. The 2012 Victor graduate served as a team captain in 2011 and 2012, Victor High School has never seen a better faceoff man, with Mattice winning 58.60 percent of his draws (338 of 576), ranking him first all-time. He finished career ranked 13th in total points (88), fourth all-time in shots (275), eighth in groundballs (179) and 10th in goals (61). For a single season, Mattice holds the mark for best faceoff winning percentage (56.69), winning 182 of his 321 draws in 2012. On the list of 24 players ranked in single-game faceoff percentage, Mattice's name appears eight times, including the single-game mark of 75.86 (22-29). Mattice was named All-League Honorable Mention three times (2010-12), while also earning All-Sectional plaudits in 2012. He was twice named Victor's MVP (2009, 2011) while earning a spot on the Nike Shootout Team in 2011. A multi-sport athlete, Mattice was a four-year starter and letterwinner on the gridiron for Geoff Mandile, playing both running back and linebacker. He was named the Most Athletic of his senior class at Victor, and while he was as Bridgton Academy, he won the Sportsmanship Award. During the club season, Mattice played for the Rochester Blaze Lacrosse Club. He plans to major in economics and business at VMI.
Pete McMahon (Zionsville, Ind.) – Playing two sports at University of Detroit Jesuit High School that go hand-in-hand, McMahon lettered one season in lacrosse for Sean Leary, while lettering three times on the hockey team. In high school, he played for a national championship in 2008 and was named first team All-MIHL and second team All-State on the ice. His grandfather player a year of football at the University of Arizona. McMahon plans to major in economics and business at the Institute.
Brad Nardella (Cazenovia, N.Y.) – Lettering three years for Jim Longo at Cazenovia High School, Nardella helped lead his team to a pair of New York State Championships, including one season when he served as captain. He was also a two-year letterwinner on the hockey team as a center, and won four letters on the wrestling mat, taking second at the Section 3 Class B tournament. Nardella played his club ball for the CNY Road Hawks. Off the field, he was an honor student throughout high school. College athletics is a staple for the Nardellas; his father, Andrew, wrestled at Rutgers University while his brother, Joseph, recently concluded his sophomore lacrosse season at Rutgers. Brad plans to major in economics and business at VMI.
Chris Spada (Rivervale, N.J.) – A letterwinner and 2012 graduate of Bergen Catholic, Spada comes to VMI after a stint at Bridgton Academy. In one season, he notched 20 goals with 10 assists and in another season, was named Most Improved Player of his team. Spada played for Tri State Lacrosse and made appearances at Peak 200 All-Star, Champ Camp, and Tri State National. He won't be the first Spada to play college athletics; his brother Adam, played football at Fordham University while his other brother, Steven, played football at the United States Naval Academy in 2009. Chris plans to major in economics and business at VMI.
Mitch Wilson (Arlington, Va.) – A four-year letterwinner at Orchard Park High School, just outside Buffalo, N.Y., Wilson played as a midfielder and faceoff specialist for Gene Tundo. A force on draws, Wilson went 85 percent his senior season, while also notching 25 goals. Not only was he a standout on the lacrosse field, but he scampered for 1,850 yards and 30 touchdowns on the football field for Tundo as a running back. A matter of consistency, Wilson also wrestled for two seasons under Tundo. Wilson was named Athlete of the Year, played for the Gait Cup All-Star team, named the sectional championship MVP, was named All Western New York for football, named Empire State Cup All-Star and his team was the sectional champion three times. The incoming freshman played for the Buffalo Lacrosse Academy. Wilson joins his brother, Matthew, in the college lacrosse ranks; Matthew plays at Saint Leo University, a Division II program in St. Leo, Fla. Mitch will look to major in English at the Institute.
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Suburban homeboy
On Hangin' 'round tha Mall
"Yo, yo, yo! Whatchu doin' 'round here? Scopin' out de bitches? We should hit the Orange Julius 'n slip a forty into that cupizle. Get wasted, yo. That'd be tight...jus' gotta find someone to boot some boozizle from dat liquor store down tha strip fo' us. My boi tells me we gon' get jumped into da Bloodz so we gots to be ready to take our hitz yo! You know, the dude who be hangin' 'round da food court! My mama scrapped my fake I.D. When I'm ayt-to-the-teen I'm so gettin' my own pad, yo."
On Whips
On His Ride
"See the Vee Oh El Vee Oh? Dat's how I ride. Damn! Got the phat tip, 'n everything. Fo' incha, no less. Limo tint too. The 'rents are gonna sell it to me. Fo' rizzle! Savin' up the mad scrilla for some big shoes, yo. Wit' spinnaz 'n chrome. Then I'm gonna go front to back 'n side to side. Ah, yeh. It's gonna takes me awhile, mowin' lawns don't pay shit. Tha man's jus' tryin' ta keeps down a nigga, ya knows what I mean?"
On Your Ride
"Your whip is a Vee Dub? Damn, yo! Doze wheels are tight! Your ride is all that. Damn. Fast 'n furious, yo. Ah-ite? Holla if you wit' me. Fo shizzle!"
On Girls
On Tryin' to Get All Up in That
"Damn! Check out the caboose on that ho, yo. Be-yatch runnin' like a freight train. Know what I mean? An' I'm tha conducta, yo. Girl, you got it goin' on! Come get some white chocolate. Drop the hero and get with a zer.."
"You betta bounce, bitch. Be'fo I go carayzah an' bus' a cap in your ass."
On the Lack of Getting' All Up in That
"She frontin'. Girl za dyke. Ah-ite. 'Nuff said, yo."
On Material Possessions
On Money
"Hook a brutha up, yo. Needs ta get a four oh. Four oh Big Gulpizle at the Sev'n double-one, that is. Ha ha. Gotsta pick up some rubbuz too, my baby mama been trippin'. She won't play wit'out tha slicka on mah pricka. Ya knows?"
On Bling
"Yo, check this out, yo. S'hype or what? Chain. Gold, mutha fucka. Fo' real, four karot...um, fo' karot. Fo' kay! Original gangsta. Aw, yeh."
On School
"I'm prolly gonna go ta summah school. Teacha says I'm failin'. It's all bullshizzle, yo. They just missunnastanz me, yo. They can't see my mad skillz...skillzizzle...skillzizzles...
I'm a poet, betcha didn't know it...
A lyrical masta', a pimp an' a gangsta,
microphone assassin, sub speakas blastin',
cow tippin', crazy trippin',
out runnin' the five-oh, in tha Volvo.
and ya don't stop, hip to tha hop.
Aw, yeh. Break it down now."
On Politics
"Yo, we supposed to vote on our prez-e-dent? That's bow-shit, yo. We all oppressed by cracka and his perpetratin' for fo' hundred years. Damn! Count us out o' that shiz'nizzler. Democracy gots nuthin' fo' the brutha. True dat!"
On Entertainment
On T.V.
"You watch Birdman comma Harvey last nite? Damn, that shit's hilarious. He's all, I'll tizzake the kizzase!. I laughed my azzass off, yo!"
On Movies
"Lemme aks you sumpin', you seen Sideways yet? Sho' I thought it'd be whack, but no...damn! It's all 'bout some niggas takin' the whip through wine country, man. Fo' real. It's all filled up wit' emotional shit, yo. I'd call up my ho 'n tell her 'bout it, but mah momma gone an' tookid away my phone line, yo. She even cancelled tha broadband. We'zizzle back on tha dy-al up-ah. Myspaceizzle is all molasses now. Can't hardly play Unrizzle Tournamizzle two kay four no mo'. Fo' real."
On Video Games
"I be playing Grand Theft Auto, man! My mama got me every version of Madden so I be kickin' wit my brothazz! F-Final Fantasy? Dat's fo nizzerds, fo shizznack!"
On Books
"...been readin' Po' Richard's Almanac. Ben Franklin's not just on money, he is money, yo. "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise". Damn! That shit is tight. A brutha should go to the libary and check, check, check it out. Aw, yeh."
On Player vs. Game
"Hate the game, yo...not the playa. Ah-ite?"
On Sports
"Imma jus like OJ, back in da day. Gettin saggy wit it"
On Basketball
"Yo, mah bruthah! After school mañana, you wanna go shoot hoops? I'm gonna lay down some fresh shizzin' dribble on the blacktop like I'm Shakizzle O-nizzle, yah know wha' I'm sayin'? Ah-ite."
On Soccer
"Dat's some bull-shizzle, yo! Playin' the footsie game wit' a baw that you can't even pick up? I gotsta feel it if I'm gonna' play it, yah know?"
On Hockey
"Yo, dat's some white boy shizzle, yo, ya feel me, mah bruthah, yo?"
On Parents
On Your Mom
"Yo, you shoppin' wit yo mama? Damn! That's whack. I'd never let my mama pull dat shit on me. I gotsta have my cap tipped sidewizzle. If tha' bitch ain't down wit' dat, dats her prob, ah-ite? I dress for las chicas, not my mama."
On His Dad
"Yo, Big Pop sells da cars, know what I mean, brothah? Yay-yuh!! He be bringin' home da cash to get his hoe bling-bling!"
On His Mom
"I gotsta bounce, yo. My moms gots me on tha curfew. She be trippin'. Ah needs muh space, yo. Damn! Layta."
On Goodbye
"Peace. We outta here."


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Located in central Italy. The city is situated at the mouth of the river Foglia, on the Adriatic Sea. The industries of the town include fisheries, agriculture, the manufacture of majolicas, the working of sulphur and lignite coal mines, bituminous schist, and marble. The cathedral (San Francesco) has a beautiful Gothic portal and a "Coronation of the Madonna", by Bellini; the church of San Domenico is a work of Fra Paolo Belli; in the latter is the mausoleum of the poet Giulio Perticari. The Palazzo Ducale was begun by Laurana before 1465, and was finished by the Gengas, father and son. In the Almerici palace is a museum of ancient inscriptions, coins, and ivory carvings, a collection of majolica, a small picture gallery, and the Olivieri library. Beside the episcopal residence is the ancient duomo, now closed, and the remains of a Christian nymphæum. Outside the city is the Villa Imperiale, built by Alessandro Sforza (1469). Among the scientific institutions mention should be made of the Liceo Musicale, dedicated to Rossini, a native of Pesaro. Of the charitable institutions, the infant asylum dates from 1257, and the retreat for penitent women from 1619.
At the beginning of the fourth century B.C., Pesaro was occupied by the Senones, who were driven from there in 283. The town became a colony in 184. During the Gothic War, it underwent frequent sieges. In the eighth century Pesaro fell four times into the hands of the Lombards, and finally was annexed to the Pontifical States. Giovanni Malatesta, the Lame, became podestà of Pesaro in 1285. Galeazzo Malatesta, having no children, gave Pesaro as a dower to his niece, Costansa Varano, wife of Alessandro Sforza, and the latter was confirmed in the possession of the city by the Holy See in 1447. Costanzo Sforza (1473) fought against the pope in the service of Florence, and left the duchy to his natural son Giovanni (1481); the latter married Lucrezia Borgia, from whom he was eventually separated. Costanso II inherited the duchy in 1510, under the tutelage of his uncle Galeazzo, but in 1512 Julius II gave Pesaro to Francesco M. della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, and the city remained united to this duchy, of which it became the capital. In 1860 the town was valiantly defended by 800 men of the Pontifical troops against the army of Cialdini, but it was compelled to surrender.
The Blessed Francis of Pesaro (1350) and the Blessed Michelina Metelli (1356) were of this city; the first is buried in the cathedral, and the second in the church of the Conventuals; other natives of Pesaro were the Blessed Santo, O. Min., who died in 1393; Blessed Pietro Giacomo (1496), an Augustinian, and Blessed Serafina Sforza (1478), wife of the Duke Alessandro Sforza; at the cathedral is the body of the Blessed Felice Meda (died 1444). The people of Pesaro have great veneration for St. Terentius, a martyr of uncertain date. The first bishop, St. Florentius, is said to have governed this see in the middle of the second century, while the bishop, St. Decentius, according to tradition, suffered martyrdom under Diocletian; Bishop Heradianus was at the Council of Sardica in 343. Other bishops were Germanus, who went with Cresconius di Todi to Constantinople in 497 as legate of Anastasius II; Felix, whom St. Gregory the Great brought to trial; Maximus (649); Benenatus, a legate to the Sixth General Council (680); Stabilinus (769); Adelberto (998), founder of the monastery of S. Tommaso in Folgia, where Clement II died in 1047; Pietro (1070), who was deposed, being a partisan of the schism of Barbarossa; Bartolomeo (1218); Omodio (1346); Biagio Geminelli (1354); Leale Malatesta (1370), who was the first to convoke a diocesan synod; Cardinal Antonio Casini (1406); Giuio Simonetti (1560), was at the Council of Trent, and founded the seminary; Gian Lucido Palombara (1658), consecrated the new cathedral; Umberto Radicati (1742), held an important diocesan synod; Cardinal Gennaro Ant. de' Simoni (1775); and Andrea Mastai-Ferretti (1806).
The diocese is a suffragan of Urbino; it has 39 parishes, 47,000 inhabitants, 9 religious houses of men, 7 of women, 2 educational establishments for male students, and 4 for girls.
CAPPELLETTI, Le Chiese d'Italia, III; MARCOLINI, Notizie storiche della provincia di Pesaro e Urbino (2nd ed., Pesaro, 1883).
APA citation. (1911). Diocese of Pesaro. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11738b.htm
MLA citation. "Diocese of Pesaro." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11738b.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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On the 9th episode of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills this season, all hell breaks lose! Must be something about Bravo housewives and dinner parties.
The episode is appropriately titled 'The Dinner From Hell' as Camille invites the wives and special guests to a lavish dinner party at her Malibu home, but the meal turns into a pressure cooker when the guests dig up a bitter subject, and digs are thrown leading to a fiery showdown — intensifying the friction between Camille and Kyle.
Could it finally be time to throw in the towel and accept that some friendships aren't meant to be? Find out tonight at 10/9c on Bravo.
In an interview with TV Guide, Kyle Richards was asked about the dinner party and here's what she had to say – "Oh, gosh. I can't give away details, but with us, it's certainly a case of oil and water. Every time we try to fix our issues, they seem to get worse. And I didn't think it could get worse than our fight in New York. There were some digs thrown, and I had a friend with me who got defensive. And Camille had a friend there who is pretty much a villain. It all just blew up from there." Should be a good episode.
Watch What Happens Live – Andy Cohen and Bravo end their 5 days a week experiment today as the last episode this week of WWHL airs tonight. The guests are Kyle Richards and Denise Richards.
One preview clip doesn't do tonight's episode justice so we're posting two clips below. Enjoy!


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The Street Fighter and Tekken franchises clash head-to-head in this never-before-dreamed-of crossover battle! Take on players from all over the world in Wi-Fi Ranked Match while increasing your player level!
※This application was created specifically for the iOS platform, and as such is different from the console version of Street Fighter X Tekken. It takes advantage of the "quick and easy fun for everyone" game idea that is unique to the iOS.
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Choose between Street Fighter and Tekken characters and create your very own tag team. Working together with your partner will be the key to victory!
Utilizes Capcom's Visual Pad for simple to use controls.
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Four characters will duke it out in 3D rendered spaces! We've really pushed the graphics to their limits! Makes full use of the retina display for crisp and clear graphics!
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The Gem Roulette system is unique to the iOS version. Hit your opponent with the Launcher Attack (-> + X) to spin the roulette and get a random power-up.
Power-up your Pandora's Boxes to make your roulette wheel a force to be reckoned with!
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The NY Times recently published a story about how they were hacked during a four month period. The hacks allegedly were carried out by part of the Chinese military.
One part of the story that confused me was the following:
From there they snooped around The Times's systems for at least two weeks before they identified the domain controller that contains user names and hashed, or scrambled, passwords for every Times employee.
While hashes make hackers' break-ins more difficult, hashed passwords can easily be cracked using so-called rainbow tables — readily available databases of hash values for nearly every alphanumeric character combination, up to a certain length. Some hacker Web sites publish as many as 50 billion hash values.
I remember that when news about the LinkedIn passwords being stolen was announced last year that LinkedIn was criticized for not having salted their passwords, and they also said that they would salt passwords in the future to improve security.
If the NY Times had salted passwords then rainbow tables would not be useful for the hackers correct? Does the fact that rainbow tables are mentioned in the story mean that the reporter was confused about how the hack would likely have occurred? Or does this mean that the NY Times was likely using unsalted passwords. If so does this point to poor security on the part of the NY Times (I guess that wouldn't be too surprising given the extent of the hack).
Basically my question is does the fact that rainbow tables were mentioned in the story imply that the NY Times had poor security policies in place. Or are rainbow tables still useful for hacking organizations that have good security practices in place.


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Thursday, 12 May 2011 07:00 AM EDT
Fewer Americans had their homes repossessed by banks or were put on notice for being behind on their mortgage payments in April compared to a year ago.
That would ordinarily suggest improving fortunes for U.S. homeowners, but the decline had less to do with any turnaround in the housing market than with foreclosure processing delays that appear to be getting worse. That is threatening to drag out a housing recovery, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday.
It's taking longer for lenders to move against homeowners who have stopped paying their mortgage and to take back homes already in some stage of the foreclosure process. In states like New York, for example, it now takes an average of more than two years for a home to go from the initial stage of foreclosure to being repossessed by a bank, the firm said.
Those delays, partly due to banks working through foreclosure documentation problems that came to light last fall, means it could take many more years for lenders to deal with a backlog of seriously delinquent properties, which numbers up to 3.7 million, by some estimates.
"It's going to take between three to four years just to get those loans into foreclosure at our current pace," said Rick Sharga, a senior vice president at RealtyTrac. "And that doesn't spell good news for the housing market."
Banks repossessed 69,532 homes last month, down 5 percent from March and down 25 percent compared with April of last year, according to RealtyTrac, which tracks warnings sent to homeowners throughout the foreclosure process.
The number of properties receiving an initial notice of default fell to 63,422, down 14 percent from March and down 39 percent from April, 2010.
Homes scheduled for auction for the first time also declined in April, falling to 86,304. That's down 7 percent from March and 37 percent below April of last year.
A weak housing market, sliding home prices and pressure on lenders to give troubled homeowners more time to work out new payment arrangements or loan terms have all contributed to the longer time frame for foreclosures.
Many banks also have taken steps to revisit thousands of foreclosure cases since last fall, delaying the processing of new foreclosures. The logjam has been compounded by court delays in states like Florida, New York and New Jersey, where foreclosures must be approved by a judge.
In the first three months of this year, it took an average of 400 days for a U.S. home to go from receiving an initial notice of default to being foreclosed on, RealtyTrac said.
That's up from an average of 340 days in the same period last year and more than double the 151-day average in the first quarter of 2007.
The delays are even lengthier at the state level. In New York and New Jersey, the foreclosure process took more than 900 days, on average, to run its course in the first quarter — more than three times the average length of time in the first quarter of 2007 for both states.
In Florida, one of the states hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, the process took an average of 619 days in the first quarter, up from 470 days a year earlier. In the first quarter of 2007, it took an average of 169 days for the process to play out, RealtyTrac said.
Barring a pickup in the pace of foreclosures, it is likely fewer homes will be repossessed this year than in 2010, when lenders took back more than a million, Sharga said.
Despite the drop in foreclosure activity last month, several states continue to have outsized foreclosure rates.
Nevada had the highest foreclosure rate in the nation, with one in every 97 households receiving a foreclosure notice in April. It also bucked the overall national trend, as bank repossessions jumped 23 percent from March and climbed 12 percent from April of last year, RealtyTrac said.
Lenders may have elected to pick up the pace of foreclosures in Nevada to take advantage of brisk foreclosure sales in Las Vegas. In March, sales of previously occupied homes in Las Vegas hit a five-year high, with distressed properties accounting for 69 percent of sales, according to DataQuick.
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Relish a salad platter of thinly sliced tomatoes, with chunks of mozzarella, a drizzle of olive oil, sliced black olives and basil leaves. Arrange in concentric circles on a nice white plate. The word relish is just perfect here. And not just salads, for all those rich and good-looking Indian preps, the very famous onion-tomato masala is a must! Then, there are soups, beverages (call for the Bloody Mary!), snacks and even desserts made of these plump red things. Even the green ones are in use today. Must say, terrific tomatoes!
Prep Time : 6-10 minutes
Cook time : 26-30 minutes
Serve : 4
Level Of Cooking : Easy
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Jun 13, 2011 | |
Glowing Cornell dots - a potential cancer diagnostic tool set for human trials |
(Nanowerk News) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first clinical trial in humans of a new technology: Cornell Dots, brightly glowing nanoparticles that can light up cancer cells in PET-optical imaging. | |
A paper describing this new medical technology will be published June 13, 2011 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation ("Multimodal silica nanoparticles are effective cancer-targeted probes in a model of human melanoma"). This is a collaboration between Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Cornell University, and Hybrid Silica Technologies, a Cornell business start-up. | |
For the first time, scientists report a uniquely advanced and comprehensive characterization of Cornell Dots – an ultra small, cancer-targeted, multimodal silica nanoparticle – which has recently been approved as an "investigational new drug" (IND) by the FDA for a first-in-human clinical trial, says Michelle S. Bradbury, M.D., of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and an assistant professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College. | |
Cornell Dots are silica spheres less than 8 nanometers in diameter that enclose several dye molecules. (A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, about the length of three atoms in a row.) The silica shell, essentially glass, is chemically inert and small enough to pass through the body and out in the urine. For clinical applications, the dots are coated with polyethylene glycol (PEG) so the body will not recognize them as foreign substances. | |
A guiding light within the body: To make the dots stick to tumor cells, organic molecules that bind to tumor surfaces or even specific locations within tumors can be attached to the PEG shell. When exposed to near-infrared light, the dots fluoresce much brighter than dye to serve as a beacon to identify the target cells. The technology, the researchers say, enables visualization during surgical treatment, showing invasive or metastatic spread to lymph nodes and distant organs, and can show the extent of treatment response. | |
Hooisweng Ow, a coauthor of the paper and once a graduate student working with Ulrich Wiesner, Cornell Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, developed first-generation Cornell dots in 2005. Together, Wiesner, Ow and Kenneth Wang, have co-founded the company Hybrid Silica Technologies (HST) to commercialize the invention. The combined team of MSKCC, Cornell and HST researchers is now in the process of forming a new commercial entity in New York City that will help transition the research into commercial products that will benefit cancer patient care. | |
"This is the first FDA IND approved inorganic particle platform of its class and properties that can be used for multiple clinical indications, two of which are explored: cancer targeting for diagnostics and future therapeutic diagnostics, as well as cancer disease staging and tumor burden assessment via lymph node mapping," says Bradbury. | |
The Cornell Dots were optimized for efficient renal clearance, allowing the body to pass them through the kidneys. | |
In addition, the scientists were able to perform real-time imaging of lymphatic drainage patterns and particle clearance rates, as well as sensitively detect nodal metastases. Nodal mapping is now being pursued under a new award of a BioAccelerate NYC Prize from the Partnership for New York City and the New York City Economic Development Corporation, which is expected to lead to another clinical trial in humans. |
Source: Cornell University |


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The Carlisle Board of Health is a five member elected Board responsible for assessing, maintaining and protecting the public health, safety and environment of the Town of Carlisle. The Board of Health enforces Massachusetts General Laws pertaining to public health, control of disease, promotion of sanitary living conditions, and protection of the environment from damage and pollution. The Board of Health promulgates local regulations and policies, and ensures that needed health services are available.
In addition to setting health policy initiatives for the community, the Board of Health issues permits for septic systems and wells, reviews building permit applications for Title 5 compliance, maintains property files and as-builts, investigates nuisance and sanitary code complaints, monitors animal bites and quarantines, inspects and licenses local food establishments, tracks communicable diseases in the community, arranges household hazardous waste collections, rabies and flu clinics, and organizes outreach programs. The Board and its staff look forward to helping Carlisle residents maintain a healthy lifestyle and environment.
A Title 5 inspection must be completed in order to sell your home in Carlisle. All Title 5 inspectors are state-certified. A copy of the Title 5 will be mailed to the Carlisle Board of Health and kept on file. Title 5's are good for two years from the date of inspection. An extension may be granted if the system has been pumped once a year from the Title 5 date.
A Title 5 is not required if the system has been recently installed (up to 2 years), or up to 3 years with a pump out.
A standard water test confirming the absence of coliform is required prior to sale of your home. Other requirements are in Carlisle's Supplemental Water Supply Regulations, on the website.
The Board of Health recommends a pump-out at least once every two years. It is also recommended that garbage grinders not be used as they shorten the life of the system.


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Dear Stella kindly sent me a pack of their collection Cleo to try out. I really love how forward their designs are. I can see a lot of their collections pulling inspiration from fabrics intended more for fashion. So I pulled out my favorite prints from the stack and got to work pulling together some different combinations.
There's something just special about a collection of pouches, perfect for packing with all sorts of travel items. Of course there are a million other uses, but I really like them together as a group. A pretty modern group, check! These are all 3 sizes from my Open Wide Pouch Tutorial.
I also liked adding on these little leather strips on the pull tab. I simply looped the leather through the tab if it was big enough or wound a piece of thread around the leather and tied it off. Done and done.
The bottom contrast on all pouches is a Kaffee Fasset shot cotton (sorry, I'm not sure of the exact color!), the gray pull tabs and medium size pouch body is Robert Kaufman Essex Linen in Gray.
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Difference between Herb and Spice
The Question:
What is the difference between an herb and a spice?
The Answer:
The terms "spice" and "herb" have both been used to describe parts of plants (possibly dried) that are used to enhance the flavor or taste of food. In addition, herbs have been used to augment cosmetics, preserve foods and cure illnesses.
Spices and herbs can consist of flower buds, bark, seeds, leaves or many other parts of a plant. Over time the definitions for spices and herbs have changed a bit. In the past, spices have been categorized as fragrant, aromatic plant products like cinnamon, cloves, ginger and pepper. These spices are found in plants grown in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. While herbs have always been recognized as the more green, leafy products like mint, rosemary and thyme grown in more temperate areas.
But according to the American Spice Trade Association, today spices have become known as "any dried plant product used primarily for seasoning purposes." This all-inclusive definition seems to cover a wide range of plants like herbs, spice seeds and even dehydrated vegetables and spice blends.
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Windows 8 secure boot would 'exclude' Linux
Microsoft wants firmware to only start authorised OSes
Computer scientists warn that proposed changes in firmware specifications may make it impossible to run "unauthorised" operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD on PCs.
Proposed changes to the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware specifications would mean PCs would only boot from a digitally signed image derived from a keychain rooted in keys built into the PC. Microsoft is pushing to make this mandatory in a move that could not be overridden by users and would effectively exclude alternative operating systems, according to Professor Ross Anderson of Cambridge University and other observers.
UEFI is a successor to the BIOS ROM firmware designed to shorten boot times and improve security. The framework, a key part of Windows 8, is designed to work on a variety of CPU architectures.
If the draft for UEFI is adopted without modification, then any system that ships with only OEM and Microsoft keys will not boot a generic copy of Linux. A signed version of Linux would work, but this poses problems, as tech blogger Matthew Garrett explains.
Garrett writes:
Firstly, we'd need a non-GPL bootloader. Grub 2 is released under the GPLv3, which explicitly requires that we provide the signing keys. Grub is under GPLv2 which lacks the explicit requirement for keys, but it could be argued that the requirement for the scripts used to control compilation includes that. It's a grey area, and exploiting it would be a pretty good show of bad faith.Secondly, in the near future the design of the kernel will mean that the kernel itself is part of the bootloader. This means that kernels will also have to be signed. Making it impossible for users or developers to build their own kernels is not practical. Finally, if we self-sign, it's still necessary to get our keys included by ever OEM.
There's no indication that Microsoft will prevent vendors from providing firmware support for disabling this feature and running unsigned code. However, experience indicates that many firmware vendors and OEMs are interested in providing only the minimum of firmware functionality required for their market.
Garrett concluded that there is no need to panic just yet.
The upshot of the changes is that considerable roadblocks might be placed in the way of running alternative operating systems on PCs. Anderson describes this as a return to the rejected Trusted Computing architecture – which at that point involved force-feeding DRM copy-protection restrictions – which may be far worse than its predecessor.
The professor said:
These issues last arose in 2003, when we fought back with the Trusted Computing FAQ and economic analysis. That initiative petered out after widespread opposition. This time round the effects could be even worse, as 'unauthorised' operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD just won't run at all. On an old-fashioned Trusted Computing platform you could at least run Linux – it just couldn't get at the keys for Windows Media Player.The extension of Microsoft's OS monopoly to hardware would be a disaster, with increased lock-in, decreased consumer choice and lack of space to innovate.
Anderson concludes that the technology might violate EU competition law in a rallying call on Cambridge University's Light Blue Touchpaper blog here. ®


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Today is the official release day for Saving Quinton by Jessica Sorensen! Saving Quinton is the latest installment in the Nova series! Read on for more info on the book, a fantastic excerpt, and then enter the giveaway!
Saving Quinton (Nova #2)
Author: Jessica Sorensen
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Publisher: Forever
From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Breaking Nova comes a gripping story about what it takes to save the one you love . . .
Nova Reed can't forget him-Quinton Carter, the boy with the
honey-brown eyes who made her realize she deserved more than an empty
life. His pain was so similar to her own. But Nova has been coming to
terms with her past and healing, while Quinton is
out there somewhere, sinking deeper. She's determined to find him and
help him . . . before it's too late.
Nova has haunted his dreams for nearly a year-but Quinton never thought a sweet, kind person like her would care enough about a person like him. To Quinton, a dark, dangerous life is exactly what he deserves. And Nova has no place in it. But Nova has followed him to Las Vegas, and now he must do whatever it takes to keep her away, to maintain his self-imposed punishment for the unforgivable things he's done. But there's one flaw in his plan: Nova isn't going anywhere...
Nova has haunted his dreams for nearly a year-but Quinton never thought a sweet, kind person like her would care enough about a person like him. To Quinton, a dark, dangerous life is exactly what he deserves. And Nova has no place in it. But Nova has followed him to Las Vegas, and now he must do whatever it takes to keep her away, to maintain his self-imposed punishment for the unforgivable things he's done. But there's one flaw in his plan: Nova isn't going anywhere...
"What are you doing here?" It's painful to talk, but I force the words to leave my mouth. "Or am I dreaming?"
She repositions her hand on my cheek, but doesn't pull away, the startled look in her eyes diminishing. "You're not dreaming…you were unconscious but…are you okay?" She seems nervous and it reminds me of how innocent and good she is, and how she shouldn't be here in the crack house that I call home.
"Why are you here?" I ask, my voice feeble as I try to sit up, but my arms aren't working and I fall right back down on the mattress.
"I came here to see you," she replies, absent-mindedly touching her lips, and I wonder if I really kissed her or if I was imagining it.
She stares at me with her fingers on her lips and it's uncomfortable because she's really looking at me. I've been so used to people looking through me, as if I were a ghost, seeing the drugs, the person that I am now, the worthlessness all over me, instead of who I used to be. I've forgotten what it's like to be really looked at and for a split second I enjoy it. Then she looks away and I feel like I'm dying, my brain registering the pain in my legs, arms, chest—everywhere. And I'm crashing. Badly. My hands start to shake, my heart rate picking up as soon as I realize this.
"Go put some ice in a plastic bag," she says, snapping her fingers at someone.
I hear a mutter and then Tristan steps into my view. He glances down at me and the haziness in his eyes lets me know he's high on something, but I'm glad he's at least here and it doesn't look like he's been beaten up. "Dude, you look like shit," he tells me with a dopey-ass grin.
"I feel like shit," I mutter, managing to get my hand up to my face to rub my eyes. "You look like you got away."
"I did, and you should have run with me, you dumbass…I thought you were for a while until I realized I was alone." Tristan chuckles under his breath. "Wait until you see yourself in a mirror."
His amusement seems to piss Nova off and she gets to her feet, tugging the bottoms of her shorts down, fury burning in her eyes. "Go get a fucking bag to put the ice in," she says, not yelling, but her tone is cold, abrupt, harsh, and she sort of shoves him. This isn't the Nova I remember at all and she kind of scares me.
She seems to scare Tristan, too, who surrenders with his hands in front of him and backs toward the doorway. "Fine. Jesus, Nova. You don't have to get crazy about it."
"You haven't even begun to see me get crazy," she snaps, pointing at the door. "Now go get a damn bag."
After Tristan leaves, she turns to the doorway and says, "What am I going to do?"
I can't see who she's talking to and it makes me wonder who the hell is in here. Delilah? I doubt it, since I don't think she'd be asking Delilah that question.
"I don't know," someone replies. I still can't see who it is, but I can tell the voice belongs to a female and I hate how excited I get over the fact that Nova's not here with a guy.
Suddenly a girl with black hair and big blue eyes steps in. "He looks…" She assesses me, then looks at Nova. "He looks like he needs to go to a hospital."
"No hospitals," I croak. "I don't have the cash to pay for that." And I don't deserve to heal so easily. I should suffer for getting up and running away from my death.
Nova stares down at me with reluctance. "Quinton, I really think you need to go to a hospital." She kneels back down on the mattress, sweeping her long brown hair to the side as she leans over me. Her fingers gently enfold my wrist and, moving slowly, she bends my arm so I can get a good view of my hand. It's twice the size it normally is and my skin is purple and blue. Even where her fingers are, the skin is swollen and raw, and it seems like her touch should hurt, but all I can feel is heat—her heat. God, I've missed her heat. I've spent the last year wrapped up in coldness, feeling the numbness of drugs and sex with random women and now she's here and I feel like I'm burning up.
"It's just a bruise," I say, not looking at my hand, but at her. I want to hold her, hug her, kiss her, touch her, but I also want her to go away. Stay. Leave. Right. Wrong. Lexi. Nova. Guilt.
It was all your fault.
Jessica Sorensen is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling
author who lives with her husband and three kids in Idaho. When she's
not writing, she spends her time reading and hanging out with her
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Fedora 18 Boost 1.50 Uplift
This feature brings Boost 1.50.0 to Fedora 18.
- Name: Petr Machata
- Email: pmachata at redhat com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 18 (and its Feature List)
- Last updated: 2012-10-07
- Percentage of completion: 100%
- The Boost 1.50 package has been in Fedora 18 for a while (a few months), a few bugs have been fixed at the beginning, and the system has been pretty much stable ever since
Detailed Description
That feature aims at synchronising the top of the Fedora tree with the current Boost upstream release. The current Fedora release is boost-1.48.0.
As of Fedora 13, the canonical sources used for the package switched from the official Boost release (with BJam build) to an alternate repository (with CMake build, for boost-1.41.0). That alternate repository has been deprecated and may be deleted any time soon (as of November 2011). boost-1.41.0 has been delivered from that (now deprecated) Boost-CMake repository (hosted on Gitorious), where the code base had slightly diverged from upstream.
From Fedora 14, boost-1.44.0 has been rebased on upstream, with a mere patch implementing CMake support. Moreover, there is a new Git repository reflecting those changes, hosted on GitHub (and cloned on Gitorious). That repository relies on the Ryppl project (in particular, on the Boost Subversion replicated repository), created and maintained by two Boost developers, namely Eric Niebler and Dave Abrahams.
The objective is now to keep delivering the latest stable Boost release for each new Fedora release.
Some background:
- Boost package in Fedora
- Boost build status in Koji
- Fedora 17 Boost-1.48 Feature
- Fedora 16 Boost-1.47 Feature
- Fedora 15 Boost-1.46 Feature
- Fedora 14 Boost-1.44 Feature
- Fedora 13 Boost-1.41 Feature
- Boost ships with an ad-hoc build system named BJam.
Benefit to Fedora
Syncing with upstream keeps Fedora current. This is part of regular package maintenance.
The following needs to be done:
- Assess whether cmake upstream is ready, possibly help patch the holes
- Do the initial packaging work (possibly on a branch), add sub-packages for new runtime components
- Request a "boost" build system tag (discussion) (tag request ticket)
- Build boost into that tag (build)
- Post a request for rebuilds to fedora-devel (message)
- Work on rebuilding dependent packages in the tag, fixing any bugs it either the dependent package, or Boost
- When most is done, re-tag all the packages to rawhide
How To Test
- No special hardware is needed.
- Testing of the Boost packages themselves requires the host system to have the boost-test package installed. Testing can then be enabled at package build time by passing --with tests. Note that that testing phase should be done only once per type of architecture and distribution version.
- Integration testing simply consists of installing Boost packages on Fedora 18 and checking that it does not break other packages.
User Experience
Expected to remain largely the same.
There are a large number of dependencies for the boost package in Fedora. The list of packages that really _need_ rebuilding can be obtained as follows:
$ repoquery -s --whatrequires libboost\* | sort -u
Those are packages whose binaries won't even start after boost update, because each Boost update implies a soname bump. Currently this returns 104 packages, with some of those being sub-packages of a single package.
Contingency Plan
Since we will build in a separate tag, if anything goes wildly wrong, the natural result would be abandoning that tag and shipping Fedora 18 with boost-1.48.
- Boost: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_50_0
- Boost-CMake: http://github.com/pocb/boost (the previous wiki is now outdated)
- Boost 1.49.0 Release Notes: http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_49_0
- Boost 1.50.0 Release Notes: http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_50_0


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John Espey
The 2020-21 season will be John Espey's 17th year as an assistant men's lacrosse coach at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
Espey is currently an associate professor of physical education and Assistant Director of Athletic Facilities at Stony Brook University, where he served as the Head Men's Lacrosse Coach from 1987-2004.
Prior to his stint with the Sea Wolves, Espey was at the helm of the Duke men's lacrosse program from 1976-1981 and also served as a graduate assistant at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1975-1976.
Espey graduated from SUNY Cortland with a Bachelor's Degree in Physical Education and from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with a Master's Degree in Teaching.
Throughout his career, Espey has served on the NCAA Division-I Championship Committee (2003-2004), NCAA Division-I Playoff Advisory Committee (2002-2003), and was President of the America East Lacrosse Coaches Association (2003-2003).
Outside of collegiate lacrosse, Espey was an assistant coach for the Long Island Lizards of Major League Lacrosse from 2004-2011 and has been a Team Liaison for the United States Men's Lacrosse National Team since 2012.
He currently resides in Commack, NY.


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Oh, people. I know you're pumpkin-ed out and it is not even Thanksgiving yet. But if there could be room in your gullet for one more pumpkin love — perhaps even as a last minute, the-heck-with-pie, Hail Mary pass of a Thanksgiving meal dessert — I think that these wee cakes are a worthy cause.
So many pumpkin cakes and loaves and muffins are heavy, playing off the dense qualities of pureed squash, and the deep, warm spices we like to eat them with. But these cupcakes — originally envisioned as a two-layer cake I believe my sister is frosting right! now! — are light. They still taste of pumpkin but not aggressively so. And the maple cream cheese frosting, my word, is so heaven sent, you can see I got a little carried away prettying it up.
The original recipe is from our friend David Leite, of the Consummate Chocolate Chip Cookie fame. But you know it is a true testament to his baking prowess to be able to make desserts that go from total decadence to this, a nicely balanced treat.
How to make roses: I worked at a bakery in high school where I picked up some party tricks — ha! Okay, maybe not party tricks but I hadn't tried to make a rose in a dozen years and was thrilled that I still somewhat remembered. But before you ask, let me assure you that my technique is anything but worth teaching. Instead, check out this video or this one if you want to try it at home. I promise; it's not as hard as it looks.
One year ago: Curried Lentils and Sweet Potatoes
Two years ago: Fettuccine with Porcini
Pumpkin Cupcakes With Maple–Cream Cheese Frosting
Adapted from David Leite
Yield: 17 to 18 cupcakes
1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for greasing pans
1 cup firmly packed dark-brown sugar
1/3 cup granulated sugar
2 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 large eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk mixed with 1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cups canned solid-pack pumpkin
Two (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
Make the cupcakes: Heat oven to 350° (175°C). Line a cupcake pan with 18 liners.
In a stand mixer, beat the butter and sugars on medium speed until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, salt, and pepper into a medium bowl.
Add eggs, one at a time, to the mixer, scraping down the sides after each addition. Alternate adding the flour and milk mixtures, beginning and ending with the flour. Beat in the pumpkin until smooth. Scoop the batter among the cupcake liners — you're looking to get them 3/4 full. Bake the cupcakes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20 to 25 minutes. Cool the cupcakes on racks completely.
Make the frosting: In a stand mixer beat all the ingredients on medium until fluffy. Frost the tops of each cupcake, swirling decoratively. Refrigerate cupcakes for 30 minutes to set up frosting.


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Four years after Top Gun and The Color of Money hit theatres, producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer were thinking about how to squeeze more money out of a proven formula, and Tom Cruise was wondering how he could be more like his Color of Money co-star Paul Newman. Answer: Tony Scott's Days of Thunder, a NASCAR racing melodrama that remains a low-rent cultural touchstone and guilty pleasure. It also marks the moment of convergence for Cruise and Nicole Kidman, married soon thereafter.
An unofficial "sideways sequel" to Top Gun, then, except with national treasure Robert Duvall in the role of crusty mentor, Days of Thunder is preposterous and noisy, but certainly unpretentious (in case anyone misses the connection to Top Gun, also directed by Scott, Cruise makes his entrance wearing Ray-Bans and atop a motorcycle that emerges in slo-mo from a haze of smoke). Cruise plays gifted "kamikaze driver" Cole Trickle (can't you just hear Cruise yelling, "Give me a Paul Newman name!"?), a hotshot NASCAR rookie who needs some schooling from Harry Hogge, Duvall's deep-fried Southern mechanic/ace crew chief/stock car whisperer. When Trickle and professional rival Rowdy Burns (Michael Rooker) flame out on the track, they meet leggy neurosurgeon Dr. Claire Lewicki (Kidman), who can't help herself from taking a shine to Cole. As Cole recovers, car owner Tim Daland (Randy Quaid) turns to Russ Wheeler (Cary Elwes), an aggressive driver that nearly proves Cole's match, but before long Cole will be back on track, setting the stage for a Daytona 500 climax.
The racing scenes suit Scott, a stylist better suited to testosterone than brain power: the track sequences prove clear, kinetic and brilliantly edited. As for the story, Cruise himself co-wrote it with Robert Towne, who's slumming in this kind of summer-blockbuster territory (and no doubt dreaming of future sports movie Without Limits, the running biopic originally intended for Cruise). It's no wonder, then, that Towne's script plays so thoroughly into Cruise's bombastic star instincts. Despite their best efforts, Cole never seems like much of a character, but Towne gives Duvall some nice ripe dialogue and devises interesting enough competitive narrative for each race. The rest is all sports-movie formula, outlined by a hackneyed romance and scored by Hans Zimmer with cheesy rock guitar.
Towne gives a bit of extra juice to the requisite psychoanalyzation, which comes from both Claire's corner and Harry's. "There's nothing I can't do with a race car," Cole insists. "Oh, he can drive," Harry responds. "He can drive beyond the limits of the tires, the engine, the car or anything else. If the sum' bitch listened to me, we wouldn't hardly ever lose a race!" For Claire's part, control freak Cole is a slave to his fear and denial. To win, Cole must learn to accept that he's not in control: first by surrendering to Harry's sage advice and then by learning to accept that fate hasn't ceded control to him, as death potentially lurks around every bend. On a frivolous note, Talladega Nights fans will enjoy seeing John C. Reilly in the role of a likeable lug on Harry's team, and eagle-eyed movie buffs will recognize the late Don Simpson in the cameo role of racer Aldo Benedetti.
Paramount keeps "cruising like thunder" through the back catalog, this time with a Blu-ray of Days of Thunder. Despite some distracting, worrying blemishes (dirt, dust, and hair, some seemingly endemic to the source material), the transfer quickly establishes itself as impressively steady. The film looks to me as it always has (a good thing: the colors match my memory of the film on screen and on video), but from the detail is consistently head ans shoulders above DVD, and from time to time the image will leap to life. Despite inconsistency and some prominent edge enhancement in at least one scene, it's fair to say the transfer is leaps and bounds over any previous home-video issue. The same can be said for the definitive hi-res audio, presented in "thunderous" Dolby TrueHD 5.1 that demonstrates excellent separation and immersion, especially in the all-important racing scenes.
The Blu-ray, like the DVD, has no bonus features aside from a "Theatrical Trailer" (2:29), here presented in HD, but fans of the film will want to upgrade with this nice-priced catalog reissue.
Review gear: |
Panasonic Viera TC-P55VT30 55" Plasma 1080p 3D HDTV
Oppo BDP-93 Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Player
Denon AVR2112CI Integrated Network A/V Surround Receiver
Pioneer SP-BS41-LR Bookshelf Speaker (2)
Pioneer SP-C21 Center Speaker
Pioneer SW-8 Subwoofer


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If I type e1 := 3 x + 2 (1 + y) z // TreeForm
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, I get another prefectly correct expression tree.
Is there a way that I can get TreeForm
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A Florida woman whose controversial conviction and 20-year sentence for firing a warning shot at an abusive ex-husband were recently overturned must remain in jail for at least another week, a judge ruled on Thursday. Marissa Alexander's supporters had hoped the mother of three would be set free during her first court appearance since an appeals panel set aside the guilty verdict and prison term last month over the August 2010 shooting.
Instead, circuit court judge James Daniel set a bail hearing in Jacksonville for 8 November, and ordered that Alexander, 33, face a new trial to begin on 31 March next year. Hers is one of a number of recent high-profile self-defence cases involving Florida's stand-your-ground laws and is being pursued by Angela Corey, the state attorney who put George Zimmerman on trial for murder this summer over the February 2012 killing of the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford.
Several dozen of Alexander's supporters were at the courthouse on Thursday to protest against the decision to keep her in prison and to put the case before a new jury instead of letting her walk free.