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to be a little uncomfortable about this?
I'm glad the staff is being upfront about it, but, man, I'm not sure I love the precedent.
A name that has been popping up a lot since Michigan's camp is Kentucky safety Jeremy Clark. The 6-foot-4, 205-pound defensive back went up to Michigan to show the coaches what he has to offer. He now finds himself in a unique scenario, and I caught up with his coach today to talk about where Jeremy is at.
"He was offered a greyshirt today by the coaches, which could eventually lead to being a part of this class if the other safety they're in on doesn't commit," his coach said. The other safety he's talking about is likely Ohio defensive back Jarrod Wilson, who could be deciding as early as tomorrow.
To those that aren't familiar, a greyshirt would mean Jeremy would commit to Michigan and pay his way through school, likely only for a semester. Once the semester is up he would then be able to earn a scholarship, the greyshirt preserves his eligibility while not counting towards the 2012 class numbers.
"He's going to talk to his dad tonight and make a decision soon. He really fell in love with Michigan and the coaches," said his coach. "He said the facilities, the tradition, and the coaches just made him feel at home. He said it just felt right." Deciding to take the greyshirt from Michigan would show just how interested he is since he would be passing up full rides from North Carolina State, Akron, Ball State, CMU, Illinois, Ohio, and Toledo.
"Jeremy is a great kid, kind of quiet, but very hard worker. As far as on the field, he's a head hunter. I coached a kid that went to Notre Dame as a safety, and I think Jeremy has potential to be better," said his coach. Jeremy is a big defensive back at 6-foot-4, but his coach reports he ran a 4.4 forty time at both Kentucky and Cincinnati's camp. "He'll come down hill and play hard nosed football, too. He's got size and speed, and he just grew three to four inches in the last year. He went from being undiscovered to blowing up."
Clark's coach isn't sure when he'll decided but is supposed to speak with his father tonight to go over what exactly a greyshirt is. "I told Jeremy what [a greyshirt] is, so I'll tell his dad tonight," he said. "I don't know when he'll decide but I know he was as excited as I've ever seen him that Michigan still wanted him." It sounds like Clark could make his decision soon. The Michigan coaches explained to him that he can take the greyshirt and if Jarrod Wilson were to commit elsewhere then Clark would take that spot for the 2012 class.
to be a little uncomfortable about this?
I'm glad the staff is being upfront about it, but, man, I'm not sure I love the precedent.
I can understand uneasiness, because the term greyshirt gets thrown around a lot in conjunction with oversigning.
But the coaches are being direct with Clark. He flat out knows he'll be greyshirted if he commits so it isn't as if he'll be told out of the blue to go to prep school for a semester Les Miles-style.
Also believe this is a good sign for Jarrod Wilson. Coaches were waiting to offer Clark because of Wilson. Being offered a greyshirt now means they could very well know what Wilson's decision is and that there isn't room for Clark next fall.
I felt uneasy too about hearing this, but after reading what they told, and the fact that he still excited, has me excited. Especially for a 6'-4" safety with sub 4.5 speed. Do we get a hello post from him if he says yes?
Clark's an intriguing safety. He's 6'4" 200 lbs., and from what I've read was maybe 6'0" and certainly not 200 lbs. this time last year which partly explains his low rating. Could develop in to a big player and reports from camp are that he was one of the best players there.
As for a Hello post, I assume so. He'd be a scholarship player, he would just get on scholarship January 2013, instead of 2012.
I'm not sure I understand those that say this. In what way is this anything less than completely above board and completely within B10 rules? The kid was told, is excited, knows exactly what the risks are, and is considering it. What is the issue?
Exactly. Nothing wrong with this so long as Jeremy fully understands the circumstances. No one is forcing him to do anything or tricking him into anything. If greyshirting here is what he wants to do then he will do it. Sounds good to me..
As many have pointed out, the player is being offered a deferred scholarship.
The best way to understand this is to realize that while he is a 2012 prospect, they are offering him a 2013 scholarship. That means he has a choice. He can wait to enroll until 2013 (January 2013 as an early enrollee for that class) and receive his scholarship without having to pay for anything out of pocket or he can enroll in the Fall of 2012 and pay his own way for the first semester (unless a scholarship opens in the fall).
Keep in mind he has 5 years to play 4 seasons, from the time he becomes a full-time student. So if he doesn't enroll in the fall, or he enrolls with less than 12 credit hours, then the eligibility clock won't start until 2013.
The one criticism people have with this, even in an above board situation like this one, is that the player won't be signing an LOI for the 2012 class. And while an LOI isn't officially binding, it does reassure the player that a scholarship does exist for him. In this case he would have to take it on faith that the coach is being honest and a 2013 scholly is his.
I think the most significant thing about this is that it confirms that Coach Hoke wants to maximize the size of this class. He is willing to trade a 2013 scholarship for an extra 2012 player in the program. That leads me to believe that not only is 26 players in the class a possibility we may reach 28.
that the staff views the scholarship limit as something to find a way around.
They aren't offering him a scholarship. It's not like they are finding a way to give a guy a scholarship and counting it towards a different sport, like track. He's gonna be paying his own way. That's like saying that offering a guy a walk-on spot is gaming the system.
Do you like the implication the coaches are doing everything they can within the rules to win?
That's not at all what they're doing. Are you uneasy about what they're doing with Bo Dever? He's not even being told a scholarship is likely. A greyshirt is a way for a kid to become a scholarship football player at UM, except that it includes his parents paying for some part of his college. This is similar to what happened with Brian Griese, in fact.
The coaches are promising anything, and it sounds like they're being very upfront with him. They're even saying that his might get a full offer if our plan A guys don't commit.
Grey-shirts wouldn't exist if they were shady. They're only shady when players are forced into them or coerced into them. The NCAA wouldn't have created a grey shirt if it was a bad thing. This is almost like going on the scholarship waiting list. Come here as a glorified walk-on and when we have an open scholarship, which we almost always do, you'll be the first one to get it."
The reason that this makes me uneasy is that there does not appear to be any guarantee that this kid will actually get a scholarship (Whereas Dever is not expecting to get a scholarship). Maybe I don't fully understand what a "greyshirt" means, but it seems to me that if Clark were to get injured or turn out to be not as good as the coaches hoped then there would be no obligation to give him a scholarship.
That would not be OK in my opinion. It's the kind of thing that we as Michigan fans would attack the SEC for.
Yes, and if that happens, then you are right to criticize Hoke. Until that happens we have what appears to be an honest coach and there is nothing to indicate he will go back on his promise. As such, I think it's fine. If it turns out there was no scholarship (which I can't imagine), then yes, it is shady.
Usually those are the types of questions that the kid and his family iron out with the coach before he even commits.
Besides whats the point in offering a kid you are not reasonably sure he compete? the Kid at Akron is option 1 the kid from Ketucky is option 1A.
The reason we look down on the SEC's practice of Grey Shirting is because they are not up front with the players who receive them. They offer kids scholarships and when someone better comes along they force them into a grey shirt or force the kid to find a new school. What Hoke is doing is completely transparent and honest. He has outlined the possibilities to the kid and is giving the kid the chance to make his opinion. If he doesn't want to take the risk of a grey shirt, he is open to go with another school. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this and those who feel uneasy have no reason to at all.
I never said that I thought Hoke was being dishonest (Although unless you have some insided information, I don't think there was enough data in the OP to claim with certainty that "what Hoke is doing is completely transparent and honest"), I was simply explaining why I was uneasy about this. More than likely you guys will be right and everything will work out OK. However, if something unfortunate were to happen and this kid had some sort of career ending inury, it's hard to see us still giving him an athletic scholarship next year.
Would he be elegible for a medical scholarship then?
> Would he be elegible for a medical scholarship then?
I mean, he would be on campus and participating in practices just like a redshirt scholarship player would.
I don't think any fears anyone has voiced about Michigan withdrawing the scholarship after he's on campus because he isn't as good as the coaches thought have any basis in reality. But an injury is another story. I wonder if the NCAA rule on greyshirts has any mention of this?
Maybe you're correct about Wilson, I don't know. But my first instinct was somewhat less optimistic. In a sense, greyshirt or not, they would still be coming in together...this would mean a fight over the FS position, to one degree or another. Not that that would necessarily dissuade Wilson, but it would dissuade some.
I hope we do get both. Anytime a player is challenged for his starting spot good things come of it. It gives the player extra motiviation to improve and maximize thier training.
Nevada does this all the time with recruiting and it's a fairly standard practice. They generally use it with linemen who they want to put through the weightroom more than just the redshirt year. As long as the kid knows beforehand that that is what the deal is I see no problem with it.
The way they are setting up this insurance policy to me seems like it could affect Wilson's decision to commit
if anything, offering Clark a grayshirt means it's pretty likely the staff thinks Wilson is locked up.
I just question the ability of any 18 year old kid to truly make an informed decision about something like this, which is why I'd prefer that coaches not put them in the position in the first place.
Are you serious?
Do you know how many kids make decisions every year to turn down academic scholarships to lesser schools and pay full tuition to their dream school? Do you know how many kids that attend Ivy league schools are paying full tuition rather than getting a full ride to an in-state school? This is a very common decision for 18 year olds to make. If he chooses Michigan, it's because he thinks that it is a better option than going elsewhere. Alternatively, the coaches could have just not offered him anything and he would end up somewhere that he was less happy.
Absolutely nothing wrong with it.
The name Brian Griese comes to mind. He was offered scholarships elsewhere, even at the Big Ten level, but chose to walk on to Michigan. Worked out well enough for all involved, as best I recall . . .
I mean, many families can find or borrow enough money to pay for a semester. But four years is another story. Griese's dad obviously could afford to pay his way at Michigan.
This isn't a preferred walk-on's promise of maybe getting a scholarship if one opens up and you've earned it. This is something beyond that -- he's being offered a 2013 scholarship. If he accepts the current offer, that scholarship is taken.
My nephew turned down $25k in tuition help at USC to go to UofC (Chicago) for full price. Of course he's spending his dad's money and it is grad school.
I did the same thing. I turned down 30K from a decent school to pay full tuition at a great school. Turned out to be the best decision I ever made.
You think an 18 year old is going to make this decision on his own? Since his parents will either be footing the bill for a year or not, you can be sure they'll have plenty to say about it. I would expect this type of decision to be much more informed than the typical commitment.
But isnt that why they talk his coaches and his parents? To be honest if Michigans honest with him its ok with me.
What's the problem? How could the coaches be any more honest with the kid? There's nothing inherently wrong with greyshirting. Springing it on a kid after he's committed is different, but definitely happens. What Miles did at LSU is was completely beyond the pale. I could see where it could give greyshirting a negative inference. To no less an extent it gave the same to college football.
Nothing wrong with greyshirting if the kid is aware of it.
They're being upfont about this and not saying at the last minute -'oh we want you to take a greyshirt'.
Imagine if they had offered him a preferred walk-on spot. Well this is even better for him than that.
It's been a while, but it's time for Drama Prairie Dog.
Not at all. What's wrong with telling a kid, "Hey, we want you, but you'd have to pay 1/8 or 1/10 of your education because we're running out of scholarships"?
He's got full rides from elsewhere and can choose to get a free education from those other places. If he wants to come to Michigan that badly, he will. If not, he won't.
It's better than not getting an offer at all.
has just turned into a bad word because of how it's being abused by others. Once upon a time "terrible" was a compliment. Hoke is doing it the right way of course, but the word makes me flinch when I hear it.
does he have any gurantee that he will get a scholarship after a semester though?
The scholarship eventually has to count for a recruiting class, so they aren't ducking around that.
I've got a serious issue with the way Les Mile's tried to grayshirt a kid after he was enrolled in classes. This isn't like that. The staff is being up front with the kid, so no problem. I'd take a Michigan greyshirt over a CMU traditional schollie, but I'd be really pissed if Michigan's staff didn't tell me in advance.
I'm not sure how I should feel about this. I'm also happy that the staff is not trying to surprise him in anyway. Since he lives in Kentucky, the out of state tuition has to be a factor here. If he is even contemplating it, it shows how much he wants to be a Wolverine.
I would love to have a 6'4 safety with speed patrolling the field.
Many a Michigan student walks on hoping to earn a scholarship down the road. A gentleman named Kovacs could tell you as much. In essence, plenty of players are paying tuition their entire careers at UofM, and elsewhere. This fellow's possession is improved by knowing it is temporary. I would have loved a shot at the opportunity he has (it still would have been cheaper than my education there, in aggregate).
I just brought up the tuition because since he is from Kentucky he will have to pay considerably more than what Kovacs or other players who live in Michigan.
Sure, I get that. My point was more that many students come from out of state to Michigan and have to deal with that hurdle, and they do it because this IS Michigan. Clark has the pleasure of knowing it's only one semester's expense. Even fwith student loans, to many that would still be a bargain.
You're point is well taken, though.
Another possibility could be that Clark enrolls in a prep school or junior college for a semester, plays there and then enrolls at Michigan on scholarship January 2013. Drawback to that is that he can't practice, work out, do anything with the team until then.
Isn't Jordon from Ohio. I thought I may have a problem with this, but we are being up front. I am worried about next year class. We won;t have many schollies available.
Yeah he is. For some reason I just figured he was from Michigan.
You're either with us as a scholarship or you're a walk-on. This communist accounting "grey shirt" is crap, and there's no deign of legitimacy coming from "he's being told what are the pros and cons and the timeframe". I don't like it. Using the kid for a semester is wrong. Who knows what could or could not happen. Let's play the boys we have, we wish well the boys we don't/can't get or have room for, and move forward.
We're not the SEC here. In fact, it sounds like you're selling the kid a reverse mortgage "what are the positive, what are your responsibilities, how is the government involved blah blah blah". Malarkey.
You may dislike the concept, but the NCAA permits grey shirts and therefore must see benefits to having them. For example, how many of us would jump at the opportunity to play scholarship football at Michigan (and pay for one semester) even if that meant foregoing full rides to other (or lesser) schools? I think you have valid concerns, but there's no indication that Hoke will abuse this system and the players like Saban and Miles have in the SEC.
"Communist accounting"--whatever that means--this is not.
> Who knows what could or could not happen.
It's only malarkey if it's some kind of scam. It's not. All questions can be answered. "What would happen if ... ?" The big question is what happens if there is an injury before he goes on scholarship. I don't know the answer to that, but the coaches and the University do.
There's nothing mysterious about it. He's being offered a 2013 scholarship, with early enrollment, on the condition that he participate as a preferred walk-on in 2012.
Fine, then let's go ahead and get backups for other positions if everyone loves the greyshirt of this kid.
I really don't care what you think of my position, all I know if scholarship or redshirt = true offer. Walk on means you have a choice. Grey shirt is...?
Flame me Mr. Mod, but I don't like this surreptitious bringing a kid to school for 12k and a dream. Cheap.


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Monday, November 29, 2010
Try, Try Again
I spent the past year on and off practicing. Knit, unravel, knit, unravel. Finally I decided to knit a scarf. Knit 200 stitches. Tie off. Start a new row, knit 200 stitches. Rinse and repeat. I finished a week ago and I must say...that it is arguably the worst scarf I've ever seen. HUGE holes. Some rows look knit. Some look purled. Some look like some other sort of unknown stitch. Mystery stitch.
My knitter friend came over to see it and took pity on me. My "helper" knitter friend. She modeled what a knitter looks like by showing me how she knits. (I'd never seen anyone knit before.) She watched how I was knitting to see what I was doing right and wrong. Then she gently reminded me to push the yarn down here, push it up there, and mostly she encouraged me. She rolled balls of yarn for me. (Nine of them) She sat while I knit 10 rows of stitching to make sure I was starting out well.
Today I have 4 inches of a new scarf started. Arguably the most perfectly wonderful scarf I have ever seen. So happy. So glad I have a friend who took the time to get me on the right track.
21 comments:
- Janet Ghio said...
Yay for you!! I was going to suggest that you make one of those long skinny scarves. Large needles (11) and cast on only 11 or 12 stitches. They are pretty easy.
- Monday, November 29, 2010
- Bea said...
aww I'm glad you had someone to come and show you how it's done. I too, have tried and failed terribly. It looks so simple but it is an art form. I love the balls of yarn. :)Bea
- Monday, November 29, 2010
- wanda miller said...
ahhh, as i started reading (i am a knitter)i thought you just need the right person to help you and with that enthusiasm, you'll win no matter what. good for you for not giving up. you will only get better with time. and you now have a treasured gift for yourself to be able to pick up those needles at the most unexpected times. i just loved this post of yours!
- Monday, November 29, 2010
- Mary Helen-Art Saves Lives said...
Hang in there...knitting is not easy for me but my best friend can knit anything and she has been very patient with me. Imagine and Live in Peace, Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart
- Monday, November 29, 2010
- paperqueen said...
Why didn't you tell me? I can knit! I can purl too, LOL.
In college I actually made an Irish fisherman's sweater for my then BF. I don't do more than an occasional scarf now, but I can help you too!
- Tuesday, November 30, 2010
- Brandie said...
That's great, Teri. Knitting is something I still want to learn how to do someday.
- Tuesday, November 30, 2010
- TeamQuickBlade said...
i just started knitting, and i really suck at it too! unfortunately I don't have a friend to show me the era of my ways! You will have to show us the perfect scarf next to the last scarf you did when you get done!
- Tuesday, November 30, 2010
- Sydney said...
YAY Teri! And another yarnie was born...
I'm hoping to pick up my sticks again this winter. I got really into crocheting about two years ago. Now that I feel pretty good about crocheting, I want to give knitting another shot. I tried starting a big, chunky scarf a couple years back, but it looks horrible. I'm going to unravel, re-ball the yarn, and start over. It will be my second attempt at a first project. It's also GREAT to have a friend to model after!
- Wednesday, December 01, 2010
- Holli said...
The fact that you're friend took the time to do that for you shows you what kind of friend she is.... those are the special ones! But I'm sure you know that ;)
Take pride in the fact too that you actually went out and took lessons and made a thought into reality. That's powerful stuff!
- Thursday, December 02, 2010
- Holli said...
By the way, GREAT picture!
- Thursday, December 02, 2010
- teri said...
Thank you so much for these encouraging comments! I had no idea I knew so many knitters. Here is an exciting update: at the hair salon yesterday someone asked if they could buy one of my scarves. CRAZY wonderful!
- Saturday, December 04, 2010
- Rosie said...
Teri is better than she wants to admit. I love the picture of the yarn. Now you need to post pictures of what you have done so far re: the knitting. A video of Roan wouldn't hurt either ;-)
- Saturday, December 04, 2010
- teri said...
That was my knitting friend Rosie. She's great. And she likes to exaggerate about some things. LOL.
- Saturday, December 04, 2010
- Thauna said...
Love the picture of the balls of yarn. I can crochet, but I haven't been able to 'get' knitting. Maybe you can come to Salt Lake and sit with me. :) I want to see your masterpiece!
- Sunday, December 05, 2010
- Rosie said...
Pictures!! Pictures!!!
I am not exaggerating about this. I am so proud of you and you have done a fantastic job!!
- Monday, December 06, 2010
- KathrynAntyr said...
Oh I admire anyone who can knit, perl, crochet, and sew. Good for you to get in there and try. I'm proud of you for not letting the rough start hold you back. For now, I'm sticking with paper and photography, and flower arranging.
Swing by my blog for a little surprise. http://collagediva.typepad.com/collagediva/2010/12/blog-tour1.html
- Monday, December 06, 2010
- Paula - Buenos Aires said...
Pretty yarns. :)Good to see you happy with your wonderful scarf.
Thanks for the encouragement, as I´m planning to learn how to knit next winter.
- Tuesday, December 07, 2010
- Anne said...
Thanks for visiting my blog!
Yours is gorgeous. And I love the story of your learning to knit. Can't wait to see that scarf!
- Tuesday, December 07, 2010
- Brenda said...
funny, i just pulled some wool out that my sister gave me. i forgot how to knit. not very good at it, but i remember how to crochet, but the ends always look bad, but I am finding it very relaxing.
I have not crocheted in 25 years.
My son thought it was intriguing. I will post a pic when I am all finished.
- Tuesday, December 07, 2010
- Cynthia said...
What a wonderful friend. Congratulations on your determination and not giving up. Hooray for your success. My Gram taught me how to knit and I tried to pass it on to my daughter. However, she is left handed and I right handed and just couldn't help her as I couldn't figure out how to show her left handed. She has since found a teacher who is left handed and hooray she's had success.
- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
- Monica said...
Teri, When I grew up, in the UK, every woman learned to knit. So when i arrived in the USA and eventually met women who kitted I thought it hilarious that they knitted SO slowly. When i returned to England I would buy knitted toys from a shop who really sold patterns. A few remain in my collection. SO knit on until you do it automatically.
- Thursday, December 09, 2010

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Secular morality
Morality is a complex topic that is made more complex by the introduction of religion. Theists believe that God is the author of morality, and that actions are only good or bad to the extent that God makes them so. A typical atheist rebuttal involves a reference to the Euthyphro dilemma. Morality based on the absolute say-so of a being seems to be no less arbitrary than the relativistic morality that theists decry.
This leaves open the question: how should unbelievers behave? Where does our understanding of morality ultimately come from? How do we know that our standards are correct in a meaningful and universal sense?
Rational standards
Although there is no such thing as unanimous agreement on complex philosophical issues, if we approach the question from a humanistic, scientific stand point, atheists ought to agree that there should be rational standards for arriving at moral conclusions. Like science and mathematics, useful systems of morality derive from some basic axioms, or recognize assumptions.
A few possible axioms in morality are:
- Every person has their own feelings and desires, and they are more or less similar since they are based on the same brain chemistry.
- When I look inward to my own desires, I fundamentally desire to pursue happiness and avoid pain and suffering.
- Other people have these same basic desires, and these desires are valuable to them.
- With all else being equal, it is better for people to be happy than not be happy.
- Conflicts arise mainly because people's desire to be happy and avoid suffering conflict with each other. The goal of secular morality is to resolve those conflicts in the best possible way for all concerned.
A few natural consequences of these axioms:
- All else being equal, it is wrong to needlessly inflict suffering on people.
- Except for the case of self-preservation, with all else being equal, it is best to avoid killing other people (on the assumption that they don't want to be killed).
- Actions such as slavery and rape are wrong because they excessively limit people's happiness and freedom of action.
Social order
Society is a construct that has arisen out of the need enforce "good" behavior.
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Game theory is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with interactions between agents, with gains and losses, loosely called "games". To the extent that these mathematical models match reality, they can provide a mathematical underpinning for "moral" behavior, independent of the decrees of any god.
One interesting result of game theory is that the optimal strategy for a given player depends on whether the "game" is a one-time interaction or part of a longer series.
For example, assume that player A agrees to buy an object, say a book, from player B. Since A and B live in different cities, so A agrees to send a check for $50 to B, and B agrees to send the book to A.
At first glance, it would seem that A's optimal strategy is not to send a check: that way, if B sends him a book, he will have received the book for free; if B doesn't send him the book, he hasn't lost anything. Whereas if he sends B the check and B doesn't send A the book, A has lost $50. By a similar reasoning, B's best strategy is not to send the book, and hope that A sends him a check. If both A and B reason this way, they neither gain nor lose anything.
If, on the other hand, this is a repeating situation -- say, if A regularly shops at B's book store -- then the optimal strategy changes: the players remember the times in the past when they were cheated, and can anticipate that if they cheat this time, the other player will remember it next time. In this case, the optimal strategy is for both to play by the rules each time: A gains a book each time (and loses $50), and B gains $50 each time (and loses a book).
Biological basis for morality
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Cooperation in cancer research
13 April 2011
A theory of cell cooperation in cancer has earned two University of Sydney researchers a 2011 Human Frontiers of Science Program Grant.
Dr Guy Lyons from Sydney Medical School has proposed a theory of cell cooperation in cancer where two or more mutant clones interact to enhance each other's growth and survival and together make up malignant tissue.
Along with Associate Professor Mary Myerscough from the University of Sydney's School of Mathematics and Statistics and Dr Silvio Gutkind of the National Institutes of Health, USA, Dr Lyons will work to identify mutations in microscopic parts of human tumours and use new types of genetically engineered mice to determine how often tumours arise from two or more clones.
Dr Lyons says cancers occur when key genes in cells become mutated, often as a result of exposure to carcinogenic chemicals or radiation.
"The cancer-causing mutations enable those cells to proliferate out of control, forming a tumour, and to spread through the patient's body where they can form secondary tumours."
Conventional theory says that several mutations accumulate over time in a single lineage, or "clone" of cells, which has all of the mutations necessary to be cancerous.
"But research over many years has shown that often more than one clone persists in cancers, and the different clones have different mutations. If more than one clone persists, why should only one be active? And if more than one is active, how do they interact?" states Dr Lyons.
"Clones from multi-clone tumours can be separated, grown in flasks and then recombined to find what characteristics produce strong cooperation between clones that leads to malignancy," he suggests.
The group will also use computer simulation models of cancer to explore how cancers behave and how they will respond to therapy. The outcome will be a new genetic paradigm for cancer that could revolutionise cancer research and therapy.
The Human Frontiers of Science program encourages interdisciplinary and international collaborative research in innovative science.
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SAN JOSE — Greetings from San Jose, the Kings' first visit this season to what's now known as the SAP Center and first since their second-round playoff series against the Sharks last spring. The Kings won that series by winning Game 7 at Staples Center.
It's only November and too early to call the Kings' game against the Sharks on Wednesday night a must-win or use a similar cliché, but it's more than just one of 82 because the winner will take the lead in the Pacific Division based on winning percentage.
The Kings and Sharks each have 35 points and the Ducks have 37. However, the Ducks have played 27 games, while the Kings will have played 26 and the Sharks will have played 24 after tonight. It's a testimony to the Kings' depth and perseverance that they're in position to take the division lead despite long-term injuries to key players such as goaltender Jonathan Quick, defenseman Matt Greene and forward Jeff Carter.
The Kings will take a 7-0-3 points streak into the game and an 8-3-1 road record. The Sharks are 7-1-2 at home.
Carter will play his second game back from the foot inury that kept him out of the lineup for 10 games, but Quick, Greene, Trevor Lewis and Matt Frattin remain out.
"When we had that flood of injuries I think a lot of people were probably thinking it's going to be a tough couple of weeks," Kings captain Dustin Brown said. "That's the interesting thing. I think this team, not only this year but in years past, has always dealt with adversity like that really well. And that's the strength of our team."
He also said that while Quick, center Anze Kopitar and defenseman Drew Doughty are "the guys," the rest of the team has learned to play without them when someone from that trio has been injured.
"That shows our mentality as a team," Brown said. "It's not just ever about one individual or a couple of players. It's always been a team mentality here. That's what makes it strong. When a top guy goes out — our goal scorer [Carter] went out the last three weeks — and we didn't score as many goals as we would have with him in the lineup, but we found ways to win. It's about being 20 strong."
Goaltender Ben Scrivens, who's expected to make his seventh straight start, has seamlessly stepped in for Quick. Scrivens is 5-0-2 in those starts, with a 1.27 goals-against average and .954 save percentage after stopping 187 of 196 shots over 425 minutes 50 seconds. Alec Martinez has played 10 consecutive games in place of Greene, young right wing Tyler Toffoli has brought energy and production and young center Linden Vey has done well enough to earn
penalty-killing time.
"Tyler came up and was really good and then he had a real drop and then I think he was better last game," Coach Darryl Sutter said, referring to the Kings' 3-2 overtime victory at Vancouver on Monday.
"I think Linden has some trouble against certain players. He's a guy that's used to having the puck at whatever level he's at. I'd see him in juniors and he was dominant he was and he'd get away with stuff you can't get away with in the NHL. He has to maximize his skill set but at the same time not do it in a way that he's losing ground or losing zone."
Judging by the morning skate, the lines and defense pairs figure to be the same as they were at Vancouver. That would be Brown-Kopitar-Justin Williams; Dwight King-Mike Richards-Carter; Daniel Carcillo-Jarret Stoll-Jordan Nolan, and Kyle Clifford-Vey-Toffoli up front. On defense, the pairs were Robyn Regehr-Slava Voynov, Willie Mitchell-Martinez and Jake Muzzin-Doughty.


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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Why I'm like this at the holidays.
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music is a nice touch, because, you know, we can all hear it as we're flying down the street, with our windows closed, because its 35 fucking degrees outside.ReplyDelete
Lordy, it looks like a GE plant puked all over the lawn. And music? I have fantasies of stealing the clapper out of my neighbors wind chimes. This would make my head explode. My sympathies.ReplyDelete
It's the Griswolds in miniature! Can you hear that music when you're in your house? Sounds like it drive the neighborhood dogs nuts!ReplyDelete
I have to remember to get a video of my dad's neighbor's house this year. Your eyes will leak out of your face in terror and then your head will explode.ReplyDelete
Lisa - I think it's just for the neighborhood dogs' benefit.ReplyDelete
Jill - My sentiments exactly. Two years ago. Now it's just "UGH. FUCK OFF."
EDH - Do you think I could steal the clapper out of their festive scene, there, and that would make the nightmare stop?
Anna - Thankfully it's two doors down so I can't actually hear that bullshittery inside my house, but it makes the dogs next door CRAZY and I can hear THEM inside my house.
God bless us, everyone.
Amy - I look forward to everything you just said happening. Send soon!
ISH! Now you know why bears (and other intelligent animals) hibernate. Today I went to the market to buy milk and before I could get into the place I was accosted by bell ringers and people with tables set up to pitch their particular need. On the way out I was assaulted again. I swear, I am not going out of my house (except to the library) from now until February. Seriously.ReplyDelete
My reading comprehension sucks. I didn't realize these were actual neighbors! My sympathies.ReplyDelete
We drive by a cute little gingerbready house twice a week. It's been the most tastefully decorated house - just the right amount of lights to actually *enhance* the house. I looked forward to driving past the house - this house more than makes up for the numerous light vomits in our town. You can hear my family mumble "vomitous" when we pass by one of THOSE houses. Imagine my dismay when cute house decided to add inflatable - gasp! INFLATABLE figures to front yard AND copious amounts of light vomit to every tree. So Sad.ReplyDelete
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Look at you commenting, that's fun.
So, here's the thing with commenting, unless you have an email address associated with your own profile, your comment will still post, but I won't have an email address with which to reply to you personally.
Sucks, right?
Anyway, to remedy this, I usually come back to my posts and post replies in the comment field with you.
But, if you ever want to email me directly to talk about pumpkins or shoes or what it's like to spend a good part of your day Swiffering - shoot me an email to finnyknitsATgmailDOTcom.


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They probably lost the source code and are too ashamed to tell anyone.
The problem is the source code looks something like this:
if ($suspect == black) {
print ".12";
elsif ($suspect == hispanic) {
print ".14";
elsif ($suspect == irish) {
print "ERROR";
I'm Irish, you insensitive clod!
Seriously, though, people make a big fuss if you make fun of just about any ethnic group other than the Irish. But you can say all you want about the Irish and get away with it. Racists!
you are absolutely correct, it's improper to make fun of any ethnic group, except of course the damn French.
Where did you get that idea? I take it you've never read the "Truly Tasteless Joke" book series?
Ethnic jokes are told all the time....it is just that if you have a group of people, they might look over to make sure no one of said ethnicity is around to hear the joke, but, that is the extent of it. Look, all of us have funny attributes and general behaviors. You just can't have too thin a skin, and need to have a sense of humour. And let's face it....these behaviors and traits didn't come out of the blue......many of them are based on real observable things in life.
Relax a little, and learn to laugh at yourself a little.
It doesn't require a prosecution. If the judge gets irritated enough regarding their civil contempt, he can jail them summarily until they comply. I think, however, that judges are often reluctant to do this.
I should imagine that there is a long list of well established procedures for handling contempt. While I think it's well within a judge's power to jail almost indefinitely for contempt until the contempt is remedied, I suspect that there are rules of jurisprudence that govern them otherwise to some degree.
The contempt charges can continue indefinitely by the way. They will have to reveal their code eventually or go bankrupt, and this still won't get them out of contempt. IOW, it's only a matter of time before they reveal, and they are being immensely stupid.
There is this story (urban legend?) that Larry Flint of Hustler fame was fined $10K per day for contempt once. He sent the fine in pennies. In response, the Judge said he liked pennies and would gladly accept $50K a day paid in pennies.
One should not baldly thwart the judge. Makes you wonder who their lawyers are.
Hmm - they don't seem to hesitate much when the issue is a news reporter refusing to testify about sources. It seems like this kind of discretion is reserved for corrupt C-level officers...
They will have to reveal their code eventually or go bankrupt
If a bug is revealed in their code there is likely to be a class action lawsuit against them on behalf of everyone that was ever convicted of driving while intoxicated on account of their device. The costs associated with a single conviction far exceed the cost of one of these machines. The company would go bankrupt if that were to happen.
At some point, the suspects were caught, and the state needed to collect evidence of their BAC. Unfortunately, the state, instead of using a device that could provide accurate, verifiable evidence, used a device that, due to the lack of source code, could not provide verifiable evidence. Since the evidence is not verifiable, then the evidence is not admissible. Next time, the state should buy and use breathalyzers that produce admissible evidence.
While their action is despicable, the breathalyzer vendor didn't agree to provide their source code as part of the purchase, and shouldn't be forced to do so after the fact because the state didn't buy a device suitable for the task.
It's a bit like if I went to the state and offered to sell them a breathalyzer, and delivered a bicube blood alcohol measurement device, which is used by giving the two cubes to the suspect, having them throw the cubes on the ground, and then counting the number of dots that are showing on the top faces of the cubes. The state should know my breathalyzer isn't going to produce admissible evidence and shouldn't buy it and try and use the results in court.
Just like voting machines, states need to learn to stop spending millions of dollars on technology that doesn't work.
I'm sorry, but if a company is making it impossible for DUI prosecutions to be done fairly, the company officers should be sitting in jail whilst we wait to find out if they can get the source code together or not.
Or maybe, better yet, if a breathalyser's results can't be used in court, that company should lose a lot of business.
Having a working product (esp. one that "works" for a particular purpose) is usually a pretty strong selling point.
In court documents, Deputy Pima County Attorney Robin Schwartz said the defense attorneys' requests "bear all the hallmarks of a fishing expedition." Common sense shows that people rely on software and source-code information for everyday matters, Schwartz argued. One just looks at the results to know if something works or not. Schwartz used electricity as an example. "No one . . . needs to see a schematic of wiring to know that when he flips the switch on the wall, the light will come on," Schwartz said.
Um, that assumes that you are comparing the result with a known value. The point of a breathalyzer is to determine an unknown value.
Unless of course this attorney is saying that they already know the accused are drunk, in which case the breathalyzer is redundant.
Indeed, it's like seeing that the light is switching on and off and from that concluding that it is a person doing the switching. I'd want to see the electrical schematics to be sure that it is indeed wired to the light switch correctly.
Um, that assumes that you are comparing the result with a known value. The point of a breathalyzer is to determine an unknown value.
Unless of course this attorney is saying that they already know the accused are drunk, in which case the breathalyzer is redundant.
INAL, but I was convicted of a DWI.
The known value is an reference alcohol unit pre-applied prior to each test as a calibration, to establish that the machine is accurate. The unit is equivalent to a reading obtained in medical studies show to prove the average person intoxicated. This calibration is noted on your Breathalyzer card, along with your results (usually 2, spaced an hour apart, with different reference units), which will be noted on the complaint, and included in the arrest report.
The known value is an reference alcohol unit pre-applied prior to each test as a calibration, to establish that the machine is accurate. The unit is equivalent to a reading obtained in medical studies show to prove the average person intoxicated. This calibration is noted on your Breathalyzer card, along with your results (usually 2, spaced an hour apart, with different reference units), which will be noted on the complaint, and included in the arrest report.
Good to know, but still doesn't really address the issue. Here's why.
When my father was still practicing, he had a digital scale that was miscalibrated. Up to about 60 lbs, it would give fairly accurate values (maybe within 1/2 lb), but above that, it became increasingly inaccurate, consistently underweighing. Thus, even if you had weighed two reference weights of 30 and 60 lbs, you would have thought that the scale was properly calibrated.
Secondly, if the unit is designed to show that the average person is
"INAL, but I was convicted of a DWI."
I am a computer programmer, and rest assured that the manner in which the machine handles the calibration test doesn't necessarily indicate how it handles the breath test. Both tests likely have different entry points to the core functions which do the measurements, meaning that there is more than one way for the machine to screw up. There is also no way to be sure that the machine is using the same code to do the measurements. For all we know, the calibration code an
Weird numbers? What weird numbers...?
the accused shall enjoy the right
In this case the withess is a machine, he has the constitutional right to know how that machine works
Convicted of a DWI.
What I found most intellectually troubling is that, in AZ (among toughest DUI laws in the country), the violations schedule awards the most "points" for potential crimes - actions that are crimes because of their potential to cause harm, property damage or death. The next "rung" down on the "ladder" includes crimes that result in harm, property damage or death.
I know I was wrong, and I no longer drink at all. Drunk driving is a serious problem, that should be addressed.
However, the way i
If the police officer relies on the reading from the device, then it is not really the police officer's judgment being presented, but just a re-iteration of what he read. Is the police officer able to testify about the accuracy of the device? Is the police officer able to testify about whether a device driver that reads values from an ADC register is doing so with the correct clock synchronization to ensure that does skew the time differential meaning of the results?
What about bloodhounds?
If the witness in my case is a human, do I have a constitutional right to know how the human works?
rule that all programming used for government functions be open source, unless there's an overriding reason for it to be closed.
That would never fly, on the simple basis that every government department would have to replace every IT system they own - and some people with an awful lot of money are still very attached to the idea of closed source.
However, I can't think of any good reason why "open source" should not be applied to equipment used for justice purposes (eg. speed cameras, breathalysers) and mean "open to the government and, where applicable, to defence lawyers for use by expert witnesses" rather than "available to anyone
All in all, I'm not sure sure that such source code shouldn't be truly "open". I know what you're saying, and it's logical enough. However, being available to defense lawyers and such leaves too much room for a serious defect to simply be swept under the rug by an out-of-court settlement. Consequently, people involved in similar cases would not be able to benefit from discovery.
IANAL, but my understanding regarding criminal cases (and bear in mind that I'm not American either, so I may be way off here) there's no such thing as an out-of-court settlement.
There's "dropping the charges because we've just discovered that our evidence is nonexistent", and there's "pleading guilty (to either the original charge or a lesser charge)", both of which substantially reduce the amount of time spent in court.
This is the equivalent of an out of court settlement. If a defendant pleads guilty in exchange for a lesser penalty, it's usually not done in open court. Then again, the judge is usually not obligated to honor the agreement between the prostitution and the defense.
"Then again, the judge is usually not obligated to honor the agreement between the prostitution and the defense."
You are correct, but I think you might have wanted to type prosecution instead of prostitution. Using prosecution, you would still be correct IMHO.
But since court records are public, wouldn't any source code entered as an exhibit in a courtroom automatically become a matter of public record?
This should then result in police departments returning these defective devices for a refund, and further lawsuits as a result. I wonder if they care more about their IP than selling a product. What we need to do is get the word out to all police departments and prosecutors that they face serious hurdles keeping real offenders off the streets if they use this company's products. Let these company executives choose between being able to prove the accuracy of the device in court (if it is so) or going out of business from lack of sales in all 50 states.
Like the states have done with all of the defective electronic voting machines the Diebold and others have unloaded on the American public? I think it's safer to consider it money flushed.
The problem is that unless the sensor is some kind of one-of-a-kind item unique to the company, what their entire product consists of is a sensor, a microprocessor and the code to interpret the readings from the sensor properly.
Once the source code gets out into the world - and of course it will be leaked somewhere on the Internet - they no longer have anything at all. No product. Why? Because their product can then be replicated for 1/10th the price in China. I'd say that protecting the source code is
It's not exactly hard, i'm sure chinese companies are already manufacturing such devices...
If the chinese ones are more open and verifiable, and cheaper to boot, you would be a complete fool to buy the inferior and more expensive american version.
And this is a surprise to you? They are selling a product, not safety.
I would also imagine that if a major bug is found, they might have to refund all the purchases to date, and go under.
The result? Hundreds of DUIs being thrown out in Minnesota alone. Nice to see that the company cares more about their IP than the safety of our roads.
Law enforcement will soon come to grips with the fact that it cannot get a conviction with CMI. Law enforcement will then buy other equipment or use some other sobriety test.
At that point, CMI will be able to sell DUI products only in states that have already ruled that the source need not be turned over. Eventually, they will go out of business or cave.
CMI and Minnesota have reached an agreement to make the source code availiable. there is not much else in the snoozepaper article, buried inside the local section today.
frankly, I would expect some enterprising attorney to require a "normal" sample showing correct calibration for his cases, and see whether the state goes to blood tests for prosecutions.
it is an option for either law enforcement or the suspect to take a blood alcohol test in MN. it's a hospital trip, and that's going to wreck the cop's nig
It just might provide enough time for a DUI suspect to sober up enough to pass the test.
An error that can happen in C code might be that register address is not given the "volatile" attribute, and is therefore not actually read in all cases where the code would seem to be doing so. A function intended to read the register might be doing a loop reading the register until some other condition becomes true. In most cases that condition is true immediately, but in rare cases that condition is delayed. So the function only read the register once and merely assumed it re-read it all the remaining
Schwartz used electricity as an example.
"No one . . . needs to see a schematic of wiring to know that when he flips the switch on the wall, the light will come on," Schwartz said.
And what would this guy do if he finds that sometimes the light doesn't come on? Or the light goes off on its own? Or comes on by itself? Or flickers and buzzes? An electrician would need to know the wiring involved. A diagram or schematic would be used, if available, or else he would have to trace the wires (reverse engineering).
And this analogy doesn't even apply to a measurement device. What if he uses a volt meter that says the voltage is 120 volts
Any device that cannot be independently verified as operating correctly at all times should not have any of its results submitted in court for any purpose other than to argue that the device is defective in a case against the manufacturer.
This comes straight from the product's PDF made available on the manufacturers website.
Under "Features and Options", "REAL-TIME CLOCK: accurate to ±10 minutes per year."
Now, although I'm pretty sure that time measurements aren't required for analysis, I have to wonder the accuracy rate is like for it's intended purpose.
That argument aside, unless the clocks are well-maintained this sort of time drift could really skew the evidence in a case where time was critical. A poorly maintained machine co
The clock drift is not likely to be that high between two measurements. And if it is, well it won't be 10 minutes for a year. It'd be much better expressed in milliseconds per minute. I think the real-time clock in this case is likely used for printouts, such as the device might do to save the police officer having to write down, instead he just has to initial it as being correct to what's displayed on the device.
Actually I can think of a better reason why they don't want the source code made public. Earlier in this discussion it was claimed that they never submitted it for a patent or copyright. The reason for this might be because they are infringing on a patent.
How did they getthis thing past homologation in the first place?
While I agree that government should not use "expert testimony" that can't be reproduced, I don't buy the following logic (from the story, haven't read the opinion yet):
[the] Judge
... ruled that the source code is not a trade secret. ... the president of ... the company that manufactures the machine, testified that the [machine] is not patented, and neither is its copyright on the source code [sic].
So: if it's not patented and not under copyright then it's not a trade secret? Usually a company gets a choice: copyright/patent (publish but get protection) or trade secret (can't publish). No patent or copyright holds in favour of trade secret protection.
The real ruling should be that while the company should be free to keep the workings of their device secret, the government should not be allowed to rely on evidence produced via devices whose inner workings are secret.
I work in the State of Florida as a police officer, and I arrest and charge people with DUI on a regular basis.
In my opinion, this ruling was exactly on the money, and far too long in coming. If a company refuses to disclose evidence, the State should immediately stop using their product to obtain evidence.
As a certified expert witness, I am able to testify to the impairment of a subject without the need of a breath analysis to verify. About 20-30% of the cases I testify in have no breath results because the defendant refuses to provide a breath sample. We only forcefully obtain samples (of blood, not breath) when a traffic homicide is involved.
If the evidence is faulty, I *need* to know. I can only uphold my oath of office if I can testify in good faith that I am using proper methods of obtaining evidence. If this company is witholding vital information, they should not be allowed to sell their product to law enforcement.
His lawyers defense was that every man had the right to face his accuser, and that included the computers.
Captain Kirk was innocent. The computer records were falsified.
The DUI makers should watch this episode.
The bottom line is that, particularly in an embedded device working with sensors, many problems will simply not be apparent from the source code, no matter how good you are. The only way to know that this device gives good data is to give it the same sort of rigorous testing we give (for example) new drugs and electronics that go into airplanes and military hardware.
I would want to see this device subjected to adverse environments, radio interference, being operated on the side of the road, etc. etc., and still reliably producing results that closely correlated with those produced by reference tests (i.e. blood alcohol tests). If this sort of testing is done for each and every revision of the device's firmware then the company is right, source code is irrelevant. This isn't like a voting machine... it has a discrete, limited number of inputs, no operating system, and a small memory pool--the only way to tamper with it would be to alter the firmware, and that can be checked with a simple checksum. And if this sort of testing isn't being done, then these devices are worthless and shouldn't be used to send someone to jail, because anyone who knows anything about programming knows that any project of any complexity will have bugs, and this sort of testing is the only way to catch them.
So... does anyone know how these devices are tested? How rigorous is the testing? Is it serious, covering all conditions, and all revisions no matter how minor, or is it the usual "get the bad guys, screw civil liberties" sort of half-assed stuff that we've come to expect from American law enforcement?
I have no sympathy for drunk drivers... but I don't want anyone sent to jail on evidence that even MIGHT be false.
This process can check if this value is zero, and if it is, it does something child-like. -- Forbes Burkowski, CS 454, University of Washington


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Is there anyone who's using a epson 7600 on windows 7 64Bit?
Can't find a driver for it. tried to use the vista 64 driver, but as soon as i start a print i get "communcation error" on the printer.
It's not a hardware problem as the printer works perfect while using Quad tone rip


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Brussels, 27 September 2012
Taxation: Commission refers Germany to the Court of Justice for discriminatory inheritance tax provisions
The European Commission has decided to refer Germany to the EU's Court of Justice because of its legislation on inheritance and gift tax allowances. Under German law, there is a higher tax exemption for inherited German property if the testator or the heir are living in Germany, than if they are both living abroad. As a result, non-residents are taxed much higher on inherited assets located in Germany than German residents are. Such a provision could dissuade citizens living abroad from investing in property located in Germany. The Commission is of the opinion that this provision is discriminatory and constitutes an unjustified restriction on the free movement of capital, as provided for in the Treaties.
The referral to the CJEU is the last step in the infringement procedure.
A tax exemption on inheritances and gifts of up to € 500 000 is granted to German residents (depending on the degree of kinship) under Article 16 of the Law on Inheritance and Gift Tax, whereas the exemption is only € 2 000 if both the testator and the heir are not resident in Germany.
The Court of Justice dealt with the German Law on Inheritance and Gift Tax in its Mattner case (judgment of 22 April 2010 in case C-510/08) and decided, in the context of this case, that this provision was contrary to the free movement of capital.
After the Commission issued a reasoned opinion, Germany amended the Law on Inheritance and Gift Tax and, since December 2011, has granted non-residents the possibility to be treated, upon request, in Germany as tax residents for the purposes of gift and inheritance tax. However, this option does not, in view of the Commission, eliminate the infringement.
For press releases on infringement cases in the taxation or customs field see: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/common/infringements/infringement_cases/index_en.htm
For the latest general information on infringement measures against Member States see: http://ec.europa.eu/community_law/index_en.htm
For more information on EU infringement procedures, see MEMO/12/12 and MEMO/12/708 regarding the September infringement package decisions.
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Campus courtyard becomes a work of art
One of Radford University's public spaces is now filled with the brilliant light of blown glass sculptures, thanks to a collaboration between the Department of Art and the School of Teacher Education and Leadership.
Under the direction of Parker Stafford, an RU adjunct faculty member and glass artisan, art students helped create glass fixtures that are brightening the Peters Hall courtyard.
"These students were taken from no experience in glassmaking to being able to assist directly in the making of blown glass forms that include flower-like forms, tendrils, colored spheres and staves that rise up out of the natural greenery and will continue to change as the plantings in the courtyard grow and develop," Stafford said.
In fact, that was a goal of the project: to create a display that would work with the natural environment. In addition to learning how to make the glass, the students were charged with considering the civic impact of public artworks and the careful selection of an exhibition space.
"The problem with installing glass pieces in a public space has been finding a suitable venue that would provide the outdoor environment with natural lighting as well as good security," Stafford said. "The Peters Hall courtyard was a perfect fit."
Stafford's key ally was Ann Roberts, an associate professor in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership. Roberts' office looks out on the courtyard and she had long had an interest in improving the space. After working with Neal Thompson of RU Landscape Services, she secured permission for faculty stewardship of the space.
"Other members of the faculty and I have worked together," she said, explaining that the courtyard is not only viewed from offices but also widely used by a meditation group, faculty and students on breaks, and the occasional class. Introducing the right artistic installation was a chance to cultivate and improve the peaceful, beloved environment, she said.
"The whole cooperative venture makes total sense," Roberts said. "There's a whole different dimension this explores, which is the creative process. That process is as important to students and faculty as only the mastering of content."
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Learn more about Radford University at www.radford.edu.


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Ron Ace says he recognized the many impediments to capturing and storing solar energy while working as a researcher in a University of Maryland molecular physics laboratory some 40 years ago and dismissed the possibility that the sun ever could be a major source of power.
Turning away from solar, he thought he'd never look back.
In the ensuing decades, Ace churned out more than 700 inventions, ranging from energy-saving devices to scratch-resistant eyeglass coatings and a cutting-edge laser instrument for measuring precursors to ozone in the upper atmosphere.
During his 10 years at Maryland, he built prototypes of 350 of his inventions, and they all worked, he said.
"If the science, the physics and engineering are all there, then it will always work," Ace likes to say.
In the 1980s, Ace obtained several patents for eyeglass innovations – for scratch-resistant coatings, photo-chromic plastic lenses that turned dark in the sunlight, and laminated "photo glastic" lenses that blended the best qualities of glass and plastic.
A wiry man with thinning, graying hair and a voracious curiosity, Ace grew disturbed over the last decade by worldwide fears about climate change and energy shortages. Undaunted at the immensity of the challenge, he set out to try to solve some of the greatest threats to mankind.
In 2008, he briefly emerged from obscurity when McClatchy reported on his patent application for a solution to global warming – an attempt to compensate for the Earth's dehumidifying loss of billions of trees, particularly the large-leafed ones that soak up water from the Earth and transpire it into water vapor.
He proposed to spray huge volumes of sea water into the air at key, windy spots around the planet. When the droplets evaporated, he argued, the newly formed water vapor would absorb enormous amounts of thermal energy and carry it into the atmosphere, where it would produce sun-blocking clouds, condense into cooling rain or radiate heat into space.
Kenneth Caldeira, a world-renowned Stanford University climate scientist, was intrigued enough to run a computer simulation attempting to roughly approximate Ace's idea. The computer model used by the world's top climate scientists projected that, with an extra centimeter of evaporation everywhere on Earth, the planet would cool by nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit within 20 to 30 years.
Caldeira said that even if the invention wasn't embraced to fight global warming, it might address water shortages, because strategically situated evaporation of seawater would leave the salt behind, enabling winds to carry additional rainfall to arid regions such as the western United States.
So far, the invention has gained no traction.
Ironically, Ace says, it was his meandering path through multiple scientific disciplines – especially thermal heat exchange, physics and optics – that gave him the grounding he needed to dare to take on solar energy.
He was drawn back to solar energy while searching for ways to maximize the potential of his 2004 patent for an invention to distribute energy through drinking water lines to cheaply heat and cool homes and businesses.
The invention, called GeoSolar and touted by Ace on the Internet site H2OPE.US, would work on the same principle as geothermal systems being installed worldwide to cool homes by extracting energy from water piped through underground lines. But his invention offered a way to avoid the costly excavation to lay circulating underground lines.
Ace figured that if he could find cheap waste energy and pre-heat drinking water delivered to homes and businesses, GeoSolar could reduce winter heating bills by as much as 90 percent.
But he couldn't find a big enough source of waste heat to serve everyone.
"I checked everywhere, from the bottom of the ocean, to power plants, steel plants, deep volcanic, geothermal," he said.
In frustration, he said, he turned to solar, an option he'd "hated for 40 years."
As he methodically tried to solve each of the barriers to solar energy, he said it began to hit him that mankind faced a more frightening energy problem than most people knew. Compiling his own spreadsheet from available data, he concluded that worldwide reserves of affordable oil, gas and coal might last as little as 56 years, even as modern man has developed "an absolute dependency" on energy – "we cannot survive without it."
Evaluating alternatives, from nuclear to wind, he deduced that only solar could provide enough affordable energy to power the planet in the centuries ahead.
Ace felt that the latest solar technology fell far short of the mark.
Popular photovoltaic cells being installed on rooftops around the world and the current designs of solar thermal power plants, with their fields of thousands of expensive mirrors, are both "dead on arrival" because their efficiency doesn't exceed 20 percent, he said. The latest versions of each can't economically generate enough energy storage to make them a reliable power source, Ace said.
He believes that his "Solar Trap" will meet the need, with tenfold room to spare.


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By Brendan Conway
Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO), the most popular fund of its type, now costs a little less. So do eight other families of international Vanguard Group funds.
The emerging-markets fund's expense ratio dropped to 0.18% from 0.20%, which a spokesman said reflects the numbers — read asset growth — during 2012. VWO pulled in more than $10 billion in new money during 2012, according to Index Universe data. Investors currently hold just over $60 billion in the fund.
The new expense ratio matches what the recently launched iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG) charges, and it falls even further below its historical competitor, iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (EEM), one of the iShares funds that's started reporting two expense ratios, had expenses of 0.66% as of the end of 2012. (Why do these numbers bump around? Many fund companies peg expenses to asset levels. Gather more assets, and costs decline.)
Other funds seeing a drop in expenses include Vanguard Total International Index (VGTSX), FTSE All-World Ex-U.S. Index (VFWIX), and European Stock Index (VEURX). Here's the entire list; click through for a bigger version:
"The reductions are a function of the way Vanguard funds operate," the company says in a Thursday press release. "When funds experience greater efficiencies (either through asset growth, operating cost reductions, or a combination of both), the related savings are delivered to fund owners in the form of lower expenses."


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Well that certainly explains things a bit.
Between the pic above and the cheerleaders holding up "key play" signs in front of the student section, I'm starting to realize that - in addition to some fans who want the atmosphere at the game to be the same as their living rooms - either the athletic department doesn't have a clue about creating a real home field advantage or they want the stadium to be nice and quiet for the blue hairs on the 50. Just having folks wear yellow t-shirts doesn't cut it.
Contrast this approach with Happy Valley. Did you see - and hear - the Penn State/ND game last Saturday? The fans were deafening with several reports on the game even mentioning how much if affected the Irish playcalling.
And now, even other college football fans are starting to notice this lame Michigan Stadium "tradition" and ask, "Why?" (only using a lot more colorful language).
In a memo to Michigan fans, the Granddaddy of College football blogs, EDSBS, had this to say after seeing a shot of students jangling their keys during the broadcast of the Michigan-Oregon game:
"This would be less appalling if it were alumni…but STUDENTS JINGLING KEYS? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Young, healthy people with clean, fully-functioning lungs JINGLING KEYS TO MAKE NOISE!!!! My god, why don't you hire Salvadorans to come yell for you? Or better still, they could just come in and cheer for you while you watch the game in the parking lot in peace and quiet and save you the trouble of screaming "DOWN IN FRONT!!!" (Because that would hurt your lungs, wouldn't it?)
Yes, this is coming from a boorish, decorum-free SEC fan whose fellow fans bring cowbells to games and set off seismometers at the geology department during games in between handing out sociology and leisure management degrees to illiterate, well-muscled athletes. It is also directed at a school in a conference where some schools actually cheer their asses off and force teams into penalties with crowd noise. And some Michigan fans have been railing about this for way, way longer than we have.
Don't blame the architecture either. Instead, scream. At this point, you should be screaming, anyway. Who cares if it's at your coach? Notre Dame doesn't have to know that. This is football. Blood. Screaming. Tribal violence. Bizarre rites and rituals. Put away the keys. Pick up the torches. Less Roman, more Vandal, dammit!"
The struggle continues.


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American Woodmark turns first-quarter profit
- August 21, 2012
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Winchester-based American Woodmark Corp. reported a profit of $561,000, or 4 cents a share, for the first quarter of its 2013 fiscal year, compared with a loss of $2.7 million, or 19 cents a share, during the same period last year.
The first quarter, which ended July 31, included tax restructuring costs related to the closing of two manufacturing plant last spring. Excluding those charges, first quarter net income was $1 million, 7 cents per share.
During the first quarter, net sales rose 13 percent to $148.3 million. The company experienced sales gains of more than 40 percent in its new construction business, while its remodeling sales were in line with the prior year's first quarter.
Gross profit for the first quarter of fiscal year 2013 was 14.9 percent of net sales, up from 14 percent the year before.
American Woodmark makes and distributes kitchen cabinets and vanities for the remodeling and new home construction markets.
Its products are sold on a national basis directly to home centers, major builders and through a network of independent distributors. The company presently operates nine manufacturing facilities and nine service centers across the country.


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catgal - I didn't mean to scare you! I have the same reaction as JennJenn. I get a strange taste (not unpleasant, just odd) in my mouth and my lips sort of buzz. I get cold as well, about halfway through the donation, but they're always ready with heated blankets. Also, I have some attention issues so sitting still for 2 hours is a little tough on me but when I went a couple of weeks ago I took my KindleFire, downloaded a movie and when I got antsy, I could browse the Kindle. It was perfect for me.
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ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico teenager accused of fatally shooting his parents and three siblings told authorities he was annoyed with his mother and had been having homicidal and suicidal thoughts, according to a probable cause statement.
Nehemiah Griego, 15, remained in custody Monday on charges of murder and child abuse resulting in death.
He was arrested following the shootings Saturday at a home southwest of Albuquerque where he lived with his family.
A Bernalillo County sheriff's detective questioned the teen Saturday night.
The teen allegedly told the detective that he took a .22 caliber rifle from his parents' closet and shot his mother in the head while his younger brother slept next to her.
Griego told the detective that his brother did not believe him that their mother was dead so he showed his mother's bloody face to his brother and then shot him, according to the statement.
He's accused of then shooting his two young sisters in their room.
He retrieved an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle from his parents' closet and waited in a downstairs bathroom for his father to come home.
The statement said he shot his father multiple times after he passed the bathroom doorway.
The teen said he reloaded the guns so ''he could drive to a populated area to murder more people,'' according to the statement.
The sheriff's office identified the victims as Greg Griego, 51, his wife, Sarah, 40, and three of their children: a 9-year-old boy, Zephania, and daughters Jael, 5, and Angelina, 2. All appeared to have gunshot wounds to the head.
Greg Griego was a pastor who had once served at one of Albuquerque's largest Christian churches.
He was well-known throughout the law enforcement community for his work as a voluntary chaplain.
Neighbor Terry Wootan described Griego as a man with a big heart.
The two sometimes chatted at the mailbox and would wave to each other when passing by.
Wootan said Griego told him about his time in California when he was involved in gangs and how he turned his life around and found God.
''What he wanted to do was help people, and he would never quit,'' Wootan said.


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I was using an Nvidia GTX 560 card and was able to determine which SM is running each workgroup by means of the following ptx code:
Code :uint smid; asm("mov.u32 %0, %%smid;" : "=r"(smid));
the problem, however, is that now I moved onto an AMD ATI radeon 7970 card and trying to get my code working on it. As I am implementing a global barrier using atomic operations on global memory to implement the barrier, the code worked well on the Nvidia card but it freezes on ATI, so my guess is that two or more workgroups might be scheduled on one CU and therefore lead to deadlock. I tried it with only 2 WGs but still no luck, so I need to make sure that each workgroup is scheduled on a different compute unit to eliminate that suspicion
FYI, the code for the barrier is as follows:
Code :inline void barrierGlobalRamp(__global volatile int *synch, char *direction) { mem_fence (CLK_GLOBAL_MEM_FENCE | CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE); barrier(0); if (get_local_id(0) == 0) { char goOutFlag = 0; switch (*direction) { case BARRIER_INCREASE: atomic_inc(synch); while (!goOutFlag) { if (*synch >= WORKGROUP_COUNT) goOutFlag = 1; } *direction = BARRIER_DECREASE; break; case BARRIER_DECREASE: atomic_dec(synch); while (!goOutFlag) { if (*synch <= 0) goOutFlag = 1; } *direction = BARRIER_INCREASE; break; } } barrier(CLK_GLOBAL_MEM_FENCE | CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE); return; }
any insight is much appreciated


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Linked by Kroc on Thu 30th Aug 2007 13:03 UTC
I hear often that when something new appears that "competition is good". The primary reasons competition is seen as good, are: it drives down prices; it gives consumers more choice; it pushes technology forward, quicker. Competition is not good because: competition is why consumers have to choose between HD-DVD and BluRay; competition is why DRM exists; and more. In this article, each of the supposed benefits of competition will be looked at in more detail.
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"Moreover, competition is exactly why DRM will fail in the end. What properly informed fellow will buy encumbered/copy-protected technologies when given a [u]choice[/u]?"
That will be the people that like to purchase CD's/DVD's from the music/video store and listen/watch them. DRM itself is strictly driven by the music/movie industries. This only questions whether it will fail or not, as people will continue to buy the media which uses DRM, so will require a way to use the media.


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Ray Mears, a fan favorite and showman
who elevated Tennessee to basketball prominence during 15 seasons
as head coach in the 1960s and 1970s, died Monday, university
officials said. He was 80.
Mears died early Monday afternoon, Tennessee athletics spokesman
John Painter confirmed. Details were not immediately available, but
Painter said Mears had been in declining health for some time.
A spokesman for Rose Mortuary said funeral plans were pending.
In recent years, Mears had been recovering from a series of
health problems, including a stroke, and had been using a
wheelchair. While still coaching, he suffered from clinical
depression for years.
In the mid-1970s, Mears coached "the Ernie and Bernie show" -
Ernie Grunfeld and Bernard King, who later played in the NBA. His
teams compiled a record of 278-112 at Tennessee between 1962 and
In one of his last public appearances, Mears attended a ceremony
in February to retire King's No. 53 at Tennessee's Thompson-Boling
Arena. "It's not really about me tonight," King said. "It is
really honoring them (his teammates). It's honoring Ray Mears."
Under Mears, the Vols won or shared Southeastern Conference
titles in 1967, 1972 and 1977. The 1967 championship was the
school's first in 24 years.
Three of his teams made the NCAA tournament before it expanded.
Only the SEC champion made the tourney when he coached.
"If there had been a 64-team, seeded field back then, we would
have made it a lot of those years," Mears recalled in a 2003
interview with The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville.
He had coached at Wittenberg, Ohio, prior to Tennessee and
compiled a record of 121-23, including the college division
national title in 1962.
In the days before the shot clock, his teams at Tennessee were
known for their slowdown, deliberate offense - a style of play that
infuriated Kentucky's legendary Adolph Rupp, Mears' blood rival.
To prove his point, Rupp once had someone count the number of
times Tennessee players dribbled before shooting.
Mears was known for his promotional flair. He spearheaded the
idea of "Big Orange Country" as the designated region for school
He reveled in wearing bright orange blazers and enjoyed parading
along the sidelines to agitate opponents.
He even allowed one of his players in the 1960s to ride a
unicycle on court to entertain the crowd during pregame warmups.
"The (Tennessee) program looks like it's headed in the right
direction," he said in the 2003 interview. "But I don't know if
they're ever going to get things back to where Tennessee once
After leaving coaching, Mears was athletic director at the
University of Tennessee at Martin from 1980 to 1989.
Mears played college basketball at Miami, Ohio. He was born in
Dover, Ohio.
Former UT Coach Ray Mears Dies At 80
Ray Mears, a fan favorite and showman


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Honorary degrees to be awarded at commencement on May 12University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Posted: Apr 27, 2012
UH Mānoa alumni Dr. Claire Asam, Trustee of the Queen Lili'uokalani Trust and Dr. J. Kuhio Asam, Executive Director of Lunalilo Home & Trust, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Hawai'i Foundation, will be the featured speakers at the undergraduate degree ceremony at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa on Saturday, May 12, at the Stan Sheriff Center.
The undergraduate ceremony is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. (student procession begins at 8:30 a.m.), and will end at noon. More than 1,400 students are eligible to receive bachelor's degrees at the undergraduate ceremony. Honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters will also be awarded to philanthropists and educators Bernard and Barbro Osher.
Later in the day, from 3-5 p.m., master's and doctor's degrees and post-baccalaureate certificates in secondary education will be awarded to nearly 800 graduate degree candidates. Anton Krucky, co-founder and President/CEO of Tissue Genesis, Inc. will be the speaker at the afternoon ceremony and dedicated public servant U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka and internationally renowned author Haruki Murakami will receive honorary degrees.
Undergraduate Ceremony Speakers and Honorees:Dr. Claire Asam served as President and Executive Director of the Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center for eight years prior to her appointment as trustee. Asam received her Master's in Education, a Certificate of Public Administration, and a Doctorate in Education from UH Mānoa. Her professional career began at the Kamehameha Schools where she served in various positions for 25 years.
Dr. J. Kuhio Asam is a graduate of UH Mānoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine and is the Executive Director of Lunalilo Home, an adult residential care home in Hawai'i Kai. Prior to joining Lunalilo Home & Trust, Asam was medical director of APS Healthcare Hawai'i. He is also the former medical director of Kahi Mohala Hospital.
Bernard and Barbro Osher are international patrons of education and arts, business leaders and philanthropists whose contributions to higher education, arts and social service organizations have significantly benefited communities and students. Through the creation of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UH Mānoa, learners older in age can enroll in special non-credit classes taught by retired faculty. The UH Mānoa OLLI currently enrolls more than 1,000 members and has offered more than 300 courses since its establishment in 2006.
Graduate Ceremony Speaker and Honorees:
Anton Krucky co‐founded Tissue Genesis, Inc., a clinical stage company in the high growth field of regenerative medicine, in 2001. Krucky has decades of management experience that include product development, marketing and sales for IBM. Prior to leaving IBM, he served as General Manager of Pacific Operations. He has assisted and invested in entrepreneurial companies, as well as served as an executive coach for large corporate clients. In addition to his professional activities, he is very active in philanthropic and community affairs.
U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka's lifelong dedication and contributions in public service to the state of Hawai'i and United States has spanned over 40 years as a senior leader in Congress and over 70 years including the additional public service as a U.S. veteran, former state educator and other public service positions. Senator Akaka attended UH Mānoa where he earned a bachelor of education and later received his master of education. He has championed initiatives and advocated for support for Hawai'i, including for the rights of indigenous people and the excellence of education at both the secondary and higher education levels.
Haruki Murakami is a distinguished writer known for his enduring compassion and global contributions in postmodern literature through his fiction and non-fiction literary works. Born in Kyoto, Japan, during the post-World War II era, his works of fiction and non-fiction have been translated in more than forty languages and cover a number of sensitive, social, historical and cultural topics. With his translation skills, he has also introduced Japanese readers to many American and English writers. Murakami is currently a visiting professor in UH Mānoa's Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.
For more information, visit: http://www.manoa.hawaii.edu/commencement/


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Diablo 3 is now out on consoles. Senor Level Designer, Matthew Berger from Blizzard explains why it's the next evolution in dungeon based gaming! Find out what you can expect from the PS4 Version!
ps4 version in 4k would rock. but highly unlikely because not alot of people have 4k goddamn tv's
I've never played a Diablo game before, this game was on my radar. Played the demo and I had a hell of a lot of fun playing it. I will definitely be buying it.
I will have to look at some more games similar to Diablo 3.
I hope they do a $10 upgrade sort of thing like the other pubs are doing. I bought it this weekend, but I hope to get it on PS4 without having to pay full price.
Edit: This game is hella fun. Much more than my experience on PC.
I have already played Diablo 3 on 360.
PS4 just better graphics and thats it?
If so, whats the point? Same damn game.
If they add a WHOOOOLE lot of stuff sure.
Offline play! And using the controller just feels right!
This is coming from a PC gamer!