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The stepladder was blue with a yellow top. Anthony Davis wore a gray T-shirt and hat, both of which proclaimed his Kentucky Wildcats as the national champions of college basketball. He stood on the ladder, reached to the rim, scissors in his right hand, and trimmed a piece of net.
When he was done, it dangled there by one strand. For his efforts that made the net-cutting possible, he was chosen the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Tournament.
All of that was awesome.
But none of it was the highlight of the most amazing 133 days of his life.
Weeks ahead of time, Davis already had the date memorized. He was perhaps one of two people to eagerly await a preseason matchup between his New Orleans Hornets and the Charlotte Bobcats. Davis couldn't wait for that game because it reunited him, albeit as an opponent, with Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.
Few can relate to what Davis has been through this year and what he is going through now, as his rookie season approaches. Kidd-Gilchrist is one who can. He is also Davis' best friend.
The two met as AAU players while in high school. "He's my brother for life," Davis says.
Kidd-Gilchrist lights up when Davis' name comes up, saying: "He's my best friend in life."
The two bond over their national championship at Kentucky, the fact they were the first college teammates to be drafted first and second and their affinity for that's-MY-ball defense. They come across as two-feet-on-the-ground young men in a world where perspective often is lacking. "He's a humble guy in life," Kidd-Gilchrist says.
They talk on the phone every day. They have real jobs for the first time, in cities far from Chicago, where Davis grew up, and New Jersey, where Kidd-Gilchrist is from. "He's going through the same things as me," Davis says. "I can call him and say, 'How are you handling this?' "
That's a question Davis is used to being asked himself, as few players in basketball or any other sport have risen from obscurity to stardom and beyond as quickly.
Davis didn't have doubters early in his high school career. He wasn't good enough to merit them. At the start of his junior year, Davis was a good guard, 6-2, who maybe could play at the next level if everything worked out.
Then he grew eight inches in a year, which is remarkable enough. What made Davis even more unusual is his game never suffered for it.
"When your bones grow that quickly, that changes the whole biomechanics of your body, how long your legs are and how long your arms are," says Crystal Branta, a professor in Growth and Motor Development at Michigan State's Institute for the Study of Youth Sports.
Big men usually lose their coordination as a result. "I never had that," Davis says. "I'm definitely blessed."
Not only did he not have an awkward phase, but Davis became a better player as he got bigger, too. He kept many of his guard skills—he shoots, dribbles, runs the floor and passes more like the little guys—and began to pick up big-man skills. He is a tenacious rebounder whose ever-lengthening arms allow him to seemingly reach halfway across the court to deflect passes and halfway to the ceiling to block shots. He barely needed that ladder to cut down the net in New Orleans.
Still, Davis had some improving to do. And he did so by asking questions. Lots and lots of questions.
"He loves picking people's brains, to try to figure out what you know and see how much more he can learn," says his high school coach, Cortez Hale.
Hale remembers the first day of practice of Davis' junior year. Davis didn't know he was going to get bigger and better, so he was trying to get smarter and better. Davis raised his hand—bam, bam, bam, three questions in a row, all narrow and specific, about the team's training regimen.
"I'm like, 'Dude, who are you?' You're a high schooler, asking all these questions,' " Hale says. "They were good questions, making sure I'm on top of things, so he can get better and the team can get better."
As Davis got bigger and more well known, he joined an AAU team called Meanstreets, which gets its name from founder Tai Streets, a former NFL wide receiver.
Nobody at Davis' high school was anywhere near his talent level. If he was going to get better, he needed to be challenged. That was clear at his first practice with Meanstreets. "He wasn't used to being pushed as hard as we were pushing him," says AAU coach Jevon Mamon.
Davis' adjustment period lasted all of one practice.
"The kid is amazing to coach," Mamon says. "He's honestly the model for every player that a coach wants to have in his program."
On June 28, on live television, delivered to more than 200 countries and territories, NBA commissioner David Stern announced that Davis was the No. 1 pick.
He put on a New Orleans Hornets hat. He hugged his mom and dad. Minutes later, he hugged Kidd-Gilchrist after the Bobcats selected him. When they signed their contracts, both became millionaires.
All of which was awesome. But none of it was the highlight of the most amazing 133 days of Davis' life.
The Perspectives Charter School team was getting ready for a flight. At the gate, Hale was checking with his players, making sure they all had everything they needed before they got on the plane. He noticed someone had a giant blue blanket. He thought that was weird.
Who brings a giant blue blanket on an airplane?
It got weirder. On the plane, there was Davis, a few rows behind Hale, with the blanket. He was wearing it.
"I look back, and this guy has on the biggest Snuggie I've ever seen in my life. I'm like, 'Anthony, do they make those in your size or are they specially made?' The dude wore a Snuggie the whole time. That just shows his sense of humor. He's a big, goofy kid."
In Davis' version of this silly little tale, as he sat there, toasty and warm, 30,000 feet high, wearing a blanket, he composed a rap song about his unusual piece of clothing.
Sing it, sing it, oh, please, sing it right now.
"I don't remember how it goes," he says. He searches his memory. Nothing comes to him. "But it was pretty funny."
Whatever doubt existed about Davis' ability to jump from a small high school to major college basketball evaporated early last season. As he begins his NBA journey, nobody wonders about him any more.
He's still working on his inside game—which is understandable since two years ago he didn't need one—but he is as can't-miss as can't-miss gets. He has the body, as new as it might be, to go along with the skill for a strong pro career.
He says he is working on getting stronger to help him hold up to the rigors of the NBA game and that the player he is most looking forward to matching up against is Kevin Garnett, his boyhood idol—or his postgrowth idol, at least. They have similar games—length, athleticism and aggressive defense.
"He's in the mode of learning the league right now, getting the experience that's going to help him down the line," Hornets coach Monty Williams says. "He has a good understanding that he's a ways from where he's going to be."
And where he is from.
Vinay Mullick, the athletic director at Perspectives, saw Davis over the summer and marveled at how everything and nothing were different about Davis.
"Anthony just walked into the gym like the same old Anthony. He saw the coaches and was cracking jokes, talking about some of his games from high school, some of his dunks," Mullick says. "It had been about 12 months since he graduated from our school. How much had changed for him in 12 months in his life? But at the end of the day, not much had really changed in terms of who he is and who he was."
In July, Clippers forward Blake Griffin tore the meniscus in his knee. That meant he couldn't play in the Olympics, but Davis could. He didn't have a key role in London, but it was an invaluable experience nonetheless as he spent weeks around the greatest basketball players in the world.
More than that, his selection affirmed he was one of them. He attached his ear to Kobe Bryant's mouth, soaking up every bit of basketball wisdom the Lakers star was willing to impart.
The team cruised into the gold-medal game, where it defeated Spain. After the game, Davis linked arms with Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul on his right and New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony on his left, guys who were NBA superstars before he was a teenager.
As the three stepped onto a podium, their arms unlinked, Davis waved to the crowd, first with his left hand, then his right. He received a bouquet of flowers.
All of that was awesome, of course—and the next thing that happened was the highlight of the most amazing 133 days of his life.
He bowed his head, and around his neck a man placed a gold medal.


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How do D-backs' prospects fit Arizona's needs?
This series is designed to evaluate the role prospects play in each Major League organization, looking at the short- and long-term needs of each club and illustrating how prospects fit in both scenarios.
Here's my look at the D-backs:
This series is designed to evaluate the role prospects play in each Major League organization, looking at the short- and long-term needs of each club and illustrating how prospects fit in both scenarios.
Here's my look at the D-backs:
Short-term needs
The D-backs' acquisition of pitcher Bronson Arroyo filled out the rotation. The club is not terribly deep in pitching, and he will help a great deal.
A challenge at shortstop has highlighted Spring Training. Two very good young shortstops (Didi Gregorius and Chris Owings), plus the veteran Cliff Pennington give the club plenty of middle-infield depth.
pROJECTED 2016 D-BACKS LINEUP
|Miguel Montero
|Paul Goldschmidt
|Aaron Hill
|Martin Prado
|Didi Gregorius
|Mark Trumbo
|A.J. Pollock
|Gerardo Parra
|Patrick Corbin
|Archie Bradley
|Wade Miley
|Trevor Cahill
|Bronson Arroyo
|Addison Reed
One of the first calls to the rotation will likely be made to Archie Bradley. Season-ending surgery for Patrick Corbin has elevated Bradley's station in the pecking order, and the 6-foot-4, 235-pound right-hander is very close to being ready for prime time.
Last season, finishing at Double-A Mobile after starting the season at Class A Advanced Visalia, Bradley had a combined 1.84 ERA and a WHIP of 1.21. He struck out an average of 9.6 per nine innings, while walking over four per nine. However, Bradley yielded only 115 hits in 152 innings.
Bradley can touch 97 mph on his fastball, but it usually sits a tad below. He also throws a curveball and a changeup. Bradley will have to have confidence in all his pitches to face Major League hitters.
Owings is battling the incumbent Gregorius for the shortstop job. If the club could combine Owings' bat with Gregorius' defense, it would have a world-class combination.
Owings is clearly ready for a role on the parent club. A right-handed hitter, he is 5-foot-10, 190 pounds. Last season at Triple-A Reno, Owings hit .330 with 12 homers, 31 doubles, eight triples and 81 RBIs. He also stole 20 bases, and was named the Pacific Coast League MVP.
Gregorius is the better overall fielder. He has better first-step quickness, better range and a better arm. But Owings will challenge Gregorius to hit enough to keep his job.
Long-term needs
The trade of Matt Davidson to the White Sox has opened the door for other third-base prospects. Left-handed-hitting Jake Lamb may be the third baseman of the distant future. He is an excellent defensive player with a good Minor League batting average in parts of two seasons. Lamb has hit a composite .316 in his two seasons. When I saw him in the Arizona Fall League, he hit .299 with a homer and seven RBIs. Lamb's 23 hits included six doubles.
Another third-base candidate is 6-foot-2, 190-pound right-handed-hitting Brandon Drury. He came to the D-backs in the trade with the Braves that sent Justin Upton to the Braves. Drury uses a short, compact stroke to hit the gaps with loud line drives. He has played parts of four seasons and has a composite .274 batting average. Last season, Drury played at Class A South Bend, hitting .302 in his first season for the D-backs. He had 15 home runs and 85 RBIs.
The D-backs feature a trio of pitchers at various stages of development who may offer future help.
Braden Shipley may be the furthest along. The right-hander made 12 starts in 2013 and had a combined ERA of 4.99 at two classifications. Shipley is a 6-foot-3, 190-pound former first-round pick from the University of Nevada.
Aaron Blair, another right-hander, is 6-foot-5, 230 pounds. Like Shipley, he pitched at two classifications last year, throwing a combined 48 2/3 innings, covering 11 starts. Blair had a record of 1-3 with a 3.14 ERA. He finished with a WHIP of 1.25.
In his second year, Jose Martinez pitched at Class A Short-Season Hillsboro. He had 10 starts, throwing 38 innings. Martinez is 6-foot-1, 160 pounds and throws right-handed. He yielded only 20 hits, but also gave up an average of 5.9 walks per nine.
Stryker Trahan had thrown out just 24 percent of the runners trying to steal against him and also had 35 passed balls in his two seasons behind the plate. Because the big left-handed slugger's offense was ahead of his defense, the D-backs have begun the process of converting him to an outfielder.
Last season, Trahan hit .254 at Rookie-level Missoula. He had 15 doubles, two triples and 10 home runs among his 60 hits in 236 trips to the plate.
Right-hander Jake Barrett is a homegrown Arizona player, having attended Arizona State University. At 6-foot-3, 230 pounds, Barrett profiles as a hard-throwing reliever with quality secondary pitches to form a complete arsenal.
Bernie Pleskoff has served as a professional scout for the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners. Follow @BerniePleskoff on Twitter.


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Today was a sick bird day on Big Mac! Warm temps, sunny bluebird skies, strong upslope winds, and deep pow in the basins above treeline. I kited til I couldn't feel my kegs anymore.
I hear there's a big posse heading for freshies on Snow Mesa. I wish I could be there. Have a blast!


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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Mystery Orange Things
I have tried to piece these together in every angle imaginable but they amount to absolutely nothing recognizable. One edge of each piece has been left open. It looks as if they either need to be joined together or be joined to a another piece (which I don't have).
I'm sorry, but all I see when I look at these are tiny little bras. Do any of you recognize this pattern?
Going by the color of the yarn, it looks as if it could be from the 60's.
The recycle-happy person in me does not want to throw these way. I mean, just look at the effort that went into making it.
It has sparked my curiosity so much that I am on a quest to find out what pattern this is.
So, my fellow hobbyists, do tell if you have any idea what these are. If you have a guess, that would be great too otherwise my next quest will be to find 22 tiny breasted people who are interested in wearing little odd-shaped orange bras. Ha!
Take care!
39 comments:
- Linda said...
Wow, this is a real stumper! Surely someone in the blogosphere knows. I'll be following comments because I'm as curious as you are!
- Tue Oct 12, 10:34:00 AM 2010
- susan said...
Could they be socks? It looks like slipper socks to me! sue
- Tue Oct 12, 10:50:00 AM 2010
- Michelle said...
They could be socks, maybe she left them like that and was going to add a different color to finish them off. Interesting...
- Tue Oct 12, 11:24:00 AM 2010
- Pamela said...
I had a baby blanket that looked very similar, four of them joined together, with the raised bits in the middle to form "leaves" pointing outward - it then makes a square, which were joined together, I'm trying to find the pattern to see if it is, will let you know
- Tue Oct 12, 11:26:00 AM 2010
- Sammy said...
Is it a baby hat?
-Samya :-)
- Tue Oct 12, 11:26:00 AM 2010
- Cheri said...
I think they are golf club covers. They were pretty popular back in the 60's and 70's.
- Tue Oct 12, 11:42:00 AM 2010
- Trace Dee said...
I agree with Pamela i have been knitting a blanket very similar to this. you join 4 together together to make a square with petals in the centre.
- Tue Oct 12, 12:20:00 PM 2010
- Sian said...
At least they have been useful for making readers smile!
- Tue Oct 12, 01:10:00 PM 2010
- Amy @ Keep'n The SunnySide said...
You have me laughing out loud!
- Tue Oct 12, 01:11:00 PM 2010
- rhr-ozgrkdn said...
If you ask me, these are booties..??
- Tue Oct 12, 01:15:00 PM 2010
- BubzRugz said...
As soon as I saw it I knew because a friend brought some in to craft group a couple of months ago - it is as Pamela and Tracy Dee say - it is really pretty once you have a group together - the 'leaves' are supposed to be a bit raised...
For all the multi-breasted fairies......
- Tue Oct 12, 01:56:00 PM 2010
Look a little like gnome hats to me but seriously I agree with the others . ?there were baby blankets which joined 4 together to make a leaf shape. Very poplular they were too.
x Tricia
- Tue Oct 12, 02:30:00 PM 2010
- Merry said...
What a terrific post and so much fun reading all the comments. I have no idea but will be watching what you create with them with interest.
- Tue Oct 12, 02:59:00 PM 2010
- Khris said...
Did Little Red Riding Hood start knitting? She must have lost a few of her bonnets....lol
Hugs Khris
- Tue Oct 12, 03:02:00 PM 2010
- Melissa said...
I don't know but it sounds like the baby blankets have it as far as votes.
It will be interesting to see where you go with this.
- Tue Oct 12, 03:17:00 PM 2010
- Mimi said...
LOL! I can't wait to see what this turns out to be OR to meet those tiny little people. Hope you find out soon.
- Tue Oct 12, 03:54:00 PM 2010
- GardenofDaisies said...
Golly, I have no idea. Sling shot? Jock strap? Caps for little dolls? ??? I give up?
- Tue Oct 12, 04:29:00 PM 2010
- Little Ivy Garden said...
I have a quilt that My great Aunt knitted for me many years ago. It has been one of my prized possessions, as she died of breast cancer shortly after its completion. It looks like what the other ladies are saying about a flower in the center with the raised petals. I can't quite get past the hunter orange color, but with the right combination it might be rather striking!
- Tue Oct 12, 04:52:00 PM 2010
- Vicki said...
I am with Gardenofdaisies, I was going with Jock strap, and wasn't sure if I could say that here or not. LOL Hope you find an answer, I am intrigued.
- Tue Oct 12, 05:36:00 PM 2010
- sandra said...
they look like miniature hats like they wear in Peru - you know the ones with the ear flaps.
- Tue Oct 12, 07:19:00 PM 2010
- Aida said...
i think she making a Jock strap for a group of american footballers...
- Wed Oct 13, 04:00:00 AM 2010
- sweetiepie said...
The first thing I thought of when I saw it was a hat.
I hope you find the answer you are looking for.
Take care.
- Wed Oct 13, 04:57:00 PM 2010
- deb said...
looks like little baby bonnets?
- Wed Oct 13, 07:24:00 PM 2010
- Chrissie said...
They look like golf club covers to me
- Thu Oct 14, 01:54:00 AM 2010
- Marisa Torres Torres said...
- Thu Oct 14, 03:44:00 AM 2010
- Kristin said...
I am completely stumped. I'm going to post this request on Twitter and Facebook.
- Thu Oct 14, 06:37:00 PM 2010
- Carol in E TN said...
I think it is a nose warmer!
- Thu Oct 14, 07:34:00 PM 2010
- omashee aka Barb said...
I'm with Carol in E TN. I NEED a nose warmer! But really, the blanket sounds like something I saw years ago. Can't wait to find out. Hope you'll keep us posted.
- Fri Oct 15, 08:52:00 AM 2010
- Bobbie said...
My first tho't was a little dutch girl hat- I work @ a nursing home so I am printing the page and asking my residents- I am sure one of them may know
Personally Id go with nose warmers :)
- Fri Oct 15, 12:34:00 PM 2010
- patsy said...
The orange thingies are cushions you put 4 together with leaf pointing to the center,when done they are really pretty
- Sat Oct 16, 06:55:00 AM 2010
- Cyn ;-) said...
A mystery to be sure. I'll be waiting to see what your wonderful brain comes up with... hope you'll post it.
- Sun Oct 17, 10:59:00 AM 2010
- Maggey and Jim said...
hello, know nothing about the knitted thingys but I have ?..My granddaughter is coming to the big island on Nov 4th,,Where would she find a quilt shop so she could bring me back some original Hawaiian
fabric?? Thanks, Love your work. You are very creative and I love your flowers..
- Sun Oct 17, 12:26:00 PM 2010
- Kristin said...
Have you tried putting them together in a 3-D shape?
- Tue Oct 19, 06:56:00 PM 2010
- mickey said...
I have no idea what they are; I can't crochet or knit to save my life but you made me giggle and for that I thank you!
- Wed Oct 20, 08:36:00 AM 2010
- Sarah said...
they could be hoods for little red riding hood dolls.
- Thu Oct 21, 09:30:00 AM 2010
- Bobbie said...
My residents at the nursing home said they were bonnets that tie under the dolls chin
They got a real laugh at the bra idea
We really had fun with this- thanks!
- Thu Oct 21, 03:16:00 PM 2010
- Simone de Klerk said...
You have an absolute amazing blog with the most wonderful tutorials!
Thank you so much for sharing this!!!
- Sat Oct 23, 10:16:00 AM 2010
- MommyBee said...
I am going to say smurf parachutes! I would love to see an example of the blanket pattern, seems like it would be very pretty:)
- Mon Oct 25, 09:41:00 PM 2010
I think they are preme baby booties. Hummmmm
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One of the most enjoyable things to do during a visit to Kampot is to simply stroll up and down the streets, which are virtually free of traffic, and take in the unique atmosphere created by the crumbling French-colonial era shophouses.
Kampot's old market was one of the highlights of my trip. It was dark, dank, and full of activity! Beneath the roof of blue tarps and corrugated iron is something I can only describe as a labyrinth of tiny stalls. People were selling everything from the daily catch and fresh produce to knock-off designer bags and pedicures.
Sunset over the old French Bridge.
The Bokor Hill Station sits atop Mt. Bokor and enjoys a commanding view over the coastal plains below. The station was established by the French in the 1920s, and in addition to serving a role as a strategic military outpost, the small cluster of buildings also provided the French with an escape from the brutal lowland heat of southern Cambodia.
The buildings that comprise the hill station, including this tiny Catholic church, were last occupied by Khmer Rouge forces in the 1970s as they waged war over the Cambodian countryside. Since then, they have been completely abandoned to the howling winds of the mountain.
A thick carpeting of lichens has given many of the structures an orange or rusty-red coloring.
It was abosolutely fascinating to explore the empty shells of these buildings. They all seemed to be completely devoid of any signs of life, but as soon as you turned a corner you would come face-to-face with a larger than life grafitti painting of something you would expect to see in the slums of some western metropolis.
National Museum
National Museum
Wat Ounalom Temple
Wat Ounalom Temple
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
In early 1979, members of an invading Vietnamese force stumbled upon a cluster of concrete buildings in a quiet neighborhood of Phnom Penh. What they found there both shocked and horrified the international community and shed light on the true brutality of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime for the first time.
Detention Rooms
Once the Tuol Svay Prey High School, this compound was taken over by forces loyal to Pol Pot in April 0f 1975. It was quickly converted into secret prison number 21, commonly referred to as "S-21", where anyone who was thought to be harboring anti-Khmer Rouge sentiment was detained, interrogated, and tortured.
These wooden cells were hastily build by the security guards at the prison in what I can only assume used to be the school's classrooms. It was here that the "high priority" prisoners were detained while they awaited there turn in the interrogation/torture rooms.
Over the course of the four year history of S-21, more than 17,000 people were brought into the prison; when all was said and done, only 7 survived.
One of the more remarkable things about S-21 was the meticulous documentation of everything that took place within its walls. Every prisoner was photographed, and every forced addmission of guilt was written down and filed away. When you visit Tuol Sleng today you come face to face with the haunting mugshots of the prison's victims, young children included.
Interrogation Room
It is believed that the final 14 inmates detained in S-21 were hastily tortured to death as Vietnamese forces closed in on Phnom Penh. Two Vietnamese photographers captured the gruesome aftermath, and the photos are now on display in the actual interrogation rooms.
Killing Fields
The killing fields of Choeung Ek lie a mere 7.5 kilometers to the south of Phnom Penh. It was here that nearly all the men, women, and children who were detained at Tuol Sleng were brought to be executed and burried in mass graves.
The people who were brought here were usually bludgeoned to death with bamboo clubs before being pushed into pits dug into the ground. During the executions, Khmer Rouge soldiers played revolutionary songs on loud speakers hanging from the trees to drown out the cries of their victims.
Many of the mass graves have yet to be exhumed, and you still encounter fragments of bone and clothing as you walk around the killing fields.
More than 8,000 skulls are now housed in the memorial stupa which was erected in 1988.
Royal Palace
Chan Chaya Pavilion - Royal Palace in Phnom Penh.
Main Entrance - Royal Palace
Throne Hall - Royal Palace
Silver Pagoda
Iron Gate - Silver Pagoda
Central Market
Under the main rotunda at the central market in Phnom Penh.
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Last week, Bexar County, TX, Democratic Party chairman Dan Ramos made local headlines when he lashed out at LGBT groups that were seeking to influence Democratic Party policies. He told the San Antonio Current that gay activists like the Stonewall Democrats were "like termites" that had invaded his party and that the group was like both the Tea Party and the Nazi party because "they're 90 percent white, blue-eyed, and Anglo":
In an interview with the Current today, Ramos blamed homosexuals in the party for both undermining his authority and for the poor election results in Bexar County in 2010. "They are all connected to the gay Democratic Party, the so-called Stonewall Democrats. Just like termites they managed to get some of their people in key positions," he said. […]
Ramos said he opposes homosexuality on religious grounds and doesn't believe gay-friendly Democrats like Stonewall reflect the values of Bexar County voters. "I liken them to the Tea Party — the Tea Party and the fucking Nazi Party — because they're 90 percent white, blue-eyed, and Anglo, and I don't give a fuck who knows that. Just like the blacks … they're American, but you can't get your way just because you're black."
This morning, Ramos held a press conference where he refused to apologize for his comments. "I believe I'm dealing with the truth, sometimes the truth hurts. So be it," he said. Local news station KSAT 12 filed a report from the press conference. Watch it:
Over the weekend, Boyd Richie, chair of the Texas Democratic Party, issued a statement calling for Ramos to resign. "I will not dignify Mr. Ramos' most recent outburst by restating it, but I will make it clear that the bigoted attitudes he expressed are totally contrary to the Beliefs and Declarations of the Texas Democratic Party," said Boyd. "What is necessary is for Dan Ramos to immediately resign and allow the Bexar County Democratic Party to move forward with new, more unifying leadership."


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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Four prominent neurologists say they cannot see how Sen. Pete Domenici can continue his work as a U.S. senator given his diagnosis with frontotemporal lobar degeneration, a type of dementia.
September tests showed Sen. Pete Domenici's brain disorder had progressed since an April checkup.
The disease attacks the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which control judgment, complex decision-making, communication, mood and behavior.
None of the four doctors is treating Domenici, nor is any familiar with his case, but all have treated patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration, or FTLD.
Dr. David Knopman, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic, says when his patients learn they have FTLD, he tells them it's best to stop working.
"They would be prone to have poor judgment and make mistakes," Knopman said. "I would encourage them to leave their employment."
Domenici, a six-term New Mexico Republican, announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election after his current term expires in January 2009.
It's not clear how long the senator has known of his condition. "For at least two years, I have felt very little impact from this disease," he said in announcing his decision. But September tests showed the condition had progressed since a checkup in April, he said.
"While the progression was slight, I had to consider whether I could in good conscience run for re-election and serve you as well as you deserve for another six-year term," Domenici told an audience in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A source close to Domenici, 75, says his physician at Johns Hopkins University Hospital "has a comfort level with his ability to finish out the term."
The source added, "Those of us who work with him have not seen much deterioration."
Dr. Bruce Miller, a neurologist at the University of California-San Francisco, says that of the 500 patients he's treated for FTLD, very few have been able to keep working.
"At times they can shift to a different style of work that doesn't require making big judgments, like being a paper boy," he said.
Dr. Murray Grossman, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania, noted the difficulties the disease presents for people who make decisions on others' behalf. "A lawyer wouldn't be able to best defend their clients. A stockbroker wouldn't be able to make the best investments for their clients," he said.
Another neurologist, Dr. Daniel Brauner, said if an FTLD patient is making "world-shaking decisions they should probably stop working."
He added some of his patients in less stressful jobs have been able to keep working but have had to scale back, leaving behind tasks that are too complex.
In addition to problems with judgment, FTLD patients have behavior and language issues, because of the areas of the brain that are affected. "They can be inappropriate with money. They believe every ad they see in the paper and buy everything," he said.
The doctors said first signs of the disease are often very unusual behavior or a change in personality. An affectionate grandfather, for example, might push away a grandchild looking for a hug. Someone who's always been very polite might become very rude.
"Someone who's usually very adept and in touch with people might suddenly make inappropriate or caustic comments, like they might refer to someone who's overweight as 'fatty,'" Knopman says. He added patients often don't want to leave work. "One of the problems with this disorder is they often lack insight so they themselves don't perceive the problems," Knopman said.
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Wabash College is again ranked in the top tier of national liberal arts colleges in the 2012 U.S. News and World Report's Best Colleges guide.
This ranking follows Wabash's inclusion in the Princeton Review's The Best 376 College's guide, in which Wabash ranked in the top-20 in eight statistical categories. Wabash is also one of 40 schools featured in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives, and is featured in the 2012 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges.
In the U.S. News guide, Wabash is ranked 53rd among national liberal arts colleges — tied with St. Olaf (MN), St. Lawrence (NY), and DePauw.
Wabash administrators wrestle with college rankings each year, knowing that no publication, website, or book can adequately and accurately portray the critical aspects that make a specific college a good fit for specific students.
"Each year the U.S. News and World Report rankings create a flurry of discussion about what the rankings mean," said Wabash President Patrick E. White. "The attention should be directed more at the colleges themselves and in celebrating the extraordinary variety of American higher education. High school students and their families can find a lot of information here to discover which college is right for them."
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Steve Klein echoes President White's thoughts — guides can be helpful if they provide opportunities for students and their parents to get more involved in the college search process. But he also cautions families to look beyond the guides and get to campuses that they find compelling.
"I have mixed emotions about any of the rankings because the college search is ultimately about finding the right fit for each student," said Dean Klein. "To the extent that the rankings invite young men and their families to take a closer look at Wabash, they're helpful.
"Some of the categories that factor into a school's actual ranking in US News amuse me, including the six-year graduation rate. I have yet to find a parent who wants to sign up for that plan! A four-year rate would be more helpful to Hoosiers who are often considering small quality liberal arts colleges and large state schools."
"We are happy that Wabash continues to rank high, but what matters more is why we do well, including our continued strength in retention, our rising alumni giving rate, and our excellent faculty, not to mention strengths not measured, like the diversity of our student body and our constant commitment to take young men seriously and to challenge them to make the most of their lives," added President White.
In the last two years, Wabash has used grants from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and Walmart Foundation to create several retention programs, and the College had a higher annual giving rate than 15 schools ranked above it.
In August, Wabash was featured in The Best 376 Colleges, a publication of The Princeton Review. Wabash got high marks for "Best Athletic Facilities" (4th), "Most Accessible Professors" (12th), and "Great Financial Aid" (17th) among its eight top-20 rankings.
Wabash was also listed in The Princeton Review's Best Value Colleges for 2012. According to the Princeton Review, it partners with USA Today to call out 50 private schools for their excellent academics, low sticker price and/or generous financial aid. Wabash received a financial aid rating of 95 (out of 99).
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- Ryan Sherlock said...
First time around the lap it was pretty terrifying! It was big drop after big drop with rocks everywhere (stay off the brakes!). After you got used to it though it was a lot of fun. A great course.
- March 12, 2009 at 8:39 PM
- ttoppouzokypraios said...
one of the rare cases that the photo looks worst than it actually is!
In any case you should stop worrying, we've changed a bit that part of the course and I believe that now is much more rideable and has better flow.
See you tomorrow
- March 13, 2009 at 7:05 PM
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AP Initialization
Even in SOCs, there is the likelihood of having multiple CPU cores. Each core may be visualized as a Board Support Package (BSP) plus an AP. The BSP starts and initializes the system. The APs must be initialized with identical features. Before memory is activated, the APs are uninitialized. After memory is started, the remaining processors are initialized and left in a wait-for-SIPI state. To accomplish this, the system firmware must:
- Find microcode and copy it to memory.
- Find the CPU code in the Serial Peripherals Interface (SPI) and copy it to memory an important step to avoid execution-in-place for the remainder of the sequence.
- Send start-up interprocessor interrupts to all processors.
- Disable all NEM settings, if this has not already been done.
- Load microcode updates on all processors.
- Enable cache-on mode for all processors.
From a UEFI perspective, AP initialization may either be part of the PEI or DXE phase of the boot flow, or in the early or advanced initialization. There is some debate as to the final location.
Since Intel processors are packaged in various configurations, there are different terms that must be understood when considering processor initialization. In this context, a thread is a logical processor that shares resources with another logical processor in the same physical package. A core is a processor that coexists with another processor in the same physical package and does not share any resources with other processors. A package is a chip that contains any number of cores and threads.
Threads and cores on the same package are detectable by executing the CPUID instruction. Detection of additional packages must be done blindly. If a design must accommodate more than one physical package, the BSP needs to wait a certain amount of time for all potential APs in the system to "log in." Once a timeout occurs or the maximum expected number of processors "log in," it can be assumed that there are no more processors in the system.
In order to wake up secondary threads or cores, the BSP sends a SIPI to each thread and core. This SIPI is sent by using the BSP's LAPIC, indicating the physical address from which the AP should start executing. This address must be below 1 MB of memory and must be aligned on a 4-KB boundary. Upon receipt of the SIPI, the AP starts executing the code pointed to by the SIPI message. Unlike the BSP, the AP starts code execution in real mode. This requires that the code that the AP starts executing is located below 1 MB.
Because of the different processor combinations and the various attributes of shared processing registers between threads, care must be taken to ensure that there are no caching conflicts in the memory used throughout the system.
AP behavior during firmware initialization is dependent on the firmware implementation, but is most commonly restricted to short periods of initialization followed by a HLT instruction, during which the system awaits direction from the BSP before undertaking another operation.
Once the firmware is ready to attempt to boot an OS, all AP processors must be placed back in their power-on state. The BSP accomplishes this by sending an Init Assert IPI followed by an Init De-assert IPI to all APs in the system (except itself).
The final part of this article, which will appear in January, covers advanced device installation, memory-map configuration, and all the other steps required to prepare the hardware for loading the operating system.
This article is adapted from material in Intel Technology Journal (March 2011) "UEFI Today: Bootstrapping the Continuum," and portions of it are copyright Intel Corp.
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A British councillor has stunned his colleagues by claiming his real mother is a 9 foot green alien with 8 fingers.
Simon Parkes, who was elected as a Labour Party councillor for the Stakesby district of the Whitby Town Council in February this year, has spoken at length on You Tube of his life among extra-terrestrials and his upbringing with an alien Mom, reports the Northern Echo.
Parkes said he first saw an alien at the age of eight months, when "a traditional kite-shaped face", with huge eyes, tiny nostrils and a thin mouth appeared over his cot.
He said: "Two green stick things came in. I was aware of some movement over my head. I thought, 'they're not mummy's hands, mummy's hands are pink'."
He added: "I was looking straight into its face. It enters my mind through my eyes and it sends a message down my optic nerve into my brain.
"It says 'I am your real mother, I am your more important mother'."
He said after contracting chicken pox at the age of three, his mother went to work and left him at home to fend for himself when an 8ft "doctor" dressed as a waiter appeared to offer help.
As an 11-year-old, he claims he was taken on a craft by his alien "mother", and made a deal with the beings on board.
He said: "The reason extraterrestrials are interested in me is not because of my physical body, but because of what is inside me. My soul."
Councillor Parkes said his extraterrestrial beliefs "did not come up on the doorstep" while he was campaigning recently.
He said: "For many people who don't experience it, it's very hard to accept. We are taught to only see and believe what we can touch, but it's acceptable to believe in religion.
"It's a personal matter and it doesn't affect my work. I'm more interested in fixing someone's leaking roof or potholes. People don't want me to talk about aliens.
"I get more common sense out of the aliens than out of Scarborough Town Hall. The aliens are far more aware of stuff. People in the Town Hall seem not to be aware of the needs of Whitby."
Fellow Stakesby ward member and former Mayor of Whitby, Councillor Terry Jennison, said the matter had not been discussed by councillors.
He said: "I am completely in the dark about this."
In his long (winded) interview, which becomes increasingly bizarre as it goes on, Mr Parkes gives full details (with illustrations) of his upbringing and inter-action with extra-terrestrials and their plans for our future. And I thought Republicans were weird.
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Big East M5: 03.15.13 EditionPosted by Will Tucker on March 15th, 2013
- Louisville beat Villanova 74-55 in the Big East Tournament quarterfinals last night with an uncharacteristic offensive distribution, scoring almost as many threes (10) as two-point field goals (13). But the Cardinals continued to weather inconsistency on that end of the floor by featuring the most efficient defense in the country. Rick Pitino remarked after the game that the 58 deflections the Cardinals caused against the Wildcats were the most he'd ever recorded since he started tracking the statistic with his teams. Pitino's team was rewarded with a surprise locker room cameo from college basketball scholar Bill Clinton, who has paid the Cardinals a couple visits in the past, as well.
- Russ Smith finished with 28 points and hit four of six attempts from beyond the arc last night, but admitted he was distracted and upset all day after learning of the death of his high school coach, Jack Curran. Curran, 82, was a legend in New York City high school basketball, who coached future NBA point guards Kenny Anderson and Kenny Smith during his 55-year tenure at Archbishop Molloy. Smith learned of his mentor's death yesterday morning, when he performed his ritual visit of his alma mater while back in New York for a game, and said it was "hard to take it all in" on the spot. "He was everything to me, and to my mom, my family. He treated everyone with respect," Smith continued; "Today was definitely Coach Curran day for me, and it will be the rest of my life."
- Notre Dame will appear in its fourth consecutive Big East Tournament semifinals after defeating Marquette 73-65 last night. The Irish came out flat against the Golden Eagles but responded with resurgent play for the latter 30 minutes after Mike Brey asked his team in the huddle if they were scared. Jerian Grant and his teammates responded in a big way for the rest of the game, with Pat Connaughton hitting another six three-pointers to score a team-high 18 points. The comeback led Jack Cooley to make some bold postgame predictions: "I think we're going to come out strong and handle [Louisville's] pressure phenomenally. I think we can get to Saturday night and that would mean a lot for me."
- Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins laments the demise of the Big East Tournament in a scathing essay on the misaligned priorities of college administrators. "This isn't collegiate competition we're watching any more," Jenkins contends, "It's thinly veiled money laundering, and it's ruining the NCAA's chief commodity, which is our affection." She places blame on the university presidents, athletic directors and conference officials who she says have colluded to engineer more lucrative arrangements at the expense of the athlete and the fan. Jenkins recalls a press conference in which she posed a question to former Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese about the ethics of vastly uneven revenue among power conference schools, to which he responded, "This isn't communism." In the columnist's words "you live by the sword, you die by the sword."
- Georgetown showed off its composure and balance in a 62-43 quarterfinal win over Cincinnati that was at times much closer than the score would indicate. "For the most part, this group doesn't get rattled," said John Thompson III, whose team weathered a three-point shooting barrage from the Bearcats that eroded a 15-point lead into a deficit early in the second half. Markel Starks said after the win that his team takes pride in its defensive adjustments, and that players' enthusiasm for shutting down their assignments is not a new phenomenon: "It's no formula. Everyone's talking about our defense now, but we've been playing defense all year." They'll face a rematch from last weekend with Syracuse in the semifinals today, and will probably be making plenty of adjustments on defense as they try to beat the Orange for the third time this year.


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It is a high tech world. I love it and I don't know how we survived before everyone had access to cells phones and the Internet. Honestly, if you tried to take either away from me today, I'd probably fight you to the death and you'd still have to pry my iPhone out of my cold dead hands.
As we advance technologically, it's becoming the norm to see toddler and certainly elementary school aged children on laptops, iPods, iPads, iPhones and the internet, usually playing educational games or watching cartoons so that their parents can keep them occupied. I have no problem with this. Our girls have DS's and now they have Nabi tablets , MP3 players and we own every educational game system available since the girls were toddlers. They do homework on the laptop and know their way around technology ... like every other kid we know.
It's progress, right? Maybe. I used to think so but now I am not so sure because while we were all so excited about technologically advancing our children we completely overlooked the hidden dangers of kids using technology.
For instance:
- Surprise bills from iTunes This is a lesson I learned very recently and the hard way. My daughters had finished their homework and did their chores, they asked me if I could buy them a dress up game they had been wanting on the iPad called Sporty Girl Dress up. It was only $1.99 so I bought it. Unfortunately, every time they clicked on an outfit to dress up in, it charged me $1.99. It didn't ask to confirm the purchase, it only asked, " Do you want this?" and the girls obviously wanted it. Long story short, I got a surprise bill for $80. I'm sure this is not the only unethical game around so beware.
- Accidentally seeing something inappropriate Pop ups. Even if you childproof that sucker, your kid still could accidentally see something that you are not ready to explain like two men kissing or a woman giving birth. Nothing wrong with either but unless you are comfortable having that conversation with your 3-year-old, don't do it.
- More awkward social skills The more our children immerse themselves in the cyber world, the less their social skills are developing. They need to interact in real time, face to face, not just via face time. Unless you want the norm for all people to meet others to be via sites like Match.com, teach your kids how to live in the real world.
- No patience, expecting the entire world to provide instant gratification In the digital world, there is no wait time. You type it in and beep, boop, beep, there it is. In the real world, people need time. Things take time and our children need to learn patience and understanding or they are going to spend a lot of time disappointed and angry.
- Interacting with unsavory characters You hear about kids talking to pedophiles online all the time and not knowing it. How could they? How can any of us know who is real and what is bullshit when we are talking via social media?
- Sending inappropriate photos Cell phone cameras are not the friend of tweens and teens. They are too naive to understand what can happen to nude photos and sexts sent and intended for one person. They don't realize that once they go out they are no longer private or personal.
- Giving out private information to potential criminals I had a cousin who tweeted every move she made, including where she was going, when she was going what she was wearing and once she even status updated her Facebook with her address saying she was bored and if anyone wanted to come over they should.
- Obesity Your kid sits all day playing with tech, they move less, they get fat; end of story. Nobody wants their child to be unhealthy or overweight so limit the online time.
- Addiction Kids can get addicted to technology. It's a crutch. They get used to having those online connections and they don't want to give them up. Don't fool yourself, it's like cyber crack.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — A day after Madrid wowed the IOC with its presentation, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said concerns over Spain's economy "don't exist anymore" and he will go to Argentina in September for the vote on the host city for the 2020 Olympics.
Rajoy met with IOC President Jacques Rogge on Thursday to show his government's support for the Madrid bid, which picked up vital momentum a day earlier with its campaign pitch to the IOC general assembly.
Tokyo and Istanbul also made strong presentations, but it was Madrid that made the most impact with a show-stealing speech by Crown Prince Felipe, a former Olympic sailor and Spain's flag-bearer at the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Games.
Once viewed as a long shot because of Spain's severe economic crisis, Madrid is considered firmly in contention going into the final phase of the race before the Sept. 7 vote in Buenos Aires. The Spanish capital is bidding for a third consecutive time.
"We have very high hopes indeed," Rajoy said. "This time around, Spain is in a really good position."
Madrid finished third in the voting for the 2012 Olympics and second for 2016. Rajoy attended those votes in Singapore and Copenhagen, Denmark, when he was leader of the opposition.
Rajoy will travel to Argentina straight from the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, from Sept. 5-6.
"I am making the effort to go to Buenos Aires because that is the last push," he said. "I am delighted to go because I want us to win."
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan or President Abdullah Gul is expected to be in Buenos Aires for the Istanbul bid, with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe representing Tokyo.
The state of Spain's economy had been seen as a major weakness for Madrid's bid, with the country facing recession for most of the past four years and an unemployment rate of 27 percent. But Madrid says it already has 80 percent of its Olympic venues in place and would spend only $1.9 billion on construction for the games.
"The investment necessary to bring off Madrid's bid is much less than the other bids," Rajoy said. "Spain has already presented two bids. As a result of this process, almost everything needed for the 2020 Olympics is already built, is already up and ready to go."
Rajoy cited studies by the International Monetary Fund and other groups showing that Spain's economy is on the road to recovery.
"The Spanish economy is going through difficult times as is the rest of the European Union, but right now it's 2013," the prime minister said. "Next year the Spanish economy and the Spanish employment situation will definitely improve. ... In 2015, we're looking to be back on track for normal growth.
"There's only two months to go. I think the doubts about the economy, they really don't exist anymore because they're being cleared up by the data we're receiving."
Rajoy said he told Rogge the bid has the backing of all political parties and trade unions in Spain. He cited the IOC's own survey showing 81 percent public support for the bid.
"There's nothing, there's no one in all of Spain who has as much support as the Olympic Games do," Rajoy said. "I'd be happy to have half that number as prime minister."
As the three bid cities opened their exhibition rooms on Thursday to IOC members, showing off videos, maps, charts and other details of their Olympic projects, the talk among members was that Madrid gained the most from Wednesday's presentations.
"The overall perception is that Madrid was the best," Australian IOC member John Coates said. "It was a really powerful performance by the crown prince. He clearly believes in the Olympic ideals. It's not just talk."
While Tokyo was once considered the favorite and Madrid an afterthought, the dynamics may have shifted after Wednesday's performance by the Spaniards.
"It might have got them in the race," Coates said. "I think it's remarkably tight."
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Apparently, the author Mérida Anderson used to do secret pop-up dinners out of her home kitchen in New York City, and the menus and recipes in the book are based on those experiences. Here's what I've tried so far:
I love this bread so, so much. For some reason, mine didn't turn out nearly as dark as hers did in the book, but I don't really care - because it did turn out DELICIOUS, and that's what really matters. The recipe makes 2 "small" loaves. I 1.5'ed it and made 3 loaves, so that I could give one to my parents. My loaves were sliced up and frozen... so that I could have a couple of pieces for breakfast every day. So, so delicious. I just ran out of my freezer stash, and I can't wait to make more for myself!
This dinner was definitely a bit of a project, but in the end, it wasn't actually that much work, or that complicated. The dumplings were easy to make and were baked to perfection. They were very tasty, but also the texture was great. I was really happy to see how firm and not-at-all-crumbly they turned out. Those of you who've experienced crumble-upon-contact dumplings like I have know what I mean.
But the real star of the show was this amazing, thick, luscious and creamy curry sauce. Packed with flavor, velvety texture, and actually pretty darned easy. Instead of the 2 cans of coconut milk the recipe called for, I used 1 can light coconut milk and then some broth, to keep it a bit lighter on calories - and the flavor wasn't lacking for. I will most definitely make this again - the curry sauce comes together super quickly and is really versatile - you could throw just about any veggies or browned tofu in there and have dinner in 30 minutes. We both loved this meal!
This week I made the Pepper Crusted Cashew Cheese Plate with Juniper Tofu & Olive Tapenade
I was really excited to see this recipe in the book, because I have had a jar of juniper berries for about a year now, and had no idea what to do with them. The Juniper Tofu was good and definitely a new flavor profile for me! There was juniper in the marinade, and also some crushed juniper sprinkled on top of the tofu slices.
You can see with your own eyeballs that this was a totally elegant dinner to put together on a weeknight! But actually, it wasn't all that complicated. It helped that I already had some cashew cheese on hand (from Artisan Vegan Cheese), and instead of serving with pickled beets, I copped out and just served with roasted beets. One thing that I really like about this book is that she really encourages you to modify and adapt the recipes as you please. So, I took her up on it!
~ The book has lots of different sections, including: Starters, Soups, Breads & Grains, Mains, Desserts, Brunch, Teas & Sodas, and a VSS Pantry section. The pantry section has all sorts of cool things like Rejuvelac Nut Cheese, Coconut Melting Cheese, Apple Chipotle Lime Chutney, Smoke-infused Olive Oil, Smoke-cured Coconut... and so on. There's a lot of stuff in there that I'm eager to try out!
~ The write-ups for the recipes aren't really that thrilling. They're short and dry, without a ton of personality. So it's not one of those books that you just sit down and read for the stories.
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To grasp a billion stars
There are times — rare, but they happen — when I have a difficult time describing the enormity of something. Something so big, so overwhelming, that words simply cannot suffice.
The basic story is: Using the VISTA telescope in Chile and the UKIRT telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have made an incredibly detailed map of the sky in infrared. This map will help understand our own galaxy, more distant galaxies, quasars, nebulae, and much more.
But what do I mean by "incredibly detailed"?
This is where words get hard. So hang on tight; let me show you instead.
Here's a section of the survey they made, showing the star-forming region G305, an enormous cloud of gas about 12,000 light years away which is busily birthing tens of thousands of stars:
[Click to enstellarnate.]
Pretty, isn't it? There are about 10,000 stars in this image, and you can see the gas and dust that's forming new stars even as you look.
But it's the scale of this image that's so amazing. It's only a tiny, tiny part of this new survey. How tiny? Well, it came from this image (the area of the first image is outlined in the white square):
Again, click to embiggen — it'll blow your socks off. But we're not done! That image is a subsection of this one:
… which itself is a subsection of this image:
Sure, I'll admit that last one doesn't look like much, squished down into a width of a few hundred pixels here for the blog. So go ahead, click on it. I dare you. If you do, you'll get a roughly 20,000 x 2000 pixel picture of the sky, a mosaic made from thousands of individual images… and even that is grossly reduced from the original survey.
How big is the raw data from the survey? Why, it only has 150 billion pixels aiieeee aiieeeeee AIIEEEEE!!!
And this would be where I find myself lacking in adjectives. Titanic? Massive? Ginormous? These all fail utterly when trying to describe a one hundred fifty thousand megapixel picture of the sky.
And again, why worry over words when I can show you? The astronomers involved helpfully made the original data — all 150 billion pixels of it — into a pan-and-zoomable image where you can zoom in, and in, and in. It's hypnotizing, like watching "Inception", but made of stars.
And made of stars it is: there are over a billion stars in the original image! A billion. With a B. It's one of the most comprehensive surveys of the sky ever made, and yet it still only scratches the surface. This survey only covers the part of the sky where the Milky Way galaxy itself is thickest — in the bottom image above you can see the edge-on disk of our galaxy plainly stretching across the entire shot — and that's only a fraction of the entire sky.
Think on this: there are a billion stars in that image alone, but that's less than 1% of the total number of stars in our galaxy! As deep and broad as this amazing picture is, it's a tiny slice of our local Universe.
And once again, we've reached the point where I'm out of words. Our puny brains, evolved to count the number of our fingers and toes, to grasp only what's within reach, to picture only what we can immediately see — balk at these images.
But… we took them. Human beings looked up and wondered, looked around and observed, looked out and discovered. In our quest to seek ever more knowledge, we built the tools needed to make these pictures: the telescopes, the detectors, the computers. And all along, the power behind that magnificent work was our squishy pink brains.
A billion stars in one shot, thanks to a fleshy mass of collected neurons weighing a kilogram or so. The Universe is amazing, but so are we.
Images credit: Mike Read (WFAU), UKIDSS/GPS and VVV
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hmmmmm …… space is BIG
Funny – your post came along just as this came on the radio.
Dig it baby – space is big. And groovy.
My God, it's full of stars!
seems like there isn't enough space for all those stars
Gonna count the stars … brb
Douglas Adams had it right in HHGTTG when he wrote:
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's [drugstore/pharmacy], but that's just peanuts to space.
Well I have a new source image to build a new desktop image for my PC 😀
"The solar system is off center and consequently man is too." ~ Howard Shapley
"Iz fulla starz…!"
Someone should write a program that would randomly splice off desktop-sized chunks of the main image. This way, every time you loaded your PC, you could have a completely different starry background. (I'm thinking that working with a 20,000 x 2,000 pixel image like this would take some processing power though.)
Whenever one of these giant images is released, I like to envision printing them out on a poster. This poster would be one foot tall, but over 11 feet long! (That's at 150 pixels per inch.)
Absolutely mind-boggling! I have a question: "you can see the edge-on disk of our galaxy plainly stretching across the entire shot — and that's only a fraction of the entire sky" – what size fraction is that (roughly)?
There goes the rest of my day. Playing with that pan and zoom image could take me all the way through to the weekend!
…and this was created in how many days? ….
Hi Phil thanks for posting this. It puts a tiny dent in the difficulty of grasping the enormity of space. That this is just but one galaxy in a uinverse of billions increases the wonder factor to the power of ∞
So beautiful visiually and intellectually. Not enough superlatives to encompass it.
Would be great, and perhaps this is something being worked on, if the catalogued stars were indexed so that a mouseover indicates what they are etc. or if you could do a search for a specific star, Rigel, for example.
Thank you for lifting me out of the "antiproductivity pod" bureaucratic wasteland I work in this morning.
Alright, call me hyper hard to please… *yawn*…. I'd be more impressed if this had been a STEREO image, say with a second shot from somewhere around Beta-Zed. This one has no depth, kinda like the Republican candidates (another *yawn*).
Notice the black bars covering a lot of the areas up?
Those are where the extra-terrestrial civilizations are. The government just doesn't want us to know about them. But I know. Oh I know.
How do you know that "new" stars are coming to be out of the clouds of gas around them? Can you point out a set of videos or time lapse photos or whatever that show that that is what is happening ? I have never actually seen the birth of any star, only heard tell of it from the likes of you. How do you know that the stars aren't being swallowed up by the surrounding gas. Its all very hypothetical and just wishing it were the way you say it are doesn't make it so.
The big question, though, is what is in those blacked-out sections. What are the "scientists" not telling us???
It's a conspiracy, I tell you, they are hiding clear-cut EVIDENCE of Nibiru, and the rest of the 2012 prophecies!!!1!!
Brain melty awesomeness.
This is another photo that should be uploaded as a torrent so we can all download it. Though, I would probably just look at it for days and get nothing done.
Oh, crud! I just found the Vogon construction fleet in the large image and they're massively blue shifted.
Reidh (13) said:
How do you know that "new" stars are coming to be out of the clouds of gas around them? Can you point out a set of videos or time lapse photos or whatever that show that that is what is happening ? I have never actually seen the birth of any star, only heard tell of it from the likes of you. How do you know that the stars aren't being swallowed up by the surrounding gas. Its all very hypothetical and just wishing it were the way you say it are doesn't make it so.
Time lapse would need unfeasibly long timescales (say, thousands of years between snapshots) to view the process in a human time frame.
But this does not mean that astronomers don't know a newly-formed star when they see it. The disposition of dust and gas, that indicate extreme stellar winds, the absence of fluorescing gas such as is thrown off by a red giant near the end of its life, the spectral signatures of the various components of those systems – all of these things indicate clearly whether a star is young, middle-aged or old.
This understanding has been assembled over the course of a couple of centuries or so, and I'm sure there are plenty of popular-science books that describe the development of the field of astronomy if you care to take a look.
Fascinating! But one stupid question: I don´t see any galaxies in the image. Why?
I feel this is obligatory:
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
This picture of space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is…
You can tell stars are coming out of the gas clouds instead of being swallowed by them quite easily by analyzing the spectrum shift of the light produced by both the star and the surrounding clouds to determine which is moving in what direction, furthermore the magnitude and intensity of the light will tell you the makeup of each and at what state the stars are in their lifecycle.
None of it is hypothetical this is all very real and testable.
Thanks for your skepticism, without it, we can't test our knowledge!
When looking closely at the image I notice that many stars have a small dark or black dot in the middle. Why is this? I suspect it's some form of artifact from the survey. If so, why do such artifacts appear?
Congratulations to VISTA & UKIRT for the amazing data! Though I would like to point out that SDSS-III released over a trillion pixels in January of 2011, so they still have a way to go.
I've been describing this image as a tiny, miniscule sample of what it would be like to be put into The Total Perspective Vortex, the torture device that Douglas Adams wrote about.
**When you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little mark, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says, "You are here."**
It destroys your brain because, as he eloquently said, "In an infinite universe, the one thing sentient life cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."
There's a big green spot with a black dot in the middle of it kind of in the centre of the image and down a bit. Is that a black hole?
150 Billion pixels. Figure 4 bytes per pixel to capture all the color information so you have 600 Billion bytes or 6×10^11 bytes of data. Those bytes weren't captured all in one day but are a survey's compilation.
Now think. The square kilometer radio array that's proposed for South Africa will capture 10^18 bytes, every day. That's 10 million times more information every single day the array operates. They're hoping that by the time the array is up and running, computers have advanced enough just to handle the load. They don't think storage technology will advance quickly enough so they're planning on throwing away 1000 bytes for every one they keep.
Are the large stars with black dots inside them signs of transiting planets?!?!?! There's so many of them like that!
I tried clicking on the pan and zoom and I think we've taken the server down.
Now I know what to show (besides a galaxy) when I want to show the concept of a billion.
Now that is a really cool picture. Its amazing how large the universe is. And we haven't even scratched the surface.
"Embiggens? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield."
"I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word."
"And this would be where I find myself lacking in adjectives. Titanic? Massive? Ginormous?"
But Phil, surely the adjective you are groping for here is "astronomical," n'est-ce pas?
@Jebediah Kerman:
You don't see any galaxies in the picture, because the picture is just a small portion of our own galaxy.
And there are a lot of comments here. Many, many, many comments.
As the saying goes, "A picture is worth a thousand words". Or in this case, over a Billion!!!
No worries Phil, that should cover it!
Or, just for fun, what about 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' ?!?! I had to look up the meaning before suggesting it, and I think it actually… kinda… applies.
Thanks, Phil!
Just in time for our "Website of the month" feature for toninght's CAS meeting at McCormick Observatory! If any of you BAblogees are in Charlottesville, come on up! Chris Irwin will be talking about supernovae!
The original source is 150 billion pixels. The complete image Phil links to is 20,000 x 2,000. This means a ratio of 10 to 1. If the original height is x, then the width of the original source would be 10x. Or:
x * 10x = 150,000,000,000
This means source image would be about 122,474 pixels tall and about 1,224,745 pixels tall. If you were to print this at 150 dpi, you'd get a poster 68 feet tall and 680 feet long.
For comparison, a football field is 160 feet wide and 360 feet long (including end zones). This poster would cover 80% of the football field's square footage. (If my math is right here.)
Fantastic, I want to print it out and hang it on the side of a building. 😀
What are the black dots at the center of white stars? Are those mechanical things in the telescope that limit the direct light output from those objects so as to avoid obscuring nearby objects?
How did the universe get sooooo big!?!
It's surprising to see how dirty it is. Lots of dust! That's even more interesting than the stars. Probably will create more than 150 billion stars.
A pink squishy brain with firing neurons… and a soul and intelligence. (Hey, did an inkshop explode somewhere and create a dictionary?)
These images are quite impressive. Space truly is mindblowingly big.
I see all the black squares and immediately think there's something there we aren't supposed to know about.
"My god…it's full of…" oh never mind.
Now think of this… the US national debt is almost 15, yes 15 Trillion dollars. Let that sink in…
Clicking and loading that 20,000x2000pixel image felt like loading porn back in 1998. So few lines per second. Such a great payoff ^^;
Hardest "Where is Wally" yet.
We are amazing? Yes we are legends in our own minds. Yes we can do this and yet cant even get back to the moon which is only 250000 miles away. Pathetic really.
Too bad it doesn't have a co-ordinate system. Then, Phil, when you showed us something outside our solar system but inside our galaxy, you could tell us where to go see it in a larger context.
As Chris A. said, indeed the adjective "astronomical" exists for this very subject!
"All these worlds are yours, except Europa…"
OK OK, you can have Europa!
#44, "Dunno":
The black dots are an artifact of the image processing software. You have my permission to ignore them henceforth.
@rajesh Yes shure. But at the edges of the image one should see at least a few galaxies shining through. Nevermind.
"The Universe is amazing, but so are we." This line is just begging to be quoted on my BAUT sig.
@ Jebediah Kerman (61) –
Exposure time.
Distant galaxies are faint. Stars that are (relatively) nearby are significantly brighter. If the images had been exposed to show galaxies, we'd see galaxies, but the area around each nearby star would be burnt out in the image from the light overload.
Note that deep-field images are only taken of sections of sky that don't have any nearby stars in them.
As well as the surveys of the Galactic Plane which were shown in the image, both VISTA and UKIRT have been doing several other surveys. There are several extragalactic surveys in each case: one wide (in the case of VISTA, the whole hemisphere) and then deeper narrower ones in a wedding cake arrangement. VISTA is also doing a survey of the Magellanic Clouds and UKIRT one of Galactic Clusters like the Pleiades.
Along with the billion star image we are releasing a lot of the first year of VISTA data to the public through the VISTA Science Archive http://surveys.roe.ac.uk/vsa. The black rectangles are where data hasn't been taken yet or the data wasn't good enough quality in one of the filters used in the colour image.
Since the image is of the Galactic Plane and Bulge, most distant galaxies are lost in the dust or stars of our own galaxy, but there are one or two that can be found in the image.
#17 reidh:
As per the subject of this post, there are a huge number of stars in the Galaxy. It's also very old, and stars of different masses have different lifetimes. There are also several generations of stars; many of the oldest have long since died, and newer ones have formed since.
Put all these facts together, and we can see stars at every possible stage of their life cycles. While we obviously can't actually observe any individual star going through its life, we can observe a great many stars at all the different stages of their lifecycles, and therefore deduce the sequence of events.
So you come to an astronomy blog, and try to ridicule some of the most fundamental concepts on which astronomy and astrophysics are founded. But then, you do that for every other branch of science as well, don't you? Why exactly do you bother coming here???
"There are times — rare, but they happen — when I have a difficult time describing the enormity of something. Something so big, so overwhelming, that words simply cannot suffice."
The word you're looking for, Phil, is "enormousness"; "enormity" means of outrageous or heinous character or atrociousness. It's a common mistake because the words sound similar, but they have entirely different meanings.
Interactive map of the image above.
Edit:Forget it 😛 Didn't see the link in your post, sorry 😉
Insignificant … that's how I'm feeling right now … speechless … awestruck. Thank you for putting things in perspective for me today!
…And yet bronze-age raticals still think we're the center of the univere that was created just for us and we're the only intelegent life forms.
Can you spell STUPID?!?
what are the black patches, i see things like this and it makes me paranoid there are things close that we arn't authorised to lay eyes on…
Wow a page of comments that doesn't blame something on that Marxist Obama.
WOOHOO, less than a month behind!
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