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UVA, Warren Du Preez and Hamish Morrow
Beauty Of Technology
Sep 23 2003
Live imagery projected onto models to create 'virtual' clothing and prints at Hamish Morrow's Spring/Summer 2004 collection unveiling.
Jane Audas, Elisabeth Arkhipoff, Eley Kishimoto and Adam Mufti
Screen Prints
Sep 22 2003
SHOWstudio collaborated with Eley Kishimoto on a series of screen-based works that marked 10 years of their cult patterns and which were broadcast acro...
Plinth, Penny Martin and Laura Sciacovelli
End Of Summer
Sep 11 2003
Summer dresses provided the inspiration for these sensual motion portraits with atmospheric soundtracks from experimental bands Plinth, Colleen and The...
Nick Knight, Simon Costin and Sharon Dowsett
Articles Of Faith
Sep 4 2003
A controversial partnership: religion and iconography. Costin and Dowsett asked who and what people turned to in their darkest hour and how that faith ...
Jamie Morgan
People, Not Clothes
Aug 22 2003
The seminal idiom of Morgan's 80s style photography endures in this diverse showcase of his adventures in motion imagery.
Jane How
Pop Poupée
Aug 4 2003
Taking inspiration from Andy Warhol - the man(nequin) himself even making a cameo as a model - stylist Jane How and photographer Mario Sorrenti recreat...
Erin O'Connor
Picture/message: Erin O'Connor
Jul 30 2003
Revealing the working processes of the models, designers, stylists and fashion creatives behind the scenes at the Autumn/Winter 2003 Paris haute coutur...
Jonathan Gent
Picture/message: Jonathan Gent
Jul 22 2003
Artist Jonathan Gent explored the world through his basilisk eye with the SHOWstudio cameraphone, revealed his fervent observations in arresting pictur...
Alexander McQueen, Nick Knight and Susannah Frankel
Jul 21 2003
To celebrate Alexander McQueen receiving the CBE award in 2003, the visionary designer himself illustrated a selection of showstoppers from his 2003 co...
John Galliano and Jane Audas
Design Download: John Galliano
Jul 11 2003
Our second Design Download pattern, released in June 2003, came from the archives of fashion revolutionary John Galliano - the 'Pirate' jacket that fir...
Bill Doig and Craig McDean
Made In Hollywood
Jul 4 2003
Fasten your holster belt: we're in for a bumpy ride... Craig McDean filmed Amber Valetta in a humble salute to Nudie's Rodeo Tailors.
Toyin, Kim Jones and Andrew Daffy
Jun 11 2003
As Kim Jones' garments slithered across the bare torso of the young male model in Toyin's film short, it became apparent that clothing may not have bee...
Nick Knight, Jonathan Kaye and Akufen
Jun 5 2003
Contextualising the Spring/Summer 2003 haute couture collections as photographed for W magazine, 'SHOOT' proves that couture is far more than just dres...
Alice Hawkins
Picture/message: Alice Hawkins
May 21 2003
The Female Gaze: photographer Alice Hawkins asked her sitters how they would like to be represented to their lovers for her two-week residency, using t...
Mark Lebon
Picture/message: Mark Lebon
Apr 22 2003
Photographer Mark Lebon used his month-long residency to conduct a personal portraiture project, using a picture phone as his camera.
Nick Knight, Olivier Alary, Guy Bourdin, Adam Mufti and Christabel Stewart
Compulsive Viewing: The Films Of Guy Bourdin
Apr 17 2003
'Compulsive Viewing: The Films Of Guy Bourdin' showcases eleven unique fashion films, edited in 2002-2003 from never-before-seen, archival film recorde...
Félix Larher
Claudia's Dream
Apr 15 2003
Filmmaker Larher revealed a Claudia Schiffer you've never seen, who daydreams of flirting with her pals King Kong and The Pink Panther.
Craig Robinson and Tom Zambaz
Flip Flop Flyin' Does Spring/Summer 2003
Apr 1 2003
Craig Robinson, the digital artist behind 'Flip Flop Flyin' ', appropriated his favourites from the Spring/Summer 2003 batch of high-fashion campaigns ...
Viktor & Rolf, Greg Kadel and Penny Martin
Strike Me Pink
Mar 17 2003
Showcasing their most colourful and playful collection yet, Dutch designer duo Viktor & Rolf's Spring/Summer 2003 show provided the setting for Greg Ka...
Nick Knight and Massive Attack
Special Cases
Feb 25 2003
Nick Knight exploded the beauty myth in this exclusive film related to his motion image campaign for Massive Attack's 2003 album '100th Window'
Patrik Söderstam
Feb 19 2003
Swede Sucess: Having joined a substantial number of fashion houses during this particular season, young Swedish designer Söderstam launched his graduat...
Nick Knight, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Björk, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Peter Saville, Tracey Emin, David Bailey, Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans and Travis Scott
In Camera
Feb 12 2003
Launched in 2003, 'In Camera' introduced a completely new premise to the interview format. Allowing a global online audience - as well as the interview...
Nick Knight and Jo-Ann Furniss
Couture: The Luxury Of Not Caring
Jan 24 2003
Witness the splendour of Paris haute couture week from the front row, via images and texts sent by camera phone in 2003
Nick Knight, Simon Periton, Shaun Leane, M/M (Paris), Richard Rhys, Paul Hetherington, Emma Cook, Jane Simpson, Frauke Stegmann and Bump
Spray On Christmas
Dec 20 2002
Download, cut out and use our festive stencils to make your own cards, gift-wrap and decorations.
Greg Kadel and Malgosia Bela
Pale Blue Eyes
Dec 9 2002
Model Malgosia Bela's pale blue eyes provided the motivation for this gentle motion portrait
Nick Knight and Steve Beale
Come As You Are
Dec 6 2002
Celebrate ten years of imagery from the pages of Dazed through your own interactive photo-montage.
Daniel Brown
Exquisite Corpse
Nov 12 2002
Top drawer! Participate in the ultimate 'draw-and-pass-it-on' game alongside a host of leading illustrators and artists.
Nick Knight, Hussein Chalayan and Daniel Brown
Vis A Vis
Oct 8 2002
With his trademark eye for unconventional beauty, pioneering designer Hussein Chalayan shed new light on making up. Nick Knight's dramatic images forme...
Craig McDean
Sep 23 2002
Model, jewellery designer and musician Jo Reynolds takes to the spotlight in Craig McDean's atmospheric performance film. Watch as Reynolds gives Nick ...
Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen, Liberty Ross, Sam McKnight, Michelle Duguid, Bobby Gillespie, Erin O'Connor, Katy England, Shaun Cole and Tom Zambaz
Sep 19 2002
In July 2002 Nick Knight extended an invitation to friends and colleagues including Alexander McQueen, Erin O'Connor, Juergen Teller, Katy England and ...
Jason Evans
Correspondent: Jason Evans
Jul 15 2002
Jason Evans recorded his unique photographic perspective on the world in words and pictures during a yearlong correspondent residency.
Simon Foxton and Alasdair McLellan
Jun 21 2002
For your pleasure. Fashioned from calling cards, nine working boys gave us their denim look. Who will you pick? Alasdair McLellan provided the photos, ...
Nick Knight
More Beautiful Women
Jun 13 2002
An homage to Andy Warhol's screen tests, 'More Beautiful Women' evolved from Nick Knight's commission to photograph the most famous models of the twent...
Yohji Yamamoto
Design Download: Yohji Yamamoto
May 30 2002
To launch Design Download - a series demystifying the fashion process by offering prestigious designer garment patterns for download - internationally ...
Nick Knight and Linda Evangelista
May 20 2002
Linda Evangelista stars in Nick Knight's fashion film 'Eclipse', playing accordion and reinventing herself as a sultry chanteuse in chiarascuro light....
Susan Bright and Camille Vivier
Apr 17 2002
Love's flame burns eternal as the lifespan of the romance represented outlasts the Santeria candle pictured in Camille Vivier's short film.
Félix Larher and Penny Martin
Barbie Killer In Playland
Apr 10 2002
Did the bright, young things ever make it through Playland? Barbie Killer's celebrity cull took its toll in Félix Larher's heroic fantasy.
Peter Saville, Julie Verhoeven, Helen Clifford, Penny Martin and Tom Zambaz
Apr 3 2002
Inspired by innocent Toile de Jouy - but offset with Japanese rope suspension bondage - Peter Saville and Julie Verhoeven collaborated to create intric...
Karen Elson and Craig McDean
Devil's Plaything
Mar 7 2002
Watch supermodel Karen Elson and former Smashing Pumpkins and Hole bassist, Melissa Auf der Maur, performing SHOWstudio's new 'singing cover' in Craig ...
Nick Knight and John Galliano
Past, Present & Couture
Mar 2 2002
John Galliano's first five years at Christian Dior were marked by a series of Nick Knight-shot images interpreting Galliano's groundbreaking haute cout...
Nick Knight and Val Garland
Make It Up
Feb 22 2002
Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon met Hans Bellmer's Poupèes: twelve blonde models were made up in a vivacious, painterly fashion performance. Make-up artist ...
John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Sophia Kokosalaki, Shelley Fox, Jens Laugesen, Joanne Entwistle and Roberta McGrath
Feb 18 2002
SHOWstudio challenged fashion's finest to create the industry's Holy Grail: inspiring womenswear designs for sizes 16 and over. 12 leading designers, i...
Julie Verhoeven
Beat The Clock
Feb 11 2002
Catch a glimpse of the hectic home environment of illustrator Julie Verhoeven as she worked on her exhibition and book, 'Fat-Bottomed Girls'. A unique ...
Nick Knight, Hussein Chalayan, Terry Richardson, Richard Bush, Raf Simons, Jo-Ann Furniss, Tim Walker, Penny Martin, John Taylor, Jane How and David Sims
Jan 23 2002
Focusing on fashion imagery published and withdrawn at the time of the attacks of 9/11, Killed examines the criteria governing propriety in contemporar...
Nick Knight, Simon Foxton and Jonathan Kaye
Dec 13 2001
On 10 and 11 December 2001, nine top models arrived at The Metropolitan Hotel to participate in the first ever global, live fashion shoot. The girls we...
Christabel Stewart
Blue Movie
Nov 21 2001
Were these girls performing in a retro erotic film or posing for a contemporary fashion shoot? Seductive shots replaced narrative in a film that define...
Björk, Alexander McQueen, Nick Knight, Daniel Brown, Charlotte Cotton and Susannah Frankel
Nov 21 2001
Spellbinding sound and image project generated from Nick Knight and Alexander McQueen's installation for La Beauté en Avignon, with an exclusive Björk ...
Nick Knight and Adam Mufti
Nov 6 2001
Jerry Springer, beauty queens, a '57 Cadillac, 'Gummo', Angela Lindvall and lots of spray paint. Put them in a blender and what did you get? This fashi...
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I stumbled upon the Hillcrest Loop remote control deep in the bowels of South Hall, sitting encased in glass in a sparse booth. I asked for a hands-on and was shut down, and they had no info on when this thing will see the light of day. Pretty fishy. What gives, Hillcrest?
Our previous hands-on with this made it seem pretty robust, but their display here just screamed vaporware. Here's hoping that's not the case.
CES 2007 [Gizmodo]

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AFTD needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 125 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
We are a national nonprofit patient advocacy and support organization in need of a new logo before launching a new website and a national awareness and advocacy campaign. Entries will be reviewed by the AFTD Logo Committee at the close of the
contest; a winner will be announced within 7 days!
Association for Frontotemporal Dementias
AFTD is 6 years old; our mission is to provide support and education for families affected with this rare type of dementia, to educate medical professionals about thsi disease, to spread awareness, to fund research and to advocate for our community. FTD is a particularly cruel type of dementia: it occurs in younger people (average age of diagnosis is in ones 50's) and instead of losing memory the patient loses executive functions: language, emotion, and control over their behavior. Because it is rare, FTD is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimers or a psychiatric condition; many of our families have been on a multi-year journey through various misdiagnoses by the time the find us. See http://www.ftd-picks.org for more information on the disease and services we provide.
AFTD is extending our reach across the US and before we launch our new website (currently under construction) and launch a national awareness campaign we need to "brand" ourselves--and a new logo will be the heart of this process.
- Color scheme: red, black and white. Can add an accent color, but be aware that sometimes we will not be able to afford full color printing.
- A warm, welcoming feel
- Professional image, so the academic and business communities take us seriously
- A graphic element that we can carry through the website and our publications
- Incorporate our tagline: "Opening the gateway to help and a cure"
- Useful in full color, two-color or BW options
- Easy to read and comprehend. Our name is rather cumbersome.
- Nothing cutesy. This is a cruel disease.
- Things we don't like about our current logo: no unifying identity; there are a few different components that have been used in a variety of permutations, so when we use the word "logo" no one is quite sure what we mean...
- Nothing too complex.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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The charmingly disarming artist, illustrator, and comic book maker, Butch McLogic, is back with us today for a Part 2 of his appearance on this The Erotic Mind show. Considering all the marvelous feedback I got after last week's show, including heaps of praise from some of his fellow artists, I know that ya'll are as excited about Butch's return as I am.
But wait, you didn't miss Part 1 of this conversation, did you? Well not to worry if ya did, because you can find it and all my podcasts in the Podcast Archive right here on my site. All ya gotta do is use the search function in the header; type in Podcast #361 and PRESTO! But don't forget the #sign when you do your search.
Butch and I discuss:
- Loving Vancouver, BC;
- His ginger fetish;
- Loving his work;
- His imagination and his creations;
- BentCon and Sean-Z;
- Class Comics;
- The erotic in art;
- The play between writing and drawing;
- What he looks for in the erotic art of others;
- Those who inspire him and his sexual heroes;
- Advice for the novice erotic artist.
Butch invites you to visit him on his website HERE! And look for him on Facebook HERE! And Twitter HERE!
Check out The Lick-A-Dee-Split Connection. That's Dr Dick's toll free podcast voicemail HOTLINE. Don't worry people; no one will personally answer the phone. Your message goes directly to voicemail.
Got a question or a comment? Wanna rant or rave? Or maybe you'd just like to talk dirty for a minute or two. Why not get it off your chest! Give Dr Dick a call at (866) 422-5680.
Look for all my podcasts on iTunes. You'll find me in the podcast section, obviously. Just search for Dr Dick Sex Advice. And don't forget to subscribe. I wouldn't want you to miss even one episode.
Today's Podcast is bought to you by: The Perfect Fit Brand!
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It's been a long time since I participated in "Have the Cake" but I'm looking forward to this month as I finally get to tackle Boston Cream Pie. Since summer is almost here I thought it would be a good choice as I often equate summer and Boston Cream Pie together. I am also from New England and figure I should know how to make one. I found a well reviewed recipe on the Food Network website:
Boston Cream Pie on the Food Network
Happy Baking everyone!


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A special lecture, "The VIRUS Spectrograph on HET-The World's Fastest, Most Cost-Effective Tools for Studying Dark Energy and Dark Matter," will be hosted by Texas A&M International University College of Arts and Sciences,' Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences on Tuesday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Recital Hall.
This event, sponsored by Guillermo Benavides Z, is free and open to the public.
Guest speaker Dr. Gary J. Hill, senior research scientist and chief astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory, will explain how the VIRUS spectrograph, at the core of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), will grant the greatest means in the world for studying dark matter and dark energy, while saving money and reducing the engineering risk.
Dr. Hill is featured in the April 2008 issue of Texas Monthly Magazine with a story focused on his theory on solving the mystery of dark energy and occurrence that could disclose the origins of the universe.
Hill studied physics at Oxford University. From there, his interest in astronomy led him to complete his master's and doctorate at the University of Hawaii.
In 1988, he came to Texas as a McDonald Fellow and started working with McDonald telescopes, building instruments that concluded with the Low Resolution Spectrograph for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) that was the first facility instrument to be delivered.
For more information, contact the College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Dean, at 326.2460 or visit offices in the Lamar Bruni Vergara Science Center, room 301.
Journalists who need additional information or help with media requests
and interviews should contact the Office of Public Relations, Marketing and Information
Services at firstname.lastname@example.com
Texas A&M International University
5201 University Boulevard
Laredo, TX 78041
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Media bias
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A segment on the July 12 edition of ABC's "Good Morning America" revealed what most Americans already knew -- the media elite just don't get it.
Coming out of a news report on the creative ways some Americans avoid jury duty, GMA co-host Diane Sawyer told of a time she had been called to fulfill that civic responsibility.
"You know, I wanted to sit on a jury once and I was taken off the jury," she said, according to a transcript on Newsbusters.org. "And the judge said to me, 'Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be fair?' And I said, 'That's what journalists do.' And everybody in the courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I've ever had."
Ms. Sawyer, welcome to the world of reality beyond the insulated and overwhelmingly liberal protective bubble in which you and your liberal media colleagues live and breathe.
Outside the very narrow philosophical and ideological confines of the network newsrooms in New York City and their adjunct studios in Hollywood and Washington, most of the American public believe the electronic media is horrendously biased.
Bernard Goldberg, who for 28 years was a network insider and a longtime CBS News correspondent, has referred to many American newsrooms as "bastions of political correctness."
A recent Rasmussen survey revealed that by a 39 to 20 percent margin, Americans consider the three major networks to be biased in favor of a liberal perspective in their delivery of the news.
Only 25 percent of those questioned said the news programs lacked a bias in production or presentation.
Of the adults surveyed, 33 percent said CNN has a liberal bias and 27 percent said National Public Radio has such a bias.
Only Fox News was viewed as having a conservative bias -- 31 percent saying it favors the conservative viewpoint and 15 percent alleging the network has a liberal bias.
The Rasmussen polling organization found that 37 percent of respondents believed NPR delivered the news without a bias, 36 percent for Fox and 32 percent for CNN.
I have to admit I'm surprised that the percentage of people who think the major network news organizations are biased is not higher.
Yet a unique -- and non-biased -- UCLA study reported in the November 2005 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics sought to quantify where news programs and newspapers fall on the political scale.
According to the study, 18 of the 20 major media outlets studied scored left of center. "The CBS Evening News," The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ranked among the most liberal, with the news pages of The Wall Street Journal only slightly less liberal. The Journal's editorial page is typically right-of-center.
Among the major outlets, only Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and The Washington Times scored to the right of center. The most centrist outlet proved to be PBS' "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer."
Jeffrey Milyo, an associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri who was a co-author of the study, made an interesting observation: "If viewers spent an equal amount of time watching Fox's 'Special Report' as ABC's 'World News' and NBC's 'Nightly News,' then they would receive a nearly perfectly balanced version of the news."
While millions of Americans still watch the "Big Three" (ABC, CBS, NBC), their viewership has declined dramatically. As recently as 15 years ago, over 90 percent of Americans watched the nightly network news. Now, only 60 percent of Americans watch the major networks' nightly newscasts.
Katie Couric isn't alone in facing deflated ratings; the "Big Three" anchors are on a sinking, if not obsolete, ship.
And newspapers, whose circulation rates have been falling for more than a decade, aren't doing any better.
While 35 percent of Americans over 30 read a newspaper every day, only 16 percent of those aged 18-30 read the news daily. Two-thirds of these young adults say they "usually skim through the news sections" as opposed to reading "quite a few stories," according to a landmark study from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Just under half of all teens and young adults said they rarely, if ever, read a newspaper.
The evening news audience is primarily older Americans (57 percent watch each day), while less than a third (31 percent) of young adults and teenagers claim to view national television news each day, the July 2007 study reports.
Non-traditional news sources are increasingly attractive to all Americans but especially to the nation's younger adults as more and more of them want their news on demand.
When it comes to Internet-based news (and that is a broad definition), roughly one in five of all respondents to the Harvard survey say they access the Internet every day for news purposes.
Yet over half of adults over 30 (54 percent) "hardly ever or not at all" use the Internet to get their news. Of the 18-30 year olds, 45 percent rarely visit "Internet-based News" sites.
A 2004 Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey suggested only 23 percent of young people 18 to 29 were receiving news on the presidential elections from the nightly network news, down from 39 percent in the 2000 election.
Yet the survey revealed 21 percent of this demographic considered comedy outlets such as "Saturday Night Live" and "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" as their regular sources for campaign news.
The "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" averages around two million viewers each night.
And another study conducted in the run-up to the 2004 Election Day revealed that Daily Show watchers were on average more aware of the issues being discussed in the campaigns, more liberal than average, and better educated.
No matter where we get our news, we need to recognize the presuppositions of those who produce and deliver the news to us. And we need to understand that no one speaks with complete objectivity. While some may say they divest their opinions from their report, in reality our beliefs and values infiltrate everything we say and do.
God's Spirit allows us to practice discernment so we can embrace what is true and reject what is false. As students of the culture, we need to ask God for His wisdom to recognize the difference. With the Holy Spirit's guidance, we would do well to heed Elihu's advice to Job (34:4): "Let us judge for ourselves what is right; let us decide together what is good."
While there appear to be fewer Americans than ever keeping abreast of the news, I encourage you to stay informed and pay careful attention to how the news is being delivered and who is doing the delivering. In staying informed, so that we can make informed choices, we must heed the Apostle Paul's admonition in Ephesians 5:15-16: "Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk -- not as unwise people but as wise -- making the most of the time, because the days are evil."
Richard Land is president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.


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Design Art
Design Engineering
Audio Production or Engineering
How many schools can boast that its degree programs
encompass all of the specialties a professional studio needs to produce a
game? Cogswell College can!
Imagine earning your bachelor degree in a
fast-paced, project-based, team-oriented learning environment taught by
industry veterans and working professionals.
Make the games you've always dreamed about as you develop the skills you
will need to be successful in your chosen career field.
Game Studio - the ultimate team effort!
Game Studio is the culmination of a series of project-oriented, hands-on game
courses that teach students how to make games using state of the art equipment
and software while working as highly productive development teams. You will face the same pressures and
development issues that professional game developers deal with on a daily
basis. Our excellent placement rates
mean that Cogswell grads work in major game development companies, start-ups
and companies they have founded.
Some Recent Games
Cogswell Alumni Have Worked On Include:
Modern Warfare 3: Call of Duty (2011), Sr. Level Designer, Level Designer,
Animator, Technical Artist
Skylander: Spyro's Adventure (2011), Original Character & Toy Design, Lead Character Artist, Lead
Animator, Animator
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011), Level Designer
Cryptic Studio
NeverWinter (2012), Lead Environment Artist
Star Trek Online (2010), Lead Environment Artist, Environment Artist, Sound Designer, VFX
Artist, QA Tester (2)
Tomb Raider: Underworld (2008), Character Artist, Designer
Electronic Arts
Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2012), Outsourcing Art Director
SimCity Social (2012), Outsourcing Art Director
Dead Space 2 (2011), Cinematics
Craft Director, Technical Artists (2)
The Godfather II (2009), World Designer, Technical Artist, World Designers (4), Animation
Director World Design Lead, Character Technical Directors, Mission Designer
SimCity 3 Pets (2011), Object Modeler
The Sims 3 (2009), Lead
Producer, Art Director
SimAnimals (2009), Environment
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Ultimate Sith Edition)
(2009), Systems Designer, Environment Artist
Lucidity (2009), Original
Concept Artist
Microsoft Game
Gears of War
3 (2011), Sr. Character Artist, Sr. Level
Halo Reach (2010), Animators
Halo Wars (2009), Sequence
Rockstar Games
Red Dead Redemption (2010), Lead Ambient Designer
Sony Computer
All Stars Battle Royal (2012), Sr. Animator/Character Rigger, Sr. Environment Artist, Sr. Animator,
Sound Designer
Telltale Games
The Walking Dead (2012), Animator
Red Faction:
Armageddon (2011), Technical Director,
Additional Art, Motion Capture Stage Supervisor, Pipeline, Motion Capture Operator
Saints Row 2 (2009) by THQ, Animator
Games Created by Cogswell Alumni
Blast Monkey (2009) by Yobonja, Founders & Game
Fieldrunners (2008) by Subatomic Studios,
Founder & Game Creator
About Cogswell
Cogswell gives you the chance to work in a setting that
simulates a professional studio. We
believe this industry-based approach to learning gives you an edge when you
look for that first job. By creating
with others who are passionate about the same things, you will build a body of
high quality work to show potential employers.
But it is your fellow students at Cogswell who will have the
most lasting impact. We believe you will
find them to be dedicated, hard-working, focused individuals who are gifted
with artistic, technological and visionary talent. These are the people who will challenge and
inspire you throughout your life.


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How many logical modelers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, it's a physical problem.
I watched in dismay as the DBAs, developers and query analyts threw queries at the machine like darts. They would formulate the query one way, tune it, reformulate it. Some forms were slightly faster but they needed orders-of-magnitude more power. Nothing seemed to get it off the ground.
Tufts of hair flew over the cubicle walls as seasoned techologists would first yelp softly when their stab-at-improvement didn't work, then yelp loudly as they pulled-out more hair. Yes, they were pulling-their-hair-out trying to solve the problem the wrong way. Of course, some of us got bald the old-fashioned way: general stress.
I took the original query as they had first written it, added two minor suggestions that were irrelevant to the functional answer to the query, and the operation boosted into the stratosphere.
What they saw however, was how I manipulated the query logic, not how I manipulated the physics. I can ask for a show of hands in any room of technologists and get mixed answers on the question "where is the seat of power?". Some will say software, others hardware, others a mix of the two, while those who still adhere to the musings of Theodoric of York, Medieval Data Scientist, would say that there's a small toad or dwarf living in the heart of the machine.
To make it even more abstract, users sit in a chair in physical reality. They live by physical clocks in that same reality, and "speed of thought" analytics is only enabled when we can leverage physics to the point of creating a time-dilation illusion: where only seconds have passed in the analyst's world while many hours have passed in reality. After all, when an analyst is immersed in the flow of a true speed-of-thought experience, they will hit the submit-key as fast as their fingers can touch the keyboard, synthesize answers, rinse and repeat. And do this for many hours seemingly without blinking. If the machine has a hiccup of some kind, or is slow to return, the illusion-bubble is popped and they re-enter the second-per-second reality that the rest of us live in. Perhaps their hair is a little grayer, their eyes a little more dilated, but they will swear that they have unmasked the Will-O-The-Wisp and are about to announce the Next Big Breakthrough. Anticipation is high.
But for those who don't have this speed-of-thought experience, chained to a stodgy commodity-technology, they will never know the true meaning of "wheels-up" in the analytics sense. They will never achieve this time-dilated immersion experience. The clock on the wall marks true real-time for them, and it is maddening.
Notice the allusions to physics rather than logic. We don't doubt that the analyst has the logic down-cold. But logic will not dilate time. Only physics can do that. Emmett Brown mastered it with a flux capacitor. We don't need to actually jump time, but a little dilation never hurt anybody.
The chief factor in query-turnaround within the Netezza machine is the way in which the logical structures have been physically implemented. We can have the same logical structure, same physical content, with wildly different physical implementations. The "distribute on" and "organize on" govern this factor through co-location at two levels: Co-location of multiple tables on a common dataslice and co-location (on a given dataslice) of commonly-keyed records on as few disk pages as possible (zone maps). The table can contain the same logical and physical content, but its implementation on Netezza physics can be radically different based on these two factors.
Take for example the case of a large-scale fund manager with thousands of instruments in his portfolio. As his business grows, he crosses the one-million mark, then two million. His analytics engine creates two million results for each analytics run, with dozens of analytics-runs every day, adding up quickly to billions of records in constant churn. His tables are distributed on his Instrument_ID, because in his world, everything is Instrument-centric. All of the operations for loading, assimilating and integrating data centers upon the Instrument and nothing else. They are organized on portfolio_date, because the portfolio's activity governs his operations.
His business-side counterpart on the other hand, sells products based on the portfolio. The products can serve to increase the portfolio, but many of the products are analytics-results from the portfolio itself. This is a product-centric view of the data. Everything about it requires the fact-table and supporting tables to be distributed on the Product_id plus being organized on the product-centric transaction_date. This aligns the logical content of the tables to the physics of the machine. It also aligns the contents of the tables with the intended query path of the user-base. One of them will enter-and-navigate via the Instrument, where the other will use the Product.
We can predict the product manager's conversation with the DBAs:
PM: "I need a version of the primary fact table in my reporting database."
DB: "You mean a different version of the fact? Like different columns?"
PM: "No, the same columns, same content."
DB: "Then use the one we have. We're not copying a hundred billion rows just so you can keep your own version."
PM: "Well, it's logically the same but the physical implementation is completely different."
DB: "Oh really? You mean that instead of doing an insert-into-select-from, we'll move the data over by carrier pigeon?"
PM: (staring) "No, the new table has a different distribution and organize, so it's a completely different physical table than the original"
DB: "You're just splitting semantic hairs with me. Data is data."
I watched this conversation from a healthy distance for nearly fourteen months before the DBA acquiesced and installed the necessary table. Prior to this, the PM had been required to manufacture summary tables and an assortment of other supporting tables in lieu of the necessary fact-table. The user experience suffered immensely during this interval, many of them openly questioning whether the Netezza acquisition had been a wise choice. But once the new distribution/organize was installed, user-queries that had been running in 30 minutes now ran in 3 seconds. Queries that had taken five minutes were now sub-second. Where before only five users at a time could be hitting the machine, now twenty or more enjoyed a stellar experience.
How does making a copy of the same data make such a difference? Because it's not really a copy. When we think "copy" we think "photocopy", that is "identical". A DBA will rarely imagine that using a different distribution and organize will create a version of the table that is, in physical terms, radically different from its counterpart. They see the table logically, just a reference in the catalog.
The physics of the Netezza machine is unleashed with logical data structures that are configured to leverage the physical power of the machine. Moreover, the physical implementation must be in synergy (and harmony) with how the users intend to consume them with logical queries. In the above case, the Instrument-centric consumer had a great experience because the tables were physically configured in a manner that logically dovetailed with his query-logic intentions. The Product-centric manager however, had a less-than-stellar experience because that same table had not been physically configured to logically dovetail with his query-logic intentions. The DBA had basically misunderstood that the Netezza high-performance experience rests on the synergy between the logical queries and physical data structures.
In short, each of these managers required a purpose-built form of the data. The DBA thinks in terms of general-purpose and reuse. To him, capacity-planning is about preserving disk storage. He would never imagine that sacrificing disk storage (to build the new table) would translate into an increase in the throughput of the machine. So while the DBA is already thinking in physical terms, he believes that users only think in logical terms. Physics has always been the DBA's problem. Who do those "logical" users think they are, coming to the DBA to offer up a lecture on physics?
In this regard, what if the DBA had built-out the new table but the PM's staff had not included the new distribution key in their query? Or did not leverage the optimized zone-maps as determined by the Organize-On? The result would be the same as before: a logical query that is not leveraging the physics of the machine. At this point, adding the distribution key to the query, or adding filter attributes, is not "tuning" but "debugging". Once those are in place, we don't have to "tune" anything else. Or rather, if the data structures are right, no query tuning is necessary. If the data structures are wrong, no query tuning will matter.
And this is why the aforementioned aficionados were losing their hair. They truly believed that the tried-and-true methods for query-tuning in an Oracle/SQLServer machine would be similar in Netezza. Alas - they are not.
What does all of this mean? When a logical query is submitted to the machine, it cannot manufacture power. It can only leverage or activate the power that was pre-configured for its use. This is why "query-tuning" doesn't work so well with Netezza. I once suggested "query tuning in Netezza is like using a steering wheel to make a car go faster." The actual power is under the hood, not in the user's hands. While the user can leverage it the wrong way, the user cannot, through business-logic queries, make the machine boost by orders-of-magnitude.
Where does the developer/user/analyst need to apply their labor? They already know how they want to navigate the data, so they need to work toward a purpose-built physical implementation, using a logical model to describe and enable it. Notice the reversal of roles: the traditional method is to use a logical model to "physicalize" a database. This is because in a commodity platform (and a load-balancing engine) the physics is all horizontal and shared-everything. We can affect the query turnaround time using logical query statements because we can use hints and such to tell the database how to behave on-demand.
We cannot tell Netezza how to "physically" behave on-demand in the same way. We can use logical query statements to leverage the physics as we have pre-configured it, but if the statement uses the tables outside of their pre-configured physics, the user will not experience the same capacity or turnaround no matter how they reconfigure or re-state the query logic.
All of this makes a case for purpose-built data models leading to purpose-built physical models, and the rejection of general-purpose data models in the Netezza machine. After all, it's a purpose-built machine quite unlike its general purpose, commodity counterparts in the marketplace. In those machines (e.g. Oracle, SQLServer) we have to engineer a purpose-built model (such as a star-schema) to overcome the physical limitations of the general-purpose platform. Why then would we move away from the general-purpose machine into a purpose-built machine, and attempt to embrace a general-purpose data model?
Could it be that the average Netezza user believes that the power of the machine gives it a magical ability to enable a general-purpose model in the way that the general-purpose machines could not? Ever see a third-normal-form model being used for reporting in a general-purpose machine? It's so ugly that they run-don't-walk toward engineering a purpose-built model, photocopying data from the general-purpose contents into the purpose-built form. No, the power of the Netezza machine doesn't give it magical abilities to overcome this problem. A third-normal form model doesn't work better in Netezza than a purpose-built model.
Enter the new solution aficionado who wants their solution to run as fast as the existing solution. They will be told, almost in reflex by the DBA that they have to make their solution work with the existing structures, even though they don't leverage physics in the way the new solution will need it. And this is the time to make a case for another purpose-built model. One that faces the new user-base with tables that are physically optimized to support that user base. Will all tables have to come over? Of course not. Will all of the data of the existing fact table(s) have to come over? Usually not, which is silver lining of the approach.
But think about this: The tables in Netezza are 4x compressed already. If we make another physical copy of the table, itself being 4x compressed, the data is still (on aggregate) 2x compressed across the two tables. That is, the data is doubled at 4x compression, so it only uses the same amount of space as the original table would have if it were only 2x compressed. In this perspective, it's still ahead of the storage -capacity curve. And in having their physics face the user base, we preserve machine capacity as well.
This is perhaps the one most-misunderstood tradeoff of requiring multiple user bases to use the same tables even though their physical form only supports one of the user-bases. And that is simply this: When we kick off queries that don't leverage the physics, we scan more data on the dataslices and we broadcast more data between the CPUs. This effectively drags the queries down and saturates the machine. The query drag might be something only experienced by the one-off user base, but left to itself the machine capacity saturation will affect all users including the ones using the primary distribution. Everyone suffers, and all for the preservation of some disk space. Trust me, if there is a question between happy and productive users versus burning some extra disk space, it's not a hard decision. Preserving disk storage in the heat of unhappy users is a bad tradeoff.
Or to make an absurd analogy, let's say we show up for work on day one, have a great day of onboarding and when we leave, we notice that our car is a little "whiney". Taking it to a shop, he tells us that someone has locked the car in first-gear and he can't fix it. We casually make this complaint the next day (it took us a little longer to get to work).
DBA: Oh sure, all new folks have their car put in first gear. It's a requirement.
US: (stunned) What the?
DBA: Well, if you had been here first, you could keep all the gears, but everyone we've added since then has to be in first gear for everything.
US: Everything?
DBA: Yes, first-gear for your car, your development machine, even your career ladder. About the only thing that they don't put in first-gear are your work hours. Those are unlimited.
US: That's outrageous!
DBA: We can't give everyone all the gears they want. It's just not scalable.
The problem with working with tables that aren't physically configured as-we-intend-to-use-them is that using them will cause the machine to work much harder than it has to. Not only will our queries be slower, we can't run as many of them. And while we're running, those folks with high-gear solutions in the same machine will start to look like first-gear stuff too. The inefficiency of our work will steal energy from everyone. We cannot pretend that the machine has unlimited capacity. If our solution eats up a big portion of the capacity then there's less capacity for everyone else. Even if we use workload management, whatever we throttle the poorly-leveraged solution into will only make it worse, because if a first-gear solution needs anything, it most certainly uses more capacity than it would normally require.
Energy-loss is the real cost of a poor physical implementation. All solutions start out with a certain capacity limit (same number of CPUs, memory, disk storage) and it is important that we balance these factors to give the users the best possible experience. Throttling CPUs or disk space, or refusing to give up disk space merely to preserve disk capacity, only forestalls the inevitable. The solution's structures must be aligned with machine physics and the queries must be configured to leverage that physics.
The depiction(above) describes how the modeler's world (a logical world) in no wise intersects with the physical world, yet the physical world is what will drive the user's performance experience. The high-intensity physics of Netezza is not just something we "get for free", it is a resource we need to deliberately leverage and fiercely protect.
In the above, the "Logical data structure" is applied to the machine catalog (using query logic to create it). But once created, it doesn't have any content, so we will use more logic to push data into the physical data structure. The true test of this pairing is when we attempt to apply a logical query (top) and it uses the data structure logic/physics to access the machine physics (bottom). Can we now see why a logical query, all on its own, cannot manufacture or manipulate power? It is the physical data structure working in synergy with the logical query that unleashes Netezza's power. And this is why some discussions with modelers may require deeper communication about the necessity to leverage the deep-metal physics while we honor and protect the machine's power.


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Friday, June 16, 2006
"I really liked him."
Those were Vic Dowd's concluding words about his long-lost friend, illustrator Jack Hearne, when Dowd was being interviewed for issue #55 of Alter Ego magazine by Jim Amash.
I didn't realize it at the time, but I had really liked Jack Hearne's art as a 10-year old kid back in 1974. It was only after I started researching the illustrator on-line that I discovered Hearne had taken over the art chores on what was then my favourite book series, Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators, with volume 18, "The Mystery of the Shrinking House".
Hearne was the third artist to do cover and interior art for the series, following Ed Vebell and Harry Kane .
I had been devouring the series from the first volume and at that age was completely unaware that the art chores had changed hands - infact, I was completely oblivious to the concept that someone had the job of illustrating (or writing, for that matter), the books just "were" - and I just loved 'em!
Its nice to know that one of the first "real" illustrators I was ever exposed to and who's work I admired was also someone Vic Dowd describes as "a very good illustrator" and "a very nice guy."
*All of this week's images can be seen at full size in my Jack Hearne Flickr set.
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- Anonymous3:55 PM
Geez... I've got a couple of those 3 Investigators books (or at least, I did the last time I checked) - I'll have to take a look and see who illustrated them.ReplyDelete
I'm sure my editions are later than whay you showed today - my covers definately have a more... late 70s/early 80s feel to them.
Bill Angus
I was quite surprised to find there are websites devoted to this series, Bill. I thought I was the only kid who read them!ReplyDelete
I used to love this stuff. had completely forgotten about them. Thanks for the reminderReplyDelete
I loved those books so much!ReplyDelete
Thank you all for the kind words regarding my father's illustrations. Sadly, Jack passed away in 1985, but I know he would appreciate that his work brought some youngsters joy. If anyone can provide info on where to secure copies of Three Investigators series books that my father illustrated, please pass it on as they are hard to come by.ReplyDelete
John Hearne
Thanks very much for commenting - I'm sorry to hear your dad is no longer with us.
I'd love to learn more about Jack Hearne so I can write about his career in greater detail. If you are willing, I can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Incidentally, I found 50 pages of Three Investigators books for sale (used) at biblio.com
Hope to hear back from you!
Sincerely, Leif Peng
I sent you an email, so post again if you did not receive. Thank you again.
- Kirk G6:49 PM
Wow, a kid's series that I knew nothing about. I read all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books from the 1960s, but as I grew, they were given away. Is there a website or a complete list of all the volumes in this series, "Alfred Hitchcock and the 3 Investigators"? Where can I find it, and is the entire list good... or just a few good entries?ReplyDelete
go to http://3investigators.homestead.com/files/stories.htm
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Nashville, Tenn. - The Tennessee State men's basketball team looks to get back to its winning ways on Thursday when the squad travels to Eastern Kentucky for an OVC East Divisional matchup.
Big Blue is coming off of its first loss since Dec. 18, as the team fell, 78-66, to Belmont on Saturday night at the Curb Event Center.
Kellen Thornton notched his fourth double-double of the season and his second in TSU's last three games with 16 points and 11 boards.
Thornton has scored in double figures in nine of the Tigers' past 10 contests, and has more rebounds (74) than any other OVC player during conference games.
Junior Patrick Miller was just two points shy of TSU's first triple double in at least ten years, as the guard from Chicago tallied career highs in rebounds (10) and assists (12).
Miller currently leads the OVC in assists per game with 5.5 and his 1.7 steal per game average ranks him second. The guard is also second in the conference in minutes played this season with 691.
The Tigers racked up nine blocks against the Bruins which is the most for TSU since Jan. 29, 2008 when the team defeated Jacksonville State, 88-77. TSU's 4.5 rejections per contest trail only Austin Peay (5.3) on the conference's leader board.
The defeat at the hands of Belmont dropped the Tigers from first place in the OVC East Division to second with a 6-1 conference record. TSU will need to defeat Eastern Kentucky if it wants to stay in second place as the Colonels enter Thursday's contest with a 5-1 league mark.
This season, EKU has been led by Mike DiNunno and Glenn Cosey who average 15.5 and 15 points per game, respectively. The numbers place the duo inside the top 10 on the conference points per game leaders.
The squad has also gotten solid production from sophomore guard Corey Walden who is coming off of a 28-point and four assist performance against Jacksonville State on Saturday. Walden's solid outing earned him OVC Newcomer of the Week.
The trio of DiNunno, Cosey and Walden has also helped the Colonels to a 10-0 home mark this year, as well as a conference-leading +5.6 turnover margin.
TSU is 23-26 all-time against EKU and the sides split last season's games. The Tigers got the better of the Colonels last time they played, besting them, 91-85, in double overtime on Jan. 28.
Tennessee State's contest against Eastern Kentucky will be the team's first road game since Jan. 5. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Jan. 24 and the matchup will be broadcasted on the OVC Digital Network.
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With the Light as his strength, https://www.mmogah.combloggers/gregg-reece/">Gregg Reece of https://www.mmogah.comcategory/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it/">The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge and helps with the puppet shows at the Argent Ren Faire up in Icecrown.
Since paladins are last on the list for the upcoming https://www.mmogah.com2010/04/06/cataclysm-class-previews-coming-soon/">Cataclysm class previews due to how Blizzard ended up doing the development schedule, we've got another week and a half to wait for our details. I'm not picky as long as it gets done, so there's no reason to really grumble other than having to wait an extra week. However, I thought I'd go over some of the things we do know about https://www.mmogah.comcataclysm/">Cataclysm for tanking.
Blizzard has mentioned that they're going to rethink tanking cooldowns and has previously https://www.mmogah.com2010/03/19/cataclysm-tanking-cooldown-feedback-wanted/">asked for feedback on some of the abilities we currently have -- but to what end, we're unsure at this time. What they have told us about thus far is how some of the avoidance stats will be working in the coming expansion. Essentially, the only avoidance stat that isn't changing is dodge, with the others either being overhauled or removed. Let's take a look.
Reaching uncrittable in Cataclysm
First off, your http://www.wowwiki.com/Defense_Rating">defense rating stat is https://www.mmogah.com2010/03/01/cataclysm-stat-and-system-changes-revealed/">going away completely. That means the annoyance of trying to balance gear, gems and enchants to reach that magical 6% critical strike reduction (currently, 690 defense rating) also goes away.
While things aren't completely finalized, Blizzard has said that they will likely just make it so that having http://www.wowhead.com/spell=25780">Righteous Fury up will automatically make you ready for tanking both dungeons and raids, as far as crits are concerned. Each of the other tanking classes will have a similar, simple mechanic for this. Druids will have it baked into http://www.wowhead.com/spell=9634">Dire Bear Form instead of the current talent http://www.wowhead.com/spell=33856">Survival of the Fittest, warriors will likely have it tacked onto http://www.wowhead.com/spell=71">Defensive Stance, and death knights will add it into http://www.wowhead.com/spell=48263">Frost Presence.
Higher health, lower damage, more hits
As far as stat scaling goes for the coming expansion, Ghostcrawler has been letting everyone know that health pools should be a bit higher than expected. That's nice, because bosses are going to hit for less but hit more often, much like some of the bosses in Icecrown Citadel. Oh, and your avoidance stats will be in the toilet compared to what they currently are, to avoid what happened in both http://www.wowhead.com/spell=45769">Sunwell and http://www.wowhead.com/spell=69127">Icecrown Citadel.
You'll be doing fewer dodges, parries and blocks than you currently are, as Blizzard has more or less stated that tanking avoidance stats have probably started out too high for the past two expansions. So instead of staying http://www.wowwiki.com/Block_cap">block-capped most of the time, you'll be sitting at a lot less than 102.4% avoidance for most of the expansion. How much less? We're still not sure, as Blizzard has only been hinting at the details of that.
All in all, you'll probably spend more time around 50% health while tanking than you currently are, due to healing's also being reduced drastically. However, you'll be in much less danger of being instantly killed while in that scenario, due to the less-potent boss damage. All in all, it should make things a little more interesting and less of a twitch-gaming scenario.
Your shield side
First, let's take a look at our bread-and-butter avoidance stat: block. Currently, you've got http://www.wowwiki.com/Block_Rating">block rating, which helps you to block more often, and you've got http://www.wowwiki.com/Block_value">block value, which increases how much damage you can block from each hit. When trying to quickly glance through gear, it can be confusing unless you've trained your eyes to look for value versus rating. In Cataclysm, they're reducing this issue by flat https://www.mmogah.com2010/03/01/cataclysm-stat-and-system-changes-revealed/">removing block value.
"Why would Blizzard remove a way to increase how much damage we block?" you may be asking yourselves. Answer: Because block value kind of sucked in the long run and often needed fiddling with. Sure, it allowed you to virtually ignore the hits that legions of lower-level mobs dished out, but in higher-end content, it didn't scale well. All in all, it was a pretty broken mechanic in which it was either superb for things it didn't matter against or subpar on things you really needed it for.
Instead of a flat value, they're moving the damage blocked to a percentage, and it will be that percentage no matter how big or small the hit is. This allows you to scale your mitigated damage regardless of what type of content you're dealing with. The method by which you'll be raising that percentage of damaged blocked is through a new gear stat called http://www.wowwiki.com/Mastery">mastery.
Mastery is a generic stat for all classes and specs that makes them better at what they want to be better at. The example above, given at https://www.mmogah.comblizzcon/#2009">BlizzCon 2009, shows that for paladins, mastery would give you more critical heals if you are holy, faster spell cooldowns if you are retribution, and a higher block percentage if you are protection. Of course, this might all change when they release https://www.mmogah.com2010/04/06/cataclysm-class-previews-coming-soon/">details next Friday.
Your sword side
Along with the changes to block, we're also going to be seeing https://www.mmogah.com2010/03/01/cataclysm-stat-and-system-changes-revealed/">changes to parry. This will mostly affect death knights, as they http://www.wowhead.com/spell=49410">rely much more on parry than we do. Instead of parry allowing you to avoid 100% of the damage from the hit, you instead stop 50% of the damage from that hit as well as 50% damage from the next hit. We still don't know what this will mean if you stack multiple parries in a row.
Some of you will probably have the same reaction as we did here at https://www.mmogah.com">mmogah.com and say, "How can you parry half of someone's sword?" To answer that, I'll just ask you how do you shoot holy fire from your fingertips to exorcise undead and demons? It's a game, and while they do try to make the game mechanics make sense logically, sometimes they've got to make changes to those game mechanics in order for things to work a bit better.
However, with parry reducing two hits by half, you will on average be avoiding one hit's worth of damage per parry. This also makes it easier on healers so that your incoming damage will be more steady, instead of spiking from those times where you're not dodging and parrying.
Overall, the game will be radically changing in some ways when https://www.mmogah.comcataclysm/">Cataclysm hits, but hopefully, that's just to prepare it for another five years of active gaming.
https://www.mmogah.comcategory/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it/">The Light and How to Swing It tries to help paladins cope with the dark times coming in https://www.mmogah.comcataclysm/">Cataclysm. See the upcoming https://www.mmogah.com2009/09/02/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-cataclysmadin/">paladin changes the expansion will bring. Wrath is coming to a close, and the final showdown with the Lich King is here. Are you ready for the assault on https://www.mmogah.com2009/10/06/patch-3-3-icecrown-raid-preview/">Icecrown Citadel?
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It takes 3, maybe 4 years, for cleats to fuse into the Sidi cleat receptacle plates. When that happens, no matter how careful you are, you'll strip the threads of the screw heads. The infographic explains what happens, which is a matter for material scientists to solve, while shop mechanics provide the fix.
These grainy photos were shot in a garage and are of a process that's not pretty and seldom seen. Mark V was in a good mood, so he let the iPhone camera near him while performing the extraction
Note: seeing a frame get straightened or a seized post removed from a seat tube is even uglier.
The process is simple:
- Dremel a slot in the cleat/screw
- Use a large screwdriver to unscrew it
- Clean, lube the plate, and replace the cleats with new ones
Dremel cuts a slot
Medieval methods
A few seasons of Cross and the cleat on the right shoe required additional, medieval methods. The huge crescent wrench attached to the screwdriver gave Mark more leverage. Blame the goose poop on that one. Racing along the shoreline of City parks that waterfowl frequent means you've got poop-imbued mud. Combine that with sweat, tears, plus other bodily fluids. and that's one toxic, cleat-corroding substance.


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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Jerusalem Artichokes
I was on a nature walk at Sandy Hook where Jerusalem artichokes were growing wild everywhere. They are in the sunflower family—tall and beautiful in the autumn sun. Wild, or cultivated, the tuber is divinely delicious. Have you had them? I cooked them a lot when I grew them myself. Now I get them by the box-full from the flatland. Buuuuut, I wonder if anyone would notice if some disappeared from the Hook?
They are often called sunchokes in the stores and look sorta like ginger root. If you pull them yourself, keep the large ones and leave the smaller ones for next year. Some folks find them evasive. I have not had that problem, maybe because the winters are so much harsher here. Or maybe because when they are young and tender, the deer like them too.
Wash the choke but there is no need to peel it. The skin is thin and tender. They can be eaten raw or cooked. I prefer cooked; I think they have more flavor. They are wonderful in soups or gratins. Marcella Hazan (one of my favorite cookbook authors) has a few recipes using them. I usually chunk them and roast them with olive oil, sea salt, pepper, and shallots at a high heat like 400. I sometimes throw in rosemary, just like I would with potatoes. To me they taste just like artichoke hearts. Be brave. Try them.
Labels: jerusalem artichokes, NJ, Sandy Hook, sunchokes, sunflowers, wild
3 comments:
- deejbrown said...
Now I'm hungry...time to slip by Sandy Hook!
- September 21, 2008 at 11:35 AM
- Kim said...
Huh. Who knew? They sound as tasty as they are pretty. :)
- September 21, 2008 at 7:48 PM
- Sparverius said...
I had no idea. I've got these growing wild all over at work. Guess I'll have to pull one up and see what's cooking.
- September 22, 2008 at 8:01 AM
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"Peanut growers who consistently find innovative methods of improving production efficiency are deserving of special recognition," says Farm Press Publisher Mike Gonitzke. "So, Farm Press, in cooperation with the Southern Peanut Growers Conference, has established this award. Since the program's inception in 2000, the Peanut Profitability Awards have honored nine deserving winners.
"In the past year, U.S. peanut growers have faced severe weather problems, uncertain market conditions and a complete overhaul of their crop's government program. But I'm confident there are growers who have faced these challenges and will be deserving of this prestigious award."
The awards are based on production efficiency, honoring those growers who produce the highest yields at the lowest cost per acre. Awards are presented to growers from the Southeast Region, including Alabama, Georgia and Florida; the Virginia-Carolina Region, including Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina; and the Southwest Region, including Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Winners of the 2002 awards were honored for production efficiency achieved during the 2001 growing season. They included Jamie Lee, Courtland, Va., Virginia-Carolina Region; Jeff and Jerry Heard, Jr., Newton, Ga., Southeast Region; and Chuck Rowland, Gaines County, Texas, Southwest Region.
The winning nominations for the 2003 awards will be based on production efficiency during the 2002 growing season. Winners of the 2003 awards will receive an expenses-paid trip for two to the Southern Peanut Growers Conference in Panama City, Fla., set for July 2003. They also will receive limited-edition signed and numbered prints from noted watercolor artist Jack DeLoney.
In addition, the winners are featured in special Peanut Profitability issues of Southeast Farm Press and Southwest Farm Press.
Acting as Program Advisor for the Peanut Profitability Award is Marshall Lamb, economist with the National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Ga. Lamb, who was instrumental in the creation of the awards program, and has designed a nomination form to be used by growers in determining production efficiency.
"While achieving consistently high yields and grades is important, it's only part of the equation to maximizing profits. The elements of production cost and price are equally important factors," says Lamb.
The grower nomination form for the Peanut Profitability Award is very extensive, notes Lamb, and considers both fixed and variable costs.
"We've had nominees in this program who had higher yields than most, but they did not correctly manage their cost structure. We're looking at per-unit costs, and how effectively farmers manage their cost structures," he says.
The awards program, he says, is based on a producer's entire peanut operation. "We're not talking about small plots in select fields. Rather, we look at the overall management of these growers. This includes yields, costs and marketing management for the entire farm, and most of our winners come from sizable farms," says Lamb.
Assisting with the awards program is an Advisory Board comprised of Extension peanut specialists, county agents, economists and commodity group officials from the major peanut-producing states. They help to distribute nomination forms within their respective states and educate potential nominees about the program.
Farm Press editors, working with Lamb, select the regional winners from the pool of state nominees. Members of the Advisory Board, along with Lamb, are charged with periodically reviewing the awards program to insure consistency.
Data entered on a farmer's nomination form, notes Lamb, should be based on an entire farm operation and not on individual farms or small plots. Actual per-unit costs and returns information will remain confidential to Lamb and members of the Advisory Board.
Growers may submit their nomination form directly to the National Peanut Research Laboratory, or they may submit it to their county Extension agent, peanut specialist or economist. The deadline for all nominations is April 15, 2003.
Growers may download and print a nomination form (Adobe Acrobat required) for the Peanut Profitability Award by linking to the following Website: 2003 Peanut Profitability Award Nomination Form. In addition, it can be linked from various commodity group Websites. To receive a hard copy of the form, call Farm Press headquarters at (662) 624-8503.
While recognizing deserving growers is important, it's only one part of the program, says Gonitzke. "A second major component of the Peanut Profitability Program is education. Southeast Farm Press and Southwest Farm Press accomplished this in the past year by publishing more than 60 articles on peanut production efficiency. It also is our hope that farmers from throughout the Peanut Belt will learn from the production practices of growers who receive the award."
Farm Press will continue to publish articles in the coming year focusing on peanut production efficiency. Each article will bear the Peanut Profitability Program logo so that it can be recognized easily by readers.
Another part of the education component, says Gonitzke, is an annual grant made to the American Peanut Research and Education Society on behalf of the Peanut Profitability Program.
The 2003 Peanut Profitability Award Program Officials and Advisory Board
Program Coordinator
Paul L. Hollis, Editor, Southeast Farm Press
166 North Gay Street
P.O. Box 1415
Auburn, AL 36831-1415
(334) 826-7451
Program Advisor
Marshall Lamb, Economist, USDA
National Peanut Research Laboratory
1011 Forester Drive
Dawson, GA 31740
(229) 995-7417
Advisory Board
Lower Southeast
Nathan B. Smith, Agricultural Economist, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service
Rural Development Center
15 RDC Road
P.O. Box 1209
Tifton, GA 31794
(229) 386-3512
John Beasley, Agronomist, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service
Rural Development Center
15 RDC Road
P.O. Box 1209
Tifton, GA 31793
(229) 386-3430
Tim Hewitt, Agricultural Economist, University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service
3925 Highway 71
Marianna, FL 32446
(850) 482-9904
Dallas Hartzog, Agronomist, Alabama Cooperative Extension System Wiregrass Research & Extension Station
Highway 134 East
P.O. Box 217
Headland, AL 36345
(334) 693-2010
Upper Southeast
David Jordan, Crop Science Extension Specialist, North Carolina State University
4207 Williams Hall
Box 7620
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
(919) 515-4068
Bob Sutter
North Carolina Peanut Growers Association
P.O. Box 8
Nashville, NC 27856-0008
(252) 459-5060
Charles Swann, Agronomist, Virginia Tech
6321 Holland Road
Suffolk, VA 23437
(757) 657-6450
Russell Schools
Virginia Peanut Growers Association
103 Triangle Court
P.O. Box 356
Capron, VA 23829
(804) 658-4573
Dewitt Gooden, Extension Peanut Specialist, Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service
2200 Pocket Road
Florence, SC 29506
(834) 669-1912 Extension 203
Robbie Blount
Southwest Texas Peanut Growers Association
P.O. Box 252
Seminole, TX 79360
(915) 758-2050
Ron Sholar, Agronomist, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service
503 Ag Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078-6028
(405) 744-9616
Floyd McAllister, Roosevelt County, N.M., Extension Agent
705 E. Lime St.
P.O. Box 455
Fort Portales, NM 88130
(501) 356-4417


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Monday, August 13, 2007
Learning Monads in 1996
4 comments:
- Marceau Huxley said...
On the other hand, mathematicians have understood monads for decades. The list monad is just a functor L from Sets to Sets (or Monoids if you prefer) such that there is a multiplication map (natural transformation) mu: L L X -> L X given by concatenation and an identity map nu: X -> L X taking an element x to a list with one element [x]. This forms a monoid in the category of endofunctors over Set and was called a triple for years before the word monad was invented.
Monads for programmers take a formally different, less familiar, but nevertheless equivalent form: the map nu is called return and a map called bind is used instead of mu, where bind f x can be defined as join ( fmap f x). (Join can be given by join x = bind id x.) This approach is more difficult to understand because it obscures the more familiar underlying structure of a monoid, of which we are intimately acquainted with: addition and multiplication of integers, rationals, reals; compositions of functions; etc. Even the bind approach is well understood mathematically as the Kleisli category of a monoid -- a way of factoring a monad into a pair of adjoint functors (of which there are in general many).
Monads are still taught the wrong way (nuclear waste containers!?) today by nearly everyone and as such have continued to be a barrier to understanding Haskell and functional programming. Monoids are much easier to understand (concatenation versus bind for instance) and the cost is only one more definition, that of bind in terms of join.
- November 28, 2007 at 3:28 PM
- José Dinuncio said...
I followed your path plus tutorials. I have my "Ok, I understand the definition. But what *is* a monad?" moment too.
Mathematical definition is almost useless for a programmer, I still wanted to know when and where should I create my own monads. I can agree with Marceau that the best way for a programmer to understand monads is following the monoid/functor way.
Then I realized it... A monad is not something I "want" to create, it is something the program itself impose to me. I have my types a, b, c and a lot of functions over them. Then I need a type constructor D, and suddenly I have D a, D b, D c and all my old functions are useless on the new types. And is in this stage that super monad comes to rescue: I implement bind and return on D, and voila! I get my old functions working in my new types.
- November 29, 2007 at 6:51 AM
- Shane said...
Great article. And I just wanted to say thanks to José for his comment too. I've worked with Haskell and am comfortable with functional programming, but I still had not grokked monads, and José's insight about not _wanting_ to create them really hit home for me. Thank you for that.
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From 1989 to 2002, the Chevrolet Prizm was produced as an entry-level compact car for the U.S. market. When Chevrolet first launched the car, it was known as the Geo Prizm, but it received its new name in 1998 when General Motors phased out the Geo brand. The Prizm served as a replacement for the Chevrolet Nova, and like its predecessor, the Prizm is a rebadged version of the Toyota Corolla. For its entire lifespan, the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. plant in Fremont, California manufactured all Prizm models. The plant resulted from a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota.
At the time of the launch of the third generation of the Geo Prizm in 1998, all Geo vehicles were being converted into Chevrolets. This means that all Geo-branded cars received Chevrolet badges. This change in brand hurt sales of the Prizm, as well as other vehicles that had been rebranded from Geo to Chevrolet. Geo had a strong brand following, and sales of Geo vehicles consistently outsold the rebranded Chevrolet vehicles. Low popularity and decreased sales are two of the reasons that Chevrolet discontinued the Chevrolet Prizm models in 2002.
The third, and final, generation of the Prizm boasts a restyle from the second generation, which coincides with the rebranding of the car. Still available as a four-door sedan, one of the most significant changes from the second to the third generation is the engine. A 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine is the only engine option available for all Prizm cars. The engine is made completely from aluminum, making it and the car significantly lighter than previous models of both Geo Prizms and Toyota Corollas. The engine has more power but the same gas mileage due to the fact that it and the car weigh much less. As with the second generation, the car offers three transmission options: a five-speed manual, a three-speed automatic, or a four-speed automatic.
The third generation also features optional side airbags. This makes the Prizm, with the Toyota Corolla, the first line of cars in the compact category to offer this feature. Initially, Chevrolet offered a handling package as an option, but it became standard in 1999. For the 2000 model year, the engineers modified the engine, increasing its power rating to 125 horsepower, a gain of five. The final Chevrolet Prizms were manufactured in December 2001, which resulted in few 2002 models for sale.
Chevrolet launched the first generation of the Prizm under the Geo brand. It came as a four-door sedan (offered until 1992) and a five-door hatchback (only offered until 1991). The hatchback is a straight rebadging of the Japanese-market Toyota Corolla Seca. It came equipped with a 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine. In 1990, the model line included the Geo Prizm GSi sport version, which had a twin-cam engine rated at 130 horsepower, as well as a sport suspension, disk brakes, and 14-inch wheels. Transmission options included a five-speed manual or a three- or four-speed automatic transmission. Due to the size of the vehicle, this generation of the Geo Prizm is classified as a subcompact car.
The second generation of the Geo Prizm was unveiled for the 1993 model line. As part of the restyling of the car, its size was increased to provide more room for passengers and in the trunk. Due to the increase in the size of the Geo Prizm, the second generation had to be reclassified from the subcompact category to the compact car category. A driver-side airbag also improved the safety of the vehicle.
This generation of the Geo Prizm only came as a four-door sedan. It contained a 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine but also offered a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine as an option with the LSi trim. The transmission for the base model can be either a five-speed manual transmission or a three-speed automatic. In the LSi trim, the automatic transmission increased to a four-speed. In addition to the larger engine and upgraded transmission, the LSi model of the Geo Prizm also has wider tires and a rear stabilizer bar.
In 1994, the second generation of the Geo Prizm underwent a refresh. Improvements included a second airbag as a standard in all vehicles. Also, leather seats became optional on the LSi version. Although the Geo Prizm remained basically a rebadged version of the Toyota Corolla, the cars have one significant difference: Unlike the Toyota Corolla, the Geo Prizm did not have a front stabilizer bar in its suspension. The second generation of the Geo Prizm remained in production until 1997.
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The 2001 Chevrolet Prizm is an entry-level compact sedan manufactured by New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated (NUMMI), a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota.
2000 Chevrolet Prizm
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The Architectures currently supported by the DRI have grown from the initial Intel i386 based machines to now include, the Alpha Processor and the Sun SPARC machines.
The build environment for both of these new architectures have a pre-build environment that will correctly build the DRI drivers and Mesa meaning no extra configuration is necessary to build the DRI for these architectures.
On newer Alpha processors, it should be noted that a significant performance increase can be seen with the addition of the -mcpu= command that should be passed to GCC upon compilation. Dependent of the architecture of the processor, for example -mcpu=ev6 will build specifically for the EV6 based AXP's, giving both byte and word alignment access to the DRI/Mesa drivers.
Use this as an example of compiling with this extra speed. In your host.def file that should reside in the xc/config directory, add the line.
#define DefaultGcc2AxpOpt -O2 -mcpu=ev6
Additional speed improvements to 3D rendering can be achieved by installing Compaq's Math Libraries (CPML) which can be obtained from the following URL.
Once installed, you can set this option in your host.def to build against the CPML libraries.
#define UseCompaqMathLibrary YES
XFree86 4.0 (or later versions) includes 3D acceleration for the following graphics hardware:
NOTE: This is a complete list of graphics hardware supported. It may not be supported on your platform.
Support for other hardware is underway.


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The outing was funded through money from the State School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, which is allocated by the GCMS School Community Council, according to a news release from GCMS.
Throughout the day, seventh- and eighth-grade scholars hiked a variety of trails in Arches National Park and the Island in the Sky section of Canyonlands National Park, officials said. The field trip gave students the opportunity to experience an "integrated curricular study" of those areas, including studying geology, soils, conservation/preservation, and personal growth, school officials said in the news release.
For many students, the trip was their first hiking experiences in the parks. After the hikes, students met at the Bar M Chuckwagon for lunch before heading back to school.


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That was the provocative question retired San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn put to priests at the recent meeting of the National Federation of Priests Councils in Houston.
"The cataclysmic avalanche of the sex abuse scandal is a profoundly troubling experience for every priest," he noted. "It touches not only the perpetrators and those so gravely hurt by them. But it is now engulfing the papacy itself and eroding the credibility of the bishops in the church. …
"How can an American priest persevere in the midst of such a shattering trial? How do we priests and how do the church persevere in time of severe trial?"
Archbishop Quinn praised today's American priests as "a body of men who do not seek praise or acclaim and who walk faithfully with the Lord in a time of searing and seismic testing."
The deepest and most enduring reason a man would want to be a priest today, the archbishop said, is "the person of Jesus Christ. … If our love for Jesus Christ is truly genuine, then there must stir within us the desire to be like him."
Despite this "moment of humiliation and some degree of helplessness" for priests and the church, "I firmly believe that this one of the best times to be a priest," the archbishop said.
"We priests and the whole church are being called to evangelical humility and to a purer faith. It is time for us to embrace this providential call with robust generosity and with a solidarity that bind us together as priests in a uniquely difficult period our our history."
We liked the archbishop's talk so much that we put it in this week's issue of the CNS documentary service, Origins (www.originsonline.com).
But if you are not an Origins subscriber, you can read the archbishop's complete text on America magazine's blog, In All Things, or on Commonweal's dotcommonweal.
But Origins subscribers can also access Msgr. Stephen Rossetti's NFPC presentation, based on data from two studies he conducted of 4,000 priests between 2002 and 2010 that show "priests like being priests; they find great satisfaction with their lives." Rather than "dispirited, discouraged and disintegrating," today's priests are becoming stronger, he believes.
Msgr. Rossetti, now a professor at The Catholic University of America, is a licensed psychologist who spent 17 years at the head of the St. Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Md., a residential treatment center for priests and religious with addictions or psychological disorders.
"As the public negativity rises and the chorus of naysayers crescendos, I believe our priests and church are actually the better for it," he said.
People in a hurry can access CNS stories about the Quinn and Rossetti speeches here and here.
But wait, there's more! Origins subscribers also have complete coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's recent visit to Malta. And all of it in 16 pages!


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Those ubernerds at the Big "G" did it again as they pull out another useless but super interesting logo swap to highlight a great day in history. Today is no different. Rather then sending me my gonfunnit invitation code for the elusive #GoogleWave, the brainiac psycho at
1.0 × 10100(googol) dug up this gem of knowledge.
The Barcode was invented 57 years ago today. October 7, 1952 the official patent was issued US Patent 2,612,994.
The Washington Post reports The barcode on the Google homepage is Code 128 encoded, which is a standard way of encoding ASCII character strings (ie. A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc.) into a barcode. It would be safe to assume that Google used their own open source barcode project, ZXing, to generate the barcode. The same library is used in Android for barcode recognition.
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A stone's throw from Lambeau Field, the Green Bay (Wis.) Curling Club is often dark when Penny Greely arrives. But Greely understands she is relatively inexperienced and has some catching up to do. With so much to learn, she shows up early to work — real early.
"I'm the only wheelchair woman in the club and (the members) have been good to me," Greely said.
Nearly three years ago, the bronze medalist from the 2004 U.S. Paralympic Women's Sitting Volleyball Team was searching for a new athletic challenge. She heard of an opportunity in wheelchair curling.
"I thought, 'It's not far from my house. I'll go check it out,'" Greely recalled of her initial visit to meet national coaches at the club.
Located a few miles from the home Greely shares with her husband and teenage stepson, the curling club has served as her starting point. It's been a fast ride from curiosity … to passion.
Greely threw her first stone in July 2010. Two months later, she was a Team USA alternate. This week, Greely is scheduled to shoot lead during the upcoming world championship in Sochi, Russia.
Team USA was scheduled to depart for the 2013 World Wheelchair Curling Championships earlier this week. Competition starts Saturday. The finals are Feb. 23. The week-long spectacle likely is serving as a prep event for the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
"I trained hard," Greely said. "Learning strategy is the big thing. I have picked it up relatively quickly."
The current U.S. squad of Greely, Jimmy "Jam" Joseph, David Palmer, Patrick McDonald (the skip) and alternate Meghan Lino is in position to compete at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games. With a recent roster overhaul, Team USA appears to fielding a squad with improved chemistry.
"Before, we had ego issues," Joseph said last Friday.
"Our team is gelling really good," Joseph said.
Coach Steve Brown and Joseph, a nine-year veteran, attributed much of the continuity to the newcomers, Greely and Lino, who is making her international debut in Sochi.
Joseph was asked of the team's expectations at Sochi, this week and likely next year. Raising his voice a few octaves, he said: "We're going to be No. 1, baby."
Early favorites Canada and Russia likely would debate Joseph's proclamation. South Korea, China, Slovakia, Scotland and Sweden also will compete. Team USA has never captured gold.
After Team USA fell short of capturing a bronze medal on the final stone at the Vancouver 2012 Paralympic Winter Games, Joseph said he is using the fourth-place finish as motivation. The conclusion of the 2012 world championships is also fueling the fire.
"We started out 5-0," Joseph said of Team USA's quick start of the 2012 world championships in Chuncheon, South Korea. The Americans quickly faded out of the medal round.
"It was kind of a bummer," Joseph said. "I believe we have potential."
As coach of a team with no private sponsors, Brown has recently been impressed with the players' commitment to the team.
"All of our training dollars come out of our pocket," Brown said. "We have five people on this team who are all in … training … getting along …
"We are developing a strategy to get to the next level."
A career woman with a family, Greely is one of the "rookies" Brown expects to consistently carry the United States into the medal round.
"I think her future on the team will be long term," Brown said. "She has all the things going for her. The sport is difficult to learn, but she is coachable."
Over the past two seasons, Greely has developed into a lead shooter. Like a lead-off batter in baseball, Greely's lead stones at the world championships will set the stage for her teammates.
"She has picked up the game really fast," said Joseph, the second shooter. "The lead and second is very critical and she's pretty good at setting the table.
"I have confidence in her."


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Dozens of Cousins, Trillions of Stars
by Charnan Simon
art by John Nez
The meadow on Aunt Margaret's mountain was filled with cousins.
"Dozens of cousins, hundreds of cousins, millions of cousins," Katelyn sang happily as she spread out her sleeping bag. The Sun was already setting behind the mountaintop. Soon Katelyn and all the cousins would settle into cozy sleeping bags and count stars. It was the Hill family annual stargazing party, and Katelyn was finally, finally old enough to stay in the meadow all night long.
"Thirteen cousins doesn't count as dozens," said Andy. "It's not millions!"
"Billions of cousins!" Hana said. She plopped her sleeping bag next to Katelyn. "Trillions of cousins! Too many to count!" She and Katelyn rolled into each other, laughing and laughing.
Andy snorted and went to help Uncle David set up the telescope. Aunt Mary and Aunt Margaret came out of the house, carrying cocoa and coffee.
"Turn off the lights!" Uncle Tom bellowed. "How can we see anything with all those lights?"
"Look!" Mike and Joey called out together. "The first star!" They started arguing over who saw it first.
Katelyn and Hana looked. There it was, twinkling in the dusky sky, just begging them to chant, "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight," but Katelyn changed her ending. "I wish I may, I wish I might, not ever fall asleep tonight!"
More and more stars popped out of the velvety night sky. Katelyn sipped her cocoa and counted. "One, two, three, four…"
"…five, six, seven, eight," Hana picked up. "Katelyn! There are too many! We'll be counting all night!" "You'll be counting longer than that!" Cousin Anna came over to sit by them. Anna was in college, almost a grownup. "Just looking, we can probably see four or five thousand stars. If we use Uncle David's telescope, we might see a couple of million stars. If we could see all the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, we'd see a couple hundred billion stars. You'd have to count for thousands of years to get them all!"
It was too much to think about. Anna laughed. "Here's something easier," she said. "Stand up, you two! Turn like this, so you're facing south."
Taylor and Bailey and Audrey wanted to face south, too. "OK, guys," Anna said. "Look up and a little bit to the right. See those three stars right in a row? They're part of the constellation called Orion. They're Orion's belt."
"I know about constellations," Taylor said. "They're star pictures." She paused. "But I can never really see them, except the Big Dipper."
"They're hard," Anna agreed. "You really have to use your imagination. Orion is called the hunter because the whole picture looks like a man holding a club and a shield. But mostly, I just look for the the three stars that make his belt."
"What's that star?" Hana asked, pointing past Orion. "It's the brightest one in the sky!"
"It is," agreed Anna. "But it's not a star—that's the planet Jupiter! See how it shines instead of sparkles? That's one way of telling it's a planet."
"Hey, everybody!" Now Brian and Joel and Uncle Dick were all pointing. "A satellite!"
The satellite looked like a little bright star, moving slowly and steadily across the sky. "What's it doing up there?" Katelyn asked.
"It could be doing lots of things," Uncle Dick said. "Maybe it's a weather satellite, taking pictures of clouds and storms. Maybe it's taking pictures of stars and planets. Maybe it's helping send television programs all over the world. Satellites do all kinds of jobs."
Katelyn was still watching the satellite when suddenly—"A shooting star! I saw a shooting star!" she cried. Katelyn loved shooting stars! This one whooshed across the night sky in a fast streak of bright light—and then it was gone.
"It's not really a star, you know," said Cousin Ariel. "It's just a tiny speck of space dust, burning up on its way to Earth."
Aunt Cindy called from Uncle David's telescope. "Who wants to see Saturn?"
Katelyn and Hana hurried over. Uncle David had already pointed the telescope, and when Katelyn looked into the little eyepiece, she saw a yellowish tan planet with a ring stretching all around it. "Is that really Saturn?" she asked. "It looks just like a picture!'"
"It's really Saturn," Uncle David assured her. "Besides the ring, Saturn has thirty moons. Can you imagine? They go around Saturn just like our Moon goes around Earth."
"Where is our Moon, anyhow?" Katelyn asked. "I want to see the craters!"
Aunt Cindy laughed. "Don't wish for the Moon around Uncle David!" she warned. "Stargazers don't like it when the Moon is out. It makes the sky too bright, so you can't see the stars as well. We always pick a night when the Moon isn't shining for our party."
Cousin Andrea lowered the binoculars she was looking through. "Here's something weird," she said. "You'd think a full Moon would be twice as bright as a half Moon, right? Well, it's not! A full Moon is more than ten times as bright as a half Moon. And the full Moon is more than 100,000 times brighter than the brightest nighttime star!" All these numbers were making Katelyn tired. "Come on," she told Hana. "Let's get in our sleeping bags and look for more shooting stars."
They curled up close to each other and stared into the night.
"Do you believe Earth is really spinning around in space, like all the other planets?" Hana whispered.
Katelyn wasn't sure. "I hope we don't fall off," she giggled sleepily.
Hana scooted even closer. Billions and trillions of stars twinkled down on them.
"Star light, star bright," Katelyn murmured. "So many stars I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might…"
And then she fell asleep that night.
- Why would it be difficult to see stars if the Moon were full?
[anno: It would be difficult to see stars because the light from the Moon would make the sky too bright to see as many stars.]
- How much brighter is a full Moon than a half Moon?
[anno: A full Moon is ten times brighter than a half Moon.]
- What is it called when there is no Moon shining?
[anno: It is called a new Moon.]
- How often would you have the perfect conditions for stargazing?
[anno: You would have the perfect conditions for stargazing every four weeks because there is a new Moon every four weeks.]