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Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Video Lectures
Here are lectures from Machine Learning Summer School 2003, 2005 and 2006.
Machine Learning is a foundational discipline of the Information Sciences. It combines deep theory from areas as diverse as Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, and Information Technology with many practical and relevant real life applications.
Some Mathematical Tools for Machine Learning
- Video Lectures (by Chris Burges from Microsoft Research)
Lectures contain:
1. Lagrange multipliers: Lagrange multipliers: an indirect approach can be easier; Multiple Equality Constraints; Multiple Inequality Constraints; Two points on a d-sphere; The Largest Parallelogram; Resource allocation; A convex combination of numbers is maximized by choosing the largest; The Isoperimetric problem; For fixed mean and variance, which univariate distribution has maximum entropy? An exact solution for an SVM living on a simplex
2. Notes on some Basic Statistics; Probabilities can be Counter-Intuitive (Simpson's paradox; the Monty Hall puzzle); IID-ness: Measurement Error decreases as 1/sqrt{n}; Correlation versus Independence; The Ubiquitous Gaussian: Product of Gaussians is Gaussian o Convolution of two Gaussians is a Gaussian; Projection of a Gaussian is a Gaussian; Sum of Gaussian random variables is a Gaussian random variables; Uncorrelated Gaussian variables are also independent; Maximum Likelihood Estimates for mean and covariance (prove required matrix identities); Aside: For 1-dim Laplacian, max. likelihood gives the median; Using cumulative distributions to derive densities
3. Principal Component Analysis and Generalizations: Ordering by Variance; Does Grouping Change Things? PCA Decorrelates the Samples; PCA gives Reconstruction with Minimal Mean Squared Error; PCA preserves Mutual Information on Gaussian data; PCA directions lie in the span of the data; PCA: second order moments only; The Generalized Rayleigh Quotient; Non-orthogonal principal directions; OPCA; Fisher Linear Discriminant; Multiple Discriminant Analysis
4. Elements of Functional Analysis: High Dimensional Spaces; Is Winning Transitive?; Most of the Volume is Near the Surface: Cubes; Spheres in n-dimensions; Banach Spaces, Hilbert Spaces, Compactness; Norms; Useful Inequalities (Minkowski and Holder); Vector Norms; Matrix Norms; The Hamming Norm; L1, L2, L_infty norms - is L0 a norm?
Example: Using a Norm as a Constraint in Kernel Algorithms
These are lectures on some fundamental mathematics underlying many approaches and algorithms in machine learning. They are not about particular learning algorithms; they are about the basic concepts and tools upon which such algorithms are built. Often students feel intimidated by such material: there is a vast amount of "classical mathematics", and it can be hard to find the wood for the trees. The main topics of these lectures are Lagrange multipliers, functional analysis, some notes on matrix analysis, and convex optimization. I've concentrated on things that are often not dwelt on in typical CS coursework. Lots of examples are given; if it's green, it's a puzzle for the student to think about. These lectures are far from complete: perhaps the most significant omissions are probability theory, statistics for learning, information theory, and graph theory. I hope eventually to turn all this into a series of short tutorials.
Introduction to Learning Theory
- Video Lectures (by Olivier Bousquet from Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics)
The goal of this course is to introduce the key concepts of learning theory. It will not be restricted to Statistical Learning Theory but will mainly focus on statistical aspects. Instead of giving detailed proofs and precise statements, this course will aim at providing some useful conceptual tools and ideas useful for practitioners as well as for theoretically-driven people.
An Introduction to Pattern Classification
- Video Lectures (by Elad Yom Tov from Technion)
Lectures contain:
Pattern classification algorithms, classification procedures, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, classifier and preprocessing algorithms, errors, classifier and computational complexity, dimensionality reduction, approaches for dimensionality reduction: feature reduction, feature selection; genetic programming, whitening transform, nearest neighbor editing algorithm, voronoi diagram, clusters, clustering techniques: agglomerative, partitional, minimum spanning tree, aghc, kohonen maps, k-means, fuzzy k-means, competitive learning; bayes rule, heuristic algorithms, tree based algorithms, optimization algorithms, neural networks, training methods, perceptons, radial-basis function networks, support-vector machines, error estimation methods.
Statistical Learning Theory
- Video Lectures (by Olivier Bousquet from Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics)
This course will give a detailed introduction to learning theory with a focus on the classification problem. It will be shown how to obtain (pobabilistic) bounds on the generalization error for certain types of algorithms. The main themes will be:
- probabilistic inequalities and concentration inequalities
- union bounds and chaining
- measuring the size of a function class
- Vapnik Chervonenkis dimension
- shattering dimension and Rademacher averages
- classification with real-valued functions
Stochastic Learning
- Video Lectures (by Léon Bottou from NEC Research)
These lectures contain:
Early learning systems, recursive adaptive algorithms, risks, batch gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent, non differentiable loss functions, rosenblatt's perceptrons, k-means, vector quantization, stochastic noise, multilayer networks
Bayesian Learning
- Video Lectures (by Zoubin Ghahramani from University College London)
Description of video course:
Bayes Rule provides a simple and powerful framework for machine learning. This tutorial will be organised as follows:
1. Lecturer will give motivation for the Bayesian framework from the point of view of rational coherent inference, and highlight the important role of the marginal likelihood in Bayesian Occam's Razor.
2. He will discuss the question of how one should choose a sensible prior. When Bayesian methods fail it is often because no thought has gone into choosing a reasonable prior.
3. Bayesian inference usually involves solving high dimensional integrals and sums. He will give an overview of numerical approximation techniques (e.g. Laplace, BIC, variational bounds, MCMC, EP...).
4. Mr. Ghahramani will talk about more recent work in non-parametric Bayesian inference such as Gaussian processes (i.e. Bayesian kernel "machines"), Dirichlet process mixtures, etc.
Learning on Structured Data
- Video Lectures (by Yasemin Altun from TTI)
Lectures description:
Discriminative learning framework is one of the very successful fields of machine learning. The methods of this paradigm, such as Boosting, and Support Vector Machines have significantly advanced the state-of-the-art for classification by improving the accuracy and by increasing the applicability of machine learning methods. One of the key benefits of these methods is their ability to learn efficiently in high dimensional feature spaces, either by the use of implicit data representations via kernels or by explicit feature induction. However, traditionally these methods do not exploit dependencies between class labels where more than one label is predicted. Many real-world classification problems involve sequential, temporal or structural dependencies between multiple labels. We will investigate recent research on generalizing discriminative methods to learning in structured domains. These techniques combine the efficiency of dynamic programming methods with the advantages of the state-of-the-art learning methods.
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
- Video Lectures (by Thomas Hofmann from Brown University)
This four hour course will provide an overview of applications of machine learning and statistics to problems in information retrieval and text mining. More specifically, it will cover tasks like document categorization, concept-based information retrieval, question-answering, topic detection and document clustering, information extraction, and recommender systems. The emphasis is on showing how machine learning techniques can help to automatically organize content and to provide efficient access to information in textual form.
Foundations of Learning
- Video Lectures (by Steve Smale from University of California)
An introduction to grammars and parsing
- Video Lecture (by Mark Johnson from Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing)
Video Lecture contains:
computational linguistics, its syntactic and semantic structure, context free grammars, its derivations, probabalistics cfg's (pcfg), dynamic programming, expectation maximization, em algorithm for pcfg's, top-down parsing, bottom-up parsing, left-corner parsing.
Information Geometry
- Video Lectures (by Sanjoy Dasgupta from University of California)
This tutorial will focus on entropy, exponential families, and information projection. We'll start by seeing the sense in which entropy is the only reasonable definition of randomness. We will then use entropy to motivate exponential families of distributions — which include the ubiquitous Gaussian, Poisson, and Binomial distributions, but also very general graphical models. The task of fitting such a distribution to data is a convex optimization problem with a geometric interpretation as an "information projection": the projection of a prior distribution onto a linear subspace (defined by the data) so as to minimize a particular information-theoretic distance measure. This projection operation, which is more familiar in other guises, is a core optimization task in machine learning and statistics. We'll study the geometry of this problem and discuss two popular iterative algorithms for it.
Tutorial on Machine Learning Reductions
- Video Lectures (by John Langford from Yahoo Research)
Tutorial description:
There are several different classification problems commonly encountered in real world applications such as 'importance weighted classification', 'cost sensitive classification', 'reinforcement learning', 'regression' and others. Many of these problems can be related to each other by simple machines (reductions) that transform problems of one type into problems of another type. Finding a reduction from your problem to a more common problem allows the reuse of simple learning algorithms to solve relatively complex problems. It also induces an organization on learning problems — problems that can be easily reduced to each other are 'nearby' and problems which can not be so reduced are not close.
Online Learning and Game Theory
- Video Lectures (by Adam Kalai from Toyota Technological Institute)
We consider online learning and its relationship to game theory. In an online decision-making problem, as in Singer's lecture, one typically makes a sequence of decisions and receives feedback immediately after making each decision. As far back as the 1950's, game theorists gave algorithms for these problems with strong regret guarantees. Without making statistical assumptions, these algorithms were guaranteed to perform nearly as well as the best single decision, where the best is chosen with the benefit of hindsight. We discuss applications of these algorithms to complex learning problems where one receives very little feedback. Examples include online routing, online portfolio selection, online advertizing, and online data structures. We also discuss applications to learning Nash equilibria in zero-sum games and learning correlated equilibria in general two-player games.
On the Borders of Statistics and Computer Science
- Video Lectures (by Peter Bickel from Berkley University)
Machine learning in computer science and prediction and classification in statistics are essentially equivalent fields. I will try to illustrate the relation between theory and practice in this huge area by a few examples and results. In particular I will try to address an apparent puzzle: Worst case analyses, using empirical process theory, seem to suggest that even for moderate data dimension and reasonable sample sizes good prediction (supervised learning) should be very difficult. On the other hand, practice seems to indicate that even when the number of dimensions is very much higher than the number of observations, we can often do very well. We also discuss a new method of dimension estimation and some features of cross validation.
Decision Maps
- Video Lecture (by Nadler Boaz from Toyota Technological Institute)
Measures of Statistical Dependence
- Video Lectures (by Arthur Gretton from Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics)
A number of important problems in signal processing depend on measures of statistical dependence. For instance, this dependence is minimised in the context of instantaneous ICA, in which linearly mixed signals are separated using their (assumed) pairwise independence from each other. A number of methods have been proposed to measure this dependence, however they generally assume a particular parametric model for the densities generating the observations. Recent work suggests that kernel methods may be used to find estimates that adapt according to the signals they compare. These methods are currently being refined, both to yeild greater accuracy, and to permit the use of the signal properties over time in improving signal separability. In addition, these methods can be applied in cases where the statistical dependence between observations must be maximised, which is true for certain classes of clustering algorithms.
- Video Lectures (by Adam Kowalczyk from National ICT)
The Biological domain poses new challenges for statistical learning. In the talk we shall analyze and theoretically explain some counter-intuitive experimental and theoretical findings that systematic reversal of classifier decisions can occur when switching from training to independent test data (the phenomenon of anti-learning). We demonstrate this on both natural and synthetic data and show that it is distinct from overfitting. The natural datasets discussed will include: prediction of response to chemo-radio-therapy for esophageal cancer from gene expression (measured by cDNA-microarrays); prediction of genes affecting the aryl hydrocarbon receptor pathway in yeast. The main synthetic classification problem will be the approximation of samples drawn from high dimensional distributions, for which a theoretical explanation will be outlined.
Brain Computer Interfaces
- Video Lectures (by Klaus-Robert Müller from Fraunhofer FIRST)
Brain Computer Interfacing (BCI) aims at making use of brain signals for e.g. the control of objects, spelling, gaming and so on. This tutorial will first provide a brief overview of the current BCI research activities and provide details in recent developments on both invasive and non-invasive BCI systems. In a second part -- taking a physiologist point of view -- the necessary neurological/neurophysical background is provided and medical applications are discussed. The third part -- now from a machine learning and signal processing perspective -- shows the wealth, the complexity and the difficulties of the data available, a truely enormous challenge. In real-time a multi-variate very noise contaminated data stream is to be processed and classified. Main emphasis of this part of the tutorial is placed on feature extraction/selection and preprocessing which includes among other techniques CSP and also ICA methods. Finally, I report in more detail about the Berlin Brain Computer (BBCI) Interface that is based on EEG signals and take the audience all the way from the measured signal, the preprocessing and filtering, the classification to the respective application. BCI communication is discussed in a clincial setting and for gaming.
Introduction to Kernel Methods
- Video Lecture (by Mikhail Belkin from University of Chicago)
Lecture contains:
Kernel-based algorithms, regression / classification, regularization, rkhs, representer theorem, rls algorithm, svms, feature map.
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Construction: On the Move
Photographs by Douglas Fraser
As the MacLean Engineering Sciences Center enters its final phases of construction, anticipation is rising for building plans of another sort: the move into Thayer School's expanded quarters. The move is expected to take six weeks, beginning in May and ending in June.
The task of determining who moves to MacLean and who stays in Cummings Hall has fallen from the start to five building committee members, professors William Lotko, Christopher Levey, and Peter Robbie, financial executive officer Lawrence McKinnon, and facilities manager Gary Durkee.
So who moves? Several labs and faculty offices, reception, the admissions office, the instrument room, and Dartmouth Formula Racing, to name a few MacLean occupants. There are other moves afoot, too. Several offices and labs gain breathing room by shifting into Cummings' vacated spaces. And Thayer School's development and communications offices return to Cummings Hall after three years off campus.
The move may sound like a nightmare, but Durkee, who is heading up the physical relocations, makes it seem like a logistical dream. "Hours of planning have gone into the move," he says calmly. "It's a matter of design, plan, and execute."
According to Durkee, he, his four staff members, and some additional movers will handle the physical work. He expects the job will continue through evenings and weekends. "We want the least interruption during the process," he says.
And when it's finally done, the celebrations will begin. Thayer School invites everyone to attend Dartmouth's official dedication of MacLean Engineering Sciences Center Friday, September 29, 2006.
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A Life magazine photographer's trip to Houston in 1946
When you hear the names Cullen, Hofheinz and Hobby, do you think of a street, a pavilion and an airport? Or do you think of a an oil man and great philanthropist, a Houston baseball pioneer and a newspaper man who became governor?
I've found myself thinking about the faces behind those big names after taking a look at the work of photographer Dmitri Kessel, a photo essayist for Life magazine who died in 1995. Kessel got an inside look at the private lives of Houston's movers and shakers in the mid-1940s.
It's not clear from the photo captions, all dated October 1946, why Kessel came to Houston. But his images are fascinating.
In addition to the three famous Houstonians mentioned above, Kessel's portraits include First City National Bank founder James Elkins, oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy and Alice Hogg, wife of Mike Hogg and sister-in-law to the more famous Ima.
Kessel also captures lounging ladies at the ultra-exclusive Bayou Club, the requisite longhorns and horseback riders and the construction of the Foleys building on Main Street, along with various views of the city and even some really bad Houston traffic (more evidence that nothing can ever improve Houston traffic).


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Friday, November 6, 2009
Honeymoon Riviera Maya Style
While on our adventure, we became acquainted with several creatures that made a home for themselves on the resort. One was a peacock, and I'm sure you know how much this pleased me. And the others were long-snouted long-tailed furballs called coatis. Much of our trip was spent seeking out these critters and trying to touch them, to their dismay. I did finally get to scratch a few of their ears. That was pretty much the best day ever. Oh, and don't you think the coatis seriously resemble Luke? Snouts galore!
P.S. Don't mind the giant Star Wars Storm Trooper. That was from the resort's nightclub, Galaxy. We never stayed up late enough to make it to the club (that sun really tuckers you out!) but we snuck in once before it opened for a photo session.
27 comments:
- Chef Liz said...
Okay the Coatis? ADORABLE! Looks like you guys had a fabulous time. :-)
- November 6, 2009 at 2:29 PM
- Hillary said...
great photos! you two are sexy beyatches. I would like a coati for Christmas, please.
- November 6, 2009 at 2:39 PM
- Laura said...
too cute!
- November 6, 2009 at 3:15 PM
- Becky said...
Love the photos! Glad to read you had a fantastic time.
- November 6, 2009 at 3:17 PM
- S said...
Great pictures! I love your sunglasses!
- November 6, 2009 at 3:58 PM
- Sarah said...
looks like you had a great time! those little furballs are adorable - i want one!
- November 6, 2009 at 4:02 PM
- Pretty Unfamous said...
You got so fricken tan!!
- November 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM
- Mermanda said...
Angela, you MUST be joking!
I had a very faint tanline that faded by my second day home. I really didn't want to burn so I was under an umbrella most of the time.
- November 6, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Lovely. I would like some beach and pool time right about now, please.
Please tell me you dressed a coati up as your baby son and brought him home with you.
- November 6, 2009 at 4:46 PM
- Unknown said...
how fun! A peacock!! How perfect!!
- November 6, 2009 at 6:05 PM
- alyssa said...
Omigoshh!!!!! Those little guys are SO ADORABLE! I'd be spending my time finding little cute animals as well, not gonna like.
- November 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM
- laura @ so alaurable said...
1. In the Storm Trooper pic, I was wondering how your hub's hand was both behind and in front of your dress until I realized his wristband matched the stripe on the skirt.
2. Peacocks!!! I die. So cool!
3. Coatis!!! How awesome that they came up to you. We saw a few in Costa Rica, but not nearly as many, and they defintely weren't as friendly.
Looks like a great honeymoon!
- November 6, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Are those the ruins at Tulum?! My husband and I visited there for our honeymoon and declared it the most beautiful place EVER. I want to go back and spend more time there SO BAD.
Also - Coatis are the cutest things EVER!!
- November 8, 2009 at 9:59 AM
- ria said...
i would love to be there now! your dress in the peacock picture is pretty :)
- November 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM
- Non Sequitur Chica said...
Looks like you guys had a great time!!! The coatis are adorable!
- November 8, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- Unknown said...
I love your photos, looks like so much fun. And I give you props for not stealing a coati as I'm not sure if I would have the same restraint.
- November 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM
- Erin W said...
What beautiful pictures! You look a little scared about being that close to the peacock though. The coatis are adorable and really do look like Luke!
- November 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM
- Mermanda said...
It was Tulum. I think I would have enjoyed it more if it wasn't so damn hot. I really did not feel up to exploring to the fullest in the upper 90's heat. But yeah, it IS beautiful!
- November 8, 2009 at 10:35 PM
- Toe said...
You two look wonderfully in love. I'd been to Riviera Maya but never saw Coatis I'm totally going to be on the look out now for them.
- November 9, 2009 at 1:43 PM
- Katelin said...
oh love those pics, looks like a great honeymoon. and the coatis are so darn adorable, love it.
- November 9, 2009 at 7:48 PM
- Maxie said...
You're so cute, miss mermanda. Looks like you had a great time!
- November 10, 2009 at 3:41 PM
- Melissa Maris said...
Coatis = Cuties.
I like how your pretty dress matches the peacock. Looks like you guys had a great trip!
- November 10, 2009 at 8:35 PM
- Kyla Roma said...
Awesome pictures! So glad you guys got to get away!
- November 11, 2009 at 8:49 AM
- sarah marie p said...
What an amazing trip! Those photos are gorgeous! All of those yummy drinks + delish Mexican food sound sooo good! And look at that beach! WOW! I love that you made friends with the coatis! Too adorable!
In the second to last picture, is the red item a bathing suit or tank top? Either way -- super cute!!!!
- November 11, 2009 at 2:24 PM
- sarah marie p said...
p.s. So cool there were peacocks!
- November 11, 2009 at 2:25 PM
- Mermanda said...
Sarah, it's a bathing suit! I love it because it has a very vintage vibe! Has a little skirt-type thing too!
- November 11, 2009 at 2:38 PM
- Kerri W. said...
And thus continues my seriously intense couple-crush on you guys.
Also, those ridiculously human-like badger/meercat/WHAT things totally made me giggle. I want one! I wonder if Jay would approve...
Looks like you guys had an amazing time! Hurrah for honeymooners!
- November 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM


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What's in the music playing devices more often than not this week:
Parliament: Rhenium – This is the UK reissue of the first record called "Osmium." George Clinton independently christened DC "Chocolate City" for an obvious reason. And every time I hear a George production think of that and feel warm and fuzzy inside. Anyways. Typically I am more a Funkadelic fan. There are some Parliament records that shake me, but typically it's the dirty layered funk that keeps my ass shaking. But this record is RAW RAW RAW. Gritty and dirty. Eddie Hazel is at his best. You can't beat this time in recorded music. Even just for the production. Nothing really stands out, but as a whole this record is really nicely put together. The slightly distorted organ is a nice touch. I wish more bands would do that now. God forbid an engineer pushes it to the red. Oh shit, I guess you can't really do that now with everyone and their mother's Pro-tools setup. Bummer. Ok, I lied, Funky Woman (5.1MB AAC 160kbps 2′ 52) is totally the stand out track for my ears.
Big Apple Rappin: the Early Days of Hip-Hop Culture in New York City 1979-82 – There is some rap and hip-hop that speaks to me, but it's primarily the early to mid era of it. I think it's a given, if there is a unsampled trap kit in the song, I'll like it. There's something about organic hip-hop that does it for me. Once the 909 enters the picture, it starts loosing it for me. Not all the time, but it actually has more of the potential to loose it. Regardless, this is an awesome comp that should be coming out sometimes in March. I recommend it highly. JT Swann, PeeWee Mel and Barry B's Are You Read – Sounds a lot like early DC go-go. Mr Q's DJ Style – great Mike Jackson sample from Off The Wall. The Fly Guys' Fly Guys Rap – Sounds like the drums I recorded in high school. It's like 4 track hip-hop. Xanadu's Sure Shot – Smooth hip-hop. Very 70s sounding. Perhaps Blondie sounding.
Juan Garcia Esquivel: 1968 – Why this record has not been reissued is beyond me. The quintessential Space Age Pop sans Bachelor Pad. I have yet to hear an Esquivel record I don't like. The arrangements are so weird and kitchy and spaced out. Like the title, it was released in 1968. And did I mention the dynamics of these records? Find me one song on the radio today that has a song that shoots below 80db. And it can't be turning a fade at the end of the song. It simple doesn't happen now. Another notable aspect is the subtle use of guitar. I believe it's a hollow body, but it's so warm and tonal and panned heavily and feels like it's right next to my ear. Something perhaps only felt while from a vinyl experience. I rarely notice guitars as being exceptional sounding as there are few players out there that I feel have a distinct tone and style (similar to my views on sax players,) but whoever Esquivel hired for this record was brilliant. Also notable from this time period is "Other Worlds Other Sounds." – A must have.
William Shatner: The Transformed Man – Recently William put out a record a few years ago that re-reminded people that he made records. This is one of my favorites from before this time. It's from the 70s. And his cover of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is absolutely trippy. More trippy than Lennon's. It's true. Mr. Tambourine Man and How Insensitive (Insensatez) are absolutely hilarious. The rest is typical Shatner. But a great representation of his best early work. Also to be noted was that Spock or rather Leonard Nimoy also made similar records with a similar vibe. Also to be sought out. Not sure if they have been reissued on CD.
Los Admiradores: Bongos Flutes Guitars – The arrangements are not as typical as most Command Records are. This gem stands out in that the focus is three instruments with minimal accompaniment a la trap kit and double bass and some minimal horns. Like the album title infers this record is mainly focusing on the bongos, the flutes and the guitar. If one could imagine a Command Record done minimal style, this would be it. It's not even close to what you would call 'minimal music' as a genre, but for Command Records it sure is and is becoming one of my favorite from the Command collection. Also to be noted is the record cover artwork. Someday all these records will be rereleased on 180 gram vinyl.
Astrud Gilberto: A Bossa-Nova Collection – The Queen of the Bossa Nova. Rightfully so. She's pretty well known for the VinÃcius de Moraes song she sang called "Girl From Ipanema." Aside from her sensual and silly smooth voice, the musicians she played with or hired were sickly strong. The Bossa isn't easy music to play and her bands played it effortlessly. Standout cuts: So Tinha de Ser (strangely the sax is it), Fly Me To The Moon (her slightly-behind-the-beat feel is stellar), Bossa na Praia and Tu Mi Delirio.


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Discussion in 'Fan Art' started by Geoff Thorne, May 28, 2009.
That's way cool.
Agreed. The art in this thread is terrific!
thanks, folks. Something was missing from the last one, so I modified it.
Keep up the good work. Love to see more of Troi's dress. I'm usually not hyped about stuff like that, but I think it's über cool
Series Two begins.
Since everybody digs the Troi uni so much, here's another.
That is really excellent! I also really like her pose.
Why couldn't you have been the one designing her TNG uniforms? That's such a happy combination between those dresses/jumpers and the actual uniform.
Yeah, it's a lot more dignified and official, while in the context of a counseling session it could also project the right "nonthreatening" appearance.
Beautiful job!
The last 2 wallpapers looked great. I was thinking after I saw Orion's Hounds on friday that sort of reminded me of what the cover looked like but without Tuvok on it. So far I'm really enjoying these wallpapers and sketches.
Great art work , I'm looking forward to more !
I've only read the first two Titan novels but I was told that Troi and Riker have a child together in one of the newer ones. Any plans on doing the happy couple with their new child ?
Or will we see a very pregnant Deanna Troi at some stage along the way ?
Very good art of Deanna Troi there
It's interesting...
One of the recurring criticisms of Sword of Damocles was that I didn't focus on Riker and Troi very much. A lot of people see the series as the adventures of the Trois and a bunch of whacky aliens.
I like the whacky aliens more, I guess. More of an ensemble piece than a story about one or two people.
I doubt I'll get around to a full family portrait of the Trois or a pregnant Deanna. Maybe.
But you can look forward to Huilan, Pava, Cethenthe, Radowski, Chaka, Noah and Alyssa and Jaza among others.
When Swallow's book comes out I'll definitely do a wallpaper for it and any new folks he might have invented.
Wow, been following this thread for a few days and just now had the chance to post. AWESOME job with the animated characters...the Orion's Hounds is my favorite picture by far...one of my favorite Trek novels ever and its essence is captured perfectly here! Thanks for doing these, and please, keep them coming!
By Your Command.
Wrong franchise.
Dr. Huilan
(who needs lots more screen time)
Almost a little too cute. Nice though.
I agree. I love the Andorians.
Ever see CRITTERS or GREMLINS?
Also, how do you draw Stitch without drawing him?
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Scientists are beginning to change their thinking about why the immune systems of most people infected with HIV cannot control the spread of the virus while the immune systems of a rare group of individuals, called long-term nonprogressors, can. For some time, scientists thought that people who could not control HIV had too few HIV-fighting white blood cells called CD8+ T cells. However, a new study suggests the difference is not the number but the quality of these cells: both nonprogressors and others have about the same number of HIV-fighting CD8+ T cells, but the cells of nonprogressors function better.
"Understanding the mechanisms by which the immune systems of long-term nonprogressors control HIV is important to our development of effective vaccines," says Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). "Studies like this one, which reveal basic knowledge about how the immune system interacts with HIV, form the foundation of our effort to fight this disease." Details of the study, conducted by NIAID scientists, will appear on October 7 in the advanced online issue of Nature Immunology.
Instead of attacking HIV directly, CD8+ cells inhibit virus spread by killing off other immune system cells infected with HIV. "For some time we have known that even patients who cannot control HIV maintain high numbers of HIV-specific CD8+ T cells," says senior author Mark Connors, M.D., of NIAID's Laboratory of Immunoregulation. However, this study represents the first time scientists have observed a difference in the HIV-specific CD8+ T-cell response of nonprogressors, he says. This study also suggests a mechanism whereby the CD8+ T cells of nonprogressors control HIV and those of most individuals do not.
Dr. Connors and colleagues closely examined the immune systems of 40 people infected with HIV, including a group of about 15 nonprogressors - people who have controlled HIV for up to 20 years without antiretroviral therapy. The researchers found no significant difference in the number of HIV-fighting CD8+ cells between nonprogressors and the others. Instead, the scientists found that the nonprogressors' cells were better able to divide and proliferate when called on to go into action; they also produced higher levels of a molecule called perforin, which helps them to kill off cells infected with HIV.
"Some of the newer techniques used in this study enabled us to see the functional differences in the CD8+ T cells of the two groups," says lead author Stephen Migueles, M.D., also at NIAID's Laboratory of Immunoregulation. "The CD8+ T cells of people in the study who did not control HIV had retained only a limited ability to divide and produce perforin."
This finding is especially important to HIV vaccine research efforts, says Dr. Connors, because many candidate HIV vaccines attempt to induce a strong CD8+ T cell response. New knowledge about CD8+ T-cell function opened up by this line of research might lead to preventive vaccines that avoid the development of poorly functioning CD8+ T cells. In addition, this research might lead to therapeutic vaccines for HIV-infected people that improve the function of their CD8+ T cells and control HIV infection.
Next, Dr. Connors and colleagues plan to analyze an even broader array of differences between the CD8+ T cells of nonprogressors and others infected with HIV, seeking to understand what causes the poor function of most HIV-infected people's CD8+ T cells.
NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious and immune-mediated illnesses, including HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, illness from potential agents of bioterrorism, tuberculosis, malaria, autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies.
Reference:SA Migueles et al. HIV-specific CD8+ T cell proliferation is coupled to perforin expression and maintained in nonprogressors. Nature Immunology, advanced online publication at http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/Ni845.
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For those of us who have worn fins while snorkeling or swimming before, we know how much faster you are able to cut through the water with them on your feet. But as soon as you try to walk on land with those big flippers on, that grace and speed turns into awkward and ungainly steps. You have to concentrate very hard on not falling flat on your face and find yourself thinking that your own two small feet are much more convenient for walking on land than the flippers.
|The common loon in flight. Notice how far back on the body its feet are placed!
Photo by Ano Lobb from Wikimedia Commons.
So why do loons have so much trouble walking on land?
Because most of their lives are spent in water, the common loon's legs and feet are located extremely far back on their bodies, allowing them to swim and dive more efficiently. Loons don't use their wings to aid in propulsion while underwater, so they need all the power they can get from their legs and feet to catch tasty fish.
The placement of their legs means that they must slide on their belly while on land. Their legs can't support the weight of their body and so they instead use them to push off of the ground and slide forward. The only time you will find a loon on land is for mating or nesting. Common loons will build their nests on the shore, usually no more than 5 meters from the water, because it takes a lot of effort to belly flop even that short distance!
Watch the video below to see how comical a loon looks when stranded on land:
Though loons are strong fliers as well as divers, coming in for a landing can also be challenging. Their legs are too far back to thrust forward and use as landing gear, so they stick them straight back and make a splash-landing on their bellies, penguin style!
But what makes their legs and flippers so good for swimming and diving?
Common loons propel themselves through the water with sideways strokes of their legs and feet, similar to oars on a boat. Diving birds have leg bones with a long spike-like extension at the knee where very strong muscles connect. This part of their leg acts like a lever when a loon paddles, allowing the leg and foot to be powerfully propelled through the water. Each foot is fairly large with webbing between each toe. When a loon paddles through the water, the webbing fans out and the foot rotates slightly in relation to the body on the downstroke, allowing the maximum surface area to push off of the water. On the upstroke the toes will compress together and the webbing will bunch up so that there is minimal resistance cutting through the water. The motion of the foot splaying out and compressing in with each stroke creates an efficient mode of transportation for the water-loving loon. With legs and feet like these, they are able zoom through the water as fast as fish and dive up to 200 feet!
Loons rarely come onto land, and so it is not often that you will find one of these majestic creatures floundering through the mud of a lakeshore. You are much more likely to see them gliding effortlessly across a lake, until they disappear below the surface. Then you can imagine them easily hunting fish using their powerful legs and feet to propel them while diving. Even more so than wearing flippers to help you swim, just think how much faster you could be in the water with the streamlined body and strong legs and feet of a common loon!
To learn more about common loons and their flipper-foot conundrums visit these websites:
Piper, Walter. The Loon Project.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 2011. Common Loon, Life History. All About Birds.
Evers, David C., James D. Paruk, Judith W. Mcintyre and Jack F. Barr. 2010. Common Loon (Gavia immer), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; The Birds of North America Online.
Michigan Department of Natural Resources. 2014. Common loon (Gavia immer).
Shearwater Seabird Osteology. 2013. Divers/loons: Osteology.


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The leaf melted away from the ice. During the peak, this leave was encased in ice.
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The ice has since melted away. (Last weeked was "warm" in comparison.) They are calling for sleet/ice/snow tonight into tomorrow morning.
So I can admit that I LOVE to see trees coated in ice, right?
(This bush became icy in one section from the run off from the roof. pretty nonetheless & I wanted to take pictures of it for days - I finally succeeded the day before it all melted off. I know, I just repeated myself.)
If we get snowed/iced/sleeted in I am making stuffed shells tomorrow! (If not, I am making them on Friday. YUM.)


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CARSON, Calif. — The LA Galaxy showed off their depth in Wednesday night's CONCACAF Champions League victory over the Puerto Rico Islanders, romping to a 4-0 triumph while fielding what amounted to their reserve team.
Ten of the 11 LA starters on that night have played more in Major League Soccer's Reserve League than with the first team, and the 11th, winger Hector Jimenez, also has seen substantial reserve action. It was their prowess in those games that gave Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena and his staff the confidence to send them out in a must-win game.
"[These guys] have played well in reserve games and they train every day against a pretty good group of players," Arena said after the Galaxy completed their home portion in Group 5 with a maximum six points. "We see it in training, we know what they're capable of and the kind of qualities some of our players have, so we're not surprised by the performance."
LA was in charge from start to finish, going ahead in the seventh minute on a header by defender Tommy Meyer, dictating terms with big contributions from midfielders Rafael Garcia and Kenney Walker, getting a marvelous goal from Jose Villarreal at the outset of the second half, then netting an emphatic third from Jack McBean.
All above but McBean are rookies, and they all were among nine players 23 or younger in the starting XI.
"We've been playing together the whole year, and throughout the reserve league we've done well, and that's part of the reason we got the opportunity tonight," said third-year midfielder Michael Stephens, at 23 the longest-serving player in the lineup. "It was a really important game. It wasn't like [Arena] gave the reserve team some nonsense game. That was a really important game for this team."
There was good chemistry up front with Villarreal and McBean, who also have played together in the Galaxy Academy — "It's always good playing with a really skillful guy I can lay the ball off to," McBean noted — and Meyer and veteran Andrew Boyens locked things down in the back, limiting the Islanders to just two shots on target.
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"We all want to show that we belong here and that whenever we get called upon, we're ready," Garcia said. "So I thought the group [did] extremely, extremely well tonight in that sense. We're just looking to make the best of our opportunities."
Arena says he was confident in this group, which leads the Western Division reserve standings with a 4-2-1 record, would get the job done, that "that's the reason they played tonight, because we thought they could beat this team." He was pleased with how his youngsters took on the responsibility in a must-win game, and so were they.
"There's pride [in what we did]," Villarreal said. "But we just have to focus and not let that get in our way, because we've been playing in the Reserve League. We just have to keep playing the way we are, and when Bruce tells us to come and play, we just have to do what we did tonight."


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Maybe the Coen Brothers were joking in February when they said they were working on a horror film, just as long as they've got something in the pipeline.
Last month, during a talk at the Film Society of Lincoln Center moderated by Noah Baumbach, the Coen Brothers unveiled that they were working on a musical (transcript from The Playlist):
Noah: And you're working on a movie now that has quite a bit of music in it.
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Ethan: Yeah, it will be mostly live I think.
Joel: We're working on a movie now that has music in it but it's pretty much all performed live, single instrument so it's hard to tell.
It's since been learned that at the center of this new film will be folk legend Dave van Ronk, according to 24 Frames. Van Ronk one of the great organizing forces behind the folk movement in the East Village during the '60s, hobnobbing with the likes of Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Joni Mitchell.
The Coens' film will draw in part from van Ronk's posthumously published autobiography, "Mayor of McDougal Street."
Of course, the Coens' "O Brother Where Art Thou?" was almost a musical, packed with an amazing collection of songs that in hindsight remain far more entertaining the film itself. Don't get us wrong, "O Brother" was good, but it wasn't vintage Coens.
Which isn't to say we're not looking forard to this one, but we were pretty stoked about that horror film.


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After looking through the codex, I quickly noticed that a lot of the issues in the older codex were fixed (I'll just list a couple):
- You could no longer spam nothing but Carnifexes and Hive Tyrants and win games - A moment of silence for my footslogging Grey Knight army back in the 4th vs. the countless number of Nidzilla lists..
- Tyranids anti-tank no longer blow ass because Zoanthropes are the now go-to unit for blowing up anything within 18" with their S10 AP1 Lance. And in a lesser form, the Hive Guard at 50ppm and 2 shots of BS4 S8 shots with no LoS needed.
- And finally, some new monstrous creatures and better core choices so you didn't see the same Nidzilla cookie-cutter (I swear everyone thought theirs was unique) list in every game that you played.
As everyone knows, or everyone should know, Robin Cruddace wrote the Tyranid book. He also wrote the IG book and by the gods, that was a great book. Almost everything in the IG book has a use, everything was priced well internally and the entire book paved way to many diverse and interesting competitive lists. That book was pretty damn good to say the least. I would even say the book deserved a 5/5 in terms of power, balance and design. It made IG players weep and Marine players weep harder.
The Tyranid book, on the other hand, gets a 3/5. Maybe. The book lacks the internal balance needed to make it truly competitive. Some bad units are overpriced, some good units are underpriced; further pushing other units out of the scope of viablity, and some units are downright terrible. Not to mention most of the good choices of the book all belong under Elites in the FOC.. so players are further limited in their unit choice. The prices for everyone's favorite Hive Tyrant and Carnifex went up immensely, putting them high on the shelves in terms of playability. Some design arrangements are extremely questionable: Such as Crushing Claws available on a Carnifex when it has the ability to take Frag grenades.. or the fact that the tankiest of the Tyranid units (the Fex) cannot take a 2+ armor save when a Hive Tyrant can. These things on top of the internal balance issues sets this codex way back on the awesome scale for me. After purchasing the book and examining it myself, I looked on other gaming sites such as Warseer and Dakka Dakka and the Tyranid community was in an outrage. I concur with their tears of shame and death threats to the entire staff of GW.
So, just like any competitive player would do, I quickly set up some games with my good friend Adam who happens to be a really good player. I've played him before with my Wolves vs. his Eldar and Thousand Sons and all those games were spectacular (I force myself to forget the time he tabled me with IG). He has been playing with Nids since 3rd and they're arguably his favorite army. To make a long story short, we played a few games and reached the conclusion that Tyranids were no longer something special.. that a lot of the problems match the concerns I had above and that the changes to the codex was a giant ploy to sell more models. The last conspiracy theory is really just my theory.. but if you look at how good Tyranid Warriors, Hive Guard, Zoanthropes and Trygons are and how much a list of those units cost, it's not completely out of the question.
I enjoy making lists, not just for my primary armies, but for all armies. I like to put myself in my enemies' shoes and see first hand what breathing slime and treachery is all about. The new Tyranid Codex, I view as a challenge for a competitive gamer. You have to think really hard on what your metagame is and how to successfully build a list around it. There are several hard matchups for Nids in 5th, and the hardest ones are all on the top of the tourney tree; Space Wolves, IG and Eldar.
So, let's take a look at my 2K Nids list. More or less, I'll talk about why I feel my unit choices are the way to do things with the new book:
13 kp
Tyranid Prime (2x BS, Toxin, Regen) = 110
Tyranid Prime (2x BS, Toxin, Regen) = 110
20x Gaunts = 120
20x Gaunts = 120
10x Genestealers = 140
6x Warriors (BS/LW, Toxin, Devo, Venom) = 315
3x Zoan (Pod) = 220
3x Zoan (Pod) = 220
Deathleaper = 140
Trygon Prime (Regen) = 265
Trygon (Regen) = 225
The first thing you'll notice here is that I went with the cheap HQs. Hive Tyrants are a thing of the past.. the fact that you have to pay a healthy amount on them, add Guards and give them abilities makes them stupid expensive. Sure, a MC is good to have, but the fact that you're paying more for him than the 2x Primes I have above is somewhat questionable. Anyways, the Primes are there to soak up damage (take a S8 missile on him since he's T5), provide synapse across the army and slay things in combat because his stats are pretty damn good. The fact that LS on the Warriors can make a model strike last means 2x Boneswords will have a chance to ID most ICs.
The next thing you'll notice is my Gaunt wall with Warriors and counter-charging Genestealers. The gaunts form an impressive front wall for the main Tyranid advance and the Warriors lay down suppressing fire with the Primes to soak up ID damage. Gaunts act as cover and provide that fodder that Tyranids desperately need. A lot of people like the killiness of Gaunts with Adrenal Glands and Toxin Sacs.. but that puts them at 10ppm.. something too expensive for Tyranids to afford. I mean I guess if you drop the points elsewhere, or sub out the stealers, you can go that route.. but if you go for the counter-charging route, Genestealers are better because of higher WS, I and Rending. Speaking of which, Genestealers have no way to get frag grenades (like most things in the army) so they're used just like Harlequins would be in a Wratihguard army. You hold the line with Gaunts/Warriors and you go in for the kill with Genestealers. It's not like the new book made them any worse in combat.. and Rending is serious business when dealing with a MEQ heavy metagame. The Warriors are 6-strong with Bonesword/Lash Whips. The BS and LW combo makes them virtually unkillable in assault (both charging and receiving). They have Power Weapons that re-rolls to wound because of Toxin Sacs and the Lash Whips makes any model in BtB with them strike last. For anyone who doesn't understand how close combat works (looking at you Tau), this means that when you charge them, you will die before you swing. It doesn't matter if you're in cover or not; BS/LW makes that point moot. The Venom Cannon is there because S6 blasts makes Marines out of transports cry and you can always fire on the move anyway. If there's a time the Tyranid army is not in full advance, it's doing something wrong; like in 4th when all they did was shoot. From a gameplay vs design perspective, that was completely backwards to how Tyranids were supposed to play.
For my elite choices (and believe me, these are hard), I went with 2x groups of Zoanthropes in Pods and the Deathleaper. I'll start with Deathleaper and why he's metagame dependent. In clubs where psykers are many, Deathleaper brings a lovely -D3 leadership to any of your opponents characters at the start of the game. This makes psychic tests a chore.. which is something a Ld. 10 psyker never does. It also makes psychic hood attempts extremely frustrating when fighting against a Nid player taking 6x Zoanthropes. Not to mention the Deathleaper is pretty good in combat (WS9, I7, 4 attacks base with Rending on 5+), makes approaching the Nid army from different angles a rather complicated process (units within 12" rolls a single D6 when moving through terrain), and can't really been seen/shot (special Night Fighting rules and Stealth USR gives him 3++ cover). Not to mention he can redeploy during the game so he can auto-contest those objectives whenever you please. Keep in mind that it takes a fairly smart player to use the Deathleaper correctly. Deploying him in front of Space Marine vehicles with spotlights because you think your night-fighting is really unique is not smart.
The Zoanthropes in this list is a no brainer. You pass a psychic test with a Zoan, you roll his BS4 to hit, and whatever vehicle you hit disappears. Not to mention S5 AP3 blasts at 24" makes Marines want to hide in their vehicles that they no longer have. The two Pods are there so the Zoans can close the distance faster.. but remember that you don't need to always keep the Zoans in Pods. You can easily drop one of the Pods out of your list for more points, or across the board so you can footslog your Zoanthropes with the rest of your army. The 3++ will protect against a lot of threats and those shots directed at them means less is going into your army. Not to mention they provide a lot of "come near me and die" scenarios; which generates threat in your favor.
Lastly, we have Trygons. They replaced the mighty Carnfiex ($55 ppm.. lol conspiracy) in terms of cost effectiveness. With WS5, 6 MC attacks that re-rolls to hit and S6, they tear apart all MEQ and transports in the game. Not to mention they have 6 wounds which only gets better with the Nids' new and improved regen. Once again, they don't need to be reserved and can offer an additional threat to your opponents if they're deployed early on the field. Or they can be DS'd and pose a threat to your opponents rear armor, or if you're a Trygon Prime, Shadows of the Warp on the enemy's psyker. Note that the Deathleaper also offers them a Phermone Trail to teleport beacon onto and that your CC Nids have the option to come out of the Trygon's tunnel as well. Trygons have Fleet too, so they can really close that gap if they wanted to. As you can see.. a lot of possibilities for what to do with them.
Keep in mind that the list above is just something I had floating around. In terms of competitive army construction, it's all there. You have a strong HQ base, a large amount of anti-tank options, you have Deathleaper disruption, a strong troop selection, unassailable Tyranid Warriors, 2x Trygons and multiple threats coming from everywhere. Of course, this is just a list that I whipped up a while back and hasn't been playtested at all. Through playtesting in your metagame, you might decide to swap out a batch of Zoans for 3x Hive Guard (saves you a bunch of points). You might decide that killy Gaunts are better than Genestealers, or that you want more Warriors (or even 2 groups of them). You might even drop the Deathleaper and go with the Doom of Malan'tai in a Pod and have some fun that way. In the end, as long as you take advantage of what's good (what's left really) in the Nid book and make good use of it, your list will remain competitive.


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California public schools were faced with a massive cut in Governor Jerry Brown's January budget, which called for $4.8 billion be slashed from state schools unless voters agree to tax hikes.
"We're in a box in the state of California, we have more needs, desires and demands than the money available," Brown said in a press conference.
Much of the state's money is in education, so when dwindling revenue requires spending cuts, schools are the first target, Brown said.
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"The economy and the tax statues of California only make so much money available," he said.
A battle is brewing in the legislature over how to handle the state's lackluster revenue. Democrats think the cuts are too painful, but Republicans oppose raising taxes to make up the difference.
"Last year we were willing to talk about letting the voter decide on that, but we wanted to see the reforms and I think our focus has stayed the same," State Senator Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) told NBC 4. "Taxes should be the absolute last thing that should be considered, we don't think they're necessary this year. … Reform is clearly the end game here."
Brown's proposed tax hikes would be temporary and focus on wealthier Californians, but Republicans in the legislature said the state's economy is growing and will suffer if taxes are raised.
Huff said he and his caucus will actively campaign against tax hikes should they make it onto the November ballot.
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Thirteen Things I Remember.....Do you remember them as well?
1. The arches at McDonalds used to be part of the building style. They went through the building.
2. Scooby Doo without Scrappy Doo and guest stars such as Sonny and Cher
3. Record players and pieces of furnture that were referred to as "the Hi-Fi"
4. Televisions that were encased in huge cabinets.
5. Women wearing aprons
6. Little girls wearing crinolines…slips with layer upon layer of tulle that scratched your "hiney" when you sat down not to mention the panties with 50 layers of ruffles, the "big girl" tights that never stayed up, frilly, frilly white ankle socks AND shiny black patent maryjanes
7. Krystal (Whitecastle) burgers costing 17 cents a piece and the décor was shiny silver ala 1950's diner…..the lettering on their cups and bags was in black with a splash of purple (it's strange what you can remember…)
8. the Sears store on Gordon Road in SW Atlanta near the Dunkin Doughnuts had a large Winnie-the-Pooh display in the children's department. It included a large tree. I always wanted to climb up the tree and visit with "Pooh" and Christopher Robin
9. when lunches at school were ONE choice only. You ate what you were given or starved….Most ate and amazingly no rights were violated at all
10. a time before middle schools. I went to school through seventh grade in the same building before switching over to the high school.
11. I remember Blue Laws…..everything including grocery stores closed on Sunday.
12. when teachers were RESPECTED and had AUTHORITY
13. when the once-a-year test was given over three consecutive days instead of interrupting instructional time for 14


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Model freaks have been ruining their eyesight and huffing glue fumes with Model Race Car Hell since the Barney Oldfield era, but what about models inspired by the fastest-growing race series in the world?
One crazy Canadian has started what we're sure will be the next big modelmaking craze, with his 1:24 scale model of the Castor Civic-Ensis 5th-gen Honda Civic, which finished 34th at the 2008 24 Hours Of LeMons Detroit-ish race.
It's possible to get models of so many LeMons cars, from Camaros to Proteges… but why stop there? We're thinking LeMons dioramas here! It wouldn't be hard to change the Tamiya Rally Mechanics into LeMons Mechanics, simply by adding mullets and replacing all their tools with hammers and rolls of duct tape!
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Good news for radio folks: Au CS6 brings back Cart Timers and Radio Industry RIFF metadata
Metadata is one of those topics it's hard to get excited about, until you realize it's essential to your work and without it, you're doomed. OK, maybe I'm exaggerating—but great as Audition CS5.5 was, it was missing some key metadata-related features that our customers in the radio industry missed sorely.
Actually, it was worse than that: because Audition CS5.5 didn't support Cart Timers and Radio Industry metadata, it meant that Audition no longer played nicely with some radio automation systems. Which meant that even if you LOVED Audition CS5.5 for its speed and elegance, it may not have fit into your production pipeline.
Happily, Audition C6 changes all that, bringing back and improving on these two key features.
For those of you who are reading this and don't work in radio, Cart Chunk is an open, AES-blessed standard used extensively in radio that leverages metadata to add information to digital audio files. Built to digitally replicate the old analog notion of "cart labels"—which physically labeled magnetic tape reels or carts—this standardized metadata is used by many radio automation and scheduling systems.
Audition 3 supported CART timers, but they're now much easier to use in Audition CS6. Add Cart Timer markers by simply pressing C, whether you're in Waveform or Multitrack view. (Want a plain old Cue marker? Just press M.) Using this keyboard shortcut sets the Cart Timer type to EOD, but you can change that just by clicking on the triangle next to the name field to choose the desired marker type (SEG, AUD, INT, OUT, SEC, TER, MRK, EOD); you can also enter a 4 character custom name.
If you have a range of time selected when you use the C keyboard shortcut to create a Cart Timer, the Duration is set to match the time range; you can always change this either by scrubbing the value in the Markers panel, by entering a new value in that field, or by repositioning the start or end point of the marker above the timeline.
You can also create Cart Timer markers manually by clicking on the little Add Cue Marker widget in the Markers panel then choosing Cart Timer from the Type menu (a clunkier process but, hey, we're all about flexibility); you'll then want to change the default name of Marker 01 or whatever increment you've reached to one of the options from the drop down list.
There's a lot more to say about markers in CS6, so we'll save that for a future blog post, and close this out with a few words about Radio Industry-specific RIFF metadata. We added the tab back in! Check it out: open the Metadata panel, click on the RIFF tab—now there's a Show As menu, and if you choose Radio Industry, you'll see a subset of options with just the fields relevant to radio.
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USCG 500grt to MCA 500gt to MCA 3000grt
Hopefully the OP just neglected to post the long list of other requirements for the oceans endorsement of a 500 ton master's license. Some of which are not all that simple to obtain.
A better question to ask the OP is "Why do you want an MCA CeC?"
If you have a USCG 500 ton master with an oceans endorsement it may be worth your while to simply apply for a Cayman endorsement.
Why spend a bunch of money chasing a yacht limited ticket that is of lesser value than your commercial license or a CeC needed to work on a UK flagged merchant vessel?
"... what tickets or routes do you believe would be best to have on my CV?"
Exactly the route you are taking now is the best route in your circumstances. The chances of your getting a job running a UK flag yacht are somewhere around zilch, plus or minus a percentage point, there just aren't many in the pool you want to jump into. The vast majority will be flagged Cayman Islands, Marshall Islands, or one of the other "Red Ensign Group" flags. All of those offer you an endorsement based on your USCG commercial license.
The MCA yacht license is severely limited, it is only valid on yachts, you cannot use it for any other service and if and when the IMO finishes messing with the limited license structure I can see it becoming even more of an orphan. For you it is a dead end track that you don't need to follow. You certainly shouldn't invest any money in the scheme.
Complete your training and seatime for the USCG 500/1600 ton oceans and apply for a Cayman Islands and/or Marshall Islands endorsement. That is all you need. When you have accumulated the sea time required for a 1600/3000 ton license, repeat the process. Yacht crewing agents, for the most part, know very little about licensing and simply parrot the standard MCA license phrases they have been taught. Get that 500/1600 license with a Cayman endorsement and you can then tell them you have whatever the endorsement states.
If the yachting experience doesn't suit you, will have wasted nothing and still have a professional certificate to use for future maritime employment. The yachting world is a tiny tiny island in the maritime world and it is important that you don't become stranded on it.
No problem Cooper. And I apologize for mixing you and Anon in my last post, no offense intended.
Good luck and don't ever forget that in a large pool of people with the same certificates, the guy who comes across as accurate and professional really stands out. Of course the guy who comes across as an amateur does too but not the way you probably want to stand out ...


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Starting at: Wood Green
Arrive at: East Ham
Journey time between Wood Green and East Ham averages at 66 minutes
Stations passed through from Wood Green
- Turnpike Lane
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Local disruptions
Most Tube station ticket machines are only accepting bank cards. You can top up using your contactless and Oyster account, the TfL Oyster and contactless app or an Oyster ticket stop. Ticket machines at all London Overground and DLR stations are still accepting cash.
HAMMERSMITH & CITY LINE: Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 July, no service between Hammersmith and Barking. Replacement buses operate between Tower Hill and Barking via Canning Town.
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Fares between two stations may vary depending on the direction of travel, time of day and day of the week.
We charge higher fares at the busiest times of the day (usually between 06:30 and 09:30, and between 16:00 and 19:00, Monday to Friday).
When you pay as you go, you must touch your contactless or Oyster card on a yellow reader at the start and end of your journey.
Some journeys are charged via Zone 1 regardless of the route taken.
If your journey avoids Zone 1 and you see a pink card reader when changing trains, touch your contactless or Oyster card on it to pay the right fare.
Return journey: East Ham to Wood Green
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If you apply for life insurance and get rejected, it's usually due to a specific health condition. Here's what you can do to appeal their decision:
1. Ask the insurer to tell you, in writing, what specific condition disqualified you for coverage and where they obtained that information.
2. Review their information for accuracy. If you find any discrepancies, contact the doctor and ask him or her to correct the information. If the information is accurate, discuss the condition with your doctor. If the doctor thinks the condition is not a major health risk, ask him or her if they'd be willing to write a letter on your behalf to the insurer.
Other options:
• Asking the company if they would consider issuing coverage at what's called a "rated premium."
• Applying to other companies. Just because one company doesn't want to take on your risk doesn't mean another one won't. Each company determines which risk they are willing to take. (Brokers can help with this.)
• If ultimately, you don't qualify for coverage through a standard life insurance company, consider applying for coverage through a company that offers covereage specifically for high-risk people. You'd pay more, but at least you'd have coverage.
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HIPRA stands out at the NAU-ISU Forum (China)
HIPRA stands out at the NAU-ISU Forum (China)
From 18-21 September, the renowned NAU-ISU Forum Swine Production and Health Conference was held in Nanjing (China), attracting over 1,000 attendees and 30 speakers.
Thanks to the local team, HIPRA played a prominent role, holding an event focused on the development, diagnosis and control of various bacterial diseases of pigs, including colibacillosis and atrophic rhinitis, areas in which the company is currently working very intensively, this with the collaboration of a number of experts, including Dr. Guoqing Shao PhD, who belongs to the JAAS (Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences), and Dr. Alex Ramirez PhD, Professor at Iowa State University and Vice-President of the Association of American Swine Veterinarians (AASV), both of whom have extensive knowledge and experience in various diseases of swine.
With this action, HIPRA CHINA gives a further boost to its presence in the swine market in this country, where many of HIPRA's most innovative vaccines are already present, one example being RHINISENG®, which is already a big hit in this key Asian market.
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Quantified biomarkers aid glioma resection
Medical Physics Web
December 12, 2011
Researchers based in the US, Canada and Spain have published a proof-of-concept study showing that a quantitative assessment of multiple biologically relevant biomarkers can be used to optically guide surgical resection of gliomas, the most common type of primary brain tumour (J. Biomed. Opt. 16 116007).
Having developed an algorithm that takes five biomarkers into account, the team hopes to detect tumour tissue with significantly higher accuracy than the current state-of-the-art: qualitative visual assessments of fluorescence contrast produced by endogenous protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) or even quantitative assessments of PpIX concentrations alone.
"We are, to the best of our knowledge, the first group to quantify and incorporate quantitative biomarkers into a biologically relevant approach for guidance during resection of gliomas," researcher Pablo Valdés from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, told medicalphysicsweb. "This approach even extends to detecting low-grade gliomas in vivo with a high diagnostic accuracy."
... "We wish to continue to test this multiple biomarker approach by evaluating it on a larger cohort," concluded Valdés. "Our group, led by Keith Paulsen, Professor of Engineering, and David W Roberts, Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery) at Dartmouth, is currently working on extending this quantitative approach to a wide-field imaging modality, as opposed to a single spectroscopic point approach."


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Maxim just released it's Hot 100 list of gorgeous gals and not to be outdone, as a prelude to AfterElton.com's annual Hot 100 list, they asked Neil Patrick Harris to rate his top 10 hottest guys in Hollywood – and his list includes a Jonas Brother, a superhero and a vampire killer.
The "How I Met Your Mother " star starts his top 10 with someone who isn't even legal yet – Nick Jonas.
"I know, I know. He's young - I'm not supposed to. But I can't help it. He's got those bedroom eyes," he said of the youngest JoBro, whom he ranked at number 10.
"True Blood's" Ryan Kwanten, who Neil calls "crazy sexy," comes in at the ninth spot followed by Channing Tatum and James Franco, in eight and seventh place, respectively.
Taye Diggs gets props and the sixth spot from Neil for being a "total charmer" and the "coolest guy."
"Green Lantern" star Ryan Reynolds make Neil's top five – someone the actor has had his eye on.
"One day I watched him working out at the gym wearing jeans! Jeans!" Neil recalled. "And you know what? He pulled it off. (The look, not the jeans.)"
Colin Farrell comes in at number four, followed by rugby star David Williams at number three and Ryan Phillippe getting the runner-up honors.
As for his top pick, Neil kept it classy and gave it to longtime boyfriend David Burtka.
"He's the total package (Yeah, I did.) Singer, dancer, chef, brilliant actor and, hands down, one of the funniest people I've ever met," Neil said of David. "I'm very lucky to have him in my life."
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Broomfield police are investigating a two-car accident in which one of the drivers was ejected from her vehicle and killed Thursday.
The accident occurred at about 2:20 p.m. in the 15900 block of Pikes Peak Drive, not far from the intersection of Lowell Boulevard and Preble Creek Parkway, according to a Broomfield police news release.
Police and crews from North Metro Fire Rescue responded to the scene, where they discovered a woman who had been ejected from her vehicle. The victim, described as in her early 50s, was transported to an area hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival, according to police.
The Adams County coroner will release the victim's name.
The accident remains under investigation. Drugs and alcohol are not believed to have been involved.


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KDM was registered as a proprietorship in 1974 and incorporated in 1976. After being located at 705 Progress Ave for 18 years, the company has moved twice to gain much needed additional manufacturing space.
Ron Bull founded KDM Electronics Incorporated to design and manufacture central speaker clusters and sound systems for Recreational Facilities (Hockey and Figure Skating Arenas, Gymnasiums, Community Halls, Swimming Pools, etc.).
These sound systems are flexible, easy to operate, and capable of producing voice and music quality not normally found in these types of facilities. Ron Bull's experience and education have enabled the company to meet and exceed its goals.
KDM introduced the Octasound Speaker System in 1985. This product is a completely self contained 360º Central Speaker Cluster shaped in the form of an Octagon. This new product design represented a radical departure from the normal approach of constructing a central speaker cluster. Before the introduction of the Octasound Central Speaker, it was normal practice to construct a custom frame that secured a variety of manufactured components to form a central speaker cluster.
The new Octasound Central Speaker Cluster has greatly improved the sound quality available for end users. The Octasound Central Speaker is an economical, compact and aesthetically attractive design compared to the rather ugly, bulky designs of the past.
Between 1985 and the present, KDM has introduced a family of Octasound Speaker Systems to meet market requirements. The original design was very large, weighed 285 lbs. and was over 36 cubic feet in volume. Today Octasound Central Speaker models weigh between 7 and 75 lbs. and are only 0.75 to 4 cubic feet in volume.
In 1990, KDM introduced an extremely compact Mini Octagon Speaker. Currently KDM offers two models. The KDM SP80A and KDM SP800A models are targeted towards the market that normally uses ceiling type speakers. In addition to the Mini Octasounds, KDM has also introduced several models that are designed to cover a 180° angle and use a 'half octagon'. For complete info on how these designs work together please click here.
Over the years, KDM has also introduced a variety of electronic products that are designed to provide the most user-friendly possible interface for the end user.


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Chaney Dining Center Hosts Canton Jamaican Restaurant 'Da Kitchen'Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
SUNY Canton's Chaney Dining Center recently presented students with a full menu of Jamaican cuisine.
Dining center staff invited guest cook Jody A. Pitt from Da Kitchen in downtown Canton to cook her specialties. Pitt is a former student who saw the opportunity to share her cooking alongside the dinner service at Chaney.
"Chaney provided the ingredients and I provided my recipes," Pitt said, as she stirred a large pot of rice in Chaney's kitchen. "I'm so happy to see students come out. I love to see people enjoying our food."
She prepared ox tail, curry chicken, rice and peas and jerk pork.
Students lined up for the specialty fares. Tracy T. Miller, a Sports Management Major from Brooklyn, was already a regular customer at Da Kitchen. Miller said he loved the convenience of having the food at the dining center. "I wish they had this all the time," he added.
Susan D. Law, director of dining services, said having guest cooks from local restaurants fits in with the overall mission to tie food services with local vendors and growers. "We like to tie our operations with local businesses whenever we can," she said. "In this case it gives students new options while helping Jody market her business."
Steven W. Maiocco, assistant director of dining and executive chef said, "Our students love to try new things and are very appreciative of the expanded selection."
The Dining Center also hosts local vendor and grower exhibitions each semester to highlight its ties with local businesses.
About SUNY Canton
SUNY Canton is Northern New York's premier College for career-driven bachelor's degrees, associate degrees and certificate programs. The College delivers quality hands-on programs in engineering technology, health, management, and public service to students in the North Country, New York State, and beyond. Faculty members are noted for their professional real-world experience in addition to their academic credentials. SUNY Canton OnLine offers hundreds of flexible and convenient courses as well as eight exclusively online bachelor's degrees. The College's 14 athletic teams compete in state-of-the-art facilities as provisional members of the NCAA Division III and the USCAA.


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Slowly it is getting down to the nitty gritty. Protests in the state capitol won't work. Lots of teachers and parents marching outside of schools may not do the trick either.
There may be only one way to siphon the four Republican votes needed to pass tax hike extensions and balance the state budget.
Give those legislators some cover.
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It has been said before but it merits repeating. If Republicans are upset over systemic problems with the budget and with public education give them a chance to address both.
A spending cap with teeth could do the trick with the former, reform of the "last in first out" seniority system for teachers could work for the latter.
The potential for this to work is borne out by the fact so many dismiss the idea.
Tom Torlakson the state Superintendent of Schools elected in large measure by the California Teachers Association, recently said tenure was "too complicated" an issue to be placed as a ballot measure tied up with the budget.
Really? What is complicated about not giving a teacher a job for life after just two years in the classroom?
Democrats have long opposed a spending cap that could actually limit the amount of spending to the revenue that actually comes in to the state treasury.
They have an honest argument as to why that could hurt the poor and disabled as well as others who depend on Sacramento for what constitutes a decent standard of living. Why not debate that issue before the voters?
Whatever Republican agrees to the tax hike vote may be forced from his job as a result of the conservative anti-tax right that dominates the party.
There are a few that may take that gamble if they can get something in return that would placate moderates in both parties -- who will have a roll in next year's general elections thanks to the "top two" ballot reform.
My guess is the governor is willing to cut some deal to get the matter finished. Now he just has to convince his party's labor constituents that such a deal is better than closing schools.