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OAKLAND, California — Outside Oracle Arena, it's a balmy 65-degree spring day. But up in the building's rafters, 80-odd feet above the hardwood floor, the air is crisp and the view vertigo-inducing.
They tell me the future of professional basketball is up here somewhere, but all I'm trying to do is step carefully along the 30-inch-wide catwalks without dropping my notebook on the performers below. They're busy rehearsing for their performance during the Golden State Warriors' final home game of the season, still some seven hours away.
"Well, you're going to have to look down if you want to see the camera."
Travis Schlenk, the team's director of player personnel and resident stats geek, has already been up here three times this season, so you'd think this would be no big deal for him, but his sweaty palms are grasping the railing the same as mine. He's right, though. About six feet down, affixed to one of the giant concrete beams supporting the Oracle Arena ceiling, is a nondescript yet professional-looking videocam staring down at the eastern half of the court.
There are five more of these cameras strategically placed within Oracle Arena, and while a sellout crowd of 19,596 watched the hometown team destroy the playoff-bound Portland Trail Blazers by 24 points that evening, these eyes in the sky were streaming high-quality video to servers in the Midwest.
The system is called SportVU, named for the Israeli startup that developed the tech. Stats, the Chicago-based data-crunching outfit in charge of this whole operation, is hoping a six-team pilot program conducted this season will usher in a new era of advanced basketball analytics.
Forget box scores that just show rebounds, assists and shooting percentage. How about calculating dribbles per possession, or the miles each player runs in a half? These previously unquantifiable statistics, along with myriad others, are now a reality in today's NBA.
And while 80 percent of league teams still haven't wised up to the coming wave of data analysis, SportVU can boast three of this season's six division winners as clients, as well as upstart squads like the Warriors. With more teams seemingly ready to jump aboard next season, the basketball-analytics tide has decidedly turned. and the game may never be the same.
From Science to Slam Dunks
Contrary to all indications, SportVU doesn't have its roots in sports at all. The firm was founded in 2005 by Miky Tamir, an Israeli entrepreneur who earned a Ph.D. in physics and worked for the Soreq Nuclear Research Center for 12 years. His speciality is in advanced optical recognition and image processing, and Tamir founded the company six years ago based on missile-tracking technology he had developed.
SportVU started out analyzing soccer games by recording ball and player motion more than a dozen times per second. The footage was piped through SportVU's proprietary algorithms to plot the data on a three-dimensional grid. What resulted were not only custom animations and tailored scouting reports, but also virtual reams of CSV data that could be further parsed by third parties.
SportVU made different kind of headlines during the 2008 U.S. presidential election when it provided CNN with its now-famous Jedi-like holograms of anchor Jessica Yellin during the network's coverage.
Stats — itself jointly owned by the Associated Press and Rubert Murdoch's News Corporation — had already been eyeing the startup for some time. Less than a month later, it bought out enough SportVU investors to take control of the company. The algorithm-development team stayed in Tel Aviv, while data management and processing was centralized in Stats' Chicago headquarters.
Once acquired, Stats executives knew they had to move beyond soccer. (This is the United States, after all, where soccer often rides the proverbial pine in favor of more popular activities.) Enter Brian Kopp, Stats' VP of strategy and development.
He's the guy saddled with the task of convincing any franchise willing to hear him out that the SportVU system really might change how the team plays the game. Kopp and his colleagues were left with the critical decision of deciding which sport best lent itself to the optical-recognition functionality SportVU was offering.
"Baseball is kind of a one-to-one game," Kopp says. "Yeah, there are some elements of the fielders, but most of what goes on is the pitcher-batter dynamic. And within all these other sports, there are so many other players involved, and the flow of the game is so important." And with companies like Northern California's Sportvision having already claimed that part of the analytics market with its successful PITCHf/x system, Stats looked elsewhere.
Football was soon ruled out as well, although Kopp maintains that it's "certainly something that we're working on." Before long, basketball emerged as the front-runner for SportVU expansion. With its consistent scoring, there'd be enough data points that the company was sure teams would be interested, and the relatively confining nature of the game — a regulation NBA court is only 94 feet by 50 feet — meant it would be simpler to film. (Oh, and the NBA is a $4 billion industry, which probably helped matters, too.)
Just one problem: Kopp had to convince NBA teams that it's a program worth joining. Without team participation, there'd be no data to collect and the effort would be fruitless. And besides, teams have had access to play-by-play data for decades: simple, textual rundowns that efficiently map how a game played out. A brief scan of a one-page printout as you're running into the locker room at halftime, and a knowledgeable coach can determine intermediate-level metrics like assist-to-field-goal ratio and turnovers-per-minute on the fly.
"You don't want to come in and say, 'Look at all this cool technology. Look at all this data it can spit out,'" Kopp says. "People think that's cool, but teams had one of two reactions. One is, 'That's great, but I don't understand what it means.' The other was, 'What am I going to do with that?'"
Kopp set out to approach those teams he felt would be most receptive to new technology: "It's not like we offered this to all 30 teams." Those charter members — guinea pigs? — were the Houston Rockets, billionaire Mark Cuban's Dallas Mavericks, the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
An encouraging start, but none are huge media markets. Who'd be the next big fish? LeBron James' Miami Heat? How about the Chicago Bulls, just a few miles from Stats headquarters? A well-timed, offhand conversation at a small Northern California college would soon determine all that.
Right Time, Right Now
As it happens, the Golden State Warriors weren't looking to become a part of the NBA's semisecret pack of data-minded revolutionaries. Hell, Warriors fans were just happy enough to be rid of despised former owner Chris Cohan, who sold the team last summer to venture capitalist Joe Lacob (a partner at Kleiner Perkins for 24 years) and film producer Peter Guber.
Lacob's 22-year-old son Kirk, the team's newly minted director of basketball operations, brought a fresh face and youthful energy to the front office, while Schlenk provided experience and contacts. But it another member of this forward-thinking triumvirate who started the whole process with Stats.
In mid-October, opening night for the 2010-11 season was still 11 days away when Pat Sund, the team's basketball operations coordinator and son of Atlanta Hawks general manager Rick Sund, found himself at the Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports. While there, taking in all the sports geekery one could expect to encounter at tiny Menlo College, he bumped into Dean Oliver, a former director of quantitative analysis for the NBA's Denver Nuggets, who's since become ESPN's first-ever director of production analytics.
Oliver talked up the system to Sund, who took the info back to Schlenk and Kirk Lacob at Warriors HQ. Within weeks, the Warriors staff had contacted Stats and a technician was flown the 1,850 miles to scope out SportVU's potential West Coast testing ground.
But before all that could be finalized, Golden State had to prepare for the coming season. The team, coached by former Indiana University hero Keith Smart, went on the road to face the Houston Rockets, who had already enlisted as one of SportVU's first four teams. They'd be trying out the system in earnest for the first time that night.
The visiting Warriors won a 132-128 nail-biter, and though SportVU was collecting tracking data on them, Golden State didn't get detailed, customized reports uploaded to the team's FTP site the next morning the way Houston did.
Sure, Schlenk and Smart saw that All-Star guard Monta Ellis pumped in 46 points and newcomer David Lee had 17 points and 15 rebounds. But they weren't privy to the same kind of knowledge and analysis that Rockets general manager (and MIT grad) Daryl Morey and his crew had.
Two-and-a-half months later, that all changed.
Fun With Numbers
Time to fess up: It's not really about the cameras. You might think that a slick cross-continent video-delivery and data-analysis pipeline would depend much on the quality of the cameras it's using, but Stats brass doesn't think that.
In fact, they won't disclose the make and model of the cameras they use. For them, it's all about the data.
"The power of our system is in the software, not the hardware," Kopp says.
Indeed, it's this custom software, anchored by SportVU's proprietary algorithms, that parses the data being collected 25 times a second from each equipped arena. The software even deciphers and identifies every dribble and pass, based solely on optical movement of the ball and its relative distance to the players.
"Once we have the data ingested and processed, then we have a number of queries and programs we've written to generate those reports and those CSV files," Kopp says. "We've made it so that process is fairly automatic."
For all that comp-sci wizardry, the Stats crew has helped articulate and define gads of previously unseen metrics. Through the Warriors' first 14 SportVU-enabled home games at Oracle Arena, data showed that guards Monta Ellis and Stephen Curry were accounting for nearly 60 percent of the team's entire ball possession.
Curry, the team's point guard, had gotten 937 touches of the ball over that time, compared to 948 for Ellis, the team's leading scorer. More interesting for the Warriors was seeing that the team had a 51.5 shooting percentage off passes from Ellis compared to 44.6 percent from Curry.
Stats can also take the data and turn it into top-down graphical representations of how each segment of the game played out, for a perspective of the game and its flow never before seen by players and coaches.
Stats brought this kind of insight to every other client as well. Should Houston guard Kevin Martin shoot the ball after holding it more than four seconds? Probably not.
Is there more to San Antonio center Matt Bonner's remarkable three-point shooting this season than blind luck? Better believe it.
And let's just say veteran point guard Jason Kidd still protects the ball as well as he ever did when he was a rising star at the University of California at Berkeley.
There have been plenty of other new data points, ranging from points per touch to catch-and-shoot field-goal percentage to secondary assists per game, even how physically far apart the players are from their defenders during the game. But what are coaches today doing with it, and is the sport prepared for such a statistical overhaul? These are questions that remain to be answered.
"Everyone sees that there's going to be a lot of value here. It's just a matter of what that value is going to be," says Schlenk. He adds that while Smart and the Warriors' coaching staff have seen some of the SportVU reports, "they haven't really done a lot with it."
Beyond trying to sway entire coaching staffs, most of whom boast decades of combined NBA experience, just the mere implementation of the SportVU system can be tricky. Oracle Arena, which formally opened in November 1966, presented a unique design challenge. The setup requires that the six cameras be installed at specific points, so as to analyze the exact angles of gameplay as in other arenas.
In any modern venue, it's normally a simple installation that could be done by a single technician in an afternoon. But because of the unique interior of Oracle Arena, Stats had to go back and remap where the cameras would be installed. It settled on two central overhead cameras — one above each side of the center-court line — and a pair overlooking each side of the court from above the seating bowl.
To nearby patrons, as well as members of the press sitting just 10 feet below, they look like something akin to high-end security cameras. But to Warriors executives, coaches and fans, they represent something much more intangible: hope.
Hoop Dreams
Of course, it's too late now for the beleaguered Warriors, who wrapped up this season at 36-46, 10 games out of the final Western Conference playoff spot. And with this NBA offseason heading into uncertainty because of a looming work stoppage, Travis Schlenk and his scouts may have more time than they'd prefer to pore over a half-season's chunk of data.
Kopp readily admits that teams are more than welcome to take those CSV files supplied by Stats and look elsewhere. If they can get more usefulness out of them from another company, so be it. "We've identified dribbles and touches and passes based on our own logic, but a team could say, 'No, I want to define it based on my logic.' But then they have to go through and build that logic in, and then they need to aggregate all that data into reports."
That's exactly what Golden State hopes to do. Just a few hours before Schlenk took me high above the Oracle Arena court, he'd been in contact with a Southern California data-mining company that he believes could make good use of the team's raw data.
"We want to make sure we're giving coaches something that's useful. We don't want to give them something that's going to waste their time," Schlenk says. "All due respect, if you give them a sheet of paper that tells them how far a guy ran, is that really going to help them prepare? No. But by next year, and certainly once this season ends, we'll have a chance to dig into those numbers. And if we join up with this company, hopefully we'll be able to find something and say, 'This is important.'"
But greater penetration across the league will increase familiarity with the system, which will ultimately lead to wider acceptance, even among NBA lifers. Still, coaches may be surprised to learn how widespread it's become already. Because of the quirks of the NBA schedule and how it meshed with the Warriors' own SportVU implementation, Golden State ended up playing more than 40 percent of its games this season in SportVU-enabled arenas.
And Golden State did sport a .477 winning percentage after implementing SportVU, compared to .395 before. Concluding that the influx of daily reports and analysis had anything to do with that change would be speculative at best, but it does indicate that the team is improving talentwise, and the new management group seems opens to the idea that analytics could be another component in rebuilding a once-dominant NBA franchise.
"We're very open to looking at new analytics and existing analytics," co-owner Joe Lacob told CSN Bay Area in a recent Q&A. "I just don't want anybody else to have any edge over me."
In fact, the most successful NBA franchise in history, the Boston Celtics, signed on just a month ago as the sixth SportVU-equipped team. For now, they're up 1-0 in their best-of-seven first-round playoff series against the New York Knicks.
SportVU clients San Antonio, Dallas and Oklahoma City make up three of the eight Western Conference playoff teams. Because of the info-sharing agreement among all the signatories, the Western Conference finals could get really analytical, if Dallas and San Antonio eventually face off with a trip to the NBA Finals on the line.
Next season, Kopp hopes to enable near-real-time functionality, so that the tracking data can be synced up to the play-by-play data in less than 30 seconds, providing a close representation and analysis of on-court play almost as it's happening. It's just one of several enhancements Kopp says the company has lined up, assuming there is basketball next season.
Once, Kopp couldn't help but let his inner geek out and refer to the 2010-11 season as "our beta season." And if the NBA and the players' union can work out a labor deal this summer, everyone should see this burgeoning analytics movement ready for release in time for fall.
Photos: Jon Snyder/Wired.com


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- LeBron scored 30 as the Heat beat the Bobcats 97-81
- The Heat won their 13th straight against the Bobcats
- Mario Chalmers sat out as he served a one-game suspension
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte Bobcats coach Steve Clifford said after all of these years in the NBA he's still amazed at some of the things LeBron James does.
"You know, he'd be fun to watch if you weren't coaching the other team," Clifford said.
James scored 30 points to help Miami beat Charlotte 97-81 Saturday night for the Heat's 13th straight victory against the Bobcats.
With Mario Chalmers suspended, Chris Bosh limited due to foul trouble, Ray Allen out with the flu and Dwyane Wade a non-factor, James came up big for the Heat. The four-time MVP was 13 of 18 from the field and had seven assists in his eighth 20-point game this season.
"More than anything, it was his energy," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of James. "When you see him attacking off the glass and pushing coast to coast, you know he feels good with his body and you know it sets a great tone for our team. He's playing with great energy on both ends of the court."
Miami (7-3) relied on its bench to close the game out.
Of Miami's 29 points in the fourth quarter, 23 came from reserves Michael Beasley, Chris Anderson, Rashard Lewis and Roger Mason Jr.
Beasley finished with 15 points and Anderson had 10 for the Heat, winners of six of their last seven overall.
Bosh said it was an odd feeling having so many starters out of the game in the fourth quarter with the outcome still in doubt.
"I don't know when the last time that has happened," Bosh said. "But (the reserves) kept the lead at a nice distance. We were rooting for them and encouraging them because we need everybody — one through 15 — to not only raise their play but sustain it."
James said he had intentions of returning to the game late in the fourth quarter but didn't need to after the Heat's reserves began to pull away with the lead.
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By deploying Kodo into a J2EE environment, you can maintain the simplicity and performance of Kodo, while leveraging J2EE technologies such as container managed transactions (JTA/JTS), enterprise objects with remote invocation (EJB), and managed deployment of multi-tiered applications via an application server. This tutorial will demonstrate how to deploy Kodo-based J2EE applications and showcase some basic enterprise JPA design techniques. The tutorial's sample application models a basic garage catalog system. While the application is relatively trivial, the code has been constructed to illustrate simple patterns and solutions to common problems when using Kodo in an enterprise environment.
This tutorial assumes that you have installed Kodo and setup your classpath according to the installation instructions appropriate for your platform. In addition, this tutorial requires that you have installed and configured a J2EE-compliant application server, such as WebLogic or JBoss, running on JDK 1.5. If you use a different application server not listed here, this tutorial may be adaptable to your application server with small changes; refer to your application server's documentation for any specific classpath and deployment descriptor requirements.
This tutorial assumes a reasonable level of experience with Kodo and JPA. We provide a number of other tutorials for basic concepts, including enhancement, schema mapping, and configuration. This tutorial also assumes a basic level of experience with J2EE components, including session beans, JNDI, JSP, and EAR/WAR/JAR packaging. Sun and/or your application server company may provide tutorials to get familiar with these components.
In addition, this tutorial uses Ant to build the deployment archives. While this is the preferred way of building a deployment of the tutorial, one can easily build the appropriate JAR, WAR, and EAR files by hand, although that is outside the scope of this document.
Every application server has a different installation process for installing J2EE components. Kodo can be installed in a number of ways, which may or may not be appropriate to your application server. While this document focuses mainly upon using Kodo as a JCA resource, there are other ways to use Kodo in a J2EE environment.
JPA: J2EE 5 allows for the
automatic injection of
EntityManager instances
into the J2EE context.
JCA: Kodo implements the
JCA 1.0 spec, and the kodo-persistence.rar file that comes in
jca/persistence directory of the
distribution can be installed as any other JCA connection
resource. This is the preferred way to integrate Kodo into a
pre-J2EE 5 environment. It allows for simple installation
(usually involving uploading or copying kodo-persistence.rar
into the application server's deployment directory), and
guided configuration on many appservers.
Manual Binding into JNDI: Your application may require
some needs in initializing Kodo that go beyond the
JPA and JCA specifications. In this case, you can
manually instantiate Kodo and place it into the JNDI tree.
This process, however, is not seamless and can require a
fair bit of custom application server code to bind an
instance of
into JNDI.
Section 8.1.3, "Kodo JPA JCA Deployment" goes over the steps to install Kodo on your application server of choice via the Java Connector Architecture (JCA). If your application server does not support JCA, see Section 8.1.5, "Non-JCA Application Server Deployment" and Section 8.1.1, "Standalone Deployment" for other installation options.
Installing the sample application involves first compiling and building a deployment archive (.ear) file. This file then needs to be deployed into your application server.
Navigate to the
directory of your Kodo installation.
Ensure that the JNDI name in the setSessionContext() method in
ejb/CarBean.java matches your JCA installation. This defaults to
java:/kodo-ejb, but the actual value will depend
on the configuration of your JCA deploy and your application
server's JNDI context. E.g. the default name for a WebLogic 9
install would be simply
Compile the source files in place both in this base directory
as well as the nested
ejb and
jsp directories:
javac *.java ejb/*.java jsp/*.java
Enhance the Car class.
kodoc -p persistence.xml Car.java
Run the mapping tool; make sure that your
href="META-INF/persistence.xml" target="_top">META-INF/persistence.xml</a>
file includes the same connection information (e.g. Driver, URL, etc.)
as your JCA installation, although note that when you deploy via JCA,
the configuration information used at runtime will be the information
provided in the JCA configuration file, not the persistence.xml file.
You should update your JCA configuration to include
in the
Types parameter of the of the MetaDataFactory
<config-property name="MetaDataFactory">Types=samples.persistence.j2ee.Car</config-property>
mappingtool -p persistence.xml Car.java
Build an J2EE application archive by running Ant against the
build.xml. This will create
kodo-persistence-j2ee-sample.ear. This ear
can now be deployed to your appserver. Be sure to add the class
samples.persistence.j2ee.Car to the
kodo.MetaDataFactory Kodo configuration
property. This will automatically register the Entity.
ant -f build.xml
Place the ear file in the
directory of your JBoss installation. You can use the
above hints to view the JNDI tree to see if
samples.persistence.j2ee.ejb.CarHome was
deployed to JNDI.
Place the ear file in the
directory of your WebLogic domain. Production mode (see your
startWebLogic.sh/cmd file) should be set to false to enable
auto-deployment. If the application was installed correctly,
you should see
listed in the Deployments section of the admin
console. In addition you should find
listed in the JNDI tree under
. Ensure that you have added the class
samples.j2ee.Car to the
Types parameter of the
kodo.MetaDataFactory Kodo configuration
property in the
META-INF/ra.xml file.
The sample application installs itself into the web layer at the
context root of sample. By browsing to
, you should be presented with a simple
list page with no cars. You can edit, add, delete car instances.
In addition, you can query on the underlying
instances by passing in an JPQL query into the marked form (such as
select car from Car car where car.model="Some Model").
The garage application is a simple enterprise application that demonstrates some of the basic concepts necessary when using Kodo in the enterprise layer.
The core model wraps a stateless session bean facade around an entity. Using a session bean provides both a remote interface for various clients as well as providing a transactional context in which to work (and thus avoiding any explicit transactional code).
This session bean uses the JPA's detachment
capabilities to provide an automatic Data Transfer Object mechanism
for the primary communication between the
application server and the (possibly remote) client. The
instance will be used as the primary object upon
which the client will work.
The core of the sample application. This is the
entity class that Kodo will use to persist the
application data.
Instances of this class will also fill the role of
data transfer object (DTO) for EJB clients.
To accomplish this,
Car implements
so that remote clients can access cars as parameters
and return values from the EJB.
This is a simple facade to aggregate some common J2EE
behavior into some static methods.
By placing all of the functionality into a single
facade class, we can reduce code maintenance of our JSPs.
The source for the
CarEJB session bean.
Clients can use the
CarRemote interfaces to
find, manipulate, and persist changes to
Car transfer object
instances. By using J2EE transactional features,
the implementation code in
can be focused almost entirely upon business and
persistence logic without worrying about transactions.
The web presentation client. These JSPs are not aware of the
JPA; they simply use the
CarEJB session
bean and the
Car transfer object to do
all the work.
Files required to deploy to the various appservers,
including J2EE deployment descriptors, WAR/ EJB/ EAR
descriptors, as well as appserver specific files.
A simple Ant build file to help in creating a J2EE EAR file.
Entity classes are excellent
candidates for the Data Transfer Object Pattern.
This pattern attempts to reduce network load, as well
as group business logic into concise units.
For example,
CarBean.edit allows you
to ensure that all values are correct before committing a
transaction, instead of sequentially calling getters and
setters on the session facade. This is especially true when
using RMI such as from a Swing based application
connecting to an application server.
CarEJB works as a session bean facade
to demarcate transactions, provide finder methods, and
encapsulate complex business logic at the server level.
should be called at the end of every EJB method.
In addition to ensuring that your code will not attempt to
access a closed
EntityManager, it
allows Kodo to free up unused resources.
Since an
EntityManager is created
for every transaction, this can increase the scalability
of your application.
You should not use
EntityManager.getTransaction() when using JTA
to manage your transactions. Instead, Kodo will integrate with
JTA to automatically govern transactions based on your EJB
transaction configuration.
While serialization of entity instances is relatively straightforward, there are several things to keep in mind:
While "default fetch group" values will always be
returned to the client upon serialization, lazily
loaded fields will not as the
EntityManager will
have been closed before those fields attempt to
serialize. You can either access those fields
before serialization, configure the fetch type of the
relationships, or configure your JPQL queries to
eagerly fetch data.
It is not necessarily required that you use EJBs and
container-managed transactions to demarcate transactions,
although that is probably the most common method.
In EJBs using bean managed transactions, you can control
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Mangere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku was designed to meet the needs of the culturally diverse and vibrant Mangere community.
The purpose-built complex nurtures and presents the diversity of arts, crafts and cultural activities that underpin the unique character of Mangere's 60,000 people. It will be a source of great pride to Mangere and will create ways of connecting Mangere with other New Zealanders by showcasing Mangere as an important creative and cultural hub.


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Don't you just love a Welsh Dresser, bursting with favourite pieces of china and crockery, all mismatched in a glorious mayhem of colours ?
Well, I didn't -I told myself.
No, no, not enough room in the kitchen-and also ,of course, it wasn't very hygienic or practical.
No, much better not !! I could do without a Welsh dresser !!
I did suffer the occasional Dresser Envy , looking through the latest "Country Living" , but you can't have everything .
Life Without A Welsh Dresser was perfectly fine.
Meanwhile , my kitchen cupboard-shelves started to bulge and sag worryingly under the amount of china I was collecting, until to get something in the cupboard, you had to take three things out.
Until one day I drove home past a shop that had a great sign with "CLOSING DOWN"in the window.
In the road stood a really ugly little Welsh Dresser, so forlorn and dark brown, like a small, lost, wet dog, that
I felt genuinely sorry for it.
The dresser- before ( think even darker brown - like black treacle).
Goodness, it was ugly.The only good thing about it, was that it was quite petite, so it would actually fit in my kitchen -and in my car .
"Are you selling this ?" I said to the man next to it .
"Twenty-five pounds -and I will help you put it in the car "he said.
It was a perfect fit .
I put it in the garage as I thought it too ugly to look at and needed time to think, about colours.
Eventually I decided on " Blue Ground" from Farrow and Ball - a colour that I had used before on a Lutyens bench in the garden.
I decided for blue mainly because the crockery I wanted to display ( Johnson Bros "Pareek" ) had yellow in it and I thought the contrast would work well.
And here is the "after" picture.
And what colour would you have gone for ??
Let me know what you think!!!
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- The New York Giants are back in the playoff hunt and the Green Bay Packers are falling out of it without Aaron Rodgers.
Defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul scored on a spectacular, leaping 24-yard fourth-quarter interception return and the resurgent Giants won their fourth game in a row with a 27-13 victory over the slumping and injured-riddled Packers on Sunday.
Eli Manning threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Rueben Randle, and Brandon Jacobs added a 1-yard run as the Giants (4-6) handed the Packers (5-5) their third straight loss, their longest skid since a five-game losing streak near the end of 2008.
Two of the three losses have come with former NFL MVP Rodgers sidelined with a broken collarbone.
While Scott Tolzien played well at times in his first NFL start, the Giants intercepted him three times, setting up 10 points. Pierre-Paul's pick early in the fourth quarter gave New York a 14-point lead.
The winning streak following a 0-6 start improbably has moved the Giants within 1 1/2 games of first-place Philadelphia (6-5) in the weak NFC East. They are a game behind second-place and idle Dallas (5-5), which will play here next Sunday.
The Packers, who got a 1-yard TD run by Eddie Lacy and two field goals by Mason Crosby, including a 57-yarder, fell a game behind Chicago and Detroit in the NFC North.
Tolzien finished 24 of 34 for 339 yards and no touchdowns.
The Giants never trailed, but they never put the Packers away until the interception by Pierre-Paul, who was questionable all week after injuring a shoulder against Oakland last week. He didn't practice until Friday and his status was uncertain until the inactives were announced just before the game.
Pierre-Paul didn't do much until the fourth quarter with New York clinging to a 20-13 lead.
On a first and 10 from the Packers 30, Tolzien, who was a practice squad player until a couple of week ago, dropped back, turned to his left and tried to throw a quick out. Pierre-Paul, who has struggled this season after back surgery in June, jumped, snagged the pass and dashed all alone to the end zone.
The Giants had the better of the play in the first half, holding the ball for almost 20 minutes. They jumped to a 10-0 lead on Manning's 26-yard touchdown pass to Randle and Josh Brown's 40-yard field goal.
The touchdown reception was Randle's sixth in the last six games, and he set it up with a 32-yard punt return. Manning finished 25 of 35 for 279 yard and an interception.
A 30-yard pass to Victor Cruz, who had eight catches for 110 yards, and a 5-yard run by Jacobs on a fourth-and-1 at the Packers 36 set up the field goal.
Tolzien threw passes of 25 yards to Jordy Nelson and 45 yards to James Jones on consecutive plays to set up a 24-yard field goal by Crosby on the next series.
The Giants mismanaged the clock at the end of the first half, with a three-and-out series that started with an incomplete pass. Taking over at their own 37 with no timeouts, Tolzien hit on passes of 9 yards to Jarrett Boykin and 15 yards to Nelson, setting up Crosby for a 57-yard field goal on the final play.
It was a yard shy of his Packers' record and it was the longest against the Giants. Brett Conway of Washington kicked a 55-yard against them in 2001.


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Thirty years ago, a farmer found a few Iron Age silver coins while working on his land in the island of Jersey, off the coast of Normandy. Now, after combing the soil with metal detectors for three decades, two treasure hunters have found a hoard of silver and gold coins, the biggest of its kind, valued at $15 million.
The treasure was inside a large block of clay. It contains 30,000 to 50,000 silver and gold Celtic coins dating from the 1st Century BC. The coins—which could have been buried to prevent Roman troops from getting them during Julius Caesar's invasion of the British Islands—come from Armorica. They have been buried for more than 2,000 years. According to numismatic experts, each coin is worth 100 to 200 British Pounds ($156 to $311).
Now the treasure is at the Jersey Heritage Museum, where conservator Neil Mahrer is cleaning and investigating them. Mahrer says this is the biggest discovery of its kind: "This is the biggest Celtic coin hoard ever found which is tremendously exciting."
If Mahrer is excited, imagine the joy of the discoverers, Reg Mead and Richard Miles. They spent thirty years of their lives trying to locate this fabled treasure using just metal detectors. Earlier this year, Mead and Miles found a stash of 61 coins, all of them silver except one made of gold.
The good news: there may be more. The bad news: the States of Jersey has to say who actually owns the treasure. [Yahoo and Daily Mail]


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Ellen DeGeneres is helping Patrick Dempsey get ready for Valentine's Day.
The talk show host gave the "Grey's Anatomy" star a special gift during his appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Thursday — underwear.
Ellen gave him several pairs — a pair of red boxers, a pair of yellow boxers, a pair of rubber boxers — and one more.
"Wait a minute," Ellen said, handing him a black thong. "Put that on!"
The star pulled up the thong over his jeans to the cheers of the crowd and then sat back down.
"You'll always have my support," Ellen told him.
And Patrick took a moment to talk "Grey's" — will Dr. McDreamy be hearing the pitter-patter of little feet?
"I think [Derek] Shepherd definitely wants children, [Meredith] probably not so much," he said. "Shonda Rimes certainly doesn't want us to have children!"
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As part of the immune response, the T cells are responsible for tracking down and destroying intruders and degenerated cells in the body. Their progenitors are formed in the bone marrow. Attracted by chemical signals, they migrate from there to the thymus. This small organ, which is located above the heart, is divided into niches that provide the cells with environmental conditions necessary for their different development phases. The cells mature there into different types of T cells, which are eventually released into the body.
Signalling substances that are active in the various niches of the thymus play a crucial role in the maturation of the progenitor cells. A combination of four proteins – the two chemokines Ccl25 and Cxcl12, and the cytokine Scf and the Notch ligand DLL4 – determines whether progenitor cells are attracted to a particular niche in the thymus and how they develop there. It was not previously known which combination of factors is responsible for the development of a particular cell type.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg have now succeeded in explaining the control mechanism. "The development of the progenitor cells depends on surprisingly few factors and follows simple rules," says Thomas Boehm. "For example, just two factors, namely Cxcl12 and DLL4, are sufficient for the T cell progenitors to complete half of their development. From that point, it takes just a few steps until two types of mature T cells with the CD4 and CD8 surface molecules are formed. Previously, it was assumed that the control process was far more complicated," explains the scientist.
In order to test how the different combinations of the four genetic factors affect the maturation and differentiation of the immune cells, the researchers created an artificial thymus environment in the mouse embryo. To do this, they switched off the transcription factor Foxn1. Fox1 ensures that all of the genes in the DNA that code for the four different proteins are read. Foxn1 is thus a kind of "general switch" with which all of the relevant genes can be turned off all at once. Having generated non-functional thymus tissue in this way, the researchers then activated the genes again individually and in combination and observed the associated effects on the development of the progenitor cells.
Interestingly, the scientists were also able to attract the progenitors of B lymphocytes and of mast cells to the artificial thymus environment and allow them to mature there. These two types of immune cells normally only develop in the bone marrow. By switching off the Notch ligand DLL4, the researchers were also able to control the maturation of these cells in the artificial thymus. This would suggest that the genetic factors at work in the bone marrow are similar to those in the thymus.
"Our results are not only of relevance to the understanding of fundamental immunological processes," says Thomas Boehm. "They also constitute early milestones in the development of artificial thymuses. This means that one day we may be able to help patients whose thymus has been damaged, for example as a result of cancer treatment," hopes the scientist.
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Happy National Proposal Day! Each engagement story is unique, from the location to the ring to the level of creativity, but when is a proposal too little or too much of a good thing? Well, let's look to Hollywood for answers, because if anyone knows how to do a proposal, then it's the masterminds behind romantic comedies, right? Or no? I'll let you decide. I've rounded up 10 proposal ideas from flicks funny, sweet, and sentimental, so tell me: are these down-on-one-knee moments worthy of the real world, or just the "reel" world?
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BANGOR, Maine — Nichole Cable died of "asphyxia due to compression of the neck," according to the state medical examiner's office.
Dr. Margaret Greenwald released her findings about the death of the 15-year-old girl from Glenburn and Alton on Thursday after consulting with the Maine State Police crime lab, which has been reviewing evidence in the case, according to a press release issued by state police.
The man accused of killing Cable is scheduled to be arraigned at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Penobscot Judicial Center.
Kyle Dube, 20 , of Orono is expected to plead not guilty to one count each of kidnapping and murder. He is accused of luring Cable out of her mother's home by using someone else's identity on Facebook, then killing her in an abduction gone wrong.
Dube was indicted May 29 by the Penobscot County grand jury.
Superior Court Justice William Anderson has been assigned to Dube's case but will be unavailable Wednesday. Justice Ann Murray will handle Dube's arraignment and Anderson will deal with all other matters in the case.
Dube was charged on May 21 in connection with the death of Cable on Mother's Day, the day she disappeared. Her body was found late May 20 in a wooded area of Old Town after Dube's girlfriend and brother told police where Dube said he had left the girl's body.
He intended to "kidnap Nichole and hide her; that he would later find her and be the hero," the affidavit, written by Maine State Police Detective Thomas D. Pickering, said.
Dube's brother Dustin Dube told police that Kyle Dube said he had Cable "meet him down the road [from her house]; that he waited in the woods wearing a ski mask; that he had duct tape; that he jumped out of the bushes and took Nichole; that he duct taped her; that he put Nichole in his father's pickup truck; that when he removed Nichole from the truck she was dead; that he dumped Nichole's body in the woods near the Dysart's gas station in Old Town; that Nichole is in the woods covered in sticks."
Kyle Dube's girlfriend told police that he had told her a similar story and also said he had thrown Cable's clothes out the window of the truck on his way back, the affidavit said.
Text messages between Cable and Dube show the two were together the night before she disappeared. Cable told her boyfriend the next morning, May 12, that she was upset the night before because Dube groped her and attempted to kiss her and then bit her, according to a search warrant affidavit filed by Maine State Police Detective Christopher Tupper released June 6.
"[Dube] wouldn't stop and he ended up leaving a [bite] mark on me. So as soon as he got off me I had him bring me home," she sent by text message at 8:48 a.m.
When police questioned Dube about the bite mark, "Dube stated while kissing Nichole she bit him and he bit her back," Tupper's affidavit states.
Dube created a fake Facebook page using the name Bryan Butterfield of Bangor to communicate with Cable and lure her out of her home, according to court documents.
"According to Nichole's text messages and Facebook messages she was planning on meeting Bryan Butterfield at the end of her road to hang out for a few minutes, smoke marijuana, and get a free bag of marijuana," Tupper's affidavit states.
Police linked Dube, a 2011 Orono High School graduate, to the fake Facebook page because he updated the page using his cellphone, according to the Tupper affidavit.
The same cellphone was used to communicate with the 90-pound Glenburn teenager around the time she left her house, which her mother told investigators was about 9 p.m., the day she died. Cable was texting Dube about meeting Butterfield.
Investigators found a knit hat with an eye hole cut into it at the end of the dirt road in Glenburn near where Cable was staying and DNA found on the hat matched Dube, according to the Pickering affidavit. A sock found at the scene had DNA that matched both Dube and Cable.
One of her sneakers was found near the hat and the second one was found across the street, indicating to police that the girl attempted to run, the Tupper affidavit states.
Cable's pink hoodie, torn up the front and dirty on the back with one sleeve turned inside out, was found several miles down the road, next to some black rope, according to the Tupper affidavit.
Dube was in Penobscot County Jail at the time of his arrest for murder. He reported to jail on May 17 to serve a 90-day sentence for charges stemming from a high-speed motorcycle chase last year that ended when he crashed into a police cruiser.
If convicted of the charges he faces in Cable's death, Dube faces between 25 years and life in prison.
BDN writer Nok-Noi Ricker contributed to this report.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) LeBron James had 27 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists as the Miami Heat handed the Charlotte Bobcats their 16th straight defeat, 105-92 Wednesday night.
Dwyane Wade scored 29 points and had nine rebounds as Miami extended its winning streak to six.
One night after an emotional win over Oklahoma City, James and Wade made sure there would be no letdown against the Bobcats.
The Heat led 55-38 at halftime, but couldn't put the Bobcats away until late.
Charlotte cut the Miami lead to 84-82 when Gerald Henderson completed a three-point play with 7:16 left. But James knocked down a 3-pointer, Wade hit a pair of jumpers, and Shane Battier added a 3-pointer from the right corner to complete an 11-3 run that pushed the lead to 10.
Miami wasn't challenged again.
Kemba Walker had 27 points, and Ramon Sessions added 19 points for the Bobcats (7-21), who haven't won since Nov. 24.


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In anger I threw my pager across the on-call room, slamming it against the wall. I don't anger easily or often, but I was a pediatric resident who had been awake for 36 hours. The pager had gone off one time too many. Sleep deprivation had changed me from a calm, caring person into an irritable, impulsive mess.
As if it shouldn't have been obvious, research has shown that the sleep deprivation associated with residents' on-call schedules brings about significant "impairment of physician mood" as the sleep deprivation increases (Journal of Occupational Medicine, Dec 1992).
The surprising news is that partial, or low-level, sleep deprivation has a bigger effect on behavior than either the short or long-term complete sleep deprivation experienced by residents (Sleep, May 1996). Until recently, the effects of partial sleep deprivation have been seriously underestimated.
We know, based on common sense, that inadequate sleep makes kids more moody, more impulsive, and less able to concentrate. We've known for more than 20 years that sleep deprivation makes it difficult to learn (Journal of Experimental Psychology, Mar 1975).
Recent research has verified that chronic poor sleep results in daytime tiredness, difficulties with focused attention, low threshold to express negative emotion (irritability and easy frustration), and difficulty modulating impulses and emotions (Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, Mar 1996). These are the same symptoms that can earn kids the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, popularly known as ADD).
ADD is an important problem in its own right, but research in sleep laboratories has shown that some (and perhaps a great many) kids are mislabeled with ADD when the real problem is chronic, partial sleep deprivation.
When children are identified with symptoms of ADD, often no one thinks to explore the child's sleeping habits, and whether they might be responsible for the symptoms. (People also forget to consider childhood depression as a possible cause for these symptoms — but that is another story.)
Sometimes it is obvious to parents that their children are not sleeping well — but not always!
Any child who snores may not be getting adequate sleep. Obstructive sleep apnea is a common medical condition that is now being identified in more and more children. The peak age for this is 2 to 5 years old, but it can occur at any age. Not all kids who snore have sleep apnea. Classically, those with sleep apnea snore quite loudly for a bit, then are silent, then snort briefly, move about, and resume snoring. If snoring is accompanied by nighttime breathing difficulty and pauses in breathing, then it may well be sleep apnea. This should be brought to the attention of your pediatrician. You might want to make a cassette tape of your child's sleep noises to bring with you.
Children with sleep apnea do not get sound sleep. They may also get suboptimal oxygen to the brain at night. Obstructive sleep apnea can have a serious negative impact on a child's intellect and behavior. The common symptoms of sleep apnea are difficulty paying attention during the day, decreased academic performance, oppositional behavior, and restlessness. Not all kids with sleep apnea snore. Even when they do, sleep apnea is often overlooked. Instead, the child is diagnosed with a behavioral disorder — most commonly ADD (Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, Sep 1997).
Children with sleepwalking, restless leg syndrome, narcolepsy, insomnia, or other sleep problems may also be misdiagnosed with ADD (Neurology, Jan 1996).
When parents of children with ADD are interviewed, they usually identify their kids as poor or restless sleepers (Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Jun 1997). Kids who have been diagnosed with ADD do wake up more often at night than their peers (Pediatrics, Dec 1987). Poor sleep is a common feature of ADD — a problem that can be made worse by the use of stimulant medications such as Ritalin or Dexedrine. In fact, recent studies have reported sleep problems in 25% to 50% of children and adolescents with ADHD, two to three times the rate of sleep problems in children without ADHD! (Sleep. Aug 1, 2007)
In an individual child, it can be very difficult to tease apart whether interrupted sleep is the cause or the result of ADD. The good news is that even when ADD is the correct diagnosis, addressing the sleep issues can dramatically improve the behavior of the child (Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Apr 1991).
A 10-year-old girl in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who had true ADD also had significant sleep difficulties. She had long delays before falling asleep. She would often wake up at night and have difficulty falling back asleep. She received professional help for her sleep problem (chronotherapy combined with a behavior modification program), which resulted in an increase of sleep from 7.2 to 9.2 hours per night. There was significant, measurable improvement in her schoolwork, teacher evaluations, and behavior. These changes were observed by teachers and peers who were not aware of her treatment.
If your child has ADD symptoms or other behavior problems, he or she should be carefully assessed for sleep problems. If sleep disturbances are present, they need to be addressed, regardless of whether or not they are the root cause. If your child is not getting sound, uninterrupted sleep, discuss this with your pediatrician. You may also want to contact the National Sleep Foundation (202 785-2300) or the American Sleep Disorders Association (507 287-6006) for information or referrals. There are now more than 3,000 Sleep Disorders Centers that can provide the kind of help the little girl from Pittsburgh received. Another great resource is Helping Your Child Sleep Through the Night, by Joanne Cuthbertson and Susie Schevill.
How do we know how much sleep our children need? First and foremost, every child is different. In general, toddlers and preschoolers sleep approximately 12 hours per day with one nap. School-age children need less, about 10 hours per day. Most preteens and teens need around 9 hours of sleep per day – though we all know that many teens get much less!
These are just averages! Some children need much more sleep than these numbers, other much less. Many sleep experts recommend asking yourself some questions to determine if your child is getting too little sleep.
These include:
As parents, we all know what it feels like to be grumpy, contrary, and "not at our best" from lack of sleep. If our kids often feel this way, we owe it to them to find solutions to this problem.


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A dog that was rescued as he was being walked into the euthanization room turned 6 months old this week and inspires hundreds on Instagram.
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. – A dog that was rescued as he was being walked into the euthanization room turned 6 months old this week and inspires hundreds on Instagram. Cole, a pitbull born without his front legs, was just 6 weeks old when he was dropped off at Chicago Animal Care and Control. The puppy had open wounds on his front nubs and back left paw. He was missing a toenail and two of his toes were fused together and infected, owner Kimberly Boshold said. Rescue Warriors, a no-kill animal facility, rescued Cole just before he was set to be euthanized. "CACC didn't think he would be adoptable due to being differently abled," Boshold said. The rescue posted a photograph of tiny Cole to its Facebook page where Boshold saw him. Quickly after, she became his foster owner. As soon as Cole turned 8 weeks – old enough to be adopted – Boshold and her boyfriend brought him home permanently. "As soon as I met Cole I fell in love. So did my boyfriend, Kevin Koster, and our other dog Keke. We knew immediately that there was no way we could ever give him up," she said. Someone donated a dog wheelchair for Cole to Rescue Warriors, but he didn't like it much, preferring to scoot, hop and wiggle on his own, Boshold said. The couple was able to get Cole a custom-fit wheelchair and now he zips around. "Cole did and still does everything a 'normal' dog would, just in a different way," Boshold said. "Now he has his all-terrain customized wheelchair made by Eddie's Wheels. He loves to be in it when he is outside, or around other people and dogs. When he is at home he likes to just chill out and relax free of the cart." To the people who tell Boshold and Koster they are cruelly keeping a dog with disabilities alive, Boshold said Cole is the "happiest pup in the world." "Just because he was born without front legs does not mean his life should end," Boshold wrote on Instagram. "I would even suggest these people come meet this wonderful love of mine. Cole leads an amazing life." Cole is gaining strength in his core and back legs through therapy, Boshold said. He gets stronger every day. "We hope to spread the word that pit bulls are lovers not fighters, and that even if a dog is missing limbs, that doesn't mean their life should end," Boshold said. "Every dog deserves a chance at life and by adopting a differently abled dog you are giving them that chance. Cole is absolutely wonderful and brightens our day every day and we are lucky to have him."%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif%3Fcid%3D141666%26pid%3D46%22%20/%3E


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The Trump administration is reportedly considering a push to privatize space exploration. Will the old guard in Washington go along?
During a series of tests of the new ballistic missile defense interceptor conducted by the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency from 2010-2016, the interceptors missed their targets several times.
The UN Office for Outer Space Affairs is in talks with Colorado-based Sierra Nevada Corporation to provide an infrastructure giving the UN access to outer space.
Jeff Bezos' secretive Blue Origin space firm yesterday became the first to launch a rocket into space and guide it safely back to a landing on earth, ushering in the long-anticipated era of the reusable rocket.
Some scientists want to send messages into space in the hope of piquing alien interest. But might it attract the kind of attention no civilization wants?
A huge asteroid that could wipe out human life is heading for our planet. And it's just one of more than a half million near-Earth objects in our solar system.
On July 20, 1969 three U.S. astronauts landed on the moon, and now NASA wants to go to Mars — for all the benefits — disregarding all the costs.
Google has expanded its ability to keep an eye on everyone by buying "eye-in-the-sky" technology from Skybox.
Two House Democrats on Monday pitched a bill that would establish a national historical park on the lunar surface.
On May 29 Planetary Resources, one of two private concerns hoping to someday mine near-earth asteroids, announced plans for the first-ever crowdfunded space telescope, a venture that would allow private researchers to conduct space research using a private space telescope.
A recent deep space discovery is calling into question scientific assumptions that have been taken for granted for generations. The scale of one Large Quasar Group (LQG) is massive — in fact, scientists estimate its size at approximately four billion light years across. But even more significantly, it also appears to be unique, and thus fundamentally challenges the assumption that the universe is homogeneous, lacking any significant variation in observable phenomena wherever one may happen to look.


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MONDAY, March 25 (HealthDay News) -- Children whose parents divorce are more likely to smoke as adults than kids from families of divorce, according to a new study.
Men who were younger than 18 when their parents divorced were 48 percent more likely to have smoked at least 100 or more cigarettes than men whose parents did not divorce. For women, the risk was 39 percent higher, according to the researchers from the University of Toronto.
"Finding this link between parental divorce and smoking is very disturbing," study lead author Esme Fuller-Thomson, chairwoman of the social work faculty, said in a university news release.
The researchers anticipated that the association between parental divorce and smoking would have been explained by other factors, such as lower levels of education or adult income among the children of divorce; adult mental-health issues, such as depression or anxiety, among the children of divorce; or other co-occurring childhood traumas, such as parental addictions or childhood abuse, Fuller-Thomson said.
"Each of these characteristics has been shown in other studies to be linked with smoking initiation," she said. "However, even when we took all these factors into account, a strong and significant association between parental divorce and smoking remained."
Although the association between divorce and smoking was strong, the study did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
For the study, published online in the journal Public Health, the researchers examined 2010 data from more than 19,000 American adults aged 18 and older. They found that more than 1,500 men and more than 2,300 women were younger than 18 when their parents divorced and that more than 4,300 men and more than 5,000 women had smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their life.
The study did not determine why smoking risk is higher in adults who were children when their parents divorced, but it is possible that children upset by their parents' divorce may use smoking as a coping mechanism to regulate emotions and stress, another researcher said.
"Some research suggests this calming effect may be particularly attractive to those who have suffered early adversities," study co-author and doctoral student Joanne Filippelli said in the news release.
Learning more about why and when these adults from divorced families might begin smoking could lead to targeted smoking-prevention programs, the researchers said.
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Brian E. Dixon, an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing and 2001 graduate of DePauw University, and Mike Langellier, president and chief executive officer of TechPoint and 2004 DePauw graduate, are among the Indianapolis Business Journal's "Forty Under 40."
Dixon (pictured at right) works "on the cutting edge of health information technology," according to IBJ. A computer science major and Bonner Scholar at DePauw, Dixon worked after graduation as a computer programmer for the Regenstrief Institute, a non-profit health informatics organization, where he was encouraged to work toward a Ph.D. In addition to teaching, Dr. Dixon continues his work at Regenstrief where he works on "computer systems that allow doctors to enter orders for medications and lab tests and for consultations with specialists," writes Lou Harry.
"Research shows improved health outcomes and the reduction of medical errors," says Professor Dixon. "If someone has an allergy, for instance, it can alert both the doctor and the pharmacist."
He adds, "When someone dies from flu or contracts measles or hepatitis, those cases have to be reported to public health. The project I'm working on is trying to improve how we can efficiently and effectively get information to the public health authorities. Traditionally, that was all done on paper."
Dixon also serves on the board of College Mentors for Kids.
Mike Langellier leads TechPoint, Indiana's technology initiative. Harry writes, "Langellier, who graduated from DePauw University with a focus on economics, English and communications, said he wasn't a tech geek in high school or college. 'By nature,' he corrected, 'I'm a builder. I love to build and fix things -- products, organizations, businesses. Tech was a natural avenue for building things quickly.' "
The recipient of a Governor Bob Orr Indiana Entrepreneurial Fellowship, Langellier serves on the boards of the Orr Fellowship program and the TechPoint Foundation for Youth. Of TechPoint, he says, "My vision is that it becomes the most powerful engine for tech company growth in Indiana by injecting talent, capital and promotion."
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Dubai, 17 March 2017 – The second leg of the Maserati 2017 global Polo Tour, held at the Desert Palm Polo Club from 11 - 17 March 2017, concluded with Team Abu Dhabi winning the Maserati Dubai Polo Trophy by an outstanding score of 7 to 4 over Team AES International.
Six polo teams, featuring talented professional and amateur players from United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom and Argentina produced competitive yet entertaining polo. Ali Saeed Juma Albwardy, UAE President of the Polo Association and Founder of Desert Palm Polo Club was among the celebrities, VIPs and special guests that enjoyed the special finale.
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Police have evacuated the upper floors of buildings near a luxury high-rise on West 57th St. in New York City as damaged crane dangled precariously from what is slated to be Manhattan's tallest residential tower. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports.
Updated at 9:30 p.m. ET: Crews responded Monday to a crane hanging from the side of a luxury high-rise under construction in the heart of midtown Manhattan as New York began feeling the effects of approaching Superstorm Sandy.
Police have shut down traffic and evacuated the upper floors of buildings in the area around the building on West 57th Street, although there were no immediate plans to remove the crane because of the danger, WNBC reported. Officials were studying the situation and trying to decide how to deal with it.
The building, known as One 57, will be Manhattan's tallest residential tower when completed, at 90 stories. It already has gained a reputation as a new haven for billionaires who have been paying up to $90 million for choice apartments.
Passers-by stared in amazement and apprehension while some stopped to take pictures of the building.
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Firefighters closed streets for several blocks surrounding the site, evacuated 300 apartments in three buildings and were preparing to evacuate more.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the crane had been inspected on Friday, as other construction cranes had ahead of the storm, and that the cause of the accident remained unknown. Engineers went to the top of the building to examine the crane but stopped short of attempting any repairs, officials said.
"It's conceivable that nobody did anything wrong whatsoever and it wasn't even a malfunction, it was just a strange gust of wind," Bloomberg told a news conference.
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You go through the Azure price calculator and figure out everything you think are going to need for your Azure VM and how much each resource will cost you on a monthly basis. You then pick a template from the marketplace and implement it assuming you know what services are being stood up. Do you really know?
What you may not realize is that if you didn't go through the pricing calculator thuroughly you may be in for some surprises on your bill. Not only do you get charged for the hardware that you have selected, but also the image that you choose to run on it.
The cost per minute of each image is not posted on the image itself. This is made up of each component you are using and can be figured by reviewing adding up all the costs listed here. If you don't know to look there then you won't know that there are additional costs until you get the invoice at the end of your billing period, and these can really add up.
As I mentioned above this surprise can also be avoided by knowing server type you should select in the pricing calculator. You may assume you are just getting a Windows server and then adding SQL Server too it, but if you pick SQL Server as the Type for you vitual machine you will see that the real cost almost doubles for you VM. This is the server type that is actually used for the SQL Server templates.
In some cases you will find that licensing the software in the template costs much less than running the image. Since you are renting SQL Server instead of buying it you are paying for it each month.
If a SQL Server standard license cost you $600 per processor and you are running a 2 processor server you can put SQL server on it yourself for $1200. The same VM loaded with SQL Server standard will cost you ~$300 a month. At that rate you would pay for the license in 4 months. You need to take this into account when making your decisions.
Of course if you are only running the server as a testing server that is shut down most of the time then your cost for a year may actually come in under the cost of a license.
The point is be educated about what your Azure VM is really going to cost you and what your return on investment is.
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Contraception coverage heads to high court
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's narrow decision to uphold the federal health care law, another challenge to the mandate for insurance coverage is headed toward the court. This one involves contraception, religion and, most likely, corporate "personhood."
So far, 42 suits have been filed in the nation's courts challenging the law's requirement that workplace health insurance plans cover birth-control pills, IUDs and other female contraceptives, without co-payments.
In the most important ruling to date, a federal appeals court in Chicago has blocked enforcement of the mandate against an employer - not a church or a church-affiliated hospital or university, but an Illinois construction company whose principal owners, a married couple, are devout Catholics.
The owners, Cyril and Jane Korte, "would have to violate their religious beliefs to operate their company in compliance" with the requirement to provide contraception coverage, the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 2-1 ruling Dec. 28.
Religious freedom is a First Amendment right that applies to corporations, the court said, citing the Supreme Court's January 2010 ruling declaring corporations' constitutional right to make unlimited political contributions from their treasuries. And the owners' rights may be violated by "coerced coverage of contraception," the appeals court said, even though insurers provide the coverage and employees make the final decisions.
An appeals court in Denver refused to shield another corporate employer from the contraception requirement Dec. 20 and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to intervene, noting that the case is at an early stage and involves unsettled issues.
The divergence, mirrored in decisions by individual federal judges, has led legal commentators to predict that the dispute will reach the high court by next year, two years after the 5-4 ruling upholding the law's crucial requirement that uninsured Americans purchase coverage or pay a tax penalty.
Slower track
The court could also decide to put cases involving non-religious corporations on hold while addressing challenges by religious schools and hospitals, which have filed a majority of the 42 lawsuits. But those cases are on a slower track because of a controversy the Obama administration tried unsuccessfully to resolve.
The contraception mandate does not apply to churches and other religious institutions, but it covers church-affiliated entities that employ and serve members of the general public.
Compromise rejected
When many of those institutions protested being required to provide contraceptive coverage, President Obama said he would issue regulations specifying that their insurers would be the ones to offer the coverage. That didn't mollify some schools and hospitals, but their suits are on hold until August, when the regulations are due.
Meanwhile, courts are grappling with religious-freedom claims by executives of secular corporations like the Kortes' K&L Contractors and the Hobby Lobby chain, based in Oklahoma City, whose emergency appeal was rejected by Sotomayor. Its chief executive, David Green, told the Catholic News Agency that the owners "seek to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles."
Mark Scarberry, a Pepperdine University law professor who has written about constitutional law and religious freedom, said he thinks there's a "reasonable likelihood" the Supreme Court will exempt such employers from the contraception mandate.
Many religious people "see all of what they do through the lens of their faith," including the choice of insurance coverage for their employees, Scarberry said.
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Erwin Chemerinsky, the law school dean at UC Irvine and a veteran Supreme Court observer and litigator, had a different view.
"Why should a corporation be regarded as having any religious beliefs?" he asked, noting that corporations are organized to shield their owners from individual liability. Religious freedom is a more personal, private right than the corporate free speech the Supreme Court invoked in the 2010 ruling, he said, noting that the court has also recognized a fundamental individual right to obtain and use contraceptives.
Two judges on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reached a similar conclusion in the Hobby Lobby case, saying the owners "have only a commercial relationship" with insurers who pay for contraception.
But the court majority in the Korte case said individual rights, protected by a federal law called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, can be violated when the government pressures the company into approving insurance coverage.
Under the law, said Judges Joel Flaum and Diane Sykes, "the Kortes will be forced to choose between violating their religious beliefs by maintaining insurance coverage for contraception and sterilization services ... and subjecting their company to substantial financial penalties."
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"As an individual's wealth and status rise, so does their tendency to be unethical, concludes a new study of the relationship between socioeconomics and ethics," reports Wired Magazine. The more wealthy a person is, the more likely he or she is to act unethically, the study says, even going so far as to "literally take candy from the mouths of children."
Perhaps this is one of the reasons behind the Catholic preferential option for the poor?
Last month, Pew Research reported that more and more Americans see increasing conflict between the rich and the poor, with 66 percent saying there are "strong" or "very strong" conflicts, up from 47 percent 2010.
The Christian Century more graciously than I read this article on how the rich are feeling the economic crunch. Having to drive to the Red Hook district for discounted salmon at $5.99/lb, cut back on travel for leisure, or think about taking your kids out of private school thanks to cuts in bonuses cause a lot of stress for the 1 percent.
Undoubtedly, these are "stresses" my peers and I will never understand. And my populist eyerolling is impossible to suppress.