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Winston-Salem Southbound Railway
by John Sullivan, 2013.
Originally chartered in 1894, the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway from Winston-Salem to Wadesboro was not completed until 1910. The railroad was the idea of Francis Henry Fries, and was backed from the beginning by its parent railroads the Norfolk & Western and the Atlantic Coast Line. Originally it was a short cut for N&W coal headed to Charleston, S.C. via the ACL connection at Wadesboro for the U.S. Navy, as well as providing access to the port for northbound goods. The railroad served the Yadkin Valley area and grew with it.
About 1957, the railroad switched from steam to diesel engines. Initially the railroad had four EMD GP-9s. They were only on the line a short time before they decided instead to lease engines from the N&W and ACL as needed; two GP-9s went to each of the parent railroads. The Southbound got control of the High Point, Thomasville, & Denton Railroad in 1960; they connect in High Rock. In the 1960s the HPT&D was still using GE 70 ton switchers for engines; eventually they adopted the same practice as the Southbound. The Southbound has one train each way between Winston-Salem and Wadesboro, number 209 south and 212 north. During the Seaboard Coast Line days (a product of the Seaboard Air Line and ACL merger) the old ACL line from Wadesboro to Florence was abandoned and a new connection was built east of downtown Wadesboro.
Today the Southbound crew turns the train over to a CSX crew at the W-S Junction; that train runs to Hamlet and back as a local with the same train number both ways. Meanwhile, the Southbound crew goes to a motel for 8 hours, and then takes the CSX train from Hamlet north to Winston-Salem. Several customers ship and/or receive by rail on both the WSS and HPT&D. Corn Products in Winston-Salem receives unit trains of corn to process into corn syrup; some is shipped out in tank cars. The Schlitz brewery in Winston-Salem was a big customer until the new owner, Strohs, decided it didn't need the capacity. Other customers include a chemical plant near Denton, a Lowe's Wood Products yard between Denton and High Point, an Owens-Illinois plant just north of Lexington, and several others. Even with parents that are albeit competitors, the Southbound continues to operate as usual.
Additional Resources:
O'Donnell, Lisa. "LONG TRIP: RAILROAD TURNS 100 TODAY Southbound Railway filled important role in putting Winston-Salem on the map." Winston-Salem Journal. November 24, 2010. http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_17bdee27-9f51-5cf1-8e6c-d4eb82814dea.html
"Norfolk and Western Operates Three Lines Into N. Carolina" The E.S.C. Quarterly 11, no. 3-4 (Summer-Fall 1953). 142-144. http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p249901coll22/id/451985
North Carolina General Assembly. "An act to incorporate the Winston-Salem Railway Company." Private laws of the state of North Carolina passed by the General Assembly at its session of 1895." Winston [N.C.]: M.I. & J.C. Stewart, Public Printers and Binders. 1895. 503-509. http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p249901coll22/id/211872
" Winston-Salem Southbound Railway." Railway Association of North Carolina. http://www.ncrailways.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17&Itemid=37
Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission. "Winston-Salem Southbound Railway Freight Warehouse and Office." Local Historic Landmark Program. 1991? http://www.cityofws.org/Assets/CityOfWS/Documents/Planning/HRC/Local_Landmarks/LHL_Sheets/82_WSSouthBRailFreightWarehouseOffice.pdf
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Winston-Salem Southbound Railway Corporation. [Winston-Salem Southbound Railway map]. Drawing. Image courtesy of John Sullivan.
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This is Great information on the History of the Winston Salem Southbound Rail Road.. Thanks. I live in Welcome N C and the Rail Line runs within 150 feet of my house. I would love to some day ride a passenger train from Winston Salem to Wadesboro and back on the W S S R.
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Quiltmaking is my passion. My favorite quilts have lots of tiny pieces and many fabrics. They involve some improvisation. I enjoy making a quilt that tempts the viewer to spend time discovering its secrets and surprises. The best quilts look impossible to make, but they're really easy! That's what I like most about Fandango. Once you get the hang of making the fan block, it goes fast and it's so rewarding. I love the movement and seeming complexity of this design. I was surprised to see the secondary patterns in this quilt: long, spiky pinwheels.
I love to add these "made by eye" fans to my quilts. Sometimes I use one at the base of a tree of life to suggest a root system. I have used them in pairs at the top of a quilt like a pediment on furniture. Sometimes I use three in each corner of a quilt to "round the corners." They add pizzazz to all kinds of quilts. For Fandango, I wondered what would happen if I made a boatload of fans and put them all in one quilt!
The inspiration for this block came as I experimented with string quilting. That's the process of sewing bits of fabric together willy-nilly, trimming it into a shape and using it as a block. I think a fan made "by eye" is more charming than a uniform block you'd get using a method such as paper piecing.
I was inspired years ago by quilter Anna Williams of Baton Rouge, LA. She made stunning improvisational quilts with lots of tiny pieces and a shocking combination of fabrics. I saw one of her quilts at the MAQS and decided that her style of quilting looked like lots of fun.
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Now that you've got that out of your system, I should mention that the occasional individual actually does talk about something other than the 5 questions that Somedude mentioned.
|2004-02-28, 02:16
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Dear Mr. Vio5555,
I received your letter dated 20 April, and I shall not comment on your language here, excepting to wonder whether you talk to your own mother in that manner. While I would like to respond on cordial terms, I must say that it seems folly to produce so much extra paperwork on the part of both the sender and the receiver when a network has been developed that is adapted precisely to the needs of fansubbers. Additionally, I do not believe that joining and writing to a mailing list in order to request a list of S.A.S.E. distribution centers is "a care for the people who make it", as much as a more complicated way of begging for the same information. Therefore, I am of the opinion that this network should be brought to your fansubbing group, so that we may all make use of it.
But despite this ignoble request, sir, I am still your most humble and obedient servant, and it remains my pleasure to be sincerely yours,
Avery Kasuga, Esquire.
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|2004-02-28, 02:24
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You know what I find to be ironic, though, is the fact that you seem to be for fansubbing ethics but against the fansubbers themselves. Well here's an answer for you: screw the ethics, WAREZ RULE!!! If you dont care for the fansubbers themselves, why do you care for what they do on the irc networks that you seem to hate using?
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31 April 1994
Dear Mr. Vio5555,
I am quite astounded, sir. Perhaps you have written me with this letter before reading my reply to you dated 28 April, but you seem to have enclosed it in the selfsame envelope. Do you mean to say that you did not wish to read it? This strikes me as somewhat impolite. I can only hope that there is some other reason for your lack of coherent response.
Most confused,
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|2004-02-28, 02:32
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yikes ...
this is getting less and less like a clean argument and more and more like a flamewar.
ashibaka: tapesubbing is a whole different animal than digisubbing. I'm having trouble seeing the relevance of your post there, other than its sheer unadulterated humor value (it is pretty goddamned funny )
in the early days of digisubs, before the prevalence of xdcc bots really skyrocketed, a lot of groups did in fact try to make you jump through hoops on command, so I guess you're kind of right there.... I guess really the sense of "We're better than you" has just switched sides now ... I rather wish it'd just go away altogether so we could be civil toward each other, rather than having this love-hate thing that we've got now.
Somedude: you're mostly right, that's the kind of feedback we'd rather not have in our irc channels anyway . There's community, and there are parts of the community that are nothing but detrimental. I think the feedback you were trying to point out is a lot closer to the latter than the former. I guess it's just the characterization of any community though, and I guess the prevalence of bt does successfully remove a bit of that ... but at the same time it also encourages it. When it was harder to get stuff and required work, especially on the day of the release, people didn't bitch about how the distro method sucked or how horrible it was for them, or how their leeching a half hour old torrent is slow so bt sucks and that's all there is to it. I dunno, maybe it's really just a moot point - people think bt is faster so more people use it, which initially slows it down. In the end of the equation it's faster than other methods, but it also "punishes" the early leeches by expecting them to actually participate, and to give as much as or even more than they've received. I think it breeds the "you guys are slower" attitude too, 'cause it's only time to release, not time until the episode is prevalent and easy to get.
vio5555: don't feed the ashibaka. it'll only make it worse. (and don't comment on his sig unless it's "well then you find a better network to go that will let fansubbers live on it, isn't down 3 days a week, has services and can support a reasonably large community" ... 'cause if he finds a good alternative that's not all full of warez and crap and can support the 10k+ people that will follow the bulk of the fansubbing community whereever they go and can also stand up to the massive lameass ddosers that have killed at least two such networks since mircx, he should probably tell us about it so we can go there and watch it crumble under more lameass ddosers).
|2004-02-28, 02:41
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If you're even-handed and friendly, chances are, you'll get people who will enjoy joining your channel for a conversation. The key is fostering a sense of community and some mutual respect.
Of course you may chose to disregard my beliefs since we only have 18 or so people in our channel right now. (Sadly, not everyone noticed that mircx went down yet. )
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Last I checked, irc.zirc.org is open for business 7 days a week.
|2004-02-28, 02:49
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Imagine what would happen if everyone were to jump over there...
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Initially xdcc is faster, to get new release seeded. Also it is faster because you are only downloading and not uploading. (But bt mass distribute the file at a faster rate than xdcc.)Although irc is not hard to use it is very inconvenient.
Yeah i am too lazy to go to the irc to look for the new episodes, but also because i have work, school, and tons of other things to do. But yet i still want to have the chance at watching anime and appreciating the works of the fansubbers.
So overall i like BT better, not only do am able to easily access a anime file/link i am also able to easily download stuff, without wasting my time. Furthermore after i finish downloading an episode, i could also help seed it, without additional work, like setting up a server.
On another note, i want to take this opportunity to thank all the fansubbing groups for a great job on all the animes, and that their hard work is greatly appreciated.
Ashibaka-like your letter, very funny.
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Also, you're being a little short-sighted. You're forgetting that these groups are bringing leechers by the truckload.
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I want you to explain what you mean by "somethingawful channels" right now!
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IRC is a shitty form of communication anyway. Personally I can't stand the snail pace and the mental filtering of the channel noise.
If you really want ass kissings distribute your AVI in a password protected RAR and force people to reply in your forum in order to get the password. Of course you will only get 500 replies of "thx".
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When it comes to "middle blocks" there are two types -- outward and inward.
In our dojo, we typically call a middle block "chudan uke". The first movement of Pinan Sandan, for example, is a chudan uke. Specifically, we call this a "chudan uchi uke, " meaning that it is an "outward" block.
But other schools call this same block a "chudan soto uke."
When I speak to my other friends in Karate, it seems that the terms are used differently by just about everyone. I understand that Shotokan people use the same terms as we do, but I'm sure that this differs too.
I do wonder why there are so few "chudan soto uke" in our kata. We do have them in the Naihanchi kata, but none in the Pinan kata.
I really wonder why since the inward block (chudan soto uke) is such a useful block, and in my opinion, stronger than the outward block.
For beginners, the uchi and soto versions of chudan uke are two different things. But in the advanced stage, the outward block is not so outward and the inward block is not so inward. They both tend toward the center. Some advanced people do the blocks almost like an uppercut. Whether the block is to one side or the other of the attacking arm is pretty irrelevant. In other words, done in a very minimalist way, the uchi and soto blocks can look identical.
Of course, how to do the movement is more important than the name we give to it. A person can know the name but not how to do it. The name won't help you if you are attacked.
Charles C. Goodin
Chudan Uchi Uke -- Chudan Soto Uke
When it comes to "middle blocks" there are two types -- outward and inward.
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If you're afraid to answer your phone, you're hardly alone. Spam calls have become so common that they've basically rendered the "phone" part of "smartphone" useless. Or at least, very dumb. But help might, finally, be on the way.
The Do Not Call list, which debuted in 2004, was perhaps the most popular program operated by the U.S. government in decades — 50 million numbers were entered before the list even took effect. Since then, another 170 million numbers were entered into the registry. U.S. telemarketers quickly learned to abide by the list or face multi-million dollar fines the Federal Trade Commission could impose — and there have been more than 100 enforcement actions.
It worked...for a while. But the combination of internet-based telephones and cheap long-distance calls have made it easy for telephone scofflaws to operate overseas, far beyond the reach of U.S. authorities. Unwanted calls have returned with a vengeance, making some wonder if the Do Not Call list works at all.
How bad is the problem? A firm called YouMail Inc. tries to count the number of robocalls that pester Americans, and the statistics are staggering. YouMail claims that 2.5 billion unwanted calls were placed just in April 2017, equaling 7.7 calls per person.
For fun, YouMail breaks down its data by ZIP code, and found that Atlanta wins for most robocalls received, with about 50 million placed just to the 404 area code in April. Another 35 million arrived at Atlanta's 678 area code. Houston and Dallas area codes came in second and third. New York City's 917 area code was fifth, with 29 million.
The robocall problem has been intractable for a series of reasons — mainly, because it makes the criminals who run scams like fake IRS debt collection like these a lot of money. But two other technology reasons stick out.
Criminals can "spoof" caller ID numbers.
First, it's become easier for criminals to "spoof" caller ID numbers. That not only keeps consumers from blocking numbers, it can also make them more likely to answer. Calls that appear to come from the recipient's own area code — or even share the same first six digits of their phone number — suggest a local call, so consumers are tempted to answer.
The telecom industry has a hard time stopping suspicious calls.
Second, the telecom industry has avoided implementing technology that would stop many suspicious calls because the firms claim they are legally required to connect calls, and they don't have the authority to decide what is spam and what isn't.
Years of frustration and consumer complaints finally nudged the Federal Communications Commission toward action last year, and it created the Robocall Strike Force. In August, tech heavy hitters like AT&T, Google, and Microsoft gathered in Washington, D.C., to discuss ideas.
Then in March, with the FCC under new leadership, Chairman Ajit Pai indicated he would go ahead with proposals from the task force. Specifically, he would call for a change in rules that explicitly gave telecom firms the right to cut off spammers.
"Under my proposal, the FCC would give providers greater leeway to block spoofed robocalls. Specifically, they could block calls that purport to be from unassigned or invalid phone numbers — there's a database that keeps track of all phone numbers, and many of them aren't assigned to a voice service provider or aren't otherwise in use," he wrote in a Medium post explaining the change. "There is no reason why any legitimate caller should be spoofing an unassigned or invalid phone number. It's just a way for scammers to evade the law."
Later in March, the FCC approved the proposal. The work isn't done, however. There's now a public comment period; a vote to enact the new rules won't happen until later this year. Then there will be a transition period as carriers implement their spoofed-call-blocking technologies.
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Relief is in sight, but it's not time to turn your ringtone back on just yet. For now, consumers can investigate third-party services like Nomorobo ($2/month, iPhone only, see a review here) or Hiya (free, see iTunes reviews here) that claim to help by using blacklists and other methods to identify spam callers. Some providers and smartphones offer their own free call-blocking options, but they are cumbersome to use. Consumers can Google phone numbers that call, just to see if others have complained online about them. Or simply keep screening those calls for a bit longer.
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International Day of the Girl Child: A dedication to Malala Yousafzai
The 11th of October is the First UN International Day for the Girl Child, and Women Living Under Muslim Laws would like to mark this day by dedicating it to 14-year old Malala Yousafzai - a young school girl so spirited and courageous that she has inspired thousands of people around the world.
Malala, who is from the Swat region in Pakistan, has been committed to advocating for girls' rights to education from the tender age of 11. Despite the risks and threats she and her family have received whilst living under the Taliban, Malala raised her voice in defiance by starting a blog on BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban and their intention to close down all girls' schools in Swat.
When asked in an interview with CNN in 2011 how she would deal with the Taliban demanding to shut down all schools, she answered "I would talk to them and show them that nowhere in the Quran does it say that girls cannot go to school". She was then asked why she risks her life to raise her voice, to which her response was " I thought my people needed me and if I don't raise my voice now, when will I raise my voice?"
Two days ago, Malala was shot twice by a Taliban gunman on her way home from school. The gunman waived down the school bus, hopped on and shot her in the head and shoulder. Sadly, she is the victim of the ignorance and fear that breeds fundamentalism. We can only hope that this terrible moment will not stop her from her fight for girls' right to education.
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How does Jamal Crawford, Spencer Hawes, Brandon Roy, Jason Terry, Nick Collinson, Nate Robinson Isaiah Thomas, Kevin Durant, John Wall, Carmelo Anthony, LaMarcus Aldridge sound for a pick up game?
Thought so.
Some or all of the names listed above PLUS some yet to be named "big name" players will be flying into Seattle for the charity game.
Jamal was on with Softy on KJR Sports Radio today and had this to say.
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Hein Gorny, a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity style, along and the American Adolph C. Byers, took to the air in 1945 and 1946 to take photos of the complete devastation wrought upon Germany in the war.
According to Gorny's son, Byers had somehow managed to sneak Gorny onto small American planes where he took the pictures. The planes were eventually noticed by British authorities and grounded.
Peter Gorny told Der Spiegel:
Before he pressed the shutter release, my father composed the photos in his mind. To position the Leica or Rolleiflex at the right angle, they circled several times around a site. For him the most important thing about these shots was the shadows. Without shadows, my father told me, aerial photographs look lifeless. Once he called off a flight because clouds suddenly blocked out the sun. He was incredibly picky when the light and shadow weren't right.
The photos remained part of Gorny's estate after he died in 1967, and have only been published recently by Collection Regard.
Prints are also available from Collection Regard, who kindly gave us permission to feature these images.


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The chain of events that led to Rolando McClain's dispute with coach Dennis Allen included the linebacker being informed of his demotion to being a back up linebacker and special teams player.
McClain was back on the field Wednesday for the first time since Nov. 28, the day he was told to leave practice by Allen and later given a two-game suspension without pay for conduct detrimental to the team.
"Rolando and I met this morning,'' Allen said following practice. "I laid out exactly what expectations are for him moving forward. Really, that's about it . . . Rolando's part of this team and we're going to move on.''
Asked how much McClain would play, Allen said, "Where we were at before the suspension is that he was going to fill a backup role and work on special teams. That's where we're at and we'll see where we are on game day.''
Omar Gaither continued to get the work at middle linebacker in the 4-3 defense. McClain had been taken off the nickel defense in favor of Miles Burris after four games.
McClain was not available for comment, and Allen declined to get into specifics about the suspension or events leading up to it.
Asked why the Raiders simply didn't cut McClain, as they have Pat Lee and Ron Bartell when they lost their starting jobs, Allen said, "Just different circumstances.''
As for disparaging comments made on his McClain's Facebook page about the organization (which were later taken down), Allen said. "Things get said in the heat of the moment and we've got to move on.''
Gaither said it was business as usual for McClain on the field.
"Same old, same old,'' Gaither said. "He wasn't disruptive or anything. It was all good.''
In a recent interview with The Game (95.7-FM), Bartell said of McClain, "Believe it or not he's a really good guy . . . He just needs to grow up, to be quite frank.''
— Defensive tackle Richard Seymour was limited in practice Wednesday and Allen said,"I think there's a good chance he's going to play this week.''
Seymour missed five games with a hamstring strain.
— Rookie Tony Bergstrom has been working at both guard spots as well as his role as an extra tight end. If Bergstrom sees action over the last three games, it would be at the expense of either left guard Cooper Carlisle or right guard Mike Briesel.
— U.S. Marines will at Raiderville, the West Side Plaza, near the BART entrance, and at Gates A, B, C and D before kickoff to accept donations for the Toys for Tots program.
In addition to new, unwrapped toys, monetary donations will be accepted.
Running backs Darren McFadden and Marcel Reece, tight end Brandon Myers and linebacker Miles Burris will sign autographs in exchange for new, unwrapped toy donations valued at $20 or more at the Raider Image at Hayward's Southland Mall on Monday, Dec. 17, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.


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text: Qatar's women make history becoming the first to compete in an Olympic Games [Reuters]The last time London hosted the Olympic Games it was 1948 and these words proudly hung over the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony. 'The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part' These words were first spoken by the founder of the modern games Baron de Coubertin. Since then they have been paraphrased by mum and dads across the world when dealing with overly-ambitious children. But is it really the taking part that counts? Try telling the most successful Olympian - American swimmer Michael Phelps - this and he would playfully splash water at you. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's reaction is likely to be equally amusing. But perhaps Coubertin's words of encouragement shouldn't be so quickly mocked. Because Olympic champions are only made if they are allowed to take part. "The Olympics was in my heart but I didn't realise I would be here. It is like a dream come true. I want younger players to live what we have just lived" Qatar table tennis player Aia Mohamed On Sunday August 5th, I met three inspiring young women on their way home after being knocked out in the early stages of the Olympics. But there was not a tear of disappointment nor look of resignation between them. These athletes had already won something more valuable than an Olympic gold, or even eight – the chance to take part. 64 years on from London's last Olympics, Qatar had sent four female athletes to the Games for the first time. In fact, London 2012 was the first time all nations had included female members. Baron de Coubertin's words would not have been out of place at Danny Boyle's opening ceremony. While talking to sprinter Noor Al-Malki, swimmer Nada Arakji and table tennis player Aia Mohamed it became clear how important their presence at the Games was. These three friends – who proudly donned their maroon Qatari tracksuits and spoke of missing the Olympic Village – were the real history makers of the Games. And by being part of the greatest sporting competition in the world - they are blessed. They have already fulfilled ambitions that were dreams to their mother's and grandmother's generation. Noor, Nada and Aia symbolise a change in attitude toward's women competing at the highest levels in their conservative nation. And with only 52 years between them they have their whole sporting careers ahead. But now the Olympics are over, will they receive the support needed to one day win gold? Or are they just figureheads to appease the IOC and equal rights groups? Although they wouldn't be drawn on whether they faced discrimination or barriers during their journey to the Games, one thing they openly shared was a delight at being able to inspire peers and future generations. "I was so proud at being able to represent my country. It felt great being there and entering the stadium" said 50m freestyle swimmer Nada Arakji. "Being the first Qatari female swimmer at the Olympics will encourage younger generations to take up the sport." Sporting ambition Quite understandably, at no stage did table tennis player Aia Mohamed feel the Olympics was a right of passage. "The Olympics was in my heart but I didn't realise I would be here. It is like a dream come true. I want younger players to live what we have just lived," Aia said with emotion. "It is every athletes dream to reach the Olympics and thank god I achieved that dream, and hopefully I will be there in Rio in 2016." Qatar - the host of the 2022 Football World Cup – is busy developing itself as a sporting cultural hub. Despite losing out on the bid for the 2020 Olympics, Qatar will pursue the Games in the future. "Qatar supports us. Qatar is proud of us" Qatar 100m runner Noor Al-Malki "It is really important to host events like the World Cup because people from other countries will come and they will know we can do it. We have all the facilities in place and Qatar will bring lots of new things to the event," said Aia. It is hard to argue that Qatar does not have the resources to entertain the world but question marks still hang over their attitude to women pursuing Olympic success. However, at such times as these criticism is unfair. By bringing women to the Olympics, Qatar, Brunei and Saudi Arabia have taken huge strides forward. They have been working closely with the IOC and there's no reason to believe this conversation will breakdown. All three athletes I met were vocal (very vocal) about the huge amount of support they receive from friends, family, coaches, teachers, authorities and other athletes. "Qatar supports us. Qatar is proud of us," says 100m runner Noor Al-Malki. So what next for these girls who quietly disappear from the Games without the hysteria that surrounds Michael Phelps, Ye Shiwen or Usain Bolt? Will they one day stand on the podium celebrating gold instead of wondering whether they will be allowed to take part. Yes, this small, young crop of female athletes have won their first battle – but the battle on the track, in the pool or by the table tennis table has only just begun. Winning - that has to be the next step. Joanna Tilley is a freelance journalist working with Al Jazeera on the Sport website. She has worked at Sky News, Sky Sports News and LBC Radio. Follow her on Twitter (@joannatilley) or her website, http://mythoughtonsport.blogspot.com/ Al Jazeera is not responsible for the content of external websites. SOURCE: Al Jazeera Sport Brunei Qatar Saudi Arabia


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Hats off to those super mums out there. How on earth do you manage to work, run a household look after your children and write blogs too! ? Today I'm gearing up to be a great housewife alongside re-thinking my career choices yet again. I'm officially on a blog break from scrubbing down the kitchen floors and wiping down walls and surfaces. This place is going to look immaculate once I have finished with it.
I'm discovering that although cleaning can be immensely satisfying and relatively pain free (unless you're cleaning an oven - or reaching on tip toes to get to that last cobweb in the corner) it can also be time rather tedious, repetitive and time consuming.
However it keeps you busy and focused. My cleaning repertoire is relatively mundane. Being a household of just two with the luxury of a dishwasher and a Dyson - there really isn't that much to do. Maybe that's where I am going wrong - perhaps there is a lot more to do than the bi-weekly wall and skirting board wipe and the bathroom and kitchen scrub down. (incidentally I hate having a white kitchen). Maybe cleaning is the answer - but what is the question...erm.. how long do you spend cleaning your household? And what is the must-do cleaning job of the day, week, or month?
Do people actually have daily cleaning chores. Perhaps I should recreate a Shirley Valentine style life - cleaning the fridge on a Friday - the TV on a Tuesday and the Microwave on a Monday? Hell no, she was stuck-in-a-rut and stagnant - that could never be me. But does having an immaculate home make you a dull person? Mmm. I know enough amazingly fabulous people with fabulously immaculate homes and they're far from boring. My personal opinion of cleaning is that the art of cleaning itself is dull. Unless you whack on some Tina Turner, draw the curtains, get naked and clean away those cobwebs...
This contagious cleaning cloud of thinking got me daydreaming about my nephews again... the little tikes make so much mess with their toys littered everywhere, their spillages, painting escapades and not to mention food eruptions. Having children must seem like one big operation tidy up?
Is no wonder that so many mummies are back into their skinny mini clothes weeks after child-birth - because with children there is so much to do around the house - endless chores and special requests. How do you ladies ever manage to get out of the house!?
Even without child there is - but you have to be that way inclined. I'm no show-home Schammy so for those of you who know me - this blog may come as a surprise. I'm not messy - but I'd rather be out hop, skipping, or jumping than indoors cleaning - today seems like the exception.
I've always believed that a 'Clean house is a sign of a wasted life.' But today I feel deflated or defeated - six of one and half a dozen of the other - so donning the marigolds, popping on the pinny and dancing with the duster seems like the shake-this-feeling-off-fast solution.
After all 'A tidy house is a tidy mind' I was reading some Zen warblings that said when you keep a tidy home not only will you feel better, but you will also become for efficient and clear in the vision of your goal. This will allow you to leapfrog your progress and achieve the results you want in record time. Umpph. Our house is always tidy (ish) John is the tidier of the two - (verging on OCD) but I admire his dedication to the cleanliness cause.
The kitchen is now sparkling - having sat down I feel side tracked to A.) Start looking for new jobs, B.) Google up on what makes a good housewife (yes, these sites actually exist) or C.) Wake up Johnny to get him to admire the kitchen.
I chose B and could not believe that advice like this existed. Googling is one of my favourite hobbies - try it - you might like it. Start with ex boyfriends, old friends, new friends etc - this is the funny part. Remember Peter from Drama group - look he turned out to be Peter the pornstar. Be warned you could be disappointed with the results (clearly not the Peter one!). It's a bit like the Facebook Guess Who game - only you can find out a lot more details!
Anyway - I clearly need to get out more. Back to the How to guides. Seriously why has someone written a how to be a good housewife guide - and why have I just spent time reading it. It's funny - take a look:
- Have dinner ready. Plan Ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready on time for his returm. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him and a concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they get home and the prospect of a good meal is part of the warm welcome needed!
- Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you'll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, but a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been to work with a lot of work-weary people.
- Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.
- Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives - run a dishcloth over the tables.
- During the cooler months of the year you should prepare and light a fire for him to unwind by. Your husband will fee he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift too. After all, catering to his comforts will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.
- Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer or vacuum. Encourage the children to be quiet.
- Be happy to see him
- Greet him with a warm smile and shoe sincerity in your desire to please him.
- Listen to him. you make have a dozen of important things to tell him, the the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first - remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours.
- Don't great him with problems or worries.
- Don"t complain if he is late for dinner - or if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through at work.
- Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or lie him down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him.
- Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.
- Don"t ask him questions about his actions or question his judgement or integrity, Remember he is the master of the house and as such will always exercise his will with fairness and truthfulness. You have no right to question him.
- A good wife knows her place.
Pick me up from the floor - I can't stop laughing. Of course I'm not a wife - but near enough the next best thing. That has made my day. I need to get back to job hunting, or cleaning - being a good housewife sounds too much like hard work! Or perhaps I should go and by some red ribbon for my hair!


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Kiribati Fishermen Lost At Sea Rescued By Passing Ship
2 men taken to Solomons after drifting for a month
MELBOURNE, Australia (Radio Australia, May 8, 2013) – Two men from Kiribati were on a fishing trip when strong winds pushed their 14 foot boat towards the Solomon Islands.
The men, Eiirito Tataua, aged 40, and Teikauea Tegiaa, 20, were rescued by a U.S. ship passing though the area.
Captain Alfred Canepa from the Pacific Princess has told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat he was lucky to find them.
"We were searching for fish...and 16 miles away on my bird radar I spotted a small spot of birds," he said.
"I went to go check on my boat and luckily I turned that way to check them and we found this small boat with two men adrift at sea, lost."
Captain Canepa says the men were fishing off Bahaba Island in Kiribati's Gilbert Islands, when their engine gave out.
The men drifted for almost four weeks, surviving on raw fish and rain water, before they were found, more than 675 kilometers away.
Captain Canepa says he picked up the malnourished men in the nick of time.
"Surprisingly, they are in a lot better shape than I would have been in, put it that way - it's a hell of an ordeal, believe me," he said.
"Once they were taken on board I gave them water straight away... it was a dry spell they weren't getting much rain and what happened was they started drinking salt water and that's lethal.
"They wouldn't have lasted another three days doing that."
The men were taken to Solomon Islands, where they were held by Immigration officers, and arrangements made for their return to Kiribati.
Captain Canepa says the men have spoken to their families, and he's promised the men he'll look after their boat.
"My crew...we're going to fix it up, and when I'm by their island - I don't know when that will be - I'm going to return it to them," he said.
"I gave them my word, which I will do - I will return that boat to them in working condition."


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jestingrabbit wrote:Sadly, I don't think they're closed under taking minors, so we can't rely on
There are clearly a few easy forbidden subgraphs, like K_4, or a square pyramid, but that's not going to get us anywhere quickly imo.
It is the right question though. The answer is probably something to do with triangles.
/stating the obvious.
I didn't ask for an efficient algorithm, it doesn't have to be as simple as "check whether the graph contains a copy of X, Y, or Z". Just an algorithm witnessing that the problem is decidable. And it can't possibly fail to be decidable, right? That would just be weird.
One avenue for finding an algorithm would be noticing that to finding an embedding of an n-vertex graph is equivalent to finding a real solution for a particular system of polynomial equations in 2n variables (or 2n-4, since WLOG the first two points are (0,0) and (0,1)). Are there known algorithms for this? I'm pretty sure that if a solution exists, a solution can be found inside the algebraics, and you should be able to bound the degrees of the minimal polynomials. If you can also bound the coefficients of the minimal polynomials, you can probably do brute-force checking with a computer algebra system.
As a side-note, the class of embeddable graphs is so badly not closed under minors that every graph is the minor of an embeddable graph. Given any graph, if you replace all edges with paths of length 2, the resulting graph is embeddable.


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I'm intrigued by this Sports Illustrated cover of Bart Starr from 1961:
It's hard to tell from the scan, but it appears that Starr's gray facemask is covered with green paint, flaking and scraping off.
If that is the case and not just a photographic quirk, the helmet would have looked something like this:
That one SI cover isn't the only indication that the Packers were experimenting with a green facemask. The cover of the Packers' 1960 yearbook, with a game photo presumably taken in 1959, appears to show Paul Hornung and Jerry Kramer wearing dark facemasks:
This press photograph of Boyd Dowler, taken on December 6, 1959 in Los Angeles during a game against the Rams, would seem to confirm it.
I'm usually reluctant to read too much into old photographs, especially considering how many of them were hand-tinted and recolored with rather interesting results:
In this case, it does seem plausible. Now, we do know that if this was an early experiment with green facemasks, it was short-lived (and based on that Sports Illustrated cover, we may know why). The gray would be firmly established before the helmet logo was added in 1961:
If the Packers had been able to make the green facemask work back in 1959 or 1960, they would have been at the forefront of football uniform evolution. Although colored facemasks weren't unknown in the 1950s, they wouldn't become a fully-integrated element of team design until the Chargers issued gold to all players in 1974.
The Chargers' gold facemasks kicked off a revolution. The Bills joined the club with blue two years later, and virtually all other teams would follow (including the Packers in 1980). Three teams held fast to their original gray: the Cardinals, Cowboys and Raiders (leaving only the Cardinals with a facemask outside the team color palette).
Gray facemasks have made a resurgence in recent years as a more traditional æsthetic has returned to the NFL. When teams want to adopt an old-school football look, gray facemasks are positively de rigueur.
The gray facemask (especially a single- or double-bar quarterback version) signifies toughness, endurance. As John Facenda once said, "It speaks of duels in the snow and cold November mud". He was talking about Vince Lombardi's name, but the two are inexorably entwined. They are both enduring icons of the 1960s, the most significant era in pro football's history.
How different would the sport's æsthetics be today if Bart Starr had worn this helmet during the first two Super Bowls?
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The Man in the Iron (Face)Mask
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I attended my first Green Bay Packers game in 1968 at Milwaukee's County Stadium, where the Pack squared off against the Minnesota Vikings. Fred Cox, the straight-away kicker for the visitors, was on the cover of the program.
I do not recall the Packers ever wearing a green face mask that season. The SI photo, I believe, shows the typical grey bar with wear from hits and banging around that Bart experienced.
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During the past two decades there has been a significant increase in the percentage of patients who have a high number of lymph nodes evaluated during colon cancer operations, but this improvement is not associated with an increase in the overall proportion of colon cancers that are node positive, according to a study in the September 14 issue of JAMA. 1
"As wide-ranging quality improvement efforts emerge throughout the health care system, finding mechanisms for optimizing cancer care through accurate staging and appropriate treatment has become an area of substantial interest to policy makers. Among patients surgically treated for colon cancer, several studies have demonstrated better survival for patients with more lymph nodes evaluated," according to background information in the article. "The proposed mechanism behind this association suggests that a more extensive lymph node evaluation reduces the risk of understaging, in which inadequate assessment may incorrectly identify a patient with node-positive disease as node negative, thus failing to identify appropriate treatment."
Most practice organizations and consensus panels now advocate for the surgical evaluation of 12 or more lymph nodes for acceptable staging of newly diagnosed colon cancer patients. "Recently, some studies have questioned the understaging mechanism, suggesting that efforts by payers and professional associations to increase the number of lymph nodes evaluated during colon cancer surgery may have a limited role in improving survival," the authors write.
Helen M. Parsons, M.P.H., of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md., and colleagues examined trends in the degree of lymph node evaluation for colon cancer and how they are associated with survival. The researchers analyzed data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, from 1988 through 2008. Included in the analysis were 86,394 patients surgically treated for colon cancer.
The researchers found that lymph node evaluation for colon cancer increased markedly from 1988 to 2008. During 1988-1990, 34.6 percent of patients (n = 3,875) received lymph node evaluation at a level of 12 lymph nodes or more. By 1994-1996, 37.9 percent of patients (n = 4,362) had an evaluation at this level, with this percentage increasing to 46.8 percent in 2000-2002 and 73.6 percent (9,798/13,310) in 2006-2008. Even though the number of lymph nodes evaluated increased significantly, this change was not associated with an increase in node-positive cancers over this period (40 percent in 1988-1990, 42 percent in 2006-2008).
The authors also found that although patients with high rates of lymph node evaluation were only slightly more likely to have node-positive disease, these patients experienced significantly lower relative hazard of 5-year death compared with those with fewer nodes evaluated. "When stratified by node positivity, patients with node-positive disease as well as node-negative disease continued to experience lower relative hazard of death when more lymph nodes were evaluated."
"In conclusion, the number of lymph nodes evaluated for colon cancer markedly increased in the past 2 decades but was not associated with an overall shift toward higher-staged cancers, questioning the upstaging mechanism as the primary basis for improved survival in patients with more lymph nodes evaluated."
Sandra L. Wong, M.D., M.S., of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., writes in an accompanying editorial that the findings of this study indicate that the use of some quality indicators is questionable.2
"One of the major hazards associated with the development and implementation of quality indicators is the lack of association with outcomes because the mechanisms by which adherence to certain processes of care lead to improved outcomes are unclear. What is clear, however, is that seemingly straightforward associations between processes of care and improvements in outcomes are not easily understood and these relationships may not be causal. The quality indicator of counting more than 12 lymph nodes per resected colon cancer specimen does not directly measure a process that by itself improves outcomes. The study by Parsons et al further questions the utility of this indicator."


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The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) is calling on "all persons of goodwill interested in defending the freedoms of religion and conscience" to join together...Posted on September 19, 2012
NRB is currently accepting nominations for the 2013 Annual Media Awards and will be doing so until Monday, October 1, 2012.Posted on September 19, 2012
Anne Graham Lotz and her team at AnGeL Ministries have been busy preparing for the "Just Give Me Jesus" event...Posted on September 19, 2012
The latest installment of John MacArthur's best-selling "Twelve Series" is now available in bookstores.Posted on September 19, 2012
Nancy Leigh DeMoss, author and the host and teacher for nationally syndicated radio programs Revive Our Hearts and Seeking Him, will host "True Woman '12: Seeking Him Together...Posted on September 19, 2012
For over 30 years KMA has been the leader in direct response fundraising for faith-based ministries and organizations.Posted on September 19, 2012


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Watch Paul McCartney Performance Live (for Free) via iTunes on Feb 9th
Paul McCartney's latest album Kisses On the Bottom released 2 days ago, and to celebrate, the iconic singer-songwriter will be giving a free Live Performance via iTunes on Thursday, Feb 9 at 7pm PST. From Guitar World:
Paul McCartney will commemorate the release of his new album, Kisses On The Bottom, with a free streaming performance that takes place 7 p.m. PST Thursday, February 9, from Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, where much of the new album was recorded.
Fans can watch the show for free through iTunes.
Kisses On The Bottom, which comes out Tuesday, February 7, via Hear Music/Concord, is a collection of standards McCartney grew up listening to, plus two new McCartney compositions — "My Valentine" and "Only Our Hearts" (which feature guest turns, respectively, from Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder).
Recorded with the aid of Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall and her band — who will back McCartney for the Capitol live-stream event —Kisses On The Bottom is a personal journey through songs that, in some cases, a young McCartney first heard his father perform on the family piano.
Come 7pm PST tomorrow, you can catch the live stream on your computer (on iTunes) with this link, or if you have an Apple TV, you can enjoy the performance right from the comforts on your big screen TV. Watch Paul McCartney talk about Kisses on the Bottom in more detail below.
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This video is based on a 3D Google Earth tour showing several years of restoration work Trout Unlimited and many partners and volunteers have accomplished on abandoned mine lands in the headwaters of the Boise River Watershed in Idaho.
The video and Google Earth projects were produced by Pam Harrington, Trout Unlimited, and Katy Flanagan and Gary O. Grimm, Mountain Visions.
Below is a link to the report about the Grimes Creek rehabilitation project by Pam Harrington, Trout Unlimited and Robert House, BiouHouse LLC.
Also provided below is a link to a Google Earth Plug In Tour of selected demonstration sites on Mores Creek and Grimes Creek. The link below also provides a Google Earth KMZ file that provides information and tours to almost 100 map locations in these watersheds, including some near the city of Boise, Idaho.


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Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) 3.0
We are happy to introduce Intel Threading Building Blocks 3.0 (TBB). TBB 3.0 builds on the past four years of TBB by adding to the breadth and depth of features in the library, improving performance, and in the Windows version utilizing the latest developments from Microsoft to support parallelism.Key new capabilities take advantage of C++ 0x (optionally), add new synchronization capabilities, introduce a new Design Patterns Manual, add a new concurrent_unordered_map, add Windows support for the latest Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, extended debugging support, support for avoiding starvation (of tasks) for queue-like work, tune performance based on customer feedback, and improve ease of use.
Another development for the TBB open source project is that Adobe joined others using TBB for multicore parallelism. Adobe recently started shipping their new Create Suite 5 products which utilize TBB. Since they went into release cycle before we released Intel TBB 3.0, they are on 2.x, but they see the benefits we've all come to expect from Intel TBB in harnessing multicore parallelism.
We are grateful for the support and extraordinarily useful feedback our customers give to the Intel TBB project. That real world usage has made Intel TBB what it is today.
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*Demo of plugin*. Please note before downloading, this is a very limited demo toolbox plugin. Select a path / image / symbol etc and then use the plugin, the display is only in outline, on release of the mouse, the generated paths will vanish. Also, color options cannot be seen with this demo
The plugin set is a toolbox plugin for Illustrator CS4. The toolkit comes with 13 plugins and created grid designs, scale, circular, spiral, frame, grain, background, paint designs and a whole lot more from the current selected path or paths or images or symbols and
What's New in Multitoolbox Plugin
- Added additional options to scaledown - alternating / randomized / stops
- Scaledown added turn value - accumulated angle
- Updated some dialog text
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- Added scaling options to windmill plug-in
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- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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Rays down Jays in extras
St. Petersburg, PA – Luke Scott drew a bases-loaded walk to force in the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays salvaged a split in a four-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays with a 5-4 victory at Tropicana Field.
Toronto reliever Aaron Loup (1-3) retired the first two batters in the 10th before Evan Longoria doubled. Longoria nearly scored the go-ahead run two innings earlier, but was thrown out at home on a Scott single.
After intentionally walking James Loney, Loup was replaced by Brad Lincoln, who issued a free pass to Ryan Roberts that loaded the bases.
Scott quickly fell behind 0-2 in the count before working the decisive walk.
"You never want to see it happen that way," Lincoln said of the loss. "Come in, throw strikes and get the job done. But it happened and you have to put it past you and move on."
For just the third time in history, the reigning Cy Young Award winners squared off.
Tampa Bay's David Price gave up four runs -- two earned -- on seven hits over eight innings. He struck out eight batters and walked one.
"I thought that was his best stuff all season," Rays manager Joe Maddon said of Price. "He pitched really well. I thought he had everything going."
R.A. Dickey tossed six innings for Toronto, allowing three runs -- two earned -- on five hits and five walks. The knuckleballer was in line for the win before Yunel Escobar knotted the game at 4-4 by homering to center field off reliever Steve Delabar to open the seventh.
The Blue Jays threatened in the ninth, but Fernando Rodney fanned Melky Cabrera with two men aboard. Kyle Farnsworth (2-0) tossed a flawless frame in the top of the 10th.
The Rays jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Longoria brought home Kelly Johnson with a two-out double and scored on a base hit by Matt Joyce.
Toronto got a run back in the second, however, then moved ahead in the next inning.
Rajai Davis reached on a Longoria throwing error with one out in the third and raced home on Jose Bautista's two-out double. Edwin Encarnacion, who came around to score the Blue Jays' first run on a Brett Lawrie single in the second, followed with a base hit, plating Bautista for a 3-2 Toronto lead.
Tampa Bay pulled even in the home half of the third as Ben Zobrist tripled and raced home on a passed ball.
The Blue Jays, though, went back in front in the fifth. Davis singled to begin the inning and stole two bases before scoring on Bautista's sac fly to center.
Game Notes
Thursday's matchup between the reigning Cy Young Award winners was the first since Atlanta's Tom Glavine faced Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees on July 15, 1999. The only other such occurrence was Aug. 28, 1989, when Frank Viola of the New York Mets opposed Orel Hershiser of the Los Angeles Dodgers ... The Rays haven't lost a home series to Toronto since dropping two of three April 6-8, 2007 ... The Blue Jays optioned pitcher Ricky Romero to Triple-A Buffalo, designated pitcher Edgar Gonzalez for assignment and selected the contracts of pitchers Ramon Ortiz and Mickey Storey from Buffalo.


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Dr. Darin Stephenson of the Hope College mathematics faculty has been elected vice-chair for four-year colleges of the Michigan Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
He will serve during the 2008-09 school year. He was elected during the section's annual meeting, held at GrandValleyStateUniversity in Grand Rapids on Friday and Saturday, May 2-3.
Stephenson is an associate professor of mathematics and chairperson of the department at Hope, where he has taught since 1997.
His involvement with the MAA has included serving for three years on the planning committee for the yearly Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (MUMC). He also chaired the Organizing Committee for the MUMC when it was held at Hope in 2006.
Within the field of mathematics he specializes in ring theory, geometry and probability. He has also become involved in curriculum development, and is writing a textbook that is being used in Hope's sophomore-level mathematics courses, Multivariable Mathematics I and II.
Stephenson regularly involves Hope students in his research. This summer he is working with five students on two projects: "A Stochastic Approach to Lights Out," with funding provided by Hope's National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant in mathematics; and a curriculum-development project funded through Hope's Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant.
He has had articles concerning his research published in scholarly journals including the "Journal of Algebra," the "Transactions of the American Mathematical Society," the "Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra," and the "Pi Mu Epsilon Journal." In January 2000 he presented the seminar "Cryptology: The Mathematics of Secrets" during the college's annual Winter Happening.
Stephenson graduated from the University of Kentucky with a major in mathematics in 1988. He completed Master of Science and doctoral degrees in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1990 and 1994 respectively. After completing his doctorate, he served as the S.E. Warschawski Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego from 1995 to 1997.
Founded in 1915, the MAA is a forum for educators, students, professionals, and mathematics enthusiasts to share ideas, keep abreast of developments in the mathematical community, enhance their careers and make new friends. The organization's membership includes more than 25,000 individuals and institutions nationally. The Michigan section held its first formal meeting in 1924.


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Placing Holds Online
How to Place a Hold
- From the Harris County Public Library Homepage click Online Catalog.
- In the catalog, search for the item(s) in which you are interested. To do a basic search, enter your term(s) and click the Go button.
- At the results screen (you will see the copies available on this screen), click the item in which you are interested to go to the item record.
- In the item record, click the Request Item button to place a hold.
- Enter your library card number and PIN and click Login.
- At the Request Confirmation screen, select your Pickup Location from the pull-down menu (click the arrow to the right and scroll through the menu to find your preferred branch) and click Request.
- You will get confirmation that your request has been placed.
- Click Return to Searching to look up more items.
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- To view items you have on hold, click My Account.
- Enter your library card number and PIN and click Login.
- Click Hold Requests.
- You will now see your hold(s), the queue position (where you are in the wait list) and the status.
- Click the check box(es) and click Cancel Request if you no longer want the item(s).
- Click the check box(es) and click Change Status if you wish to suspend your hold.
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- Your Library Card Number - The 14 digit number on your Library Card which begins with 24028.
- Your PIN (Personal Identification Number) – This is the four-digit number you selected when you received your library card. If you did not request a PIN number, a Request for PIN form may be obtained from the circulation desk at your local Harris County Branch Library during regular hours.**
- Computer Access – You can access the system at any Harris County Branch Library or from your own computer with Internet access by going to http://www.hcpl.net. Currently there is a limit of 15 holds per library card.
**For the protection of your confidential information, the library must require that each customer who receives a PIN provide acceptable identification. If you forget your PIN you may request it in person at the circulation desk or by calling your local branch and providing acceptable identification. You can also obtain your PIN by email.


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by Trevor Kuss, sports information assistant
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Junior Philip Laskey (Marietta, Ga.) of the Georgia College cross country team was named to the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) 2012 Men's Cross Country All-Academic Team, the league announced Wednesday.
Laskey has been the top finisher for the Bobcat men's cross country team for every race in the 2012 season, finishing in the top-25 overall in all but one race. Laskey, a mathematics major, currently holds 3.77 cumulative GPA.
Fellow junior Tucker Forbes (Lilburn, Ga.) was an Honorable Mention for the team, with a 3.46 cumulative GPA in his major, Pre-Athletic Training.
The Bobcats will next be competing Saturday, Nov. 3 when they travel to Charlotte, N.C. to compete in the NCAA Southeast Regional Race.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Ghost Town Kevin:
Nice shots, as always. Lookin' forward to more!
Great site, btw!
I am most intrigued by your work. Such sites interest me the most. From an archeological perspective, this would be so neat for investigating some lessor known intaglios. I know low level aerial photography is not always available and most expensive to commission. Marking spots on the ground to register your photography seems like your next step but 400' is a bit low proper perspective. Could you get a waiver from the FAA in remote areas? I am of curious as to initial costs, as I know several sites I'd love to get the skyview of.
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Ghost Town Kevin:
Nice shots, as always. Lookin' forward to more!
Great site, btw!
DAVE! You ol' polecat!... Fancy meeting you here... Cool website here, isn't it?...
There are UAV operators that routinely get COA's (Certificates of Operations) from the FAA to do all sorts of things including flying at ten's of thousands of feet... But, then they're actually a lot - LOT more expensive than just going to the local airport and hiring a pilot with a Cessna to take you around... Around Tucson, I can get a plane and pilot for $100 to $150 an hour... You can cover quite an area in an hour...Originally Posted by Bob
Admittedly, the photos I do are limited in scope... The platform is not really suited for "survey" type work... I don't shoot straight down for one thing... I use an oblique angle to see the sides of things with my set-up... I normally only use a 5 to 10 degree look down angle - max 30 degrees...
One thing you might investigate is the private satellite imagery companies like "old judge" was saying... Terraserver being one... I've seen alot of great ones - easiest is to do a web search of "satellite photos"... Most have subscription and print services and the resolution is surprising... If you were in your driveway waving at the satellite at the time the photo was taken, you'd quite easily see yourself... Worth a try - and very inexpensive... I use them sometimes to find take-off and landing sites around my intended subjects in the city...
I know aerial photography well but getting it for specific sites and sufficient resolution for what site surveys is a wee bit cost prohibitive (Or Im just too cheap). It is getting better as much comes in electronic form now and the non-classified government (Not commercial) stuff is freely exchangeable. I work with several Photo Interpreters and they can tell ya, I have standing orders if they do work in Nevada to keep me up to speed, Unfortunately, I'm not that excited about most Superfund sites and the costumer isn't that keen on archaeological and non polluting historical sites (Did get some interesting stuff on heavy metal pollution along the mill sites below Virginia City near Dayton, Nevada.)
I can see the advantages to side view photography from your perspective as it is just for exploring and such. I routinely visit Terraserver and Topozone when checking out new locales. Sure sounds like a lot off fun and if you can offset some of your costs, so much the better.
Yet Another Bob
Another nice feature is you can get access to land that is posted.
I fly a weightshift trike (ultralight) and always enjoy the unique aerial perspective.
Guys, this looks like an interesting tool...I'm one of those guys that says" If the Good Lord Gave me Wings, I'd Fly" However air photos would be interesting of a site that is quite spread out and has tall brush. Metropolis NV Comes to mind as it was once a fairly developed city and a lot of roads, foundations and even sidewalks exist, but with the waist high brush, it is difficult to imagine how the town was laid out. Even the developed c**** system would be interesting to see from above. One of my buddies talked to a guy who worked in the area on a federal survey crew says the c****s are really interesting. When the land development company lost they water rights case, the town died.
Is it easy to get to the Cienega station that's west of the Pantano station? Its just 1/4 mile east down the train tracks from where they cross the Frontage Road, correct? Google Earth shows a big bridge out there where the tracks cross.
Also, does anyone believe in the story of the second "La Cienega" station in the "Dig Here!" book? The place where supposedly the "Bender Gang" operated? Personally I think its just a story made up by the author and there's only one Cienega or La Cienega station out there.
The Bender's "La Cienega" station was supposed to lie east of either the Pantano or common Cienega stations (the book didn't specify exactly which one) in a "box canyon". Supposed to be treasure buried out there but I doubt it.
Interesting.. PANTANO AZ - was begun by my great grandfather.... He was a Doctor from Palermo Sicily.
Wish I knew more about it all..... But , he had run away from his family - with a younger woman - and went to AZ.... Stinker started the town --
If anyone knows more -- please contact me.. I would like to see his grave ????
I'm up in Colorado..... Thanks....!!
Butterfield's stage station site near Pantano Is now partly under the railroad bed at its bend near Davidson Wash.
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