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Chris is the chief administrative officer of the City responsible to the City Commission for the administration of all City affairs placed in the Administrator's charge by or under the City's Charter. He oversees all departments and is responsible for administering and enforcing the City's policies and ordinances. He is also one of the City's head cheerleaders, always expounding on the virtues of working, living, visiting and doing business in East Jordan. As the City Administrator, he is focused on fiscal responsibility and the revitalization of the downtown area along with the continuation and strengthening of the sense of "community" in our area.
Chris is a native of West Michigan, growing up in the Spring Lake/ Grand Haven area and graduating from Spring Lake High School. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Sciences & Land Use Planning from Grand Valley State University in 1979 and his Masters of Public Administration Degree in Local Government Management from Roosevelt University in Chicago in 1990.
Chris has been the City Manager for the City of East Jordan (pop. 2,351) since August 20, 2012. He previously served for two & ½ years as the City Manager of Wayland, MI (pop. 4,079), fifteen years as the City Manager of Fremont, MI (pop. 4,081) and for 10 years as the Capital Budget Officer for the City of Evanston, Illinois (pop. 74,486 and home to Northwestern University.) Prior to that, Chris was employed for five years as the Assistant Executive Director for the Kaysinger Basin Regional Planning Commission (pop. 100,000) in southwest Missouri.
Among his many professional activities, he serves as an advisor & staff support for the following City organizations: City Commission, Downtown Development Authority, Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals. He also serves as the City's Zoning Administrator and Airport Manager.
While in Wayland, Chris guided the City to many significant accomplishments and projects:
• Combined several state grants and local bond funds to install new decorative LED streetlights from US-131 to and throughout the City's downtown.
• Obtained state grants for the purchase of 26 acres along the Rabbit River and the construction of the new Rabbit River Park & Nature Trail.
• Assisted the Downtown Development Authority to apply for and receive designation as a Selected Level community under the MI Main Street program.
• Chris has relocated to East Jordan and is renting a house in the city until he can secure a new home. He enjoys various outdoor pursuits such as hiking, boating, fishing and bike riding. His wife Diane was most recently the Program Director for the Newaygo County Dogwood Center for the Performing Arts & a former 17-year veteran as the Ex. Director of the Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce. They have three wonderful children: Kristin in Grand Rapids, Evan in Fremont and Emilie in Breckenridge.
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Commissioner John Doebel is a Senior Project Engineer for EJ (the former East Jordan Iron Works, Inc.). He started with EJ in 1993 as a Project Engineer. In this position John designs equipment, manages capital improvement projects and develops ideas related to the physical plant and equipment for the East Jordan, MI, Ardmore, OK and other US facilities.
Prior to working for EJ, John has worked as a manufacturing engineer, delivery driver, racing engine machinist and a wood craftsman.
John holds an Associate of Science degree from Muskegon Community College and a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Western Michigan University.
John has been married to Julia for over 30 years and has four children – Jennifer (Joey), Janelle, Jarred and Jebbediah – and two grandsons – Josiah and Jonah
Commissioner Mark L. Penzien is the owner of the Penzien Funeral Homes, Inc. in East Jordan and had previously served on East Jordan DDA prior to being appointed to the city commission.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Olivet College in 1978 and Mortuary Science degree from Wayne State University in 1980.
Mark and his family came to East Jordan on August 28, 1986 at the urging of a friend in the funeral industry to work for RT Paullin in East Jordan and Mancelona. That turned out to be a very fruitful relationship. Mark and Cyndi bought both funeral homes on January 5, 1995 and then sold the Mancelona funeral home in 2003.
Mark and his wife, Cyndi have three boys, Mark, Kevin and Jeremy.
Mark is a member of the East Jordan Rotary Club and attends the Lighthouse Missionary Church
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After overwhelming another overmatched division rival, Peyton Manning and the streaking Denver Broncos can turn their attention to much more meaningful opponents. Manning threw for 310 yards and had his 30th touchdown pass of the season on the game's opening drive to help the Broncos roll to their eighth straight victory, 26-13 over the Oakland Raiders on Thursday night. Knowshon Moreno ran for 119 yards and a score on a career-high 32 carries, and Matt Prater kicked four field goals to help the Broncos (10-3) move a half-game ahead of New England and Baltimore for the second-best record in the AFC. Denver visits Baltimore next week in a game that will help decide who gets a first-round playoff bye. Carson Palmer threw one interception that thwarted a possible scoring chance for the Raiders (3-10) and lost a fumble that set up a touchdown for the Broncos as Oakland lost its sixth straight game. This is the team's longest skid since also losing six in a row in 2007. The R...
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It appears the Detroit Red Wings' drive for a playoff spot is about to be boosted by the return of Pavel Datsyuk.
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"I'm happy to be back with the team," Datsyuk told mlive after the skate. "I need a little more time to pick up the pace, pick up everything.
"I can do full skates, lots of things that they do that I cannot do before, that's why I take three weeks (off)."
Datsyuk told mlive that he still feels pain in the knee on some days, but said "I can handle it."
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British racing fans have a new reason to watch Formula One this season, despite the low point that was reached when last year's champion got caught up in an embarrassing scandal with the rest of the McLaren team, putting a cloud over the capital of motor racing. Well out with the new and in with the old, because Great Britain has a new favorite son. Jensen Button, the driver who couldn't buy a win, and took a pay cut to ride in the Brawn GP chassis for 2009 has just set a record winning 6 of the first 7 races of the season after finishing first at the Turkish Grand Prix this past Sunday.
This is quite a turnaround for Button, who has driven Benettons, Renaults and quite a few Hondas. His previous highlights included finishing 3rd in the points behind the wheel of a BAR in 2004 before he had to wait until 2006 for his first win, also coming in a Honda this time at the Hungaroring. Until the start of this season, Jensen just wasn't as fast as the rest of the Formula 1 field. So where did all this speed suddenly come from?
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However credit must also be given to the great racing strategist, Ross Brawn. Since taking full control of the ex-Honda F1 team, the Brawn GP squad has been unstoppable. Although we found out not invulnerable, with Rubens Barichello parking his Brawn GP car before all 58 laps were run. At the end of the race you could hear Brawn GP's number 1 driver thanking the team for their efforts, and thanking the man for building this race winning car.
The combination of Button and Brawn has been around since 2007 after Ross Brawn joined Honda from Ferrari. Over the past two years the duo just couldn't find the right combination of power and agility to make Button a race winning driver, but Brawn was so sure about the team's 2009 entry that when Honda announced that they were leaving the sport, Ross Brawn personally took the reigns and hasn't had to look back yet. This kind of instantaneous success is enough to make any race fan reconsider whether Ferrari's F1 dominance in the 1990s was due more to the man behind the wheel, or the man sitting in the pit box.


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I have been making these scones since this issue came out 17 years ago! They are FANTASTIC! better than any scones you'll buy in a bakery. The great thing about them, is that you can do lots of variations. I actually love to make it with fresh blueberries (i generally add more than the 1 cup that it calls for...about 1.5 to 2). I also like to separate the dough in to 2 rounds, and then cut in to 8 for a total of 16 scones. I feel like the smaller scones lend themselves better to a brunch, since there's normally so much other food. Enjoy!
Cranberry-Orange Scones
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Yield: 8 servings
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon grated orange rind
- 1/2 cup butter, cut up
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- Combine first 6 ingredients; cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly. Add buttermilk and dried cranberries, stirring just until moistened.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; knead 5 or 6 times. Pat into an 8-inch circle. Cut into 8 wedges, and place 1 inch apart on a lightly greased baking sheet. Brush with milk, and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon sugar.
- Bake at 425° for 15 minutes or until scones are golden brown.
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Reconstructing the movie in your head, Redux
I've been thinking about the paper and movie linked at the previous post. Have a look at that if you haven't, because it's neat.
Here's what you might think about the movie. You might look at the clip on the left and the movie on the right, and think "Wow! those look pretty similar!" You might further think "Gee, they must look similar because visual areas contain a remarkably accurate map of what people are seeing, and these guys have figured out a way to show me that mapping! That's cool!" (If you tend towards Fodorian crankiness, you might also think "Who cares? We knew this already! I've learned nothing!").
Watch a little closer, though. Why do the elephants at 0:12 look like the inkblots at 0:06? Why does what appears to be a mattress and some text show up at 0:07 when there's nothing like that on the left? Why does the African-American dude with the stethoscope at 0:20 suddenly turn into a distinctly un-stethoscoped white woman at 0:21?
There's a good answer to these questions. Here's the simple version: the movies on the right are not brain data. They are a bunch of YouTube clips superimposed on top of each other. Which clips were used are based on the brain data: they represent the 100 most likely clips from the test set according to their model. Since the model is quite good at picking clips that subjects had seen, there's a lot of overlap. But you're not seeing the "movie in your head" in any important sense.
Here is my best guess at the details, having puzzled through the methods section and the SOMs. (Some caveats: I haven't had time to work through the details of the modeling. The motion-energy part of it would be beyond my pay grade anyway. It's late, I'm on a diet, and so I'm ornery. So this is a pretty birds-eye view; if I've gotten anything obviously wrong, please let me know.)
Step 1: Take your movie clips, split them into short chunks, downgrade the heck out of them, and throw out chromatic information.
Step 2: Feed those movie-chunks into a fancy model designed to extract motion components.
Step 3: Take the results of step 2 and use them to convolve a hemodynamic response function for each movie-chunk. That gives you a prediction for the BOLD response in a voxel if it was seeing that chunk.
Step 4: In each voxel, determine the goodness of fit for each hemodynamic response function you got in step 3. That gives you the posterior probabilities for each chunk at each voxel. Then take the most discriminating voxels and combine those predictions to make predictions about which chunk was being viewed at that time.
It turns out that those predictions are impressively good. That is a cool feature of this paper: the BOLD signal is usually thought to be too sluggish to get any kind of fine temporal information out if it, especially with this sort of stimulus design. So I'm not downplaying what they did. It's neat. I wouldn't have thought it would work, but there you go. But where do the movies come from? So far as I can tell, each voxel is making a prediction about whole movie chunks. Well:
Step 5: Then take the movie clips—the original clips, not the brain data—and average them together, weighted by the posterior probabilities you got in step 4.
That's why the movies on the right are all eerie and ghostly: each bit you're seeing is an average of a whole bunch of YouTube clips. That's why there are lots of odd artifacts: sometimes the model misfires, and so clips that have nothing at all to do with the original movie get included. That's why it seems to work pretty well with talking heads: those are plentiful in their data set, so the model's mistakes tend to be other talking heads. That's why it doesn't work so well with elephants and inkblots—the misfires tend to pick out unrelated chunks. That's why the text bits are unintelligible but text-y. They're using movie trailers, and the bits of text in each are (I'm guessing) pretty hard to tell apart using this kind of model, so it's just kind of glomming all of them together.
In short, this is not reading movies off of your brain. This is using a complicated model to predict what movies someone saw, and then averaging together the original clips corresponding to the best predictions. The movies on the right are a snazzy, misleading way of representing the posterior probability distributions over the set of possible clips. Since many of the wrong guesses still match up well with the original stimulus, it partly validates the model's ability to pick out clips with similar visual features at a relatively fine time scale. (More cynically, if they'd used only the top prediction of the model, which was usually pretty accurate, it would be obvious that they were just showing you youtube clips).
There's a lot of cool stuff in the paper aside from the methods, especially about selectivity in V1. It's an impressive proof of concept. But we're still pretty far away from reading minds.
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Bingo! Nice post, Colin.
All good points. Good to see someone take up the gauntlet and start a serious discussion! Now that it has begun, I have a few comments.
1. Picking a basis set
I tried to get at my (and your) main concern with the study when I wrote that the "influence of the limited training data can clearly be seen." You can easily see the undue influence of the closest movies (highest posteriors) in the training data, and it is clear how the reconstruction sinks toward certain modes that are obviously way off the mark.
Ultimately researchers will get very good at this stimulus reconstruction once the set of training movies used for the attempted reconstructions is improved. It is very hard to find a good basis set for movies, because the set of possible stimuli is effectively infinite. They ended up with a fairly arbitrary grab-bag of movies (e.g., talking head, bouncing ball, etc). I think movies that are less naturalistic (e.g., moving edges) would perform way better, generalize better to arbitrary stimuli because they match the filters used by the lower-level sensory areas from which they are recording. I predict a study will come out in the next few years doing exactly this, as it is just too obvious!
2. Reconstructing movies in the head?
Looking at the forest, we have a study that does what pretty much every sensory neuroscientist does in their papers: attempt to reconstruct, based on neuronal data, the stimulus actually presented. We really don't mean to say that the brain reconstructs the stimulus, but that we observers of the brain, using often very technical mathematical tools, can predict the stimulus (with such-and-such error) given the brain signals.
There is not much to worry about in talking about 'reconstructing the movie in the head,' as when we focus on the content (not the vehicles) of the signals in the visual system, they basically are movies (or, really, scenes). And that's what they are attempting to reconstruct: the content of the brain's responses to the world. It would be like saying they are reconstructing the 'songs in the head' if they were to perform the analysis on auditory cortex. I'm OK with that.
Whether this is the best way to recover content from vehicle is of course debatable.
3. Consciousness
Despite my joking about consciousness, the study combined information indiscriminately from the occipital pole (multiple early visual areas including V1), and likely the same reconstructions would work in subjects that were not conscious (e.g., someone under anesthesia). It would be very cool for them to apply these algorithms to bistable percepts (e.g., structure from motion) and see how well they track percepts versus stimuli.
4. The other half of the study
Focusing too much on the movie-reconstruction work (Figure 4 in the paper) would miss one of the coolest results in the study: regardless of the movie context in which it occurs, localized motion can be predicted very well with individual voxels from the MRI (Figures 2/3 in the paper). This result reinforces my hunch that using more localized, moving-edge type of stimuli, would yield even more impressive performance in the movie reconstruction part of the paper.
At any rate, given the extremely limited spatial and temporal resolution of MRI, this result is really impressive. However, ultimately MRI will still be limited by its low spatial and temporal resolution. Sure, it might be better than we would intuitively predict, but blood flows aren't action potentials, and the latter are the fine-grained computational workhorses of the brain.
Eric: All good points. I agree with you that the really interesting application is probably going to involve much simpler moving stimuli and trying to hone in on the areas that are specific to local motion. I hadn't thought of using bistable stimuli, but that would also be a cool way to go.
I should say again that I have no *deep* objection to the study (just to the hype!). It seems to me like the sort of thing people have already been doing with multivoxel pattern analysis, though in a new and cool way. I do think that the spatial/temporal resolution of fMRI is ultimately going to put a limit on this—but on the other hand, I would have thought that this couldn't be done either, so who knows!
I think you are right to want to reign in the hype a bit. My comment about the cartesian theater didn't help matters
Ultimately what they did is not qualitatively surprising. Your curmudgeonly Fodorian response seems effectively right. Paul Bloom likes to say that the only reason people act surprised by these types of results is because they are intuitively dualists, that naturalism about mind hasn't sunk in quite yet.
I don't really get the Bloom remark…dualists can be just as happy with these results as the naturalist…all one needs is some kind of connection between non-physical mental episodes and brain episodes (a causal connection would do)..even worse property dualists have absolutely no issues accounting for this (especially those like Dave who endorse the idea that consciousness is a 'functional invariant'….I like to say that these kinds of remarks (those like Bloom's) are due to not really understanding (whether willfully or not) the opponent's views…
Richard: "… all one needs is some kind of connection between non-physical mental episodes and brain episodes (a causal connection would do)"
On what principled grounds could a causal connection exist between non-physical mental episodes and biophysical brain episodes?
in other work bloom has been explicit that by dualism he just means something like, cartesian substance dualism with a separate soul that does the thinking and perceiving. he says that more sophisticated modern forms of dualism, such as property dualism, aren't subject to his critique.
Do you take dual-aspect monism to be a form of property dualism?
There are lots of principled grounds, but the most obvious is some kind of Hume-inspiried view about causation…if causation is just constant conjunction then there is no problem with there being a causal connection between material and non-material entities….but even more generally the causal issue really only arises if one is thinking in terms of 17th/18th century notions of causation as some kind of 'bumping'…
Ah, thanks for this clarification dave!But even so, does that justify the claim above? The images on my screen and the processing in the cpu are distinct but yet we still expect to be able to 'read out' the contents of the cpu and could 'reconstruct' the images on my screen from that data…and we also expect that damage to the cpu will result in a change in screen imagery…so how does the two things being distinct result in the bloom remark? It seems to me that one would have to be thinking of substance dualism as the view that there is never any interaction or causal dependance between the two substances…then it would be a surprise to find out that changing one effects the other…By the way, there is some reason to believe that Descartes held some kind of view like that the body was necessary for conscious experiences of colors and tastes (the disembodied mind of Descartes was merely capable of abstract rational thought)….this is generally of a piece with his claims that the mind/body connection is 'tight' and not like 'a sailor to his vessel'….I have always thought that these remarks of Descartes are in tension with his conceivability argument for substance dualism (or at least the part where we conceive of ourselves as *having the very same experience I am right now* (say while looking at a red patch, having a headache, and eating a chocolate brownie) and yet not having a body…but that is a different story
Richard: ".. if causation is just constant conjunction then there is no problem with there being a causal connection between material and non-material entities.. "
Do you believe that correlation (constant conjunction?) is causation? This is not the way causation is understood in science.
Richard: "but even more generally the causal issue really only arises if one is thinking in terms of 17th/18th century notions of causation as some kind of 'bumping' …"
No need for a causal connection to make things bump. Since you posited a *causal connection* between non-physical mental episodes and biophysical brain episodes, what kind of causal connection between the non-physical and the physical do you have in mind?
Ok, I'll bite; how is causation understood in the sciences? Whatever your answer is that is the kind of causal connection that *could* hold between the non-physical and the physical (unless it is some kind of bumping account, which is outdated on anyone's account).btw, have you read the relevant Hume? That scientists haven't taken to heart the philosophical lessons of the Treatise is not really the point…you asked what principled grounds there might be for a position and I gave you those principled grounds. Many people think a Humean account of causation is plausible…but that is not the only possible principled reason…ultimately the causal issue for dualism is a red herring fostered by out-dated notions about causation…
You claim that a non-physical mind can cause a change in the biophysical brain. So, in your view, substance dualism poses no problem for a scientific understanding of consciousness, and to question this claim is not justified (a red herring). Is this is a widely held opinion among contemporary philosophers of mind?
I wouldn't read too much into Bloom-type claims, which he tends to apply to "folk," not people that think about this stuff for a living. I just threw it out there as a contrast to the Fodorian curmudgeon.
There are lots of principled grounds, but the most obvious is some kind of Hume-inspiried view about causation…if causation is just constant conjunction then there is no problem with there being a causal connection between material and non-material entities….but even more generally the causal issue really only arises if one is thinking in terms of 17th/18th century notions of causation as some kind of 'bumping'…


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Saturday's game of Islanders at Kings might have been a curiousity to West Coast fans because they rarely see a team like the Isles. Though New York was here last year, on March 20th, and LA was on the Island in October of 2009, most of the players and stories on the visiting team are just vague notions at the corners of Kings' fans minds.
They know, for example, that the team has a goalie signed for a billion years, but who rarely plays. They realize that the team has another pretty good goaltender who plays, like, every game. They may not realize that that guy (Dwayne Roloson) is forty-one.
And that there are a couple of familiar names in the group—John Tavares and Matt Moulson. The former was the much-touted rookie in the spring draft of 2009; the latter used to be a King. He had a great couple of years at the club's AHL affiliate in Manchester, and was burdened with high expectations coming into the NHL in 2007. He never really panned out as far as the Kings were concerned, however, scoring six goals in 29 games with the club.
In New York, he had a great season last year, scoring 30 goals in 82 games, though without a lot of assists to go along with those tallies—just 18. And no wonder—the team around him offered little else in the way of scoring punch, or defense. Two of the three goaltenders they used had a GAA at 3 or above.
Whatever the motivation, whether curiousity about these vaguely familiar figures or for some other reason, a full house was on hand. Why? If for no other reason, to watch the Kings, for crying out loud, to watch the Kings. They've been winning, having jumped out to the best home start since 1980-81. Both then and in 1975-76 team got out to 7-0 starts. This year's team has won every home game this year, seven coming into the night.
A lot of records these days are bunk because the current league policy of not allowing ties breaks the continuity with the past. Goaltending wins? Meaningless. Points, wins, streaks of gaining a point? Pointless. But consecutive wins (as opposed to games with a regulation point) is still what it always was, and the Kings exited the night with a new team marker at eight home wins to start the year. Their overall record? 12-3-0.
Those wins come courtesy of one main item: a penalty kill that has not been beaten at home yet this season. That, of course, comes to a large degree from the clichéd "best penalty killer," the goaltender, with Jonathan Quick having played in 11 of the team's games and five of the first eight at home. His GAA entering the evening, 1.58 and save percentage, .944. He allowed but one on Saturday night.
Coming into the game Saturday night, the team was first in the league in PK percentage (91.5) and had killed 17 in a row overall.
The challenge would be to keep the Islanders from spoiling that, since they came in tenth in the league with the extra guy, at exactly 20 percent. Exiting, the Kings were even better, having killed a handful more.
The game began with two quick goals by Anze Kopitar. The first came off a weak clear by Matt Martin and a lucky bounce. The puck was shot from the point by Davis Drewiske and thumped off of the back of Dustin Brown's leg. Kopitar was just coming off of the boards where he had checked Martin, and the puck went right to him. He whizzed it past a surprised Dwayne Roloson.
He scored again at 5:02 gone, a hard-working goal from in the crease. The puck had come from the point, and Kopitar picked up the rebound not once but twice, the second time beating the goalie. He said after the game that he doesn't remember another game where he scored two such quick goals. "Last year we had a game where we scored the first three shifts, but it was me, Willie [Justin Williams] and Smitty [Ryan Smyth], but we scored on the first three shifts. That was probably the most comparable to [tonight]."
When asked if he was hoping for a hat trick having scored two so fast, he said, "It's one of those things if it comes it comes, but if not, it's fine. You try to get it another time. Maybe sometimes you shoot more, off the rush especially, but you know what? It doesn't matter. The thing that matters is we got the two points, we got the win." That, of course, ruins the surprise for those reading, but really—did you think the Isles were going to come into LA and upset this team?
The Isles didn't just lie down. They got one back shortly after—like 37 seconds later—after Quick poked a puck out from in front of him right to Rob Schremp in the right side slot. He fired a wrister past the goalie, by now screened by his own defenseman.
The first period saw the Kings outshoot the visitors by 12-7, a stat which put the Kings on pace for a season high. The most shots the team had fired coming into Saturday was 35, against Atlanta. The period high, by the way, was 15, against Chicago in Illinois.
Enough about the action. How'd the team look? With an opposing squad as down and out as the Isles, you might think that it would be easy to show off all one's skills, and certainly the Kings had all the momentum in the early going. But the Isles are still an NHL team, albeit the last-place one both entering and exiting the evening. Justin Williams said as much as he commented about the game afterwards, noting that the visitors had had a great start, and that these kinds of slumps (like the Isles are having) happen to any team.
One LA player who showed a better game than he had last time out (against Dallas on Thursday) was Drew Doughty. He was out with a concussion for six games through October 30th and back for three games coming into Saturday. In the last game, he was often out of place, getting caught up a couple of times, and once turned around at his own blueline, losing his man in uncharacteristic fashion. On Saturday, he was much more confident, playing 23:39 and recording a goal and an assist on five shots.
The blueliner got hit at one point against Dallas in a play that scared onlookers due to the concussion. Adam Burish hit him, and Doughty's head hit the glass. His helmet popped off. Burish was banished for five and the game. Doughty got no more than a facial scratch, and has downplayed it in the media since. But the team is now enforcing upon him the demand to wear a mouthguard. This mandate came after the concussion, but these last couple of days, a trainer has been made responsible to make sure that he doesn't leave it in his locker stall between periods, according to a story by Rich Hammond, Kings' correspondent.
The team cites studies which show that a mouthguard can help prevent concussions. I have cited such evidence myself in articles in the past, though an archive research of scientific articles shows that the evidence comes largely from one study, somewhat in question in terms of its sample size.
But if for no other reason than to protect the teeth, the mouthguard is a good idea. Why, though, not ensure that the helmet also does all it can? Measure the kid's head for size and see that he has a helmet that fits, then force him to wear the chinstrap tight enough to keep the lid in place. As I've said before, if you look at the NFL, you'll see that they police the helmet and chinstrap issue tightly. That's not to say that players don't get concussed, but anything that can be done has to help. Enough already with the macho Pronger chinstrap that hangs down four inches below the guy's chin.
Enough, and back to the action. The Isles and Kings played a loose game in the second period, with the final six minutes especially seeing chances go back and forth. The Kings were up 3-1 by that stage. Within a couple of minutes, Dustin Brown cruised in for a chance and was upended by a sliding defenseman; Doughty and Josh Bailey collided at the left boards in the Kings' end and Doughty got knocked down; and Kyle Clifford almost busted a breakaway. Each team had nine shots in the period. Justin Williams' goal at 3:15 tied his career high with points in nine consecutive games.
Perhaps more noteworthy was that a shift or so later, in his own end, Williams was lying down in front of an Isles' wrist shot. Anytime he does such things, it's a bit of a nervous moment given his history of injury, but the way he's playing right now, he's everywhere, and nothing seems to be able to touch him.
IH approached him after the game to ask him about his recent success at both ends of the rink. "On the back end, we're all committed. We're all taking ownership of ourselves, of this team. No matter if it's offense or defense, we're doing little things that are crucial to winning. That's what championship teams do, and we're going to keep learning that throughout the whole year," he said with his characteristic, magnetic smile.
He added, "The coaches have done a terrific job of scouting the teams we're playing and making little changes here and there that help us keep the puck out of our end and get it into theirs as quickly as possible."
His coach commented about him post-game. "He's having fun. That's what he's doing. He has a smile on his face when he came into training camp, and he's playing a high-energy, puck-possession game. He's making plays and scoring goals. Part of the bargain is you have to hold up your own end of it. You have to prove to your teammates that you deserve the minutes, and to play the role that you play." He said that Williams came into camp in shape, and that he and Williams discussed the importance of the player coming out and showing everybody that he could stay healthy and put up good numbers since this is his contract year.
The Isles had a chance to pull within one when Kopitar took a holding the stick penalty with a couple of minutes left in period two. This happened behind the Islanders' net. But as if to help the home team pad its PK stats, the Isles took a similar penalty four seconds later. A kill is a kill, but the numbers aren't exactly going to tell the truth in this case.
The third period saw the Kings add a couple of goals, one on a penalty shot by Dustin Brown. IH asked him whether he remembers the excitement of that watching hockey as a kid. "You watch the highlights this year, the last couple of years, but watching growing up as a kid, you saw one or two. You didn't see penalty shots back then, but now it's, they call it, even if you have a step on him or on a hook. Even if you get a shot off, they're calling a penalty shot, so it's definitely an exciting part of the game, and it's happening often," he explained.
He said that he knew the play would be a goal or a penalty shot. The defender had hauled him down, and Brown got off a shot, sort of, and the puck carried under him and into the net, which was dislodged as the goalie slid back also. He continued to describe what he did on the shot. "I had a plan at center, and then I switched at the blueline." He laughed. "Really, I have three moves that I do, and two of them come off that move to the right. So I just pulled a Kopi and slid it five-hole." It made the game 4-1. The team added one more, on the power play. It was Doughty's first goal of the year.
Dwayne Roloson suffered his seventh loss of the season, this time by a generous allowance of five goals. In the three games before this one, he was just 0-2-1, but that on a stingy four goals allowed. The fault, of course, even in a 5-1 loss is not his. His defense is decimated, with three of the top six guys out and none within any reasonable timeframe of returning.
The shots were lopsided, ending 34-19 for the home team. Considering that the Isles took four minor penalties to the Kings' five, it makes the disparity seem even more a reflection that the New York team just can't get things together.
The Kings now play in San Jose on Monday night. The coach said after, "It's a physical game, and you have to earn the right to win out there." He said that San Jose has a good team, and that "everybody battles, everybody competes [on his team]. It's a very hard building. You just want to keep playing. Don't get away from your structure. Don't get away from your attitude that you've been showing. I think the good things will happen whenever you approach the game with that way. We had a little bit of success in San Jose last year, and we have to look at that and draw upon it. Everybody's going to have to be ready to do their job the right way."
Kings Notes
Kyle Clifford has now played 11 games, and so uses up a year on his NHL deal, even if he's sent back to Junior hockey.
Brayden Schenn is in town, but again was scratched. He has played eight games to date, and thus could find his way into one more before the team sends him down, if they do.
Brian's book Living the Hockey Dream tells the story of Anze Kopitar and other players who light the lamp on a regular basis.


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Great Moments in Spelling: Part V
I'm not sure when somebody officially becomes a TV junkie … but I suspect that one symptom might be when you realize there's a 2-hour Lost finale on Thursday followed by 6 hours of spelling bee coverage on Friday, and start plotting ways to evict the rest of your family from the house for 24 hours so you can watch all the festivities in peace.
Short of that, the next best thing is TiVo, which became my most valuable possession over the weekend. I'll leave all of the Lost references aside for now – because that show deserves its own post someday (seriously … what the heck is going on there?) – in order to focus all my attention on the 81st annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, from the Independence Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC.
As you can imagine, this is a long one, so we'll get right to it. Lights, camera, laptop … action!
We pick up the action in Round 5, where 45 spellers remain. All times are from the West Coast broadcast, and all photos are from Reuters and the NSB website.
9:04 AM: As usual, our head pronouncer is Dr Jacques Bailly, who seems in an unusually chipper mood as the festivities get underway. He welcomes the first contestant of the broadcast, the fittingly-named So-Young Chung, with a cheerful "Howdy, So-Young", and also greets second speller Samia Nawaz by name. Several of the first spellers reply with a "Hi, Dr Bailly", and the whole morning feels like a big orthographic lovefest.
9:08: Here's my girl! Before the contest, Momo and I each picked three spellers, with the winner of our wager determined by whoever's speller advanced the furthest. I'm casting my fate with 13-year-old Tia Thomas of Coarsegold, CA (a one-horse town about 30 minutes from Yosemite National Park), who happens to be a 5-time NSB participant. Momo's big gun is Matthew Evans, the only other 5-time participant in this year's group.
It promises to be a clash of the titans in prime time – and as Tia breezes through mcleod (a combination hoe and rake), I feel very confident in my selection.
9:20: Finally - our first 1st Erin Andrews appearance! Holy cow, she looks good. I'd say she's bringing sexy back to the Bee, only I'm not sure if the Bee ever had sexy to begin with. She introduces a taped segment about the pre-Bee picnic and barbecue – imagine a pre-race pasta feed with carnival games and sing-a-longs, and you get the idea.
Afterward, Andrews marvels at how "calm and collective" these kids are. She's not actually nervous about covering the Bee, is she? There's no way she could find these bookish grade-schoolers nearly as threatening as some lecherous college quarterback. Unless she has a thing for good spellers, in which case, um … on second thought, I'd better not say.
9:22 - 9:38: The Canadian Massacre! Seven straight Canadian spellers are bounced from the competition, including 13-year-old Anqi Dong, last year's 8th place finisher from Saskatchewan, who misses hooley (an Irish party).
I've made fun (and at the same time, been paranoid) of the Great White Northern Invasion of our Bee in the past couple of years, but once 14-year-old Grace Tsai trips on cinerea (gray matter of nerve tissue), there are no more Canadians in this year's competition. And we're still in the first hour of the telecast!
Future historians might mark these 16 minutes as a very dark period in US-Canadian relations. I'm sure the Maple Leaf Project is already plotting its retaliatory measures for 2009. This is the kind of thing that can escalate.
9:42: The Bee is an absolute buzzsaw right now: 14-year-old Arushi Jauhari misses biedermeier (humdrum, artistically limited), making her the 9th straight contestant eliminated in Round 5.
There's just no polite way to say it: to this point, the contest has been a bloodbath. Since the start of the broadcast, 13 of the first 21 spellers have been eliminated. So much for the kinder, gentler Jacques Bailly. At this rate, there won't be any spellers left for prime time.
9:46: 13-year-old Matt Gabriele stops the bleeding by nailing pericope (a passage used for a sermon), and everyone omits a brief sigh of relief. It's like when a batter breaks up a no-hitter, and the rest of his teammates immediately think, "Hey – this pitcher is hittable after all!" Or maybe that's just what it's like to me.
10:04: The prettiest voice of the competition belongs to 12-year-old Sade Dunbar of Jamaica, whose accent is almost melodic as she correctly spells flageolet (a small flute). Sade is also the most polite contestant in the group, capping every one of her questions with please, and her responses with thank you: "Could I have the form of speech please, Dr Bailly? Thank you, Dr Bailly."
I like Sade a lot. Even though I didn't pick her, she's my sentimental favorite now.
10:06: An extended bio of Momo's other pick, Kavya Shivashenkar, and her precocious 6-year-old sister, Vanya. Apparently Vanya's an amazing speller also. Don't ever agree to play Scrabble with the Shivashenkar kids. Kavya breezes through krummholz (a stunted alpine forest) looking poised for a championship run this evening. In fact, she's beginning to scare me a bit.
11:14: My other pick for the contest is 13-year-old Justin Song, whom I explained to Momo this way: "I have no idea who he is, but he's from a town called Carmel Valley, so I should cheer for him." Since then, I've discovered two things: 1) Justin's hometown is in a different part of California than mine (Do any other states have two towns with the same name?), and 2) This kid was a perfect choice for me.
Justin's laid-back style exudes California mellow: his flat affect, slow speech, and chilled-out surfer drawl make him sound waterlogged from too many hours in the ocean. Or, as my friend described him in an e-mail to me in the middle of the competition: "He's the Asian Jeff Spicoli." As Justin correctly spells duroc (a large red hog) to move on to the next round, I'm thinking that my picking this kid was like some kind of eHarmony match.
(By the way, isn't Duroc the name of Lord Farquaad's kingdom in Shrek? Shockingly, Dr Bailly makes no mention of this.)
11:44: The turning point of the contest: Matthew Evans, Momo's number one pick, goes down! He looks defeated even before he slowly attempts the spelling of secernent (something that secretes) – and gives the judges a crestfallen look before he hears the cruel "ding" of failure.
Even though this is great news for me, I can't help feeling devastated for the guy. That's the thing about this contest – even when you want a kid to go out, it's still a heartbreaking thing to watch.
(Actually, Momo wrote about this moment much better than I did – go check it out, then come back.)
12:17 PM: More heartbreak: Sade Dunbar, my new favorite Jamaican middle-schooler, misses hidradenitis (inflammation of a sweat gland – what's up with all the glandular terms this year?), and is the last speller eliminated before the prime time broadcast.
12:19: However, there's no doubt that our sister act will be in the finals. As Kavya correctly spells allotriophagy (a craving for eating unnatural substances), ESPN gives us a split split-screen shot of Vanya watching and spelling along. Have they mentioned yet that Vanya's a good speller, too? I think I remember them mentioning that.
Big sister Kavya is looking strong – which means she's now my biggest threat to carry Momo to victory. It also means we'll probably see about 30 more shots of her little sister in prime time, where 12 finalists will duke it out over on ABC later tonight.
8:00PM: We're live in prime time! But first we have to sit through some cutesy little opening skit featuring host Tom Bergeron trying to spell a word. Could we just get to the real spellers, please?
8:01: A new twist this year: for the final rounds, the spellers' families are seated onstage across from the contestants. This seems wrong to me, like the parents are stealing a bit of the spotlight away from the kids. On the plus side, we get to watch Kavya's adorable sister Vanya for 2 more hours! Did you know she's a very good speller?
8:08: 14-year old Austin Pineda is seemingly trying to pull to the correct letters for tralatitious (passed along from generation to generation) out of his hair, which he continuously twirls with a single finger throughout his questions, and during his attempt to spell the word. It doesn't work – one speller down.
8:12: Erin Andrews interviews the Shivashankar sisters. Kavya says she wants to get through the first prime time round to settle her nerves. Vanya just stands there looking adorable – and in case we've forgotten, Erin reminds us that Vanya's an excellent speller, too!
8:28: You know how hockey and baseball players grow those playoff beards, partly out of superstition, and partly to intimidate the competition? I'm thinking that's what 12-year-old Sidharth Chand is doing by sporting a mustache for the NSB. He probably hasn't shaved since his regional bee.
Sidharth's got the goods, too – he aces tautological (marked my meaningless repetition) to cruise into the next round.
8:39: A Tia Thomas profile: She's read the dictionary 7 times. She can speak German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Her brother likes to wear a Darth Vader mask. It's doesn't quite match the Vanya level of cute sibling stories, but it's OK. Tia looks cool and collected, nailing brankursine (a prickly European herb) to advance.
8:42: I love Rose Sloan! She bursts into a 1,000-watt smile after hearing the word alcarraza (an earthenware jug), which is clearly a word she's studied before. After each correct spelling, she laughs and jumps for joy. She may not win, but there's no question which contestant is having the most fun.
8:44: 13-year-old Sameer Mishra's debut on the national stage is a memorable one, as shocked giggles ripple through Independence Ballroom in reaction to his assigned word. Sameer repeats what he heard with a slow, puzzled tone: "numbnut?" The giggles turn to astonished laughs.
It's only after Dr Bailly pronounces the word more clearly that Sameer happily announces, "Oh – NUMNAH!", and then with perfect comedic timing says, "That's a relief." He correctly spells the word (a pad placed under a saddle to prevent chafing), and sits back down with a relieved smile.
(Funny sidenote: Based on the definition, what do you suppose a numnah is used for? To prevent numb nuts, of course!)
8:50: Returning from a commercial break, Erin Andrews interviews Sameer, asking what he was thinking when he heard his last word. That's exactly what a 13-year-old boy needs: to be questioned by the world's hottest reporter about numbnuts on live national television. Even though I love her, I'm thinking that Andrews might be too sexy for this Bee.
9:04: Duuuuude! Justin Song misses satyagraha (a Gandhian method of achieving reform), and takes a seat alongside his parents onstage. 20 minutes later, a pizza delivery man enters the ballroom asking who ordered the pepperoni with extra cheese.
(OK, I made that last sentence up – but it wouldn't have shocked me.)
9:13 – 9:31: We've established our Murderer's Row of spellers: for several rounds, Sameer, Kavya, and Sidharth follow one another to the mic, ask a few perfunctory questions, then correctly spell their words without hesitation. Meanwhile, spellers all around them are dropping. Once Rose misses sheitel (a wig worn by married Jewish women), only 5 spellers remain as the tension mounts. Fortunately, my girl Tia is also hanging tough.
9:41: Kavya's the first to crack: She stumbles on ecrase (crushed or flattened, pertaining to fabrics or leather), which is a terrible mistake for her. On the other hand, in a related story … I win! It's the agony and the ecstasy of the National Spelling Bee.
Honestly, I'd like to feel happy … but Kavya looks so emotionally ecrase as she sits with her father that I can barely celebrate. She's obviously disappointed. On the plus side, Vegas oddsmakers have her as the favorite for the 2009 Bee; sister Vanya is listed at 5:1 for the 2011 contest.
9:44: 14-year-old Scott Remer trips over thymele (an ancient Greek altar), and we're down to our final 3 - including Tia, who carried me to a hard-earned (OK, I didn't earn it myself … but I was very nervous) victory over Momo. She's made it this far – why not cheer for her to go all the way? OK, I'll do it – go Tia!
Meanwhile, we've moved onto the championship words – in case you thought they were all easy up to this point.
9:58: AAGH! Tia's the first to falter in the championship round, looking confused for the first time all night while considering opificer (skilled worker; artisan). She misses the word – and just like that, her 5-year odyssey through the Bee is over. I'm going to miss her next year – and not just because I'll need someone to topple Kavya again. She seems like a really great girl.
Go well into the world, Tia. Thanks for the memories.
10:05: Sidharth uses perfect French inflection to pronounce introvable (impossible to find), followed immediately by Sameer using an exaggerated phony accent to pronounce esclandre (an incident that causes scandal). In addition to spelling their words correctly, these two are doing an Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison routine on us. God, I love the Bee.
10:07: Sidharth blinks first, missing prosopopoeia (a figure of speech in which an absent person is present), leaving the door open for Sameer to claim victory.
10:08: Sameer correctly spells guerdon (a reward), and wins the title! His guerdon for the victory is $30,000 and set of encyclopedias, plus the opportunity to tell his numbnut story on The Tonight Show one of these days.
Meanwhile, I have to wait a whole year to tell another Bee story – not to mention, at least seven months for a new Lost episode. What the heck am I going to do with my summer?
At least I know the next 4 weeks are spoken for - beyond that, it's anyone's guess.
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14.06.07 - LOU DUVA: "I think there is going to be a knockout, and I know that they are going to a be a lot of celebrities, including Pernell Sweatpea Whitaker, the newest boxing Hall of Famer.
"What the Atlas Foundation does for the people of Staten Island and New York is just fantastic, really something special.."
Teddy Atlas
"First, its nice to be doing something quite honestly with the Duvas, I go back a long way, I remember high school shows, and shows at the Harrahs Marina, and the relationship turning into a friendly close relationship with the family.
"I have been with the Duvas so long, I have a trust and closeness with them. Lou and Dino have been part of the Foundation for 10 years; whether its a cancer treatment program for a family with no health care, or a family whose house burned down, the Duvas have always been there to support the Foundation, and I feel good being able to do this with them.
Dino Duva
"This card is the start of a lot of great things that we are going to do on Staten Island with the Atlas Foundation in the future. The fight is going to be bombs away for the cruiserweight championship.
"Emmanuel Nwodo, the champ, is fighting the number one challenger, Darnell Wilson. These two guys are both from Maryland and are the two biggest punchers in the cruiserweight division, and maybe in the world. Wilson has four wins in a row and knocked out Kelvin Davis in sensational fashion. Nwodo is a great punching Nigerian fighter.
More from Teddy Atlas
"Staten Island has grown to a half million people, and they are passionate sports fans. They havent had the chance to see live boxing in years. And this will be the first time at the St. George Theater. There is a lot of excitement, and the ringsides are almost sold out already.
"They are excited about supporting the community, there are no administrative costs involved with the foundation. And because of all those elements the show is going to be well received by the people of Staten Island and beyond.
Emmanuel Nwodo
"I am happy to be on the show; it is going to be a wonderful figh. Dino Duva has been a very good friend and puts on a very good show. Come June 29, this is going to be a fight that I show the world what kind of cruiserweight I am."
More from Teddy -- how does ESPN put a show together?
"First, you have to have a promoter that you can trust and that can put a card together for ESPN, for the Foundation. I have to trust the people We talked about doing something for the foundation.
"Along with helping the foundation, we wanted to bring some attention to Staten Island, a great, passionate sports fans, we go into one million homes a show. We wanted to show Staten Island, the hidden borough, off to the country.
"You can talk all you want about dynamite and TNT in their hands, and you dont have to look for them. Darnell Wilson has been on our air on ESPN, and I have had the privilege of calling some of his fights.
Darnell has had the opportunity to show what kind of character guy he is. When he is on the floor, which is a bad place in boxing, against Kelvin Davis, who is a banger, he came off the floor and beat Kelvin Davis. The quality of the fight was worth bringing the first fight on national television from staten island
LOU Duva
"Emmanuel can can punch like hell, wait until you see him punch."
Teddy on Nwodo
"I have heard from Don Elbaum, one of the great old promoters, he has been around for 55 years, said that guy is a puncher, he can bang, he can hit you on the top of the head and you feel it on your toes."
Lou Duva asked ...
"Will they be able to wear Jets helmets? "
Teddy answered...
"We plan to tape my Fight Plan segment with two NY Jets,h Vic Hobson and Clement, who stands about six foot eight."
Dino Duva
"It is going to be an historical night on Staten Island."
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traceroute [options] host [packetsize]
TCP/IP command. Trace route taken by packets to reach network host. traceroute attempts tracing
Turn on socket-level debugging.
Set the initial time-to-live to n hops.
Set the "don't fragment" bit.
Enable the IP LSRR (Loose Source Record Route) option in addition to the TTL tests, to ask how someone at IP address addr can reach a particular target.
Specify the network interface for getting the source IP address for outgoing probe packets. Useful with a multi-homed host. Also see the -s option.
Use ICMP ECHO requests instead of UDP datagrams.
Set maximum time-to-live used in outgoing probe packets to max-ttl hops. Default is 30.
Show numerical addresses; do not look up hostnames. (Useful if DNS is not functioning properly.)
Set base UDP port number used for probe packets to port. Default is (decimal) 33434.
Set number of probe packets for each time-to-live setting to the value n. Default is 3.
Bypass normal routing tables and send directly to a host on an attached network.
Use src_addr as the IP address that will serve as the source address in outgoing probe packets.
Set the type-of-service in probe packets to tos (default 0). The value must be a decimal integer in the range 0 to 255.
Verbose; received ICMP packets (other than TIME_EXCEEDED and PORT_UNREACHABLE) will be listed.
Set time to wait for a response to an outgoing probe packet to wait seconds (default is 5).
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I've been using Peizo pick up to detect a drum hit quite successfully. I run the peizo through a small amplifier chip and then read the anaolg signal on the Arduino. I find that looking for a a value above 700 will detect any sort of hit to the drum skin.
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onetrueping said...
Actually, the early All the World's a Stage articles cover this quite well. There's also the "so you want to be a" series, which is helpful for your particular race/class/profession combination. And, though I don't remember the link off the top of my head, there was a separate blog that was quite good at helping with roleplaying.
Another resource would be the WoW Roleplaying forums, which have some excellent FAQs (though some of them are a tad out of date). And, of course, there's the WoWWiki pages on roleplaying, which even includes roleplaying information on the various servers, making it easier to find roleplaying guilds (if that's your thing).
Personally, I prefer to just load up the MyRoleplay addon, turn off the public channels, then start walking around, interacting with things as I go. Just inserting a bit of roleplaying in your everyday activities is usually all you need to do to find like-minded, or at least easily amused, people.


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