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Icelandic landscape [#3]
Filed under: Mountains, pictures, Travel Tagged: fumerolles, geothermal ponds, Iceland, Kleifarvatn, Seltún
Le Monde puzzle [#913]
An arithmetics Le Monde mathematical puzzle:
Find all bi-twin integers, namely positive integers such that adding 2 to any of their dividers returns a prime number.
An easy puzzle, once the R libraries on prime number decomposition can be found!, since it is straightforward to check for solutions. Unfortunately, I could not install the recent numbers package. So I used instead the schoolmath R package. Despite its possible bugs. But it seems to do the job for this problem:lem=NULL for (t in 1:1e4) if (prod(is.prim(prime.factor(t)+2)==1)) lem=c(lem,t)digin=function(n){
which returned all solutions, albeit in a lengthy fashion:> lem [1] 1 3 5 9 11 15 17 25 27 29 33 41 45 51 55 [16] 59 71 75 81 85 87 99 101 107 121 123 125 135 137 145 [31] 149 153 165 177 179 187 191 197 205 213 225 227 239 243 255 [46] 261 269 275 281 289 295 297 303 311 319 321 347 355 363 369 [61] 375 405 411 419 425 431 435 447 451 459 461 493 495 505 521 [76] 531 535 537 561 569 573 591 599 605 615 617 625 639 641 649 [91] 659 675 681 685 697 717 725 729 745 765 781 783 807 809 821 [106] 825 827 841 843 857 867 881 885 891 895 909 933 935 955 957 [121] 963 985 1003 1019 1025 1031 ...
Filed under: Books, Kids, Statistics, University life Tagged: Le Monde, mathematical puzzle, numbers, packages, prime number, R, schoolmath, twin prime numbers
carrer de Thomas Bayes [formulas magistrales]
Filed under: pictures, Statistics, Travel Tagged: carrer, night sky, Spain, Thomas Bayes, València
capture mark recapture with no mark and no recapture [aka 23andmyfish]
A very exciting talk today at NBBC15 here in Reykjavik was delivered by Mark Bravington yesterday on Close-kin mark recapture by modern magic (!). Although Mark is from Australia, being a Hobart resident does qualify him for the Nordic branch of the conference! The exciting idea is to use genetic markers to link catches in a (fish) population as being related as parent-offspring or as siblings. This sounds like science-fantasy when you first hear of it!, but it is actually working better than standard capture-mark-recapture methods for populations of a certain size (so that the chances to find related animals are not the absolute zero!, as, e.g., krill populations). The talk was focussed on bluefin tuna, whose survival is unlikely under the current fishing pressure… Among the advantages, a much more limited impact of the capture on the animal, since only a small amount of genetic material is needed, no tag loss, tag destruction by hunters, or tag impact of the animal survival, no recapture, a unique identification of each animal, and the potential for a detailed amount of information through the genetic record. Ideally, the entire sample could lead to a reconstruction of its genealogy all the way to the common ancestor, a wee bit like what 23andme proposes for humans, but this remains at the science-fantasy level given what is currently know about the fish species genomes.
Filed under: Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life Tagged: Australia, bluefin tuna, capture-recapture, genotyping, Hobart, Iceland, NBBC15 conference, Reykjavik, Tasmania
Icelandic snapshot [#2]
Filed under: Mountains, pictures, Travel Tagged: Arctic, hiking, Iceland noir, Kleifarvatn, lake, NBBC15 conference, Reykjanes Peninsula, summer
probabilistic numerics and uncertainty in computations
"We deliver a call to arms for probabilistic numerical methods: algorithms for numerical tasks, including linear algebra, integration, optimization and solving differential equations, that return uncertainties in their calculations." (p.1)
Philipp Hennig, Michael Osborne and Mark Girolami (Warwick) posted on arXiv a paper to appear in Proceedings A of the Royal Statistical Society that relates to the probabilistic numerics workshop they organised in Warwick with Chris Oates two months ago. The paper is both a survey and a tribune about the related questions the authors find of most interest. The overall perspective is proceeding along Persi Diaconis' call for a principled Bayesian approach to numerical problems. One interesting argument made from the start of the paper is that numerical methods can be seen as inferential rules, in that a numerical approximation of a deterministic quantity like an integral can be interpreted as an estimate, even as a Bayes estimate if a prior is used on the space of integrals. I am always uncertain about this perspective, as for instance illustrated in the post about the missing constant in Larry Wasserman's paradox. The approximation may look formally the same as an estimate, but there is a design aspect that is almost always attached to numerical approximations and rarely analysed as such. Not mentioning the somewhat philosophical issue that the integral itself is a constant with no uncertainty (while a statistical model should always entertain the notion that a model can be mis-specified). The distinction explains why there is a zero variance importance sampling estimator, while there is no uniformly zero variance estimator in most parametric models. At a possibly deeper level, the debate that still invades the use of Bayesian inference to solve statistical problems would most likely resurface in numerics, in that the significance of a probability statement surrounding a mathematical quantity can only be epistemic and relate to the knowledge (or lack thereof) about this quantity rather than to the quantity itself.
"(…) formulating quadrature as probabilistic regression precisely captures a trade-off between prior assumptions inherent in a computation and the computational effort required in that computation to achieve a certain precision. Computational rules arising from a strongly constrained hypothesis class can perform much better than less restrictive rules if the prior assumptions are valid." (p.7)
Another general worry [repeating myself] about setting a prior in those functional spaces is that the posterior may then mostly reflect the choice of the prior rather than the information contained in the "data". The above quote mentions prior assumptions that seem hard to build from prior opinion about the functional of interest. And even less about the function itself. Coming back from a gathering of "objective Bayesians", it seems equally hard to agree upon a reference prior. However, since I like the alternative notion of using decision theory in conjunction with probabilistic numerics, it seems hard to object to the use of priors, given the "invariance" of prior x loss… But I would like to understand better how it is possible to check for prior assumption (p.7) without using the data. Or maybe it does not matter so much in this setting? Unlikely, as indicated in the remarks about the bias resulting from the active design (p.13).
A last issue I find related to the exploratory side of the paper is the "big world versus small worlds" debate, namely whether we can use the Bayesian approach to solve a sequence of small problems rather than trying to solve the big problem all at once. Which forces us to model the entirety of unknowns. And almost certainly fail. (This is was the point of the Robbins-Wasserman counterexample.) Adopting a sequence of solutions may be construed as incoherent in that the prior distribution is adapted to the problem rather than encompassing all problems. Although this would not shock the proponents of reference priors.
Filed under: Books, pictures, Statistics, University life Tagged: estimating a constant, objective Bayes, Persi Diaconis, prior assessment, probabilistic numerics, quadrature rule, Runge-Kutta
Icelandic landscape
visiting deCODE [Íslensk erfðagreining]
Tonight, we [participants to the NBBC15 conference] got invited [and bused] to deCODE, the Icelandic genetic company that has worked on the human genome since 1996, taking advantage of the uniquely homogeneous features of the Icelandic population. Which overwhelmingly descends from the few originals settlers to populate Iceland in the late 800's. deCODE is located in downtown Reyjavik next to the regional airport and to Hallgrímskirkja, the iconic church overlooking the city. The genetic company has gathered genotypic and phenotypic information about half the population of Iceland and, thanks to extensive genealogical sources, has also put together the Íslendingabók that covers the entire current population and runs back to the origins of the country. Despite being a company (and now a subsidiary of Amgen), deCODE appears to operate just like another research institution, searching for genetic explanations of diseases and genotyping more and more individuals towards that goal, with a startup atmosphere in a well-designed building… A most unusual and enjoyable evening at a conference! Making me wonder if they have visiting positions…
Filed under: Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life Tagged: Íslendingabók, Íslensk erfðagreining, deCODE, Iceland, Reykjavik
Icelandic pissaladière
An objective prior that unifies objective Bayes and information-based inference
During the Valencia O'Bayes 2015 meeting, Colin LaMont and Paul Wiggins arxived a paper entitled "An objective prior that unifies objective Bayes and information-based inference". It would have been interesting to have the authors in Valencia, as they make bold claims about their w-prior as being uniformly and maximally uninformative. Plus achieving this unification advertised in the title of the paper. Meaning that the free energy (log transform of the inverse evidence) is the Akaike information criterion.
The paper starts by defining a true prior distribution (presumably in analogy with the true value of the parameter?) and generalised posterior distributions as associated with any arbitrary prior. (Some notations are imprecise, check (3) with the wrong denominator or the predictivity that is supposed to cover N new observations on p.2…) It then introduces a discretisation by considering all models within a certain Kullback divergence δ to be undistinguishable. (A definition that does not account for the assymmetry of the Kullback divergence.) From there, it most surprisingly [given the above discretisation] derives a density on the whole parameter space
where N is the number of observations and K the dimension of θ. Dimension which may vary. The dependence on N of the above is a result of using the predictive on N points instead of one. The w-prior is however defined differently: "as the density of indistinguishable models such that the multiplicity is unity for all true models". Where the log transform of the multiplicity is the expected log marginal likelihood minus the expected log predictive [all expectations under the sampling distributions, conditional on θ]. Rather puzzling in that it involves the "true" value of the parameter—another notational imprecision, since it has to hold for all θ's—as well as possibly improper priors. When the prior is improper, the log-multiplicity is a difference of two terms such that the first term depends on the constant used with the improper prior, while the second one does not… Unless the multiplicity constraint also determines the normalising constant?! But this does not seem to be the case when considering the following section on normalising the w-prior. Mentioning a "cutoff" for the integration that seems to pop out of nowhere. Curiouser and curiouser. Due to this unclear handling of infinite mass priors, and since the claimed properties of uniform and maximal uninformativeness are not established in any formal way, and since the existence of a non-asymptotic solution to the multiplicity equation is neither demonstrated, I quickly lost interest in the paper. Which does not contain any worked out example. Read at your own risk!
Filed under: Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life Tagged: AIC, Akaike's criterion, free energy, information criterion, objective Bayes, Spain, Valencia conferences, w-prior
Móskarðshnjúkar [hiking near Reykjavik]
Today, as I had a free day (with 24 hour daylight!) in Reykjavik before the NBBC15 conference started, thanks to the crazy schedules of the low cost sister of Air France, Transavia (!), I went in search of a hike… Which is not very difficult in Iceland! I had originally planned to stop near Geysir as the dirt road beyond Gullfoss is off-limit for rental cars. Especially small 2WD like mine.
As I was driving the first kms of the Þingvellir road, I admired the Esjan range starting with the Esja mountain that we had climbed during our previous visit to Iceland. Especially the "last" peak that glowed with a warm yellow (and apparently no snow at all). More especially, because it had a top reminding me of the Old Man of Storr on its slope. (Not that I could spot it while driving!) And quickly decided this was a great opportunity for a nice hike and a minimum of driving as I was about 20 mn from down-town Reykjavik.
I thus took a dirt road that seemed to get closer to my goal and after 500m came to a farm yard where I parked the car and went hiking, aiming at this peak, which name is Móskarðshnjúkar. Despite a big cut due to a torrent after the first hill, I managed to keep enough to high ground not to loose any altitude and sticking to the side of the ski station Skálafell (where a few people were still skiing with the noisy help of two snowmobiles), I crossed the brook easily as it was covered by snow and started moving to steeper if manageable slopes. I reached the bottom of the main peak rather quickly and then understood both its colour and the absence of snow.
As maybe visible from some of my pictures (?), the Móskarðshnjúkar peak is covered with gravel in a bright yellow stone that seems to accumulate heat very well. Climbing straight on the loose gravel was then impossible and I had to zigzag mostly up, trying to not lose too much ground to micro-avalanches. As I reached the tor I spotted two hikers above me and when I reached the top I realised there was a path coming from the west, connecting this peak with its neighbours. The normal route seems to come from a gravel road that starts close to Mount Esja, to the west, and as I followed the path down to the saddle between Móskarðshnjúkar and the rest of the range, I saw this path winding down to the valley with further hikers coming up. Before I crossed them, I went up again to the next peak, which was an easy if beautiful ridge walk, with still a fair amount of snow remaining on the north face (heavy enough to bear tracks of snowmobiles!). After following the ridge track for a while, it branched north to reach the main Esja plateau and I left the track to get down a rocky shoulder towards my starting point. However, I had forgotten about the torrent cut between the two ranges and this forced me to take a further detour. And to cross the torrent barefooted, as there was no stone ford on this off-path section. No big drama as the melted snow water was not that cold…
A last sight was provided by the final rocky outcrop, which enjoyed basaltic volcanic columns as on the picture above. A terrific hiking half-day with a sharp sunny weather and not too much wind except at the top. It was very pleasant to walk part of the way on moss and last year grass, with a surprising absence of bogs and mud when compared with Scotland.
Filed under: Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel Tagged: Þingvellir, Esja, hiking, Iceland, Móskarðshnjúkar peak, Reykjavik, Scotland, volcanoes
moon under the midnight sun
Filed under: Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life Tagged: full moon, Iceland, midnight sun, Nordic-Baltic Biometric conference, Reykjanes Peninsula, Reykjavik
a Chianti tasting tour
During our short trip to Tuscany last week, we came across a festival in the small fortified village of Montefioralle, frazione of the town of Greve in Chianti, at the centre of the Chianti region. Although the festival lasted for two days with all sorts of activities, we arrived on the evening, with the medieval groups folding their costumes and swords, and only a few bagpipe players remaining in the small street circling the village inside the first and protective row of houses.However, the twelve local wine producers who lined that street had not closed their stall and we were thus able to taste (if not to drink!, as I was driving…) their Chianti wines and discuss about their production and methods in English, French, and even survival Italian! Which was fun as the producers were not pushy at all (well, most of them!), but happy to extol the virtues of their wine.While I am not particularly fond of Chianti [among Italian wines], I appreciated a few of them during that wine tasting circuit, especially the three organic Podere Campriano, including one growing on a reclaimed forest with a highly vegetal taste.
Filed under: Mountains, pictures, Travel, Wines Tagged: Castello di Montefioralle, Chianti, Greve in Chianti, Italian wines, Podere Campriano, wine tasting
Valencia snapshot [#2]
Filed under: Kids, pictures, Running, Travel Tagged: Spain, statue, sunrise, trail running, València
O'Bayes 2015 [day #3]
The third day of the meeting was a good illustration of the diversity of the themes [says a member of the scientific committee!], from "traditional" O'Bayes talks on reference priors by the father of all reference priors (!), José Bernardo, re-examinations of expected posterior priors, on properties of Bayes factors, or on new versions of the Lindley-Jeffreys paradox, to the radically different approach of Simpson et al. presented by Håvard Rue. I was obviously most interested in posterior expected priors!, with the new notion brought in by Dimitris Fouskakis, Ioannis Ntzoufras and David Draper of a lower impact of the minimal sample on the resulting prior by the trick of a lower (than one) power of the likelihood. Since this change seemed to go beyond the "minimal" in minimal sample size, I am somehow puzzled that this can be achieved, but the normal example shows this is indeed possible. The next difficulty is then in calibrating this power as I do not see any intuitive justification in a specific power. The central talk of the day was in my opinion Håvard's as it challenged most tenets of the Objective Bayes approach, presented in a most eager tone, even though it did not generate particularly heated comments from the audience. I have already discussed here an earlier version of this paper and I keep on thinking this proposal for PC priors is a major breakthrough in the way we envision priors and their derivation. I was thus sorry to hear the paper had not been selected as a Read Paper by the Royal Statistical Society, as it would have nicely suited an open discussion, but I hope it will find another outlet that allows for a discussion! As an aside, Håvard discussed the case of a Student's t degree of freedom as particularly challenging for prior construction, albeit I would have analysed the problem using instead a model choice perspective (on an usually continuous space of models).
As this conference day had a free evening, I took the tram with friends to the town beach and we had a fantastic [if hurried] dinner in a small bodega [away from the uninspiring beach front] called Casa Montaña, a place decorated with huge barrels, offering amazing tapas and wines, a perfect finale to my Spanish trip. Too bad we had to vacate the dinner room for the next batch of customers…
Filed under: Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines Tagged: Bayes factors, O'Bayes 2015, Power-Expected-Posterior Priors, prior assessment, reference priors, Spanish wines, València, variable selection, Virgulilla
Valencia snapshot
Filed under: pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines Tagged: clouds, roofs, Spain, sunset, València
O'Bayes 2015 [day #2]
This morning was the most special time of the conference in that we celebrated Susie Bayarri's contributions and life together with members of her family. Jim gave a great introduction that went over Susie's numerous papers and the impact they had in Statistics and outside Statistics. As well as her recognised (and unsurprising if you knew her) expertise in wine and food! The three talks in that morning were covering some of the domains within Susie's fundamental contributions and delivered by former students of her: model assessment through various types of predictive p-values by Maria Eugenia Castellanos, Bayesian model selection by Anabel Forte, and computer models by Rui Paulo, all talks that translated quite accurately the extent of Susie's contributions… In a very nice initiative, the organisers had also set a wine tasting break (at 10am!) around two vintages that Susie had reviewed in the past years [with reviews to show up soon in the Wines section of the 'Og!]
The talks of the afternoon session were by Jean-Bernard (JB) Salomond about a new proposal to handle embedded hypotheses in a non-parametric framework and by James Scott about false discovery rates for neuroimaging. Despite the severe theoretical framework behind the proposal, JB managed a superb presentation that mostly focussed on the intuition for using the smoothed (or approximative) version of the null hypothesis. (A flavour of ABC, somehow?!) Also kudos to JB for perpetuating my tradition of starting sections with unrelated pictures. James' topic was more practical Bayes or pragmatic Bayes than objective Bayes in that he analysed a large fMRI experiment on spatial working memory, introducing a spatial pattern that led to a complex penalised Lasso-like optimisation. The data was actually an fMRI of the brain of Russell Poldrack, one of James' coauthors on that paper.
The (sole) poster session was on the evening with a diverse range of exciting topics—including three where I was a co-author, by Clara Grazian, Kaniav Kamary, and Kerrie Mengersen—but it was alas too short or I was alas too slow to complete the tour before it ended! In retrospect we could have broken it into two sessions since Wednesday evening is a free evening.
Filed under: pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines Tagged: ABC, computer experiment model, embedded models, false discovery rate, Susie Bayarri, València, Verema
ABC in…?
I take the opportunity of this abc picture taken in Apulia, by friends from Milano, to make a late call for the next European "ABC in"! After the Paris, London, and Roma occurrences, there are still heaps of European cities to hold a one- or two-day workshop on the latest developments on approximate Bayesian computing. While it seems a wee bit late to have the workshop in 2015, any suggestion is welcome. For instance as a satellite to a larger meeting like MCMski V in Lenzerheide next January. Or the French statistical meeting in Montpellier.
Filed under: pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life
O-Bayes15 [day #1]
So here we are back together to talk about objective Bayes methods, and in the City of Valencià as well.! A move back to a city where the 1998 O'Bayes took place. In contrast with my introductory tutorial, the morning tutorials by Luis Pericchi and Judith Rousseau were investigating fairly technical and advanced, Judith looking at the tools used in the frequentist (Bernstein-von Mises) analysis of priors, with forays in empirical Bayes, giving insights into a wide range of recent papers in the field. And Luis covering works on Bayesian robustness in the sense of resisting to over-influential observations. Following works of him and of Tony O'Hagan and coauthors. Which means characterising tails of prior versus sampling distribution to allow for the posterior reverting to the prior in case of over-influential datapoints. Funny enough, after a great opening by Carmen and Ed remembering Susie, Chris Holmes also covered Bayesian robust analysis. More in the sense of incompletely or mis- specified models. (On the side, rekindling one comment by Susie and the need to embed robust Bayesian analysis within decision theory.) Which was also much Chris' point, in line with the recent Watson and Holmes' paper. Dan Simpson in his usual kick-the-anthill-real-hard-and-set-fire-to-it discussion pointed out the possible discrepancy between objective and robust Bayesian analysis. (With lines like "modern statistics has proven disruptive to objective Bayes".) Which is not that obvious because the robust approach simply reincorporates the decision theory within the objective framework. (Dan also concluded with the comic strip below, whose message can be interpreted in many ways…! Or not.)
The second talk of the afternoon was given by Veronika Ročková on a novel type of spike-and-slab prior to handle sparse regression, bringing an alternative to the standard Lasso. The prior is a mixture of two Laplace priors whose scales are constrained in connection with the actual number of non-zero coefficients. I had not heard of this approach before (although Veronika and Ed have an earlier paper on a spike-and-slab prior to handle multicolinearity that Veronika presented in Boston last year) and I was quite impressed by the combination of minimax properties and practical determination of the scales. As well as by the performances of this spike-and-slab Lasso. I am looking forward the incoming paper!
The day ended most nicely in the botanical gardens of the University of Valencià, with an outdoor reception surrounded by palm trees and parakeet cries…
Filed under: Books, pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines Tagged: Bayesian lasso, Bernstein-von Mises theorem, objective Bayes, robustness, Susie Bayarri, Valencia conferences, Valencia meeting
jogging for Susie
A few of us met (somewhat) early this morning to run together in memory of Susie, wearing the bright red tee-shirts given to us by the O'Bayes 2015 conference organisers. And going along the riverbed that circles the old town of Valencià. Till next run, Susie!
Filed under: Running, Statistics, Travel, University life Tagged: Bayesian statisticians, jogging, Spain, Susie Bayarri, València


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Thorpe, winner of five Olympic golds, finished third in his heat with a time of 54.09 in Singapore to rank 11th overall and outside the top eight qualifiers for the finals.
"I came here expecting to get absolutely hammered in races and I knew it was going to happen and anyone who didn't think that was going to happen didn't have this in perspective," Thorpe said.
"I was quite annoyed with myself this morning with my time and things like that. Racing for me is tough. It is really easy for me to train and do whatever I am asked. It is going to be about getting back in tune with competition and being able to do it well."
Thorpe was quick out of the blocks in lane six but lost ground in the second and third legs of the short course race with Australian team mate Chris Wright winning the heat with a time of 52.09.
"I would have liked to have made the final in that one," Thorpe said. "I didn't go hard where I should have and fell into an awkward kind of technique.
"I'm disappointed because I thought I would be a little bit faster this morning and I'm also disappointed as I thought technically some things would have been better.
"I have to have a kind of reality check of where I am as opposed to how I feel I'm training. I'm happy with the progression I am making."
It was the second day back in competition after coming out of retirement for Thorpe, who finished seventh in the final of the 100m individual medley on Friday.
Although the butterfly and individual medley are unfamiliar races for the lanky Sydney-born freestyle specialist, expectations are extremely high that the Australian can add to his huge medal haul in London next year.
"Thorpedo", with his huge-flipper like feet, had attracted few spectators at the Singapore Sports School on Saturday morning with many fans presuming he would qualify for the finals.
"I think a lot of people underestimated the complexity of swimming," said Thorpe, who also won three silvers and a bronze at the 2000 and 2004 Games along with 11 world championship titles.
"I told people if I was to start swimming again it would take me three years to get back to where I was and it may take that long - I'm planning on it not taking that long. I'm trying to fast track."
Thorpe, who will attempt to make the Australian Olympic team at the trials in Adelaide in March, races in Beijing on Tuesday and then Tokyo (November 12-13) for two more World Cup meetings and said things had to improve.
"If I get to the end of Tokyo and I'm not swimming faster I am going to be very frustrated and I'll be quite annoyed, because I expect this of myself at the moment."
His coach, Gennadi Touretski, said that there was a chance that Thorpe, who regularly smashed world records in his pomp, could swim his favoured freestyle.
"It might be in Tokyo, it is up to the situation whether he will feel comfortable with this race."
South Africa's Chad Le Clos won the final with a time of 50.63 seconds, his third victory of the night after he also claimed the 200m freestyle and 200m individual medley.
There were Australian victories for David McKeon (1500m Freestyle) and Christian Sprenger (100m Breaststroke) while Jeremy Stravius of France won the 50m backstroke, China's Zhiwu Lu claimed the 50m freestyle and Omar Pinzon from Colombia won the 200m backstroke.
Australia dominated the women's events, winning five of the eight finals on day two of the meeting.
McKeon's sister Emma won the 100m freestyle, Leiston Pickett captured the 50m breaststoke, Rachel Goh triumphed in the 100m backstroke, Blair Evans prevailed in the 400m freestyle and Olivia Halicek claimed the 100m individual medley.
There were also wins for Sweden's Therese Alshammar in the 50m fly, Miyu Otsuka of Japan in the 400m individual medley and Korea's Hye Ra Choi in the 200m fly.

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Almost half of the stroke cases had cardiac sources, while 20 percent of cases were caused by major arterial atherosclerosis.
Multidetector CT detected cardiac sources of stroke in 18 of 25 cases, for a sensitivity of 72 percent. The technique's sensitivity increased to 100 percent for detection of major arterial atherosclerosis. Overall, multidetector CT facilitated stroke classification in 38 of the 46 patients, or 83 percent.
"CT allows a fast diagnosis and helps to identify the cause of the stroke during a single examination," Dr. Boussel said. "Moreover, because it is quick, the exam is well tolerated, which is critical in acute stroke patients who may be unstable and agitated."
The CT protocol has two main limitations, according to Dr. Boussel. It exposes the patient to a significant radiation dose and requires two intravenous contrast material injections to study the chest and neck areas. Dr. Boussel said that advances in CT equipment technology could help reduce the radiation dose and the total amount of iodinated contrast material required.
Larger studies are needed to validate the results and to analyze the technique's cost-effectiveness.
|Contact: Linda Brooks
Radiological Society of North America


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Hawty/ Haughty/ Hottie are all slangs derived from the English word 'Hot'. They basically describe the appearance of someone.
The literal meaning is Sultry: Sexually attractive.
Person A (guy): 'You are nothing but a hottie.' (He means she is very attractive. He does not mean that she has a high temperature.)
Person B (the attractive girl): 'You flatter me.'
Person B (the attractive girl): 'You flatter me.'
by PublicCritic October 21, 2013
n. A female who is deliciously sexy; Erotically and arousingly attractive. One who is able to make men burn with desire.
In two words.....Susie Novak
by Jake February 25, 2004
Hot Tub
Hey Tina lets jump into the hottie and have a drink.
by DigitalVisionry July 01, 2015
A hotter then hot human male with sparkling eyes and an infectious grin. He is funny, clever, quick-thinking, honest, cheeky, manly, a bit deep, stubborn to the right degree and has an ability to make the world rock that ever so much more. Often comes with four wheels and other big equipment. Extensive research has only found one official hottie, my bestie. Lucky sightings occasionally reported in the south of the Uk. Often also referred to as a star.
by : ) xxx August 30, 2013
"Very sexually attractive"
"Dang! Kina and Alex are the definition of hotties!"
by baes June 10, 2014
The ball of ash that falls from a cigarette when it remains "un-smoked" for a period of time anywhere from 5-10 minutes.
"Aww man! A hottie just fell on my crotch. Burned a hole right through my pants!"
by lemonysex91191 February 26, 2012


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Dec. 31, 2011
Garfield County
Oklahoma, USA
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Virgil Price Akers, 90, passed from this life on Saturday, December 31, 2011, at his daughter and son-In-law's home in Enid, Oklahoma. Price was born July 22, 1921, in Doughtery, Oklahoma, to Hugh Price and Ida Velma (Bobo) Akers. Price was born in Dougherty but was raised in Fletcher, Oklahoma. Price quit school after the 5th grade and went to work in Newcombs Grocery Store in Fletcher to support his family. In 1940 Price left for California to work in an aircraft factory. When World War II was declared, Price left his job in an aircraft factory in Hawthorn, California, to travel back to his home state of Oklahoma to join the US Marine Corps. Price fought and survived battles on Tinnian, Guam, Saipan, Tarawa, and Iwo Jima. He married Jaunita Sarah Hamilton on May 19, 1945, in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. After living for a couple years in Sand Springs, Price and Jaunita moved to Fletcher, Oklahoma, and Price went back to working for Newcombs Grocery Store. In 1951 Price went to work for Goodners' Grocery Store in Duncan and then they moved to Lindsay in 1952 to work for Goodners' in Lindsay. Price worked through the years for several different grocery stores in Lindsay, Goodners Grocery, M&W Grocery Store, Bill Williams Grocery, K&B Grocery, and then back to Goodners' until his retirement at age 83. Price was active in the American legion Ball Smith Post #23, holding several different jobs in the Post through the years. Price was a member of the legion's firing squad for funerals and Memorial Day celebrations. He also would put out the flags along Lindsay's main street on holidays until his health caused him to have to give up these activities.
Price is survived by his daughter, Sheila Gilbert and son-In-law, USMC( Retired) Capt David Gilbert of Enid, Oklahoma, two grandsons and their wives, Brian Gilbert and wife Stephanie of San Antonio, Texas, and USN Senior Chief Eric Gilbert and wife Alicia of San Jacinto, California, and also three great-granddaughters, Jennifer and Sarah Gilbert of San Antonio, Texas, and Aubrey Gilbert of San Jacinto, California and one sister, Loma Akers King of Canadian, Texas, along with numerous nieces and nephews, and long-time adopted daughter, Georgia Baxter.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, Jaunita Hamilton Akers, both of his parents, Hugh Price and Ida Velma (Bobo) Akers, three brothers Obal Tomlin, Cecil Tomlin, and Charles F. "Jack" Akers.
Funeral services for Virgil Price Akers will be held on Thursday, January 5th, 2012 at two o'clock p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church, located at 410 W. Chickasaw in Lindsay, Oklahoma with Rev. Bill Baxter officiating and Pastor Matthew Celoria assisting. Interment will follow at Green Hill Cemetery in Lindsay, Oklahoma. A family visitation is to be held on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at B.G. Boydston Funeral Home, located at 308 S.W. 3rd St. in Lindsay, Oklahoma from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Services are under the direction of B.G. Boydston Funeral Home of Lindsay, Oklahoma. Condolences for the family may be made online at www.boydstonfuneralhome.com.
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He died of a black heart.
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RIP but band isn't good by any means.
It seems like god is trying to take out all of the heathens.
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Thanks for posting the "State of the Utes."
I was wondering why the headline reads "Offensive Guards still a priority" when I thought the Utes are in a good shape with the guards and the issue is with the tackles, as the article has Whitingham saying. The headline had me a little nervous, I must admit, until I read the article. Replacing the tackles is going to be a very tall order and the last thing we needed was to have holes at guard as well. That doesn't leave much of the offensive line left, if that were the case.
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NO WYNN: Whittingham said the reason that starting quarterback Jordan Wynn
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It'll be interesting to see how long it takes before Whittingham finally decides to tell the truth and admit that Wynn's "tired arm" will never recover enough for Wynn to continue as Utah's starting QB.
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Total agreement with you. Last year just goes to show what lengths a football program will go to to hide the truth. This year it could be the same.
It just takes time for all of this to filter through Uteville.
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Geez, that's bad news. Even with 2 bookend All-Conference tackles last year
Utah's Offensive Line still finished near the bottom of the Pac 12 in sacks
given up. If they're talking about starting true freshman at Left Tackle
and career backups at Right Tackle that sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Games are won and lost in the trenches and with Utah already struggling with Quarterback depth and the health of Wynn, this could pose some real problems against some of the better Pac12 defenses.
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The International Telecommunication Union, a special UN organisation that is "committed to connecting all the world's people," just completed 10 days of largely closed-doors meetings in Dubai, where the agenda seemed more aimed at controlling global communications.
In opening remarks to the 2000 delegates from 193 countries, ITU secretary general Hamadan Touré emphasised that cybersecurity should come first and, implicitly, that it should come under his purview.
For all the commitments to openness that he and others profess, this conference is about the national security interests of states.
For starters, Touré would like to see some form of UN control of internet domain names and numbers, something currently administered by the private, nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). But this would hardly improve security by itself. There is a kind of naive faith that if nation-states exert greater control over cyberspace-based communications, security will improve.
China, Russia, and a host of other nations - most of them authoritarian - love the idea of more control, as this would enable greater censorship and erode individual privacy.
Sadly, many liberal democratic states, out of a mix of economic and security concerns, go along with the idea of giving nations more authority to regulate cyber-communications.
Among the matters that were feared to be under discussion is the imposition of cyber tolls - charges levied to allow entry into a country's cybersphere, or "virtual territory".
Another effort lies in the realm of fighting paedophiles and curtailing the worst sorts of pornography. Surely this is a noble undertaking, but some worry that authoritarians might really be aiming to further undermine their peoples' freedom of speech, privacy, and civil liberties — all in the name of this good cause.
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of increasing national-level control of cyberspace is the idea being bruited about that anonymity should be banned.
Again, there are logical reasons to think about this: making life harder for terrorists, tracking criminals, and deterring social predators. But many of these malicious actors have sufficient expertise to slip the bonds of such a ban, while the rest of us will have lost our privacy.
The fact that "deep packet" inspection - giving nations the right and power to read encrypted cybertraffic - is also on the table for discussion is troubling too.
Several protests have arisen to the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai.
One of the most articulate opposing voices is that of Vint Cerf of Google, an internet pioneer.
His critique has two parts: first, that voices other than those of nation-states need to be heard; second, that it is the very lack of governmental controls and sheer openness of the internet that creates value and drives the information age forward.
Protest has also taken the form of insurgency.
It seems that the hacktivist organisation Anonymous may be involved in disruptive cyber acts that have slowed, and at one point stopped, the operations of the conference's official website.
This group and many people of like mind around the world see much to worry about when it comes to closed-door meetings of government representatives.
There is also deep irony in the desire of nations to seek more control over cyberspace.
Dictators have abused their existing abilities to restrict access in efforts to chill dissent. Hosni Mubarak shut down the internet in just such an attempt. But he failed, because the Egyptian masses had been using cyberspace to share their anger and gather their courage for many months before the regime struck at the Net.
Indeed, the shutdown was the signal to the people that it was time to go to Tahrir Square. Bashar al-Assad seems to have tried something similar over a week ago, when the internet went down briefly in Syria. He too will fail.
In the end, UN efforts to control cyberspace, aided and abetted by all too many nations, will fail as well.
The virtual world is a vast wilderness - artificial, but beautiful and complex, and growing in size and direction in ways that almost surely lie beyond the ability of governments to control.
The sooner this is realised, the better. It will save the world from a costly global struggle between balky nations and nimble insurgent networks.
There are better things for the United Nations to focus on if it wishes to play a productive role in the information age.
Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon, whose video address at the opening of the Dubai conference spoke of a desire to foster openness and internet freedom, should act on his own words and reject the role of regulator.
Instead, he should lead his organisation as a negotiator, fostering behaviour-based forms of cyber arms control - as there is still time to head off an age of "mass disruptive" cyberwars.
Almost all IT is dual-use. Any laptop can be used to wage cyberwar. But it is possible to craft agreements not to use such weaponry first, not to use it against civilian infrastructure or in acts of "cybotage," as in the case of the Stuxnet worm attack on Iran.
Many of the nations that have signed the chemical and biological weapons conventions can still make these terrible weapons, but promise not to do so, or to use them.
If the United Nations wants a role, it should seek a similar behavioural approach to arms control in cyberspace.
Russia first proposed something like this at the United Nations back in the '90s. The United States opposed it.
Now the Russians are among the best cyberwarriors in the world, and American cybersecurity is in a parlous state.
What is to be done? Let me make a modest suggestion to Touré: Allow a global discourse to commence, one in which nations and networks together will find the right way ahead. If you are for openness, then be open.
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Herrmann and Giordano allowed police to search the hotel room.
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April 18, 2014
Georgetown University sophomore women's golfer Mackenzie Boydston (Keller, Texas/Nolan Catholic) fired a 1-over par 73 and the Hoyas posted a 24-over par 312 in the second round and continue to stand in second place at the BIG EAST Championships, being played at the Hills Course at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Seton Hall shot a tournament-best 14-over par 302 in the second round and leads the six-team field after 36 holes at 40-over par 616. The Blue & Gray are second overall at 53-over par 629, extending their lead to six strokes, with Xavier and St. John's tied for third place at 59-over par 635. Creighton and Butler are tied for fifth place at 70-over par 646.
Boydston's 1-over par 73 is tied for the best individual round of the tournament, along with Seton Hall's Megan Tenhundfeld, who posted the same score on Friday. Boydston is now tied for second place individually - along with three other golfers - at 8-over par 152, four strokes off the pace of St. John's Harin Lee, who leads the field of 30 golfers at 4-over par 148.
Freshman Jenny Xiao (Foshan, China/Foshan No. 2 Middle School), who was tied for second after the first round, posted an 8-over par 80 on Friday and is tied for seventh place at 12-over par 156.
She is one of three Hoyas among the top 10, joined by sophomore Patricia Lee (Lone Tree, Colo./Highlands Ranch), who carded a 4-over par 76 and is tied for ninth place at 13-over par 157.
Senior Alice Choi (Whitestone, N.Y./Bayside) and sophomore Liz DiVincentis (Durham, Conn./Coginchaug Regional) are tied for 22nd place with scores of 22-over par 166.
The Hoyas will tee off on Saturday, April 19 at 8:20 a.m.
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1. Seton Hall - 314-302=616 (+40)
2. Georgetown - 317-312=629 (+53)
T3. Xavier - 321-314=635 (+59)
T3. St. John's - 320-315=635 (+59)
T5. Creighton - 324-322=646 (+70)
T5. Butler - 327-319=646 (+70)
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1. Harin Lee, St. John's - 74-74=148 (+4)
T2. Jenna Peters, Butler - 78-74=152 (+8)
T2. Alison Kruse, Seton Hall - 78-74=152 (+8)
T2. Mackenzie Boydston, Georgetown - 79-73=152 (+8)
T2. Megan Tenhundfeld, Seton Hall - 79-73=152 (+8)
6. Erin McClure, Seton Hall - 77-76=153 (+9)
T7. Jenny Xiao, Georgetown - 76-80=156 (+12)
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Back in July, Conference USA officials were scrambling to find a face for the league, a poster boy to plug their oft-overlooked product.
Four months later, they have a two-headed monster.
A league still lacking a dominant team is no longer starved for star power, especially at the running back position.
Tulane senior Matt Forte leads the nation in rushing yards (1,642) and rushing average (182.4). He's on pace to finish with the third-highest net total in NCAA history and the highest rushing average since TCU's LaDainian Tomlinson in 2000 (196.2 YPG).
A few stutter steps behind Forte is Central Florida's Kevin Smith, who ranks second nationally in both yards (1,448) and rushing average (160.9). Smith, who held the national rushing lead until Forte began putting up Xbox numbers, is the nation's scoring leader with 19 touchdowns (18 rushing, one receiving).
How good are these two?
Tulane coach Bob Toledo hates using superlatives, but he can't help gushing over Forte. Toledo likens the 6-foot-2, 223-pound senior to DeShaun Foster, whom he coached at UCLA, and Marcus Allen, whom he briefly coached as a defensive back at USC before "[John] Robinson took him to offense."
"He's exactly like Marcus," Toledo said of Forte. "I won't see another one like him in my lifetime. I'm sure of that."
UCF coach George O'Leary sees parallels between Smith and Joe Burns, the standout running back he coached at Georgia Tech.
"He's like most good running backs -- he cuts in the hole, not before," O'Leary said. "He has an endless future."
The real injustice for Conference USA fans is that Forte and Smith, whose teams play in different divisions, won't match up this season. Both backs have seen clips of the other on tape, and Forte admits to checking the rushing chart each week to see where he and Smith stack up.
"That'd be cool, the two top leading rushers to see who could do the best," Forte said of a potential meeting. "It's still good that the first two guys are from Conference USA. Maybe it'll give the conference a little publicity."
Both backs have taken similar paths to stardom.
For starters, neither was of any use at this time last season.
Forte suffered a season-ending knee injury while making a tackle after an interception against Marshall. A week later, Smith injured his shoulder against Memphis and underwent surgery shortly after the season.
Five weeks passed before Smith could lift a thing.
"I started from zero pounds," he joked. "My whole upper body was just back to nothing. I paid attention to the little muscles, things that make the core stronger.
"Also, when I couldn't do my upper body, that gave me a chance to focus on my lower body. This is the strongest my lower body has ever been."
Forte faced the opposite challenge: rebuilding his knee so he could excel in the run-first, run-often offense being installed by Toledo. His rehab and training reached an almost maniacal level this summer.
Every day, Tulane players would run and lift in two shifts. One group came in at 3 p.m. and the other at 5 p.m.
Forte didn't have a group.
"I'd go at 3, lift and run," he said. "Then I'd wait a little while and do some extra lifting and running with the second group also."
Both Forte and Smith were held out of contact in spring ball, and Forte didn't absorb his first hit until Tulane's season opener at Mississippi State. But the offseason toil is paying off for both backs.
On UCF's first play of the season at NC State, Smith took a handoff from Kyle Israel, followed his blockers to the right side and scooted through the defense for an 80-yard touchdown dash.
"I wouldn't expect anything like that in a million years," he said.
He finished with a career-high 217 rushing yards and two scores in UCF's win and followed with 149 yards and two scores against Texas. Smith has eclipsed 100 rushing yards in all but one game -- South Florida limited him to 55 –- and has gained 170 yards or more five times.
Five school records fell in UCF's win at Southern Miss on Oct. 28, as Smith captured the career rushing mark (currently 3,372 yards) and the top spot on the single-season touchdowns list (16) following his record 16th career 100-yard game.
He also set marks for rushing TDs in a season (16) and single-game carries (43).
"At the beginning of every game, the tempo's a little faster," Smith said, "but when the third series rolls around, everything's kind of in slow motion when I get the ball. It's just been me understanding the blocking and who's going to come off what linebacker when and where I need to start setting up.
"That's the difference this year."
The 6-1, 211-pound junior could turn in the most dominant season ever for a Division I-A running back at a Florida school. Smith needs 306 yards to surpass Willis McGahee's mark at Miami in 2002.
If he's not a No. 1 draft choice and an All-American, then I don't know what people have been watching.
Tulane coach Bob Toledo on Matt Forte
He's 15 carries shy of Emmitt Smith's record for rushing attempts (284 in 1989).
"Smith was a guy that we had a lot of trouble containing," Tulsa coach Todd Graham said. "He ended up breaking one after we were down a couple touchdowns. We tried to blitz, make something happen. Great players, they catch you in something and they make you pay."
Forte started slower, failing to rush for 100 yards in his first two games. He then detonated for a league-record 303 yards against I-AA Southeastern Louisiana before gaining only 73 yards against LSU, the nation's fourth-rated rush defense.
Since the LSU game, Forte has been nothing short of brilliant. He eclipsed 200 rushing yards in four consecutive weeks, resetting the league single-game record with 342 yards at SMU on Oct. 20. At his current pace, Forte will finish behind only Barry Sanders (2,628 in 1988) and Allen (2,342 in 1981) on the NCAA's single-season yardage list.
Said Toledo: "If he's not a No. 1 draft choice and an All-American, then I don't know what people have been watching."
Asked how UCF's offensive system helps him, Smith deadpanned, "'Cause we run a lot." Each season, O'Leary has tried to increase Smith's carries-per-game load by five.
Smith leads the nation in rushing attempts (269), 10 more than Forte, though O'Leary tries to rest the junior when the game is in hand. The Golden Knights are run-heavy, but Israel has been solid under center and the offense ranks 23rd nationally in scoring (36.1 PPG).
Forte's success is arguably more impressive, given Tulane's overall struggles on offense. The Green Wave (2-7) rank 100th nationally in pass offense and score only 22.4 points a game.
"They're putting eight, nine guys in the box," Toledo said of Tulane's opponents. "They're just daring us to throw the football, and if we could, we'd probably be a lot better off."
Forte spent his first three seasons in a shotgun-heavy offense, getting no more than 34 carries in a game. He already has received 38 or more three times this season, racking up 90 more carries than he had in any previous season.
"It's no secret that we're going to run the ball," Forte said. "We gear up for that in practice with people stacking the box on the scout team, mostly seven-man boxes and they roll the safety down. It's going to make me a tougher running back and have better vision.
"On the next level, it will help me."
Reaching the next level shouldn't be a problem for Forte.
Twenty-three NFL scouts representing 19 teams have attended Tulane games this season, with eight scouts or personnel directors showing up for last week's game against Tulsa. Several teams, including the Colts and Raiders, have sent scouts for multiple games.
They aren't coming to see a 2-7 squad.
"He reminds me of what you look for if you were a professional football team," said UTEP coach Mike Price, whose team visits Tulane on Saturday. "He's not real jitterbuggy. He's got really good speed, he's hard to tackle, he's strong, he's a competitor.
"He's a true All-American."
With a year of eligibility left, Smith plans to discuss his draft status with O'Leary following the season. The running back class should be deep, but Smith's stock rises each week.
"To me, it's a numbers game," O'Leary said. "If you're not going to be definitely a No. 1 draft choice, you're nuts to come out because you cost yourself a lot of money."
Added Smith: "Whatever [O'Leary] says I should go with, that's probably what I'll do. We'll sit down together and talk about it, but for now, I plan on coming back my senior year."
The league would love to have him back. After a season like this, Smith would no longer be a state secret.
"It's always good to hear someone say, 'I saw your picture in the paper,' or, 'I read about you in the magazine,'" Smith said. "But that's not my focus. I just enjoy playing the game."
Adam Rittenberg covers college football for the Arlington Heights (Ill.) Daily Herald.


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By Po Chan.
Looking back on the year 2012, I believe that one of my greatest pleasures was making The Ticket. Before I conceived the story for The Ticket, I was certain that my main goal was to showcase the power of the Canon 1DC 4K sensor. Then my intuition told me (which I always trust and listen) a profound emotional love story with high optical structure would be the right path to take, to create a deep connection with the audience and generate a bigger impact for the 4K image. That is how The Ticket was born.
The Ticket is about two words, "WHAT IF." Some actual events in my own life inspired me to ask myself "WHAT IF." Then I started to distance myself from those events and created this film as a way to resolve this question out loud.
For this film, I constructed a rich visual landscape to showcase how powerful the Canon sensor can be. This visual landscape also helped me to form this symbolism enriched film.
Shane and I have always said that The Ticket is a love story between art and science. I think the true beauty of art, as well as the art of cinema, is the power to communicate with people on a subconscious emotional level. And the strength of photography and cinematography is the ability to evoke a sense of humanity.
Today, I would like to share the script of The Ticket with you, which I wrote a year ago and it was a great joy while writing it.
I hope it will bring the same joy to you.
Much love. Po Chan
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Thank you Shane and Po Chan for sharing this insightful look into the vision behind the concept of such a powerful and moving short film. I also love the fact that you made the script available as I do enjoy seeing the personalized manner in which writers put their imagination onto paper. I loved watching the film and I truly enjoy the added bonuses of you both sharing some of your techniques. I love to learn from true professionals as yourselves and it means a lot that you are transparent and willing to help us trying to find a niche in this wonderful world of cinema.
Dear Daniel, I am glad that you enjoyed the script. It is my great pleasure to shared it with you. I think a screenplay is the most pure representation of what was inside the creator's mind. And I'm delighted to be able to connect with you on such purity. Best. Po Chan
Thanks Po. I love scripts. Last night I have read The Third Man (1949). Today yours.
Dear Charles, I really hope The Ticket didn't dull your sense after you read Graham Greene. Great pleasure to share with you. Best. Po
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Just watched the short for the first time and I loved it!! Everything about it was great. The writing, cinematography, acting, all of it. Thank you so much for sharing your script. I find reading scripts of things that I have just been seen very helpful. Thank you Po. :)
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A nasty edge to proceedings marred yesterday's drawn All-Ireland semi-final according to Sunday Game analysts Kevin McStay, Ciarán Whelan and Tomás Ó Sé.
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Dublin midfield general Ciaran Whelan has confirmed his retirement from inter-county football.
Dublin footballers Denis Bastick and Ciaran Whelan may still face disciplinary action arising from incidents in their quarter final meeting with Kerry.
Speaking to Robbie Irwin, Ciarán Whelan feels the lack of underage success in recent times has hindered Dublin in their quest for Sam Maguire.
Dublin midfielder Ciarán Whelan last night strongly suggested that he had pulled on the Dublin shirt for the last time.
Dublin have decided to keep Ciarán Whelan on the bench for Sunday's Leinster SFC semi-final against Westmeath at Croke Park.
Dublin midfielder Ciaran Whelan has decided to accept his eight-week suspension arising out of his sending-off in last Sunday's tempestuous Allianz NFL Division 2 clash with Meath.
GAA President Nickey Brennan has backed the comments of Dublin's Ciaran Whelan that the issue of gamesmanship is a national issue after some highlighted incidents during last Sunday's Leinster SFC final between Dublin and Laois.
Ciaran Whelan will be available for Dublin for their opening National Football League match against Tyrone.
Dublin midfielder Ciarán Whelan has been passed fit for Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Longford at Pearse Park.
Ciaran Whelan and Alan Brogan, who both impressed as substitutes last week, have been recalled to the Dublin starting line-up for Sunday's NFL Division 1A trip to Fermanagh.
The Dublin County Board will appeal the suspensions of Brian Cullen, Ciarán Whelan, Kevin Bonner and Alan Brogan who all received lengthy bans for their part in the Healy Park brawl in Tyrone.
Dublin midfielder Ciaran Whelan has withdrawn himself from the provisional Ireland squad for next month's International Rules trip to Australia.