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Through Francis, the eccentric and enigmatic owner of Caerlyon, Wilberforce is initiated into a rich life he could never have imagined, becomes a willing pupil to Francis' master, and in the cellars of Caerlyon he nurtures a new-found passion for fine wine. But even the finest wine can leave a bitter aftertaste, and Wilberforce will learn that the undercroft holds some unpalatable secrets, and that passion comes at a price.
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"David Rintoul narrates this ingenious story in a wine-dark voice, rich in timbre, ranging from smoky oak to black currant, giving meaty tongue to poor Wilberforce's occasional befuddlement. His command of accents - sommelier French, Tyneside demotic, upper-class snootiness - is restrained and adept. Both novel and narration are outstanding." (Washington Post Book World)
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Not all is "light & happiness" in this story, but the main character is extremely well constructed & throughout the story we get inklings that help us understand him. It is superbly crafted, a wonderful read. It's definitely "hard to put down".
Starting this book you have no idea where it's going to go. That said, it is one of those stories that begins at the end...and ends at the beginning.
A little way into the book we begin to grasp what's going on for Wilberforce & how this part of his story will end. He's a character to love, with all of his failings.
If you've read & enjoyed "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" you will know & appreciate Paul Torday's wonderful way with a story. This story is not in the same theme, but his brilliant narrative style is expressed just as clearly.
"Nothing quite like it"
A challenging read as you're stuck in the mixed-up head of a very unsympathetic protagonist. We actively join Wilberforce as he descends the slippery slope and it's a fascinating glimpse into an addictive mindset.


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A lot of people have beaten up on ACC football. Why? Because that's what happens when you're 3-13 in BCS bowl games.
But the ACC believes things are looking up. They had 31 NFL Draft choices in April, second only to the SEC's 63. Clemson and Florida State appear to be hitting their strides as consistent national powers. In 2014 Notre Dame comes aboard, playing five games annually against ACC schools. That will only help season ticket sales and TV ratings.
So here are just five things we learned about ACC football this spring:
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Swinney wants another "first" for Clemson
Since Dabo Swinney became Clemson's coach midway through the 2008 season, the Tigers have accomplished "some things that have happened for the first time and some things that haven't happened in a long time."In 2011 Clemson won its first ACC championship since 1991. Last season Clemson beat LSU in the Chick-fil-A Bowl to win 11 games for only the fourth time in school history. It was the first time in 20 years that Clemson had posted back-to-back seasons with double-digit victories.
Clemson's only losses were to Florida State and South Carolina, which finished No. 10 and No. 8 respectively in the final Associated Press media poll.
"That's all well and good and we are proud to have done all that," Swinney said. "But for all the talk about our tradition here at Clemson we have to remind ourselves what the reality of our situation is."
Here is what Swinney means. In the history of Clemson football only four coaches have won 11 or more games in a season:
• Frank Howard, 1948 (11-0)
• Charley Pell, 1978 (11-1, ACC champions)
• Danny Ford, 1981 (12-0, national champions)
• Dabo Swinney, 2012 (11-2)
Those four coaches have two things in common. First, they are Alabama grads. The second?
"None of them won 11 games again at Clemson," Swinney said.
So with an offense that has some household names (Tajh Boyd, Sammy Watkins) and a defense that returns nine starters, Swinney has thrown down the challenge for the Tigers to win at least 11 games again.
"It's about the program and we want to be a consistent program," Swinney said. "This is the opportunity to take another step."
Erving could be Noles' next first-rounder
When I visited Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher in late March, he was confident the Seminoles would have a big NFL Draft. He was right.Four Florida State players were invited to New York and three of them (QB EJ Manuel, DE Bjoern Werner, DB Xavier Rhodes) were taken in the first round. All told, Florida State set a school record with 11 picks in the draft, more than any other school. Alabama and LSU had nine each. It was more draft picks than Florida State had had in the last four drafts combined.
"It took us some time to build up to this draft," Fisher said. "Now you have to sustain it and that's the tough part."
Florida State may not have three first-round picks next season, but it's a pretty good bet that left tackle Erving will go early.
"I think he has a good chance to be a top 15 pick," Fisher said.
Erving played his first two seasons on defense and then switched to offensive tackle last season. At 6-5, 315 pounds with long arms he still has room to grow.
Erving said he expects Florida State to have another good draft in 2014.
"We have always recruited top-notch guys but now we are starting to build a culture around here," said Erving, from Moultrie, Ga. "The older guys teach the younger guys that there is a certain way we do things. We show them how to work."
Erving did, however, say that he would miss Manuel.
"He was a great leader and a great person," said Erving. "But the guys fighting for the position have the same traits."
After his performance in the spring game it looks like redshirt freshman Jameis Winston is the guy. Clint Trickett, who played last season when Manuel was hurt, graduated earlier this month with a season of eligibility remaining. He will transfer to West Virginia for his final season.
Big changes at Wake Forest
I've written it many times: Jim Grobe is one of the best coaches working today. So when he makes a fundamental change in the way he does things it is worth noting.Grobe came to Wake Forest, which has the smallest student body in the Big Five conferences, in 2001. In 2006 the Deacons won the ACC championship. One of the ways Grobe did it was by trying to redshirt every freshman that came into his program. In 12 seasons at Wake Forest, Grobe has played only 22 true freshmen.
But last season the Deacons went 5-7 and at the end of the year they were really short of healthy bodies.
"The last three or four games we were not a very good team either offensively or defensively," Grobe said. "And the reality was there were a handful of freshmen who could have really helped us get through that time. But when you get to that point in the season you're not going to burn a redshirt."
Wake Forest is bringing in a large class (27) and Grobe has challenged his coaches to identify the freshmen who could be of immediate help and are, quite frankly, better players than some of his veterans.
"Where we really needed help was on special teams and we had some freshmen with good speed," said Grobe. "I'm not going to take a redshirt off a guy just to play special teams, so we will have to study this carefully. We'll see how it works out."
I asked Grobe if playing four or five talented freshmen could make the difference between going 5-7 and 7-5 at a place like Wake Forest.
"Absolutely," Grobe said.
Cut looking for more wins
Duke's David Cutcliffe is one of the best quarterback coaches of his generation. He helped a couple of guys named Manning succeed in the NFL and they still visit him every year to get a booster shot from their former coach. In fact, Peyton and Eli brought several of their wide receiver teammates to Duke in April to get some detailed instruction from Cutcliffe.Last season his quarterback, Sean Renfree, was taken in the seventh round by the Atlanta Falcons.
So after a career spent developing NFL-style quarterbacks, it is a bit of a surprise to learn Cutcliffe is moving to a spread offense that includes the read option with quarterback Anthony Boone, who has been the backup to Renfree the past two seasons.
Why make such a change? Simple. Cutcliffe loves to develop NFL quarterbacks. But he loves winning more. Duke finally got a taste of it last season when Cutcliffe directed Duke to it first bowl game since 1994.
"We've always tried to use our people in the best way possible that gives us a chance to win," said Cutcliffe, set to begin his sixth season at Duke. "Before we had Peyton at Tennessee we had Heath Shuler and moved the quarterback around. After we had Peyton we won a national championship with Tee Martin. He was a different kind of quarterback."
Duke was fifth in the ACC in scoring last season (31.5 points per game) but finished dead last and No. 107 nationally in scoring defense (36.0 ppg). So Cutcliffe has committed his offense to running the ball, shortening the game, and keeping his defense off the field.
"We know how to throw the football and we'll still throw it a lot," said Cutcliffe. "But it is a numbers game and you have to have the threat of running the football. We've done a lot of studying and we're committed to it."
What next for Hokies' offense?
Despite the return of quarterback Logan Thomas, Virginia Tech's offense simply wasn't very good last season. The Hokies were ninth in the ACC in total offense (376.8 ypg) and eighth in scoring offense (25.1 ppg).
A lot of the blame fell on Thomas (18 touchdowns, 16 interceptions), but the reality is the 6-6, 262-pound Thomas tried to do too much. With the early departure of David Wilson, Virginia Tech did not have the big-time running back that has always been a staple of its offense. The offensive line also struggled.
Enter Scot Loeffler, who was hired at Auburn last season to install the pro-style power running offense. It didn't work and Loeffler was out when Gene Chizik's staff was shown the door after a 3-9 season.
So there were a few eyebrows raised when coach Frank Beamer hired Loeffler and veteran offensive line coach Jeff Grimes to fix the offense. Grimes made a bunch of changes on the line as he installed more of a zone blocking scheme. Needless to say it will still be a work in progress when the Hokies return to Blacksburg this summer.
There won't be a lot of time for experimentation come August as Virginia Tech opens with Alabama, the two-time defending national champions, in Atlanta on Aug. 31.
"Yep, that one has everybody's attention," said Beamer, whose team was 7-6 in 2012 after eight straight seasons of 10 wins or more.


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Wednesday, Congress will dedicate a statue of Frederick Douglass in the Capitol Rotunda. The dedication ceremony has unfortunately become wrapped up in the politics surrounding the District of Columbia's lack of representation in Congress, but that controversy aside, it is hard to think of a man more deserving of the honor.
An escaped slave and leading abolitionist, orator and newspaper publisher, diplomat and adviser to presidents, Douglass was without a doubt one of the great voices for human freedom. Going far beyond opposition to slavery, Douglass was a relentless advocate for individual rights, whether speaking of blacks, women, Native Americans, or immigrants. Equally important, Douglass knew that government power posed a threat to those rights.
Douglass's message was not just about African Americans. Rather, it offers a stinging rebuke to all those who believe that men and women cannot be the masters of their own fates.
The freedom that Douglass agitated for was not the freedom of the welfare state. Simply providing for people's material needs was not a substitute for giving them their freedom. Besides, "doing for" all too easily morphed into "doing to," an opportunity to do "mischief," as he put it. He knew that, as President Gerald Ford once said (in a quote often misattributed to Barry Goldwater), "a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have."
Moreover, Douglass understood that economic liberty was a crucial component of liberty more generally. He believed in private property and the accumulation of wealth. When a speaker from the Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society compared "wage slavery" to "chattel slavery," Douglass declared such sentiments to be "arrant nonsense," and argued forcefully that "so far from being a sin to accumulate property, it is the plain duty of every man to lay up something for the future."
He rejected class warfare, saying, "I have no sympathy for the narrow, selfish notion of economy which assumes that every crumb of bread which goes into the mouth of one class is so much taken from the mouths of another class." And while acknowledging the imperfections of capitalism in practice, he nonetheless saw it as the best engine for both individual betterment and economic progress.
As for the redistribution of wealth, Douglass warned, "The non-producers now receive the larger share of what those who labor produce. The result is natural. Discontent culminates in exactly the same ratio that intelligence sustains aspiration."
Those are not exactly the sentiments that one would hear from Occupy Wall Street or the Obama administration. In fact, modern liberal historians have accused Douglass of having a "pro-capitalist bias," in the words of the University of Virginia's Waldo Martin. Yale's David Blight criticizes Douglass for preaching "laissez-faire individualism."
Perhaps. Certainly Douglass would have had no use for today's leviathan state that tells people how to save for their retirement, what health insurance to buy, what charities to support, what to eat, or whom they can marry. He would have been shocked by a government from which roughly 60 percent of Americans receive more in benefits than they pay to it in federal taxes. The man who advocated self-help and hard work would never have accepted a welfare state that has trapped generations in poverty. This passionate advocate of achievement through education would have been appalled by a system that puts the interests of teachers above those of students and forces parents to continue sending their children to failing schools. And the man who preached thrift and wrote that "I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt" would have certainly opposed the profligacy that's produced our $16.7 trillion national debt.
A memorial to Douglass in the Capitol is long overdue. But an even better tribute would be for a few more members of Congress to remember what this great man said, and what he stood for.
— Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution.


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I am done with this system. Maybe it's me but I have tried to get a good solid flying platform in the air but so far no luck.
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ok so I figured out the throttle calibration for hitech.
1) individually calibrate your flashed esc's with only half throttle as the max position. 2) do the YSX6 in GCS throttle calibration on one esc only and it will work... 3) then do it on two at at time.. this will work too.. but for some reason when adding more than two or three one of them does not take the calibration routine (you can hear it in the beeps) So I did them individually through the GCS and the heli seems to be flying OK now. I increased the P and I a bit because of the flashed esc and I am sure I could tune it some more to get better flight performance. Currently this is the best I can do with it and honestly after all this I am quite tired of this system. I am definately considering selling it... I am sure there is nothing wrong with it but sometimes things just put a bad taste in your mouth. From my tests a while back it did hold position incredibly well, I was just not happy with the flight characteristics. Now in hind sight I am quite sure I never had the throttle calibration routine done properly through the GCS before now because of this issue with hitech radios and simonk esc's. I think for my business I really ought to stick with one controller too to be consistant. so if anyone wants to trade this system for a DJI WKM I have a 16 waypoint upgrade that comes with the YSX6 Steve |
Many people have problem configuring the YS is because they do not want to understand the concept of how this thing work and only want to know the step on how to do it. All you have to do is basicly make sure you set the throttle direction correctly by looking at the GCS and low throttle should be 7 or lower and high is 90-99. If not, then you should do Channel Align again. Next I normally Power my YS and Wifi with a small separate battery, let it connect to my wifi, then go to Init set up, then V stick to arm the motor. (I do believe putting it into Init set up remove the gyro sensor out of the equation. After you arm the motor, give it full throttle then power on all your ESC at once. Wait for the beep... throttle down... you're done. All it is is you want the YS to output a full throttle signal for all the esc before you power on the esc... In order to do that you have to V stick and full throttle to arm the motor... But in order for it to output the full throttle for all ESC it have to be in zero mode (init mode) Now I am not sure if that's exactly what it does... but it work for me in sync all the esc together. |
Check GotHeliRC message below and do it excactly like he describes in post. Also make sure to do esc calibration with at least fully charged 4S flight pack, i had problems in esc calibration when i tried to do it with smaller 3S lipo, please don't ask why but that's how it was for me. I had to take attitude sensitivity to 20 with flashed esc to get rid of oscillations. Not sure if it's best thing to do but it's a start and at least it works for me at the moment. Imo flight characteristics are very close to DJI stuff but YS wind resistance is maybe slightly better for me with a cost of dead calm smoothness where dji seems to be the best. Too bad that it's rarely dead calm when you need to do some shooting with your copter. Also pretty much everything else works better in my YS than it worked with WKM. Kari Quote:
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hi all, first thanks for all the help on the esc calibration.
I have done this six ways to sunday and now I found the enable insurance button. the enable insurance only works once, then you have to un-power then re-power the FC. This is another PITA bug. And honestly half the time it does not work at all. I finally got 5 out of 6 to calibrate through the FC at the same time but one would not. The Hex flies much better now that most of the calibration took and I am sure if it could handle my combination of flashed esc and hitech radio it would fly fine. however I am just done with it and it's been sold. Maybe in a while I will buy another one. people say there have been no major bugs with this system but I say otherwise. One major one comes to mind is that in previous GCS versions once you switched from RC mode to flying by tablet mode then back more than once it LOCKED YOU OUT and you had to fly with the tablet!!!! uummm majoy bug man! not to mention in the early days I found multiple other bugs like the fact it did not record the aircraft type to memory when using the setup. you had to do this manually (first GCS version) things as simple as the the manual putting the wrong numbers beside the aircraft type too... I am sure it's great for some... and it will have a happy new home with someone VERY knowelgable with YS... who I am sure will install it and have no problems! hahaha... I wish everyone the best with this system and one day I may be convinced to try it again. Steve |
it's partially work for me. Now all motors synchronous on the manual mode. All motors starting after the %10 throtle on manual mode. But other modes (altitude hold and auto hover ) not synchronous and motors starting after the %35-40 throtle. Elevator is seen Push3 after the channel aligment when the channel calibration Should I use subtrim for setup MP ? regards |
Try the "Neutral" on GCS... if that doesn't help, then you can try subtrim on your radio.... Also, check your Attitude value, should be 0,0 when it's on level surface... Unless that's 0,0 motors won't all start the same. |
2. The data radio which operates on 900Mhz will give you the extended range. If that frequency is no open to use in your country then you may want to bring your own wifi router + range booster to the field. From practical point of view, dont expect to travel KMs away back and forth with full gear. You're flying multirotor, not planks. hope this hels. |
GCS helper with voice
Not only can you now watch you flight being plotted on a graph but it can also tell you of potential problems. https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...4#post23656704 Unfortunately there is up to a 5 second delay due to not having access to the protocol spec. And you need to have the YS GCS running. Without access I can not make a YS > Mavlink translator on board due to not being to detect corrupt packets. If you can do me a favor, If you own a YS System and would like a better GCS, emailing them requesting it be made public. |
I successfully setup my ys-x6 on an octo frame and had few flights on it. I got a new hexa frame and tried to setup the ys-x6 on it. Did all the same procedure as before but now it won't arm.
Checked all data in the gcs and all seemed fine, stick direction, aircraft type 3, etc. But this time the esc's are not beeping so i can't do esc calibration. All esc's and motors are working fine when individually checked without passing through the autopilot Setup was done in accordance with the install guide. The esc's are not beeping. The motors wont arm. Can't figure out what's wrong this time. Any help will be appreciated. Cheers. |
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HI ALL I'M JOCKY from aberdeen scotland hope you are all doing well. i just came accross this site while searching the web for info on all things tropical aquariums as i am about to set up a new tank
Dimensions 150 x 50 x 70cm/59" x 20" x 28
Surface area 0.75 sqm/8.07 sq ft/ inches sq in
Volume 525 l./116 gal. (138.69 US gal.)
Probable volume 473 l./104 gal. (125 US gal.)
that above is the size i'm going for but need to wait for work to be done at home before i can install tank.
have been in the hobby for many years but moved home 6 months ago so looking for fresh start with new tank
have breed all sorts from angels to discus cat fish to barbs, but as always the size of tank aloud in living room all boils down to she who must be obeyed :+) THE WIFE so soon my life will be back on track NEW HOME and most important NEW TANK
hope to hear from some of you soon TA RA FROM SCOTLAND
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Hope u stick around and talk for a bit
also i was wondering how did u get ya angels to breed like how big were they, how big of a tank do i nee, food, housing etc?
I hope you will like it here and for your input on different topics in the forums.
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0thxs for the welcome it's about 11pm sleep time over here so will get back to you FULL3R on the angels theme another day and i can see you are a busy man WILLIAM i see your name in all the forums i can see you take pride in the site GOOD FOR YOU ( and all the newbies to the hobby ) will catch up with you soon TA RA


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David Marine is the Vice President of Brand Engagement for Coldwell Banker where he oversees the brand's content strategy including acting as managing editor for the Coldwell Banker blog and heading up video production efforts. While Vice President by day, David runs a three ring circus at night as he is the father of 4 boys. He also happens to be married to Wonder Woman. True story.


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- 1 cup sugar
- 1 package (.13 ounce) Kool-Aid, any flavor
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- In a bowl, combine the sugar, Kool-Aid and milk; stir until the sugar and Kool-Aid are dissolved. Pour into a freezer container. Freeze for 1 hour or until slushy.
- In a bowl, beat cream until stiff. Add Kool-Aid mixture; mix just until combined. Return to the freezer container. Freeze until solid, about 2 hours. Yield: 1 quart.
Originally published as Frozen Kool-Aid Dessert in Reminisce
July/August 1998, p58
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In neuroscience, tractography is a 3D modeling technique used to visually represent neural tracts using data collected by Difusion Weighted images (DWI).[1] It uses special techniques of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and computer-based image analysis. The results are presented in two- and three-dimensional images.
In addition to the long tracts that connect the brain to the rest of the body, there are complicated neural networks formed by short connections among different cortical and subcortical regions. The existence of these bundles has been revealed by histochemistry and biological techniques on post-mortem specimens. Brain tracts are not identifiable by direct exam, CT, or MRI scans. This difficulty explains the paucity of their description in neuroanatomy atlases and the poor understanding of their functions.
The MRI sequences used look at the symmetry of brain water diffusion. Bundles of fiber tracts make the water diffuse asymmetrically in a tensor, the major axis parallel to the direction of the fibers. The asymmetry here is called anisotropy. There is a direct relationship between the number of fibers and the degree of anisotropy.
Figure legend: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data have been used to seed various tractographic assessments of this patient's brain. These are seen in superior (A), posterior (B), and lateral views (C&D). The seeds have been used to develop arcuate and superior longitudinal fasciculi in (A) and (B), for brainstem, and corona radiata in (C), and as combined data sets in (D). Some of the two dimensional projections of the tractographic result are also shown. The data set may be rotated continuously into various planes to better appreciate the structure. Color has been assigned based on the dominant direction of the fibers. There is asymmetry in the tractographic fiber volume between the right and left arcuate fasciculus (Raf & Laf) (smaller on the left) and between the right and left superior longitudinal fasciculus (Rslf & Lslf) (smaller on the right). Also seen are Tapetum (Ta), Left corona radiata (Lcr) and Left middle cerebellar peduncle (Lmcp).
Using diffusion tensor MRI, one can measure the apparent diffusion coefficient at each voxel in the image, and after multilinear regression across multiple images, the whole diffusion tensor can be reconstructed.[2]
Suppose there is a fiber tract of interest in the sample. Following the Frenet–Serret formulas, we can formulate the space-path of the fiber tract as a parametrized curve:
where is the tangent vector of the curve. The reconstructed diffusion tensor can be treated as a matrix, and we can easily compute its eigenvalues and eigenvectors . By equating the eigenvector corresponding to the largest eigenvalue with the direction of the curve:
we can solve for given the data for . This can be done using numerical integration, e.g., using Runge-Kutta, and by interpolating the principal eigenvectors.
Tractography is subject to several limitations.[3]
MRI technique[edit]
Tractography is performed using data from diffusion tensor imaging. Diffusion MRI, a method to produce images of the molecular diffusion process in tissues, was introduced in 1985, notably for its potential for neuroimaging.[4][5] An improvement of diffusion MRI, called Diffusion Tensor MRI or DTI [6][7] allows to fully characterize molecular diffusion in the 3 dimensions of space. Free diffusion occurs equally in all directions. This is termed "isotropic" diffusion. If the water diffuses in a medium with barriers, the diffusion will be uneven, which is termed "anisotropic" diffusion. In such a case, the relative mobility of the molecules from the origin has a shape different from a sphere. This shape is often modeled as an ellipsoid, and the technique is then called diffusion tensor imaging. Barriers can be many things—cell membranes, axons, myelin, etc.; but in white matter the principal barrier is the myelin sheath of axons. Bundles of axons provide a barrier to perpendicular diffusion and a path for parallel diffusion along the orientation of the fibers.
Anisotropic diffusion is expected to be increased in areas of high mature axonal order. Conditions where the myelin or the structure of the axon are disrupted, such as trauma, tumors, and inflammation reduce anisotropy, as the barriers are affected by destruction or disorganization.
Anisotropy is measured in several ways. One way is by a ratio called "fractional anisotropy" (FA). An anisotropy of "0" corresponds to a perfect sphere, whereas 1 is an ideal linear diffusion. Well-defined tracts have FA larger than 0.20. Few regions have FA larger than 0.90. The number gives information of how aspherical the diffusion is but says nothing of the direction.
Each anisotropy is linked to an orientation of the predominant axis (predominant direction of the diffusion). Post-processing programs are able to extract this directional information.
This additional information is difficult to represent on 2D grey-scaled images. To overcome this problem a color code is introduced . Basic colors can tell the observer how the fibers are oriented in a 3D-coordinate system: This is termed an "anisotropic map". The software could encode the colors in this way:
- Red indicates directions in the X axis: right to left or left to right.
- Green indicates directions in the Y axis: posterior to anterior or from anterior to posterior.
- Blue indicates directions in the Z axis: foot-to-head direction or vice versa
Notice that the technique is unable to discriminate the "positive" or "negative" direction in the same axis.
See also[edit]
- ^ Filler, Aaron (2010). "The History, Development and Impact of Computed Imaging in Neurological Diagnosis and Neurosurgery: CT, MRI, and DTI". [1]. 7 (1). External link in
(help) - ^ Basser, P.; et al. (2000). "In Vivo Fiber Tractography Using DT-MRI Data.". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 44: 625–632. doi:10.1002/1522-2594(200010)44:4<625::AID-MRM17>3.0.CO;2-O. PMID 11025519.
- ^ Maier-Hein, Klaus; et al. (2016). "Tractography-based connectomes are dominated by false-positive connections". bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/084137.
- ^ Le Bihan D. and Breton,E. Imagerie de diffusion in vivo par résonance magnétique nucléaire. C.R.Acad.Sc.Paris T.301, Série II:1109-1112, 1985
- ^ Le Bihan D., Breton E., Lallemand D., Grenier P., Cabanis E., Laval-Jeantet M. MR Imaging of Intravoxel Incoherent Motions: Application to Diffusion and Perfusion in Neurologic Disorders, Radiology, 161,401-407, 1986.
- ^ Basser PJ, Mattiello J, Le Bihan D. MR Diffusion Tensor Spectroscopy and Imaging. Biophys. J. 66:259-267, 1994
- ^ Basser PJ, Mattiello J, Le Bihan D. Estimation of the effective self-diffusion tensor from the NMR spin echo. J Magn Reson B. 1994 Mar;103(3):247-54.


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I have a thing about the word "compote." I hate it. It reminds me of high school German class and how, for some reason, I could never remember other food-related words to say when asked to describe what I (pretended to) have for lunch. All I ever remembered to say was "compote" and "käsebrot." Apparently, Anneliese (my German class name) really liked to do it up with fruit and cheese for lunch. So I cringe a bit when I see anything called a compote, even if I like it. For example, this Bonjour Compote from Kuhn Keramik is really beautiful despite being related to my least favorite lunch option. This could act as a stand-alone sculpture on a table or work nicely as a catchall by the entryway or to display snacks around the house. I'm a sucker for anything with a shiny gold interior, so this guy is firmly on my "If it wasn't for that name" wishlist (it's a short list). Click here to check it out and shop online. xo, grace
It's a lovely piece – too bad it conjures bad high school memories. Great find and story to boot!
Maybe we could just call it a "footed bowl" and avoid the unpleasantness altogether!
Interesting piece on the provenance of compote – the word and the various dishes it can represent. It's funny you used 'compote' in German class!
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Hi Grace! Really nice bowl. Marmelade or compote would look wonderful in it. But in your German class you'd rather say "Kompott" than "compote".


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Rahe named BCJALL player of the week
For two periods, the Langley Junior Thunder were all even with the New Westminster Junior Salmonbellies, the top team in the B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League.
But the Salmonbellies scored seven times in the third period to win 16-9 and improve to 17-1 on the season. The Thunder fell to 5-13-1.
The game was played Tuesday (June 24) at Queen's Park Arena.
Langley led by a goal just past the midway point of the game, before the Salmonbellies struck for 11 of the final 14 goals.
Brendan Mykle-Winkler (three goals, two assists), James Rahe (two goals, two assists) and Alex Gibbs (one goal, four assists) led the Thunder.
For New Westminster, Josh Byrne did the most damage with six goals and eight points.
And former Langley Intermediate Thunder — and Langley Minor Lacrosse Association product — Johnny Pearson chipped in with a goal and five assists.
Langley travels to play the Junior Timbermen at Nanaimo's Frank Crane Arena on June 28.
And Rahe was named the league's first star of the week on June 24.
In the Thunder's previous three games — ahead of their loss to New Westminster, Rahe tallied 17 points, including a dozen goals.


text: Girls, on average, spend two more hours per week on household chores than boys do. Nonetheless, according to studies from the University of Michigan and Highlights magazine, girls make less money than boys for their work. "The problems women face with unequal pay and housework duties actually start in childhood," Soraya Chemaly reports for Salon.


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- The Baby Bullet was a homebuilt aircraft kit created by the Heath Airplane Co.
- This type of plane was used in various air races and air fairs throughout the U.S. and Canada during the Golden Age of Aviation. Hundreds of kits were sold; however, many were not completed.
- This is currently the only registered Baby Bullet under the Federal Aviation Administration.
- This Baby Bullet was originally built in 1933 by aviation enthusiast and machinist Perry D. Hansen, from Lansing. After Hansen finished building the plane, he raced it for several years. After World War II, he sold the plane and it was extensively modified by others into its current Goodyear racer appearance.
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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
Brian Greene
I've found without question that the best way to lead others to a more plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not your mouth
Bernie Wilke
Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose Bierce
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee
As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
Mary Lou Retton
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
Tom Cruise
Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living.
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
William Temple
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
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Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
Christopher Lasch
In light of the substantial attention given this case by the Supreme Court, I believe my continued participation would create a distraction of no benefit to the parents or the best interest of the child.
Carl Lewis
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
George Crabbe
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Carl Maria, Baron Von Weber
It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Rebecca West
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Mark Twain
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Ernest Hemingway
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Brigham Young
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Andrew Carnegie
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Algernon Sidney
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
David Seabury
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
Max Frisch
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht
I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
Abu Bakr
The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.
Timothy Murphy
Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting! Man is constantly building the "Image." It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones! Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of things and simply "Do and Die!
Irvin Kauffman
You cant stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, its the best thing in the world. When youre in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
Keith Sweat
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Richard Bach
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
The wines that one remembers best are not necessarily the finest that one has tasted, and the highest quality may fail to delight so much as some far more humble beverage drunk in more favorable surroundings.
H. Warner Allen
Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
Sextus Empiricus
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues ñ self-restraint.
Edwin Way Teale
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
Horace Mann
We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
Will Rogers
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Albert Einstein
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Brad Beago
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
Paulo Coelho
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas Hobbes
First develop a strategy that utilizes everything around you. The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses.
Paulo Coelho
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
General George S. Patton
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
George B. McClellan
Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.
Jimmy Johnson
The worst thing in life may contain the seeds of the best. When you see crisis as an opportunity, your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying.
Joe Kogel
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
Aaron Klug
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Jonathan Davis
Nearly 30,000 fans turned out to support the tribute match and provide one of the best atmospheres at the ground for ages. I was so happy to be part of it.
David Ginola
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime
W. E. B. Du Bois
I painted until I was exhausted. Then I forced myself to do another and it was the best thing I've done for weeks.
Joseph P. Blodgett
Is not the highest honour his who from the worst hath drawn the best; May not your Maker make the world from matter, an it suit His hest? Nay more, the sordider the stuff the cunninger the workman's hand: Cease, then, your own Almighty Power to bind, to bound, to understand.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Hell was not part of the original creation. Hell is God's fall-back position. Hell is something God was forced to make because people chose to rebel against him and turn against what was best for them and the purpose for which they were created.
Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
Nicolas Chamfort
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
Lawrence Welk
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
Brigham Young
Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix.
Truman Capote
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Alfred Hitchcock
If you concern yourself with telling or showing people how interesting you are, you will at best provoke a temporary response of polite interest until even that gives way to annoyance. If you let people find it out for themselves, you become a real source of fascination.
Derren Victor Brown
The Great Spirit does right. He knows what is best for his children. We are satisfied. Brother, we do not wish to destroy your religion, or to take it from you. We only want to enjoy our own.
Chief Red Jacket
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest.
George Washington
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Marian Wright Edelman
Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.
Dave Barry
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
Benjamin Franklin
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.
Joseph Story
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
Henry David Thoreau
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston
Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.
Billy Graham
The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.
Barbara Cartland
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Alfred North Whitehead
To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.
George Voinovich
To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.
George Voinovich
And if you come up from under that water and theres fresh air, just breathe baby, Gods got a blessin to spare. I know the process is so much stress but its the progress that feels the best. I came from the projects straight to success and youre next, just try, they cant steal your pride, its inside. Then find it and keep on grindin cause in every dark cloud theres a silver linin. I know.
Lil Wayne
If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
Keith Henson
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Walter Bagehot
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Arthur Christopher Benson
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Carlin
I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold
The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick; and one of the finest things in life is going on a journey with it.
Robert Coates
You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I`m the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont` boo me.
Kurt Angle
Man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily"true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about."
C.S. Lewis
When one begins to work in order to bestow, and this goes against ones nature, this is called "toil," since the body (refers to ones wills and desires) opposes it, being that any movement which the body does not see that it will be use for itself, it opposes with all of its strength, and tremendous powers are needed to overcome it.
Baruch Shalom Ashlag
Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.
Norman Vincent Peale
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman
The important thing is to not be afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
Debbi Fields
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
William James
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
Mary Stewart
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
Ronald Reagan
We need to maintain a proper balance in our life by allocating the time we have. There are occasions where saying no is the best time management practice there is.
Catherine Pulsifer
When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.
Woody Allen
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
Lao Tzu
The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters: they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything.
Nicolas Chamfort
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people
Oscar Wilde
Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.
Regina Nadelson
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Napoleon Hill
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
Robert Morgan
Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what has been called "species consciousness" something over and above nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities. During this week of incredulous misery, I have been trying to apply such a consciousness, and such a sensibility. Thinking of the victims, the perpetrators, and the near future, I felt species grief, then species shame, then species fear.
Martin Amis
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations
Edward de Bono
Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
Leslie Charteris
I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.
Amanda Lear
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.
Richard M. Hunt
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
David Seabury
If a man makes best use of whatever means he has at his disposal and also has the blessings of God then he will certainly fulfil all his aspirations and dreams.
Sam Veda
The best of us still have our aspirations for the supreme goals of life, which is so often mocked by prosperous people who now control the world. We still believe that the world has a deeper meaning than what is apparent, and that therein the human s
Rabindranath Tagore
Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.
Brian McKnight
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
Barbra Streisand
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
Barbra Streisand
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Thomas Love Peacock
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
Barbra Streisand
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery
Benjamin Disraeli
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
W. Eugene Smith
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Thomas Babington
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
Bruno Bettelheim
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
Kevin Kelly
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere
Ronald Reagan
All wine associations are with occasions when people are at their best; with relaxation, contentment, leisurely meals, and the free flow of ideas.
Hugh Johnson
I have found without question that the best way to lead others to a more plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not your mouth
Bernie Wilke
WINE and Fermented grape-juice known to the Womens Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is Gods next best gift to man.
Ambrose Bierce
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
The wines that one best remembers are not necessarily the finest that one has ever tasted, and the highest quality may fail to delight so much as some far more humble beverage drunk in more favorable surroundings
H. Warner Allen
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show travelers where other minds have been, or at best smoke signals to call attention... One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cart load of books.
John Muir†
If France are not at their best then we could beat them (in what would be their first ever away victory in the Six Nations).
Pierre Berbizier
Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.
Luther Burbank
The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain.† This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency
Susan Allen Toth
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
Morita Akio
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
Louis D. Brandeis
Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
Jean Paul Richter
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
Arnold Bennett
The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's opinions, and value others that deserve it.
William Temple, Sr.
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
John Milton
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere. . . . Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.
Marianne Williamson
In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere. . . . Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.
Marianne Williamson


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Members of the organic, farm-fresh produce industry have been trying to establish a foothold in Northeast Philadelphia for years. Somerton's Walker Lodge will be the site of one company's newest attempt next spring.
Daniel P. McElhatton, of the law firm McElhatton Foley, with offices in Center City and Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was recently selected chairman of the Greater Northeast Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
A Somerton public house and hotel dating to the American revolutionary era is in store for some major changes.
Several dozen friends and family members of Somerton's Nick Forgione gathered recently at the Boulevard Diner to celebrate his 30-year cancer survival.


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Getting To Know... Eugenie Bouchard
Published November 30, 2012 07:55
When Eugenie Bouchard swept past Elina Svitolina to the girls' singles title at Wimbledon this summer, she added her name to an illustrious list on the All-England Club's honor's board.
Martina Hingis, Amélie Mauresmo and Caroline Wozniacki are just a few of the players to have lifted the dainty trophy over the past few decades, and Bouchard's early forays on the senior circuit suggest she is more than capable of following in the footsteps of the aforementioned trio.
Having started the year down at No.305 in the rankings, 46 wins, four ITF titles and a handful of encouraging displays at full WTA level have helped catapult the 18-year-old to within touching distance of the Top 100.
In January, she will head to Australia for her first tilt at a senior Grand Slam, although before then she has more pressing engagements to attend to, like pre-season training and a date with wtatennis.com.
How did you get into tennis?
EB: I started when I was six and my mom took me and my twin sister to a local tennis club. I didn't really like it, though, as it was all games with balloons and hoops and I just wanted to play actual tennis. So my Mom took me to start having group lessons and a few years later I started entering tournaments. I began to take it seriously quite quickly and when I was nine I qualified for a tournament in France.
Can you tell us a little bit about your family?
EB: My dad's name is Mike and he works in finance and my mom, Julie, is a housewife. As I mentioned earlier, I have a twin sister, Beatrice - she's six minutes older, but I'm taller! I also have a younger sister, Charlotte, who's 17 and a brother called William who is 13. They are all into sport and tennis, but mostly just for fun; my brother was playing quite a lot of tennis, but then, like everyone in Canada, caught the hockey bug and now is playing that all the time!
Tell us about your current coaching setup?
EB: I'm working with Nathalie Tauziat at the moment and I'm based at the National Tennis Centre in Montréal. In the past, I was playing in Florida a lot of the time, working at Nick Saviano's center. I was there from about 12 to 15 and it really helped my game; Nick is very good on the technical parts of the game and there are so many really good players down there, it brings your level up. I also benefited from playing outdoors - it snows so much in Canada that we're playing indoors most of the year
What are the strengths in your game?
EB: I have a very aggressive baseline game and like to take the ball early. I've got a strong serve and I really like to dominate behind that. There are lots of areas I still need to improve and at the moment I'm really working on my consistency, strength and movement.
Did you have a tennis idol growing up?
EB: One of my first tennis memories was watching Maria Sharapova win Wimbledon. That match really sticks in my mind and it's kind of cool to now be playing alongside her. At the same time, I wouldn't really call her an idol, because she's also a rival and I don't want to go on court in awe of any opponent.
Do you have any friends on tour?
EB: I'm friendly with a few players, but I wouldn't say I'm really close to anyone, because, like with my previous answer, they are all rivals. But I get on well with most of the girls - all the Canadians, who I know from Fed Cup, Laura Robson and Heather Watson too. I actually stayed with Laura during Wimbledon, which was a lot better than previous years where I was in dorms in Roehampton. It definitely brought me luck, so maybe I'll ask her if I can do it again next summer!
Who is the toughest opponent you've faced?
EB: Li Na at the Rogers Cup this year was extremely tough. It was a good experience to play against a top player in the night match in front of a big crowd. What I really took from that match was how the best players don't give you anything and you have to work for every point.
What is the best memory of your career?
EB: Winning junior Wimbledon in the summer. It was a great experience to be on Court 1. I didn't expect there to be a very big crowd, but there were, I think, 8,000 people, and I was really shocked by the noise they made when we came out. I was the first Canadian to win a Slam in singles at any level, which was pretty cool, and there was a lot of media attention when I got home.
What are your short-term and long-term goals?
EB: I'd like to get into the Top 100 as soon as I can and hopefully by French Open time I'll qualify automatically. Long-term, when I was younger I always wanted to win every Grand Slam. It's ambitious, but you've got to aim high!
Which surface do you prefer?
EB: I grew up on indoor hardcourts in Canada and then played a lot on it outdoors in Florida, so that's probably my favorite and the one that I feel most comfortable on. Obviously, I've done well on grass in the past and I think it suits my game. I also like clay too and won a couple of tournaments on it this year, it's just that I'm not so experienced on it yet.
How about your favorite tournament?
EB: Australian Open, for sure. It's the best tournament, the best weather, the people are amazing and so friendly, and it's just so relaxed and such a great atmosphere.
Away from the court, what do you like to do to relax?
EB: I like to read a lot, which is good because I spend a lot of time at airports and on planes and just hanging around! My favorite author is Agatha Christie, but I also read lots of more modern books - recently I finished the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I just bought the new Kindle and I'm looking to download some of the classics, like A Tale of Two Cities and Anna Karenina.
How far did you go in your education?
EB: I'm finishing high school at the moment. I have to study by correspondence. I try to do most of it when I'm back home in Canada, but sometimes this isn't possible and it's very tough to juggle my school work with matches and practice - after playing a long match I don't really feel like opening a math book!
What would you have done if you hadn't been a tennis player?
EB: I'm really interested in science and math, so maybe I would have studied something like that at university. I would have liked to become a doctor.
If you had to describe yourself in one word, what would it be?
EB: Calm.
Finally, are there any plans for a follow up to your Gangnam video with Laura?
EB: Oh, definitely! Discussions are already underway! The first one was actually a lot of work, so we need to find a tournament where we have some time on our hands - like in Beijing - but we are definitely hoping to make Gangnam Part II.


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One blah Monday morning, you're commuting to the anonymous office park some 90 minutes away from the bedroom community you call a home in your equally anonymous Toyota Camry Hybrid, listening to yet another story about Congress kicking cans down roads and/or some wacky antics your favorite DJs had the past weekend while you take another swig of that mermaid-branded caffeinated goodness.
Tag: toyota recalls
The mainstream media's big story of the day is Toyota's "sticky pedal" strategy in the courtrooms across the land. And it has little or nothing to do with actual gas pedals, and everything to do with stalling in producing the court ordered company documents that could show known deficiencies in product design and safety. AP analyzed lawsuits covering a range of complaints, and in response to requests for company documents, Toyota has consistently claimed it does not have them, or simply ignored court orders to produce the documents. The pattern being uncovered supports the claims made by Dimitros Biller, a former Toyota attorney who sued (and settled) with Toyota after contending that the company deliberately withheld evidence in older rollover cases. (Read More…)


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It tastes bland and can be a tough daily regimen to follow, so it's not the ideal medicine for high blood pressure. But a low-salt, heart-healthy diet is staging a comeback as some 60-plus drugs fail to rein in staggering rates of hypertension in the United States.
Reporter's File
Practical Blood Pressure Advice, Too Often Shelved for Convenience
By ERIC SABO
By the Numbers
Even the Food and Drug Administration is weighing in, with recent deliberations on whether salt contents should be posted clearly on food labels. After years of acrimonious debate on the true dangers of sodium, anti-salt crusaders contend that the writing is on the wall. "The evidence is overwhelming," said Dr. J. James Rohack, a Texas cardiologist who is working with the American Medical Association to rid the nation of its high-salt habits.
One plan of attack: calling on food companies and restaurants to cut the salt they serve by half over the next 10 years. The move could eventually end one of the major obstacles in fighting hypertension, the self-control and vigilance required when it comes to eating prepared or packaged foods. "People wouldn't have to make a conscious decision," said Dr. Lawrence J. Appel, a heart nutrition expert at Johns Hopkins University. "It could really make a difference."
As many as half of the 70 million people in the United States with hypertension turn out to be sensitive to salt, versus 10 percent of Americans in general. Even so, only 22 percent of patients stick with a hypertension-taming, low-salt DASH diet rich in fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy. That's down from 30 percent in 1994. "We're going in the wrong direction," said Dr. Phillip Mellen of the Hattiesburg Health Clinic in Mississippi, who has studied nutritional aspects of high blood pressure.
Yet in knocking out one dietary demon, a much larger piece of the lifestyle puzzle still needs to be addressed. Rising rates of obesity, diets shockingly low in fruits and vegetables, and a lack of exercise are all major reasons one in three Americans now suffers from hypertension, experts say.
The sobering results come as pharmaceutical companies appear stalled in creating demonstrably superior new drugs to treat high blood pressure. Despite an expanding range of options, including Tekturna, the only novel hypertension treatment in nearly a decade, hypertension rates remain stubbornly high. For many patients, older, cheaper diuretics may work just as well as, or even better than, more heavily advertised treatments like calcium channel blockers or ACE inhibitors. And the most effective diuretic may be the first one made available, back in 1957.
Lacking a slam-dunk pill, the majority of patients end up relying on two or three drugs to keep their blood pressure under control. That state of affairs, some doctors say, could be better managed with the addition of diet and exercise. "We don't have to worry about side effects from lifestyle changes," said Dr. David C. Goff Jr., professor of epidemiology and public health at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. "But everyone finds it easier to prescribe drugs."
The benefits of a proper diet are hardly a secret, even among those with traditionally less access to health care. One survey found that Latinos and African-Americans living in inner-city neighborhoods knew the dangers of eating poorly, but they also told researchers that restrictive diets are too hard to follow and insufficient to end the need for drugs. Years of bad eating may be impossible to undo. "Most people need to be on two drugs by the time we see them," Dr. Appel said.
That's a shame, because many patients might end at least some of their reliance on medications simply by eating better. The American Medical Association says that limiting sodium to 1,600 milligrams a day — about a teaspoon of salt — can prevent a five-point rise in systolic blood pressure. When combined with the right diet, cutting back on salt can lower blood pressure as well as any single hypertension pill, research shows. Adding protein and healthy monosaturated fats to the DASH diet may lead to even greater reductions in heart attack risk.
The joint national committee on high blood pressure, a government advisory panel, calls such dietary measures indispensable for treating hypertension, since they can lower blood pressure and improve the effectiveness of drugs. Lifestyle changes work best in combination, the group adds.
But until government regulations address the sodium slipped into processed and restaurant foods, experts say, many patients are going to find cutting back a tough battle to win. "Even when people are trying to be good, the deck is stacked against them," Dr. Rohack said.


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Shivnarine Chanderpaul slammed a brilliant double hundred and Denesh Ramdin was unbeaten on 126, as the West Indies declared their first innings at 527 for four at tea, on the second day of the first Test.
Chanderpaul faced 372 balls and cracked 22 boundaries to score 203 not out, to put West Indies in a commanding position.
Ramdin remained not out on 126, which came from 236 deliveries, hitting 11 boundaries and a six.
Chanderpaul and Ramdin added 296 runs for the fifth wicket.
Earlier at lunch, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Denesh Ramdin frustrated Bangladesh as they took the West Indies to an imposing score of 437-4.
Resuming at 361-4, the pair added 76 runs in the morning session as Bangladesh's attack failed to make a breakthrough on a lifeless pitch at the Shere Bangla stadium.
Chanderpaul was unbeaten on 156 and Ramdin, on 84, was approaching his third Test century as the pair extended their fifth wicket partnership to 206.
Debutant off-spinner Sohag Gazi, who took three wickets on the first day, opened the bowling and kept a tight line and length. He forced an edge off Chanderpaul's bat which fell short of first slip and went for two runs.
Brief Scores: West Indies 527 for 4 dec (Shivnarine Chanderpaul 203*, Denesh Ramdin 126*, Kieran Powell 117, Denesh Ramdin 84; Sohag Gazi 3 for 145) vs Bangladesh


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FOMC Statement Suggests Longer Wait for Savers
The fifth FOMC meeting of the year finished this afternoon with a release of the policy statement. Unlike the last meeting, there was no press conference or release of economic projections. As expected, no policy changes were announced. The only changes in the statement were slightly more pessimistic views of the economy. Below are three examples:
"Moderate pace" changed to "modest pace"
from June 19th statement:
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in May suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace.
from July 31st statement:
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June suggests that economic activity expanded at a modest pace during the first half of the year.
Addition of "but mortgage rates have risen somewhat"
from June 19th statement:
Household spending and business fixed investment advanced, and the housing sector has strengthened further, but fiscal policy is restraining economic growth.
from July 31st statement:
Household spending and business fixed investment advanced, and the housing sector has been strengthening, but mortgage rates have risen somewhat and fiscal policy is restraining economic growth.
Addition of "recognizes that inflation persistently below its 2 percent objective could pose risk to economic performance"
from June 19th statement:
The Committee also anticipates that inflation over the medium term likely will run at or below its 2 percent objective.
from July 31st statement:
The Committee recognizes that inflation persistently below its 2 percent objective could pose risks to economic performance, but it anticipates that inflation will move back toward its objective over the medium term.
These statement changes support the observations in this Calculated Risk GDP post that "the data showed all indicators are still below the [FOMC] June projections." So this may give the Fed a reason to delay tapering of its bond buying program. A delay in tapering will likely mean a delay in rate hikes. There have been expectations that we'll see rate hikes sometime in 2015. I would say the odds of that happening has diminished slightly.
Esther L. George continued to vote against the FOMC action with her same inflation-hawk argument:
who was concerned that the continued high level of monetary accommodation increased the risks of future economic and financial imbalances and, over time, could cause an increase in long-term inflation expectations.
She was the only member to vote against the action. Unlike the last meeting, James Bullard did not dissent. However, in June he was actually arguing for more accommodation. I'm not sure what changed to make him vote for the action.
Future FOMC Meetings
The next two FOMC meetings are scheduled for September 17-18 and October 29-30. The September meeting will include the summary of economic projections and a press conference by Chairman Bernanke.