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Granular Immunofluorescence deposition of IgG in anti-GBM antibody disease
Granular Immunofluorescence deposition of IgG in anti-GBM antibody disease
Syed Amer1,&, Mohammed Muqeetadnan2
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Syed Amer , Department of Internal Medicine , Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY -11212 , USA
Our patient was a 75 year old male, who presented with worsening dysphagia for solids and liquids and increasing malaise. His past medical history was significant for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) and Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD). He was then admitted and was found to have a creatinine of 3.5, with an unknown baseline. He was worked up for acute kidney injury and dysphagia. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) was done and he was found to have achlasia. Urinalysis was done and it showed showed 3+ proteinuria. Subsequently, his creatinine peaked from 3.5 to 9.9. Serology for Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) was negative, but Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody (anti-GBM Ab) was positive, with a titer of 184. Renal biopsy done,which was consistent with granular GBM than the usual linear pattern. He was subsequently started on stress dose of steroids. He did not show any response to steroids and so he was also started on cyclophosphamide and plasmapheresis was also done. Unfortunately, he did not respond to any of these therapies. He started deteriorating and soon developed shortness of breath, hemoptysis and diffuse alveolar hemorrhage. He was then admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) and the decision was made to start dialysis, cyclophosphamide was stopped and the steroids were slowly tapered.The patient gradually improved with dialysis. This case demonstrates a very rare pattern of immunofluorescence in a patient with anti-GBM antibody disease. Normally, the immunofluorescence microscopy in these patients shows characteristic linear deposition of IgG. But our patient had a granular immunofluorescence pattern, a very rare finding in a patient with Goodpasture's disease. To our knowledge this is the first reported case with such an immunofluorescence pattern in a patient with Goodpasture's disease in the entire medical literature.Figure 1: Granular pattern of IgG deposition seen. Usually a linear deposition of the antibodies is seen
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I occasionally enjoy reading trashy Hollywood weeklys. Part of me likes to live vicariously. I like to spy on these beautiful, well dressed people as they make their way to the gym or home from an evening at The Ivy. I marvel at their perfect hair. The shoes. That handbag. The fun they must have flitting from one high priced restaurant to the next.
I must also tell you I find myself feeling relieved if not downright amused at the slip-ups of the powerful and beautiful. So Tiger isn't a god after all? Okay so maybe Demi looks 25 but do you know how much plastic surgery she's had?
Envy is probably one of the least socially acceptable of all emotions. It's defined as "spite and resentment at seeing the success of another."
Some argue it's not the same thing as jealousy. Jealousy, I've heard it said, is all about love and loss. It's very romanticized.
Envy is something we prefer to hide. I'm fine admitting I was jealous that time I caught my husband oggling the sexy flat screen at Best Buy, but I would never want you to know I spend my free time browsing US Magazine in envy of the lifestyles of the rich and famous . . . Oh crap I just did.
Let's take this up a notch. Shadenfreude, envy's ugly counterpart and a very fun word to say, is the act of deriving pleasure from the misfortune of others. It's an even uglier one to admit (especially if you are a life coach). Research shows that the more we envy someone, the happier we feel at the sight of his or her misfortune.
So let's shift gears. I believe happiness has to do with how we think so in my typical life-coachy form, I would like to now take a closer look at some of my thoughts while reading trashy Hollywood weeklys.
Here are a few, served up for your reading pleasure:
- If I could look that good, dress that good, eat that good and afford all of the aforementioned, I would truly be happy.
- There's not enough. They have it. They don't deserve it. When they screw up it proves they didn't deserve it and now I am happy because there's more for me.
Yucky thoughts are often lies we tell ourselves disguised at truths. When we question them to get to the real truth, we can act in the world from a place of power, authenticity and joy.
So let's take a look at the first thought:
If I could look that good, dress that good, eat that good and afford all of the aforementioned, I would truly be happy.
The truth is that many people who look good, dress well and eat at fancy restaurants are happy but I would be willing to bet there are just as many out there who look good, dress well and eat at fancy restaurants who are truly miserable.
I can be happy right now. Come to think of it, I'm pretty darn happy sitting here in my sweats, eating a wiener wrap looking slightly crazed without a stitch of make-up because I'm doing something I love which is writing this article.
On to the second cluster of thoughts:
There's not enough. They have it. They don't deserve it. When they screw up it proves they didn't deserve it and now I am happy because there's more for me.
This is good old scarcity thinking. The belief underlying this thought is that there is never enough. When someone else has something you want and you envy them, you're basically telling yourself that you can't have what they have.
Chris Anderson, in Free, the Future of a Radical Price says: "Humans are wired to understand scarcity better than abundance. Just as we've evolved to overreact to threats and danger, one of our survival tactics is to focus on the risk that supplies are going to run out."
The fear center in our brain was quite helpful when we needed to avoid saber tooth tigers or starvation but we no longer need to live in perpetual fear of scarcity and attack. The difference between envy and admiration, after all, is scarcity thinking. When we tell ourselves we can't have what other people have, we feel envy which often disintegrates into shadenfreaude. When we tell ourselves we can have what other people have, we feel admiration instead.
There is a Buddhist concept called mudita that is the opposite of schadenfreude. It means sympathetic joy or happiness in another's good fortune.
When I'm not holding on to the fear of never enough and I'm not buying into the belief that I have to be ridiculously wealthy and attractive to be fulfilled, I can be happy reading my trashy magazine. Admiring the hair. The shoes. The handbags. All the while knowing there is a great hairdo out there for me, some lovely shoes in my future, and a nice supply of handbags already in my closet. I can read about the misfortunes of the rich and famous and know that they are human like me. I can be much closer to mudita while reading my trashy magazine when I'm not lying to myself.
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Firing Your Customer: An Amex ExampleFebruary 24, 2009 at 8:31 am | Posted in Economics | 3 Comments
OK – today's post has nothing to do with technology but I find it fascinating. I'm no customer relationship management expert, although I can complain up a storm as well as anybody. My exposure came during a few years at Meta Group when I was enlisted to help create their second CRM workshop. This was a technology workshop that detailed the architectural model and services for CRM; the first workshop was concepts. I remember the idea of "firing your customer", something that businesses and independent consultants are usually too slow to do. But this is a very stark example of firing your customer from Amex (from the 2/24/09 WSJ, p D2):
It used to be that credit-card companies lured customers with cash rewards. Now American Express Co. is paying to get rid of them. The card issuer is offering selected customers a $300 AmEx prepaid gift card if they pay off their balances and close their accounts.
Selected members — the company wouldn't disclose how many — began receiving letters with the voluntary offer earlier this month, according to Molly Faust, an American Express spokeswoman. "It's a relatively small number of cardmembers who have sizeable balances and little spending and payment activity," she says.
Each letter came with an RSVP code that, when submitted online, immediately cancels that member's card.
It's a sad situation, but I give Amex credit for recognizing some of its relationships don't make sense and making the rational economic decision that it's better to record a $300 loss now than a much larger one later.
The Role of Communication, Collaboration, and Content Technology Investments during Tight Economic Conditions (part 3)January 22, 2009 at 3:13 pm | Posted in collaboration, communication, Content Management, Economics, portals, Recession | Leave a comment
This is the third in a series on how organizations can frame and deal with the issue of constrained budgets due to the recession at the same time users are demanding productivity-enhancing technology for communication, collaboration, and content.
In part 1 I set up the idea that companies that do best coming out of a recession are those that invest prudently while they are in one. In part 2 I mentioned three approaches for meeting user needs with no ability to increase budgets: cost savings, cost avoidance, and "free" stuff.
In this part I will discuss the fourth approach which I'll call "leveraging existing investments" or "doing more with what you have". I've given this approach an entry of its own because I think it's the most useful – but overlooked – of the four approaches.
Doing More With What You Have
Communication, collaboration, and content management technologies have been around a long time – long enough for large organizations to have accumulated quite a portfolio of them. Many are going unused or underutilized. An initial attempt at rolling them out may have been ill-planned, badly timed, or poorly messaged. Or the champions or experts on that technology may have left the group, leaving no one to push them forward. Now is the time to dust off these valuable assets and take a fresh look at how they could meet current user needs.
Not all existing assets can be scaled up without incurring substantial expense. If new versions haven't been licensed, playing catchup to get current may be expensive. In other cases the product cost is mostly based on per-seat licensing, in which case scaling up the existing investment may still be cost prohibitive since costs will rise in near-linear fashion with users. This applies to some high-end document management and web content management systems for example. But other products, such as portals, are licensed on a per-CPU or per-server basis, which can allow for some economies of scale when upsizing the usage. Portals are a good example since initial purchase and setup was often funded during better economic times but they may be underutilized today. This is a good time to do a portal refresh and beef up parts that are working, fix or ditch parts that aren't, find out information sources that aren't on the portal but should be, and re-launch a freshened portal.
The best opportunity for leveraging existing investments is to utilize communication, collaboration, and content technology built into superplatforms that hasn't been used. SAP shops have access to a full suite of portal, content management, and collaboration technology in NetWeaver. IBM Lotus Notes shops may be focusing on email and ignoring its collaborative capabilities. Organizations with Windows Server have access to Windows SharePoint Services (the no cost part of the SharePoint portfolio). Oracle's application server still includes Oracle Portal. Microsoft OCS 2007 includes instant messaging built in. There are many examples where useful technology has been bundled in with something the enterprise is already using.
It is still important to do due diligence in order to avoid winding up with a lot of technologies that were just installed because they were already paid for, but aren't right for the organization. But if the option is to wait until the recession is over to get painfully needed communication, collaboration, or content technology, leveraging existing investments should get some very close scrutiny.
Edward Castronova's Book "Synthetic Worlds"February 13, 2008 at 10:29 am | Posted in Book Review, Economics, Fun, Gaming, virtual worlds | Leave a comment
In my research into virtual worlds I've run across many complimentary references to Edward Castronova, so I was very interested to get his book "Synthetic Worlds, the Business and Culture of Online Games". Besides, he teaches at my alma mater Indiana University, so I have to pull for a fellow Hoosier.
I generally talk about virtual worlds, but Castronova uses the term "synthetic world". He defines a synthetic world as "an expansive, world-like, large-group environment made by humans, for humans, and which is maintained, recorded, and rendered by a computer".
As an economist, Castronova keenly understands and conveys why items in these worlds have value and why that value is often directly convertible into real currency as proof. And as an economist, his best insights are into the economics of virtual worlds. Castronova includes a great chapter on the Economics of Fun. When I was writing games for Strategic Simulations (SSI) in the 80's I had an explicit set of characteristics I would apply that described what made a game enjoyable. Castronova hits them head on: that new objects provide new capabilities, that making choices under scarcity is enjoyable, that the work required to produce rewards is reasonable, and that everyone gets to play "rags to riches" with their characters. My games pre-dated the internet era, so Castronova adds others that didn't apply in my experience such as crime, competition, and human-driven economics.
Castornova has also discovered the concept I call "bridging" when he talks about "moments that blurred the distinction between this world and the synthetic world". I also feel this is why some people don't "get" virtual worlds though. They cannot suspend belief or open themselves up to the virtual reality as having any meaning.
He shows some good insight into general aspects of philosophy, policy, and design of virtual worlds. In fact, the best quote of the book is this one: "my argument is not that you should care about the ogres and elves running around in cyberspace, but that you should care about the fact that there are ogres and elves, millions of them, running around in cyberspace." (p. 251)
But clearly, Castronova is not as authoritative when straying far from economics. For example, when entering the realm of behavioral science, Castronova falls into the common fallacy of saying that people immerse themselves in virtual worlds when they are better than the real world. The stereotype here is the geek who gets picked on by the bigger boys at school and is ignored by his parents, but escapes to his room to play EverQuest where he is a famous, powerful warrior that commands respect and attention. But those are my words. As Castronova puts it: "the new worlds being built will grow in popularity if, and only if, they provide a better life experience than the world we were born into." (p. 70) That may be true for some people and at some times when they look for escape, just as people do through movies. But VWs also just count as entertainment, like sports. Has anyone shown quantitatively or anecdotally that when internet access is provided in impoverished inner cities or war-torn third world countries that people try to escape into virtual worlds? On the contrary, I think VWs are more popular with people with pretty comfy lives who have their other basic needs met.
But it is in the realm of philosophy (or, more exactly, utopian visioning), that Castronova runs off the road (chapter 12). His imaginings include potential utopias where a person would be "judged not by the body but on the basis of the mind alone." and "once everyone gets used to the fact that bodies don't matter, they may cease to cause discrimination even on Earth." (p.258)
Many of his experiences in these games and worlds simply don't match with mine. For one, his description of the experience of using a synthetic world is a bit more immersive and extreme than I have experienced and I suspect may overstate its impact on people. For example, he describes how the user's identity begins to expand to encompass the user's avatar, such as when "the avatar's attributes felt like they were your own personal attributes" or that people frequently leave off "character" or "avatar" when saying things like "my strength is depleted". They actually do this when they have multiple avatars, which is pretty common.
So all in all, I think this is a great book and a must-read for people interested in what virtual worlds are about (mostly from a gaming point of view). It provides an overview of how the games work followed by a survey of philosophy, game design, politics, psychology, and sociology behind the games, but is clearly most at home with the economics of these worlds.
Dictating StandardsAugust 14, 2007 at 11:30 am | Posted in Economics, Legal | 2 Comments
Mark Goldberg wrote a blog entry on Picking Winners that was replied to by Alec Saunders in an entry today called Driving on the right-hand side in a left-hand wireless world. The entry is about imposing standards by wresting control of the technology from a monopoly and handing it to aspiring entrants :
Consumers are best served when commodities are delivered in standard ways. And because monopolies tend to act in the best interests of shareholders rather than consumers I would argue, in disagreement with my friend Mark, that when the market reaches a point where competition is not being served, standards should be dictated.
I feel Alec's reply raises more difficult questions than answers, however:
- Which markets does this apply to? There's a big difference between applying this to wireless carriers, pharmaceutical research, and software. If it applies to only certain types of markets (e.g., huge entry barriers) it may be difficult to define which to apply it to.
- Who says when something is a "commodity"? The potential competitors? I don't think anyone invests a lot of R&D into something and thinks they have invented a great new commodity.
- Why is it a given that defending the best interests of consumers automatically trumps the best interests of shareholders? I'm sure when Zimbabwe outlawed inflation and froze prices that must have seemed in the best interests of consumers – until all the shelves went bare and businesspeople left the market. This is an extreme example, but one that shows why automatic favoring of consumer over producer (or vice versa) causes problems – it's a delicate balance.
- Who determines when competition is not being served? Again, it seems the competitors tend to happily take on this role.
- What does "dictated" mean? Do you get fined or arrested for selling something non-standard? I'm not against compliance tests and labels if they are voluntary.
- How does innovation occur once a standard has been dictated? There are ways to address this, but they are often slow and tedious.
- How do you avoid a free rider problem when market consensus on what a standard needs to contain is only obtained by expensive, iterative exploration by innovative companies? The market may reach a point where "competition is not being served", but how does the government then compensate those that competed versus those that come along after the whistle has blown? I do not believe the lead garnered by brand reputation and awareness is enough on its own to compensate for the competitive costs.
- As a corollary of the free rider problem, for complex technical issues how does the government assure "survival of the fittest" over "survival of the first"? Standards often emerge only after an evolutionary process encourages variations that live to evolve or die based on their usefulness (although sometimes market realities like poor management or insufficient bootstrapping funds can distort the process).
- How could one be sure that a law meant to ensnare monopolies would not slowly expand to catch weaker and weaker monopolies until it's simply being applied to any market? While framed as an attack on monopolies that have rendered competition impossible, many of the examples he gives (e.g., VHS vs Beta, camera lenses as a personal monopoly of his rather than an exit barrier) are not monopolies, which demonstrates the slippery slope that a regulation like this would face.
I must agree with Mark Goldberg (and all my Economics professors) that "markets are better at picking winners than governments."
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Sell a Door and Mull Theatres Kick Off THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK UK Tour Tonight, Sept 25
Sell a Door Theatre Company have joined up with the Mull Theatre to present Arthur Miller's first play 'The Man Who Had All the Luck' which tours Scotland and London this autumn.
The production is funded by Creative Scotland, and is the first link up between the island venue and mid-scale touring company Sell a Door.
"We are delighted to be co-producing The Man Who Had All the Luck this autumn with Mull Theatre. We visited Mull with our 2011 tour of Lord of the Flies, and fell in love with the theatre and island. Alastair and all the team based at the Mull Theatre have a great programme of work touring each year, and we are delighted to join forces with them for this, our most comprehensive tour of Scotland to date."
The Man Who Had All the Luck was first produced in the UK in 1990 at the Bristol Old Vic, but in 2012 this marks the plays very first tour of Scotland.The tour opens at the Mull Theatre tonight, 25th September, before touring across the Highlands and Islands for two weeks. In October the tour visits mainland Scotland, including the Aberdeen Lemon Tree, St Andrew Byre, Brunton Theatre, Cumbernauld Theatre and Greenock Arts Guild. The production visits London for a week at the Greenwich Theatre at the end of October.
The cast includes Edward M Corrie, Karen Bartke, Stephen Bisland, John Clyde, Richard Morse, Chris Anderton, Kenny Blyth and Megan Pitt. David Hutchinson directs, whilst Richard Evans designs.
For full touring dates, booking information and more, visit www.selladoor.com.


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Bernard J. Pickett Sr. of New Hope, Pa., passed away on Dec. 21, 2011, at Twining Village.
He was the son of the late Asa S. and Lillian (Williams) Pickett.
He will be sadly missed by his wife, Margaret Croker Pickett, and his children: William (Makayla), Robert (Donna), Bernard Jr. (Roberta), Barbara Dilks (Robert) and Merritt Croker (Shyrell).
He was loved by 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Lois Mathers.
Family and friends are invited to attend his viewing at 10 a.m. and Service at 11 a.m. at Leaver Funeral Home, route 202 and Quarry Road, Buckingham, PA.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the charity of your choice.


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There's a leather diaper bag for sale on Preserve, the e-commerce site headed up by actress Blake Lively, and it's going for more than some people's rent.
Quick: List the things in your diaper bag. A change of onesie, extra diapers, some rash cream, dried up Cheerios, maybe some lip balm and a toy to distract your kiddo at the table, right? Now quick, think again: What's the most amount of money you'd spend on said diaper bag?
If you're Blake Lively, the going price for an everyday bag that transports your baby gear is a whopping $860. Yep, depending on where you live, it could be your rent or double the amount of mortgage.
Related: Is Ryan Reynolds Seriously Jealous of Blake Lively's Breasts?
According to Lively's lifestyle and e-commerce site, Preserve, the now sold-out bag is named after her 8-month-old daughter, James, and features some interesting design features. Not only is the diaper bag made of premium Horween leather (which obviously goes with spit-up!), but it has imported RiRi zippers from Switzerland, too. Now, we understand that Blake's taste is a little more high-end and that she has the income to support an expensive bag, but we'd like to put her babe in front of that bag for an hour and see what happens.
More so, we'd like to consider all the things we could buy for $860: 478 baby onesies from Gerber, 9 Grand Central Take-it-All Diaper Bags from Skip Hop or 4,387 diapers from Jet.com.
When it comes to fancy, expensive bags, we'd like to keep what we take out for a special event, to the office or paired with a cocktail dress separate from what the rash cream and bottles go in. Then again, we aren't married to Ryan Reynolds. Sigh.


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Especially when you're changing for the better everyday!
Although, change isn't easy….it's vital for personal growth.
Everyone seems to fear change….either because of the unknowns or being way too comfortable with their life, in this moment.
Change doesn't have to be a life altering event like leaving a job, friendship or relationship. It can also be the smaller things like changing the way you interact with certain people….it could be changing your eating habits or quitting a bad habit.
Change comes in many forms.
But, you have to be ready for that change and embrace it, no matter how much it scares you!
No one ever got to the other side being scared (I tell myself this daily). Fear is an emotion that SHOULD NOT control your life.
How are you changing everyday?
Are you embracing change?
Do you believe change is good?
"When one door closes….another one ALWAYS opens"
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Women in entrepreneurship
The round-table " Women in entrepreneurship" was held in the premises of the County Chamber Krapina.
After the presentation on available programmes for women entrepreneurs by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Ms. Efka Heder, director of SEECEL presented results of the project Women Entrepreneurship – A Job Creation Engine.
Representatives of County Chamber Krapina presented new Chambers services such as Entrepreneurs-exporter, Mobile Teams, My EU- voucher.
Vesna Štefica, Project Activity Officer was also attended at the round-table.


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Gregg Vanderheiden writes: > > This is a tough question. > > - do we really want to say that something is accessible if it cannot be > used by people with disabilities -- but theoretically could if someday > someone made a tool that allowed it? At the very least, the content should conform so soon as the tool comes into existence; it shouldn't need to wait until the tool is "widely available" (whatever that means) or available below a certain price threshold. > > If so then should we remove the requirement for alt text for images of text > because theoretically someday you could make a tool that would read the text > right off the image? > At last week's meeting I explained why this was a bad example. What we should do is to set a standard: user agents need to conform to UAAG; content may be written under the assumption that user agents meet their responsibilities. Nothing in UAAG (current or proposed) requires that user agents be able to perform OCR or other analysis of images. Whether we want to limit conformance to level 1 in the event that user agents haven't met certain requirements is another issue entirely, but in general I am in sympathy with the idea of not requiring wide availability of implementations for the purpose of WCAG conformance.Received on Sunday, 19 December 2004 05:45:42 UTC
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Attacks on suburbia are as old as cul-de-sacs. Suburbs have always been derided as bourgeois, consumerist and conformist. But now they have become the enemy of family values, too. That's right. Karl Zinsmeister, the editor of the conservative magazine The American Enterprise, has written that ''suburbia is actually a fairly radical social experiment,'' one that can be linked to ''the disappearance of family time, the weakening of generational links . . . the anonymity of community life, the rise of radical feminism, the decline of civic action, the tyrannical dominance of TV and pop culture over leisure time.''
What is to be done?
A group of architects and planners who have named themselves the Congress for the New Urbanism have vowed to halt the spread of faceless, car-centered suburbs by promoting friendly, people-centered towns with corner stores and public greens.
They call for some old-fashioned things: walkable neighborhoods with a mix of residences, businesses and public places; straight and narrow streets; wide sidewalks, and no cul de sacs. They believe houses should be built close enough together and close enough to the sidewalks to define streets and public squares. Above all, they want strong town centers and clear town boundaries. No one, they believe, should live more than a five-minute walk from most of their errands. (Otherwise, what's to stop people from getting in their cars and driving?) And like their British counterpart, the Urban Villages Group, the architects favored by the Prince of Wales, they want to preserve old towns and cities through ''infill,'' building on unused urban lots.
''No one can be opposed to those principles,'' said Alex Krieger, a professor of urban design at Harvard University. They are like ''mom and apple pie,'' he said. Yet many new-urban towns have been scorned as cutesy, regressive and un-urban. The new urbanists -- or neo-traditionalists -- should instead be called the ''new suburbanists,'' some say, because they are less interested in planning principles than in porches, picket fences and gabled roofs.
Seaside, designed in the early 1980's by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany, two of the founders of new urbanism, is the oldest new-urban town. Built on a stretch of the Florida panhandle, Seaside was meant to foster community life and beach access. The houses, a pastiche of historical styles in pastel colors, are set close to one another and connected by straight brick streets and a network of sand walkways cutting through the middle of each block. When the town is finished, it is supposed to have 350 houses and 300 apartments, a school, an open-air market, a town hall, a tennis club, an amphitheater, a post office, and a number of shops, offices and beach pavillions.Continue reading the main story
If you're having trouble picturing it, think of the idyllic town in the movie ''The Truman Show.'' That was no movie set. That was Seaside.
Since Seaside was built, new urbanism has won a lot of fans and building contracts. There are dozens of new-urban towns and projects built or under construction, including Celebration in Florida, Laguna West in California and Kentlands in Maryland. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is renovating some of its public housing according to new urbanist principles: more porches, more fences, lower buildings, narrower streets. Jane Jacobs, the author of ''The Death and Life of Great American Cities,'' has praised the movement as ''sound'' and ''promising.'' And publications from The Sierra Club Yodeler to The American Enterprise have smiled on the new urbanists.
''But is their particular vision of urbanization an innovative model appropriate to the 21st century,'' Michelle Thompson-Fawcett asked in the journal Urban Design International, ''or is it regressive nostalgia?''
New urbanism is, by definition, nostalgic. Towns built on a human scale, with strong centers and clear edges, have been around for 5,000 years, said Robert Davis, the developer of Seaside and the chairman of the new-urban congress. It is only in the last 50 years, with the rise of modernism, he said, that Americans have forgotten how to build them.
The new urbanists want to induce neighborliness with architecture. In this sense they are utopian. Like the modernist master planners of the 1930's, they believe social change can be brought about through architecture and planning. The difference is that most of them hate modernism.
While the modernists ''tried to get to the future by destroying the past,'' Robert Fishman, the author of ''Bourgeois Utopias,'' said, the new urbanists ''are reviving the past in order to change'' the present. That, the new urbanists think, is why many architecture schools view them with contempt.
Most schools of architecture are ''so in the grips of the modernist ideology and so defensive of the avant-garde that they see the Congress for the New Urbanism as fundamentally conservative,'' said Daniel Solomon, a founder of the movement. Peter Katz, the author of ''The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community,'' said that the nation's most powerful architects, particularly those in New York, ''laugh at the poor souls who live in suburbia.''
Kenneth Frampton, an architecture professor at Columbia University, agrees that many architecture schools (though he excludes Columbia) have ignored some questions about land settlement. But what bothers most professors about the new urbanists, he said, is not their critique of suburbia or land settlement. It is their design ideas.
The new-urbanist charter says nothing explicit about what styles are acceptable. Yet because many new urbanists believe that modernism ruined American cities, nearly all of their designs rely heavily on building styles from the past. Kentlands in Maryland is full of Georgian houses. Celebration, Disney's village in Florida, is full of brand new Victorians and Colonials.
''What's upsetting'' about new urbanism, said Mr. Frampton, ''is that the imagery is so retrograde.'' It is based on a ''sentimental iconography'' as if there were something inherently good about Victorians, Georgians and Colonials and something inherently bad about modernism. To be fair, there were a lot of modernists in the 1930's who advocated low-rise, high density housing, he said. Besides, the kind of modernism that the new urbanists see as their enemy is a straw man. No one is advocating tearing down whole cities to make way for skyscrapers.
''If you want to look for the demon that destroyed Main Street in America,'' Mr. Frampton said, ''it is not the modern movement but the American bureaucracy that opened the way for freeways and suburbanization.'' The railroads were deliberately undermined by the automobile industry, he said, adding, ''That was an economic, a capitalist, operation,'' not an architectural one.
New urbanism has not attacked the root of the problem sufficiently, suggested Alex Marshall, who has often written about new urbanism for Metropolis magazine. ''What new urbanism tries to do is imitate older communities that existed before the automobile'' without getting rid of the automobile. But if you want to return to these older forms of life, he said, you ''have to bring back the transportation system.'' If you simply change the way houses are built, ''it's like changing hemlines.''
New urbanists like to see themselves as radicals, said Mr. Krieger, who was once a supporter of the movement and is now a critic. But, he added, they are ''no longer the radical fringe but conventional wisdom.'' Developers have begun using the term new urbanism to sell their projects.
That's not to say the movement hasn't had a good effect, Mr. Krieger said. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has dedicated $2.6 billion to ''Hope Six,'' a nationwide plan to rebuild mid-century public housing according to new urbanist principles. From Boston to Cleveland to Helena, Mont., high-rise projects are being replaced by town houses with porches and fences. ''That is the part of the movement that most impresses me,'' said Mr. Krieger.
The problem, Mr. Marshall noted, is that most new-urban developments are not urban at all. They are rich developments on the town's edge. ''They are sprawl under another name,'' he said, and they are as restrictive as any suburban development. Most are privately run by homeowners' associations that give developers extraordinary control.
For example, in Celebration, Disney's new-urban town, the deed restrictions specify what kind of drapery, roofing tiles and political signs are allowed. ''Disney has a history of making warm and fuzzy dog movies,'' said Evan McKenzie, the author of ''Privatopia,'' a book on housing associations, but ''they can take your dog if it makes too much noise.''
''It's as if the people are saying: 'Who needs democracy? It's utopia already!' '' said Mr. McKenzie.
People are looking for homeyness and safety, and they don't mind giving up some freedoms for it. In Kentlands, there is a gate in front of each entry into the development, Mr. Krieger said. ''It's a decorative gate but it evokes the same associations as a real gate. It's a subtle form of 'Keep Out.' ''
If decorative gates can evoke the same response as real gates, then maybe the look of neighborliness -- porches, wide sidewalks and village greens -- can evoke real neighborliness. Or can it?
The one big criticism about new-urban towns is that they are fake towns. Given that, it's curious that the developer of Seaside agreed to let ''The Truman Show,'' a movie about a real man in a false world, be filmed in Seaside. The movie all but said, ''This is not really a town but the shell of a town, an image of a town,'' Mr. Krieger said.
After the filming was over, the painted plywood storefronts that had been put up for the movie stayed up for months because the developer liked the way they looked, Mr. Krieger said. After all, looking like a real town is the next best thing to being one.Continue reading the main story


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The BBC's coverage of countryside issues is too "squeamish", ignoring the gritty realities of rural life and favouring images of "fluffy badgers", a report has found.
There is a deficit in reporting on rural affairs, with important stories overlooked, according to the independent review commissioned by the BBC Trust.
Issues of health, education and employment in rural areas are rarely covered, the report concluded, with the corporation preferring to focus on protests or animal stories with a "feelgood" ending.
Coverage of the badger cull provoked the greatest anger amongst rural dwellers.
The report noted: "The predominant use of images of healthy badgers to open or conclude a report was felt to weight the argument in favour of the anti-cull lobby. People asked where were the pictures of sick badgers with TB, or infected cows being shot, or a distraught farming family coming to terms with the loss of their animals.
"To some people, it felt like the images asked, 'Which do you like most: the cow or the badger?'
"The audience research picked up criticism of the number of 'fluffy badgers' in pictures and said it was never going to result in an impartial impression in their opinion.
"The emotional response of protesters was readily captured by reporters, but the same was not the case for farmers."
Farmers said "it felt like the images asked, 'Which do you like most: the cow or the badger?'"
Farmers complained they had been portrayed as "villains". Some said they had been reluctant to show their faces on television because they feared retribution from protesters. But one rural landowner remarked: "If it was some issue like female genital mutilation, [the BBC] would go to some effort to help the person speak – disguise voices and things like that."
The issue of "feelgood" reporting was mentioned in relation to a piece about snow on the Isle of Arran, where thousands of sheep died as a result of the terrible weather.
It ended with a shot of a lamb in front of an Aga in Yorkshire.
Mark Hedges, editor of Country Life, said coverage was often sanitised and "did the countryside a real disservice in the process". He added: "The BBC is incredibly squeamish about the countryside."
The research found that the BBC's use of celebrities to illustrate stories, such as Brian May discussing the badger cull, were not appreciated by rural audiences.
"Celebrity contributions on controversial subjects were unwelcome. The audience found it irritating and perplexing."
The report was carried out by Heather Hancock, chair of the BBC's rural affairs committee.
She was full of praise for countryside programming outside the main news bulletins, applauding Countryfile, Farming Today and even The Archers, in addition to specials including Lambing Live and Springwatch. Viewers said they were impressed by pieces on BBC Breakfast and discussions on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show.
Coverage in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is also impressive she said, and across the board the reporting was "generally impartial". However, she expressed "significant concerns" over coverage in England.
"Audiences feel network news coverage can be simplistic and, on contentious stories, too often focused on protest rather than the underlying issues," she said.
"Concentrating on two extremes – a rose-tinted view or extreme hardship – was felt to obscure the gritty realities of rural life."
On the issue of country pursuits, "many I spoke to felt there was a gulf in understanding between the BBC and a significant segment of the rural community". Rural audiences detected "a lack of understanding" and a "squeamishness".
Stories are "too often viewed through the lens of environmentalism", and there is too narrow a range of voices on air with the RSPB, NFU and National Trust given a disproportionate amount of airtime.
Audiences also perceive a metropolitan bias despite the fact that 12 million people live in the countryside – twice the population of London.
One example given was last year's flooding, with the BBC perceived by some to have ignored the issue until it reached the Thames Valley. In the words of one respondent: "It changed when the effluent met the affluent."
Flooding in north Lincolnshire last December
Julie Nelson, rural officer for the Church of England, said rural audiences were largely left out of the BBC's output: "The countryside is only interesting when it's dramatic or beautiful - but the ordinary, everyday life isn't, I think, shown. When there's a murder, or floods, suddenly a village becomes news. You get the story and then it moves on."
The research also found that those who live in metropolitan areas have little understanding or interest in rural affairs.
According to the report: "Both in London and Glasgow, living in rural areas was seen as a lifestyle choice. In Glasgow it was largely seen as just a rather impractical lifestyle. In London, on the whole, it was seen as an inexplicably and baffling one.
"One audience member taking part in the London group could not comprehend why anyone living in the countryside would even want a good broadband connection."
Responding to the Trust report, a BBC management spokesman said: "We take our commitment to the reporting of rural affairs very seriously and welcome the report's endorsement of our programming and overall impartiality.
"Whilst the report finds overall we do a good job reflecting and reporting rural affairs, there are areas where we can do better and we have committed to a range of steps to help improve the coverage further."


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Hi, My name is Bhushan Raghavendra Shikhare and I want to thank you for your interest in my work. Welcome to the official Photography website and blog-site of Bhushan Shikhare. I am a fine art nature photographer specializing in wildlife, bird, nature and landscape photography. I am doing photography for more than 10 years. I currently live in Sangli, Maharashtra, India and use a variety of top professional cameras and lenses. My goal as a nature and landscape photographer is to show you views of our natural world in ways that you may not have seen them before through careful composition, attention to detail and the creative use of beautiful light.
I am a Jeweller and gemologist by profession and my journey as a nature and wildlife photographer started in May 2001, when I went for trekking to Dhana Kunu pass Trek with Yuvashakti, Pune, a beautiful place in Kullu valley of Himachal Pradesh, India. My mother gave me Olympus 35mm film camera with Zoom Lens (not exactly professional gear but that was highest quality camera I had then) during the trek I exposed 12 full 35 mm exposure rolls (In film camera days that was lot of exposure!). I wanted to participate in the photography competition (especially for participants) organised by Yuvashakti, Pune. At the time I was a beginner in photography so I thought why not show my photographs to Shri Mukundbhai Shah who founded 'Pratibimb Amateur Photographers' Club, Sangli' and was excellent nature photographer. That was my first meeting with him. He told me that "Bhushan, your composition is excellent but there are some minor mistakes. I will tell you how to correct theme" He was my first Guru in photography. He selected 5 photographs for competition and I got second prize in the competition. From hear my photographic journey began. I could not get Mukundbhai's guidance for long time because of his sudden death. After that I joined 'Pratibimb Amateur Photographers' Club, Sangli'. In that club I met Mr. Dilip Nerlikar sir who is very knowledgable person in every subject. I have been getting tremendous basic and professional level knowledge of photography from him.
Memories: I have Olympus point and shoot zoom lens 35mm film camera,of which wide-angle range was limited. I wanted to show our base camp plus snow-covered mountain range in photograph. So I ran about 700-800 mtrs. on big hill near by the place and captured that award-winning photograph. I lost the film due to moisture. photograph shown above is a scanned image.
At present I am an active member and instructor in 'Pratibimb Amateur Photographers' Club' in Sangli and working as an editor in Editorial Board of E-Magazine 'Reflections'. Go to www.pratibimbsangli.org for more information about 'Pratibimb Amateur Photographers' Club, Sangli'. Many times my work was published in Newspapers, Magazines and Exhibitions. Please browse my site to learn more about my work. Images are available as prints, or for commercial licensing. My all work is available in the form of fine art prints created with various photographic papers and fine art canvas. Volume purchases of three or more prints receive discounts off the entire purchase price. Don't hesitate to CONTACT me. All images on this site are copyrighted to me , Bhushan Shikhare.


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Towards a Systematic Information Governance Maturity Assessment: Paper - iPRES 2016 - Swiss National Library, Bern
Diogo Proença
José Borbinha
Ricardo Vieira
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Information Governance as defined by Gartner is the "specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archival and deletion of information. Includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in enabling an organization to achieve its goals". In this paper, we present assess the maturity of seven project pilots using the Information Governance maturity model based on existing reference documents. The process is based on existing maturity model development methods. These methods allow for a systematic approach to maturity model development backed up by a well-known and proved scientific research method called Design Science Research. An assessment was conducted and the results are presented in this paper, this assessment was conducted as a self-assessment in the context of the EC-funded E-ARK project for the seven pilots of the project. The main conclusion from this initial assessment is that there is much room for improvement with most pilots achieving results between maturity level two and three. As future work, the goal is to analyze other references from different domains, such as, records management. These references will enhance, detail and help develop the maturity model making it even more valuable for all types of organization that deal with information governance.
This work is licensed under a
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Austria License.
|iPRES 2016 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation: iPRES 2016 – Swiss National Library, Bern


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Jammu, March 24 : Senior BJP leader Ram Madhav, who is also its Jammu and Kashmir affairs in charge, will hold talks with party legislators here on Friday over possible government formation with the PDP in the state.
BJP sources said that union Minister of State in the PMO Jitendra Singh will also attend the meeting that will come a day after PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti's similar talks with her party legislators.
The sources said that Jitendra Singh and Madhav, BJP's national general secretary, will arrive here on Friday. After the talks with lawmakers, state BJP president Sat Pal Sharma is scheduled to meet Governor N.N. Vohra.
"The BJP high command has deputed Jitendra Singh and Ram Madhav to meet the BJP legislators and senior leaders to discuss government formation in the state after Mehbooba expressed satisfaction on her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi," a senior BJP leader said.
"The political situation in the state would be discussed at the meeting," the leader said.
Governor Vohra has called the PDP president and the BJP president for separate meetings with him here on Friday to discuss government formation in the state, Raj Bhawan sources said.
Jammu and Kashmir has been without an elected government since January 8, a day after Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passed away in a Delhi hospital.
Vohra has been running the state administration with the help of advisors for the last over two months.


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Win A $1,000 This Easter!
Listen to this one, The Lindenwald Baptist Church in Hamilton, Ohio is going to pay for you to pray this Easter! A $1,000 could be yours!
On Easter Sunday, Lindenwald will be holding a $1,000 drawing at their service. Every one who shows up is eligible, but the catch is you have to be present to win.
Randy Moore (the pastor at Lindenwald) tried it last year and got 1,140 people to the service. In the years before that, their Easter service drew about 500 people. He's hoping for even more this year.
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- The temperature was below freezing, and we had to defrost RoRo for several hours.
- After she was thawed, Grandma RoRo only asked where you were seven times
- RoRo only asked where you were seven more times after asking the first seven
- Mary and I realized the garbage actually has to be physically taken out. It does not magically transport itself from the kitchen to the curb as previously thought. We are not sure how we feel about this.
- Finley slept an overwhelming 18 long, arduous hours
- Finley decided the 6 hours in which he did not need to be in a coma, were the hours that occur after 12am, when the rest of the world is sleeping
- He pooped no less than 15 times, while looking harshly at me, blaming me for the snow and less than desirable pooping conditions
- We are all still breathing, alive, and sort of functioning.
- RoRo asked where you were seven final times before bed.
More to come...stay tuned.


text: Syria's crackdown on anti-government protests has been widely criticised [AFP] Syria has officially dropped its bid for a seat on the United Nations' top human right body, in the wake of an intense campaign against the Syrian regime for its ongoing crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising.. Syrian diplomats told a closed meeting of Asian UN members on Wednesday that it agreed to trade candidacies with Kuwait, which was slated to run for the Geneva-based Human Rights Council in 2013. Bashar al-Assad's government is facing growing international pressure for violently responding to the anti-regime protests that began in March, with the European Union imposing an arms embargo and sanctions on 13 senior regime figures - though not Assad himself - for violence against protesters. Bashar Jaafari, Syria's ambassador to the United Nations, denied reports that the move was an yield to intense "political" pressure from Asian and Arab nations to withdraw from the May 20 election. "It is a sovereign decision based on the Syrian government's will to reschedule the timing of our candidacy, based on reconsidering our priorities," Jaafari said on Wednesday. Jafari described the swap with Kuwait as "a common understanding between the two governments" to exchange candidacies. "There is no room for any political approaches in the Asian group," he added. Syria was chosen in January as one of the four candidates, alongside India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, for seats to be filled by Asia under a convention that stipulates UN bodies be filled by regional blocs. 'Writing on the wall' Human rights groups and some governments have been campaigning to keep Syria off the council. Their efforts have intensified since Damascus deployed security forces against pro-democracy protesters calling for an end to Assad's 11-year presidency and the Baath Party's decades-long rule. A British mission spokesman said Syria's withdrawal "is absolutely the right thing to happen." "We consider it completely inappropriate for a country conducting such violent repression against peaceful protestors to be seeking membership of the Human Rights Council," said the spokesman. Human Rights Watch, a global rights monitor, welcomed Syria's withdrawal. "This election had become a referendum on Syria's violent suppression of protests, and Syria withdrew rather than face a resounding defeat," Peggy Hicks, HRW's global advocacy director, said. Geneva-based UN Watch hailed the news but voiced concern over Kuwait being its replacement. Kuwait is "far better than Syria, but another non-democracy nevertheless", the group said on Tuesday, in response to rumors of Syria's drop out. According to the National Organisation for Human Rights in Syria, over 750 civilians have been killed and around 9,000 people arrested since the crackdown on protests began. The Syrian government has barred journalists from entering the country to report on the uprising. Dorothy Parvaz, an Al Jazeera journalist, has not been heard from since she arrived in Damascus on April 29. SOURCE: Agencies Politics Middle East India Indonesia Kuwait


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Pohlad-backed Avtex bought by Chicago PE firm LaSalle Capital
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"MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LaSalle Capital, a Chicago-based investment firm, and Marquette Companies today announced that LaSalle Capital has purchased Minneapolis-based Avtex Solutions from Marquette Companies, a part of the Pohlad Companies. The acquisition closed yesterday, June 24. Terms were not disclosed.
Avtex is a leading provider of integrated customer experience technology solutions and was acquired by Marquette Companies in 2006. The company serves more than 500 customers in the U.S., and has more than 160 employees in 17 states. Avtex has received national leadership recognition from both Microsoft and Interactive Intelligence for the past three years."


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When it comes to lighting and auto motives, there is an absolute winner in terms of innovation, and that winner is laser light. This has been a massive step forward in technology if we look back at the introduction of headlight and early stage lighting systems. The early systems used halogen, LED and xenon technology. However, since modernizing over to laser headlights and stage lights, new horizons have been opened up in terms of the overall performance, value for money and user delight.
Using laser technology will also mean that headlights will become even smaller and even more efficient than ever before. They can be used in new drone technology as well which will be a massive benefit when drones are lighting up the sky.
Let's talk a bit about an element of the laser light technology commonly used in automotive and stage lighting industries. I'm talking about laser diodes. Laser diodes are very impressive in part due to their small size. In fact, just one laser diode generates a huge amount of luminous flex for its size – very impressive in terms of the output of light. This means that there's no compromise on the amazing level of light intensity. But how does this impact the average driver using laser lights in their car? Well, the answer is incredibly simple actually; they will provide the longest range of light on the road. Similarly for stage lighting systems, check out this website: https://stage-lighting-gurus.com/ these lights will be able to light up the largest stages for the most energy and therefore most cost effective amount.
So, time to get a bit more technical and talk about some specifics. First, the BMW i8 and the 7 series provide full laser beam. Also, the Audi R8 LMX was launched at around the same time as the BMW series which also came with laser headlights. But which partner was the main one? Simple: Osram were the creators and innovators of this impressive new light technology. In fact, do you know how far these lights can beam? Actually an amazing range is achieved, a whopping 600 meters! And did you know that this is in fact over double the distance reached by the smaller and older standard LED headlights. So it just goes to show that the future of stage lighting and automotive lights is bright! Please excuse the pun. Well as well as the length of the beams, users can also expect a cheaper experience.


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In a good few previous blog posts, as well as in the audio and video sections of the site, I've referred to a system I've been working on called "_derivations." Having posted work in progress snippets and bits and pieces of information about the system over the past year, I thought it high time to give some more detailed information about the genesis of this project, what I have been trying to achieve with it, how it works, as well as where I believe it has taken me in my thinking about designing for interaction in instrumental performance. What follows is some detail about this particular creative project that has preoccupied me recently as a part my PhD research. If you're interested in reading about the system then this is the place to find out more, otherwise if you prefer just to hear what it's capable of then there are numerous examples over at the sounds and videos sections of the site.
_derivations is a system that is designed for use by a solo instrumentalist, and is designed to derive all of its sonic responses to improvisational input – both synthetic and via live sampling – from the instrumentalist's live performance. A great catalyst that launched me into designing performative systems in the first place was the desire for a hands-free or unmediated mode of performance with electronics. I have been interested in creating performative environments for an instrumentalist that require no physical intervention on the part of the performer (or anyone else for that matter) with the system once a performance has begun. i.e. the performer's interaction with the machine is entirely through sound. In order to achieve this, and to enable a mutually influential interactive relationship the machine then must be able to listen to and interact with the performer in some kind of autonomous manner. In _derivations, unlike in my previous system Multiple Players, the computer's sonic vocabulary, as well as it's generative and decision making capabilities, are directly related to the timbre of the instrument being analysed. In Multiple Players I was concerned with creating novel generative responses to instrumental input that were based upon notes, rhythms, dynamics and articulations – in short, all of the kinds of musical information that are available in a system based upon the representation of musical data via the MIDI standard. Although I am by no means the first to realise the limitations of this approach, I was very keen to develop a system that relied upon the analysis of timbre, not least in order to enable the blending of acoustic and computer generated sounds.
Having settled upon the synthesis and audio processing capabilities of the system, as well as the way in which each module would access a central database of phrases, the question remained as to how the system would use this cumulative history in order to respond within a performance in a musically plausible and interesting way. As I mentioned previously, central to the design of the system was a desire for an autonomous and mutually influential relationship between the machine and the performer. To my mind, this meant that the machine would need to be aware of the musical and sonic context in which the musician was performing in – and be able to relate the musician's current performance to its growing database of analysed phrases from the past. Using the analysis of four sound descriptors from the instrumental signal (pitch, loudness, noisiness and brightness), the system was then designed to gather statistics related to the timbral identity of each performed phrase stored in the database (this is achieved by gathering the average and standard deviation of each descriptor is stored upon the detection of the end of a phrase). This statistics database then allows the computer to make an informed choice on which phrase to recall and send to the audio processing modules, as the current performance of the instrumentalist is constantly being compared with the growing database of statistics of past musical phrases. Once a performer's recent phrase is completed, the computer searches through the statistics database to find the two closest matching phrases for each descriptor. These phrase indexes are then compared amongst descriptors; if a phrase is chosen across more than one descriptor it is chosen as the closest match – if not, one of the returned phrases is chosen at random.


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UK Men's Basketball
Mark Story: Should UK remove Richie Farmer's retired jersey from the Rupp rafters?
Richie Farmer parlayed the fame he gained as a Kentucky basketball icon into two terms as the commonwealth's commissioner of agriculture. According to his attorney, Farmer will soon confess in a federal court that he turned his state office into his personal piggy bank.
Frankfort attorney J. Guthrie True said Thursday that Farmer will soon enter a plea of guilty in federal court to two charges that he misused state resources for his own benefit. If the plea agreement with prosecutors is accepted, Farmer will serve 21 to 27 months in federal prison.
So unless something unexpected occurs, the University of Kentucky — which retired a basketball uniform in Farmer's honor in 1992 — will soon face the question of whether it wants patrons in Rupp Arena, including children, to see a jersey honoring a federal prison inmate anytime they attend a UK basketball game.
Mitch Barnhart, the Kentucky athletics director, said Friday that what to do about Farmer's retired jersey is "not really an issue I've ever come across before. ... We'll take a look at other hall of fames, how they've addressed these things. I don't want to have anyone 'knee-jerk' into any kind of decision that says, 'We've got to do this tomorrow.' I don't think that's fair to anybody."
Bear with me, and I'll tell you what I think UK should do about Farmer's retired jersey and why.
A hoops folk hero
The shame in Farmer's self-inflicted fall is that few athletes in our state's history have ever been as beloved. At Clay County in the 1980s, Farmer became a genuine Kentucky high school basketball folk hero by leading the school from the Eastern Kentucky mountains to three state title games and the 1987 Sweet Sixteen championship.
By the time Farmer ended his high school career with 51 points in a losing cause in the 1988 state finals, his popularity was so great that public pressure all but forced then-Kentucky coach Eddie Sutton to offer him a Wildcats scholarship.
Never a star at UK, Farmer eventually became a starter. He and his fellow UK classmates Deron Feldhaus, John Pelphrey and Sean Woods stuck with Kentucky through the crippling, Sutton-era NCAA probation. That quartet became the foundation who helped Rick Pitino rebuild Kentucky basketball from the ashes.
UK's loss to Christian Laettner and Duke in the epic 1992 NCAA Tournament round-of-eight contest ended the careers of the foursome, by then known as The Unforgettables. In an emotional, post-season awards ceremony, then-UK athletics director C.M. Newton surprised the four UK seniors by retiring their jerseys.
"No one can match what you've done," Newton told the four. "You truly put your heart into wearing the Kentucky jersey."
Not only a UK issue
The University of Kentucky is not the only institution in the commonwealth that has honored Farmer for his basketball achievements and that now must decide whether to undo the recognition.
In 1998, Farmer was inducted into the Dawahares/Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
Julian Tackett, the KHSAA commissioner, said Friday he was aware of no move to have that honor withdrawn from Farmer. "He was inducted as a player," Tackett said. "His time as a player is not being changed by later-in-life events."
The Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in Louisville — the statewide sports hall — inducted Farmer in 2002.
Jim Ellis, the president of the KAHF, said Friday, "This is the first time we've had to deal with something like this. We'll get input from our board and our nominating committee into any decision we would make" regarding Farmer's hall-of-fame standing. (By way of disclosure, my Herald-Leader colleague Jennifer Smith and I both serve on the KAHF nominating committee).
When the new Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame inducted its first 16 members in 2012, Farmer was one of the honorees.
Curtis Turley, director of the high school hoops hall, said, "There hasn't been any discussion" about removing Farmer. Such a decision, Turley said, would be up to the organization's board.
Ken Trivette, the executive director of the Kentucky Association of Basketball Coaches and a driving force in the formation of the high school hoops hall, said, "If anyone asks me, I would be against (removing Farmer). What got him inducted is what he did as a basketball player. That has not changed because he's made mistakes later in his adult life."
The jersey in Rupp
Of all the awards honoring Farmer's sports achievements, the most visible is the jersey bearing his name that hangs in the Rupp Arena rafters.
The arguments for removing it are eminently legitimate, yet Farmer's jersey should stay in Rupp.
The reason is not because what he will soon admit to doing in public office is not serious. It is. A review conducted by the Kentucky state auditor alleged Farmer misused some $450,000 of state money for his own benefit. That is essentially money stolen from the people of Kentucky.
Still, in my view, a retired jersey recognizes athletic achievement, period. Farmer's "good name" may be tarnished from abusing the public trust, but his role in UK basketball history is the same now as before.
That said, all such cases should be evaluated on individual merit. If, heaven forbid, someone with a retired jersey in Rupp Arena is ever convicted of murder, a violent physical or sexual assault or child abuse, then take their jersey down and boot them from all halls of fame.
Serving prison time for political corruption, Richie Farmer will not be the only person recognized in Rupp Arena who has made significant mistakes in life. Among others who have jerseys hanging in Rupp are players who confessed to point shaving, one coach whose program was given a de facto death penalty by the NCAA and another coach who was involved in a tawdry sex scandal.
"I think you've got to be careful," UK's Barnhart said Friday. "I think there are a lot of really great athletes who have done some wonderful things competitively, and they have struggles in their personal worlds and you have to separate that out. What were they in (the hall of fame) for? I think you've got to take a look at that. None of us are perfect."
If having Richie Farmer's jersey hanging in Rupp Arena while he serves a federal prison sentence reminds our sports-crazed state that being good at basketball reveals nothing else about an individual's character, that would be a service to all who look upon it.


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Welcome to the website of our Astounding Angels of Alpha Eta Zeta Chapter. As President of the Memphis Chapter, it is my pleasure to extend greetings to our members, potential members and friends. If you're visiting our site, you must want to know more about our illustrious organization and all we have to offer. I encourage you to browse the various pages and read all about us! Since 1939, we have served Memphis and the Mid-South through programs that enhance mind, body and spirit. We pride ourselves on being a community-conscious organization that is in tune with the needs of the city. As the sponsoring chapter for LeMoyne-Owen College, University of Memphis, Christian Brothers University and Rhodes College, we are elated that the legacy of our 5 Founders, that we so lovingly refer to as Our Five Pearls, lives on in our collegiate chapters. Our undergraduates and auxiliaries thrive with our support and guidance. As we continue our Five Pearls' high ideals of scholarship, service, sisterhood and finer womanhood, we build on the principles of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. while blazing new paths.
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NEW YORK -- Nearly 5,000 coaches and Jewish athletes from across the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Israel, the United Kingdom and Venezuela will convene at three sites in August to take part in the 25th anniversary JCC Maccabi Games, an Olympic-style athletic competition. Host communities include Houston (Aug. 5-10), Baltimore (Aug. 5-9) and Orange County, CA (Aug. 12-17).
The games give Jewish teens the chance to compete in 14 team and individual sports and to participate in other social programs that promote friendships, community service projects and informal educational instruction, according to the JCC. One volunteer social service program, Days of Caring and Sharing, brings athletes together with local social service agencies for day-long social action projects. Past Days of Caring and Sharing activities have included building homes for the poor, holding carnivals for handicapped children, cleaning parks and packaging food for distribution at local soup kitchens.


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Training >> Browse Articles >> Office Management
13 Bosses and How to Make Them Love You
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The Miracle
Distinguishing characteristics: An office that looks like yours, encouraging emails
What they do: Fun, supportive, capable, and inspiring, The Miracle is truly an employee's dream come true. She does what she says, always follows up, and usually can push you to do your best in a way that makes the hardest work seem like play. If you're working for The Miracle you'll know it, from the smile on your face at the end of the day to your rewarding paycheck at the end of the week. Just try not to brag too much!
How to make her love you: Work your butt off and thank your lucky stars, since The Miracle doesn't come along very often. Use this great opportunity to really see how far you can go, and at the end of The Miracle's tenure, make sure you get a letter of reference!