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From the sky, the golden eagle is one of the most lethal hunters on the planet.
On the ground, in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan, it seemed that grown men and young boys everywhere had a raptor on his arm, his shoulder or, sometimes, his head. But these eagles are not pets. They are hunting partners.
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Our journey started at dawn with our guide, a young hunter named Chingis. We drove into the foothills of the Tian Sham mountains range to catch a wild eagle. He said it would be easy.
When his Soviet-era jeep got stuck, we set out on foot, climbing through an arid landscape, so dry it is shocking when we stumble straight into a cannabis field. We then head up a ridge, where Chingis set up his trap with some simple netting and a dove as bait.
Chingis was hoping for a young adult eagle. Eagles raised in the wild make the best hunters. They can spot their prey from miles above. We are told if we move a muscle our hunt is over.
Suddenly, we watched a bird dive for the trap. Chingis went to check.
It was not the eagle he wanted but a falcon. It is still good for hunting smaller prey, he told us, and took it home.
In Chingis' vast backyard, Kyrgyz boys and eagles grow up together. They carry eagles and falcons on their shoulders when they're as young as 6 or 7. When we asked an 8-year-old boy name Simuk if he was scared of the bird, a translator told us he said, "Of course I'm not scared. I trained her all by myself."
An eagle's wingspan can be seven-and-a-half feet across – think of an NBA player and add some talons, which are strong enough to kill a wolf.
But instead of seeing eagles hunt, we see them posing with paying tourists. It seems golden eagles are doing more photo ops than hunting these days. In fact, they are a big tourist attraction for the country.
The eagles earn enough money to support entire communities, and they are considered part of Kyrgyz families.
"I love my bird more than my wife," said Merlan, one of the country's most well-known eagle trainers.
Despite the love, the eagles are transported here by questionable means -- most often they travel in the trunks of cars.
One day during our journey, Chingis took us to see his idol, Talgar, a hunter's hunter. His eagle, Tumara, is known in Kyrgyzstan as the "ultimate eagle." We found Talgar at home with his family, not a tourist in sight.
He was in the middle of training a new eagle, which was still tense around people. The eagle's features bristle, a sign he doesn't yet fully trust Talgar.
Talgar told us an eagle can feel your pulse and sense whether or not you are nervous when holding one.
But Talgar was the picture of calm. Still, in a split second the young eagle attacked for apparently no reason – a talon striking Talgar on his palm and drawing blood. Talgar said it was not too painful and entirely normal for a young eagle in training.
Even a famous eagle hunter has a hovering mother, who cleaned Talgar's cut the Kyrgyz way – with a shot of vodka.
But soon a surprising thing happened: The eagle started to eat out of Talgar's hand. These animals are picky and survive on fresh meat. Letting Talgar feed him was a big breakthrough, but Talgar said he knew the eagle wasn't ready to hunt with him yet.
His beloved Tumara, on the other hand, who is always ready, has been Talgar's hunting partner for nine years. Their bond is obvious. They go out every day, in part because having to catch her own food keeps them both sharp.
When she is not out hunting, Tumara often wears a small leather cap to cover her eyes.
Together with his young son, Talgar hiked into the hills. When a sacrificial rabbit was spotted far below, Talgar took off Tumara's cap and she knew the hunt was on.
With the rabbit in her talons, Tumara waited patiently, trained to capture but not to kill until Talgar is at her side. Her skills help feed his family all winter.
Once Tumara escaped. Talgar searched the skies but she was gone. Days later, she flew back to him on her own and had stayed there ever since. It is proof enough that this pair is the real thing.


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Elzie Jean (Brewer) Mashburn
Elzie Jean (Brewer) Mashburn, 83, a resident of the Sardis Community in saline County, went to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ peacefully in her sleep surrounded by her family on Monday, Nov. 12. She was born March 4, 1929, to the late Sidney and Brunie Mae (Lemons) Brewer in Little Rock.
She was a member of Landmark United Pentecostal Church and an associate member of the Arkansas-Mississippi Chapter of the Second Marine Division Association.
She was always there for her family, friends, and her church. She loved to quilt, do needlework, sew, garden and worship her savior.
Elzie was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Leonard Brewer; and her beloved sisters, Edith Mashburn and Letha Mae Crutchfield.
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She is also survived by seven grandchildren, John Alan Kaucher, Michael Kaucher, Jeff Haney, Jennifer Morgan, Heath Cole, Clint Cole and Jessica Mashburn; 20 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and other family members and many friends.
Funeral service is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov, 15, at Ashby Funeral Home with the Revs. Jim Pelkey and Jerry Strickland officiating. Burial will follow in Salem Cemetery at East End. Grandsons serving as pallbearers are John Alan Kaucher, Michael Kaucher, John Morgan, Nicholas Kaucher, Chris Lepper, Kevin Bradshaw and Jeff Haney.
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First-Hand:My Very Biased History of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park
Contributor: Steven A. Tretter
A Very Biased History of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park
This document presents my very biased view of the history of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, by describing a variety of amusing incidents that have happened while I was a student here from September 1958 through June 1962 and then as a faculty member starting in September 1966 until now. Until about ten years ago, the department was called the Electrical Engineering Department with the abbreviation EE. This was the most common nomenclature at universities around the country.
The name was then changed to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with the abbreviation ECE which has become common at other universities.
Dr. Ralph Myers' Physics Class
Disrespectful Students
In 1960, Engineering students normally took two semesters of Physics in their Sophomore year. My Spring semester Physics class was held in the Chemistry Building large lecture hall and there were, maybe, 200 students in the class. The instructor was Dr. Ralph Myers, a long-time Physics professor. Dr. Myers would stop to think and project "UUUUUUH" to the entire lecture hall while he was thinking. One day, about half way through the class, Dr. Myers said "UUUUUUUH" and there was an echo of "UUUUUUUH" by an anonymous student in the very back of the lecture hall. As several classes went by, the "UUUUUUH" echo came from more students. Finally, Dr. Myers slammed down his book and said something like, "Gentlemen, if I can call you that ... !" and walked out of the room. Boy did he kill us on the next exam!
The Student who asked Stupid Questions
There was a student who sat in the front row and continually raised his hand and asked obvious and stupid questions. This was particularly annoying because he was an EE student who's name I have long forgotten. As the semester went on, we all would groan every time his hand shot up. It seems almost every class has someone like this. One thing that seems to be traditional with Physics departments is that they have a good size staff to create and show very interesting demonstrations for their large introductory lecture classes. One day the demonstrations included a gas discharge oscillator with huge light bulbs, maybe a foot high. Another demonstration included a cylindrical electromagnet about four inches in diameter and a foot high. An iron ring fit over the magnet and when the current was turned on, the eddy currents in the ring caused it to rise of the magnet. This was a demonstration of forces caused by the interaction of current and magnetic fields. During that class, the annoying student asked an unusual number of stupid questions. When the bell rang for the end of class, he ran up to Dr. Myers to ask yet another question. I am sure Dr. Myers was also quite annoyed and thought about how to get even with this student. He asked this student to put the iron ring on the magnet and hold it there. Well, guess what happens when the current is turned on? When the ring cannot rise off the magnet, the eddy currents cause is to heat up like a stove element. Very soon this student let out a shout in pain and let go of the ring. The ring flew up into the air several feet and came down and smashed a couple of the large light bulbs! Dr. Myers must have hated our class.
Bill Hahn, The Instructor for My First EE Class
In 1960, the first EE course students took was EE 1 Basic Electrical Engineering. This course was taken in the Fall semester of a student's Junior year. EE courses were given once a year, so students who failed an EE course were set back an entire year. The textbook was Introductory Electrical Engineering, J. Wiley, 1957 by George F. Corcoran and Henry R. Reed. George Corcoran was the Department Head and Dr. Henry Reed was another EE professor and was in charge of the graduate program. In fact, George Corcoran was the Department Head for 25 or 30 years and retired around 1964.
William R. Hahn was my instructor for EE 1 in the Fall 1960 semester. He was a full-time Instructor working on his Ph.D. degree at the time. A couple of years later he became a full-time employee of the U.S. Naval Surface Weapons Center in White Oak, Maryland and continued to work on his Ph.D. part-time. Later Bill moved to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and after that to some Beltway bandit company in Virginia. Bill was an avid handball player and had bent little fingers caused by hitting the walls too often. He smoked a Sherlock Holmes kind of pipe and acted real cool.
Lab Instructor is No Longer Cool
Bill was also my Instructor for the lab portion of EE 100 Alternating Current Circuits. Many EE courses at that time were four credits with three credits for the regular in-class instructional part and one credit for the lab portion. Grades were based proportionately on our performance in both parts. The text for the in-class part was Alternating Current Circuits, J. Wiley, 1943 by Russell M. Kerchner and George F. Corcoran. Russell Kerchner was not a College Park faculty member. In the lab for EE 100, Bill Hahn carefully checked our circuits to make sure they were correct before we turned on the power. One experiment involved an autotransformer which was about ten inches tall with a six inch square base. After checking our circuit, Bill went to the power panel on the wall and flipped the switch on. Within seconds, clouds of white smoke started pouring out of the autotransformer. Bill quickly turned off the power and was very embarrassed to discover he had plugged the power cable into the DC rather than the AC outlet! We no longer thought he was so cool.
My First Ph.D. Graduate
After I graduated, completed my Ph.D. at Princeton University, spent nine months working at Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California, and returned in September 1966 to teach as an Assistant Professor in the EE Department at the University of Maryland, Bill Hahn was still working on his Ph.D. His advisor was the Assistant Professor, Bob Ginnings, who had recently received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland EE Department and had also been an Instructor while working on his degree. Bob left to work at Hekemian Labs in Rockville, Md. a couple of years later and I became Bill Hahn's Ph.D. advisor. By the way, Norris Hekemian also got his Ph.D. from the our EE Department under Gordon Wagner who retired in 1976 and died in December 2005. Bill Hahn earned his Ph.D. a couple of years later. It is kind of ironic that the instructor for my first EE course became my first advisee to get his Ph.D.
George F. Corcoran
George F. Corcoran was the Electrical Engineering Department Head from some time in the early 1940's to around 1964 when he retired. Notice the word "Head" in his title. Sometime in the late 1960's or early 1970's, the title of the person who was in charge of a department was changed from Head to Chairman. The Head had significantly more authority than a Chairman. George Corcoran was very well liked by faculty, staff, and students. He died not too long after retiring from one of the progressive nervous system diseases. He never got married, probably because he knew he had this disease, but he had a close woman friend. She established the Corcoran Award for excellence in teaching by a young faculty member. Later, it was extended to include TA's. Corcoran's primary emphasis was on undergraduate education and he authored or co-authored a number of textbooks that were used for our EE courses. These include:
1. George F. Corcoran and Henry R. Reed, Introductory Electrical Engineering, J. Wiley, 1957.EE 1 Basic Electrical Engineering. (for EE 1 Basic Electrical Engineering) 2. Russell M. Kerchner and George F. Corcoran, Alternating Current Circuits, J. Wiley, 1943. (for EE 100 Alternating Current Circuits) 3. George F. Corcoran and Henry W. Price, Electronics, J. Wiley, 1954. (for EE 101 Engineering Electronics) 4. Henry R. Reed, T.C. Gordon Wagner, and George F. Corcoran, Electrical Communi- cations Experiments, J. Wiley, 1958. (Lab text for EE 105 Radio Engineering)
Henry Reed and Gordon Wagner were also Professors in our EE Department. Corcoran encouraged faculty to have a strong interest in undergraduate activities and many faculty members often attended affairs like Eta Kappa Nu initiation banquets and IEEE picnics. There were around 200 EE undergraduates in 1960. A significant number of them had returned from the Korean War and were supported by the GI Bill. It seems Professor Corcoran knew every student by name and how they were doing. His door was always open for us. However, when you went to see him, he acted very tough and menacing, but you knew it was an act and he had a heart of gold. When I would walk into his office, he would bark something like, "What the hell do you want Tretter?"
Student Does Poorly in Probability
George Corcoran was my professor for EE 103 Engineering Analysis. This course was really a two credit introduction to probability. It was the predecessor to our current ENEE 324 En- gineering Probability. Our department was one of the early ones in the country to recognize the importance of Probability in the Electrical Engineering curriculum and was largely the result of George Corcoran's vision. One day in class, Professor Corcoran told a story about how in a previous EE 103 class there was a student who seemed to be very serious and hard working but did very poorly on the first exam. Corcoran asked him what the problem was and found out that this student had previously been a Divinity student and knew nothing about Poker hands. Several questions on the exam asked the probability of getting certain hands.
Dr. Henry Reed
Dr. Henry Reed was a long-time Professor in the EE Department and retired around 1966. He was in charge of the EE graduate program for many years. In 1960, when I was a Junior, he was one of the few faculty members with a Ph.D. The other two were Dr. Gordon Wagner and Dr. Giovanni Rutelli. Before the 1960's, it was not uncommon for EE faculty members around the country to just have a Master of Science degree. Dr. Reed also ran a mini EE graduate department at the Navy installations in southern Maryland. It was either at the Patuxent Naval Air Station or an engineering lab of the Naval Electronic Systems Command at St. Inigoes. I don't remember which. He was one of the few faculty members with funded graduate research.
At that time, the Department was primarily focused on undergraduate education. How- ever, there were a reasonably large number of students working on the Master of Science degree part-time. These students mostly came from local government labs like the Naval Research Lab and the Naval Ordinance Lab which was the name of the Navy lab in White Oak then. All M.S. students were required to do a thesis. The Graduate School had no non-thesis option. There were very few full-time M.S. students. There were, perhaps, ten full-time Instructors working towards the Ph.D.
In addition to the books listed above that Dr. Reed co-authored with Corcoran and Wagner, he co-authored the book Communications Circuits, J. Wiley, 1942, with Lawrence A. Ware. This book was used for the Spring semester Junior course EE 104 Communications Circuits.
The Knock on the Door
In 1960 Glen L. Martin Hall (the Engineering Classroom Building) was about five years old. It had a bell system like in the high schools. The bells rang on the hour for the start of class and 10 of the hour for the end of class. There were also IBM clocks hanging from the ceiling throughout the building. Essentially all EE classes were held in Martin Hall. Dr. Henry Reed was my professor for the first semester required Junior course, EE 60 Electricity and Magnetism. At that time there was only one required E&M course. He locked the door as soon as the bell rang and would not let late students in. He seemed rather old and crotchety to us 20 year olds. Maybe he was as old as 60. (I'm 68 now.) One day the knocking on the door would not stop and Dr. Reed finally opened it. It turned out it was our Department Head, George Corcoran, with an emergency message for me!
Dr. Reed's Exam Grading Policy
On exams, we could have a long problem solution all correct except for a small numerical error at the end. Dr. Reed would give zero credit for the problem. He said, "You're engineers. What would happen if you designed a bridge, made a dangerous numerical error, and the bridge collapsed?" We had a lot of trouble accepting this argument since we were not going to design bridges!
Dr. Gordon Wagner
Thomas Charles Gordon Wagner received a Bachelors degree from Harvard in 1937. Then he came to the University of Maryland and earned the Master of Science degree in 1940 and Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1943, both from the Math Department. Dr. Wagner became an EE faculty member about that time at the urging of George Corcoran. Gordon retired in 1976 and died on December 13, 2005. Even though Gordon's graduate degrees were in Math, he had a strong interest in real-world applications and was an expert circuit designer and consultant to industry. In addition to the lab manual co-authored with Reed and Corcoran listed on page 6, Gordon wrote the book, Thomas Charles Gordon Wagner, Analytical Transients, Wiley, 1959, which was used for many years for a graduate circuits course he taught. Before the Glen L. Martin complex was built, the EE Department was in a building along the Mall near McKeldin Library. After the EE Department moved to Martin Hall, most of Gordon Wagner's university things remained in a box in the back corner of his office which he never unpacked. Gordon and his wife Rita were avid auto rallyists. As far as I can remember, Gordon always drove Porsches. In the 1960's, before microprocessors and VLSI, he designed and built an electronic rally computer for his car that helped him rank high in the rally world.
David E. Simons
David E. Simons was an EE faculty member for 35 years. He retired as an Associate Professor about 14 years ago and died on September 13, 1998. Dave served during World War II in the South Pacific, new Guinea, and the Philippines. After returning from the war he earned is B.S. and M.S. degrees in EE from the University of Maryland under the GI Bill and became an Assistant Professor in our EE Department around 1950. Dave was an expert circuit designer. For quite a few years, Dave did all the course scheduling for the Department acting as a one-man "Academic Affairs Committee." In the early 1980's, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, began offering grad- uate EE courses and started setting up an undergraduate EE program. The program at UMBC was considered to be part of the College Park program and under the direction of EE at College Park. Dave Simons was assigned to develop the undergraduate EE program at UMBC and went there several times a week. He established courses through the Junior year. Then the politicians (maybe the State Board of Higher Education at the prodding of the Maryland Legislature) decided that UMBC could not have an undergraduate EE program and that it should go to Morgan State College instead. UMBC was allowed to have a grad- uate EE program. All the work Dave did for the undergraduate program was terminated. I think all the wasted time spent on this effort was a significant factor in Dave's decision to retire shortly afterwards. Dave Simons was extremely well liked by his students. After taking a few of Dave's classes, students said they were "Simonized." He was a very down-to-earth person with a wonderful sense of humor. A few stories I remember about him follow.
The Charged Capacitor
Dave had a big capacitor (maybe with a base 1.5 by 3 inches and 5 inches tall) sitting on his office desk. One student often came to his office to ask questions about a class. This student fiddled with things on the desk which began to annoy Dave. So, one day Dave charged up the capacitor. As usual, the student arrived and began fiddling with the capacitor. He touched the terminals and, of course, got a big shock. The paper cup of Coke he was holding flew up into the air and splashed all over Dave and his desk!
Limited Questions
I was an undergraduate student in three or four of Dave Simons classes. There was a student in one of the classes who always asked many silly questions each period. One day he disrupted the class with an unusually large number of questions. Dave Simons stopped lecturing, looked at the student, and said, "From now on you're limited to one question each class period." The student immediately shot up his hand and said something like, "You really mean only one question?" Dave's answer was, "That's one."
Nailing the Table to the Floor
In a moderately large lecture room on the second floor of Martin Hall, there was a platform in front of the blackboard in the front of the room that was about a foot high and eight feet deep. There was a desk about six feet long and three feet wide for the professor's notes. The cleaning staff always pushed the desk against the blackboard at night, so the first professor to use the room had to move the desk away from the blackboard. A spring semester Senior class I had with Dave Simons was the first to use the room for the day. On the last day of class when we were all going to graduate shortly, we decided to play a trick on Dave Simons and nailed the desk to the oor against the blackboard wall. Well, Simons came into the room, hopped up on the desk facing us, and told us he had really enjoyed having us asstudents, wished us the best of luck in our careers, and asked us to come back and visit him. Then he just left the room, never having tried to move the desk. As an aside, graduating Seniors did not have to take final exams then and maybe into the 1970's. The reason was that grade compilation was minimally automated and took a long time. Grades had to be turned in for graduating Seniors a week before the end of the semester. The Registrar needed to know whether a student was graduating or not to have diplomas made by the graduation ceremony.
Dave Simons is Late
Dave Simons died in September 1998 from complications of lung cancer. He was always quitting smoking. There was a service at the Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home on New Hampshire Avenue in White Oak, Maryland. After the service, the burial was to take place at the Arlington National Cemetery since Dave served in the military in World War II. We got in our cars and hurried to the cemetery. After a 20 minute wait the hearse still had not arrived. Not long after that, we got a call saying the hearse was stuck in a traffic jam caused by an accident. We had left just early enough to avoid the jam. The hearse finally arrived about two hours late. This is the only experience I have had where someone was late to their own burial!
Yellow vs. White Chalk
At one point in my undergraduate years, Russell Glock (an Instructor working on his Ph.D.in EE) and, perhaps, Dave Simons were having a friendly argument over whether white or yellow chalk was better. One thought the yellow chalk was too soft and the other thought the white was too hard. One would come into class and immediately scoop up all the chalk he did not like and throw it in the trash. The other would come into class and do the same thing. One day, one of them picked up the color chalk they liked and began writing on the board. The writing came out the wrong color. It turned out that the other professor had painted the chalk the opposite color.
Henry Price
Henry Price was an EE faculty member for many years and retired around 1969. He special- ized in electronics and control systems. He was my professor for the required Junior Spring semester course EE 101 Engineering Electronics. We used the electronics text listed above by Corcoran and Price. After leaving the University, Henry worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as the head of a rocket guidance and control systems department as I recall. He had been a consultant there before leaving EE. As was common at the time, Henry's highest degree was the M.S., but he had significant industrial experience. When I first returned to College Park as an Assistant Professor in September 1966, Howard Tomkins was the Department Head. He had come from NIH with a computer background and left in 1967. The Department had one central phone number then. Faculty phones were extensions. One secretary answered the central number and buzzed us when there was a call or took a message if we did not answer. For a year and a half after Howard Tomkins left and before Nicholas DeClaris arrived, Henry Price was the Acting Department Head. At the time I was playing clarinet in the pit orchestra for an amateur production of the Sound of Music. The orchestra personnel director, Buzzy Cory, called the Department to inform me of a rehearsal time. She had a coquettish and sexy voice. The secretary who answered the phone was not there, so Henry Price, whose office was on the second oor of Martin Hall next to the secretarial area, answered. According to him, Buzzy said something like, "Can Steve come and play with me tonight." Henry had a good sense of humor and kept reminding me of that call.
The Vietnam War Era
Many interesting incidents occurred during the Vietnam war era. When I first started teaching at UMD in 1966 faculty dress was relatively formal. Most wore jackets and dress shirts. Students dressed less formally but also conservatively. As the war progressed and protests mounted, student and faculty dress became much more casual until today it is quite casual. It is now sometimes hard to distinguish between young faculty members and students.
Tear Gas from the Armory
The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) was housed in the Armory until relatively recently. As the war dragged on, there were student protests on US 1 and at the Armory. The National Guard and State Police came onto the campus several times to open up US 1 and control the demonstrations. My offce was in Martin Hall on the third floor, I think, facing the Armory. One day I noticed a large gathering at the Armory and then saw some puffs of smoke that were drifting towards Martin Hall. I figured it must be tear gas, so I left the campus the back way out Azalea Lane. People who had stayed in the building confirmed that it was tear gas.
Physics Faculty Protester
There was one Physics professor who actively participated in the student protests. He also began writing anti-war slogans on building walls. The Physics Department Chairman claimed he had an argument with this faculty member and this professor tried to punch him. The University asked this professor to have psychiatric counseling or else be fired, but he refused. This professor was then arrested with a group blocking the entrance to a building on the Mall, tried in court, and sent to jail for some time. He was really relatively harmless and should have been given psychiatric help. About the same time, there was a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department who was a slum landlord in Washington. His name and picture began to appear in newspa- pers and on TV for not keeping his buildings safe and up to code. He was shown in front of one of his buildings chasing a tenant with a long pipe. He was a major embarrassment to the University, but the administration said it was unable to take any action unless this professor was convicted of a crime. Meanwhile the poor mentally disturbed Physics professor was serving time in jail. Eventually, the slum landlord was convicted of perjury and sent to prison. While in prison, it was discovered he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Bomb Scares
During the Vietnam War era there were frequent calls to the University claiming that bombs had been planted in various buildings. The bomb scares seemed to be more frequent around exam times. Whenever there was a bomb scare, the building had to be evacuated and searched. During one reorganization of the location of faculty offices, I ended up on the third floor of Martin Hall in an office that had been used by Russell Glock. Russ Glock was an EE Instructor who had just earned his Ph.D. and gone to work full-time at the Naval Surface Weapons Center in White Oak. He left behind a red ship's gyroscope that was in a metal box that was about 3 x 3 x 8 inches. The box had warnings written on it like "safety plunger" and "danger." I used it as a door stop. During the bomb scare evacuations, I made sure to put it in a prominent spot in the middle of the floor. One time the safety officers got to my office before I left. It took a while for me to convince them the gyroscope was not a bomb and posed absolutely no danger. It was lost when we moved from Martin Hall to A.V. Williams.
The World War I German Soldier
One semester I was teaching ENEE 722 Error Correcting Codes in Martin Hall. There were six students in the class, all from NSA I think. In the 1960's and 1970's we had many students from NSA which had hired new B.S. graduates and was sending them to College Park for the M.S. The EE Department even set up a study room for these students on the second oor of Martin Hall for a few years. One day the classroom door burst open in the middle of class and a man walked in dressed in a World War I army uniform with the long khaki coat and a helmet with a point on the top. I was stunned and the first thing that came out of my mouth was, "Can I help you?" He muttered something unintelligible that sounded something like German and went to the back of the room and sat down. I figured it was some kind of fraternity prank and ignored him. I finished proving some theorem and this person jumped up, came to the blackboard, and said, "Let me prove something. I'll prove how to trisect a triangle." At that point I told him to leave, but he picked up some chalk and began writing on the wall. I went out of the room to the EE office which was just down the hall and asked them to call the Campus Police. Then I went back to the classroom. The "German soldier" was gone. What really bothered me was that the police never came! I was telling this story to another faculty member later in the day and he was looking at me as if I had lost my mind. Fortunately, another faculty member came by as I was relating this story and said he had seen the German soldier going out the front door of Martin Hall and down the steps.
Newspaper Article Left on Classroom Desk
One day I was going to give an exam in maybe ENEE 322 Signals and Systems or ENEE 324 Engineering Probability in a room in the basement of Martin Hall. When I came into the room with the exams, I noticed a newspaper article lying on the instructors desk in the front of the room. The headline was "Student Shoots Professor." I had a very good relationship with this class and took it as a joke. Things might be different in today's climate.
The Student Doing Poorly in ENEE 425
I was teaching ENEE 425 Digital Signal Processing in Martin Hall. One student who seemed interested and bright did very poorly on the first exam. I asked him why this happened and he said that he had been an undergraduate at Cooper Union in New York and all his tests had been take-home exams. In addition, he said the textbook was bad. Guess who wrote the book? It was me! Had this student ever looked at the textbook and notice who the author was?
Missed Makeup Exam
While EE was still in Martin Hall, one student missed an ENEE 322 exam. He claimed his car broke down, so I was soft hearted and scheduled a makeup exam for him. He also missed the makeup exam. At the time, Martin Hall had offices on the side facing the Armory and classrooms on the side facing University Boulevard with a single long hall down the middle. The next day after the missed makeup exam, I came out of my office and looked down the hall towards the window on the US 1 side of the building. The sun was shining brightly through the window so I initially just saw a silhouette of a person coming down hall towards me. As he came closer I saw that his head was all bandaged up, and then that there were stitches across his forehead that looked like a zipper, and when he was still closer that his face was severely swollen. I finally recognized him as the student who had missed the exams. He claimed that his car broke down again on the way to the makeup exam and he knew I would not believe him. He said he lifted the hood to look inside the engine compartment and try to see what the trouble was and that the hood then fell on him. He maintained that it caused a big cut on his forehead, that he went to an emergency room, and his face swelled up because of a severe allergic reaction to the anesthetic. I thought that it was rather unlikely that someone would injure himself so badly just to take a makeup exam, so I scheduled another one which he took and unked miserably. At least he did not use the common excuse that he had to go to his grandmother's funeral.
Armand Makowski
Armand Makowski joined the EE Department as an Assistant Professor after receiving his Doctorate in Mathematics and we were still housed in Martin Hall. One of the first courses he was assigned to teach (perhaps the first) was ENEE 425 Digital Signal Processing. As new faculty members tend to be, he had high expectations of our students and gave a first exam which many students failed. A few days later someone posted a sign outside his office door which had written on it, "Makowski, the No Pass Filter." Armand has mellowed greatly since then after dealing with our students for many years and having children of his own, and has realistic expectations now.
The Ping Pong Table
David LeVine joined the EE faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1968 after receiving his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan. His area of expertise was electromagnetics. After four or five years he left to become a full-time employee at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt and is still working full-time there. Our offices were close by on the third oor of Martin Hall and we became good friends. We discovered that we both liked to play ping pong and noticed that there was an old unused ping pong table in a corner on the second oor of the Engineering Lab Building. We moved the table to a large classroom on the third oor of Martin Hall across from our offices. On Friday afternoons after classes were over, we would move the chairs out of the way and move the ping pong table to the middle of the room and play for an hour. Then we would move the table back into a corner of the room and replace the chairs. The table was still in the classroom long after Dave went to NASA and probably would still be there today if Martin Hall had not been renovated. No one else knew why it was there or took responsibility for it.
Tony Ephremides' Office in Martin Hall
At one point, the room arrangement on the third oor of Martin Hall on the side facing the Armory was the men's room on the US 1 end of the building, then Tony Ephremides' office, and then my office. Something in the men's room would overflow occasionally and the water would come out of the men's room door and progress down the hall to Tony's office door and go into his office. Fortunately, that stopped it from progressing to my office. As I remember, Tony was not very happy about the situation.
Can Bill Destler Teach?
Bill Destler came to the University as a Post Doc in the Particle Accelerator Group working with Martin Reiser. Bill asked to teach an undergraduate electromagnetics class after he was here a semester or two. By the way, at that time Bill had long hair and looked like a hippie. This led to a long faculty meeting where the question of whether a Post Doc should be allowed to teach a class was hotly debated in our typical academic fashion. The final decision was to give Bill a chance. That class and every one afterwards rated Bill extremely highly as a teacher. Most of you are aware that Bill Destler quickly progressed through the academic ranks to Full Professor, became the ECE Department Chairman, then Dean of Engineering, moved up the administration to Provost, and recently left to be the President of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Would this all have happened if we did not allow a Post Doc to teach a class?
The Civil War
Around 1969 or 1970 there was a three year civil war in the Department. The details of this period are classified TOP SECRET to protect all those involved.
Isaac Mayergoyz and His Armory Class
One semester early in his career at the University, Isaac Mayergoyz was teaching a basic circuits course in a classroom in the basement of the Armory. The class met in the morning. He scheduled an exam, and the morning of the exam he got a call from someone telling him he should cancel it. The caller would not identify himself or say why the exam should be cancelled. Isaac said he would not cancel the exam and the caller told him he would be sorry. The fire alarm went off after the exam had started. Isaac told the class that he knew there was no fire and they should stay and finish the exam. He told them that if they chose to leave, the makeup exam would be very much harder. Shortly, the firemen arrived and told Isaac he had to evacuate the building. Isaac argued with them and explained what was happening and why there was no fire and refused to evacuate. According to Isaac, our EE Department Chairman, Lee Davisson, was contacted by the administration and he received a stern reprimand.
Time in the Temporary Buildings
Most of the Electrical Engineering faculty and staff were moved for three years to temporary buildings in the area where the Kim Building and Paint Branch parking lot are now while Glen L. Martin Hall was being renovated. Everything in Martin Hall except the supporting structures was removed during the renovation This was in the second half of the 1980's as I remember. The temporary buildings were like the overflow classrooms at public schools in the area. They were brought in as two halves on trailers and bolted together. We each had 10 x 10 ft. cubicles with cloth covered partitions that went a little higher than head height. There were about six cubicles in each room. The environment was noisy and unpleasant and faculty worked from home as much as possible. The footsteps of people walking through the halls resonated through an entire building. There were also temporary classrooms in the area.
The Roof Leaks
One winter we had a very heavy snow. Apparently, as the snow melted the roof leaked. Unbeknownst to us, the water was accumulating above the large acoustic tiles in the ceiling. Finally when we came in one morning, the soggy acoustic tiles had given way and our desks were soaked with water and covered with soggy broken tile pieces. Fortunately, most of us had taken our books and important belongings home since there were no locks on the doors, and had kept a bare minimum of things in our cubicles.
Adasai Bodharamik
Adasai Bodharamik was a graduate student from Thailand. His wife was also a graduate student. Initially, Dr. Robert Harger was his advisor. Dr. Robert Newcomb was his wife's advisor. Bob Harger, myself, and maybe a third faculty member were on Adasai's Ph.D. oral qualifying exam committee for the Communications area. At that time the qualifying exam was entirely oral. He did poorly and we failed him. He switched areas and completed his Ph.D. program under a different advisor. His wife also earned her Ph.D. They then went back to Thailand where Adasai started a company named Jasmine which was very successful. A number of years later, after we had moved to the A.V. Williams Building, Adasai Bodharamik offered to have Jasmine donate around $5 million to the ECE Department to show his appreciation for how the University of Maryland had helped him establish a very successful career. He came to College Park to see how the Department had progressed and make arrangements for the gift. Nariman Farvardin was the Department Chairman then. Bob Harger and I approached Nariman and jokingly volunteered to hide while Adasai was here for a large fee. We hid, Dr. Bodharamik made the donation, and, of course, we received no fee. Two rooms are named the Jasmine Labs on the second oor of the A.V. Williams building. One is a general purpose computer lab with around 25 PC's. The other is the room for ENEE 428 Communications Design Lab. Funds from Dr. Bodharamik's gift were used to equip these rooms. Equipment and software donations from Texas Instruments were also used for the ENEE 428 lab.
Incidents in ENEE 428 Communications Design Laboratory
ENEE 428 Student, John Dowdal
One semester I was going to teach ENEE 428 Communications Design Laboratory. The lab was located on the first floor of the A.V. Williams Building along the back hall. There were four or five sections that semester. Students work in groups of two in this lab. Often, one is good at thinking and the other at typing computer code. On the very first day of one section, a female student came up to me in tears at the end of the lab session. She said she could not work with her partner, John Dowdal. She said John would not let her do anything and at one point told her she should drop the class because she did not know enough! You would have to know John to fully appreciate this. He was a very bright student and highly adept in computer skills, but he lacked some social skills. John is a very successful engineer at Texas Instruments in Germantown now. We solved the problem by switching John's partner to another section.
Travels of the Textronix Spectrum Analyzer
The ENEE 428 lab has two Textronix spectrum analyzers. The analyzers are heavy boxes about 11 inches wide, 24 inches tall, and 18 inches deep. They were expensive, perhaps, costing $25,000 each. The lab was first located on the first floor of the A.V. Williams Building on the inside of the back hall. Around 1995, while the lab was still in this original room, I was showing the lab to a visitor from another EE department. I showed him the standard setup including a PC, signal generator, and oscilloscope, and then told him we also had two spectrum analyzers which were stored up on a shelf. Then I pointed to the shelf, and to my surprise saw only one spectrum analyzer! We reported the theft to the police, sent out a notice to all the EE faculty asking if they had borrowed it, and searched all the faculty and student labs to no avail. About three years later Ron Sumner, who was in charge of the EE shop and labs, got an anonymous call that there was a strange object on the loading dock on the University Boulevard side of A.V. Williams that might be a bomb. The police were called and the "bomb" turned out to be the missing spectrum analyzer. We tested it and it still worked perfectly. We never found out how it disappeared and reappeared.
Students Always Blame Their Problems on the Computer
Students in the ENEE 428 lab often accuse the computer they are working at as being the cause of the failure of their project to work properly and move to another computer. Almost all the time, the cause turns out to be a programming error or a hardware setup error on their part. One semester a group claimed their program was working on their computer but then stopped. So they moved to another computer and their project initially worked but then stopped. They repeatedly moved to about four computers with the same result. It turned out that what they were doing was spreading a virus to each computer! We had to wipe clean all the hard drives they used and reinstall all the software.
Robert O. Harger
Dr. Robert O. Harger joined the EE Department in around 1969. He was lured here from the University of Michigan radar lab in Ann Arbor by Nick DeClaris who was the Department Head. Bob retired about 12 years ago and currently lives in Rockville, Maryland.
Dick Dooley and the Bad ENEE 620 Class
Dick Dooley joined the EE Department as an Assistant Professor around 1971 after receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. His area was Communications. That semester Bob Harger was assigned to teach ENEE 620 Probability and Random Processes and the enrollment was unusually high. Therefore, Nick DeClaris decided to split the class into two sections and assign Dick Dooley to the second section. Bob Harger was asked to assign students to the sections. So, he got the transcripts for all the students and assigned all the good students to his section. Dick was unaware that he got the poor students. When Dick gave exams, his students did very poorly and he unked many of them. I think he was questioned about why he flunked so many. It was not until years later when I happened to meet Dick at a party and told him why his class did so poorly that he knew the reason. Dick left the Department after three or four years.
Bob Harger and ENEE 240
When we were in the temporary buildings, Bob Harger's cubicle was a few feet away from mine. He was teaching the required Sophomore class ENEE 240 which was a big lecture with 150 to 200 students. Bob was know to be very abrupt and hard with students but graded fairly in the end. He would start with a class of 30 undergraduates and be down to 10 in a few weeks. Many of us were envious of his small classes, but try as hard as we might we could not duplicate his feat. I could always tell when Bob had given an exam because dozens of students would pile into our office area asking for more points on the exams. The number of students coming died off exponentially with time but one student kept appearing for several weeks. Exasperated, Bob finally looked at this student and said, "You don't even know enough to understand why your answer is wrong!" The student picked up his books, looked at Bob, and said, "You are the biggest asshole I've ever seen!" I was stunned and bit my tongue so I would not laugh. Bob looked up at the student and said, "What's your name?" Then the student started running out of the office with Bob chasing after him, both bumping into the cubicle walls. I imagine the student immediately went to the Registrar's office and dropped the class.
The ENEE 322 Quiz
A few years ago, attendance was lagging in my ENEE 322 Signals and Systems class. It was unusually low during a lecture on Fourier series. I went through the derivations for the Fourier coefficients and left all the formulas on the board. Then I asked the students to take out a sheet of paper, sign their name on it, and write the formulas for coefficients for 10 extra points to reward those present. I said it was an open book quiz and they could use any available sources. Almost all the students simply copied the formulas from the board. However, one panicked student was madly ipping through his book looking for the answer! The other students were staring at him in amusement. Several students complained later that it was the only class they had missed and the quiz was unfair. Attendance greatly improved after that.
International MS in Telecommunications Students Learn About the United States Law Enforcement System
Dr. Mike Dellomo created the course, ENTS 689D Optimiziation and Analysis of GSM Net- works, for the Cross-Disciplinary Master of Science in Telecommunications Program (ENTS) and has taught it annually for quite a few years. This course requires students to take test equipment out into Washington area neighborhoods in cars to measure the characteristics and performance of actual GSM base stations. This is called "drive testing" in the wireless industry jargon. The equipment is the size of a small microwave oven and requires two antennas to be placed on the top of the car. The box is controlled by a laptop PC and measured data is also recorded on the PC. A few years ago, perhaps in the 2005 or 2006 academic years, three ENTS students recently from India decided to do their drive testing late at night to avoid traffic. They were driving in a residential area in Wheaton at about 20 mph around 2 AM. Someone must have noticed this suspicious vehicle with two antennas on the top and foreign looking people in it going slowly and notified the police. Suddenly the students were stopped by several Montgomery County Police cars and questioned for over an hour. The police then escorted them to the Beltway and told them to go directly home. When the students arrived at their apartment in Spring Hill Lake, several Prince Georges County Police cars were waiting for them. The police took the laptop PC and then said it had been reported as stolen. The students showed the police the sales receipts and shipping documents for the PC to prove that they had bought it legally. However, the police kept the PC, gave the students a contact number, and left. They were not charged with any offenses. By now it had been many hours and was early in the morning and the students were totally terrorized. The three students sent frantic e-mail messages to Dr. Dellomo and me, since I was the Director of the ENTS Program, asking for help. We contacted the Provost, Dr. Bill Destler who had originated the ENTS Program while he was Chairman of ECE, and Dr. Nariman Farvardin who was Dean of Engineering, asking the University to help these students. The matter was turned over to the campus police chief since police know how to work with other police units. The PC was returned over a week later and I suspect it may have been examined by the FBI. Dr. Farvardin arranged a meeting with the students, myself, Dr. Dellomo, and a few other University administrators to show the students the University cared about their welfare and to help them get over their traumatic introduction to the U.S. law enforcement system. Dr. Dellomo now warns students in his course not to do drive tests late at night and gives them a letter explaining that they are doing a project for a course at the University of Maryland and includes his telephone numbers.
Creative Answers to Exam Questions
Over the years, I have seen students give very creative answers to exam questions. Some of the best ones are included here.
A Miracle
A question on an ENEE 425 Digital Signal Processing exam was "Prove the bandpass signal representation formula." The student writes three vaguely relevant lines at the beginning and the almost correct bandpass signal representation formula at the bottom and his proof in the middle is "miracle happens here."
The Axioms of Probability
A question on one final exam for ENEE 324 Engineering Probability was "What are the three axioms of probability?"
The image of the last two lines may not be clear to you. They are "Probability THAT I Am SWEATING Because I DON'T remember 3 is ' 1."
A Sad Story
I never saw this student again. Should I have referred him to the Counseling Center? His course average was 36.75/100 and I gave him and F for the course.
This plea did not help. The student had a course average of 37/100 and received an F for the course. I guess it means I am not a great man.
Lack of Sleep
This student had a course average of 33.5/100 and received an F for the course.
The Winner
This student seemed to be staring at the ceiling during most of an ENEE 324 final exam. I was curious to see what he wrote in his exam book. The following four images show his creative work. His score on this final exam was 12/100 leading to a grade of F with probability 1.
Divine Worship
Notice the additions to the Academic Dishonesty Notice in exam books. Divine worship did not help this student.
Exam Rules
This student added some items to the list of examination rules printed in exam books.
Nutritional Information
I had never considered the nutritional value of exams before!
The ENEE 324 Ship Sinks
Perhaps this student was better suited to a career in graphics arts.
ENEE 322 Essay
Someone wrote this essay in an exam book during the hour and 15 minute first exam for ENEE 322 Signals and Systems on March 15, 2011 and turned it in.
Department Heads and Chairmen
Here is a list of the regular and acting Department Heads and Chairmen I have seen during my years at the University of Maryland.
1. George Corcoran, Head, (while I was student)
2. Howard Tompkins, Head, 1965 (?) - 1967
3. Henry Price, Acting Head, fall 1967
4. Nicholas DeClaris, Head, Spring 1968 - 1974
5. Don Gross, Acting Co-Chairman, 1974 - 1975 from wind tunnel
6. Bob Harger, Chairman, 1975-1979
7. Jim Pugsley, Acting Chairman, 1980
8. Lee Davisson, Chairman, 1980-1985
9. Bill Destler, Acting Chairman, Spring 1986; Chairman, Fall 1986-1994
10. Nariman Farvardin, Chairman, 1994-2000
11. Steve Marcus, Chairman, 2000-2005
12. Patrick O'Shea, Chairman, 2005-June 30, 2011
13. Ramalingam Chellappa, Acting Chairman, July 1, 2011-2012
14. Ramalingam Chellappa, Chairman, July 1, 2012-present
- 1 A Very Biased History of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park
- 2 Dr. Ralph Myers' Physics Class
- 3 Bill Hahn, The Instructor for My First EE Class
- 4 George F. Corcoran
- 5 Dr. Henry Reed
- 6 Dr. Gordon Wagner
- 7 David E. Simons
- 8 Yellow vs. White Chalk
- 9 Henry Price
- 10 The Vietnam War Era
- 11 The World War I German Soldier
- 12 Newspaper Article Left on Classroom Desk
- 13 The Student Doing Poorly in ENEE 425
- 14 Missed Makeup Exam
- 15 Armand Makowski
- 16 The Ping Pong Table
- 17 Tony Ephremides' Office in Martin Hall
- 18 Can Bill Destler Teach?
- 19 The Civil War
- 20 Isaac Mayergoyz and His Armory Class
- 21 Time in the Temporary Buildings
- 22 Adasai Bodharamik
- 23 Incidents in ENEE 428 Communications Design Laboratory
- 24 Robert O. Harger
- 25 The ENEE 322 Quiz
- 26 International MS in Telecommunications Students Learn About the United States Law Enforcement System
- 27 Creative Answers to Exam Questions
- 28 Department Heads and Chairmen


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Kill gets raise, extra year at Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) - Minnesota head football coach Jerry Kill was given an extra year on his contract and had his deal restructured at the school.
The new contract for Kill runs through the 2018-19 season and will pay him $2.1 million for the 2014-15 campaign. That's a raise from the $1.2 million he was to earn next season.
"Coach Kill is proving his model works here at the University of Minnesota," said university athletics director Norwood Teague. "It is right to support him as he builds a program that will make the state of Minnesota proud."
Minnesota finished 8-5 last season, his third at the school. The Golden Gophers lost to Syracuse in the Texas Bowl to conclude the year. It was a successful year for Minnesota, which won four straight Big Ten games for the first time since 1973 and topped Nebraska for the first time since 1960.
"I am extremely proud of what our players and coaches accomplished on and off the field last season," Kill said. "We still have a lot of work to do, but are moving the program in the right direction. I look forward to continuing to build a program that positively represents the great people of Minnesota and am excited to work with our players again when we start spring practice in early March."
Kill has suffered multiple seizures during his tenure at Minnesota. The 52- year-old missed the Oct. 5 game at Michigan due to one.


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Arcadia RFD seeks public support
ARCADIA - - If you feel you have so much stuff that your house feels cramped, just imagine what it would be like if it wasn't just stuff, but equipment that saves lives and people's property. That's the exact problem the Arcadia Volunteer Fire Department and EMS have. Last Sunday, the Arcadia Fire Department and EMS conducted an open house so that the public could see how cramped they really are and some of the dangers involved. Their hope is that the citizens of Arcadia and the surrounding areas will see the need for a new facility. Currently, emergency responders are housing their equipment in four different facilities, one being the original fire hall. They experience such problems as lack of space for 30 members to hold a meeting, insufficient space for training, the need to shuffle vehicles to keep the water supply in the fire trucks from freezing in the winter, the ability to pull rescue vehicles from the garage in a timely manner, and not having an emergency power source in case of a power outage. These are just a few of the problems Arcadia currently faces. When talking to volunteers, there is a real sense of urgency in their voice as they share an instance when the primary ambulance would not start. They were unable to get the secondary rescue unit out of the hall due to the fact that it has to be parked behind the divider between the two garage doors. Responders ended up putting the first ambulance into neutral and pushing it out of the garage so they were able to pull the secondary ambulance out, loosing critical response time. "We work very hard to get and do everything we can do as far as workshops and training, but we are hampered by the lack of a facility to insure quick response," said Maryanne Paide. In the winter, the grass fire unit has to be parked in the spot where the secondary rescue unit is parked so that the water in the tank does not freeze. This is because the original Arcadia fire hall is not heated, yet this puts the ambulance that has to be moved to the unheated building at risk of not starting due to the cold. There are no generators in the current fire hall, (the old Co-op building). If power is lost at the fire station, the radios will not operate, the automatic doors won't open, and the whistle will not blow, critical in an emergency to alert emergency personnel and/or residents that there is an immediate danger, such as a tornado. The large pumper has to be backed from the street around the corner to the garage in the rear of the building as this is the only place it fits. In most of the areas in the four buildings, there is less than two feet of space between bumpers and walls, hampering the movement of firefighters attempting to get to their equipment and get dressed. There is good news, the ground for a new fire hall has already been donated by Walter Bumgarner, and a development plan complete, what is needed is funding. It will cost approximately $515,000 for a new facility with enough space to house Arcadia's fire and rescue units, adequate space for training, outside power sources and a tornado sheltered radio room. The passing of a bond would not raise taxes but allot a certain percentage of current revenue to the building of a new structure. The figure would be about $38 per $100,000. The current building is owned by the city of Arcadia and there are proposed future uses. The Rural Fire Board is looking for public input. They want to make sure that a bond for a new fire hall is something that residents in the area are in favor of. They hope to vote on the bond within the next couple of months, and would like for people to get in touch with local responders and the Rural Fire Board to give their opinion. "Everybody has been very responsive about what we need, and the price of a building is not going to get any cheaper. The longer we wait, the higher prices will get." said Steve Kats, President of the Rural Fire Board. The Rural Fire Board meetings are open to the public, and residents are invited to attend.


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GE: "Some folks have already managed to get their hands on Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Moreover, there's at least one gamer who has already completed the campaign and uploaded his/her game results screen online."
This will be the first Platinum Games title, I will support day one.
Just like LOGICWINS said devs / publishers should constantly be trying to give us the right information and I'm glad Platinum is trying to tell people themselves the game is longer than the stats chart shows it to be, because sometimes people dont take the time to think about anything they read, they just read / see something and automatically take it as truth negative or not and either set themselves up for disappointment or mistake something for being worse than it actually may be. I'm sure Metal Gear Rising is going to be a great game, have a good length to it and very good amount of replayability which satisfies me.
Lol same things happens with a lot of games. Halo 4 didn't count the cut-scene times in the total time played either. You'd think people would have figured that out, but imstead think they are some super gamer who beats everything'in 2 seconds lol.
The game looks pretty cool so far. I love cut-scenes anyway, which means I'm in the minority sadly.
I'm not sure why the developer thinks this is bad press. That's a pretty reasonable time for the first time through. I'm sure the game is meant to be played over again too due to the rating system given out at the end.


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ExtUtils::PkgConfig (perl module)
ExtUtils::PkgConfig is a very simplistic interface to pkg-config,
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Maintained by: Binh Nguyen
Keywords: perl,extutils,pkgconfig
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It's not even out of its infancy, and already the Nintendo 3DS has been hacked. Destructoid reports that a handful of Japanese fanboys used an R4 card to play original DS games. In order to run the games on the 3DS, the gamers edited a file built into the device's firmware which allowed the R4 card to enable the older titles.
While the hack itself isn't terribly sophisticated, it is fairly embarrassing for Nintendo to suffer any infiltration this early in the 3DS' release. The handheld gaming system was specifically designed to thwart pirates and hackers alike. Earlier this month, a Nintendo hacker was arrested when he tried to blackmail the company by releasing user account information.
Gaming and console companies have become involved in increasingly complicated relationships with the hacking community. Microsoft recently appears to be conceding some its anti-hacking efforts by releasing the Kinect SDK (even though it was beat to the punch by a third-party firm), after initially threatening to look into legal action. Some – Sony comes to mind – seem hell bent on stifling piracy at any costs. And those costs are pretty significant, including penalties like isolating a growing segment of its user base and appearing to disregard any innovation its gamers have to offer.
The nature of the 3DS operation has some saying it isn't a true hack, but definitions aside, it seems like it's only a matter of time until the 3DS is subject to development of Kinect-like proportions. The group that took on the 3DS, who refer to themselves as R4i, note that others out there should expect Nintendo to issue a firmware update shortly that will disable the operation. Even still, after saying something like the "heyday of piracy" has come and gone, you sort of had it coming. Check out the hack in action below.


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Tubb Reigns at Camp Perry David Tubb captured his 8th NRA High Power Rifle Championship this August at the National Championships conducted at Camp Perry, Ohio. Tubb used Sierra 6.5mm 120 grain, 140 gr., and 142 gr. HPBT MatchKing bullets at 200, 300, and 600 yards respectively. All bullets were moly-coated with the Tubb/Neco&#reg; process. David's sons Wyatt and Taylor also captured their age divisions at Camp Perry. Kent Reeve won the inaugural Sierra Bullets Trophy Match for the aggregate winner of the Doc Aitken Trophy Match and the Ed Andrus Trophy Match. Congratulations Sierra Champions!!
We've all heard about the problems associated with belted magnum cases. Many shooters get only three or four firings before developing case head separations. The cause for this is excessive sizing; i.e. head spacing the case on the belt. You've sized the case as much as possible and may have pushed the shoulder back farther than necessary. Next time the case is fired it has room to push the shoulder forward to the end of the chamber. This pulls brass out of the web section just ahead of the belt. After only a few firings, the web is thinned enough that a crack forms. There's a better way. Size the case to head space off the shoulder. This goes a long way in preventing this crack. By sizing only enough to provide easy chambering, you'll get better mileage from belted cases.
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Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site.
Two of the biggest questions among those who follow Maryland basketball recruiting: will the school's move to the Big 10 pay dividends with recruits from the Midwest, and will Alex Len's ascension into the national spotlight – and into the top five of most NBA Draft projections – help Mark Turgeon and company expand their recruiting horizons.
While it may be some time before those questions are answered, Maryland's recruitment of Dominican High (Milwaukee) big man Diamond Stone could provide an interesting case study.
Stone is a 6-foot-10, 260-pound sophomore rated the No. 1 center and No. 4 overall prospect in the Class of 2015 by 247Sports. Terps assistant Bino Ranson was among the first to begin seriously recruiting Stone, whose father is guiding him through the recruiting process.
According to Robert Stone, Maryland's development of Len has caught his attention.
"I've been showing him [Maryland] because they have a big man and [Diamond] will be a center or a power forward. I'm trying to show him teams that utilize their big men, and Maryland is one of those schools that works the ball inside," Robert Stone said. "They have a big center and they seem to get the ball to him a lot. That's good, because you want a program that can showcase your skills."
The Stones were also interested to learn about Maryland's impending conference relocation, which will have the Terps playing frequently in their region.
"When they came to the Big 10, that was great because that made them local. That kind of surprised us. That helped out," said the elder Stone, adding that his son won't be afraid to leave the Midwest for college. "Diamond, he's a sociable guy. He doesn't have too many problems making friends. Our formula is, 60 percent will be Diamond's decision and 40 percent will be his mother and myself. Diamond has the biggest say because if he's not somewhere where he wants to be, he won't do well."
Stone is a massive 15-year-old with advanced ball shooting and passing skills, one who's collected offers from Maryland, Arizona, Georgetown, UCLA, Wisconsin and others.
"He's one of those throwback guys," said DeShawn Curtus, his AAU coach and trainer. "He has range out to 3-point range, but he's not one of those guys who wants to stand out at the 3-point line. He's also worked very hard on his athleticism and he now has a 32-inch vertical."
Local programs have been recruiting Stone hard. He's been to Marquette on several occasions and his cousin, Ryan Evans, plays for Wisconsin. That said, Maryland was among the first on board. And both Turgeon and Ranson have been out to see him this season.
"Coach Bino was one of the first. It's hard to say who was first, but he was one of the first," Robert Stone said. "Bino seems to be genuine, and Coach Turgeon seems to be a good guy."
Stone won't be taking a bunch of unofficial visits any time soon because of the cost of traveling around the country on his own dime. But he is aiming to make an early decision.
"This summer we're going to come up with a list of schools," Stone said. "By the end of his junior year [he'll commit]. But right now we're just getting to know coaches and talking to people, trying to find a good fit. We want a great coach, a coach that cares about him and not just renewing his contract or buffering his record.
"We're going to stick with [the late-junior year commitment] because that's what we've been telling people, and we want to be respectable. You don't get any do-overs with this thing."
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Looking for Snow and Baer of Freedom Township, Ohio
My dad is Edward W Bartolet B 1941
His mother, my grandmother was Florence Victoria Baer (Stump, Bartolet, and Pyles). Born in 1909 Died about 2009. Possibly an only child.
Her parents were (and here is my brick wall):
William Arthur Baer born about 1880, unk where he was born. Unk when he died. Unk parents. Unk siblings
Ada Snow born about 1885, unk where she was born, Unk when she died. Unk parents. Unk siblings.
It was almost as if this couple appeared when their daughtr was born. My grandmother refused to discuss anything of the past. My understanding is that her parents, my ggrandparents died at an early age. My father and Aunt's knew nothing of their grandparents. No one knows of any siblings (Aunts or Uncles) their mother may have had.
All I have of my grandmother is her birth certificate that lists place of birth as Freedom Township, Ohio.
I have not even been able to locate a census for the area. It even makes it more difficult as I live in Florida and my local library Geneaology center is extremely limited at what records they maintain.
I am hoping that someone out there has run into this couple...they may have had siblings, etc.
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It's not any faster IMO but you don't need to hook up the keg to the gas either so keg-priming can be done "off-system" so to speak. My preferred method.
What about just charging the keg high like 30psi and then taking it off the system, so you can set it aside and still have that one carbing. thats what I do.


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Public Library in Apartment Building
Official Library Branches
Deldridge Branch of the Seattle Public Library - The branch anchors the first floor of a three-story building that includes 19 apartments on the top two floors. AND the International District/Chinatown Branch of the Seattle Public Library -- The $735,000 branch is located inside International District Village Square II, in space leased from the Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority. The complex also includes 57 units of affordable family housing, a community center, retail space, and underground parking, which branch patrons can pay to use.
Glen Park Branch of the San Francisco Public Library -- See the September 14, 2007 press release, New Glen Park Branch Opens October 13 (PDF), which explains: Located at 2825 Diamond Street near the Glen Park BART station, the 8,500-square-foot space occupies the second floor of the new Glen Park Marketplace, a multi-use building which includes the library, housing units and a grocery store.
Rondo Community Outreach Library of the Saint Paul Public Library - See the Apartments & Townhomes Information page -- There are over 90 apartments and 6 townhomes -- called the University Dale Apartments -- that are part of the Rondo Community Outreach Library building. Laundry facilities are available on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors. Enclosed parking is on the floor above the library. There is on-site management with an office, a community room for renters to use for events, and a meeting room in the apartment office.
Informal Libraries for Resident Use
Kaufman, Joanne. "Buildings with Libraries: A Soft-Spoken Amenity." New York Times April 5, 2012.
No librarians or other authority figures patrol the bookshelves in any of these buildings. There is no mechanism for checking out books — they are borrowed at will with no penalties for those who take their sweet time reading them. Guilt and good manners keep the collections intact.
SIDEBAR "Seen on the Shelves."
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The Linux Console Project evolves from the command-line tools (jscal, jstest,
and jsattach) which were included in Version 1 of the Linux Joystick Driver.
The original set of tools has been expanded and now includes utilities to test
and configure joysticks, connect legacy devices to the kernel's input subsystem
(providing support for serial mice, touchscreens etc.), and test the input event
* this replaces the "joystick" build that was previously available
* included in this build is a simple udev rule to automatically restore the
joystick configuration(s); see the package README in the documentation
directory for more specific rules
Maintained by: Roberto Neri
Keywords: joystick
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I'm not a genius. I'm not going to be accepted into Mensa for a crazy high IQ and I didn't score a 1,600 on my SATS. But, I'm also not a complete moron. Or, maybe I am, because there are some idiotic things that I do again and again and again.
1. I make an obscenely huge amount of pasta. Every damn time I try and feed three children spaghetti, I swear I could feed an army. A big one.
2. I turn the wrong way when leaving a store. I then, of course, have to fiddle with my phone so it doesn't look completely obvious that I have no idea where I'm going.
3. I shut the door when I use the bathroom. What's the point of that? I'll just get barged in on or hollered for.
4. I use the wrong light switch. We've lived in our house for almost three years, and it still takes me three tries to turn on the hallway light.
5. I still bother cleaning up the playroom. There's no point at all in that.
6. I interpret silence from my three kids as a good thing rather than the disaster it never ceases to be.
7. I can't recall a single phone number. I swear, at this point in my life, I am incapable of learning nine numbers in the correct order.
8. I think my children will listen to me I ask them to be quiet while I take an important phone call.
9. I put veggies on my children's plate believing that they might actually eat them.
10. I believe that I'm capable of getting a good night's sleep. Ha!
What idiotic things do YOU do?
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One of Essence Entertainment's finest Jazz Ensembles, the Paul Seaforth Ensemble, and our terrific DJ Sean, hit home runs…and we sure appreciate them for it!
They played for Brittany and Mark's Wedding at the Surf and Sand Hotel on Saturday, June 7th, 2014. The Paul Seaforth Ensemble provided a Trio for the Cocktail Hour and a 5-piece Ensemble for Dinner.
The Mother of the Bride said it all:
Dear Mike, Paul and the band,
I just wanted you to know how very much Paul and his ensemble are appreciated! Your work seemed effortless, well rehearsed and sounded like a million bucks! Everything you played and sang was truly amazing! It was just so spectacular I want your hard working team to know how amazing they all are! You created an atmosphere that is simply unforgettable! Your music brought tears to my eyes and the entire ballroom!!! Soooo beautiful, soooo wonderful, soooo heavenly-I felt like I was in a dream. You are so creative and special. The music was truly awesome!!! You gave us your very best and we can't thank you enough for making this job a priority in every way.
I hope you can keep a file for me sot that I could duplicate the music with Paul and his group at another time!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making Brittany and Mark's Wedding Day as special as they are!!!
With admiration for all you do!!!
Linda – Mother of the Bride
Paul was followed by our very own DJ-Sean, who continued with the success of the event.
Linda had this to say about Sean:
I just realized I neglected to mention the DJ! He was awesome with the kids and got everyone dancing for hours! Soooo much fun! Best wedding ever, I've been told over and over!
Thanks, again! It really was a pleasure and I couldn't have been more pleased!!!
Their Wedding Coordinator, Natalie Vishny, also had nice things to say:
"To Mike at Essence Entertainment: Thank you for sending out your very best. Everything was perfect from beginning to end."
Kudos to Paul and Sean!


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These beautiful earrings are composed of 92.5% sterilng silver and rhodium (a precious metal also used over solid white gold jewelry) plated, adhering the same process of sparkly finish, in order to improve its apprearance and resist any tarnishing. The Screwback is a safety back that screws on and locks thus preventing for any poking in the back of the earlobe and lessening chances of lost earrings.
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Golfers Fourth after First Day of DePauw Classicby Brent Harris • October 9, 2010 Share:
The Wabash golf team stands in fourth place after the first day of the 2010 DePauw Small College Golf Classic.
Senior Jordan Koch turned in the top performance for the Little Giants, shooting a seven-over 78 at Deer Creek Golf Club in Clayton, Indiana for the first 18 holes. Teammate Charlie Kelly finished the first round with a 79, while Luke Moton fired an 80 and Jake German shot an 83 to give Wabash one of its most consistent rounds of the season.
Freshman Seth Hensley scored a 79 while playing for the Wabash "B" team at the tournament. Sophomore Michael Piggins added an 82 as a member of the second Little Giant team.
Wittenberg leads the team scoring with a total of 299 strokes after one round of action. DePauw is second (203), followed by Indiana Tech (309) and Wabash (320). Denison (323), Franklin (235), Anderson (326), Rose-Hulman (332), and Manchester (377) complete the team scoring.
The final round of the tournament will take place Sunday morning.


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Board of Regents Meeting
February 17-18, 2011
Lee Gorsuch Commons
University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska
PUBLIC TESTIMONY WILL BE HEARD AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00 A.M. ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011 AND AT APPROXIMATELY 9:00 A.M. ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2011. Sign-up sheets will be available prior to the meeting. The chair will determine when public testimony is closed.
Comments are limited to three minutes per individual or as determined by the chair. Written comments are accepted and will be distributed to the Board of Regents and President Gamble following the meeting.
Full agenda with references are sent to all University of Alaska campus libraries. For further information, please call the Board of Regents' Office at 450-8010 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Meeting Schedule
Full Board Agenda
Academic and Student Affairs Agenda
Facilities and Land Management Agenda
Reference 1 - UA Engineering Plan 2010
Reference 2 - Academic Master Plan
Reference 3 - Investment Fund Policies
Reference 4 - 2011 02 Proposed Bylaw Revisions
Reference 5 - Advisory Council Policies
Reference 6 - Industrial Security Resolution
Reference 7 - PWSCC AAS in Outdoor Leadership
Reference 8 - UAF BA Film
Reference 9 - Teacher Education Plan
Reference 10 - KPC Career and Tech Ed Center
Reference 11 - UAA Sports Arena
Reference 12 - Harper Building Renovations
Reference 13 - Construction in Progress


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SSMS Tools Pack 2.1.0 is out. Added support for SQL Server 2012 RC0.
This version adds support for SQL Server 2012 RC0 and fixes a few bugs with SQL History.
Because of the support for regions in SSMS 2012 the regions and debug sections feature has been removed from SSMS Tools Pack for SQL Server 2012.
The feature is still available for previous SSMS versions.
In other news SSMS Tools Pack has won the SQL Magazine bronze award for best free tool of 2011. You can view all the details at the SQL Server Magazine Award page.
Thanx to all the people who voted for it. I'm glad you all like it and use it with great success.
Also I've added a possibility for you to subscribe to email notifications in case the auto-updater doesn't work for you for some reason like being behind a proxy.
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A BlankTV Feature Presentation:
X Contract - "How Would I"
This is X Contract's 3rd and most significant music video. It's stars the famous Danish actor, Anders W. Berthelsen, and thus, it's the biggest production so far. The video is focused around a story about the emotions of a man, who has been pushed to his personal limit.
The video is directed by William Findinge, an experienced underground-music-video-director, he has made several other videos for X Contract.
The album Dearest Dream invites the audience into a universe of love and hate, a musical tour through indie as well as new metal, and an expression that reaches from hard to emotional rock.
X Contract was formed in Aarhus, DK in 2007 by singer Dennis Pedersen. Young Dennis searched in all corners of rock to find a particular sound, which in the wild youth often results in hard punk tendencies. A couple of years went by, X Contract's sound began to mature, and guitarist Lars Klit joined the band.
X Contract has had a hell of a ride since the first record was released in 2010! Thanks for joining us!
>> Pick up a copy of Dearest Dream at Amazon and iTunes now! <<
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2011-12: Two-year letterwinner.
2010-11: Missed a majority of
her sophomore season with an injury.
2009-10: Earned First Team All-ODAC honors during her rookie season … claimed a second-place finish in the 400 IM while finishing sixth in the 500 free at the ODAC Championships (2/12-14) ... took the second spot in the 200 fly against Catholic (1/23) ... recorded a sixth-place finish in the 1000 free versus Gettysburg (1/16) ... finished second in the 200 back while swimming against Sweet Briar (11/13) ... took the fourth spot in the 500 free against Randolph-Macon (11/7) ... finished second in the 100 free versus Transylvania (10/31) ... helped the 200 8x25 relay to a top finish at the ODAC Fall Relays while also finishing seventh in the 500 free relay (10/24) ... took the fourth spot in the 200 fly and 500 free while helping the 200 free relay to a second-place finish against Centre (10/17) ... finished fifth in the 1000 free and fourth in the 500 free against Mary Washington (10/16).
High School: Earned three varsity letters in cross country, two in track & field and one in weightlifting at Edina … served as captain of the cross country squad in 2008 … named honorable mention all-conference in cross country in 2008 … honored as an Edina scholar-athlete … National Merit finalist.
Personal: W&L and ODAC Scholar-Athlete ... spent the summer at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, working full-time in a physics research lab .. serves as a peer tutor ... physics-engineering major.


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Wii Games
Bradley Beach Public Library
Thursday, Nov. 9, 3:30 pm
Do you love video games? Do you enjoy playing against other people who are just as into them as you? If the answer is YES, stop by the library for Wii Gaming! We have Wii Sport, Wii Play, Just Dance, and more!