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Zoo gates by black architect on Historic Register
Brent Rollins remembers his great-uncle John E. Brent as very loving and a humble man – a good guy.
But what he did not know until he became an adult was that his late great-uncle was an important architect and community leader in the City of Buffalo in the early 20th century.
"He was just Uncle John who worked at City Hall," said Rollins, 71, of Glenwood Avenue, following a recognition ceremony Friday at the Buffalo Zoo to honor Gates 3 and 4, which were designed by Brent, Buffalo's first African-American licensed architect.
The structures were recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
About 35 people attended Friday's ceremony, including members of the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission; Brent's 85-year-old son, Robert Milliner, who lives on Oakwood Place; and Brent's 71-year-old great-niece, Jennifer McGriff, of Lexington Avenue. McGriff is Rollins' sister.
"It's a good feeling," Rollins said about the gates' recent status as historically significant landmarks. "We feel that it's long overdue."
Brent was employed by the city's parks department from 1935 to 1957 and worked on the design, planning and implementation of more than 16 facilities and exhibits at the Buffalo Zoo, as well as Gates 3 and 4.
Located at the corner of Parkside Avenue and Amherst Street, the gates were built between 1935 and 1938 as the formal entrance court and gateway to the zoo.
They are centered on two promenade walks that radiate from the central zoo grounds and the large animal exhibits.
The structures are intact and in their original location.
The Michigan Street African American Corridor Commission partnered with the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo earlier this year to get the gates listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Although the zoo itself already is listed on the National Register, the commission felt it was important to highlight Brent's gates in particular.
The Community Foundation provided $8,500 to fund research and professional services to complete the application for the register.
Another of Brent's architectural accomplishments was the design of the former Michigan Street YMCA. In addition to his engineering and design accomplishments, Brent was the first president of the NAACP Buffalo Branch, said Karen Stanley-Fleming, chairwoman of the heritage commission.
In other zoo news, a two-hour Zumbathon will be held Sunday to raise money for the Arctic Edge Polar Bear Exhibit as part of the "Our Bears Belong in Buffalo" campaign.
A group of local Zumba fitness instructors are hosting the sold-out event, which will feature 150 participants. They will join five licensed Zumba instructors for aerobic dancing, music, a basket raffle, refreshments and more.
The event will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. at the zoo's Children's Resource Center.
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I know I know…another Luongo blog. But when you see what we've uncovered you'll be glad we posted this.
Everyone knows that Roberto Luongo struggles early in the NHL season. Well we've uncovered the reason why, and it has nothing to do with his play! He's a BC Lions fan! TMZ is going to be all over this!
This photo below provides proof that Luongo has invested in a body double that plays the first part of the season for him, while he watches his beloved BC Lions down the stretch of the CFL season. Luongo, photographed here, still sporting his Stanley Cup playoff beard is seen here at the BC Lions game last in the crowd. Obviously with Russell Crowe in a suite, just mere feet away Luongo was trying to blend in with the crowd.
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Both DB-4 and DB-8 employ cutting edge technology to enable stations get rid of listener complaints about jumping levels, and to transmit in analog and digital with optimum processing for both feeds. DB-4 includes the same processing and I/O capabilities as DB-8, except for holding two separate processors, instead of the four inside DB-8. For example, one DB-4 can apply different processing to four mono, two stereo or two 5.1signals, or to a combination such as one stereo and one 5.1 signal.
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LinkedIn Founder: How to Fix the Way We Work
Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh are the authors of "The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age," published July 8 by the Harvard Business Review Press. Hoffman is the executive chairman and co-founder of LinkedIn and a partner at venture capitalist firm Greylock; Casnocha and Yeh are San Francisco-based entrepreneurs.
The employment relationship is broken.
In an era of at-will employment, company loyalty is scarce and long-time ties are scarcer. "It's just business" has become the ruling philosophy—especially when layoffs hit—and workers are encouraged to think of themselves as "free agents."
Yet bosses and hiring managers still ask workers to commit to the company without committing to them in return. This creates a relationship built on mutual self-deception.
It's time for a new way of doing business: the Alliance and the tour of duty framework.
When Reid first founded LinkedIn Corp., he offered an explicit deal to talented employees: If they signed up for a 2-4 year tour of duty and made an important contribution to some part of the business, Reid and the company would help advance their careers, preferably in the form of another tour of duty at LinkedIn. This approach worked: the company got an engaged employee who worked to achieve tangible results for LinkedIn. The employee transformed his career by enhancing his portfolio of skills and experiences.
The finite term of the tour of duty provides crisper focus and a mutually agreeable time frame for discussing the future of the relationship. It gives a valued employee concrete and compelling reasons to "stick it out" and finish a tour. Most importantly, a realistic tour of duty lets both sides be honest, which is a necessity for trust.
We have defined three different flavors of the tour of duty: Rotational, Transformational, and Foundational. For your star employees, a Transformational tour is best. It's negotiated one-on-one by you and your employee, and is defined by the completion of a specific, mutually beneficial mission.
The central promise of a Transformational tour is that the employee will have the opportunity to transform his career by transforming the company's business. And as a Transformational tour of duty enters its final stage, you and your employee can start to negotiate a follow-up tour of duty to keep the employee at the company.
Making a real commitment also allows an employee to accomplish something substantive. Google Inc. chairman Eric Schmidt told us he also likes to define tours in terms of five years—a couple of years to learn, a couple of years to do the job and scale the projects, and a year to arrange the transition.
Even the alliance can't prevent all employee departures. Jeff Bezos couldn't have started Amazon.com Inc. if he stayed an investment banker. But if an employee eventually leaves the company, the split can be made amicably and on a timetable that works for both parties, honoring their mutual obligations and investment.
As a manager, would you rather manage a planned separation from an employee who has completed her final tour of duty? Or would you rather scramble to perform damage control on a sudden departure?
As an employee, would you rather depart amicably and become a valued member of the company's alumni network? Or would you prefer to depart under a cloud of acrimony?
Building an alliance based on honesty and trust, and structuring a clear career progression using successive tours of duty, lets you attract, manage, and retain the entrepreneurial stars you need to transform your company.
Great people are always a flight risk, but when both you and they have clear expectations for the mutual benefits of your alliance, you can hold on to them for longer, and accomplish amazing things.
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Of the many companies scheduled to report quarterly earnings Wednesday, Jim Cramer plans to monitor just three companies' results.
In the "Mad Money" host's opinion, the "agriculture trade is alive and well." So he looks forward to an earnings announcement from Monsanto, the world's largest seed company.
"Funny thing about Monsanto. Even though it makes seeds, it trades as if it's a biotech company," Cramer said, noting that based on its price-to-earnings multiple, Monsanto is more expensive than Celgene or Gilead Sciences right now.
"Monsanto's an innovator and the company has patents on seeds that are worth fortunes," Cramer continued. "But is it the big winner that everyone thinks it is?"
Meanwhile, Family Dollar Stores is also scheduled to deliver earnings Wednesday. This stock has lagged its dollar store peers, Cramer said, so FDO is the stock some analysts "love to hate." He remains bullish on Family Dollar and dollar stores in general, though.
After the close, hotel operator Marriott International will announce its earnings results. The Bethesda, Md.-based company recently caught a downgrade from JPMorgan, which troubled Cramer.
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Effective surround monitoring
Effective surround monitoring
Nov 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Alex Kosiorek
During the past few years, I have seen the topic of surround sound grow from a small topic to one of prominence at radio and audio engineering conferences. It is considered by some to still be in its infancy, but with others it has taken flight. Certainly, we are still at the beginning stages of surround and it will continue to evolve. In radio broadcasting, there are still many factors to be resolved. However, no matter where you are in the conversation, we all need to understand the basics of how to produce, distribute and broadcast surround sound for it to be successful.
Let's start with the monitoring system. It is important to review and ascertain how to setup a surround sound monitoring system appropriately for the medium to which it is applied. Without this understanding, it is possible to produce material that won't exhibit the full benefits of surround or won't translate well.
Listening environments
First comes the speaker placement, which in home theater systems will be all over the map. Inconsistency is guaranteed. Room dimensions and speaker placement will be different in every household. The consumer will set up his system to fit his physical and aesthetic environment. The speakers themselves are unknown variables. Home theater systems use five or six satellite speakers, ranging from less than four inches to full-range (two- or three-way) speakers. The front speakers may be of different size and quality than the rear speakers. Correspondingly, the accompanying subwoofer can range from six to 18 inches. However, it is assumed that most consumers will acquire a system with smaller satellites and a subwoofer. Regardless, it is unlikely that many consumers in this environment will have a consistent sweet spot.
The automobile is a sharp contrast. Though the physical environment may not be ideal and is smaller than the home, the speaker placement is much more consistent. The advancements in automobile speaker design and amplification systems also make the sweet spot more consistent. An interesting similarity between home theater systems and the automobiles is that the size of the speakers and subwoofer become uncannily similar. Although the subwoofer can and will vary in size in the vehicle, it can produce low frequencies with more ease because of the size of the environment.
Figure 1. The optimum speaker placement as recommended by the ITU.
In most cases, the surround content will be music, talk and sports, not movies. Therefore, we will immerse the consumer in a sound field where the sound will be heard all around him coupled with localized events. This is different than movie mixing, where the sound usually has a central focus toward the front with a less immersive experience.
The consumer's listening environment and the content play a role in how a monitoring system is set up in the control room. A radio surround monitor setup will be different than that for film mixing. Knowing that, a few things can be said for how to produce content for surround. The first is that neither a mixing engineer nor those monitoring broadcasts should be locked to a sweet spot. The other is that the mixing engineer or broadcaster should listen on a quality monitoring system and a consumer-grade system. These should be radically different from one another in size and quality.
System setup
In an ideal situation, surround will be monitored in a room with appropriate low-frequency absorption and without two walls that are the same length. Consult an acoustician who is aware of all the variables of surround-sound monitoring. Because budgets and other constraints may not allow an ideal room to be constructed, at least pay attention to room reflections. Make every effort to minimize first-order reflections from any given monitor. Also, use as much diffusion as physically and financially possible. Reflections, especially first-order, mask problems and even create audible problems that don't originally exist. Furthermore, consumers will not have any particularly dependable pattern of first-order reflections in their environments, so we don't want reflections in our monitoring environment to create an anomaly that could result in an exaggerated problem to the consumer.
Let's address the monitor types. As I said before, install at least two surround-monitoring systems. The main system should be a professional, full-frequency system. The other should be a consumer-grade home theater system. We will address the professional system from this point forward, with the assumption that the consumer system will be placed along side the professional one, matching speaker placement and levels.
All the monitors in a surround sound system should be direct radiator speakers (not dipoles). All the monitors should be of the same make and model and provide the fullest frequency response possible. Some believe that the rear monitors do not need to have the same frequency response as the front monitors. While acceptable with the first generation of surround delivery systems, modern delivery methods and media provide full frequency response to all monitors. The selection of the correct monitors may be limited by budget, but remember, the monitoring system is most crucial, so invest wisely.
Monitor placement has some complex elements, but there are some simple rules to follow:
- All monitors should be the same distance away from the ideal listening position (generally six to nine feet).
- The monitors should be at the same height as the listener's head.
- The monitors should be on stands.
The monitors should be positioned to give the listener the most pleasant and accurate surround experience possible. The movement of any monitor, even by a few inches or degrees can radically change how the sound is perceived.
For the most part, 5.1 (five main speakers and one subwoofer) will be used for radio broadcast, so that will be the setup addressed here. The ITU-R BS 775-1 recommended setup for small or midsize rooms as shown in Figure 1 says the following:
- The center monitor should directly face the listening position.
- The front left and right monitors should be 30 degrees off center, angled slightly towards the listening position.
- The rear speakers should be 110 degrees off center, angled toward the listening position.
Don't alter the front angles as the 30-degree spacing for the front also provides excellent stereo monitoring when the surrounds are not used. However, when it comes to the rears, I concur with The Recording Academy's Producers and Engineers Wing's recommendations, which suggest extending the rear speakers beyond 110 degrees for certain program material. About 110 degrees is appropriate for surround mixes to make the listener feel like he is in the audience, such as a classical recording. However, with some of the popular recordings where the listener is placed in the middle of the ensemble, an extended angle of the rear monitors (e.g. 120 degrees) provides a more immersive and dramatic experience. The key is to find a rear angle that works for the particular format and room and stick with it.
Subwoofer placement often depends on the room configuration. Locate the subwoofer in the front of the surround sound field and at least a foot away from a wall. Placing a subwoofer in a corner is not advised, as extreme bass build-up will occur.
Time to align
Alignment of the monitoring system includes bass management and overall level control. To monitor in surround successfully, you need a surround monitor controller, such as those from Blue Sky, Tascam, Martinsound and Audient. Some consoles, including those from Yamaha and SSL, have built-in surround monitor controls. Added features of some of the more elaborate controllers include the ability to monitor several 5.1 sources at once and to switch between stereo and surround. Use a device that can raise and lower the gain of the entire monitoring system universally. A decent controller includes bass management controls, separate LFE control and independent monitor level adjuestments.
Note: LFE and bass management are not the same. This is confusing because they both affect the subwoofer. The subwoofer channel or low frequency effects (LFE) channel � the key word being effects � is a dedicated playback channel that is part of the playback functions of recorded media such as SACD or DVD. Be careful when using the channel in production or surround encoding. The LFE control is often mistakenly used for bass management.
Bass management is a separate function in monitor controllers and even some consumer systems. Bass management is the playback feature where bass frequencies are taken from the five main audio channels and redirected to the subwoofer. This is used because some main monitors are unable to produce low frequencies. If bass management is used in a professional system, set the crossover frequency at 80Hz, as this is the most common crossover used in consumer systems and reduces localization of the bass frequencies.
It is time to align the levels of the surround monitors. The goal is to have all the monitors playing back at the same level. First, determine if you need bass management. With smaller two-way monitors, bass management should be used (or at least consult the monitor manufacturer).
Once that choice is made, the easiest way to calibrate the system is with an SPL meter. Choose a reference playback level. Most meters calibrate at 80dB or 85dB (I'll use 80dB for this example). Set the SPL meter for Cweighting, slow response, and position it at the central listening position. Face the meter forward when measuring the front monitors, and face the meter toward the rear for the rear monitors. Turn the subwoofer channel off for now. Play pink noise (at house reference level) and direct that signal to each speaker, one at a time. Adjust each monitor until the SPL meter averages 80dB.
Adjusting the subwoofer can get tricky. If you are not using bass management, direct low-pass-filtered pink noise (80Hz is recommended) to the LFE channel only. Set the gain on the subwoofer so that the SPL meter registers about 4dB above the level of the main monitors (84dB). Then add full frequency response pink noise to the front left and right speakers. The SPL meter should read no higher than 5dB above reference. If it rises more than that, the subwoofer may need to be turned down.
If bass management is used, a simplistic solution is available, although it is best to follow the guidelines for bass management calibration that came with the monitor controller. Send the pink noise to one of the front monitors. Then turn off that monitor off (you may need to disconnect it). You should hear the low frequencies coming from the subwoofer if the bass management system is properly engaged. Set the level of the subwoofer so that the SPL meter averages about 6dB lower than the main speakers. After that is complete, listen to some familiar commercial recordings and adjust the subwoofer accordingly.
For some in-depth resources, I suggest the Recording Academy's Producers and Engineers Wings Surround Sound Production Guidelines (grammy.com/pe_wing/5_1_Rec.pdf). Another resource of information is www.5dot1.com. Next time I will address some surround recording and mixing basics, the art and aspects of down-mixing and other general surround practices. I will also provide a detailed comparison of all of the different surround encode/decode systems proposed for HD Radio, including detailed test results of each system.
Kosiorek is the audio recording and mastering engineer at the Corbett Studio at Cincinnati Public Radio.


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- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has selected the Hudson River Foundation as the new host for the New York-New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program. The Harbor & Estuary Program, which has worked to protect and restore waterways throughout the New York-New Jersey Harbor for over 25 years, had been located at the EPA Region 2 office in New York City. The EPA determined that having the program hosted by an outside non-federal organization would enhance the program's visibility, increase the opportunities for public-private partnerships and align the program with the vast majority of estuary programs throughout the country, which are hosted by external organizations. Funding for each of the 28 National Estuary Programs was $512,000 last year.
"The New York-New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program has played a critical role in protecting, restoring and enhancing waterways for decades," said EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck. "Under the new leadership of the Hudson River Foundation, the Harbor & Estuary Program will continue to be an important resource in ensuring the health of the harbor for the people of New York and New Jersey."
The EPA sought interest among organizations to potentially host the New York-New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program on June 11, 2013 and held a public information session on June 26. After receiving statements of interest from three organizations, the EPA chose the Hudson River Foundation because it believes that the Foundation will be the most effective.
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Walsh Family of southwest County Cork, Ireland, near Skibbereen
We have traced our family back to Skeagh, Skibbereen in southwest County Cork, Ireland where John Walsh was married to Honora Henissey and had three children that we know of born ca 1805-1810:
1. Jeremiah 2. Daniel 3. Ellen
1. Jeremiah Walsh married Margaret Connolly in the 1830s, and had three children that we know of:
1. Jeremiah (jr.) - born in 1845, married Catherine Minihane of Ballyally, Skibbereen in 1873 and had 11 surviving children. 10 came to the US and settled in Missouri, Illinois and New Jersery
2. Daniel - born in 1849, married Ellen Minihane of Ballyally, Skibbereen and had 7 children. Daniel died in the 1890s, and it's believed that Ellen took the 7 children to Australia.
3. Mary - born 1839. Don't know anything about her.
2. Daniel Walsh married Ellen Coughlan of Lissaclarig, Skibbereen ca 1840, lived in Skeagh, Skibbereen and had 7 children:
1. Mary H. Walsh born ca 1841, who married William O'Brien of Kilkilleen, Skibbereen ca 1862 and had 11 children.
2. Ellen Walsh born ca 1843, married John Sheehan of Drinagh, Skibbereen and had 7 children (that we know of).
3. John Walsh, born 1845, married Johanna O'Driscoll of Ballymacrown, Baltimore in 1873 and had 8 children
4. Hanora Walsh born in 1847, married Thomas Salter of Lisheen, Skibbereen in 1866 and had 9 children.
5. Jeremiah born in 1850, became Brother Gall in the Holy Ghost order in Cork City.
6. Daniel Walsh, born in 1855, emigrated to New Zealand, married and farmed there.
7. Catherine Walsh, born in 1859, married Daniel Harrington of Kilkilleen, Skibbereen in 1880 and had 7 children.
3. Ellen, born 1824 - don't know anything about her.
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Spain ended its World Cup campaign on a high note on Monday, cruising to a 3-0 defeat of Australia at the Arena da Baixada.
Successive defeats to open the World Cup meant that the reigning champions entered Monday's affair with elimination already assured.
But La Roja managed to avoid an embarrassing last-place finish by getting a resounding win over the Socceroos.
David Villa started the match and repaid Vicente del Bosque's faith by opening the scoring in the 36th minute. The 32-year-old, who recently signed with New York City FC, got on the end of Juanfran's square pass and flicked a shot behind his own leg and into the back of the net.
Spain continued to dominate the match on the opposite side of halftime, and it was Fernando Torres that doubled the nation's advantage in the 69th minute when he took Andres Iniesta's threaded pass and slipped a shot past Mathew Ryan.
The rout was complete eight minutes from time when Juan Mata took a pass from Cesc Fabregas and fired home his first World Cup goal.
The result sees Spain finish on three points to lock up third place in Group B.
Australia, meanwhile, suffered defeat in each of its three games to slide to the bottom of the group.


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Ending Cancer -- With Lasers
"My goal is to end cancer. I hope I can."
From almost anyone but Marty LaFleur, that kind of talk would be fantastic, like finding Bigfoot or Shangri-La.
But Marty is on a path to meet his goal.
True, he's only 20, but the Clarkson honors student has spent three years in the lab researching cancer — preparing for a career fighting it.
"Chemotherapy and radiation kill lots of cancer cells, but not all of them. And those cells that resist treatment, they start growing again and the cancer comes back."
It's these resistant cells that Marty aims to kill. He's developed a process that uses nanoparticles, the tiny substances thousands of times smaller than a speck of dust. Marty attaches nanoparticles made of gold to a drug that targets tumors. The drug kills all the cancer cells it can, but those that resist the treatment now have a nanoscopic piece of gold in them.
"That's when the nanoparticle is irradiated with a laser. We expect the gold to heat up and the change in temperature will kill the cancer cell."
It's called photothermal therapy and, by using nanoparticles, it decreases the potential for harm that traditional cancer treatments can have on the patient's healthy cells.
More time in the lab is needed and some hurdles remain, but Marty's research on the cellular level could lead to a breakthrough.
So how does a 20-year-old have the means to work on something like this?
It helps to have an engineer father and pharmacist mother. Marty says it's also helpful having a musician sister.
"We're a thinking family. We're curious," he says, "and we value education."
Marty attended the early college program in The Clarkson School and he applauds the University for letting students get into the lab to conduct research near the beginning – not the end – of their academic careers.
He's set to graduate in spring and has applied to graduate school.
"I want to go into immunology," he says, sounding awed. "The human immune system is amazing. It's far more powerful than anything I can create."
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Marty Lafleur


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Catherine T. Kensil of Massapequa Park and formerly Massapequa, died on Jan. 7, 2011 at 81 years old. "Football was a big part of our lives," said Mary Jo Kensil, her daughter.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Matheus Montarroyos of West Virginia Tech has been named the NAIA National Men's Swimmer & Diver of the Month, the national office announced Friday. Montarroyos was selected based on his performances in the month of February. He was chosen out of a pool of candidates nominated by NAIA men's swimming & diving programs.
Montarroyos, a freshman from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, won the 500-Freestyle at the Appalachian Swimming Conference Championships in Christianburg, Va., on Feb. 14. He also placed in the 200-Freestyle (2nd), 800-Freestyle Relay (6th), 100-Freestyle (7th) and 400-Freestyle Relay (8th) at the event. The freshman was named the Golden Bear Star Performer of the Week (Feb. 19-26) for his efforts. On Feb. 1, Montarroyos won the 1000-Freestyle and the 500-Freestyle at a dual meet against NCAA Division II Davis & Elkins (W. Va.), while helping the team place second in the 200-Freestyle Relay.
On the season, Montarroyos owns the No. 2 time in the NAIA in the 500-Freestyle (4:38.47), the No. 5 time in the 200-Freestyle (1:42.95) and the No. 6 time in the 1000-Freestyle (10:02.58).
Montarroyos is the third and final Men's Swimmer & Diver of the Month for the 2013-14 season. For more information on NAIA Swimming & Diving, click here.
Nominees: Corey Hall, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Vitor da Franca, Oklahoma Baptist; Gabriel Phillips, Wayland Baptist (Texas); Ryan Searles, SCAD Savannah (Ga.); Marc Tahull, Cumberlands (Ky.).
2013-14 Men's Swimmers & Divers of the Month
Dec. 13: Daniel Ramirez, Oklahoma Baptist
Jan. 24: Jacob Anderson, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)
Feb. 28: Matheus Montarroyos, West Virginia Tech


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"I had never ordered the art prints before this one (and a few others in the same order) and was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the print, and how sharp and clear the photos were, even though they were small to fit in the design. I chose family photos, and moved them around until I liked the way they appeared (making sure the overlap didn't cover someone's face, etc.) and took the chance of ordering. I love these prints, and will be ordering more, both for myself and as gifts!"
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - January 22, 2013 --A jury weighing mob racketeering charges in Philadelphia is back at work after a chaotic week in which two jurors were replaced and a foreman quit the post.
The government hopes to send 73-year-old reputed mob boss Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi and six others to prison. Ligambi has been held without bail since his 2011 arrest.
They are charged with sports betting, loansharking, making threats and seizing control of a rival's video poker machines.
The long weekend break follows a tumultuous second week of deliberations.
Two alternates have been seated in the last week, after one juror fell ill and another said she knew a defense witness to be not credible.
Two other jurors were replaced during the two-month evidence phase, one after a mob-linked slaying in South Philadelphia made headlines.


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Uh-oh… more bad news for fans of Dollhouse. Fox e-mailed out the highlights from its upcoming May schedule, and one thing appears to be missing: the final episode of Joss Whedon's new action show.
Fan favorite Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles had its last shot to prove to Fox that it was worth renewing and the fans came out in droves! Well, not really. The season finale performed on par with the rest of the series, which doesn't bode well for a series pickup.
It's not supposed to happen like this. Season finales are supposed to be the big send-off for shows, roping in the audience that's watched for the past few months for one grand party. But the Dollhouse finale on Friday did the exact opposite.
Fox took a leap of faith last year when it opted to keep the struggling Dollhouse on the air despite the show's middling ratings. Show creator Joss Whedon pitched an overall vision of Season Two (and beyond) to executives, and they must've liked what they saw because Whedon still has a show. But there is no possible way they are liking what they see now.
Let's recap Dollhouse's turbulent first season: The show gets announced with Eliza Dushku and Joss Whedon reuniting, fans hail it as the next big thing. Word leaks that there is trouble on set, the original pilot is scrapped, fans begin to worry. Studio executives ask for some retooling, which includes going in a more standalone episode direction, fans worry more. The first episodes come out, critics groan, fans suffer.
Dollhouse's pilot isn't going to blow away anyone who isn't a die-hard Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) fan, but the potential for a very strong season is definitely here. In fact, some Joss fans may not even like it right away as most of Joss' trademarks are absent--there's almost no witty back-and-forth dialogue and the show seems to be exhibit Joss' more serious side.
It's back and forth, back and forth for Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. The sci-fi program has seen its prospects for renewal cover the entire spectrum; it was initially hailed as one of the season's most promising shows, yet failed to become anything close to a ratings hit. But the power of Joss is strong… maybe even miracle strong.


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Fancy Tiger Crafts to host "Sew Liberated" author Meg McElwee
Even grown-ups would find it hard to resist the lovely goodies in sewer Meg McElwee's latest book, "Growing Up Sew Liberated: Making Handmade Clothes and Projects for Your Creative Child" (Interweave Press).
A few of the patterns that caught my eye included her hideaway play tent, reversible hooded play cape, and cozy kiddo pajamas. Each project description gives readers an idea of the care that McElwee puts into creating her patterns. Her directions are clear, concise, and downright fun to see come together.
That makes McElwee's Denver event on Friday (July 20) that much more intriguing. She'll do a meet-and-greet book-signing at Fancy Tiger Crafts, 59 Broadway, from 7 to 9 p.m.
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Her charming first book, "Sew Liberated," presented a colorful, stylish and practical approach to creating usable pieces. Her determination to make a fabric stash stretch as far as possible (while living in Mexico and teaching in a one-room Montessori school), gave McElwee an appreciation for being able to forge refined looks with eclectic scraps. This inventive use of materials inspired applique, embroidery and hand-sewing.
I exchanged an e-mail with McElwee earlier this week to find out more about her process as a pattern designer, and inquire about whether she's as much of a crafting addict as I am.
Colorado at Home: What was your first sewing project? How did it turn out?
Meg McElwee: Other than the ubiquitous 80s hair scrunchies, I sewed up an awful pair of lavender floral knee-length shorts, paired with a fringed tee. I was in 5th grade, and I wore that outfit (almost as an accessory to my head gear and braces) to the county math tournament. It doesn't get any less glamorous than that, and I didn't endeavor another garment project until my style, thankfully, matured. At least it was a functional, if not chic, project!!
Colorado at Home: Where do you find inspiration?
Meg McElwee: I am so inspired by beautiful photographs on blogs as well as my contacts on Flickr. I tend to be rather insulated in my design universe – I don't follow high fashion or watch Project Runway or anything like that. I do have a style that I would call my own – it's a simple, rustic aesthetic with clean lines. For me, my designs must be both functional and beautiful. For my clothing designs, this means that they must be comfortable.
Colorado at Home: In "Growing Up Sew Liberated," you write that sewing is a balm for your soul… Do you find sewing meditative? What is it about sewing that feeds your soulful side?
Meg McElwee: I do. As long as I don't have a deadline, I do. I sew a lot with knit fabrics, and I find that they require you to be present to the situation at hand. The fabric is unique, the way it interacts with my machine is unique, and it's a great way to focus on the moment. The hum of the machine can also be chant-like, if you have a bold imagination.
Colorado at Home: What's your favorite design from the new book?
Meg McElwee: The art satchel, followed closely by the doll pattern.
Colorado at Home: I imagine your work space to be the dreamiest place. Is it?
Meg McElwee: If you had asked me this question two months ago, my answer would have been a resounding "no!" We recently remodeled the old building that we use as a studio/office space. A space that previously had two very small windows, an unfinished ceiling and a wall splitting the space in half is now the most beautiful, window-filled sewing space. It makes such a difference! We kept the light and airy feel going by framing the windows in natural pine, painting the walls a creamy white, and putting in a faux wood floor. While it has yet to get its final decorative touches, having a light-filled space has already done wonders for my creative spark. I just WANT to go to the studio, now!
Colorado at Home: I'm an "A.D.D. crafter." I have a hard time staying focused on one project and generally have several going at once. Are you similar? How do you juggle projects and pattern development? Are they the same thing for you?
Meg McElwee: I do have a tendency to be that way, but I've had to re-train my crafting brain. Having too much in the pipeline can actually be stressful for me, even if the work is enjoyable. Nowadays, I tend to work on one sewing project at a time. Often, I am sewing as part of my pattern development, so I really can't move on to the next project until the other is completed!
Colorado at Home: What advice would you have for aspiring sewers who may feel a bit intimidated? What's a good project to start with?
Meg McElwee: A handful of patterns in "Growing Up Sew Liberated," as well as several of my sewing patterns for women, call for knit fabrics. There's a myth that sewing with these uber-comfortable fabrics is scary, but that's not so. It just takes getting to know your machine, the fabric you're working with, and having a few special tricks up your sleeve. I think that knits are, in fact, a liberating fabric to work with because you can bypass all of the complicated fitting issues that you run up against sewing with woven fabrics. I've been in Denver filming a class with Craftsy about this very subject — sewing with knits. I think it's a great class for beginners so they can jump right in to the little knit baby shirts and pants in "Growing Up Sew Liberated," and sew some wardrobe essentials for themselves as well.
Meg McElwee will be at Fancy Tiger Crafts Friday (July 20th) from 7-9 PM for a meet-and-greet book signing! Don't miss it!
And be sure to follow Meg McElwee's blog, Sew Liberated!


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Can someone create a plugin that will allow the next level up admin to see the notes on members that are below them? Let me know if this doesn't make sense. What we need is for admins to be able to see the notes that they will put on the members profile which wouldn't be seen by the others members. This would help the different admins to be able to put notes such as "I need to talk to this member about……". The member nor any other members would know that they need to be spoken with, but the admin would have the notes handy for when they logged in. We also need multiple admins to be in control of a group and then the members of that group would be where the notes would be places.
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1. Group admins would be able to place notes on members that wouldn't be seen by the members
2. Group admins would have a list of the last note that was placed of each member per group that the admin was an admin of when then login
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Let me know if this can be done. It is for a not for profit group, so please keep that in mind. We are willing to pay.
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TRYON — More than half a century ago, there was an abandoned chapel without a congregation near the Green River Plantation and a congregation without a church in Tryon's historic Eastside neighborhood.
TRYON — More than half a century ago, there was an abandoned chapel without a congregation near the Green River Plantation and a congregation without a church in Tryon's historic Eastside neighborhood.
The marriage of these two churches, St. Andrew's Chapel and Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, resulted in a story of historic preservation that Good Shepherd's rector, the Rev. Walter Bryan, said is still important to him today.
"My focus," he said with a smile, "is to fight modernization."
The chapel's inner walls are the original unpainted boards from when the structure was built across the road from Green River Plantation around 1906. Mary Mills Coxe reportedly had it built for "colored servants and others," some of whom may have descended from slaves in the area.
When the Diocese of Western North Carolina approved it being moved to Tryon in 1955, it had to be cut into four pieces and driven about 20 miles, from out in the county near the Rutherford county line into downtown Tryon.
"That was a big day on the highway and in the community," said Beryl Dade, whose own history coincides with that of the church from its earliest days as a school for African-American children.
The church was driven along the Eastside's narrow, winding roads to a site on Markham Road left vacant when the old structure, which was built around 1907 as a mission school and had deteriorated, was torn down.
The handmade pews, altar rail and stained glass windows are all original. A vestibule was added to the front of the church, and there have been additions to the back over the years, including a parish hall, bathrooms and classrooms.
There is, of course, now electricity for the lights and ceiling fans that were added. Other than that, the building retains a primitive charm.
"We try our best to keep it that way," said Bryan, who grew up in Tryon and came to the church in 2003 after it became a full parish.
Born into the church and with a family history that goes back even further, Dade acts as historian for the church and continues its educational mission. "Good Shepherd has always had an educational connection," she said.
Mabel Plaisted, a Tryon woman who moved from Maine, established the first local school for African-American children in the 1890s. Later Edmund Embury, a member of Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Tryon, donated land, the site of the present-day church, and a building.
When it began as a mission school — Tryon Industrial Colored School — Dade's grandfather, Scotland Harris, was its first teacher, aided by his wife, Mary.
By 1907, there were 100 African-American boys and girls there studying carpentry, masonry, cooking and sewing, along with English and math. Harris taught and acted as principal for 11 years, long enough that he began to be called "Professor Harris," Dade said.
In 1908 the building was officially became a missionary chapel of the Episcopal Missionary District of Asheville (Diocese of Western North Carolina).
A conflict arose when Harris was invited to a service at Tryon's Holy Cross Episcopal Church. Harris' presence among the white congregation prompted the diocese to ask him to leave his teaching position at the mission school, Dade said. It was mentioned also, she said, that his "stately home" in the Eastside gave African-Americans the wrong idea about what they might aspire toward.
The next phase of the church's history as an educational institution in the community was the "Radway Years," as Dade calls them.
Beginning in 1922, the Rev. Samuel Radway from Florida ran it as a boarding and day school, providing religious services as well. When he died in 1935, his widow and daughter kept it running another year until African-American students were allowed into the public school system.
Members of the church still used the building for worship. As a missionary church, it was subsidized by the diocese. In the early 1940s, it served students once again for a few years after the public school building burned.
Dade's mother, Helen Harris Hannon, the daughter of Scotland and Mary Harris, meanwhile became a teacher herself, and in 1967 opened a kindergarten at Good Shepherd, as there was not yet one in the public school system.
Like her mother and grandparents before her, Dade too became a teacher for many years in Ohio and New Jersey, and briefly, after her initial retirement, in Polk County schools.
Good Shepherd was also instrumental in bringing the Reading Is Fundamental program to the area. Community involvement with RIF began with Sarah Shields and women of the church in 1978, and today the Polk County school system handles distribution of books to students.
In 1995, Dade opened Good Shepherd's Homework Center, an after-school program to help area children with homework. Establishing such a program entailed meetings with school officials, grant writing, and the gathering of materials, donations and volunteers. A downsized version of the program continues to operate today, with tutors helping students dropped off at the church by the school bus in the afternoons.
Having evolved with the times, today the church that once housed an African-American congregation has members "from many different ethnic backgrounds, of differing ages and from all corners of the world," as stated on the church website.
Some writings on the church refer to a "sweet spirit" that newcomers feel upon entering the rustic building with more than a century of the history of two churches within its walls.


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This coat cost 5p(!) at a jumble sale, having obviously been used as a child's costume in some kind of stage production: but once the sleeves had been let out again, the missing button replaced and the hole in the pocket lining mended, it had obviously once been a fairly classy garment, and a rather useful one. It's made of some kind of pure wool suiting fabric which is very warm for its light weight, and I have been wearing it throughout the winter.
However, the one missing part that I couldn't find a replacement for was a belt to go through the dangling belt loops. I thought I'd be able to pick up a second-hand fabric belt cheaply, but I couldn't find any at all. In the end I decided to make one myself, using the fabric left over from making the waistband of my peacock rescue skirt. The piece of cloth wasn't quite long enough so I had to piece an extra six inches or so onto the end of my strip.
It hadn't dawned on me precisely how long the seams are on a tailored belt and how many times one has to tack and then sew them: once to catch down the outside of the interfacing, once to sew it in close to the fold, once to make the seam, twice with tiny running stitches to topstitch the edges after turning outside-in (and then I had to unpick the original interfacing seam, which was redundant and showed….)
I found an old-fashioned haberdashery shop (Jeanette Fashions in Clapham High Street) with a drawer full of buckles, and bought one for 35p; then I had to work out from scratch how to sew it in while leaving the prong free to move! In the end I cut a long slit (much longer than I thought it would have to be) towards the end of the belt and buttonholed through all the layers to seal the edges, before inserting a half tailored loop just behind the buckle to hold the belt firmly against the prong, and stitching the end back against itself, while running another seam through the six layers of fabric immediately behind the bar of the buckle to keep it in place. (I'm not sure how one would do this bit by machine: it was a bit of a fiddle by hand, but not too hard.) A second tailored loop was left free to slide along the belt and secure the loose end.
In the absence of a tailor's awl I actually used a mattress needle plus my seam ripper to make the eyelet holes , catching up and severing a few threads at a time and then buttonholing as closely as possible around the hole. This project took far longer than I had expected; however, as I thought, the belt does make a big difference to the way the coat hangs, and the way its skirts flare out when you walk. The coat is still slightly too big for me, but it looks a lot more feminine now!
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If you have worked as a system administrator at an enterprise, you might be familiar with Norton or Symantec Ghost, a great network-enabled system cloning solution. It allows you to create an image of a computer's hard drive and store it to a location on your network. If the computer in question has a failure you can restore it from the image and be back in business pretty quickly and easily. Although this may not always be a solution that small organizations use often, it is quite popular with larger ones.
Symantec Ghost is a commercial software and comes with a pretty hefty price tag. However, there are several free alternatives for it in the open source world. Let's take a look at a few of my favorite ones.
Partition Image
Partition Image supports most Linux and Windows file systems. It also has some useful features such as support for the compression of the snapshots using gzip and other common archiving formats, and allows you to split the snapshot into separate files to burn onto DVDs and CDs. It has support for the network. So you can configure a remote location on your network where Partition Image should copy the snapshot file or files. However, the thing that I found most appealing about Partition Image is that it is pretty smart. Most cloning software take a block level snapshot of your system. With Partition Image, however, if it finds an unused block it skips it. Thereby saving you a lot of space on your image.
Another useful feature is that you can take snapshots of individual partitions as opposed to just the entire system. As an advanced Linux user this is great. You can take an image of the important partitions containing important system folders such as /etc, /var, and /home. This is particularly useful if you are planning to make some major changes to your server. For example, if you are planning on upgrading the Linux kernel on a server you can take a backup of the partitions that will be affected by the upgrade. If something goes wrong you can quickly revert those partitions from your backup.
Another application for Partition Image is when you want to install several computers quickly. Install and configure one computer. Take a snapshot of it using Partition Image. Then you can create multiple clones of that computer using the image file. The only catch here is that all computers must have the similar hardware configuration.
Partition Image, or Partimage, is available for download HERE. You can also get it using popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu Linux using the application installer such as apt-get. It's very simple to setup and use and is highly recommended to power users who want an easy to use solution.
PING, or "Partimage is not Ghost", takes a slightly different approach to Partition Image to the cloning process. PING comes in the form of a Live Linux CD. You can boot it using a CD, USB, or over the network. It has the standard set of features that you want in a cloning solution such as networking, the ability to write to Microsoft Windows shares, along with support for NFS, SSHS, and more. It also supports a great number of file systems and hardware. The fact that this is a bootable Live distro means that the creators of the project have bundled in a few cool features. For example, you can burn a CD or DVD of the image you create right from the distribution itself. You can also take a snapshot, format the drive, and restore the system right there and then. Another useful feature that PING has is the ability to back up the BIOS settings along with the system.
PING can be downloaded HERE. Download it and burn it on a disc and you should be in business.
Clonezilla is perhaps one of the most popular open source alternatives to Symantec Ghost. It comes in two editions - Clonezilla Live and Clonezilla Server Edition. The first is made for single system cloning, for backing up and restoring, while the second one is made for a bigger setup and for cloning multiple systems and simultaneous cloning of systems. Clonezilla is based on the DRBL technology, which means that it is so efficient that it can simultaneously clone multiple systems in a matter of minutes. In short, it's very efficient.
The cloning process used in either edition of Clonezilla isn't that much greater than the other two options presented. It has the standard set of features such as support for many filesystems, support for dumping the image over the network, and image compression. The real advantage of Clonezilla is in the Server Edition. It is a robust, fast, and efficient cloning system. It is a perfect solution for enterprises that want to setup several systems with pretty much the click of a button.
A few offshoots of the Clonezilla project have come up in recent times. For example, GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD is a live CD that boots off GRUB and gives you the ability to execute either GParted or Clonezilla. This makes it really useful when partitioning requirements also need to be done. That's what Gparted does. Another one is Clonezilla-SysRescCD, which is a multi-boot backup/restore and rescue CD that bundles Clonezilla Live Edition and System Rescue CD. The latter utility is a collection of system rescue and recovery tools.
Clonezilla is also included in our list of free and open-source backup software for Linux.
I have presented three fine open source alternatives to Symantec Ghost. Each one of these is very good at what they do. Depending upon your requirements, you can always choose the one that you find useful. Don't forget to let us know via comment what your experience was.


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Is featuring children in a weight loss reality show a sign of the times -- or going too far? In Season 14 of "The Biggest Loser," which airs Sunday night, teens aged 13-17 will compete alongside adults for the first time since the prime-time program debuted. However, they will not be subject to elimination or weekly weigh-ins.
Host Alison Sweeney hopes that the featured teens will inspire a national conversation about the childhood obesity epidemic. We want to have the (childhood obesity) conversation," Sweeney explained on TODAY. "We think it needs to be a national conversation about helping our kids get healthy. The statistics are pretty staggering, and they're getting worse."
Rates of childhood obesity or excess weight have exploded over the past few decades, tripling in about the past 30 years and threatening the health and quality of life for one-third of all American children. These kids are at risk for previously adults-only conditions like type 2 diabetes (formerly known as adult-onset diabetes), high blood pressure and joint pain. For the first time in history, U.S. children may face a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
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A Richard Wright Chronology
1908: Richard Nathaniel Wright born September 4 on Rucker's Plantation, twenty miles east of Natchez, Mississippi, the first child of Nathaniel Wright, a sharecropper, and Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher who gave up teaching soon after Richard was born for farm work. He grows up in one of the most poverty-stricken and rigidly segregated parts of the South.
1911-1912: Unable to support themselves on a farm, the Wrights go to Natchez to live with her family. Richard accidentally sets fire to house of his grandparents, the Wilsons
1913-1914: Nathaniel and Ella move with their children to Memphis in search of better employment. Nathaniel works as a night porter in a hotel and Ella works as a cook for a white family until Nathaniel leaves his family to live with another woman.
1915-1916: Ella moves with her sons to Elain, Arkansas, to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Maggie and Silas Hopkins. Richard becomes close to Silas.
1917: Uncle Silas, a relatively prosperous builder and saloon-keeper, is murdered by whites who resent his prosperous business. No arrests are made, and Aunt Maggie, Ella, and the children flee to West Helena, Arkansas. Wright's schooling is sporadic and he becomes acutely aware of southern racism and violence.
1918-1919: Richard is forced to leave school to find work.
1922: Richard is dismayed by the illiteracy and lack of education he sees among African-Americans. His income from jobs allows Richard to afford books, food, and clothing for the first time.
1921-1925: Racial rioting takes place in many American cities in the years following World War I. Increasingly aware of southern racism and violence--brought to sharp focus when the brother of a high school friend is murdered by whites.
1925: Richard graduates from Smith-Robertson as valedictorian. He refuses to deliver the graduation ceremony speech prepared by the principal and instead delivers his own. He leaves Jackson for Memphis.
1927: Richard moves with his Aunt Maggie to the South Side of Chicago.
1928: Richard begins working in the Chicago post office but fails the medical exam due to undernourishment.
1929: Richard passes the Postal Service physical and returns to work. His family moves into a four room apartment where he can write in relative comfort.
1933: Richard joins the Chicago John Reed Club and writes revolutionary poetry for Left Front. He joins the Communist Party and is hired to supervise a youth club organized to counter juvenile delinquency among African-Americans on the South Side.
1934: Wright officially joins the Communist Party.
1935: Tries unsuccessfully to sell his first novel Lawd Today!.
1937: He turns down a full-time postal position in Chicago. He moves to New York to write for the Daily Worker while continuing to work with the Writer's Project. His "Fire and Cloud" wins first prize in a contest sponsored by Story magazine.
1938: Uncle Tom's Children appears and receives good reviews. He becomes deeply interested in the Robert Nixon case, involving an 18-year-old black man accused of murdering a white woman. Wright does extensive research on the case and uses it as a documentary parallel to characters and events in Native Son.
1939: Wright marries Dhima Rose Meadman, a white ballet dancer. Ralph Ellison served as best man.
1940: Native Son is published, becomes a best-seller, and receives many favorable reviews. Uncle Tom's Children is reissued in an expanded edition. His first marriage fails. He attempts to reconcile with his father.
1941: Wright marries Ellen Poplar, a white woman and a Communist organizer from Brooklyn. The play Native Son is produced on Broadway by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
1942: Daughter Julia is born. Wright withdraws from the Communist Party without publicity.
1945: Black Boy a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, is published in March, receives excellent reviews, and becomes a best-seller.
1946: Wright travels to France in May as a guest of the French government, is well received by French intellectuals, and stays until December.
1947: Returning to New York, Wright encounters continuing racism. Wright, Ellen and Julia return to Paris, where they become permanent expatriates.
1950: He works intensively on a film version of Native Son for which he writes the script and acts the role of Bigger Thomas.
1952: Wright refuses to return to the United States citing risk of subpoena by an anti-Communist congressional investigating committee.
1953: The Outsider is published in March to mixed reviews. Wright travels throughout Africa's Gold Coast.
1955: He travels through Spain and attends the Bandung Conference.
1956: The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference is published in English in March, having appeared in French three months earlier. He places emphasis on race as the crucial factor in resolving the problems of Western and third world cultures.
1960: Wright dies of an apparent heart attack on November 28. He is cremated along with a copy of Black Boy, his autobiography at the Pere Lachaise cemetery on December 3.
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Abigail Fisher(right) with her lawyer Bert Rein (left) speak to reporters near the steps of Supreme Court on October 10, 2012 in Washington D.C. The Supreme Court had just heard her challenge to its long-standing ruling that race may be considered as a factor in the admissions process (affirmative action). Justices were debating the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. The outcome could have major implications for higher education. (Photo by Jeff Malet)
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Adams will demand effort from SC star Clowney
South Carolina star defensive end Jadeveon Clowney won't get any
special treatment from his new position coach.
Deke Adams said he's continually been asked since becoming the
Gamecocks defensive line coach how he'll handle Clowney, the
dominant, 6-foot-6 pass rusher who finished sixth in this past
year's Heisman Trophy voting.
"I think everyone else has thought about it way more than I
have," Adams said. "My personality won't change. I'll continue to
be the person I am that got me to this point. I'll continue to
coach hard and continue to demand perfection from my guys."
And that includes Clowney.
That doesn't mean that Adams, who spent last season on North
Carolina's staff, isn't much happier to have the junior standout on
his sideline than playing against him. The Tar Heels and Gamecocks
open next season at Williams-Brice Stadium on Aug. 31.
"That's always a bonus," Adams said of Clowney. "He's a great
kid and I've heard a lot of exciting things about him."
The quick hire – Adams was named on Jan. 21, a day after
longtime South Carolina defensive line coach Brad Lawing took a
similar position at Florida – has not left Adams much one-on-one
time with Clowney. The two talked last weekend as South Carolina
hosted several college prospects they hope to sign next week.
"I got a chance when I shook hands with him why that football
looks so small in his hands," Adams said. "He's a great
Clowney seems poised for a special season in 2013. He closed
last year by getting 4 1-2 sacks on Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd
in the Gamecocks 27-17 victory over their state rivals, then
perhaps had the highlight of New Year's Day with his helmet-popping
hit on Michigan runner Vincent Smith.
Adams watched the game with his sons, Jaylen and Jordan, and all
three jumped up after Clowney's tackle.
"It was just an amazing hit," Adams said. "But the game is
changing so much, and it was so fast and so violent, I thought,
`OK, they're going to throw a flag."'
But as the hit was replayed again and again at various speeds
and camera angles, Adams marveled at the textbook hit Clowney made.
"It was perfect," he said.
Adams was also amazed Clowney had the presence and poise to
think about the football, which was lying on the ground. Clowney
casually picked the ball up with his left hand for the fumble
The coach saw up close last weekend how much bigger Clowney's
hands look in person.
"When I shook hands with him, I saw why the football looked so
small in his hands," Adams said.
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier believes he and defensive
coordinator Lorenzo Ward made a perfect selection in Adams as
Lawing's successor. Lawing was the Gamecocks coach who first
watched film of Clowney as a South Pointe High sophomore with
uncommon speed and power for someone so young.
Spurrier said he did not think the team would miss Lawing, who
spent the past seven seasons on South Carolina, with Adams on
"He's sort of my kind of coach, good family man, wonderful
personality. I think our players are really going to enjoy playing
for him," Spurrier said.
Expectations for Clowney next season already through the roof.
Draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. projected Clowney as the top selection
if he were eligible this year and Spurrier's frequently called his
standout linemen a "three-year player."
Adams understands it's now his responsibility to help Clowney
live up to those projections. The best way for Clowney to achieve
all he can, Adams believes, is to work each on getting better. That
ability and work ethic will come through on the field if it's
evident in practice, Adams said.
Adams is confident he'll work well with Clowney.
"Oh yeah, I think we'll have a great relationship. You can hear
in his voice he knows he can be so much better than he is right
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How is an eggshell like a lithium-ion battery? It's all about the yolk. Some days I can't resist the urge for some wordplay, even if it isn't the best fit, and the Jan. 9, 2013 news item by Mike Ross on phys.org proved irresistible,
SLAC [Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory] and Stanford [University] scientists have set a world record for energy storage, using a clever "yolk-shell" design to store five times more energy in the sulfur cathode of a rechargeable lithium-ion battery than is possible with today's commercial technology. The cathode also maintained a high level of performance after 1,000 charge/discharge cycles, paving the way for new generations of lighter, longer-lasting batteries for use in portable electronics and electric vehicles.
The study has been published in Nature Communications where this explanatory image amongst others can be viewed,You can find out more about the research here,
Sulphur–TiO2 yolk–shell nanoarchitecture with internal void space for long-cycle lithium–sulphur batteries by Zhi Wei Seh, Weiyang Li, Judy J. Cha, Guangyuan Zheng, Yuan Yang, Matthew T. McDowell, Po-Chun Hsu & Yi Cui in Nature Communications 4, Article number: 1331 doi:10.1038/ncomms2327
The Jan. 8, 2013 SLAC news release, which originated the news item, provides more details about the lithium-ion batteries in general and this attempt to improve their energy storage capacity,
Lithium-ion batteries work by moving lithium ions back and forth between two electrodes, the cathode and anode. Charging the battery forces the ions and electrons into the anode, creating an electrical potential that can power a wide range of devices. Discharging the battery – using it to do work – moves the ions and electrons to the cathode.
Today's lithium-ion batteries typically retain about 80 percent of their initial capacity after 500 charge/discharge cycles.
For some 20 years, researchers have known that sulfur could theoretically store more lithium ions, and thus much more energy, than today's cathode materials…
Cui's innovation is a cathode made of nanoparticles, each a tiny sulfur nugget surrounded by a hard shell of porous titanium-oxide, like an egg yolk in an eggshell. Between the yolk and shell, where the egg white would be, is an empty space into which the sulfur can expand. During discharging, lithium ions pass through the shell and bind to the sulfur, which expands to fill the void but not so much as to break the shell. The shell, meanwhile, protects the sulfur-lithium intermediate compound from electrolyte solvent that would dissolve it.
Each cathode particle is only 800 nanometers (billionths of a meter) in diameter, about one-hundredth the diameter of a human hair.
"After 1,000 charge/discharge cycles, our yolk-shell sulfur cathode had retained about 70 percent of its energy-storage capacity. This is the highest performing sulfur cathode in the world, as far as we know," he [Cui] said. "Even without optimizing the design, this cathode cycle life is already on par with commercial performance. This is a very important achievement for the future of rechargeable batteries."
Over the past seven years, Cui's group has demonstrated a succession of increasingly capable anodes that use silicon rather than carbon because it can store up to 10 times more charge per weight. Their most recent anode also has a yolk-shell design that retains its energy-storage capacity over 1,000 charge/discharge cycles.
The group's next step is to combine the yolk-shell sulfur cathode with a yolk-shell silicon anode to see if together they produce a high-energy, long-lasting battery.
I have posted a number of recent pieces about lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries including a Dec. 12, 2012 piece about using the Madder plant to develop a greener li-ion battery, a Dec. 10, 2012 piece about the break-up of 123 Systems, a manufacturer of li-ion batteries, and a Nov. 27, 2012 piece about a project in Québec to combine lithium iron phospate with graphene for improved li-ion batteries.


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Chicago Taxi Companies And Riders Sue Uber For Targeting Cool Passengers
from the how-dare-they! dept
You really have to read the full complaint below, as it is a classic case of an industry being disrupted and lashing out at the disruptive player, repeatedly screaming "but you can't do that!" out of sheer jealousy and spite. It really is just a litany of claims about why they just don't like Uber. First, they whine that Uber "misleads" customers by comparing itself to taxi and livery services, even though it's somewhat innovative system is to actually empower independent drivers. But that's not actually hidden. And, um, I'm not sure why the taxi companies have any standing to complain about that.
Next, it argues that Uber charges too much, and adds a 20% gratuity. Again, all of this is clearly laid out to users of Uber's service. If they're willing to pay what Uber's rates are, then what's the problem? And again, if anyone has standing on that, it would be the users, not the cab companies -- and we'll discuss the fact that some users are suing too in a moment. There are a number of other complaints will all just seem like sour grapes.
My favorite part, though, is the claim that Uber "illegally discriminates against people without credit cards and smartphones." Did you know there was such a thing?
While Uber advertises itself as "Everyone's Private Driver"—that is in fact a gross mischaracterization as Uber only chooses to cater to what it perceives as the technologically elite and well-off individuals. It is obvious that through Uber's marketing it caters to young, hip, urban professionals, which is perfectly reasonable on the livery side. But using the publicly regulated (and limited number) taxis in order to create a two tier system— "high quality taxis" for the "haves" and the remainder for the "have nots"—runs contrary to the many ordinances enacted in Chicago to ensure non-discriminatory service for everyone in Chicago, not just those "cool" enough to use Uber.The one area that does seem a little iffy on Uber's part is that it signs up cab drivers who work for some of these companies that are suing -- and Uber's website (in at least one place) seems to imply that it has "partnered" with different cab companies, when the reality is that it lets the drivers sign up themselves. I could see where the cab companies may have a legitimate beef if their brands are falsely implied to be associated with Uber's.
That said, all of this just really seems like jealous taxi companies. Uber offers a useful service for those who want it. It's actually somewhat expensive -- and that's why plenty of people I know don't use it. But if you're willing to pay for the convenience, many, many customers seem to like it. It really is quite convenient. Either way, most of these complaints seem like the ones that either consumers should be making... or that local regulators should be making. I don't see how the taxi companies have any standing on most of the issues -- with the one about the implied "partnerships" being a possible exception.
Of course, on that point about users having standing... in an amazing coincidence... some Uber users have also picked the same week to file a class action lawsuit against Uber in Chicago, claiming that its charges are "deceptive." Of course, the actual fees are not, in fact, deceptive. They're very clearly laid out on Uber's site. So, instead, the lawsuit claims that the deceptive bit is that they add a 20% gratuity (again, clearly disclosed on the site) but that the driver only gets half of that gratuity.
They're arguing that this is really charging higher metered rates. But given that what the user pays is all completely disclosed, I'm still at a loss as to what the problem is. The user isn't deceived about the rates they pay. They're quite clear. Given the timing of the two lawsuits, it certainly feels like the cab companies may have helped "set up" users to complain.
In the end, the whole thing is unfortunate, and yet another sign of legacy industries unwilling to compete in the market. Uber offers a decent product. The price is high, and some people are willing to pay that price. If cab companies competed effectively (and they already have the price advantage), then there wouldn't be a problem. But, Uber's discovered that people like to pay for convenience and these cab companies apparently aren't well set up to deal with that. Rather than adapt, they're suing.


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(UPDATE) NJ rail bridge collapse causes derailment, chemical leak
A rail bridge over a creek in southern New Jersey caused a Conrailfreight train to derail, spilling hazardous chemicals at the scene,police said on Friday.
A rail bridge collapsed on Friday over a creek in southern New Jersey, causing a Conrail freight train to derail and spill hazardous chemicals into the air and water, authorities said.
One of four tanks of the freight train carrying vinyl chloride fell into Mantua Creek, and its contents leaked into the waterway, which feeds into the Delaware River near Philadelphia, according to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Some 22 people were taken to a nearby hospital for precautionary examinations and were doing fine, said Larry Ragonese, a DEP spokesman who said the health danger and environmental impact was minimal.
"Initially there was a release of gas into the air that affected some nearby residents and people working right in that area," he said.
Exposure to vinyl chloride, a highly toxic and flammable industrial chemical, can cause burning eyes or respiratory discomfort, he said.
Authorities evacuated a half-mile (805-metre) area around the spill, which took place at about 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT) in Paulsboro, New Jersey, just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Local schools were closed and students were sent home, authorities said.
The leak was contained and no longer posed a threat, and authorities were using booms to trap the chemical in the water, Ragonese said.
At the scene, one of the freight cars was nearly vertical, nose-down and partly submerged in the creek. Other cars lay jumbled on the embankment.
"It's part of living in Paulsboro, with refineries and trains. We accept it," said resident John Diamond, 53, who was taking photographs at the scene.
The area is thick with chemical plants, and two refineries, PBF Energy's Paulsboro and Nustar's Asphault, are nearby.
Locals fish and go crabbing and jet-ski in the creek in the warm months, Diamond said.
Air quality monitors in the area did not register any problem, said Lawrence Hajna, also with the state DEP.
"All the levels are coming in within our safety range," he said.
The swing bridge that collapsed underwent extensive repairs after getting damaged in a 2009 derailment of a coal freight train, said John Burzichelli, a state assemblyman and former mayor of Paulsboro.
New Jersey State Senate President Steve Sweeney, also on the scene, said a nearby homeowner reported hearing a "loud bang" from the bridge about two days ago, and Burzichelli said Conrail had come out to examine it in response.
"That bridge is very old. It's not a good day for Conrail," Burzichelli said.
Conrail officials could not be immediately reached for comment. Sweeney said he too was having trouble getting in contact with Conrail.
Conrail is jointly owned by rail operators CSX Corp and Norfolk Southern Corp.
The U.S. Coast Guard was responding to the accident along with the DEP.