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At an Intel laboratory, R&D Magazine's 2008 Scientist of the Year is designing the chips that are revolutionizing photonics and pointing the way to the terascale age of optical communications.
Mario Paniccia was voted 2008 Scientist of the Year by R&D Magazine's readers.
Had Mario Paniccia, Intel fellow and director of the Photonics Technology Laboratory, Santa Clara, Calif., been paying close attention to the markets, he might have questioned his own wisdom instead. On March 10, 2000, the dot-com bubble burst, sending the NASDAQ into a free-fall that didn't halt until 2001, by which time it had nearly halved in value.
Intel Corp. was hit hard by the sudden glut of high-speed servers and chips. Pentium-4 had just entered the marketplace, wireless technology had yet to enter laptops, and the company was in the process of re-examining its corporate culture and approach to research.
Paniccia, who started with the company in 1995, was unfazed by the convulsions in the marketplace. His thoughts had already veered into an unconventional direction, one that led him to propose a project that most scientists assumed was not possible or practical. But in the face of skeptics, uncertain budgets, and technical hurdles, he realized his vision of siliconizing photonics, an achievement that has led R&D Magazine to select him our 2008 Scientist of the Year.
Since establishing the Photonics Technology Lab in 2001, Paniccia has become one of the world's most recognized corporate researchers. His original premise—that silicon could form the basis for optical links for computing—was validated in 2004 when he and his team announced the demonstration of the first gigahertz silicon modulator. The discovery struck a chord with the scientific community and wider world—instantly more than 150 news outlets hopped on the story, putting Paniccia in the science celebrity spotlight.
"It surprisingly turned out to be a huge thing. It was amazing," says Paniccia of the unexpected attention. "People were saying if you can do this in silicon, maybe we can build all the devices out of silicon and replace this big bulky expensive optical devices with integrated optical devices made out of silicon."
Questions remained—could we really build advanced photonics devices on cheap silicon? If so, could we use these silicon devices in place of communications devices made from exotic materials that are expensive and hard to make? Could it be used to build an entire optical communication link and be inserted into a computing system?
Paniccia's goal is to answer these questions, because they have profound ramifications on the future of the semiconductor industry, which is built on silicon. If devices such as a silicon-based transceiver are possible, then the entire communications industry can leverage the tremendous capacity of CMOS fabrication, greatly reducing overhead. Better yet, data rates would rise into the oft-imagined terabit realm.
As Paniccia believed, the excitement in 2004 was just the beginning. In just four years, speed records have been broken and new devices have been pioneered. And in 2008 silicon photonics devices are knocking on the commercial sector's door.
One milestone at the Photonics Technology Lab was the first cascaded silicon Raman laser (2007).
Endicott, N.Y., is a long way from Silicon Valley, but Paniccia knew early on that the famous hotspot for technological innovation would be in his future. The son of Italian immigrants Antonio and Domenica Paniccia, neither of which went past the fifth grade and who spent their careers working at Endicott Johnson (a shoe factory), Paniccia was an accomplished and diligent student.
"We didn't have a lot of money growing up," he says. "My parents stressed the importance of an education, though, and I was especially good in math." His passion for the sciences followed him to the State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, where he earned a physics degree. A professor there, Robert Pompi, prompted him apply to grad school.
Paniccia planned to attend Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y., but changed his mind after a friend attending Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, Ind., invited him to a big ten football game vs the Univ. of Michigan. The experience of 60,000 people cheering at once put a bug in his head. That, coupled with reality of having to pay his own way at Cornell, led him to join the graduate physics program at Purdue.
Paniccia's first exposure to corporate research occurred at Bell Labs in N.J. and IBM in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. While getting his masters degree at Purdue, he landed an interview at Intel Corp. They gave him an offer and, intrigued with the opportunity to go to California and Silicon Valley, he accepted and in 1990 flew out West.
What shocked his parents and friends, however, was that he turned down a job at IBM for what was then a relatively little-known company. Worse, the failure analysis position he accepted at Intel was not very fulfilling.
"I unfortunately quickly got bored with the job. I wasn't motivated," says Paniccia. "I met the head of research at the time, John Carruthers, and ended up putting together a proposal to measure electrical migration in wires using a new technique at that time called STM and AFM. I realized I wanted to go back to get my PhD."
Paniccia contacted Purdue about coming back. With professor Ronald Reifenberger's help he wrote a proposal that would allow Intel to help fund his PhD. It was accepted.
"My parents were shocked that I would leave a high paying job and go back to school," he says. After completing his dissertation, he was ready for the corporate world, but despite recruiting for Intel during the interim he was never approached for a job himself. Unable to accept a position at Texas Instruments or IBM because of his interest to return to Intel, he took a drastic step
"I wrote this letter and sent it to CEO Gordon Moore and everybody," says Paniccia. "I literally wrote individual letters to all of the heads of management." The young scientist expressed disappointment by the a lack of initiative on the part of the company to hire him back.
The letters worked—he received calls for interviews just two days later. Years later, after being named an Intel fellow, a position of distinction within the company, he was sent of copy of the flurry of emails prompted by his unsolicited correspondence.
Bringing photonics to the masses
Paniccia's first major contribution at Intel was the laser voltage probe (LVP) which acquires timing waveforms on flip-chip packaged microprocessors directly through the silicon backside. The technology, which eliminated the need for a vacuum system for testing, has become an integrated circuit (IC) industry testing standard.
As a result of this project, Paniccia was introduced to optics. Specifically, he learned about photonic devices used in the growing fiber optics industry. Fiber optics is fast and dependable. Unfortunately, it's also expensive. The hardware that manages optical data is usually individually crafted from so-called III-V materials, such as indium phosphides and metals that are difficult to process or obtain.
Driven by the desire for speed, the fiber optic infrastructure nevertheless grew exponentially. Intel researchers, including Paniccia, began examining these pricey optical links: modulators, photodetectors, waveguides, and others.
"I was shocked at how much these components cost," he says, referring to transceiver components used to interpret photonic information to electrical signals and back again. "These modules were selling from $5,000 to $10,000. I remember thinking to myself 'This is doesn't make sense. Why can't we make these devices out of silicon?'"
From his experience with the LVP, Paniccia knew light could be manipulated with electrons. He felt he could use these abilities within silicon. Not many people at that time would agree, however.
"This is one of these things that people said would never happen. Even in the early years here at Intel, the skepticism was very high," says Justin Rattner, Intel senior fellow, chief technology officer, VP and director of the Corporate Technology Group., and R&D Magazine's Scientist of the Year in 1989. The conventional wisdom was that if you wanted to do something with light, he says, there were far better materials.
But Paniccia saw things differently. He was well aware of Intel's legacy and saw silicon photonics as another step in the direction pioneered by Intel's founders. Specifically, he was thinking of the simple graph penned in a notebook by co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965. By 2000, when Paniccia began his silicon photonics R&D, Moore's Law had become a mantra in the semiconductor industry. In short, it states that the number of transistors on a chip will double about every two years. For the last 43 years, Moore has been right. However, Intel took greater meaning from his statement—they attribute the increase in transistor count and processing power with reduced cost, largely at the same rate. This law helps explain why Intel's entire product line turns over every 24-30 months, and why it has pushed so hard to introduce 32-nm semiconductor platforms and hafnium-based high-k metal-gate transistors.
Paniccia eventually convinced Intel executive and employee # 3 Leslie Vadasz to supply him with seed money and a small team of young scientists. The program quickly morphed from demonstrating a single device to a much broader goal of siliconizing photonics. Paniccia's goal totalled six components: a laser source, a modulator, passive devices such as splitters and routers, a detector, a way to package these devices, and, of course, electronics.
"So we started to say if we can build all of these devices in silicon, just like transistors, we would be able lay them out any way we want to produce entirely new optical devices. This would change the whole way think about optical communication," says Paniccia. His physics experience gave him confidence during the initial project—the 1 GHz silicon modulator. A fundamental component of a photonics system, optical modulators rapidly pulse a light beam to digitally encode a high-quality data signal. At the time Paniccia's team was tasked to meet its first goal, the preceding attempt at a silicon modulator had achieved all of 2% of that speed.
"Everyone on the team said this [goal] was too aggressive," says Paniccia. But he went even further by taking this on as a CTO-level goal, one which helped put the pressure on his small group of researchers. Fending off a near-mutiny from his team, Paniccia encouraged them to push the limits of what could be done. For some time, his project teetered on the brink of cancellation. But the leadership of Paniccia and the energy and creativity of his team drove progress forward.
Kevin Kahn, Intel senior fellow and director of the Communications Technology Laboratory, says Paniccia's ability to be flexible and leverage resources throughout Intel while at the same time retaining his vision allowed his project to survive.
"This stuff was getting started at the tail end of the dot-com bust, and business was kind of cruddy. It wasn't a great time for projects with a dubious product intercept potential," says Kahn. "Early on, there seemed to be an almost limitless number of ways in which it should have been killed. It survived, I think, due to sheer willpower on Mario's part. At every stage along the way, specifically with his own team, he put down goals his team thought were absolutely nuts. And he's managed to exceed those goals along the way."
Favorable results were achieved by mid-2003. When Paniccia and his team went public, they reported 2.2 GHz. It was a double-take not just for Intel, but also for an industry which had previously shunned silicon as a basis for photonics.
"When they built that first modulator, it was fundamental in that, first of all, no one imagined you could build a silicon oscillator at anything close to that frequency," says Rattner. "But then it provided that confidence you need to take the next step."
Shortly after announcing their results, Paniccia's team felt they should publish their findings in a scientific journal. This was a major step for Intel, whose innovations had typically been kept under wraps for security reasons. They recognized, however, that siliconized photonics was a different animal and would spur innovations for everyone's benefit.
One milestone at the Photonics Technology Lab was the first 340 GHz avalanche photodetector (2008).
Emboldened, in 2005 the photonics team created the first continuous wave silicon laser. The waveguide-like device, which relies on the Raman effect to multiply photons and essentially act as its own pump, was another fundamental scientific breakthrough. The team demonstrated that silicon could be in fact be used as an optical gain material which forms the basis of a laser.
Now that Paniccia's team was able to achieve lasing on a silicon chip, their research branched out even further. In 2006, they combined the light-emitting properties of indium phosphide with the light routing capabilities of silcion to create the world's first hybrid silicon laser in collaboration with the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.
In 2007, Paniccia's team combined silicon with an IR-absorbing material, germanium, to create a low-cost CMOS-compatible photodetector. With considerable effort to reduce the strain due to the lattice mismatch of germanium and silicon they produced a waveguide-based SiGe photodetector. They achieved it in part by using a common P-I-N (positive-negative) diode. The photons create a negative charge and positive "hole" when it strikes the detector. Voltage applied across the detector pushes the electrons and holes apart, allowing the photodetector to read flashes of light at up to 40 Gbps, which matched commercial devices.
Innovations continued. With the first-ever cascaded silicon Raman laser, the team dumped the mirrors in the earlier laser and instead used ring resonators to greatly reduce the lasing threshold and boost output. Concurrently, the team also broke new ground on the modulator front. The team demonstrated that a silicon modulator is capable of transmitting data up to 10 Gbps, and in 2007 they achieved 40 Gbps, matching the best commercial, non-silicon-based modulators of the time. By June of 2008, Intel had announced a single chip capable of 200 Gbps through the integration of eight modulators each operating at 25 Gb/s.
Earlier this month, they unveiled an evolution of the SiGe photodetector: the 340 GHz avalanche photodetector (APD). True to its name, the device receives light and multiplies it—as many as a hundred electrons to every photon—while converting it to electrical signals for distribution. Achieving a frequency of 340 GHz at 1300 nm, it is the highest ever gain-bandwidth measured for an APD device. These speeds are required to realize the commercial terabit optical links that so far Paniccia has achieved in the laboratory (some have as many as 25 modulators and 25 hybrid silicon lasers on a single chip).
The new silicon frontier
At Intel, as Kahn puts it, to stop running is to die. It's a place where R&D is pursued but managed carefully—the company has no choice but to make more right decisions than wrong ones. In this light then, it's remarkable and fortunate that one man's small research project survived technical pitfalls and budget alligators to emerge as one of the precious elements in the crown of Intel's research portfolio.
"Many thought that building optical devices out of silicon was impossible," says Paul Otellini, president and CEO of Intel Corp. "However, the results from Mario and the Intel team have proven otherwise. "
Rattner says Intel is actively commercializing Paniccia's inventions, and the intention is there to place high-speed photonics in billions of connected devices. "This really can be viewed as extending the benefit of Moore's Law to an entirely new area," he says.
Gordon Moore says Mario's contributions are likely to be most important in fields far removed from the areas he was familiar with when he co-founded the company.
"I have been surprised at the results that his group has been able to achieve using silicon as an optical material," says Moore. "His earlier contributions using light to help test silicon devices were creative and useful, but not surprising. On the other hand, making Raman lasers in silicon was a real surprise to me, and the switching speeds that he has achieved with optical silicon structures are impressive, unexpected (by me and by other experts in the field), and potentially useful."
As a result of his work, Paniccia, 42, has received two Intel Achievement Awards, has published more than 100 papers, including three book chapters, three Nature papers, three Nature Photonics papers, and has more than 67 patents issued or pending. Paniccia commends Intel for sticking with the research when there were so many opportunities to kill it. He also credits his parents for intilling in him a strong work ethic, as well as the support from his family, including his twin brother, Anthony, his sister, Loretta, and especially his wife, Rachel.
"I have been fortunate in my life and have had many people help and mentor me along the way. My advice has always been to follow your dreams with passion and remember to always give back. Someone helped you along the way; remember to help others."
If Moore's Law and Intel's track record are any indication, says Paniccia, silicon photonics may revolutionize future communications. He hopes to see it in products in the next three to five years.
"We are just at the beginning. The fun is just starting. I can't imagine what 10 years from now we will be building."
Published in R & D magazine: Vol. 50, No. 7, December, 2008, p.16-19


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It can also provide information on how the truck was operated, such as engine speed, brake applications, throttle position, vehicle speed, seat-belt usage, and airbag performance data. Because the black box's data storage ability is rather limited, the old data usually rewrites over the new data in a loop. Some trucks have loops as short as 10 minutes. On these trucks, if an accident does not occur, the old data is erased and replaced with new data.
Plaintiffs' counsel needs to make sure after the accident that anyone who has custody of the truck does not move or try to repair the truck, remove the truck's black box, or retrieve or attempt to retrieve the information on the box. Instead, the parties should either agree (or you should seek a temporary restraining order from the court) to a joint inspection of the vehicle so that the black box data can be recovered with all parties of interest present. While it is generally accepted that the vehicle owner owns the data, the truck company cannot knowingly destroy data it believes is relevant to a civil lawsuit in Maryland.
Anyone handling a truck crash should also know that some commerical insurance polices contain language that gives the insurance company the right to retrieve the black box data. If the vehicle has been destroyed or the black box data has been erased after the wreck, you should should still request the information because either the company or the insurance company may have preserved the data after the accident. If you do not ask for the information, the trucking company and their insurance company has no obligation to provide it.
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It's the classic textbook case for the benefits of cloud computing. SchoolBrains was looking to reduce IT expenses and offer a high-performance user experience. Over the years, this Independent Software Vendor's innovative Software-as-a-Service was enhanced allowing school districts to subscribe to the tools they require on a per-user subscription basis. Starting off in server co-location facilities using owned-and-operated equipment, as well as traditional web hosting providers like Rackspace and others, they found themselves being forced to hire a team of full-time IT infrastructure engineers. On top of that, their server and network performance was sub-par due to the constraints architected into their providers' networks.
Additionally, SchoolBrains, built on a .Net platform with MS SQL, requires both server and network flexibility and scalability. As new customers are added, each district receives their individual database with a variety of custom module. Large urban districts require a more robust instance, while smaller urban districts will find exceptional performance with a smaller number of resources.
After speaking with and evaluating a number of Cloud Computing providers, SchoolBrains selected ProfitBricks.
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Customers are more knowledgeable and demanding than ever before. The entire organization must be "customer-centered," shifting from the more traditional "process-centered" focus, ensuring that the organization can meet new challenges. This shift necessitates a complete rethink of an organization, concentrating on the critical success factors of people, process, technology, and environment, to bring about extraordinary customer service.
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At 15 teams, ACC says it has no plans for further expansion
NEW YORK -- The Atlantic Coast Conference is now a 15-team league -- and it might just stay that way for a while.
After Commissioner John Swofford welcomed Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Notre Dame to the ACC at a news conference at the NASDAQ stock exchange in Manhattan, he said that further expansion isn't on the agenda.
Here's a look at just a few of the dozens of conference switches in Division I that became official on July 1:
• The American Athletic Conference opened for business and Memphis, Central Florida, SMU and Houston left Conference USA to become members of the conference formerly known as the Big East.• The new Big East is up and running. The basketball-centric league was created by old Big East members Villanova, Georgetown, St. John's, Providence, Seton Hall, Marquette and DePaul. Joining them on Monday was Butler, Xavier and Creighton.
• Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, North Texas, Old Dominion and Texas-San Antonio all became members of Conference USA, as the league restocks after being gutted by the American.• Georgia State, UT-Arlington and Texas State are now in the Sun Belt, as the conference restocks after being gutted by C-USA.
• The Mountain West adds Utah State and San Jose State from the Western Athletic Conference, which is now out of the football business.
• Coming in 2014: Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten. Louisville to the ACC. East Carolina, Tulsa and Tulane to the American. Georgia Southern and Appalachian State join the Sun Belt.
-- The Associated Press
"It's not a topic of conversation for us right now," he said. "I would not anticipate it being in the future, but we'll see. I don't predict the future much anymore, I've learned better. But it's not something that's on the table for discussion in our league right now."
Swofford was joined at the news conference by Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher, Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer, Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey, Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim and former Pittsburgh great and now Arizona Cardinals star receiver Larry Fitzgerald. The group then took part in a closing bell ceremony at the stock market.
The ACC even brought the mascots to Times Square for an event it dubbed #ACCtakeNYC on Twitter. The fuzzy crew of costumed characters was bouncing around Manhattan on Sunday, posting pictures on Twitter from various tourist attractions.
The ACC does have one more lineup change scheduled for next year, when Maryland leaves for the Big Ten and Louisville joins.
The Cardinals were picked to replace the Terrapins ahead of Cincinnati and Connecticut. Both of those schools lobbied the ACC to be next out of the Big East and both remain in the newly renamed American Athletic Conference.
If the ACC ever does decide to go to 17 members -- 16 for football as Notre Dame will remain an independent in its flagship sport -- Cincinnati and Connecticut would make geographic sense and fit in perfectly with what is shaping up to be the most formidable basketball conference in the country. Syracuse and Pittsburgh have been perennial top-20 basketball programs in recent years, and Louisville is the defending NCAA champion.
"From an athletic perspective, I think it's more than fair to say this is the strongest collection of basketball programs that has ever been assembled in one conference," Swofford said. "And our potential from a football standpoint is truly unlimited."
On the football side, Louisville is coming off one of its most successful seasons, capped by a victory against Florida in the Sugar Bowl. Syracuse and Pittsburgh haven't been made much noise nationally in football for most of the last decade, though Fisher said ACC football is better with the arrival of the Panthers and Orange this year and Cardinals next.
"You're talking about a league that can compete for national championships," said Fisher, whose Seminoles are the defending ACC champions and finished No. 10 in the country last season.
But while conference realignment has mostly been driven by football and the enormous amount of revenue that comes with it, the ACC has been careful to continue to cultivate the sport that it is most famous for: men's basketball.
"Give the commissioner credit because when they went to expand this time, these were basketball decisions," Brey said.
ACC football has been generally perceived as the weakest of the five major football conferences. The league hasn't won a national title in football since Florida State in 1999 and its record in BCS games is 3-13.
"What we are striving to do is to be known as the strongest and best across the board," Swofford said. "Nothing wrong with being really good in both.
"I don't think the conference has to have a label per se. That usually has to do with where you've had the most success from a national perspective historically. Our league has had more national success historically in basketball than in football, though we've had our success in football as well."
For Pittsburgh and Syracuse the process of changing conferences started, at least publicly, in 2010. The ACC invited the two of them the weekend of Sept. 17.
Still, this day was anything but anticlimactic for the Panthers and Orange.
"As much as we've planned and we're excited about it, this became real for us [Monday], and we're making a big deal about it," Pitt Athletic Director Steve Pederson said.


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We will promote and participate in the 10/16/14 CA ShakeOut with a community-wide communication drill (details to be determined) and some neighborhood surveys, incorporating volunteer Neighborhood Leads, volunteer CERT-trained residents and a volunteer ham radio and communication team. This will be followed up on 10/17 with a recap of lessons learned.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
CA ShakeOut community earthquake drill and neighborhood survey
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Followup email and social media postings to the community to commemorate 10/17 Loma Prieta and share results and lessons learned from the previous day's community drill.
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Technology Type: Writing, Organization Skills
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AlphaSmart is used as a dedicated word processor for the learner's note-taking and writing assignments. In addition to the word processor, there is also a spell checker and a calculator. Using this simple portable tool, the learner can:
- Access and store files
- Transfer to another computer at a later point in time
- Use calculator, writing support tools
- Can be used on combination with Co-Writer using an add-on application
- Simple to use - no operating system but Mac- and PC-compatible for file transfer
Entering and formatting of text occurs as with a normal word processor, but the interface is simplified with approximately six lines of text showing, depending on the font size. The program also features an easy-to-use spell checker, thesaurus and writing support tools. All buttons and functions are designed to be very simple so that the learner can become independent.
The Alphasmart Neo is low cost, and provides portable light-weight word processing. The Alphasmart Dana has wireless and eBook capability and is typically used by older students.
The Alphasmart is often recommend for students with learning disabilities through the licence made available by the Ontario Ministry of Education IEP process. It is available on the portable Adaptive Technology cart located in the OISE computer labs. Speak to your instructor for access to this portable system, for educational/training purposes.
- Assists learners with writing related activities, particularly LD or ASD students
- Simple to use, allowing students to work independently and reducing frustration
- Lightweight, portable
- Relatively low cost (~$200)
View a short interactive virtual tour of the Alphsmart NEO.
A full range of tutorials on use of AlphaSmart are available from the Special Education Technology British Columbia Organization. Visit SET-BC AlphaSmart Resources.
See also the AlphaSmart Neo Quick Start Guide


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Welcome to the Hakuba Snow Report which updates snow conditions in Hakuba Ski Resort, Japan regularly. Our reports have now closed for the 2011/12 season but will return in December 2012. We are looking for writers (reports), contributors (pics/videos) and/or sponsors for the report. We presently work with some awesome people inNozawa Onsen and Myoko Kogen and would love to have some new Hakuba crew on board. Please contact us if interested.
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Orçamento $30-250 USD
Need a cover design for a book on a child custody battle. Boy lost in the shadows of Eastern Europe...I Fought The Law and I Won!
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Alexandra Liveris is currently an MFA Candidate in Stanford University's Documentary Film Program. In 2013 she directed three shorts and is currently directing a documentary under the working title "A Church at Ground Zero," about the struggle to rebuild the only religious site destroyed on 9/11. Prior to making films, she worked for the Clinton Global Initiative and at Charlie Rose. She is a 2013 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow. Liveris graduated in 2007 from Tufts University with a degree in International Relations. (Press materials)
The 8-minute "Nocturnity" will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18.
Please give us your description of the film playing.
Young filmmaker Alexandra Liveris suffers from a dire and bizarre strain of insomnia called Nocturnal Sleep-Related Eating Disorder. Along with one million other Americans, she gets up in the middle of the night, multiple times, and unconsciously eats fatty foods, with little to zero recollection the next day, rendering her body and mind a complete wasteland. After failed attempts to find a cure from the top minds in the medical community, she tracks her sleepwalker's journey with surveillance cameras. When she is confronted with the image of her sleepwalking self, her sense of identity is turned inside out.
What drew you to this story?
This is a personal documentary about a rare disorder that I have dealt with from the age of seventeen. There is very little research being conducted on this disorder, and I have always wanted to understand if its onset is psychologically or biologically driven. This film and the experiment conducted within the film helped me get one step closer to answering that question.
What was the biggest challenge?
I appear in three different "forms" in this short documentary: in the video diary speaking directly to the camera, in observationally shot footage, and in the surveillance images. As the editor, director, and subject of the film, I had to live both inside and outside of my own mind involving a very complex psychological issue. It was a great and rewarding challenge to figure out how to have these three different selves work in concert with each other.
What advice do you have for other female directors?
Fearlessly follow subject matters that are important to you and elicit advice from trusted sources at every stage of the creative journey.
What's the biggest misconception about you and your work?
Documentary film is ultimately the creative treatment of actuality. It's nonfiction work that will never be void of subjectivity.
Do you have any thoughts on what are the biggest challenges and/or opportunities for the future with the changing distribution mechanisms for films?
I think for small-budget independent filmmakers, it is about finding a balance between maintaing a hype around your film while allowing it to reach as many audiences as possible through multiple platforms.
Name your favorite women directed film and why.
Clio Barnard's docudrama The Arbor for her inventive and layered approach to illuminating the life of both a playwright and her work through using lip-synced reenactments that utilize the voices of her real-life characters.
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Short-term home rentals illegal, warn authorities
Rising numbers of holidaymakers around the world are using Internet booking sites to stay in homes as a cheaper, more interesting alternative to hotels, including in Singapore. But this is illegal here, the authorities have warned home owners. Renting out a room or a whole unit short-term is in breach of private and public housing rules, and owners can face tough penalties if they are caught doing so.
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A great claw hook that offer factastic hooking characteristics thanks to the ultra thin and super Sharp point and its 15-degrees in-turned eye. The wide gape allows this hook to hold better, even under heavy pressure. The in-turned curved point also offers major advantages on a bumby bottom; these hooks remain sharper longer than hooks with a straight point because they are protected better against ie. stones and rocks. The special 'flat forged curved shank' gives it extra strength and power. Specialist 'R hooks are ideal for River fishing or for fishing on waters where a lot of pressure needs to be put on the fish after it is hooked. Thereby this is the ideal hook shape for when fish have a softer mouth such as in the summer with higher water temperatures!
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Sweet sour cucumber dill salad
Sweet/sour cucumber dill salad
Serves 4
2 cucumbers
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1.5 tbsp agave syrup or honey
1/2 cup dill
salt and pepper
For this salad its best to use a food processor or other slicer that creates very very thin slices. First peel the cucumbers and then slice them very finely. Mix the white wine vinegar with the honey and a pinch of salt. Poor over the cucumbers and sprinkle with dill.
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A lot has been said about the purchase funnel.
In fact so much has been said about it that many feel it has been exhausted to death. In its wake, a smorgasbord of geometric configurations have been posited: cylinder, concentric circles, orbits, spindles, dodecahedrons (ok, I added that one).
Type 'purchase process' into Google Images and scroll away: everything from crazy path diagrams, the old funnel, cartoons and one that suggests it's now a pretzel! Personally, I prefer the poetic variety such as the 'consumer journey'.
It suggests a Tolkien-esque epic requiring consumers to circumvent mythical creatures and fiery environs. Which is a typical experience for any of you that have hazarded Bluewater on a Saturday!
But whether it's a funnel, a journey or a cycle the one thing that is generally the same is that it has a recognized objective beginning and end. That is to say, one of the chief goals of any marketer is to create awareness of their product or service and ultimately keep people interested enough to drive them to purchase.
Now, the 21st century has brought us some amazing innovations and marketing practice has seen its fair share. Ad networks, real-time bidding systems, automated work flow systems, CRM, content management, email management and on and on.
At this rate you would think the marketing department had been replaced by a single computer (or more specifically in the case of an ad agency, a MacBook air.) But it hasn't.
You're looking at the wrong part of the funnel
Marketing professionals still manage decisions about where to focus. But there is some bias going on.
Much of the marketer's time and resources are aimed at the very top and bottom of the funnel. This has created a gap, one which costs firms a lot in terms of money and lost opportunity.
The middle of the funnel or the journey is where most prospective customers are lost. Potential customers enter the journey by saying "Hey, I'm interested...tell me more", yet most acquisition strategies keep pushing them to just buy.
'Here is an offer' is the usual next response to some anonymous web visit. Go to just about any company's web page, click around and then exit.
Watch what comes next…a steady barrage of display ads, interstitials and emails offering you deals if you'd only come back. This is retargeting.
A lot of money is spent on it but, unfortunately, a majority of that spend is either too early or too late.
Retargeting is usually too early or too late
When a prospect steps up and says 'I'm interested' this typically means, 'tell me more. Not 'make me an offer'.
The more consideration going into that purchase means they really want you to tell them more, not be shouted at. Perversely then, investment in retargeting that constantly shouts 'Buy, buy, buy!' has gone through the roof.
The underlying idea of retargeting is that when a person lands on a site and clicks around that they are 'in the purchase moment'. If they don't make a purchase and instead leave, this suddenly qualifies them to become a prime prospect that deserves being chased down.
This is how things work in real world isn't it? You browse in Oddbins and in the event you have to leave, it would not be unreasonable for the cashier to follow you for weeks after you've lost interest saying, "Buy this 'Banner Ad du vin'- it's only £8.99' over and over again.
For sure, there have been some nice successes from retargeting but it also has its problems and many of those protential customers will ultimately go on to buy from a competitor…thus all the efforts to drag them back are too late. You've lost their interest.
Content marketing: maintaining interest in the middle
The good news is that many companies already have the assets in place to change the way this happens.
For the past several years the focus on generating 'content marketing strategies' has increased significantly. The idea of one's own media is not novel anymore,it's a requirement. However, the focus has primarily been on content creation and curation.
The next evolution of content marketing is to apply the similar focus on technology and automation that we've seen in the paid media space. Technology is emerging that can utilize the knowledge of how people consume content in order to optimize what type of content, when and through which channel to serve it next.
Done well, with an understanding of what drives the most efficient journey for an individual consumer, amazing results can happen in the middle of that purchase funnel/journey/pretzel (please delete as appropriate).
A lot of marketers, in the face of diminishing returns from increasing paid media spends, are wondering where the next incremental performance increase is going to come from.
If you're going to maintain that potential customer's interest - it won't be through paid media or offer retargeting, it will come from brand's own media efforts that meet the intersection between customer interest and brand offering in a timely, non-shouty and interesting fashion.
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Interesting Andrew, and I do agree about the middle of the funnel...but I disagree that there's an end. One of the strengths of content marketing is that it drives advocacy and pushes users through the other end of the funnel, so to speak. Content shared by advocates instigates a new funnel for new prospective customers.


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Low water shut-off switches are a great choice for indoor fountain applications, as well as any other application where you may need a switch to stop your pump when water reaches a certain level. These switches are perfect for making sure your water feature does not drain completely if your water evaporates over time. The emergency low water shut-off switch has no moving parts that can seize up or get wedged between the pump and the wall of the pit and prevent the pump from running, or cause it to run continuously and burn out. As this switch is electronic, it has features that just aren't available in mechanical switches, such as the alarms that are described below. Whether replacing a switch that has already failed or just being pro-active, installing a Low Water Shut-Off Switch just makes sense to help prevent your tank or reservoir from running empty and burning out your pump. This Low Water Shut-Off Switch works with most brands of pumps up to 14 amps: DuraMAC, Little Giant, Zoeller, and Liberty.
Q. "Why would I need one of these switches?"
A. These electronic low water shut-off switches can be used in many applications to protect your pump from running dry. These switches will keep the pump on until water falls below the sensor. Once this happens, the pump is shut-off to keep it from going dry and causing your pump to burn out.
Q. "How hard are these low water shut-off switches to install?"
A. These switches require no tools to install. Simply place the sensor at the position in your tank or pit where you want the pump to turn off, plug the control module into a standard 120 VAC outlet, and then plug the pump into the "piggyback plug" on the control module.
Q. "How can these low water shut-off switches save my pump?"
A. These switches can stop your pump from draining a holding tank or pond. Once the tank or pond is empty, the pump will begin to take in air, thus running at a faster current and eventually burning the pump out. This can happen for many reasons, such as if you have a tiered pond and something happens in the upper levels causing your water to overflow out of the channel and away from the lower pond and the pump. This could eventually lead to your lower pond being completely drained of water. This could potentially harm or kill whatever aquatic life you may have. These switches can be placed inside the lower pond at a desired position, thus shutting off the pump prior to it draining the pond completely.
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DENVER (CBS4) – The Rock 'n' Roll Denver Marathon & 1/2 is Sunday, Oct. 19, and those doing the marathon still have five or six solid weeks left before they start tapering back.
"For the 1/2, 5 or 10K, you should really be ramping up. This is the meat of your time to get ready," said two-time Olympian Alan Culpepper.
Culpepper recommends that people who are running the 5K for the first time should really consider following a training plan.
"Having a plan will help alleviate unnecessary anxiety about what you should be doing training-wise and will provide a nice added element of accountability," Culpepper said.
Culpepper also suggests finding a friend, family member or training group to train with.
"Accountability via a training plan and training partners a few days a week will make a huge difference," Culpepper added.
The Rock 'n' Roll Denver Marathon & 1/2 is Sunday, Oct. 19, at 7:15 a.m. at Civic Center Park.
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I have attended a visa interview for H1b in Ireland in December 2012. The VO kept my passport and told me that he was looking for W2's to be sent from the employer. He dint mention that
my case is in administrative processing.
Now after a month I received an email saying that my case is still in review. The next day my employer received an email from the VO asking for all the support documents submitted at the time of filing the petition and also the count of foreign and US citizens working in the company.
My issue now is that I can't stay in Ireland for long and would like to go to India.
So if i ask for my passport would the VO in Ireland transfer my case to India. Could you tell me how does this process work?
Administrative Processing Passport Retained
During US visa interview visa officer can issues Administrative processing and keep the passport with them while your case is processed. In some instances, visa would be
approved during the interview, but few days later, US visa applicant will be notified about Administrative Processing Passport Kept with them.
What is Administrative Processing?
According to US Dept of State – Some visa applications require further administrative processing, which takes additional time after the visa applicant's interview by a Consular Officer.
Applicants are advised of this requirement when they apply. Most administrative processing is resolved within 60 days of the visa interview. When administrative processing is required, the timing will vary based on individual circumstances of each case. Visa applicants are reminded to apply early for their
visa, well in advance of the anticipated travel date. I'm aware that you can request the passport back while your US visa application is under Administrative processing.
But, I want to find an official source from US Embassy. According to US Embassy in US Consulate Shanghai
If you are planning to travel abroad while your U.S. non-immigrant visa application is pending, let the Consular Officer know at the time of your interview that you need to retain your passport. Once a decision is made on your visa application, we will contact you and request you to return your passport to our Consular section.
If approved, your passport with visa will only be mailed back to the address you provided on your mailing label. I cannot comment on if its possible for US Consulate to transfer your case to another Embassy or Consulate.
I doubt that would be possible. Read this Visa Interview Experience of a student – My Son's Journey to USA ) who got attended Visa interview in UK, got 221g, then traveled to India, received Visa approval while he was in India, flew back to UK to get his passport. Sine, you have completed your interview, you may have to contact the Us Consulate and request your Passport.


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2017 Genesis G90 RWD 5.0 Ultimate Review
This is the 2017 Genesis G90 RWD 5.0 Ultimate. Well you'll notice they are now referring to the Hyundai Genesis and simply Genesis and there are currently only two models, the G80 and G90. It replaces the Equus top of the line model for Hyundai.
Most recently you may recall that Chrysler spun off the Ram from Dodge to a separate entity named Ram and the truck is simply Ram.
It is curious why such a distinction from the link to Hyundai that has such a good name in the minds of the industry and the consumer.
Right after receiving the car for review I had the occasion to go from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara for a memorial for a friend. Not only is the coast route 101 a fabulously beautiful drive the car made the journey stress free. I can't 'stress' too much how comfortable a long ride can be with two features I especially appreciate. Smart Cruise (that includes Crash Avoidance) and Lane Assist when they are well engineered are fabulous. When you can drive 100 miles without stopping and never putting your foot on the gas or brake pedals it's a good day. One day, of course, these two features will be standard equipment on all cars. Another feature that adds to these two is the Smart Blind Spot Detection and warning.
Only one complaint I found very quickly is the difficulty in setting up a new destination on the Navigation system. My phone works much better. I literally, in frustration, gave up trying to enter an address, city and state. I had to use a POI (point of interest) approach to put in a recognized place and that was relatively easy. Had it not been in the system the address entry was horrible… to me. I figure in the hundreds of reviewed Nav systems over the years that I've used I know when one is good and not so good.
General Information:
It is assembled in – Ulsan, Korea; Parts – US/Canadian 2%, Korea 89%, Engine and Transmission – Korea; Classification is Large Cars. Cars from Genesis: G80 and G90.
Handling & Performance:
Outstanding handling with that special feel of quality. Fuel economy is much the same across the board with the Genesis coming in a couple of mpg less than the rest of the field noted below.
The performance is wonderfully fast and smooth. Really nice.
The first thing I found people asked, "is it a Bentley". No, of course it isn't but it has that appearance of a car of distinction. You will observe a lot of looks partially because it is a newcomer to the field of luxury cars.
Fit and Finish:
Excellent job of assembly that I have found in Hyundai and Kia products.
On the lower end of price in this class and competitors.
Conveniences and comfort:
Outstanding level of features that make the driving experience very special. The list will knock your socks off – it did me. I'm impressed.
Consumer Recommendations:
If you're looking for a luxury sedan you must include this in your search. You'll be glad you did, and to boot, the warranty is the best of the bunch noted here with a 10 year, 100,000-mile powertrain coverage.
Recognized Competition:
Genesis G90 $71,000, Audi A7 $72,000, Audi A8 $83.000, Lincoln Continental $64,000, BMW 6 Series $81,000, BMW 7 Series $82,000.
Good News:
Well priced, great value for luxury car buyers, fantastic ride, powerful and a pure delight to drive.
Bad News:
Nav system ticked me off because if it isn't super easy I'm not a happy camper.
Standard Equipment:
5.0 liter GDI DOHC Turbo V8 420 hp engine, 8-speed automatic transmission with shiftronic paddle shifters, adaptive control suspension with electronic damping control, intelligent drive mode with smart shift, 19" Alloy Wheels, Smart cruise control with stop / start feature, heads up display, stability and traction control and brake assist, 9-airbags including driver's knee airbag, emergency braking with pedestrian detection, blind spot detection and rear cross-traffic alert, lane departure warning and lane keep assist, driver attention alert, multi view camera with front and rear parking sensors, leather wrapped dash, door trim and genuine wood interior trim, full LED headlights with dynamic bending light, high beam assist and LED daytime running lights, Nappa Leather seating surfaces and microfiber suede headliner, 22-way power driver seat and 16-way front passenger power seat, 14-way power right rear seat and 12-way power left rear seat, heated and ventilated seats, ?Electroluminescent cluster with 7" Color HD LCD multi-informational display, Lexicon 17-speaker 7.1 surround sound audio, Quantum Logic Surround and Clari-Fi music Restoration technology, AM/FM/HD radio, MP3 audio,Sirius XM radio with 90 day trial, front seat wireless device charger, 3-zone climate control and CO2 sensor, power tilt and slide sunroof and acoustic laminated windows, power rear side window sunshades and power rear sunshade, power door closure and hands free smart power trunk with auto open.
Gas Stats:
$2.69/ Gal avg. January 15, 2017
for more information.
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Online platform to display georeferenced information from a database on a Map
Orçamento $1500-3000 USD
The system will be an online platform where our subscribed users can perform queries (based on configured permissions/limits) to display informational tables and display on a map information about different countries / provinces / municipalities / cities / sectors / neighborhoods using classification variables.
Our database already contains the information:
The system must have:
- Modern interface easy for end users to use.
-The ability to import new information and parse new variables from the database.
-The ability to generate probabilistic and non-probabilistic samples using the information from the database and display it on a map and in tables.
-The ability to export map/tables to PDF.
- Granular user permissions for what they can access on the system: search / sampling / tables / export to PDF. And also limits per country / cities / provinces / sectors / neighborhoods, etc.
- Detect/block/notify of multiple log-ins by the same user from different ip/computer.
Sample database and document describing the structure will be provided.
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LEE'S SUMMIT – The Missouri Department of Transportation will CLOSE the eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 470 between Douglas Street and Route 291 beginning Friday, May 19, at 8 p.m. until approximately Monday morning, May 22, at 4 a.m. This closure is for the demolition of the north half of the Colbern Road bridge over I-470. Traffic on Colbern Road will be head to head on the south part of the bridge as the north part of the bridge is demolished. Motorists are encouraged to find alternate routes.
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It was easily the most genuine reaction of the summer. Danielle's jaw literally dropped at the conclusion of the eviction ceremony on Thursday's "Big Brother" episode. She'd secured her spot in the Final Three by taking the latest HOH competition. She put up her former coach, Dan, alongside Ian for eviction.
But Dan has proven himself the smoothest talker to perhaps ever play the game, and worked his magic again. He convinced Danielle to pull him off the block and put up her boyfriend Shane. Dan assured her that Shane was safe, and so she assured Shane that he was safe when letting him in on the plan.
What she didn't now was that Dan had been trying to get rid of Shane for awhile. With only four people in the house, the person who isn't up for elimination gets the sole vote to evict, and once Danielle used the POV on Dan, the power was his.
With this power, he sent Shane packing, stunning everyone in the house. Ian was certain he was a dead houseguest walking. Danielle, though, felt completely betrayed by Dan yet again. How many times has he lied to her face, and then smoothed it over to keep her by his side? Perhaps, though, Dan is aware at this point that he can't win because, as HitFix suggested, he may have too much blood on his hands. So if he can't win it, why not his "player"?
This time, he said he booted Shane to help her win the game by assuring her Shane's vote from the jury house. Could he be telling the truth? Unlikely, considering he's been talking to the cameras about all the work he's doing to take home the top prize for himself.
Tune in for the aftermath, and the final HOH competition of the season, on Sunday at 8 p.m ET, and then find out who wins it all next Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. ET on CBS.
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You Probably Need a Will, So Here's How to Have That Potentially Awkward Conversation with Your Family
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I have lived with a gay person I call her Mom. Actually, I had three moms growing up: the woman who gave birth to me, the woman my mom fell in love with, and my father's partner.
I know people have lots of questions about how I came to live in this post-modern sitcom. It's a good story — shame and loneliness replaced with friendship and love — but it's not mine to tell. There's nothing wrong with being curious, but straight people have a tendency to ask me extremely personal questions about my life without realizing what they're asking. This is not entirely their fault; in the past, there wasn't a lot of media about gay history, and I'm usually the first kid-of-lesbians many straight people meet.
This first question I'm usually asked is "How were you born?" I honestly think people blurt this out by accident; their mid screams "turkey-baster baby," their mouths fall open, and it just comes out. I know this because they always look slightly horrified a few seconds later. They realize they just asked me about my mom's vagina.
The story of how I got here is actually not that amusing. When gays have kids on TV, they often adopt or find a sperm donor. The story of my birth is the story of my mom living a lie, which is how many gays throughout history became parents. When straight people picture the course of their life, it's usually pretty simple: college, marriage, kids. Once you discover you're gay, when's become if's. There's an epic struggle behind every happy, successful LBGT couple living in the suburbs. (If I were a gay baby boomer, I'd be living an apartment with three parrots right now.)
Most children of LGBT people are just not that comfortable talking about something that was so painful for their parents.
People typically ask me if I'm gay, too. This one isn't accidentally blurted out. It seems like some people have confused LBGT efforts to increase their visibility with the belief that it's OK to ask some one if they're gay. It's not. All LGBT people live with a constant threat of physical violence for being who they are, so they do not why you are asking them this question.
Also, I have run into people who think being LGBT is a learned behavior, or worse, they think my parents are perverts who groomed me to be a lesbian. Homosexuality is organic, though. I have lived with a lesbian most of my life, and when I watched Blue is the Warmest Color, the only thing that film made me crave was spaghetti.
There's also a group of people who tend to concern-troll me without really meaning to. They want to know how I will deal with my own hypothetical kids' classmates finding out they have two grandmas. What will I do if a future boyfriend's parents do not like gay people? I know they're just trying to make conversation, but these chats are not fun for me because I actually do worry about stuff like this. The world is changing, but is it changing fast enough for me to never hear one of my future in-laws blurt out "You guys are just like a real family" during Thanksgiving dinner? I hope so, but I don't know.
I have also endured all kinds of intentionally ignorant bros who want to know if my moms are the "hot" lesbians or the "manly" ones. Then there are other women who assume my lack of femininity is due to how I was raised, when really I'm just lazy and don't like waking up early.
Somehow, it's almost harder to deal with people who are not homophobes. Normally, I'm stoked to talk about my moms and LBGT issues, but sometimes I'm just not in the mood. I cannot imagine what it's like for actual gay people to deal with the would-be-enlightened; I would just loan them some Ginsberg, tell them to watch Paris is Burning, Google the Stonewall Inn and call it a day.
Of course, there are some questions I don't mind getting asked: how my parents met, when they got married, and all the ways they annoy me are fine. I just want to talk to about normal family stuff, because I feel like my family is normal — not something worthy of a Netflix documentary.
When my mom first came out to me when I was 12, after a decade of being alone, I felt like it was huge sea change, but the next morning, I woke up in the same house and my mom was still my mom. There were still Pop Tarts in the pantry and dial-up internet. So I stopped caring. Now I'm just waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.


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The temptation is to think the USC men's team is camped out at rock bottom in the SEC.
Losing 74-71 on Saturday at home against Auburn days after an ugly loss at a supposedly bottom-feeding Mississippi State would appear to provide plenty of evidence to that effect.
First-year USC coach Frank Martin is more of a marathoner than a sprinter, though. So while USC is 10-5 overall and 0-2 in conference play, he sees a little hope.
"The bright side is, we're knocking on the door," Martin said. "We're right there. There's a lot of plays we can make that we're leaving on the court, be it layups, rebounds we miss, simple passes we don't make.
"There's a lot of plays we can make," Martin continued. "That's two games that if we make just one more layup or make one more play, we're probably sitting at 2-0 right now."
Two plays that stand out came at the end of the game. Trailing by three with the ball and 35 seconds remaining, USC failed to convert coming out of one timeout, but got a second chance with 9 seconds.
They didn't make the most of it.
Mindaugas Kacinas took the inbounds pass at the wrong spot on the floor and was swallowed up by Auburn's defense as he handed off to Bruce Ellington. Finding himself in a crowd of orange jerseys and with Kacinas tangled up among them, Ellington put up a poor attempt that missed badly.
It was an unfortunate end to what had been an entertaining game for the announced crowd of 9,117. There were 27 lead changes and 13 ties as both teams traded shot-for-shot for much of the second half.
Auburn started hot and remained hot throughout the game, hitting 58.5 percent of its shots — 60 percent in the first half and 57.1 percent in the second half.
The Gamecocks, fueled by a dominant offensive rebounding performance, countered with volume. USC grabbed 17 offensive boards, led by guard Damien Leonard's six.
But when USC would get a big shot, Auburn always seemed ready to answer. When Eric Smith nailed a 3-pointer for a 66-64 lead, Brian Greene replied with one of his own to take back the lead.
When Smith responded with another three, Auburn rattled off five consecutive points to scramble back in front, 71-69.
And so it went.
"Missing layups, that's all I've got to say," Ellington offered after the game. "And down the stretch, we need to sit down and guard the ball."
Martin praised the Gamecocks' offensive effort on Saturday, but dismissed the team's defense.
"Our defense wasn't any good today," Martin said. "We played hard, don't misunderstand me, but our attention to detail defensively wasn't good. We let them catch the ball wherever they wanted and they have too many shooters."
Frankie Sullivan led Auburn with 17 points. Rob Chubb dominated USC inside for 16 points and 10 rebounds.
Four Gamecocks reached double figures, led by Ellington's 18. Leonard had one of the best games of his career with 17 points and nine rebounds. Smith and Lakeem Jackson each finished with 10 points.
During his time at Kansas State, Martin had teams that began Big 12 play with 0-4 and 1-4 records. Both times, the Wildcats reached postseason play.
"I don't pay attention to the record," Martin said. "Let's worry about the things we can control."
With a good defensive performance in Wednesday's loss at Mississippi State and a solid offensive effort on Saturday, Martin said he has reason to believe the Gamecocks indeed will be better at the end than the beginning.
"I'm a lot more encouraged than discouraged," he said. "As we continue to fight to learn how to win these kinds of games, it's going to be a whole lot of fun when we figure things out."
Frank Martin highlights
Chubb 4-5 8-9 16, Payne 4-7 0-2 8, S. Johnson 1-2 2-4 5, Wallace 0-1 1-2 1, Sullivan 5-13 5-9 17, Dixon-Tatum 1-1 2-2 4, Spencer 0-0 0-0 0, Greene Jr. 6-6 0-0 14, Granger 0-0 0-0 0, N. Johnson 3-6 0-0 9. Totals 24-41 18-28 74.
Kacinas 2-3 2-2 6, Jackson 4-7 2-4 10, Richardson 0-4 0-0 0, Smith 3-6 2-4 10, Ellington 8-15 1-1 18, Williams 0-3 0-0 0, Chatkevicius 0-0 0-0 0, Carrera 1-5 4-4 6, Leonard 6-9 0-1 17, Slawson 2-5 0-0 4. Totals 26-57 11-16 71.
Halftime: South Carolina 39-38. 3-Point Goals: Auburn 8-18 (N. Johnson 3-6, Greene Jr. 2-2, Sullivan 2-7, S. Johnson 1-2, Payne 0-1), South Carolina 8-20 (Leonard 5-8, Smith 2-4, Ellington 1-4, Slawson 0-1, Williams 0-1, Richardson 0-2). Fouled Out: Carrera, N. Johnson. Rebounds: Auburn 24 (Chubb 10), South Carolina 31 (Leonard 9). Assists: Auburn 14 (Wallace 7), South Carolina 20 (Carrera, Ellington 5). Total Fouls: Auburn 23, South Carolina 24. Attendance: 9,117.


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Hitscan attacks in the Doom engine are attacks which use an algorithm that traces a straight path from an origin at a given angle, collects intercepted objects along that path, and then determines the first line or thing hit. A hitscan attack is determined to either hit or miss a target instantaneously, and therefore cannot be dodged. There are no projectiles involved, invisible or otherwise.
All bullet attacks in Doom work like this, in addition to the player's fist and chainsaw weapons. The tracer rays from the BFG are also hitscan attacks. Up to Doom 1.4, demons used short-range hitscan attacks, but this was changed to range-checked direct damage in v1.5.
Most hitscan attacks have a range of 2048 units. The BFG tracers have a range of 1024 units. Damage determination is done separately from the process of scanning for a hit, and is calculated before the scan takes place. Most of these determinations are done randomly. In Doom, player bullet damage is calculated as (P_Random ()%3+1)*5; this returns a value which can be 5, 10, or 15. For monster hitscans, the formula is ((P_Random()%5)+1)*3, returning a value which can be 3, 6, 9, 12, or 15.
Range-checked direct damage[edit]
Monster melee attacks use a simple range check. If the target of such an attack is within "melee range" of its target - 64 units in Doom - damage will be dealt directly and unavoidably. Contrary to hitscan attacks, a range-checked melee attack has no ability to hit an unintended target. If the intended target is out of range, no actual attack takes place regardless of the attacking monster's animation.
Demons used a short-range hitscan attack in Doom 1.4 and earlier versions, allowing for occasional demon-started infighting[1]. This was changed to a range check in v1.5, consistent with the imp, cacodemon, and baron of Hell melee attacks. Some console ports, notably for the Sony PlayStation, retain the pre-v1.5 behavior, which they inherit from Jaguar Doom.
The lost soul in the beta version of Doom used a direct damage telepathic attack consisting merely of a sight check. If its target could be seen at all, it would be damaged. While this appeared similar to a hitscan, it also had no capability of hitting an unintended target, and functioned like a long-ranged melee attack.
See also[edit]
- ↑ A demo by Grazza, recorded in PrBoom+ using v1.2 emulation (plays back with -complevel 0).


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John, Ben, and Chickie are sent out as part of a maximum deployment to capture the "Canyon Rapist," a perp who's been impersonating a cop. Russell is back, but on light duty as he continues to struggle with his recovery after being shot. While working a double-homicide with his old partner, Lydia, he discovers he's no longer up for the job. Sal plans a special night out to commemorate his wife's promotion, but their evening is ruined when their daughter reveals Sal's affair with TV news reporter Mia Sanchez. Chickie gets a chance to prove to herself -- and others -- that she still has what it takes to be a good cop.
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Let's face it: the movement against video games doesn't need any more evidence which they purport indicates violent games as the progenitors of real world violence. Every car that gets stolen by a Grand Theft Auto loving teenager, or school shooting by a kid who has played Doom, is inevitably laid before the taloned feet of the gaming violence bogeyman.
Doubtlessly, a recent tragedy in Baltimore is soon to follow suit: a student at John Hopkins University is being questioned by police for fatally slashing the torso of a man breaking into his off-campus residence last night.
The house is home to four undergraduates whom, on Monday, had a PlayStation 3 and two laptops stolen by a home invader. Needless to say, the break-in put them on edge, and one of the students — with visions of heroism flashing in his mind — began carrying a samurai sword around.
At around 1am last night, the student heard noises outside, and went downstairs to investigate armed with the sword. What he found was a garage door pried open. When he went inside to investigate, he was attacked by the suspect, and responded by slashing him across the chest and nearly cutting off his hand. He died at the scene.
The student probably won't face charges: you're pretty much constitutionally covered if an invader attacks you in your own home. But it's still sad and worrying when a few thousand dollars worth of electronic equipment ends a man's life.
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1. Herzog & de Meuron's showroom at VitraHaus, in Weil am Rhein, Germany
Furniture manufacturer Vitra's grassy headquarters at the meeting point of France, Germany, and Switzerland (just outside Basel) has been an architecture destination since its Frank Gehry–designed museum opened in 1989. There are also buildings by Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando, but the most remarkable sight may be the new showroom and store designed by the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron. The architects have taken the archetypal pitched-roof house, elongated it, and stacked 12 of them up like fireplace logs. Inside, you can follow winding staircases through the dreamlike space and look for home furnishings.
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A sister property of the ultramodern Andels Hotel in Prague, the Polish version is notable for its setting, an immense red-brick mill built by the 19th-century Jewish entrepreneur Izrael Poznanski. The hotel is just one component of a fantastic cultural and shopping district that somehow escaped destruction during World War II. An electrical plant from 1912 is now a disco. An ornate 1877 weaving mill houses restaurants and shops. And, in a former finishing mill, you'll now find the Museum of the Factory.
3. Shweeb, in Rotorua, New Zealand
Australian inventor Geoffrey Barnett dreamed up his human-powered monorail while living in Tokyo, when he wished he could pedal above that city's endless traffic jams. Since 2007, it's been possible to test-drive Barnett's fantasy on the world's first Shweeb, at the Agroventures adventure theme park in Rotorua, New Zealand. Last year, his company, Shweeb Holdings Limited, received $1 million from Google to invest in research on a commuter-powered transit system in a city still to be determined.
4. Vanke Center, in Shenzhen, China
Steven Holl, of Steven Holl Architects, refers to this building as "the horizontal skyscraper." Situated in Shenzhen, the building is about as long as the Empire State Building is tall (1,250 feet) and is mounted on massive, illuminated stilts, called "cores," above a network of tropical gardens. Much of the Vanke Center will be used for offices, but a 200-plus-room hotel will open in fall 2011, offering an unusually tranquil retreat in this bustling city.
5. Souk Waqif, in Doha, Qatar
Souk Waqif is the one great public space that remains in Doha, Qatar, a city that is reinventing itself at lightning speed. In the souk, locals congregate to dine, smoke shishas, meander through a maze of alleys, and shop. The 2008 restoration by designer Mohamed Al Abdullah replaced all structures that seemed at odds with tradition, revitalizing the historic spot.


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