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Eighty-five-year-old Elliott Erwitt has photographed pretty much everything under the sun. With more than 45 books to his name, the Magnum legend's career has spanned the beatniks, hippies, Yuppies and millennials. And while men and women outside the photography world might not recognize his name, they certainly have seen his pictures, many of which have earned the sort of iconic status that artists and craftsmen so often strive for, and so seldom attain.
To commemorate Valentine's Day in a unique and moving way, while still paying heed to our mission of presenting exceptional photography, LightBox turned to Erwitt's sprawling archive for inspiration — and struck gold. Sparked by his famous photograph of a necking couple reflected in a car mirror while parked on a picturesque California overlook, LightBox offers a look at some of Erwitt's masterful images of that uniquely human expression of affection, and ardor. In the midst of public plazas and parades, in cars and kitchens and weddings, Erwitt raised his camera, clicked the shutter, and made the most quotidian of acts — the kiss — look positively divine.
Elliott Erwitt is a Magnum photographer living in New York and was the recipient of the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award in 2011. LightBox has previously featured his work here and here.

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This is a good product in the bustling Pijp area of Amsterdam and comes highly recommneded. 09/2010/jg
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Ideally located in the Pijp district of Amsterdam, the Savoy may be found amongst the myriad of shops and restaurants on the fashionable Ferdinand Bolstraat, close to the Heineken brewery, the Rai congress centre, the Albert Cuyp market, the Rijksmuseum and the city centre of Amsterdam.
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20 kms to the nearest airport (schiphol airport)
2 km to the nearest station (rail station)
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Close to the trade fair ground (rai congress center)
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The bedrooms are medium to large in size and decorated in a striking black, red and green colour scheme. Art deco in style with faux leather headboards, desk with leather office chair, air conditioning and moveable, swivel televisions, the bedrooms are in very good condition and offer luxury accommodation and even offer electronic beds (the head and legs may be raised by remote control). The bathrooms are also very nicely done with white, grey and blue decor and are predominantly shower only.
## Restaurant
Due to its location, there is no restaurant, however, the hotel serves a hot breakfast buffet in the breakfast room located on the ground floor. This is a very large room with large TV screens, a communal breakfast table as well as individual tables, and tea and coffee is available throughout the day. Small snacks are available throughout the day, also..
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Illini, Beckman Survive Broncos for Win, 24-7
CHAMPAIGN, IL (AP)-With quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase injured, Ashante Williams returned an interception 60 yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown to help Illinois and new coach Tim Beckman hang on for a 24-7 win Saturday over Western Michigan in the season opener for both teams.
The Illini opened up a 17-0 lead but their offense stalled when Scheelhaase left the game with an ankle injury late in the third quarter.
The Broncos came to life and pulled to within 17-7 with an 8-yard touchdown from Alex Carder to Jaime Wilson just before the end of the quarter.
Western Michigan was driving again when Williams picked off Carder to douse the comeback.
Scheelhaase was 11 of 18 for 126 yards, a touchdown and an interception. He also ran for a touchdown.
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Why We Want It Now: Quilted Jackets
A throwback to Karl Lagerfeld's F/W 91 collection for Chanel—where he juxtaposed a leather iteration with a sweet pink dress—we've spotted modern renditions, both on and off the runways, that have us yearning for one to call our own. More texturally interesting than a fail-safe leather moto, the quilted jacket will be our next seasonal investment. From DKNY's cowl neck jacket to a stylish civilian's red moto version, read on for all the reasons this piece is on our radar and shop our favourite selections.


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Here it is July again and time for our semiannual tax planning issue. This year will be particularly different as there are many items that are unknown. Will the prior tax cuts stay the same in 2013 or will they be extended? Notwithstanding these questions, we must plan for today and let the future take care of itself. The following suggestions should be considered between now and the end of the year.
The long term capital gain tax rate will rise from 15 percent to 20 percent. Anyone with appreciated assets might want to consider selling and then recognizing the gain this year. Those that are holding a note that is being reported on an installment basis might want to elect out of this tax treatment and accelerate the tax reporting. There is always a danger that all of the payments will not be received, but in that event tax losses can be reported when that fact is known.
Normally, the advice would be to put off receiving income until next year and accelerate tax deductions for this year. But with the income rates scheduled to increase, this theory is in reverse. For instance, an owner of a C corporation that has accumulated earnings and profits in his company should consider paying himself a dividend this year. The dividend rate now is 15 percent but can jump as high as 39.6 percent in 2013. In addition, there will be an increase in the Medicare tax of 3.8 percent on investment income in 2013 bringing the top rate on this ordinary income to 43.4 percent. If Congress retains the 15 percent tax rate on dividends, the 3.8 percent will still be charged to certain taxpayers based on their income level. In relation to other ordinary income, the tax rates will fall back to their pre 2001 level. Therefore, if it is possible to accelerate any income by year end, there will be a saving of almost 4 percent in most of the current tax brackets.
Medical expenses
Any medical expenses incurred should be paid within 2012 while the totals are still subject to the 7.5 percent rule of adjusted gross income. This floor will jump to 10 percent in 2013 for all taxpayers under age 65 and will be extended until 2017 for those over that age.
One positive deduction to remain in effect will be the contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA) plans. These programs are like IRA's as they earn income and are not taxed until withdrawn. In order to have a deductible HSA however, the taxpayer must also have in place a High-Deductible Health Plan (HDHP). There are dollar limits for the contributions to the HSA plans. A self-only account the limit is $3,100 and for a family plan it is $6,250. Anyone over 55 can increase these amounts by a $1,000. These expenses can be claimed as an income reduction whether you itemize your deductions or not. Withdrawal of funds for qualified medical costs will result in no tax at all. If you are healthy and funds are not drawn out you can use this money in retirement. Nonmedical withdrawals for those under 65 incur a 20 percent penalty. The HDHP can be claimed as part of the itemized deductions but to qualify as a HDHP the annual deductible is at least $1,200 for individuals, and $2,400 for family coverage. Comparisons should be made with current health programs to HSA's determine best plan.
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It's not atypical to get a call from an upset reader, usually an individual about whom The Denver Post has carried a story they'd rather not see in print. It's happened more than a few times in my 30 years in the business, 12 of them here at The Post.
The call I got yesterday, though, was from consumer advocate and well-known Troubleshooter Tom Martino who was just a bit — I'm dampening the reality here — peeved about a story I was considering. I hadn't even written anything as yet, but boy did I get an earful.
Tom was particularly incensed at a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court — in his case in particular (11-31115 for anyone wanting to look for themselves online in Pacer) — from FIA Card Services, the credit card company owned by Bank of America, and how the basics of bankruptcy law were being used to make him look bad.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT Poison Gas (Nov, 1937)
THE TRUTH ABOUT Poison Gas
By ALDEN P. ARMAGNAC
FRANCE sells gas masks to its citizens on a five-year installment plan. Germany reveals that it has secretly been manufacturing a new type of gas mask for noncombatants, by the million. Startled Britons learn that the world's first factory for civilian masks, at Blackburn, England, has passed its 9,000,000 mark and is turning out 100,000 a day to reach its quota of a gas mask for every man, woman, and child in the British Isles.
Few doubt that poison gas will play a major role in the dreaded "next world war." What will hap- pen then? Will whole cities, teeming populations, be wiped out in an instant by noxious fumes? Are nations secretly guarding poison gases more horrible than we have ever known ? At the outbreak of a world war, will chemists leap to their test tubes and create terrible new poisons to order?
How far such nightmare stories depart from fact has just been revealed by Lieut. Col. A. M. Prentiss of the U. S. Chemical Warfare Service, whose authoritative new book, "Chemicals in War," debunks many of the popular misconceptions about poison gas.
From time to time we hear rumors of a "supergas," a few hundred pounds of which, dropped from the air, would wipe out the entire population of a city like New York. This country or that is supposed to have discovered it, and to be keeping it in hiding for the next war. Military chemists of a good many nations would like to know of such a gas. The plain fact is that it doesn't exist—except in the imagination of sensational writers.
While two or three new gases have been developed since the World War, none that we know about is startlingly more dangerous than the chemicals used in that conflict. And the mathematical odds are all against the possibility that any nation has secretly discovered such a gas, or will do so in the immediate future.
During the World War, chemists tested more than 3,000 likely chemical compounds and eliminated all but thirty-eight as possible war gases. When these were tried out in battle, not more than half a dozen proved useful for military purposes.
There is a simple reason why additional deadly or disabling war gases are so rare and hard to find. To be a real menace on the battlefield, a gas must be more than poisonous. One of the least effective gases in the World War, for example, was the deadly vapor of hydrocyanic acid. It is one of the most virulent poisons known to man and often is used for the execution of criminals. One or two full breaths cause almost instant death. Fortunately, it has one defect as a war gas. Being lighter than air, it rises harmlessly instead of clinging to the ground and rolling into trenches, dugouts, and city streets.
To be dangerous in wartime use, poison gas must be heavier than air. Raw materials to make it must be readily available. It must be simple to manufacture. It must not spoil in storage. If it is a true gas, it must be capable of being liquefied by moderate pressure in order to be loaded into shells and bombs in concentrated form. If it is a liquid, as some war "gases" are, it must be volatile enough to release clouds of vapor at ordinary temperatures. At least a dozen other requirements could be listed. Discovering a poison gas that combines all these properties is about as easy as finding a left-handed man with blue eyes and a red beard who weighs between 180 and 185 pounds, speaks seven languages, and plays the piccolo!
However, where chemists have been unsuccessful in their search for a super-gas, the mechanicians of the world's armies have devised new and more horrible ways of using the known poisons.
Aerial gas raids are the latest terror in gas warfare. No World War planes carried gas. Today, aircraft equipped to use it in either of two ways are a part of every important air force. Bombs loaded with chemicals now may be dropped upon a target, exploding and scattering their contents. From tanks beneath the wings, liquid gases may also be sprayed into the air like insecticides, to settle slowly to the ground as a poisonous mist. Italian aviators tried out both methods with deadly effect in their Ethiopian campaign. How much harm they would do against troops of a first-class military power, well trained in gas defense, remains to be seen. Uppermost in the average person's mind, however, is the question of what would happen if they should be unleashed upon the millions of noncombatants of a great city such as New York or London.
But will they be? It has been suggested that certain nations have been deliberately inspiring propaganda exaggerating the likelihood and horrors of aerial gas raids on city dwellers, in order to frighten and bluff other countries and get what they want without actually going to war. There are excellent military reasons, aside from any humanitarian considerations, why a great city is one of the least likely of targets for an aerial gas attack.
First of all, tall buildings make it unsafe for aircraft to fly at an altitude as low as 300 feet, as they must do to spray liquid gases. Planes could drop gas-filled bombs, but many would strike rooftops and release their contents harmlessly. Since war gas clings to the ground, poison-gas bombs are not dangerous unless they reach the streets; and only one bomb out of two would do so, on the average. That may not seem very reassuring, until you realize that the concentration or quantity of poison gas in the air may make all the difference between its being (Continued on page 131) deadly and its being harmless, just as carbon monoxide gas from automobile exhausts is deadly in a closed garage and harmless in the street. Fortunately, asphyxiating or "killing" gases like phosgene must be present in high concentration to become any great hazard, and are therefore not to be feared in air raids on cities.
Mustard gas and geranium-scented lewisite, a newer blistering gas, might be dropped in bombs and would be decidedly unpleasant to encounter. Neither is usually fatal, however, and people caught on a city street when a gas-raid alarm was sounded could find instant shelter in tall buildings and would be safe from these gases a few stories above the street with windows closed. After a raid, special squads in masks and protective clothing would block off the gassed areas with danger signs, closing them to traffic, and set about "decontaminating" them by hosing the poison down the sewers or destroying it. with scrub brushes and chloride of lime.
ABOUT the greatest harm to be feared from an aerial gas raid on a city, therefore, would be the terrorizing of the more excitable inhabitants. For this purpose, army tacticians probably will use the relatively harmless tear and sneeze gases, for they do their work at lower concentrations and in smaller quantities than other war gas.
Civilian preparedness has gone a long way toward removing the horrors of gas attacks on noncombatants. Mimic airraid drills, the building of gas-tight refuges, and the distribution of masks have acquainted the man in the street with the various methods of gas defense. In Great Britain, "gas schools" and educational exhibits are teaching city dwellers how to use one room of a house as a gasproof shelter. In case of an air raid, the entire family can move into it and seal it air-tight with newspapers and blankets, using gas masks only if necessary as a second line of defense.
Evidently, we do not need to worry much about gas attacks at home. As for soldiers on the battlefield—well, that is another story.
USING every known gas against enemy troops, air raiders may completely revise the tactics of warfare. Troops will have to be moved to the front by motor truck instead of by train; fixed terminals offer targets too promising for aerial gas attacks. If planes discover and attack the motorized columns, the men will not know whether to scatter for safety from explosive bombs or to stay in their vehicles for cover from gas bombs or spray.
Other new gas weapons will add to the soldier's woes. Chemical land mines will be exploded, and areas sprinkled with liquid poison from motorized tank wagons, to block an advance. The latest compressed-gas cylinders for releasing wind-borne clouds of poison gas from front-line trenches have "silencer nozzles," eliminating the high-pitched hissing noise of world-war cylinders that gave warning five to twenty seconds before the gas arrived.
That is the picture of up-to-date gas warfare, according to those who are in the know.
Horrible? Humane? Much depends upon the point of view.
There is nothing particularly humane about blowing men to pieces with high explosives and riddling them with bullets and bayonets, leaving them to expire in agony or to survive as mutilated physical wrecks. In contrast, chemical-warfare men maintain, gas causes less suffering, and leaves a man whole.
Contrary to popular belief, gas seldom causes permanent injuries or after effects. One common idea is that gas predisposes its victims to tuberculosis, but a medical investigator tracking down this belief actually found half again as many cases of tuberculosis among soldiers who had not been exposed to gas as among soldiers who had been gassed!
AS FOR the deadliness of gas compared to other means of waging war, World War figures show that only two percent of the total gas casualties were fatal, while more than twenty-five percent of casualties from all other causes resulted in death. In other words, a soldier incapacitated by gas had more than twelve times as much chance of escaping with his life as a soldier wounded by other weapons.
However effective it may prove on the battlefield, for the civilian at home in a city far behind the lines the menace of gas appears to be much less than sensational writers would have us believe. Even if this weapon should be used extensively in another war, its natural limitations and the improved defensive methods probably would do much to rob it of its terrors.


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ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school tennis play earlier this week, the Middlebury Union girls' and boys' teams each posted wins, but the Otter Valley girls came up short.
The MUHS boys, who have lost a few matches to weather, evened their record at 1-1 by edging visiting North Country, 4-3. The Falcons dropped to 1-3.
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• At No. 1 singles Travers Parsons-Grayson (NC) defeated Elliott Abbott (M), 6-1, 6-3.


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Thomas Bray papers, Series 1, Box 21, Folder 1: A Letter to Nathaniel Blackistone -- (Sends first draft of Maryland church law, the campaign of Quakers against it, information about clergymen), July 15, 1701
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|Dr. Thomas Bray (1656-1730) was a leading figure in the Church of England in colonial Maryland. The collection includes information on colonial religion, libraries, and the Anglican Church Establishment Act contained in petitions, meeting minutes, correspondence, and theological tracts. For complete collection information, visit the full finding aid at http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1700.
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|Jan 29, 2013
Photonex London Roadshow showcases photonic techniques, tools and equipment
|(Nanowerk News) Following on from the success of the inaugural event, Xmark Media is organising the second Photonics Technology Roadshow at University College London. Once more, visitors will be able to attend a free conference and visit an exhibition from 25 leading suppliers of photonics technologies.
|Continuing the goal to visit a different London university each year, UCL is this year's host and is embracing the opportunity by becoming fully involved with the event planning to make it a success for all attendees.
|The exhibition at the 2012 London Roadshow
|The UK is particularly strong in 'biophotonics' with researchers are continually looking for better ways to analyse and affect complex processes. Photonics underpins many promising approaches for medical diagnosis, drug development, treatment & other clinical and life science applications. The main theme of the meeting looks at the "Advances in photonics tools and techniques for the life sciences." The technical programme committee under the stewardship of Dr Chris Dunsby, Imperial College London, has invited ten leading researchers, each expert in their particular field, to present their latest innovations and developments. The intention is to not only give a good grounding in a particular technique but to demonstrate how photonics and other disciplines collaborate to successfully tackle diverse and complicated issues.
|Within the programme is a talk by Prof Dimitri Kullmann who is Professor of Neurology at the Institute of Neurology at UCL. He will be talking about Optogenetics, a subject recently picked up by the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20513292). It is a new technique in the field of neuroscience which involves genetically engineering neurons to respond to light and then using lasers or light-emitting diodes to stimulate and control their firing.
|The second strand of the conference is a programme of photonics tutorials entitled "Latest photonics techniques and instrumentation." This will be presented by scientists from UCL together with technical experts from the exhibiting companies. This programme will provide an introduction to scientists in research and industry considering using a particular technique for their work.
|Commenting on last year's meetings, Dr Simon Schultz of Imperial College London said, "There was an excellent attendance throughout the day. The scientific programme generated great interest producing a really successful day all round with interesting speakers and visitors".
|For information on the Photonex London Roadshow, visit www.photonex.org/london. Advance registration is essential for the conference, forms should be completed on-line. There are no fees to attend. Sign up now for this free opportunity to broaden your knowledge in the world of photonics.
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Luciana Echazu Receives Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor at Clarkson University
Clarkson University President Tony Collins has announced that Luciana Echazu has been granted tenure and promoted from assistant professor to associate professor of economics and financial studies in the School of Business.
Echazu has been at Clarkson University since 2007, teaching courses in industrial organization with a supply chain application to both graduate and undergraduate students. Her undergraduate courses also include game theory and econometrics.
She received her bachelor of arts degree (licenciatura) from Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, her MBA from East Carolina University, and her master of arts and Ph.D. in economics from University of Memphis.
Echazu's main research interests are in the area of law and economics, with a specific focus in corruption and criminal behavior. She also conducts research in industrial organization, new trade theory and lately she has been working in the area of risk and uncertainty. A common thread in her research is the examination of strategic behavior in different settings.
For example, in "Corruption and the Balance of Gender Power," Echazu models corrupt behavior when there are two groups in the population that interact with one another. She shows that the relationship between the proportion of female participation in government agencies and corruption levels is actually non-monotonic in nature (corruption decreases as female participation increases, but only up to a point, where it becomes increasing). The implications of this paper go beyond the issue of gender, for she shows that the negative relationship between female participation and corruption also applies more broadly to minorities.
In "Corruption and the Distortion of Law Enforcement Effort" (coauthored with Nuno Garoupa), the setting looks at criminal behavior in the presence of multiple enforcement activities where each activity exposes law enforcers to criminals in a different fashion. When law enforcement agents look more for their own benefit, rather than that of the community, the authors find that corruption distorts the allocation of resources to enforcing activities and it dilutes criminal deterrence.
Echazu has coauthored papers with colleagues and presented her work at several national academic conferences. She has published several articles in highly ranked peer reviewed journals including Health Economics, International Review of Law and Economics, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Review of Law and Economics, American Law and Economics Review, Southern Economic Journal, and Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, among others. She has also served as a reviewer for several academic journals and is a member of the American Economic Association and the American Law and Economics Association.
As a teacher, Echazu has received numerous awards. Her accolades include being named MBA Faculty Member of the Year in 2012. She was tapped into Phalanx, Clarkson's highest honorary society, and received the Commendable Leadership Award in 2012. She is also a recipient of the Ralph Janaro Memorial Faculty Award in 2012 and 2011 (presented by the honor society Beta Gamma Sigma), the Outstanding Teacher award by CUSA in 2011, the Respect Award in 2011 and 2012; the Outstanding New Teacher Award in 2009; and the Inspiring Mentor Award in 2009 (presented by Delta Zeta).
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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Gulf Island Hopping Part 5: Hastings House, Salt Spring Island
I knew I was going to love Hastings House before I even got there – how could I not? A boutique Relais and Chateaux hotel, in a Sussex-style farmhouse overlooking the sea, on an island I'd dreamed of visiting for years. On paper it looked good, in reality it was even better. I was living in Brighton before I came to Canada and I used to love to go to the glorious old pubs out in the lush Sussex countryside for lunch. I almost clapped my hands with glee when I saw the Manor House dining room; crackling fire, leaded glass windows – it was like being back home in England – but with the promise of Canadian cuisine to come – the best of both worlds.
Hastings House was built in 1940, a reproduction Tudor-style manor house, it became a hotel in the 1980s with some of the old estate buildings repurposed as luxury country house-style accommodations. I stayed in the west wing of the farmhouse; a two-storey cottage which made me feel I'd stepped back into my grandma's home, everything was pleasingly old-fashioned with just the right soft touches of luxury. From the stone fireplace with its stack of logs to the invitingly cosy sofa and feather-soft bed, here was a hotel that I could happily have moved into.
I pottered around the grounds, admiring the vegetable and herb gardens – all of which are used in the kitchen – and snapping photos of the wind-spinning sculptures dotted around the gardens. I wound up seeing these mesmerising pieces all around the island; Salt Spring is quite the artists colony and there's a trail that you can follow, taking in the various studios around the island. That first day I took it easy; curled up on the sofa and read a PG Wodehouse novel by the fire. It was lashing with rain outside and there's no happier feeling than listening to the rain thrum on the roof, feeling toasty-warm, as you toss another log on the fire.
As I strolled across to the Manor House that evening for dinner, I was already beaming contentedly, but the prospect of my meal tipped me over into idiot-grin territory. I'd read nothing but raves about the food here and after my meal I can see why. The most plump and perfect buttery prawns, pan-fried in Armagnac piled high on fresh-from-the garden greens. A succulent duck with the most ludicrously creamy, just-right dauphinoise potato. A swirl of watercress soup that almost had me licking the plate. A table-bangingly rich chocolate and raspberry confection to finish. There's a reason why people wax lyrical about this place; it's exceptionally good. Pair that with deft service, a crackling fire and wonderful room and you've a recipe for perfect happiness.
I strolled the few steps back to my farmhouse, the rain had stopped by now; the stars were coming out and I could hear the sounds of the sea from the harbour below. Tomorrow I'd explore Salt Spring Island, I'd wake to a warm pre-breakfast muffin and fresh juice delivered to my porch at 7am, but tonight I'd stoke the fire up again and listen to the wood pop and crackle as I drank herb tea feeling oddly at home, as though I were in Sussex, yet thousands of miles away from Brighton.
I stayed as a guest of Hastings House. Thank you! But – as ever – these are 100% my own words and opinions.


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(FSE) In the pulse sequence timing diagram, a fast spin echo sequence with an echo train length of 3 is illustrated.
This sequence is characterized by a series of rapidly applied 180° rephasing pulses and multiple echoes, changing the phase encoding gradient for each echo.
The echo time TE may vary from echo to echo in the echo train. The echoes in the center of the K-space (in the case of linear k-space acquisition) mainly produce the type of image contrast, whereas the periphery of K-space determines the spatial resolution. For example, in the middle of K-space the late echoes of T2 weighted images are encoded. T1 or PD contrast is produced from the early echoes.
The benefit of this technique is that the scan duration with, e.g. a turbo spin echo turbo factor / echo train length of 9, is one ninth of the time. In T1 weighted and proton density weighted sequences, there is a limit to how large the ETL can be (e.g. a usual ETL for T1 weighted images is between 3 and 7). The use of large echo train lengths with short TE results in blurring and loss of contrast. For this reason, T2 weighted imaging profits most from this technique.
In T2 weighted FSE images, both water and fat are hyperintense. This is because the succession of 180° RF pulses reduces the spin spin interactions in fat and increases its T2 decay time. Fast spin echo (FSE) sequences have replaced conventional T2 weighted spin echo sequences for most clinical applications. Fast spin echo allows reduced acquisition times and enables T2 weighted breath hold imaging, e.g. for applications in the upper abdomen.
In case of the acquisition of 2 echoes this type of a sequence is named double fast spin echo / dual echo sequence, the first echo is usually density and the second echo is T2 weighted image. Fast spin echo images are more T2 weighted, which makes it difficult to obtain true proton density weighted images. For dual echo imaging with density weighting, the TR should be kept between 2000 - 2400 msec with a short ETL (e.g., 4).
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World Toe Wrestling Is Causing Quite a Stink
To put it quite simply, you do not want to go toe-to-toe with Alan 'Nasty' Nash.
The 53-year-old British man toppled the field to claim the World Toe Wrestling Championship in the men's field last weekend
Nash has now won the title for a staggering 10 consecutive years (we'll skip the lame joke about what a great feat that is), which means he's at the forefront of a dynasty that blows anything the Yankees or Celtics have done out of the water.
Nash takes the sport pretty seriously. He goes to the gym three days a week, where we can only assume he does lots and lots of toe curls.
Toe wrestling itself reportedly dates back to medieval times before enjoying a revival in the 1970s. Unlike disco, bell bottoms and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, though, toe wrestling seems like it may be here to stay.
As for Nash, we say anyone who dominates a sport so thoroughly for so long needs to be checked for steroids. His big toe might be just a little too big.


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Architects Tania Garbe and Ida Polzer want to mix good design with good stewardship. Their new webshop, Design With Benefits, offers unique, high design accessories that are socially and environmentally conscious. We're talking radios from an Indonesian plant that teaches former farmers craftsmanship skills and jewelry made from a salvaged historic Frank Lloyd Wright roof. Fun stuff!
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Best selling Our current best selling items are from our LeDanse Limited Edition Jewelry line. These are gorgeous copper pieces made from a salvaged historic Frank Lloyd Wright roof, and help benefit the homeless.
Your favorite item: Founder Tania Garbe: 'Homeboy Totes' designed by ex-Los Angeles gang members who are turning their graffiti skills into profitable graphic skills. Proceeds support Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention program in the U.S.
Creative Director Ida Polzer: Magno modern, handcrafted wooden radios (with MP3 and iPod connections!) by Indonesian designer Singgih Kartono. Magno's philosophy is to "cut less, plant more", with Singgih's aim being to re-forrest his local village and provide training and jobs for farmers who can no longer find agricultural work in the region.
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Isn't it funny how money, while being such an important part of our lives, often goes overlooked when it comes to digital solutions to managing it or tracking it? Sure there are options out there, but I know I never really took any of them seriously. In a lot of ways, I was prone to simply flying by the seat of my pants, hoping and praying that the numbers all balance out at the end of the month and that I didn't owe anyone money I didn't have.
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With Marc-Andre Fleury's fourth consecutive playoff implosion, the Penguins have finally done the inevitable and decided to use a different goaltender in the post-season. With all due respect to his strong regular season play, the possibility of this was the biggest reason why signing Tomas Vokoun in the summer was a decision that had to be made.
There's a funny thing about goaltender reputations; they often don't seem to match reality.
For example, things like this were still being said about Fleury as recently as spring 2012:
He's the most underrated athlete in Pittsburgh, perhaps the NHL's most underrated player and the best big game goalie in hockey. Fleury is 27, just entering his prime and already has a Stanley Cup ring that's getting dusty. He is playing the best hockey of his career, finally using his unprecedented athleticism in perfect harmony with a newfound mastery of positioning and poise. For whatever reason, Fleury doesn't receive the hype of goalies like Henrik Lundqvist and Tim Thomas. But I'd take him against anyone. As long as Fleury is healthy, he always gives the Penguins a chance.
Even at the time it was an odd take. Fleury was legitimately brilliant in 2007-08 when the Penguins lost in the finals; he was just okay in 2008-09 when they won and he was quite bad in the post-season in the two years following. Since then, he had a brutal 2012 playoffs that prompted the Vokoun signing, and he's getting pulled four games into the series against the Islanders.
Meanwhile, no less a hockey man than current Calgary Flames general manager Jay Feaster had this to say about Tomas Vokoun in October 2009:
While we had goaltending problems in Tampa at the time, we were not interested in Vokoun. Our pro scouts were not sold on Vokoun's ability to win a championship and thrive under big-game pressure and his contract was too rich for us, both in real dollars and available cap space… [Backup goaltender] Clemmensen has been away from the team dealing with personal/family matters recently, which has resulted in Vokoun carrying the load. Not surprisingly, Vokoun has faltered and the Panthers find themselves desperately needing help from their backup goalie yet again. The only way for Florida to climb back into the hunt is for Clemmensen to do for his current squad what he did last year in Newark, and time is of the essence.
That was written after a season where Vokoun managed a 0.926 save percentage. At the time of the writing, he was 1-4 on the season, with his lone win coming in a game where he made 52 saves for Florida against the Blackhawks. He'd finish the year with a 0.925 save percentage. Vokoun won 26 games for the woeful Panthers that year; in only six of those wins did he face less than 30 shots against.
But that's the thing about goaltenders. A goalie like Vokoun can play brilliantly for a terrible team and be maligned as a loser by an observer judging by the win/loss record; a goaltender like Fleury can win a Stanley Cup behind a team like Pittsburgh despite a pretty middling run and it takes years for the shine to wear off.
The two charts above show the save percentage and even-strength save percentage of both goaltenders by year since the 2004-05 NHL lockout. In seven of the last eight seasons, including this one, Vokoun has saved a greater percentage of the total shots he has faced; in six of the last eight, again including this one, he's saved a greater percentage of the shots he has faced at even-strength.
By career save percentage and career playoff save percentage, Vokoun has been the superior goaltender. This is the best opportunity he's ever had to show that he can backstop a strong team to great things, and while anything can happen in a short series there's every reason to believe that he'll be an upgrade on Fleury in net.
It very well might make the difference; unlike Pittsburgh, the Islanders don't really have another option to replace their struggling starter.
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Group rolls new Android benchmark
SAN JOSE, Calif. – A new benchmark aims to give engineers and end users a way to measure the performance of Android-based systems. The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) released its AndEBench metric as an app on Google Play and the Amazon Appstore for Android. The source code for the benchmark is available only to EEMBC members and licensees.
AndEBench scores integer performance of a basket of tasks both on the native Android environment and on its Dalvik Java virtual machine. The jobs include a mix of state machine routines, cyclic redundancy checks and matrix multiply operations, but no floating point tasks.
The benchmark can be set to test a system with a single or a multiple core processor. The app provides binary code for testing ARM, MIPS or Intel Atom x86 cores.
A working group including engineers from ARM, Dell, Freescsale, Nvidia, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments defined the benchmark and have already done internal tests with it.
In its only public test to date, AndEBench was run on an Amazon Kindle Fire and a low cost Android tablet, the Velocity Micro T301 Cruz. The Kindle Fore scored 1,370 and 2,720 iterations per second respectively for single and dual core operation and 94 and 145 interactions/second in Java. The Cruz tablet which uses a single MIPS core scored 470 native and 17 Java interations/s.
"We hope to get a community going where people can post their scores and we will start a nice little war with it," said Markus Levy, president of EEMBC.
The group envisions future versions of the benchmark that could test a range of functions including OS layer calls, graphics, audio, networking, floating
point and SIMD functions.
A variety of other Android benchmarks are already in use, but none use open source code so programmers can see exactly what they are doing, said Levy.
"There's a variety of them, and there are probably some that are decent, but you can't really tell," said Levy. "They look cool on the screen and may do some graphics functions but there's no way to know for sure how they optimize the code or what architecture they may favor," he said.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2006 News Releases > September 2006 > Thirty years later, Plainview's museum sill entertaining guests; new features on tap
Thirty years later, Plainview's museum sill entertaining guests; new features on tap
PLAINVIEW – There's not much Rodney Watson doesn't know about the Museum of the Llano Estacado. After all, keeping up with the region's historical repository is his job.
Located on the campus of Wayland Baptist University, the museum has been Watson's daytime home for the past two years after being named director, trading in the corporate banking world for a less hectic pace and a creative place.
But Watson had a relationship with the museum long before taking the reins in 2004 from retiring curator Eddie Guffee. As a young, self-proclaimed "starving artist" in the early 1980s, Watson worked for the museum in its early years, helping to build and paint scenery for many of the exhibits that are still part of the regional history exhibits.
The museum celebrates 30 years this summer, built in 1976 as one of many bicentennial projects across the United States and a joint effort of the university, the City of Plainview, Hale County and the Plainview Independent School District. Designed to resemble the mud lean-to that was a familiar home to the area's pioneers, the museum has seen changes over the years, thanks to local partners.
"Over 30 years, lots of time and money has been donated to build up what we have now," Watson said. "Ramona Roberts has made it her lifelong goal to build the archives of the museum and she has. The Hale County Historical Association has worked closely with the museum as well and has donated much to help with our projects."
Watson said the museum attendance continues to grow, reaching the 6,000 mark this past year. About a third of those visitors are area school children, another third are out-of-town guests and the final third are local residents, a number Watson would like to see increase.
Armed with creativity and a lifelong love for the place, Watson has dreams for expanding not only the physical property but also in growing the exhibits and reconnecting the museum with Plainview and the region.
The most noticeable project currently underway is a Plainview Hall of Fame exhibit, with plans to honor some of the city's more notable former residents. Watson has already built and wired new cases for the exhibit, which will be located near the beginning of the regional exhibit.
Watson's already collected memorabilia and stories for many of the Hall of Fame personalities, including singer and sausage seller Jimmy Dean, former Miss Texas Leah Kay Lyle Gabriel, opera singer Terry Cook, famed girls' basketball coach Harley Redin, Jo Carroll Dennison, the 1942 Miss America and Hale Center native, and Texas politician Pete Laney and wife Nelda Laney
He's still tracking down information and items for others on the exhibit list, including Jim Clark, founder of Netscape; Sunset Carson, "B" Western movie star; The Stringalongs, a local band who had the #1 hit in several other countries in "Wheels;" Laverne Roach, a professional boxer; Lawrence McCutcheon, former NFL running back; Jerry Sizemore, a former NFL offensive tackle; and Emily Jones, a national sports broadcaster. The James and Eva Mayer Foundation has provided funding for the exhibit.
"We hope that exhibit will draw the locals back in and show our school kids that even from 'small-town Texas USA' you can dream big and those dreams can happen," Watson said.
His dreams for the completed exhibit include a listening station where visitors can tune in to Gabriel playing piano music for her Miss Texas talent, Terry Cook performing an opera solo, Jimmy Dean's "Big John" and songs by the Stringalongs.
To make room for the new exhibit, Watson moved the photographic gallery into the old store space and removed a few divider walls. But space is truly at a premium in the exhibit hall of the facility, which means Watson will have to be creative when it comes to his second major project.
"My big vision is to do an expansion with a dedicated hall to our Hale County veterans, and that will take a lot of video and extra work," Watson said.
Preliminary work is underway on that project, including videotaping of oral histories of several veterans around the city already done and many more lined up to come. Some memorabilia has been collected, but much more is out there to uncover, Watson said. A questionnaire developed a few years back has helped collect valuable written histories and photos from many veterans as well.
"My dream is that the finished product will begin with World War I, including memorabilia, photos and period clothing from that era, then have some listening stations for music from the era as well," Watson said. "There will be similar areas for World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars and Iraq."
With a heart for preserving valuable historical information, Watson hopes to also create a library with written histories on file for future generations to look at. Along those lines, he's also been scanning photos from the historical archives as a backup, and will soon begin working on building exhibits and collecting memorabilia for Wayland's centennial celebration in 2008-09.
Most of Watson's projects take more time than financial resources, but a large part of his dream for the museum requires significant funding. Adding some current technology to the facility's current exhibits – in the form of listening stations, sound effects with motion detection and touch-screen stations for video clips and additional information – will be quite costly. Watson also feels strongly that the facility needs a video security system, another expensive venture.
The museum auditorium, used frequently for meetings from groups all over the area, is also in dire need of some technological advances including a projector and computer set-up for showing PowerPoint presentations and videos. Watson predicts around $30,000 for that project alone, but he knows the facility will be more useful for community groups with the new equipment.
Other minor projects include adding some beautification efforts and signage for the museum both outside the facility and on Quincy Street at the nearest major intersection.
For more information on the museum, call Watson at (806) 291-3660.


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John Deere offers 3-bushel hoppers as an option on its planters, but House noted that there is no room for a chemical hopper with the configuration. "Our modification will increase your hopper capacity from 1.6 bushels to 2.6 bushels. You're only four-tenths shy of the 3-bushel hopper, but you get to keep your chemical boxes."
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Charles and Ray Eames are among the most important American designers of the 20th century. They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture, industrial design and manufacturing, and the photographic arts. Charles was born in 1907 in Missouri. After attending Washington University he began working in an architectural office. In 1930, Charles started his own practice. He began extending his design ideas beyond architecture and received a fellowship to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where he became head of the design department. Ray Kaiser Eames was born in California. She studied painting before starting at Cranbrook Academy where she met and assisted Charles and Eero Saarinen in preparing designs for the Museum of Modern Art's "Organic Furniture Competition."
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Sean of the Danes
When it comes to preparing for his next stint onstage, Sean Cox, co-artistic director and founding member of Intrepid, freely admits that he's "properly terrified."
Even though Hamlet doesn't open until next year, the focus of the company has already moved towards this next project. For Sean, that means that he's only weeks away from beginning rehearsals on one of the most challenging roles of his career.
He shouldn't fret. After all, in some ways, it seems he's been preparing for this his entire life: "I've watched it so many times and heard it so many times and I've thought about it for years and years," he says. One of his earliest acting class memories even has him playing the gravedigger at 13.
But Hamlet is also about life experience, and for Sean the past few years have seen not only the formation of a theatre company, but also marriage to co-founder Christy Yael and the birth of his first child. It seems fitting that this play is happening now when Sean is looking at life so differently.
"Hamlet asks those questions that we all ask: right, wrong, afterlife, immortality…all of those simple and honest questions that are in silent dialogue in our own head all the time," says Sean.
This is also the reason why Hamlet is such an intimidating role to pick up. For it to work, "it has to be simple, honest, and in the moment," he says. For Intrepid, this intimacy will be further emphasized by the fact that they will be performing Hamlet in the round. "There's no place to hide," he says. "Literally. It's exciting and it's completely and totally terrifying."
To hear Sean talk about his research for the role is to imagine him constantly tripping over books and recordings and DVDs of various Shakespearean performances. "With Shakespeare, I've always been about devouring and watching every movie version, every audio version," he says. With Hamlet, "there are books and books and books. There are literally hundreds of books." He's been on a constant mission, it seems – dissecting the research, analyzing the greats, philosophizing on interpretation.
Some of Sean's discoveries? Kenneth Branagh's audio recording is way better than his film version, Ian McKellen says you have to be a bit of a comedian to play the title role, and when you put McKellen and Simon Russell Beale side by side, it's impossible to tell who does the role better, even though they are totally and completely different. Ask Sean about his favorites and he doesn't hesitate when he describes seeing Mark Rylance play Hamlet at the Globe as "the best theatrical performance of anything ever."
But what do these great actors say about the actual experience of playing Hamlet? "They are like 'Oh, it changes your life!'" says Sean. "It's this momentous occasion. And it's intimidating to go into it like that but I think most parts are…they change you in a way…if you're putting yourself into each role, then each one affects you."
Isn't having these performances swirling around in his head a little distracting? "There's no one way to do it," he muses. "Every one is totally different, totally, totally different and yet it works. There is a reason why they say there are as many Hamlets as there are actors."
But, even for a seeming veteran like him, the part of the Danish prince doesn't come without its fair share of gauntlets.
"Hamlet is everything," he says, animatedly. "He's got this enormous amount of dialogue and he goes on this emotional roller coaster throughout the play and then he's got this big old huge sword fight at the end.
"Jonathan McMurtry has said to me that playing these great roles is like training to be an Olympic athlete," says Sean, quoting a favorite mentor. "So, yeah, not intimidated at all."
Rehearsals officially start in December, but when asked about his schedule, Sean simply says, "I feel like I started a very, very long time ago." — T.T.