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LONG BEACH — Newport Harbor High freshman Grace Ferrell, Estancia senior Cassie Stevenson and Corona del Mar freshman Amy Matsuoka finished among the top 51 girls to extend their season after competing in the CIF Southern Section Southern Regional individual golf tournament Wednesday morning at Recreation Golf Course.
Ferrell, who finished tied for third in the Sunset League finals, shot a five-over-par 79, that included three birdies. Stevenson, who finished second in the Orange Coast League finals, carded an 81, and Matsuoka shot an 82, finishing third in the Pacific Coast League finals.
An earlier version incorrectly reported that Stevenson shot an 82. She shot 81.
Eighty-three was the cut at the tournament that featured 109 players.
Ferrell, Stevenson and Matsuoka will play in the CIF Southern Section Individual Final Championship and WSCGA Regional Qualifier Nov. 1 at Western Hills Country Club in Chino Hills.
Estancia sophomore Naomi Beth also competed on Wednesday and ended her season after she shot 106.
Brea Olinda's Amy Lee won with a 69, according to the Orange County Register.
Newport Harbor 11, Huntington Beach 8
NEWPORT BEACH — The Sailors clinched at least a share of the Sunset League title with the victory Wednesday night at Newport Harbor High.
Senior Curtis Fink scored four goals for Newport Harbor (17-3, 4-0 in league). Junior Mitchell Mendoza and senior Dan Stevens had two goals each.
Huntington Beach is 15-12, 3-1, and tied for second in league with Los Alamitos.
Senior keeper Wyatt Muller had nine saves for the Sailors, ranked No. 3 in CIF Southern Section Division 1.
Newport Harbor next travels north to play at the Bellarmine Memorial Cup tournament, beginning Friday in San Jose. Newport opens against Clovis West at 10:10 a.m. Friday.
Sage Hill 20, Estancia 5
COSTA MESA — Garrett Henscheid scored two goals for the Eagles in the Orange Coast League game Wednesday at Orange Coast College.
Henscheid, a goalie, also made 12 saves for Estancia.
Academy League finals
NEWPORT BEACH — Sage Hill senior captains Liana Korber, Kimberly Brown and Lauren Hsu swept the singles and doubles titles Wednesday at The Tennis Club Newport Beach.
The top-seeded Korber won the singles title. She defeated No. 4-seeded Christie Kittlesen of Crean Lutheran, 6-0, 6-3, in the semifinals before topping No. 2-seeded Tessa Hurr of St. Margaret's, 6-1, 6-0, in the championship match.
Brown and Hsu were No. 1-seeded in doubles and won the title. They defeated Oxford Academy's Sarah Choung and Lydia Hwang, 6-3, 6-1 in the semifinals, then beat No. 2-seeded Grace Yao and Andrea Kim of Oxford, 6-4, 6-2, in the finals.
Korber, Brown and Hsu all qualify for the CIF Individual Championships, which begin Nov. 19.
Sage Hill's Amira Tarsadia and Natalie Meltzer took fourth in doubles. They reached the semifinals before losing to Yao and Kim, 6-4, 6-3.
Sage Hill, which won the team league title as well for the first time since 2007, awaits the release of the CIF Southern Section Division 2 brackets on Monday.
The playoffs begin Oct. 31.


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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. � A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to using a counterfeit credit card and photo ID to get obtain cash advances at West Virginia's Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races.
U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld says 39-year-old Titus Lavell Lee of Wilmington, N.C., appeared Thursday before U.S. Magistrate David Joel in Martinsburg.
Lee agreed to repay the Eastern Panhandle casino $27,500 as part of his plea agreement and is free on bond until sentencing for the 2010 scam.
He could get up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
Earlier this week, three others from North Carolina and New York pleaded guilty to similar charges.

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WM3 documentary 'Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory' to open in L.A.
The latest documentary about the fate of the case of the West Memphis 3, "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory," isn't scheduled to be broadcast on HBO until early next year, but fans of the series in Los Angeles might want to make the trek to Laemmle's Fallbrook 7 in West Hills where the film opens Friday for one week only.
The limited run is designed specifically to give the film the opportunity to qualify for an Oscar nomination.
Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky first brought attention to the plight of Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley Jr. -- teenagers who were convicted of the gruesome 1993 murders of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark. -- with the 1996 documentary "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills." Though the filmmakers initially intended to make a film about disaffected youth -- the prosecution and local media made much of the fact that the convicted teens wore black clothing and listened to heavy metal music -- what they found were three innocent young men who had been convicted of a crime they didn't commit.
"Paradise Lost" spurred international interest in the story of the three jailed men, who became known as the West Memphis 3, and Berlinger and Sinofsky felt compelled to make a follow-up film, 2000's "Paradise Lost 2: Revelations" to advocate for Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley to be released from prison and exonerated. The films garnered support not only from such celebrities as Johnny Depp, Eddie Vedder, Natalie Maines, Peter Jackson and Henry Rollins, but also sparked the formation of grassroots groups like the website wm3.org.


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Kristen Stewart - Kids' Choice Awards 2012
Kristen Stewart is beautiful in blue on the orange carpet at the 2012 Kids Choice Awards held at the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon (March 31).
The 21-year-old Snow White and the Huntsman actress wore a Stella McCartney dress and Barbara Bui heels.
During the show, Kristen was presented with the Favorite Movie Actress award for her work in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1.
While accepting her award, Kristen said it was her first time at the awards show and that she loves classic Nickelodeon shows like Doug!


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The Department of Agriculture is looking at going beyond corn to make alternative fuels. The Undersecretary for Rural Development, Dallas Tonsager, is promoting the use of other crops and materials for ethanol production.
Tonsager says the Department can help operations get started with grants, loans and loan guarantees.
"These second and third generation biofuels, we can help finance those," Tonsager said. "They are generally very, very expensive projects, so we are interested in working with anybody who is interested in developing those kind of ventures and we are interested in getting into almost any kind of material that might be used for biofuel."
As for what materials can be used, Tonsager says there are a lot of options and they're trying to find even more.
"USDA has set up five research centers across the country that are devoted to looking at materials that could be potentially used," Tonsager said. "So anything that has a lot of carbohydrates that can be converted to a sugar fairly simply are candidates. Along with that products that can be made into a biodiesel fuel like animal fat or an oil and some products can be made into a jet fuel."
The five research centers are located in Pullman, Wash., Maricopa, Ariz., Lincoln, Neb., Booneville, Ark., and Tifton, Ga. Even with impending budget cuts for USDA, the Undersecretary says they will continue to focus on developing new ways to turn biomass into energy. He suggests interested farmers contact their USDA field office for more information on available programs.


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BOSTON (Reuters) - Former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez, charged with shooting a friend to death last year, was involved in a Massachusetts jailhouse scuffle with another inmate that left neither man seriously injured, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.
"There was an altercation between two inmates in our special management unit, and one of them was Aaron Hernandez," said Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. "It was stopped very quickly by my staff."
Neither inmate involved in the incident on Tuesday required medical attention, and officials are investigating whether Hernandez or the other man, who was not identified, will face internal disciplinary measures or criminal charges, Hodgson said.
Hernandez, 24, is jailed in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, about 60 miles south of Boston.
He had been a rising star on the New England Patriots with a $41 million contract before he was arrested in June and charged with murdering semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is awaiting trial.
Lloyd's bullet-ridden body was found in an industrial park near Hernandez' home in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. Authorities have recovered text messages from Hernandez summoning his friend to his home and from Lloyd alerting his sister to his whereabouts "just so you know."
Police have not recovered the gun used in the crime.
Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Lisa Von Ahn


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MIDDLEBURY — There was continued controversy at Monday's Legislative Breakfast surrounding Gov. Peter Shumlin's proposed surcharge on break-open tickets. The 10-percent surcharge on the $1 tickets — sold by many local nonprofits to raise money for charitable causes — is designed to raise what Shumlin projects as $6 million for weatherizing Vermont homes.
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The number of Buccaneers on injured reserve has hit 14 with the announcement that linebacker Jonathan Casillas has been shut down for the season because of a knee injury.
Casillas signed with the Bucs as a free agent before the season and had played in all 12 games for the team this season. He started four of those games, including the Week 13 loss to the Panthers that he couldn't finish because he hurt his knee. Casillas finishes the year with 24 tackles and a forced fumble on defense as well as a team-high nine tackles in kick coverage.
The Bucs could turn to Dekoda Watson, Adam Hayward or Ka'Lial Glaud on the strong side of their defense with Casillas out of the lineup.
They could also use Danny Lansanah, who they signed off the Jets' practice squad to take Casillas' place on the roster, but Lansanah hasn't played in an NFL game since the 2008 season so he may not be the best option. Lansanah is the fourth player Tampa's signed off another team's practice squad this season.


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Funny how things have changed for Askia Booker.
When the college basketball season began, fans of the Colorado program worried about Booker being smart with his shot selection. They worried he might be a defensive liability and there were games in which those concerns were valid as they have been earlier in his career.
There was even speculation that Booker would begin to lose playing time to several talented freshmen guards as the season wore on. Might he find himself back in the sixth man role? Maybe even the 7th or 8th man?
Seems pretty silly now doesn't it?
Booker suddenly has become the player Tad Boyle will rely on most the rest of the season in the wake of Spencer Dinwiddie's season-ending injury.
Some might argue that player is forward Josh Scott. CU's sophomore big man might be the team's most valuable player when it's all said and done, but Boyle relies more on Booker because he needs Booker to make sure the ball gets to Scott.
That was not a problem Saturday in a 83-62 cake-walk victory over Southern Cal, the only winless team in Pac-12 play. Booker and Scott both played a beautiful game.
Booker was exactly what Boyle needs him to be above all. Smart.
He was smart about his shot selection. He only attempted two of them in the first half and five in the game. He was smart about getting teammates such as Scott and Xavier Johnson involved early and tied his career high with six assists. He was smart about playing defense. If you missed the third block of his career in the first half against 7-footer D.J. Haley, you missed one of the best plays of Colorado's season.
If that Askia Booker shows up for every CU game the rest of the season, the Buffs will not only survive the loss of Dinwiddie and freshman Tre'Shaun Fletcher, they will thrive.
It's the second consecutive game we've seen a more mature Booker on the court. He told me after Saturday's win that he realized he was going to have to adjust his game during the Washington loss last weekend after Dinwiddie got hurt.
Booker finished the Washington game 0-for-9 with zero points. He said was forcing things and playing sloppy after learning while on the bench that day that his buddy, Dinwiddie, was pretty sure his season was over.
"Without Spencer I have a lot less room for error," Booker said. "The margin of error has decreased by a lot so I just have to be the one who is going to take care of the ball and get guys the ball when they're open. I'm going to have to play big every night."
The thing is, it was relatively easy for Booker to be as patient and unselfish as he was Saturday against a team that is clearly struggling to find its way under first-year coach Andy Enfield.
The Buffs got up big early in the game and USC never really threatened a comeback. Even Boyle noted the difference in Booker, saying he had never seen him play a game with the poise he showed Saturday.
"When Ski is efficient, we're pretty darn good," Boyle said. "I thought he was terrific."
Over the past two games, a win over USC and a loss to a very good UCLA team, Booker has made 10 of 16 shots and scored 34 points.
Booker was asked after Saturday's outing what it was like to play an entire game and only shoot five times.
"It's not that bad," he said with a smile.
The question now becomes whether Boyle can rely on Booker to be the same player when the Buffs are trailing by 10 on the road against a much better opponent. Booker might be tempted … make that Booker will be tempted to take matters into his own hands and shoot the Buffs back into it.
We're likely to find out Thursday if he can show the same composure when the Buffs play at No. 1 Arizona.
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Beyond the Gallery Walls: Tools and Methods for Leading End-Users to Collections Information
Erin Coburn, data standards administrator at the J. Paul Getty Museum, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Murtha Baca, head, Getty Vocabulary Program and Digital Resource Management, Getty Research Institute, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
The library and archive communities have a long-standing history of organizing and managing their information in a way that facilitates access to their holdings, both within their home institutions and via union catalogs and consortial bibliographic utilities such as RLIN and WorldCat. Metadata element sets and information protocols like MARC and Encoded Archival Description (EAD), and controlled vocabularies and authority files such as the Library of Congress name and subject authorities, the Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, and the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), are the data standards and structures that have become synonymous with the way that the library and archival communities provide access to information about their holdings. In the traditional library world, for instance, the AAT is typically used for data values in the form/genre field in a MARC record when cataloging rare books and special collections materials.
Museum Collections: Making Information Available
Museums have only relatively recently come to an awareness that the approach that libraries and archives have taken for decades is also essential for making information on their own collections available. Museum information has a history of being hoarded if not outright hidden in curatorial files. The emerging use of computerized collections management systems in museums caused many curatorial departments to relinquish control over information about their collections, but in many cases the information was limited to whatever was deemed necessary for proper maintenance and inventory. With the rise of the World Wide Web, and the demands of users (and museum trustees) who expect to have collections information one click away, museums have begun to take seriously the audience of users who may want access to their collections even if those users will never physically visit their museums. Meeting this demand is not as simple as just digitizing a collection and creating a link to the image repository from an institution's home page. It is no simple task to ensure that users whose profiles, needs and information-seeking behaviors are many and varied will be successful in finding what they are looking for.
A good starting point for museums grappling with how to enable diverse audiences to effectively access information about their collections is to look within the walls of the museum itself. Collections management systems are growing in their capacity for recording and documenting collections. Cataloging is no longer limited to a registrar entering core information about a work of art upon acquisition. Other key information stakeholders are now using collections management systems to record information on conservation treatments, exhibitions, provenance, published sources, rights and so forth. As a result, the range of users within a museum who need access to and who help to create collections information is growing to include curators, conservators, educators and even docents.
This expanded role and importance of collections management systems as the source for gathering a wide range of diverse information about the objects in a collection is resulting in a new way of thinking for museums. Collections management systems are becoming collections information systems, and documentation is going beyond just registration and instead is serving the larger purpose of aggregating all relevant information about the works in a collection and preparing that information for delivery or publication in a variety of environments and to a variety of users, both internal and external.
In addition to the Web, another area that museums are exploring as a means to providing greater access to their collections is with public access or kiosk systems. Until a decade or so ago, many museums and cultural heritage institutions packaged selective information about their collections on a CD-ROM, which was then made accessible from a kiosk station within the museum itself. This kind of closed, hard-coded system also gave museums a product to sell; but updating the CD-ROMs to account for changes in attribution or to include new acquisitions was so costly as to be infeasible. Museums are now creating models and processes in which a collections information system serves as the starting point for publishing selective information to a content management system, or a set of content management and manipulation tools that make it possible for data to be edited and enhanced to better fit the needs of the audience(s) using the public access system or the institution's Web pages. The benefit of this model is that it creates the opportunity to change, update and add additional information about the collection in a dynamic way, rather than producing CD-ROMS, which, for many if not most institutions, become out of date the moment they are produced.
Creating Access: Two Misconceptions
Creating access to a museum's collection on the Web opens up a whole new level of complexity that requires careful thought, for users can no longer be simply identified as museum staff or museum visitors, nor can their needs be neatly categorized. Making collection information available on the Web means that everyone with access to a computer that is connected to the Internet is a potential user, regardless of age, educational and cultural background or native language.
The "project" approach. There are two common misconceptions that many museum professionals have about making their information available to larger audiences, and both have the potential to create significant setbacks for advancing the ability of museums to better share and disseminate information on their collections. The first is that making collections available on line or in a public access system is a discrete, finite project that will sooner or later come to an end. In most cases, this approach involves seeking grant money or other sources of financial support in order to fund the project. In recent years, many museums have made their collections, or at least portions of them, available on line. While grants have played a large part in making this possible, and while this is a pragmatic approach given the limited financial resources available to most cultural heritage institutions, one negative aspect of this approach is that many museums tend to see the process of making their collections accessible on the Web or in kiosk systems as "one-off" projects, rather than as an ongoing part of their core mission and activities.
When museums take this kind of approach, the lion's share of the resources tend to go to the activities strictly related to creating digital images of collection objects, while activities such as creating additional content and contextual tools, building access points based on data standards and controlled vocabularies, and identifying audiences and their needs and behaviors are all relegated to "phase two" or "we'll deal with that later." The authors of this article can't count the number of times that, after trying to convince colleagues from other institutions that they need to invest time and labor in building good data and implementing standards and controlled vocabularies on the back end, they have received the response "We don't have time to deal with that now." A museum might be able to boast that it has its entire collection of works of art available on the Web and to say to the philanthropic agency that funded the project that they have fulfilled their grant by making their collection accessible on line but what exactly is meant by accessible? Can a teacher preparing a class on women artists find all the works in the collection by female artists? Can a scholar or researcher find the history of the ownership of a particular painting in the collection? Can a curator from another institution identify the 17th-century drawings by French artists in the collection without making a telephone call to the museum's curator of drawings? Can a student writing a term paper find the ritual vessels depicting warriors in the collection? For the purposes of this paper, we are defining access as "the ability of a user to find and use information in electronic form." (See also Joan M. Reitz's excellent Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science for definitions of accessibility, authorities, etc.)
Staffing requirements. The second misconception about the work involved in making collections information available to larger audiences is the notion that this can be an added responsibility to the registrar's position or to some other position within the institution. While smaller institutions may have no other choice than to give this extra set of tasks to their registrar, institutions need to start facing the fact that the cluster of activities related to creating, managing and publishing collections information will require new people, new skill sets and, yes, new positions. Increasingly, as Ken Hamma has also noted in his article in this issue, museum positions include job titles such as Data Standards Administrator (J. Paul Getty Museum) and Manager for Information Standards (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and departments such as Collections Information and Access (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). To help better understand the scope of the responsibilities associated with these positions and how they differ from the role of a registrar, we need look no further than the job descriptions.
The National Academy of Design in New York has a registrar position posted on Aviso (the monthly newsletter of the American Association of Museums) seeking
an experienced, full-time registrar responsible for all aspects of registration, including accessioning, incoming and outgoing loans, traveling exhibitions, document management, and inventory maintenance. The registrar is responsible for maintaining the inventory control for all objects in the museum's collection and an accurate record of the location of each object in the museum; arranging the packing, transportation, and insuring of all objects passing into and out of the museum; and coordinating the de-installation of all objects for exhibition.
The new jobs that deal with the larger scope of museum information have resulted in positions such as Director of Metadata and Cataloging at ARTstor (an initiative to make cultural heritage digital images available for educational purposes), who is tasked to
develop metadata standards for a wide range of collections; develop guidelines and document best practices for the development of metadata; analyze and evaluate metadata in collections; oversee and coordinate the work of catalogers creating, revising, or enhancing metadata and create a quality control process for such work; collaborate with other staff in the development of the database architecture and features of the software environment; and serve as the principal liaison to metadata standard developers and cataloging authorities in the educational, cultural, and scholarly communities.
While ARTstor is not a museum (but does or should depend on museums for a good portion of its virtual collections), the scope of this position could easily be applied to museums with diverse collections or to institutions managing art collections as well as collections that fall under archives and library holdings.
The Role of Standards
The goal that underlies these new kinds of positions is to make collections information more readily accessible for a variety of audiences and uses. Data and metadata standards and controlled vocabularies are crucial in making this possible. There are three types of standards pertinent to the proper management of museum information: data structure standards, data value standards and data content standards or guidelines for how to format the data values that are used to populate the data structures.
Data structure standards. Data structure standards often take the form of metadata element sets. Categories for the Description of Works of Art developed by the Art Information Task Force under Getty sponsorship and the Visual Resources Association's VRA Core Categories are two widely used metadata element sets for describing cultural objects and their images. Fortunately for museums, the use of collections management software typically provides a structure for managing and documenting objects in an organized and meaningful way. But simply having a collections management system will not guarantee easy access to the works in a museum or other cultural heritage repository.
Data value and data content standards. The words and terms (known as data values in the information science realm) that a museum uses to document works of art are of great importance. Once again, the cultural heritage community is fortunate to have a variety of tools, in the form of controlled vocabularies, classification systems and thesauri, to help with the proper selection of data values for cataloging. These include, but are certainly not limited to, the Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), and of course the Library of Congress Authorities.
There are multiple uses of controlled vocabularies and thesauri, and their importance in creating consistent documentation and facilitating end-user access to museum information cannot be overestimated. Vocabularies and classification systems can serve as research tools to help clarify the proper meaning or use of a term. For example, a cataloger providing subject access to a work of art can refer to the ICONCLASS system (a subject classification system for iconographic research and the documentation of images) to clarify that a wheel is the identifying attribute for Saint Catherine of Alexandria, not Saint Catherine of Siena.
Vocabularies can also serve as authorities to which collections management systems can link in order to help properly identify the scope and meaning of terms applied to a work of art and to establish preferred terms or headings. For example, a Flemish manuscript from Bruges can be cataloged with a link to the TGN as a geographical place authority, which would preserve the meaning of Bruges as being part of the historical region of Flanders in present-day Belgium. These two uses of vocabularies and thesauri (as authorities and as lookup tools) have been widespread for decades in the library and archive communities, and in more recent years, they have been implemented increasingly in the museum community as well. A third way to use vocabularies and thesauri, and one that is of great interest and potential benefit to any institution seeking to enhance end-user access to its collections on line, is as "searching assistants."
Best practices. Finally, good descriptive cataloging requires knowledge of best practices for museum documentation and the ability to implement those practices within an institution; this is where the data content standards or guidelines come in. As mentioned above, it is now common to find a variety of staff involved in entering descriptive data about a collection in a museum's database. Ensuring that this level of cataloging across departments and by diverse staff adheres to a set of guidelines is crucial for creating consistent, accurate access to collections. In the museum world, standards for the selection, organization and formatting of content have only relatively recently begun to get the attention they so desperately need.
A new initiative to help the museum community address these issues is Cataloguing Cultural Objects (CCO), a Visual Resources Association project that seeks to provide standards for data content in cataloging cultural works and their images. But we must repeat that the key element with all standards and guidelines is the ability for museums to have the proper people in place to implement and support them in ways that are part of the normal workflow of the institution.
Re-Purposing Data from Collection Information Systems: Projects at the Getty
Adherence to metadata standards, using controlled vocabularies and following best practices for descriptive cataloging, open up numerous possibilities for re-purposing data and increasing access to collections for diverse audiences with varying needs. Access to collections should be data-driven ideally coming from a central repository, such as a collections management system, that is maintained by key information stakeholders in accordance with a set of accepted rules and practices. This model enables the institution to efficiently and effectively manage, maintain and preserve data over time.
The Getty Museum has made it a policy to re-purpose data from its collections information system to enhance access to its collection for a variety of users, internal and external; as much as possible, the content we deliver to our users on the Web, in our kiosk system and in our hand-held system is "fed" by data from our collections information system.
The Getty Museum builds collection-specific thesauri incorporating terminology from existing vocabularies such as the AAT, in addition to including "local" headings that help to categorize the objects in its collection in meaningful ways for non-expert users. One of the museum's local thesauri is a vocabulary of object types represented in the museum's collection. A section, or facet, of this thesaurus deals with furniture in the collection, which is then broken down into categories such as chairs, and further by types of chairs such as fauteuils (French chairs with open arms) (Figure 1). In the Museum's database, objects are linked to their appropriate object name in the thesaurus. This data is then re-purposed on the Web in two different ways.
First, the structure of the thesaurus itself is used to assist users who wish to browse by categories to help them with retrieving information. This is particularly helpful for users who are unclear about what exactly they are searching for or for users who may not be familiar with art terminology. The Getty Museum exposes the broader, more generic categories of the thesaurus to facilitate retrieval for these types of users. For example, someone interested in chairs could select this heading as a category and retrieve results immediately without having to be confronted with a list of specific types of chairs, such as fauteuils (Figure 2).
Secondly, the Getty Museum utilizes the specific terms from the object type thesaurus that are linked to the objects in the database to assist users who know precisely what they are interested in finding. These data values or names are brought over to the META keyword tag for the individual object records available in the Getty Museum's collection on the Web. The META keyword tag is for select words and phrases that properly describe the Web resource and are used by a variety of search engines, including the Getty's own site-wide search engine, to facilitate retrieval. For example, if a curator from another museum were interested to know if the Getty had any fauteuils in its collection, he or she could perform a keyword search on fauteuils and would retrieve three results (Figure 3). The first two results are retrieved not because the term fauteuils appears explicitly on the text of the Web pages for these objects, but because the term fauteuils from the local thesaurus has been embedded in the META keyword tags for these Web pages and is indexed by the site-wide search engine.
The Getty has also begun to integrate controlled vocabularies with its internal search engine to test the vast possibilities of increasing access to collections with vocabulary-assisted searching. As of this writing (April 2004), the Getty has implemented the ULAN as a searching assistant on its site-wide search engine. One of the benefits of vocabulary-assisted searching is that it frees catalogers and other data creators from having to enter the many variants or alternate names commonly attributed to objects and artists; as long as one of the values or words used to describe a particular work or creator is represented in the vocabulary to which the system is linked, the thesaurus will take care of proper retrieval.
For example, a user performing a search on the Getty's Web site for works or information about the artist Francesco Ubertini will obtain results with a prompt asking, "Did you mean to search for one of the following? Bacchiacca (2 results)" (Figure 4). What happens behind the scenes is that the search engine first looks for an exact match on the Getty's Web pages and finds none. It then runs the name Francesco Ubertini against the ULAN, where it finds a match in a variant name on one of the clusters of names that form the ULAN records (Figure 5). All of the names for this artist, preferred and variant, are then submitted to the search engine which results in a match on Bacchiacca in the Web pages for the museum's collection. This whole process is hidden from the user. The user's verbatim search results in Getty Web pages that contained either the words Francesco or Ubertini. However, by giving the user the opportunity to select the ULAN record for Bacchiacca, which is the name for Francesco Ubertini that appears in most of the scholarly literature, the user is presented with two exact matches from the museum's collection (Figure 6); one a link to the biography of the artist and the other a link to a painting attributed to him.
The Getty Museum is just one example of a museum that is reaping the benefits of managing the data about its collection in a way that is standards-compliant and utilizes controlled vocabularies. The practice of instituting and implementing a model for managing data has led to the ability of museums to more easily migrate their data to new systems, to publish their data in a dynamic fashion to Web sites or public access systems and to be able to contribute their collections information to consortial initiatives such as Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC) and the Cultural Materials project of the RLG (Research Library Group). Museums still have a long way to go before they achieve what libraries and archives have been doing for decades to facilitate access to their holdings. But if we continue to implement standards and best practices for data-driven publishing of our collections, it won't be long before the library, archive and museum communities can create successful models of interoperability and integrated access.
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The Drive-In Committee held its second attempt at a Halloween-themed double feature, with an added full afternoon of activities before the evening movies last Saturday.
A similar screening was planned for last year but, like numerous other local events, it was disrupted by Winter Storm Alfred. The surprise October snowstorm meant the event was canceled and the drive-in's supervisory committee opted to simply try again the next year.
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CIO… the Missouri Valley ConferencePosted by Brian Goodman on December 18th, 2012
Patrick Marshall is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference. You can also find his musings online at White & Blue Review or on Twitter @wildjays.
Looking Back
- Realignment May Finally Hit the MVC—Since 1995, only the Missouri Valley Conference and the Ivy league have not been affected by conference realignment. That may change soon depending on what happens with the seven catholic schools that are breaking away from the Big East. A lot of overtures to an "All-Catholic" league have been on peoples' wish lists for some time, but many thought that it could never become a reality. Now with these teams looking to start their own league, they need more members. It seems natural that Creighton would be on that list. A lot of scrambling and rumors have led some to believe that Evansville was also looking to head to the Horizon league. While this speculation has been squashed by both Creighton and Evansville officials, you would have to think that if this new league gets big enough, that the Bluejays would be in the mix. The panic button hasn't been hit yet, but every school in the Valley should have a backup plan just in case the league loses one or more members.
- Losses to Top Teams–Wichita State lost to Tennessee last week, but it wasn't until the practice after that game when they lost Carl Hall to a hand injury that will keep him out of action for a month. Hall has been the steady force for the Shockers while they implement a slew of new players into the mix this season. With the Valley grind so close to its arrival, they will need Hall's presence and leadership to get on the right foot as conference play gets started. Making matters worse, freshman guard Ron Baker will be sidelined for at least six weeks with a stress fracture in his foot. Baker isn't as important a player as Hall, but it leaves a 25 minute-per-game gap that will need to be filled as well. Creighton also lost a key player for an undetermined time with guard Josh Jones. Jones blacked out before a game against Nebraska on December 6. An atrial flutter in his heart has sidelined the Bluejays' sixth man for at least a month. He will have a procedure performed and could be cleared again at some point, but it is hard to tell whether he will be able to come back or if he even would want to. His energy and smile is infectious and his performance on the court, like an 18-point outburst against UAB earlier this season, will be missed and may raise some questions about Creighton's depth. For Illinois State, they make the news in the wrong way with Geoffrey Allen first being suspended from the team and then arrested for selling marijuana. Although Allen didn't play much this season, news like this can be a distraction to the team as it moves forward.
- Surprise of the Non-conference Season–The MVC has been full of surprises this season, including the notion that Bradley and Southern Illinois look ahead of schedule. Bradley's second year under Geno Ford appears to be on the right track as the Braves have been able to get some nice wins on the road, something that they had trouble doing the past few seasons. If they can win out in the non-conference season, they could look better than some of the other teams that were expected to be ahead of them. For the Salukis, Barry Hinson put together a schedule that could definitely give a troubled team a big confidence boost. Southern Illinois won't win any strength of schedule contests, but they have been playing together, winning close games, and even getting some road wins. They both will finish the non-conference season with .500 records or better. The current bottom third of the conference — Indiana State, Drake, and Missouri State — are a bit of a surprise in that they are on the opposite end of things right now. The biggest disappointment has to be Missouri State. The Bears are 0-8 against Division I competition as a result of a lot of injuries. With the road they are going down, they could head into conference play still looking for that first D-I win.
Power Rankings (current record and last week's ranking in parentheses)
- Creighton (10-1) (1)–The Bluejays keep winning and are coming off of a trip to California where they didn't have the best night of shooting but were still able to come out with a double-figure victory. In all of Creighton's wins this season, they have had a winning margin by 10 or more points. Doug McDermott continues his spectacular play as of late and has the nation's best scoring average per 40 minutes over the past two seasons at 29.3 points per game. He has had back-to-back 30-point games, which is a first for Creighton in more than 20 years. Creighton is 8-1 against power conference teams over the past two seasons.
- Wichita State (9-1) (2)–Wichita fought hard against Tennessee before losing their first game of the season and will have to wait another year to try and set a school record with a 10-0 start. Carl Hall's four double-doubles have really helped the Shockers in a few of their victories. He had 21 points and 9 rebounds in the loss against Tennessee. It is important to reiterate how much his injury will hurt the Shockers. To win games, the Shockers need some high scoring firepower. Gregg Marshall is 84-4 when his teams score at least 80 points.
- Illinois State (7-3) (4)–The Redbirds are back on the winning track with two wins in a row. Jackie Carmichael has become the third player on the team this season to score 30 or more points in a game (Bryant Allen & Tyler Brown are the other two). IllinoisState boasts the best two-point field goal percentage at 58.3%. The Redbirds are averaging over 86 points a game at home and winning games there by more than 21 points per game. Redbird Arena could be a scary place to play for opponents.
- Bradley (7-2) (5)–Bradley had a 13-day layoff before defeating Georgia Southern on Monday night. They are rolling right along right now. The Braves matched their 2011-12 win total with that win. So there is definite improvement in this team. They have outscored their opponents in the paint in each of their six wins and have an overall 335-196 scoring advantage in the paint. Tyshon Pickett has been a big key to their success. The JUCO transfer has been pretty dominant in the paint and has played his role well.
- Southern Illinois (6-2) (6)–The Salukis are off to a great start and at this point seem to be playing really well. However, head coach Barry Hinson will readily admit that he isn't sure what type of team he has because they haven't played any giant killers. He said that he may not know for sure what kind of team he has until they hit MVC play. The road wins have been important as well as SIU has three road wins already compared to only two last season. Including the win against Green Bay, SIU will play five games in an eight day stretch to close out the non-conference season. They will need a healthy Kendal Brown-Surles.
- Northern Iowa (6-4) (3)-Northern Iowa hit another bump in the road when they lost to Iowa last weekend in Des Moines due to their perimeter defense. What head coach Ben Jacobson needs to worry about now is whether the Panther's confidence has been damaged before getting into conference season or if these early season losses will make them better once they see MVC play. Deon Mitchell continues building on his freshman season. His last outing against the Hawkeyes was a 23-point performance.
- Evansville (6-4) (8)–Evansville is just trying everything they can to get wins and Colt Ryan appears to be back to full strength. The senior scored a season-high 24 points in the win over Alabama State. He has scored at least 13 points or more since his return from injury five games ago. Ryan Sawvell will become more important as the season goes on. Getting his confidence level up might be what he needs to keep going.
- Indiana State (5-3) (9)–The Sycamores have been flying quietly through the non-conference season. They broke a two-game losing streak with a nice road win against IUPUI. They have been away from home the past two games, and they will play another three out in Hawaii over Christmas. If they can grind out games and keep the opponent to 63 points or less, IndianaState will win a lot of games. They are 5-0 this season and 31-1 in three seasons under head coach Greg Lansing.
- Drake (4-5) (7)– Rebounding has been killing Drake this season. It reared its ugly head once again in the loss to Iowa State. If they could morph Jordan Clarke across the team, they would be in good shape. He leads the MVC in double-doubles this season with four. In the loss against Iowa State, the Bulldogs were limited to very few free throws and only made four three pointers. They were making almost 10 three-pointers a game.
- Missouri State (2-8) (10)– Injuries have devastated Missouri State with an already limited roster. Gavin Thurman and Drew Wilson are out with injuries. It is at this point that I'm sure they wish they had Jarmar Gulley this year. The Bears have to rely on their freshman to carry the team. Combined the newbies are scoring 25.5 points per game which is about 43% of the team's offensive output.
Looking Ahead
- 12/18–Missouri State @ Alabama A&M (7:00 PM, Local TV & ESPN3) — The Missouri State win watch is still on as the Bears try to get their first D-I win of the season. In a weird twist of scheduling (former Missouri State official is now the AD at A&M), Missouri State is on the road for this one. This one even makes the national scene as it is on ESPN3.
- 12/19–Illinois State @ Dayton (6:00 PM, Comcast Sports Net) — Dan Muller said he wanted to up the level of competition during the non-conference season and he has delivered by getting a home-and-home series with the always tough Dayton. The Redbirds could get a nice win in a tough road environment and could get themselves back in the national spotlight after coming up short in games earlier in the season against some tough competition.
- 12/19–Northern Iowa @ UNLV (9:00 PM, Time Warner Sportsnet) & 12/22–St. Mary's vs. Northern Iowa (no TV)–The Panthers came into this season as everyone's sleeper, but some of those same people probably wonder if they are asleep at the wheel. Northern Iowa has missed out on a lot of opportunities so far this season to get big wins in the non-conference and they are down to their final two opportunities to earn a signature win for their resume. UNI is the only MVC school to go 3-0 in the Missouri Valley/Mountain West Challenge. They would like to make it 4-0.
- 12/22-23–Bradley @ Las Vegas Classic (CBS Sports Network)–Bradley has been a nice surprise this season. They have a chance to capitalize on the early success in Las Vegas when they take on Virginia Tech first on Saturday. Depending how things go, then the Braves could get another nice win against either Colorado State or Portland. Their success here could give them a nice boost heading into conference play.
- 12/22–Evansville @ Butler (1:00 PM, Local TV)–The Aces started the season slow in large part to the early injury to Colt Ryan so he is just now really starting to look like his old scoring self. They have a nice opportunity here to take down Butler who is coming off of a victory over the former #1 team in the nation, Indiana. While the Bulldogs made headlines last week, Evansville could make headlines here.
- 12/22–Indiana State vs. Mississippi (5:00 PM, ESPNU)–The Sycamores head to Hawaii to play some basketball for their Christmas break. Indiana State is looking to get a few big wins and this is their opportunity on a neutral floor. First up is Ole Miss. If everything goes well, they could get opportunities against San Diego State and Arizona in their other games on the islands.
Reader's Take
Spotlight On: Realignment
On this week's MVC conference call, a lot of the coaches weighed in on the possibility of changes coming to the MVC, whether Creighton leaves or not. The most colorful of these was Barry Hinson. He is always very quotable. He has a love for the Valley and he gave his speech to the "jury" about why the MVC should ultimately stay as they are.
"I'm passionate about this league. Let me tell you how I feel about this. I can't control it, but this is the facts. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, when you play in the Missouri Valley Conference, you are playing in the second oldest conference in the country. When you play on the road, most likely seven of the 10 schools you play on the road are going to be sold out. Wichita State has been sold out since Naismith was born. Illinois State, sold out. Bradley may not be sold out, but they have been drinking beer two hours prior to the game and is one of the most entertaining crowds you will ever want to see. You go to Creighton — maybe not sold out, ok well we have 16,700 for that night. You go to Missouri State, back in the day, sold out. You go to Drake, sold out and the Dawghouse is sitting right there next to your bench. You go to Northern Iowa in their new facility, sold out. You go to Indiana State — oh sometimes not sold out but an unbelievable crowd. Evansville with their new facility, a great chance, sold out. You just go through the league, doggone it, what do you want? You want to play in a basketball league, a league where basketball is a priority, where communities absolutely support their educational institutions as well as their athletic department. You have a great commissioner in Doug Elgin. You have a great reputation You have a great track record of being the best ranked mid-major conference in the country. It all comes down to what is right."
According to reports, the MVC presidents got together in the past few days regarding the possibility of Creighton leaving the MVC. While we do not know the details specifically of the meeting it is sure that the threat now posed by the start of a new Catholic Big East that plans to add members will cause concern for many basketball conferences across the nation.


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In a back and forth contest that saw both schools lead at various times during the day, the Duke Blue Devils defeated the Texas Longhorns by a 52%-48% vote to win the inaugural Bragging Rights challenge.
The Dookies were probably the odds-on favorite from the get-go, with five legitimate near-All-Star caliber players at their disposal (say what you want about Corey Maggette, but the man can get buckets if nothing else). And as the dominant program in college basketball over the past two decades, it certainly makes some sense that they'd field the best current crop of NBA players.
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Plugin Programming Interface
Plugins are all about interfaces. The basic notion of plugin-based system is that there is some central system that loads plugins it knows nothing about and communicates with them through well-defined interfaces and protocols.
The naive approach is to define a set of functions as the interface that the plugin exports (either dynamic or static library). This approach is technically possible but conceptually it is flawed. The reason is that there are two kinds of interfaces a plugin should support and can be only a single set of functions exported from a plugin. This means that both kinds of interface will be mixed together.
The first interface (and protocol) is the generic plugin interface. It lets the central system initialize the plugin, and lets the plugin register with the central system various functions for creating and destroying objects as well as global cleanup function. The generic plugin interface is not domain-specific and can be specified and implemented as a reusable library. The second interface is the functional interface implemented by the plugin objects. This interface is domain-specific and must be carefully designed and implemented by the actual plugins. The central system should be aware of this interface and interact with the plugin objects through it.
Listing One is the header file that specifies the generic plugin interface. Without delving into the details and explaining anything just yet let's just see what it offers.
#ifndef PF_PLUGIN_H #define PF_PLUGIN_H #include <apr-1/apr_general.h> #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif typedef enum PF_ProgrammingLanguage { PF_ProgrammingLanguage_C, PF_ProgrammingLanguage_CPP } PF_ProgrammingLanguage; struct PF_PlatformServices_; typedef struct PF_ObjectParams { const apr_byte_t * objectType; const struct PF_PlatformServices_ * platformServices; } PF_ObjectParams; typedef struct PF_PluginAPI_Version { apr_int32_t major; apr_int32_t minor; } PF_PluginAPI_Version; typedef void * (*PF_CreateFunc)(PF_ObjectParams *); typedef apr_int32_t (*PF_DestroyFunc)(void *); typedef struct PF_RegisterParams { PF_PluginAPI_Version version; PF_CreateFunc createFunc; PF_DestroyFunc destroyFunc; PF_ProgrammingLanguage programmingLanguage; } PF_RegisterParams; typedef apr_int32_t (*PF_RegisterFunc)(const apr_byte_t * nodeType, const PF_RegisterParams * params); typedef apr_int32_t (*PF_InvokeServiceFunc)(const apr_byte_t * serviceName, void * serviceParams); typedef struct PF_PlatformServices { PF_PluginAPI_Version version; PF_RegisterFunc registerObject; PF_InvokeServiceFunc invokeService; } PF_PlatformServices; typedef apr_int32_t (*PF_ExitFunc)(); typedef PF_ExitFunc (*PF_InitFunc)(const PF_PlatformServices *); #ifndef PLUGIN_API #ifdef WIN32 #define PLUGIN_API __declspec(dllimport) #else #define PLUGIN_API #endif #endif extern #ifdef __cplusplus "C" #endif PLUGIN_API PF_ExitFunc PF_initPlugin(const PF_PlatformServices * params); #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif /* PF_PLUGIN_H */
The first thing you should notice is that it is a C file. This allows the plugin framework to be compiled and used by pure C systems and to write pure C plugins. But, it is not limited to C and is actually designed to be used mostly from C++.
PF_ProgrammingLanguage enum allows plugins to declare to the plugin manager if they are implemented in C or C++.
PF_ObjectParams is an abstract struct that is passed to created plugin objects.
PF_PluginAPI_Version is used to negotiate versioning and make sure that the plugin manager loads only plugins with compatible version.
The functions pointer definitions
PF_CreateFunc and
PF_DestroyFunc (implemented by the plugin) allow the plugin manager to create and destroy plugin objects (each plugin registers such functions with the plugin manager)
PF_RegisterParams struct contains all the information that a plugin must provide to the plugin manager upon initialization (version, create/destroy functions, and programming language).
PF_RegisterFunc (implemented by the plugin manager) allows each plugin to register a
PF_RegisterParams struct for each object type it supports. Note that this scheme allows a plugin to register different versions of an object and multiple object types.
PF_InvokeService function pointer definition is a generic function that plugins can use to invoke services of the main system like logging, event notification and error reporting. The signature includes the service name and an opaque pointer to a parameters struct. The plugins should know about available services and how to invoke them (or you can implement service discovery if you wish using
PF_PlatformServices struct aggregates all the services I just mentioned that the platform provides to plugin (version, registering objects and the invoke service function). This struct is passed to each plugin at initialization time.
PF_ExitFunc is the definition of the plugin exit function pointer (implemented by the plugin).
PF_InitFunc is the definition of the plugin initialization function pointer.
PF_initPlugin is the actual signature of the plugin initialization function of dynamic plugins (plugins deployed in dynamically linked libraries/shared libraries). It is exported by name from dynamic plugins, so the plugin manager will be able to call it when loading the plugin. It accepts a pointer to a
PF_PlatformServices struct, so all the services are immediately available upon initialization (this is the right time to register objects) and it returns a pointer to an exit function.
Note that static plugins (plugins implemented in static libraries and linked directly to the main executable) should implement an
init function with C linkage too, but MUST NOT name it
PF_initPlugin. The reason is that if there are multiple static plugins, they will all have a function with the same name and your compiler will hate it.
Static plugins initialization is different. They must be initialized explicitly by the main executable that will call their initialization function with the
PF_InitFunc signature. This is unfortunate because it means the main executable needs to be modified whenever a new static plugin is added/removed and also the names of the various
init functions must be coordinated.
There is a technique called "auto-registration" that attempts to solve the problem. Auto-registration is accomplished by a global object in the static library. This object is supposed to be constructed before the
main() even starts. This global object can request the plugin manager to initialize the static plugin (passing the plugin's
init() function pointer). Unfortunately, this scheme doesn't work in Visual C++.


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The circus now over, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o is going to get a chance to do something much harder than holding a press conference.
He's going to have to convince teams at the NFL Scouting Combine that he deserves a job based on his play on the field.
You can read the full transcript of the interview, in all its prurient glory, here.
While there were some hand grenades lobbed his way — such as when he was asked if he was "dating anybody in real life," to which he replied: "No, not right now" — Te'o was clearly schooled up to answer questions calmly and evenly. For what it's worth, it shows a coachability that teams are going to like.
But teams are also going to try to shake him, before they invest in him, asking things that would probably make self-respecting reporters blush.
But the most important part of his future will come after all the stories are field and television cameras are packed away.
While he was a productive player throughout his college career, there are legitimate questions about his mobility. His 40-yard dash will be important, as a time in the 4.6-second range will make a lot of doubts go away. Run in the 4.8s, and there will be legitimate concerns about his ability to play in coverage.
He was initially projected as a late-first round prospect, among the top two or three inside linebacker prospects in the draft.
Whether that holds up after his on-field drills Monday will be more meaningful to his football future than an embarrassing personal story.
Te'o mentioned having meetings with the Texans and Packers, among 20 formal interviews he had scheduled.
The other 12 might have decided that the distractions he'd bring aren't worth it for a two-down linebacker.


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Playing WOW, you end up using a lot of key combinations. Especially when you start including shift, ctrl and alt in the mix. You would be surprised how many keys you press at once in game. A good example is running using W, spamming abilities using 1-6 and also pressing shift, alt, or ctrl while your run and gun/heal. You might be running into ghosting problems where your keyboard isn't registering all of your keystrokes.. heres a good test to see if you are running into ghosting issues..
This thread is used to test anti-ghosting on your keyboard. Its an easy test, just reply to this thread and do the following..
1. Hold both shift buttons (left and right).
2. Type in the following sentence.. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
3. Make sure to include what keyboard you are using and what interface you are using (USB or PS2).
I'll start.
CM Storm Quickfire Rapid with Mx Cherry Blues. USB (my motherboard doesnt have a ps2 port).


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So, In Europe, you riot when your team loses the big game? Huh. And in London, apparently, they know how to do that. As soon as Chelsea lost to Manchester United in the Champions League Final, they were out of the pubs and into the streets.
As the stand-off developed, hooligans — including several young women — hurled bottles and dustbins at police before running back into the crowd. Many thugs covered their faces with scarves as they taunted police. Officers in riot gear and wielding batons charged the crowd to disperse them as missiles rained down.
Not sure what a dustbin is ... my understanding of British outdoor objects is limited to things I've seen in Monty Python sketches, such as "Vicious gangs of keep-left signs ..."
So if I have this straight, Chelsea fans were fighting with each other? Wow.
In Moscow, where the match was held, things were somewhat calmer.
Thousands of Chelsea fans were bussed under police escort to their airports soon after their team lost on penalties. Police said they had used mobile "sobering vans" to treat drunk fans before the game.
A few of those vans were sorely needed at the Preakness last weekend.
Riots In London As Chelsea Fans Clash With Police After Champions League Defeat [London Daily Mail]


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Doors open at 7pm and Dinner is served through out the show, the bar closes at 1pm so stay for a drink and cigar in our smoking lounge.
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As we gear up for the 2013 Academy Awards, airing Feb. 24, The Root is speaking with black Oscar winners and nominees — past and present — about the prestigious honor.
(The Root) — Siedah Garrett is a burst of energy. Anyone in the presence of the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter for just the smallest amount of time can feel it. It beams from her aura. Effervescent. Funny. And real.
The vibrant Californian got her big break in 1984 at age 23 when she met Quincy Jones, who plucked her from an 800-person "cattle call" audition. After connecting with Jones, her star began to shine more brightly. She co-wrote and sang backup on several of his 1980s and 1990s hits, including "Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)," "Back on the Block" and "The Secret Garden."
She also sang a duet with the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, for the 1987 hit "I Just Can't Stop Loving You." Soon after, Jackson's "Man in the Mirror," which Garrett had co-written, shot to the top of the charts. Her first Academy Award nomination for best original song was for "Love You, I Do" from the 2006 musical film Dreamgirls. Last year she received another best original song nod for the Brazilian-flavored "Real in Rio" from the animated feature Rio, making her the most Oscar-nominated black female songwriter.
The Root spoke with Garrett about her latest endeavor, working with Quincy Jones and missing the King of Pop.
The Root: Tell me about the day you found out you were nominated for "Love You, I Do" from Dreamgirls.
Siedah Garrett: I'd been up very late the night before, and my phone just kept ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing. In my haze of sleep, I couldn't figure out why everyone kept calling me. By the time I got to the phone and started listening to the messages, I kept hearing, "Congratulations!" and "We're so proud of you!" I was literally stopped in my tracks when it sank in what had happened. That was such rare air for me. I was stunned by the moment. And the phone calls came in days and days after that.
TR: When you're writing the song, does it go through your mind that this could be a hit, or I could be nominated for an Oscar?
SG: Oh, no! That was the furthest thing from my mind. I wanted to fulfill the promise that I had made to the director. I was focused on giving him what he wanted because I wanted him to call me again. That was my only plan. I didn't think so far enough ahead to think "Oscar." That wasn't even in my thought process.
TR: How was it different when you got your second nomination five years later?
SG: It was very different for me the second time around because instead of being one of eight songs, it was one of two. And I had a 50-50 shot. But I lost to a muppet — "Man or Muppet" is the song that won.
TR: What projects are you working on now?
SG: I'm getting ready to embark on a new adventure with my writing partner Glen Ballard, where we're going to write a musical based on the life of Madame Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of Louisiana. She was extremely special for her time [the 19th century]. She had power where women didn't have power at that time, especially black women … It would be a Broadway musical. But we haven't even started yet, and it could take as little as a few months and as many as a few years.
TR: You said you like to live in the moment. How has that helped you in your career?
SG: I think since the music and entertainment business is so busy, in order to just really give something the attention it needs to make it the best it can be, you really kind of have to focus. Multitasking really isn't productive in the creative process. So I guess I'm really good at focusing on what I'm doing at the time. I wrote, I think, 25 or 26 songs for Dreamgirls. And most of those were rewrites. I got two songs in the film, and one of them was nominated for an Oscar.
TR: Aside from yourself, who would you say has been the most influential person in your career?
SG: It would have to be Quincy Jones. Quincy made it a deal to be a songwriter. All I wanted to be was a recording artist because that's all I saw for me. But Quincy introduced me to the world as a writer, and he introduced me to the world's biggest pop star — Michael Jackson. And Quincy introduced the world's biggest pop star to a song that I wrote — "Man in the Mirror." So he is by far my biggest influence and my mentor. And he's my brother for life.
TR: How did that change your life?
SG: Well, it got me to talk to people like you. If I was filing at the insurance company I used to work for, I doubt we'd be having this conversation. It was a real introduction, a real entree into the elite of the entertainment industry. And from that introduction, Michael liked my voice so much he wanted to do a duet with me, which was my No. 1 pop song ("I Just Can't Stop Loving You") that I was an artist on. When Michael Jackson says, "I want to sing with you," that means you've got something — something that somebody else doesn't have.
TR: It's been nearly four years since Michael Jackson's death. Are you still affected by it?
SG: He's everywhere, you know. His energy and his music is pervasive in my life. He never really goes away, so I think about him all the time. But it's not as constant as it was when he first passed. I released a song last year in honor of Michael because I never got a chance to tell him when he was alive how much I appreciated his impact on my life and his introducing me to the world as an artist to pay attention to. And Michael was a great artist. He drew and painted. Very few people know about that.
TR: You've worked with some great people, but is there anyone you'd like to work with who you haven't already?
SG: Prince! I want to work with Prince! I want to work with Prince! He's, like, the guy. [But it hasn't happened yet because] Prince doesn't write with anybody. Prince does what Prince wants to do. He's not a co-writer, so I don't know how that's going to happen, but I want to collaborate with him on some level.
I have no idea how it's going to happen, but chile, I didn't know I was going to meet Michael Jackson, either, so I just put it out there. That's all I can do is put it out there. Where did I get the audacity to think I would meet Michael Jackson, let alone sing with him and write for him? Hello?!
Previously in the Black Academy Awards Series: Louis Gossett Jr. on Post-Oscar Heartbreak.
Aisha I. Jefferson is a frequent contributor to The Root. You can follow her on Twitter or visit her at aishaiman.com.