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Digital Web: Recently, you had a job change. Can you give us an update on your current work and how v-2 fits in with it?
Adam Greenfield: Sure. I had been working with a company called DentsuFUSE here in Tokyo, which was the survivor of a joint venture between the Japanese advertising agency Dentsu and marchFIRST. And regrettably, after almost a year of working together, I was forced to conclude that there was simply no room there for the practice of information architecture. The management didn't understand it, didn't know how to sell it, and didn't want to learn.
Fortunately enough, at the same time I was beginning to understand that the situation was an untenable one for me, a friend at the Razorfish office here in town got in touch and told me of their acute need for an experienced IA. And it's early days yet, but I can tell you that the energy in the office is like night and day compared to my old gig. It's nice to have actual projects moving forward for actual clients--high-profile ones, at that--and a management structure that understands and values information architecture.
As to where v-2 fits into all this, well, as ever it's a place where I work through the concepts that are important to me for my work, as well as discussing and engaging ideas completely tangential to that work but still of interest to me for one reason or another.
It's also a great excuse to make connections with various heroes and icons, especially as the site becomes more widely known. Even from the start, I've always been amazed at its prodigious ability to generate opportunities and connections. Everybody should have one, even if it's just a blog.
Digital Web: How did you get started in Web design? What are the most memorable lessons you've learned?
AG: Like many people, I'm guessing--and if I can generalize from my own experience, which is always a little risky, I'd bet this is a greater factor in the evolution of online design than is generally understood--I didn't have any particular interest in designing for the Web until I was exposed to broadband on a daily basis. Until that point, the Web was something I experienced in passive mode, as a spectator and consumer, and generally in a state of frustration.
Fairly or not, I didn't have this exposure to broadband until after I'd already talked my way into being hired to manage the process of getting an e-commerce site built for a high-end design furniture retailer, with a fancy job title and a fair amount of resources at my disposal.
It was, shall we say, something of a crash course. I spent a lot of time bluffing my way through meetings, and falling back on the few safe things I felt comfortable saying. That, and reading Vincent Flanders' Web Sites That Suck everyday--a site that anyone who has a little aesthetic sense quickly grows out of, but which is invaluable for the beginner. Fortunately, after a few weeks of guzzling from a T1, in which I could actually load Praystation and Soulbath and k10k and take a look around at what various people were doing to push the frontier outward, I felt able to draw a few very preliminary conclusions.
One was that very few sites at that point--and this was already '99--made any real use of the Web's attributes as a computational, or a distributed, or a global, or a peer-to-peer medium. There were many brochure sites out there--still are, although I think people are beginning to exploit the possibilities.
Another, somewhat contradictory insight, was that at least to judge from some of the sites that I saw, a thousand years of typographic and graphic design learning and (yes) progress had never happened. Some of this was due to the limitations of HTML display in the browsers available at the time, but a lot of it was just bunk-ass design.
Most importantly, though, I held on to the memory of what it felt like to surf the Web with a dial-up connection. And when I got around to working on the design and implementation of our own site, I made damn sure that those users' needs were reflected in our requirements document.
Digital Web: In your "Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good: The web, design elitism and evolution," you write usability means different things to different sites. How do you define usability for a personal site? For a business site?
AG: Something that frequently gets lost in the Sturm und Drang around this rather loaded term is the idea that it's nonsense to talk about "usability" without reference to a specific audience, its affinities, abilities, limitations and predilections. (That's why information architects spend so much time constructing thick user personae.)
Who's the audience for a purely personal site? Yourself and your friends, right? Maybe you want your own site to feature primary navigational links with two-by-two-pixel click targets, bright yellow against lemon yellow. In orthodox terms, this is pretty clearly a usability no-no. But if you know that only a hundred people are ever going to see the site, and 86 of them are the kind of people who are going to get a kick out of hunting those links down, you're doing pretty well. I doubt many sites get anywhere close to satisfying that much of their audience.
On the other hand, maybe you also want your site to be of utility to a prospective employer. Then the audience changes, and so does the definition of usable. The trouble with Jakob-style pronunciamentos--"this is good usability practice, that is a violation"--is that they hold themselves up as universals, when really they're mostly applicable to mass-audience commerce and information sites. And if we've learned anything in the last few years, it's that the Web perforce lets a hundred flowers bloom.
Digital Web: What are some Web sites that demonstrate a good example of usability?
AG: I've always loved the original 37 Signals--you don't get much cleaner or easier to use than that. I'm a big partisan of the International Herald Tribune site, whose developers obviously spent some time paying attention to the way people actually use and interact with newspapers. I'm hard pressed to name a site that does more to demolish the idea that an experimental interface can't simultaneously be intuitive than Relevare. Google is probably the classic example of a site where less is truly more. And I would be remiss if I didn't at least namecheck the folks at Method, whose sites always have the kind of polish that reflects deep thought about the user's needs and desires.
Curiously enough, a site I find wretchedly unpleasant to use is Jakob Nielsen's own useit.com.
Digital Web: For sake of clarification, what is information architecture (IA)? Should IA be done in a flow chart program or what?
AG: I used to define information architecture as "the art and science of organizing information in such a way as to facilitate its rapid and intuitive retrieval." I've thrown out that definition now, as being too pedantic and way too restrictive. Now, I say IA is "trying to empathize with what the user wants to do, and facilitating her doing it." Maybe even "Getting out of the user's way."
The tool that most reliably produces sound architecture, as far as I'm concerned, is a functioning ear. IA is something that should be done by talking to people (primarily users, clients, and developers), asking the right questions, and listening carefully to the answers.
Also quite useful is an eye, so you can watch users in their own native environment, trying the use the things we create--you get a lot of insight into "how not to do it" that way. You'll notice that none of this necessarily involves a computer--although I'll admit it's hard to produce really slick deliverables with a 2HB pencil.
Digital Web: Would you say that IA is tied with good usability? Why / why not?
AG: They're two sides of the same coin, or maybe it would be better to say they're the interior and exterior of the same object. A site or an object whose design has resulted from a conscientiously-applied process of information architecture is generally--generally, but not always--highly usable for its intended user base. (Note, again, that nowhere do I imply that either is or should be limited to the Web.)
Digital Web: Can you give example Web sites of well that obviously put a lot of thought into IA? What about one that didn't consider it at all?
AG: Well, I've already named some sites that feel highly usable to me. I think if you asked, you'd find that the people who developed those sites went through some sort of recognizable IA methodology, complete with user personae, scenarios, page schematics, and all the paraphernalia that attend a thoughtful, user-centric development process.
Unfortunately, sites that haven't are too many to mention; naming them would be like shooting fish in a barrel. Still, after everything we've learned.
For example, it's kind of hard to believe in 2002, but most all the major Japanese corporations I'm familiar with have a horrible, counterproductive Web presence--sites that almost seem calculated to frustrate, annoy and alienate their users.
Here's just one example: Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan Ltd. Now, where on this page do you have any indication that this is a chicken restaurant? How about store locations? Menu? Hours? In fact, any of the things you're likely to want to know if you've gone to the trouble of entering this URL in your browser?
Digital Web: The Barbara Walters question. Prior to redesign, your v-2.org site used to be clean and simple text-based design. Looking at it today, it's a bulkier and partial Flash-based design. I admit I had trouble finding my way around. How did you come to the decision to move from a simple, effective design to a "design for design's sake" design?
AG: I'll say up front that this was in large part a mistake, and one that I'm in the process of correcting. What happened was that I screwed up on principle number one of good IA, and misjudged both the composition of my audience and what they wanted from the site.
I had thought that v-2's audience predominantly consisted of visually-oriented designers--whether graphic or Web or architectural--and that they would prefer something with a distinctive design and an unusual interface to the content. As it turns out, people don't come to v-2 to be inspired visually, and they never have; they're there almost solely for the content, and if that content also happens to be presented in a visually-appealing environment, that's a bonus. They've made this pretty explicit. It's been a curious experience, both humbling and gratifying, to be told this: "I love your articles, but I'll go to Presstube, or Rhizome, or Ben Fry's stuff at the MIT Media Lab site if I want to be turned on."
Part of it, too, is an artifact of the social and political circumstances of the site's development. Because I simply didn't have the skills to bring the site I imagined to life, I asked some very talented friends of mine--Sharif Ezzat, Peter Markatos, Jay Hakkinen, Gabe Garner--to work on it with me. The work they did on v-2 is something for which designers would ordinarily bill in the tens of thousands of dollars, and they did it purely for the challenge, and I hope for the fun.
Well, let me tell you, when you-as-client have so indebted yourself to your developers, you really don't have a very loud voice in the process, particularly if you want to keep those friendships. There are decisions that were made that I didn't particularly agree with, but which I simply didn't push very hard on; I figured and still figure that this went hand in hand with respecting the enormous outlays of time and energy these guys made for nothing more than goodwill.
And that's another lesson learned. Next time around, if I need anybody's help, I'll pay for it like anyone else, and I'll feel more comfortable about getting my control-freak on. Better still, I'll build it all myself, and then being dictatorial simply won't be an issue.
Digital Web: How can a small design shop (even with just one principal) go about ensuring IA is figured into the process?
AG: Keep your eyes on the prize, which is user satisfaction. You don't have to know the ins and outs of use cases and task flows, as long as you can construct a reasonably accurate story about why a given user is on your site, what they want to do there, and what factors stand in their way.
A certain professional humility--something I constantly struggle with--goes a long, long way, too. Just because someone's business card says "Marketing Department" or "Receptionist" doesn't mean they're incapable of coming up with the right solution to offer the user at hand. When you're a small shop, it's even more critical to seek out and encourage these perspectives.
Digital Web: How will XML and Web services impact IA and its future?
AG: Hugely. XML, along with its related technologies, XHTML and CSS, will permit content to be far more finely tuned to audiences, in ways that reflect the actual environment and context of use.
This is at the global scale. At the level of specific IA deliverables, we're already exploring ways in which, say, elements of a page schematic can consist of little modules of XML code, so interaction and flow are already inherent in the structure by the time visual design is applied.
(Yes, alert designers and engineers, there are aspects of this scenario about which I'm deeply ambivalent. But for certain types of sites, under certain kinds of development pressure, I think this approach makes a lot of sense.)
Digital Web: At Altsense, you discuss the difference between IA and Interaction Design (ID). How do you define ID?
AG: We need to be careful: there's ID as in interaction design, and ID as in information design (to say nothing of industrial design), and they imply very different ambits.
In that post, I'm pretty clear about my contention that interaction design should be considered a subset of information architecture. I think I say something to the effect that IA started out primarily focusing on the organization of content, whereas interaction design could just as easily apply to a spreadsheet application, or a phone. This would seem to make IA the more parochial in its concerns. And, as a matter of fact, Razorfish's formal delineation of job responsibilities for an information architect focuses on things like site mapping and page architectures and search vocabularies--all things which are more or less bound to the Web paradigm.
But, (and I'll stress that this is a rather contentious issue in the IA community, and that I am fairly far to one side of the spectrum of contention) I think everything in the world is information, and that therefore what each and every single design project needs is someone to think about the flow of information to the user and back.
Digital Web: On sites design by the beginning designer, what frequent Web design issues do you see?
AG: I'm gonna beg off on answering this question, because I really do try to live by the idea that in matters of taste there is no dispute. (Everyone who's jumped out of her seat by now, in a rush to call bullshit on me: I did say "try.")
Digital Web: What are the basic key things every Web site should consider to ensure it's well designed?
AG: I'm wary of that "every"--Curt Cloninger's
lab404, say, is going to have divergent needs from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, or Dischord Records, or your neighborhood Greek restaurant--but I can say this: Know your audience. Err on the side of restraint. And don't try to accomplish too much.
Digital Web: As someone who has experienced working in different cultures (US and Japan), does creativity mean the same thing in different cultures? What does it mean to you?
AG: I don't think it means the same thing to any two people, but the word certainly doesn't have the same resonances in Japan as it does where I'm from. In Japan, a site or an ad or a T-shirt or a video can be essentially identical with the four hundred and twenty-three that preceded it, "plus alpha," and still be considered a work of daring and imagination. That's probably not going to fly in Barcelona, or Brooklyn, or Bermondsey.
As for me, creativity simply means finding the right way to solve the problem at hand. Sometimes that will mean something new and untried and frankly radical and sometimes the appropriate means will incorporate a tactic or a technique that's been around since the Paleolithic. Creativity is knowing when to use which tool in your armamentarium.
Digital Web: Your articles at v-2 and elsewhere are inspiring and innovative. From where do you get your inspiration?
AG: Thanks, that's very generous of you to say so.
Uhh, this is going to come from out of left field for those that don't know me real well, but Lester Bangs is probably the single biggest influence on my writing. He was a rock critic--if you saw Almost Famous you'll remember Phillip Seymour Hoffman's dead-on evocation of him--who never shied from injecting himself into whatever story he was nominally writing about. What Lester wrote wasn't always pretty and it wasn't always right--sometimes it was perilously close to indefensible--but what he had in passion and integrity made up for any lapses in taste tenthousandfold. When I encounter a site--any kind of product, really--that's designed with arrogant, ignorant, or contemptful neglect for the people who have to use it, I think of how Lester would have torn into it, and smile.
I can never get enough of the graphic design work that Josef Muller-Brockman was doing in, good god, the 1950s, which still looks clean and contemporary, and lends itself especially well to the Web (or so I would have it). I always have at least one copy of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style floating around. The architects John Pawson and Herzog & de Meuron are touchstones.
But mostly I get my inspiration from that incomparable and inexhaustible wellspring of same, the natural world. It's subtle, it's patient, and if it takes what is probably an uneconomic amount of time to search the space of potential design solutions, I'll die a happy man if I can ever produce designs one-one-thousandth as graceful and elegant.
Adam Greenfield is Senior Information Architect for Intervision-Razorfish in Tokyo, Japan, but he gets his groove on at v-2.org. That's where he talks about user-centered interface design, and a whole bunch of other things that you'd probably get a kick out of: innovative architecture, well-thought-out product design, whatever remains of "digital culture," and the frantic ravings of dead French intellectuals.
Adam has been a rock critic for SPIN Magazine, a San Francisco bike messenger, a PSYOP sergeant in the US Army Special Operations Command, and Director of New Media Development for a now-defunct dotcom. It would be highly unusual for him to wrap a bio without mentioning his love of pad Thai, gin & tonics, the Citroen DS series, and the Velvet Underground.
Meryl K. Evans has written articles for A List Apart, AbsoluteWrite, Dallas Morning News, WebReference, WebReview, and others. She is also an editor and dabbles with Web Design. She is working on a book, so watch her Web site for news or check out meryl's notes, her blog. She was born and bred in the great state of Texas where she currently resides.
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Machias, ME- The University of Maine at Machias men's basketball team lost a Yankee Conference game to Eastern Maine Community College Tuesday night at the Reynolds Center. The Clippers got off to a slow start in the game falling behind by 13 at the half 42-29. A better effort in the second half sparked a run for the Clippers that cut the lead to 6 with 12:35 to go in the game. The game went back and forth from that point on and Eastern Maine hit several clutch shots down the stretch to spread the score to an 80-64 final.
The Clippers got a strong effort from Hampton Mack with 18 points and 10 rebounds. Will Lewis and Floyd Higgins each scored in double figures with 14 and 10 respectively. Lewis also led the game in assists with 7.
Clipper Coach Brac Brady commented after the game, "I was proud of the effort we showed in the second half, we didn't give up. I just wish we would have shot the ball better. Its not like us to shoot that poorly, especially at home. Give all the credit to Eastern Maine, they are a quality team."
The Clippers shot a dismal 4-24 from the three point line and only shot 37% from the field. Eastern Maine had a hot hand shooting 55% from the field including eight three point baskets. Eastern Maine is currently the number one ranked USCAA division two team in the country and Machias is currently ranked sixth in the same poll.
The Clippers are back in action this weekend playing three games, Friday at Central Maine, Saturday at Southern Maine and Sunday back home against New Hampshire Tech.


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Sunday doesn't look all golden, sun-drenched Calfornia-y like it should on Oscar Day -- the California tourism office must always bum a little, and we get that. But it's the weather, what can you do? Our thoughts go not to the stars, reporters, gadflies and various run-around-y employees of the Academy, who will surely be under plastic cover, but to the adoring fans who will gather for a chance to behold the flashing bulbs and smiles along the red carpet.
Some 300 screaming fans ("Brad! Kate! Meryl!") nabbed seats last fall through an online lottery, beating out some 20,000 others, give or take, all vying for a spot among those sacred metal seats. We can only imagine the 300 have been crowing about their good fortune for the last several months -- perhaps practicing speeches thanking the Academy. No offense meant, we surely would have had custom t-shirts made with "I'm Going to the Oscars!" and worn them everywhere to make friends and family supremely jealous.
So sure, the bleacherians may get damp and drizzled-upon, but when that tuxedo'ed mega star turns around and does the finger-gun point with wink and cute smile in their general direction, will bearing the chilly temps be worth it? We think yes. Dare we say nothing will dampen their spirits? We dare.
After all, not everyone gets to settle his or her little behind on a small stretch of cold bleacher. Those 300 have just got to feel extremely lucky, rain or no.


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Rights advocates, government watchdogs and supporters of alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning say they're becoming increasingly alarmed that the conditions under which the 22-year-old Army private is being held could amount to torture.
In the latest public pronouncements calling attention to Manning's plight, the Psychologists for Social Responsibility this week sent an open letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates saying it is "deeply concerned" about Manning's confinement conditions at a military prison at Quantico, Va.
"As an organization of psychologists and other mental health professionals, PsySR is aware that solitary confinement can have severely deleterious effects on the psychological well-being of those subjected to it," the group said. "We therefore call for a revision in the conditions of PFC Manning's incarceration while he awaits trial, based on the exhaustive documentation and research that have determined that solitary confinement is, at the very least, a form of cruel, unusual and inhumane treatment in violation of U.S. law."
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The letter deplores the "needless brutality" of Manning's conditions and says they undermine his right to a fair trial.
"Coercive conditions of detention also increase the likelihood of the prisoner 'cooperating' in order to improve those circumstances, even to the extent of giving false testimony," the letter said. "Thus, such harsh conditions are counter to the interests of justice."
A Quantico prison spokesman denied that Manning is being treated unduly harshly. "Pfc. Manning is not being treated any differently than any other maximum-custody detainee in the brig," Lt. Brian Villiard told msnbc.com on Thursday.
According to his lawyer, David E. Coombs, Manning has been held in maximum custody under a "prevention of injury" watch at the Marine Corps brig at Quantico since July, when he was charged with disclosing classified U.S. information. The military suspects Manning downloaded and leaked a video purportedly showing U.S. helicopters firing on civilians in Iraq on July 12, 2007.
The U.S. military also suspects him of being the source of the leak of hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and other government documents to WikiLeaks, though no charges have been filed in that case.
Coombs says Manning is confined in a 6-by-12-foot cell with a bed, a drinking fountain and a toilet for about 23 hours a day. On a "typical day," he is awakened at 5 a.m. and is not allowed to sleep between 5 a.m. and 8 p.m.; if he tries to sleep during those hours, guards will make him sit up or stand. He eats all his meals in his cell. He is allowed one hour of "exercise" daily outside his cell, consisting of walking in figure eights in an empty room, according to Coombs. When he goes to sleep, he is required to strip down to his boxer shorts and give his clothing to the guards. He is not allowed to have any personal items in his cell.
Coombs has said that Manning's confinement conditions amount to punishment, even though he has yet to go to trial.
David House, a 23-year-old MIT researcher who has visited Manning several times at Quantico, contends that because Manning is under a "prevention of injury" watch, he is subjected to conditions "far beyond" other maximum-custody prisoners at the brig.
"Over the course of my visits to see Bradley in Quantico, it's become increasingly clear that the severe, inhumane conditions of his detention are wearing on Manning. The extraordinary restrictions of Manning's basic rights to sleep, exercise, and communicate under the Prevention of Injury order are unnecessary and should be lifted immediately," House wrote in a recent blog post.
The United Nations' top anti-torture envoy, Manfred Nowak, is looking into a complaint that the Army private is being mistreated in custody, his office confirmed late last month.
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Villiard, the Quantico spokesman, denied that Manning is in "solitary confinement" and said his conditions are no different than the brig's other maximum custody detainees. All detainees at Quantico, like Manning, are either awaiting or undergoing trial.
"He lives in his own cell. He's allowed to converse with other detainees if he chooses to do so," Villiard said, noting that the layout of the brig is such that detainees can hear but can't see each other.
"He is treated equally across the board as it relates to other detainees," Villiard said. "It's a brig. I'm not a qualified person to talk about what is torture and what is not. It's a military brig and it's not being run any differently than any other military brig."
He said Manning receives "regular visits from both medical and psychological providers" to ensure his well-being.
The Washington Times reported Tuesday that the Army is assembling a special board to evaluate Manning's mental state.
Army spokesman Lt. Col. Robert Manning, no relation to Bradley Manning, told the newspaper that no further legal proceedings will happen until a recommendation is made on his fitness to stand trial.
Bradley Manning's supporters and rights advocates have urged citizens to contact Quantico and ask that the restrictions of the "prevention of injury" order be lifted.
Villiard said Quantico has received "a good number" of phone calls from concerned citizens about Manning. He said most of them are relieved when base officials explain that Manning is not being treated any differently than other detainees.
"There's nothing going on here that the Marine Corps has any reason to be concerned about and there's no reason for the civilian community to be concerned about, either," Villiard said.


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BURLINGTON, Vt. — Amy Miner says the last night of her husband's life got off to an amazing start.
Kryn Miner and his wife attended a wedding in April in Vermont with two of their four children, dancing and celebrating with good friends.
But then things went wrong.
The troubled 44-year-old Army veteran became verbally abusive toward his wife on the ride home and began to hit himself. Prosecutors say he threatened to kill his family, assaulted his wife, and then threw a loaded handgun to their teen child who came to her aid.
"Do you want to play the gun game?" the sniper-qualified Miner asked the teen, according to authorities. The teen fired six shots when Miner pulled another gun from a bag. Prosecutors ruled the April 26 shooting justified and the teen won't face charges.
Kryn Miner was a loving father and husband, his wife said. A dedicated career soldier. The guy who would walk into a room and make immediate friends. But after 11 deployments in seven years, he became troubled. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury after Amy Miner said he was thrown into a wall after a blast in Afghanistan in 2010 while serving with the Vermont National Guard.
Amy Miner, 39, said that his mental health became a constant struggle and that she agreed to an interview with The Associated Press a little more than two weeks after her husband's death to speak out about the need to provide better treatment for veterans.
"The truth of the matter is if we can't take care of our veterans we shouldn't be sending them off to war," she said. "It doesn't make sense. Because they're coming back and this is the result and it's happening more and more."
About 15 percent of veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from PTSD, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. PTSD is a treatable condition and many soldiers diagnosed with it are successful and high functioning, said Army Medical Command spokeswoman Maria Tolleson.
But PTSD also affects entire families who must deal with a loved one who may become isolated because of anxiety or act out due to anger or depression.
Dr. Thomas Simpatico, director of the division of public psychiatry at the University of Vermont, said the more families know about the disorder the better.
"If your father is all of a sudden flying off of the handle or breaking dishes, or whatever, and it happens to be after you said something, one might make the wrong conclusion that his behavior is the result of your activity," he said.
Kryn Miner joined the military in 1987, serving with the 82nd Airborne Division. He became a paratrooper, ranger and sniper, jumping into Panama and serving in the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Amy Miner said things changed after the blast in Afghanistan, one of 19 in his 25-year career. He tried to kill himself in September 2013.
About a month ago, Amy Miner wrote down what her husband experienced in a day. They include anxiety, anger and depression. He felt lost, empty, suspicious, worthless, like a failure. He felt guilty for being home while some of his comrades died or were still deployed. He felt like he should go back overseas and had suicidal thoughts throughout the day, wanting to hurt himself because of the guilt and the hurt that he had caused his family.
He began therapy at a Veterans Affairs facility, but Amy Miner said he often had to wait for hours to see different counselors. He stayed overnight at a VA hospital but doctors told him it wasn't the place for him, Amy Miner said. He got into another treatment program unrelated to the VA and learned how to cope with some of his depression and anxiety, but they didn't deal with PTSD.
He turned to the Lone Survivors Foundation, which helps wounded veterans return to civilian life, offering retreats to service members diagnosed with combat-related PTSD and their families. The foundation educates veterans and their families about PTSD, coping skills and reducing symptoms of stress.
"He was deeply committed to the notion that our nation's veterans have access to the peer support network and resources they need to manage the impact of their time in the service," said Beau Teal, the owner of CrossFit Burlington, where Miner was a trainer. He also developed a workout for veterans battling emotional wounds. It's 32 minutes long, representing the 32 veterans who either attempt or succeed in committing suicide daily, Amy Miner said.
She says her husband's new mission was getting help for others suffering from PTSD, including a Chicago TV appearance to speak about the Lone Survivors Foundation and telling his story at a gala to raise money.
After the tragic end to his life, Amy Miner says she will continue her husband's work.
"Kryn was my everything," she said. "(I) will not ever quit on him or this."


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I drive an old Saab 900S: front-wheel drive, ABS. I drive around the NYC a little, but mostly I'm on the highway. I spend weekends exploring small towns. I need something that can handle snow, but I'm more interested in a supple cold-weather compound, great ice skills, and wet-pavement prowess. Something that doesn't tank my gas mileage would be preferred.
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TORONTO -- Monday should make a far more pleasant homecoming for the Red Sox than the past two seasons, when they arrived at Fenway Park 0-6 and then 1-5 a year ago.
Instead, they will be 4-2 after blowing out Toronto, 13-0, in Sunday's series finale at Rogers Centre.
"I think the guys are looking forward to the energy that Fenway and our fans give us," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "We've been two months in Florida and another week-plus on the road. I think, all things considered, everybody is looking forward to getting back. It should be an exciting day tomorrow."
It will be the first chance for the club's newcomers to experience a home opener with the Red Sox.
"I'm looking forward to it," said closer Joel Hanrahan. "That's something I've been waiting for since I got traded here, was to get home and see what it's like being at Fenway and getting a chance to play there in front of the home fans."
One of the biggest ovations of the day will likely go to 22-year-old outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr., who won a spot on the team after an outstanding Spring Training.
"Oh, it's definitely going to be a lot of fun, that's for sure. I think it's going to be exciting, more than anything, just to play in front of the hometown fans. I'm ready to get there," Bradley said.
The 2:05 p.m. ET start against the Orioles will be preceded by the usual festivities, which are expected to begin at 1:30.
One dominant theme will be the Red Sox paying tribute to the cancer-fighting Jimmy Fund, as the Sox and the Jimmy Fund are celebrating the 60th season of their official partnership.
The Jimmy Fund Chorus will sing the national anthem prior to the game and God Bless America during the seventh inning stretch. And, of course, there will be a flyover, featuring two vintage P-51 Mustangs at the conclusion of the anthem.
The Merlin-powered P-51 Mustangs, which first entered World War II combat in December 1943, are provided by the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation, and will be piloted by Charles Hainline and Vlado Lenoch.
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The American Mathematical Society started its existence as the New York Mathematical Society which was founded in 1888. The history of that Society, prior to becoming the American Mathematical Society, is related in the article on the New York Mathematical Society.
A major motivation for the New York Mathematical Society to become a national mathematical society came about through the International Mathematical Congress held in Chicago in August 1893 in conjunction with the World's Columbian Exposition. The main international speaker was Klein who delivered the Evanston Colloquium lectures over a period of six days. After this Klein toured the United States and visited the New York Mathematical Society where J E McClintock, the President of the Society, introduced him as an:-
... apostle, prophet, evangelist, and teacher of mathematics - excelling in each office ...Klein lectured to the New York Mathematical Society and engaged in an open discussion session.
Now Eliakim Moore was the chairman of the organising committee for the International Mathematical Congress which had been held in Chicago and the committee had received 39 papers for publication in a Conference Proceedings. After unsuccessfully attempting to find financial backing for the publication, he approached the New York Mathematical Society and, by June 1894, they had guaranteed up to $1000 to have Macmillan and Co publish the Proceedings. Archibald writes [2]:-
This major publication enterprise, transcending local considerations and sentiment, quickened the desire of the Society for a name indicative of its national and continental character.The New York Mathematical Society certainly become a national society in name on 1 July 1894 when it renamed itself the American Mathematical Society. At first, of course, little changed as the Society was firmly based in New York and it held its first meeting as the American Mathematical Society in Brooklyn in 1894. At this meeting G W Hill was elected President. Fiske continued to serve the Society as Secretary until 1895, and as editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society from until 1897. He was vice-president of the Society from 1898 to 1901, an editor of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society from 1899 to 1905, and President of the Society from 1903 to 1904.
Cole succeed Fiske in a number of these roles. He was appointed professor at Columbia University in 1895, and in the following year he was appointed as Secretary of the American Mathematical Society, a post he held until 1920. This was not his only work for the American Mathematical Society for in 1897 he was appointed as editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, holding this position until just before his death in 1926.
Two summer meetings were held while Hill was President, but both in conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The first was held in Springfield, Massachusetts in the summer of 1895, the second at Buffalo, New York in the summer of 1896. Fiske writes:-
The summer meeting at Buffalo in 1896 is memorable for the first colloquium of the Society. The colloquium was the idea of Professor H S White, then at Northwestern University, who had been one of the leading spirits in the organisation of the colloquium held at Evanston in connection with the World's Fair at Chicago.Indeed White had written to Fiske on 23 February 1896 making the following suggestions:-
Our summer meeting last year was profitable in various ways; but specifically, perhaps, as a stimulus to mathematical thought. One would likely derive more direct advantage from an hour in any one of several lecture rooms in this country. Yet each one found two or three papers out of the whole program of high interest. Now, why would it not be possible to combine with this miscellaneous program (which ought by all means to be kept up), something more akin to university models? Would not a series of three to six lectures on nearly related topics, if well chosen, prove attractive and useful to larger numbers?White's suggestion was supported by the Society and the first Colloquium speaker was James Pierpont of Yale who lectured at the summer meeting at Buffalo in 1896. The Colloquium of the American Mathematical Society was born and continues to this day.
Despite changing its name to the American Mathematical Society, regular meetings were still held in New York City. The summer meetings were held out of New York, but still in the north east of the country. Members in Chicago proposed setting up sections of the American Mathematical Society in other parts of the country. They called a meeting of local members on 31 December 1896 with the following suggestion by Eliakim Moore:-
Our Society represents the organised mathematical interests of this country. Its function is to promote those interests in all possible ways.The meeting approved the idea and the bylaws of the American Mathematical Society were amended to allow sections to be set up. The Chicago section first officially met on 24 April 1897. Further sections were set up once the success of the Chicago section became clear. The San Francisco West Coast section was set up in May 1902, and the South West section was up and running in Columbia, Missouri by December 1906.
Do we not need most of all frequent meetings? Those who have attended the summer meetings know the keen stimulus and inspiration resulting from personal contact - inside and outside the stated meeting - with colleagues from other institutions. The regular monthly meetings of the Society afford similar opportunities to those who live in the vicinity of New York.
By the organisation of sections of the Society can similar advantages be secured for other parts of the country? Shall, for instance, a Chicago section be organised? ...
The decision, in February 1899, to publish the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society was taken by Fiske, Eliakim Moore, McClintock, Bôcher, Osgood and Pierpont (the first Colloquium lecturer). The name was suggested by Bôcher and the idea of the journal was to accept only articles arising from contributions to a meeting of the Society or one of its sections. The idea was quite deliberately to give American authors a source to publish where they would have less competition from overseas authors. Eliakim Moore was elected editor-in chief and made sure that the quality of the journal was consistently high. Ernest Brown described [2]:-
... the immense amount of trouble we all took - and especially Moore - to get the best information, the best printing, the best editing and the best papers before the first number appeared. And the work did not stop there. we wrestled with our younger contributors to try to get them to put their ideas into good form. The refereeing was a very serious business --. Most of it in those days was, I believe, done by Moore himself though he sought outside assistance whenever possible.By 1901 the American Mathematical Society had 357 members and in the previous year 112 papers were read at Society meetings. By 1902 156 papers were read and the Society had elected its first President who was not from the North East, namely Eliakim Moore. However, the Society was still not truly national in its structure despite the introduction of sections. The problem was that the sections were still seen as holding less important meetings and the main meetings of the Society were still being organised in the north east. Matters came to a head in 1911 when the Chicago section complained bitterly about the place of the meeting at which Bôcher would give his Presidential address. Cole, as Secretary of the Society, allowed the decision to be put in Bôcher's hands and he made it clear that he wished to give his Presidential address in Chicago.
Although Bôcher's decision saved the American Mathematical Society from breaking apart, the Society still retained the idea of sections (and their meetings being of less standing) until 1929 when sectional meetings were recognised for the first time as regular meetings of the Society.
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GENOA The Burlington Central girls basketball team sure picked a good time to play its best game of the season.
And now the stage lights get just a little brighter for the Rockets.
Freshman Shelby Holt hit three 3-pointers in the first four minutes of the game and the Rockets defense was relentless in a 49-26 win over Sterling Thursday night in the championship game of the Class 3A Genoa-Kingston sectional.
The win puts the Rockets (27-4), winners of 12 straight, in Mondays 7:30 p.m. Hoffman Estates supersectional opposite defending Class 3A state runner-up Vernon Hills (29-2), a 42-30 winner over Regina Dominican Thursday in the VH sectional title game.
Mondays game will mark the first time a Burlington Central basketball team, boys or girls, has played in an IHSA Elite Eight game. The 1984 Rockets also won a sectional title, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen in Class A. The 1987 team lost to St. Edward in the programs only other sectional final appearance.
Mondays winner will advance to next weekends Final Four at Redbird Arena in Normal to play either three-time defending state champion Montini or Chicago Phillips in the state semifinals.
Wow, what a performance, beamed first-year BC coach Mark Smith. We played fantastic defense and we did exactly what we wanted to do. We played within ourselves. Shelby hit those 3s and if youre a shooter, like Shelby is, and that first one goes in, it gives you a good feeling.
Holt, who had struggled with her shot some during regional play and in the sectional semifinals, used a little extra practice early Thursday morning with former Rockets coach Darlene Guyett, who is still a teacher at the school, to get straightened out.
Ive been working outside of practice and I have a lot of people supporting me, said Holt, who scored 11 points in the win. I knew I had to have a big game and everyone had to contribute. This is huge. We all wanted it but from every direction people told us junior year, junior year, so we all had the motivation to do it this year. Supersectional as a freshman? Oh my goodness, its crazy. We dont want it to end.
Sterling (20-13) stayed with the Rockets early, 9-6, despite Holts three 3s. But freshmen Becca Gerke and Sam Pryor scored the next 8 points for Central, putting the Rockets up 17-6. Sterling closed to 17-11 by the end of the first quarter but BC went on a 6-0 spurt to open the second as Pryor, sophomore Alison Colby and Holt all scored, and the closest the Golden Warriors would come the rest of the night was 8, 23-15, with 3:05 left in the half. Central went on a 9-0 run to end the half, fueled at the end by a 3-pointer from freshman Kayla Ross and then a drive to the basket from the left side by Ross with two seconds left to end the half with a 32-15 lead. Central, which shot 21 of 41 on the night, had as big as a 28-point lead twice in the second half.
The Rockets defense helped cause 26 Sterling turnovers and Central grabbed 10 offensive rebounds, winning the glass war 19-17.
We won as a team, said Ross, who had a team-high 14 points to go with 6 steals and 4 assists. We knew what we had to do. We played as a team and got our shots up. Defense is a big part of our game. We stopped them and played good defense.
The Rockets shut down Sterling senior Stephanie Kester, who hit six 3-pointers and scored 24 points in the Warriors sectional semifinal win over Rockford Lutheran. On Thursday, Kester was held scoreless and missed all four of her 3-point attempts. Senior Camille Delacruz (6 steals) helped Ross with the perimeter defense and Sterling couldnt penetrate the lane with any effectiveness, creating a situation where the Warriors were only able to take 25 shots in the game, making 11.
The girls executed, Smith said. We wanted to stop (Kester) and stop their fast break. We were strong with the basketball and we did exactly what we wanted to do.
This is beyond my wildest dreams and Im sure theirs also. They dont want to stop playing. I really care about this team and Im just so proud of them and so happy for them. Theyre so coachable. Its just been a riot the last few weeks and a lot of fun all season. They werent nervous at all tonight; they were rarin to go.
Gerke added 9 points for the Rockets and Pryor had 7. Central only turned the ball over seven times through three quarters. Junior Kiarra Harris led Sterling with 9 points.
Unfortunately we picked a bad night to not play well and they picked a good night to play well, said Sterling coach Julie Schroeder, the former Central coach who had the Warriors in a sectional for the second straight year. Hats off to them. They played well.


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Taiwan's second-tier flat panel manufacturers are under intensifying pressure to speed up consolidation, as their deteriorating financial status will make it difficult to weather the next downturn in the sector, industry watchers said.
During the last downturn -- lasting almost a year -- Taiwanese liquid-crystal-display (LCD) panel makers reported massive multi-billion dollar losses, as prices collapsed a on supply glut.
Although the industry is on track for a gradual recovery, local players have apparently regained their interest in joining with their peers in an effort to survive in the volatile industry during the next downturn.
"Mounting financial pressure is forcing Taiwan's LCD panel makers to seriously think about mergers," said Wanli Wang (
Due to weak cash flow to pay for important capital investment, S&P lowered its rating from stable to negative on industry laggard HannStar Display Corp (
His remarks came after merger talks between Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd (
Chunghwa Picture and Quanta Display posted losses totaling NT$15.79 billion in the first half of the year. Quanta Display was battered hardest among its peers during the previous downturn.
Industry leader AU Optronics Corp (
Such firms may not be out of the woods until the final quarter of the year, during which the volatile industry may peak, according to most analysts' forecasts.
Market researcher DisplaySearch projected that panel supplies would exceed demand by as much as 9 percent in the first quarter of 2006, as new production ramps -- an early sign of a new downcycle.
In the past, Taiwan's LCD-screen makers only flirted with the idea of consolidation, as they banked on booming LCD-TV sales to make big money, despite poor profitability.
"But, now, it is a matter of survival," CSFB's Wang said. He expected mergers to occur in the next one to two quarters.
The dismal outlook and poor profitability are becoming a real worry for lenders, as Taiwan's small flat-screen makers are facing increasing difficulties in raising capital for capacity expansion, said Roger Yu (游智超), an analyst with Polaris Securities Co (寶來證券).
Instead of seeking financial support from banks last year, Taiwan's panel makers turned to issuing corporate bonds to raise funds this year.
But, Chunghwa Picture pulled back planned NT$6 billion domestic and US$200 million overseas bond sales yesterday, citing weak stock prices. HannStar also canceled a NT$6 billion bond issuance earlier this month.
"Now is the proper time to push for mergers. But it would be difficult to see any deals soon, due to limited synergy," Yu said.
But the government is calling aggressively for mergers among local players, and suggested jointly building next-generation plants in a bid to boost competitiveness and avoid excessive investment amid ever-changing industrial sentiment.
The government's suggestions were well received. Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp (


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EMORY, Va. – Kyle Boden passed for 323 yards and four touchdowns in Emory & Henry College's 38-10 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) football win over Guilford College Saturday in both teams' season finale.
Joe Vaughn added 99 rushing yards and a touchdown as the Wasps (6-4, 3-4 ODAC) scored 38 unanswered points for their ninth win in 10 games with Guilford.
Guilford (5-5, 4-3 ODAC) ended their best season since 2007 in a three-way tie for third place in the ODAC standings.
The Quakers grabbed an early 7-0 lead when Mike Williams scored on a four-yard run less than two minutes into the game. The Quakers made three more trips inside the Wasps' 30-yard line in the quarter, but Emory & Henry yielded only a 30-yard field goal to Tyler Hunt, which made it a 10-0 game after one quarter.
The momentum changed late in the second quarter as Emory & Henry scored on successive drives. Vaughn picked up a fumbled Wasps' snap on the Quakers' two-yard line and ran it in for a touchdown, capping an eight-play, 90-yard drive. Boden's 79-yard touchdown pass to Lucas Kirby gave Emory & Henry a 14-10 lead 3:31 before halftime. A botched punt snap resulted in a Wasps' safety and a 16-10 Emory & Henry halftime advantage.
Emory & Henry picked up where it left off in the third quarter as Boden connected with Cleo Cooper on a six-yard touchdown pass, capping the first drive of the season half. After the teams traded turnovers, Boden found Sam Edmonds on a 47-yard scoring play. The two-point conversion pass to Vaughn opened a 31-10 third-quarter advantage, which Guilford could never threaten.
Boden completed passes to 10 different receivers, including Kirby, who finished with seven catches for 156 yards. Vaughn added 80 receiving yards on six receptions and had 179 all-purpose yards. Paul Forney's nine tackles led the Wasps' defense. Tyler Houk and DeMikeal Burse both ended Guilford scoring chances with interceptions in the end zone. The Wasps also kept Guilford scoreless on three of five trips inside the red zone.
Guilford quarterback Matt Pawlowski completed 26-of-46 passes for 323 yards, but was intercepted twice and sacked six times. Fellow rookie Adam Smith made nine catches for 170 yards, both game highs. Chad Christopher and Austen Thompson both made five receptions and Williams finished with 60 rushing yards on 16 carries. Hunter English made a game-high 11 tackles on defense. Jaylan Martin added 10 stops and an interception, both career highs.


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Justin Bieber Reportedly Accepts Plea Deal in DUI Caseby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
It looks like Justin Bieber's Miami DUI case has finally reached its end.
According to the Miami Herald, Bieber will accept a plea deal in the case, one in which he will plead guilty to reckless driving and resisting an officer without violence — but the DUI charged will be dropped. Reportedly, he must also attend a 12-hour anger management course, view videos of traumatic, real-life DUI accidents and pay court fines. Bieber has also allegedly agreed to donate $50,000 to charity.
The Biebs' DUI case has been murky from the start. He was arrested in January and charged with a DUI, drag racing (against his pal Khalil, who is also set to strike a similar deal) and resisting arrest, though he was actually neither drunk nor drag racing at the time. Bieber did, however, admit to smoking weed and taking Xanax, both of which were found in his system.
The pop star's plea deal does not come as a surprise. Last month, we reported that he was set to strike the deal — his second plea deal this year, pleading no contest to misdemeanor vandalism in the egg-throwing incident. Among other things, he will have to complete an anger management course for that as well.
In regards to Bieber's anger, his manager Scooter Braun previously spoke out to British GQ (quote via WENN), saying: "Sometimes he doesn't help himself because he's so angry. But no one really understands what he's living … only him."
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TRAVERSE CITY – No one will ever say that Anthony Mantha isn't a confident kid.
"I'll do whatever it takes to be there," Mantha after the Wings selected him with the 20th selection at this year's NHL Entry Draft. "I'll show everyone, every team, and the Red Wings that they did not take the wrong guy."
Detroit was able to trade down in the draft, from 18, to get the big left winger at No. 20.
And his confidence level hasn't subsided after taking part in the Wings' prospects tournament and training camp.
"It would be close to the top right now," Mantha said Monday when asked where his confidence level is at. "I live for the moment and I'm just playing how I should play. I think the details are coming in and that's why I'm still here and I'll keep playing that way until the end.
"I wasn't expecting that much from the prospects camp, but it was great hockey out there," Mantha continued. "We had fun at the same time, with us winning. It was a great week. Then, I enjoyed the training camp with all the veterans. It's been incredible, just a few years ago I was watching these guys play and I was hoping one day that would be me out there. The day came and it's really exciting for me."
Tonight in Pittsburgh he'll get to show off his talents against the likes of Sidney Crosby.
"I've been waiting for this moment for a long time," Mantha said. "I'm playing in Pittsburgh tonight, it'll be a dream coming true for me. I'm pretty excited.
"We were laughing about yesterday, like I'll ask (Crosby) for an autograph at the faceoff, just kidding about it," Mantha added. "He's one of the greatest players out there and playing against, even if he's not on my team, just watching him I can learn a lot off it just watching him play. I'll try to manage not get scored on by him tonight."
The left winger, who's 6-foot-4, 190 pounds, had 50 goals and 39 assists in 67 games last season with the Val d'Or of the Quebec Major Junior League. He was also a plus-21.
He was the only 50-goal scorer in the draft.
"You need to learn every day you're out here on the ice," Mantha said. "There are such good players out there that every day you can learn something new. I just watched at the end (Pavel) Datsyuk and (Jakub) Kindl play one-on-one, he has one of the best pair of hands in the league and he still practices it. It's all the details that make the difference."
Mantha, who grew up a Montreal fan, is going to do whatever it takes to get in a Wings jersey as soon as possible.
"My approach is really to make the big team next year, if not, in the next two years," Mantha continued. "I will show them everything that I can to be there without having to go to the minors."
Mantha, who has two years of junior eligibility remaining, will likely return to juniors next season and will turn pro the following year.
"I'm close, but at the same time I'm so far," Mantha said. "There are so many players out there. If it's not this year I'll go back to my junior team and work on every detail that I can so when they call me up anytime they'll have confidence in me to play here one day."
Mantha, who helped lead Team Canada to capture a bronze medal at the 2012 Under-18 World Championship, recorded five hat tricks last season and was named to the QMJHL Second All-Star Team.
He understands how the Wings like to have their talent mature at the American Hockey League level before bringing them up to the big club.
"It's kind of tough because every guy wants to play in the NHL right away," Mantha said. "I mean, they carry their youngs in hope that they're ready to play some day. You need to take your chance out of that. The learning process for them is going through the AHL, for me if I can play in the NHL one day I'll do that process with no problem."
It was the fourth straight year the Wings have taken a forward with their top pick – Martin Frk (2012), Tomas Jurco (2011) and Riley Sheahan (2010).
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Rising Teen Talent Victoria Justice Takes Star Turn in "Victorious," Nickelodeon's New Live Action Comedy Series About Kids at a Hollywood Performing Arts School Premiering Saturday, March 27 at 9:30 PM (ET/PT)
Co-Produced with Sony Music and Created by Hitmaker Dan Schneider
Victorious Features Ensemble Cast Showcasing Original Music and Dance, Plus an Integrated Companion Community Website, TheSlap.com
Pasadena, Calif. � January 15, 2010 � Rising teen star Victoria Justice (Zoey 101, Spectacular!) will debut in her first starring role on Nickelodeon's new live-action comedy series, Victorious, premiering Saturday, March 27, at 9:30 p.m. (ET/PT). The new series, which has been picked up for 20 episodes, follows Tori Vega (Justice) as she unexpectedly finds herself navigating life at an elite performing arts high school. Featuring an ensemble cast of teens who act, sing, dance and perform to original music, Victorious is a co-production with Sony Music and is created and executive produced by prolific hit-maker Dan Schneider (iCarly, Zoey 101, Drake & Josh, The Amanda Show).
?Victorious combines original music from some of today's most successful songwriters and producers with Dan Schneider's proven track record of creating unique hit comedies,? said Marjorie Cohn, Nickelodeon's Executive Vice President, Development and Original Programming. ?It's a perfect vehicle to showcase the comedic and musical talents of our star Victoria Justice and the rest of the gifted cast.?
Victorious follows Tori Vega (Victoria Justice) a girl who has grown up in the shadow of her older sister Trina (Daniella Monet, Nancy Drew), a singer/performer who's always been the ?star? of the family. When Trina has a medical mishap on the night of her school's annual talent showcase, Tori steps in to perform Trina's song. Accompanied on the piano by her musically gifted friend Andr� (Leon Thomas III, August Rush, Broadway's The Lion King, iCarly), Tori's singing and dancing impress the school's principal so much that she offers her the opportunity of a lifetime � an invitation to become a student at Hollywood Arts High School. From her first day at the school, however, Tori feels out of place among the amazingly talented students, especially mean diva Jade (Elizabeth Gillies, Broadway's 13). With the help of Trina, Andr� and her new friends � brooding bad boy Beck (Avan Jogia, Spectacular!), eccentric Cat (Ariana Grande, Broadway's 13) and lovable but psychologically scrambled ventriloquist Robbie (Matthew Bennett) � Tori realizes that she was born to perform and that entertaining people not only makes her happy but may change her life. The series will feature original music performed by Victoria Justice and the ensemble cast.
Launching in tandem with the show premiere is its companion website TheSlap.com � a social networking and community site that will be featured and used by the characters in the series. The site will also allow the audience to interact with and be a part of the Hollywood Arts High School community. TheSlap.com is Hollywood Arts' go-to place for gossip, posting new content, and social interaction. It lets fans follow the characters' lives 24/7, giving them access to the characters' profile pages, uploads from the characters themselves, e.g. photos, videos, blogs, vlogs (video blogs), and characters' status updates. Fans of Victorious can comment, take polls, and play show-themed games.
Victorious will feature songs performed by Justice and the cast under the guidance of Sony Music. The Victorious theme song, "Make it Shine," is performed by Justice and co-written by one of today's most successful songwriters Dr. Luke (Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson) along with Michael Corcoran (Drake Bell, Miranda Cosgrove). ?Make It Shine? will be made available for download on iTunes in conjunction with the series launch.
Victoria Justice joined Nickelodeon in 2005 when she was cast as a series regular on the network's Emmy-nominated hit Zoey 101. For three seasons, she played Lola Martinez, Zoey's artsy and dramatic roommate at Pacific Coast Academy. A triple threat, Justice also acted, sang and danced in the Nickelodeon movie-musical Spectacular! Most recently, she guest-starred as championship fighter Shelby Marx in the iCarly one-hour movie ?iFight Shelby Marx? which set a ratings record for the hit series. Her other television credits include guest-starring on Gilmore Girls and a role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame Christmas special Silver Bells opposite Anne Heche and Tate Donovan. Justice's feature film credits include supporting roles in Fallacy with Gary Busey and When Do We Eat with Michael Lerner, Leslie Ann Warren and Jack Klugman, as well as a leading role in the 2005 Sundance Film Festival hit, Mary. She also starred in The Kings of Appletown, a modern adaptation of the Mark Twain classic Tom Sawyer. She attended the musical theater program for three years at Milikan Middle School for the Performing Arts at age 11.
Writer-producer Dan Schneider has established himself as a dominant force in the world of family entertainment by creatively drawing on his affinity for youth culture at Nickelodeon. Under his Schneider's Bakery Productions, he has carved a unique, progressive niche in the world of kid and family entertainment, most recently as creator and executive producer of the mega-hit Nickelodeon series iCarly starring Miranda Cosgrove and Zoey 101 starring Jamie Lynn Spears�both of which have received Emmy nominations. Victorious marks Schneider's fifth series with the network. Schneider began with Nickelodeon creatively running the sketch comedy series All That from 1993 to 2004. After which, he went on to produce other groundbreaking series for the network, including Kenan & Kel, starring Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, The Amanda Show headlined by Amanda Bynes and Drake & Josh starring Drake Bell and Josh Peck. Schneider also created the hit WB series What I Like About You, starring Amanda Bynes and Jennie Garth. His comedic success has also translated on the big screen, writing and producing the popular films, Good Burger and Big Fat Liar.
About Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment is a global recorded music company with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars. The company boasts a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. It is home to premier record labels representing music from every genre, including American Recordings, Arista Nashville, Arista Records, Aware, Battery Records, Beach Street Records, Black Seal, BNA Records, Cinematic, Columbia Nashville, Columbia Records, Epic Records, Essential Records, Flicker Records, Fo-Yo Soul, GospoCentric, Hitz Committee Entertainment, J Records, Jive Records, LaFace Records, Legacy Recordings, Masterworks, Polo Grounds, RCA Records, RCA Nashville, RCA Red Seal, RCA Victor, Reunion Records, Slightly Dangerous, Sony Classical, Sony Music Latin, Star Time International, Verity Records, and Volcano Entertainment. Sony Music Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
About Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon, now in its 30th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books, magazines and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in more than 99 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 15 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B).


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Let $c$ be an integer, not necessarily positive and $|c|$ not a square. Let $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{c}]$ be the set of complex numbers $$a+b\sqrt{c}, a, b\in \mathbb{Z},$$ which form a subring of the ring $\mathbb{C}$ under the usual addition and multiplication.
Are the following questions completely solved?
For what $c$ is $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{c}]$ a Euclidean domain?
For what $c$ is $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{c}]$ a UFD (unique factorization domain) but not Euclidean ?
For what $c$ is $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{c}]$ not a UFD ?
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Louie Bellson was deemed "the world's greatest musician" by Duke Ellington, "the epitome of musical talent and a very gifted composer and arranger" by Oscar Peterson, and "the best person I ever met" by Tony Bennett.
He performed on more than 200 albums with a range of artists, including Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Woody Herman, Oscar Dizzy Gillespie, Louie Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, Joe Williams, Wayne Newton, and Bellson's first wife Pearl Bailey.
Bellson composed more than 1,000 pieces and wrote a dozen books on drums and percussion. He received the prestigious American Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994. He was also the recipient of awards from ASCAP and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, was a six-time Grammy nominee, and held four honorary doctorates.
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