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Erik G. Learned-Miller
Professor of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
140 Governors Drive, Office 248
Phone: (413) 545-2993
| A New Confidence Interval for the Mean of a Bounded Random Variable
We present a new method for constructing a confidence interval for the mean of a bounded random variable from samples of the random variable. We conjecture that the confidence interval has guaranteed coverage, i.e., that it contains the mean with high probability for all distributions on a bounded interval, for all samples sizes, and for all confidence levels. This new method provides confidence intervals that are competitive with those produced using Student's t-statistic, but does not rely on normality assumptions. In particular, its only requirement is that the distribution be bounded on a known finite interval. This appears to be the first confidence interval for the mean that has wide applicability (and complete coverage) when the sample size is less than 30.
| End-to-end face detection and cast grouping in movies using Erdos-Renyi clustering (ICCV 2017)
[paper] [Project page]
We present an end-to-end system for detecting and clustering faces by identity in full-length movies. Unlike works that start with a predefined set of detected faces, we consider the end-to-end problem of detection and clustering together. We make three separate contributions. First, we combine a state-of-the-art face detector with a generic tracker to extract high quality face tracklets. We then introduce a novel clustering method, motivated by classic results in graph theory. It is based on the observation that large clusters can be fully connected by joining just a small fraction of their point pairs, while just a single connection between two different people can lead to poor clustering results. This suggests clustering using a verification system with very few false positives but perhaps moderate recall. We introduce such a verification procedure with good recall in the low false-positive regime, based on features from the analysis of differences (FAD). Finally, we define a novel end-to-end detection and clustering evaluation metric allowing us to assess the accuracy of the entire end-to-end system. We present state-of-the-art results on multiple video data sets and also on standard face databases.
| Causal Motion Segmentation in Moving Camera Videos (ECCV 2016)
[arXiv] [code] [Project page]
The human ability to detect and segment moving objects works in the presence of multiple objects, complex background geometry, motion of the observer, and even camouflage. In addition to all of this, the ability to detect motion is nearly instantaneous. While there has been much recent progress in motion segmentation, it still appears we are far from human capabilities. In this work, we derive from first principles a new likelihood function for assessing the probability of an optical flow vector given the 3D motion direction of an object. This likelihood uses a novel combination of the angle and magnitude of the optical flow to maximize the information about the true motions of objects. Using this new likelihood and several innovations in initialization, we develop a motion segmentation algorithm that beats current state-of-the-art methods by a large margin. We compare to five state-of-the-art methods on two established benchmarks, and a third new data set of camouflaged animals, which we introduce to push motion segmentation to the next level.
| Labeled Faces in the Wild: A Survey
[Draft pdf] [Springer Page] [LFW Database Page]
In 2007, Labeled Faces in the Wild was released in an effort to spur research in face recognition, specifically for the problem of face verification with unconstrained images. Since that time, more than 50 papers have been published that improve upon this benchmark in some respect. A remarkably wide variety of innovative methods have been developed to overcome the challenges presented in this database. As performance on some aspects of the benchmark approaches 100% accuracy, it seems appropriate to review this progress, derive what general principles we can from these works, and identify key future challenges in face recognition. In this survey, we review the contributions to LFW for which the authors have provided results to the curators (results found on the LFW results web page). We also review the cross cutting topic of alignment and how it is used in various methods. We end with a brief discussion of recent databases designed to challenge the next generation of face recognition algorithms.
| Multi-view Convolutional Neural
Networks for 3D Shape Recognition (ICCV 2015)
[pdf] [Project page]
A longstanding question in computer vision concerns the representation of 3D shapes for recognition: should 3D shapes be represented with descriptors operating on their native 3D formats, such as voxel grid or polygon mesh, or can they be effectively represented with view-based descriptors? We address this question in the context of learning to recognize 3D shapes from a collection of their rendered views on 2D images. We first present a standard CNN architecture trained to recognize the shapes' rendered views independently of each other, and show that a 3D shape can be recognized even from a single view at an accuracy far higher than using state-of-the-art 3D shape descriptors. Recognition rates further increase when multiple views of the shapes are provided. In addition, we present a novel CNN architecture that combines information from multiple views of a 3D shape into a single and compact shape descriptor offering even better recognition performance. The same architecture can be applied to accurately recognize human hand-drawn sketches of shapes. We conclude that a collection of 2D views can be highly informative for 3D shape recognition and is amenable to emerging CNN architectures and their derivatives.
| Coherent Motion Segmentation in Moving Camera Videos using
Optical Flow Orientations
Link to Paper Link to Project Page
In moving camera videos, motion segmentation is commonly performed using the image plane motion of pixels, or optical flow. However, objects that are at different depths from the camera can exhibit different optical flows even if they share the same real-world motion. This can cause a depth-dependent segmentation of the scene. Our goal is to develop a segmentation algorithm that clusters pixels that have similar real-world motion irrespective of their depth in the scene. Our solution uses optical flow orientations instead of the complete vectors and exploits the well-known property that under camera translation, optical flow orientations are independent of object depth. We introduce a probabilistic model that automatically estimates the number of observed independent motions and results in a labeling that is consistent with real-world motion in the scene. The result of our system is that static objects are correctly identified as one segment, even if they are at different depths. Color features and information from previous frames in the video sequence are used to correct occasional errors due to the orientation-based segmentation. We present results on more than thirty videos from different benchmarks. The system is particularly robust on complex background scenes containing objects at significantly different depths.
| Augmenting CRFs with Boltzmann Machine
Shape Priors
Link to Paper Link to Project Page
The conditional random field (CRF) is a powerful tool for building models to label segments in images. They are particularly appropriate for modeling local interactions among labels for regions (e.g., superpixels). Complementary to this, the restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) has been used to model global shapes produced by segmentation models. In this work, we present a new model that uses the combined power of these two types of networks to build a state-of-the-art labeler, and demonstrate its labeling performance for the parts of complex face images. Specifically, we address the problem of labeling the Labeled Faces in the Wild data set into hair, skin and background regions. The CRF is a good baseline labeler, but we show how an RBM can be added to the architecture to provide a global shape bias that complements the local modeling provided by the CRF. This hybrid model produces results that are both quantitatively and qualitatively better than the CRF alone. In addition to high quality segmentation results, we demonstrate that the hidden units in the RBM portion of our model can be interpreted as face attributes which have been learned without any attribute-specific training data.
| Improving Open-Vocabulary Scene Text
Link to Paper
This paper presents a system for open-vocabulary text recognition in images of natural scenes. First, we describe a novel technique for text segmentation that models smooth color changes across images. We combine this with a recognition component based on a conditional random field with histogram of oriented gradients descriptors and incorporate language information from a lexicon to improve recognition performance. Many existing techniques for this problem use language information from a standard lexicon, but these may not include many of the words found in images of the environment, such as storefront signs and street signs. We avoid this limitation by incorporating language information from a large web-based lexicon of around 13.5 million words. This lexicon contains words encountered during a crawl of the web, so it is likely to contain proper nouns, like business names and street names. We show that our text segmentation method allows for better recognition performance than the current state-of-the-art text segmentation method. We also evaluate this full system on two standard data sets, ICDAR 2003 and ICDAR 2011, and show an increase in word recognition performance compared to the current state-of-the-art methods.
| Scene Text Segmentation via Inverse Rendering
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Recognizing text in natural photographs that con- tain specular highlights and focal blur is a challenging problem. In this paper we describe a new text segmentation method based on inverse rendering, i.e. decomposing an input image into basic rendering elements. Our technique uses iterative optimization to solve the rendering parameters, including light source, material properties (e.g. diffuse/specular reflectance and shininess) as well as blur kernel size. We combine our segmentation method with a recognition component and show that by accounting for the rendering parameters, our approach achieves higher text recognition accuracy than previous work, particularly in the presence of color changes and image blur. In addition, the derived rendering parameters can be used to synthesize new text images that imitate the appearance of an existing image.
| Distribution Fields with Adaptive
Kernels for Large Displacement Image Alignment
Link to Paper
While region-based image alignment algorithms that use gradient descent can achieve sub-pixel accuracy when they converge, their convergence depends on the smoothness of the image intensity values. Image smoothness is often enforced through the use of multi- scale approaches in which images are smoothed and downsampled. Yet, these approaches typically use fixed smoothing parameters which may be appropriate for some images but not for others. Even for a particular image, the optimal smoothing parameters may depend on the magnitude of the transformation. When the transformation is large, the image should be smoothed more than when the transformation is small. Further, with gradient-based approaches, the optimal smoothing parameters may change with each iteration as the algorithm proceeds towards convergence. We address convergence issues related to the choice of smoothing parameters by deriving a Gauss-Newton gradient descent algorithm based on distribution fields (DFs) and proposing a method to dynamically select smoothing parameters at each iteration. DF and DF-like representations have previously been used in the context of tracking. In this work we incorporate DFs into a full affine model for region-based alignment and simultaneously search over parameterized sets of geometric and photometric transforms. We use a probabilistic interpretation of DFs to select smoothing parameters at each step in the optimization and show that this results in improved convergence rates.
| Improvements in Joint Domain-Range
Modeling for Background Subtraction
Link to Paper
In many algorithms for background modeling, a distribution over feature values is modeled at each pixel. These models, however, do not account for the dependencies that may exist among nearby pixels. The joint domain-range kernel density estimate (KDE) model by Sheikh and Shah, which is not a pixel-wise model, represents the background and foreground processes by combining the three color dimensions and two spatial dimensions into a five-dimensional joint space. The Sheikh and Shah model, as we will show, has a peculiar dependence on the size of the image. In contrast, we build three-dimensional color distributions at each pixel and allow neighboring pixels to influence each s distributions. Our model is easy to interpret, does not exhibit the dependency on image size, and results in higher accuracy. Also, unlike Sheikh and Shah, we build an explicit model of the prior probability of the background and the foreground at each pixel. Finally, we use our adaptive kernel variance method to adapt the KDE covariance at each pixel. With a simpler and more intuitive model, we can better interpret and visualize the effects of the adaptive kernel variance method, while achieving accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art on a standard backgrounding benchmark.other
| Tracking with Distribution Fields
Link to Paper Link to Project Page
In this work, we exhibit our first major application of distribution fields (see below). We show that simply by "exploding" the representation of an image into a distribution field, and then using more-or-less standard blurring techniques, we can achieve state-of-the-art tracking results.
| Joint Alignment and Clustering
Link to Paper
Joint alignment of a collection of functions is the process of independently transforming the functions so that they appear more similar to each other. Typically, such unsupervised alignment algorithms fail when presented with complex data sets arising from multiple modalities or make restrictive assumptions about the form of the functions or transformations, limiting their generality. We present a transformed Bayesian infinite mixture model that can simultaneously align and cluster a data set. Our model and associated learning scheme offer two key advantages: the optimal number of clusters is determined in a data-driven fashion through the use of a Dirichlet process prior, and it can accommodate any transformation function parameterized by a continuous parameter vector. As a result, it is applicable to a wide range of data types, and transformation functions. We present positive results on synthetic two-dimensional data, on a set of one-dimensional curves, and on various image data sets, showing large improvements over previous work. We discuss several variations of the model and conclude with directions for future work.
| Distribution Fields: A Representation for Low-Level Vision Problems
Link to Paper
We are developing a new representation, called distribution fields, and an associated set of algorithms, to address certain issues in low-level vision problems. One of our goals is to come up with a single representation that can be used to achieve state-of-the-art results on many different low-level problems such as tracking, optical flow, image registration, affine covariant matching, image stitching, and background subtraction. Another goal is to combine the best properties of successful representations such as SIFT, HOG, geometric blur, mean shift descriptors, shape contexts, image pyramids, and other successful techniques. Finally, we want a method of comparing images that is probabilistic and easily interpretable. We think that distribution fields, and our alignment method, which we call the sharpening match are a good start towards achieving these goals.
| Learning Hierarchical Representations for Face Verification
Link to Paper
Most modern face recognition systems rely on a feature representation given by a hand-crafted image descriptor, such as Local Binary Patterns (LBP), and achieve improved performance by combining several such representations. In this paper, we propose deep learning as a natural source for obtaining additional, complementary representations. To learn features in high-resolution images, we make use of convolutional deep belief networks. Moreover, to take advantage of global structure in an object class, we develop local convolutional restricted Boltzmann machines, a novel convolutional learning model that exploits the global structure by not assuming stationarity of features across the image, while maintaining scalability and robustness to small misalignments. We also present a novel application of deep learning to descriptors other than pixel intensity values, such as LBP. In addition, we compare performance of networks trained using unsupervised learning against networks with random filters, and empirically show that learning weights not only is necessary for obtaining good multi-layer representations, but also provides robustness to the choice of the network architecture parameters. Finally, we show that a recognition system using only representations obtained from deep learning can achieve comparable accuracy with a system using a combination of hand-crafted image descriptors. Moreover, by combining these representations, we achieve state-of-the-art results on a real-world face verification database.
| Online Domain Adaptation of a Pre-Trained Cascade of Classifiers
Link to Paper
Many classifiers are trained with massive training sets only to be applied at test time on data from a different distribution. How can we rapidly and simply adapt a classifier to a new test distribution, even when we do not have access to the original training data? We present an on-line approach for rapidly adapting a "black box" classifier to a new test data set without retraining the classifier or examining the original optimization criterion. Assuming the original classifier outputs a continuous number for which a threshold gives the class, we reclassify points near the original boundary using a Gaussian process regression scheme. We show how this general procedure can be used in the context of a classifier cascade, demonstrating performance that far exceeds state-of-the-art results in face detection on a standard data set. We also draw connections to work in semi-supervised learning, domain adaptation, and information regularization.
|Congealing of Complex Images (trying moving your mouse over the image at left)
Link to Project Page
Many recognition algorithms depend on careful positioning of an object into a canonical pose, so the position of features relative to a fixed coordinate system can be examined. Currently, this positioning is done either manually or by training a class-specialized learning algorithm with samples of the class that have been hand-labeled with parts or poses. In this paper, we describe a novel method to achieve this positioning using poorly aligned examples of a class with no additional labeling. Given a set of unaligned examplars of a class, such as faces, we automatically build an alignment mechanism, without any additional labeling of parts or poses in the data set. Using this alignment mechanism, new members of the class, such as faces resulting from a face detector, can be precisely aligned for the recognition process. Our alignment method improves performance on a face recognition task, both over unaligned images and over images aligned with a face alignment algorithm specifically developed for and trained on hand-labeled face images. We also demonstrate its use on an entirely different class of objects (cars), again without providing any information about parts or pose to the learning algorithm.
| Scene Text Recognition
Link to Paper
Scene text recognition (STR) is the recognition of text anywhere in the environment, such as signs and store fronts. Relative to document recognition, it is challenging because of font variability, minimal language context, and uncontrolled conditions. Much information available to solve this problem is frequently ignored or used sequentially. Similarity between character images is often overlooked as useful information. Because of language priors, a recognizer may assign different labels to identical characters. Directly comparing characters to each other, rather than only a model, helps ensure that similar instances receive the same label. Lexicons improve recognition accuracy but are used post hoc. We introduce a probabilistic model for STR that integrates similarity, language properties, and lexical decision. Inference is accelerated with sparse belief propagation, a bottom-up method for shortening messages by reducing the dependency between weakly supported hypotheses. By fusing information sources in one model, we eliminate unrecoverable errors that result from sequential processing, improving accuracy. In experimental results recognizing text from images of signs in outdoor scenes, incorporating similarity reduces character recognition error by 19%, the lexicon reduces word recognition error by 35%, and sparse belief propagation reduces the lexicon words considered by 99.9% with a 12X speedup and no loss in accuracy.
| Recognition from One Example using Hyper-Features
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In this project, we attempt to solve the problem of object identification, which is specialized recognition where the category is known (for example cars or faces) and the algorithm recognizes an object's exact identity (such as Bob's BMW). For example, we might be given images of cars like those on the left side of the figure and be asked to find which of the four cars on right are the same as either of the two on the left. See Andras Ferencz's web-site for more about this project here. This work is a continuation of Andras Ferencz's thesis work at Berkeley.
|Congealing for Automatic
Link to Project Page
I recently developed a process I call congealing , which is a way of aligning a group of objects simultaneously , using an entropy minimization procedure. This can be used to perform traditional "preprocessing" tasks such as deskewing, centering etc. Try moving your mouse over the images of handwritten zeroes at left. As you do, the results of the congealing are shown. Notice that the zeroes have been "normalized" to be much more similar to each other. In my Ph.D. thesis, I extended congealing to gray-scale images and other multi-valued images, and to one-dimensional, three-dimensional, and four-dimensional data sets, including 3-D brain volumes. Currently, our goal is to extend congealing to more complex features (than single pixel features) such as Lowe's SIFT descriptors. Then this method can be applied to aligning complex images such as faces on arbitrary backgrounds.
| Dexter
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One of the most basic capabilities for an agent with a vision system is to recognize its own surroundings. Yet surprisingly, despite the ease of doing so, many robots store little or no record of their own visual surroundings. This paper explores the utility of keeping the simplest possible persistent record of the environment of a stationary torso robot, in the form of a collection of images captured from various pan-tilt angles around the robot. We demonstrate that this particularly simple process of storing background images can be useful for a variety of tasks, and can relieve the system designer of certain requirements as well. We explore three uses for such a record: auto-calibration, novel object detection with a moving camera, and developing attentional saliency maps.
| Text Recognition
Link to Project Page
The goal of this project is to design and build a wearable system for the visually impaired that will detect signs in an image and recognize them. We hypothesize that at a low level signs fall into particular class of textures that are distinguishable from many others that may be found in natural scenes. Therefore, discriminating textures will be the first step toward extracting and eventually identifying signs. Other work has focused exclusively on detecting and tracking text in images and video. Even those signs that consist purely of text are often in unusual fonts and/or arrangements that pose challenges to traditional text detectors. More importantly, many signs consist of recognizable logos that contain no text at all. We investigate whether all of these regions can be identified at a low level in an integrated model.
| RADICAL, a New ICA Algorithm
Link to Project Page
There has been a great deal of new work recently on the problem of Independent Components Analysis (ICA). A variety of new and interesting methods have emerged including Kernel ICA (Bach and Jordan), a method by Hastie and Tibshirani at Stanford, and other methods. I have my own new ICA algorithm, called RADICAL, which I developed with John Fisher at MIT. On synthetic experiments across a wide range of source densities, RADICAL is more accurate than every other algorithm we tested, including Kernel ICA, Fast ICA, extended Infomax, and JADE. It also appears to be very robust to outliers. You can find out more from our recent paper in the Journal of Machine Learning Research here. Or check out the web page for the algorithm here, from which a MATLAB version of RADICAL can be downloaded.
| Learned Color Constancy
One tricky thing about objects, especially white objects, is that they can "appear" as almost any color. A white object in the early morning looks rather bluish but in the mid-day sun may look yellower and during a sunset might appear pink. How then can we use color to help us, rather than hinder us, in object recognition? Traditional approaches to this difficulty have often involved estimating the illuminant, after which one can "correct" the image to appear as if under a standard illuminant. Collaborating with Kinh Tieu at MIT, we sidestepped the problem of illuminant estimation by modeling only how colors commonly change together under natural lighting changes. Two images can then be inferred to represent the same object if there is a statistically common mapping between the colors of the two images. We report on this method and its applications in an ICCV paper and in this NIPS paper. The image at left shows how plausible novel images of an object can be synthesized from joint color changes learned from a totally different object. The synthesized images were generated with only a single example image, and with no a priori or built in knowledge of lighting statistics, optics, or the physics of illumination.
|Screening for
The panel on the left shows three photographs of a woman who developed a condition known as acromegaly. The first picture is shown when she is young and symptom-free. The second and third photos show the progress of the disease over time. This condition results from an excess of growth hormone, and causes disfiguring growth of the bones of the skull and swelling of the face, hands, and feet. Our goal in this project is to detect acromegaly automatically from generic photographs so that it can be diagnosed earlier, leading to better clinical outcomes. In collaboration with Volker Blanz and others, we have developed a classification system which prescreens patients for acromegaly.
This project was originally conceived by my father, Dr. Ralph E. Miller, who practices endocrinology in Lexington, Kentucky. Qifeng (Luke) Lu at UMass has been a major contributor as well.
| Mathematical Expression
Suppose you wanted to scan in a mathematical expression from a book and have it automatically converted to LaTeX, or write an expression on a pen-based computer and have it automatically read and evaluated. Paul Viola and I wrote a paper describing our early system for recognition. Nick Matsakis continued the work and got a great system working. For a demo of Nick's new and improved system, click on the picture at right.
|MR Bias Correction
The goal of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is to form images of patient anatomy for diagnosis and other analyses. Often these images exhibit brightness distortions due to imperfections in the measurement apparatus. The goal of this work is to eliminate these imperfections from MR images. Previous approaches have been model-based (Wells) or have operated on a single image to reduce brightness entropies (Viola). Our method reduces entropies ACROSS images, using information about the distribution of brightness values at a particular location.On the left are two sets of MR images of infant brains. The top set of images shows the brightness biases due to the scanner imperfections. The other set shows the images after correction by our algorithm. I have a NIPS paper with Parvez Ahammad that describes this work in detail here.
|Near Uniform
Near uniform partitions are a technique for dividing a probability space, using only a set of random samples from that space, into chunks of approximately equal probability measure, or into chunks whose probability measure is approximately linear in the number of constituent subregions. The figure at left shows how samples from a two-dimensional Gaussian distribution can be used to split the Gaussian up into chunks whose probability masses are approximately linear in the number of subregions. Notice that regions in area of high density are smaller, and regions in area of low density are larger, resulting in a near uniform mass for each region. Near uniform partitions can be used in estimation of information theoretic quantities such as entropy, mutual information, and Kullback-Leibler divergence. They can also be used in hypothesis testing. For a discussion of their use in entropy estimation, see this short ICASSP paper.
|Probability Distributions on
Curved Manifolds
Christophe Chefd'hotel and I developed kernels for these curved
spaces, allowing us to obtain better probability
density estimates for these "shape" spaces. This work
is described in a CVPR paper here. The figure at right
shows conceptually that a direct "Euclidean distance"
between points is not always appropriate in a curved
|Masters Thesis: Improved Surface
Area Estimates Using Alternative Voxel Shapes
Check out my Master's Thesis if you're a fan of stochastic geometry. It addresses the advantages and disadvantages of using various voxel shapes (other than the standard rectangular prisms) to tessellate 3-D space.


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Wanda moved away. She wrote a letter to Room 13. The teacher read the letter to the class. They were listening carefully. After school, Maddie and Peggy went up on Boggins Heights to see if Wanda was gone. But when they got there they saw that everything was gone.
I liked the a lot because it was a good book. Wanda reminded me of when I wear my dresses too. Yes, there are illustrations. The pictures are black and white. I think that they are really good pictures.They would like to hear about Wanda's hundred dresses.
In this story, there are a lot of characters. The characters are Wanda, Peggy, Maddie, and the students. I like this book because it reminded me of how teasing can hurt people. Maddie and Peggy hurt Wanda with their teasing. Maddie and Peggy changed in this story. They felt bad about teasing Wanda at the end of the story. This book has black and white illustrations that helps bring the story to life.
I recommend this book to everyone- those being teased and those doing the teasing. It shows how our actions can hurt others.


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Contributions of Madam Curie Damodar Prabhu | added on Oct 30, 2011 | India A Workshop on "Contributions of Madam Curie " will be organised at Jagdam College and Jaglal College, Chapra, Bihar, India on November 5, 2011 to commemorate the centenery of the award of Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Madam Marie Curie.
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14th Symposium of Iodine Science (200th Anniversary of Iodine Discovery) Tatsuo Kaiho | added on Oct 25, 2011 | Japan This is the Annual Symposium of Iodine Science which covers all topics related to iodine. The Conference is going to be held on the occasion of 200th Anniversary of Iodine Discovery.
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BEECH MOUNTAIN, N.C. --- The Lees-McRae College cycling team continued its strong weekend at the USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships at the Beech Mountain Ski Resort on Saturday, placing a trio of riders on the podium to move into second in the team omnium standings heading into Sunday's final day.
Fort Lewis College continues to hold the top spot in the team standings, compiling 483 points thus far while finishing first in the women's downhill and second in the men's event to overcome Lees-McRae's morning lead. The Bobcats head into Sunday in second with 451 points, followed by Marian University (406), University of Colorado – Boulder (324) and Lindsey Wilson College (268).
Kerry Werner (Birdsboro, Pa.) continued his bid for the individual omnium with another strong performance in Saturday morning's cross country race, finishing second to earn his second podium of the weekend.
Luke Vrouwenvelder (Chapel Hill, N.C.) claimed a spot on the podium as well, finishing fifth, as Gunnar Bergey (Harleysville, Pa.) and Davis Bentley (Mill Valley, Calif.) placed 15th and 17th, respectively. Cody Phillips (Altadena, Calif.) and Brian Jorgensen (Bend, Ore.) rounded out the event for the Bobcats, claiming the 29th and 30th spots in the field of 87 riders.
The Bobcats continued to build on the momentum in the women's cross country race, placing five riders in the top 15 and seven in the first 22 to hold on to the top spot in the team omnium. Emily Shields (Salisbury, N.C.) crossed the line first for the Bobcats, finishing in sixth, one spot shy of the podium.
Emma Klingaman (Idlywild, Calif.) added a top-10 performance of her own in eighth, as Katherine Shields (Salisbury, N.C.) placed 11th. Hailey Sarausky (Littleton, N.H.) finished 15th, while Erin Donohue (Norwich, Vt.) and Mackenzie Filippi (Cary, N.C.) placed 18th and 22nd, respectively.
Eric Bercume (Barre, Mass.) paced the Bobcats in the downhill, finishing 10th, as Jorgensen and Matthew Clements (New Market, Md.) placed 13th and 14th, respectively. Phillips added his first top-20 finish of the day in 19th, while placed 22nd. Bergey rounded out the field for the Bobcats in 42nd.
Sarausky turned in the performance of the afternoon for the Bobcats, earning her first podium of the weekend in the downhill with a third-place finish. Laura Wright (Apex, N.C.) would cap the day for Lees-McRae, posting a solid 16th-place performance to keep the Bobcats in contention for the team omnium.
Werner kicked off the weekend for the Bobcats in Friday's men's short track, finishing third behind Boulder's Samuel Morrison and Chris Baddick, as Vrouwenvelder placed 10th for the Bobcats. Bergey finished just outside of the top 20 in 21st, as Phillips and Bentley placed 38th and 44th, respectively.
The Bobcats jumped into title contention with an impressive performance in the women's short track, placing all six riders in the top 17, including a trio in the top 10. Emily Shields led the way in fifth, making a late charge with an expertly executed attack on the final lap to earn a spot on the podium. Her twin sister Katherine Shields finished close behind in seventh, as Klingaman made her nationals debut in 10th.
Donohue followed closely in 12th, as Sarausky and Filippi placed 15th and 17th, respectively, to propel the Bobcats into a tie for second in the team omnium.
Lees-McRae returns to the course on Sunday with a chance to add an 11th team title to its trophy case, first taking the course for the team relay at 11 a.m., followed by the dual slalom at 12:30 p.m. at the Beech Mountain Ski Resort.


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|Philip Rathle
Senior Director of Products
Update: 2.0.0-M02 is now available
It's a What?
Color me happy
CREATE a node with a Label
Find the Labels on a node
Add a Label to a node
The benefits of intentional labeling
CREATE INDEXES to speed up finding Red and Blue nodes
Create a second labeled node and a relationship
One more thing…
Just in CASE
- In its simple form, CASE uses a direct comparison of a property for picking the result value from the first matching WHEN:
- In the general form, each WHEN uses an arbitrary predicate for picking the result:
Update – 2.0.0-M02 introduces Remote Transactions
Enjoy, from the Neo4j Team!
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Thanks Philip – looks very interesting.

Can I use labels for aggregating bits of graphs? I'd like to search for all 'Red' nodes, all 'Blue' nodes and all the links between the two node types.

Could you provide a cypher query which does this? I'm interested to find out what happens when nodes are both Red and Blue.

Also – could you link to
I think your blog mobile theme is broken, i cant read it on Android browser
Hey Joe,

You can do graph-global queries using labels. Your example would look like:

MATCH (reddish:Red)-[related]-(bluish:Blue)
RETURN reddish, related, bluish;

This would return all the pairs of Red node which have any relationship to Blue nodes. If the same node is Red and Blue, it can appear on either side, and even by itself if it has a self-relationship
That is an awesome piece of news! Cypher is now very very close to being a full-fledged alternative to the traversal framework :)

Cypher and you guys rock!
Hi guys! Awesome pace of progress!

But I'm not sure I fully see the benefit of the Type-Labels vs. the usual properties with an index. After all, Spring-Data has a @Indexed annotation that allows creation of separate indexes by "type". Seems very similar.

Is the point of Type-Labels to bring this functionality into the core of Neo, and thus make it more
Cool! When will 1.9 get released though?
The index added using the labels is not working for me.

Could you please tell me if its the right way to use it?

CREATE INDEX ON :nodes(id);

No errors here.

then I try to get a node using
start n=node:nodes(id="bryan.roberts")
return n;

I am getting an error,
Index `nodes` does not exist

Any
Bryan, indexes are no longer explicit in that form, you do something like

create index on :Crew(name)

and then see http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/preview/query-using.html

match n:Crew
using index n:Crew(name)
where n.name='Neo'
return n;
Neo4j Fan: We're currently in the final process of preparing a 1.9 Release Candidate. Current expectation for 1.9 GA is that it will be available in the next couple-to-few weeks.
Looks very interesting indeed. I remember Stefan Armbruster mentioning this in the tutorial back in the Netherlands. I am curious though about the possibilities :

Since labels are basically categories, can you create a category and then some subcategories? For instance Employee and then SalesEmployee and DevelopmentEmployee?

And can you add multiple categories to someone,
I'm sorry, I didn't realise that the API was already available. I found out that you can in fact add multiple labels to a single node which is very useful for me. So ignore that question.

I couldn't find something though about "sublabels". ATM, I'm able to create a CategoryNode who has a specific relation to each of his SubCategoryNodes. I index all these
Pieter-Jan Van Aeken:
So you're thinking about performance of doing an index lookup, looping through that result vs. getting the relationships of a node directly, right?

That is very much up to the index in use. We've given much thought about the index provider API for labels&indexing so that it's as easy as possible to plug in new ones. The default for now is
@Mattias Persson

You're right. I'm interested in the performance difference between retrieving all nodes of a specific category by traversing the relations of that category node, vs doing an index lookup based on the label of that node where the label is an indication of that nodes category.

I'm still somewhat worried though. The only nodes I need to index atm
@Pieter

Labels would just present one more option for modeling your domain. Of course, picking the best approach really depends on the questions you want to ask.

What kind of queries do you need for things of a particular sub-category? Do you need to scan through all of them, or find a particular one (or few)?
I'd like to be able to fill up tables with an entire category or subcategory. So if I have three categories, Person, Employee and Employer where the latter 2 are a subcategory of the first, I want to be able to create a Person table, a Employee table and an Employer Table.

In that table I want either all nodes, or a subset if I'm using pagination. And I want to be able to loop
Labels looks like a very good way to map Classes in your application to Nodes in the graph. Also, with inheritance, one could label the node with the base class name and the subclass name. This is a very welcome addition to neo4j.
Can you create label indexes with fulltext and to_lower_case enabled?
Hi, maybe i do not understand it fully yet but imho a "label" is still a (multivalue) "property" of a node.. what is the exact differentiator why a "property" like we know right now cannot be used for exactly the same purpose as the addition of a Label to the datamodel (making it more complex) ?? maybe through some syntax extension of some commands etc etc..
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I've noticed alot of threads recently that were business oriented. While the information that was put out was valuable and I enjoyed every post, is this something we want Joe Homeowner to see? Could we schedule a chat time where we get on the chat and discuss only business(it'll be hard). We'll still have the flow of information but with the privacy we need.
No announcement yet.
Are we saying to much?
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Are we saying to much?Buy cheap, buy twice.Tags: None
Re: Are we saying to much?
From the get go I was an advocate for some type of private forum.
There are things best not openly discussed, like venting about customers, or discussing technique.
On another level, it's good that people have been able to read and see why our expenses are what they are, and why we charge what we do...maybe folks will stop thinking we're rich.
Other forums have a way of allowing longterm members to post in private "pro only" forums seperated from the general public...generally based on number of posts and/or referrals from existing pro members.
There was a recent example here of the communication gap between pro's and homeowner/DIY's that reverted to blatent insult regarding know-how, experience and where the line is between them.
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Re: Are we saying to much?
I do feel like we say too much at times. Mainly about customer complaints and helping homeowners and handymen. I am guilty of this but I try not to offer advice to homeowners/handymen. Business practices could be touchy also, depending on what is being said.
Having a chat would be difficult mainly because I have noticed we have a hard time staying on topic.
Duck, how would suggest the moderators go about verifying that a individual is a pro? What level of pro would they have to be? I can see it getting messy but I agree with you.Anyone can tear a man down, few can build one up.
Re: Are we saying to much?
Just seeing threads like this embolden me to do it my self.
Next time you have a problem with your computer - be it ever so small, I'll be sure not to advise any course of action or discuss how
we practitioners interact with others.
Perhaps, you want to set up your own private board (http://invisionfree.com/). That will be $175 for the advise.
Really, I think you guys should relax. Most of us work every day just like you do and I'd bet we encounter the same
problems as you do dealing with customers/clients.Last edited by SteveA(MD); 01-07-2008, 07:47 PM."If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace" - Thomas Paine
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Re: Are we saying to much?
Im all for a pros only categoryThe History of Sanitary Sewers Good site on the history of sanitary sewers and cleaners
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Re: Are we saying to much?
Just seeing threads like this embolden me to do it my self.
Next time you have a problem with your computer - be it ever so small, I'll be sure not to advise any course of action or discuss how
we practitioners interact with others.
I have yet to recieve any advice on trouble with mine from anyone online....not for free anyway.
Usually boils down to speaking with someone in India that has an accent I can barely get past.
If I do something massively wrong in MSCONFIG, I could crash my PC, maybe delete my C-drive..kill the motherboard even.
If I do something wrong with the vent on my gas fixture, I could kill my family.</no sarcasm>
Re: Are we saying to much?
sadly i never liked the idea of this before and i swore that if it did happen i would leave this fourm, but after a certian water heater tread, i kinda wonder if we should have a thread like that now.
but what would be there rule how do you determe who gets in and who does not? that has always been the problem, and there really needs to be a set of rules that would keep the pros from the home owners.9/11/01, never forget.
Re: Are we saying to much?
In other words,
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main ()
cout << "There is a major difference between doing a simple task like drain cleaning, small leak repairs, even simple programming and working with something that could burn your home down" << endl;
return 0;
Re: Are we saying to much?
Well gents, this is a public open forum for debate. If you want a private forum set one up over at invisionfree.com.
As for the gas fixture, I doubt there are very many people here looking for advise or insider secrets that can be misconstrued and lead to death. Nice try - but very anecdotal.
And if you are worried about joe homeowner taking money out of your pockets because he decides to DIY, remember that people here on this forum are inclined to do that any way. Also remember that joe homeowners like me aren't about to go out the big box store and buy a 75' snake to clear a drain once every few years - like my friendly neighborhood plumber did for me yesterday."If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace" - Thomas Paine
Re: Are we saying to much?
Steve, all due respect for your experience in matters of CO ventilation...read the papers, especially in northern states during the colder months.
Also, NOT intended as insult, but some of the worst DIY customers I have are engineers looking for a bailout, of those, software engineers are the most frequent.
Here's an even weirder observation, Java programmers are the worst of that bunch, for some reason C++ guys are VERY detail oriented.
It's VERY easy to look at some pipes and only see "some pipes".
An example: You've just demo'ed your kitchen, you have galvy water pipes and want to remove them to put in copper or PEX...are you sure they're water pipes...are they gas lines?
Does the avg homeowner know the difference between steel smoke pipe and aluminum dryer vent?...they're sold right beside eachother at home depot...whats the difference?Last edited by DuckButter; 01-07-2008, 08:48 PM.
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This is a proposed way to go about it. A new member has to have at least 100 posts and PM Josh asking for membership to the pros only section. Josh would then look at his posts to see the content of the posts and the member. This would eliminate anybody with 100 posts that just contain fluff or erroneus information, i.e. stupid questions. Another way a member could join is if an established pro asked Josh for the person to be invited in. Rick asking for his friend Steve in would be an example. Similar to a vouch of character. Getting in like would have to be approved by other members too. example; Chris connor can't invite sylvia tiger to be a pro.
I'm sorry I asking Josh to do another task that won't increase his pay so maybe we can allow someone like Mark(Toutahnow) to screen for pro members. I think Mark is the most mature and respectful person on the forum. He's impartial and very tactful. I'm saying this prematurely as I didn't ask him for if he was comfortable with this nomination.
This is not just for us plumbers. I'm thinking about guys like Garager, Ruudacguy, etc. Anybody whose interactions on the forum coinside with how someone earns a living.
We talk about the degredation of our trade through advances like sharkbites, pex, Home depot(selling plumbing material), etc. This is no different. I've been doing plumbing for 9 years, HVAC for 11. How long have you been doing your trade? Are you willing to give up your knowledge to someone so easily. Try to find a DIY website for HVAC. I haven't found one. Many HVAC supply house won't sell to a DIY. This is why HVAC commands high respect throughout the trade. Why let Joe Homeowner know the inner workings of your business. Does a mechanic tell you why your brake job cost $450 to the penny? Of course not, he doesn't tell you why labor cost 200 per hour. If we can't uphold our trade to a higher elevation, how can we expect anyone else too?Buy cheap, buy twice.
Re: Are we saying to much?
All due respect to you and your profession, but most of the errors in installations are due to people who profess to be professionals but do questionable work. Like the plumber who did my house years ago and put a cleanout at a 90 right next to the I-Beam in the basement rendering it useless - thus the 75 ft snake.
I hear it all the time from cable engineers to HVAC guys that come to my house for annual maintenance and they can even recognize the offenders work.
Point is, you are on the negative side of the DIY argument and I doubt that I can change your opinion. Perhaps you should make a visit to the John Bridge tile forum and read what he has discovered about DIYers in large.
And for what it's worth, I have been in the software business for 25 years. The language is only a tool. It's up to the programmer how they solve the problem pitfalls and all it has nothing to do with the language.
Oh, and your C++ example has one closing brace too many and the return is basically a formality it is not needed."If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace" - Thomas Paine
Re: Are we saying to much?
but that leaves the question of what about guys like me? 12 years ownner 15 years in carpentry, then walk away from it, now i drive a dump truck part time. but i write alot of "fluff" in my opion, so should i be in the pros forum? i mean after all i do have a vast amount of knowlege? so what would you say to me ........... hosestly?
now the point of that question is this.... not what about the new members, it is what about the old members, or the members that only come here every once in a while, that i am worried about upsetting, i just simply used my self as an exampleLast edited by oldslowchevy; 01-07-2008, 09:09 PM.9/11/01, never forget.
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Re: Are we saying to much?
Perhaps you should make a visit to the John Bridge tile forum and read what he has discovered about DIYers in large.
Elaborate on this statement for us to avoid the effort of searching endlessly for who knows what.
To put it mildly,
Are you starting to feel a little left out of the mix if we as licensed professionals decide it's best to not be giving the ritual away?
You diss a cleanout but I've seen a million websites hacked like porky pig was pounding the keyboard.
And why should we be inclined to start a private forum you're recommending?
There's information in this business the general public doesn't need to know about, just like there's information in your business that follows the same confidentiality.
So what's the problem? You don't need to know the inner workings of the plumbing profession, you just need to know plumbing and that's it.Northern Kentucky Plumbers Twitter Feed | Plumbing Videos
Re: Are we saying to much?
Point is, you are on the negative side of the DIY argument and I doubt that I can change your opinion. Perhaps you should make a visit to the John Bridge tile forum and read what he has discovered about DIYers in large.
Yet we're obligated to debate our case with you, who feels a mislocated cleanout is symbolic of utter incompetence for my trade.
Indicating a DIY is better suited to perform our simple and mindless work.
Took ya long enough to notice the lil' err in my advanced program.
I'm ready for major software production now.Last edited by DuckButter; 01-07-2008, 09:34 PM.


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Dear area car driver:
In the event that you, area car driver, happen to be dropping off a passenger, please execute the following maneuvers:
1: signal and get to the side of the road;
2: leave the turn signal on while you're stopped.
As you can see, these are two steps. Two very easy steps. These two very easy steps are intended to replace the following alternative method of dropping off passengers:
–just letting out the passenger when already stopped at the light, without putting on a turn signal or moving out of the lane in any significant way, or checking the right side of the car first for passing bicyclists.
Here's the thing, area car driver. Your passenger has not been looking at the road. He or she does not habitually look in the rear view mirror before opening his or her door, especially when getting out of the back seat.
Drivers such as yourself are well-trained in looking down the street for bikes, and those of us on bikes thank you for it. You are also aware when there is a bike near your car, because you're the driver and that's your job. But your clueless passenger is not aware and hasn't had to be for the entire ride, and the curb is right there. They are not thinking of the possibility that a bike is attempting to navigate the space between the car and the curb at the same moment in which they are opening the door.
Likewise, the biker is not aware someone is about to get out of the car because the biker does not know you have stopped to let someone out, because you have not stopped to let someone out. You have stopped at the light. There is no way to tell the difference between stopping for a light and stopping to drop someone off without using psychic powers.
Bicyclists do not have psychic powers. In case you were not sure about that.
And finally
In the event you have neglected to pull over adequately or used a turn signal, and it is raining, and your passenger has opened the rear right door cutting off the cyclist that was at that very moment navigating that same space between the car and the curb, it would be in your best interest not to yell at the biker who had to use the side of your car to stop before he hit your car door. Suggesting that the bike had plenty of time to stop just proves both of you knew the bike was there and decided to open the door anyway, which makes you look like massive assholes.
When bike brakes get wet they don't work as well. Just like car brakes, actually. If you, area car driver, ever find yourself saying, "the bike will have enough time to stop" you should re-evaluate your decision-making capabilities.
Especially when it's raining.


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Here's actress Jena Malone, looking especially glamorous at the London premiere of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part I". Jena paired gilded satin Charlotte Olympia Satin Dolly Pumps with a high-slit, off the shoulder satin gown. You can find a suede version of these Dollys for $795 at SSENSE.
Jena Malone has been acting since she was a child, and she spent most of her adolescence toiling away in grittier indie fare, but her high profile role in The Hunger Games franchise has finally catapulted her into the high fashion stratosphere. Incidentally, she also fronts a band called The Shoe.


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Hawaii half marathon runners and walkers! Join a great club with lots of challenges to work on, as well as lots of discounts and great members. Many half marathon runners and walkers out there can't alway afford to travel around to all 50 states. The 100 Half Marathons Challenge™ is a perfect alternative! Join Fifty States Half Marathon Club and work toward your 100 half marathons, and take your time on the other challenges. All members can work toward all the challenges.
Fifty States Half Marathon Club hosts a big annual meet up in a new state every year, which includes the big annual awards night for all the club members that finish a challenge. From the 100 Half Marathons Challenge™ to the 50 States Half Marathon Challenge™, or 50 States Endurance Challenge™, runners and walkers will enjoy a great group of members, with lots of opportunity to meet members at races. Paint your journey on the cool 100 Half Marathons shirts, designed by Fifty States Half Marathon Club, or the map back design as you work toward 50 states.
Additionally, there is the 500 Endurance Challenge™, the 7 Continents Endurance Challenge™, and the new Canada 10 Provinces Half Marathon Challenge™. A description of each challenge can be found at the official website of Fifty States Half Marathon Club.
Beautiful, classy awards when you finish a challenge!
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There is a way in which our personality is an expression of who we are, and there's a way in which our personality masks who we truly are, both to the world and perhaps even to ourselves.
Over the years, I have worked with thousands of people in my EYECLASSES Vision Seminar. The purpose of the seminar is to give people the experience of connecting to their clear-seeing self. At the first night of the seminar people were asked to fill out a questionnaire, asking them questions like "How strong are your glasses?" and "How old were you when you first started to where glasses?"
Another question was, "What are things that you'll do without your glasses?"
At one early seminar, a person wrote, "Well, the only thing I'd do without my glasses is take a shower." We started to get lots of answers like that, so we changed the question to, "Name three things you'd do without your glasses." And then in parenthesis we put (Besides bathing and sleeping)." So then, that controlled those answers - for awhile - until somebody said, "The only think I'd do without my glasses is I'd look for my glasses!"
On a much deeper level, one of the questions we asked people was: "Name three major events that occurred in your life the year or year and a half before you first noticed a limitation with your vision."
Over half the people - even before we did the seminar and helped them understand and remember more about their eyesight - remembered significant, major events that occurred in their life 12 to 18 months before they noticed a limitation with their vision. Some of those were things like "I was a kid and we moved from one school to another," or "I got a new job," or "My younger brother was born," or "My grandmother died," or "I got married for the first time," or "I got divorced," or "I started to notice that my body was changing as I became an adolescent."
There were different kinds of external, major events that people described. Then, after completing the seminar and intensively spending two and a half days dealing with all the different aspects of vision, an additional bunch of people would remember events that they had not remembered when they first filled out the form. So it got to be nearly 7 out of 10 people who could remember a major event that occurred in their lives, 12 to 18 months before they noticed a problem with their vision.
Let's assume that at birth the vast majority of us have fine eyes. That's not just an assumption because scientists say that 97 percent of all vision problems that occur are the result of something that happens or some patterns that we develop in life—we are not born with poor vision. Three people out of 100 have innate vision problems, congenital cataracts or some other thing like that, but the vast majority of people are born without glasses.
There's 70 million people in the United States who are nearsighted, that's about a quarter of the population. There are other things that people wear glasses for, so in total about 55 percent of the people in this country wear glasses or contacts in order to see clearly - more than half the people cannot see without their glasses or contacts. It's now more normal to have poor vision than it is to have the vision that you were born with.


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Creating Wireless Recon Maps with Google Earth, Kismet, GPSD and Backtrack
Part of Wireless Assessments is always getting a visual view of your client set up. I am always looking for new ways to do this however the best way I have found is using a tool called GISkismet which was written by a guy I know named Jabra. I was getting ready for work this week and I decided to write a quick article on how to do this. All the tools are open source and available on the backtrack 4 cd except Google earth which you must install.


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Gearing up to Super Bowl
The ladies of THE TALK drop by the set of CBS Sports' NFL TODAY while in New York City to get some "Football 101" as they all gear up for their trip to New Orleans for the Super Bowl XLVII. (Pictured: host James Brown, from left, Sheryl Underwood and Sara Gilbert, shown. Photo: John Paul Filo/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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Who's the Underdog?
The Apple-Samsung trial surely helped some people view Apple in a negative light. But it's not as if Samsung is some cute underdog puppy, looking up at you with eyes that plead for a cookie.
— Chris Matyszczyk, in a CNET article entitled "Did Samsung Verdict Hurt Apple's Reputation?"


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I somehow doubt anyone expected this Mazda 626 Coupe to flip onto its roof after this fairly massive jump. I somehow doubt anyone expected everyone to walk away from the wreck, too.
Either way, these are some damn lucky hoons. In any case, when attempting circus-grade jumps like this, roll cages and helmets are strong encouraged.


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10 Surprising Reasons to Drink More Water
We hear about importance of drinking enough water constantly. On the flip side, there has been a growing trend in the media lately that the commonly recommended eight cups of water daily is a myth, which is technically accurate, but not the whole story. Whether you need eight cups of water daily, or four or ten, most people are not getting the message that whatever their particular water needs are, they aren't meeting them.
And even dietitians, nutritionists, and medical professionals are contributing to the problem by informing people that they get enough water in their diet in the form of fruits and vegetables. That might be true for some people, but after assessing the diets of countless people, I assure you that isn't the case for most people.
Plus, have you ever noticed that when you throw vegetables in a pan and turn on the heat you'll see liquid in the pan soon afterward, and then shortly after that you'll see steam rising from them? That's because you're literally cooking the water out of the vegetables.
Researchers estimate that half of the world's population is chronically dehydrated. And in America, that level is even higher at 75 percent of the population.
More than two-thirds of your body weight is water. Without adequate water your body's biochemical and electrical (yes electrical, read on!) processes begin to break down. The list of reasons your body needs water is as plentiful as the functions in your body, so due to space limitations, here are 10 good reasons to drink more water:
1. Your blood is over 80 percent water and needs water to make healthy new blood cells.
2. Your bones are over 50 percent water and, you guessed it, need water to make healthy new bone cells.
3. Drinking more water actually helps lessen pain in your body by getting your lymphatic system moving. The lymphatic system is a network of nodes, tubes, vessels, and fluid that move waste out of your tissues. It requires water to function properly.
4. Water helps to eliminate wastes and toxins from your body through the lymphatic system, kidneys, and intestines.
5. Water lubricates your joints and helps reduce joint pain and protect against wear and tear.
6. Water regulates your metabolism so if you're overweight chances are you may need more water.
7. Water balances body temperature.
8. Water helps to ensure adequate electrical functioning so your brain and nervous system function properly. Your brain and nervous system send out electrical signals to function properly. Researchers estimate that your brain gives off about the same amount of electricity as a 60 watt light bulb. So, there's some truth to the image of a light bulb going on when someone has a good idea.
9. Water alleviates dehydration (and I've already mentioned that most people are chronically dehydrated).
10. Every cell and organ in your body requires adequate water to function properly.
So, one of the quickest and easiest ways to improve your health is to start drinking more pure water every day. Be sure to drink water an empty stomach or you'll simply be diluting your digestive enzymes and making your digestion less effective.
And, choose purified water as much as possible (but get yourself a BPA-free water bottle so you won't pollute the planet with all those plastic water bottles. In wealthy, developed nations with plentiful access to water, we really have no excuses for not drinking enough water.
Adapted with permission of the author from the upcoming book, The Phytozyme Cure. (Wiley, December 2010). Copyright Michelle Schoffro Cook.
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The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) applauds President Barack Obama for his agenda to put people back to work while re-building our nation's transportation infrastructure. "Our current transportation infrastructure is crumbling, outdated, and does not fit the needs of today's American families. However, any efforts to re-build our transportation networks must include projects for all modes of transportation, including walking and bicycling paths and trails," said ASLA CEO Nancy Somerville, Hon. ASLA.
As Congress and the Administration begin to move on President Obama's job creating proposals, ASLA urges them to include a robust Transportation Enhancements program in these policies. For nearly 20 years, the Transportation Enhancements program has successfully helped communities provide much-needed transportation choices for their residents, while also helping to jumpstart economic development, and create local jobs. The Transportation Enhancements program is the primary source of funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects, many of which create critical arterials that allow people to safely and efficiently get to work, school, shopping, and other daily destinations without relying on an automobile.
The Transportation Enhancements program is only 1.5% of the overall transportation program, yet yields tremendous results, including creating much-needed jobs. A recent study by the Political Economy Research Institute found that for each $1 million spent on bicycle projects, approximately 14 jobs are created compared to only 7 jobs generated by road repair work. In fact, thousands of landscape architects, many of whom are part of small businesses, access Transportation Enhancement funding to plan and design critical transportation projects around the country. Cutting or reducing the TE program would directly impact these small landscape architecture firms and the myriad of other small businesses throughout the supply chain.
The 16,000 members of the American Society of Landscape Architects share President Obama's commitment to rebuilding our nation's infrastructure, while creating important jobs. We urge Congress to continue to provide important policies tools that will allow landscape architects and other design professionals to continue to create well-planned and well–designed communities with efficient transportation corridors.
ASLA urges its members and others to contact your federal legislators and urge them to support continuing the Transportation Enhancements program.
For more on ASLA's transportation priorities and ASLA Advocacy www.asla.org/advocacy
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The Tenth Commandment
Sometimes it can be hard to differentiate covetousness from legitimate desire. But there are things for which we can be on the lookout. Envy of another's position likely indicates that one is coveting it. Obsession with a particular good to ...Read More
Not Envious or Boastful
Envy is an easy sin to hide because we can keep our mouths shut about what we are feeling in our hearts when we see others get blessings we have been longing for. It is therefore important to be constantly ...Read More
Coveting and Self-Destruction
In our market-driven culture, the temptation to covet that which belongs to others is constantly before us. Thus, we need all the help we can get to find contentment in those things we cannot change. We need Christian friends to ...Read More
The Desire for Riches
Each day we should ask ourselves whether we are content with the gifts God has given us or whether we are coveting (not simply wanting) something else. That something could be money, a relationship, a job, recognition, or any number ...Read More
Godliness and Contentment
One commentator says, "Godliness is not about acquiring better and more material things; it is instead an active life of faith, a living out of covenant faithfulness in relation to God, that finds sufficiency and contentment in Christ alone whatever ...Read More
Be Content
Are you content with what you have? Or is there something that is not yours that you covet? In prayer, ask the Lord to reveal those things that you covet. Take some steps to avoid this sin — such as finding ...Read More
Trusting in Riches
Read Matthew 19:16–30. Why would the young man not follow Christ? Why is wealth such a trap for so many people? Be specific in your answer. In what ways do you put your trust in money instead of ...Read More
The Pursuit of Riches
Read Proverbs 30:7–11 and Matthew 6:9–13 and consider these two prayers in light of today's lesson. Do your desires reflect those of Agur and of Christ? Are you satisfied with what God has given you? Do ...Read More


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text: New Second Edition. Authoritative yet easy to read, this book covers the latest advances in sheep and goat medicine, including treatment, surgery, theriogenology, herd health, and nutrition. Full-color photographs and clear instructions describe common procedures and techniques such as restraint for examination, administration of drugs, blood collection, and grooming; often accompanied by explanatory diagrams and charts. With diseases, surgeries, and treatments organized by body system, information is easy to find. New to this edition are chapters on parasite control, nutritional requirements, and performing a necropsy. Hardback, 620 pages. An excellent book and worth the money.