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Mark decided to try out for the varsity cross country team. Over the summer he bought a pair of running shoes and took up jogging. He started with short distances, but soon started increasing his mileage in an effort to get up to race distance in time for tryouts.
After a few weeks, though, Mark began noticing swelling and pain in his right knee. He went to see a doctor and was told he had runner's knee.
Runner's knee is the term doctors use for a number of specific conditions affecting the knee, such as patellofemoral pain syndrome and chondromalacia of the patella, to name just two. It's the most common overuse injury among runners, but it can also strike other athletes who do activities that require a lot of knee bending, such as biking, jumping, or skiing.
Runner's knee happens when the kneecap (patella) tracks incorrectly over a groove in the thighbone (femur) known as the femoral groove when you bend and straighten your knee. In healthy knees, the patella rests in the femoral groove and slides easily up and down when you use your knee. But when the patella is out of place, it can irritate the femoral groove and wear away the cartilage beneath the patella, leading to knee pain.
The most common symptom of runner's knee is tenderness or pain behind or on the sides of the patella, usually toward the center or back of the knee where the thighbone and kneecap meet. In addition, the knee might be swollen.
The pain will generally feel worse when bending the knee — when walking, kneeling, squatting, or running, for example. Walking or running downhill or even down a flight of steps also can lead to pain if someone has runner's knee. So can sitting for a long period of time with your knee bent, such as in a movie theater.
In some cases, someone with runner's knee may notice a popping or cracking sensation in the knee, as well as a feeling that the knee may be giving out.
If it goes untreated for a long period of time, runner's knee can damage the cartilage of the knee and hasten the development of arthritis.
If you see a doctor about pain in your knee, he or she will review your medical history and ask you questions about your symptoms and the activities you are involved in. Be sure to tell your doctor if you've increased how much time you spend at a certain activity or how often you do it.
The doctor will probably check the alignment of your kneecap, thigh, and lower leg, as well as look at your range of motion. Your doc will also check your kneecap for signs of tenderness or dislocation. You may be asked to squat, jump, or lie down so your doctor can assess your knee's strength and mobility.
In some cases, your doctor may order imaging tests like an X-ray or MRI to see if there is any damage to the structure of your knee or the tissues connected to it.
Runner's knee can happen for a variety of reasons, many of them having to do with the muscles and bones of the leg. Some of the more common causes are:
The good news about runner's knee is that you can take precautions to protect yourself against it. If you're going to be doing an activity that puts a lot of stress on your knees, follow these tips:
Treatment for runner's knee depends on the specific problem that is causing the pain. Fortunately, runner's knee rarely requires surgery, and most cases heal in time. Regardless of the cause of your particular case of runner's knee, here are some things you should do at the first sign of pain:
Rest: Try to avoid putting weight on your knee as much as you can.
Ice: Use a bag of ice wrapped in a towel or cold compress to help reduce swelling.
Compress: Wear an elastic bandage or snug-fitting knee sleeve with the kneecap cut out.
Elevate: Lie down and keep your knee raised higher than your heart.
On rare occasions, someone might need surgery for runner's knee. If your doctor decides this is your best option, he or she may recommend one of two surgeries:
Surgery is only used as a last resort, though. Most cases of runner's knee get better through routine care and rest.
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Date reviewed: June 2013
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stbarrett necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 13 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
I've been a web developer for 15 years having worked on some very large entertainment and game publisher sites so I've been around the wonderfully creative(something I'm not). I'm also a very big Disney collectible fan and animation history buff. I like 'fun' and want to convey that without slapping people in the face.
I'm trying to get a logo that is fun and whimsical, yet conveys something a little more polished than most Disney fan site logos which are usually rainbow colored or a bit of an eye sore. I don't like really bright colors and really enjoy more muted colors, something polished but doesn't pop so hard the eyes hurt.
The site will help collectors track what they own and what is out there for them to collect. The site will be more data driven than graphical, a lot like a mahalo.com page.
I'm targeting Disney fans and people who collect Disney memorabilia. They are very fun people, very fanatical about their collections and what's available for them to collect. They range from people who go to the parks every month to people who simply want to collect pins by purchasing them on ebay from their living room.
The attached file is the 'icon' (should open in Illustrator) I would like it integrated into the logo along with the name of the site: DizCollect
1. It can be used in the word or completely outside of the words, I have no strong preference either way.
2. The colors can also change if the designer feels it will meet their needs. I'm not strongly tied to the brown, though I do like the subtlety of the color. Please no really bright colors.
3. The typeface should be fun and not too corporate looking. But the typeface should also be legible at different sizes.
4. You may stylize the icon some. What I like is that it has some depth. It also has the mickey ears which is instant recognition to my audience. Please do not remove the icon completely or change it so much it is not recognizable from the one provided.
5. Something that can be used in the header area of a web site, Horizontal is better than vertical.
The colors used in the logo will help drive the colors used on the website so please keep that in mind.
I like how this logo sits up top horizontally:
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Nation's largest oil explorer ONGC today raised a whopping USD 2.214 billion - the largest bond sale from the country - through dual tranche money to fund its overseas arm OVL's Mozambique asset purchase.
The issue involved USD 1.5 billion of dollar money and 525 million in euros (USD 714 million at current exchange rate), merchant bankers told PTI.
They said this is the largest dual currency RegS issuance from Asia, apart from being the first-ever euro issuance from a quasi-sovereign corporate. It is also the first dual currency RegS issuance from the country.
The RegS issue (which is not sold to resident American investors) has three tenures -- USD 750 million of 5-year money and the rest is of 10-year tenor, while the euro issue is a 7-year money, said the merchant bankers, which include RBS, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered and Citigroup.
The company could not be immediately reached for comments.
The issue is also said to have got one of the tightest spreads for issuance across 5-year dollar and 7-year euro issue.
While the dollar issue got an over-subscription of over USD 6 billion, the euro issue got demands worth 1.8 billion more than the platter.
While the 5-year dollar issue got priced at US treasury plus 160 bps (against a guidance of 180 bps), the 10-year issue is priced at T plus 207 bps. The 7-year euro tranche is priced at MS+180 bps.
The effective coupon for these tenures works out to 3.25 per cent for the 5 year tranche, 4.625 per cent for the 10- year tranche and 2.75 per cent for the euro issue.
While 55 per cent of the 5-year dollar issue are Asians, the reset 45 per cent are European investors, for the 10-year money was lapped up by Europeans (45 per cent) and 47 per cent by Asians. As much as 78 per cent of the euro money was lapped by Europeans and 21 per cent by Asians.
ONGC Videsh is the overseas arm of the state-owned ONGC and the money raised will be used to fund its acquisition of 10 per cent stake in a giant Mozambique gas field, which it had bought last August for USD 2.6 billion from the US energy major Anadarko Corp.


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David Beckham has become a rainforest explorer after undertaking a two-week jungle expedition for a BBC documentary about Brazil.
The former England captain has been cooking, camping and fishing as he and three friends journeyed through the Amazon forest earlier this month for the 90-minute film.
Becks, soon to be seen in a Sport Relief special edition of Only Fools And Horses, headed to the country secretly to make the film in order to give a taste of its natural beauty ahead of the World Cup Finals this summer.
He was accompanied by fellow travellers Dave Gardner and Derek White, together with film-maker Anthony Mandler, as he added a further dimension to his career.
The unnamed film is to be screened by BBC One in June, will tie in with the tournament.
Charlotte Moore, the channel's controller, said: "In this special documentary for BBC One, David Beckham embarks on a top secret expedition to the Amazon that will see him encounter the other side of Brazil and journey through the tropical rainforest, a TV first for the global icon."
BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm, is handling international sales of the programme which it will be launching at the MipTV 2014 international TV sales festival next month.
Helen Jackson, the managing director for content at BBC Worldwide, said: "This is an unforgettable documentary set in the heart of the dense Amazon rainforest following David Beckham.
"Through his eyes, audiences will experience life in the jungle, something so distant from David's life on and off the pitch and in the glare of the world's media."


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Hi to all,
AVANTI 0.2.6 - FFmpeg/Avisynth GUI (June 2008 release) available.
This version has the following changes:
..1.. Improved user tools for complex command line arguments.
..2.. Improved and enhanced the "advanced database manager".
..3.. Updated codecs/formats database for latest FFmpeg versions.
..4.. Adapted database to decode ogg theora (ogg, ogm extensions).
..5.. Added ogg theora templates for encoding.
..6.. Fixed bug in version overwrite option (database not preserved).
..7.. Fixed bug in "Preferences" (some were not updated immediately).
..8.. Updated chm help for renewed database manager.
You can read more and download Avanti 0.2.6 here at
Mainly a version of bug fixes and maintenance to be up-to-date
before the summer break.
The codecs/formats database wasn't updated for a long time
but now contains additions from the latest FFmpeg versions.
If you use the "overwrite" option to upgrade a older version,
also read the help chapter of the "Advanced database manager".
In case of questions or major bug reports (or bad wheather),
I'll be around for support and/or a revision.
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thanks for the new versionI love it when a plan comes together!
Originally Posted by ricardouk
have a nice summer break
Avanti 0.2.6 revision 1 available.
Occasionally new FFmpeg versions have changes that are not foreseen and
this requires the release of a revision to keep Avanti compatible.
The latest known Windows builds by Ramiro Polla (SVN-r13242) and Sherpya
(Sherpya-r13537) appear to have revised documentation embedded.
The codecs list in this versions now includes comments (like the formats list
already did) and the current Avanti version isn't prepared for that. Reading the
list into the "Advanced database manager" fails and needs some adapting.
I also found that muxing with FFmpeg is still tricky and have my doubts about
m2v/ac3 and m2v/mp2 (AVI muxing does fine for me). The automatic insertion
of the "-genpts 1" command for m2v is removed to allow some source dependent
experiments on the command line with the -genpts and -copyts commands.
Because these builds perform very well and seems to have (almost) all former
codec problems fixed (Sherpya build still has a broken x264), I decided to
release Avanti 0.2.6 revision 1 which is adapted for using these versions.
If you already installed version 0.2.6, you only need to replace the
"Avanti-GUI.exe" executable. This will preserve your current settings.
Note: I use revisions when changes only concern bug fixes and/or adaptions.
The documentation in Avanti packages is highly related to the specific
version and since there are no new features added, it would give me a lot
of extra (needless) work to change it all.
just registered and thanks for the help so far. i'm using this to get xvids on my ps3. works great till i need to "force avisynth". dunno how to do that and can't find it in avanti.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. i've got ffmpeg/avisynth/avanti installed and it works great till i hit a few xvids that are i guess encoded or something wrong.
Originally Posted by sword_9mm
There select "Enable Avisynth FORCE mode".
It will only work if you have DirectShow codecs on your system that can play the broken (?) or uncommon xvids.
thanks a bunch Chris K.
it still dies on me, guess the xvid is encoded weird. funny though that it's in a series and the few before it work fine.
you guys have any tips if an xvid won't encode right? these are all dbz episodes. i assume they're all the same but i guess not.
Hi Chris!
I've been trying to mux an mp3+png into a flv file and Avanti so far has worked but it reconverts the mp3 files, is there any way to bypass the mp3 conversion, just mux mp3+png.
I tried using ffmpeg and mencoder but the final flv is twice as big, with fmpeg and mencoder (160k mp3 +png) results in a 14mg file, the original sources are less than 7mg
With Avanti the final size is 7mg but mp3 gets reconverted, can you help? Im using some scripts 45Tripp posted on another thread
ffmpeg -loop_input -f image2 -i video.png -r 1 -vcodec flv -i audio.mp3 -acodec copy -qscale 2 -g 5 -cmp 3 -subcmp 3 -mbd 2 -flags trell temp.avi -shortest ffmpeg -i temp.avi -vcodec copy -acodec copy video.flv
mencoder mf://video.png -mf fps=1/388:type=png -audiofile audio.mp3 -ovc lavc -oac copy -vf harddup -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vqscale=2:keyint=5 -ofps 1 -of lavf -o final.flv
If i choose "mux audio" it tells me to "Please load UNI_MUX_SETUP template to set MUX environment.", i load that template, choose settings but aerror message appears:
ThanksI love it when a plan comes together!
well frifox wanted the best quality.
if you want you can set them so as not to use cq encoding,
also the ffmpeg command can be done in one now:
ffmpeg -loop_input -f image2 -i video.png -r 1 -vcodec flv -i audio.mp3 -acodec copy -b 50k -g 5 -cmp 3 -subcmp 3 -mbd 2 -flags trell video.flv -shortestCode:
mencoder mf://video.png -mf fps=1/388:type=png -audiofile audio.mp3 -ovc lavc -oac copy -vf harddup -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=50:keyint=5 -ofps 1 -of lavf -o final.flv
for avanti,
i think i once made a 'copy' codec in the database.
i think i keep forgetting to ask Chris for a 'stream copy' option as i'm still waiting
on ffmpeg ogm remux to be fixed.
one way of doing it is to use the -new function,
in the video options at the beginning add this:
-new -i "@source1" -i "@source2" -dvs -acodec copy
-y "@destin1"
tripp"I'll give you five dollars if you let me throw a rock at you"
Hi Ricardo,
I've tried this variant on the -new suggestion by Tripp and it worked (with some restrictions):
-new -loop_input -i "@source1" -i "@source2" -dvs -acodec copy -shortest -y "@destin1"
All audio settings are ingnored anyway with -acodec copy on the command line.
You won't get progression display.
Just wait patiently for the "Process successfully finished after ..... hms" message.
I tried with a mp3 of 938.7 kb and the final flv became 1,4 mb.
Hi 45tripp
Thanks for the scripts, it works.
Chris and Tripp adding that bit at the beggining/ end, without or without quotes doesnt work, this is the code that appears, can you show me where to add it?
-g 160 -cmp 3 -subcmp 3 -mbd 2 -flags aic+cbp+mv0+mv4+trell -sws_flags lanczos
ffmpeg mencoder avanti General #0 File size : 10.4 MiB : 10.8 MiB : 7.67 MiB PlayTime : 6mn 28s : 6mn 28s : 6mn 28s Bit rate : 224 Kbps : 234 Kbps : 166 KbpsI love it when a plan comes together!
This is the complete command line with the hq tweaking included:
-new -loop_input -i "@source1" -i "@source2" -dvs -g 160 -cmp 3 -subcmp 3 -mbd 2 -flags aic+cbp+mv0+mv4+trell -sws_flags lanczos -acodec copy -shortest -y "@destin1"
the diff is what Chris added to the commandline:
without you sorta a get a bastard single frame matched to the audio, can;t seek the single frame.
take it as a reserved bonus, no re-encode but with no seeking.
tripp"I'll give you five dollars if you let me throw a rock at you"
Thanks Chris and 45Tripp for the explanations and "fix".I love it when a plan comes together!
Never mind, I just loaded the template and registered the codec, and created my first FLV. Pardon my ignorance
Well I've been messing with the modded template and if I set it to 20fps, the picture becomes blurry after ten seconds and progressively so until the end of the song. But when set to 10fps it appears to retain the original picture quality to the end, although it does become slightly muddy. Any idea why this is? The source picture is JPEG btw.
well it's a moot point, because 1fps is more than enough for a single frame.
but if you insist...
left bitrate at 50k?
you'll have to increase it substantially.
or use qscale encoding.
tripp"I'll give you five dollars if you let me throw a rock at you"
Well the reason I don't use 1fps is because the resulting videos don't seek.. is there a way around this at 1fps?
Yeah I left it at 50K so I will up it, thanks
ok, i'd not spotted it in the commandline,
-g 160
-g 1
and resave the template
tripp"I'll give you five dollars if you let me throw a rock at you"
Hey I just tried this but the overall bitrate won't get past 400K no matter how high i set the video bitrate. I'm using flash_hq_mod. I've added -g 1. How can I increase the video bitrate substantially?
what ever for?
you don't.
-qscale 1 is as far as you can go with flash
insisting, you can increase framerate, resolution
that'll increase where you can fgo to.
tripp"I'll give you five dollars if you let me throw a rock at you"
Hi everyone. I apologize if this is in the wrong place, but I have some questions.
First, what is the best video scale algorithm for downsizing videos? Second, is there a tutorial for using the VBR feature? What are the best values to enter there in order to optimize the file size, say for a 5 minute video at 750 kb/s?
Also, is Avanti still being developed?
Originally Posted by dark_guard
i use lanczos for up and down.
others use spline for up and down.
some say one better for up and another for down, and the inverse,
some like a simple bicubic for down, i don't like the softness.
try them out.
pick one
Originally Posted by dark_guard
what's your source what's the goal?
Originally Posted by dark_guard
a suggestion, a bug to report?
Chris K still maintains it.
tripp"I'll give you five dollars if you let me throw a rock at you"
Originally Posted by 45tripp
Originally Posted by 45tripp
Originally Posted by 45tripp
Originally Posted by dark_guard
Originally Posted by dark_guard
most probably progressive.
the best way to handle is to get dgindex
import the vob. press F5, check "video type" anything with film over 95% means you can 'force film'.
'video'->'field operatin'->'forced film'
press F4 to save project.
you'll get a .d2v file.
install avisynth if you havent already.
open a txt editor (notepad)
dgindex came with DGDecode.dll, place it somewhere convenient, or note it's path.
in the text write:
LoadPlugin("path\DGDecode.dll") MPEG2Source("moviename.d2v")
now treat 'movie.avs' as your movie.
i'e drag it into Avanti's input.
for flv, the hq flash template in Avanti is as good as it gets.
just change bitrate and resolution
that's sorenson spark,
i've not really been following the later testing on youtube,
but i see success in putting h264 up.
There aren't ready good templates for that in Avanti.
but you can make one.
Originally Posted by 45trippOriginally Posted by dark_guard
post it.
tripp"I'll give you five dollars if you let me throw a rock at you"
I've got a question conerning interlaced mpeg4(XViD)-material:
I've got some files which are interlaced (AviSynth-Test shows "TFF"), but reported progressive in apps like MPEG4Modifier and which don't play well on my standalone.
Seems the device reads the flag and presumes progressive content; esp. annoying when I want to jump back/forth or ffwd, etc.
So on doom9's forum I already learned that I would have to re-encode the files.
I tried AVANTI for that job, and the outcome is really fine - so first I want to say: Thank you, Chris K!!
But the files again are interlaced (I'd like to keep them that way - I de-activated "Deinterlace" in AVANTI), and again are reported as being "progressive".
Is this an option I would have to add in the commandline for ffmpeg? And if so, how would I do it?
Thanks for any help!
Originally Posted by nbarzgar
nice to hear you like Avanti
Originally Posted by nbarzgarCode:
-flags ilme+ildct
you can't do it with xvid within ffmpeg
tripp"I'll give you five dollars if you let me throw a rock at you"
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Treating addiction by eliminating drug-associated memories
Addicts, even those who have been abstinent for long periods of time, are often still vulnerable to their own memories of prior drug use. For example, exposure to the same environment in which they commonly used drugs - a contextual memory - can increase their craving for the drug dramatically and can lead to relapse.
A new study in the April 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry , published by Elsevier, has evaluated a novel compound that may ease the power of those memories.
"In this study, we found that after repeatedly giving cocaine injections to rats within a particular environment, the rats developed a strong preference for that environment over another environment where a placebo was given," explains M. Foster Olive, Ph.D., co-author and senior investigator. "Next, we treated the animals with an experimental drug called CDPPB, and found that it decreased the rats' preference for the cocaine-associated environment during subsequent tests."
This is a process called extinction learning, whereby the compound helps the brain to create new associations instead of retrieving the old associations, in this case between the cocaine and the environment. Dr. Olive also notes that this promising finding may aid the development of new therapeutic treatments that could be used in conjunction with exposure therapy, a technique used to desensitize individuals to stimuli that invoke negative responses or emotions.
John Krystal, M.D., Editor of Biological Psychiatry agrees and hopes that these findings can be expanded to other areas of work. "It will be interesting to see whether this approach extends to the treatment of cocaine abuse or other addictions. Further, it will be important to see whether mGluR5 agonists [like CDPPD] might play a role in the treatment of the extinction of other forms of maladaptive learning, such as the traumatic memories associated with posttraumatic stress disorder."
More information: "Positive Allosteric Modulation of mGluR5 Receptors Facilitates Extinction of a Cocaine Contextual Memory" by Justin T. Gass and M. Foster Olive. The authors are affiliated with the Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. The article appears in Biological Psychiatry, Volume 65, Issue 8 (April 15, 2009), published by Elsevier. www.elsevier.com/locate/biopsychiat
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Stephen Dolan, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, published an interesting article A "sane" design for multicore OCaml recently and the following discussion on Reddit proved to be quite informative. In particular, more than one person asserted that ints, floats and tuples are fast in OCaml. In this blog post I'm going to take a look at tuple performance.
As Stephen points out, one might reasonably expect unboxed tuples to be faster for passing arguments to functions and returning multiple values from functions because the elements can stay in registers but slower for storing in the heap because they require multi-word reads and writes instead of a single word (a pointer to the existing tuple). However, HLVM has shown that unboxed tuples can be extremely fast so why the discrepancy?
The performance charactistics of different heap topologies are not quite so simple in a garbage collected environment. Two aspects of garbage collection affect the results: the write barrier and survivors. The write barrier is a relatively-slow piece of code injected whenever a program writes a reference into the heap in order to keep the garbage collector apprised of the constantly-changing heap topology. Therefore, writing an unboxed pair of ints into the heap requires two int writes whereas writing a boxed pair of ints into the heap requires one pointer write and a write barrier. Now, in order to record information for the garbage collector the write barrier always performs at least one write in addition to other housekeeping work. Therefore, writing a pair of ints will always be slower if the pair is boxed. In fact, the F# Journal article Pathological garbage collector behaviour found that a write that incurs the write barrier is 2.4x slower than a write that does not. Moreover, .NET is heavily optimized for mutable code so it has a very efficient write barrier whereas OCaml is heavily optimized for purely functional code and has a notoriously slow write barrier.
The next issue that complicates the performance of boxed vs unboxed tuples in the heap is survivors. Both OCaml and .NET use generational garbage collectors. New objects like boxed tuples are allocated in a nursery generation. When the nursery is full, surviving objects are identified and physically copied to the next generation. If a program violates the generational hypothesis (that most objects die young) by allocating many objects that survive then it incurs a performance overhead for marking the survivors, copying them into the next generation and fixing up all pointers to those objects to point at their new locations. If tuples are unboxed then none of these overheads exist.
So it is instructive to measure the performance of writing newly-allocated tuples into progressively longer slices of an array. We have done this using boxed tuples in OCaml and F# as well as unboxed structs in F#. The following graph visualizes the performance as a function of the size of the array slice:
For array slices containing up to 1,000 elements none of the tuples survive the first generation and the performance of the boxed tuples is only slightly worse than for the unboxed representation (probably due to the write barrier). For more than 1,000 elements the performance of boxed tuples in both F# and OCaml rapidly worsens until they are 10x slower than unboxed tuples for 1,000,000 elements.
So tuples can indeed be fast in OCaml but only if they are short-lived temporaries. If tuples survive the nursery generation (which is 256kB by default) then performance is very bad.
The poor performance of long-lived tuples in OCaml has actually been worked around on several occasions. The Map implementation is almost identical to the Set implementation except the key-value pairs have been manually unboxed into the variant type representing the AVL tree, resulting in a large amount of unnecessary code duplication. The Hashtbl implementation uses a custom bucket type that is a list where the key-value pairs in each cons cell have been manually unboxed. Variant types are most elegantly represented as a tag and argument. For multiple arguments, the argument can just be a tuple. This simple and efficient representation is used in HLVM and it works very well. In OCaml, the compiler unboxes multiple arguments as a special case in order to combat the performance of boxed tuples. This results in a language wart where brackets around the arguments to a variant type constructor alter the meaning from multiple arguments to a single argument that is a tuple.
Locality is another important aspect of the performance of boxed vs unboxed tuples. Consider sorting an array of pairs and then enumerating the sorted array. With an unboxed representation the elements of the array are physically moved into place within a contiguous block of memory and enumeration is cache friendly. With a boxed representation, sorting scrambles the pointers and enumeration then has worst-case cache behaviour.
Suffice to say, the performance of boxed tuples is not as clear-cut as one might imagine.


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Elaine Claire Nuetzel LaMaster, 86, Beloved Wife And Mother
Elaine Claire Nuetzel LaMaster, 86, died peacefully, Sunday, August 5, 2012 with her family by her side. Elaine was born April 22, 1926 to Carl A. and Katherine Kelley Nuetzel. Elaine graduated from St. James Grade School and Atherton High School. She started her collegiate career at the University of Louisville before transferring to the University of Kentucky, where she graduated with an English major. She was a champion badmiton player, golfer, avid thoroughbred horse racing enthusiast and Kentucky sports fan. She was a member of the Younger Womens Club and The Pendennis Club. Elaine was a beautiful lady who possessed a clever sense of humor and lived life with exuberance.
She is survived by her husband and partner in love of 62 years, William H. LaMaster Sr. and three children, William H. LaMaster Jr., Kelley L. LaMaster, and Lawrence N. LaMaster. Also nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.
Her funeral mass was celebrated noon Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church 1406 E. Washington Street with burial in Cave Hill cemetery. Visitation was 4-8 p.m. Wednesday at Pearson's 149 Breckenridge Lane. Memorials to St. Joseph Catholic Church.
Tracey Leanne Blevins, 31, Employed At KIPDA
Tracey Leanne Blevins, 31, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, August 4, 2012.
Originally from Burlington, N.C., she was employed at KIPDA in Louisville, Ky. She was a 1999 graduate of Christian Academy and had a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, from McKendree University.
Tracey is survived by her parents, Cindy Philpott (Jim) and Mark Blevins (Janet); brother, Troy Blevins (Karri); nephew, Tyler Blevins; two nieces, Katelin and Kaylee; and aunt and uncles Anne and Ed Fanning, of Charlotte, N.C., Mike and Judy Ledford of Johnson City, Tenn., and Martin and Barbara Ledford of Concord, N.C.; and special companion, her cat, Jax.
Her funeral service was held Wednesday, August 8, 2012 at noon at Highlands Family-Owned Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road. Visitation was from 2-8 p.m. on Tuesday at Highlands.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to the Rheumatoid Arthritis Association/ Arthritis Foundation P.O. Box 96280 Washington, DC 20077.
Lynn Francis Cassen Goddy, 79, Homemaker And Volunteer
Lynn Francis Cassen Goddy, 79, died Tuesday, August 7, 2012. She was a strong and quietly assertive leader of her immediate and extended family, of her Temple and of the Jewish Community.
Born in the Bronx, N.Y., and raised in Indianapolis, Lynn was an honors graduate of the Indiana University School of Education. Lynn started her career as a first-grade teacher, then turned her attention to raising a family and extensive volunteer work.
Lynn was a past president of The Temple Sisterhood and a longtime Temple board member. She co-chaired many successful Temple fundraising efforts and events, and played a major role in support of the congregation's relocation and building of a new Temple on Brownsboro Road. With the late Joan Lynch and the late Betty Vine, Lynn operated a thriving Temple Gift Shop for more than 10 years. In other volunteer work, she was a life member of both the National Council of Jewish Women – Louisville Section and B'nai Brith Women. She introduced B'nai Brith's landmark Dolls for Democracy Program, bringing the lessons of compassion and tolerance to Jefferson County classrooms. A member of the Women's Coalition for Choice and Planned Parenthood, she represented those organizations at the Kentucky State Fair for many years.
Known for her talent for design and decoration, Lynn was an accomplished knitter and dedicated needlepoint artist. She also was an expert Mahjong player.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Manuel S. Cassen and Beatrice K. Cassen; and her sister, Gail Cassen Schwartz.
She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Dr. Leonard Goddy; her son, David Goddy (Cecilia Schmidt); her daughter, Karen Goddy (Kai Palchikoff); her daughter, Suzanne Weintraub (Bruce); her sisters, Susan Gordon and Isabel Cassen (Mike Stern); her sister-in-law, Carol Lewis (Sam); and six grandchildren, Sonya and Julian Goddy, Alec Palchikoff, Jordan, Adam and Jillian Weintraub.
Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Friday, August 10, 2012 at The Temple, 5101 US Hwy 42 with burial following in The Temple Cemetery. Visitation began at 1:30 p.m. Expressions of sympathy may go to The Temple or the Lewy Body Dementia Association, 912 Killian Hill Road, Lilburn, GA, 30047 or www.lbda.org. Arrangements were by Herman Meyer & Son.
Benny L. Dawson, 82, Owner Of Dawson And Reesor Fuel Oil Service
Benny L. Dawson, 82, of Shepherdsville, KY, passed away at his home on Wednesday, August 8, 2012.
He was a veteran of the Korean conflict, retired owner and operator of the old Dawson and Reesor Fuel Oil Service, a member of VFW Post 5710 and a native of Bullitt County.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Edith; his siblings, Thelma Jean Bryant and Ray, Jim, Bernie and Sam Dawson.
He is survived by his daughter, Stacey Cline and her husband David; his grandsons, Chase and Alex Cline; his siblings, Elwood and Eddie Dawson, both of Shepherdsville, Bobby Dawson, Betty Dorsey and Patricia Jackson, of Shepherdsville.
Funeral Mass was held Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Shepherdsville. Visitation was Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. and Friday from noon to 8 p.m.
Online condolences may be made to maramanbillings.com.
Mary "Lucille†(Ginther) Reisert, 92, Retired From H. A. Seinsheimer Co.
Mary "Lucille†(Ginther) Reisert, 92, of Louisville, passed away Tuesday, August 7, 2012.
She retired from H. A. Seinsheimer Co. and was a member of the Cardinal Dames, Central Cardinal Club, UMW Circles and St. Matthews United Methodist Church.
Lucille was preceded in death by her husband, Charles W. Reisert and nephew, Don Brohman.
She is survived by her nephews, Bert Brohman (Mary Joan) and Dr. Jeff Ginther (Libby); nieces, Mary Jane Brohman, Jennifer Haarer (Gary), Paulette Isacsson and Jill Knudson (Steve); and many great-nieces and great-nephews.
Her funeral service was held at 11 a.m. Saturday, August 11, 2012 at St. Matthews United Methodist Church, 319 Browns Lane with entombment at Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park, New Albany, Ind. Visitation was from 4-8 p.m. Friday at Highlands Family-Owned Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to her church, St. Matthews United Methodist Church for the Touched Twice Clinic.
Colonel (Ret). David J. Baker, USAF, 66, Retired CEO Of Humana Military Healthcare Services
Colonel (Ret). David J. Baker, USAF, 66, of Louisville, formerly of San Antonio, TX died August 1, 2012 of melanoma while on vacation in Florida.
Born in Pittsfield, Mass., Dave pursued his first career in the US Air Force and served in various executive posts both in Germany and USAF base hospitals as a medical service corps officer. After his retirement from the Air Force, Dave joined Humana Inc. as a Regional Executive Director of Humana Military Healthcare Services. In 2000, Dave was promoted to president and CEO of Humana Military Healthcare Services and served in this position until his retirement in January 2012. Dave held an MBA from the University of Florida and completed his undergraduate studies at University of Maryland as well as programs at the Air War College, Air Command and Staff College and the Squadron Officers School.
Dave was known by all who served and worked with him as a humble and inspiring leader. Dave possessed quiet and steady resolve in dealing with difficult and challenging leadership situations; for example, he coordinated the recovery mission after the Challenger disaster in 1986 while serving as Administrator at the Patrick Air Force Base military hospital in Florida. Dave was a key member of the Humana Military executive team and helped lead the implementation of the Humana Military Healthcare Services DOD contract in 1996 that today serves over three million military retirees and family member beneficiaries in the South and Southeast United States.
Dave was a member of St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, The Military Officers Association of America and was on the Board of Directors of the Frazier History Museum in Louisville. Dave's hobbies were visiting family, reading, playing tennis and traveling. Dave told friends that he and his wife had the "trip of a lifetime†when they recently went on a European river cruise.
Dave was preceded in death by his parents, Colonel (Ret.) Wesley H. Baker, USAF, and mother, Thelma.
Dave is survived by his wife, Connie, of Louisville; daughter, Laura Rymes and husband William and his two grandchildren, Sydney and William (Quint) of Frederick, Maryland; sister, Susan Tarpley and husband, Ray of Kingsport, Tenn.; and nieces Treva Tarpley and Elizabeth Corpstein, Kingsport; nephew, Anderson Tarpley, Nashville, Tenn. and several grand nieces and nephews. Extended family members include Diane Baker, Niceville, Fla.; Jill and Scott Doyle, Minden, Nevada; Charles and Doris Steinman and Scott and Lynn Clark, Lancaster, Penn.; and Tara and Matthew Lightner, Denton, Maryland.
The family will hold a memorial service at St Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, on Friday, August 17 at 3 p.m.. The interment service will be held on Friday, August 24, 2012 at 1 p.m. at Randolph AFB Chapel 1 with burial at the Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery, where his parents are buried.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Dave's name to the Wounded Warriors Project (www.woundedwarriorproject.org or mail to P.O. Box 758517 Topeka, Kansas 66675), the James Graham Brown Cancer Center (529 S. Jackson St. Suite 200, Louisville, Ky., 40202), or the Bayfront Medical Center Health Foundation (701 Sixth St. South, St Petersburg, Fla., 33701). To send condolences please visit www.sunsetfuneralhomes.com.
Marilyn Elizabeth Bromley Forrester, 75, First Female Commissioner Of The City Of Woodlawn Park
Marilyn Elizabeth Bromley Forrester, 75, passed away on August 8, 2012, surrounded by her family.
A native Louisvillian, Marilyn was born April 30, 1937 to Mary Emma Ward Bromley and Paul B. Bromley.
She is survived by her husband of 52 years, Harold (Hal) Forrester; two daughters, Camille Estes (Jim) and Anne Balcom (David); four grandchildren, Lyndsey and Nicholas Estes and Emma and Wade Balcom; and two sisters, Margaret Bromley and Beverly Bromley (Bob Hundley). Her sister, Anna Catherine, died in 1939.
Marilyn graduated from the University of Louisville after attending Vanderbilt University. Upon graduation, she worked at the law firm, Greenbaum, Barnett, Wood and Doll. She was the first female commissioner of the City of Woodlawn Park and later was a real estate agent for Bass & Weisberg and the Paul Semonin Company.
A longtime member of the Highland Mothers Club and 'The Birthday Group', Marilyn was an accomplished homemaker and seamstress. She took great pride in her home and garden and especially appreciated Cherokee Park. She was an inspiration to all who knew her as she kept her sense of humor and devotion to making others happy throughout her years of health adversity. The family wishes to acknowledge with great appreciation her caregivers, especially Diane O'Neil, Hosparus, and the support and staff of the Episcopal Church Home.
A memorial celebration of Marilyn's life was held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 in St. Luke's Chapel at the Episcopal Church Home, 7504 Westport Rd., Lyndon Ln. entrance. Visitation was from 2 p.m. until the time of the service. Pearson's was entrusted with the arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Olmsted Parks Conservancy, The Episcopal Church Home or Hosparus.
Donald "Donnie†Rough Sr., 75, Retired Grocery Clerk
Donald "Donnie†Rough Sr., 75, passed away August 12, 2012 at Sts. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital.
He was a retired grocery clerk from Kroger after 28 years of service, also was a retired union representative for the UFCW Local 227 after 10 years of service. He belonged to the Senior Club at Incarnation Church, was a chaplain for the Sheriffs Lodge Auxiliary and part time employee of Jefferson Special Security Services and a member of LMPOA Auxiliary. He was a former member of The Knights of St. John. He grew up in Our Lady Church Parish and was a member of St. Denis Church for 39 years and a member of Sts. Simon & Jude. He was a graduate of Flaget High School class of 1955 and grew up in Portland, "and proud of it!†He was predeceased by his parents, Hearl and Mary Rough; also a brother, Porky Rough.
He is survived by his wife, Marcia Rough; children, Kathy McMichael (Al), Donald "Butch†Rough Jr. (Cindy), Patty Rough and Charlie "Chaz†Rough (Connie); brother, Jerry Rough; sisters, Mary Ann Rough and Libby Franke; grandchildren, Jackie Tinnell, Aimee McDonald, Michael Renck, Ambrea Rough, Donnie Rough, Johnny and Shaun Gay and Noah and Olivia Rough; and great-grandchildren, Cameron, Bryce, Kyndal, Chandler, Annabelle, Jude and Eva.
His funeral service will be Friday, 10 a.m. at Sts. Simon & Jude, 4335 Hazelwood Ave., with burial in Louisville Memorial Gardens West Cemetery. Visitation was held Wednesday, 3-8 p.m. and will be Thursday, noon to 8 p.m. at Ratterman Grand Chapels , 4832 Cane Run Road.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to Flaget Alumni Association or The March of Dimes.


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Danica Patrick has announced that instead of racing in the Indianapolis 500, that she would run NASCAR's longest race of the year in the Sprint Cup Series,which is the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. In 2005 Danica Patrick finished 4th in the Indy 500, claiming the highest finish by any female driver.
Danica will be racing in the Nationwide Series for Jr. Motorsports during the 2012 season, and has 10 races that she plans to run in the Sprint Cup Series on a limited schedule for Stewart-Haas Racing.
Danica said that she would love to run in the Indy 500 again one day possibly pulling a double between the two different series, and could possibly add the Brickyard 400 onto her schedule as her 10th race to be run in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.


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The new 63,000-square-foot recreation center at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, LA, is nearing completion, and officials say it will be operational by August or September.
Once finished, the $16 million rec center will include a second-floor walking track, basketball courts, a 5,000-square-foot weight room and a 35-piece cardio room with treadmills and exercise bikes equipped with TV screens and docks for music players. The center also will house two group exercise rooms, one of which can be partitioned into two smaller rooms.
Kathryn Harrell, the university's fitness and wellness coordinator, told The Houma Courier that the center will offer free classes, including Les Mills classes, yoga, Pilates, tai chi, Zumba and Fit Freshmen, a program targeted specifically for freshmen.
The university will start helping student instructors earn certifications to teach the courses. Administrators expect the center will create as many as 70 student jobs, including instructors, desk staff and equipment managers. The center will offer personal training for a fee.
Michael Matherne, director of campus recreation, told the newspaper that the recreation center's membership will be limited to Nicholls students, staff and faculty.
"Competition with area businesses is absolutely not a goal of this university," Matherne told the Courier. "The Nicholls rec center will have strict membership policies, and we will stick to them."


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George Pires, 52, is suspected on several charges
A Ceres man has been arrested for having about 100,000 child pornography images, police said Friday.
George Pires, 52, was taken into custody about 7:30 a.m. by the Sacramento Division of the FBI, along with Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department detectives, according to a news release.
In October 2012, deputies took a 911 call from the 1700 block of East Service Road. At some point during the incident, investigators learned Pires had child porn. Details on how that unfolded weren't released.
Detectives worked to get a search warrant for the home, and then eventually took computers and photos from the residence, deputies said.
Forensic analysis then found more than 100,000 child pornographic images on the computers, according to the release.
Sheriff's detectives then got help from the FBI, based on the number of images, and a joint investigation arrested Pires on federal charges.
He'll face counts for the alleged possession and manufacture of child pornography, deputies said.
Any potential victims are asked to call Detective Megan Brazil at 209-525-7082.


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INDIANAPOLIS — No death penalty. More like slow death.
Wiped out in the record book. Wiped out in the wallet. Wiped out in the ability to recruit, and keep what it already has.
Penn State got slammed by the NCAA on Monday in every way.
The governing body of college sports took away 14 years of coach Joe Paterno's victories and imposed a mountain of fines and penalties, crippling a program whose pedophile assistant coach spent years molesting children, sometimes on school property.
The sanctions imposed by the NCAA on Monday include fines of $60 million, orders for Penn State to sit out the postseason for four years, capped scholarships at 20 below the normal limit for four years and placed the program on five years' probation.
Current or incoming football players are free to transfer immediately and compete at another school.
The NCAA's sanctions following the worst scandal in the history of college football stopped short of delivering the "death penalty" — shutting down the sport completely. It actually did everything but kill it.
"The sanctions needed to reflect our goals of providing cultural change," NCAA President Mark Emmert said as he announced the penalties at a news conference in Indianapolis.
The NCAA ruling holds the university accountable for the failure of those in power to protect children and insists that all areas of the university community are held to the same high standards of honesty and integrity.
"Against this backdrop, Penn State accepts the penalties and corrective actions announced today by the NCAA," Penn State President Rodney Erickson said in a statement. "With today's announcement and the action it requires of us, the university takes a significant step forward."
Paterno's family said in a statement the NCAA sanctions defamed the coach's legacy and were a panicked response to the sex abuse scandal.
The family also says punishing "past, present and future" students because of Jerry Sandusky's crimes didn't serve justice.
The Big Ten announced Penn State wouldn't be allowed to share in the conference's bowl revenue during the NCAA's postseason ban, an estimated loss of about $13 million. And the NCAA reserved the right to add additional penalties.
Sandusky, a former Penn State defensive coordinator, was found guilty in June of sexually abusing young boys, sometimes on campus. An investigation commissioned by the school and released July 12 found Paterno, who died in January, and several other top officials at Penn State stayed quiet for years about accusations against Sandusky.
Emmert fast-tracked penalties rather than go through the usual circuitous series of investigations and hearings. The NCAA said the $60 million is equivalent to the annual gross revenue of the football program. The money must be paid into an endowment for external programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims and may not be used to fund such programs at Penn State.
"Football will never again be placed ahead of educating, nurturing and protecting young people," Emmert said.
By vacating 112 Penn State victories from 1998-2011, the sanctions cost Paterno 111 wins. Former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden will now hold the top spot in the NCAA record book with 377 major-college wins. Paterno, who was fired days after Sandusky was charged, will be credited with 298 wins. Vacated wins aren't the same as forfeits — they don't count as losses or wins for either school.
"I didn't want it to happen like this," Bowden said. "Wish I could have earned it, but that's the way it is."
The scholarship reductions mean Penn State's roster will be capped at 65 scholarship players beginning in 2014. The normal scholarship limit for major college football programs is 85. Playing with 20 less is devastating to a program that tries to compete at the highest level of the sport.
In comparison, the harsh NCAA sanctions placed upon USC several years ago left the Trojans with only 75 scholarships per year over a three-year period.
The postseason ban is the longest handed out by the NCAA since it gave a four-year ban to Indiana football in 1960.
Bill O'Brien, who was hired to replace Paterno, now faces the daunting task of building future teams with severe limitations, and trying to keep current players from fleeing to other schools. Star players such as tailback Silas Redd and linebacker Gerald Hodges are now essentially free agents.
"I knew when I accepted the position that there would be tough times ahead," O'Brien said. "But I am committed for the long term to Penn State and our student athletes."
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said players likely will be allowed to transfer within the conference, which usually is restricted. The possible exodus isn't confined to the next few months. Penn State players currently on the roster are free to transfer without restrictions for the length of their careers.
Penn State players left a team meeting on campus in State College, Pa., without talking to reporters. Penn State's season starts Sept. 1 at home against Ohio University.
The sanctions came a day after the school took down a statue of Paterno that stood outside Beaver Stadium and was a rallying point for the coaches' supporters throughout the scandal.
At a student union on campus, several dozen alumni and students gasped, groaned and whistled as they watched Emmert's news conference.
"It was kind of just like a head shaker," said Matt Bray, an 18-year-old freshman from West Chester, Pa. "You knew it was coming, but it was hard to hear."
Emmert had earlier said he had "never seen anything as egregious" as the horrific crimes of Sandusky and the cover-up by Paterno and others at the university, including former Penn State President Graham Spanier and athletic director Tim Curley.
The Penn State investigation led by former FBI Director Louis Freeh said school officials kept what they knew from police and other authorities for years, enabling the abuse to go on.
There had been calls across the nation for Penn State to receive the "death penalty," and Emmert hadn't ruled out that possibility as late as last week — though Penn State didn't fit the criteria for it. That punishment is for teams that commit a major violation while already being sanctioned.
"This case is obviously incredibly unprecedented in every aspect of it," Emmert said, "as are these actions that we're taking today."
Penn State football under Paterno was built on — and thrived upon — the premise that it did things the right way. That it wasn't a football factory where only wins and losses determined success. Every major college football program tries to send that message, but Penn State built its brand on it.
Paterno's "Grand Experiment" was about winning with integrity, graduating players and sending men into the world ready to succeed in life, not just football. But he still won a lot — a record-setting 409 victories.
The NCAA had never sanctioned, or seriously investigated, Penn State. Few, if any, national powers could make that claim.
Southern California, Ohio State and Alabama all have run afoul of the NCAA. Even Notre Dame went on probation for two years after a booster lavished gifts on players in the 1990s.
The harshest penalty handed down to a football program came in the '80s, when the NCAA shut down SMU's team for a year. SMU football has never gotten back to the level of success it had before the "death penalty."
Emmert said there were concerns about the collateral damage of shutting down Penn State football for a year, and that is why the death penalty was ruled out.
"It hurts people who had absolutely nothing to do with this process, which is always the case," he said.
Emmert added no attempt was made for the sanctions to be more severe than the death penalty.
"That isn't a comparison I or anyone else needs to make," he said. "People in the media can make those comparisons."
Delany said he believes Penn State is capable of bouncing back from the sanctions.
"I do have a strong sense that many of the ingredients of success are still at Penn State and will be there in future years," he said.


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Saturday, February 22, 2014
Surname Saturday ~ CRAIGHEAD, A family of Scots Irish Presbyterians
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- AnonymousFebruary 23, 2014 at 5:11 AM
Thank you, this is a website for Craighead House, home of the author Jean Craighead George in Pennsylvania. She was the author of over 100 children's books including "Julie of the Wolves", "My Side of the Mountain" and "Summer of the Falcon"Delete
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2014 at 2:17 AM
Good morning Heather if I knew that you descend from the Cragheads I'd forgotten! I wrote the article on theim in the Dictionary of Irish Biography, and did not have parents' names for Robert C. senior. I did use the Craghead genealogy book, which doesn't seem to have those details. Do you know where their names are to be found? I'd like to add them to the article if you are sure abut them. I can send you the article if I didn't already do so. On a related topic there are some moves towards commemorating 1718 here; the Ulster Historical Foundation is involved. Nothing definite yet, but I'll keep you informed. Linde LunneyReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 6, 2014 at 1:07 PM
I am a Craighead. I wonder if you have ever visited Abel's Hill Cemetery near Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, MA.
The grave markers for Robert Holmes and Katherine Craighead Holmes were identifiable when I visited about 10 years ago. If you are interested in details, let me know. Charles in GeorgiaReplies
Charlie, yes, please give me the details. My sister lives on the island and could get me a photo. Thanks, HeatherDelete


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WASHINGTON – It's easy to lose a sense of direction in massive department stores. Throw in frantic holiday shoppers and a looming Black Friday and it's almost guaranteed.
But Macy's flagship store in New York City has a solution: a feature on its iPhone app that gives customers turn-by-turn directions to navigate them through the store.
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With mainly baseball's afterthoughts pursuing his services, reports emerged late Thursday night that the Twins were increasing their pursuit of starter Carl Pavano.
Tweeted by Sports Illustrated's Jon Heyman, up until this point, the Twins had been extending a one-year contract to the Pavano camp but have recently added a second year in their offer. Unless another club swoops in and sweetens the deal with that mythical third year which Pavano has been requesting, the likelihood he returns to pitch in Minnesota in 2011 appears imminent.
From the Twins perspective, Pavano addresses several of their needs.
For starters, with a questionable assortment of bullpen arms, the starting rotation is going to be pressed to work deeper into games next season. Outside of three other starters in the league, no one averaged as many innings as Pavano did per start in 2010. This was an exhaustive problem last year as Scott Baker (5.8 innings per start) and Kevin Slowey (5.5 innings per start) frequently taxed the bullpen. Pavano, meanwhile, averaged 6.9 innings of work, allowing the 'pen to take some much needed nights off.
Secondly, there is the fact that he is a quintessential Twins-type of pitcher. Not only does he have a miniscule walk rate, a low 1.6 walks per nine innings of work since 2009, but he rarely engages in any semblance of flirtation with the base-on-ball. Last year just 12% of his total match-ups resulted in a three-ball count bested only by some guy named Cliff Lee. For an organization that places a great deal of emphasis on restricting free passes, Pavano is an ideologue.
What makes him so stingy in the walks department is his tenacious introduction to each hitter. In his tenure in a Twins uniform, Pavano attacked the strike zone with gumption, getting ahead of hitters with a first-pitch strike 67.8% of the time, the best in baseball since '09. What's more is that of his first two pitches, Pavano has located one or the other for a strike over 90% of the time in the past two seasons, also one of the highest in the game.
Although Pavano's early count zone dominance does not come without some blowback, not only does this aggressive approach keeps him from walking hitters, it also affords him the luxury of turning to his harder to handle off-speed offerings. Using a change-slider combination the veteran right-hander likes to work on the fringe of the strike zone, attempting to inspire opponents to chase after these less than perfect pitches. In fact, his 34.1% out of zone swing percentage was the highest among starters since 2009:
Highest Out-of-Zone Swing% 2009-2010
Carl Pavano
Shaun Marcum
Roy Halladay
Dan Haren
Francisco Liriano
Unlike some of the other names on that list, Pavano rarely induces the same amount of missed bats, instead relying on generating weaker contact then putting himself at the whim of the defense behind him.
It is this tactic which makes some analysts question where his output will be in 2011.
In 2010, Pavano posted his lowest career batting average on balls in play (BABIP). As a pitcher that allows a high amount of contact and has an unusually suppressed BABIP not typical of his recent track record, the laws of regression suggest that he will see his BABIP return towards the league-average or his career-norm in the ensuing year. If you adhere to this reasoning, it would imply that Pavano is likely headed to a season filled with more hits than his last.
Then again, because he was a prolific ground ball pitcher last year, Pavano's BABIP (and ultimately his success) will likely be tied to the performance of his infielders. Even though the Twins have dismantled perhaps one of the league's best defensive middle infields, the replacements in Alexi Casilla and Tsuyoshi Nishioka are projected to be a faster combination than their predecessor, leading one to speculate that they might be able to cut down more ground balls for Pavano than last year.
Similarly, the configuration of the home stadium also provides him some insulation. Although Pavano surrendered more hits at home versus on the road in 2010, he gave up fewer detrimental hits. WhenTarget Field played big in 2010, pitchers could throw to contact could and get away with hitting a sizable portion of the plate middle-away without too much backlash as fly balls would simply die in the power alleys. Specifically for Pavano he allowed far fewer homers at Target Field (0.74 HR/9) than he did on the road (1.16 HR/9).
While most of the aforementioned indicators are favorable, there are also some signs that Pavano may have hit the wall in late 2010 or worse, have the makings of a potential injury.
In early August, Joe Christensen reported that the coaching staff said Pavano had a tired arm. Not long after that, Pavano, who has had a reoccurring sore neck throughout his career, had it flare up but decided to pitch through it. According to LaVelle Neal, this soreness originated in his neck on the right side and extended towards his shoulder area of his throwing arm.
Despite downplaying the significance of the discomfort, the results from August on were brutal. After allowing 131 hits in his first 148.2 innings, he finished the year allowing 96 hits in 72.1 innings including seven home runs post-August. In addition to that, Pavano's strikeout rate fell off the table:
While it is likely that these results were purely the effects of high mileage on his arm, and an off-season of rest should rejuvenate him, it is still possible that his discomfort in his neck problem leads to something more substantial.
It is easy to go back-and-forth on whether signing Pavano makes sense for the Twins. On one hand, he's 35 years old, ripe for regression and assuming a significant chunk of the payroll. On the other hand, he's the proverbial "gamer" who works deep into games and racks up innings, alleviating the bullpen's workload.
When you add it up, for the most part, signing Pavano is a sensible transaction for the Twins. Financially, a two-year contract is reasonable and the $8-to-$10 million per season contract moderate but not outrageous. The biggest downside is whether or not adding Pavano restricts the Twins for making subsequent moves, such as re-signing Jim Thome or adding another quality bench option, or perhaps inspiring them to trade the arbitration-eligible Kevin Slowey to reduce overhead.
Based on his last two seasons of work, he's clearly capable of chewing through a large quantity of innings and can work deep into the ballgame. Regression is certainly a probability but given his ability to limit walks, work ahead in the count, get opponents to chase out-of-zone pitches and hit plenty of ground balls, his totals in 2011 should not be too far off from his 2010 season.


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This story is not exactly new, it is just that it surfaced again recently, on a Middle Eastern Internet site of unclear provenance (but based in London by its domain information). According to the article:
In December of 2011 Egypt sent the United Nations a report detailing the reasons for which Israel owes the government of Egypt $500 billion for damage sustained by the Sinai Peninsula when it was controlled by Israel between 1967 and 1982. Following one year of inaction by the UN, the report has now been sent to the US administration in the hopes that it will press its ally, Israel, into paying the debt.The article doesn't contain too many details on the breakdown of the charges, so the outstanding ones are $50 billion worth of stolen sand and the Egyptian air force destroyed in 1967 (price not mentioned).
I was somewhat surprised that the list of charges doesn't include accommodation, food and services during the prolonged stay of Jews in Egypt in earlier times, but, upon second thought, there is a good reason that our neighbors didn't want to go into this one. Because I will, in a few moments.
Of course, the amount of that charge, even as puny (for the Elders) as $500bn, shouldn't be taken lightly. So here comes our counter-charge. It is based on a well known historical fact of Jews building the pyramids back then and on the associated income from tourism and tourism-related industries. The amounts are adjusted for inflation and interest, of course, according to the accounting rules.
- Design of the pyramids: $65bn
- Stone cutting and transportation: $45bn
- Earthworks: $30bn
- Actual building price: $100bn
- Change management: $50bn
- Income from tourism for 3000 years (conservative estimate): $150bn
- Total: $440bn
- Failure to award the building of pyramids to a minority business and associated loss of revenue: $440bn
- Punitive charge: $150bn
- Total: $590bn
You have noticed, of course, the $60bn discrepancy between the $500bn amount demanded by Egypt and the $440bn counter-charge. This is where we (the Elders) are ready to compromise.
First of all, the destroyed Egyptian air force. We are valuing it at $10bn, generously throwing in the one destroyed in 1973. To compensate Egypt for the loss, we are ready to part with a shitload of old Soviet tanks captured during the same two wars. Granted, their flying capabilities are a bit limited, but still better than the flying capabilities of the pigs. Why do I mention flying pigs? Oh, yeah, re your expectations of that compensation otherwise, you know...
Now to the sand. Frankly, we didn't keep any records, so to estimate the quantity of sand stolen during the period in question, we'll use the current market prices. Sand for building is priced anywhere between $20 and $80 pet ton, so I am using a conservative figure of $50 per ton (easy for me to apply in my calculations). This price means exactly one billion tons of stolen sand. Quite an amount, and it inevitable raises a related question: dear Egyptian folks, have you looked recently at Sinai? I mean, judging by that quantity of sand, there is hardly any Sinai left by now...
But this is not our business. We, upon mulling on this issue, have decided to start shipping the whole one billion tons of sand back to Egypt*. To streamline (I purely love that word, don't you?) the process, we will carry it to one location only: Cairo. So please make sure you have enough room cleared for the delivery.
Now we can consider the issue closed, OK?
(*) We need to free some room in the Arava desert to display our own cache of pyramids, built on our own time, I haste to add, spirited out of Egypt back then and temporarily kept in... no, that will be telling too much.
A separate opinion on the whole issue here.
Hat tip: Texas Scribbler.


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venerdì 2 dicembre 2011
Let's Play: StarTopia
I really like this game. It was 2001 when Mucky Foot Productions (not existing anymore) released this game. I played it a lot of times, and i never got tired of it. Beautiful music, funny characters, great landscapes. Ladies and gentlemen, a strategic game called... StarTopia!
A hard choice!
This is a test for the 1.0.1b version of the game.
Yes, this time it's a really hard choice.. But not so hard at all, let's see why!
StarTopia on GameTree Linux:
Well, i decided to not try to run games that aren't in the compatibility list. Since this program will never be updated again, i suppose it will be harder and harder to run some games under it. This game is not 100% compatible with GameTree Linux, so i'm not considering that.
StarTopia on Crossover Games (10.2.0 version):
There's no much to tell about it, the game works very well. Smooth, easy to install, playable and funny. You can patch the game and crack it as you want! As you will see, this will be your favourite choice. The only 2 things to say is that the installation process doesn't provide any executable file, which you can find anyway into your installation CD and easily copy into your installation directory (see installation video), and "shine" graphic option doesn't work. So:
- Need to copy StarTopia.exe from Suppfiles directory (into your installation CD) to installation directory on your HD.
- Can be patched to 1.0.1b version.
- Needs a noCD.
- "Shine" graphic option doesn't work.
StarTopia on PlayOnLinux (1.3.22 wine version):
The game installs, can be patched and can be ran. But, as you will see, FPS are less than Crossover Games and the game doesn't work with a version of wine > 1.3.22 (regression bug?). There's also the same "executable file" problem already seen on Crossover Games, and shine problem too. So:
- Need to copy StarTopia.exe from Suppfiles directory (into your installation CD) to installation directory on your HD.
- Can be patched to 1.0.1b version.
- Needs a noCD.
- "Shine" graphic option doesn't work.
- Needs a version of wine <= 1.3.22 (better use 1.3.22 version itself).
Talking about performances...
First of all, my hardware:
agp_aperture_size: 256
cpu: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
cpu_ghz: 0.80
distro: Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric
kernel: 3.0.0-13-generic
machine_bitness: 64
memory: 3960
soundcard: HDA ATI SB at 0xfbcf4000 irq 16
soundcard_driver: ALSA Version 1.0.24
videocard_direct: True
videocard_driver_version: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 290.10
videocard_manufacturer: NVIDIA Corporation
videocard_ram: 1024
videocard_type: GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCI/SSE2
x_version: X.Org X Server 1.10.4
The game is playable under Crossover Games and under PlayOnLinux/Wine, but these are the results of my FPS comparison:
The game has been tested on Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit, on Chakra 2011.11 (edn) 32-bit and on Windows 7 64-bit. As you can see, there's a performance issue (already seen when i firstly played the game on Ubuntu 3 or 4 years ago), but the game is really enjoyable. Chakra seems to be a little more generous than Ubuntu, but as i said before, the game works well under Ubuntu. Talking about Ubuntu, Crossover Games works better than Wine regarding performances.
Conclusion: use Crossover Games.
The process takes about 5 minutes (including patching and using the noCD patch).
At the end of the installation:
- Apply 1.0.1b patch (downloadable at this link: http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/startopia/startopiapatch1.0.1b.exe.html)
- Apply 1.0.1b noCD patch (downloadable at this link: http://dl.gamecopyworld.com/?c=725495341&f=dvns101b!ace)
That's all. Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment if you got some problems or if you just wanna ask me a question. I will always answer you!
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i recommend using 1.02 patch which also has nocd feature and adds some extra features and fixes.RispondiElimina
Well thanks for the tip, i'll try as soon as i can, so maybe i'm gonna make un update for it!
Thanks again :)
- NonyoBiznuz21 luglio 2012 02:27
I tried to get Startopia to work on Ubuntu as well fairly recently, but had considerably less luck.RispondiElimina
Installation was easy, but the game itself...
Only the opening selection screen showed up, but with no text. When I went into the game, I found that NOTHING (other than the little menu bit in the upper left hand corner) was rendered.
This may have been because I only use the Free ATI drivers.
It seems a shaders issue... Maybe your free ATI drivers can't handle shaders properly...RispondiElimina
Can you try with closed source ATI drivers? I'm running the game on NVIDIA so i can't help you with that...
Also, try older wine engines, like 1.1.25 which works well.
It's just been released on GOG.com as a digital download. Only 6 bucks too. Played it when it came out. LOVED it. (Nice website, btw).RispondiElimina
Yeah, it's a nice game, IMHO one of the funniest ever :)RispondiElimina
Thanks buddy ;)
- Anonimo11 gennaio 2013 09:10
I'm using Vineyard, and I got the program to boot up. But even the mouse is very laggy, and it doesn't show any text or renders anything besides some clickable boxes.
Im running Linux Mint 13 with an Intel HD Graphics 3000
Can you help me?Risposte
Well, i admit it. I didn't know Vineyard, so i can tell you 2 things:Elimina
1) Can you use different wine engines on Vineyard? If yes, try 1.1.26 wine engine.
2) Maybe your Intel GPU doesn't support some vertex shaders, that's because you have graphic issues.
Let me know.


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Tell us a bit about yourself, your family and what led you to becoming an eco-focused interior designer?
My parents moved to Northern California in the late 1960s and we've lived a healthy-outdoor lifestyle here -- lots of fresh (mostly vegetarian) and unprocessed food. I went to UCLA straight after high school, worked in marketing and real estate for a while and then went on to study Industrial Design in San Francisco. My parents still live close by and I have two brothers. Now my husband and I have a son, who's 2 1/2.
I appreciate beauty in life -- in art, in nature and in my living environment. It took me a long time to figure out that interior design was a great career for me because I love to cook, to entertain and create jewelry and other decorative objects. Interior design merges a lot of my loves plus it requires a lot of systems and logic to problem-solve the best solutions. It's an ever-changing job depending on the people I am working for, the products available and the look and feel a person wants to create.
Is it possible to be eco-friendly on a budget?
I have to say, I love a well-made high-quality item -- but we live in one of the most expensive places and sometimes you just can't get everything you want all at once when you spend so much on housing.
I clean with non-toxic cleaning products and often use baking soda and vinegar for some jobs or I buy a bulk concentrated cleaner that I water down. It's less expensive, safer, and better for the environment.
I re-use fabric all the time and save really expensive fabrics for specialty items like a throw pillow -- but often times I back things with plain organic cotton or linen, or reverse a fabric on the other side to get two pillows out of one. I buy seconds, discontinued items, vintage and my friends and family "hand-up" and "hand-down" (and "hand-over!") maternity and kids' clothing. We also shop consignment a lot.
In Organic Baby you write about safe food storage – what are your favorite tips?
I rely heavily on glass and metal. (The Container Store has some nice items.) I also like bamboo plates and utensils for little ones, picnics, and for snacks so you can just wipe the plate clean instead of washing it. I know lots of plastics are now deemed safe and non-toxic, but they are always finding new chemicals that are potentially harmful. I just steer clear of it because there are alternatives.


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Le 13 février 2013
The first 6 Nations weekend where the TOP 14 were also playing at the same time, hence all the teams were without their Internationals, obviously that included Montpellier who were missing 5 International players plus several in the infirmary and the visit of Biarritz on Saturday evening, who are a team never easy to contain, and as they had no calls ups on the International scene they were more or less at full strength, a difficult proposition. The match was the Canal + Gala screening of Saturday night, a very cold night with temperature in the minus which had probably an effect on the 9,789 crowd who preferred to watch from the comfort and warmth of their armchairs, plus the France v Wales game kicked off just a couple of hrs. before. With the 6 Nations season in progress there was a different line up for Montpellier with Remy Martin, Lucas Amorosino, Paul Bosch all wanting to impress as they have had little game time of recent.
The match was played at a fast pace with both teams playing good rugby, a few mistakes were made but that could be put down to the very cold weather and icy wind that was blowing through the Stadium. Benoit Paillaugue was the first on the score board but that was quickly wiped out by the Yach, but Benoit got another chance which he took well, 6-3 to the home side. Then the first of several outrageous decisions by Mon Lafon, firstly a ball was carried back into the Biarritz 22, which no one saw, and from the next line out the ball was passed through the backs with a incredulously forward pass which again no one saw (that is bar most of the 9,000 crowd) for the ref to award a try, even the Trillo was a gasp for words in his make shift studio at the top of the Eden Park Stand. This was not his only mistake our man in the middle was at least very consistent in that area. Just before half time Montpellier had an attacking scrum just 5mts out and with wisdom and agility the Little Big Man, Benoit Paillaugue scampered over unopposed for Montpellier's first try of the game which he himself added the extras. Half time score Montpellier 13 Biarritz 10.
The second half saw Biarritz quickly run out of petrol and with their tank more or less dry they could only defend, Montpellier's second try was from a Santi Fernandez dummy, the break and then a perfect pass to the Flying Fijian, Nagusa for him to score with ease, but please Jimmy put the ball down straight away, all this show boating will one day bring disastrous results!!! The third try was a bit of a mystery as the Ref awarded a 5mts. scrum for Montpellier, they won the ball but Biarritz collapsed, and the ref went straight under the posts for the penalty try, normally there are at least 3 scrums before the penalty try is awarded maybe it was his way of apologising for all his earlier mistakes, that we will never know. MBM added the extras but the bonus point was not obtained, a win with key players missing is an excellent victory and 4 pts for Montpellier will do no harm especially as the top 3 teams all lost this weekend..
Although Paillaugue was awarded Man of the Match, the two Alex's Bias and Tulou + Remy Martin all played a tremendous part in this victory, Hancke came on at the end to win line out ball and as per usual Paul Bosch but his head in places where he should not and tackled like a demon in defence ( you only had to witness his face at the end of the game, battered!!!). Thibault Privat, had to go to hospital at half time after a forearm smash across the face and will probably be carrying a broken nose, missed by our beloved ref again !!!! The most important evidence of this game was that even with key players missing and a team that had not played that often together, got on with the job in hand , with good solid work in all quarters and still showing brilliance in others especially Santi at 10. The squad system at Montpellier works, but works very well Congratulations to all concerned. Final Score Montpellier 33 Biarritz 10.
Steve Whittell.
Pith side interview with Paul Bosch Montpellier's South African centre.
Steve Whittell: Paul under the circumstance that was a good game, and an excellent win for Montpellier.
Paul Bosch: There were a lot of mistakes during the game but yes we came out winners in the end, there is definitely room for improvement this was not our best game but we will take it all the same. Monday will probably be back to the drawing board and see where we went wrong and why we did not get the bonus point; there will be plenty for us to work on before next weeks game against Toulon. A lot of the boys came up to the mark today even though they had not had much game time, and the opposition is full of great players so at the end the win is good for us and will do absolutely no harm to the team moral.
Steve Whittell: We were missing key players in the team on International duty, even so the boys rallied together and produced the goods which goes to show that Montpellier have great strength in depth, and can call on all the squad to perform when they have to.
Paul Bosch: The guys really came up to mark today and showed that you can rely on them, of course we miss our top boys but at least the guys who replaced them did well and honoured their absence, everybody showed guts today and even a little class now and then, it was never going to be easy and it was not, but we came good in the end.
Steve Whittell: Cheers Paul, go and have a beer you deserve it!!!.
Interview by Steve Whittell.
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