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Lisa Ruiz (left) and Debbie Ruiz-Heffley on the crowded dance floor at Autumn Elegance. Photo by Becki Gomez
Organizers of Saturday?s Autumn Elegance faced a problem that any charity event planner would welcome.
Too many people bought tickets. The bonanza of ticket buyers created very crowded conditions at The Country Club at Soboba Springs in San Jacinto for the annual food, drink and chatting fest.
Katie Gorman, executive director of the Friends of Valley-Wide Foundation that presented the event with the Hemet-San Jacinto Exchange Club, estimated that there were about 700 people in attendance.
In past years, many people bought tickets to support Exchange Club scholarships and Valley-Wide Recreations and Park District programs, but didn?t show up to drink wine and sample food provided by restaurants.
This year, with the move to the golf course, few stayed home.
?There were so many people who came and such a big response, it was just really, really crowded,? said Tom Wilson, an organizer of the event.
?It got to the point that there were people sitting on the dance floor because they needed a place to take a break.?
He said that the crowd did not reach the size where the building? exceeded its safe capacity. The crowding, he said, was concentrated in the main banquet rooms. He hopes the event can return to country club in a more orderly fashion next year.
Like everyone I spoke with about their night of elegance, Lisa Ruiz of Hemet enjoyed the evening, which was her first Autumn Elegance, but found the crowd daunting.
?It was too crowded,? she wrote in a message about the night. ?I had a great time and loved everything about it from the band to the food. I just felt like I was in everybody?s way. I probably would have stayed in the main room a longer to mingle if I had more space.?
Wilson said the Soboba staff worked hard to accommodate the crush of people at the start of the evening. He said organizers of Autumn Elegance would love to return to the golf course facility that was donated for the night by Soboba band of Luiseno Indians, but would need to make changes to accommodate a crowd as large as the partiers who assembled Saturday.
Autumn Elegance was held in the Hemet Valley Mall in the past after stores closed but, for a change, was moved to the Soboba club house this year.
The evening featured food donated by restaurants, lots of wine and dancing to a live band. Attire was semi-formal, which made it a sort of prom for adults. Admission was just $40, which makes the evening affordable for a wider group of people than at more expensive fundraisers.
I like Autumn Elegance because it provides an opportunity to see a lot of San Jacinto Valley residents in a fun, social setting.
The formula, with the switch to The Country Club at Soboba Springs, proved to be, perhaps, too attractive. Wilson said the Soboba tribe donated a valet service. A large team of valets was unable to keep up with the hundreds of people who arrived at the same time and backed up for a considerable distance on Soboba Road.
He said they shifted strategy and directed people to park on their own. The parking lot that held 350 people filled immediately. They used an overflow area near the course?s driving range for more cars.
Complimentary wine glasses are handed to each guest. The supply of 750 glasses was quickly exhausted.
He said the club house and the outdoor terraces were quite crowded, but he didn?t hear complaints. He said the Soboba staff worked hard to accommodate the people and clean up late into the night for events the next day.
He said they will explore ways, like perhaps using the downstairs areas of the club house, to spread out the crowd if they are invited to return to the golf course. He said organizers will meet with tribal officials to evaluate the evening.
The exciting part, he said, was that at a time of an economic downturn and distress over blight in the San Jacinto Valley, about 700 people enthusiastically gathered to have fun and support a good cause.
He said organizers realize they will need to alleviate the crowded conditions so people will want to come back.
?It is workable there, but it would take some tweaking,? he said.
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Global Twitter Heartbeat isn?t the first project to offer a nifty map illustrating what we're doing in the Twitterverse at a given point in time.
A?Twitter map developed by Vertalab, for example, pinpointed where the??friendliest? and ?rudest? Americans live?by scanning tweets containing the phrases ?"Good morning," and "F--- you." Another color-coded map, noted in an issue of Cartographic Perspectives, analyzed tweets to reveal where in the U.S. Twitter profanity is worst (or best).
This latest heat map, however, offers a real-time analysis of random data?via supercomputer???the SGI UV 2000 Big Brain supercomputer at the University of Illinois???to process an impressive amount of raw information very quickly. ?(You can see how everybody's feeling on Twitter?right now?by going here.)?
According to the description on?Global Twitter Heartbeat project?s Facebook page, it works like this:
The Global Twitter Heartbeat project performs real-time stream processing of ten percent of Twitter?s 400M daily tweets as they are posted. The project analyses every tweet to assign location (not just GPS-tagged tweets, but processing the text of the tweet itself), and tone values and then visualizes the conversation in a heat map infographic that combines and displays tweet location, intensity and tone. With SGI UV, the entire process from data analysis to heat map was produced once per second.
As you can see in this video of real-time Twitter tracking during last week?s election (below), the result is a pretty accurate picture of what?s going on in the United States at any point in time. When you hear the technorati go blah blah blah about ?Big Data,? this is pretty much?what they?re talking about.
In the video above, blue represents pro-Barack Obama tweets, and red is for pro-Mitt Romney tweets. Note how blue blows up big at the time President Obama gives his victory speech.
The Global Heartbeat Project, a partnership between supercomputer supplier SGI Kalev H. Leetaru of the University of Illinois and Dr. Shaowen Wang of the CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also analyzed tweets during superstorm Sandy. Using red for negative tweets and blue for positive tweets regarding Sandy, the map reveals the mood in various areas of the U.S. as Sandy progressed up the East Coast. ?
Of course, these maps aren?t telling us anything we didn?t know???Obama won the election, people were really?freaked out about Sandy. So what?s the point of using what SGI calls ?the world's largest data-mining machine? which could ?ingest the entire contents of the U.S. Library of Congress print collection in less than three seconds? to make videos to show us a bunch of pretty colors?
"This real-time data analysis approach is like having a new telescope in our hands,? project co-founder?Leetaru said in a press statement. ??We are just seeing the Twittersphere in this way for the first time and we're still not entirely sure how to make sense of it all and what it tells us, but it is allowing us for the first time to peer in the messy chaotic world that is the heartbeat of our society."
Which means it'll eventually be used for advertising.?
Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah abut the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. ? Kelsey Hogan and Morgan Frame each scored in double figures as the University of New Hampshire women's basketball team opened the season on Wednesday with a 57-51 non-league win over Yale.
Hogan scored a game-high 14 points, going 8-for-8 from the free-throw line, while Frame had 13 points on 6-for-10 shooting from the field.
Cari Reed led UNH with 11 rebounds.
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HEBRON, Maine ? The Berwick Academy boys soccer team lost to Hebron Academy, 3-2 in penalty kicks in a NEPSAC quarterfinal game on Wednesday. Hebron outscored Berwick, 4-3, in penalty kicks.
Jesse Morse scored both goals for Berwick (11-7-2), while Chris Richards had an assist.
Berwick goalie Erik Wisniewski had seven saves.
The Kittery Recreation Department is taking registrations for a trip to see the Boston Celtics play the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday, Jan. 2 in Boston. All registrations must be done at the Recreation Center at 120 Rogers Road.
The trip is open to anyone. Scheduled departure is 5 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. game. Cost is $72 per person, which includes transportation.
The deadline to purchase tickets is Dec. 3. A minimum number of tickets must be sold to run the trip.
For more information, contact Jeremy Paul at (207) 439-3800.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) ? Rex Ryan doesn't mind his New York Jets players saying what's on their minds. Just as long as they put their names to their comments.
An angry Ryan addressed his team Wednesday for some anonymous quotes by players and members of the organization ripping backup quarterback Tim Tebow in a newspaper report.
"If you're not going to put your name to it, I think that's about as cowardly of a thing there is," Ryan said. "I don't want to get into specifics of what I said, but I did address it with our football team."
A report in the Daily News on Wednesday said that more than a dozen players and members of the Jets organization believe there's no chance Tebow could overtake Mark Sanchez for the starting quarterback job ? with one saying of the backup: "He's terrible."
Tebow has remained unflappable all season despite constant questions about his role and how he's used by the Jets, but acknowledged this was a "unique" situation in his career and there was "some frustration and I guess some sadness" after hearing about the story.
"This is something I can't control," Tebow said, adding that the locker room is filled with "a bunch of awesome dudes."
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PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Ben Roethlisberger's sprained right shoulder is just the start of his problems.
The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback said Wednesday he also dislocated a rib while getting sacked in the third quarter of Monday night's win against Kansas City. Roethlisberger sprained the SC joint in his shoulder on the play but says the rib issue is a bigger concern.
Roethlisberger said doctors are concerned the rib could cut into his aorta. He's already been ruled out of Sunday's game against the Baltimore Ravens. Backup Byron Leftwich will start in his place, though Roethlisberger doesn't believe the injuries will end his season.
"I don't think so, I don't know though but I'm not a medical expert," Roethlisberger said. "I just know I'm going to do what I can to get back."
Roethlisberger added he's in considerable pain and has slept just four hours over the last two nights.
He wore a black sling in the locker room to prevent the rib from moving around. Doctors are worried if the rib gets jostled before it heals it can cause internal bleeding.
"I can move (the arm) around, that's not the issue," Roethlisberger said. "Sometimes when I do move it the rib will kind of pop out of place again, which is pretty painful. I just try to keep it as still as I can for the most part."
The quarterback added the pain level is "nine on a scale of 1-10."
to 2-year, $26M deal
DETROIT (AP) ? Free agent outfielder Torii Hunter has agreed to a $26 million, two-year deal with Detroit, giving the Tigers a capable corner outfielder coming off an impressive season at age 37.
A person with knowledge of the negotiations, speaking on condition of anonymity Wednesday because no announcement had been made, confirmed the deal and said Hunter has a physical scheduled for Friday. Hunter hit a career-best .313 last season for the Los Angeles Angels with 16 home runs and 92 RBIs.
Acquiring a corner outfielder was a major offseason priority for Detroit, and Hunter won nine consecutive Gold Gloves from 2001-09 before gradually switching from center field to right.
With the exception of Austin Jackson in center field, the Tigers were largely unimpressive defensively last season.
Source: http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20121115-SPORTS-211150428
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What is the cost for most new boats? Prices can vary from 10,000 to 100,000, so, first you have to determine what ballpark your budget is in. Also, thinking about how much the down payment will be, and what type of financing you have lined up may help you make a wise choice. So, knowing these figures, and what you can truly afford, is critical to making a good decision.
How big the boat is is something to consider as well. This will dictate how many people you go out with, and the type of comforts you can expect to get on deck. So, depending on use, and your personal needs, each consumer will go with a different sizing option for their new purchase. Boats range in size from Twelve feet to a Hundred feet. Think about whether you want to keep the boat in the water or trailer it to the ramp.
Name brand and style also have an effect on what consumers are going to choose. So, considering these, and comparing several names and styles will help in the decision making process. The more comparison that gets done, the easier the final choice will be when time comes to make the purchase decision. Nothing is styled like a great fishing boat, so, keep that in mind when you are mulling all of this over. The overall maintenance costs are also a factor in the final decision making process. From fuel to the check up and tune ups, all of these will have some weight on the choice buyers are going to end up making. So, adding the cost and fees should be done, prior to the decision ultimately being made. Considering, it can cost $500 for a day out on the water for fuel in some boats, this is a pretty important section to cover.
Considering each of these things before looking closely at new boats will ensure the best boat is chosen. It also allows the buyer to avoid a potentially bad deal, or over paying for something which is not worth the high cost, when it comes to making the purchase choice which is made. So, adding this to your list, helps in making the final choice prior to purchase.
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 13, 2012) ? Bioengineers at Harvard have developed a gel-based sponge that can be molded to any shape, loaded with drugs or stem cells, compressed to a fraction of its size, and delivered via injection. Once inside the body, it pops back to its original shape and gradually releases its cargo, before safely degrading.
The biocompatible technology, revealed this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, amounts to a prefabricated healing kit for a range of minimally invasive therapeutic applications, including regenerative medicine.
"What we've created is a three-dimensional structure that you could use to influence the cells in the tissue surrounding it and perhaps promote tissue formation," explains principal investigator David J. Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
"The simplest application is when you want bulking," Mooney explains. "If you want to introduce some material into the body to replace tissue that's been lost or that is deficient, this would be ideal. In other situations, you could use it to transplant stem cells if you're trying to promote tissue regeneration, or you might want to transplant immune cells, if you're looking at immunotherapy."
Consisting primarily of alginate, a seaweed-based jelly, the injectable sponge contains networks of large pores, which allow liquids and large molecules to easily flow through it. Mooney and his research team demonstrated that live cells can be attached to the walls of this network and delivered intact along with the sponge, through a small-bore needle. Mooney's team also demonstrated that the sponge can hold large and small proteins and drugs within the alginate jelly itself, which are gradually released as the biocompatible matrix starts to break down inside the body.
Normally, a scaffold like this would have to be implanted surgically. Gels can also be injected, but until now those gels would not have carried any inherent structure; they would simply flow to fill whatever space was available.
"Our scaffolds can be designed in any size and shape, and injected in situ as a safe, preformed, fully characterized, sterile, and controlled delivery device for cells and drugs," says lead author Sidi Bencherif, a postdoctoral research associate in Mooney's lab at SEAS and at the Wyss Institute.
Bencherif and his colleagues pushed pink squares, hearts, and stars through a syringe to demonstrate the versatility and robustness of their gel.
The spongelike gel is formed through a freezing process called cryogelation. As the water in the alginate solution starts to freeze, pure ice crystals form, which makes the surrounding gel more concentrated as it sets. Later on, the ice crystals melt, leaving behind a network of pores. By carefully calibrating this mixture and the timing of the freezing process, Mooney, Bencherif, and their colleagues found that they could produce a gel that is extremely strong and compressible, unlike most alginate gels, which are brittle.
The resulting "cryogel" fills a gap that has previously been unmet in biomedical engineering.
"These injectable cryogels will be especially useful for a number of clinical applications including cell therapy, tissue engineering, dermal filler in cosmetics, drug delivery, and scaffold-based immunotherapy," says Bencherif. "Furthermore, the ability of these materials to reassume specific, pre-defined shapes after injection is likely to be useful in applications such as tissue patches where one desires a patch of a specific size and shape, and when one desires to fill a large defect site with multiple smaller objects. These could pack in such a manner to leave voids that enhance diffusional transport to and from the objects and the host, and promote vascularization around each object."
The next step in the team's research is to perfect the degradation rate of the scaffold so that it breaks down at the same rate at which newly grown tissue replaces it. Harvard's Office of Technology Development has filed patent applications on the invention and is actively pursuing licensing and commercialization opportunities.
Coauthors included R. Warren Sands, Deen Bhatta, and Catia S. Verbeke at SEAS; Praveen Arany at SEAS and the Wyss Institute; and David Edwards, who is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Bioengineering at SEAS and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute.
The research was supported by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, the National Institutes of Health, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
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