285 research outputs found
Frank DeFord: Sports: The Hype and the Hoopla
No full textAuthor and commentator, Frank Deford is among the most versatile of American writers. His work has appeared in virtually every medium. The author of 15 books, his newest, The Entitled, a novel about celebrity, sex and baseball, was published in 2007.
On radio, Deford may be heard as a commentator every Wednesday on Morning Edition on National Public Radio and, on television, he is a regular correspondent on the HBO show, RealSports with Bryant Gumbel. In magazines, he is senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated.
Moreover, two of Deford\u27s books - the novel, Everybody\u27s All-American, and Alex: The Life of a Child, his memoir about his daughter who died of cystic fibrosis - have been made into movies. Another of his books, Casey on the Loose, is being turned into a Broadway musical. Cathy Schulman, producer of 2005\u27s Best Picture, Crash, is producing Deford\u27s next film, a comedy, The Sister-in-Law.
As a journalist, Deford has been elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters. Six times he was voted by his peers as U.S. Sportswriter of The Year. The American Journalism Review has likewise cited him as the nation\u27s finest sportswriter, and twice he was voted Magazine Writer of the Year by the Washington Journalism Review.
Deford has also been presented with the National Magazine Award for profiles, a Christopher Award, and journalism Honor Awards from the University of Missouri and Northeastern University, and he has received many honorary degrees. The Sporting News has described Deford as the most influential sports voice among members of the print media, and the magazine GQ has called him, simply, the world\u27s greatest sportswriter. In broadcast, Deford has won both an Emmy and a George Foster Peabody Award. ESPN presented a television biography of his life and work, You Write Better Than You Play. A popular lecturer, Deford has spoken at more than 100 colleges, as well as at forums, conventions and on cruise ships around the world
President\u27s Lecture Series: Frank Deford, 31st Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textFrank Deford is the author of 15 books, with his newest, The Entitles, a novel about celebrity, sex and baseball, published in 2007. Deford may be heard as a commentator every Wednesday on NPR\u27s Morning Edition and he is a regular correspondent on the HBO show RealSports with Bryant Gumbel. He is also senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated. Deford was elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters, and six times was voted by his peers as U. S. Sportswriter of the Year. The American Journalism Review has likewise cited him as the nation\u27s finest sportswriter, and twice he was voted Magazine Writer of the Year by Washington Journalism Review. The recipient of many honorary degrees, Deford also has won the National Magazine Award for profiles, a Christopher Award and journalism Honor Awards from the University of Missouri and Northeastern University
A Conversation with Frank Deford: Writing, Sports, and Frolics (audio)
No full textSportswriter, broadcaster and author Senior writer for Sports Illustrated Author of fourteen books including, An American Summer, Everybody\u27s All-A merican, and Alex: The Life of a Child Commentator on ESPN, NPR\u27s Morning Edition, & HBO\u27s RealSports with Bryant Gumbel Elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriter
Salt Lake & Mercur Railroad P.16
No full textCourtesy: Larry Southwick. From Left to right: Mr. Hornbuckle, section foreman. Miss Coffield. Br. Snell, fireman. Miss Bertha Wilcox. Mr. Green, engineer. Mrs. Deford and little Fletcher. Miss Pauline Hornbuckle. Mrs. J. Wilmer Booth. Miss Mary Jones. Vick Hornbuckle. Ethel Edwards
Medial Axis Isoperimetric Profiles
No full text© 2020 The Author(s) Computer Graphics Forum © 2020 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Recently proposed as a stable means of evaluating geometric compactness, the isoperimetric profile of a planar domain measures the minimum perimeter needed to inscribe a shape with prescribed area varying from 0 to the area of the domain. While this profile has proven valuable for evaluating properties of geographic partitions, existing algorithms for its computation rely on aggressive approximations and are still computationally expensive. In this paper, we propose a practical means of approximating the isoperimetric profile and show that for domains satisfying a “thick neck” condition, our approximation is exact. For more general domains, we show that our bound is still exact within a conservative regime and is otherwise an upper bound. Our method is based on a traversal of the medial axis which produces efficient and robust results. We compare our technique with the state-of-the-art approximation to the isoperimetric profile on a variety of domains and show significantly tighter bounds than were previously achievable
Extruded Cellular Fly Ash Construction Materials
No full text155 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.Bulk densities and crushing strengths of honeycomb samples consolidated by sintering and by autoclaving were studied as a function of their respective compositions and processing conditions. Typical bulk densities, crushing strengths, and SDR obtained were 1.13 g/cm\sp3, 97 MPa (14,100 psi), and 8750 m for autoclaved honeycombs, and 1.32 g/cm\sp3, 156 MPa (22,600 psi), and 12,000 m for sintered honeycombs. The SDR values obtained exceeded the SDR of construction-grade pine (6375 m).U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
Extruded Cellular Fly Ash Construction Materials
No full textBulk densities and crushing strengths of honeycomb samples consolidated by sintering and by autoclaving were studied as a function of their respective compositions and processing conditions. Typical bulk densities, crushing strengths, and SDR obtained were 1.13 g/cm\sp3, 97 MPa (14,100 psi), and 8750 m for autoclaved honeycombs, and 1.32 g/cm\sp3, 156 MPa (22,600 psi), and 12,000 m for sintered honeycombs. The SDR values obtained exceeded the SDR of construction-grade pine (6375 m).Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:53:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Strengthening the Precalculus Bridge: Enhancing the Precalculus Student\u27s Understanding of Tangents to Conics, Biquadratic Equations, and Maxima and Minima
No full textMany students face tremendous difficulty in high school and/or college level calculus courses. The author hopes that by introducing students to the following nontraditional three topics prior to calculus, students\u27 understanding of calculus will be enhanced. This thesis focuses on the following topics: Tangent Lines to Conics Maxima and Minima Biquadratic Equations
Because these topics are not generally covered in precalculus courses, there are several possible uses for them. An instructor could use the material as: An added classroom resource Project assignments for outside classroom study A student resource for precalculus advanced studies, or An independent study
This thesis assumes that the student is well prepared for the precalculus course by having a good understanding of foundational algebra skills
POLAROGRAPHIC AND SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC INVESTIGATION OF THE REDUCTION AND DEPROTONATION OF (1,3,6,8,10,13,16,19-OCTA-AZABICYCLO-[6,6,6]-ICOSANE)COBALT(III) ION, CO(SEP)3+, IN THE PRESENCE OF DIFFERENT ANIONS
No full textThe reduction of the title compound has been studied polarographically in different aqueous media. Remarkable specific anion effects have been observed. In the presence of OH- ions there is a strong displacement of E1/2 towards negative values. This has been interpreted as due to a deprotonation of the Co(sep)3+ ion, which can be treated as an association with OH-. Using the DeFord-Hume equation, the association constants have been determined at a constant ionic strength (I) of 0.5 mol dm-3 (NaCl). Values of 50 mol dm-3 and 2 × 103 mol3 dm-9 have been obtained for β1 and β3, whereas β2 appears to be too small to be measured. These results are supported by visible spectrophotometric and circular dichroism data. Analogous polarographic measurements were performed at I = 0.4, 1.0 and 2.0 mol dm-3. The differences between the results in the various media, as well as the changes in E1/2 in neutral solutions with different supporting electrolytes, are correlated with the effects of the different salts on the solubility in water of benzoic acid and of naphthalene (Setchenov coefficients). Hence, the hydrophobic character of the anions seems to be more relevant than the electrostatic effects
Analysis of waveguide components using H/sub 0/-curl hexahedral edge elements in MSC/EMAS
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