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11-15-04, 5 a.m.
LANDOVER, Md. _ The Bengals defense has now officially gone from beleaguered to brilliant after throwing the Redskins around FedEx Field Sunday with a season-high five sacks and three interceptions to cap a month Cincinnati has allowed just six touchdowns in four games.
"The defense as a whole is playing well. Starting with the D-line and going all the way back to our secondary," said cornerback Deltha O'Neal after the Bengals picked off three balls for the second straight week in the 17-10 victory. "Everybody feels comfortable with the game plan. We're all one heartbeat."
"One Heartbeat," became their slogan last year during the 6-1 run following the bye week. The Bengals are now off the machine and breathing on their own at 3-2 following this year's bye (4-5 overall) and are savoring their first back-to-back wins in nearly a year since last Nov. 23-30.
But last year they never had a defense like this one that now has forced as many turnovers as it did last year with 24, is just one interception shy of last season's 14, and saw its streak of eight straight quarters without allowing a touchdown end with just 2:22 left in Sunday's game.
They kept Washington out of the red zone until seven minutes left in the game, off the scoreboard until 5:46 left, hemmed in ace running back Clinton Portis enough so that his longest run was just 11 yards, and began to talk and play like a untit with momentum and purpose.
And, last year they didn't have a defense able to drive a hostile crowd of 87,786 into booing the home quarterback off the field after the Redskins' Mark Brunell misfired on seven of his first eight passes and Patrick Ramsey came on halfway through the second quarter.
"That was awesome,' said cornerback Tory James, the leader of the pack with his NFL-best sixth interception Sunday. "They were chanting for the other guy. That was awesome. We really fed off that. We've got guys that are playmakers, that are proven guys who make plays. It's contagious back there. We're all working together. It's a family back there. We like each other and hang out together, and it's showing up on the field."
It showed up right away Sunday, which is what the Bengals wanted their defense to do in order to take away the NFL's loudest crowd in the league's biggest stadium in an effort to win their first road game in six straight tries dating back to that Nov. 30 game in Pittsburgh.
And, it took a hometown guy to do it. Part of the biggest regular-season crowd to ever watch the Bengals included rookie safety Madieu Williams' 15 family members and friends, some who work at the stadium.
Williams, who came into the game with two interceptions in the last two weeks, almost had a third on the second series when he bolted in front of wide receiver Rod Gardner in the middle of the field and ended up tipping the ball for weak-side linebacker Brian Simmons' second interception of the season.
With the ball suddenly at the Redskins 47, the big crowd turned surly and silent. Less than five minutes later with 5:37 left in the first quarter, the Bengals added to what is believed to be their NFl-leading points off turnovers (now 83) on running back Rudi Johnson's one-yard touchdown run.
"We were playing quarters (coverage), my man stopped in front of me, and I just broke in front of him," Williams said. "I thought I had an interception. I was getting ready to score. But I tipped it and Brian Simmons does what he always does and runs to the ball."
Simmons, playing in his 87th game as a Bengal, added another stat to what may be the finest of his seven seasons.
"The first couple of series with the three-and-outs, that's big on the road," Simmons said. "If you can go out and get on them early and get the crowd out of it, that's got to be to our advantage.
"This game, a lot of it is based on confidence," Simmons said. "Look at teams throughout the league. They win a couple of games and they think they can win every game. It's no different on either side of the ball. We're a work in progress."
But what a piece of work. In the first five games of the season, the Bengals had seven sacks, forced 10 turnovers, were allowing 160 yards per game on the ground, 25.8 points per game, and were allowing foes to convert third downs at a 41.5 percent clip.
In the last four games, the Bengals have 11 sacks, have forced 14 takeaways, are allowing 120 yards per game on the ground, 12.2 points per game, and have shut down their conversion rate to 29 percent after stuffing Washington on 12 of 16 third downs on Sunday.
And how good has the secondary been? The Bengals have gone 13 straight quarters without allowing a wide receiver a catch longer than 27 yards. The longest touchdown pass since the 59-yard Lee Suggs breakdown in Cleveland Oct. 17 has been a 13-yarder to a fullback.
"We had a lot of injuries early on and a lot of the guys are healthy and are able to play better,' said right end Justin Smith, one of five Bengals with a sack Sunday. "We're getting a lot of picks from the defensive backs. You're going to build a lot of momentum like that. The defensive coordinator (Leslie Frazier) knows what they have to do. . .We focused on stopping Clinton Portis so we could get them in second-and-longs and third-and-longs."
The amazing thing about the pressure the Bengals brought is that a lot of times the Redskins used "maximum protection," for their quarterback by sending out only two receivers on routes and keeping in two tight ends to block. And, a lot of times the Bengals rushed just three defensive linemen and dropped eight into pass coverage in those situations.
"You figure you're not going to get there anyway with the max protection, so you might as well drop them into coverage,' said defensive tackle John Thornton. "But I know at least one time we got a sack just by rushing three."
The Bengals got gut-check games out of Smith and the other end, Duane Clemons, even though they weren't sure either could last with sore shoulders. Each had a sack, and each should have had an interception when Frazier called zone blitzes and dropped them into coverage. But they dropped them.
"Have to get on the jugs machine this week," Smith said.
James doesn't need it. He now has a career-high six interceptions in his ninth season, nabbed when he followed wide receiver Laveraneus Coles across the middle, and sensed a Ramsey throw at the sideline at the Bengals 35 in the middle of the third quarter. Since it came less than a minute after Washington recovered a Rudi Johnson fumble, it was huge.
"I cut underneath where I thought the throw was going to be," James said. "And when I turned my head, it was there."
The only things that weren't there for the defense were two 15-yard roughing the quarterback calls on Smith and Clemons on which Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis quietly fumed. But Smith went off.
"It was B.S. and (Clemons' penalty) was B.S.," Smith said. "The ref must not have played football. You're getting pushed into guys."
If the defense is a work in progress, Frazier has to love the progress of his first-year players. Williams has to be bidding for AFC Defensive Rookie of the Year with Houston cornerback Dunta Robinson and Denver linebacker D.J. Williams. Rookie end Robert Geathers came up with his second sack in as many weeks, first-year tackle Langston Moore got his first career sack, as did middle linebacker Landon Johnson on a zone blitz.
Johnson, the 225-pounder playing the middle for the first time in his life in place of the injured Nate Webster and Caleb Miller, led the team with a fast and rangy nine tackles.
"There are adjustments to me be made, but playing linebacker is playing linebacker," said Johnson, drafted in the third round as an outside backer. "Playing linebacker is fun no matter where you play."
How much fun? They were shaking their heads thinking about how many potential picks they could have had if not for drops. The working number is five or six.
"I've never seen a game like that where we had so many guys get their hands on the ball," said secondary coach Kevin Coyle. "Everyone is playing with such confidence, and the front guys are getting pressure. Everybody got involved today."
A linebacker (Simmons), a nickel corner on third down (Williams) and a safety (Kim Herring at the end of the game on Ramsey's heave) had the picks. Safeties Kevin Kaesviharn and Rogers Beckett didn't start, but covered incomplete passes in the end zone. Anthony Mitchell also had a hand in making sure the longest Washington pass went 27 yards.
How well is it working out? With the Bengals' next road game in three weeks in nearby Baltimore, Madieu Williams didn't have to buy all his tickets in one fell swoop.
"Too expensive. We were able to split it up," he said.


The 25th annual WonderCon kicks off in San Francisco tomorrow, with special guests like Robert Kirkman, Berkeley Breathed, Paul Levitz, Joe Quesada, Frank Quitely, Seth, Bill Sienkiewicz and many more. The show runs through Sunday.
Comic Book Resources will be at the show doing video interviews, covering panels and all that good stuff. From our own team, both Carla Hoffman and myself will be on hand, so watch the main site and the blog for updates all weekend. I'm even on a panel Friday afternoon, which should be a lot of fun.
Marvel Comics will be at the show in full force; in addition to the above SF Giants variant edition of Uncanny X-Men #534, they'll have a lot of other swag at their booth, as well as a costume contest. You can find their booth schedule here, and if you have an iPhone, they have an events app that you might wanna download. And if you don't, here's their signing schedule.
DC Comics is also at the show, with all sorts of creators and panels. You can find their complete details over on the Source blog, but I'll give you a preview -- Green Lantern! Green Lantern! Green Lantern!
Dark Horse has also released their schedule, which features Beanworld creator Larry Marder, who will have new Beanworld action figures.
Invincible artist Ryan Ottley will be at the Image booth all weekend, doing sketches and selling the above print. You can find more details here. And you can find Image's complete booth schedule here.
If you're going to be at WonderCon this weekend, make sure to stop by IDW's booth #701. Take a look at our event schedule below!
12:00 – 2:00 Dorothy of Oz limited comic giveaway! Get your first peek at the world of the upcoming film!3:00 – 4:00 The Last Unicorn – Author Peter S. Beagle5:00 – 6:00 Bloom County – IDW Guest of Honor Berkeley Breathed – Celebrating the launch of the Complete Bloom County Vol. 4!
11:00 – 12:00 Tribes: The Dog Years – Michael Geszel12:00 – 1:00 TRANSFORMERS & G.I. JOE - Mike Costa1:00 – 2:00 Bloom County – IDW Guest of Honor Berkeley Breathed – Celebrating the launch of the Complete Bloom County Vol. 4!3:00 – 4:00 The Last Unicorn – Author Peter S. Beagle4:00 – 5:00 True Blood – Marc Andreyko5:00 – 6:00 Machete, Bram Stoker's Death Ship - Artist Stuart Sayger5:00 – 7:00 Dorothy of Oz limited comic giveaway! Get your first peek at the world of the upcoming film!
1:00 – 2:00 Bloom County – IDW Guest of Honor Berkeley Breathed – Celebrating the launch of the Complete Bloom County Vol. 4!2:30 – 4:30 Dorothy of Oz limited comic giveaway! Get your first peek at the world of the upcoming film!
Don't miss these IDW Panels!
4:00-5:00 IDW: Godzilla: The Return To Comics— Entering a new decade, the King of the Monsters is ready to take on the world once again, and IDW is reintroducing this classic icon to readers everywhere. IDW's editorial team and panelists discussi what it's like to bring Godzilla back to comic book stores and what fans can expect from the smashing variety of series. This is the place to get the latest Earth-shaking news about Godzilla and the other monsters appearing in the comics, plus some insight on what it took to bring Godzilla back in one of the most successful comic launches ever! If you love Godzilla like these guys do, then don't miss this one!
Finally, don't forget to pick up the Wonder Con Exclusive of Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters #1 at the IDW booth! Godzilla Smashing Wonder Con itself!
Drawn + Quarterly will have Seth and Vanessa Davis, as well as copies of their new book Reunion. Complete details here.
Hey, do you smell delicious burritos? Must be time to head to San Francisco!
Yes, WonderCon begins tomorrow, and Top Shelf will be there! Stop by our booth (#414) and say hello. Team BB Wolf -- Rich Koslowski and J.D. "Johnnie" Arnold -- will be on hand to hook you up with their great books as well as our much-talked about new releases, Night Animals by Brecht Evens and Incredible Change-Bots Two by Jeffrey Brown!
When she isn't writing for io9 or her own blog about webcomics, or of course telling us what she's been reading, Lauren Davis is editing anthologies -- specifically The Comic Book Guide to the Mission. She'll be at the Skoda Man Press booth, D18, so stop by to check the book out.
WonderCon is almost upon us and I am so excited! I will be with my Writers Old Fashioned compadres in Artists' Alley at booth #AA-088 with Princess Witch Boy candles, original artwork, archival prints, and the last remaining copies of issue #2 (You can read issue #1 here)! I will also be giving Heroic Tarot readings, so if you have never experienced myaward-winning X-Men readings, now is the time! I will be at the Writers Old Fashioned booth on Friday from 1-7pm, Saturday from 1-7pm and Sunday from 11-5pm.
Rebecca Hicks, creator of the webcomics Weregeeks and Little Vampires, can be found at booth #603.
The Devastator is the quarterly comedy magazine for humans, not dragons or spaceworms! We're ready to interact with many such humans at WonderCon '11!
Our comics and humor have been noted in Wired, CBR, Cartoon Brew, The Beat, and more! However, as it's our first WonderCon, we want to make a snazzy impression. So snazz we're giving them!
* The QR Code Turbo-Game 9000 is happening exclusively at The Devastator booth SP-09. (See map above)* Stop by and scan our table's QR code. You'll "capture" a random, completely original Devastator character on your phone! (They're definitely not satirical versions of very well-known copyrighted characters, that's for sure!)* We're changing the QR code constantly, so you never know who you're gonna get… (?)* Can you catch 2, 4 or 6 unique characters by Sunday, 4/3/11? If so, you'll win awesome prizes!
* Some of our top artists on hand to sketch and sign their arts, including Scott Gross (DC Comics), Daniel Stone and Grace Anderson!* First-ever preview from Devastator #3: Cats!* The first 20 people who subscribe to The Devastator at WonderCon get a free t-shirt!
Follow us on Twitter @getdevastated, for contest updates, news from the 'Con, wacky riddles, and more! Life doesn't get much better than The Devastator booth.


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Lessons Resources
The Milano master-class (sound and transcript)
#lesson1 #lesson3 #lesson5 #geography #photography #athens #vernacular
From Cartography to Photography
I've lived in Athens for twenty years, but I am not Athenian, nor was I born in Greece. I started a doctoral dissertation in geography on weak urbanism in Athens, and very quickly I realized there was little in the way of professional urban planning or architectural documentation; or even policy documentation. A lack of documentation also means a lack of maps and the absence of a cartographic vision of Athens. This is a country where the land registry has yet to be completed. So, the question naturally emerged on how I could go about documenting the urban phenomenon of Athens in such a visually unstructured landscape (or perhaps there was a complex order to be found).
That is how photography became a way for me to document and learn things about the city; and it was a way of getting away from cartography (even if I am a geographer by training). I started photographing the city from the hills. In fact, Athens is a city where buildings in the center have practically the same number of floors as buildings on the outskirts. It forms a vast wall of concrete against the hilly background. But getting a bird's eye view of the city doesn't necessarily provide more interesting insights, since it's rather fractal—the segmentation is on a tiny scale, blocking a view of the inside. Photography gave me access to the city's interior. It gave me a very close-up view of the phenomena I wanted to observe.
The Landscape as a Habitable Space
I was intrigued to see how getting outside of maps (since there weren't any, or by choice) could allow me to observe the landscape as a habitable space. The land registry in Greece has yet to be completed; it's been a twenty-year-long learning process. The question of identifying properties on maps is still relatively recent, and questions of borders between public and private spaces and between two different private properties tend to lead to debates and uncertainties. That was the context in which I began working on the question of this landscape as a habitable space. I was also interested in how it differed from the organized and regulated spaces of societies where land use reflects political ideals and where borders are based on property ownership standards.
Vernacular and Chorodiversity
When I started looking at this question of landscape, I began working on an American writer, John Brinckerhoff Jackson, who defined landscape not according to aesthetic criteria or questions of the gaze, but as a habitable space, a space where humans set down geographical roots and created their history. He also defined space according to Anglo-Saxon etymology as a collection of spaces outside of political decision-making. A collection of spaces that could either be very small or large. And this is where, for me, an important question in the Metropolitan Trails project emerges: how can we account for this heterogenous collection of spaces? How can we account for the plurality of spaces in a city? Some of the major issues concerning ecologists include energy and climate change (we touched on this a bit with circulation), as well as the question of biodiversity.
And, in cities, doesn't biodiversity come precisely from a diversity of spaces? To take the Greek term χορός (place), isn't this question one of "choro-diversity"? Isn't it about trying to see the vast diversity of spaces within a city? And if that's the case, then isn't walking, which allows us to access all parts of a city and get beyond differences between public and private spaces, beyond roads zoned for one type of circulation, isn't it the way to account for chorodiversity? Chorodiversity is often outside politics. I believe that Metropolitan Trails can examine these phenomena, this plurality of spaces, at all levels. And thanks to the slow pace of walking and the proximity one gets with features in the city, they can also give us access to the domestic (from the vernacular), everything that is close at hand, everything that cannot be found on maps, and even a ground level—and not surface level—dimension.
Questioning Narrative
Another thing I wanted to touch on. We talk a lot about narratives, typically in a written or literary sense, but we don't always want to build a narrative, sometimes we simply want to create a collection of urban facts; we don't always want to create a story, we simply want to list things. And I think it's possible not to want to create connections between sequences—not to want to build a narrative—but simply to collect pieces of the city, one by one.
The Metropolitan Trails International Charter

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Q: Remove unnecessary attributes from html tag using JavaScript RegEx I'm newbie to regular expressions, trying to filter the HTML tags keeping only required (src / href / style) attribute with their values and remove unnecessary attributes. While googling I found a regular expression to keep only "src" attribute, hence my modified expression is as follows:
<([a-z][a-z0-9]*)(?:[^>]*(\s(src|href|style)=['\"][^'\"]*['\"]))?[^>]*?(\/?)>

Its working fine but the only problem is, if one tag contains more than one required attribute then it keeps only the last matched single attribute and discards the rest.
I'm trying to clean following text
<title>Hello World</title>

        The event is celebrating its 50th anniversary Kö
        exhibition grounds in Cologne.

        A festival for art lovers

at https://regex101.com/#javascript using aforementioned expression with <$1$2$4> as substitution string and getting following output:
<title>Hello World</title>

        The event is celebrating its 50th anniversary Kö
        exhibition grounds in Cologne.

        A festival for art lovers

Problem is "style" attribute is discarded from anchor tag.
I have tried to replicate the (\s(src|href|style)=['\"][^'\"]*['\"]) block using * operator, {3} selector and much more but in vain.
Any suggestions???

A: @AhmadAhsan here is demo to fix your issue using DOM manipulation: https://jsfiddle.net/pu1hsdgn/

A: Here you go, based on your original regex:
<([a-z][a-z0-9]*?)(?:[^>]*?((?:\s(?:src|href|style)=['\"][^'\"]*['\"]){0,3}))[^>]*?(\/?)>

Group 1 is the tag name, group 2 are the attributes, and group 3 is the / if there is one. I couldn't get it to work with non-allowed attributes interleaved with allowed attributes e.g. . I don't think it can be done.
Edit: Per @AhmadAhsan's corrections below the regex should be:

var html = `

                    The event is celebrating its 50th anniversary Kö
                    exhibition grounds in Cologne.

                    A festival for art lovers

`

console.log(
  html.replace(/<([a-z][a-z0-9]*)(?:[^>]*?((?:\s(?:src|href|style)=['\"][^'\"]*['\"]){0,3}))[^>]*?(\/?)>/, '')
)

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Walter Herbert Rice (born May 27, 1937) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Education and career

Rice was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University in 1958. He concurrently received a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University and Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School by way of participation in a J.D.–M.B.A. program from Columbia in 1962. Rice was in private practice in Dayton, Ohio in 1963 before serving as assistant county prosecutor of Montgomery County, Ohio from 1964 to 1966. Rice resumed private practice in Dayton from 1966 to 1969 and was first assistant county prosecutor of Montgomery County in 1969. Rice was a judge of the Dayton Municipal Court from 1970 to 1971. He was a judge of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas from 1971 to 1980. Additionally, Rice has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Dayton School of Law since 1976.

Federal judicial service

President Jimmy Carter nominated Rice to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on April 14, 1980, to the seat vacated by Judge Timothy Sylvester Hogan. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 21, 1980, and received his commission two days later. Rice served as Chief Judge from 1996 to 2003 before assuming senior status on November 30, 2004.

Honor

On December 13, 2018, President Donald Trump signed legislation naming the federal building in Dayton the Walter H. Rice Federal Building and United States Courthouse. On September 6, 2019, The Walter H. Rice Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse was officially named at a ceremony, with Rice calling the event and the building's naming "the honor of a lifetime."

References

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1937 births
Living people
Lawyers from Pittsburgh
Ohio state court judges
Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Northwestern University alumni
Columbia Law School alumni
Columbia Business School alumni
University of Dayton faculty
United States district court judges appointed by Jimmy Carter
20th-century American judges
21st-century American judges

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Eve Bilger '10 stared down at a vocabulary question on the SAT, feeling pressure from having already spent precious minutes zoning out. She read the question, at a loss for any clue as to the meaning of half the answer choices. Looking at one of the options, a vision came to her mind of an isosceles triangle missing the bottom side, with a gleaming ray at the point where the two sides met. The word was zenith, meaning the highest point or state. The vision seemed to fit the prompt, so she chose it before zoning back into her internal fantasyland. Low and behold, she was right.
Bilger's vision was an involuntary cross-sensory reaction triggered by the word zenith due to a neurologically-based condition called synesthesia. According to the Journal of Cognitive Science, synesthetes, as synesthesia carriers are called, have cross-wired senses; the stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic and involuntary sensory reactions in a separate pathway. A rare condition with relatively little scholarly research having been done, there are over 60 reported types of synesthesia. According to Andy Woo, a neurologist practicing in Santa Monica, certain studies have reported that up to one percent of the population might have some form of the condition, but the lack of significant research on synesthesia doesn't back up the claim. Woo said he had seen only one patient with the condition in his 18-year professional career.
Bilger's most frequent reactions fall under the grapheme to color form of the condition, which, according to Woo, over 60 percent of synesthetes are reported to have, but she also has stimulations under the music to color category. Other forms include taste to touch like a prickly sensation in the finger tips sparked by the taste of chicken, and touch to smell like the scent of cedar wood sparked by the feeling of velvet.
Bilger always knew she had a different way of thinking. She kept that awareness to herself, though, for fear of alienating others and appearing marginally insane.
From then on, the two talked about all of the visual sensations they experienced. They compared images of tortilla chips breaking, glass shattering, the image that accompanies the taste of spicy food (Mate described his as bar codes being scanned at increasingly fast rates) and the image of the word "it" (a cactus-like prickly form with dark colored stripes all over). Mate purchased a moleskin notebook so that he and Bilger could document their visions and discoveries.
Nabokov had the same variety of synesthesia that Mate and Bilger believe they have exhibited. Since neither Bilger nor Mate has felt this unconventional way of thinking has hindered his or her lifestyle, neither of them has seen a professional for complete diagnosis.
Jared Green '11 is also a synesthete; he associates sounds, tastes and textures with colors. Green's pediatrician gave him an electronic self-test for synesthesia, which came out 96 percent positive, but there is currently no perfect way to diagnose the condition.
When Bilger told her mother about their discoveries, she began researching famous cases of the condition, including painter David Hockney, and musicians Jean Sibelius, Duke Ellington and Eddie Van Halen. In AP Art History courses, seniors were recently exposed to synesthesia by way of Wassily Kandinsky, who was known to have often transposed his visions to the canvas.
"Each number has its own personality, so each math problem has its own little narrative based on the ways the numbers interact," Bilger said. An example of their mathematic perspective? Both Bilger and Mate independently called the problem 36 divided by 47 "chaotic"—four and seven do not get along.
"For that reason, though, it makes certain concepts really difficult to understand; if the numbers aren't in the order I see fit, then I don't really get it," she said.
Bilger and Mate's synesthesia has had other negative effects on their academics as well. While the condition occasionally proves helpful for Mate in AP Art History—his acute visual memory and the fact that "sometimes my image of an artist's name will look like their style of art"—he is often distracted for long periods of time by the visuals triggered by Eric Zwemer's lectures.
Even so, Mate has found a way to make his Synesthesia work in his favor; a student artist, Mate is currently using some of his more pertinent visuals as part of his Advanced Drawing and Painting III Senior Body of Work. He'll be attending Savannah College of Art and Design in the fall.
Despite some of the pitfalls that come along with being a synesthete, Mate and Bilger are both grateful for their condition, and can't imagine what life would be like without it.
While Mate and Bilger have similar forms of Synesthesia, Bilger has one thing Mate can't relate to.