Presented, without comment, are photos of the interior of David Passmore's right knee capsule taken during arthroscopic surgery by Wayne Sebastianelli, MD, at Centre Community Surgical Center on 9 July 1996...

Caramel Latte Supreme, for free, today from Wegmans Wireless Internet Cafe.

Today's data analysis class meeting...

I teach a graduate course in data analysis and reporting. One of the six course meetings occurred today.

Working hard on in-class exercises that allow practice with course concepts.


In a lab with 16 networked, internet-connected computer stations
and a large meeting table in the center of the room.


Practicing hypothesis testing and calculating confidenvce intervals in teams of twoi and three.


Drs. Yeonsoo Kim and Hsiu-Ju Yuki Lu, two of my four great helpers!

Three hour class meeting on a Saturday morning!

Adam, the greyhound, is visiting for several weeks...

We are fostering a greyhound named Adam for several weeks. He is from a dog racetrack in Connecticut. He was being fostered by another family, but they became too attached to him. They wanted keep him, especially the kids in the family

He has a permanent home, but his new family is on vacation. They pick him up on 1 April.

More on baseball...

Many thanks to my good friend, Bob Game, for forwarding this interesting article on financing of sport stadiums in the United States:

http://www.governing.com/articles/3stadium.htm The article reports skepticism (finally) among public officials who are the object of economic development blackmail by sports teams who want public financing of their private ventures. See my presentation at:http://www.personal.psu.edu/dlp/baseball/

About time people began to say out loud that emperors/team owners have no clothes!

Attended concert by Sir James Galway, Lady Galway, and the Polish Chamber Orchestra...

Attended a concert at Penn State tonight by Sir James Galway, Lady Galway, and the Polish Chamber Orchestra.

Four items in the program, with an encore:

• Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K 525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)--Wolfgand Amadeus Mozart
  
• Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major, K 314--Wolfgand Amadeus Mozart
  
• Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K 590--Wolfgand Amadeus Mozart
  
• The Magic Flutes (A homage to Mozart)--David Overton. A four-piece movement constructed for the Galways based entirely on Mozart's material.
  
• Encores--Piece dedicated to Brian Boru; Danny Boy, and another one I did not recognize.
  

After the concert, Sir and Lady Galway invited children backstage with them.