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I was just thinking of some possible moves the Reds could make and I'm and just seeing if you guys like the deals, and if you think they are realistic.
Whitesox get: Ken Griffey Jr. OF
Reds get: John Danks SP and Robert Valido SS
Redsox get: Ken Griffey Jr. OF
Reds get: Clay Bucholz SP and George Kottaras C
Dodgers get: Adam Dunn OF
Reds get: Jonathan Broxton RP and Matt Kemp OF
Angels get: Adam Dunn OF
Reds get: Erik Aybar SS and Jeff Mathis C
with the Angels I would also be interested in getting Mosley back with our organiszation maybe sub him with Mathis if they won't give him up.
with any of these trades we can throw in a Weathers, Conine, or Hatteberg, and it will still be fine.
If you guys have any feedback on how realistic they are, or if you aproove. If there is a trade you don't like or something, throw in some of your ideas too.


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Editor: I attended Southwest Elementary School to hear the superintendent of Lexington City Schools' proposal on realignment of the elementary schools into K-6 grade and put Lexington Middle under the umbrella of Lexington Senior High School.
Editor: I attended Southwest Elementary School to hear the superintendent of Lexington City Schools' proposal on realignment of the elementary schools into K-6 grade and put Lexington Middle under the umbrella of Lexington Senior High School.
They are wanting to move sixth grade down to the elementary schools and have 7-8 grades at LMS (academy as they referred to it) and for the intelligently gifted students, with parental permission, be allowed to walk across the street and take some high school courses, which in my opinion is OK, because that's up to that parent. But with LMS being under the umbrella of the high school, how will that affect other aspects of learning and afterschool activities?
My main concern is moving the sixth grade down to elementary schools. We as a society are starting to become more aware of bullying that's going on in the schools and the effect of the bullying. We are aware of the drugs that are in the school system, and some may or may not be aware of the sexual activity/talk that goes on.
I don't want a 6-year-old to be influenced by the actions of an inappropriate 11- 12-year-old, either hearing them say something inappropriate or seeing something inappropriate.
The speakers kept saying they will keep them separate; how? They'll be in the cafeteria, the halls, the bus and bus stops. What about the "grown" kids who wonder around the halls when they've asked to go to the restroom?
They said what's making the sixth-graders so mature and inappropriate is introducing them to the seven and eighth grade, but in reality 11- and 12-year-olds hormones start growing and then day cares stop taking them and they find themselves home alone to "explore" these new feelings.
I don't want an impressionable young child to be scared to go to school because someone 10 times bigger than them has threatened and/or harassed them or their peers. Usually around 11 and 12 potential gang members start being introduced and groomed for the gang life.
The speakers stated teachers are with students all the time at that level and will watch the students. Even though we tend to think teachers are super human in reality they are just plain human and can't do everything. If that was the case, we wouldn't have bullying going on now as it is.
If a child at that age or any age is scared to go to school they will begin to act out and begin to be worried will I run into this person and not concentrate on work and fall behind.
We as parents need to stand up for what's best for our children, and intermixing someone who still makes mud pies with someone who has the potential to be harmful to our children, mentally or physically, is downright wrong.
Take a stand; email or call any of the Lexington City School Board members or call LCS administrative office at 242-1527.
Christi Beckner

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Glenn's New Gig, On Point in Brooklyn and The Body's Youth Movement
Creative Direction: GQ's beloved Style Guy settles in behind his new desk. "Mazeltov." says us. [WWD]
All Points East: Our favorite fashion adventurers head to the distant, savage shores of Greenpoint. [Refinery29]
Mating Habits: While Petra Nemcova surprises no one by taking up with Sean Penn, Elle "The Body" Macpherson (born March 29, 1963), keeps us guessing by with a possible link to Julian Schnabel's 21-year-old son. Insert joke about cougars and High-School daydreams here. [Style Dash]
Local Boys Big in Japan: Kempt faves Loden Dager preview their Uniqlo designs with a Tim Hamilton collection on the way. [Racked]
Puff's Revenge: Mr. Combs will be sending Ms. Lopez Sean John baby clothes for her newly arrived twins. This is no way to treat the woman who helped you stash your piece from the cops. [Media Outrage]
Bidding War: Our guess; this is as close as you'll get to getting under Kiera Knightly's skirt. [Clothes Off Our Back]
Hush Puppies: Now that German police dogs have shoes, it will harder than ever to convince them that they're not people. [AP]
Hold Your Breath: That Hedi Slimane/LVMH joint venture is looking more and more like a reality - knock on wood. [Thread Trend]


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BEIJING, Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dehaier Medical Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: DHRM) ("Dehaier"), an emerging leader in the development, assembly, marketing and sale of medical devices and homecare medical products in China, today announced that it has won a 3-year procurement agreement for Dehaier's proprietary air compressors and customized trolleys from a major medical equipment manufacturer in Ukraine.
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During the three-year term of the agreement, the purchaser will procure Dehaier's proprietary air compressors, customized trolleys and accessories, which will be used in hospital intensive care units, emergency rooms, operation rooms, respiratory departments and anesthesiology departments. The purchaser plans to distribute Dehaier products in Ukraine and other European markets through its sales network.
"Since early 2012, Dehaier has made considerable progress in exploring Europe market, mainly due to the grant of CE certification for our air compressor product," noted Ms. Rayna Dong, Director of Dehaier's International Marketing. "By actively partnering with distributors, exploring OEM opportunities and attending leading medical equipment exhibitions, we have begun to see the gradual increase of Dehaier's brand recognition and awareness in Europe. Dehaier's reputation as a reliable vendor that produces a full line of high quality medical equipment products at reasonable prices enables us to deliver comprehensive, customized solutions to our customers who have to satisfy diverse consumer demands for health care."
About Dehaier Medical Systems Ltd.
Dehaier is an emerging leader in the development, assembly, marketing and sale of medical products, including respiratory and oxygen homecare medical products. The company develops and assembles its own branded medical devices and homecare medical products from third-party components. The company also distributes products designed and manufactured by other companies, including medical devices from IMD (Italy), Welch Allyn (USA), HEYER (Germany), Timesco (UK), eVent Medical (US) and JMS (Japan). Dehaier's technology is based on six patents, nine software copyrights and proprietary technology. More information may be found at http://www.dehaier.com.cn
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Titled Hebecrevon, the six-player Panzerkrieg arena offers tank-based warfare in a "more wide open" setting than the existing Panzerkrieg map, Industry. Balance changes for the mode will accompany the map, such as reduced effectiveness of sticky bombs.
While Relic's community site provided a wealth of information on the map, even noting that it's "derivative of mission eleven of the original Invasion of Normandy campaign," there's still no word as to when patch 2.600 will deliver its various tweaks.


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An 18-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday, Dec. 31, in Grundy County Circuit Court to trespassing at the McDonald's restaurant in Minooka.
Juan E. Guerrero, 18, of Minooka, was sentenced to 12 months supervision, expiring Dec. 30, 2013, and was fined $150 as result of the incident. He also was ordered not to enter the McDonald's restaurant located at 100 N. Ridge Road, Minooka.
Guerrero was charged with criminal trespass to real property on Nov. 3, 2012, when he entered the Minooka McDonald's.


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David Koelsch, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of Detroit Mercy, will discuss using immigration as a tool in economic development. This topic is pertinent to the redevelopment of Detroit and other areas in Michigan and the U.S. The Lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, in Albion College's Bobbitt Auditorium.
As director of the Immigration Law Clinic and the Asylum Law Clinic, Koelsch oversees work with abandoned immigrant children and abused immigrant women, among other cases. He received a 2009 Outstanding Immigration Law award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Koelsch received his B.A. from the Michigan State University in 1988 and his J.D. from Catholic University of America in 1994.
This presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Law, Justice and Society program director Bill Rose, or 517/629-0414.


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Evolution Hoax
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Uşak ART TV, August 19- 2008
Adnan Oktar: If Turkey undertakes the role of the elder brother and deals with the issue, the dust will settle.That's why establishing the Turkic-Islamic Union is definitely an urgent duty… Even a delay of one day would would leave [Turkey] under responsibility. An immediate action should be taken. Turkeyshould bring this forward. If a single person raises an objection, come directly to me. Go to Syria and make a suggestion to unite with Turkey, Syria will not think over it for two days. Go and suggest it to Azerbaijan. They offer it themselves. Azerbaijan wants this itself. They several times suggested to unite with Turkey. They suggested to unite as two states and one nation. That is why this should be expressed officially. But for the official expression to be made, the public should lodge this request to the government in official terms. The public should speak out by saying, "We want it" in a persistent manner so that the government can find enough strength to take action and put it into action. This is very important. As Turkish Nation we should stress this quite often by means of foundations, associations and all of our Muslim brothers and sisters should express this very often.
Milli Gazete, April 20- 2010
TurkeyShould Lead the Muslim Countries
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Infographics are visual representations of information, or "data viz" as the cool kids call it these days.
Here's a great article on how to create infographics, or tell a story using 'data viz.'
Translating data into a story is tough work and this article gives us some fabulous tips on how to do it.
Not a graphic designer? Don't worry -- as a business person the more you know about how to create a great data viz story, the better you can tell a graphic designer or graphic scriber what you want.
Another reason I like this article is because it actually mentions the need to create a storyline for your visual, and know before had what the key message is you are trying to deliver.
The storytelling points the article leaves out are the storytelling devices of metaphor, analogy, contrast, and sensory material that are critical to a story's and an infographic's success. These pieces are implied in the article, but need more direct discussion about.
Use this article as a great guide. And if you want more detail, go dig into "Visualize This" by Nathan Yau (although it can be pretty technical).


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Sharing her story as a physician and award-winning filmmaker, Maren Grainger-Monsen visited Willamette's campus Feb. 12 and 13 to show her latest documentary, "The Revolutionary Optimists."
Her visit left a lasting impression on John Cheney '16, who is double majoring in biology and psychology.
"Being on the pre-med track, I am torn between science and humanities," Cheney says. "She gave hope to people who have more dreams than they know what to do with."
Co-producing and co-directing the film with Nicole Newnham, Grainger-Monsen spent three and a half years in India following a former lawyer named Amlan Ganguly, who now works to empower children in India.
Grainger-Morsen's films are shown in more than 750 institutions nationally, including 40% of all U.S. medical schools. In addition, they are used for internal staff trainings at important medical organizations and play a large role in policy reform.
Aside from the screening, Grainger-Monsen spoke at convocation, visited multiple classes and sat on a panel with professors from various departments as they discussed issues facing contemporary health today.
Biology professor David Craig knew Grainger-Monsen's methods of using science and art to advocate for social change would inspire many Willamette students — such as Cheney. With the dream of being a doctor, Cheney says he's faced with a lot of intense questions that Grainger-Monsen helped address.
"I believe a lot is to be said about attitude and how we perceive life," Cheney says. "She definitely showed us the power of positive thinking."
• Article by Natalie Pate '15, politics and French/Francophone studies major


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I've been a big fan of FreeBSD since I first acquired 4.4 on 4 CDs. By that point, I had already spent a lot of time in Linux, but I was always put off by its instability and inconsistency. Once I had FreeBSD installed, it felt like a dream. Everything worked the way it was supposed to, and the consistency of its design meant even older documentation would be mostly applicable without having to figure out how my system was different. There is a reason why in the early days of the Internet, a huge portion of servers ran FreeBSD.
But, that was a while ago. Since then, Linux has matured greatly and has garnered a lot of momentum, becoming the dominant Unix platform. FreeBSD certainly hasn't stood still, however. The FreeBSD team has kept current with hardware support, new features, and a modern, performant design.
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I will be sure to include some more info on internals and now the different BSDs are put together, and how they differ from each other.
Since FreeBSD has an excellent system architecture handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/), I'll touch on it more when I come back around when 10 is out.


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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Guest Blogger and Bookmate Kate Douglas visits!
Kate Douglas was kind enough to send me a few words about our co-release, NOCTURNAL, which is hitting the shelves TODAY!!! Thought I would share with all of you!
Hi Jacki—many apologies for sending this so late—I had planned to write it earlier this evening when I suddenly realized I had to be at a scheduled Aphrodisia Authors chat, and after the chat I started working on a proposal for a new series and had one of those OB-CRS moments, aka old broad can't remember shit...
Anyway, today is the day! Nocturnal started popping up in stores a week ago, but it's not officially on the shelves until today, and I'm really excited to see this one out and about. First, it's very cool to share a spot with you—while we've both written for different imprints at Kensington, it appears we're both guilty of crossing over to test the waters in a new sub-genre. Congratulations on your new Aphrodisia title coming out next month! I'm really looking forward to seeing just what kind of trouble Jax can get you into. Sometimes those alter egos can REALLY raise a ruckus!
For me, the switch was in the opposite direction when I sold The DemonSlayers series for the Zebra imprint. Still sexy, but not as over-the-top as my Wolf Tales, and really a lot of fun. The first book, DemonFire, released in February—a day I celebrated by running my truck into the side of a mountain and just about totaling the poor baby out. Mountain one...pickup zero. I've decided I'd much rather celebrate the release of my new books without any personal carnage or damage to expensive machinery. Therefore, I stayed home the day HellFire released last week. Much less costly that way! Today I intend to do the same. I'll do my chatting about Crystal Dreams, my story in Nocturnal, online, thank you very much.
This was such a fun story to write. The muse really smiled on me and I wrote the entire thing in about three days. Once I had my heroine—Marigold Moonbeam Schwartz—the entire story fell into place. Wish they were all that easy! Mari is a straight-laced banker who's just lost her job and is headed home to Evergreen from San Francisco. It has NOT been a good week. Besides getting laid-off, she's caught her live-in boyfriend sacked up with another woman, discovered he's spent most of her money, and now she's got to take care of her mother's crystal shop while her father recuperates from surgery.
Mari has a rather uncomfortable relationship with her parents—they're old hippies who, she thinks, have smoked one too many joints. Her mother believes she's a witch, and Mari doesn't swallow any of that garbage—until she's attacked by demons and rescued by a seven foot tall Lemurian warrior wielding a crystal sword. Life sort of takes a big flip-flop just shy of reality after Darius saves her life, but Mari definitely rolls with the punches, even though she's in as much danger of losing her heart as she is of losing her life.
Finding out Mom and Dad aren't so crazy after all is the least of her discoveries—finding out she's a more powerful witch than dear old Mom is a hell of a shocker. If you're at all interested in reading a bit, I've got the first chapter posted at http://www.katedouglas.com/home.htm Just click on the cover. If you go to www.katedouglas.com/eroticromance, you'll find excerpts of my Wolf Tales and Sexy Beast stories, but over 18 only, please.
The series so far is DemonFire, HellFire and then Nocturnal/Crystal Dreams. StarFire releases in April 2011.
And thank you, Jacki, for letting me get a word in on your blog. It's much appreciated.
Kate Douglas
And thank you Kate for coming to visit!
In other news, I'm in desperate need of an assistant. I need to organize my emails, blogs, guest appearances, a mailing list etc. Someone who can work the online scene, tell me where to go and when to go there, etc. I just can't keep track of it all anymore. Holding contests, mailing books out after people win them, mailing ARCs to reviewers, chasing down pirates...HELP! The problem is, how exactly does one find someone to do these things? As we all know I SUCK at choosing people to clean my own home (finally landed a gem! TG!!) I am apparently a poor judge of character. So, I need help, but I don't trust myself to find anyone good.
*Looks around for her funny white coat with the 360 degree arms*
Hugs and Kitties
6 comments:
- Kate Douglas said...
Good morning Jacki, and best of luck finding an assistant! I could use one as well, but my problem is I'm a control freak and just can't turn stuff loose. So glad you found a good housekeeper. I married mine...but damn, there is nothing sexier than a man on the end of a vacuum.
Here's wishing all of us a successful release on NOCTURNAL!
- September 7, 2010 at 1:02 PM
- Jacquelyn Frank said...
Thanks Kate! I was really delighted to have you visit. And I am something of a control freak myself...perhaps that's why I have such bad luck satisfying my needs. They are just too picky. I am getting GREAT feedback about The Phoenix Project already! I hope you can say the same!
- September 7, 2010 at 1:24 PM
- Kate Douglas said...
Thanks, and yes, I'm hearing good things so far. Thanks so much for joining me on Rowena's chat. That was a kick!
- September 7, 2010 at 3:29 PM
- Emptrix said...
I'm off to see if there is an e-book edition of Nocturnal! Jaci . . . as far as your schedule goes, I can make it easy, just come to Seattle, I'll even throw in that hot pink handbag we discussed previously.
- September 7, 2010 at 9:00 PM
- Heather said...
*pinky waves* Hullooo Jacq! Im so excited about all the books you have commin out. Can't wait to get ma greedy lil book whore hands on em! I've heard lil whispers of this Phoenix Project, and can't wait to see everything about it. Now if you want an assistant I'll gladly assist ya hehehe. Is ID to far away for that job? *le wink* I sooo cant wait to go and get The Bid, Im thinkin after the gym I am so there! Thanks again for sharing your amazing gift with the world, it brightens my day even if I only get a chance to take a peek at the covers *hugz*
- September 9, 2010 at 6:58 PM
- Stephanie*magic* said...
lol Jacki!
I can imagine that it would be hard to find a reliable, honest person.
I hope you find someone worthy of you. Gotta be peeps like me * :D * that are.
Wishing you all the book sales you can handle! :D
TY for visiting Kate!
Cant wait till my book comes!
Take care.
- September 11, 2010 at 9:58 PM


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June 8, 2012 > Catalytic converter theft prevention
Catalytic Converters, along with copper and other metals, have become a hot commodity for thieves. Catalytic Converter theft has become popular because of their value, relative ease to steal (unbolt or cut out), and their lack of identifying markings. A Catalytic Converter is a part of the vehicles exhaust system. It helps reduce vehicle pollution. Catalytic Converters are located under a vehicle on the exhaust pipe before the muffler(s). Thieves take the stolen Catalytic Converters to metal recyclers. The recyclers pay an average of $50 per converter for the precious metals inside them. But for certain converters, they will pay up to $250. Victims pay an average of $1000 (or an average $250/$500 insurance deductible) to get the converter(s) replaced; it can cost as much as $4000.What Vehicles are targeted by Catalytic Converter Thieves?Any vehicle manufactured after 1974 can be a target. However, Trucks and SUV s (Sports Utility Vehicles) are the vehicles they target the most. They prefer Trucks and SUV's, because they are higher off the ground and easier to crawl under. Toyota Trucks and SUV' in the 90's to the late 2000's are especially vulnerable because the Catalytic Converters are more exposed than the average converter. The thieves can quickly unbolt/cut out the converter in minutes. Some of the larger Toyota Trucks and SUV's have two Catalytic Converters. If your Catalytic Converter has been replaced with an aftermarket Catalytic Converter within the past few years, there is a good chance it won't be stolen. The new aftermarket Catalytic Converters don't have as much precious metals, so thieves typically don't take them.Where are the common places where Catalytic Converter thefts occur?Your Home Driveway or Street* Most of the Catalytic Converter thefts occur while your car is parked in your driveway or on the street in front of your house.Parking Lots* Vehicles parked in large open parking lots are targeted. A look-out will often watch out as a thief takes the Catalytic Converter.Auto Dealer Lots* Brand new vehicles on a Dealer Lot are targeted. The thieves have all night to steal popular Catalytic Converters while the new vehicles sit in their parking lot.Semi-Truck Auto Transport Trailer* Vehicles are targeted while they are on a Semi-Truck Auto Transport Trailer. Thieves can easily get underneath the vehicles to remove the Catalytic Converters.Preventive tips on how to help prevent your Catalytic Converter from getting stolen:The #1 way to protect your vehicles Catalytic Converter is to park your vehicle(s) inside a garage or in a secure side yard. If you must park your vehicle in the driveway, motion detector lights or continuous lights illuminating your driveway may be a deterrent. Also, getting a vehicle motion detector alarm might help. Educate your friends and neighbors about Catalytic Converter theft so they can be a look-out too.Have extra metal welded to your exhaust system. Muffler shops are offering creative ways to protect your Catalytic Converter. They weld on metal to make it difficult for the Catalytic Converter to be removed. The cost is often less than your insurance deductible and definitely less than the full replacement cost (if you don't have comprehensive insurance).Install a Catalytic Converter Protection Device. There are devices on the market that will clamp/go around your Catalytic Converter. Devices are often more expensive than welding extra metal, but for some this is the option they prefer.What if your Catalytic Converter is stolen?If your Catalytic Converter is stolen, you will know right away when you start your vehicle. It will sound like you don't have a muffler at all (like loud motorcycle mufflers). It is ok to drive your vehicle directly to a muffler/dealer shop to get the Catalytic Converter replaced. You do not need your vehicle towed to the shop.


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The state of Obama's address
Last night's State of the Union address was the first time in a while that I've actually sat down and listened to President Obama speak about anything, which was likely true for many other Americans. Here are three things that stood out to me (a casual observer, not an economist or political scientist) during the hour that the president spoke:
- Obama did not mention abortion, contraception, or gay marriage—issues that many of Obama's critics single out as the primary focus of his agenda. A recent Gallup poll shows that what Americans are most dissatisfied with right now is the economy, not the country's "moral and ethical climate," and Obama's speech reflected that. His focus was kept mainly on the economy and other domestic priorities such as energy, education, and immigration.
- The address did feature some common good principles that Catholics can get behind. Early in his speech, Obama said, "We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of Americans barely get by, or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules." He mentioned that tax reform should follow the "Buffet Rule" (that people making more than $1 million should not pay less than 30% in taxes) and made promises of clean energy and increasing resources to improve education.
- And, it felt like the president was really taking Congress to task. He challenged its members to present bills that he would immediately sign into law. He recognized Americans' dissatisfaction with the climate in Washington, noting the growing sense of separation between the city and the rest of the country. He criticized the division between our political parties, saying, "We need to end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign of mutual destruction; that politics is about clinging to rigid ideologies instead of building consensus around common-sense ideas."
Though many elements of the speech I thought fell into the category of "easier said than done" and I thought the "America is built Ford tough" subtext was overdone, there was enough material in this address to guarantee that we're in for an exciting election year.
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"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."
--Woody Hayes
2018 Reds record when I'm attending: 0-62018 Dragons record when I'm attending: 1-0
"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops." - Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran
DONT USE IE. Especially the older versions. Horrible horrible browser.
Hopefully everything is good now. That was one NASTY piece of malware even doing all of the Rkills/Malwarebytes/etc, it finally took 2 uses of Hitman Pro to get rid of the google-redirect (redirects ALL search engine hits to fake sites unless you use the "cache" option which was the only way I could search the web and figure out exactly how to get rid of all of this crap).
Oh yeah, to the person who says their parents comp. is completely wiped out, it's NOT. You need to get rid of the malware and use unhide.exe. It made ALL my files disappear as well as my desktop icons...everything. This particular malware hides all of your files so that it will appear as though your HD has failed. Those files are still there (just "hidden" by the malware), so hopefully your parents haven't gone out and paid for a new computer or anything like that.
If the attack did indeed come from this site, which is definitely possible, I sincerely apologize, even though I've confirmed it was through no fault of our own (meaning GIK and I). I should mention that there were plenty of others that visited the same during the same time period (including myself, against my better judgement, in order to try to fix the problem) and were not infected. In the above poster's case, not keeping your antivirus and anti-malware programs up to date and running regular scans makes you much more susceptible to a situation like this - whether that be on RedsZone or anywhere else on the internet. Again, I'm not saying this is in any way your fault, but that would be my take away from this experience.
So Boss as far as you can tell was it an infection here or just a false alarm? I can't figure out if I need to take any steps here. I don't appear to be having any problems just had that darn message continuously pop up everytime I clicked on a link here.
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."
--Woody Hayes
But once again, it's NOT your fault and I'm NOT upset w/you or w/Redszone....nothing like that at all. So no need for you to apologize about it Boss!
Alls well that ends well, and thus far, it appears as though, if I have not gotten it 100% entirely, I've gotten rid of most of it and most everything that it disrupted on my computer. I have Thursday off, so I'm going to take some time Thursday night and go through my computer quite intensely, making sure that I either have it 100% done away with or that I get whatever aspects might possibly be left of it.
One thing I am no longer going to do is leave my computer running 24/7. Up until this happened, I NEVER shut my computer off (only when going away on vacation, etc. where I would be away for like a week or better), but otherwise, my computer ran all the time. Now, anytime I leave or am going to be away from it for a while, I go ahead and shut it down. I've really narrowed out a lot of programs I had that were set to "start up @ start up" which could make starting my computer up seemingly take FOREVER, but now, I only have like one prog. the starts @ start up, so it takes no-time for my computer to boot up now which makes shutting it down/rebooting up no big deal now.
I hope the guy that said all of his parents files got wiped out reads this thread and tries the unhide.exe prog. - I would hate to see his parents "lose" their files, thinking they're gone when the malware has simply "hidden" them. I've had a HD crash before and lost hundreds and hundreds of files and I darn well KNOW what a total pain in the butt that is. It can be a damn near nightmare to be honest, depending upon how many/what type of files you have. Kinda makes a person give serious thought to signing up for one of those "Carbonite" type programs! They're pretty inexpensive and if a HD DOES actually fail, they have all of your files backed up for you! I very well might go ahead and sign up for one of those services, I just think it would be worth every penny!!!
Oh yeah Boss, thanks for keeping us all updated on this as well!
Take Care man!
GIK and I have some work to do that is going to take some time and goes beyond "just" this malware attack, but one of the end results of that work, once completed, is to ensure something like this never happens again.
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ST. LOUIS - Senior catcher Connor Gandossy had a career day against Charlotte. His offensive explosion led Saint Louis to a 9-1 victory over A-10 rival Charlotte. Gandossy ripped his second home run of the season and drove in a career-best five RBIs in the win.
Junior Alex Alemann picks up the win and is now 7-0 on the year. The Pitcher of the Year candidate now has a 2.36 ERA with 65 strikeouts and 19 walks. The victory marks his 21st career win. Alemann is now tied for second all-time in pitcher wins at Saint Louis. Dave Sever owns the all-time mark at 22.
The 49ers scored the first run of the game in the bottom of the third, but Gandossy and the Bills answered back in the fourth. With two outs and Mike Vigliarolo and Marco DiRoma on base, Gandossy doubled down the left field line for his first two RBIs of the day.
The Billikens put two more runs on the baord in the fifth. Alex Kelly hit an RBI double to score Jerry Mancuso. Kelly was later driven in on a Grant Nelson single to bring the score to 4-1 in favor of SLU.
In the seventh, Vigliarolo hit a sacrifice fly to score Kelly. In the next at bat, DiRoma walked to put runners at first and third with Gandossy at the dish. He responded by powering the ball over the left field fence for a three-run blast, his second of the year. Through seven, the score was 8-1 Saint Louis.
Alec Sole put the finishing touches on the game with an RBI single in the ninth to put the final tally a 9-1.
Saint Louis is now 16-7 in conference action and 36-15 overall. The Billikens are in first place in the A-10 with one game remaining. If the Bills can win tomorrow against Charlotte, the Billikens will clinch a first-round bye in the Atlantic 10 tournament for the first time in school history.
If the Billikens drop tomorrow's contest against the 49ers, three teams can oust the Bills. Saint Louis has two wins over second-place Dayton, but the Flyers have a three-game series remaining against La Salle. The Bills also hold the season tie-breaker over Dayton. The only other teams who can threaten the Bills atop the A-10 are St. Joseph's (12-7) and Rhode Island (12-8). The Hawks and Rams each have four games remaining to tie the Billikens conference mark. St. Joseph's owns a tie-breaker over SLU, but the Bills and Rams have not met this season. If they tie, their win percentage against common opponents will determine the top seed in the tournament.
Tomorrow, the Billikens will send freshman Nick Bates to the hill to battle Charlotte sophomore Tyler Barnette. First pitch will be at 11:00 a.m. central.


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This idea can have logic and great value even for an atheist.
Not that long ago I offered for some angry people to kick my head in, to prove a point about how men should treat women (i.e. don't bully them). (I guess they didn't have the heart to do it.)
Among the many interpretations which can be placed on the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, we can say this:
Jesus went to his death willingly - in that he knew it was going to happen, and didn't run away, when he could have done - in order to prove and illustrate a point. That point was his life's work (well, the last 3 years'). One of his main lessons was that we can all be given the chance for our sins to be forgiven, provided we earn it and do the necessary real work involved. Provided we go to our Crucifixion willingly. If he can get himself crucified, we should be up to saying sorry and putting things right when we have to. We should be humble enough to suffer for what we have done. We should be humble enough to let something go instead of escalating to some kind of blood feud.
He also forgave the people who were crucifying him.
By dramatically illustrating the idea that God can forgive our sins, will always give us a second chance to make good: life became possible, life became good, life became fruitful. Instead of nasty, brutish and short. Hence the Resurrection.
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"Jesus does not have the market cornered on spiritual principles though. I learned about the importance of forgiving, but not from Jesus' story."
This is true, and if J was alive today, I should think he would be the first to agree with you. Personally, when I think of forgiveness, it's always the Jesus story and the Crucifixion which springs straight to mind. This is intuitive, without doing any intellectual analysis.
I believe that it can be very useful to illustrate, personify certain concepts with powerful myths in order to study those concepts. The subconscious speaks the language of symbols and myths. This is where physical fact crosses over into human meaning.
I agree with you about the usefulness of examining the subconscious with symbols and myths. It is strange - I don't think much about Jesus, the Bible or God but my subconscious does. I've had some bizarre dreams that betray my subconscious' attempts at sorting this all out or a t least categorizing it. The end result can be very amusing.
Actually, about the only time I think about 'religion' is when someone else mentions it. Occasionally I see something quiet beautiful, and many times interesting, that can get me into some funk with spiritual over tones, but I am still a recovering catholic. I don't pretend to use sliced bread and bad wine for a kitchen mass, I am further on than that...;p)
Frankly, I prefer the Good Samaritan story, he didn't feel the need to forgive anybody, he simply helped a man who needed it - far more "intuitive, without doing any intellectual analysis."
This brings up an interesting question.... "He forgave the people who were crucifying him".... does that mean that they get to go to heaven, even though they were still unbelievers?
If they don't get to go to heaven then Jesus's forgiveness is empty.
@Wesley -
"does that mean that they get to go to heaven"
In theory, yes.
Ok, If Jebus forgave the ones killing him and they did not ask for forgiveness and they get to go to heaven? Then while we are breaking all the rules anyway, lets just have Jebus forgive everyone without asking and send everyone to heaven!
I never did understand why the creator of the universe could not forgive sin, (the wasting of semen) without killing his son?
OK, time to drag the stock answer out of mothballs: "God works in mysterious ways --"
"By dramatically illustrating the idea that God can forgive our sins, will always give us a second chance to make good: life became possible, life became good, life became fruitful. Instead of nasty, brutish and short. Hence the Resurrection. "
He illustrated that God could forgive our sins but wouldn't until worshipped in the correct way in the correct religion. 'Will always give us a second chance"? I don't know how one short life of mistakes and then eternal damnation is always giving us a second chance. There's only ONE chance and if you don't take it before you die then you are doomed to one short dismal life and then eternal suffering etc..etc.. I don't see how this makes life good or fruitfull . This also sets up an elitist mindset where all other people and religions are wrong regardless of their teachings about god and an afterlife, love, forgiveness, helping others, doing good etc.... These others are doomed to hell regardless of what they do or believe.
To me it is this mindset that is nasty and brutish.
RE: "Jesus went to his death willingly - in that he knew it was going to happen, and didn't run away, when he could have done - in order to prove and illustrate a point." - according to some anonymous writers, writing 40-100 years after Yeshua allegedly lived. At least Superman flies around actually saving lives, wouldn't we be better off, emulating him?
Top 10 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than Jesus
10. No one will kill you for not drinking Beer.
9. Beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.
8. Beer has never caused a major war.
7. They don't force Beer on minors who can't think for themselves.
6. When you have a Beer, you don't knock on people's doors trying to give it away.
5. Nobody's ever been burned at the stake, hanged, or tortured over his brand of Beer.
4. You don't have to wait 2000+ years for a second Beer.
3. There are laws saying Beer labels can't lie to you.
2. You can prove you have a Beer.
1. If you've devoted your life to Beer, there are groups to help you stop.
hahahaha! a toast to all beer lovers!


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gpsim is a software simulator for Microchip's PIC microcontrollers. It was designed to provide accurate simulation at real-time speeds. Support exists for all three families of PIC's: 12-, 14-, and 16-bit cores. Simulator features like breakpoints (both execution and memory), trace, symbolic debugging, etc. are all supported. Additonally, simulated stimuli like square waves and analog signals are supported or, if you want, you can create your own dynamically loadable modules (like a 7-segment display). gpsim has both a GTK-based GUI and a readline-based CLI.
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.
LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a Web application that interacts with MySQL, MSSQL, or Postgres to develop surveys, publish surveys, and collect responses to surveys. Once a survey has been created, data can be inserted into the survey either by a "pretty" public screen which presents each question one at a time, or by a quick and nasty data entry screen. It includes the capacity to generate individualized "tokens", so that invitations can be issued to participants. It also has the capacity to set conditions on whether questions will display (branching), numerous question types, and a basic statistics function.
FTPL (FakeTime Preload Library, aka libfaketime) intercepts various system library calls and tricks programs of your choice into seeing a faked system time without having to change the time system-wide. This can be used for running legacy software with Y2K bugs, testing software for year-2038 compliance, debugging time-related issues such as expired SSL certificates, and using software that ceases to run outside a certain time frame. The faked time can be specified either absolutely or relative to the real current time, and optionally also affects file timestamps. The faked clock continues to run, but can optionally be frozen, slowed down, or made faster. A wrapper script "faketime" simplifies the usage, similar to tools such as fakechroot.
Portecle is a GUI version of the command-line keytool provided with the Java SDK. Portecle can create many different types of keystores, generate and store keys and their associated X.509 certificates, generate CSRs, import and store trusted certificates, and perform maintenance on keystore entries.
Policyd v2 (codenamed "cluebringer") is a multi-platform policy server for popular MTAs. This policy daemon is designed mostly for large scale mail hosting environments. The main goal is to implement as many spam combating and email compliance features as possible while at the same time maintaining portability, stability, and performance. Its features include detailed policy and group specification, access control, helo/ehlo checks (helo randomization prevention and RFC compliance), SPF checks, Greylisting, Quotas, and Amavisd-new integration.
Pootle is a Web-based translation and translation management tool. It provides a rich set of features for mangaging a translation project. It integrates components of the Translate Toolkit to provide error checkers for translation messages and the ability to download files in a number of formats: PO, XLIFF, CSV. Pootle can also provide compiled PO files for download. You can use it to assign work to translators in your team, and you can define goals to help focus the efforts of your translation. Pootle can run without a Web server or be proxied through your existing Apache server.
Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats, such as PostScript, PDF, single page and multi-page TIFF, DVI, DjVu, and others. It features page thumbnails, printing via the GNOME or GTK+ printing frameworks, and searching within the documents. It supports the displaying of PDF indexes, the displaying and editing of PDF annotations, and the viewing of encrypted PDF documents.
A minimalist news reader.
Some chemistry-related programs for the GNOME desktop.


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I'll be visiting New York for three days in June--three dinners and two lunches--and was hoping to get some help in reifying my dining agenda. Last summer I ate at Per Se, Le Bernardin, Corton, Daniel and Eleven Madison Park. And while I might return to one of those, I would really like to branch out and try a new set of places. The menus at wd~50, The Modern and Jean-Georges caught my eye on first glance, but I'm wondering, for the latter two, would I be missing out if I went for lunch instead of dinner? What would be some other places to consider?
Thanks in advance for your help!


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Relatively new name in respect to Iranian names in general. Created by the neo-poet (Shereh Noe) Nima Yushij, it is essentially the backwards form of Amin; a bird of sorts
by Nima666 March 02, 2008
Known for great strength and wisdom. New generation (20th century) Hercules. Masculine, Smart, Admirable
by NIMA E March 27, 2010
James was suspened for being caught in the act of Nima.
by C Gray November 18, 2005
A beutiful young girl who is smart, cute, and physically strong. On the outside she may seem like the emotionally strongest person ever, but her heart will long for someone. She may seem like she's mean, but her heart is pure. She is very caring, only, she will worry a lot; so it's hard for anyone to see that care. She is comitted to friendship and relationships in life. She values it more than anything. She will not let you down until you let her down and she will always be there for you.
by Neena Shah April 25, 2013
A really arrogant and narcissistic Persian male. He does not know where he is half of the time and will leave you stranded and crying in the end. He claims to have so many girls who like him , when in reality he has no one. He isn't as cool as he makes himself to be, and you'll just want to punch him in the face after spending time with him. But there are surprising times when he's not a pain in the ass and is actually nice and fun to be around.
by yourebasic January 31, 2015
Pronounced "Nee-Mah." A cultural term used to describe a certain type of Persian male. Guys who are nimas are typically considered to be delicate, fragile, and somewhat effeminate. Basically, a way to refer to a beta male . Generally used positively in America and most regions of Iran, but used negatively in Isfahan and Tehran. The term is generally thought to be related to the Persian poet Nima Yooshij, who was renowned for his emotional and romantic poetry.
His delicate fingers make him seem like a nima.
I don't think he'd do well in a fight, he's too much of a nima.
I don't think he'd do well in a fight, he's too much of a nima.
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Now It's Serious: Shrink Ray Hits Beer
Although we've been covering the unpleasant phenomenon of the grocery shrink ray for a while, we've been slightly relieved that the shrinking products were things like soap, gum, and orange juice—not crucial staples of our existence. Not anymore, according to the Wall Street Journal: Bars and restaurants are shrinking their beers. The horror!
According to the Journal, some establishments are subtly reducing their "pint" glasses to 14 ounces, rather than the full 16 ounces that comprise a pint, either by using smaller glasses or using heavy-bottomed pint glasses (called "falsies") that have reduced capacity. Other bars are giving patrons extra head on their pours in order to fill up the glass. When confronted, restaurateurs were alarmingly frank: A representative for Hooters (which, really, should understand that its patrons value size) explained, "We can get 20 more beers out of a keg that way." Another defended the decision to switch to the 14 ounce glasses: "Someone who comes in and wants a beer doesn't want a huge glass. Fourteen ounces is enough." As a connoisseur of forties, mug nights, and gallon daiquiri Sundays, we must stress how wrongheaded a sentiment that is. Some pint fans have begun outing the faux-pint establishments and the Oregon legislature is considering having the state agriculture department monitor violations, but in the meantime, might we suggest a flask?
A Pint-Size Problem (Thanks to Gwen!)
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Two hundred countries and 20 times around the planet - a man's amazing journey in his Mercedes.
This 5 minute video is a glimpse into the life and travels of Gunther Holtorf, on a 23-year, 500,000 mile journey. This man has experienced, lived and seen so many of the places, cultures and environments that we try to make come to life for our students as we study the wonderful world we live in.
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Anyone who owns property in Shelby County – especially new, recent homebuyers – may be interested in a primer on the local reappraisal process, a major event that happens here every four years and the initial phase of which is wrapping up now.
The reappraisal process involves the Shelby County Assessor of Property updating the property values listed in the assessor's records for all taxable real estate in Shelby County – approximately 351,000 parcels of property.
That excludes a variety of property types that aren't on the tax rolls, for a variety of reasons. Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett, for example, is part of a for-profit hospital company, so it's on the tax rolls, while other nonprofit hospitals aren't.
The process is a major undertaking, and getting it right is important for several reasons. Both Memphis and Shelby County governments use the property tax to get most of their revenue, so that makes it important that accurate figures are established.
Four years was chosen as the frequency with which the assessor will undertake that process. The reason for the needed frequency is because over time, some owners' property values rise, and some fall. And since a property's value determines its tax bill, that means that if the assessor did not keep the official property values updated regularly, some people would be paying too much in property taxes and some people would be paying too little.
This is why Shelby County Assessor Cheyenne Johnson and her staff frequently say the reappraisal process "equalizes" the tax burden for everyone in Shelby County.
"We put all the sales data out there," so property owners can see what their values are based on, Johnson said.
The reappraisal also is an empirical process. To determine a property's value, the assessor's staff looks at the property's use, its physical characteristics and recent market conditions.
Recent market conditions are studied by looking at actual comparable property sales that occurred during the years since the prior reappraisal.
This year's reappraisal is unique, because for the first time in memory the assessor estimates that once everything is finished and all the reappraisal notices sent out, the county will be left with an atypical result.
The county's tax base has shrunk.
Usually, like clockwork, the overall amount of taxable real estate in Shelby County grows from one reappraisal to the next. State law dictates that after a reappraisal, a local government must first "reset" the property tax rate to whatever figure will produce the same amount of revenue as before, when the tax base was smaller.
Once the government has done that, it's free to return the tax rate back to where it was most recently. That happens often among local governments in Shelby County following the reappraisal, and it makes two things apparent: the tax rate doesn't look like it's changed, even though the government would be collecting more revenue.
This year, though, the assessor is estimating the county's tax base to shrink in the aggregate. So, according to state law, that means local governments where that's the case would need to raise the tax rate to whatever will produce the same amount of revenue as before the overall tax base dropped.
Those government bodies would then be free to raise the tax rate again, if they choose.
All that said, no matter the outcome of a reappraisal, one thing is always true: some people's tax bills go up, and some people's tax bills go down.
As of the week that ended April 5, the assessor's office had mailed out almost 290,000 reappraisal notices – 83 percent of the total. The next mailing is April 20.
It's also important to note that the initial figure the assessor arrives at is not necessarily the last word. Owners are allowed to file an appeal.
"We do reappraisal according to the standard principles of appraisal," Johnson said. "But people know more about their individual properties than we do. And we'll make the necessary adjustments if we need to."
This is how the tax burden is equalized: No matter if someone owns a $500,000 home, a $100,000 home or anything above, below or between that range, the assessor will identify what's called the appraised value of that property. The owner then will pay taxes on only a percentage of that appraised value.
The process is fair, because owners of the same property type will pay taxes on the same percentage of their appraised value. Residential property owners only pay taxes based on 25 percent of their property's appraised value. For commercial property owners, it's 40 percent. That keeps the burden, on a percentage basis, equitable for property owners with the same kinds of property.
The window opens May 1 for property owners to file appeals to the local Board of Equalization.
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Defenseman Aaron Ward, who skated for just a little more than three minutes Saturday against Detroit before leaving the line-up due to injury, will not go on the team's two-game road trip to face Tampa Bay and Florida, Boston Bruins head coach Claude Juilen revealed today after the team's practice at Ristuccia Arena in Wilmington.
While Julien would only reveal that Ward has a leg injury, the veteran blueliner was seen waltzing through the locker room with a protective boot on his left foot up to just a few inches below his knee. Ward explained to the media he wasn't allowed to address his injury. Julien said Ward will be re-evaluated next week and it's anticipated that he'll be just day-to-day after that time.
Ward, who was injured checking Detroit's Derek Meech along the wall, joins Andrew Ference among Bruins top-six defensemen who are on the shelf. Another defenseman is expected to be recalled from Providence (AHL) later today. Ward's injury leaves the Bruins down one right-handed shooter, so that could affect Boston's decision.
"It just means your depth gets tested a lot more," said Julien. "Your experienced guys are dwindling down, I guess, if you want to put it that way. But it is something that we have to work with a little closer. You might see some D pairs like you saw the other night – not just necessarily the same pairs together, but mix and match and make sure we've got the right combinations together against the other team's top lines."
Ward's shot blocking and penalty-kill skills will be great missed, but Matt Hunwick has done an excellent job filling Ference's skates and it's probably that anyone that gets a shot in Ward's absence will also be able to hold down the fort.


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An enterprise app store eliminates the complexity created by cloud computing and mobile workstyles. And augments information security. This paper explores how three organizations realized significant benefits using Citrix Unified Storefront™, the industry's first enterprise app store solution. These real-world implementations, including a large provincial government and a North American retail organization demonstrate the value of an enterprise app store for people, IT and the organization as a whole.


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Submission + - Physicists localize 3-D matter waves for first tim (sciencemag.org)
RogerRoast writes: University of Illinois physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time how three-dimensional conduction is affected by the defects that plague materials. Understanding these effects is important for many electronics applications. The report appears in Science.


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Firefox Updates Fix 12 Vulnerabilities
Mozilla has released versions 3.6.11 and 3.5.14 of Firefox to address 12 vulnerabilities in nine updates. Five of the updates are rated Critical, two High, one Moderate and one Low.
The updates may be downloaded directly: click here for 3.6.11 and here for 3.5.14. You can download updates with the Help-Check for Updates feature. If you don't update within 24-48 hours, you should receive a notification that an update is available.
Even though an update is available for the 3.5 branch of Firefox, Mozilla recommends strongly that you upgrade to 3.6.11. Before too long, support for the 3.5 branch will be withdrawn.
See the individual updates after the jump:
- MFSA 2010-64 (Low) Miscellaneous memory safety hazards
- MFSA 2010-65 (Critical) Buffer overflow and memory corruption using document.write
- MFSA 2010-66 (Moderate) Use-after-free error in nsBarProp
- MFSA 2010-67 (High) Dangling pointer vulnerability in LookupGetterOrSetter
- MFSA 2010-68 (High) XSS in gopher parser when parsing hrefs
- MFSA 2010-69 (Critical) Cross-site information disclosure via modal calls
- MFSA 2010-70 (Critical) SSL wildcard certificate matching IP addresses
- MFSA 2010-71 (Critical) Unsafe library loading vulnerabilities
- MFSA 2010-72 (Critical) Insecure Diffie-Hellman key exchange
Mozilla has also announced that Thunderbird 3.0.10, the next version of the 3.0.x branch of Thunderbird, will be the last of that generation. All users are strongly urged to upgrade to the 3.1 branch.
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The deadline for H-1B Visa applications is April 1. In the week after that deadline, a lottery system will determine which high-skilled workers are able to stay and work in the US. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Bhavik Bhatt, who has already struck out once before in the lottery, but is taking his chances again.
Taking Chances With Lottery For High-Skilled Workers' Visas
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In this exercise, students use a controlled environment to demonstrate the build up of gases in the large intestine. Through their observations, they will better understand the mechanisms that create flatulence (passing gas) and how microorganisms can be beneficial to overall health.
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After completing this activity, the student will be able to:
- Investigate the factors that lead to the release of gas from our large intestines.
- Recreate these factors within a scientific setting.
- Hypothesize how gas is made in the large intestine based on observations of their experiments.
- Articulate why this process is important for digestion and overall health.
Student Background
Students may not have heard of the word "flatulence" before, but they most likely have had some experience with it. Flatulence is the word scientists use to refer to the gas that builds up in your lower intestines and is expelled through the anus. You may want to give students a chance to be silly to get over their initial embarrassment about the content. It may even help to have them share the words they use at home for "passing gas" and remind them that for the remainder of the class everyone will be expected to utilize the words that scientists use. The build up of gas comes from two main sources 1) air swallowed while eating and/or drinking and 2) by the breakdown of carbohydrates in the intestines. This lesson will deal with the second source of gas that leads to flatulence.
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Unless you have a degree in Software Engineering, it's both misleading and might be illegal to use the "Software Engineer" title in your country.
It would only be illegal if there was a public certification. There is no legislative authority in college program accreditation, or in determining titles. As long as someone is not misrepresenting their resume, there is nothing illegal with any title. I could call an employee "King of England" if I wanted to.
Not true in Canada. Calling yourself an "engineer" without the appropriate blessing is in fact illegal.
an Alberta court dismissed the lawsuit filed by The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) against Raymond Merhej for using the title "System Engineer", claiming that, "The Respondent's situation is such that it cannot be contended that the public is likely to be deceived, confused or jeopardized by his use of the term
If you read further in that link, they're working on compromise. The associations obviously want to protect themselves and keep the membership fees rolling in but they're fighting a losing battle. No one in software cares about titles like they do.
Also, as I believe it's actually the specific title of "Professional Engineer" (P.Eng) that is protected in Canada. Not just any old engineering title.
Professional Engineer is protected in the US too. But you don't see it much outside of government. A PE isn't very useful in private industries, it's too broad and to mgmt sounds like a union.
I think I agree with you, but what if you have a degree in computer science? Is your title "Developer with a degree in Computer Science?" I don't think I could really call myself a computer scientist with a straight face, yet that is my degree.
In the UK, BSc in Computer Science from a University can be accredited qualification for a Chartered Engineer status.
Definitely. Just like the janitor who calls himself a sanitation engineer, you've got lots of code monkeys wanting to sound more prestigious by calling themselves software engineers. It demeans the guy who really is a sanitation engineer with a civil engineering degree designing the city's sewer and water treatment system.
Even if you have the hat [starcostumes.com]?
Unless you have a degree in Software Engineering
Now I find this alone fascinating. When I was in college, "Software Engineering" was one class in the CS major. There was no Software Engineering degree available at my school, and I suspect at no college or university.
You know, you could have just done a simple web search. There are university degrees in Software Engineering. Example: http://uwaterloo.ca/software-engineering/home [uwaterloo.ca]
Can I do a web search in 1994 for this? Because I don't think there was a Software Engineering degree in 1994, or 1998.
Sorry; rereading what I said I realize what was confusing.
How do I, as a person who already has an MS in CSE, get to call myself a Software Engineer? I'm not going back to college for another, extremely similar degree. There wasn't a SE major when I was in college. So I assume there must be some other mechanism for people to be allowed to call themselves "Software Engineers" whenever the law that started limiting this was passed.
I have two degrees, in both Computer Science and Computer Engineering. So I can call myself both a scientist and an engineer.
Everyone and their uncle is now a "programmer" so it's not worth using the title anymore. Anyone who uses XML or has created a web page decides to be called a programmer. "Developer" is ok, but it doesn't mean much to me, it's sort of like a person that Steve Ballmer is shouting at. Once I started having to read schematics and use an oscilloscope at work I started calling myself
A programmer (developer?) writes code that hopefully works. A software engineer writes code that is designed to work.
Nice. But how about:
A software engineer writes tests.
The stupidity is your shitty English parser. He said designed to work, not "that works"
I like to just say programmer.
Programmers programmers programmers PROGRAMMERS PROGRAMMERS PROGRAMMERS. *chairtoss*
Nah, doesn't flow off the tongue.
I'll stick with "developers".
From an immigration perspective, USCIS cares a lot about the distinction between engineer and programmer. Ask anyone who's entered the US in TN status what it's like answering the question 'how much programming do you do?' It's a trap! Programmer is not a NAFTA-qualified occupation, whereas Software Engineer is... NAFTA considers that you can obtain programming credentials from a community college, versus requiring a B.Sc or B.Eng to become a Software Engineer. The occupational description hinges on 'analys
Easy.... Use software engineer. It sounds richer so gets more babes
Do you speak it? [programmin...fucker.com]
I am looking forward to seeing how
As the for question itself, it is posed in a very superficial context. They use a lot of marketing buzzwords and quasi-coder jargon.
They also assume that everyone agrees that those two titles are the only two titles the people who write code have. I know of journalists, animators, artists, scientists and accountants who code **regularly** on a myriad of languages.
Coding is what is in question here. I *love*
Software Engineer: can build a flexible, properly designed application architecture and has grown past the schooled "everything fits within some methodology X" phase (i.e. can think outside the box).
Developer: will usually be able to make something that works, and even write quite nice code when given good direction, but can create a mess when given a chance to be a cowboy coder.
Of course, many programmers are somewhere in the middle, usually leaning more towards "engineering" when the deadline is months away and "developing" when the deadline is days away.
"Do you sit down and bang out code a few hours before the deadline..."
Your argument was saved by:
"without adhering to a well-defined method of designing the system"
because Agile Development definitely includes the first half as (a non-ideal) part of its paradigm, but not the second.
"Seriously, I've worked in states where it's illegal to give someone without an engineering degree the title "Engineer", but I've worked with engineers who didn't finish college and found them every bit as good (sometimes much better) than the ones who didn't."
Personally, I might be more comfortable in a state where it was illegal to call some people who DO have engineering degrees "Engineers".
is what I went with. Has a nice TLA.
It doesn't make sense that a software engineer would need a degree in computer science. They are two different domains [stevemcconnell.com].
Maybe software tends to be so buggy because it isn't always engineered to be reliable. It's cobbled together in the lab, and if it works in the lab, the assumption is that it will work in the field.
"It doesn't make sense that a software engineer would need a degree in computer science. They are two different domains."
It seems to me that the page referenced is little more than a very long and half-baked attempt to explain the difference between science and technology.
You've made two different arguments, one of which is patently incorrect. The other, however, while possible, sounds like a recipe for disaster.
First off, they are hardly separate domains. Software Engineering is merely one field within Computer Science, which is itself a rather broad field covering a number of different disciplines (e.g. artificial intelligence, interface design, networking, graphics, formal language development, etc.). You only need to read a handful of research papers in the field of Software Engineering before you'd be convinced of the same. It's just as science-based as the rest of Computer Science, just as theoretical, and just as full of lab ideas that don't actually work in the field. Plus, it's inseparable from other Computer Science fields such as programming language design, which dictate just which ideas are even possible. Granted, it's a bit of a misnomer to call it "Software Engineering", since it's actually more like "Software Design Science", but I didn't choose the name.
Moving on, your core idea was that Software Engineers do not need a degree in Computer Science, but I just can't see how that would work. Playing my own Devil's Advocate for a bit, most "Computer Scientists" are actually engaging in applied Computer Science (i.e. programming/developing) rather than the pursuit of Computer Science (i.e. working in academia or an industry R&D lab). Similarly, most Software Engineers are engaging in applied Software Engineering, rather than pursuing the science of the field. Again, playing Devil's Advocate, I could see an argument for providing a curriculum more focused on the "what" and "how" (i.e. "here are what the tools are and how you use them") to the exclusion of the "why", somewhat analogous to what a two-year programming degree might offer. It teaches the tools but not the reasoning behind them.
That said, I just can't imagine what cuts you would make so that it's no longer a Computer Science degree. You can't cut out programming from the Software Engineer's curriculum. If you did, you'd be effectively putting someone with no experience in a design position where experience REALLY counts. That works in traditional engineering fields where they can be shepherded by someone more experienced for several years. But software projects tend not to be large enough to justify paying for someone who can't pull their own weight once the programming needs to get done, let alone an experienced one and a newcomer. So unless you want to force them to program despite their lack of training in it, you will have to move them on before they get in the trenches to make the thing they've designed. As a result, they'll be entirely divorced from the feedback process that would influence future design ideas. As I said at the top, that sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
So if you're going to be leaving in programming, what else would you cut from a typical Computer Science degree? At the time I was in grad school, our undergrad Computer Science department curriculum was revamped to have students choose a "branch" once they reached their upper level courses (i.e. the ones after intro programming, data structures, algorithms, etc.). One of those branches was Software Engineering, and, as you can guess, students who chose that branch would be taking a number of classes oriented around that topic. Even if there were a dedicated Software Engineering degree, I'm not sure how it would be functionally different from a Software Engineering oriented degree in Computer Science, like what my university already offers.
well IT sysadmin / network / desktop / work should be cut from 4 year degrees / CS and moved into apprenticeship / trade school like setting.
Actually, where I come from, software engineering technical universities are inferior to computer science which is taught in proper universities along with math and physics as science. Not as a practical engineering discipline. So for me, based on my educational background being called engineer is sort of an insult. Engineers are guys who learn how stuff works, but not why. They are capable of executing, but not of complex individual effort.
Clearly different countries view the term differently. But since I
Having been officially both a (senior) software developer and software engineer (at the same time) I prefer a different term entirely: Software Development Craftmaster (and the related Software Development Journey(wo)man and Software Development Apprentice).
I feel it more accurately reflects what I do. There are elements of engineering (in particular the discipline which takes years to develop) combined with high levels of creativity.
Just wish I could claim it legally, but there's no Software Development guild here.
"I would have to satisfy all the academic requirements of an undergrad engineer, work as a supervised engineer-in-training for between 2-4 years and pass a professional practice exam to qualify."
I have nothing against the experience, but personally I am against certification of programmers (your "practice exam"). Of course maybe it's still a question of terminology, because what you think of as a Software Engineer may be somewhat different than what the average person in the U.S. thinks.
Still: I know developers who lean more to the artistic side, and do well in that niche designing and coding interfaces, etc. even though they might have trouble passing such an exam. I know some who are more on t
Women need to like the job of the guy they're with. If they don't like the job, they don't like the guy. Men know this. Which is why we make up the phony, bogus names for the jobs that we have. "Well, right now, I'm the regional management supervisor. I'm in development, research, consulting..."
Men on the other hand – if they are physically attracted to a woman – are not that concerned with her job. Are we? Men don't really care. Men'll just go, "Really? Slaughterhouse? Is that where you work? That sounds interesting. So whaddaya got a big cleaver there? You're just lopping their heads off? That sounds great! Listen, why don't you shower up, and we'll get some burgers and catch a movie."
Are you licensed by the state? Does your profession have a code of conduct? Are there standardized tests for entering the profession? Is there an accepted body of knowledge?
Sadly, the answer is no to all of these. The person who cuts your hair has more certification than the person who writes pacemaker software.
"Sadly, the answer is no to all of these. The person who cuts your hair has more certification than the person who writes pacemaker software."
Yes, I have read about issues with pacemakers... but I've also had bad haircuts. Certification by the State is no guarantee that you will be good at your job.
Outside of the countries where "Software Engineer" actually has a legal meaning and requirements to claim it (while "Developer", "Programmer", or whatever doesn't), the difference is largely that one sounds better than the other. People like to use "Software Engineer" even if they're in fact nothing of the sort, due to the connotation that comes with it.
It's not hard to find people calling themselves Software Engineers that aren't doing anything resembling engineering, just like it's not hard to find people calling themselves Developers that are really doing software engineering. In the end if you're able to do the job well, nobody gives a damn what you're calling yourself.
A (Chartered) Engineer is someone trusted by society and the law to get things right using state-of-the-art scientific knowledge. If their solution fails due to not using the "best practise" known at the time then the Engineer responsible is liable for a charge of professional negligence. Eg, A bridge collapses killing people, and it is found that the welding technique chosen by the engineer responsible for the design is outdated and known to be dangerous. That engineer faces a prison sentence for negligenc
Somehow I doubt it means you must always use the absolute latest methods. It just means you need to use an appropriate method taking into account current knowledge. Dirt berms are as old as the hills, so to speak, but it can be entirely appropriate for a civil engineer to specify one as part of a road's right-of-way to control drainage, for example. Likewise, I don't have to write my code in the latest, greatest language de jure if plain old C is appropriate to the task.
Shouldn't a certain number of cras
Both places I've worked in my 11 years as a professional didn't really distinguish. I have a Computer Science and Engineering degree. I write and design software. I'm in the research and development arm (or the Engineering arm) of the company. It's several ways to say one thing.
Yes, some distinctions can be drawn, like whether you interface with customers, who does the architecture or design, etc., but in general the people I work with are all over the software life cycle, from beginning to end. We do development (of software) and the official job title has always had "Engineer" and sometimes "Development" or "Software" in it.
In my opinion, those are just titles my friend and I see no reasons why we should ever consider them anything more.
You could just call yourself "wizard". Like 90% of the population treats either title differently than "wizard" anyway.
Whether I call myself a developer or software engineer will not affect my income. I'm old school (over 40) and I think that people building systems as long as I have tend not to care about titles. I'm not even sure there was a "software engineer" title when I started programming.
What I can say is that people that are coming out of college today calling themselves either tend to not have a clue what they are doing. (Of course there are exceptions, but the truly good people are hard to find.) And don't forget the recent title of "Software (or Data) Architect..." This idiots conceptualize a system, charge a ton of money, and have others build it. When it fails, they blame the developers and/or run to another job.
Then there are "Front End Developers," which are nothing more than a graphic/web designer that knows how to add some horribly written jQuery to a site and changed their name to developer in order to get paid more.
Essentially this whole debate is really about one huge issue: Large Companies are trying to turn the entire development process into something that can be done like an assembly line. They are chopping it up into little pieces so that anyone can perform the same monotonous task. The smaller your piece is, the more people that can focus on that specific area, the more people that can do it, the less you are worth. The less the companies pay, the happier they become. The more pieces there are, the more titles.
Unfortunately, (or fortunately if you really know what you are doing) the development process is not easy to break down into pieces. While certain pieces can be farmed out, the overall system will work best when one person knows how to build the system as a whole and can take the project from the requirements to a working application. (And companies rarely want to pay for these good people.)
If I had some plant that was failing at 3:15am and costing me a fortune, I know which I would prefer to have on site.
What if you just ramble on about
Sure you'll get a job, but you won't ever actually produce anything.
Here's how I've observed some terms used:
- Coder: a person who knows how to bang out some software code; often used disparragingly. cf "Code Monkey"
- Programmer: Any person who makes software for a living. Used mostly when speaking with non-technical people, because they immediately understand what it means.
- Developer: Neutral term for a person who makes software.
- Software Engineer: A developer who favors a heavily-planned approach to making software.
- Software Architect: Someone who designs applications or systems. May be "hands on" and themselves write significant parts of the application; or maybe more of a management role.
I am a developer when telling other developers what I do.
I am a Software Engineer when giving my role to other non-developers.
Realistically, the two are interchangeable, and snobbish people tend to use "Software Engineer" when talking with other developers (or when on interviews).
Software Development as an industry is not really in a place you can really have "Software Engineers", at least not in ways that any real company besides NASA would use them as engineers.
Because it pisses off the stick-up-their-ass Professional Engineers who think they own the word, which existed long before their little guilds got formed. The original engineers were military engineers. Next came the general meaning of the term, then the train drivers and the steam engine operators. The PEs are johnny come latelies from the 20th century -- and where Professional Engineering starts, innovation ends.
I believe the only state in the US which demands a P.E. from a Software Engineer is Texas.
There is a reason people laugh and mock people who call themselves Software Engineers outside of the IT World. They are fluff titles. Even at its best, Computers Engineering is just a subset of Electrical Engineering focused on the designs of hardware from the CPU/GPU/DSP, etc., and their interaction with Software.
Whether it is Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Biomechanical [Applied ME with Biology], Civil, Structural, Materials Science Engineering disciplines are grounded in mutable laws of engineering extended from the laws of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, through all applicable languages of Mathematics Disciplines.
Bill Joy has long wished for Software Engineering to become factual by taking cues from Mechanical Engineering [though since he never has been a Mechanical Engineer I doubt he realizes how impractical that wish will ever be], due to the innate Art behind Computer Programming, Computer Architecture, Computer Software Design, etc.
In order for Software Engineering to be a recognized Engineering Discipline via ABET one would expect them to take Thermodynamics/Thermodynamic Systems, Dynamic Systems, Materials Science Engineering, Finite Element Analysis and more where one applies the various electives to writing Software applications to apply said disciplines--the exact reality all Engineering disciplines due for zero credit or recognition.
You want an Engineering Degree, then get one. You want a Computer Science degree and it's several specialties than get one. Stop pretending they are equivalent. None of my former CS majors ever compared our CS degree curriculum to my Mechanical Engineering curriculum. Mechanical Engineering is a very broad and deep curriculum now with several areas including Tribology, MEMS, Robotics [Applied Kinematics with EE/ME control systems], along with their many other tracks in Machine Design, Fracture Mechanics, Dynamic Systems, Heat Transfer Disciplines, etc].
Stop calling yourselves Software Engineers. You aren't designing solutions that adhere to Computer Science Laws. You are designing to Best Practices, Design Patterns, all centered around Semantics/Linguistics/Discrete mathematics, applied logic and other Art disciplines. Embrace the Art. Stop pawning yourselves off as Engineers.
The Engineer in Training Exam provided by every state in the United States is a comprehensive exam [8 hours] over your past 5 years that allows one to reduce the time it takes [under a Principle Engineer (Often mistaken as Professional Engineer)] to then qualify and apply to become a P.E., from 12 years under a P.E., licensed and bonded down to 4 years.
The lack of understanding the IT World has for the parent worlds of Engineering is staggering.
When building a bridge to take a 10 ton load, you better use 15 ton beams just in case one is under spec. When building a circuit to switch at 10 MHz, use components designed for 12 MHz just in case one is under spec. It's called "tolerances" and is the underpinning of all engineering, and is a great idea for those fields where once it is b
Like how to design a system that won't fail the minute the requirements change.
Are you actually under the impression that requirements do not change in large engineering projects?
To me, a programmer is anyone who just sits down and bangs out code, with no concern for architecture, coding standards, best practices, etc...
A Software Engineer is someone who plans, designs, follows best practices, coding standards, etc... They care about error handing, usability, reliability, and maintainability.
I'm not one, but I think that software engineers use formalized approaches (Requirements Elicitation, etc.) to not only solve immediate problems, but also recursively improve those processes so that they're always benefitting from what they've done in the past, making them more responsive and nimble.
Also, and this is just something I've noticed: I see a lot of people identifying themselves as "Java developers" or "C++ developers" or giving some other specific language(s) in their title. I don't remember off
I remember at one job I had to call up HR once and ask them what my title was. But it did gradually dawn on me that you don't want to be a title step lower than people who are equally or less skilled than you are. It does affect how others see you in the company and ultimately may affect your salary and promotion prospects, although I don't believe my own career has been derailed much by not caring.
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Shawn Thornton is large and contains multitudes.
Nine days ago, the Boston Bruins winger apologized for slew-footing Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik, then punching him in the face , twice and with a gloved hand, while Orpik's head was on the ice. Two days ago, he was suspended 15 games for that attack. Monday, he (and the NHLPA) decided to appeal said suspension.
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It's possible to engage in both those acts — the apology and the appeal — without earning the "hypocrite" tag. That doesn't matter much, because Thornton will wear it anyway.
Fifteen games is the longest regular-suspension dealer out by director of player safety Brendan Shanahan in his two-plus seasons on the job. It's also a good opportunity for the NHLPA to test the appeals process. Earlier in the season, Buffalo Sabres winger (and dirty-hit recidivist) Patrick Kaleta took the same step , but accepted commissioner Gary Bettman's decision to uphold his 10-game suspension.
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Bettman, again, will choose between signing off on Shanahan's decision and shortening it; if he does the latter, Thornton and the NHLPA could opt to take the case to an neutral arbitrator, a collectively bargained right that hasn't yet been tested. That'd make more sense for Thornton than Kaleta because he's a first-time offender — and it's a more than logical outcome, if only to see exactly how the process unfolds.
Still, back to Thornton's apology, which he delivered at his locker after the hit: "It wasn't my intention for that outcome," Thornton said, per NESN.com . "I know Brooksie, I've gotten to know him over the past several years. I got to skate with him during the lockout. I texted him a couple of times. I feel awful. It was definitely not what I wanted to see or what anyone wanted to see.
"Obviously I made a mistake. I'm aware of it. I've been told I'll be having a hearing. It's hard for me to say much more than it was not my intention. I felt sick all game.
"It's always my job, I guess, to defend my teammates, but I've prided myself for a long time to stay within the lines. It's hard for me to talk about it right now."
Thornton's attack came after Orpik deigned to fight him for delivering a legal (though borderline hit) with an unfortunate outcome; he shouldered Loui Eriksson in the chest, and Eriksson's head snapped backward. Eriksson, like Orpik, has yet to return, and his situation, at the moment, isn't a great one. Thornton's idea of defending his teammate was, in the moment, a disaster.
"I can't say I'm sorry enough, and I'm sure I'll be criticized for saying it, but it's true." Thornton said. "I just hope he's doing all right. I heard he's conscious and talking. I'm happy to hear that."
Does it matter much that he said all that? No. Sincere as he may have been, it doesn't change his act , which was heinous, or the outcome, which is depressing. The fact that it came, though, doesn't mean that he should bail out on all his options.
Does it matter much that many, including Penguins coach Dan Bylsma and general manager Ray Shero, characterize Thornton as an honest player who made a mistake? Not so much, though the fact that he's never been suspended and got a relatively long one as his first is an arguable point.
It's callous to say that Thornton may have only been 10 games' worth of sorry. It's also possible. Factor in the importance of testing the appeals process, and it's not an unreasonable step for him, or the union, to take.


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Jose Mourinho has hit back at the congested fixture list that will see his Chelsea side up against Arsenal on Tuesday 29th October two days after playing against Manchester City on Sunday 27th.
The Portuguese manager says that the lack of time between such important games means he is forced to rotate to a less experienced side:
"I have to make a decision, but probably my decision is that the under-21 team will have a very good experience to play in the Capital One Cup
"We play Sunday against Man City and we play Tuesday [in the cup] against Arsenal. When the people that decide the fixtures play us on the Tuesday after a Sunday match and Arsenal play on the Saturday [against Crystal Palace], it's something that I have to accept, because I have no other option, but I have to prioritise.
"The league is more important. After that we go to Newcastle, too, and probably it will be a good chance for the kids to play a good match."
Arsenal also have a tough fixture list around that time, with games against Dortmund, Crystal Palace and Chelsea all in the space of a week.
Arsenal's following fixture on Saturday is against Liverpool, before the Gunners face the daunting away trip to Dortmund. Manchester United at Old Trafford awaits the following Sunday.
Jose Mourinho's assertion that many first-team regulars will not be involved has been taken with a pinch of salt - with many believing that he is trying to convince Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger to play a similarly inexperienced side to their game against West Brom.
Chelsea possess more strength in depth than many of their rivals, particularly in midfield, with the likes of Juan Mata, Willian, Kevin De Bruyne, Frank Lampard and Michael Essien all failing to make the starting 11 in their last Premier League game.
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