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Authors: Selcuk Koran & Elvira Koran
Abstract: Effective management is one of the determining factors that play a critical role in teacher motivation. It is also the main factor behind a successful educational institution. Moreover, effective management is necessary to motivate people into action and propel an institution to reach its established objectives. In an educational institution, where managerial structure fails to function well, teachers obviously lose their motivation to teach as well as their commitment to the organization. Therefore, administrators' leadership styles can affect teacher motivation which will eventually affect learners' performance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the administrators' leadership styles, their awareness of teacher motivation peculiarities and strategies they use to motivate the teaching staff at Ronaki Educational Institutions in Erbil, Iraq. It further aims to investigate what makes an effective administrator. To achieve the research goal, the study firstly uses the theoretical analysis of the scientific and methodological literature on the research problem and makes use of a semi-structured interview with Ronaki Hawler Educational Institutions' administrators. In the interview with 24 administrators, the information on organizational practices and their frequencies, employed by administrators, was obtained. It included elements such as; whether/how often advancement opportunities, promotion, autonomy, bonuses were granted to the teaching staff, what sort of responsibility they possessed, how their recognition as teachers was expressed, and how secure they felt their jobs were. The findings were analyzed and discussed in the discussion part of this research study.
Keywords: Educational Leadership, Teacher Motivation, Job Satisfaction, Demotivation
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At this point no one is surprised when we learn the NSA is watching computers around the world. New information has surfaced revealing that it goes deeper than that. The NSA has apparently utilized radio waves to access over 100,000 computers that were not connected to the internet. Connected or not, a computer can still have its data and usage monitored by the agency. This seems like some James Bond Q division insanity, but it's actually fairly old technology.
The technology, named Quantum, uses a radio transmitter that is physically put into the computer, which then sends a radio signal to a relay station set up nearby. The relay is the size of a large briefcase. So we're not talking about a magical technology here, just a simple radio that requires a receiver nearby to get the information. According to a NYT article detailing the system, the transmitter has to be installed by a spy via a USB drive, or in many cases it's installed on the circuit boards at the point of manufacture.
Quantum has been helpful in solving the problem of spying on threats to U.S. national security who have taken measures with their computers to be impervious to spying. It's that great hacker trait of using old ideas, that us oh so sophisticated modern people think are irrelevant, and utilizing them to get access to whatever they want. The NSA maintains the program is used in a defensive measure to insert software in Russian military networks, drug cartels, terrorist groups, and other groups of interest to our national security.
Much of the information on the technology has come from the reports Edward Snowden released on the NSA's activities. As of now there is no indication of use on American soil, although the potential is there and it's not a leap to imagine a time when the NSA would help say the FBI by using Quantum to keep a watch on homeland terrorist groups. To be clear, right now American's are not being watched, and neither is the technology being used for corporate espionage. You probably feel comfy and cozy knowing that the NSA says they're not spying on you, but only when you're not connected to the internet. Otherwise, they're just a data collecting fool.
The use of radio waves to get into offline computers is brilliant, and shows just how ingenious our spy system can be. It also makes all those years as a kid watching spy shows, James Bond films, and reading Nelson Demille spy novels seem even more insane. Some of the real life technology being used is far superior to trinkets like gum that explodes. A cell phone shoe? That's nice, we have the ability to infiltrate your computer, plant a program onto it, and do so all without online access. NSA 1, Entertainment Industry 0.
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The 11th of November is Veteran's Day. It seems to mean a little more to people this year than it used to—ten years ago it was just one of those holidays commemorated by a few old men and their families down at the American Legion or the VFW or the ITAM, who remembered crawling through mud and the sound of flying steel and the faces friends no longer there, while the rest of the country celebrated it with a 10% off sale at Target or Spag's. Now that we have more wars going on and a fresh generation of people going off to the fighting and returning home from it, Veteran's Day has taken on a new polish. I wish it didn't require a lot of American blood to put a new gleam on the old holiday, but it seems that's what it takes.
Veteran's Day was, until the late 1940s, known as Armistice Day—it commemorates the day on which, at 11 AM, a cease-fire (or armistice) went into effect on the Western Front, ending the fighting in France and Belgium, as well as on the high seas. The time—"the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"—was deliberately chosen by the negotiators, with the hopes of burning a memorable and symbolic moment into the world's consciousness. The fighting formally ended in November 1918, and American troops began sailing home in January 1919.
American Expeditionary Force had begun arriving in France in June 1917, and first saw combat in July 1918 at the Battle of Le Hamel. The year-long interval between arrival and combat was taken up by training—the US troops had been shipped to France without having had any but the most basic training, and although the French and British wanted to commit the AEF to battle immediately to patch up holes in their own regiments, General Pershing insisted to President Wilson as well as to the Allied High Command that the AEF should not be sent into battle untrained—it was a genuine moment of cognitive dissonance for me when I realized that the option of sending untrained men into battle even existed in the first place. For that matter, by 1917 the Allied powers had come to believe that all you really needed for trench warfare was warm bodies by the shipload, and a lot of artillery.
According to the figures provided by the American Legion and the VFW, 4,734,991 Americans served in the military during the war. 53,402 were killed in battle, 204,002 wounded in battle, and 63,114 died of other causes during what was, essentially, five months of fighting. To put this in context, the British Empire alone lost nearly half a million men killed and wounded during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
The thing to remember is, this was not the end of the war, even though the AEF essentially packed up and sailed home as soon as it could. That is, however, where most Americans think the war ended— the Yanks sailed across the Atlantic, whupped ass and ended the war, and then turned around and sailed home. That's how Americans like their wars—short, noble, victorious, and then there's a parade and everyone goes back to normal, trying to pull the blankets back over their heads.
The armistice was a truce, not a peace treaty, and the peace conference wrangling went on until June of 1919. The fighting could have resumed—the only thing keeping that from happening was that most of the parties were too exhausted to continue, and in view of the mutinies in the French and German armies (the German army had virtually disintegrated), it is unlikely that all but the harshest measures could have forced them back into battle once more.
The First World War has long intrigued me, not least because it is so overshadowed by the conflict that began in 1939. I know a fair number of Second World War veterans, but I've never met any First World War veterans, however—most of them were dying by the time I was born, just as the Second World War vets are in old age now, and according to the American Legion there's only about twenty WWI veterans left—they'd all have to be over a hundred years old now. The WWI generation has never received the sort of well-deserved attention that the WWII one has seen during the last ten years. That saddens me. As someone with a love of history that borders on the obsessive, it perturbs me whenever stories die, unrecorded, with the people who could have told them.
The sheer momentousness of the war also awes me—this was the biggest watershed moment in world history in centuries. If you want a dividing line of history, a professor of mine once showed me, the First World War made a better start to the 20th century than the year 1900—the world in 1914 had far more in common with the world of 1814 than it did with the world in 1919. The First World War brought the end of empires that had endured since the Middle Ages, but which now dissolved practically overnight. The aftershocks of the war went on well into the 1920s—the Russian Civil War, heavy fighting in the former Ottoman Empire (including the Armenian Genocide), revolution in Ireland, a virtual civil war between left-wing and right-wing factions in Germany, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The British Empire was nearly bankrupted by the war, and France and Germany took decades to recover from the enormous casualties. This war did a great deal to shape the world in which we live now—it destroyed most of the world's major monarchies, opened the door to Bolshevism and fascism, destroyed moderate socialism, and so discredited liberal democracies that many countries just gave up on that form of government outright.
So when those brave Yanks came home from the trenches and had their tickertape parades down 5th Avenue, what kind of country did they come home to? Well, there was a sizeable element in American society that thought the social cohesion and control mechanisms produced during the war were very good things, and they were very interested in keeping the 'war emergency powers' in effect during peacetime in order to keep order in a turbulent world full of Bolsheviks, labor unionists, and uppity Negroes.
Rationing was still in effect. Many soldiers had trouble finding jobs, because war industries that had profited so much from the federal government's largesse during the war now decided layoffs were in order. The government was still exercising stringent controls over free speech, the press, and the mails—'subversive' magazines or newspapers were simply warehoused by the Post Office and never delivered, and their authors and editors investigated by the federal government. The "Spanish flu" epidemic of 1918-1919—the deadliest pandemic of modern times—acquired its name because although the disease was first documented in Fort Riley, Kansas, most news of it was suppressed to avoid hurting the war effort. Spain was not involved in the war, and did not restrict reporting of the disease—it was thus nicknamed "the Spanish flu" because most of the news coverage of it came from Spain.
Armies of volunteer spies, vigilantes, and Bolshevik-hunters like the American Protective League, which had a membership of over 250,000 people in 600 cities and was officially endorsed by the Justice Department, operated with no legal restraint, spying on and physically attacking anyone suspected of being 'subversive,' including union men, Socialists, Communists, Catholics, anarchists, German immigrants, outspoken blacks or other minorities, etc. Segregation was still in full effect. In many states, black combat veterans were intimidated into not wearing their uniforms or medals—if they did so, they were frequently beaten or lynched by white mobs.
For that matter, thousands of American troops were still scattered farther afield after the Armistice, on combat duty at Murmansk and other locations in the Soviet Union; they would remain there until March of 1920, with no clear purpose, little help or support, horrible living conditions in an Arctic climate, and virtually forgotten by the American public, most of whom didn't even know they were there because the North Russia campaign generally didn't make the newspapers.
As bad as things were there, they were worse elsewhere—even in Great Britain, things very nearly came unglued. The Labour government that had fought the war was in dire straits over how badly the war had been fought, and HM Government spent an enormous amount of time and energy in one of the great whitewash jobs of modern history, attempting to bury the truth of the Imperial General HQ's appalling incompetence. The British Army's official history of the war was compiled mostly from General Haig's records, prepared by one of Haig's close friends, and suitably tweaked by various other persons in the establishment so as to bury the ordure of failure as deeply as possible. This was, after all, the only war of which I am aware, in which officers were penalized for not trying hard enough to win if they managed to keep most of their men alive.
Imagine a war in which generals would deliberately do the same thing over and over again, even though it never worked. The only thing that really changed was that each time they tried piling up more and more men for the attack, as if hitting an anvil with a hammer one size larger will make a difference. The Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire) very nearly won the war in 1917—the Germans had been fighting on the defensive until the summer of 1917, letting the British and French beat their heads bloody against heavy fortifications, and when they finally went on the offensive on the West, the French and British armies were very nearly destroyed.
Throughout the war, the French and British governments demonstrated an appallingly thorough indifference to the massive casualties suffered by their colonial and Commonwealth troops. In the parlance of the Imperial General Staff, soldiers were simply "human material," to use the term employed in wartime records —men were simply another kind of bullet to expend. Gen. Sir Douglas Haig—whose singularly inappropriate nickname was "Lucky"-- frequently used Indian, African, Irish, Canadian, and ANZAC troops as shock troops on the Western Front in an attempt to avoid British losses. In one instance, of 3,000 men of the 1st South African Brigade sent into battle at Delville Wood in 1916, only 768 survived alive and unwounded. The Lahore and Meerut divisions from the Indian Army, deployed on the Western Front at Ypres in 1914, lost half their strength in a month's fighting. Haig later responded to the deaths of 23,000 Australians in six weeks on Pozieres Ridge at the Somme by saying "Luckily, their losses have been fairly small."
One British commander, Sir Charles Townhsend, was trapped with his men in the village of Kut, near Baghdad, after attacking an entrenched Ottoman army that outnumbered his own force three to one. The British were forced to surrender in April of 1916; Townshend himself spent the rest of the war in as a gentleman guest of the Ottoman government, living in a spare palace and attended by a nobleman's household of servants, while his eleven thousand men were massacred or starved to death in the desert. Any news of the battle of Kut was, of course, strictly suppressed in the news media. Townshend was elected to Parliament in 1920, but resigned after his actions during and after the siege of Kut became public knowledge; he died in 1924, disgraced and nearly penniless.
Haig proved almost equally callous towards British casualties—rather than admit his methods were catastrophic, he preferred to coordinate government and media in a general cover-up of the scale of casualties at the Somme (as well as on the Western Front in general) and, in an interview with the London Times, passed off the fruitless death or maiming of 100,000 men in three days of fighting as "substantial progress." Most of the troops Haig ordered to their deaths at the Somme were relatively new volunteers from the 'New Army' raised by Secretary of War Horatio Kitchener in 1915, the 'Old Contemptibles" of the original British Expeditionary Force having been virtually annihilated at the First Battle of Ypres (10/31-11/22 1914), only months after the outbreak of war. Kitchener himself, one of the British Empire's leading 19th-century military figures after his victories at Omdurman and in the Boer War, was killed when the ship he was aboard was sunk by a German submarine.
For me, the most mesmerizing thing about the First World War is the sheer wastefulness and horror of it all. Never have so many people been killed to achieve so little; the entire Western Front was effectively a vast machine into which hundreds of thousands of young men were shoveled, year after year, to be ground up and spat out, in a stalemate where lines of battle barely changed from one year to the next—men basically climbed out of one trench and died trying to get into the other guy's trench, a hundred or so yards away. Get ten thousand men killed to capture an acre of mud—what's the point? There was no great ideological crusade in the war, no struggle against fascism or another religion, just two groups of generals, aristocrats, and ministers who blundered into an accidental war and then became obsessed with winning the war for its' own sake-- war as the means became war as an end in itself. That could have been me lying dead in Passchendaele, and if I was there it probably means you'd be there too, reader, along with most of the other people our age, lying right next to me as the flies try to decide who to eat first. If the generation that fought the Second World War deserves its nickname of the 'greatest generation,' then that which fought the First World War deserves to be dubbed the butchered generation.
The Australians and New Zealanders remember this better than we Americans do—ask them about ANZAC day and playing two-up in memory of all the men killed at Gallipoli. Those two Dominions, out of a combined population of about 5.1 million, contributed approximately 432,000 fighting men, of whom 280,000 would be killed or wounded—something like 5% (one person in twenty) of the combined populations of Australia and New Zealand were casualties in the First World War.
Most people these days probably help themselves to sleep at night by believing that this sort of thing could never happen again. Then again, people probably believed much the same thing in the spring of 1914, before a group of backwoods terrorists blew up a relatively minor political functionary in Sarajevo. We may be more cynical about life and the world that people were a century ago, at least in some matters, but we as a society have certainly not lost our capacity for self-delusion, especially about whether we're leading or being led.
General Melchett: "That's the spirit, George. If nothing else works, then a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through!"
I happened to be watching Blackadder Goes Forth recently, and while it's not my favorite series out of the Blackadder catalog, it's absolutely the most poignant, and it's so appropriate to this topic that I can't help but include a bit on it so as to sum things up. It takes place in the trenches on the Western Front, and in the background of all the heckling of higher authority, cunning plots to get out of messy spots, and razor-edged wit, there's a pervasive shadow of doom and hopelessness that the cast and directors deliberately constructed, and the humor has more teeth to it because the stakes for the characters are higher.
None of them can escape—not George the gung-ho Edwardian public school twit whose dad was at school with half the Imperial General Staff, not Baldrick the…well, I guess 'proletarian' fits well enough… not even the ever-twisting Edmund Blackadder himself. They're all inescapably doomed, even as General Melchett sits in his command chateau thirty miles away from the fighting, playing with toy soldiers. You're not supposed to like Blackadder in any of his incarnations—he's sneaky, underhanded, rude, and arrogant, but the moment when he reaches the end of his tether, gives up, and effectively says "ok, that's it, let's go get killed now" is one of the heaviest moments I've seen in any kind of TV or movie. Here's the conclusion of the last episode, titled "Goodbyeee," courtesy of Youtube.
Edmund Blackadder: "Well, you've come to the right place, Bob. A war hasn't been fought *this* badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidently ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside."
Now listening to: The Clash, 'Something About England'
I missed the fourteen-eighteen war
But not the sorrow afterwards
With my father dead, my mother ran off
My brothers took the pay of hoods
The twenties turned the north was dead
The hunger strike came marching south
At the garden party not a word was said
The ladies lifted cake to their mouths
The next war began, my ship sailed
With battle orders writ in red
In five long years of bullets and shells
We left ten million dead
The few returned to old Piccadily
We limped around Leicester Square
The world was busy rebuilding itself
The architects could not care
But how could we know when I was young
All the changes that were to come?
All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield
And now the terror of the scientific sun
There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs
They taught you how to touch your cap
But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace
England never closed this gap
Friday, November 9, 2007
Veterans' Day
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Lenovo Introduces its Largest, Most Comprehensive Portfolio of Data Center Solutions
This is an exciting time for customers as Lenovo builds on its number one position in customer satisfaction and server reliability to introduce the largest, most comprehensive portfolio of server, storage, networking, software and data center services in our history.
ThinkSystem represents the culmination of many years of innovation, by a team of passionate individuals around the globe. It is the foundation for building the next-generation data center solutions.
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Today, we launch 26 new ThinkSystem platforms encompassing next gen servers, storage and network switches. The platforms span across scalable mission critical servers, rack and tower servers, dense optimized, and blade servers, mid-range and AFA storage, and Fibre Channel and Ethernet network switches. ThinkSystem is engineered to reliably and safely deliver demanding workloads such as real-time analytics, DevOps application services, and software-defined storage services.
This broad portfolio offers options for every customer data center workload while improving ease-of-use, accelerating certification time, and minimizing training.
For example, the ThinkSystem portfolio utilizes the next-generation XClarity Controller, a new system management tool that delivers an intuitive interface to help automate management needs, reduce operating expenses, and deliver a secure data center foundation. In addition, XClarity Administrator is a software tool with centralized systems management across the entire ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile portfolios, adding centralized configuration patterns and policy-based firmware management to help standardize and scale across the data center.
Figure 1 : Lenovo ThinkSystem XClarity Controller
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The new ThinkSystem solutions, offer flexibility for the most demanding workloads. Powerful, versatile rack and tower servers enable the broadest set of enterprise workloads, but with better economics. The Lenovo rack and tower servers incorporate a number of technologies that help our customers implement software-defined and hyper-converged solutions such as Nutanix and VMware vSAN ready nodes from Lenovo.
Figure 2: Lenovo ThinkSystem Server Portfolio
Mission-Critical Workloads
Lenovo ThinkSystem is designed for the most demanding, mission-critical workloads such as in-memory databases, large transactional databases, batch and real-time analytics, ERP, CRM and virtualized server workloads. Designed for faster service time and flexibility that allows system customization based on workload needs, Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 scales from 2 to 8 processors in a 4U form factor reducing operating costs, while never requiring removal from the rack due to easy front and rear access to all major subsystems.
Figure 3 : Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950
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For customers who need a dense, expandable platform, the SN850 blade has superior management to run a wide variety of workloads. It is designed to grow as customer requirements evolve. The SN550 and SN850 are newly designed ThinkSystem blades that can be installed into the Lenovo Flex System chassis. The Flex System chassis was announced five years ago, and today will support up to four generations of the Intel® Xeon® processor, providing excellent investment protection for our customers. Flex System is a highly adaptable platform that allows customers to install multiple generational processors, standard ethernet switches, as well as fiber channel switches. The ThinkSystem SN550 and SN850 compute nodes will support the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable Family processor, as well SAS/SATA and NVMe disk drives.
Figure 4 : Lenovo ThinkSystem SN850 compute node
The ultra-dense ThinkSystem SD530 dense system is easily adaptable for customers seeking the power and scalability to drive large, complex environments such as high performance computing (HPC) and software defined offerings. The SD530 and the ThinkSystem D2 chassis is the new ThinkSystem entry into the 2U4N form factor. The 2U4N form factor is an exciting form factor experiencing high growth in the market due to its density and flexibility. The ThinkSystem SD530 is a system that was designed for maximum performance of the processor, with the flexibility of storage, as well as the option to have different IO modules to match their workload needs.
Figure 5 : Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530
Along with engineering focused on high-availability, Lenovo also designed ThinkSystem with high-strength platform security technology and processes. With FIPS and NIST compliant encryption and a unique Trusted Platform Module implementation that builds on industry standards, we ensure that only digitally signed code validated by Lenovo is allowed to run on our platforms. Additionally, our Lenovo Trusted Supplier program provides strict security processes across our entire supply chain have allowed us to achieve a Tier 3 level of security as awarded by the US Department of Homeland Security.
Figure 6 : Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series Storage
The Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series of products is an innovative, entry into mid-range All-Flash and Hybrid SAN storage solutions that are application-optimized for performance and scalability. Rapid Technology innovations give customers fast, intuitive and affordable storage solutions. With the best-in-class price/performance in the industry, setup in less than 15 minutes, a common GUI, and five 9's of availability, customers can implement the DS Series with confidence.
Figure 7 : Lenovo ThinkSystem DB Series
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Figure 8 : Lenovo ThinkSystem RackSwitch Family
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Today is an exciting one for Lenovo. The new ThinkSystem portfolio provides the highest performance, flexibility and reliability in the industry. We are committed to being a top 3 data center provider in the industry, and maintaining our #1 position in customer satisfaction and reliability. For more information, please learn more about Lenovo ThinkSystem at www.lenovo.com/future-defined


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Tribute to Brian C. Pohanka
Address Given at Manassas Battlefield
June 24, 2005
By Patrick A. Schroeder, Historian
We gather here to remember and pay tribute to our friend, comrade, and colleague.
Brian endured his individual battle, solaced by the fact—at least to Brian—that many a Civil War veteran had endured worse—he drew strength from those soldiers, and emulated those strengths throughout his life. Brian was not just a talker, but a doer— and at so many levels—restoring his historic Tower House home, his gardens, writing and preservation. He was also a virtual encyclopedia. For every question I had, Brian had a ready answer.
The sheer number of people whose lives Brian significantly touched is simply amazing, as is attested to here today. He was so giving of his time and was always willing to give someone a hand with their project to make it better. Brian was my mentor, as he was for many. He instilled upon me to be diligent and thorough with research. He was meticulous in his research—and this is one of the reasons it took so long for him to finish his 5th New
York Regimental History. He didn't want to leave any stone unturned. Other things that were important to Brian was honor, tradition, and respect—respect for people, sacrifice, and history. My first event with the 5th New York was when I was a naïve, but eager 14-year-old here at Manassas honoring the heroic stand and sacrifice of the 5th NY in
August 1862. Too young to carry a musket and not knowing the drill, I was given the colors to hold while the unit demonstrated the bayonet exercise, and in a short movement of the company the flag clipped a tree branch and I received a scowl from this bearded, and at the time, menacing looking fellow. This was my introduction to Brian Pohanka. I soon understood that that scowl was out of respect for the flag and for what was not correct—and a 14-year-old carrying the National colors was not.
Undoubtedly, the veterans of the "Old Fifth" and the Army of the Potomac were ready to welcome Brian with open arms as a brother and comrade. He has finally got to meet the Duryees, the Winslows, Warren, Hancock, McClellan, Miles, Custer and Chamberlain, . . . as well as the men in the ranks of the "Old Fifth" like Thomas Southwick, George Mitchell, Alfred Davenport, and Butch Sapher.
And to the modern day 5th, I know one of the things he wanted to do more than anything
else, was to attend the unit event at Gathland State Park on South Mountain at the end of April. Despite his condition, he felt it his duty to be there! But alas, he was too weak. However, we all know, he will always be at our events in spirit.
Brian's plight and situation reminded me so much of the battle with cancer that U. S. Grant went through—both enduring constant pain, yet diligently working on their books—Grant finishing his memoirs to support his family, and Brian finishing his regimental, an everlasting tribute to the soldiers of the 5th New York, Duryee's Zouaves.
Even in his last days, Brian would smile upon a humorous recollection or an episode of "The Little Rascals." And who will forget his personification of the German World War II ace Adolf Galland, some Romanian Guards from the filming of "Cold Mountain," or a German or Irish Civil War soldier?
Brian always appreciated a good joke and played along with them. After the release of the film "Glory," a favorite of mine was, while in the ranks after receiving stern orders from Captain Pohanka, I'd call out as he walked away, "Dat dat dat Capt. Pohanka, he's a harrrrrd man." There are many incidents from our numerous road trips. On our ill-fated trip to the 125th Anniversary Re-enactment of Shiloh, we had 10 re-enactors
stuffed into a mobile home that became dubbed "The Jitney to Shiloh." A little jingle evolved as that trip progressed—Brian spontaneously sang it for a few of us at his 50th
party this past March. It
went like this, "Roll that Jitney down, got to get down to Shiloh
town. It's snowing like hell, I don't feel well, and I don't
want to sleep on the ground."
Brian believed that the best way to preserve the memory of the Civil War Soldier was to preserve the land that they fought on. He would give an annual address on Remembrance Day at Little Round Top before the statue of G. K. Warren, the 5th New York, and a
gathering of descendents, admirers, and park visitors. Joshua Chamberlain was among his favorites to quote. Chamberlain once addressed veterans at the Gettysburg battlefield with this, and it is fitting to all battlefields, and remembering Brian today—I know he cherished these words:
"No chemistry of frost or rain, no overlaying mold of the season's recurrent life and death can ever separate from the soil of these consecrated fields the life blood so deeply commingled and incorporate here. Ever henceforth under the rolling suns when these hills are touched to splendor with the morning light, or smile farewell to the lingering day. The flush that broods upon them shall be rich with the strange and crimson tone, not of the earth, nor yet the sky, but mediator and hostage between the two.
In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass, bodies disappear, but spirits linger to consecrate ground for the vision place of souls, and reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart drawn to see where and by whom things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field to ponder and dream.
And low the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom and the power of the vision pass into their souls."
Patrick A. Schroeder
In Loving Memory of
My dear friend & colleague,
Brian C. Pohanka
|© Schroeder Publications
Brian & Patrick working on the film, Glory, circa 1987
Schroeder as Pall Bearer, June 24, 2005


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Stough Canyon Nature Ctr
This week we have an intermediate hike, starting from Stough Canyon Nature Center in Burbank. This peaceful, sun-baked trail in the Verdugo Mountains follows a gradual incline along a well maintained fire road to an elevation of 1,000 feet. Benches donated by local community groups dot the trail, so hikers can rest or just take some time to soak up the prime viewpoints.
We will go up following some really nice trails with spectacular views of the San Fernando valley and a few surprises on the way. We will then make a turn towards "the book", a small hill with a desk and a book where you can write your name and some of your deepest thoughts for posterity, we'll also share some healthy snacks. We will then go back down following the fire road.
This hike will take us about 1 1/2 or 2 hours depending on our pace. Dogs are welcome. Please be there a few minutes earlier so we can stretch and be on our way right after.
This will be a short hike but a good workout, if anyone needs a bit extra after we finish, they can always go up the fire road to the towers and come back down again. there's no getting lost up there.
E Walnut Ave and Stough Park Rd in Burbank
Directions: From the 5 N: Exit Olive Avenue East You'll be on Angeleno as you exit. Turn left onto First St. Turn right onto Olive. Turn left on Sunset Canyon. Turn right on Walnut. Take Walnut to the end. Please park on the street outside of the Nature Center's Parking Lot.
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Đong Xuan is the name of the largest market in Hanoi. Located in the heart of the Old Quarter, it was part of an ancient hamlet of that name before it became a street. It was built in 1889 by the French colonial administration to replace the Cau Dong (Eastern Bridge) Market situated to the east, close to the To Lich River, which was partly filled for the arrangement of new streets.
At the end of 19th century, the Old Quarter of Hanoi had two main marketplaces, one at Hang Duong street and the other at Hang Ma street. In 1889, these two markets were closed and replaced by the original Dong Xuan Market which was built by the order of the French administration in 1889 as one of the principal new architectures of Hanoi, together with Long Bien Bridge which was located nearby and completed in 1902.
The market was located at the Hanoi's Old Quarter which was only 600 m north of Hoan Kiem Lake.The covered area of the market was about 6.500 m² with a large roof of corrugated galvanised ironsupplied by the French contractor Poinsard Veyret.
The most recognizable feature of the market was the 5-arch entrance corresponding to Dong Xuan Market's five domes, each dome was measured 19 m in height and 25 m in width. When the First Indochina War broke out in Hanoi in early 1947, a fierce struggle between Việt Minh and French forces took place in the area of the market on February 14.To commemorate the event, a memorial was erected near the principal gate of the market in 2005.
In 1994, the market was nearly destroyed by a disastrous fire which claimed the lost of about 4.5 million USD worth of stock. After the fire, Dong Xuan Market was rebuilt in the original form and it is still the largest covered market of Hanoi. The ward to which the market belongs is also named Dong Xuan (phường Đồng Xuân), this is one of the busiest commercial place of Hanoi with about a half of the total number of households has trading activities.


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NHS Transition: Essex Cancer Network
Please note that, as of 28th March 2013, the Essex Cancer Network will close and staff and functions will be incorporated into the East of England Strategic Clinical Network (SCN). The SCN will cover the geography of the old Anglia Cancer Network, Essex Cancer Network and Mount Vernon Cancer Network. The new clinical network will continue to work to improve cancer outcomes across the East of England.
The Essex Cancer Network itself will continue as a partnership between Service Providers and Clinical Commissioning Groups across North East, Mid, South East and South West Essex working on improving cancer services across all tumour groups. Support for Network Site Specific Groups (NSSGs) and Cross Cutting Groups (CCGs) will be provided on an interim basis by Kate Patience, Macmillan Rehabilitation and Survivorship Lead (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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To become a member please register using the link above. Once you are a member you will have access to the members only documents in each clinical group. You can still access these clinical groups without logging in, however you will not be able to access the member only documents.
Once you 'select' a clinical group by clicking the + sign it will appear in your groups box each time you log in. If you wish to see another group then click on 'groups' above.
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Too many people make the mistake of forgetting that there are now a lot of urgent care centers popping up all over the place and then simply head to the emergency room. However, while you may be experiencing a medical issue that cannot wait until your regular doctor is able to fit you into his or her schedule, it might not be bad enough to head to the emergency room. Here are some medical problems that would be best treated by the urgent care center instead of the local hospital's emergency room:
Terrible Ear Pain
If you are experiencing a lot of ear pain, there is a good chance that you have swimmers ear or a standard ear infection. This is not something that you want to ignore, as the pain is likely to get a lot worse. However, it is not severe enough to warrant taking up space in the emergency department. Instead, you will want to visit your local urgent care center. The doctors there can examine your ear and diagnose the problem. If you have an infection, you will be prescribed any medication and pain relief that you might need.
There Is Pain When You Urinate
Even though the pain that is associated with urination can be a variety of things, it is often caused by a urinary tract infection. A simple trip to the urgent care center will allow the problem to be diagnosed quickly and medication to be prescribed. The doctor will request that you give them a urine sample in a cup that they will provide to you and they may take some blood work. If you have an infection, taking a full course of antibiotics will help clear up the problem. You should begin to experience some relief from your pain within a day or two of beginning the medication.
You Suspect That You Have The Flu
It is important to make sure that you are getting tested for the flu, to determine if that is what you really have, or if you have just come down with a very bad cold. The reason for this is because you will need to know if you should be staying home from work and away from anyone with a compromised immune system. The doctors at the urgent care center can give you the test needed to determine if you do indeed have the flu. If it turns out that you do have the flu, you will receive information on how you can care for yourself until it passes.
It is best to find some of the closest urgent care centers in your area, as well as their hours of operation. This way, no matter where you are when a medical problem strikes, you will know where to go.Share


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As nearly anyone who has adopted a four-legged furry little friend can tell you, pet hair is a nuisance. Especially Sporte's in this case as his spiky blonde hairs cling to the carpet, stick into the furniture cushions and even embed into all my black clothing (goodbye black jeans). But now I can finally say goodbye to pet hair for good thanks to my new pet vacuum the Dyson Animal Pro Barrel Vacuum cleaner.
I love my not-so-little Frenchie, Sporte, but I most definitely do not love picking out his hair from my furniture and clothing. I've bought three vacuum cleaners in the past, and none have been able to pick out his spiky hairs grrrrrrr. After many sleepless nights of coughing and sneezing from so much hair and dust buildup in every single room, I decided enough was enough. Then after much whingeing to my friends, I was recommended the Dyson Animal Pro Barrel Vacuum cleaner… and so I decided to trial it.
Boy, was I impressed?! It's super powerful with its eight cleaning tools. My favourite is the Tangle-free Turbine tool, which is specifically designed for removing hair and dirt – perfect for my fabric lounge. The vacuums slim design allows me to reach into awkward gaps (like under the couch and in their stairwell corners) and it's also approved for allergy sufferers by the National Council of Australia. Bonus! With Simon (my husband) having asthma and regularly using his asthma puffer, this vacuum recommendation couldn't have come at a better time for the both of us.
It's also worth the price as it's the only vacuum with no filters to wash or replace and no bags to buy. So no extra costs. Hallelujah!
Just think, I have no more sneezing, coughing, wheezing and Sporte's spiky hairs on my sofa or jeans. Maybe if you're experiencing the same thing, maybe try the Dyson Animal Pro? It's been a win from me all round. And trust me, you'll never look back!


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Allies of Dominique Strauss-Kahn eye political comeback
Allies of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn have said he could make a political comeback in France now he has been freed from house arrest in the US.
Before being accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in New York on 14 May, Mr Strauss-Kahn was tipped as a possible French presidential candidate.
But doubts have since emerged about the credibility of the maid, and the case is reportedly close to collapse.
On Friday a judge ordered Mr Strauss-Kahn released on his own recognisance.
He is now free to travel in the US, although he cannot leave the country and must appear in court again later this month.
Mr Strauss-Kahn, who resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund to defend himself, vigorously denies the charges.
Mr Strauss-Kahn had earlier been the favourite to be the Socialist Party's candidate for the French presidency in 2012.
The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says that regardless of events in court, the expectation is growing here in France the case will ultimately collapse.
And if that happens, the only person who can rule his out of next year's contest is Mr Strauss-Kahn himself, our correspondent adds.
The last Socialist Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, said: "If we hypothesise that Dominique is cleared of all suspicion and all charges, which I obviously hope will happen, then it will be first down to him to decide... and then it will be down to the Socialists to decide."
A Socialist MP, Jean-Marie Le Guen, said he thought it likely that Mr Strauss-Kahn would stand.
"Yes, he will be present for the presidential campaign," he said.
"If what we heard... is true, that the American justice will free him and re-habilitate him, give him back his honour and dignity. Then, since Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a fighter, he will fight in our country."
The list for nominations is due to close on 13 July - five days before his next scheduled court appearance. But the senior Socialist, Francois Hollande, said the deadline could be extended.
Our correspondent says there are though plenty in France who hold Mr Strauss-Kahn in high admiration for the way he has conducted himself in court, there is sympathy and renewed hope among his staunchest allies.
A judge in New York lifted the strict bail conditions imposed on Mr Strauss-Kahn, amid intense speculation that the sexual assault case against him was faltering.
He had been under house arrest since posting a $6m bail bond.
When the 62-year-old appeared in court, prosecutors were forced to admit that they were reassessing the strength of the evidence against him - although the charges that he attempted to rape a hotel maid still stand.
In a letter submitted to the court, the prosecutors said that the maid had given false testimony to a grand jury, omitting the fact that she had cleaned another room before alerting a supervisor to her claims of sexual assault.
"I understand that the circumstances of this case have changed substantially, and I agree the risk that he would not be here has receded quite a bit. I release Mr Strauss-Kahn at his own recognisance," Justice Michael Obus told the court.
The maid claims that Mr Strauss-Kahn chased her down a hallway in his expensive hotel suite in the Sofitel hotel before sexually assaulting her.
However, unnamed law enforcement officials have now told US media the accuser has repeatedly lied since the alleged attack.
The officials believe the woman also lied on her application for asylum, particularly over an allegation that she had been raped while at home in Guinea. They also suspect she has links to drugs dealers and money-laundering.
Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyer, William Taylor, said he believed the next step would lead to the complete dismissal of the charges.
But the maid's lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, maintained that his client's story was genuine and that Mr Strauss-Kahn was guilty of sexual assault charges.
"From day one she has described a violent sexual assault that Dominique Strauss-Kahn committed against her," Mr Thompson said, adding that Mr Strauss-Kahn bruised the maid's body and threw her to the floor.
"She has never once changed a single thing about that account. The district attorney knows that," he added. "The only defence Dominique Strauss-Kahn has is that this sexual encounter was consensual. That is a lie."


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Did you know there are many billion dollar industries profiting off your body-dissatisfaction. But none more than the Dieting industry.
Dieting dictates that if you just had enough will power and discipline, you would easily keep the weight off. The underlying message is that if you were simply strong enough, you wouldn't be overweight. This is the biggest lie perpetrated! But here's the truth: there's only a very small minority of women who can keep up this kind of rigor. And even for them, it's an endless battle.
The real question worth asking is this: when it comes to your relationship with your body and food, how do you want to feel?
If you're like me, it's not enough to get down to a single-digit dress size. You're ready to be done with the whole miserable trap! To give up the endless struggle, and finally find freedom and ease in your own skin. To feel normal around food – rather than guilty, bad or sneaking around.
Maybe you've attempted to accept your body the way that it is. But it still bothers you that you don't feel as beautiful as you know you could. Or perhaps you can't understand why you still feel the pull towards foods that are bad for you – like sugar and bread.
And you're so tired of trying to dredge up the will power to restrict, only to lose a few pounds and then gain it back months down the road.
When I was locked in a vicious cycle of dieting and living by the numbers on the scale, I prayed for freedom from this whole paradigm. I knew there had to be a more intelligent and sustainable way to lose weight and keep it off.
I longed to be completely and utterly at ease with food, trusting myself to make empowered choices for my health and well-being.
And over many years, here's what I learned: when you get to the real causes of what keeps you overweight, this is when you can finally let the whole thing go. And be free at last.
And I want you to know something else:
Years ago, when I still struggled with these issues, I wasn't sure if it was possible for me.
I was always seeking out the next, best diet, food plan or "cleanse" in the hopes of being done with my struggles once and for all.
I would lose weight…for a time. But what I never found was a way to live with a sense of normalcy when it came to food and what I should be eating. I never found ease.
It seemed I was never able to
Can you relate?
Maybe it feels like you've tried everything when it comes to weight-loss. Maybe you're frustrated because you know you're smart, conscious and spiritual, and don't feel like you should be wasting your time on something so mundane.
Well, here's something I discovered that changed my life, and you should know it too:
There are basically just two root causes that are keeping you overweight. And once you learn what they are, and how they're functioning in your life, you will have the KEY to unlocking your bondage into a new-found freedom and ease in your body and life.
I would be delighted to share more with you about these two root causes that keep women overweight – and how these might be affecting you personally.
For the next week and a half (ending February 16), I'm inviting ten women to book a free 45-minute "Weight-Loss Wisdom" session with me. If you are committed to transforming your relationship with your body and food so you can finally let go, experiencing the freedom and ease in your own skin click here to apply now.
During our session, we'll be looking at:
~ What your biggest weight-loss challenges are
~ What may be keeping this cycle going
~ How to takes steps forward to create what you most long for
I don't often offer this program and am not sure if/when I'll make this offer again.
Apply here for a call with me and let's get your body and life back on track.
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Episode #81 – David Williams, Beer Chat with Mike Riedel, Polytype, Arrivals/Departures
[Posted January 21, 2013]
On this week's episode, our fearless host, Dan Nailen, sits down with singer/songwriter David Williams; Mike Riedel drops in to talk the latest beer news in Utah; and SLUG Senior Staff Writer Mariah Mellus chats with Ashley Anderson of loveDANCEmore about Arrivals/Departures happening at the Rio Gallery. Plus, an exclusive track from Williams and the latest from Provo electronic indie band Polytype. The Film festival season is in full swing and we'd like to hear what you've enjoyed the most from the Sundance and Slamdance film festivals. Call our automated voicemail line at 858-233-9324 and tell us your thoughts. You may get played on the show! … read more


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Toti Sarasola and Max Graham
2 November 2014
"I feel like people who do languages think they either have to teach or maybe become a translator – or perhaps do something completely unrelated to languages. There are many other places where language graduates can go."
Is the School of Modern Languages giving its students what they deserve? Is the current staff availability enough for us? Is the Modern Languages Football Cup still on? These are some of the pressing issues with which the student body is concerned. Janine Gallagher, School President of Modern Languages, is here to make our voices heard and provide answers to these questions. She kindly agreed to have a chat with The Interpreter about the challenges involved in her new role and her plans to improve the department
Janine is in her final year of a joint degree doing French and Spanish and is gearing towards teaching after finishing. She claims that one of her main motivations to run for President was addressing some evident errors within the School. Amongst her main proposals, she wants to develop the social aspect of the School and devote more effort into Careers Events. However, she breaks some really disappointing news to us: the Modern Languages Football Cup may not be on this year.
T.I: What has your own experience been like as a student of the School?
I have always found Honours module choices an issue. But in general I've had a very good experience with the School. While some of the departments are really well run, I could see some glaring errors which need to be addressed.
T.I: What were your main motivations in running for President?
First of all, from a personal point of view, acquiring experience as to how things are run from the inside. Secondly, there were big errors which I felt were not being addressed in previous years, so I really wanted to push for them. And I think that socially as well, Mod Lang. is kind of scattered, so one of my main objectives is to bring us together more as a school.
T.I: The School of Modern Languages is quite unique in that it hosts 8 different schools within it – each with its own needs and problems. Do you see this as a challenge or an opportunity?
It definitely is a challenge, though it is nice to be working in the only school of its kind. But this relates to what I mentioned earlier: I want to bring us together as a school. I would really like – definitely something for sub-Honours as well – to have an Honours Ball. This has happened in previous years, but it kind of faded away.
T.I: The Modern Languages Football Cup was a nice way of doing this – is it still on?
It's not! I was thinking about that right before coming. My flatmates were telling me "You need to bring that back!" That is something I will definitely do: bring the MOLA Cup back this year!
T.I: What are your main proposals as to how the School should be improved?
I definitely want to learn from past experience and learn from how my predecessor has done it. I don't feel there is enough emphasis on careers or on the social aspect. I'd like to bring in interpreters, translators, people who worked in media, and with languages – things that really haven't been done. And working in conjunction with the Careers Centre.
I feel like people who do languages think they either have to teach or maybe become a translator – or perhaps do something completely unrelated to languages. There are many other places where language graduates can go. So I really want to push for that.
Apart from doing formal talks, I was thinking of doing kind of an intern-type event: something informal in a café or a bar and meet people who have done language internships. That`s an idea.
T.I: The issue of how approachable staff are and how much time they devote to students is a big one in every school in the University. How would you rate that issue in MoL?
I can only talk from my experience which is French and Spanish and I find that they are very approachable and open, especially in Spanish. They say "these are our Office Hours, please come at any time." However, it is not like this in all of the departments. People find it hard to speak to their tutors. When I brought this up last year, they simply said that tutors are busy people so they can't give up all of their time to talk to students – so that one will be a tough one to crack, but I will work on it.
T.I: What do you make of the Year Abroad programmes of the School?
In terms of the British Council placements, I think it is really well run, and the information is crystal clear. But, for people who want to study abroad, there have been a lot of complaints in the past about not having enough choices. The problem is that the University is very specific about the partnerships that they make with other universities, so I think we should press them to be a bit more open. I am sure there are other unis out there that would make for great collaboration.
T.I: In a world where English is a universal language, what value do you see in studying languages?
It is definitely more than just learning a language. While you are learning a language, you pick up all the differences between cultures. Not only that, but learning languages as an exercise is really interesting, and is very good for your brain. There are plenty of benefits in the process of learning languages, it is not just about the end goal. But I think that if you do learn another language, it shows respect. For example, to speak to somebody from Uruguay in Spanish rather than depending on the fact that they speak English – it is a bit embarrassing as a nation I think. I think it is more about broadening your awareness of other cultures.
T.I: Now, the fun questions…
Favourite city in the world?
Madrid (I did my YA there).
That one place you would love to visit and still haven't?
Language you would love to learn if you had the time?
What language is missing from the School?
Best cuisine in the world?
In case there is a MOLA, who will win it?
Spanish Dept.


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Dumba scores twice, Wild beat Jets 4-1
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Central Division has been the NHL's tightest this season, with not much separation from top to bottom.
Minnesota's win over division-leading Winnipeg on Saturday night only jammed it up some more.
Matt Dumba had two goals, Jason Zucker and Mikael Granlund also scored and the Wild beat the Jets 4-1.
Dumba got his goals in the third period, helping Minnesota win its second straight behind 32 saves from Devan Dubnyk.
Minnesota got its first win against Winnipeg in four tries this season. The Wild are 5-0-1 in their last six home games.
Minnesota gets a quick turnaround for a game Sunday against the Vancouver Canucks.
"I think we're still hungry. This is a big one," Dumba said. "We're going to treat it like a huge game tomorrow going into our break."
The loss is the second in two nights for the Jets after a 2-1 defeat to Chicago. Mathieu Perreault had Winnipeg's goal Saturday, and Connor Hellebuyck stopped 37 shots.
As it did against the Blackhawks, Winnipeg got off to a slow start versus Minnesota. The Jets were outshot 23-5 in the first period.
"In a game like that, we need to make simpler plays, sort of keep it as simple as possible and try to just get into that grinding game as soon as we can," defenseman Josh Morrissey said. "I think it took us too long to do that today."
Granlund opened the scoring with a redirect in front. The forward deflected a shot from defenseman Ryan Suter at the 8:47 mark of the first period. It was Granlund's 13th goal of the season and his 10th point in his last eight games. The goal came on the power play after Morrissey was whistled for interference.
Zucker put his team up 2-0 early in the second. Not long after getting denied by Hellebuyck on a breakaway, Zucker buried a rebound from off the end boards. Zucker's 16th goal was his first since Dec. 27 — a span of seven games. Granlund picked up an assist on Zucker's goal.
The Jets took advantage of a power play to get on the board early in the third. Perreault tipped in a pass from Blake Wheeler on the doorstep just 47 seconds into the period. Winnipeg started the third with the man-advantage after a penalty late in the second period.
Winnipeg outshot Minnesota 17-9 in the second period.
Dumba's slap shot from the faceoff circle sneaked between Hellebuyck and the post for a 3-1 lead in the third. Another shot from the point made it 4-1 later in the third for Dumba's second two-goal game of the season.
The Wild continued their dominance at home. Minnesota is now 12-1-2 in its last 15 games and 15-4-3 overall at Xcel Energy Center.
After Sunday's game, Minnesota will be off for five days before returning to action next Saturday against Tampa Bay.
"We knew it was going to be a big week for us," Granlund said. "We're going to be on a bye week next week, so we gotta gather as many points as we can."
Winnipeg, meanwhile, has a week off. With several injuries, the break comes at a good time for the Jets.
"We've got some key pieces in terms of our structure and how we run our bench that we've missed," coach Paul Maurice said. "We've done actually a great job of surviving and getting wins without them but we'll hopefully get a few of those guys back."
NOTES: The Wild will open select gates early before Sunday's game to allow fans to watch the Minnesota Vikings playoff game against the New Orleans Saints on TVs in the arena. Fans can enter at 3:30 p.m. CT, with the Vikings game beginning at 3:40 p.m.
Jets: At Calgary on Saturday.
Wild: Host Vancouver on Sunday.
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albert was the first to write in with news that novatel wireless has released information on its m500 cdpd modem for the m50x series of palm devices. you can check it out here. there's also a really nice close-up picture here. it looks like it's going to cost around $369. i wonder when it will hit the streets? it might actually breathe some life into the m500 series of devices right now.
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|lol… (1:30pm est thu may 24 2001)
that close up picture listed above just re-afirms why i don't like the current batch of palms (or any palm for that matter)… the resolution is really quite 'sucky'.
sony has a winner on their hands i think… an ipaq for the palm world… – by god�
|not that bad (3:09pm est thu may 24 2001)
there's a nasty moire pattern in that photo created by interference between the screen being photographed and the digital camera's ccd. furthermore, the photograph is much larger than actual size on my screen, and naturally the pixels on the m505 are enlarged along with everything else.
i'm not trying to argue your opinion that 160×160 is "sucky", i just wanted to point out two technical problems with that photograph.
i also agree that the sony is going to be one hot little number.
|sony v. m505 (3:36pm est sat may 26 2001)
the sony's cool, but i still prefer the m505. i own the m505 and it rocks. out of the box the screen doesn't impress, but having used it for about 3 weeks, i feel that the m505 is a winner in almost every way. i've seen the sony unit but i need to organize my life and even to snap a few pictures, not listen to music.
like many, i've no need for mp3 capability and i think that sony is taking their eye off the ball with their new unit. sony should be doing more to make the form factor both smaller and lighter.
the screen resolution is cool but overall there is little in the new sony to sway me toward their unit. if mp3 is so compelling, why hasn't pocketpc dominated? – by dave thomson


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Modern women do not have to be always on the defensive end. They should be able to do some things without having to justify their actions to anyone. Here is a list of the top things most women want to do and not explain to anyone.
First is when they put themselves first, instead of thinking of others. This is followed by the amounts of food they eat, whether it is too little or voluminous. Next is the question of whether whatever they are eating is healthy or not, followed by the two opposites of either having baby fever or not having it.
They completely do not have to explain whether they are having sex with any one (this is a real pain to do), as well as their escapades when it comes to explorations they could have done with fellow ladies. They consider these escapades a 'girly' thing just like wearing a skirt and feel that it is their God-given right to enjoy them.
When it comes to their appearance, the way they look, the use of makeup, the clothes they wear and their weight matters are what they want unquestioned. Women would rather make apologies to themselves for apologizing to you about their appearance.
Relationships and emotions are another area. Here, women want the decisions they make about advancing or ending relationships respected. They additionally prefer to be allowed to be emotional when it warrants and be steel-hearted as required without being judged.
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Lastly are the imperfections women have. Women prefer not having to justify the imperfections they have or try to trade them off with something else that they are good at. They do not want to be caught in tight spots when you say something like 'you have a beautiful face, despite being a little heavy'. No, say the first part of that sentence until the word 'face' and leave the 'despite' bit.