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Moisey Vaynberg [Mieczyslaw Weinberg]: Cello Sonatas
1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2007-11-09Works: Moisey Samuil Vaynberg: Sonata for Cello and Piano no 1 in C major, Op. 21; Sonata for Cello solo no 1 in C major, Op. 72; Sonata for Cello and Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 63
Performers: Chaushian, Alexander; Sudbin, Yevgeny
Weinberg, Shostakovich: Piano Trios / Leschetizky Trio
1 CD / Cascavelle / 2007-10-01Works: Moisey Samuil Vaynberg: Trio for Piano and Strings, Op. 24; Dmitri Shostakovich: Trio for Piano and Strings no 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Performers: Flieder, Klara; Pantillon, Christophe; Tichonow, Stanislaw
Ensemble: Leschetizky Trio Wien
"If the Leschetizky Trio-Vienna was a rock band, it would be Led Zeppelin. Individually, Russian piano Stanislav Tichonow, Austrian violinist Klara Flieder, and French-speaking Swiss...continue...
Contemporary Russian Music - Vainberg, Tcherepnin
1 CD / Claves / 2005-03-01Works: Moisey Samuil Vaynberg: Psalms (3); Ivan Tcherepnin: There was no wind; Vladislav Shoot: Shelley Songs (4); Alexander Wustin: Little Requiem; Alexandr Raskatov: Prayer
Performers: Egidi, Hans; Genet, Patrick; Gottraux, Francois; Jaermann, Marc; Vassilieva, Elena
Ensemble: Sine Nomine String Quartet
Chamber Music / Imai, Bezaly, Brautigam
1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2004-01-05Works: Maurice Duruflé: Prelude, Recitative and Variations for Flute, Viola and Piano, Op. 3; Reynaldo Hahn: Romanesque for Flute, Viola and Piano; L'echanteur; Portraits de peintres; Dance pour une d&...
Performers: Bezaly, Sharon; Brautigam, Ronald; Imai, Nobuko
Vainberg: Chamber Symphonies / Misha Rachlevsky, Kremlin CO
1 CD / Claves / 2002-02-01Works: Moisey Samuil Vaynberg: Chamber Symphony no 1, Op. 145; Chamber Symphony no 3, Op. 151; Chamber Symphony no 4, Op. 153
Conductors: Rachlevsky, Misha
Ensemble: Kremlin Chamber Orchestra
Shostakovich, Vainberg, Levitine: Cello Concerti / Drobinsky
1 CD / Talent / 2002-02-01Works: Dmitri Shostakovich: Concerto for Cello no 1 in E flat major, Op. 107; Moisey Samuil Vaynberg: Concerto for Cello, Op. 43; Yuri Abramovitch Levitin: Concerto for Cello in E minor, Op. 54
Performers: Drobinsky, Mark
Conductors: Mansurov, Fuat; Mnatsakanov, Walter
Ensemble: Kazan Symphony Orchestra; Russian State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography
"...you should check out all three of these fine concertos if you have any interest in modern-romantic cello music. The Shostakovich is of course a...continue...


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Brave New World
by M. Doug McGuff, M.D.
Recently, Dr. Richard Winett wrote two articles that I consider monumental in the history of strength training and bodybuilding. What makes these articles so amazing is their degree of objectivity and intellectual honesty about a topic that is very easy to delude oneself about. The first article, A Personal Revelation about Set Point Theory can be found in the February, 1998 issue of Dr. Winett's newsletter the Master Trainer. In this article Dr. Winett tells how he was attempting to partially refute the idea of a homeostatic set point. When he actually presented the numbers he had collected over his training career, a different conclusion emerged... "The data strongly point toward some limitations I have in going beyond about 140 pounds of lean body mass. If there is such a thing as a set point as far as producing muscle, my data illustrate that concept." Dr. Winett then goes on to make a startling conclusion... "I'm basically a smaller person and attempts to become bigger have been unsuccessful. These data more strongly confirm that conviction and starkly show that beyond a certain point, I simply seem to gain body fat." Compare these statements of brutal honesty with the usual statement you hear from people in our field such as... "I've gained an inch on my arms, and 2 inches on my chest, and 12 pounds of body weight with only slight decrease in my abdominal definition." What this really means in the light of what Dr. Winett is presenting to us can be translated as... "I've put an inch on my arms and 2 inches on my chest because I've gained 12 pounds of fat." In the April, 1999 issue of Iron Man, Dr. Winett again presents his data with accompanying pictures and asks us Can Accepting Genetic Limitations Be Empowering? In this article Dr. Winett notes... "The unfortunate part is that it took me until I was about 45 to realize, accept and in some ways capitalize on my limitation" and "The irony is that through all my training incarnations I had about the same lean body mass". The greatest testament to Dr. Winett's power of emperic observation is that he made these conclusions about himself before the supporting scientific evidence was known to him. These articles inspired me to keep detailed records of my own progress (recorded workouts, photos and measurements) on a workout by workout basis and they have forced me to similar conclusions. Now there is hard scientific evidence that a muscular set point really does exist.
Myostatin, The Genetic Basis for Muscular Set Point
Observe the photo of the extremely muscular cow to the left. This animal is a double-muscled Belgian Blue bull. Belgium does not have much in the way of sprawling ranch-land so farmers there had to learn to get more bang for their buck. Over the past 30 years, farmers in Belgium were successful in selectively breeding for muscle mass. The mighty Belgian blue has literally double the muscle of an average cow! This cow does not perform any sort of resistance training, he doesn't do HIT, he's never heard of SuperSlow, he doesn't care that an obscure group of people are arguing on the internet about the best way to build muscle. More importantly he has not been treated with steroids. He doesn't know how much money he could make endorsing food supplements. All this guy does to get so massively muscular is stand around and eat grass.
Typically, advancements in any field tend to come from outside the field in question. In our case the answers that we have been asking for so long first came from the field of agriculture, where scientists realized that finding the genetic basis for double-muscling could increase the profit involved in raising beef cattle and other agriculturally important animals. (1).
The first people to isolate the problem was a European team headed by Michel Georges from the University of Liege at Belgium. They found that double muscling is caused by a mutation in the bovine (cow) version of a recently discovered gene that makes a protein called myostatin.(2). Myostatin belongs to the growth-factor beta superfamily, and is expressed specifically in developing and mature skeletal muscle.(3). A specific gene encodes for the transcription of the myostatin protein, which is an inhibitor of skeletal muscle growth. The higher the expression of the myostatin gene, the more myostatin protein is made and subsequently less muscle will be allowed to exist on any given animal. The gene was found by the Georges team to exist on the 2nd bovine chromosome. At about the same time, Dr's Sejin Lee and Alexandra McPherron of Johns Hopkins University had linked mutations in the myostatin to another breed of cattle exhibiting double muscling. This breed was called Piedmontese cattle. Having isolated the gene, Dr's Georges, Lee, and McPherron were able to show that double muscling occurred in these animals because they had undergone a mutation that deleted the gene for myostatin. Just like an albino lacks pigment because he doesn't have the gene that codes for melanin, these animals lack normal regulation of muscle growth because they lack the gene that codes for myostatin. Shortly after this gene was characterized it's exact address was found on other animals such as pigs and mice. The real race was on now, for the person who could develop a technique to "knock out" this gene in normal animals would have a potential landmark discovery. I followed these developments because there were several things that hinted these would have implications to our field.
Possible Implications for Human Muscularity
The first thing that struck me when I saw a photo of the Belgian Blue, is how much it looked like a bovine Dorian Yates. Certain patterns of muscle fiber density produce particular external appearances. The thought immediately was "could the world's best bodybuilders also have the mutation that knocked out the myostatin gene?". Why would these animals look so similar to a top level bodybuilder? It is well known amongst cattle breeders that hypertrophy through exercise is not a profitable way to get more meat on the hoof. Hypertrophied meat is tough and gamey tasting. The less an animal is exercised, the better tasting the beef. Veal is so tender because the calves are kept in a pin so small that they cannot even walk. During the discovery of the Belgian Blue there was concern that their meat might be tough and gamey, but Tim Smith (a pioneer in myostatin research at the USDA) notes that animals with myostatin deletions produce meat "so tender even round steaks fall apart on the grill".(4). It seems that when myostatin is deleted the animals get bigger not because of hypertrophy but because of hyperplasia. These animals simply produce 2 to 3 times as many muscle fibers, all of normal size. So what you say?....If you have a copy of my book Ultimate Exercise-Bulletin 1, turn to page 17. There you will note reference to a scientific study that shows that elite level bodybuilders don't possess bigger muscle fibers, they just possess much greater numbers of small to average sized fibers.(5). Maybe this is true because elite bodybuilders possess the mutation causing myostatin deletion. Everything that I was reading seemed to suggest that one's personal degree of myostatin expression could be determining the limits of their muscular potential, and that the genetic freaks in our sport could have the myostatin deletion. However to reach such a conclusion several other things would have to be shown. First, it would be great to prove that the myostatin deletion is what caused massive muscles, simply showing massive muscles in an animal that has the deletion is not enough...the two facts could be unrelated. We needed to see an animal with a normal myostatin gene have it's gene "knocked out" and then observe the results. Also, it would be nice to locate the gene in humans.
The Next Step
Shortly after the myostatin gene was identified in cattle, Alexandra McPherron of Johns Hopkins University identified the gene in mice and then proceded to "knock out" the gene in normal mice and see what happened. Observe the photos above to see the astounding results. The photos on bottom are of a mouse that has had the myostatin gene knocked out, the top photos are of a normal littermate (the skin has been removed to better reveal the muscles). The other photo represents a cross section through the hindlimb of a normal and myostatin deleted animal. Mice with the myostatin deletion looked like beady-eyed, furry, little Mr. Olympias. This definitively proved that the myostatin gene was responsible for regulating muscle size and that its elimination would produce double-muscling as seen in the spontaneously occurring mutation.(6). In a personal phone communication with me, Dr. McPherron indicated that identifying the gene and knocking it out is an easy procedure, although any explanation would be way over my head.
Next, I came across a very technical article that I found difficult to understand, but which seemed to suggest that the human myostatin gene was being identified. It seems that yeast artificial clones of the bovine myostatin gene were used to locate and characterize similarities between bovine and human myostatin.(7). Within 3 months of this article I found another article that seemed to describe the human myostatin gene in great detail... "The myostatin gene comprises three exons and two introns, maps to chromosomal region 2q33.2, has three putative transcription initiation sites, and is transcribed as a 3.1-kb mRNA species that encodes a 375-aa precursor protein. Myostatin is expressed uniquely in the human skeletal muscle as a 26-kDa mature glycoprotein (myostatin-immunoreactive protein) and secreted into the plasma. Myostatin immunoreactivity is detectable in human skeletal muscle in both type 1 and type 2 fibers."(8). I had no idea what all this terminology meant but the context of the statement was clear, human myostatin had been isolated to an exact location on the second human chromosome; the protein it produced had been characterized; and its expression in muscle had been isolated. The most amazing thing about this article was that it showed that myostatin definitely regulates muscle size and increased myostatin expression is responsible for muscle wasting in disease states. This study showed that increased myostatin expression is responsible for muscle wasting in AIDS patients. The study concludes "The serum and intramuscular concentrations of myostatin-immunoreactive protein are increased in HIV-infected men with weight loss compared with healthy men and correlate inversely with fat-free mass index. These data support the hypothesis that myostatin is an attenuator of muscle growth in adult men and contributes to muscle wasting in HIV-infected men."(9). If you think about it this makes perfect sense. The HIV virus is a retrovirus that pirates the metabolic machinery of the host in order to produce more of itself. If you you recall in the article The Dose-Response Relationship of Exercise, we pointed out that muscle was the body's most metabolically expensive tissue. It only makes sense that the HIV virus would have some sort of mechanism of upregulating myostatin expression, thereby decreasing muscle mass and leaving more of the body's metabolic energy available to be enslaved for HIV replication.
The Nail in The Coffin
At this point I was confident that myostatin does control muscle mass in animals and humans. It was clear that knocking out myostatin in a normal animal produces double muscling. Experimental evidence shows that increased myostatin expression in humans causes muscle wasting. The evidence seemed to be mounting that world champion bodybuilders might simply be the human equivalent of a Belgian Blue.
This is not to say that champion bodybuilders are not a product of their hard work. In a personal communication with Dr. McPherron I asked to what degree training affected the expression of myostatin. I was told that no human data exists (quantitating changes would require a muscle biopsy), but animal data suggests that myostatin expression can be changed by 20-40% through physical training. However, 20% change in the context of high myostatin penetration is very different than improvements when there is no myostatin inhibition. While a person with a myostatin deletion still gets credit for his work, the accomplishments of a dedicated genetically average trainee are, in reality, equally as profound. When looking at the photo of the Belgian Blue bull (who does no training at all) one must wonder if a human with similar genetic endowment might actually decrease their muscularity if training was improper. I recall the story Arthur Jones tells about former Mr. Olympia Chris Dickerson. Chris was most noted for his outstanding calf development. Arthur made the point that Mr. Dickerson was one of two surviving triplets and that the brother that had never trained actually had calves that were larger than Chris' calves. Recall that maternal twins (or triplets) are actually, in genetic terms...clones. This suggests that all the dedicated training Chris did for his calves only served to make them smaller.
All of these speculations are moot however if we cannot actually demonstrate the myostatin deletion in a human subject. Dr. McPherron was not aware of any documented cases of myostatin deletion in humans, but was very excited about the possibility of finding such a case. I have received consent forms from Dr. McPherron so that I may approach likely candidates for a DNA sample in an attempt to find such a deletion in a human subject. Terry Carter and I have been in touch with likely candidates (who will remain anonymous), and we are hopeful that they will consent to provide a blood sample for DNA testing. The research world is not interested in this from a bodybuilding or cosmetic standpoint. Characterizing this mutation in humans may hold the key to the cure for various forms of muscular dystrophy, as well as potential treatment of muscle wasting associated with HIV, cancer, and aging.
Personally, I was hopeful that I might be one of the first to show interest in finding a human example of the myostatin deletion. During an extensive literature and internet search of the topic I came across an astounding article. It appears that a gentleman named Victor Conte, President of a company called BALCO Laboratories, Inc. has been testing for the myostatin gene in champion athletes. It seems that champion bodybuilder Flex Wheeler has tested positive for the myostatin deletion. Here is a quote from the article:
This article, if published in a peer reviewed scientific format, will certainly be the "nail in the coffin" proof of what we in the H.I.T. field have known emperically for a long time: extreme responders are much more a product of their genetics than the particular training regimine they espouse. Their superior ability to pack on muscle may be enhanced by training and/or steroids but most certainly has nothing to do with the various supplements which they endorse. While such "champions" are genetically exceptional, that does not necessarily make them exception people who are deserving of the kind of hero worship that suggests they achieved what they have because the are more dedicated than the average trainee. Indeed the accomplishments of most genetically average trainees may equal or exceed that of an extreme responder when viewed in light of our knowledge about myostatin.
The Morning After
After discovering what I felt was fairly definitive evidence for a genetic basis of a muscular setpoint, I had very mixed feelings. After sharing this information with Terry Carter, we both seemed to settle into a malaise that lasted for several days. For the first time in 18 months we missed a workout together. Later, the realization that we had found hard evidence for what we knew all along seemed to provide a sense of liberation. The most amazing thing we pondered was the astounding metabolic efficiency of the body. Evidence collected by us, as well as HIT enthusiasts everywhere, shows that strength gains continue long after size gains grind to a snail's pace. Many other significant issues are raised by this knowledge. Below is a partial list. I'm sure you will come up with more of your own.
Further Information
New research on myostatin is still ongoing. We at Ultimate Exercise will be following these developments closely. We will also be involved in collecting DNA samples from subjects likely to possess the myostatin deletion. Consent forms for those wishing to participate should be available soon. Study participants will receive $100.00 for their participation. Please call us if you have a likely candidate. For those wishing to discuss this article or discuss the latest information we are aware of on this subject you may do so by scheduling a phone consultation. Call (864)886-0200 for rates and appointment times.


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Gospel Reading: Lk 9:18-22
Once when Jesus was praying in solitude, and the disciples were with Him, He asked them, "Who do the crowds say that I am?" They said in reply, "John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, 'One of the ancient prophets has arisen.'" Then He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter said in reply, "The Messiah of God." He rebuked them and directed them not to tell this to anyone.
He said, "The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised."
Jesus rebuked them. Why does Jesus direct His disciples not to tell anyone that He is the Messiah of God? The reason is this: In their times, many of the Jews are looking for a political messiah who will conquer the Romans and liberate the people of Israel. To announce to people that Jesus is the Messiah of God may stir up a type of revolutionary ferment that will have disastrous consequences for the people. That is why from then on Jesus seeks to make His disciples understand what kind of messiah He is. He starts predicting to them His passion, death, and resurrection. They need to be educated in the ways of God.
Today we no longer need to keep quiet about Jesusbeing the Messiah. In fact, Jesus wants all of us to proclaim the gospel to every creature. Listen carefully to Christ's question,
"Who do you say that I am?"
Then respond by wholeheartedly professing your faith.
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Sienna Miller and Tom Sturridge were spotted leaving Lulu Restaurant in Mayfair last night (February 01, 2013). Tom was looking a little sleepy. I wonder if the new baby is preventing him from getting a good amount of sleep?
Sienna gave us a flash of her engagement ring as the pair got in to a cab. Miller wore a little black dress with a black fluffy coat, black tights and black satin heels. Tom was dressed ultra causally in jeans and a plaid shirt.
Tom just signed on for a new role. He will be joining Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf in Lyle Kessler's play Orphans on Broadway this spring.
Sturridge's film credits include Vanity Fair, Being Julia, The Boat that Rocked and On the Road. He will make his Broadway debut in the inaugural Broadway production of Orphans, which will begin performances March 19 and open April 7 at the Schoenfeld Theatre.


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Darcy Totten - Master's: Photojournalism, 2005
My time at UT was one of the strongest periods of change in my life. I arrived, brash and sure of myself, cigarette in one hand and large black coffee in the other, ready to take the world by storm. I thought that graduate school would merely be a stop on my way to war-torn countries and an illustrious career in my father's footsteps. Ambition was the only thing that really pushed me. Mid-way through my first year I got a call from home… my father had cancer. Again. Suddenly I couldn't watch a sad movie or read the newspaper. War was out of the question…I had enough to deal with.
I left school and went home to spend time with him. Eight short months later, I had to return. I can never leave anything unfinished. He was doing well with chemo and it seemed that everything would be okay. I quit smoking and stopped photographing…my heart just wasn't in it anymore. I finished up my thesis, fell in love and took a government job, preparing to stay in Texas forever.
My father pulled every last bit of his strength together to fly into Texas in order to see me graduate. I remember looking at him over breakfast, bald from chemo and unable to eat with us because the drugs had taken away the pleasures of taste. It was the last time we all ate at a restaurant together. You never know it's the last time until one day you realize, too late, that that was it. That day, the day I graduated, is burned into my memory as a shining example of my father's love. The man who never missed a soccer game or a dance recital was there for me for one last accomplishment. It was the last one he would see. It was also the last I would see of Texas. As he got worse and hope started to fade, I said goodbye to my relationship and my job and returned home to be with my family. Now, in another state, with another job and a new love…it marks a fork in my life's path.
Texas was such a special place for me. It was where I changed my career, fell in love, made bolder choices for my future and learned exactly what I was made of. It was where I learned that family is more important than any goal or ambition, that real love will always last no matter the circumstances and that I am truly blessed to have had Glenn Robert Totten as a father. Most importantly, it was where I found my home…right where I had left it so many years ago.


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06/13/2007, Gustavia
You know that excitement you get when you score the best parking spot at the office? Well that's how we felt. There was no better place to put your boat in the whole island. I was very happy.
There was a park running along the quay to the left with beautiful grass and lots of trees. A dog friendly cafe sat close by on the waterfront with fresh croissants and excellent coffee. Roq was very happy.
There were gourmet shops, restaurants and even a warehouse type food store. Hideko was very happy.
Saint Barts is not cheap but it is a beautiful place. We looked at some of the houses for sale just for fun. I can tell you for certain that this place is over bought. The investment era is over, prices are in the lifestyle only zone.
They have an airport but it is situated so that planes have to nearly take the roofs off of cars on the road at the top of the hill as they dive bomb their way down the hill side to land and stop before they bob into the lagoon at the end of the short run way.
Kelp Fiction had a rolly night in the bay and moved into the harbor today. We all went out to a great cafe for a nice dinner of steak frites. We were supposed to leave today but the two crews were unanimous in the decision to stay a few days.
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06/12/2007, Saint Barts
We got up at 7 to get the boat ready. It was such a beautiful anchorage we hated to leave but by 9 Kelp Fiction was coming around Saint Martin and it was time to head out. Cindy had done an amazing job sewing up the bimini, it looked like new. When we inquired Fred said that they didn't go ashore for dinner. Sure Fred.
We had a nice couple/three hour sail over to Gustavia in Saint Barts. I always like to anchor in the more remote spots but between the 5 of us we decided to move straight into Gustavia as we needed to get south. We passed the island Ill Fourchue and Anse De Colombier (a bay on the northwest side of Saint Barts) and both looked lovely.
As we came into Gustavia Bay we noticed a whole much of kids racing small sailboats. Some of them were real hams and spent more time entertaining us than sailing. We also saw a turtle swimming around the anchorage which is always a good sign.
The anchorage in the fairly open bay outside of Gustavia is pretty crowded. A lot of the boats look like they are rooted for the summer. After surveying the place we decided that the north side of the bay looked least crowded and swelly. Traveling with friends on a mono gets you a lot more tuned into the swell in a place.
As we drove through the north side of the anchorage I noticed that the place was pretty tightly packed with mooring balls. I didn't really know what the mooring ball rules were here as the cruising guide didn't say much about it. I noticed an odd hole in the middle of the mooring field. After a quick pass Hideko and I decided to try to fit in.
We anchored and set on a short scope. Even snugged up we were probably liable to get a bit close to some of the other boats if the wind shifted greatly. No predicted but you never know. I jumped in to look at things underwater.
Ah ha! No wonder there was a hole in this exact spot. Right off our bow was a beautiful, perfect mooring. It had a cracked ball full of water sitting on the bottom but otherwise idyllic. I hauled the mooring up and Hideko tied us off. Now we were really set! It would have been a hassle to bring the anchor up at this point so we just left it down as it would be inoperative for our stay.
Fred, Cindy and Jill came along right about then. I love watching Fred motor through an anchorage. The people who owned Kelp Fiction prior to Fred and Cindy we named the "Aets". The Aets made a whole in the top of the Amel dodger to allow the helmsman to stand up and see out. Fred refers to this addition as the Aets Hole. Watching him cruise by with his head sticking out of it always makes me smile. Fred anchored on the north side but a ways out.
As Kelp Fiction got settled Hideko and I hopped in the dinghy and headed in to town to clear in. The inner Gustavia harbor is immaculate. It is by far the cleanest port I have found in the Caribbean. There are large walls set up for stern to docking all around the harbor and the center is full of tightly spaced moorings that boats tie up to bow and stern. The effect is something like a parking lot at a shopping mall, but more, say, nautical. Cute little shops and bistros line the quay and the hills above. It is picturesque to say the least.
We cleared in and the staff were very professional and courteous. When I asked if we could come into the harbor they said sure and told us to tie up along side right up front. Wow. During high season there would be a row of 150 footers waiting to go stern to in that much space. As much as I hated to give up our nifty re-floated mooring spot we couldn't pass the offer up. We zipped back to the big boat and moved into Saint Barts.
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06/11/2007, Tintamarre
It had to happen sooner or later. For the first time ever Swingin' on a Star did not end up where we planned at the beginning of the voyage.
We left Marigot Bay, Saint Martin with Kelp Fiction II at around noon. As both boats were coming around the north tip of Saint Martin some nasty clouds started moving in. Before you know it, wham, 35 knots on the nose and 4 knots SOG. Ugly.
As we approached the clouds I put a reef in the main. Once things heated up to full blast we decided that lass sail was called for. It was getting pretty bumpy as we rolled the jib up to the reef two mark. Next, to my great pleasure, I got to go forward to put the second reef in the main. Ug. Wet? Very. Windy? Like really windy.
I jacked in and went forward to battle with the big sail. I asked Hideko to to head up, which was a challenge over all of the wind noise. She couldn't point too high though or the jib would flog to shreds. Not high enough and I would have to drag the main into the sail bag. I let off on the halyard and was happy to only have to climb up on the boom once to pull the main neatly to reef two.
My next prayer was that the reef ring would be within reach of the clip. It wasn't of course. That only happens in fair weather. I muscled it over by hand though without using a come along on the winch so I got things clipped in pretty quick. The reefing winch we added in Saint Martin came in very handy as I cranked the leech line in tight and threw the jammer.
I am now on a mission. All controls in the cockpit or bust. Perhaps Trinidad...
Meanwhile KFII was unhappy. Fred came on the VHF and told me that their bimini had started to rip. After some though they decided to turn around and head for Grand Case. Likely excuse, Grand Case is known as the culinary center of the Caribbean.
Anyway we weren't going anywhere without our friends so we decided to let the boom out and head back downwind to Tintamarre which was just aft of the beam a couple miles off. The water near shore was almost flat and the wind was knocked down to the high 20s so we decided to set up shop.
What a beautiful island. We anchored in a little harbor on the western beach. The place reminded me of Big Sand Cay in Turks and Caicos. Not as remote and not as much sand but still a very beautiful place.
I snorkeled a bit to check out the anchor in case any whoppers like the squall that had just blown by came in the night. All was well and the water was a wonderful clear blue. We had just bought an Olympus Stylus 770SW, which in many ways is just a normal digital camera. The exception is that it is water proof down to 30 feet! It is very cool. I brought it with me and took a picture of our anchor so Hideko could sleep well too.
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06/10/2007, French Saint Martin
We left the FKG dock at 7:45 this morning so that we could make it to the French side of the lagoon in time for the 9AM bridge opening. Crossing the lagoon was dicey. There are some very shallow spots over on the French side near the channel markers that lead to the bridge. When we got close Fred met us in his dinghy.
The bad news was the bridge just looked too skinny for my comfort and they didn't seem to be opening anyway. So much for the short cut. We told Fred we were just going to go out the Dutch side so he headed back to Marigot Bay.
We made it back in time for the 9:30 Simpson Bay Bridge opening. There was quite a procession of boats waiting to exit.
We had a nice sail part of the way around the island and motored the rest of the way in. Marigot Bay is a beautiful anchorage. The french town looks as charming as any you might find in Europe and the bay is well protected, looking out onto Anguilla a few miles away.
We anchored up and dinghied over to visit with Kelp Fiction and go swimming (finally!). Later on we went to a really neat Vietnamese restaurant in Marigot. Great food, wonderful ambiance and fantastic hostess!
|Saint Martin
06/09/2007, Saint Martin Lagoon
Well it has been great getting stuff done on the boat. A short walk to Island Water World one way and Budget Marine the other, FKG and Electec right at the end of the dock and virtually everything else a short dinghy ride away in a protected lagoon.
It is time to head south however. There's dense vegetation growing on my waterline (and I'm not diving in here to work on it), beautiful anchorages are calling, I want to play with the new toys and most of all the canes are a brewin'.
Also the crime rate seems to be fairly high here. We have a dog aboard which, knock on wood, pretty much makes us immune to theft. Unfortunately we have logged many boat break ins in the last 2 weeks and one dinghy theft. No worse than Marina Del Rey I suppose but as the boat density decreases the percentage exposure of the remaining targets seems to be getting uncomfortable. Comes with the developed territory I guess.
We freaked out at the last minute and had the local mattress factory build us a custom mattress for our cabin. I was on the fence about our cushion mattress. It is not bad but it is not a mattress. These days you can get a crazy comfortable pillow top monster mattress in the US if you are willing to shell out for it. This place was making what seemed like good mattresses but I don't think they had access to the materials you find back in the states. I got the top of the line and custom sized it only ran $625 delivered! We're likin' it so far but time will tell it it holds up in a marine environment.
|Saint Martin
06/08/2007, FKG Dock
AIS rules. AIS is the Automated Information System required on most commercial vessels and large pleasure boats. Cruising boats can get a receiver and easily pick up this information for display or chart plotter integration.
An AIS transmitter broadcasts a vessel's name, position, heading, speed, destination, ETA, mode of propulsion, length, beam, draft, MMSI and more over VHF. A well placed antenna will pick up shipping traffic 15 to 20 miles off. Because the system provides location, course over ground and speed over ground you can very accurately predict a collision danger.
I wanted to install this in Fort Lauderdale but the unit I ordered (Sitex) didn't arrive in time. It has been in my project box for a while now. Our friends on Rosario have AIS running and I was so jealous when we discussed it with them in the Bahamas. David said that one of his favorite things about AIS was that he could hail the other vessel by name. Getting on 16 and hailing "shipping traffic at lat/long" is likely to turn up dead air. Hailing "Andrea Star", gets their attention (perhaps wondering who is close enough to read the name on the bow).
I order the Sitex unit because that was what Raymarine used in their demo booth at the '06 Miami boat show (they now have their own unit). You can do a quick and dirty install but if you go by the book it is a fair amount of work. The AIS receiver needs its own antenna. If you hook it up to your VHF every time you transmit you blast the AIS, possibly loosing data, possibly damaging the AIS box. I decided to put the antenna on the port side of the traveler arch rather than opening the can of worms that installing it at the top of the mast (the optimal place) would have been.
I had my SSB and VHF hooked up to the E120 chart plotter NEMA port for position data and DSC info. They run at 19,200 though and the AIS can output a lot of data in a busy port and prefers 384,000. This means you need to get a NEMA to SeaTalk bridge to support the radios so that you can crank up the port speed on the NEMA to 384,000. Check. Once everything is installed you need to make sure that you have a newish version of the E120 software running.
Our setup is running and it is fantastic. I wish we had it crossing the Gulf Stream and the windward passage. The E120 has a bug causing it to alarm every time you get into a situation where there are no targets. This is annoying but hopefully a fix is on the way.
|Saint Martin
When you look in my face,
I will look you in the eye
And I will never lie. "
I have not read your latest blogs but I will I like to look at the pictures first. On a lighter note, massive brush fires in A.D. along the 14 in Vasquez Rocks caught on fire, no structual damages happened which was good.
Two things used to require a bit to much exertion on our boat. Raising the main (check) and bringing the dink aboard.
Getting our Walker Bay onto the aft deck used to require manually lifting the 8 HP off of the dinghy transom and loading it into the lazarette or stowing it on the rail of the big boat. Not easy on the joints for us old folks.
We had originally tried to hoist the dink with the retractable davits. It worked fine but our davit retraction line doesn't run too fair through the arch and makes it pretty impossible to lift much more than the Walker Bay empty. Putting the dink away turned into quite a chore. Take the motor off and put it away, clip in the dink, raise it up, and strap it down. My strap down system involved looping some nylon strapping around the swim platform pipe and other mumbo jump that took a fair amount of time to adjust.
We have revolutionized this whole mess. FKG set us up with a nice Lewmar 4 part block and tackle and we have welded eyes onto the swim platform pipe and the davit verticals near the bottom.
We can now tilt up the outboard on Little Star, haul it up on the block and tackle rig, bring the davit in, and drop it on the chocks. To strap it down I just clip two come alongs to the four hard points and ratchet them down. Awesome.
The only thing I'd do different is that I would get blocks with jammers (I still may). FKG welded some nice cleats on the davit so we cleat off the lines once the dink is in the air. This is trickier than it sounds on the heavy end. Jammers would let you just heave and go.
P.S. Easy dingy stowage has been a snap for us since the upgrade. We are in Saint Lucia now and even in anchorages where we get in at sunset and leave a dawn we have no second thoughts about dropping the dinghy for a quick ashore. I also don't have to stow the gas tank or unlock the outboard security setup. We drop it in the water and it's ready to go.
|Saint Martin


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S-A has a narrow and wide version in many offerings, and even some with a 28 hole hubshell
perfect for small wheels like 16"~ 349mm....
S-A has a narrow and wide version in many offerings, and even some with a 28 hole hubshell
perfect for small wheels like 16"~ 349mm....
the AW3 shipped to Brompton's factory had 117 mm across the locknuts .. 28 hole..
now 2 ,BSR a new AW3 narrow .. and a wider ratio3 , the BWR, to take 2 cogs..
And the Sun Race made hubs ads the NIG safety feature.. .
http://www.sturmey-archer.com/produc...d/4/id/64.html 111 /119 wide
this one might offer 10 speeds,5x2.
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On the Uno can you raise the bars more than on the Uno speed? So this bike can have a different wheel which would not involve a coaster?
I used a SA S2C for my Mu Uno two-speed conversion and was ultimately unhappy with it: the shifting is not consistent enough for my taste. To SA's credit, they sent new internals free of charge, but that did not produce an improvement.
I've gone back to the stock wheel. I enjoyed the project for its novelty, but I feel annoyed every time I see that wheel in my basement I'm not sure what to do with it. I don't think anything's wrong with it, but I'd feel uncomfortable selling it knowing that I don't find the shifting to be satisfactory.
If I were to do this over again, I'd definitely go with the SRAM -- my sense is that the reviews are consistently much more favorable, and few ever complain about the lack of on-demand shifting (the aspect that caused me to chose the SA).
1) SRAM 36h Automatix 2 Speed Coaster Brake Rear Hub
2) SRAM 36h Automatix 2 Speed Rear Hub
Are there any difference? The description seems the same but the price is slightly more expensive with (1). I have a coaster brake installed so if I installed (2) does it mean there is no coaster brake then?
Would it make sense for me to order this and get a bike store to install? Or should I start looking at local bike stores first?
Going into vintage parts, there's a few more options.
Sachs Duomatic, which is just as nice as the SRAM Automatix (and the automatic version has the same drawback of having to open it up to manually adjust the shift point), and can be had in a manual version. I'm running one of these on my Boardwalk, and like it a lot. Shifting is quite reliable, the brake is easy to modulate, and it's just a nice hub to live with.
Bendix automatic hubs, although those are heavy.
Shimano AB-100, although I think that one's pretty rare, but it's an automatic shifting 2-speed with external adjustment of the shift point
2011 TerraTrike Path 8
2002 Dahon Boardwalk 1 (with 1976 F&S R 2110 2-speed kickback hub)
I own the Sturmey Archer S2C hub that I bought from Bruce M. a while back for my Speed Duo. So far, it's working well with the new internals as the original one broke. I'm also lucky to have a IGH hub mechanic who is experienced enough working with SA stuff that he actually managed to make my S2C work better than when I got it originally from Bruce. It's shifts well and still shifts well today after the repair and the mech modification and I ride really hard. No breakage and he managed to get the hub turn with less drag. Much lesser drag than when I got it the first time.
Part of the reason I use the S2C is for the mechanical shift. I dislike auto shift as I am a spinner and I find that auto shifts even modified is too unpredictable in my kind of riding terrain. So far, I have a low and medium gear. I would see why it's a pain if you set it up with only medium and high gear, while most likely you'll end up at the high gear when you start the bike again. For me, low and medium no problem with hills and flats as I coast down the hill anyhow.
I'm still not sure if you really want to go to a dual speed option with your wife riding a Brompton; assuming she's getting a 6 speed version. You could probably go for the Shimano 3 speed IGH coaster hub which is a better choice for you to ride with your wife. You have low, medium and a high gear. This way, you can pace your wife on the uphill and the hub itself needs very little maintenance anyhow.
Trek 5000 lite touring : Masi Speciale CX loaded road touring : Ghost EBS Comp 29er off-road touring
I've been following various posts about the Mu Uno (I finally just registered with the site today) and I'm wondering which would be the best front and rear Belt Drive sprockets to use for a Mu Uno. I've been meaning to order a custom wheelset and belt drive system for my Mu Uno with the A2 (coaster brake) hub.
I'm a complete newbie when it comes to this stuff but I am slowly trying to learn the ropes.
Brompton M2L (SRAM A2), Brompton M2L(X), Dahon Uno (SRAM A2), Both Swift Xootr & Moulton TSR2 now gone
Ps I also have the 28H version of the A2 freewheel fitted to one of my Bromptons. For both units I had to take them apart and adjust the change point which was too low for the 16/20" wheels.
Brompton M2L (SRAM A2), Brompton M2L(X), Dahon Uno (SRAM A2), Both Swift Xootr & Moulton TSR2 now gone
I called a local Dahon dealer and the guy insisted I will need to make some 'complicated' modifications to the wheel in order to add the SRAM A2.
Is that true? The way he makes it sound like a big deal.
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Nope not complicated at all except perhaps that you would need to get the hub built into the rim. He could of course mean the changes required to the hub itself to ensure it changes up/down gear at the right speed for you. There is a link posted in this thread, I think, of how to do that. Its not simple but anyone who can build a wheel/does bike maintenance should be able to do it. If you leave it as is then it will change at about 7-8mph which is fine for the flat but not so good when you have more hillier terrain.
The decision really is based on if you want the coaster or the free wheel. On the British (European ?) version then you can use either the coaster brake version or freewheel. Of course for the uno already fitted with a coaster brake then the only answer is to use a coaster A2 unless you can find a way of retro fitting a rear brake as discussed above.
PS Here is the link to a review/instructions with pics showing you how to adjust the change point. Decide for yourself if its within your or the LBS ability to do it. Of course it may then invalidate any guarantee.
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Brompton M2L (SRAM A2), Brompton M2L(X), Dahon Uno (SRAM A2), Both Swift Xootr & Moulton TSR2 now gone
Unfortunately, noob that I am, I got the SRAM 36H A2 from online when my wheels are 28H. Is there any way to salvage this? Is it usable? From some posts on the forums, it seems unlikely...
EBAY .. I imagine there are other outlets, but the 28h is much harder to find than the 36h.
I've got a very nice 451mm wheelset with Sach 2 speed coaster built up by Bruce that I'm thinking about selling. Excellent on the road, very fast setup but I've been doing more trail riding on my Mu Uno and looking to go back to 406mm where I can some fat tires, hopefully squeeze some knobbies on the Mu. I can be reached at email@example.com or 510-329-4563.
Do 20" wheels require special sized hubs? Could you theoretically trick out a Mu Uno with a 3, 8 or 11 speed hub?


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marriage licenses
-âLee Joseph Chapman and Sirilak Witthayaphirom, both of Madison Twp.
-âTimothy Martin Dunleavy, Scranton, and Dawn Anne Glogowski, Taylor.
-âWilliam A. Everetts and Christine E. Fries, both of Scranton.
-âThomas Williams, Olyphant, and Jessica Renee Kucharski, Carbondale.
Property transactions
-âPhelan Hallinan LLP, attorney-in-fact for Fannie Mae, aka Federal National Mortgage Association, to Christopher Malvizzi; a property at 1111 Watkins St., Taylor, for $77,000.
-âDavid J. Fueshko and Denise L. Kerr, now by marriage Denise L. Fueshko, Covington Twp., to Hernando Aguero, Covington Twp.; three parcels in Covington Twp. for $168,750.
-âAngela B. Brinko, South Abington Twp., Donna and William Pastore, Clarks Summit, Andrea R. Pastore and Michele M. Pastore, both of Lackawanna County, to Nicole Rexach, Tobyhanna; a property at 1201-1203 Academy St., Scranton, for $64,900.
-âWells Fargo Bank, Philadelphia, to JM Industrial LLC, Mayfield Twp.; two parcels at Route 6, Mayfield, for $320,000.
-âAmerican International Relocation Solutions LLC to Steven and Jacquelyn Marshalek; a property at 213 Butternut Lane, South Abington Twp., for $232,000.
-âKML Law Group PC, attorney-in-fact for Fannie Mae, also known as Federal National Mortgage Association, to Gouranga Ghosh; a property at 624-626 N. Irving Ave., Scranton, for $37,000.
-âMary R. and Gordon J. Miller, Patricia A. Pierotti, and Janet E. Chaffee, to Joyce A. James, Scranton; a property at 116 Benger Drive, Scranton, for $65,000.
-âBernard Jr. and Donalynn Yanik Martin, Falls, to Donald H. Beil Jr., Scranton; a property at 1802 Swetland St., Scranton, for $55,000.
-âCarl Sobeski, West Pittston, to Caroleena M. Cole, South Abington Twp.; a property at 10 Lakeside Drive, South Abington Twp., for $295,000.
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30 May 2010 7:46 AM #1
Imagine a window with a grid that uses a store.
When I use Ext Designer to draw it, six files are created in the same directory of the *. xds.
Question number one. What to do with the files
30 May 2010 6:26 PM #2
Got the answer to the question number 2 here:
30 May 2010 9:19 PM #3
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If you use Linux or OS X, you can simply make a symbolic link to your exported js files in your js folder. If you use Windows...well...shame on you :-) In that case I would simply reference your exported files directly (putting them anywhere) until they are deemed "finished" and then you can move the finalized js files to your js folder. I would do whatever you need to do to avoid copying files on every export. Symbolic Links are the easiest thing that comes to mind, but if you don't have the ability to do that, then just have a split dev/prod environment and reference your xds exported files directly. Whatever it takes to avoid making a mountain out of a mole hill...
31 May 2010 4:24 AM #4
understood jarred.
Thanks! =]
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In the future we'll think about the life cycle in which the Designer is used typically. I understand that it's perfect for full-out design->export->use situation, but when you do a lot of design revisions its export model becomes a little clumsy. It's nothing that 30 seconds of "elbow grease" won't solve (whether that's copying/pasting files or code, or what have you), but I totally get wanting to make the export pretty seamless and to "fit in" to a project the way you'd like. So again, we'll think this through for future growth of the product.
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The Chinese Proposition Bank adds a layer of semantic annotation to the Chinese Treebank. This layer of semantic annotation mainly deals with the predicate-argument structure of Chinese verbs. This task is also called semantic role labeling in the sense that each verb is expected to take a fixed number of arguments and each argument plays a role with regard to the verb. The draft annotation guidelines and the annotation of the first installment of the corpus (250K words) are near completion.
Extending the idea of predicate-argument structure to discourse, we are also in the initial stages of building a Chinese Discourse Treebank in which discourse connectives are treated as predicates that take arguments. A discourse connective can be a subordinate conjunction, a coordinate conjunction, or an anaphorical adverbial expression. Sometimes discourse relations can even be inferred when explicit discourse markers are not available.
Other Chinese annotation projects that are carried out at Penn include coreference annotation, sense-tagging. Since most of our data have English translations, we are also building parallel Chinese-English treebanks and proposition banks.
In the context of NLP research, building annotated corpora is of course only part of the larger picture, a means to an end. The goal is to train natural language systems. To that end, we have built Chinese segmenters and part-of-speech taggers, parsers, semantic role labelers, word sense and coreference disambiguators. We have also built machine translation and information extraction systems.


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An impressive performance by the LTTE Victor Unit
October 15th, 2006
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
An important highlight of the fighting between Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on October 11th was the severe losses of armoured vehicles by the army At least twelve armoured fighter vehicles (AFV) and Armoured personnel carriers (APC) were put out of action by the tigers in three hours of fierce combat.
Even as fighting progressed and GOSL troops backed by artillery went forward. the advance was slowed down to some extent by tiger artillery as well as mines. Two Main Battle Tanks (MBT) were hit by anti – tank "monster" mines. These mines were placed and triggered by the Victor unit of the LTTE which specialises in anti – tank and anti – armoured vehicle warfare.
After the first MBT tank was hit and rendered non – operational the second MBT overtook it and proceeded ahead. This too was hit in turn by a "monster" anti – tank mine.
A third armoured vehicle moved in a different direction and fell into a deep, waterlogged ditch. It was a pit dug and covered up with vegetation It was a well cqamouflaged tiger trap.This too was laid by the Victor unit and demonstrated that the LTTE excelled in both using modern weaponery as well as engaging in comparatively "primitive" yet effective warfare tactics.
The LTTE's Victor anti – tank and armoured unit continued engaging in action during intensive fighting too. Despite losing its founder – commander Lt. Col Akbar to a random army shell on Oct 7th members of the unit fought fiercely. In addition to the earlier losses of two armoured vehicles to "monster" mines and another to a camouflaged pit – trap , three more Armoured fighting vehicles (AFV) were hit by anti – tank RPG' s and destroyed.
Six AFV's comprising 4 Czhech built T – 55 's and two Russian built BMP's were put out of action by the Victor unit.
The Victor anti – tank and armoured unit also fired at Chinese built Armoured Personnel carriers with success. Three APC's were totally destroyed while another three were partially damaged .
Altogether the Victor unit had put six armoured fighting vehicles and six armoured personnel carriers out of action within a few hours of fighting.The armed forces have never sustained such massive losses in this manner before.
Significantly the LTTE suffered a major loss before Wednesday's fighting. On Oct 7th Lt. Col Akbar of the LTTE was killed along the Muhamaalai FDL as a result of an army shell. Akbar who is a Batticaloa Tamil was the head of the Victor anti – armoured artillery unit which specialises in combatting tanks and armoured vehicles.
Akbar who joined the LTTE in 1990 got married in 2003. He was from its inception the chief of the Victor unit.It was named after former Mannar tiger commander Victor.
This unit known generally among LTTE cadres as the "RPG Commando" had its roots in the "Col" Kittu artillery unit and had its baptism of fire during "operation Sathjaya" in Kilinochchi.It then became a sub – division of the "Imran – Pandian" unit named after two of Prabakharan's trusted bodyguards.
By 1997- 98 the anti – armoured artillery unit began functioning independently under Akbar.Members of this unit have vertical and not horizontal stripes on their uniforms. Though many stalwarts of this unit like Maj. Navachandran, Lt.Col Manivannan and Lt. Col Chutta are no more Akbar had survived despite being a veteran of many "Jayasikurui: and "Oyatha Alaigal" battles.
Lt. Col Akbar's death at a critical time may very well have affected LTTE fortunes as the Victor unit was of crucial importance in countering army advances. His death however seems to have inspired his unit members to perform well during war. Instead of being a bad omen it seems to have become the "blood sacrifice" made to the Gods before war to ensure victory. This was a practice in the lost martial tradition of the Tamils that is now being revived by the Liberation Tigers.
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Coleman's life celebrated in memorial
Jerry Coleman might be gone.
But he will never be forgotten.
That was clear Saturday morning as almost 5,000 San Diegans gathered at Petco Park for an 80-minmute memorial ceremony to the Hall of Fame broadcaster who died Jan. 5 at the age of 89.
"If you loved baseball, if you loved this country, you loved Jerry Coleman," said Joe Torre. "Character, courage, modesty."
Torre is now Major League Baseball's executive vice president of baseball operations. But he knew of Coleman growing up in Brooklyn as the second baseman of the New York Yankees. Over the years, Torre crossed paths with Coleman as a player, an announcer and the manager of the Yankees.
"When I first became aware of Coleman as a teenager, he exemplified heroism," continued Torre. "He always played hard and never appeared to b e a whiner. When you met him, it was great to find out that he was everything you expected he would be.
"He didn't like the attention, he let his actions do the talking. Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes."
Nine speakers appeared at the podium to recount stories of Coleman. Each had different material. But the theme was the same.
"Jerry's was a life well lived," said Padres executive chairman Ron Fowler.
Saturday's ceremony touched on every facet of Coleman.
--The Marine aviator who fought in World War II and Korea.
--The Yankees second baseman on four World Championship teams in his nine seasons.
--The family man.
--And the iconic broadcaster who dedicated four decades to the Padres and their fans en route to earning a spot in both the city's heart and baseball's Hall of Fame.
"No one else has that resume," said Ted Leitner, his partner for more than three decades in the Padres radio booth. "Now my partner is truly home, surrounded by his fellow Marines at the Miramar National Cemetery.
"Jerry Coleman is the most beloved sports figures in the history of San Diego," said Bob Chandler, another of the four former broadcasting teammates of Coleman at the memorial.
"There was a consistency of character with Jerry Coleman," said master of ceremonies and Padres broadcaster Dick Enberg. "He left us as he lived, gracefully. Typical of Jerry, he hung stars for someone else. We all came today because we loved this man."
The memorial started with a flyover of four F-18s from the same unit that Coleman served with in Korea. It ended with a flyover by a replica of the dive bomber that Coleman flew in World War II.
Some more memories of Jerry Coleman
Coleman interred with full military honors
Padres icon Jerry Coleman remembered
In the middle was a tribute video that chronicled Coleman's life.
At the end of the video, was a recording of Coleman. "The most important thing in life are the people you love, the people who love you and your country."
More than a dozen Padres – past and present – attended the memorial.
"I didn't know near the whole story," Padres third baseman Chase Headley said when asked what he knew of Coleman before being promoted to the Padres in 2007.
"I knew that he had served. I didn't know that he did it twice. I didn't know that he was a pilot. I didn't know the type of player that he was either. He never would have told you about that stuff, but I remember when I first got called up, he signed a copy of his book for me and he gave it to me.


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The Vermont ATV Sportsman's Association, St. Helen Dirtpackers ORV Club of Michigan and Northwest Wyoming Off High Vehicle Alliance have received off-highway vehicle grants from Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A.
The grants are part of Yamaha's OHV Access Initiative, which is a grant program to support trails, maintain and rehabilitate riding areas, improve staging areas, build bridges over fish-bearing streams and partner with local riding communities across the country to improve the OHV experience.
With its latest round of grants, Yamaha awarded more than $85,000 to a variety of organizations including local riding clubs, regional U.S. Bureau of Land Management offices and the National FFA. The 2013 Q1 Yamaha grant recipients are:
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There is a map here of Europe in 1700s (not sure about its provenance). Nothing city-wise between Moscow and Warsaw in that one. The areas occupied by modern day Bulgaria and Romania have nothing shown either. I did think about Minsk in modern day Belarus, but when I looked it up on Wikipedia it had been reduced to a small town during that period and only built itself up later.
It might be worthwhile looking at European maps drawn in the 1700s and taking a look at the cities they depict, then then googling those cities to get an idea as to why they were important then.
Here is a map made in 1787 which is the board of a boardgame! It does mention the town of Wilma in Poland / Lithuania (I have a large size copy of the map in a book at home - I've photographed it for you so you can read the individual place names - you can download them here (apologies in advance for the quality) I'll keep the link up for a week or so and then take it down.


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West Wyoming junkyard owner plans appeal
The owner of a West Wyoming junkyard plans to appeal a judge's order that forced the business to halt operations.
Luzerne County Judge Joseph Sklarosky Jr. recently issued a preliminary injunction to stop Russell's Hauling from engaging in scrap metal and recycling operations at 45 Apollo Drive.
Attorneys representing the business and the land owner who leases the property filed notice Tuesday in Luzerne County Court that an appeal will be filed with state Superior Court.
Sklarosky's Aug. 5 ruling to shutter the business came five weeks after a group of residents petitioned the court to issue a cease-and-desist order against the business for operating without proper licenses.
It was the second time the business has been ordered to halt operations.
Last year, a judge ordered Russell's Hauling to cease operations on land it leased at 12 Apollo Drive in West Wyoming, saying the business was operating without a valid license. Afterward, the business leased space right next door at 45 Apollo Drive on land that long had been home to a similar business, VP Auto Salvage and Sales Inc.
The business in question sits in a manufacturing zone that borders a residential zone. In between is a narrow tree line, an old railroad bed and then some wetlands leading up to the yards of residential homes on Ferretti Drive. Residents argue the noisy operation ruins their quality of life.
After residents sought the most recent injunction, attorneys for John Pisaneschi, owner of 45 Apollo Drive and VP Auto Salvage and Sales Inc., argued the property has been used for auto wrecking and salvage, motor vehicle crushing, scrap metal recycling and overall use as a junkyard since 1977.
In Pisaneschi's court filing, his attorney said that only after the initial Russell controversy did West Wyoming officials notify him he needed a junkyard license.
West Wyoming Borough Council denied the license in November 2013, and Pisaneschi appealed to county court. His appeal is pending.
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Another tragedy was reported by FOX's Jay Glazer this morning on the FOX NFL Sunday pregame show. Eric Eucker, a member of the Browns grounds crew, committed suicide in a storage shed at the team's facilities in Berea yesterday morning, around the same time as the Jovan Belcher incident in Kansas City.
The Browns issued the statement below:
"This is a terrible tragedy and our heartfelt condolences go out to Eric's family. Eric was a good friend and colleague, and an outstanding employee. He will be missed by everyone in the Cleveland Browns organization."


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DAILY NEWS: Trio Form IDP Distribution; Kardish Promotion; Chicago Latino Fest Winner
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>> CanWest, Goldwyn and Icahn Join Forces to Form IDP Distribution, Silberman Taking Top Job
(indieWIRE/4.25.00) -- Three companies are joining forces to create IDP
Distribution, a joint venture that will market and distribute feature films
in North America. Michael Silberman has been named the COO of the new
outfit which is being formed by CanWest Entertainment, Samuel Goldwyn Films
and Stratosphere Releasing. He will also serve as President of Distribution
and Marketing.
According to a company announcement yesterday, IDP will release about 20
movies per year and each unit will manage its own acquisitions and
productions. CanWest's Jay Firestone, Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and Stratosphere's
Carl Icahn will, according to the announcement, be "personally involved with
the producers of films acquired by their companies and released through
IDP." As part of the arrangement, the three companies will consolidate
their marketing and distribution through the venture.
"Filmmakers will have the benefit of a larger organization to handle their
pictures but will still get the personal attention required and deserved for
their films," stated Goldwyn in a prepared statement.
Among the movies set for release this year through IDP are Cannes
competition-entry, "Faithless," directed by Liv Ullman from a script by
Ingmar Bergman; Benito Zambrano's "Solas"; Stephen Metcalfe's "Beautiful
Joe," and Kevin Jordan's "Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish."
Michael Silberman was the Senior Vice-President of Distribution at October
Films, he also worked at Goldwyn, Vestron and Aries Film Releasing. He will
report to the three partners and will be based in New York City.
"We will endeavor to create a filmmaker friendly organization with the
ability to release films with 10 prints or 1000," explained Silberman in a
prepared statement, "Committed to new visions and exciting stories."
>> Kardish Named Senior Curator at MoMA
(indieWIRE/4.25.00) -- Laurence Kardish has been named the Senior Curator,
Department of Film and Video at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The
announcement was made recently by Museum Director Glenn Lowry.
"The title of Senior Curator indicates exceptional merit and is among the
highest distinctions the Museum can offer," said Lowry in a prepared
statement, "This promotion recognizes Laurence Kardish's remarkable
contributions to MoMA and to film culture -- his astute judgement about all
types of cinema, especially in identifying important new artists and in the
field of experimental work, has brought praise and distinction to MoMA's
film programs."
Kardish joines MoMA in 1968 as a curatorial assistant to create the
independent and avant-garde series, Cineprobe.
>> "Sentimental Teaser" Wins Top Award at Chicago Latino Festival
(indieWIRE/4.25.00) -- The 16th Chicago Latino Film Festival recently
awarded its audience award to the Chilean film, "The Sentimental Teaser" (El
Chacotero Sentimental), directed by Christian Galaz Garcia. The film was
chosen as the favorite among the 60 features that screened during the
Luis Estrada's Mexican film, "Herod's Law" (La Ley de Herodes), was a close
second for the audience prize, while Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes' "I
Will Survive" (Sobrevivire), from Spain, came in third.


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Election Day isn't until tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov. 4, but thousands of Buncombe County voters have already gone to the polls. The percentage of local residents who voted early was relatively high this year despite a new state law that reduced the number of days it was available. This year 41,746 Buncombe residents voted early, compared […]
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Early voting begins today, Thursday, Oct. 23
After months of dueling campaign advertisements and debates, voters across the state will be able to cast ballots starting today, Thursday, Oct. 23. Early voting runs through Saturday Nov. 1; Election day is Tuesday Nov. 4. Western North Carolina voters this year have a chance to weigh in on a lengthy list of local and […]
Early voting begins today
Early voting begins today for local municipal elections, including the Asheville City Council and mayoral races. Photo by Caitlin Byrd.
Buncombe early voting kicks off with highest turnout yet
Early voting began yesterday with its highest turnout yet, as 6,512 people showed up to cast their ballots at 18 locations around Buncombe County. (photo by Bill Rhodes)
Early Voting begins today at 11 Buncombe County locations
Early voting for the primaries and Amendment One begins today, April 19, at 11 locations around Buncombe County.
A few thoughts on the beginning of early voting
A citizen votes. Always.
Early voting declines slightly as 1,171 have cast ballots in city primary
Early voting declined slightly from the last Asheville City Council primary, according to figures from the Buncombe County Board of Elections. This year, 1,171 citizens cast their ballots early. In the last primary, in 2009, 1,229 people voted early.
UPDATED Early voting ends, Buncombe County turnout: More than 35,000
In Buncombe County, 35,246 voters cast their early ballots, and most were Democrat and white, with an average age of 59, according to data gathered by the Civitas Institute's Carolina Transparency Project. In nearby Henderson County, the average age was 64, and most early voters were Republican. Read more…
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Serve this tasty main dish with a mixed green salad for a quick-and-easy weekday meal!
Add 1 tsp. of your favorite Italian seasoning to the cream cheese mixture along with the Parmesan cheese and black pepper. Serve with additional Parmesan cheese.
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I love this and my kids do too. I changed it up a bit by sauteing the peppers and broccoli in the butter then to that I add the milk, cream cheese, and pepper and parm. I also, for my kids taste, make it with bow tie pasta, they love the shape.
I added shrimp and broccoli to this dish but prepared the sauce as directed. It was kind of runny so I added corn starch to thicken it. Next time, I am going to substitute some of the ingredients for a lower-fat version. I added a lot of pepper, too and that made it good.
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"In America" Migrates to the Top in Specialty BOT
by Brian Brooks
Fox Searchlight's "In America," the story of Irish immigrants in New York, topped the specialty box office with its opening over the Thanksgiving weekend, kicking off a holiday weekend that saw a slate of high per screen averages including Sony Classics' "The Triplets of Bellville," and Lions Gate's "The Cooler," which also opened. Focus' "21 Grams," New Yorker's "My Architect" and Miramax's "The Barbarian Invasions" also maintained audience sway over the holiday.
Jim Sheridan's "In America," took residence at the crest of the iW: BOT over the Thanksgiving weekend. Over the most American of holidays, the film about Irish immigrants who move to a poor New York neighborhood had a robust opening on 11 screens grossing $260,353 for a per screen average of $23,668.
"We're thrilled with the opening," commented Steve Gilula, president of Fox Searchlight distribution in a conversation with indieWIRE. "The film built [box office numbers] throughout the weekend, selling out a lot of shows especially at Lincoln Plaza. We knew word of mouth would be critical, and we're pleased." Gilula continued to say that Fox Searchlight had worked on the film's release "for a long time," describing the film as "not high concept," and "not driven by big name stars." "The film is unique in terms of its social aspect. It's a contrast from a lot of stuff out there that's tough and edgy."
"The strongest element going for the film is that it's a Jim Sheridan film," said Gilula crediting the director with "In America"'s strong showing. Gilula continued to say that people familiar with his work came out to theaters during the weekend. "[It's] a very personal film, and people really feel that," he said, adding that the film is based on actual circumstances during Sheridan's upbringing in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York.
"It's a movie we're very proud of and it's been a year since we first screened it and we're happy to now have it out there," Gilula concluded. Fox Searchlight plans a slow expansion over the next four or five weeks, maintaining the same number of theaters in New York and L.A. next weekend, then moving o nto about 50 screens in 11 cities on December 12th with a larger expansion planned for Christmas.
Lions Gate opened Wayne Kramer's "The Cooler" as well over the five night holiday, taking a fourth place showing on the iW: BOT. The film also screened at 11 sites taking in a jackpot of $171,621 for a $15,602 per screen average. "It's the coolest," Lions Gate Tom Ortenberg told indieWIRE to chuckles about the film's release. "I thought we had a terrific opening, [doing] very well in the face of perhaps the most competitive week of the year." Ortenberg continued to say that he hopes word of mouth and awards season recognition will "propel the picture forward."
Support from "Cooler" cast members Alec Baldwin, William H. Macy and Maria Bello, as well as from Kramer, helped with the film's debut according to the Lions Gate chief. He also said "generally good reviews" and "great responses" to the film company's creative material were also key.
Going forward, Lions Gate will expand into other markets beginning December 19th and will most likely reach its widest distribution in early to mid-January. "[The film will] stay on 11 screens next week, then we'll evaluate it on a week by week basis."
Forty-six films were tracked on the iW BOT, down from 54 the previous week, but the overall box office gross was $5.41 million, up from $3.54 million previously, although the holiday weekend covered additional nights. The box office took in more money despite a lower number of screens showing specialty titles. 1,472 sites screened films tracked this week, down from 1,579.
French animated film "The Triplets of Bellville" debuted on six screens raking in $108,080 for a magnifique average of $18,013 and a second spot on the chart. "Bellville" has cumed $143,762.
Focus' "21 Grams" expanded into 73 venues from its opening of eight screens, taking the third place on the chart with a gross slightly under $1.26 million for a $17,256 average. The film's total is now almost $1.6 million.
New Yorker Films is cruising forward on the iW: BOT with three of its titles in the top ten including doc "My Architect" on the fifth position after opening at one more site. The film grossed $45,694 on three screens ($15,231 average) for a three-week cume of $184,629. The distributor's "To Be and to Have" and "Sans Soleil" also took the chart's eighth and ninth places respectively.
Palm Pictures' "The Legend of Leigh Bowery" opened at New York's Cinema Village taking in $6,038, the highest grossing film at that venue.
"Lost in Translation" returned to the top ten over the weekend, showing on 177 screens, down from the previous week's 228. Now in its 12th weekend of release, the film grossed $734,114 for a per screen average of $4,148, up from $2,332 last week. The film has now cumed slightly over $28.9 million.
Next weekend's openers include doc "Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs -- The Iraqi Connection" at Cinema Village, "Pride & Prejudice" from Excel Entertainment, "Prisoner of Paradise" at the New York Quad Cinema, and "What Alice Found" from Castle Hill Productions.


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Originally Posted by Tinker, post: 50607
awwwwwwwww i do have kids but my trip next august is without the kids
Originally Posted by Tinker, post: 50607
awwwwwwwww i do have kids but my trip next august is without the kids
Deb, Diane doesn't want to do a water park so doing TL is now a *maybe* but I will be there with bells on with daughter and BFF in towAnd I owe an outing to TL with someone special
DB's birthday celebration just can't be missed so even though I'm gonna :sun1::sun1: I will be there :excited001::champers1:For her to be coming to WDW in August is a shock I have to be there for
It was great to talk to you hun.XXX
No kids ... moms need breaks too . But why a suite that sleeps 6 for possibly two . I take it ... it is off property . If so, no worries ... if you can come I will rent a car and try to find you . Worse case scenario ... I can sleep in the car .Originally Posted by tk2830, post: 50632
Dorothy ... I can't wait to meet Diane . She is bringing Zachary, right ? I can't wait . This is going to be a Great Celebration . I'm excited already .
Originally Posted by Tinker, post: 50753
we booked the suite as my friend is also stopping at the same place and u wouldnt need to rent a car either as i have one booked
No she isn't bringing Zach, this is a mommy needs a break trip :p015: We're going to be getting up early and staying out late which so would not work with a 3½ year old!!Dorothy ... I can't wait to meet Diane . She is bringing Zachary, right ? I can't wait . This is going to be a Great Celebration . I'm excited already .
It was so much fun to talk to you and kids and now that we've figured it out we can talk all the timeIt was great to talk to you hun.XXX
I'm liking the sound of thatOriginally Posted by Dorothy, post: 50996
Part 18 - Long Time No Update 286 days to go
It seems like forever since i updated this pre trippie but nothing has happened to update it with!
The $ has dropped dramatically so it's not worth booking anything just yet.
The dates and prices still aren't out for all the hotels and neither are the prices for Gatwick coach and stay.
The only thing that has been done is booking our seats on the plane.
We have booked 37 HJK on the way out and the way back.
Val had prebooked the back of the plane for us as requested but could only get 2 seats in one row and 1 in the other so i have been on the VA site and changed them so we can sit together.
I have also entered my API except the hotel name so that's another job done.
Val has emailed the ESTA forms to me so i will get on with that today too.
Did you know that the estimated weight of Spaceship Earth is 16 million pounds?
It is frustrating then your at the in-between stage and nothing can be done yet! I bet watching the $$ fall isn't boogie inspiring either!


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Measure the Height of Your Jack Russell Terrier
- The terrier should be standing on a rigid, flat and even surface.
- The terrier should be standing squarely in a natural upright position. The terrier's head and neck should neither be pulled up or pushed down, nor should the terrier's front or back legs be pulled or pushed inward.
- The wicket should be placed at the top of the scapula (the highest point of the shoulder blade). Slight pressure should be applied to the top of the wicket, but only to hold it in place.
- The terrier's front legs must be perpendicular to the ground, and the legs of the wicket must be parallel to the terrier's front legs.
- All four pads must be touching the measuring surface.
Why Should I Have my Terrier's Height Measured?
You will need to measure your terrier's height for registration purposes and also for determining which height division to enter a terrier in at Trials. If you are unable to get an accurate measurement of your terrier or are close to a height of 10 inches, 12 1/2 inches or 15 inches (lowest, middle and highest heights allowed by JRTCA Breed Standard), you should have your terrier measured at a sanctioned JRTCA trial where American Conformation Judges are either judging or attending.
In order to obtain a JRTCA Height Card, your terrier must be measured by two Conformation Judges. Each judge will then enter your terrier's height on a JRTCA Height Card Measurement Form. After you have two measurements, these forms should be sent to the JRTCA Judges Committee with a nominal processing fee. You will be issued a JRTCA Height Card. Once a terrier has been measured by a JRTCA Judge, that measurement becomes the official measurement of that dog until and if a JRTCA Height Card is issued, and the terrier must be shown in the proper height division accordingly. We highly recommend that you get a Height Card if you plan on racing your Jack Russell Terrier at a Trial. If a fellow competitor asks to have your terrier measured, you can present your Height Card to the Racing Judge who will honor the official measurement of your terrier.
Effective January 2004, JRTCA Height Cards issued prior to September 1999 will no longer be accepted. If any member has a pre-9/99 height card and will need it replaced, you must obtain two current measurements from a JRTCA Conformation Judge and apply for a new card. There will be no fee for the replacement card. If a pre-1999 measurement was done on a terrier 18 mos. or older, the terrier does not need to be re-measured; however, the measurement date does need to be verified in the club office and a current card issued. All height cards issued after 9/99 will continue to be accepted at sanctioned trials.


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I have a question related to Lemma 4.2 from this pdf (which is, btw quite a nice exposition of Hoffman Singleton work on the classifications of Moore graphs of diameter 2 and 3.)
We are given a $n \times n$ real symmetric matrix $A$ with eigenvalues $d,\lambda_1,\lambda_2$ where $d$ has multiplicity 1. The key part of Lemma 4.2 computes the multiplicity of $\lambda_1$ and $\lambda_2$ when these two values are irrational.
The part I don't understand is when it tries to deduce that if $\lambda_1$ and $\lambda_2$ are irrational then they have both equal multiplicity $\frac{n-1}{2}.$ Somehow I don't understand the part when it says that if $(x-\lambda_1)$ divides $p(x)$ then $(x-\lambda_1)(x-\lambda_2)$ also divisides $p(x).$
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How Many Points in a 10 pc. Chicken McNugget
So this morning I planned on talking about my workout and an ab routine, and then I went and read this article and got all riled up. Now I have to talk about it with you guys.
Now, there have been some pretty odd brand pairings in today's day, but this one is a bit of a shocker.
McDonald's has signed a deal with Weight Watchers, branding some of their menu items as healthy and "Weight Watchers approved."
It's true. Basically, McDonald's gets to further its ongoing quest to be rebranded as "healthy" by having Weight Watchers promote the fast-food chain to its members, and Weight Watchers gets to advertise by having its logo on McDonald's menu items – including fried foods like fillet o something like fish and chicken nuggets.
OK, so before I go into my thoughts, I'll be up front and just let you know my opinion is that I don't approve (if you hadn't caught that already .)
While I do understand that life gets busy and sometimes McDonald's happens (heh) I just think of the two teaming up as a bit ridiculous.
My thoughts:
- I understand that having nutritional information is helpful, but to support unhealthy, fried foods is just disappointing.
- To list fried foods as like chicken nuggets as WW approved and "healthy" is contradictory to the direction weight watchers has been rebranding itself. What happened to moving from just points and portions to whole foods and a healthy diet?
- Why can't they even just listing the points for everything – with points per serving size – on the menu? Just stamping something "weight watchers approved?" doesn't seem like it'd be very helpful for dieters.
Let's move on, shall we?
I don't know if my breakfast is WW approved, but I do know that it is very tasty and healthy:
The return of paleo cereal! Plus a HB egg to make it more filling. Before eating this morning's breakfast I was at the gym and did this HIIT workout, and I'm a ravenous beast on HIIT workout days.
The other day, Lindsay asked how I make my cereal. Ask and you shall receive! There's a few variations, as I originally got the idea from Christina who got the recipe from youtube, but this is how I make it:
Paleo Cereal (though not really because I add brown rice protein powder)
¼ c. raw walnuts
¼ c. raw pecans
~1 tbsp. chia seeds
Dash of sea salt
Hefty shake of cinnamon
1 scoop vanilla protein powder (optional)
½ grated apple
2 tbsp-ish unsweetened coconut flakes
1 c. unsweetened flax or almond milk
Mix all the ingredients except the milk together in a bowl, then pour the milk over top.
Such a yummy flavor combination.
Time to get ready for work!
What are your thoughts on Weight Watchers teaming up with McDonald's?


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Hi everybody,
we are experiencing some troubles with our outgoing mail: we are using
Zimbra release 6.0.6_GA_2330.UBUNTU8_64 UBUNTU8_64 FOSS edition.
SenderBase has decretated that out pubblic IP has a "poor reputation".
Firstly it was by an incorrect FQDN hostname in HELO presentation.
I fixed this doing (from Zimbra Forum):
zmprov mcf zimbraMtaMyHostname mail.mydomain.com
zmcontrol stop && zmcontrol start
But at SenderBase they are very accurate: our IP is still "poor", now due to a non-literal HELO. To confirm this I get the following error if I try to send an e-mail to certain addresses:
<info-at-domain-name.it>: host smtp-host-name.it[111.222.333.444] said: 554 5.7.1 <[my_pubblic_ip]>: Helo command rejected: IP literal in HELO hostname - please contact firstname.lastname@example.com (in reply to RCPT TO command)
So I try to do this (from Zimbra Forum):
postconf -e smtp_helo_name='my-helo-literal-name'
zmlocalconfig -e postfix_smtp_helo_name='my-helo-literal-name'
zmcontrol stop && zmcontrol start
but nothing change... How can I resolve this issue?
Thanks in advance.


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Red Square by Martin Cruz Smith
Reader Reviews
Another Top Notch Thriller!, July 26, 2003 Reviewer: colobbfan from Arvada, CO United States The Third in the Inspector Arkady Renko series in Martin Cruz Smith's series of Russian intrigue. The series includes Gorky Park, Polar Star, Red Square and Havana Bay, SO FAR. We can only hope there will be more. (Smith is on schedule of a book every FIVE years. But the resulting work is worth it!) Most writers today find a successful formula and stick to it... over and over. The only thing the same from Martin Cruz Smith's works are their high level of excitement, interesting characters and plot development. Arkady Renko is one of the most interesting characters in all of mystery fiction. What Smith does best is gives the reader an insiders' view of a society totally different than what the audience is used to. Whether it be Los Alamos during the development of Man's deadliest weapon in Stallion Gate, Cuba in Havana Bay, Japan on the brink of World War II in December 4th: A Novel, or Moscow in Gorky Park, with his characters on the verge of an exciting adventure for the reader to be a part of.Smith then introduces characters to his readers as if we had been their friends (or enemies) for years. I judge other mysteries and mystery writers byMartin Cruz Smith's works. Some mysteries I consume like potato chips or pretzels. Very, VERY few do I savor each page as I do Martin Cruz Smith's excellent thrillers! John Row