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A Statistic: seven years ago, the number of books available about BMWs amounted to not much over 20. Today, that figure exceeds 100. This puts BMW up with Ferrari, Jaguar, MG and Porsche as one of the marque leaders in the publishing world and currently there's no sign of a slowdown.
Many of them fall within the traditional ranges of histories, road test collections and the like. Not that we'd knock such books. They have their uses and from the best of them even the most avid BMW devotee can learn something new. But reliable technical literature? Now that is far more of a challenge to produce and, consequently, is thin on the ground.
Workshop and servicing manuals aren't hard to find, but many of the books covering more recent BMW models here in the UK tend to be servicing and maintenance guides rather than full workshop manuals. Those wanting a comprehensive factory-style manual need to look elsewhere.
This is where the American firm Bentley Publishers comes in. Located in an impressive Victorian house near Harvard University, it's brought out manuals on the 3-Series E30 and E36 models, the 5-Series E28 and E34, the 7-Series E32, and the Z3 Roadster over the past few years. There are more on the way, including one on the 3-Series E46 range, covering 1999-2001 cars.
The essential strength of these manuals, corroborated by the unfailingly glowing reviews they're given, is that they do the job 100 per cent right. Ranging from 450 to 800-plus pages and with close to a 1000 photos and diagrams, they're light years ahead of other manuals we've seen.
Just when you get to the instruction you need, those ones will often tell you what's to be done without explaining how to do it or, worse, simply advise you to consult a specialist. With professional charges as high as they are, surely the point of purchasing a manual is to avoid consuting a specialist, or are we missing something?
Each vehicle that comes into Bentley's workshops is disassembled down to the very smallest component. Then its technical writers amass a minutely detailed text which will allow the owner or mechanic to carry out every task from the most elementary to the most complex.
These manuals aren't produced in the fastest time possible then presented to an unsuspecting public as the real thing. Take our word for it, they are the real thing.
The company has vast experience of producing these books and an enviable pedigree - its manuals are even used by technicians in Audi and Volkswagen dealerships. The books also cover Porsche and Saab, all of them equally thorough and used within the industry as well as by private owners.
Michael Bentley, president of the company and the son of its founder, is all too aware on the increasing need for such guidance, as cars become ever more complicated and mechanical and electronic access more challenging.
It's in order to meet this need that he makes a point of employing only those who can most scrupulously analyse, photograph and write about the cars. A manual that tries to cut corners can wind up costing its owner more then he would have spent if he'd gone to a specialist in the first place.
Nor does Bentley's range of BMW books stop with the manuals. Their Enthusiast's Companion series, blending history with technical analysis, includes lengthy volumes on both the 3- and 6-Series cars, together with the more general BMW Enthusiast's Companion, an enormous compilation of technical, driving and buying guidance culled from the BMW Car Club of America's magazine Roundel. Also worthy of note is the definitive racing history of the marque, Jeremy Walton's award winning 528-page Unbeatable BMW.
The company also publishes books on a diverse range of other automotive subjects, ranging from the story of German motor racing under the Third Reich to a stunning guide for watercooled VWs. From reprints of race driving books by the likes of Denis Jenkinson and Paul Frère, to the bestselling A French Kiss with Death - the story of Steve McQueen and the making of the movie Le Mans.
It's for its manuals, however, that Bentley is most widely renowned. Given current BMW labour charges, they cost you less than one hour's work. More important, they're compiled with an uncompromising attention to detail which will enable all but the most obtuse and cackhanded to use them with confidence. BMW enthusiasts owe Bentley a debt of gratitude.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced first-quarter 2012 profits of $3.1 billion, spurred by increases in software, services and growth markets.
IBM's first-quarter net income of $3.1 billion when compared with $2.9 billion in the first quarter of 2011 represents an increase of 7 percent. Meanwhile, total revenue for the first quarter of 2012 of $24.7 billion was flat from the first quarter of 2011, the company reported.
"In the first quarter, we drove strong profit and earnings per share growth," said Ginni Rometty, IBM president and CEO, in a statement. "We delivered another excellent software performance, expanded services margins, and continued the momentum in our growth initiatives. Our investments in growth market countries continued to generate strong revenue growth across software, hardware and services while contributing to the company s ongoing margin expansion. Based on this performance, we are raising our 2012 full-year operating earnings per share expectations to at least $15.00."
Revenue from the company's growth markets increased 9 percent, and 40 countries had double-digit revenue growth. Revenue in the BRIC countries–Brazil, Russia, India and China–increased 10 percent, IBM said. Regarding regions, the Americas' first-quarter revenue was $10.5 billion, an increase of 1 percent from the 2011 period. Revenue from Europe/Middle East/Africa was $7.6 billion, down 2 percent, and Asia-Pacific revenue increased 4 percent to $6.1 billion. OEM revenue was $509 million, down 17 percent compared with the 2011 first quarter.
Meanwhile, revenue from IBM's software business was $5.6 billion, an increase of 5 percent compared with the first quarter of 2011. Revenue from IBM's key middleware products, which include WebSphere, Information Management, Tivoli, Lotus and Rational products, was $3.5 billion, an increase of 7 percent versus the first quarter of 2011. And operating systems revenue of $590 million increased 9 percent compared with the prior-year quarter.
For its part, revenue from the WebSphere family of software products increased 16 percent year over year. Information Management software revenue increased 5 percent. Revenue from Tivoli software increased 5 percent. Revenue from Lotus software was flat, and Rational software increased 1 percent, IBM said.
Moreover, revenue from the company's business analytics operations across services, software and hardware segments increased 14 percent.
"We continued our strong performance in software," said Mark Loughridge, senior vice president and chief financial officer for Finance and Enterprise Transformation at IBM, in a call with analysts. "Software profits were up 12 percent, driven by growth in business analytics, cloud and Smarter Planet businesses," he said.
Loughridge said IBM's growth initiatives of business analytics sales rose 14 percent year over year, cloud-related revenue doubled and Smarter Planet revenue grew more than 25 percent year over year. In addition, growth markets, another of IBM's key growth initiatives, grew 9 percent year over year.
For its services business, IBM's Global Technology Services segment revenue increased 2 percent to $10.0 billion, and the company's Global Business Services segment revenue was down 2 percent to $4.6 billion.
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Here's the reality of the world's most important international relationship. The United States is both a trade partner and global rival of China, which is a country that Americans do not necessarily understand very well at all. One person who tried to change that was Jonathan Spence of Yale University, who has died at the age of 85. NPR's Anthony Kuhn has this remembrance.
ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: The first generation of scholars to teach Chinese history as a separate topic at American universities didn't get started until the 1930s. The second, including the British-born Spence, started in the 1960s. At the time, the history of China was hardly a mainstream topic in the U.S.
MARK ELLIOTT: It was pretty obscure.
KUHN: Mark Elliott, a professor of Chinese history at Harvard University, says Spence helped to change that.
ELLIOTT: He succeeded in demystifying China and the Chinese past, and making it intelligible and relevant and meaningful to people.
KUHN: He did this partly through his popular course at Yale titled "The Search For Modern China," also the name of his bestselling 1990 book.
DENISE HO: He had this ability to make the lives of thinkers and revolutionaries come alive, but also the lives of people who are unknown.
KUHN: Denise Ho took Spence's class. She's now an assistant professor teaching Chinese history at Yale. She says she was inspired by Spence's humanism and empathy, as well as his mastery of historical narratives.
HO: These narratives brought China to life for us, which made us then learn the language and want to go overseas and tell those stories ourselves.
KUHN: Elliott says Spence pioneered the use of original Chinese documents as sources, many of which were inaccessible before China opened up in the late 1970s.
ELLIOTT: He was able to bring people to life because he had - you know, he had their words on the page.
KUHN: Spence also used literary techniques to make his writing more vivid, such as one book about 19th century China written in the present tense. Elliott says this was a gamble. And...
ELLIOTT: A different kind of a narrative challenge. And I know of a couple but I don't know of very many historians who are able to pull that off.
KUHN: Elliott says Spence's accomplishments in teaching Chinese history have only become more important, as China's impact is increasingly felt in the U.S. and around the world.
Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
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[2] Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, Université Bordeaux I-CNRS, France
"Chromophore Orientations upon irradiation in gratings inscribed on azo dye polymer films: a combined AFM and confocal Raman microscopic study", F.Lagugné-Labarthet, J.L.Bruneel, T.Buffeteau, C.Sourisseau, J.Phys.Chem B, 2004, 108, 6949.
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It takes a strong spirit to keep flying when your wings are hurting. It takes a strong spirit to keep running even when exhaustion runs deep through your bones. It takes a strong spirit to keep pressing forward, moving onward, and never giving up no matter how impossible the fight seems.
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County Executive Mike Hein's "Zero Tolerance" Anti-Fraud Waste and Abuse Initiative is an effort of the Ulster County Department of Social Services, with support of the District Attorney, to ensure that those who would abuse the welfare system are identified and prosecuted. Additionally, this effort will make certain that residents receive the benefits they need to help them get back on their feet, while at the same time stressing the County's "zero tolerance" policy against waste, fraud and abuse.
The Department of Social Services has a dedicated Special Investigations Unit (SIU), which is responsible for receiving complaints and referrals of welfare fraud in Ulster County. Their mission is to support the integrity of the full compliment of Social Services administered by the Department, including Economics Supports, SNAP (Food Stamps), Medicaid, HEAP and Day Care.
Residents of Ulster County can now help the Special Investigations Unit root out welfare fraud and abuse by contacting Ulster County's dedicated anti-fraud, waste and abuse hotline at (855) SIU-TIPS or (855)-748-8477. Tips from the public can play a vital role in ensuring that only individuals who are eligible for assistance receive it. Your input can help us to prevent, detect and prosecute fraud thus retaining valuable resources to protect the interest of those who are in genuine need.
If you suspect that someone receiving welfare benefits has lied about any of the following:
- Their identity
- Income
- Assets
- Where they live
- Household composition
We encourage you to report this to us today.
Kingston, NY 12401
All reports of suspected fraud will be investigated. Please be advised that due to confidentiality we will not be able to respond directly regarding your referral status.


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Egmont is one of Scandinavia's leading media companies, producing magazines, books, movie theatres, movies, TV, comic books, school books, communities, games and game consoles.
Egmont is active in more than 30 countries, with leading brands in Scandinavia and internationally, including Lindhardt og Ringhof, Carlsen and Alinea.
Egmont operates under The Egmont Foundation, a charitable organization concerned with vulnerable children and young people.
Egmont's history dates back to 1878, when Egmont Harald Petersen acquired a hand press with financial support from his mother. In 1911 Egmont Harald Petersen built a large printing house and magazine company at Kongens Have in the middle of Copenhagen, in a building named Gutenberghus. After World War II, Gutenberghus began to spread internationally, starting with the German-speaking countries, and by the 1980s they were established in Great Britain.
At the end of the 1980s Egmont began to investigate digital opportunities, and today the company is involved in a broad assortment of online communities and e-commerce ventures in a string of countries.
Key Company Developments in 2012 & 2013
In 2012 Egmont's revenue grew by 17%, rounding 1.6 billion EUR. Operating profit increased by 24% to 187 million EUR. This is Egmont's highest profit to date.
In 2012, the Kids division revenue was on par with the year before. The slight decline in profit is due to difficult market conditions, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe.
In 2012 Egmont Books, consisting of Cappelen Damm in Norway and Lindhardt og Ringhof in Denmark, returned a profit in the challenging general literature and textbook markets. Cappelen Damm enjoyed another good year despite zero growth in Norway's market as a whole.
In Denmark Lindhardt og Ringhof generated profit after several years of loss.
Ownership, Mergers & Acquisition, Internal Organization:
The company's acquisitions of Høyskoleforlaget and Akribe strengthened Egmont's position as a publisher of books and electronic products for universities and the professional sector.
Lindhardt og Ringhof acquired Denmark's second-largest audio book publisher, Audioteket. During the year Kids Media launched over 200 apps and also secured new digital rights from Disney, Hasbro, Mattel, Warner Brothers and others.
The division also acquired a number of early learning apps called Fusentasterne, which have now been launched in 15 countries. Kids Media also bought Krea Medie, creator of one of Scandinavia's strongest edutainment-brands, Pixeline/Josefine.
Egmont Kids Media continued to focus on multiplatform publications in 2012.
In 2012 the company invested in new development and consolidated digital products. The textbook publisher Alinea thus became Denmark's largest supplier of both analogue and digital learning media in 2012.
Egmont UK appointed Penguin India as its distribution partner in January 2013, anticipating a sales boost of 50%. "It's been a part of our strategy for the last couple of years to look at India," according to Egmont UK group sales director Gillian Laskier, "and we even considered setting up our own company out there, but in looking at it closely, we decided to change distributor."
Bestselling Authors & Titles:
The Danish translation of S.J. Watson's international bestselling thriller "Before I Go To Sleep" was released in spring 2012 through Lindhardt & Ringhof, part of the Egmont Books division.
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We are excited to announce a slew of features in our February 2015 Azure Backup update. The key capabilities are:
- Long term retention – cloud as tape replacement
- Offline seeding – complete your initial seeding faster and off-the-network
- Backup all DPM workloads to Azure
- Improved monitoring and reporting in SCOM
Download the latest Azure Backup agent from KB3033794. By downloading this update you automatically get all the capabilities released in the last few months:
- KB2989574: Support for data sources more than 850GB
- KB2997692: Long Term Retention and Simplified Signup & Registration
- KB2999951: Support for Windows Server 2008
- KB3015072: Support for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
This blog provides a quick summary of the features in this release – we will be following up with detailed blogs in the coming weeks.
Long term retention – cloud as tape replacement
With the latest update, customers can specify daily, weekly, monthly and yearly retention policies. Customers can now retain their data for up to 99 years in Azure! If you are using tapes to address your long term retention needs – this release provides a compelling value prop to use Azure to address your backup and long term retention needs.
Figure 1: Multiple retention policies for Azure Backups
Offline seeding – complete your initial seeding faster and off-the-network
Azure Backup enables customers to complete the initial backup by integrating with the Azure Import/Export service. Rather than sending the initial backup copy over a congested network, customers can ship the disk containing the initial backup copy to the nearest Azure datacenter.
Figure 2: Offline backup to Azure
Backup all DPM workloads to Azure
Until this release, DPM customers could backup only Hyper-V virtual machines, SQL Databases and file & folders to Azure. With DPM UR5 and the latest Azure Backup agent, customers can now backup Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange and Windows Client workloads to Azure. Learn more about the workload & platform support.
Improved monitoring and reporting in SCOM
The new management pack for DPM provides a powerful reporting infrastructure that can be used to generate data-rich custom reports and dashboards across multiple DPM servers! Customers no longer have to visit every DPM server to extract the canned reports – the new Reporting Management Pack provides all that and much more.
Figure 3: A demo report based on new reporting framework
Related links/content:
- Learn more about Azure Backup and System Center DPM.
- Click for a free Azure trial subscription, and download the latest Azure Backup agent to get started!
- Need help? Reach out to the DPM forums and the Azure Backup forum for support.
- Tell us how we can improve Azure Backup: contribute new ideas and up-vote existing ones!


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What a creation, it's a unhinged flying bike/human blender but unbelievably it gets off the ground and actually FLIES.
#Unlearn what a plumber can do in a shed eh? Considering the amount of time i've spent on this and the fact this is my first EVER attempt at making anything that leaves the ground this is well and truly a job well done, it's easy to overlook the true scale of what takes to make something like this work at all.
Thanks to Ford for the sponsorship and the Unlearn campaign which has turned my mad idea into a reality and shown that trying new things can lead to amazing results. You can see more unlearning here http://unlearn.ford.co.uk/


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Jerry Brown's signature was notably
absent from the ballot arguments in favor of Proposition 30, the tax increase
measure he pushed so hard in this fall's election. He was essentially
responsible for its content and for the now-mooted triggered budget cuts that –
barring a "Perils of Pauline"-style rescue – would have cost public schools and
universities more than $6 billion over the next year alone.
Brown, who raised most of the money
for his measure and rounded up endorsements from business and labor that gave
it added credibility, has prided himself for decades on being iconoclastic and
different from other governors.
Now he should become known as one of
the most effective governors California has seen. For sure, his Prop. 30 win
proves him pretty unique. A long string of California chief executives before
him tried and failed to pass pet initiatives after state legislators refused to
okay the laws they wanted. The list goes back at least as far as Ronald Reagan,
who staged a special election in 1973 in an effort to pass a
property-tax-cutting initiative, which lost badly.
Reagan's subsequent presidency, of
course, stands as evidence that losing an issues battle at the polls does not
necessarily mean the end of a political career.
It was the same for Arnold
Schwarzenegger, who in 2005 called another special election barely two years
after ousting ex-Gov. Gray Davis in a historic recall. He ran four initiatives
aiming to curb the influence of labor unions in politics and to give himself
and future governors the power to cut budgets long after they've been signed
into law. Voters saw that last notion as a kind of fiscal dictatorship and
rejected it – just as they did this year in voting down Prop. 31, which
included something similar as part of its far-reaching so-called reforms.
Then-Gov. Pete Wilson tried much the
same thing with his 1992 Proposition 165, and also lost. But like
Schwarzenegger and Reagan, Wilson nevertheless went on to further electoral
He didn't write,
design or sponsor the 1994 Proposition 187, with its draconian anti-illegal
immigrant provisions, but he used it skillfully to win reelection – and in the
process wrote a virtual death sentence for the California Republican Party,
which has won major office since then only in races involving movie muscleman
Exit polls indicated voters saw
Proposition 165 as a blatant Wilson power play. He tied the budget powers he
wanted for himself and all future governors to welfare reforms, seeking to cut
grants to mothers on Aid to Families with Dependent Children by 25 percent and
demanding that the first year's welfare payments to newcomers from other states
be no higher than what they could get where they came from.
Wilson predecessors George Deukmejian
and Brown himself also lost initiative battles during their first terms, but
both were reelected.
Which means the claims that Brown's
entire electoral future was on the line with Proposition 30 were a tad
exaggerated. Still, by winning, Brown has set himself up as a possible fiscal
savior for California.
The claim is yet
to be tested, but he said in a pre-election talk that "This sets us on a path
to a more harmonious California." He noted that "Getting Republicans in the
Legislature to approve new taxes has been a bit like getting the pope to back
birth control." With the new Democratic legislative supermajorities, maybe they
won't matter much anymore.
The win for 30
doesn't guarantee that Brown will run again two years from now. But even before
it passed, he hinted that he intends to.
"My goal over the
next few years," he said in one speech, "is to pull people together. We have
our antagonisms and we always have had some, but we can find a common path."
Why? Because "California matters to us and our descendants, and also to the
rest of the country and the rest of the world." The implication, of course, was
that Brown wants to be the trailblazer finding that common path.
No doubt, Brown would have had a
tougher time both governing and winning the fourth term of his lifetime if
Proposition 30 had failed.
Plus, no one does better than Brown at
making adjustments on the run. When he saw in 2010 that his campaign for
governor was flagging, he ran commercials where he spoke directly into the TV
camera, saying "No new taxes without a vote of the people." He did exactly the same
when Prop. 30 – the product of that pledge – began to sag in mid-October.
Having lost a run for the Senate in
1982, and two tries at the presidency, Brown is well aware he's not immune to
the same sorts of defeat virtually almost all governors have suffered during
the initiative era that began in 1970. The relief for him, and for the schools
and colleges that might have been cut, is that this time he won't have to
demonstrate how to respond constructively to defeat.
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14 years ago, we the people were attacked and confronted as a nation by militant, Islamic terrorists. Our very own World Trade Center, centers of business and commerce and symbols of the economic greatness of America were destroyed by these Arab jihadists.
You could well say that act of terror on our very own soil was a wakeup call. That act of war was no longer war over there, but right here, right here on American soil. America no matter its defenses is by no means immune to attack by hateful foreign countries, and certainly not terrorists. War of that kind, perhaps even someday nuclear can and perhaps even will happen someday to our country, our cities, our very own people. We should have learned from that 911 incident that Islam is not the religion of peace as the propaganda would have us believe, but rather an ideology which incorporates war, killing and human abuse virtually without restriction all, of course, in the name of Allah. That was the lesson we should have learned from 911, from the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers. HAVE WE?
I doubt it. I sincerely doubt it. There is a new kind of warfare at work for which the civilized world is not prepared. It is warfare Islam-developed and created with all new military tactics designed to defeat the West, in fact civilization as we know it. This war is a war of terrorism which is not mere isolated acts of violence by individuals or groups, or even unrelated entities. This jihadist terrorism is war by a militaristic force and ideology which targets an enemy, burrows deep, camouflages its soldiers and weapons and starts from the bottom up, one explosive event at a time. Whether suicide bombers, kidnapping and terrorist attacks, or assassinations or missiles, jihadist terrorism will use any tactic, any weapon to accomplish its purpose. That purpose can be summarized in three words inspired by the Quran:
That would be you and me holding other faith and beliefs. And that infidel would also include anyone everywhere who did not embrace and convert to Islam. Convert or be killed, so goes the peace-loving theology of Islam and the Quran. When it comes to the Infidel. Any and all kinds of killing are fully justified. And that, my fellow Americans was the real lesson of 911. Jihadists warned us that even as the World Trade Center Towers crumbled, so would all of America, sooner or later.
Terrorism is the perfect warfare for this day and age. It is a military strategy which can not be defeated for it never ends. When one terrorist dies in jihad, there is always another ready to replace. Terrorism begins with small bands of individuals determined to wreak havoc. It grows into larger movements, and sooner or later becomes Hamas or Hezbollah. It attracts and converts so many, and especially the young to war, to jihad. Terrorism is, ultimately, sponsored and fostered by evil and demonic nations, like Iran, especially Iran, or Yemen, or even encourage directly or indirectly by nations such as Turkey, Egypt, and now the great and to-be-feared nation Russia itself. When jihad has that kind of financial backing, and that kind of aggressive military support, there is no way it can be defeated, no way at all. Get ready America. It is not a question of if jihad and terrorism will strike at our land, but only when.
Terrorism strikes at any level. It hits hard, both large and small targets. It can strike at our military, even our very Pentagon itself. It can and will attack soft targets like hospitals. Remember Hadassah in Israel? Or it can wage all-out war as it does in Afghanistan. Terrorism, the jihadists whether Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim brotherhood or any other evil group is diverse, multi-faceted, and virtually impossible to track or identify in so many cases. It is like a Hydra with many heads and when one is cut, another grows. There are always:
Always in the waiting because human life to them is cheap and expendable. The promise of eternal reward virtually eliminates the fear of dying or loss of any pleasures in this world.
Think now how terrorism works in Gaza. Weapons of all kinds and sizes, including and especially missiles, are housed in hospitals, mosques, schools, even United Nations facilities. They are hidden in homes where people live, expendable for the cause. These evil jihadists have no compunction when it comes to using human beings as shields for military efforts. Gazan Arabs populate the rooftops, stay in schools, roam the streets where weapons exist in an effort to prevent attack and counterattack. Hamas and other such groups have absolutely no regard for human life, especially Jewish human life or even for that matter their very own people. Whatever it takes to win the war of terrorism will be done. That, my fellow Americans, is the lesson of 9/11, 2001. I wonder if we ever learned that and if we did, how soon we forget.
On that fateful day, many of so many good and innocent human beings most of them our very own citizens died, perhaps as many as 4,000 9/11 fatalities. Perhaps the greatest city in America and perhaps even the world was openly and aggressively attacked. We responded, we protected after the fact and we rebuilt. That act of terrorism eventually occasioned a war in Iraq however justified which escalated warfare and terrorism the world over. We the people attacked terrorism in Afghanistan, again however justified. We reacted, we did our best, but our best was not good enough. We thought we had restored liberty at least in some manner to the nation of Iraq. Look at it now after so many times of fighting, loss of lives and the expenditure of billions upon billions of dollars. It seems no better than it was in the brutal and evil era of Saddam Hussein. That is the real lesson we should learn as a presumably civilized nation. That lesson is:
Impossible. For terrorism, like moles burying, can attack us and all through means military, and economic, and social, and even Constitutional (Sharia), and judicial and even education. Terrorism attacks any way it can. We are an open society, essentially tolerant, liberal, peaceful at heart, willing to pursue any and all means to avoid war and accomplish peace. That makes us an open and ready target for terrorists and jihad. We are easily lulled to sleep when we should be WATCHMEN ON THE WALLS. It seems as though we do not take terrorism seriously when we should fear it greatly. 13 years after America was attacked, we have forgotten and the lessons learned then seem now long gone. We recall the day and the event but that seems something only historical, not of current concern. We go back to our lives, living them as though it won't happen again. In fact, we are probably more open and vulnerable to attack even now, perhaps more so than any nation in the world. Our borders are insecure, our vigilance is compromised, our concern is lacking and it seems as though our desire to protect our nation from a military standpoint is minimal at best. We are ripe for yet another 9/11 and perhaps much more. Perhaps we must adopt the philosophy and mentality of the Jews, and especially the Israelis who will never, ever forget the Holocaust and those haunting words of once Prime Minister Menachem Begin:
And be ready for the next time.
But we do and the world does yearn for peace. We pray for peace as we are taught, even as the Jews and all Christians pray for the:
But evil abounds, everywhere. There are now wars in so many places, whether open and aggressive, or terroristic in nature. There are acts of war, violence and mayhem happening on a regular basis, everywhere. These wars and rumors of wars signal the beginning of the end, the last days, at least the last days of civilization as we know it. Ready for war come nations like North Korea, Russia, Libya, the Sudan and of course the very worst of all Iran. They are ready for war whether all out or one event at a time. They are motivated by 9/11 which to them signals the weakness of America, and seems symbolic of the military weaknesses and lack of resolve of the entire WEST. We the civilized would do virtually anything to prevent war while they the uncivilized would do anything to foster war of any kind. There is no dialogue, no compromise, no cease-fire, no negotiations which matter or mean anything. Conquering and utterly destroying the INFIDEL is all that matters and even compromise itself is but one additional step toward victory, ultimate victory even as 9/11 was the first step in the conquering of America HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES!
We should be haunted by the words of one Hamas leader who stated the following:
Not conquer it but destroy it. And the words of yet another Hamas leader who stated the following:
The White House! Can you believe that? Well, my fellow Americans, you better believe that for that is the ultimate goal. 9/11 only whets the Arab appetite, renewed passion to kill the infidel. The war wages now in the Middle East, and especially in Israel. But the West is next. Recall well, my fellow Americans, that this Israel so hated by virtually all Arabs is only the LITTLE SATAN. The real target, the real INFIDEL is none other than our own great country which terrorists call:
The great Satan. Jihadist Islam will never rest, never until such time as there is no more America when Islam prevails and Sharia rules. There will be war and rumors of war until that happens, of that you can be sure. I fear for our great country because we are unprepared mentally, psychologically and militarily for what is sure to come. Perhaps more acts of terror must occur before we are aroused. Perhaps we need to lose more, more of our society and culture, and more of our fellow citizens before we are aroused and ready to respond. Perhaps a major event, even a nuclear event God forbid, must occur before we truly begin to defend our great country WITHIN AND WITHOUT. There is still time, but that time grows short. 9/11 is a fading memory, a lesson not learned for history, unlearned and unheeded will always repeat itself. Always. For we the people have not learned the lesson:
Never. Some day we will learn that lesson one way or another.
But, my fellow Americans, we should never forget our fellow citizens, our heroes who died on that fateful day September who died on that fateful day September 11, 2001 at the hands of vicious terrorists. We should never forget them, honor them and respect their memories. We should revisit the event, watch the pictures, see it all over again so the horror of that event of death at work stays alive. Even as we pray for peace, and we should now more than ever, we must become:
Of America, protecting, preserving and defending all we are and all we have, our institutions, our way of life, our very civilization. We are called upon to serve our country as never before. There is only one America and once freedom is gone, it is gone forever. Islam and especially jihadist Islam is, in the words of Winston Churchill a retrograde force in the world and we must fear its triumph and prevent that from happening. Islam is determined to rule the world and that includes especially so our beloved America. We should be willing to do anything and everything necessary to prevent that from happening.
That is the message of 9/11. We call that memorable day and event:
So then, what happened on 9/11 is a message, a wake-up call to all:
I pray you are one, as I am. I am ready like American revolutionaries of old to lay all on the altar to preserve, protect and defend this great country. I pray you will do the same.
So we ask that God Himself will bless America, a good thing. Perhaps we should also pray that GOD WOULD SAVE AMERICA and prevent the triumph of the forces of evil. But that, so sayeth the Scriptures, will not happen unless we the people HUMBLE ourselves before this Almighty power, and pray, pray with passion and all of our heart for peace, seek His will, guidance and direction and most importantly turn from our ways, often selfish and egotistical, and follow HIS WAYS, the way of peace. Perhaps then and only then will we find HIS blessing.
NEVER FORGET, my fellow Americans.


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March 15, 2013 - Mother of Salvation: Say my Rosary for all those who rule in Rome
My dear child, this is a time of great sorrow, not only for you, but for all those who love my Son.
I must urge you, dear children, to remain strong and faithful to the Holy Word of God, for the sake of my Son. He, my beloved Son, hangs His Head in agony as He watches the horror as His Church crumbles before Him.
Please pray for hope and say my Holy Rosary every day for all those who rule in Rome. You must pray for all those who run the Catholic Church. Please include the man who sits in the Chair of Peter, for he is in great need of your prayers.
Pray that he will accept the Truth of the death of my Son on the Cross and that he will open his heart to my Son's pleas for mercy for all God's children.
No matter how hard these times are, in the Roman Catholic Church, evil cannot and will not prevail against the Power of God.
My role as Mediatrix of all Graces is soon to be realized, and as the woman chosen to be clothed in the rays of the sun, my time has come to help my Son in His final plan of salvation.
I cherish all of God's children, including those who bring Him great shame and distress. Pray that my prayers, taken to my Son and presented to Him on your behalf, can help mitigate the suffering, which lies ahead within the Catholic Church.
My love, as Mother of all God's children, is all encompassing and I will never stop in my quest to bring you hope, dear children.
Prayers will be heard in Heaven and you must never give up hope, as my Son's Mercy is greater than you could possibly know.
God's Love is Almighty. Ask and you will receive great blessing, as the preparations are complete in readiness for the Great Day of the Lord.
Await with patience, love and trust for all of these trials will soon be past, and then the New Heaven and the New Earth will merge as one. This is all you need concern yourselves with – the preparation of your soul and those who need your prayers the most. Only then, will you be able to accept the Light of God and enter the New Paradise on earth.
Be at peace and focus only on my Son and His singular desire to save the souls of every living creature.
Your beloved Mother
Mother of Salvation


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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Polling Interface: Sensor Taxonomy
What would you classify the Kinect Sensor as?
Your suggestions in the comments, and your poll answers on the sidebar to the right.
8 comments:
- Andrés said...
My attempt!
DOF Sensor= Depth Of Field sensor
Regards. - November 25, 2010 at 5:30 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi. "Sensor device" as a family, or even "multiple sensors device", followed by the usage that you decide to make of the Kinect : "as a 3D sensor" or "as a camera". I would not say "3D camera" because it's not really a camera filming in 3D (no stereovision).
- November 25, 2010 at 5:50 PM
- j_hodgie said...
I think it is classified as an RGB-D camera (red, green, blue, - depth)
- November 25, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- I Heart Robotics said...
DOF Sensor seems easily confused with 3 DoF Sensor, as in degree of freedom. On the other hand I like that it contrasts with ToF, Perhaps there is another XoF that could describe it.
As far as I can tell internally the Kinect is basically a set of stereo camera and or project combinations. The on-board processing obviously helps make this realtime.
I would state that a sensor is a camera if it is best described using projective geometry like the pinhole camera model.
Here is another question
Mono, Stereo, ?, Quadra - November 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM
- I Heart Robotics said...
Some of the current research, most notably from Professor Deiter Fox's group has been using the term RGB-D Camera.
I think the current I Heart Robotics style guide is to call these type of things either '3D Sensors' or 'RGB-D Sensors' - November 25, 2010 at 6:27 PM
- Unknown said...
1,2,3,4 : mono, stereo, tri, quadri (from latin).
Examples : tri-filter or triphonic, quadriphonic
(although there are two cameras, I have not yet seen that Kinect uses both togethers) - November 26, 2010 at 2:04 AM
There is plenty of 3D-related sensors, so it would be meaningless to call it "3D sensor".
If I have to pick one, I'd say "RGBD sensor", but Kinect also provides infrared images and audio (maybe even more). Thus, its clearly a multiple sensor device: RGBD+Infrared+Microphone - November 26, 2010 at 5:27 AM
- I Heart Robotics said...
The IR Laser projector and the IR camera form a stereo pair. The math is basically the same as for stereo vision except that with the projector the direction of the vector is reversed.
My concern has been disambiguation. If you say "My algorithm requires a 3D sensor", someone might reasonably expect that a Swiss Ranger 4000, a Velodyne HDL-64E, a Hokuyo URG04-LX mounted on a rotary stage and a Kinect might all work. So there should be a general term to disambiguate the Kinects additional features, which is why RGB-D seems popular. For example the addition of color can improve the performance of ICP as the color space vector can be incorporated in the distance metric. This can be used to avoid local minimas. - November 26, 2010 at 4:02 PM


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This series includes registers relating to Crown Grants, Similkameen Division and Osoyoos Division, Yale District (2 vols.) Volume 1 is a register of Crown Grant applications forwarded to Victoria and includes date and disposition of application, name and address of applicant, legal description of land, Crown Grant number. Volume 2 is a register of Crown Grants and includes date of notice, number of grant, legal description of land, payment schedule, disposition and Grown Grant number. The registers are arranged chronologically.
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Every piano should be a joy to play for pianists of every skill level, but particularly for beginners.
A sure way to inspire the beginning player is to provide an instrument that is fun and rewarding to play. Having to struggle with a non-responsive action and unpleasant tone quickly dampens a beginner's enthusiasm, because the best efforts never seem musical.
It is natural to assume that a new piano of reputable make will be musical. In reality only the finest and most expensive pianos, mostly German and top-of-the-line Japanese, have well developed tonal designs and are actually completed at the factory to the extent that they can be played musically. Nonetheless, most less costly pianos are represented as having a great tone, a responsive action, etc., because less than 5% of piano sales involve experienced pianists who know a musical piano when they play one.
Most of the piano market consists of people who don't play much, if at all, buying for someone else, such as a child. They usually end up purchasing a piano that looks good, has a recognizable brand name and is bargain priced. The most common result is that the player, often a child, soon tires of the instrument, not realizing that their loss of enthusiasm is due to a poorly prepared and maintained piano that is not rewarding for anyone to play or listen to.
We at Fandrich & Sons love the piano and are committed to building moderately priced pianos that are musically comparable to the world's finest and most expensive instruments.
We promise that every piano we sell will be a joy to play.
At the July 2002 International Piano Technician Guild Convention in Chicago, IL there were 106 exhibits, including virtually all of the piano manufacturers. We happened to be in the booth next to the 7' Bosendorfer with our Fandrich & Sons Model 165HGS 5'5" grand piano and one of our Model 126V uprights. Besides having at least 6 dealers tell us they would buy our pianos at our current prices and mark them up almost double if we would let them become Fandrich & Sons dealers, we heard the following comments:
Regarding the Model 126V, as always,
"This is the best upright piano I have ever played, the tone is so even and clear, the action is amazing!"
Regarding the 5'5" Model 165HGS,
"This is the best action of any of the pianos here. It is so controllable, even at the quietest levels of play." "The tone of your grand is more even than the Bosendorfer
[to be fair, the Bosendorfer had been delivered to the convention right out of the box].
"This piano has more heart than the 9' Bluthner concert grand on the other side of the curtain!" "This is how a treble should sound!"
And over and over,
"It's hard to believe this is only a 5'5" grand, it sounds at least as big as a 6'."
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"My friend said I had to come and try this piano!"
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Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has ordered six subsidiaries of Chubb & Son to pay a $534,000 fine for repeatedly violating state insurance laws.
Federal Insurance Co, Pacific Indemnity Co, Great Northern Insurance Co, Executive Risk Indemnity, Inc.; Vigilant Insurance Company and Northwestern Pacific Indemnity Co. agreed to pay the fine. An additional $534,000 fine was suspended, as long as the companies follow an agreed-to compliance plan that, among other conditions, requires semi-annual self-audits.
In November, Kreidler called for a $534,000 fine and a nine-month suspension of the six companies' insurance certificates, which would have barred them from writing new coverage during that time period. Under the consent order, there will be no suspension as long as the companies commit no further violations for three years.
"The companies have assured me that compliance is a top priority," said Kreidler, "and I'm hopeful that this approach will resolve these ongoing problems."
A key issue was the companies' repeated failure to properly document the reasons for charging higher or lower rates on certain policies. Exams and audits dating back to 1998 found the same problems cropping up repeatedly. Since 2000, Washington state insurance officials have repeatedly fined Chubb and Chubb subsidiaries, and urged them to fix the problems.
Nonetheless, repeated examinations and a series of company self-audits ordered by Kreidler since 2007 found hundreds of violations of state law, including numerous recent ones. In some cases, more than half the sample files checked had violations.
Fines imposed by the state insurance commissioner's office do not go to the agency. The money is deposited in the state's general fund to pay for other state services.
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Less than 100 years ago, millions of salmon & trout returned to the Skagit & Samish Rivers every year to spawn. Today these once-mighty salmon runs are greatly diminished and face an uncertain future.
Restoring salmon and trout to this place we call home is about more than just keeping the environment healthy. Salmon bind us to this region and to one another, a sign of our strength and resilience in a dramatic and changing landscape. And salmon are an icon of our cultural heritage and economic future, whether you are a tribal fisherman, a fishing guide, or a father and daughter seeking to connect through a quiet fishing trip in this magical place.
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What did you pay for your last drink? Probably not a half-million dollars.
A large crystal decanter filled with rare Macallan "M" whisky sold for $628,205 at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong this weekend. That hefty price tag set a new world record for the most expensive single-malt whisky sold at auction.
What makes this whisky so special?
Mostly, its rarity.
First, there's the bottle. The faceted crystal decanter of The Macallan Imperiale "M" is 28 inches tall and holds 6 liters of whisky -- the same volume as 3 big soda bottles. The glass crafter said forty of the hand-blown decanters were created and destroyed due to imperfections before the piece was finally completed. Named after the Roman emperor, the "Constantine" decanter took 17 craftsmen over 50 hours to complete, the French glass company said.
The Constantine is one of only four bottles of its kind.
Then there's the bottle's amber-colored contents.
At The Macallan distillery in Scotland, the resident whisky maker spent two years choosing seven casks out of nearly 200,000 that would be blended to create "M," according to the auction catalog. The Macallan brand ambassador, Charlie Whitfield, said those rare sherry oak casks range in age from about 75 to 25 years old.
Related: Spending $402 million in one week
Before the sale, the world record was held by another Macallan whisky, a 64-year-old scotch that went for $460,000 in New York in 2010.
But The Macallan Imperiale "M" doesn't have an age statement since the casks were chosen for rarity rather than age. Instead of paying for years, the winning bidder was buying what Whitfield called "a unique opportunity to own a collaboration between best-respected luxury brands."
In recent years, such collaborations between spirit producers and luxury brands have become increasingly appealing to high-end bidders, according to Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan, a certified wine and spirits expert.
Asian buyers have been central to that trend, she said.
While Macallan's largest market is the United States, Asia is becoming a new hotspot for spirit investors. "In the past ten years the Asian market for rare spirits has exploded," Whitfield said.
An added incentive for local buyers -- all proceeds from the sale go to Hong Kong charities.
Another attractive quality of these rare spirits is their long-lasting drinkability. Unlike an uncorked bottle of wine, most spirits, like the Macallan scotch, can be opened and drunk over a period of months or even years, the expert said.
Whenever the winning bidder, who chose to remain anonymous, decides to pull out the stopper and pour a dram, Whitfield said they can expect to taste notes of cinnamon, green apple, raisin, and wood smoke.
And if you're lucky enough to taste a drop from the "Constantine," the whisky inside, "M", is available in regular-sized bottles as well. Good luck finding it though. There are just 1,750 in the world, selling for the bargain price of $4,500.


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Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing health care business.
The retail giant said Tuesday that it will launch RxPass, a subscription service for customers who have Prime memberships. Amazon said people will pay $5 a month to fill as many prescriptions as they need from a list of about 50 generic medications, which are generally cheaper versions of brand-name drugs.
The company said the flat fee could cover a list of medications like the antibiotic amoxicillin and the anti-inflammatory drug naproxen.
Sildenafil also made the list. It's used to treat erectile dysfunction under the brand name Viagra and also treats a form of high blood pressure.
Amazon sells a range of generic drugs through its pharmacy service. Some already cost as little as $1 for a 30-day supply, so the benefit of this new program will vary by customer.
The program doesn't use insurance, and people with government-funded Medicaid or Medicare coverage are not eligible. It will be available in 42 states and District of Columbia at launch.
Any program that gets low-cost generic drugs to more patients "is a good thing," said Karen Van Nuys, an economist who studies drug pricing at the University of Southern California. But she added that she wasn't sure how much of an impact RxPass will have.
She noted that the program is limited to Amazon Prime customers. Other options like the Mark Cuban CostPlus Drug Co. sell more generic drugs, many for under $5.
"I just don't know that it's expanding access to a new set of patients," Van Nuys said.
Still, the move could help the company take up some more space in the health care market, even though it has not always been successful in its aim. Last year, the company shuttered its hybrid virtual, in-home care service called Amazon Care after it failed to get traction from employers. And Haven, a company Amazon created in collaboration with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway to improve health costs, dissolved a year earlier than that.
Amazon has said its online drug store Amazon Pharmacy is a key part of its health care plan, along with primary care organization One Medical, which the online giant is seeking to acquire for $3.9 billion. The Federal Trade Commission is investigating the proposed buyout.
In November, the company also said it would begin offering "Amazon Clinic," a messaging service that connects patients with doctors for about two dozen common conditions, such as allergies and hair loss.
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.@SerenaWilliams breaks Graf's Open Era record, wins 23rd Grand Slam!— WTA (@WTA) January 28, 2017
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Here are my top 10 Australian Open events, in ascending order:
10. Never too late: The unseeded team of Abigail Spears and Juan Sebastian Cabal won the Australian Open mixed doubles title, and did it by beating the 2nd seeds. More impressive, they did it by beating a team of which Sania Mirza was a member. Spears and Cabal defeated Mirza and Ivan Dodig 6-2, 6-4. The 35-year-old Spears had been two two other major mixed doubles finals (both at the U.S. Open), but this is her first major mixed doubles title.
9. Never too soon: The talented Yui Kamiji won her third wheelchair singles major, knocking off top seed Jiske Griffioen 6-7, 6-3, 6-3. However, Kamiji and her partner, Diede De Groot, lost the doubles final to Griffioen and Aniek Van Koot. This is Kamiji's fourth major singles title; she holds eight major doubles titles. Griffioen also has four major singles titles (and 14 major doubles titles). With the extremely dominant Esther Vergeer out of the picture, women's wheelchair tennis has turned into a highly competitive event. It was very competitive before, of course, in terms of quality--but Vergeer was winning all the titles.
8. Si-Mohhh-Naaa!: After losing in the first round last year, 4th seed Simona Halep lost in the first round again. The Romanian apparently strayed too close to what The Backspinner aptly refers to as "The Cliffs Of Simona," and tumbled right over into the void. I expect her to do much better in Paris, but meanwhile, having the first major of the season as your nemesis is not a pleasant experience.
7. Conspicuous by their absence: Yes, it was a great Australian Open, but it was notable for those who did not attend. Two-time champion Vika Azarenka, former champion Maria Sharapova, Petra Kvitova, and Madison Keys--all elite players--could not be there. One especially wonders what the combination of cooler temperatures and faster courts might have meant for Kvitova.
6. Age before everything: The four semifinalists had a combined age of 130, with CoCo Vandeweghe being the "baby," at age 25. Youth is most definitely not being served. A 35-year-old won the tournament (ATP, also), and a 36-year-old was the runner-up.
5. All CoCo, no puff: CoCo Vandeweghe did some very heavy lifting in this tournament, taking out the tricky former U.S. Open runner-up Roberta Vinci, former Wimbledon runner-up Genie Bouchard, defending champion (and U.S. Open champion) and world number 1 Angie Kerber, and French Open champion Garbine Muguruza. She fell to Venus Williams in the semifinal, but not without a fight. The occasion appeared to get to Vandeweghe at that point, but if she can overcome that sort of (expected) lapse, she has nowhere to go but up. The 25-year-old Californian has refined both her game and her athleticism a great deal, and her Australian Open performance was, for the most part, very impressive.
4. Venus still rising: We've focused so much on the "never count Serena out" storyline, but we also need to devote some attention to the "never count Venus out" part of the plot. In a surprising/not-surprising run, the older (by a year) Williams sister made it all the way to the final, her first (in the majors) in eight years. She lost to her sister in straight sets, but those sets included some vintage Venus play. And her joyful spirit dominated the event--a happy and grateful Venus is something I wish we could bottle and give to the world.
3. Just dance: Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova won the doubles title, defeating Andrea Hlavackova and Peng Shuai in the final. And with all the inspirational/feel good stories floating about in Melbourne, this one somehow got left out. Between Safarova's steady recovery following a serious illness and subsequent reactive arthritis and Mattek-Sands' transcendence of an entire career's worth of setbacks, this was a victory worth dancing over.
2. A story for the ages: It wasn't a new story--we saw Jelena Dokic, whose career was severely inhibited by the abuse she suffered from her father, make a memorable and emotional comeback at the 2009 Australian Open. This time, it was Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, who also suffered terrible abuse at the hands of her father, and who lost a major portion of her career. When the Croatian player returned in 2007, it was to function as a giant-killer. But at this year's Australian Open, she was something else--a giant.
Lucic-Baroni extended her run all the way to the semifinals, where she fell to eventual champion Serena Williams. However, her quarterfinal defeat of 5th seed Karolina Pliskova, whom many had picked to win the whole thing, was arguably the story of the tournament, on the women's side. Lucic-Baroni's last appearance in a major semifinal had occurred 18 years earlier at Wimbledon, when she was labeled a prodigy, having already won (with Martina Hingis) the Australian Open doubles title in 1998, at the age of 15.
But beating Pliskova wasn't Lucic-Baroni's only dramatic feat. In the second round, she took out 3rd seed Aga Radwanska in straight sets. Those who saw Lucic-Baroni's performance at this Australian Open will never forget it. As the Croation star herself said: "I can't believe this, this is crazy."
1. You can't "come back" when you never go away: Serena Williams lost the 2016 Australian Open final and the 2016 French Open final. A correction had to be made, and she made it emphatically in Melbourne. The "new" world number 1 took the title without dropping a set (though she had some game competition from Barbora Strycova in the round of 16), then defeated her sister in the final to win her sixth Australian Open title. Williams now has a total of 23 major singles titles, and one wold be well advised to not put the calculator away any time soon.


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Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology students emerge with a solid biological foundation on which they superimpose training in the ecology and management of wildlife and fish in natural as well as human-altered environments. They are established and emerging leaders in wildlife and fish biology, ecology, conservation, and management, with jobs as private consultants, agency wildlife or fish biologists, zoo biologists, and wildlife veterinarians, among others. The major prepares students well for post-secondary study, including veterinary school, graduate school, or pursuit of professional degrees in applied biology and ecology.
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