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Press: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (October 19, 2002)
Publication Date:2002-10
Author Name:Smith, Fred Chris; Bace, Rebecca Gurley; Bace, Rebecca Gurley
Edition:1st Edition
Information technology is an increasingly large factor in legal proceedings.
From large cases, such as the US Government's anti-trust suit against the Microsoft Corporation, to small civil lawsuits filed over the failure of a network, to criminal cases in which the authenticity of electronic evidence is questioned, the testimony of a technical expert is essential.
But an understanding of the technology in question is not enough; an expert technical witness needs to understand much more in order to ensure the effectiveness of his or her testimony.
About the Author
Fred Chris Smith is an experienced trial attorney who directed economic crime prosecutions for four consecutive New Mexico state attorneys general.
For nearly twenty years he has also provided education and training programs throughout the country and abroad, in digital evidence and computer forensics.
He has been involved as an attorney, business advisor, and teacher with information technology and legal professionals who are encountering the rapidly changing problems presented by electronic evidence in criminal cases, in the investigation of corporate network fraud and abuse, and in civil litigation.
He currently serves as an Assistant United States Attorney.
Rebecca Gurley Bace is a recognized network security authority and consultant.
Her career includes work with the National Security Agency, where her contribution to building the national intrusion detection research community earned her an NSA Distinguished Leadership Award.
After the NSA, she became the Deputy Security Officer for the Computing Information and Communications Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she was responsible for one of the world's most complex security-critical computing environments.
She is currently President/CEO of Infidel, Inc., and a Venture Partner for Trident Capital.
Bace is the author of Intrusion Detection (Macmillan Technical Publishing, 2000).
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Mark Twain is reported to have said, "An expert is just some guy from out of town." As usual, Twain is on the mark in suggesting that there should be something suspicious about a stranger who shows up and offers to help us with his expertise and then quickly hits the road.
For our purposes this apothegm could be slightly altered to make an expert out to be someone from out of town who has an opinion.
The revised adage may say as much about communities of interest and the part they play today in deciding whom to trust as an expert as it says about experts and how they worked in Twain's era.
This book is all about expert witnesses, with particular attention paid to those who specialize in information technologies—the hardware, software, and data that make up computers and other digital systems used for data processing and communications.
The level of technical knowledge needed to deal with these systems often makes the question of assessing the expertise of a particular person daunting to all but other experts in the technical domain in question.
This is not by any means meant to be a legal textbook.
Indeed, we explicitly disclaim any intention to offer or suggest legal advice to any reader.
Such legal advice must come from legal counsel engaged to offer it, and the materials in this book should not be relied on as legal advice or passed onto others as such.
Nor is this book meant to be treated as yet another technical manual, to be consulted only when the reader is in the midst of a crisis and in search of specific answers to specific technical problems.
The book is perhaps best considered as analogous to a general travel guide to an exotic destination that the reader anticipates visiting in the near future.
We appreciate the paucity of time available for technical experts to devote to reading a book such as this.
Accordingly, although the book attempts to convey neither legal advice nor specific technical information, the chapters should still prove useful to the techie and his or her managers.
The chapters can guide the consideration of "what if" scenarios that may well come to pass in the lives of many who read this book.
Furthermore, like a travel book, this primer may at least provide some of the right questions (asked in the appropriate local dialects) that an expert can use to ask for directions as he or she navigates to the interesting places and events often found in the world of litigation.
One of many ways you might use this book to prepare for visiting the land of litigation as an expert is to begin with the first chapter to get a quick and entertaining overview of the process of becoming a recognized expert and testifying in court.
Chapter 1 introduces technical expert witnesses who testify in criminal and civil trials and focuses on the communities of interest that society ultimately relies upon to certify the genuine expertise of their representatives and members in good standing.
When you begin to think about what makes a particular individual an expert in the eyes of the law, and hence entitled to testify about his or her opinions in the course of litigation, you are led back to the specialized knowledge, training, and experience that an organized and socially recognized community of interest creates and maintains.
The most peculiar thing about the technical domains that comprise what is generally described as information technology (IT) is how little they resemble the traditional, professional, licensed communities of interest that exist in other areas, such as structural engineering and medicine.
These communities become important to the law as it tests the reliability of the expert and his or her methods.
Most judges and jurors first hear about such communities when a community member is proffered as an expert witness in the course of litigation.
For IT expert witnesses, the lack of an organized, licensed community of interest with the traditional trappings of a socially recognized expert community creates a number of issues that the courts are just beginning to confront.
We introduce established experts from a number of communities of interest that lie outside the realm of IT.
These experts within ancient areas of expertise as well as new disciplines have coped with the special demands of the legal system.
Their stories may provide some organizing analogies for IT professionals who become interested in forensic practices and also enable IT experts to build the lattice of disciplines, processes, and professional networks necessary to assure lawyers and courts that they are competent IT practitioners.
The experiences of Raemarie Schmidt and her students bring us back to how some of the pioneers in IT forensics can contribute to recognized expert communities by developing standards and training that have become generally recognized by the courts.
A discussion of the film My Cousin Vinny offers a lighthearted account of the problems that a technical expert encounters while testifying in court.
In the film, the community of expertise represented by the character Mona Lisa Vito (played to perfection by Marisa Tomei) is that of the automobile mechanic.
This particular community reminds us that certain roles associated with IT are rapidly becoming as commonly accepted as those of the car mechanic or washing machine repairperson.
That these areas of expertise are generally recognized and often encountered illustrates another aspect of the community of interest.
In this scenario, too many members claim an expertise with too little self-regulation, peer review, and evaluation by a recognized community of professionals.
This erodes the ability to separate the charlatans from the qualified and recognized practitioners of the IT trades.
The choice of a second chapter is not critical to making the best use of this guide.
In fact, the techie reader may wish to go directly to Chapter 13, which includes the experiences and lessons learned by several accomplished IT experts.
These technical experts, who are all widely recognized as such in their communities of interest, have varying degrees of experience as expert witnesses in criminal and civil litigation.
Their observations can serve as either reviews or introductions to the chapters found between the first and the last.
Chapter 2 provides a real-world tale of just how serious this kind of communication performance can be to individual and corporate parties.
This chapter also explores the kind of expectations that legal and IT social critiques bring to bear on performances by important IT witnesses in landmark cases.
Passages from the deposition of Bill Gates in the Microsoft antitrust case introduce a number of the recurring themes and issues associated with expert testimony developed further in the rest of the book.
The most important of these is the perception of the demeanor and overall credibility of the witness and his or her performance on the stand.
This perception by the fact finder overrides, as it should, all the other components of the process of communicating complex concepts in formal testimony.
The return of Bill Gates to the witness stand two years later (and the dramatic change in the reporting of his second coming by the same IT and legal reporters) is an example of the point of this book.
Judicial fact finders and the public have lofty expectations of experts, especially when the expert's testimony is key to understanding the merits of the case.
Meeting those expectations requires certain things from the expert: experience, preparation, and a commitment to communicating not only the obvious expertise of the witness but also the credibility and willingness to provide useful information throughout the testimony.
This set of requirements might appear excessive, but in certain cases, such as Gates', the members of the public with interest in the expert's testimony number in the millions.
Chapter 3 reprises the well-known story of how IT security experts Tsutomu Shimomura and Andrew Gross developed forensic tools to track down the hacker who broke into Shimomura's computer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
The text recounts the investigation in the form of a hypothetical direct examination of Andrew Gross as the government's expert witness and illustrates the case with graphics designed to introduce and narrate the complex technical steps taken in the investigation.
The sample testimony also explains the expert analysis of the computer network evidence used to establish that Kevin Mitnick was the original intruder and to account for how he came to possess the stolen computer data taken from Shimomura's computer.
Chapter 4 provides some historical background, outlining the evolution of the legal process and also exploring the growing importance of expert witness testimony that accompanies the evolution of society's dependence on technology.
The different roles of the expert witness as consultant, strategist, and testifying witness are introduced along with some of the problems that can arise when the expert and his or her attorney do not keep these often conflicting roles clear and distinct throughout thecourse of litigation.
Chapter 5 gives the beginning expert several examples by analogy of the kinds of problems that may persist due to the pace of advances in IT.
Some of the problems are considered to be a direct consequence of the inherent immaturity of the IT field.
In particular, issues arise in areas where no rigorous community of interest has been established or where no formal education or training is available.
In these cases, the expert cannot point to generally accepted standards or a formal peer review process for determining the reliability of the concepts and techniques that he or she uses to decide what happened in a given case.
Discussions of astrologers, phrenologists, handwriting analysts, and fingerprint comparison experts and their communities of interest illustrate the kinds of problems that IT domain experts may encounter when their expertise is challenged in court.
Chapter 6 provides examples, many of them extreme, of what can go wrong when commonsense rules of professionalism and ethics are misapplied.
It also outlines how the traditions of the legal system regarding the preparation and introduction of expert testimony place certain restrictions on the behavior of IT and other experts who perform expert witness tasks in the course of litigation.
Expert witnesses must understand that while in civil litigation they ultimately work for a private party, through their legal counsel, the advocacy decisions made by the party and the attorney about the course of litigation must be segregated from the objective judgments that legal and professional ethical rules require expert witnesses to make about the application of their expertise and the communication of their opinions in court.
Chapter 7 shows how some experienced IT experts have handled the challenging task of solidly constructing and maintaining the professional relationship between the expert, the attorney, and the client or party.
One of many metaphors for enabling both the lawyer and the expert to reach useful conclusions about issues within the expertise of the witness is an aviation checklist.
In this analogy, the expert must learn a lot about his or her role before he or she can reliably check out all the things that need to be in working order and notice all the indicators of problems before taking off.
Another approach that has worked for both beginning and experienced IT expert witness practices is to find an agent or agency that specializes in matching appropriate experts with legal teams requiring particular expertise.
Chapter 8 presents what is in some ways the most difficult information in the book—involved legal material that explores the kinds of criteria courts have established for expert witnesses in general.
The legal approach to screening expert witnesses has undergone significant change over the past decade through a series of Supreme Court decisions.
The result of this series of decisions, starting with the landmark case Daubert v.
Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, is that an expert must now pass additional tests in order to testify as an expert.
The major differentiation between the old and new qualification processes for expert witnesses involves the addition of a "gatekeeper" function, assigned to trial judges.
Although it may be difficult for techies to master the cases and the analysis of the legal issues concerning the gatekeeping duties of trial judges, it is crucial for the beginning expert to understand how the decision to allow a proffered expert to testify at a hearing or trial is made in different courts across the country.
A Note on Legal Documents In some of the opinions, rules, and other legal documents cited throughout the book, we took the liberty of editing inline references from the quoted material.
We performed this editing for the sole purpose of making the material easier to read and comprehend for readers unaccustomed to reading legal documents.
We provide full case references (and for some cases, the complete opinions) in Appendix A in case you want to go to the source.
The gatekeeping function that most courts have now accepted in one form or another is a distinct departure from the traditional role of the courts with regard to the use of experts.
Under the old system, the courts passively allowed attorneys to proffer their chosen experts, allowing the jury to decide what weight to give to the respective witnesses' opinions.
In the post-Daubert world, the judge acts as a gatekeeper, charged with weeding out unqualified experts as well as qualified experts who deliver unreliable opinions irrelevant to the particular case at hand.
A process enabling adversaries to challenge the qualifications or relevance of a particular expert often triggers this function.
The challenges are conducted in addition to and in advance of the more traditional impeachment of witnesses through cross-examination.
This expert qualification and challenge process requires additional work on the part of expert witnesses.
First, the expert needs to consider whether he or she is adequately qualified by education, training, and experience to investigate and testify about particular matters before the court.
While acting as an expert witness, the expert must also keep abreast of legal developments and make additional efforts to determine all that will be involved in a particular assignment.
The expert may also need to determine how a soliciting attorney has dealt with past cases in which judges have entertained gatekeeping challenges against other judges.
The expert must accept additional responsibility for anticipating and dealing with serious challenges to his or her qualifications and expertise.
Finally, the expert must understand this rapidly changing body of case law on the fly since it has only recently been used to challenge IT experts.
The good news is that experts don't have to take this on all by themselves.
All competent trial lawyers can be expected to keep up with the most recent changes in the way this challenge round is evolving in their jurisdictions and should be able to explain it clearly to the beginning expert.
The information in Chapter 8 is presented in hopes that it will enable IT experts to pose relevant and concise questions about this new area of the law and at the same time prepare them to better understand the significance of the legal advice they receive from trial counsel concerning these new developments and their impact on the performance of the witness.
Chapter 9 provides detailed examples of how judges look at qualifications and the different approaches taken by the witnesses when deciding between competing theories and methods of opposing experts, as in the landmark case of Gates v.
Bando, which established one of the practice standards for computer forensics.
The testimony of Robert Wedig, the expert witness for the defendant who prevailed in that case, illustrates the factors affecting the judge's decision to favor Dr.
Wedig's opinion over that of the opposing expert.
The historical example of Houdini illustrates the different roles of the expert—both as a performer, demonstrating a known expertise, and as a skeptic uncovering the abuse of known techniques used by an opposing expert to obfuscate the facts or deceive the fact finder.
One of the most important tools that any IT expert can employ in court is a visual display.
Chapter 10 explores the subject of graphic images in detail and provides a visual metaphor to allow the beginning expert to think about the entire process of approaching a technical problem involved in litigation through the eyes of graphics designers.
The litigation graphics consultants who work with lawyers and their technical experts enable them to focus on the most important concepts and to organize their presentations with visual aids.
The resulting visual displays vastly enhance the expert's ability to communicate the analysis and conclusions to judges and juries.
We have selected several examples of the work and the methodology that Chris Ritter, a former litigator who now works for The Focal Point, LLC, has developed to assist both lawyers and expert witnesses in preparing for court.
Although experts are often tempted to focus on the content of their testimony, in court the context of testimony is also very important.
This means that even the most brilliant and accurate technical analysis may not be accepted if the demeanor and nonverbal communications skills of the expert witness are lacking.
Chapters 11 and 12 contain various analogies and techniques for improving the ways that expert witnesses integrate their demeanor and nonverbal communication with their testimony.
With all the provisions and restrictions of the legal process outlined, Chapter 13 provides a wealth of wisdom from the front lines.
The chapter presents the advice of three noted IT experts with different degrees of experience.
Professor Rebecca Mercuri, a world-renowned specialist in the area of voting technology, offers insights gleaned during a decade of testimony in a wide variety of cases, ranging from a murder trial to the appeal of the 2000 U.S.
presidential election results in Florida.
Don Allison, whose expertise in the discovery and analysis of digital evidence has placed him on the stand in a number of cases, offers his feedback loop methodology that not only carries him through the trial process but also allows him to refine his expert witness skills.
Finally, Professor Gene Spafford, noted for his accomplishments in the software engineering and network security area, offers insights gained testifying in cases involving allegations of intellectual property theft and patent infringement.
For many technical experts, manuals and guides serve as references of last resort.
These technical gurus enjoy and excel at learning by doing and may welcome the first opportunity to testify as an expert witness as similar to learning a new programming language or system troubleshooting technique.
Unfortunately, they often fail to gauge the complexity of the preliminary processes required to get to the moment of truth, when the expert actually explains a technical process to a judge or jury.
Furthermore, testifying in a serious legal controversy may be one of the few situations a technical expert will encounter where he or she must prepare for battle.
At a minimum, the expert needs to read some rules and some literature before being cross-examined by a lawyer who has spent months preparing to call into question the testimony the expert plans to give.
Even with that preparation, the best-planned testimony has a way of making some dramatic detours and complete changes in direction when subjected to crossexamination by an experienced trial lawyer.
The expert must assume that the lawyer has had the benefit of reading all the available literature and of being prepared by an equally qualified expert of his or her own.As Bill Spernow (a widely recognized expert in many IT domains) likes to say, "This is not something you can afford to learn by doing, at least if you plan to testify more than once in your life." Spernow proposes that the topic addressed by this book is actually a prime example of the age-old question: "How do you get techies to read the manual before they jump in with both feet and try to make something work?" This is an especially important question for those in IT, where the archetypical personality thrives on improvising solutions in the trenches and getting code and systems to work by tinkering with them, not by formally planning ahead.
Spernow also asks whether or not this kind of perspective would ever fly within the legal community, where ritualistic procedures and time are such serious and constant constraints.
Spernow is certainly right to raise these issues about the kind of fit that can be expected between techies and attorneys, and he is correct in his suspicion that it was more likely the legal system and not Benjamin Franklin who first coined the phrase "Time is money." Besides their time, lawyers keep track of the performances of expert itnesses.
Even if experts have not yet started to monitor their peers and to evaluate their performances in the courtroom or in recorded depositions, lawyers have created their own networks for efficiently sharing this accumulated wisdom as to whom to trust as an expert in an IT-related case.Make no mistake, the record made of an expert's performance will be consulted to determine whether lawyers can rely on the expert in any future litigation for which they are being considered.
The legal profession may not easily understand or embrace the ways of the techie who prefers to tackle problems on the fly.
Lawyers may not care about the techie's demonstrated success in using these methods to solve a purely technical problem.
It is much more likely that, should the techie decide to play this expert witness game, he or she will need to understand the perspectives of lawyers and judges and consider making certain accommodations to the ritualistic and traditional procedures that the legal process brings with it.
Furthermore, the techie must understand and accommodate the accompanying constraints on his or her freedom and time.
Consider the function of this book to be twofold.
First, a number of the chapters of this book are primarily concerned with acquainting the technical expert with this very different world by using various analogies, cases, and stories of the involvement of other techies in the litigation game to accomplish this goal.
Secondly, there are recommendations and tactics for dealing with specific challenges that the legal system presents to the technical expert.
It is our hope that this combination of features will eliminate many of the potential headaches you might face as a techie headed for your day in court.
James Boyd White, a law professor and respected author, wrote: The law can be seen as a particular instance of a human activity that is far more widespread than law itself, and of which we have splendid exemplars from which to learn: the activity of making meaning in language in relation to others.
To see law this way opens a whole set of issues for analysis in the law (and in other instances of meaning-making too): the quality of the language that a particular person inherits and uses; the nature of her transformation of that language in her use of it; and the kind of relation she establishes with the people she speaks to or about.
In several thousand times as many words, this book attempts to explain the significance of Mark Twain's single, cynical quote and to do it with the optimism and hope of Professor White.
At the outset, we want to make clear that, unlike Samuel Clemens, we are not professional writers, humorists, or entertainers extraordinaire.
If we could have figured out how to make a living being professional philosophers, we would have done so already.
Instead, we chose to pursue careers in the fields of information technology and law.
Nor, in retrospect, are we as clear as we would like to be about the points we set out to make in all these pages.
The problem that brought us together to write this book emerged from doubts about the ability to communicate the idealistic goals tempered by the cynical observations that color the world of the expert witness.
We concluded that simply sending something as wonderful as the Twain quip and as thoughtful as the White quote to all the potential technical experts who had asked us for advice would be viewed as inadequate—they would still need a path to follow.
So, the main impetus for writing this book is to define some paths that can allow technical experts to more easily gain an understanding of why it is critical for those qualified and capable to join the fray.
In doing so, they contribute to White's "making meaning in language in relation to others" involved in the litigation of IT issues.
Our subject, then, is the art of presenting effective IT expert witness testimony.
This testimony, in the best case, enables a judge or juror to make meaning in relation to complex technical concepts involved with information technologies.
This art in turn enables the fact finders in litigation to relate that meaning to an important controversy in order to make sound judgments about it.
And yet Twain must keep bringing us back with his words to the way we suspect things really are in the world of litigation.
And we realize that we must deal with that as well.No one wants to be perceived as a circus clown in a setting where everyone else is pretending to be serious about another game.
Our suspicion that we are being foolish or that we will be made the fool by following White in his optimism about the law and our legal rituals makes it all the more difficult to sustain this essential optimism for honest experts to give command performances.
Yet the sustained effort to communicate carefully and objectively the professional experiences and special knowledge true experts and great trial lawyers wish to share with others is not difficult to justify.
It is both the essence of the scientific method and the most rewarding kind of trial advocacy.
We have chosen to undertake the job of overcoming the cynical force of Twain's apothegm with analogies, metaphors, stories, disciplines, opinions, and anecdotes.
It is our hope that the humor of some of these stories and the insights and analysis of other experts will go some way in overcoming that convenient cynicism.
There will always be those who would rather remain uninvolved, while technical experts and their lawyers increasingly command the center stage of a growing number of legal performances.
Our hope is that the number of those temporarily on the sideline will be reduced by some who are encouraged and challenged by the materials collected in this primer.
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so If any body can Help me
In writing the code of the below methods you can use the Frog methods in table1.
Message Frog
left() Move one stone to the left.
right() Move one stone to the right
home() Move to position 1
jump() Jump up and return to its position
setPosition(int) Set position attribute to argument value.
setColour(OUColour) Set colour attribute to argument value
Table 1 Frog class methods
(i) Assume an interface called Dancer is defined as follows:
public interface Dancer
public void danceSteps(int n);
a. Write a class called DancerFrog that inherits Frog class and implements Dancer interface. The DancerFrog class has no attributes but it has the following members:
b. A DancerFrog constructor that invokes parent constructor for initialization.
c. getReady(): is a helper method that takes no argument and returns no values. In this method the DancerFrog instance should be in red colour and should stand on position 6 Note that: a helper method is a private method not public.
private void getReady()
}d. danceSteps(int n): the DancerFrog instance should invoke getReady(). Then the following steps should be repeated number of times according to argument n: move right twice, jump, and finally move left.
e. home(): the DancerFrog instance override the inherited method home() such that in addition to return back frog to position 1, it returns back its colour to green.
(ii) After writing the class DancerFrog, a programmer executes the following lines of code, one at a time in the OUWorkspace.
Dancer sam = new Dancer(); //1
Dancer helen = new DancerFrog(); //2
Frog kermit = new DancerFrog(); //3
DancerFrog alice = new Frog(); //4
kermit.danceSteps(); //5
helen.getReady(); //6
Four of the lines of code labeled //1 to //6 ought to cause errors. State which lines should cause the errors and why.

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Watford have announced ticket prices for their friendly against Udinese will be increased on the day of the game.
Tickets bought in advance of the contest are priced at £3 for adults, £1 for under-16s and £2 for concessions.
But those supporters who purchase tickets on Saturday will pay £5 for adults, £3 for concessions and £2 for under-16s.
The club's Vicarage Road ticket office will be open from 9am until kick-off. Turnstiles will open at 1.30pm.
As of this afternoon, the Hornets had sold 7,700 tickets for the contest against the fellow Pozzo-owned club.
Paper tickets will only be used for the match and there will be cash only sales for The Graham Taylor Stand at north east corner.
The Watford FC Community Stand will not be open. The Graham Taylor and Rookery Stands will be used while the Vicarage Road Stand will be opened if there is sufficient demand.
After the costs of staging the game are covered all money raised from ticket sales will be donated to the Royal British Legion, which also receives £1 from every Hornets away shirt sold this season.
Watford will hold their annual Community Open Day on Sunday at Fullerians RFC.
The free event starts at 12.30pm and runs until 4pm and there will be a range of activities for all ages.


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After my hour-long appointment with the Nutrition Response Testing (NRT) doctor, I had a lot to think about. Even though it seemed a little out there, I promised myself I'd keep an open mind about NRT, so I gave myself plenty of time to consider everything, do my own "research," and bounce some ideas off of my husband, who always brings me back down to earth when I start to get ahead of myself with my crazy ideas and plans.
During our conversation, the NRT doctor told me a lot of things that I already knew about good nutrition and healthy eating (i.e. eat whole foods, not too much sugar, organic when possible, avoid GMOs, etc.), which was all great, sound advice. However, when it came to my analysis, I just couldn't wrap my head around what she was telling me, like how the arm reflex test determined which of my organs were under stress and how my body "tested" for certain nutritional deficiencies and then decided (via vials resting on my stomach) which supplements and how much of them I needed to take to fix those deficiencies. It just didn't make much sense to me, and when it came to the cost of the program and supplements, it was a huge investment, especially for something I wasn't totally on board with.
The long list of supplements that the doctor recommended to me made me a little uneasy. She thinks there's an issue with my liver that may have contributed to my colitis flare as well as problems with my spleen, so she recommended a number of supplements to help with digestion and detoxifying my liver. I have no problem with taking supplements, but I didn't want to take a whole slew of them all at once with the possibility of aggravating my digestive track again by introducing so many new things at once. Who knows if they'd agree with me? It could happen, right? It just makes me nervous. Plus, the supplements alone cost $200! Yikes!
With that said, I'm not going to do the NRT program. However, I *might* try an elimination diet. The doctor thinks I have some food sensitivities to gluten (wheat, oats, rye, barley), soy, and egg yolks, so she suggested removing these foods from my diet for the next 4 months.
Again, I have no idea how pushing down on my arm could determine these food sensitivities, but I've always kind of thought I might have an issue with gluten. (Soy and egg yolks are a total surprise to me!) I've always struggled with breakouts, but when I've limited the gluten in my diet, specifically during my two colitis flares and when Mal and I were eating more of a Paleo diet, my skin looked really great, so maybe it was the gluten?
Removing egg yolks and soy from my diet would be pretty easy for me, but gluten would be a lot more difficult. I'm not sure I want to give up (good) beer or (real) bagels anytime soon, but maybe taking these foods out of my diet would keep my skin clear and make me feel healthier overall? I dunno. I'm not sure what to think of NRT, so maybe eliminating these foods would do nothing at all, and I'd just miss beer a lot?
For those of you who have eliminated foods from your diet for health reasons, do you have any advice? Was it worth it? Do you miss those foods?
This morning's breakfast was "Oatmeal" Minus the Oats with two big scoops of Teddie Peanut Butter mixed in.
And, as always, breakfast included a glass of iced coffee.
I ate my breakfast with a 28-pound pug on my lap.
Murphy was really tired and cuddly this morning.
I assume since he's been to the dog park two days in a row now. Check this pic of him passed out on the couch last night! LOL!
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Ukki Blue resembles Indiana Jones, with his whip, hat, personality, and attitude. He is the only Saru Get Chu ~On Air~ character who can speak more than Japanese, such as English and other languages.
The sequel is based on the games: Ape Escape 3 and Saru Saru Big Mission.
Ukki Pink's camera is actually a Nikon camera, except it is monkey-ized to "Pipon"
The design of the Freaky Monkey Five in the anime is the same design for the Saru Get You/Ape Escape video game: Saru Saru Big Mission.
The Pipotron Brothers can speak Japanese in the anime, but not in the games. Red and Blue can talk, but Yellow just says "Pipo Pipo".
In an obvious example of product placement, the Playstation Portable and the UMD made appearances in Episode 24, 25 and 37. The PSP in the anime is used as a GPS.
Specter made the same mistake in the sequel as he did in Ape Escape 2. He was putting the Pipo Helm on Kakeru (when he was unconcisous) really slowly in Episode 25. This is similar to what he did in Ape Escape 2 when he was pulling the switch of the Lethagry Laser slowly in front of Jimmy, which is the worst, most common mistake villians often make in anime and video games.
There is a disturbing scene in Episode 33 of Season 2, where Ukki Pink was "humping" a huge teddy bear.
There is a scene between 3:27 to 3:29 in Episode 38, where Charu was taking off her maid suit and isn't wearing anything.
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The bigger issue with the people in the current society is they believe not in their hard work or some smart work but feel like something else in the world is trying to stop them or trying to pull it back.
Sreenu Vaitla who basically never care such things like astrology and palmistry had shown the new concept of Vasthu effect to his poor career. After bigger super hits Vaitla got Andarivadu disaster that too with big hero like megastar Chiranjeevi. The writer director did not care about that failure and carried with the life as it is. After bigger plops now like Aagadu, Bruce Lee and now, Mister.
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Castlevania Rondo of Blood, Rage of the Gladiator added to Wii Shop
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Rage of the Gladiator dated, new trailer released
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It's infuriating that Beck refuses to even discuss the issue.
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Every member of the Supreme Court, every member of congress, every member of the Joint Chiefs, most members of the DOD, CIA, FBI, Secret Service and state run media, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, Fox and print news, knows that Barack Hussein Obama does NOT meet Article II Section I constitutional requirements for the office he holds. By his own biography, there is NO way he can pass the test. The hard evidence is so far beyond overwhelming, it is ridiculous.
But not ONE member of Americas most powerful people will dare confront Obama and his anti-American cabal on the subject. The Constitution does NOT stand.
Half of the people you expect to stop this insanity are quiet co-conspirators in the silent coup. The other half is paralyzed by fear, motivated only by political self-preservation.
Americans keep asking what they can do because they see that none of their leaders are doing anything to stop the demise of their beloved country. Its the right question, because those leaders are NOT going to stop this thing.
A brave few This is how it was in the beginning, how it has always been and how it will be.
DR. ORLY TAITZ, Phil Berg and Gary Kreep, ALL OF WHOM HAVE MADE DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION AND THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE A PERSONAL AMBITION, IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY CONSTITUTION LEADERSHIP.
A PRECIOUS FEW, BUT THEY EXIST and the walls are indeed closing in on Obama and his evil cabal. IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FAIL TO GET BEHIND THESE BRAVE FEW WHO ARE SEEKING PEACEFUL REDRESS, ALL THE PEACEFUL OPTIONS WILL EVAPORATE AS IF THEY NEVER EXISTED. WE WILL RETURN TO A PRE-1776 AMERICA OVERNIGHT..
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A precious few, indeed. Lets get behind those few brave patriots who are out there in the trenches every day working to prove Obamas inelgibility:
Dr. Orly is the ONLY one out there in the trenches EVERY day hitting Obama on multiple fronts and trying to bring him down. It is reported that she is more than $8,000 in debt from using her own funds for expenses in her flights across the U.S for interviews, speeches, serving papers and meeting with officials!
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SAN DIEGO, June 23, 2015 — Helen Keller was a deaf-blind American woman whose courageous journey began on June 27, 1880, and who continued to inspire the world until her death at the age of 87.
Born with normal hearing and sight, at 19 months she suffered an illness of "acute congestion of the stomach and brain" that was believed to have been the cause of her lifelong deafness and blindness, according to Wikipedia.
The exact nature of her illness is not known, though it has been speculated that she suffered from a form of meningitis or possibly scarlet fever.
Keller was brilliantly portrayed by Patty Duke in the Oscar award-winning 1962 movie "The Miracle Worker," which helped showcase her struggles and triumphs to an international audience.
Despite her incomparable struggle to become relevant in the world with which she could not communicate, Keller later triumphed over seemingly insurmountable adversity, becoming a well-known author, activist, lecturer and world traveler–also having earned a bachelor of arts degree from Radcliffe College.
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NEW YORK - The trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff's assets has sued one of the nation's leading educational philanthropies, even though the organization claims it was wiped out by the disgraced financier's massive fraud.
The complaint filed yesterday in Manhattan bankruptcy court alleges the Picower Foundation and several related entities made nearly $7 billion by investing with Madoff. At least $5.1 billion of that came out of the pockets of victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, and should be returned, it said.
Trustee Irving Picard alleged that foundation founders Jeffry Picower and his wife, Barbara - friends of Madoff for decades - "knew or should have known that they were benefiting from fraudulent activity or, at a minimum, failed to exercise reasonable due diligence."
An attorney for the couple, William Zabel, said his clients were never aware anything was amiss. "They were totally shocked by his fraud and were in no way complicit in it," he said.
The Palm Beach, Fla.-based foundation had given millions to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Human Rights First, and the New York Public Library. It also funded diabetes research at Harvard Medical School.
The trustee's complaint says Madoff managed accounts that earned astronomical returns over 13 years. One purported to earn 950 percent in 1999.
Madoff, 70, pleaded guilty in March to charges that his investment operation was a multibillion-dollar scam.
In another complaint filed yesterday, the trustee said an overseas hedge fund, Harley International Ltd., knew or should have known that its $1 billion in returns were fraudulent.
Also yesterday, The New York Times reported that about $12 billion was pulled out of accounts at Madoff's firm last year, citing people briefed on the financier's records. Most of that sum was withdrawn by various "feeder funds," the paper said, including funds already the targets of lawsuits by the trustee.


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Thanks to Spero Daltas, an octagonal "Emerald City" rose in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, a Persian princess got her palace and university buildings, libraries, banks and embassies were built around the world.
Daltas grew up in St. Paul in a Greek immigrant family that ran restaurants in the Twin Cities. But he roamed the world as a pioneering international architect with offices in Boston and Rome and projects in such far-flung locations as Iran, Burma, Uganda, Turkey, Somalia and Mexico.
Throughout the years, Daltas maintained a Summit Avenue home in St. Paul. He died Sunday in St. Paul after suffering from pneumonia and renal failure. He was 89.
Daltas was the creative partner in Brown Daltas Associates. The Boston-based architecture firm was created by Daltas and Benjamin Brown, two young American architects who were working in Iran for an English firm when they were hired to do a side project: a home for Princess Fatemeh, the younger sister of the Shah of Iran.
A 1962 Time magazine article described the resulting "jewel-like residence," built with canopies of locally made glazed brick and water flowing through the house in blue and gold glazed tiled channels.
It caught the attention of Saudi Arabian officials and the newly formed Brown Daltas firm started designing buildings in that country, leading to the grandest project of them all, designing an entire city from scratch.
King Khalid Military City was an $8 billion project built in the 1970s and '80s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to defend the Saudi northeastern border. The resulting octagonal city could house about 65,000 people, including several brigades of American and Saudi troops, with schools, airfields, hospitals and a pioneering underground utility system.
The project reportedly was the largest single military construction project in U.S. Army Corps history and employed the world's largest precast concrete plant. Dubbed the "Emerald City" by U.S. soldiers, it served as a base for U.S. forces during the Gulf War.
It also changed the lives of a handful of young Minnesota architects.
When his company was hired for the project, Daltas recruited recent graduates from his alma mater, the University of Minnesota, to help on the massive design job.
By then, the architecture firm had moved its offices from Tehran, Iran, to Italy.
"For a bunch of guys in Minnesota, living in Rome, it was a great thing," said C. Ron Ostberg, one of the U graduates Daltas hired. "He really transformed our lives by giving us this opportunity."
Ostberg said the scale of the project, including a $60 million design fee, was "completely off the charts."
"This was pretty much like putting together a city like Rochester overnight," said Dale Mulfinger, a Twin Cities architect also hired by Daltas.
Daltas didn't just supervise the work.
"He was the designer," Ostberg said. "He controlled the design of the project down to the hardware.
"I have never in my life met or would expect to meet a person with that tenacity. He was a bulldog in that way," Ostberg said. Ostberg and Mulfinger said Daltas' buildings managed to blend modern construction, materials and international influences with local design and culture.
For example, in the King Khalid project, Daltas insisted on specialized large acoustic ceiling panels with raised Islamic patterns, said William Shannon, president of an architectural consulting company who worked on the project.
"He was very used to people saying, 'We've never done it that way before,' " Shannon said. "He was very stubborn that that was the way it was going to be done."
"He always tried to get to know the people, the culture, what was going on there," nephew Arthur Daltas said of his uncle's international work.
Shannon said Daltas would be more famous in the United States if so much of his work hadn't been overseas.
"He was working in places other people hardly ever heard of," Shannon said.
Daltas was one of six children of Athanasia and Paul Daltas, Greek immigrants who met and married in Wisconsin before moving to St. Paul, where they ran a series of restaurants.
Daltas went to Central High School and joined the Navy during World War II. He served as a gunnery and torpedo officer on the USS Nicholson, a destroyer that fought in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
After the war, he graduated from the University of Minnesota, where the left-hander captained the golf team. He was also the 1954 Minnesota State Amateur golf champion.
Daltas won a scholarship to attend MIT for graduate work and went to Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship and a Prix de Rome fellowship.
"Spero had a tremendous passion for Rome. Rome is an intoxicating place for an architect," Ostberg said.
After Rome, Daltas apprenticed with Eero Saarinen, the noted Finnish-American architect, working on the new U.S. Embassy in London.
Ostberg and Mulfinger said their former boss was both a gracious friend and a hardworking taskmaster who was uncompromising about his profession.
"One time, many of us were saying, 'Spero, it really isn't going to make a difference if it was done one way or another.' He refused to believe that," Ostberg said. "He believed it made a difference. What you designed was always going to make a difference."
Daltas never married. Surviving him are three sisters, Katherine, Hilda and Evelyn Daltas; three nephews and two nieces. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Willwerscheid Funeral Home, 1167 Grand Ave. in St. Paul. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 1111 Summit Ave. in St. Paul.
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Two fundraisers are taking place in Sheffield in aid of St Luke's Hospice.
On May 24 and 25, supporters are invited to a Spring into Summer celebration at The Hare and Hounds in Dore, with stalls, a hand car wash, name the bear competition, raffle and silent auction.
The following weekend, on Friday, May 30, take your partner for an evening of freestyle dance at Woodseats Working Men's Club. Tickets cost £5 in advance or £6 on the door, in aid of St Luke's and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.


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The Salvation Army's Kettle Classic Golf Tournament has generated over $400,000 (net) over the past ten years to support programs and services in the Memphis area. Limited to 25 teams, the format is two best ball (net). Proceeds benefit Renewal Place, The Salvation Army's two-year transitional program for homeless chemically-dependent women and their children.
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The Indian Lake Estates Course at Indian Lake Estates Country Club is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Lake Wales, Florida. This medium-length layout will reward good shots and provide a fun golf outing for everyone. There is another course on this same property, the Par-3 Course. Online tee times may be available at Indian Lake Estates Country Club or at nearby golf courses, usually offered at a discount from the normal rate.
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Check out this little mailbag item from the Denver Post. It dissects Allen Iverson's chances of making the West All-Star team, since Tracy McGrady and Kobe are the leading vote-getters so far for the two starting spots.
Not that Jason Terry or Jerry Stackhouse -- the two Mavs guards on the All-Star ballot -- or Devin Harris (he didn't even make the ballot) are having All-Star seasons, but the logjam exemplifies how tough it will be for Josh Howard to break through the crowded group at forward.
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BONN (Jul. 16)
About 500 Palestinians of the estimated 2,000 who live in West Berlin are believed to be a source of potential political violence. But officials of the Interior Ministry of the governing municipality admit they can do little to prevent them from crossing over from East Berlin, claiming the status of refugees.
According to the officials, the Palestinians who are considered security risks come from the eastern sector where they participated in military training programs run by the Communist regime under an agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization. They belong to various organizations affilated with the PLO or which cooperate with it.
Two Palestinians whose flat was searched recently for explosives were suspected of making bombs to attack the local Jewish community which is labled by Palestinian publications as "an arm of the Zionist enemy."
The difficulty in preventing Palestinians from infiltrating into West Berlin from the East stems from the reluctance of the Western Allies to check the personal papers of visitors from the eastern part of the city. They wish to avoid recognizing the division of Berlin but this allows the East German authorities to "plant" anyone they want in the Western sector, the officials said.
Palestinians in general come to West Berlin to qualify for State aid in the form of cheap housing and free food stamps. "Formerly, they used to go back to Lebanon after having taken military courses near Weimar," one official said. "Now they refuse to go to Tunisia or to other PLO centers" because of the generous treatment given alleged political refugees from the East.
The Palestinian community in West Berlin is the target of political agitation by the PLO office in Bonn. The head of that office often visits West Berlin.


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Jan 08 2014
How States Can Nullify the NSA By Cutting Off Its Water Supply
With the NSA tracking our every phone call, text and email message, ordinary people are struggling to find ways to fight back. A group called the Tenth Amendment Center may have found the NSA's achilles heel. Realizing that the security agency must rely on State municipal services like water and electricity to carry out their surveillance work, the group hopes to dismantle the spy agency by helping individual states pass laws that restrict NSA data centers' access to these services.
Working under the project name 'Nullify the NSA,' the group has put together a model piece of legislation called The Fourth Amendment Protection Act which they hope lawmakers will adopt across the country.
The act prohibits the use of State and local municipal services like water which is crucial for cooling down the NSA's mega computers that process massive amounts of data. It would also ban local law enforcement from cooperating with the NSA, and corporations which work with the NSA would be prohibited from providing state services.
On Monday California State Senator Ted Lieu, a Democrat from Torrance, and State Senator Joel Anderson, a Republican from San Diego, introduced SB 828 modeled after the Fourth Amendment Protection Act.
GUEST: Michael Boldin, executive director the Tenth Amendment Center, which is spearheading the legislation
For more information about this effort, visit www.offnow.org.
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Pakistan's Habib Bank has opened a branch in China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uygur, an autonomous Region's capital of Urumqi which is the starting point of the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
The branch was inaugurated at the ongoing China-Eurasia Expo making it the first foreign bank from a country on the Silk Road Economic Belt to establish a branch in China. CPEC links Xinjiang with Gwadar port in Balochistan province through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) with road, rail and pipeline links.
Nauman Kramat Dar, Habib Bank's chief executive officer said that Xinjiang's development will surpass that of China's other regions in the next five years and it was the best time to build a branch in the region.
Being an important area in Central Asia and South Asia, Urumqi has obvious geographical advantages and it will allow Habib Bank to participate more in the development of Xinjiang, Pakistan and Central Asia.
Habib Bank also signed a $500 million cooperation deal with China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation at the expo.
Established in 1947, Habib Bank is Pakistan's biggest commercial bank, accounting for more than 40 % of the country's bank market.


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Microsoft is taking the .NET development world by storm with its FxCop tool. The tool is designed to check .NET code for violations of a wide range of programming rules and conventions. The rules included with FxCop draw heavily upon Microsoft's Framework Design Guidelines as described in Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams (ISBN 0321246756).
The kinds of rules checked by FxCop include:
Unlike traditional code analysis tools (such as lint for C), FxCop does not analyze source code. Instead, it analyzes the binary Common Intermediate Language (CIL) generated by .NET compilers and persisted in .NET assemblies (EXE and DLL files). Analysis is enabled by the rich metadata that is a part of CIL. By analyzing assemblies directly, FxCop avoids being tied to any particular .NET programming language: it will work without modification against C#, VB.NET, and potentially other .NET languages.
FxCop is a mature tool. The first version of FxCop was released to the public shortly after the release of the .NET Framework 1.0 itself in 2002. In Summer 2007, FxCop was awarded the Chairman's Award for Engineering Excellence by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. This award reflected the substantial improvement FxCop has made to development and testing practices of managed code at Microsoft. A version of FxCop is integrated with Visual Studio as a part of the Visual Studio Team System code analysis features. Another version is available as a free download.
The best part about FxCop is that you are not limited to just the rule libraries provided by Microsoft. You can easily define your own rules. What makes this possible is the "FxCop SDK," two DLLs which host the rule API. As with most APIs, you might expect detailed and comprehensive documentation. However, this is an area in which the SDK is lacking. While it has encouraged developers to write custom rules and has provided some sample code, Microsoft has not yet provided public documentation for the FxCop SDK. One ramification is that the API is subject to change without notice. Indeed, there have been significant changes in the API from version 1.35 to the latest version 1.36.
This document provides only a cursory look at the basics of using FxCop. Instead of diving deeply into features that are well-documented elsewhere, our focus is on development of custom rules, a task that many developers are—or should be—interested in doing.
Visual Studio Team System: The Code Analysis features of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition provide the same API for custom rules as FxCop 1.36. Therefore, most of what is described in this document applies to Visual Studio Team System as well. Note that the Team System includes additional rules out of the box that are not included with the free FxCop.
This document is based on research and experimentation. The FxCop APIs are not yet documented by Microsoft. As a result, expect some changes in future releases of FxCop. Furthermore, some parts of this document are likely to be incomplete or even incorrect. This document is a tutorial; to improve readability, this document sometimes presents assumptions as if they were verified facts.


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By Michael Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 25, 2009
When Washington Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld approached Coach Flip Saunders about the possibility of acquiring Mike Miller and Randy Foye from the Minnesota Timberwolves, he didn't have to make a hard sell. Saunders, the former Timberwolves coach, still has a residence in suburban Minneapolis and spent his season away from coaching watching his former team on a regular basis.
Since he was familiar with the strengths of both players, Saunders was immediately on board. "If we can get those two guys," Saunders recalled telling Grunfeld, "it's almost a no-brainer."
A day after trading the No. 5 pick in tonight's draft, Etan Thomas, Darius Songaila and Oleksiy Pecherov to the Minnesota for Miller and Foye, Grunfeld and Saunders were both optimistic about the direction of the franchise, which is looking to rebound from an injury-marred 19-63 season. "We feel good about this trade," Grunfeld said after pulling off arguably his third-biggest deal with the organization, behind the acquisitions of eventual all-stars Antawn Jamison and Caron Butler. "I thought, we get two rotation players who are proven commodities and proven they can play at this level."
A rival league executive said yesterday that the trade pushes the Wizards into the group of elite teams in the Eastern Conference, along with Orlando, Cleveland and Boston.
"I think it's a very good deal for Washington. They're right up there with the elite teams as far as talent goes," the executive said on the condition of anonymity because he is not at liberty to discuss other teams. "They have a very good coach. It's a matter of how quickly they pull it together and obviously, how healthy is [Gilbert] Arenas? You don't know. That's a significant thing. But I think they helped themselves with the trade. I think they are as talented as anybody."
In Miller and Foye, the Wizards added two experienced and versatile players who provide depth and perimeter shooting. The Wizards ranked 29th in three-point shooting (33 percent) last season, but the 6-foot-8 Miller is a career 40.1 percent three-point shooter and 6-4 Foye shoots 37.4 percent from beyond the arc.
Wizards officials traveled to Chicago to evaluate and interview prospects for the fifth pick, brought dozens in for workouts, and determined that the franchise didn't have time to watch a draft pick develop and needed to add more talent and depth from players who can contribute right away.
Grunfeld said the move was not an indictment of the 2009 draft class. "All along, we've been saying we like the draft and we can get a player. I didn't know how long it would take for this player to develop. I didn't feel like there was anybody at the five spot who could fit into our rotation," Grunfeld said. "I don't think there are any guarantees in the draft and people are saying this is a weaker draft than normal, so for us to be able to turn the No. 5 pick into two players who can help us immediately and help us for years to come, we felt very good about it."
Grunfeld added that it wasn't necessary to wait and see which player fell to the team at No. 5. "We knew who was going to be at the five spot and we felt that these players were going to help us a lot more than anybody we would've gotten in the draft," Grunfeld said. "A lot of times what happens, when you wait on situations, the other team might get better offers along the way. Then the trade might go away. We felt good about this."
With the addition of two more offensive weapons, Saunders said he won't have a problem finding scoring opportunities for his players. "The one thing I never had a problem with, in Detroit, I had guys who like to shoot the ball. I had Rasheed. I had Chauncey. I had Rip Hamilton. I had Tayshaun Prince. You instill in your system that the idea is more team success over individual glory. You got to share the ball if you want to win," Saunders said. "The guys that we have coming in, Miller and Foye, those guys have the ability to make Gilbert, Caron and Antawn better."
The Wizards are left with the 32nd pick in the draft, which Grunfeld said the team will consider using to add some front-court depth. He added that the team could trade out of the draft altogether and address adding a veteran big man later this summer.
The trade leaves the roster with an imbalance of guards and perimeter players. Brendan Haywood, Andray Blatche and JaVale McGee are the only players on the roster taller than 6-10. A person familiar with the trade discussions said that the Wizards had hoped to include guard DeShawn Stevenson in the deal, but the Timberwolves requested Songaila instead. Stevenson is still recovering from back surgery in March.
Grunfeld said that while Saunders and former Timberwolves coach Randy Wittman know Miller and Foye well, it wasn't why the Wizards made the deal. "We have familiarity, but the reason we made the trade is because we have two very good basketball players," Grunfeld said.
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Macquarie Island Vegetation and Drainage Structure Data SetEntry ID: MIvegmap
Abstract: The data for this map were collected as part of two ASAC projects - 488 and 956, of which Patricia Selkirk was the chief investigator. Macquarie Island (54 degrees S 159 degrees E) is a subantarctic island (c. 35km by 3 to 5km) approximately equidistant between Tasmania, New Zealand and Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. The vegetation is herbaceous, lacking shrubs and trees. Vegetation and ... drainage are mapped at a scale of 1:25 000 from field observations, satellite imagery and limited oblique and aerial photography. The categories adopted for mapping vegetation are based on attributes of foliage height and percentage foliage cover of the ground surface (vegetation structure), not on species distribution (floristics). The distribution of vegetation categories is strongly correlated with aspect, topography and rock type. Mires, streams and lakes form an intricate drainage pattern that is strongly influenced by the geology of this tectonically active emergent crest of the submarine Macquarie Ridge at the boundary of the Pacific and Australian plates. The drainage pattern of the whole island is represented in a map with substantially greater accuracy than in any previous map.
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Dataset Originator/Creator: Selkirk, P., Adamson, D. and Harris, U.
Dataset Title: Macquarie Island Vegetation and Drainage Structure Data Set
Dataset Series Name: CAASM Metadata
Dataset Release Date: 1999-10-07
Dataset Publisher: Australian Antarctic Data CentreOnline Resource: https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=/AMD...
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Start Date: 1979-01-01Stop Date: 1997-09-01
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Quality Completeness of coverage: 100%.
Completeness of classification: All categories generalised.
All categories could be further subdivided. Some amalgamation of areas smaller than 30-50m diameter.
Completeness of verification: 75%.
Completeness of coverage. The data coverage is complete for the entire dataset.
... Attribute data are available for the entire dataset. Completeness of classification. The adopted classification method covers all features. Completeness of verification. The Polygon boundaries in some cases were generalised at the discretion of the Botanists from Macquarie University and data considered too small was omitted. Verification of features was carried out by Macquarie University using their extensive field notes and many years of local knowledge and experience.
In preparing this map, we have used as a basis the SPOT 3 merged pan/multispectral image of 22 December 1994 and the coastline prepared from this image by AUSLIG (now Geoscience Australia). We have consulted the black and white aerial photography of 6 and 7 February 1976, runs CAS 5465, CAS 8467 to 8473 and CAS 8480 to 8483. We have drawn extensively on our fieldwork and on our own and colleagues' field notes and photographs. The original digitised source data were acquired in DXF format and then corrected and enhanced by Macquarie University personnel. Definitions and descriptions were added of the Terrestrial and Marine categories as provided by Macquarie University personnel. Software used for this process was 'microstation' and 'polygen'. The final product was completed in 'Arc View' and presented at a scale of 1:25,000. All data checked for polygon closure, etc, in Microstation to create the DXF file. All lines were visually checked at 1:25 000 scale to verify that no lines crossed. The GIS package (ArcInfo) was used to do topological consistency check to detect flaws in the data structure and to flag them as errors. This check insures that all classified polygons are closed, nodes are formed at the intersection of lines and that there is only one label within each polygon, etc Structural vegetation boundaries and position of drainage lines drawn from satellite imagery, some aerial photography and field knowledge. Horizontal positional accuracy (intuitive) is 50m.
The data have been formatted according to the SCAR Feature Catalogue which includes data quality information (refer to link below).
Usually mapped to a Universal Transverse Mercator projection, Zone 57.
In 2000 the line data representing escarpments was edited by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC). A section near Bauer Bay was deleted as it was concluded this section of escarpment did not exist.
The AADC has used the revised escarpment data in the 1:50 000 maps of Macquarie Island it has produced since then.
Access Constraints These data are publicly available for download from the provided URLs.
Vegetation data available in shapefile format.
Topographical data available in shapefile format.
The data are stored as geographicals on a WGS84 horizontal datum.
The data in this dataset has Dataset Id = 26.
Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=MIvegmap when using these data.
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Distribution Format: shapefiles
Fees: Free
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: +61 2 9850 8144
Fax: +61 2 9850 8245
Email: pselkirk at rna.bio.mq.edu.au
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Macquarie University Department of Biological Sciences
City: Sydney
Province or State: New South Wales
Postal Code: 2109
Country: Australia
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Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: +61 3 6232 3519
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: gis at aad.gov.au
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Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
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Whether you are a small business or a giant conglomerate, it is fairly common to have some hesitations before embarking on social media marketing. From the CEO and board of directors to the single owner of a small shop, the main concern is "show me how this will make money". It's a valid question. After all, businesses want to make money. Marty Weintraub talks about some strategies to address the wary business's concerns about social media marketing and how to see the results it brings in his article "How to Turn Your Social Media Averse Boss into Your Champion".
Expand your English-speaking market: there are substantial number of English-speaking internet users who are not American, British or Canadian. Social media marketing is a great way to access this international market.
Build a community by connecting with users: Whether your clients are long-time clients or new to your business, there is no better way to connect to them than by building a place to interact with them. Companies like Pizza Hut have employed social media to grow their markets successfully.
Increase your brand visibility: Expanding your community via social media marketing will increase your brand visibility. As Weintraub points out, "We've not met a CMO yet who does not understand the benefit of enhanced keyword rankings, traffic or improved presence in universal search verticals. Most business leaders understand the value of creating measurable syndicated content channels to disseminate information if the result is new and retained users. To many it's not a very far reach to justify the value of 47,000 Twitter followers, compared to the value of a focused customer email list."
Drive customers to your customer service tools via social media and PPC: Both social media and PPC advertising can be used to drive traffic to various customer service tools. Your company can use "a moderated fan page on Facebook, Twitter community manager or YouTube video FAQs, the only limit is creativity". And no one will argue against improved customer service for their company! Happier customers come back again and again.
Social branding increases sales: Paid search campaigns through Facebook and LinkedIn ads can target specific demographics, resulting in big impact for low costs.
Measure the results of your social media efforts: There are a number of ways to measure your efforts and prove that social media marketing works. Weintraub provides us with these measuring tools:
• Measure new and retained unique friends at measurable CPUF (cost per unique friend).
• Measure proclivity to become a customer.
• Measure e-commerce lift without branding compared to e-commerce lift with Facebook and LinkedIn Ads branding in different geographic areas.
• Measure SEO prominence as indicated by traffic to social assets and feed from universal organic search.
• Measure customer service usage on social assets.
• Measure engagement in participation threads, both on and off site.
• Measure inbound traffic to and from the feed and divisional site (churn).
• Measure socio-global expansion as indicated by traffic, sales and support tool usage.
• Measure whether users return on any of these nodes.


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JERUSALEM (Jul. 21)
Peace – and how to achieve it – were the themes of speeches by three Israeli Government officials over the weekend.
Foreign Minister Abba Eban said in a radio interview that differences between the United States and Israel over the method by which peace with the Arabs should be reached were more apparent than real. Mr. Eban told the Cabinet on Sunday that there was a wide range of understanding between the U.S. and Israel on ways and means to settle the conflict.
Speaking at a Haifa labor rally, Defense Minister Gen. Moshe Dayan said that "today more than ever, the way to peace is in standing fast." Israel was closer to a settlement with the Arabs, both in neighboring counties and within present borders, today than ever before, he declared.
Information Minister Israel Galili, in a speech in Tiberias to hundreds of new recruits in Nahal para-military units, declared that, "It is time Arab rulers understand that time is not working in their favor. Israel of tomorrow will not be softer or weaker than in the past. It will be even stronger than in the past." The Arabs' position that there can be no negotiations, no peace and no free navigation in the Suez Canal indicates that the war is not yet over, he declared.
Mr. Eban told the nation that in his conferences last week with George Ball, the new United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mr. Ball's delegation, it was established that the U.S. did not believe in any permanent solution that was not based on a treaty signed directly between the Arabs and Israel. With Mr. Ball was Joseph Sisco, Assistant Secretary of State, and Alfred Atherton, head of the Arab-Israel desk at the State Department. Also visiting Israel last week was McGeorge Bundy, Ford Foundation president and former advisor to President Johnson, who conferred with top officials.
The Americans, Mr. Eban said, did not concur with Israel in her insistence that any matter of substance must be discussed only in direct talks with the Arabs from the start. Israeli officials took the position that this was the only way to find out if there was any real wish for peace on the part of the Arab countries.
Gen. Dayan said that Israel must have plans for peace but must be ready to carry on without peace until it was reached. "If we insist this time on firm and binding terms on the normalization of relations, then we shall eventually achieve real peace." he asserted.


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If there is such a thing as an all-knowing, all-being spirit of sports up there in that pigskin promised land, we need to get down on bended knee and pray for some sort of divine intervention.
"If you are up there, oh, maker of all things oblong, you will not allow this fantastic football season to come to an end and force us to watch the NBA. This, oh, god of the gridiron, would be merciless and unconstitutional. To force sports fans in Orlando to make the transition from an unprecedented football season to arguably the worst NBA season in history is cruel and unusual punishment."