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It's true. It was the ultimate betrayal. I went to see Dierks Bentley and I didn't tell Bud. I know - it's terrible. There's nothing you could say about me that I haven't already said about myself.
I'm trying to convince myself that I wasn't all bad, though. It was a long drive - two and a half hours - to a late-night show on a school night. It was loud and crowded and, now that I think about it, probably a 21-plus show. So I was exhibiting good judgment, right? Good, sound parenting practice.
But it's hard not to feel bad for Bud. Because, the show?
It. Was. Awesome.
Seriously. Beyond awesome. It's the fifth time I've seen Dierks live, but it was like nothing I've ever seen before. He's doing a limited tour in small venues with bluegrass giants The Travelin McCourys. The show features some of Dierks's greatest hits played with a bluegrass flair, interspersed with tracks from his upcoming bluegrass-inspired album, Up on the Ridge, with a smattering of fun, crowd-pleasing covers of songs from artists that span from George Strait to Pearl Jam. And because he's playing such small venues - this one was a sold-out, standing-room-only crowd of about 500 - it all just feels like an incredibly great party in someone's sizable basement. And for as much fun as the rest of us were having, no one in the room was having a better time than Dierks Bentley.
It was awesome.
There was some good news for Bud, though. As luck would have it, I happened to go to the show on the first night that the new album was on sale at the merchandise table (it won't be available in stores until June 8), so I was able to pick up a copy to take home.
And the album is as awesome as the show. It is, simultaneously, classic Dierks Bentley and a complete departure from his previous albums. There are songs like "Draw Me a Map" that resonate so completely that after just a few listens I feel like I've known them forever. And there are others, like Bud's favorite, "Fiddlin' Around" - a fiddle-driven up-tempo track that makes it impossible to sit still - that are totally new sounds. There are tracks written by Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson and U2. There are appearances by Del McCoury and Miranda Lambert and the Punch Brothers and Jamey Johnson.
When taken as a whole, Up on the Ridge is hard to define. It's too country to be traditional bluegrass, but too bluegrass to be mainstream country. It is, I think, a hair-dryer album in a toaster-brained industry. Of course, I know nothing at all about the inner workings of the music world, except what I glean from this side of the radio - but what I observe is a market that sometimes seems to reward conformity over innovation, and an industry that too often uses valuable prime-time network TV slots not to showcase the best of what country music has to offer, but to market a select number of carefully groomed country artists, promoting them as potential crossover artists to the lucrative pop-dominated airwaves.
But, then, what do I know?
In any case, it seems to me that Up on the Ridge flies in the face of all that. It is Dierks Bentley performing directly from his heart, and it leaves his audience - or it leaves me, anyway - thinking, "Ah. So this is who you are." And I sure do like who he is.
But all of that barely matters when I see Bud's reaction to the album, as his hands fly across the strings of his air guitar while he sings along to the title track. The bad news is that it will likely inspire requests that will be hard to meet. He's already asked me if he could be Dierks's new mandolin player. And I imagine that his request for a dobro will be coming soon. But really, it's all good, because Up on the Ridge inspired much more than that for Bud.
Remember back at the beginning of the school year, when I shared my hunch that Bud's friendship with Dierks would make the idea of friendship more appealing to him? And then, remember how he's spent a year in a classroom of peers who are helping him become their friend?
Well, Bud's second reaction to Up on the Ridge - immediately following his request to join Dierks's band - was this: "I'll bring this to school tomorrow. The kids are going to love this."
Did you catch that? Bud thought the album was so good that he wanted to share it with his friends.
How awesome is that?
So, I have three take-away messages here, and in case you've missed them, I'm going to re-cap:
1. If Dierks and the McCourys are coming anywhere near you, don't miss the opportunity to see them, even if it means travelling two and a half hours each way and having to go to work the next day on only three hours of sleep. Trust me on this.
2. Don't let the word "bluegrass" scare you. Up on the Ridge will make you love Dierks more than you already do.
And, finally,
3. The good news is that sometimes a little low-stakes bad-mom moment can turn out to be not so bad at all. In fact, sometimes it can lead to something truly awesome.


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Aspen Valley Hospital has been recognized with numerous awards for patient satisfaction, most recently being named "Hospital of Choice" by Custom Learning Systems based on HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) results. In addition, AVH holds a five-star rating from Medicare for the inpatient experience. Finally, Aspen Valley Hospital merited a "Top 20 Best Practice in Financial Stability" designation from the National Rural Health Association for critical access hospitals in the U.S.
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Intel kicks off its 11th annual Intel Developer Forum conference today, drawing thousands of developers from around the world to the Moscone Center in San Francisco for three days of intense tech talk.
Intel is not known for making big news at its show; it likes to get that news out in advance so that the show can concentrate on deep technological dives. The ultramobile chip Atom, the Core i7 (a.k.a. Nehalem), and Larrabee, its entry in the GPU market, have all been spelled out in detail in recent weeks and months.
"Between Nehalem and Nehalem desktop derivatives coming out next year, and some of the Nehalem server derivatives, and Larrabee and Atom, their plate is pretty full," said Nathan Brookwood, research fellow with Insight64. "The surprises may be if they are willing to talk more about performance."
Of course, it will be a good day for other vendors to make news. IBM, for example, will make some news surrounding its X-Architecture servers at the show and it will be a part of the Tuesday keynote. Everyone from the PCI SIG to BMW (yes, the auto manufacturer) will be demonstrating new technologies at the show, all built on Intel.
Intel tends to be an early bird, known for holding events early in the morning, and this show is no exception. The opening keynote, featuring chairman and former CEO Craig Barrett, begins at 8:15 am. CEO Paul Otellini isn't expected at the show since he and Barrett trade off taking the lead spot each year.
The heavy hitters on day one come in the afternoon, when Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Enterprise group, and David "Dadi" Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of the Mobility group, host their back to back keynotes.
Day two's triple threat of keynotes involves Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of the Ultra Mobility group, Eric Kim, senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Home group, and Renee James, vice president and general manager of the Software and Solutions group.
Day three closes out with CTO Justin Rattner's talk on research and development, and a "fireside chat" style interview hosted by Moira Gunn, host of "Tech Nation" and ""BioTech Nation" on National Public Radio (NPR) with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Notable sessions
Tuesday will feature 50-minute long sessions on Nehalem and Atom. The Nehalem chalk talk will discuss the processor's microarchitecture, power management capabilities, cache optimization and new instruction set. There will even be a session on adding multithreading to games for Nehalem.
Atom will be discussed on Tuesday, and in addition to the current platform, Intel may also discuss Lincroft, the next generation of Atom that may be made in a 32nm process. Intel could conceivably get Atom to 32nm before its main processors because Atom is so small.
On Wednesday, Intel will be discussing overall platform design issues with Nehalem, such as the on-board memory controller and new Quickpath interconnect. AMD developers are used to this, but for Intel, it's a brand new world without north bridge/south bridge designs.
There will also be a session on next-generation I/O, particularly 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) for Nehalem as well as a number of panels on using solid state drives (SSDs). SSD will be about the only storage-related sessions held at the event.
Also on display will be the recent announced 0.9 revision of USB 3.0. The USB Implementer's Forum will be showing off a number USB products, hopefully including some 3.0 products. The Forum will also be showing off Wireless USB, which was approved two years ago.
In-Stat analyst Jim McGregor said what's not on the menu is what interests him. He noted a few technologies that get no or next to no mention in technical sessions. "I haven't seen much on UWB (Ultra-Wideband). It sounds like UWB is definitely on the back burner for them, because a lot of promoting Wi-Fi peripherals at this point," he noted. "IA-64, the Itanium architecture, isn't going to be killed off, but they aren't talking about it much, either."
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Many investors with income of $750,000 or more are less likely to have retirement plans than those at lower income levels, according to a report released Wednesday by Spectrem Group.
Fifteen percent of the highest income investors said they had no plans to retire, while 31 percent put their potential retirement age at "more than 70."
Investors at lower income levels said they wanted to retire within 10 years, but were uncertain whether their current income and savings levels would enable them to do so.
The Spectrem study, conducted around the beginning of this year, comprised some 3,500 respondents across five income segments, ranging from less than $100,000 to $750,000 or more.
The chief personal financial concern of 65 percent investors across all income levels was maintaining their current financial position, according to the study. The number rose to 71 percent for those at the lowest income level, and was 52 percent for those at the highest end.
On the national level, the main concerns of investors were prolonged economic downturn, the political environment, government gridlock, the federal deficit and the national debt.
Most respondents believed they had reached their current income level through hard work. They also credited their education and frugality.
Investors' portfolios were similar regardless of income except for those at the $750,000-plus level, who were likelier to own a business and have more cash available.
The study found that tolerance for risk and the level of knowledge about investments increased as income rose. Those with lower incomes felt less knowledgeable about investments, and therefore many sought a guaranteed rate of return.
Social responsibility, though growing as an investment concern, was not a predominant factor in choosing investments.
Households with the lowest and highest incomes were the most likely to consider themselves to be self-directed. Low-income investors tended to avoid advisors out of concern about fees or feeling their assets did not warrant use of an advisor.
High-income investors might not engage advisors because of confidence in their own investment acumen.
The study found that investors with the highest income were least likely to complain about their advisor's lack of responsiveness.
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Untitled dates from a crucial moment in Robert Irwin's career when his perception of art, and of perception itself, were being reshaped. His concerns led him in 1966 to the convex disc format, which resulted in the body of work that gained him an international reputation. Irwin has explained that he adopted the circular shape because the traditionally rectilinear format of painting no longer made sense to him.
Formed of acrylic resin, Untitled is a convex disc that projects, by means of a clear plastic tube, twenty-four inches from the wall. Multiple coats of a white hue have been spray-painted onto the disc's surface. As the opaque paint moves toward the edges, it thins to transparency. A three-inch band divides the circle in half, and four floodlights bathe the object in light. The disc, wall, light, and shadows merge to offer a shifting sense of palpability and indeterminacy, and a play between the real and the illusionistic. The method by which Irwin treated the surface of the disc, installed it, and lit it allowed him to produce a work that appeared to dissolve into its environment, in his words, "more or less transcending painting." Untitled is less an art object and more a site/sight for experiencing the beauty, wonder, and complexity of visual perception.


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Digital Domain has hired Terry Clotiaux as vp of feature film production, promoted longtime VFX marketing director Joanna Capitano to executive producer and moved up executive producer Lisa Beroud to the senior management team.
Clotiaux will oversee all features in production at Digital Domain's California and Vancouver studios and reports to CEO Ed Ulbrich.
Capitano, who has been with the company since 1993 and has overseen many of the 100 features on which Digital Domain has worked. She and Beroud, a 25-year veteran producer of visual effects, live-action feature films and commercials, will report to Clotiaux.
Clotiaux served as executive producer of Digital Domain's feature film division from 2007 to 2009 where he worked on such projects as Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen and 2012. He rejoins the company having most recently worked at Prime Focus Group as president of global VFX production.


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I have the below spinet of code which basically consists of a panel with a progress bar. The progress bar indicates the completion rate for the numerical computations executed in RunComputations(). It takes several seconds for the computations to be completed. RunComputations is called after an instance has been created.
I would like this this panel (basin) to be modal but I can't. JVM stops at dialog.setVisible(true) and waits for an action on behalf of the user. Is there anyway to have a modal panel in these circumstances?
//this code invokes Basin Panel
Basin basin = new Basin(); //JVM does not proceed after this point.
//Basin panel is called by the above code
public class Basin extends javax.swing.JPanel {
private JDialog dialog;
dialog = new JDialog(fr,"Running Model...",true);
dialog.setModalityType(ModalityType.APPLICATION_MO DAL); //If MODELESS is used here my program works as expected
dialog.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DO_NOTHING_ ON_CLOSE);
dialog.setVisible(true); //JVM stops here.
void RunComputations(){
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Members of Congress have toyed with various tax ideas to help pay for health care. So, for instance, some floated the idea of a tax on cosmetic surgery — the "BoTax"? — an idea Professor Bainbridge thinks could alter the political landscape of southern California). This prompted Glenn Reynolds to wonder whether Congress could tax abortion. It's an interesting question, to which Paul Caron responds here.
My own view is that, under current law, a tax targeted at abortions would be difficult to sustain. Under Casey, states may not impose regulations that place an "undue burden" on a woman's constitutional right to terminate her pregnancy. A law creates an "undue burden" where it has "the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus." Any abortion tax large enough to raise a meaningful amount of revenue would likely increase the cost of abortions sufficiently to constitute an "undue burden" under this test.
Of course, this assumes that Casey would govern the case, but I think that is a fair assumption. While at least two, and perhaps as many as four, justices believe the "undue burden" test is too restrictive on states, Justice Kennedy was part of the Casey decision that established this test and has shown no indication he is willing to abandon it. Indeed, one could argue that his opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart is more consistent with the test articulated in Casey than Stenberg v. Carhart. So I believe the question would come down to whether an abortion tax is consistent with Casey's "undue burden" standard.


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Official support UK vehicle partner for Fast & Furious Live – the global arena tour where fans can experience the adrenaline-fuelled thrills of the blockbuster film franchise built on speed. Mitsubishi Motors in the UK are providing vehicles for the show's production team, as well as bespoke modified models to feature in the live show.
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The Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials is hailed as the greatest 3-day-event in the world and the competition most event riders would like to win. Attracting one of the largest crowds of any outdoor sporting event worldwide, it is also an extremely popular family day out.
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The land of Jesus' birth may soon be without Christians to celebrate it.
At eventide the square of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem lights up like a Christmas scene. Brightly colored lights trail around the bell tower bathing Manger Square in a warm amber glow. Tourists lean on stones that have held up weary pilgrims for centuries. The low-tech light show washing over the square is unassuming and peaceful, just right for the spot tradition says the Prince of Peace entered human history in a most humble and vulnerable form.
Over the centuries the descendants of the first Christians have kept their faithful vigil over the sacred stones of the church in the Holy Land. How much longer they will keep that witness is no longer a rhetorical question, but a practical one, a major concern at the Vatican's October Synod of Bishops for the Middle East. Bethlehem's Christians once comprised as much as 80 percent of the community. Now they can claim just about 12 percent of the town's total. It is a decline mirrored throughout Israel and the Holy Land.
According to the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, now only 50,000 Christians live in the Palestinian Territories. There are approximately 150,000 more in Israel.
Christians once comprised 30 percent of the population of Jerusalem. Today Christian Arabs are a mere 1.5 percent, and they say the only ones who remain are those too old or too poor to attempt a new life elsewhere. Even in the historically Christian quarter of East Jerusalem, the 24-hour sentry posts, barbed wire, and the Star of David rises on the rooftops of scattered Jewish settlers' housing.
Israeli policies discourage the "natural expansion" of Christian families and communities. It is difficult for Christians (and likewise Muslim Arabs) living under Israeli jurisdiction to receive permits for home building, ownership, or expansion. Christian churches, schools, and other institutions similarly face a range of structural and unspoken obstacles to future growth even as illegal Jewish settlements are subsidized by an array of government policies—and ultimately U.S. tax dollars.
Within Israeli society walls rise against the opportunity and advancement of Christian Arabs even as actual walls break up their communities and harass transit in the West Bank. Top leadership within the Israeli government itself has become nakedly hostile to Israel's minority citizens and communities under its technical jurisdiction in the West Bank.
Frustrated and increasingly desperate, Christian Arabs have more than a few reasons to want to escape from the Holy Land; they also have opportunity to do so. Unlike their Muslim neighbors, Christian Arabs in general have more family wealth and enjoy higher levels of education. They are welcome immigrants in Europe and North America where they have family connections and where Christian Arab communities have established significant roots.
"We are between the anvil and the hammer," say Christians in the Holy Land, a fundamentalist Islam rising on one side and the illegal settlement of the occupied territories on the other. Arab Christians behold with bewilderment Christian tourists who alight upon Christian sites without encountering the Holy Land's Christians. How is it, they ask, that fellow Christians can be so ignorant or dismissive of their plight?
The loss of the Holy Land's Christians is more than a spiritual problem for the Middle East. It presents some real-world dilemmas for Israelis and Muslim Arabs to grapple with. What does this minority group's unwillingness to stay say about the state of civil rights and democracy in the state of Israel? How does the loss of its Christians affect the future viability of the presumed Palestinian state?
Christians in the Holy Land play an important role in mediating some of the sharp edges of this historical conflict, offering an oasis of dialogue where Jews and Muslims can meet. It will be both a spiritual and geopolitical tragedy indeed, if this little light cannot continue to illumine a path to peace in the Holy Land.
This article appeared in the December 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 75, No. 12, page 39).
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Lindsay's Bosses -- We'll Deal with Hijinks
Lindsay Lohan might have to worry about being sent back to jail next month, but one thing she doesn't have to fret over ... her next movie.
Sources close to the movie "Inferno" -- the Linda Lovelace biopic LiLo is scheduled to star in -- tell TMZ they don't want to lose Lindsay for the part ... so they are going to start scouting locations in Los Angeles and begin shooting in January.
As we first reported, it's going to cost the flick a chunk of change to move from their original location in Louisiana -- but we're told they are willing to spend the dough to keep Lindsay as the lead.
One source tells us, "We're staying [in Los Angeles] -- good for the movie, but also the best way to deal with travel restrictions or other hijinks."
As long as Lindsay is around, hijinks seem unavoidable.
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Nutrition Solutions: Healthy eating on vacation
As fun as summer travel can be, it's stressful to eat right while you're away. Do you take a "Who cares? I'm on vacation!" approach? Or do you travel frequently for work and struggle to keep your eating habits healthy on the road?
In either case, it can be tough to eat healthfully when you're away from home. My advice is to plan and prepare for it. You probably can't control everything, but there is plenty you can do to control some of it. Start by acknowledging that you'll be able to indulge a bit while on vacation (or that you'll have to rely on some less-than-healthy choices while traveling for work). Decide to make most of your eating and drinking as good as possible. Research your options: Check out food choices at the airport, restaurants in the area, healthy options at your hotel (call the hotel directly and let them help you). Pack some ammunition in the form of bottled water and snacks.
Travel can wreak havoc on our eating habits. Out of our familiar routine and without all of our own resources, it can be a challenge to keep from going completely and utterly overboard, praying that the scale doesn't penalize us too badly when we get back. I tell my clients that it's a big win to simply maintain your weight while you're on vacation. To help you do so, here are some of my favorite tips:
Pick the right place: Book a room with a kitchen. If a full kitchen isn't an option, ask if you can get a mini-refrigerator or if it's possible to store some stuff in the minibar. You can at least start with a good breakfast of cereal and fresh fruit.
Shop like a local: Locate the closest farmers markets or the nearest Whole Foods. Load up on food for breakfast (cereal and fruit make that easy), prepared salads to have for lunch, plus bottled water and iced green tea. Make a couple of your dinners prepared healthy foods instead of going out. You'll save money and feel good.
Pack your snacks: No matter how we're traveling, I pack snacks. Our most recent vacation was a road trip that included several days of hiking. I loaded up a bag with choices like pumpkin seed bars, granola, kale chips and chocolate hazelnut butter. Dry cereal, fruit, nuts and seeds also pack really well. It's nice to have something on the plane or in the car, especially if you're delayed and have to skip a meal.
Plan and prepare: I once helped a client who was driving from Connecticut to Georgia. He outlined his driving route and we found fast-food restaurants for him along the way. Before he left, we checked out each restaurant's website to find the healthiest items on the menu so he knew what he'd order. Plus he packed a cooler of water and fresh fruit. For your next trip, think about where you can stop and what you can bring.
Enjoy meals out: If you rely on healthy prepared or take-away foods for some meals, your dinners out can be real treats. You can splurge a bit on the restaurant choices because other meals are "normal" and cheaper.
With the right planning, your healthy habits will join you when you travel. And the scale will tell you that the only souvenirs you'll bring home are the ones you bought.
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Michael Dell finally agreed to help take Dell Computer (DELL) private with help from Silver Lake and Microsoft (MSFT) Tuesday.
For longs hoping for a sweet takeout offer, they didn't get it.
The final price was $13.65 a share. On Tuesday, the stock of the company closed below this price at $13.42.
That suggests at first that investors don't think a better offer is out there for the company and/or that the existing offer might still fall apart.
It's unlikely the deal will not go through. The parties have the cash and have seemingly lined up the $15 billion needed in debt to make it happen.
Michael Dell thinks this effort will give him the time to turn around the company with "patient money." He also thinks it will allow him to make a killing later on when he can take the company public again or sell it at a much higher price than $24.4 billion.
The odds seem long against that happening. Dell is still without any coherent mobile strategy, which means that it is a pure play on the PC market with a little bit of servers on the side, which is also a much more competitive market today than it used to be.
For Dell to make the comeback it hopes to, it has to find a way of making money on PCs and diversifying into some of the new growth in the mobile space.
But there's no danger in them being able to keep up the debt payments. It will be less than what the company has been paying out to shareholders in dividends to this point.
Nevertheless, shareholders are unlikely to just roll over for $13.65 a share. Although this is a company that got down to $8.69 a share in November (only three months ago) and shareholders are getting a price that's a 55% premium to the 52-week low, they're also getting a takeout price that's 25% less than the 52-week high.
That's unlikely to go down well with major shareholders like Southeastern Asset Management and BlackRock, who together own about 15% of the company.
So what happens from here?
Expect a big fight.
Why wouldn't shareholders raise a stink about this low price relative to the 52-week high? Sure, the PC market is tough. But that doesn't mean they have to like Michael Dell sneaking out the back door with his company.
If I were a long, and I'm not, I would be playing for an increase in the buyout price after a lot of complaining from shareholders.
To Michael Dell, who will no doubt succeed at some point in taking his baby private, I wish him good luck. The company is still perfectly situated to deliver a business model that was perfect for 15 years ago. It will be tough to reengineer the company to become a mobile player at all, but more difficult as a private company than a public one, I think.
He's a brilliant guy who's done it once before and can do it again. But the results have been slow in his second stint since replacing Kevin Rollins as CEO. He now has more time. But will it matter?


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On Hubble's 19th birthday, a fountain of youth
To commemorate 19 years of success, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194. This interacting group contains several galaxies along with a 'cosmic fountain' of stars, gas and dust that stretches over
Over the past 19 years, Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when you thought these interactions could not look any stranger, in this image of a trio of galaxies, called Arp 194, it looks as if one of the galaxies has sprung a leak. The bright blue streamer is really a stretched spiral arm full of newborn blue stars. This typically happens when two galaxies interact and tug at each other gravitationally.
Resembling a pair of owl's eyes, the two nuclei of the colliding galaxies can be seen merging at the upper left. The bizarre blue bridge of material extending out from the northern component looks as if it connects to a third galaxy but in reality this galaxy is in the background and not connected at all. In instances where galaxies superficially appear to overlap, Hubble's sharp view allows astronomers to try and sort out which objects are in the foreground and which are in the background.
The blue 'fountain' is the most striking feature of this galaxy troupe and it contains complexes of super star clusters that may have as many as dozens of individual young star clusters in them. It formed as a result of the interactions among the galaxies in the northern component of Arp 194. The gravitational forces involved in a galaxy interaction can enhance the star formation rate and give rise to brilliant bursts of star formation in merging systems.
Hubble's resolution shows clearly that the stream of material lies in front of the southern component of Arp 194, as shown by the dust that is silhouetted around the star cluster complexes.
The details of the interactions among the multiple galaxies that make up Arp 194 are complex. The system was most likely disrupted by a previous collision or close encounter. The shapes of all the galaxies involved have been distorted by their gravitational interactions with one another.
Arp 194, located in the constellation of Cepheus, resides approximately 600 million light-years away from Earth. It is one of thousands of interacting and merging galaxies known to exist in our nearby Universe. These observations were taken in January 2009 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Blue, green and red filters were composited together to form this rather picturesque image of a galaxy interaction.
Notes for editors:
This picture was issued to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope with Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990. Hubble has made more than
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
For more information:
Colleen Sharkey, Hubble/ESA, Garching, Germany
E-mail: csharkey @ eso.org
Ray Villard, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
E-mail: villard @ stsci.edu


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Uninvited messages are a serious growing problem on the Internet. Federal antispam legislation is urgently needed. Meanwhile, the following strategies may help:
On April 26, 2001, the Federal Trade Commission told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation that it favors legislation to limit junk e-mail by allowing consumers to refuse to receive it and imposing penalties on those who ignore the consumers' choice. The agency is concerned about the widespread use of junk e-mail to disseminate false and misleading claims about products and services offered through the Internet. Since January 1998, over 8.3 million pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) have been forwarded to the Commission and the agency's UCE mailbox receives an average of 10,000 new pieces of UCE every day. The CAN SPAM Act of 2001 (S. 630), introduced by committee chairman Conrad R. Burns (R-MT), would require:
The bill would also make it unlawful to send subsequent e-mail to a consumer who had requested that they receive no further e-mail or to send e-mail with a false header or misleading subject lines. S. 630 also includes a multi-faceted enforcement scheme and would allow other federal agencies, Internet Service Providers, and Attorneys General enforcement authority to obtain injunctions against violations and to recover damages. Senator Burns also co-chairs the bipartisan Congressional Internet Caucus, which has over 150 members.
In September 2002, a judge in Washington upheld charges that Jason Heckel, of Salem, Oregon, and his company, Natural Instincts had violated the state's anti-spam law by sending unsolicited emails plugging his booklet "How to Profit from the Internet." The complaint describes many of the techniques used in such solicitations.
In September 2003, anti-spam activist Nigel Featherston won a $250,000 default judgment in the Superior Court of Washington State for King County against a spam organization known for sending millions of spam emails ranging from multilevel schemes to diet pills. The judgment was against Charles F. Childs and Linda Jean Lightfoot, Ohio spammers doing business as Universal Direct, Mega Direct and Ultra-Trim, among others. An engineer and former Microsoft developer, Featherston began fighting spam in 1998 when he was deluged with unwanted emails that required him to change his email address. He filed numerous complaints, often getting the senders' web sites shut down. In March 2002, in retribution, spammers used his email address in spam sent to others, which resulted in thousands of bounced back emails coming to Featherston's address, and overwhelming his system. Washington's anti-spam law statute permits asking for $500 per spam. In this case, Featherston could have sued for $29 million, but decided that a $250,000 request would be sufficient. The court concluded that he had sufficient evidence that he had received approximately 58,000 illegal e-mails due to the defendants' actions.
The Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, three United States Attorneys, four state attorneys general, and two state regulatory agencies have filed 45 criminal and civil law enforcement actions against spammers. In addition, the FTC and 21 U.S. and international agencies are urging organizations in 59 countries to close the open relays that allow spammers to avoid detection by spam filters and law enforcers. [Law enforcement posse tackles Internet scammers, deceptive spammers. FTC news release, May 15, 2003] The FTC has also issued a 16-page analysis of 1,000 spam messages drawn from a pool of over 11 million spams collected from the public, undercover FTC email boxes, and FTC employee inboxes. The report noted that consumers have been forwarding about 130,000 messages per day to the FTC's spam database. About 10% involve health-related products such as dietary supplements, weight loss products and sexual aids.[False claims in spams: A report by the FTC's Division of Marketing Practices, April 3, 2003]


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EDMONTON — Just like his client, the agent for goalie Cory Schneider is not about to criticize the Vancouver Canucks for the team's handling of its goaltending situation.
But Mike Liut, himself a former goalie, clearly hopes the uncertainty regarding a possible trade of Roberto Luongo does not hang over the team and Schneider all season.
"Our concern is we were hoping that this would be the year that Cory would play 75 per cent of the games," Liut said in a phone interview Monday from his Michigan office.
"We are only interested in resolution, we are not going to get into the finger-pointing game and to that end you have to take a step back and you have to give them latitude to make a business decision."
As much as Liut would like a quick resolution to the matter, he's not entirely convinced that's going to happen.
"Is Roberto going to be there all year?" Liut said. "It's certainly looking like he's going to be or both will be there until the (April 3) trade deadline. What happens after that, we'll have to react to that. But my concern is in the obvious, we have a 48-game season and you've got two goalies of their stature.
"Roberto is established, everybody knows what he can do, and you've got another one in Cory, who hopes to get an opportunity to play (as a No. 1) for the first time, and we've got this fractured season."
None of this comes as a complete surprise to Liut. Late last April, just days after the Canucks were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Los Angeles Kings and the organization had made it clear it planned to move forward with Schneider as its No. 1 goalie, Liut told The Vancouver Sun that he wouldn't be surprised if both goalies started this season with the Canucks.
"It was within the realm of possibility for a variety of reasons, one of which is trading a player of Roberto's stature is never an easy trade because of the consideration of what you are expecting to come back," Liut said Monday. "He's an elite player in the league. Then there's another layer with his contract and yet another layer with the new collective bargaining agreement … It's just not an easy contract to trade. I think it's doable, but it isn't an easy trade. So am I surprised? I am too pragmatic to be surprised. I kind of subscribe to the best laid plans (go awry) adage, you know."
What does concern Liut is the possibility that Luongo continues to get the lion's share of the starts. Luongo was scheduled to make his fourth straight start Monday night against the Edmonton Oilers.
"If they are both there for the entire season, and it's a 48-game season, and Roberto plays 40 games, that's a disaster," Liut said. "That's an extreme and I don't think that's going to happen, but certainly the sooner the better.
"Vancouver has a decision to make with their goaltending, everybody knows that. We don't need to add more to it than that. Everyone wants it resolved and if it can get resolved that will be better for everybody."
Liut said as long as the Canucks are trying to trade Luongo, the team has to give him some games. He's just a little surprised at how many he's getting.
"What you have is two goalies and there's only one net and you are trying to trade one of them. So you have to play him. Now it's four games in a row, does that give you some concern at the same time? Sure, because with a player like Cory you want to see him play every night."
Schneider, who signed a three-year, $12-million deal with the Canucks early last summer, has made four starts this season. He had an opening-night disaster when he allowed five goals on 14 shots before getting yanked against Anaheim, but bounced back to win his next two starts, including a 5-0 shutout over the Ducks. He lost his last start 4-1 to the San Jose Sharks when he was the victim of some sloppy Vancouver defensive play.
"There is a train wreck, which I like to call it, every year and you're lucky if there is only one," Liut said of Schneider's opener. "You are going to have those games … It's how you bounce back, that's the story."
Schneider and Luongo have both been praised for how they have handled a rather awkward situation and Liut said his client is mentally tough enough to deal with it.
"He's intelligent and understands the situation," said Liut, who added that he has heard nothing to suggest that the Canucks could possibly be shopping Schneider.
"I haven't had that conversation with them, but 10 months ago when all this started that was within the realm of possibility and I can assure you that whatever happens between now and the end of whenever this is resolved, nothing will surprise me," he said.
"In the meantime, Vancouver's got lots of goaltending."


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"Embellishing a style introduced by Kenny Clarke a few years earlier, Roach devised a fresh approach to playing his instrument that initially mystified and thoroughly challenged other drummers. On his first recordings with Parker, he displayed a highly responsive, contrapuntal style. The time was established on the hi-hat or top cymbals, rather than the snare and bass drums. A regular pulse, softly played on the bass drum, provided a foundation (or "bottom") for the music. This was a holdover from the old way of playing. Added to the recipe were comments on accents made on the snare and bass drums, often in close conjunction.
In essence, Roach worked with techniques out of the drums' lively tradition, some of them stemming from Jo Jones, some from Sid Catlett, more than a few from Kenny Clarke, and combined them with techniques he invented himself. His performances were highlighted by singular patterns that were used in fills and solos and also appeared in one form or another when he played a purely supportive role. He consistently showed how to effectively use space, silence and dynamics. Roach made a case for the drummer as a musician.
Because he practiced incessantly and was a player who performed around the clock, Roach developed admirable technique and coordination. He concentrated on what drummers call independence, playing different rhythms with each appendage, which created new levels of interest for the attentive listener. He began to liberate the drum set in a major way. His talent, razor-sharp mind and inventive approach to music resulted in new applications of drum rudiments and increased use and integration of the bass drum, cymbals and hi-hat.
It was no longer just a matter of announcing time and establishing a groove. Roach took things way beyond that, bringing into play his sensitivity to sound and the so-called melodic possibilities of the instrument, while venturing into previously unexplored areas of drum set technique."
- Burt Korall, insert notes to The Complete Mercury Max Roach Plus Four Sessions [Mosaic Records MD7-201]
The editorial staff at JazzProfiles is hard at work on an extended piece about drummer Max Roach, who along with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Charles Mingus, deserves to be recognized as one of the creators of Bebop and the style of music that predominated the post World War II modern Jazz movement.
While this feature is in the works, we thought we'd call your attention to the following announcement which appeared in the April 24, 2014 edition of Downbeat Magazine. and to the video tribute to Max that follows it.
© -Geoffrey Himes/Downbeat, copyright protected; all rights reserved.
"At a public ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 27, 2014 the Library of Congress unveiled the Max Roach Legacy Collection, the drummer's personal papers, recordings and memorabilia, which the library had acquired from the Roach family a year earlier.
To give a sense of the roughly 100,000 items in the holdings, samples were spread across two tables. At the end of one table were several artifacts related to Roach's landmark 1961 album, We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite. The artifacts include the contract with Candid Records, the original, unused album artwork, a program from a live performance and a portion of the score written in Roach's own hand.
Roach was a collector. He saved anything that might document his career: contracts, photos, posters, programs, reel-to-reel tapes, rehearsal cassettes, videos, scores, written correspondence, address books, date books, magazines, newspaper clippings and more. The documentation filled the basement cage of his Upper West Side apartment building; it spread out to as many as three self-storage units.
One item in the Library of Congress collection that jazz historians will be particularly interested in is the unpublished manuscript for an autobiography that Roach had worked on with writer Amiri Baraka (who died Jan. 9, 2014).
"He had a strong sense of his place in history, and he wanted it documented," the drummer's oldest daughter, Maxine Roach, said at the Library of Congress. "In the last years of his life, I asked him, 'What do you want us to do with all the stuff you have in storage?' He said, 'I don't care where it goes, but I want it to stay together.'"
Maxine Roach had attended the April 2010 unveiling of the Dexter Gordon Collection at the Library of Congress with Maxine Gordon, Dexter's widow. Roach was so impressed by the experience that she convinced her stepmother and her four siblings to give the Max Roach Collection the same home.
"When we were kids, they were just boxes of junk," said Maxine's brother Daryl. "But as I got older, when I spent a summer setting up his drum kit at European festivals, I realized he was more than just my dad. And now, seeing some of the stuff in those boxes, it's like putting the pieces of a puzzle together. I can see the breadth of his associations. I can see that he wanted to be viewed not just as a musician but also in a sociopolitical-economic context. He was a holistic thinker."
The Library of Congress plans to create a searchable database of all the artifacts in the collection. If a musician, academic, journalist or blogger wants to research the Freedom Now Suite, for example, he or she can request it and the staff will know which carton contains the related materials. The staff will bring the materials to a table at the library's reading room so that the person doing research can examine them up close.
"The purpose of these archives is not to collect boxes and put them on the shelf," said Larry Appelbaum, senior music reference librarian and jazz specialist at the Library of Congress. "We want people to come and use them.""
—Geoffrey Himes"
The following video tribute to Max is set to George Coleman's Shirley from Max Roach + 4 On The Chicago Scene [EmArcy 36132; Mosaic MD7-201]. In addition to George on tenor saxophone and Max on drums, the quintet includes Booker Little on trumpet, Eddie Baker on piano and Bob Cranshaw on bass.
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For a few to be immortal, many must die.... Everyone can't live forever; where would we put them?... The cost of living keeps rising to make sure people keep dying. How else could there be men with a million years while most live day to day? But the truth is, there's more than enough. No one has to die before their time.
We might be looking forward to a future with people blessed by technology with indefinite longevity obsessing over their lack of immortality. Death, having become much less obviously necessary and much more seemingly accidental, might consume our lives. We'll knock ourselves out like never before in accident-avoidance strategies — maybe spending our lives in in lead houses communicating with our virtual (and so non-threatening) friends with the most advanced forms of social media.


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When the role calls for a man with dirty blonde hair, 6-foot-5, 250 pounds, of course you call Tom Cruise.
Cruise has signed on to star as Jack Reacher in "One Shot," the thriller by author Lee Childs, reported Deadline, which has been adapted by Chris McQuarrie, who will also be making his directorial debut with the film.
Reacher is an ex-military cop who takes very odd jobs and tries hard to stay off the government's radar. Here's this from the synopsis of "One Shot" on Child's website:
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A lone gunman hides in a parking garage and shoots into a crowd in a public plaza in a small Indiana city. Five random people die in a senseless massacre. The shooter leaves a perfect trail behind him and the police quickly track him down. His name is James Barr. It's a watertight case. After his arrest, James Barr refuses to talk. Then, to his lawyer, he utters a single phrase: "Get Jack Reacher for me." But Reacher's already on his way. What could connect this obvious psychopath with our wandering ex-army cop?
Reacher's size is so integral to his character that Child lists the character's measurements on his site, so you can understand that maybe he Cruise wouldn't have been his first choice for the role. Though to the author's credit, he expressed his concerns in a very diplomatic fashion when the idea was first floated, saying, "Reacher's size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force, which Cruise portrays in his own way."
Cruise can next be seen Dec. 16 in "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol."


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By Len Bose
January 31, 2013 | 4:05 p.m
This week, I had the chance to meet with Gerardo Martinez, the service manager at the Duffy Electric Boat Company, located at 2439 West Coast Highway. Gerardo has been an employee of Duffy boats for 16 years.
When I walked in and introduced myself, I was warmly greeted, and when I asked Gerardo if he had time for an interview, a rather large smile appeared on his face, and he asked, "Why me?" I told him I had been asking around town, "Who was the Duffy guy to go to and help maintain your electric boat?" Everyone, without hesitation, would say "Gerardo." He agreed to the interview, and we double-checked with corporate to make sure everything would be OK.
Back in 1997, Gerardo started from the bottom of the boats, applying bottom paint, working for the dock crew and doing service runs. By 1999, he started in the service department, then moved over to service manager in the Huntington Harbour office in 2004. A couple of years later, he spent some time at the plant building boats and then was offered the job of service manager here in Newport Beach. "At that time, we had about 130 clients who had signed up for the Duffy Care service," he explained. "Now we have 850 clients from Long Beach to Newport, and with new boat sales, we have over 1,200 customers a year."
As service manager, he runs a crew of 28 people. Duffy Care consists of "making our customers happy with our product," Gerardo told me. This crew does everything for the Duffy owners who have signed up for Duffy Care, from monthly bottom-cleaning to top-to-bottom wash-down service and maintenance inspections.
"I make sure the crews get down to the boats and bring boats in that are due for bottom paint, carpet steam-cleaning or replacement of packing glands," he explained. The crews check on battery water level and make sure bilge pumps are working.
I, for one, can easily spot the boats that are in Duffy Care; they glow as you approach them.
"We have three brand new boats in the harbor to help service clients in a professional manner," Gerardo said.
While in the service office, I had a chance to meet accounting head Janet Brisky and manager Toni Olague. Gerardo told me that one of the most difficult things about his job was his clients trying to pronounce his name correctly. It seems to be a running joke in the office, and Janet has been keeping count of the different names used when inquiring for Gerardo. "We have a list of 28 names — would you like to hear some of them?" Janet asked. "We have Rodrigo, Ricardo, Gordo, Eldorado, Dorito and Guerrilla." The group laughed like a family at the dinner table as Janet kept reading down the list, and I was laughing too hard to remember all 28 names.
One thing is for sure: Gerardo is not going to forget his customers' names or their boats. He explained, "I might forget what to pick up at the store before I come home, but I have always been able to remember my customers and their boats."
When I left, I had that feeling like I was part of the family and that they would drop what they are doing to help a friend out. If you have a Duffy, give them a call and just say hello and become part of the family. Sea ya.
LEN BOSE is an experienced boater, yacht broker and boating columnist.


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Pineda banned 10 games for pine tar, won't appeal
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON — New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was suspended for 10 games Thursday after being caught using pine tar. He said he won't appeal the penalty that will cost him two starts.
"I accept it," Pineda said before Thursday night's game at Fenway Park. "I know I made a mistake."
The commissioner's office announced the ban, which started immediately.
Pineda was ejected in the second inning of Wednesday night's 5-1 loss at Fenway Park after umpires found the pine tar on his neck.
After the game, Pineda admitted he used the pine tar to help him grip the ball on a cool, windy night.
"I feel so bad," Pineda said Thursday.
Pineda said he had never used pine tar before this season.
The ejection set off a debate in the baseball world about pitchers who try pine tar, and whether it should be allowed in certain circumstances. Many former aces said they had done it, albeit in a more discreet manner.
Rule 8.02(b) prohibits pitchers from altering the ball to gain an unfair advantage, and forbids them from having a foreign substance on them or in their possession on the mound.
Pineda wasn't seen with the pine tar in the first inning, when the Red Sox roughed him up. Boston manager John Farrell asked plate umpire Gerry Davis to check Pineda after two fast outs the next inning.
Davis went to the mound, touched Pineda's neck and ejected him.
Earlier this month, Pineda pitched well against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. Television cameras showed a substance on his hand during that outing — Pineda said it was dirt, not pine tar.
Pineda said he didn't use pine tar in a start against the Chicago Cubs, in between his Red Sox outings.
Among other suspensions of pitchers for pine tar in the past decade, Tampa Bay's Joel Peralta was penalized eight games in 2012, the Angels' Brendan Donnelly 10 days in 2005 and St. Louis' Julian Tavarez 10 days in 2004. The suspensions of Donnelly and Tavarez were cut to eight days after they asked the players' association to appeal, and Peralta dropped his challenge with no reduction.


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The only North American visit by the Mountain Bike World Cup concluded on Sunday with Round Four of the Downhill. Just as in the Cross-country a day earlier, new faces stood on the top step of the podium for the first time this season, with Emmeline Ragot (Lapierre Gravity Republic) beating the previously untouchable Rachel Atherton (GT Factory) in the women's race, while Canadian champion Steve Smith (Devinci Global Racing) took a hugely popular victory for the host country in the men's competition. Rachel Atherton and her brother Gee retain their leads in the overall standings, however, the race for the World Cup titles just got tighter, with two races remaining.
Canadian champion Micayla Gatto was the first rider down the course, and took control of the women's Hot Seat, holding it for nearly two-thirds of the field before the Junior World Cup leader, Tahnee Seagrave (FMD Racing / Intense Cycles) bumped her.
From that point it was an almost continuous change in the lead for the remainder of the field, with Myriam Nicole (Commencal / Riding Addiction) replacing Seagrave, only to have Emilie Siegenthaler (Gstaad-Scott) replace her in turn. Manon Carpenter (Madison Saracen), second in the previous round, then took the leading time below four and a half minutes for the first time, with three riders remaining.
Floriane Pugin (Gstaad-Scott), the next rider down, slotted in behind Carpenter, and then it was the turn of Ragot. The former world champion was four seconds faster at the first split, slightly less at the second, and then gained more time at the bottom to finish 4.211 seconds ahead of Carpenter.
Emmeline Ragot
All that was left was Atherton, the fastest qualifier and unbeaten in World Cup competition this season. However, the British rider got into trouble almost immediately, crashing in the first wooded section, and then again further down in the rock garden, to finish nearly 35 seconds back in 12th place.
"I did a really fast run and I pushed myself," commented Ragot. "I knew if I wanted to win today I [would] have to push. I needed to be full on to win it. You know sometimes you crash because you pushed it beyond your limit. It is hard to push past your limit and not crash, hard to do, but I made it. It means a lot to win today. Our Junior rider Loris (Vergier) won and we were hoping for me to do well too. So I am pretty happy with the team."
With two races remaining in the World Cup, Atherton's lead over Ragot has shrunk to 60 points, meaning this competition is by no means over. Carpenter also has an outside chance of moving up, with a 140 point deficit to Atherton.
The men's race saw only three leaders, with Andrew Neethling (Giant Factory) taking the lead after the first four riders, and holding it until Gee Atherton took it with 18 riders remaining, setting the first sub-four minute time. Atherton usually starts among the final two or three riders, but a crash in qualifying put him back in the field.
This began to look like a fortuitous event, when rain moved in shortly after he finished, making the track slick and muddy in sections. The riders coming behind him couldn't get close to the World Cup leader's time, with top riders like Sam Hill (Chain Reaction Cycles.com/Nukeproof) and world champion Greg Minnaar (Santa Cruz Syndicate) both more than a second back. The rain had stopped, but the dirt sections were still muddy and the rocks slippery.
Steve Smith
Finally, the only rider left was Smith, the fastest qualifier and second to Atherton in the World Cup standings. The Canadian had the entire hill behind him, with fans chanting his name. He was two-tenths of a second behind at the first split, and two-hundredths at the second one, and no one knew what to expect as he hit the final jumps into the finish arena and pedaled furiously across the line. For a split second it looked like he had lost, and then the timing board turned green, revealing a nine-tenths of a second advantage. The hill exploded with cheers, as fans celebrated a local win to cap off the weekend.
Steve Smith greets the crowd
"I was scared," revealed Smith. "I knew Gee was going really early because of his crash, so I tried not to think about it and that he had a better course [because of the rain]. I just tried to ride it without any expectations. I tried to ride it fast, just like in practice when it was so slippery. I was sliding everywhere. I'm so stoked to get a good clean run. I felt great. Home soil ... I don't think there is a better place in the world for me to win, this is about as good as it gets for me."
"I know Gee still has a big lead on me, but there are two more World Cups and anything can happen. I am not to concerned about that at the moment, I am just going to try to ride consistent. I like the next two World Cup tracks so I am looking forward to them."
Gee Atherton's lead in the overall standings has dropped to 120 points over Smith, with two rounds remaining. Greg Minnaar is a distant 309 points behind Atherton.
In the Junior categories, Tahnee Seagrave continues to lead the women's standings, and is ranked ninth overall. The Junior men have a separate ranking to the Elite men, with Loris Vergier (Lapierre Gravity Republic) winning in Mont Ste Anne, and taking the leader's jersey from Luca Dean (Australia) by a slim eight point margin.


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<< Twinking your level 19 Warlock: Part 1. Introduction
This part of the guide is about the "path" you character will take to get to level 19. It includes the occasional stop at an instance, as well as some early traveling to allow you to gather flight paths for later quick xp-free traveling.
Levels 1-5:
- Do your own thing, explore your starting area etc. Head to Stormwind or Ironforge at level 5/6
Levels 6-10:
- Discover all areas that you can, that you may need to journey to later.
Why? Get the discovery XP when it doesn't matter, you don't want to tick over to 20 on a new area discovery.
Examples of areas to explore now:
– All instances that you will receive a BoP or do a quest in AND area's that you will have to walk through to get to that instance.
– Hillsbrad Foothills (Boat from Menethil)
– Auberdine/ Darkshore
– Menethil Harbor
Here is a sample path.
– If starting in Stormwind, take the deeprun tram to Ironforge.
– Leave Ironforge and follow the road east to the end of the zone.
– When it forks near the zone wall, you can go either way, but take the south road so when you get to Loch Modan and start north, you can pause at Thelsamar and get the flight point.
– Go all the way north with the road into Dun Algaz, and then take the road in Wetlands all the way north and then west to Menethil Harbor.
– Get the flight point in Menethil, and then take the boat on the right (North) dock to Auberdine.
– Take boat to Rut'theran Village, get flightpath – Return to Auberdine.
– Run south to Ashenvale, scout BFD, move on to Astranaar.
– Run to Silverwing Refuge
– Run to Rachet (Get flightpoint) via Barrens (scouting WC as you go)
– Take Boat from Rachet to Booty Bay – Get flight point.
– Run north and explore Gromgol & Gurubashi
– Instead of following the road up from Thelsamar, run through the town and follow the shore line of the Loch instead, at the Stonewrought Dam you want to be about central and throw yourself off.
You'll die, but unlike dying at the hands of the orcs you'll pop up in the Wetlands graveyard instead of the Loch Modan one. Res at the healer, hang about in the safty of the graveyard until your Res effects have worn off and head west along to the harbour.
or After Deadmines (Alternative to above):
– Explore the Entire STV coast line (important if you intend to fish for the best hat & boots.
– Booty Bay and Gromgol (Gromgol is only important if you intend to get the trinket – which is pretty unlikely)
– The Gurubashi Arena (It's a good idea to get the 550 trinket exp out of the way if you can/ can be bothered)
– Ashenvale. Visit Silverwing Refuge, then wander along the road until you reach Astranaar. Grab the flight path here, then get on the boat to Ru'theran Village. Obtain the flight path there as well.
Level 10: Deadmines & Wailing Caverns
GET ALL BOP BOSS DROPS NOW, don't just assume that things will drop within the first 12 runs.
– Immediately after you become level 10, do The Deadmines.
The objective is to get An Unsent Letter off Edwin VanCleef, the last boss of the instance.
– After you have done The Deadmines and obtained An Unsent Letter, have your boosting buddy bring you to Booty Bay.
– You can do that directly from the Deadmines back exit, which is actually the best method, since you'll discover all the beach zones in Stranglethorn Vale this way. Just keep going south on the beach until you reach Booty Bay. Don't forget to grab the flight path there as well.
– Take the boat to Ratchet and get the flight path there.
– Have your booster drag you through Wailing Caverns, you objective being Glowing Shard off Mutanus the Devourer.
Do your own thing until Level 15.
Level 15:
Talbar Mantle Questline – Rachet -> WC -> Darnassus
Do the quest lines for any of the following items if you need them:
Talbar Mantle: Quest: The Glowing Shard Requires level 15. (Quest: In Nightmares (Horde version) Requires lvl 10)
– Use the Nightmare Shard to start the quest "In Nightmares".
– Go to Ratchet and talk to Sputtervalve <Tinker's Union>, who stands near the flight master. He won't have a question mark over his head, just talk to him and ask for the shard.
– He will send you to Falla Sagewind, a tauren lady standing on top of the mountain Wailing Caverns is located in.
– She will direct you to Darnassus, where you have to complete the quest at Mathrengyl Bearwalker, a druid trainer in Cenarion Enclave.
– He stands in the house with the Arch Druid, first floor. From the quest rewards, choose Talbar Mantle.
Level 16: Stormwind & Stockade.
Do the quest lines for any of the following items if you need them: Seal of Wrynn]
– Once you hit 16, it's time to activate the quest starting from An Unsent Letter you got from Edwin VanCleef. You will again need a high level booster for these tasks.
– You should be on the quest "The Unsent Letter", which you'll hand in at Baros Alexston in Stormwind, Cathedral Square.
– The next step leads you to The Stockades, where you hand in at Warden Thelwater.
– He will send you into the dungeon to retrieve Bazil Thredd's head, so get your high-level booster and do it.
– The fastest way is to clear out the main hallway and adjacent rooms, then head right and clear the way to the cell behind the ogre, where Bazil Thredd resides.
– Loot the head and get out to hand in at Warden Thelwater.
The next steps consist of running a lot of errant jobs in Stormwind:
– The Curious Visitor: Bring the Sealed Description of Thredd's Visitor to Baros Alexston in Stormwind. 49,30 in Stormwind near Cathedral of Light.
– Shadow of the Past: Bring the Sealed Description of Thredd's Visitor to Master Mathias Shaw in Stormwind. He's located @ 75,59 in Stormwind City
– Look to an Old Friend: Speak to Elling Trias in Stormwind. 59,64 in Stormwind City
– Infiltrating the Castle: Speak to Tyrion in Stormwind Castle. 69,14 in Stormwind City
– Items of Some Consequence: (Silk Cloth (3) + Clara's Fresh Apple (2) 34,57 Elwynn forest) 69,14 in Stormwind City
– The Attack!: you'll need your boosting buddy again.
– Let him kill off the two level 30 mobs (rogue and noble), then
– hand in at the Elling Trias <Master of Cheese> 59,64 in Stormwind City.
You'll get to run around some more, and finally finish with "An Audience with the King".
– The Head of the Beast: Speak to Mathias Shaw in Stormwind. 75,59 in Stormwind City
– Brotherhood's End: Speak with Baros Alexston in Stormwind. 49,30 in Stormwind City
– An Audience with the King: Deliver Baros Alexston's report on the Defias Brotherhood to King Varian Wrynn in Stormwind Keep. 78,17
– Talk to Lady Katrana Prestor in the throne room of Stormwind Keep to get Seal of Wrynn.
You'll likely level to 17 in the process – Did I tell you to be careful about your leveling speed?
Engineer's Cloak Questline (Requires level 16)
– Fly back to Ratchet and get your boosting buddy.
– Let him escort you to Stonetalon Mountains.
– Visit the goblin Ziz Fizziks in his hut at 59, 62 and start the quest "Super Reaper 6000".
– Your buddy and you will need to kill Venture Co. Operators to get you the Super Reaper 6000 Blueprints,
– hand them in to get "Further Instructions".
– The next step asks you to talk to Sputtervalve <Tinker's Union> yet again, so grab the flight path in the north (Alliance: Teloren, Horde: Tharm) and get on the bird to Ratchet.
– There, you'll get the next step;
– Fly and run back to Ziz Fizziks and finally obtain the quest Gerenzo Wrenchwhistle.
– Your buddy and you now need to climb up the wooden construction at the lake (entrance is in the eastern part of the lake)
– Kill Gerenzo Wrenchwhistle.
– Loot his arm and bring it back to Ziz Fizziks to get rewarded with the Engineer's Cloak.
Level 18: Blackfathom Deeps & Darnassus
Do the quest lines for any of the following items if you need them:
Gravestone Scepter:
– Enter Blackfathom Deeps.
– Find Argent Guard Thaelrid <The Argent Dawn>: in the south western alcove in the turtle boss room, accessible by swimming under a small bit of rock and grab the quest Blackfathom Villainy, Horde version.
– Kill Twilight Lord Kelris and loot head.
– Bring the head of Twilight Lord Kelris to Dawnwatcher Selgorm in Darnassus 56,24, or for Horde Bashana Runetotem
Bonus drops from Blackfathom Deeps:
– Tree Bark Jacket (BoE) – Random
– Staff of the Blessed Seer (BoE) – Random
– Evocator's Blade (BoE) – Random
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FFLs or Police Departments, however, may take any number of very similar additional rifles at the same per-gun price and with no additional shipping charges. This pristine Yugoslavian Military rifle has been warehoused in an armory in what is now the Republic of Montenegro, a former Yugoslav State, since it was manufactured in 1976. We do not believe it was ever issued. This rifle's quality is on a par with the Russian SKS's. External surface has strong original bluing throughout with a nice purplish hue to it, and the buttstock is quite nice, every bit as good as the Russian SKS's that trickled in 10 to 15 years ago. All the serial numbers match: on the receiver, on the receiver cover, on the magazine housing, and even on the stock cartouches. Surface detractions are negligible, principally light occasional scouring to the wood surfaces. We rate this rifle as Excellent and Unissued, 90 percent vicinity by our estimate. 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A blog to compile what I have learned (and what I am learning) about Mandriva (and GNU/Linux in general) since 2009, when I migrated. Current distros I'm using: OpenMandriva Lx 4, Mageia 7, PCLinuxOS, MX 19, PicarOS, Elive 3, and AntiX 13.
jueves, 18 de agosto de 2011
About Mothers and Linux
Three days ago, we celebrated Mother's Day in my country. Thus, my brother and I wanted to surprise our mother and my wife (who recently became the mother of a cute baby girl). We wanted to give them a memorable present, something that they could use both for entertainment and, why not, to learn. In an unplanned visit to a computer store, my eyes fixed upon the classic Asus Eee PC 900, the tiny netbook that drew me to the world of Linux with its version of Xandros. Next to it sat the Asus Eee PC 901. Temptation was formidable, so we ended up buying both despite the clerk never quite understood why we rejected his offer of some other netbooks (preloaded with the rip off known as Windows 7 Starter).
For those who might think that those were inappropriate gifts because a mother simply can't use Linux, let me asure them my mother is a happy user of Pardus Linux while my wife, who bought a laptop two years ago, asked me to install Mandriva 2010 not to have to use, or suffer, should I say, Windows Vista.
As soon as my mother saw her present, she became truly happy because she wanted a netbook to be able to check her email and socialize with her virtual friends in Facebook without being stuck in front of her desktop PC. However, she rejected the preloaded OS. Before Ballmer celebrates, let me clarify that she did not ask for Windows. She wanted Pardus 2011 instead of Xandros! By the way, this Asus Eee PC runs it with full effects without a glitch despite its modest 1 GB RAM and 20 GB storage.
On the other hand, when my wife saw her Eee PC 901, she decided to give the extinct Xandros an opportunity, mainly due to its flawless voice command. Yes, a tiny computer like than one can receive voice commands even better than the Eee PC 900 did. Windows 7 Starter, you should be ashamed of yourself!
So, there you go: that's two mothers who are happy with Linux.
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That"Linux is not for Mom" thing is simply a myth! Many of those users simply don't want to admit that older people can actually learn Linux much better than them!ResponderEliminar
@Megatotoro: If you read the Blog of Helios, you'll see a few posts from many months ago that discuss just this. I think the issue is just that Microsoft Windows "power users" are so set in their ways that it really is too much of an effort to relearn Linux; they know that new users can pick Linux up quicker due to not particularly having allegiances to any OS, but they can't bear to see their super awesome skills becoming obsolete/unneeded, so they spread myths like this to keep themselves in business.ResponderEliminar
a Linux Mint user since 2009 May 1
@ Mega, PV,ResponderEliminar
I suspect that some people don't want others to try Linux because of its stability and security, which will definitely put Windows to shame. Thanks for the comments.
- Anónimo20 de agosto de 2011, 17:45
My dad was close to 80 when he first used Linux, PCLinuxOS in 2007. He has since used Kubuntu and Mandriva on his computers (he loves watching the updates) and my mom started using a computer for the FIRST time last year. Before that she never touched a computer. Both have been retired for 2 decades.ResponderEliminar
As well, I have 3 aunts and mother in law who NEVER used a computer and who now use Linux. I have another dozen relatives who are retired or close to retire for whom I have installed Linux who were Win users. (it was simple really. you want free tech support? i dont know Windows but if you wnt to try my old laptop for a week I can put you the same OS on yours.)
Linux has been ready in my book since 2007 (yes, dad started on KDE3.5 but when he saw KDE4.2 on my laptop he wanted on his) and ive switched about 20-25 friends and family since. (cost and viruses are the two biggest selling points. giving life to old hardware is another.)
And teaching someone to use Linux is no different than using other OS. I dont skin or do copycat themes but when offered as a choice Windows users almost always go towards KDE and not Gnome (similarities, the GTK font and feel looks 'strange' and no Mac envy,... seriously, left handed max-min buttons? )
For Windows converts, I had already recommended FF,Chrome, OpenOffice, VLC an Thunderbird so the switch was rather easy since they knew the apps already.
And when our kids have friends over, I have yet to find a grade schooler who is confused by Linux. Heck, they all use KDEnlive to create videos that they put on youtube (lack of After Effects is starting to be a problem..will have to give Blender and rest a try).
Some of them are surprised to find out its no Windows.
FUD and myths about Linux is something we have come to expect and whenever I read a line like "Linux is not for Mom" I always feel like asking if that person (even funnier when its a tech 'specialist' or blogger who says it) needs some tutoring since I know a few 80 yr old great-grandmothers who would be willing to teach them.
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