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- GP2 news
Hilmer replaces Ocean Racing Technology
- Teams:
- Hilmer Motorsport
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- Ocean Racing Technology
Hilmer Motorsport has been granted entry to the 2013 GP2 season as a replacement for Ocean Racing Technology.
The team is run by Franz Hilmer, who owns Formtech GmbH which supplies several teams on the Formula One grid. The team replaces Ocean Racing Technology which has had to leave GP2 and GP3 due to financial difficulties, and Hilmer admitted that he now faces a race against time to get the team fully operational by the first test on February 27.
"We are delighted that Hilmer Motorsport will participate to the prestigious GP2 Series," Hilmer said. "I would like to thank (GP2 CEO) Bruno Michel for his support. We are currently working on putting together a strong team of highly experienced professionals in order to be ready for the first challenge of the season."
Michel added that he was pleased to add a German outfit to the 13-team strong GP2 field.
"I am pleased to welcome Hilmer Motorsport to our category," Michel said. "It is the first time since the Series' inception that we will have a German team in our field. They are already hard at work to be ready and competitive from the first pre-season test session next month in Jerez. I am sure that they will be a great addition to our grid."


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Customer Testimonials
Date added: 01/07/2009Testimonial by: Al Stetz
Great service from Brett. He walked me through a kitchen ceiling replacement fixture with several options and we settled on a model at a very reasonable price.
He was polite, patient and responsive to all of my inquiries which allowed me to make a rationale decision. Thank you, Al Stetz
Date added: 11/11/2009Testimonial by: Ralph of Cresskill, NJ
Hey Harold,
It was a long strange trip, but, in the end I am very happy with the quality of the 4" HI HATS and under cabinet lights. Thanks for straightening out the minor shipping issue, you're great to work with. I will definately purchase from here in the future.
Date added: 09/12/2008Testimonial by: Jason Stebbins
I haven't been this impressed with both a company's products and customer service in along time! I'm finishing out a residential basement and needed a small number of can lights. After being unimpressed with the selection at my local big box Store, I searched the web and found ContractorLighting.com. Within 5 minutes of calling, Contractor Lighting's customer service rep (Brett) had my order setup and scheduled to ship the same day. I received my lights and accessories in 48 hours with that one little phone call......and I saved over 75% over buying those same lights at big box (big box Price was $23 ea / Contractor Lighting was $11.99 ea WITH the trim rings included)!
I know Contractor Lighting deals with orders 10, maybe even 100 times larger than my little basement lighting order, but you wouldn't have been able to tell by the high level of service, great products, and even better pricing I received. They treated my order like I was ordering enough lights for a high rise! I've already recommended ContractorLighting.com to at least 5 friends who are doing the same type projects!
Congratulations to Contractor Lighting! You have a new customer for life! Please pass on my appreciation and extreme satisfaction to everyone.
Date added: 08/08/2012Testimonial by: Rob
Brian is great! I was wrestling with a custom lighting question, and with great patience, we figured out a cost effective solution. He delivered outstanding customer service and displays extroadinary persistence with problem solving. Truly memorable and I will recommend your firm to all my friends!
Date added: 01/04/2010Testimonial by: Laura Wiles
Hello Elizabeth,
Just wanted to let you know -- my under cabinet LED lights are installed and they are AWESOME! So glad I found your website - I had given up on finding LED lights that could be hardwired without huge transformers taking up space. My electrician talked to the lighting supply store in our area and they said you couldn't get any such thing! Your customer service people were excellent to deal with and my lights came quickly.
Date added: 02/10/2009Testimonial by: David H Wesley of Daves Hydraulic Repair
Thank you for your personal expertize. Your fixtures where of better quality than I had expected...and your service...and your prices...and your fast...super fast delivery. I truly wish I and all could have this kind of personal service in all we do in all our purchases, our country would be back on track and our minds would have a lot less anxiety. Thanks for all, and will be calling you again for other purchases.
Date added: 03/02/2009Testimonial by: Pat Morgalis of Atlanta, GA
Chris was so helpful and knowledgeable. I got all the lights for under my cabinets at 60% less than the prices I was quoted in Atlanta.
The product was exactly as described and was shipped quickly. They are excellent quality and look beautiful. Thank you to Chris for his patience and expertise. I was a rookie but he made the process very easy. Even allowing me to return the extras that I bought w/o any hassle. Great company.. terrific website and staff.
Date added: 09/12/2008Testimonial by: Linda Folstad
Many thanks to Brett for his help in my recent telephone order. I was impressed with his efficiency, initiative, and friendliness. He was very professional in our phone conversation.
Date added: 08/21/2013Testimonial by: Kathy Wright of ETI Services, Inc.Prices were very competitive. Best of all, product satisfied our customer. Working w/Josh was a pleasure. We were treated as if we were his only customer. Hope to work w/him again!
Date added: 10/21/2010Testimonial by: Herman Cárdenas of Renaissance Properties
Thank you so much Kelly!!! Your service is impeccable and we will be doing more business with you in the future.
Date added: 02/26/2015Testimonial by: Jake of Florence Public LibraryGood products, good prices and excellent customer service. Would highly recommend.
Date added: 08/23/2010Testimonial by: Brian of Applied Electrical SolutionsI have to admit, I was a bit skeptical about the quality of the products that I was going to receive. But after multiple orders, and ABOVE AND BEYOND customer service from KELLY, I have nothing but great things to say about your company. Keep up the good work, and thank you---KELLY for all your hard work!! Brian, NJ
Date added: 12/08/2008Testimonial by: Brandon Every of Every's Custom
Thanks a Bunch to Sarah and her team at Contractor Lighting! First time customer and they treated me like gold. I told them what I was wanting and they had me a layout within a few hours. I had my lights and bulbs in 2 days. The layout was a perfect amount of light.
Job well done.
Date added: 08/21/2009Testimonial by: George Martin of Martin Electric
I recently purchased a light from you and was very pleased.I will be contacting you soon again for more purchases.
Date added: 09/12/2008Testimonial by: Butch of BECKS Glass
Recessed cans and trim arrived today. All I can say is wow! Excellent product, price and shipping. Better than Lowes or other chains products by far. Will definately use again . Don't hesitate to use them, the product and service is fantastic. Glad I found them. Thanks.
Date added: 03/20/2012Testimonial by: Phil of Blalock Electric
Hi Brian, I did receive the fixtures yesterday. So far everything looks good, and I think they will work well for our needs. Thanks for your help, and for getting them to us so quickly. You and your co-workers have been great to work with. I look forward to doing business again in the near future.
Date added: 09/11/2009Testimonial by: Gary Meyers of San Jose, CA
I recently had a failure in one of the under cabinet light fixtures that I purchased about 18 months ago. I dropped an email inquiring about the life expectancy of the fixture. I was pleased to get a response the following day advising me that a new fixture was in the mail and that I could simply keep the failed fixture for parts.
I find that kind of customer support very hard to find these days. It's a pleasure doing business with these folks.
Date added: 03/31/2011Testimonial by: Eden Prairie of G.J.Therkelsen & Associates, incThank you for the superb service, packaging, shipping and communication. You are doing things right. Gary Therkelsen
Date added: 02/03/2009Testimonial by: Shirley Fields, Treasurer of Reynoldsburg Park Condo Association
I wanted to express my thanks to Brett Clark for all the help he has given the Board of Directors for the Reynoldsburg Park Condo Association. We have been having trouble with exit lights for almost a year. We had new ones installed and after a period of time the electrician we had did not seem to want to see that they all worked at the same time. We were put in touch with Brett and your company through a relative of one of our board members who knew Brett.
We now have lights that work and are so thankful for all the help we received from Brett and also Kelly. They took care of it all for us and were so friendly. We just want to you know how much we appreciate doing business with your company and the good help you employ.
Date added: 10/23/2009Testimonial by: JOSE
I placed an order online for 2 airtight low voltage housings. I was surprised to get a follow-up call from Kelly to make sure that my order was ok.
I have purchased thru the internet many times and never before received a follow-up call. I will be ordering from you from now on. Thanks for your service and good prices
Date added: 02/22/2011Testimonial by: William S LieberInvoice 109079 - the replacement undercounter light is working like a champ! Thank you for replacing the defective one so quickly.
Date added: 11/25/2008Testimonial by: Robert Godard
For my woodworking shop, I purchased seven high-bay fluroescent fixtures, four lamps T5HO; and one high-bay fluorescent fixture, six lamps T5HO. The light output and quality are tremendous. Wow! Quality of fixtures is very good. Shipping was very fast and packaging very good. One fixture came with a ballast rattling around. I called Contractor Lighting and they immediately sent another fixture.
The people at Contractor Lighting are so easy to work with! For the price, compared with what is available through the big Box stores, these lamps are very reasonably priced and more than well worth it. The six lamp fixture hangs directly over my table saw, for no shadows. My shop looks like daylight in summer! Superb lighting! Outstanding company! Highly recommended!
Date added: 08/03/2012Testimonial by: Dr. Sara Seyedin
Thanks so much, Kelly. This was my first experience purchasing from your company. You sure made the who experience a pleasant one. I will buy from you again.
Date added: 09/12/2008Testimonial by: Tom Cook of Saint Paul, Minnesota
I recently ordered some T8 fluorescent fixtures from your company. I was not able to find these at any local supplier so I was delighted to see you carried them. I ordered 5 of them and paid for with my credit card. These light fixtures arrived right on time, and were packaged extremely well to avoid damage. The assembly of these fixtures was far more simple than other fixtures, and the lights worked perfectly first time around.
I appreciate your great service and the speed at which my order arrived and the fact that these fixtures work flawlessly is a true bonus. No problems, no hassles, everything worked exactly as was needed. I will definitely purchase materials from your firm again.
Thanks from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Date added: 05/13/2009Testimonial by: Philip Himot
Dear Sarah,
Thank you so much for your help on my last order, you really came through for me. Attached is the way the old covers were deformed. But with your follow up skills the problem was mended in a timely manner.
Date added: 01/13/2009Testimonial by: G.D.
Knowledgeable staff, great prices, super fast shipping, and outstanding service after the sale. What more can I say - we will definitely look to do business with Contractor Lighting & Supply again!
Date added: 02/14/2011Testimonial by: Robert Koffsky of Miller Hill LimitedThe replacement fixture arrived yesterday. Super service!!!!
Date added: 12/01/2008Testimonial by: Joe Spelz
Steve did a great job helping me put together my order. Everything arrived quickly and Steve provided lots of followup to ensure the whole sale went well for me -- it did. I was impressed with the level of customer service and the prices were excellent. Couldn't be more satisfied. This company really stands for customer service.
Date added: 01/05/2009Testimonial by: Rod
Kelly, Just installed lights in our old shop and I have a complaint. You should include several pairs of sunglasses with your lighting packages to eliminate damage to our eyes. Just kidding!
We left our old lights up to compare the lighting. I cant believe we were working in that atmosphere. It looks like we are in the dark when we shut the new lights off and turn on the old. If they hold up okay we will be buying more for our new shop. They are awesome! Thanks for steering us right.
Date added: 12/28/2010Testimonial by: Amit Sahasrabudhe
Hi Nikki,
Thanks for the quotation. I did confirm that Item #s listed in the quotation is what I ordered online yesterday. Truly appreciate your customer focus and ability to go above and beyond to meet customer needs. Thanks for all you efforts and time in getting this order shipped out today.I also received UPS notification which has a tracking number. Wish you a Happy Holidays and Great New Year!
Date added: 09/12/2008Testimonial by: Russel
Glad I found you. You guys beat L--- and H--- D----!
Date added: 03/23/2010Testimonial by: Sam of Corinth, MS
Things are going well here…saving around $2,000 per month, from now on! We are very pleased. I sent a couple of fixtures to my brother in Corinth, MS.
Date added: 09/20/2010Testimonial by: Bruce Dodge
Hi Nicki,
I received the lamp fixture, and it's fine. Thanks again for all your help in resolving the problems, even though they weren't your fault. I will certainly recommend you if I have the chance.
Date added: 03/04/2010Testimonial by: Dennis YurikI ordered 6 can lights and trim rings on a Monday and they arrived in three days! Great prices. My son is a carpenter who does kitchen and bath remodeling and is very impressed with your product selection. He will be using your company for all his electrical needs.
Date added: 03/07/2011Testimonial by: of Milton Harvest jobHi Kelly! Thanks for all your help last week on the ballast issue! I'm more and more confident with your company with every order.
Date added: 09/12/2008Testimonial by: Scott
Tell Brett thanks for following up.
Date added: 08/09/2012Testimonial by: Michel Musser, Building Performance of Lancaster, PA
We have recently added lighting retrofit packages to our Home Performance Contracting business. Struggling to find CFL's that worked well on dimmer circuits we began to explore LED options. Kelly from Contractor Lighting recommended the new Best-LED CREE Par 38 and 30 bulbs for our application. To say the least our customer was really impressed with the quality of light and how well they dimmed.
Our next project required a lighting retrofit as well and we surprised the customer with installing the Best LED's in their music study for an example of how an LED can perform. They loved the light quality so much we've now ordered an additional supply of bulbs for their entire kitchen, master bath, and all accent lighting. I have searched long and hard for an LED that truly gave the warm quality of light we are all used to. These bulbs are built iron-clad and outperform any other bulb we have tried and the white housing is stylish with clean lines.
Date added: 03/02/2009Testimonial by: Stephen FiloramoThese folks are a dying breed. They actually call to make sure your order is intact and everthing you expected. For me, it is very refreshing to get this kind of excellent service.
Date added: 09/12/2008Testimonial by: NUTRONICS of NUTRONICS
Contractor Lighting has been a pleasure to work with. Excellent pricing, quality and customer service is beyond our expectations!
We received our order within 3 days!
Date added: 02/04/2010Testimonial by: Karen Baird
My experience with your company has been a pleasure... Steve was an incredible help and wonderful to deal with! This was so easy--the products are exactly what I wanted and they look fantastic, not to mention the quick delivery. Communication and customer service A+ Thanks Steve for making this such a positive experience. I will certainly pass your website on to family and friends and we will be back!
Date added: 02/12/2010Testimonial by: Pat Toliver
Good morning Sarah,
Thanks for your attention to my order. Just because someone else dropped the ball it's always a breath of fresh air to call and get someone such as yourself to correct it. I usually get someone on the other side of the world that when I "push 1 for English" I still can't understand them!! Your telephone demeanor is excellent and I appreciate it very much. Good thing I'm not still running those big ole parts departments....I would try to steal you away from that bunch! Have a COLD but nice day.
Date added: 06/11/2009Testimonial by: Denny Martin of The Martin Company
We recently were refitting our warehouse with t-8 lighting and taking advantage of our local utility department's rebate program to save money. We immediately found that we would have to buy a much more expensive lamp and fixture in order to qualify for the rebate. This would nullify and previously estimated savings.
Luckily, Steve at Contractor Lighting worked out a bid that saved us money, and kept us in a lighting range that works great in our warehouse without the hassle or jumping through the hoops that the utility company was wanting us to do. I am truly glad I happened on the guys from Contractor Lighting.
Date added: 09/12/2008Testimonial by: Michael Jinks
I needed a replacement for an BRAND NAME under-the-counter light fixture ($115 msrp). I've always suspected BRAND NAME was over-priced and this experience proved it. The ballast was dying, so I scoured the internet for an exact replacement, BRAND NAME $26 plus $12 shipping and handling. I balked at the $12 and looked some more. I found Contractor Lighting. A complete fixture for $19.58 plus $3.92 S&H. Now that's more like it.
The order process was as smooth as Amazon.com and I got a shipping reply within two hour on a Friday afternoon. Wednesday morning UPS delivered a well wrapped package.
So what did my $23.50 buy? The no-name fixture was every bit as good parts wise as my old BRAND NAME It has two single-lamp ballast. Assembly was meticulous and in several ways better. It is quality stuff. And it even included two F8T5 florescent lamps – now I'm luving it! Installation was easy and this note is taking longer time wise. It is very satisfying to find organizations that provide both outstanding service and good value for my money.
Contractor Lighting has earned my business and I will be shopping here again soon.
Date added: 09/12/2008Testimonial by: David Derby of Sequoia Publishing, Inc
I ordered 2 emergency lights to replace some existing lights and found Contractor Lighting had the best prices after shopping for a while. The lights were shipped to me very quickly but upon opening the package I found one of the lights was broken in transit. I called Contractor Lighting (after hours) and left a message asking them how they wanted to handle the problem. After a couple of days I was intending to call again to check if they had received my message.
As I was heading to my office to make the call, there was a package on my table from Contractor Lighting with a new unit to replace the broken one. Now THAT is customer service!!! I was so impressed I had to call to thank them. Contractor Lighting is the best.
Date added: 04/15/2012Testimonial by: Chris of James Christopher BuildersTo have found a vender with reliable quality products is hard to begin with. Than to find that vendor with great pricing. Than to have a sales rep like Ryan Bosker is just mind blowing. Customer service is alive and well at CLS. Keep up the great work!
Date added: 03/18/2009Testimonial by: Margie Marsells
Thanks for the quick responsiveness, great customer service. The remainder of the order is as ordered. Have a great day.
Date added: 03/31/2009Testimonial by: Jon Shaw of Owner-Builder
I needed a large quantity of recessed lights for the house I'm building. Through my own mistake, I didn't get them ordered when I should have. I called your company to see if I could get the material delivered to my site in two days, and preparing myself for a steep upcharge for express shipping. Your salesman (Harold) helped me finalize my order, and told me that there was no need for express shipping. I was skeptical, but he assured me that an order placed by 3:00 PM Wednesday would arrive by COB Friday.
When I arrived home Friday, my lighting supplies were waiting for me. The lights had to be available for my electrician the following Monday morning, so I was very pleased. Your guy could have easily sold me the express shipping. Instead, he saved me a big chunk of change and still got the product to me on time. I'd also like to add that the quality of your merchandise is top-notch. I had considered splurging for Halo lights, but couldn't stomach the additional expense. Your lights are every bit the equal of Halo's, and about 1/3 the price. (for 4") I just wanted to let you know how pleased I am with both your product and your representatives. I got just what I needed, just when I needed it, and got it for a great price.
Date added: 02/06/2009Testimonial by: Clinton of Storage Maintenance Specialist Inc.
Thank you! I appreciate the great service! Definitely earned my business!
Date added: 09/12/2008Testimonial by: John B. Gaither
Received my order today and am very satisfied with everything. Quick shipping, quality of can lights and trim. You saved me a little over $300 on my home addition. I shopped hard and you beat them all.
If ever I need more, I will return to you. Plus, will tell my friends about Contractor Lighting. Thanks much!
Date added: 11/13/2008Testimonial by: Trey of White Management
Great Company! Very personable, Always willing to help out with an order. Great shipping prices. Best prices anywhere on the net.
I highly recommend using this company for all your electrical needs. They will never let you down.
Date added: 01/25/2010Testimonial by: George Martin of Martin Electric
Hi Stephen,
It was great finding your company as an alternative source, you were friendly and knowledgeable, and a pleasure to work with. You gave me a good product at a good price. Your service had a quick turn around in getting product delivered to me or my job site. I look forward to working with you as much as possible.
Date added: 03/02/2009Testimonial by: Barry Hurd, Owner of Medford, OR
I'm the owner of Delta Waters Car Wash in Medford OR. We have recently replaced all of our mercury vapor lights with the Premium Vapor Tite 4ft 54watt T5HO Fixtures. The help I received from "Chris Petty" in this transition was very valuable, thank you Chris. The lights are far better than the lights we had before the change, and we are now saving a large amount on our power bill. I highly recommend these lights to anyone looking to better their situation.
Date added: 03/02/2009Testimonial by: Judith C Nicholson
We are in a overseas location and items arrived well packed and in good shape thanks to the attention to detail.
Date added: 10/31/2009Testimonial by: Michelle
You guys are GREAT! Your prices are fantastic and Grant is always very helpful! You are the only place I'll buy my electrical stuff from now. Thank you!
Date added: 11/30/2009Testimonial by: Richard
Just wanted to say thanks! I received my order today and I had no idea it would show up the NEXT DAY! That's hard to find anywhere!. Between your excellent prices, and CHEAP AND FAST shipping I know where to look first now. I just had a small order but it still blew the big box stores out of the water!
Date added: 05/20/2011Testimonial by: Don - LDS of Jamaica Queens, NY
Thank you - you make me so confident in your company.
Date added: 09/19/2012Testimonial by: Anthony Benson
I just wanted to say thanks. I received my (12) 4' 2 bulb T8 fixtures and (25) T8 rapid start bulbs in 3 days with free ground shipping on my order. All the ballasts and bulbs were good.
Garage is lit up beautifully and I couldn't be more happy. Great price, great service and everything worked. Thank you!
Date added: 02/09/2009Testimonial by: Brian Hayes, President of Quality Homes by Brian Hayes, Inc.
I never, ever file a testimonial when purchasing online. However, I want to compliment your company on your very fine service and products. Most importantly though you have wonderful and helpful people on your staff.
Steve has been most helpful and courteous and made me feel as my business is important to him. In a day where customer service has been replaced by low cost/service, your professionalism is refreshing. My company will be a long and loyal customer.
Date added: 09/29/2015Testimonial by: Al OppenheiserCamaro Chief Engineer
Everything arrived flawlessly and on time. I can't thank you enough for your urgency, cooperation, honesty, and for working with me on costs. It is nice to deal with people of integrity, in a day when you can't rely on everyone you deal with online or over the phone. I will surely pass your name on to friends and family. Thank you very much.
Date added: 09/11/2013Testimonial by: Steve Porter of Industrial Sales CompanyI would like to thank Joshua Prather for the excellent work and service that he has provided me on my orders. His professionalism and knowledge made the ordering process fast and accurate. Pricing was the best from any other supplier I looked at and the speed of getting the order was faster than I thought possible. He is great on updating the delivery tracking information. I wish that all the suppliers that I work with were as efficient and professional as Joshua. I didn't know Joshua when I first called to check on the cost and availability of the items that I needed, but he instantly worked hard to help with pricing and delivery information and always kept me informed and even checking with me to make sure everything was ok when I received the order. He is certainly dedicated to his job and servicing the needs of the customer. Thank you for your help and support! Steve Porter Industrial Sales Company
Date added: 03/04/2011Testimonial by: James Venable, Maintenance Manager of LaQuinta, Bozeman
Thank you for your time on the phone, we figured we saved over a thousand dollars through your company. That is significant, and your time and patience is a great reflection on your company.
Date added: 01/05/2009Testimonial by: Jully Linart
I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that the lights were a success. Having each unit have it's own switch and two settings at that, was very impressive. Thank you for all your kind help.
I have put you into the file for electrical contacts. If we have to do more remodeling to survive this recession you will definitely be hearing from me again. I will also recommend you to others.
Date added: 01/27/2009Testimonial by: Michael Nystrom
Overall, I was very pleased. This was my second order. There was a problem with my first order, but was they were eager to resolve it quickly. I will order from them in the future.
Date added: 02/08/2010Testimonial by: Jason Webster, Purchasing
Just wanted tell you You have a great employee! The CEO of the company hit me with a new company to buy from. Saying we could save about 6% a year on the total cost of lighting and electric parts.
But because your rep Chris Petty gives such great service I fought that fight and got my way. The savings is not worth losing the service I get from Chris!
Date added: 02/08/2011Testimonial by: Rick J.
Searching for under-counter lighting at the big-box stores was one of the most frustrating experiences I've ever had. We found the staff to be seriously short of experience and information when it came to lighting and fixtures. The under-counter lighting they sold was overpriced and packed with alot of 'consumer grade' extension cord wiring that we were never planning on using.
Thank goodness we found the Contractor Lighting website. This company was excellent to work with, not to mention getting us excellent quality fixtures in record time.
Date added: 12/09/2010Testimonial by: Mike of Bruno MfgThank you for the super fast service! I ordered on-line Tues. afternoon (the 7th) and the package was delivered Thurs. afternoon (the 9th). I have your website bookmarked and will definitely recommend to others.
Date added: 09/11/2009Testimonial by: Brendan Cain of BRENMAR Partners
Purchased a quantity of trim kits - very happy with them, the pricing, and the delivery.
Date added: 03/02/2009Testimonial by: Jennifer Corliss
Hi Harold, I received the lights on Friday and they were installed later that night. They are exactly what I wanted and expected.

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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Workshop 3: Teaching Poetry
Vivian Johnson's Lesson on Line Breaks
For Vivian Johnson, poetry is not a stand-alone unit. Instead, it's a yearlong effort to "marinate" her students in the beauty and power of poetic writing. At the beginning of the school year, the first thing her eighth-graders hear her say is a poem. It's also the final thing they hear when school ends.
About midway through the year, after the students have read a great deal of poetry and developed opinions about poems that resonate with them, Vivian spends five weeks formally teaching the writing of poetry. Throughout the unit, Vivian engages her students in a rich mixture of mini-lessons, reading, discussion, writing, and responding. By the end of the unit, every student has assembled an anthology of his or her favorite poems—a minimum of 40 poems written by others and at least ten original pieces.
Vivian's poetry unit includes a variety of lessons on figurative language and poetic devices, including the two- to three-day lesson on line breaks captured in Write in the Middle. Although the content of the lesson is quite specific, the techniques and strategies Vivian uses apply equally well to other writing genres.
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Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, joined us for the third annual Princeton in Europe lecture, held in London on 17th April 2013. In the midst of measles outbreaks in Wales, and the new H7N9 strain of bird flu in China, Professor Gupta takes us on a tour through the history of virulent worldwide diseases and considers the potential risks that future pandemics could pose to our global population.
To find out more about PUP Europe and the European Advisory Board, visit our website: http://press.princeton.edu/europe/. The 2014 lecture will be delivered on 8th April 2014 by Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford. His topic will be: "What if Arianism had won?"


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Your group has been traveling along the Maddox Trail for nearly a week now. The five of you have been together since meeting in Goggle Rock, a small Gnomish community and well-respected rest stop. The Maddox trail continued from there through the Faust Woods and finally, after a few mishaps and side adventures, emerges upon a scene of rolling green hills and scattered farm houses and pasteurs seperated by low stone walls.During your trials upon the Maddox Trail you had encountered a band of frightened farmers, fleeing Halea's Reach claiming invasion by multi-armed red demons. They were quick to go on their way, working towards Goggle Rock at a fast pace, but you did get that little information from them.As you crest the first green hillock, you can see what could only be The Jackal's tower off in the distance. A slender spiraling structure that glitters like alabaster in the setting sun, it looks odd, as if it wasn't quite there but is slowly solidifying. Might be a trick of the light and the odd materials. A scream pierces the quiet evening air, followed by others, and the sounds of general panic and chaos ensue. Removing your eyes from the glittering tower, looking towards the alarming sounds further down the road, you catch a glimpse of five red-scaled, fearsome humanoids, each with four arms. They are racing towards a farmhouse while the panicked country folk run for the relative safety of their structures.
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Sunday, December 31, 2006
Unbearable cuteness
Christmas 2
(request: Aran-ish, and long enough in the body and sleeves as she's tall for her age; I had measurements of a favourite sweater. This was known as Daughter of Sherwood in the making, and it's got a Celtic Braid, as used in one of the Elsebeth Lavold sweaters, Ragna, surrounded by cables up the front and back, and small cables up the sleeves. I carried the cables into the neckline; and knitted the body in the round so the Mexican Wave stripes wouldn't mismatch on the side seams)...
... and Lorna in hers (no particular request but I had measurements and colour ideas; this was a quick last-minute knit with some gift yarn I over-dyed; I attached the sleeves and neckband with the waste-yarn stitch-by-stitch method as it was chunky yarn, and did a 3-needle bind-off on the shoulders which was admired).
Here's Lorna again - the women in the household seem to have purloined Chris's Christmas hat, and all looked very good in it. Didn't see Chris wearing it!
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Knitting from stash
The main rules are on the WendyKnits blog; but having inventorised the stash in the autumn and discovered there's a Lot of Yarn there (as if the 12 plastic crates in the loft couldn't have told me that anyway); and read the discussion on the SkipNorth list about 'yarn diets', I'm up for it. With some changes to the Rules. Mine are:
1. The Knit-From-Your-Stash-a-Thon will start January 1, 2007 and run through September 30, 2007 -- a period of nine months.
2. I will not buy any yarn during that period, with the following exceptions:
2.a. Sock yarn does not count* [This is the only way of ensuring sanity during visits to, say, Stash, where the urge to pillage the shelves is strong but a ball of sock yarn will probably assuage the craving...]
2.b. If someone asks for a specific knitted gift that I really and truly do not have the yarn for, I may buy yarn to knit that gift.
2.c. If I am knitting something and run out of yarn, I may purchase enough to complete the project.
2.d. I am allowed two "Get Out of Jail Free" cards -- I am allowed to fall off the wagon at Textiles in Focus, where proximity to Woolly Workshop for three days guarantees failure of resolve; and at SkipNorth, which was booked in September for the express purpose of acquiring cheap and unusual yarns.
3. I am allowed to receive gifts of yarn; and purchase yarn as gifts for other people, on legitimate occasions such as birthdays (as opposed to occasions such as "we're-both-Knitting-from-our-Stash-so-if-we-pay-for-each-other's-and-then-settle-up-in-the-pub-later-it-doesn't-count-days").
4. Yarn bought specifically for dyeing for sale to others is exempt.
* but I have to knit up a quantity of sock yarn from stash in order to be able to buy the same quantity again...
Let's see how it goes. Gulp.
Friday, December 29, 2006
Christmas 1
And next up, the Icarus shawl from Interweave Knits (also available as a separate pattern); here it is blocking:
and being worn by my Mam; the front view...
... and the back... I think it/she looks lovely...
Both seemed to go down well, anyway! In the end I got the knitting finished in time - simplified one project, and sent a pre-knitted thing to another person...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Tiny Clanger...
It's taken till tonight to get the house tidy enough to decorate (and I'm not talking about conventional definitions of 'tidy' here) but Tiny Clanger's lashed to the top of the Christmas tree shouting and all's right with the world.
While sorting out the washing, I found a white T-shirt I bought a few weeks ago, very reduced because very shop-soiled - not that it matters when you do this to it
and it comes out like this.
Also: card-hanging à la cheapo - but I like it;
Take one reel of Sellotape, wrap an end into a bit of a bundle, and push a drawing-pin through the bundle; shove the drawing-pin through the top of a door and hang the tape reel over so the sticky side of the Sellotape is on the outside; stick cards down the length; at the bottom fold the Sellotape back on itself and stick it to the door. This possibly only works with cheap non-Sellotape tape and doors painted with satin varnish or eggshell. And sometimes you need a bit of Blu-Tak if the cards are determined to hang completely open...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Standing at the bus stop this evening in the fog (for a long, long time) I realised that it looked rather like a scene from Doctor Who. Wrong kind of phone box, but whatever... That's the actual parish pump on the right...
Frost flowers
and wristwarmers from my aunt - pattern a little bit adapted from the pattern in Last Minute Knitted Gifts, but not much... in James Brett Marble.
I'm getting there with the rest of it!
On the list: 14 (previously-knitted item sent instead when the postal deadline loomed...)
Cast on: 13
Cast off: 12
Finished: 11 (and one blocking at the moment)
Wrapped/sent: 11
And knitting in prospect at the Mitre tonight... Better round up the last of the presents and cards and send them off...
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Bright angels
It was a good class; most people made an angel, and everyone who started one managed to finish one... there were some great colour combinations. We had food, and sherry, and the class all signed this card, which is a copy of a silk painting by Alison, who's done most of the organisation and hard work for the class over the year - she won a design competition, and the card was professionally printed to raise funds for the Oncology Centre at Addenbrooke's - I can't find a link for getting hold of these online...
... and also this, which is brightening the kitchen and helping me pretend it's not actually pitch dark by 4:15pm...
Don't think I've ever had a poinsettia of my own before!
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Going Quiet
100th post!
I dragged out my Christmas lists this morning and had a good hard look. Not much shopping to do, but the 'handmades' list gives pause for thought. The statistics:
- items on the list: 15
of these:
- items cast on: 10
- items cast off: 7
- items finished (blocked, washed, labelled etc.): 5
- items wrapped and sent: 3
These do not include Caroline's daughter's scarf, the remaining 1.3m of Mountmellick edging for next Wednesday's class, or the Christmas ornament I need to devise, make and write up for same class... and two of the as-yet-not-cast-on items need to be posted.
It might be quiet from this corner for a while...
On the positive side, only one of the unfinished items is a sweater (see below). On the negative side, one is a beaded lace scarf in Kidsilk Spray (the Yarn from Hell); it'll be lovely when it's finished!
The Socks of Doom are in the washing machine at the moment (really didn't do that good a job on washing out the dye so had blue hands throughout the process) along with Daughter of Sherwood.
In the meantime though - who'd have thought Beehive Chunky would dye so nicely. The paler ball started off pale grey, and the darker one a bright salmony cerise. The other yarn in the bag (present from a friend of my mam's) was black. Ah; the 1980s... I bet it would have made a spectacular batwing...
Friday, December 08, 2006
Amelia investigates...
... the Case of the Lone International Sock of Doom.
Actually, the real mystery is that this sock exists at all - I'm astonished to be photographing it less than 24 hours after casting it on at 10:20 last night on the train back from London. I went to this (yeah, I get all the good gigs; actually, it was pretty interesting, if totally knackering, and will probably save me loads of unnecessary work) and then met Jan; we visited the knitting group at Liberty (including meeting Yvonne and Sue again) and went to find something to eat, at which point we realised a) just off Oxford Street on a Thursday night in December might not have been the best choice and b) my exorbitantly-expensive and work-funded rail ticket had fallen out of my pocket while it was tucked under a bench in Liberty's, which was, by then, 3 minutes off closing. The distraction caused by the latter meant I didn't even look at the bag of goodies I came home with until I was on the train... copies of two of Jan's books (thanks!!)
one brand new one (the pic here's the US edition, the link's to the UK one which has a different cover), and one out of print one... As ever, with both, the knitting's enticing but the crochet looks like complete magic and makes me vow to try and have a go... Also the Winter IK and Holiday Vogue, picked up for me at Stash...
Back to the sock because I'm still ensorcelled - the yarn's cream King Cole Anti-Tickle Merino, dyed with Ultramarine at full strength, and very dilute Violet and Turquoise (all acid milling dyes from AVG). I didn't participate in Sock Wars, but came across the pattern while Googling 'socks DK' and decided to give it a go. These are for bedsocks, a Christmas present for a cold-footed friend who likes these colours.
I'm pleased with the way the yarn has pooled on the leg - just hoping the other skein, dyed in the same bundle as the first one, will do the same... They're a really quick knit (I reckon the first one took 3 hours or so - a lunchtime at work, an hour's train journey and about the same on the bus tonight...), the rib is lovely and stretchy, and with the lengthened legs (I added 5cm), take a fraction off one ball each to knit (say 110m each)... Even the dreaded toe-grafting worked; presumably with DK I can see what I'm doing... or maybe there's just a charm on these socks.
I did some dyeing on Tuesday; will blog that when I've finished the child's sweater I need to make with the results. But look; I finally managed to get a pan of magenta dye to exhaust! I acquired a lovely big preserving pan from Clarissa Cochran through CamLETS last weekend and although she was rightly sceptical about dyeing in an aluminium pan, it seems to have worked very nicely with all three batches of the yarn I tried (three lots of Beehive Shetland Chunky, which dyed beautifully despite being 50% acrylic).
Also, Daughter of Sherwood is finished and made up - will blog her once she's washed and pinned out...


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Pure functional, mutation-free, constant-time-access double-linked lists
Note that insertions, deletions, lookups have a worst-case complexity of O(min(n,W)), where W is either 32 or 64 (depending on the paltform). That means the access time is bounded by a small constant (32 or 64).
Pure functional, mutation-free, efficient double-linked lists
It is always an interesting challenge to write a pure functional and efficient implementation of an imperative algorithm destructively operating a data structure. The functional implementation has a significant benefit of equational reasoning and modularity. We can comprehend the algorithm without keeping the implicit global state in mind. The mutation-free, functional realization has practical benefits: the ease of adding checkpointing, undo and redo. The absence of mutations makes the code multi-threading-safe and helps in porting to distributed or non-shared-memory parallel architectures. On the other hand, an imperative implementation has the advantage of optimality: mutating a component in a complex data structure is a constant-time operation, at least on conventional architectures. Imperative code makes sharing explicit, and so permits efficient implementation of cyclic data structures.
We show a simple example of achieving all the benefits of an imperative data structure -- including sharing and the efficiency of updates -- in a pure functional program. Our data structure is a doubly-linked, possibly cyclic list, with the standard operations of adding, deleting and updating elements; traversing the list in both directions; iterating over the list, with cycle detection. The code:
uniformly handles both cyclic and terminated lists; does not rebuild the whole list on updates; updates the value in the current node in time bound by a small constant; does not use or mention any monads; does not use any IORef, STRef, TVars, or any other destructive updates; permits the logging, undoing and redoing of updates, checkpointing; easily generalizes to two-dimensional meshes.
The algorithm is essentially imperative, thus permitting identity checking and in-place
updates, but implemented purely functionally. Although the code uses many local, type safe
heaps, there is emphatically no global heap and no global state.
Version: The current version is 1.2, Jan 7, 2009.
Haskell-Cafe discussion ``Updating doubly linked lists''. January 2009
- type Ref = Int
- data Node a = Node {
- node_val :: a
- node_left :: Ref
- node_right :: Ref
- data DList a = DList {
- dl_counter :: Ref
- dl_current :: Ref
- dl_mem :: IntMap (Node a)
- empty :: DList a
- well_formed :: DList a -> Bool
- is_empty :: DList a -> Bool
- get_curr_node :: DList a -> Node a
- insert_right :: a -> DList a -> DList a
- delete :: DList a -> DList a
- get_curr :: DList a -> a
- move_right :: DList a -> Maybe (DList a)
- move_right' :: DList a -> DList a
- move_left :: DList a -> Maybe (DList a)
- move_left' :: DList a -> DList a
- fromList :: [a] -> DList a
- takeDL :: Int -> DList a -> [a]
- takeDLrev :: Int -> DList a -> [a]
- update :: a -> DList a -> DList a
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Because DList contains the
pointer to the current element, DList
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In a well-formed list, dl_current must point to a valid node All operations below preserve well-formedness
get_curr_node :: DList a -> Node aSource
auxiliary function
insert_right :: a -> DList a -> DList aSource
The insert operation below makes a cyclic list The other operations don't care Insert to the right of the current element, if any Return the DL where the inserted node is the current one
delete :: DList a -> DList aSource
Delete the current element from a non-empty list We can handle both cyclic and terminated lists The right node becomes the current node. If the right node does not exists, the left node becomes current
move_right :: DList a -> Maybe (DList a)Source
move_right' :: DList a -> DList aSource
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
A longtime champion for children, Dr. Perrin aspires to lead the American Academy of Pediatrics during a pivotal time in healthcare history.
On the jacket lapel of James Perrin, MD, FAAP, a red pin bears the words "I care for kids and I vote." With a career dedicated to advocacy for children and years of work on policy issues relating to children, Dr. Perrin's badge suits him well. His pin resembles more than his character, though. The 2012 campaign badge means Dr. Perrin, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and chief of general pediatrics at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), is striving to become the next President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
After decades of leadership experience including past president of the Academic Pediatric Association, former chairman of the AAP Committee on Children with Disabilities and founder of the MGHfC Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Dr. Perrin is now running for a position that would allow him to impact the lives of children and families in an even greater way during the country's ongoing healthcare reform debate.
"At this particular time, it seemed to me a very exciting opportunity to seek the presidency," Dr. Perrin says. "The Affordable Care Act, which was happily upheld by the Supreme Court, is so incredibly important for children and pediatricians, and I'd like to spend a good chunk of time in the next few years really working to make sure that we do everything we can to make it work well. Healthcare reform is very important, and it is especially important for us in pediatrics."
Dr. Perrin conducts rounds with a senior resident on the general pediatric wards at MassGeneral Hospital for Children.
The Affordable Care Act focuses particularly on preventing chronic illness, which Dr. Perrin says he hopes will also benefit children. His research has focused on asthma, children's hospitalization, chronic illness and disabilities, and he has also supported Supplemental Security Income for low-income children with severe mental and physical issues.
"Jim Perrin has been a tireless and highly effective advocate for the right of all children in the United States to have equal access to health care," says Ronald Kleinman, MD, physician-in-chief of MGHfC. "Jim's work in autism, asthma, attention deficit and other chronic disorders has benefitted so many children. He is a true leader, both in thought and action, and I'm honored to work with him and support his candidacy for the Presidency of the AAP with the utmost enthusiasm."
While providing a strong voice for the implementation of affordable healthcare is one of Dr. Perrin's priorities in the presidency, he says he is also committed to increasing diversity in the pediatric work force and providing mentorship opportunities for young pediatricians.
"Dr. Perrin has mentored a huge number of people who have made important contributions in the pediatrics field, and I think his opinions and perspectives are widely respected," says Peter Greenspan, MD, vice chair of Pediatrics and medical director of MGHfC. "His network is really first rate and will serve him well."
Dr. Perrin's love for mentoring and helping young people began during his teenage years as a summer camp counselor, where he became fascinated by the ways children learn and grow. He went to Harvard University knowing he would pursue a career dedicated to children either as a teacher or a doctor, eventually deciding "medicine was more fun." Dr. Perrin graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship at the Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester.
After his fellowship, Dr. Perrin developed and ran a rural community health center in upstate New York, which is now providing medical, dental and obstetric services in eight rural towns in that part of the state. He then moved to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and developed a general pediatrics division there much like the one he leads at MGHfC. Dr. Perrin is also the founding editor of Academic Pediatrics (formerly known as Ambulatory Pediatrics), which is the journal of the American Pediatric Association.
Over the past five years, Dr. Perrin's research has focused mainly on children with chronic diseases, particularly children with autism. His efforts have lead to his founding the Clinical Coordinating Center for the National Autism Treatment Network, which is a North American network of seventeen academic health centers dedicated to finding better ways to treat medical conditions children with autism have.
"There are lots of things you can do in medicine that are really to support families. And one of the real pleasures of being a general pediatrician is having the ability to watch families develop over time," Dr. Perrin says. "Like any other good clinician, I'm always interested in learning from my patients and listening carefully when moms and dads and children tell me their stories."
Dr. Perrin's own family story includes his wife, Ellen Perrin, MD, MA, FAAP, who is also a pediatrician, and two sons. Together they enjoy visiting their grandchildren and nurturing their ever-changing garden in Brookline.
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EA Ends Marvel Deal, Cancels Marvel Fighting Game
"EA and Marvel have jointly agreed to discontinue development of the Marvel titles under the EA Games Label," the company informed GameTap. "This was a business decision based on EA's portfolio strategy."
Marvel, meanwhile, reaffirmed the "joint decision" portion of EA's comment but noted that today's news "will not affect Marvel's ongoing plans to release fighting games based on the Marvel properties in the future."
At present, it seems likely that future Marvel-inspired titles will be handled by Sega, which currently holds the rights to games based on The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Thor and Iron Man. An Iron Man game, developed by Secret , Level and A2M, is slated to arrive on Xbox 360, among other unknown platforms, this summer alongside the feature film of the same name.
Announced in June 2007, the untitled Marvel fighting game was presumed canceled after the closure of EA Chicago, where it was being developed.
At the time, EA commented that it was not yet willing to discuss specific plans for the franchises formerly developed at EA Chicago, which included Def Jam and Fight Night, though it was indicated that EA Canada would be taking the reigns of the Fight Night series.


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Of course, other areas of the Tree of Life are not quite so fleshed out. For example, if you look up a plant you'll usually get this. (Or even less if you didn't happen to pick a tracheophyte.) So there is plenty of illustrating left to do.
There is also plenty of programming left to do. You can see a list of major remaining tasks on PhyloPic's BitBucket page. Here are a few, with links to their pages:
- RSS Feed
- Annotations
- Image Captions
- Search Subtaxa for Images
- Cladogram Generator
- Alternate Methods of Login
- JSON format for pages
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The Patrick administration will name Stacey Monahan Saturday as interim commissioner of the state Department of Transitional Assistance, after Daniel J. Curley resigned under pressure this week.
Monahan, 40, has been chief of staff at the Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 2011 and has worked for Governor Deval Patrick in a variety of roles since 2005. She is a former executive director of the Massachusetts Democratic Party and a graduate of Boston College, according to the Patrick administration.
Curley resigned after Health and Human Services Secretary John Polanowicz, who took over the sprawling agency of 22,000 people on Jan. 22, said he was upset by management issues that surfaced during Curley's tenure as head of the state's welfare agency. Those issues included a demand by the US Department of Agriculture that the state repay $27 million in misdirected benefits.
"I intend for these steps to clearly indicate that we are accountable for taxpayer resources and seek to protect benefits for those who truly need them,'' Polanowicz said in a statement.
The Department of Transitional Assistance was also the subject of a highly critical report by state Inspector General Glenn Cunha's office, which found flaws in the way the department verified eligibility. Based on its sampling, the report projected that some eligibility errors could be found in the paperwork of about 33 percent of the recipients of the Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.
Cunha said the problem was not a weakness in rules, but that Transitional Assistance was not complying with its own regulations and lacked the manpower to ensure that recipients are eligible.
"The DTA needs someone who is committed to their enforcement of their policies,'' Cunha said in an interview.
The inspector general's report, which was requested by the state Legislature, found that the department could not verify that about 5,000 of the 50,000 people receiving Aid to Families continued to be eligible to receive the benefits, valued at about $25 million.
If the department followed its own rules on eligibility verification, the state might find everyone is qualified, Cunha said.
He also said the department and the agency overseeing elementary and high schools can work together to match up the names of children whose families are getting benefits with school rosters to cost-effectively verify eligibility.
House Republican leader Bradley H. Jones Jr., endorsed both the inspector general's report and Polanowicz's decision to end Curley's tenure. "Change is absolutely essential to ensure that welfare benefits are reserved for the people who need them the most,'' the North Reading Republican said. "The inspector general's comprehensive report has provided the Legislature with a blueprint for action this session.''
During last year's US Senate race between Democrat Elizabeth Warren and Republican Scott Brown, the department sent letters to 478,000 recipients alerting them of their voting rights, a mailing Brown said was politically motivated.
According to the Patrick administration, 47,000 mailers were returned as undeliverable, but of that total, the administration insists, only 3,000 recipients were not in compliance with department rules.
John R. Ellement can be reached at ellement@


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For decades, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have been looking into the heavens to better understand our place in the universe, oblivious to a fascinating piece of Earth history literally under their feet.
About 110 million years ago, the land that now sports one of NASA's premiere science centers was home to a four-footed tank of a dinosaur called a nodosaur, one of which left a calling card -- a deep footprint inside ancient mud.
ANALYSIS: Do Intelligent Dinosaurs Really Rule Alien Worlds?
"Space scientists may walk along here, and they're walking exactly where this big, bungling heavy armored dinosaur walked," amateur dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford said in an article published Monday on a NASA website .
The imprint shows the right rear foot of a nodosuar -- a "low-slung, spiny leaf-eater -- apparently moving in haste," said Stanford, noting that the dinosaur's heel did not fully settle in the cretaceous mud.
ANALYSIS: Asteroid Family Not Guilty of Dinosaur Killing
The space agency isn't disclosing the exact location of the print, which is about the size of a dinner plate.
"The agency considers the footprint and its location sensitive, but unclassified," Goddard facilities manager Alan Binstock said in the NASA article.
NASA will consult with state officials and paleontologists to come up with a plan for documenting and preserving the print, he added.
Stanford, who is credited with discovering the nodosaur from a fossilized hatchling found near the University of Maryland in College Park, also found several smaller footprints -- three-toed, flesh-eating therapods -- at the Goddard site.
ANIMAL PLANET: Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs in North America
After confirming the tracks were authentic with Johns Hopkins University paleontologist David Weishampel, Stanford disclosed the find to NASA officials and a Washington Post reporteron Friday.
Images: Top: Dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford shows off a footprint from a cretaceous-era nodoasaur discovered at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Inset: Fossilized sediment shows the right rear foot of the nodosaur. Credit: NASA/Ray Stanford
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Have you ever been to see the dinosaur park in Glen Rose?
I think you'll be impressed. The tracks are great, and Glen Rose is beautiful.
Weren't several mostly preserved dinosaurs found in a swamp on NASA land in FL a couple of years ago?
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John Paul II, the Polish pope who brought down Communism.
Now, he's a saint, and I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't soon become the new patron saint for Poland. I imagine he already is the patron Saint of most polish households.
From what I've read, Pope John Paul II retained a deep love and constant connections with his homeland to the day of his death. He had a Polish cook at the Vatican who prepared Polish meals for him, and he had friends from Poland nearby throughout his papacy.
Saint John Paul was so completely a pope for the whole world that we tend to forget that he came from a particular place and time and that this history shaped him in profound ways. The sufferings of Poland taught Saint John Paul about the cruelty and weaknesses of fallen humanity, the dangers of unjust governments and the sanctity of human life.
In this way, the whole world owes Poland a debt. The painful experiences of Poland, as the country was overrun from the West and then the East, were not in vain. They imbued this son of Poland with the great heart of a saint. He became the light of Christ for people everywhere. His teachings will echo down the generations.
It is no wonder that the good people of Poland wanted to do something special for the canonization of Saint John Paul II. I think their idea to run the 1,200 miles from Poland to Rome for the event is especially apt. It is a difficult thing to take on such a long run. It requires unselfish love of others, courage and perseverance in the face of difficulties to endure to the end of the race.
How can anything be more emblematic of Saint John Paul II than that?
From Catholic News Agency:
.- A group of Polish friends decided to run the whole way to Rome to be present for the canonizations of Saints John Paul II and John XXIII, explaining that their key motivation was to give "thanks."
"We don't have any (official) group. We are friends," Tomasz Pietnerzak told CNA April 27, explaining that when another friend suggested "why don't we run to Vatican? I said ok, we run. Let's go!"
Having run a grand total of about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) in order to be present at the Vatican on Divine Mercy Sunday for the papal canonizations, the group consists of 22 men of varying ages, who collectively ran about 185 miles (300 kilometers) a day.
When asked about the primary motivation driving the initiative, Pietnerzak simply stated that they "Run for thanks," pointing to the word "Thanks" printed on the back of the matching athletic jerseys they wore.
"We run because we can't do anything else," the pilgrim explained, emphasizing their gratitude for John Paul II first of all because he is "from Poland," but also because "he changed world, and Poland."
"He's a good man, good man," they reflected, "he changed Europe."
Despite the group's fondness of the sport, they replied with a firm "No, no!" when asked if they would run on the way back, stating that they would most likely return by car – a "come back car," they jested.
The Mass for the canonization of now-Saints John Paul II and John XXIII was held April 27 at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Square, where huge numbers of pilgrims gathered, spilling out onto the main road and overflowing into the surrounding squares.


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Cefuroxime is used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections. This medication is known as a cephalosporin antibiotic. It works by stopping the growth of bacteria.This antibiotic treats only bacterial infections. It will not work for viral infections (e.g., common cold, flu). Unnecessary use or overuse of any antibiotic can lead to its decreased effectiveness.
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Shake the bottle well before each dose. Measure the dose out carefully with a medication spoon/cup. Take this medication by mouth with food, usually twice daily, or as directed by your doctor. Dosage is based on your medical condition and response to therapy. In children, the dosage is also based on weight.Antibiotics work best when the amount of medicine in your body is kept at a constant level. Therefore, take this drug at evenly spaced intervals.Continue to take this medication until the full-prescribed amount is finished, even if symptoms disappear after a few days. Stopping the medication too early may allow bacteria to continue to grow, which may result in a relapse of the infection.Inform your doctor if your condition persists or worsens.
Side effects
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, strange taste in the mouth, or stomach pain may occur. Diaper rash may occur in young children. Dizziness and drowsiness may occur less frequently, especially with higher doses. If any of these effects persist or worsen, notify your doctor or pharmacist promptly.Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.Tell your doctor immediately if any of these unlikely but serious side effects occur: unusual tiredness/weakness.Tell your doctor immediately if any of these rare but very serious side effects occur: yellowing of the eyes/skin, severe stomach/abdominal pain, persistent nausea/vomiting, dark urine, change in the amount of urine, signs of new infection (e.g., fever, persistent sore throat), easy bruising/bleeding, jerky movements, chest pain, mental/mood changes (such as confusion).This medication may rarely cause a severe intestinal condition (Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea) due to a resistant bacteria. This condition may occur while receiving therapy or even weeks to months after treatment has stopped. Do not use anti-diarrhea products or narcotic pain medications if you have the following symptoms because these products may make them worse. Tell your doctor immediately if you develop: persistent diarrhea, abdominal or stomach pain/cramping, blood/mucus in your stool.Use of this medication for prolonged or repeated periods may result in oral thrush or a new vaginal yeast infection (oral or vaginal fungal infection). Contact your doctor if you notice white patches in your mouth, a change in vaginal discharge or other new symptoms.A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is unlikely, but seek immediate medical attention if it occurs. Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction may include: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.In the US -Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
Before taking cefuroxime, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or to penicillins or other cephalosporin antibiotics (e.g., cephalexin); or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: kidney disease, intestinal disease (colitis), liver disease, poor nutrition.This medicine may contain aspartame. If you have phenylketonuria (PKU) or any other condition where you must restrict your intake of aspartame (or phenylalanine), consult your doctor or pharmacist regarding the safe use of this medicine.This drug may make you dizzy or drowsy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do any activity that requires alertness until you are sure you can perform such activities safely. Limit alcoholic beverages.Caution is advised when using this drug in the elderly because they may be more sensitive to its effects.This medication should be used only when clearly needed during pregnancy. Discuss the risk and benefits with your doctor.This medication passes into breast milk. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
Drug interactions
Your healthcare professionals (e.g., doctor or pharmacist) may already be aware of any possible drug interactions and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist of all prescription and nonprescription/herbal products you may use, especially of: "blood thinners" (e.g., warfarin), live bacterial vaccines, probenecid.Although most antibiotics probably do not affect hormonal birth control such as pills, patch, or ring, some antibiotics may decrease their effectiveness. This could cause pregnancy. Examples include rifamycins such as rifampin or rifabutin. Be sure to ask your doctor or pharmacist if you should use additional reliable birth control methods while using this antibiotic.This medication may affect the results of certain lab tests. It may cause false positive results with certain diabetic urine testing products (cupric sulfate-type) and false negative results with certain blood glucose tests. Make sure laboratory personnel and your doctors know you use this drug.This document does not contain all possible interactions. Therefore, before using this product, tell your doctor or pharmacist of all the products you use. Keep a list of all your medications with you, and share the list with your doctor and pharmacist.


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Meet the 2014 Porsche 918 Hybrid Spyder, a mid-engined super/hyper/hybrid car designed by Michael Mauer. While still in it's final stages of R & D and slated for production in September 2013, the Porsche 918 Spyder is powered by a V8 engine that currently produces 562hp and tuned to rev to 9200rpm. The 918 Spyder was developed from the RS Spyder Le Mans Prototype racing car, making this hybrid one beastly ride.
Remember this is a hybrid so Porsche couldn't simply stop at the already impressive stats produced by their V8, they decided to really push the envelope and supplement the 562hp V8 with a pair of synchronous electric motors – one producing 107hp for the front wheels and the other producing 121hp for the rear wheels churning out a combined 759hp and 568 ft-lb torque.
Wrap a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic monocoque around those impressive engines, add in a 7-speed gearbox and Porsche's very own own double clutch system (PDK) and shazaam…you get a spacecraft capable of 0-100 km/h in 3 seconds with a top speed of 320 km/h(200mph) and a staggering 78mpg. That's correct, 78mpg, officially making this car a Saudi's worst nightmare! In addition to the plug-in recharge, the batteries are also charged by regenerative braking. The 918 Spyder offers five different driving modes allowing the vehicle to utilize different combinations of electric and gas engines depending on the driver's desires.
Not only is the Porsche 918 a technological marvel it's also a pleasure to look at. I never thought the famed Carrera GT could ever be made to look old, however the new 918's wonderfully shaped design definitely dates the Carrera GT. Let's be honest, Porsche hasn't been producing the most attractive cars on the planet but I would have to say they're certainly on the right track with this one. Its curvaceous lines are perfectly proportioned giving the 918 a very aggressive and exotic stance.
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Porsche really hit their mark with the 918 Spyder combining cutting edge technologies with nostalgic and intimidating lines and unbelievable performance stats which is really setting the stage for a new era of super/hyper/hybrid cars to come. With all the money you save on fuel, it more than justifies the rumored $850K +/- price tag for one of these hybrids.


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Detroit killings are on the rise again, with the city eclipsing last year's murder total in less than 11 months.
DETROIT (AP) ? Detroit killings are on the rise again, with the city eclipsing last year's murder total in less than 11 months.
Through Thanksgiving, there were 354 homicides committed in Detroit, according to the city's website.
Police reported that Detroit had 344 homicides for all of 2011.
"It seems like every time I look at the news, someone has been killed," said Delores McQueen-Miller, 62, whose son was one of this year's murder victims.
Jawan McQueen, 47, had parked his cab outside a gas station on Detroit's east side in October when two men apparently tried to rob him. A gunfight ensued, and McQueen was shot to death.
With just over 700,000 residents, Detroit is among the nation's leaders in homicide rates. It earned the nickname "Murder City" after more than 700 homicides were committed there in 1974.
Two years ago, the city reported 309 murders, according to the Michigan State Police Uniform Crime Report. That followed 364 murders reported in 2009 and 327 in 2008.
Preliminary reports show overall violent crime in Detroit is down from last year, despite the increase in homicides and a rash of holdups and shootings outside gas stations in the city. One of the more high-profile cases involved the Rev. Marvin Winans, a prominent Detroit pastor and gospel music icon.
Winans was assaulted, robbed and carjacked by several men in May while pumping gas. The robbers took his sport utility vehicle, Rolex watch and $250 in cash. Arrests were made within days of the robbery, and three men were sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
"I will not buy any gas in Detroit," said McQueen-Miller, who grew up in Detroit but now lives just north of the city in Eastpointe. "Every time I go to buy gas, somebody is standing around the gas station. I'm afraid somebody will come up on me while I'm trying to pump my gas."
The surge in homicides also comes as officers and the police union grapple with Mayor Dave Bing over wage cuts and the implementation of some 12-hour shifts. The cuts and changes are expected to save the cash-strapped city $100 million.
"DPD has an officer manpower crisis," said Donato Iorio, an attorney for the Detroit police union. "Today, there are 1,000 fewer police officers than 10 years ago. At the same time, calls for service, homicides and crime has exploded, overwhelming officers on the street."
The Associated Press left messages Thursday seeking comment from a Detroit police spokeswoman.


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For an hour, Vin Scully allowed himself the chance to remember.
The Dodgers had just wrapped up the National League West title with a Thursday afternoon victory in Phoenix, and a champagne celebration ensued.
After calling the final out Sept. 19, Scully said he watched the players roll around near second base at Chase Field, then collected his belongings and headed down to a team bus that waited in a nearby tunnel.
He wanted no part of the player commotion, or even a dip in the right-field pool.
"It was kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around," the 85-year-old Hall of Fame broadcaster admitted. "I didn't feel alone or left out. It was by design."
He said he found himself back in 1950, his first year with the franchise. The Phillies' Dick Sisler hit an opposite-field home run in the 10th inning to eliminate the Dodgers on the last day of the season.
A year later, it was the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson and his historic homer that did the same kind of damage.
In 1955, it was the elation of Brooklyn's first and only championship. Then the title runs of the teams from '59 and '63 and …
"I felt like I was going through a scrapbook, I guess," he said. "I saw faces, players I knew, many I was close to. It all came back in a rush."
How this 2013 Dodgers season will end is a script Scully is waiting to narrate, as he takes to the radio booth to call games through the playoffs.
But first, another journey through his personal scrapbook for the way this season played out, and how that affected his decision to stick around for a 65th season in 2014:
Q: What's your go-to adjective to depict how this season has played out for the Dodgers?
A: Well, some people think it's a miracle team and all that, but what it really is – this has been two teams. This isn't the 'Miracle Braves' of 1914. This is one team that was banged up and playing four part-time players on a full-time basis, and consequently, they were laboring and not going anywhere. Then when the regulars came back, they were playing up to their capabilities. It was rather remarkable the way they won 42 out of 50 at one point. But it was simply a team that was hurt, got better, and proceeded to do the job.
Q: So maybe they're resilient, or simply achieving what everyone figured would happen or … ?
A: In spring training when the team gathered, every pundit who came by Arizona said, 'Well, this is a team that will win the Western Division easily.' So the fact they won it really shouldn't be a surprise. But the way they did it was something else.
Q: Did you ever get a sense that Don Mattingly's days as a manager might be numbered after the first couple of months?
A: I never had any sense about that, but then I don't have a lot of sense about a lot of things. I say that seriously. I go to the ballpark, I do the game, I go home. I knew the team was struggling and there was a lot of talk in the papers about it, but I thought that whole time: Are they really going to judge him playing Punto, Schumaker, Hairston and what other part-time players he was dealt with? I didn't have any idea or knowledge, I just kept thinking about how unfair it would have been based on this team.
Q: So you never got caught up in what you were reading about Mattingly?
A: Oh, no. Naturally, let's face it, we try as hard as we can to do the game and be as impartial so that we're accurate. We don't get into conjecture about someone getting fired. That to me is way out of bounds.
Q: What's the moment from the season that sticks out for you — a game, a play, a player?
A: A couple of things: First, the fight in San Diego when (Zack) Greinke broke his collarbone in early April (on the 11th, during the sixth game of the season) really sealed the first couple of months. Then it's interesting to me — it was Greinke again in June pitching. The day before, (Clayton) Kershaw had lost (in San Diego) on the 21st of June (a 6-2 decision, dropping them to 30-42). Greinke came back, the team was healthy, and they won on the 22nd of June (6-1, starting a six-game winning streak). That was the beginning of all the good things. So there was Greinke at that low point in San Diego, and there he was again in San Diego in a sense leading them back.
Q: That game in San Diego on the 22nd of June was also at the expense of Edinson Volquez, who actually had a no-hitter against the Dodgers through five innings. Then look where he ended up. And Hanley Ramirez hit the home run off the Western Metal building down the left-field line and kind of woke everyone up as well.
A: I think that was the hardest-hit home run I saw all year. Without a doubt.
Q: So after all that, the Dodgers clinch the NL West in Arizona — and somehow you refrained from jumping into the pool?
A: I have never, in all my years, had champagne poured on me. I'm usually on the air, and way back, I would throw it to Jerry Doggett in the clubhouse, and he'd be drowned in all of that.
The closest I've ever come to that was the 1963 World Series. Mel Allen, the great Yankee broadcaster, worked with me. And in September that year, he was having a problem with his throat and the doctors warned him not to put too much stress on it. But he did, during the end of the season in September from what I understand.
So now the Yankees and Dodgers are in the World Series, and he was still very subdued. One: The Dodgers won the first three games and he didn't have much to be happy about. Now it's the fourth game, and in those days, each announcer did half a game, 4½ innings. By good fortune for me, I was on the last half when the Dodgers became champions of Brooklyn for the only time in 1955, I was luck-of-the-draw on the half of Don Larsen's perfect game (for the Yankees against the Dodgers in 1956) … it was amazing how many times it just worked out where I was on at the end.
But for Game 4 at Dodger Stadium, Dodgers-Yankees, 1963, I'm on for the first half of the game. So it figured if the Dodgers won, I would be the one to go downstairs and be doing all that postgame celebration. And I'd be the one getting drowned.
So we're in the booth, and it's into the seventh inning now, and Mel has been quiet, saving his voice. But Mickey Mantle hits a home run that ties up the game (off Sandy Koufax, in the top of the seventh). Mel has a great call: "Going, going … gone!" He forgot all about the constraints. When he hit the word "gone," the whole voice went. It was awful.
That really affected me emotionally. I still think about how that was one of the most important home runs, one that's always stuck in my ribs – only for this reason: Mel couldn't speak. Tom Gallery, who was the head of NBC Sports at the time, tapped Mel on the shoulder and pointed to me, like 'Give it to him.' And I really could have cried for Mel at that instant. It's a national stage, I had done my part, no reason to come back, but I had to come back because Mel couldn't finish. So I'm not sure who even did the postgame celebration.
So the reason that home run has always been with the thought: There but for the grace of God go I. When I rank the most memorable home runs for me – Bobby Thomson's (1951 pennant winner for the Giants), or Henry Aaron's (715th career) or Kirk Gibson's (Game 1 of the 1988 World Series), Mickey Mantle's is there in my book as well, because of the impact it had on me spiritually. Really. It's funny how sports fans are. A lot thought that Mel was so emotionally overcome that the Yankees were about to lose four in a row that he couldn't speak. That's what I heard, which was nonsense.
Q: Speaking of more nonsense, what about the reaction to the Dodgers players who jumped into the pool in Arizona?
A: I'll be honest: I sat in the booth and watched after they won. I had no knowledge about it until people told me, and I didn't give it a thought. The park was empty. What's the difference?
The thing that really concerned me was when Senator McCain made his remarks about it. With all the troubles going on in this world, where we are relying on his judgment and ability to maintain relationships, staying calm … the only thing I could think of was as a politician forever trying to please his constituents, perhaps he responded so he could say, 'See, I'm one of you. I'm mad too.' It still concerned me that a man of such high authority and overwhelming responsibilities in this mad-house world could possibly make the statement he made. It was shocking. If that's his best judgment, to say that (via Twitter), then I'm really scared.
Q: If you could sit down and have a conversation with Yasiel Puig — considering you'd need a translator – what kind of things would you like to find out more about him?
A: Where is his control button? Because, I've tried very hard to capture him in my own mind, and I keep going back to the 'wild horse.' I look at this magnificent specimen, and I think of this stallion running on the wide-open spaces. Kind of picturesque and thrilling to watch in one regard, but at the same time, you know he has very few parameters. I wonder why he's learned to play that way. I respect his enthusiasm. That's marvelous.
But where's the control? What happened? I've been told by scouts — I have no knowledge — is that is the style of play in Cuba. The hitters aren't just looking for a base hit or moving a runner over, it's the thrill of the 500-foot home run, and standing there, holding their hands high, watching the ball go out. It's all appealing to the crowd. It may have nothing to do with ego, it's just the culture. You can have the great arm that he has, but you have to realize why there's a cut-off man down there. You're not supposed to just throw the ball as far as you can. You have to have sense behind it.
I'm sure somehow or another, I'd like to ask: I understand this is the way you play, but this is the big leagues — are you coming to conclusions you have to do things a certain way? Once in a while, throwing past the cut-off man to dare the runner is OK, but there has to be a calculated gamble. You can't do that in the big leagues.
One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how in order to be a major-league player you have to have a lot of little boy in you. That's Puig's charm, all that little boy in him.
Q: We saw how the 1988 Dodgers used emotions, provided by Kirk Gibson and Orel Hershiser, but it was far more controlled than the kind of emotion that Puig brings to the table. Do you see pros and cons of someone who uses emotions in a playoff situation?
A: The one thing I noticed: This is a very happy team. We're forever looking in the dugout, especially after good things, for a camera shot. But it's funny how you can watch certain people like Puig and Juan Uribe, and they're constantly on each other, laughing and whatever. And then, what amazes me, is to see Hyun-Jin Ryu get in the middle of that. The rookie from South Korea, I've seen him playing with Uribe and just slap him across the face. Laughing. I mean, the camaraderie is the best I've seen in years. And Puig is very much involved in that. He'll do something very good, and Uribe, Ramirez, they're all over him with some running gag all the time. It's quite a show. Any rookie, sure, is liable to make a mistake that hurts a club, but that's just being in a category of a rookie. But Adrian Gonzalez, all his Gold Gloves, he could make an error that costs them a game. It just happens. That's what makes the game so marvelous. You cannot figure it out.
Q: You've talked about the many reasons for wanting to come back for your 65th season next year, feeding off that energy and enthusiasm that you've seen on the field. You pick up on all that?
A: Yeah, I really do. I've really enjoyed the games at home, with the crowds so enthusiastic and high strung. So marvelously excited. I've always loved the roar of the crowd, I've said that my entire life. And this year, the crowds at Dodger Stadium have been making the kind of noise they made there when the team won the World Series in 1988. And then you look in the dugout, and these guys are just having fun. It's really a wonderful experience. I don't do anything but sit there and absorb it.
Q: There were several occasions where the Dodgers had walk-off victories, enough to where you referred to Dodger Stadium as "the Magic Castle." How do you remember those victories?
A: I remember Vince Lombardi when he was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers, who said to his team: 'When you score a touchdown, act like you've been there before.' Don't rub it in because you still have to play against them. I'm constantly worried that players are going to get hurt. They've got this terrible habit on this team of running after the guy who got the game-winning hit and tearing his jersey off him. That bothered me — you're asking for trouble. And this is after all that innocently happened to the Angels (Kendrys Morales breaking his ankle in a 2010 celebration after a walk-off grand slam). I'm not knocking them celebrating, it's more of a concern.
Q: If you had seen the Dodgers' pool celebration, you'd have seen Kenley Jansen tucking his leg up as he jumped off the deck and into the water for a cannon ball.
A: The other night, (wife) Sandi and I were in the hotel room in San Diego on Friday night and Jay Leno came on – usually I don't stay up to watch because it's too late – but he was showing a clip of the Dodgers jumping into the pool in Arizona. But then cut to a scene of some synchronized swimmers doing this choreographed routine. It was such a perfect segue. It looked like Esther Williams. If you weren't paying attention, you'd have thought it was the Dodgers doing all that. He got a huge laugh from the crowd and a huge laugh from Sandi and me as well. Very funny.
Q: And Sandi will be with you as you're the grand marshal at the Rose Parade. How do you prepare for such an event? Do you practice your wave in a mirror?
A: I have no idea (laughing). We'll just do whatever they tell us, whatever that is. That's still in the distant future. We have too much on our plate right now.