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If you ever ask your self how big is the universe now you will have a chance to see just a part of it:
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After watching this video you will be impressed how small we are…
Obviously very very small….I can't imagine these sizes at all. Thanks for sharing
Really enjoy watching the video. Thanks for sharing!
Off topic: I usually think about travelling in the space. Hope one day in our ages, we could travel to other planets. That's extremely excited for me.
Wow incredible video thanks for sharing.
Huh… I stopped thinking on how small we are at 0:55 (Pollux (Orange Giant)) After it, thats insane. Thanks for sharing!
Cool video. anyway Jesus christ is the center of the universe
The video is amazing, thanks for sharing. I guess there are two ways of thinking about ourselves. You can think of how small and insignificant we are, living in a tiny planet, in a rather small solar system, in a corner of a galaxy which is in the corner of the universe, without us there would be no difference in the universe. And the other way is thinking of how lucky we are of having the chance of living in such a wonderfuld world, in this wonderful planet, being able to love and be happy, and the most important: we are able to understand the universe and its laws, we are able to create art and leave a mark behind us.
I like the end! "No, you are not the center of universe!"
+1 thanks!
What is even more interesting is that the largest star known to us exists only in our galaxy, just imagine the whole stars that exists in the infinite universe!
Mirtt said
What is even more interesting is that the largest star known to us exists only in our galaxy, just imagine the whole stars that exists in the infinite universe!
I even can "maybe" imagine how "Mu Cephei" is large (compared with earth size) but can't imagine all other objects in universe. It's like hunting X men
Our world need to focus on exploring the universe, not wars and other things, maybe our leaders never seen this video


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You don't need to stop the capture and run aircrack after. You can run aircrack-ng while doing the capture, and it will keep trying to crack while the IVS count is rising. That way you don't need to wait to reach thousand of packets, aircrack-ng will just warn you (and by warn, I mean show you the WEP key) once it finishes cracking.
Check if the fake authentication was successful and make sure the data packets are being produced thanks to your attack and not due to someone in your network using torrents/streaming apps/et al. To finish, make sure you are using tutorials from aircrack's website, they are the best.

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Dear colleagues and students,
I am delighted to tell you that the Belk Library & Information Commons will return to 24/5 operation, Sundays through Thursdays, starting on March 16, 2014. Provost Gonzalez and Chancellor Peacock were very eager to make this happen. I appreciate their encouragement and also wish to thank Appalachian State students for considering the Library so important to their success.
Please note:
Some services will be limited during very late night hours:
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I tried to use the 24/5 hours for the first time this morning, and had to wait to be let into the building. Apparently, there is a card swipe for the appcard next to one of the doors, but there was no signage and I don't remember seeing that information anywhere. That might be a useful piece of information for students (where the card swipe is, etc.)


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By Melissa Cardwell
10 Commandments
For Cancer Survival
"Thou shalt regard the word "Cancer" as exactly that: a word. Nothing more, nothing less. For it's original meaning has changed mightily over the years, as have such words as Smallpox, TB, and Polio, all once dreaded ailments, now non-existent as maladies. And thus, too, shalt go thy Cancer. The answer shall come to those who shall be present to hear it. Be present to hear it when it comes...."
–Paul H Klein
Cancer victims walk the Survivors Lap to kick off the Havana Relay for Life event last Friday afternoon at the Havana Community Park. The weather was uncooperative but the show went on as hardy souls braved the cold and wet to walk for their teams and raise money for cancer research. Entertainment as well as food were provided during the event and several team members stayed the entire night. The event ended Saturday at noon.
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On a warm November afternoon in downtown Los Angeles, Jorge Vergara sat down before a media gathering with a sly smile.
"How many of you," he began, "speak Spanish?"
His brief pause revealed that it was a rhetorical question.
"You should learn," he said, the smile broadening.
That was about all that needed to be said that day as Chivas USA officially welcomed Vergara and wife Angelica Fuentes as the full owners of the club following his buyout of the remaining 50 percent of the franchise he had held with brothers Antonio and Lorenzo Cue.
The intention was clear: The club would return to the roots that have grown deeply for the parent Chivas club in Guadalajara, Mexico, and reflect a Mexican style of play in America's Major League Soccer.
That's the way the club had started in 2006, and though it had four consecutive seasons of reaching the playoffs as it evolved into more of a mainstream MLS franchise, its roots in L.A. weren't exactly deep or strong.
First, original Chivas fans weren't going to give up on rooting for their heroes from south of the border. Second, for every Chivas fan, there is a rival Club America fan and good luck drawing that fan base to games.
It's almost hard to believe that Chivas USA enjoyed a heyday, from the goal-scoring exploits of Ante Razov and Maykel Galindo, the development of future U.S. national team players Brad Guzan, Jonathan Bornstein and Sach Kljestan, and maybe the best memories were the wicked clashes between Jesse Marsch and David Beckham when Chivas and the Galaxy battled for Home Depot Center supremacy.
It all ended abruptly. Razov retired, the oft-injured Galindo disappeared, Guzan, Bornstein and Kljestan went abroad, Coach Preki was fired. The respected Martin Vasquez was brought in to coach and he lasted all of one losing season.
Robin Fraser, who helped build a championship-contending franchise at Real Salt Lake, lasted two years but won only 15 of 68 games. Along the way, the front office tried desperately for patchwork fixes, bringing in veterans like forward Juan Pablo Angel and defender Danny Califf, a young star like Juan Agudelo.
They gave up on budding standouts Blair Gavin and Ben Zemanski and Vergara stepped in.
"Considering that Chivas USA is a team of a mix of cultures, from Hispanic immigrants, Mexicans, Colombians, Salvadorans, etc. and we want to create a factor of success in the unity of cultures and identification with those cultures," Vergara said at the press conference. "We are going to recreate Chivas USA as an extension and success for Chivas fans in the United States."
Tethering Chivas USA to Chivas of Guadalajara might sound like a streamlining of the operation, but the mother ship has been struggling, too, coming off a 17 th-place finish out of 18 teams in the Mexican Primera League's most recent season.
In any case, the new/old Chivas goal was to help develop the USA side with a sprinkling of young talent that could eventually help the parent club and along the way, convince those young players that a stint with Chivas USA should not be considered a banishment. At the same time, the talent placed on the field would be enough to challenge for an MLS playoff spot.
To kick-start the new regime, they brought in Coach Jose Luis Sanchez Sola, a colorful figure in Mexican coaching circles known as "El Chelis," who was given a new roster and got the team off to a 3-1-2 start to the MLS season.
Colorful, to say the least. After one game, he pronounced his team was trying to climb out of "a barrel of fecal." After another game, he called a reporter "garbage" and told his players not to speak to that reporter, which didn't happen.
After another game, the same reporter was glared at by Chelis, who said "You are happy when we lose and sad when we win."
Chelis was fired after an 0-6-1 stretch, with veteran Guadalajara coach Jose Luis Real taking over.
But who will attend Chivas games? At Home Depot Center over the years, the Galaxy were the landlords, Chivas the tenant. "We know we're like the red-headed stepchild," one player said.
Now it's the StubHub Center, the ticket company that partners with the Galaxy. Chivas is affiliated with rival Ticketmaster.
Attendance at home this season has yet to reach the 10,000 mark and despite the official announcements, it's a rare game that draws as many as 5,000. The marketing efforts to basically only the Spanish-speaking audience aren't paying off, and for about two years, the club has been looking for its own stadium to build and call home.
Chivas doesn't have a television deal, a requirement for MLS franchises. San Antonio sent out feelers to try to lure the club, but that didn't become a serious consideration. Just two weeks ago, the club was sued by two former coaches for discrimination, saying they had been fired for not speaking Spanish. The club has gone through numerous communications department personnel in recent years, with one already having been replaced this season.
Along the way, there were rumors that the entire Chivas operation would be sold to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. Or even that MLS would step in and take control of Chivas USA.
MLS commissioner Don Garber attended Vergara's press conference and also was in Los Angeles, a day after Chivas dropped its opener, 3-0, to Columbus before a home crowd that was announced as 7,121.
"What I would encourage everyone to have is a bit of patience," Garber said in March. "They have an idea, they have a plan. We're hopeful that plan will be successfully executed. I think they need to do better in the execution."
But can that plan work?
"Let's give them some time," Garber said. "If we're here in June or July and we're having the same issues that we're talking about right now, this might be a different conversation."
Chivas continues full steam ahead with the Vergara plan. Yet at the moment, the club appears more like a ball ricocheting among a crowd of players in front of its own goal, with everyone almost expecting it to end up in the Chivas net.
"Since the acquisition of all the stock by Jorge and Angelica, obviously there's multiple obstacles to be taken and I think most within the public eye is the results of the first team," cluib president Dennis Te Kloese said. "There have been numerous changes that I think with time we will show to be positive.
"One of the things with the stadium issue, obviously . . . we need to address it at some point. We need to be aware that at some point it could be an option for Chivas to play in its own setting.
"To be taken seriously, you have to win. Positive results on the field help with everything. To be taken serious, to have credibility, somebody picks up the phone call a little easier, I think it all helps."


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Search commences for executive director of the Buffett Early Childhood Institute
- 07/07/2011
University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken said the primary focus of the new institute will be on the learning and healthy development of children from birth to age eight, with special attention to those children who are vulnerable because of poverty, abuse, or developmental, learning or behavioral challenges. The institute will strive to create a new model for how a 21st-century public university can help to drive the creation of better systems for understanding child learning and development and delivering education and other services to young children and their families.
Milliken said the university intends to recruit an executive director who is a recognized leader in early childhood education, child development, or other early childhood-related field with some applied background. He or she will provide the visionary leadership and administrative experience to build the institute as a nationally leading center that will be a game-changer in early childhood development and education.
Milliken has named a 12-member search committee comprised of faculty members and administrators from the four campuses as well as external representatives from Head Start and K-12 education and the business community to identify, recruit and recommend candidates for this important role. The committee will be chaired by Marjorie Kostelnik, Dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Other members include:
- Charlie Bicak, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, University of Nebraska at Kearney
- Eric Buchanan, Assistant Vice President/Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations, University of Nebraska Foundation (Immediate Past Chair of the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation)
- Nancy Edick, Dean, College of Education, University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Ayman El-Mohandes, Dean, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Eleanor Kirkland, Director, Head Start-State Collaboration Office, State of Nebraska
- Helen Raikes, Professor, Child, Youth & Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Brian Maher, Superintendent, Kearney Public Schools
- Jessie Rasmussen, President, Buffett Early Childhood Fund
- Steve Seline, President, Walnut Private Equity Partners, LLC
- Susan Sheridan, Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- John Sparks, Chairperson, Pediatrics Administration, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Milliken said he hopes to name the new director by the end of the calendar year.


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Winners of an Intermountain Life Flight Facebook contest waited patiently for the opportunity to snap pictures and climb inside the new Augusta Grand helicopter.
Before they were able to tour the helicopter, they first received some information about why the new helicopter and all the aircraft are important to Intermountain Health's patient care.
"Every minute is important. The faster we can get [to the patient], the sooner the patient gets the care they need," said Lori Merrit, IHC pediatric nurse and flight crew member.
IHC flight crews are passionate about their jobs and the services they provide, said Andrea Clement, a pediatric nurse who has been flying with Life Flight for 14 years.
"When people don't have the opportunity or the resources to get the care they need, we take the resources to them," said Wade Bennington, an intensive-care unit nurse and flight crew member. "We are able to give a lot of people the opportunity to have good medical service that they normally wouldn't have."
The airplanes have enough space to bring two adults with the patient to the hospital, but helicopters only have enough space to transport the person needing care. The new Augusta Grand helicopter is able to bring one rider, usually a parent, back with the patient.
"The worst part of our job is when we have to take a child and not be able to bring the parent with us," Clement said.
Space in the helicopters is limited and the temperature inside can reach 120 degrees. The flight crew is required to wear 10 pounds of gear, including flight suits and helmets.
Because of the restricted space and weight-carrying capacity of the helicopter, each member of the flight crew has a weight restriction of 205 pounds. Members are weighed every three months, and if they are over the limit, they are given 60 days to work the weight off. Flight crew members unable to weigh less than 205 are released from flying.
The summer heat makes the helicopters more heavy and burn fuel faster than in the cold winters. The aircrafts are restricted to a 150-mile radius because there are not many places to refuel. If someone needs attention outside the 150-mile radius, an airplane is sent instead.
IHC's new Augusta Grand helicopter, which began transporting patients in June, has retractable landing gear, allowing the craft to fly with less air resistance. A flight from Orem to Primary Children's Hospital typically takes 18 minutes, but the new helicopter was able to make the flight in 12 minutes, flying nearly 200 mph, Clement said.
As soon as they were able, 7-year-old McKay Seiter of Taylorsville and 8-year-old Hayden Held of Riverton climbed inside the helicopter to look around and try on the flight helmets.
"He was really excited," said Tayasha Held. "He couldn't wait to get here."
The six participants were able to sit inside the new helicopter and hear stories from the crew about flying hundreds of feet in the air while providing emergency care.
"I don't think I would want to be a patient in 120 degrees," said Scott Seiter.
"We have drugs that would make you not remember a thing," Clement said with a smile.
Nurses and nurse paramedics all participate in a six-month orientation to learn the emergency procedures they are required to perform while in flight. Because there are only two nurses in the air, they have to rely on each other to be able to provide the care the patient needs, Clement said.
If an ambulance is unable to reach the patient because of terrain, significant road traffic or distance, they call the aircraft to help. IHC Life Flight participates in hospital transfers, scenic flights and emergency pickups. Weather does not stop a flight unless two members of the flight crew are not comfortable in the current conditions.
"Safety of the patient and crew members is the most important thing," Merrit said.
Ken and Jennie Petrano of Kaysville were also able to sit in the helicopter and talk to the flight crew.
"The tour of Life Flight is really neat and interesting," Jennie Petrano said. "I love helicopters and it's always something I've been interested in."
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Life Flight tour
Participants won a drawing on Facebook.
They were able to sit in the helicopter and talk with Life Flight medical staff.
IHC acquired a new Augusta Grand helicopter in June. It flies faster and allows for a passenger along with a patient.


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Acer America has announced the US availability of the Aspire One AOD250 netbook featuring dual-boot Android and Windows XP Home Edition. The open design of Android gives Aspire One users faster connections to the Internet and increased access to productivity and entertainment applications.
Acer is offering the 10.1-inch Aspire One AOD250 with Android and Windows XP to US customers with prices beginning at US$349.99.
The Aspire One utilizes the energy-efficient Intel Atom Processor N280, a high-density, six-cell, 5800mAh battery, 1GB of memory, integrated 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi network connectivity, and a 160GB internal hard drive.
The Aspire One utilizes a Multi-Gesture touchpad, allowing users to pinch, flick and swirl their fingers across the touchpad for intuitive navigation. It also allows users to scroll, zoom in and out and flip through web pages, photos, spreadsheets and more.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
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Washington : Government Printing Office
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Whereas, pursuant to the provisions of an agreement accepted and ratified by the Act of June 15, 1880 (21 Stat. L., 199), the Confederated Bands of the Ute Tribe of Indians in Colorado ceded to the United States a large area of their reservation in the State of Colorado, which area was then held and deemed to be public land of the United States, subject to disposal under the laws providing for the disposal of public lands, except as provided in the said Act of June 15, 1880, supra, and
Whereas, there are now remaining undisposed of within the said ceded area certain tracts which, if now restored, would prove beneficial to the Confederated Bands of the Ute Tribe of Indians, because of their value for grazing purposes and mineral content, and
Whereas, by relinquishment and cancellation of unperfected homestead entries within this area a limited additional acreage of land of similar character may be included within the class of undisposed of ceded land, and
Whereas, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs has recommended restoration to tribal ownership of all said vacant undisposed of ceded lands within the following described boundaries:
Beginning at the southeast corner of section 36, township 47 north, range 1½ west of the New Mexico principal meridian in Colorado; thence west on the section lines to the southeast corner of section 35, township 47 north, range 2 west; thence north to the northeast corner of the said section 35; thence west to the center section line of section 33; thence south to the south line of said section 33; thence east to the northwest corner of section 3, township 46 north, range 2 west; thence south to the southwest corner of section 3; thence east to the northwest corner of section 11; thence south to the southwest corner of section 14; thence east to the southeast corner of section 13, township 46 north, range 1½ west; thence north along the township line to the place of beginning.
Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior by sections 3 and 7 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. L., 984), I hereby find that restoration to tribal ownership of all lands which are now, or may hereafter be, classified as undisposed of ceded Ute Indian lands lying within the above described boundaries in Colorado which shall include mineral and other rights not acquired by entrymen within any entries perfected where the surface right only was acquired by such entrymen, will be in the public interest, and said lands are hereby restored to tribal ownership for the use and benefit of the Confederated Bands of the Ute Tribe of Indians, Colorado, subject to any valid existing rights.
Secretary of the Interior.


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Sinofsky, former president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live division, announced that he was
leaving the company
yesterday after a little over 23 years with the tech giant. It was reported as a "sudden" move that no one expected, but new details behind the departure show that the decision was contemplated for a while and even backed by Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates.
While Sinofsky was seen as a brilliant figure at Microsoft, his downfall was that he didn't get along with others within the company. He was notorious for picking fights with other executives, including current CEO Steve Ballmer, and even pushed former executives like chief software architect Ray Ozzie to quit.
Sinofsky was key to the development of Windows 8, which was
released October 26
and features an entirely new look and feel from the traditional Windows experience. However, Ballmer recognized that Microsoft needs to be more united internally across different divisions, and that change would be difficult with Sinofsky around.
Typically, in other company disputes, Ballmer and Gates would back up Sinofsky. But that doesn't seem to be the case this time around. Microsoft is looking to change and integrate teams across various units within the company. Ballmer saw Sinofsky as an obstacle to getting to that point, and
with Gates' support
, decided to part ways with Sinofsky.
All Things Digital
heard rumors about Sinofsky's departure over the last few weeks, both from inside and outside of Microsoft's walls.
While the decision to part ways with Sinofsky was a good thing in terms of moving Microsoft in a new direction, it also means the loss of a great mind that had a strong handle on Microsoft's software and innovation. Sinofsky may not be a team player, but he was great at what he did. Losing that sort of creativity and completely revamping the inner dynamic of how Microsoft's teams work will not be an easy task.
Julie Larson-Green, who has worked with Microsoft since 1993, is replacing Sinofsky. She played a key role in program management, and UI design/research for Windows 7 and Windows 8. So we'll see if Larson-Green can stand up to the challenge and fill Sinofsky's shoes while complying with the new integrated direction Microsoft is looking to take.
Sinofsky's leave is eerily similar to that of the recently departed
Scott Forstall
, Apple's former VP of iOS Software. Forstall was let go in late October after 15 years with Apple due to recent issues with iOS 6's maps and his tendency to not get along with other Apple execs.
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LONG BEACH - Six companies have been honored for their air pollution-lowering efforts.
The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles on Wednesday gave Clean Air Action Plan Air Quality Awards in two categories.
In the category of Air Quality Leadership at the corporate level, the ports honored SA Recycling LLCP; international shipping line APL; tugboat operator Harley Marine Services.
In the Significant Early Action to Reduce Emissions category, awards were given to Pacific Harbor Line; BP, which has two petroleum terminals in Long Beach and operates the only tanker facility in the world to use shore power during the offloading of cargo; and Matson Navigation Co.
"We're delighted to honor these companies for taking the time and effort to successfully reduce their environmental impacts through leadership and quick action," Port of Long Beach Executive Director J. Christopher Lytle said in a written statement.
"The companies operating at the two ports are working hard to be good neighbors by taking extra steps to improve air quality in the Harbor Area and Southern California. These truly are industry leaders."
The awards, which began after the ports approved the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan in 2006, are determined by a panel that includes representatives from the ports, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, California Air Resources Board and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Mount Saint Mary College's Curtin Memorial Library and arts and
letters program will host a series of poetry readings, free and
open to the public.
The readings will be held in the college library, 330 Powell
Avenue, Newburgh.
April 10 at 4 pm -- Mary Makofske (left), winner of several
awards including the Robert Penn Warren Prize from the Cumberland
Review, will read her poetry. She is author of "The Disappearance
of Gargoyles" (Thorntree Press, 1988) and "Eating Nasturtiums"
(Flume, 1998). She earned a master's degree in English from the
University of Minnesota.
April 17 at 4 pm -- Lucia Cherciu (right) will read from her
work and lead a discussion. She writes poetry in English and
Romanian and is author of "Lepãdarea de Limbã—The Abandonment of
Language" (Editura Vinea 2009) and "Altoiul Râsului—Grafted
Laughter" (Editura Brumar 2010). Her poetry has also appeared in
"Memoir," "Earth's Daughters," and "Off the Coast," among
Light refreshments will be served. For information, call Curtin
Memorial Library at 845-569-3600.
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NEW YORK CITY -- The National Coffee Association of USA reports that plans are well under way for the 2012 Fall Coffee Summit, which is scheduled for the Hyatt Regency at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, PA from October 10 through 12 (Wednesday-Friday).
According to the association, the annual Coffee Summit is a dynamic, interactive forum that intersperses presentations by coffee industry experts with opportunities to share experiences and insights. Congregating in an "open space" environment, participants will allocate their time among activities including self-directed group discussions, learning exchanges, directed interactive forums, traditional presentations and more. Details of the program will be announced on NCA's website as the conference takes shape.
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Sandy • Real Salt Lake's back line received some good news and bad news before Thursday night's game against Seattle.
Veteran defender Jamison Olave, who had been listed as questionable because of a nagging hamstring injury, started Game 2 of RSL's Major League Soccer playoff series against the Sounders.
Moments before kickoff, however, defender Chris Wingert was scratched from the lineup. He was replaced by Kenny Mansally.
Olave was originally injured in a Champions League match against Herediano on July 31.
He has played sparingly over the past three months, although he did enter Game 1 of the series against the Sounders in the 76th minute.
Prepared for Sounders' attack
Seattle attacked Real Salt Lake from the flanks in Game 1, and coach Jason Kreis expected the same tactic in the rematch.
"We need to be prepared for it because almost every team we play does that," Kreis said. "That's the space we give them."
Seattle had 30 open-play crosses in Game 1, although none of them led to a goal in the 0-0 standoff.
"In every soccer system," Kreis said, "there are spaces you allow [opponents] to play in and spaces that you do not. So, the last few years, we've had to deal with a lot of service into our box. But we think we have the right personnel to handle that."
Breakthrough goals?
RSL and Seattle played three straight scoreless draws heading into Game 2, including two during the regular season.
Kreis, however, was convinced both teams were capable of rallying in the event of falling behind.
"Oh, geez," he said. "These teams are both experienced enough and have played so many big games that I don't think the first goal holds as much weight as it does in a typical MLS [game]."
Smiling slightly, Kreis added, "In this series with these two teams I think you better be ready to play all 90 [minutes]. Or 120."
Galaxy await in conference finals
While Real Salt Lake and Seattle battled for a berth in the Western Conference finals, the Los Angeles Galaxy had already punched their ticket.
L.A. stunned top-seeded San Jose on Tuesday night, 3-1, in Game 2 of the other conference semifinal. The victory gave the Galaxy a 3-2 win in the aggregate.
Since 1996, Los Angeles has qualified for the conference finals 12 times. The Galaxy have reached the MLS Cup seven times.
In L.A.'s shocking win over San Jose in Game 2, Robbie Keane scored two goals, Mike Magee added another and Landon Donovan assisted twice.
The Earthquakes went 3-0-1 against the Galaxy during the regular season but had an 18-game home unbeaten streak snapped.


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Routine sputum cultureSputum culture
Routine sputum culture is a test of secretions from the lungs and bronchi (tubes that carry air to the lung) to look for organisms that cause infection.
How the Test is Performed
A health care provider will often collect sputum samples in the morning. The doctor or nurse may have you rinse your mouth first. The goal is to bring sputum up from deeper in your airways and your throat.
You will be asked to take three deep breaths, then force up some sputum amount by coughing deeply. You will spit any sputum that comes up into a sterile cup. The sputum is then taken to the laboratory. There, it is placed in a special substance (medium) under conditions that allow the bacteria or fungi to grow.
How to Prepare for the Test
Drinking a lot of water and other fluids the night before the test may help to get the sample.
How the Test Will Feel
You will need to cough. Sometimes the health care provider will tap on your chest to loosen deep sputum. There may be a steam-like mist to inhale to help you cough up the sample.
Why the Test is Performed
The culture is done on the sputum to help identify the bacteria, or other type of germs,that are causing an infection in the lungs or airways (bronchi). The doctor may collect a sputum sample the office or in the hospital.
The culture can prevent the need for more invasive procedures such as bronchoscopy.
Normal Results
In a normal sputum sample there will be no disease-causing organisms present. Often, bacteria that normally live in the mouth will grow in a sputum culture. This does not mean that you have a lung or airway infection.
What Abnormal Results Mean
If the sputum sample is abnormal, the results are called "positive." Identifying the bacteria, fungus, or virus may help diagnose the cause of:
- Bronchitis
- Lung abscess
- Pneumonia
- Tuberculosis
- Flare up of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or cystic fibrosis
There are no risks with this method of obtaining a sample, although severe coughing might cause some chest discomfort.
Sometimes a Gram stain oracid fast bacilli (AFB) stain of the sputum done at the same time can help make the diagnosis.
Limper AH. Overview of pneumonia.In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds.Cecil Medicine. 24th ed.Philadelphia,PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 97.
Torres A, Menendez R, Wunderink R. Pyogenic bacterial pneumonia and lung abscess. In: Mason RJ, Broaddus VC, Martin TR, et al, eds.Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 5th ed.Philadelphia,Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 32.
Review Date: 12/12/2011
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Denis Hadjiliadis, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.


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CAR Prospects: Lindor's leather leads
Cleveland shortstop heads bumper crop of Carolina prospects
By Jonathan Raymond / Special to MLB.com | April 5, 2013 6:00 AM ET
Here's a ranking of the 10 prospects we're most excited to see light up the Carolina League in 2013:
No. 1. Francisco Lindor (SS, Carolina Mudcats): Lindor's proficiency with the leather is well-known, making him the seeming heir apparent in a line of elite shortstop prospects that have come along in recent years, from Starlin Castro to Andrelton Simmons to Jurickson Profar and so on.
Like Profar, Lindor is a switch-hitter, though one whose offensive game is still in development. For Class A Lake County last year, the top Indians prospect hit .257/.352/.355, showing a touch of power potential with 24 doubles and speed with 27 steals. Even if his hitting doesn't advance much more, though, his glove, which is arguably Major League-ready right now, will keep him advancing through the Cleveland system.
No. 2. Kyle Zimmer (RHP, Wilmington Blue Rocks): Zimmer comes to Wilmington with the potential to be the best starting pitcher in the league, after being taken fifth overall in last year's Draft out of the University of San Francisco.
After a prolific three-year career with the Dons, in which he amassed a 3.45 ERA and 200 strikeouts in 185 1/3 innings, good for fifth all-time at the school, he made quick work of the Rookie-level Arizona League and Class A Midwest League.
The 6-foot-3 right-hander made just three starts for the AZL Royals before moving on to make six for the Kane County Cougars. In all, he went 3-3 with a 2.04 ERA and 42 strikeouts against eight walks in 39 2/3 innings in his debut last year.
No. 3. Courtney Hawkins (OF, Winston-Salem Dash): The 6-foot-3, 220-pound outfielder taken 13th overall last year out of Mary Carroll High School in Corpus Christi, Texas, is loaded with the potential to be Chicago's best power prospect in some time.
He flashed it last year, too, hitting .284 and slugging .480 with eight homers and 15 doubles in 59 games between three levels. The 19-year-old already has his first Carolina League homer out of the way, as well, after smacking one during a five-game stint with the Dash at the end of last season.
No. 4. A.J. Cole (RHP, Potomac Nationals): Cole returns to the Nationals system after a year with Oakland, having been traded back to the franchise that picked him in the fourth round of the 2011 Draft.
His introduction to the Class A Advanced level in the A's system wasn't a pretty one, with a 7.82 ERA over eight starts sending him back to Class A. But that was in the California League, which is no normal run-scoring environment, and it was a small sample size, just 38 innings.
He was dominant back in the Midwest League, and he'll get the chance to put that crooked ERA behind him once and for all in the Carolina League.
No. 5. Henry Owens (LHP, Salem Red Sox): Owens, a lanky, 6-foot-6 left-hander, is, first and foremost, a strikeout machine. The 20-year-old California native fanned 130 batters in 101 2/3 innings last year, good for a 11.51 strikeouts-per-nine innings rate.
He also walked 47 (4.16 per nine), though, and recorded a 4.87 ERA in 23 appearances for Class A Greenville. So control, and cutting back on the 10 home runs he allowed last year, will be what the No. 5 Boston prospect has to work on in the Carolina League. But with that punchout-heavy stuff, it's easy to believe in Owens.
No. 6. Luis Sardinas (SS, Myrtle Beach Pelicans): Sardinas, like Lindor, sports a flashy glove. The 19-year-old Venezuelan, signed as an international free agent by Texas in 2009, was ranked the No. 3 Rangers prospect by MLB.com, behind just Jurickson Profar and Mike Olt. Needless to say, he's in good company.
Sardinas has also shown an impressive ability to hit for average, batting .309 in 40 combined Arizona League games from 2010-11. Last year, with Class A Hickory, he hit .291/.346/.356 and stole 32 bases in 41 tries, good for a 78-percent success rate. With a little progression, he'll profile as a prototypical top-of-the-order middle infielder.
No. 7. Garin Cecchini (3B, Salem Red Sox): Brother of 2012 Mets first-rounder Gavin, Cecchini has shown an advanced feel for hitting in his first two seasons in the Boston system. A 2010 fourth-rounder in his own right, the Louisiana native, who will turn 22 later this month, hit .298/.398/.500 in his first year with Class A Short-Season Lowell and then followed that up with a .305/.394/.433 line for Class A Greenville last season.
Perhaps more impressively, Cecchini stole 51 bases last season while being caught just six times, for an almost absurd 89.5-percent success rate. Between his ability to make contact, get on base and steal, he won't need to hit for much power to be a valuable every day player. If he shows more of that in the Carolina League this year, watch out.
No. 8. Eduardo Rodriguez (LHP, Frederick Keys): Rodriguez, a Venezuelan lefty, is an interesting arm in part because of his youth. Just 19 last season (he'll turn 20 on Sunday), he held his own in the full-season Class A South Atlantic League.
He registered a 3.70 ERA in 107 innings for Delmarva, striking out 73 and flashing strong control, with just 30 walks (2.52 per nine innings). In fact, in all of his professional experience, dating back to his time in 2010 in the Dominican Summer League, he's recorded just a 3.09 walks-per-nine mark in 221 1/3 innings of work. That control will be his calling card as the No. 3 Baltimore prospect anchors the Frederick rotation in 2013.
No. 9. Tyler Naquin (OF, Carolina Mudcats): Naquin comes along with a first-round pedigree as well, as Cleveland took the outfielder 15th overall in last year's Draft out of Texas A&M University.
Ranked the team's No. 6 prospect, Naquin was solid in his first pro experience last year in the New York-Penn League, hitting .270/.379/.380 in 36 games for Mahoning Valley. He also had a strong walk-to-strikeout ratio (17-to-26) and brings an advanced bat to a Carolina lineup that will boast a lot of talent.
No. 10. Tony Wolters (C, Carolina Mudcats): Wolters makes an appearance on this list thanks in part to an offseason position switch that enhances his potential value. With shortstops like Lindor and Dorssys Paulino ahead of him on the depth chart in the system, Wolters has moved to catching.
The 20-year-old will return to the Carolina League to work primarily on his defense. If he can build a little bit on the .260/.320/.404 line he put up in 125 games for the Mudcats last year and show he can handle the new position, the 2010 third-rounder could prove to have a nice future ahead of him behind the backstop for the Indians.
Jonathan Raymond is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Two hunters. Two rodents.
The hunters? Reptiles. Both found on the floor of the Indian forest.
One, an Indian rock python. The other, a mugger crocodile.
The rodents are bandicoot rats. Topping out at over a foot in length, the bandicoot rat is a scourge of farmers but provides these reptiles with much-needed sustenance.
The Indian rock python tracks its prey, relying on heat-sensing pits on the side of its head, and on its sense of smell.—A snake “smells” by “tasting” the air with its tongue, and touching what’s known as a Jacobson’s organ in its mouth.
Mugger crocs, on the other hand, choose a place where something tasty might show up and wait…sometimes for hours.
And when something does…the mugger springs to life, able to move quickly after its intended victim. Using a powerful, flat tail and webbed hind feet, it is a focused but graceful hunter while in the water…able to dispatch small prey like the bandicoot rat with a quick snap of its powerful jaws.
Meanwhile, the python’s persistent tracking has paid off. After grabbing the bandicoot rat with its mouth, the python wraps itself around the prey, suffocating it. It then eats the bandicoot rat whole—unhinging its jaw and stretching its elastic skin to swallow the large animal.


text: For just the 19th time in her life, Brooke Mueller is back in rehab. According to a statement from her publicist who said Brooke was not using any drugs earlier in the week, Brooke is uncomfortable with how Adderall is making her feel so decided to go to rehab. Umm, yeah, if you take 10 of the things every few hours, they will make you feel like Red Bull is in your body instead of blood. Combine that with the booze she is drinking and the crack she is smoking and yeah, I could see how the Adderall would make her feel uncomfortable. I hope Charlie pays her extra for rehab. 19 times. She could make a killing. Her mom thought it had been far less than 19, but Principal Rooney set her straight. And yes, Charlie Sheen was in the movie, so this is full circle stuff here. Read this post when you have hot boxed and you will see the heavens open up and life will be explained.


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My name is Renato Migliaccio I am a black belt under Ryan Gracie and not familiar to forums, please let me know if my post is very proper here...
I am about to do a very nice thing that I have never done before.
I will be hosting a FREE webinar (seminar online) I will be talking about Omoplata situations.
The main reason I decided to do that is because I been very busy here at Sampa Academy and I could not visit my network of students and Friends schools in Europe, USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil.
So I decided to do that as a treat for all my students, so if you have been in one of my seminars in Europe please register to my seminar it will be a great time!
This will be my first webinar ever, so I am very excited to do that.
Do not miss this opportunity it will be on November 25th at 10 AM pacific time, so if you are not in California time just google it and find out the time difference.
Please let everyone know just share this email or the link, thanks
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Reba, Taylor, Shania up for Country's 'Most Beautiful' title
First fans evaluated the men, and now they're being asked to weigh in on the ladies.
"Country Weekly" is following up their annual "Country Music's Sexiest Man" poll with "Country Music's Most Beautiful Woman" survey.
The publication's website offers up 34 nominees, including Reba McEntire, Taylor Swift, and Shania Twain. Miranda Lambert, Sara Evans, Kacey Musgraves, and Faith Hill are also in the running, along with The Band Perry's Kimberly Perry, Kellie Pickler, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, and Martina McBride.
There's also a write-in option. Voting is under way now, and closes on Sunday.
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Looks like its going to be busy. Most of the scottish crowd havent expeirenced a proper high end MMA show yet.
This card in the kelvinhall on saturday night is without doubt the best MMA card top to tail to take place on Scottish soil to date.
Get along and support it, it will run bang on time, the production of the CW shows are as second to none out side the UFC and there is not a bad fight on the card


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The UFC has tried to sign Fedor a number of times.
I guess the 3 most high profiles times would be.
* Affliction - Fedor turned down the UFC and went with Affliction - this caused Randy to walk out of the UFC. Dana said he offered him the biggest deal in UFC history at this point. 30 million for 6 fights.
* Strikeforce - Fedor turned down the UFC to co-promote M1 with Strikeforce - before he signed with SF it looked like he was going to sign with the UFC and thus started the talk of Lesnar/Fedor. I think Dana also called MI crazy Russians at this point.
* UFC buys out Strikeforce - post the Henderson fight if I'm correct Fedor was offered to sign with the UFC for a $500,000 basic and PPV share deal with no co-promotion with M1.


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Dropdown menu & right-click context menu: Access library information and web pages from a list or search the library catalog, Full Text Finder E-Journals, WorldCat, or Google Scholar directly from the LibX toolbar or using the right-click context menu.
Off-campus access via EZProxy: Using the Library's off-campus proxy, you may reload a page through the proxy, or follow a link via the proxy, making it appear as though you are coming from an on-campus computer.
Quick full text access to journal articles: LibX uses Google Scholar to search for articles and directs the user to the electronic copy subscribed to by your Library. Select a citation, then drag-and-drop it onto the Scholar button on the toolbar. You can use this feature even from inside a PDF file, which makes retrieving papers referenced in a PDF file a snap.
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It's the beginning of the year and we're still here, so apparently the Mayans were wrong. Regardless of our prophesied demise, it's certainly not the end of anything for Caltrans. District 7 currently has 103 projects underway for a total of $2.6 billion, a record amount.
We scored a major victory with the projects on I-5 south in terms of getting them out on time and obligating a significant amount of Corridor Mobility Improvement Account funds. The Right-of-Way Division pulled out all the stops to ensure on-time delivery and we really appreciate all their efforts. Because these are such high profile projects, the district received a lot of recognition and positive attention from Headquarters. So to everyone who has been involved with I-5 south, thank you for your excellent work.
Partnering played a big role in work over the year and will continue to do so in the future. Our partnership with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has been particularly fruitful on the northbound I-405 carpool lane project from I-10 to U.S. 101.
As just about anyone with a pulse knows, part of that project involved demolishing and rebuilding the Mulholland Bridge, requiring 53-hour closures of the freeway two years in a row.
The goal was to reduce the number of vehicles on the road, and that effort was extremely successful.
The July 2011 closure (aka Carmageddon) resulted in numerous awards for Caltrans and its partner, including the America's Transportation Award (sponsored by AASHTO, AAA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) Grand Prize, which included a $10,000 award that Caltrans will donate to the California Transportation Foundation (CTF); an AASHTO Excel Award, the organization's highest award for public relations programs and campaigns; and the CTF "Tranny" award for Public Outreach Program of the Year.
District 7 also is working with Metro on the ExpressLanes, the first High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes project in Los Angeles County. Financed largely by a federal grant, the first segment of this pilot project, on the 110 freeway between Adams Boulevard and the Artesia Transit Center, went into service on November 10, 2012. The second phase, on I-10 from I-605 to Alameda Street, will go into service in early 2013.
This is an exciting project because it gives the motoring public another transportation alternative, allowing single drivers who want to be assured of maintaining a certain speed to enter the carpool lanes for a fee. This is in line with our new direction of becoming a more multi-modal organization, where we improve the transportation experience for of the population: transit and bus riders, pedestrians, cyclists and motorists.
This year, we also celebrate the start of construction on the new Gerald Desmond Bridge, a nearly $1 billion project that will keep the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach competitive far into the future. For Caltrans, one of the more interesting features of the project is that it's design-build, as is the newly-begun I-10/I-605 Direct Connector project in the San Gabriel Valley.
While traditional design-bid-build will continue to be a primary delivery tool for Caltrans, we are increasingly making use of alternative construction methods such as design-build, design-sequencing and public-private partnerships.
I hope you are rested after the holidays because we are going to be busy. We're still designing a lot of projects but, as many of you know, a lot of our work is going to shift to construction. We are taking a look at how we can realign the district to fill the demand for construction-related positions and encourage you to consider volunteering for challenging and rewarding work in the field.
And we look forward to filling the executive staff positions with permanent deputies. Right now, Dan Freeman, our long-time Maintenance Deputy, is currently acting as the Construction Deputy since the departure of Roy Fisher a couple of months ago. Then Diana Gomez, Sam Ekrami and Bill Reagan also left the district. We are managing with Headquarters folks Herby Lissade acting for Dan; Shirley Choate acting as Director of Program/Project Management; Don Fogle as acting Operations Deputy; and Gregg Magaziner as acting Design Deputy.
We thank them for helping us out in the interim.
In this issue of Inside 7, we profile newly retired Youseff Youseffzadeh, District 7 Construction Safety Coordinator. Youseff reminds us always to keep safety in the forefront. Although we are fortunate not to have had a Caltrans employee fatality in the past 12 months, our contractor brethren have not been so lucky. It was in the wake of an incident in Los Angeles that killed two contractor employees that Caltrans initiated a Safety Task Force with the California Highway Patrol, industry, labor, and our staff to see what more we could do.
Within a week, they came up with an action plan that is already being pursued. It includes: increasing CHP presence in work zones; using DUI checkpoints in advance of construction zones; lowering work zone speed limits; and testing temporary rumble strips on highways.
Have a safe, productive and happy new year and we'll check in again in the spring.


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Two 50-Year Veterans Celebrate Golden Anniversary With GSA
July 1, 1999
Contact: Peg Strain (202) 501-1231
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When President Harry S. Truman signed the order establishing the General Services Administration, World War II veteran Rosamond Cardreon had already left his post as first sergeant with an Army paratrooper division. Nancy Potter was a mere Sweet 16, earning money for college and helping support her family by typing and filing at the GSA's predecessor agency in Washington.
At loose ends in California, Cardreon was seeking his niche in post-war America. He accepted a "temporary" 30-day stint with the fledgling agency as a laborer who unloaded rail cars.
But he stayed half a century. So did she.
The two were honored today for serving the GSA from the first day the agency opened its doors on that same date in 1949. The 50th anniversary birthday bash is scheduled at 11:30 a.m. in the atrium of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. The celebration will recognize an agency whose divergent mission is sometimes challenging to explain for the casual visitor to its 18th and F street Central Office. But nonetheless, the GSA is critical to the operation of the federal government.
Often with only a behind-the-scenes presence, the agency performs crucial support that is the underpinning of U.S. government. Established as a central federal procurement and property management agency, the GSA was created in 1949 primarily to save taxpayers' money. But though the agency doesn't have a glitzy profile, it has had a lasting impact upon the country. It has consistently provided a steadfast wind beneath the wings to uplift the federal government infrastructure.
The GSA is the federal landlord, providing workspace for federal agencies and one-stop shopping for products and services from paperclips to state-of-the-art telecommunications at bargain basement prices. Its widely-varied mission encompasses caring for monuments to paperclip minutia. The agency provides telecommunications for those with hearing or speech disabilities to allowing customers to ship used carpet to be re-tooled at half the price of new carpet. When there is a natural catastrophe anywhere across the country, GSA dispatches an emergency response team to disaster sites often before even the Federal Emergency Management Agency arrives.
"Think of GSA as the world's biggest Wal-Mart," quipped one agency intimate.
But in an era in which the average American worker typically hopscotchs from one job to another every three to five years, longtime agency loyalists Cardreon and Potter are a cusp-of-the-millennium anomaly. Their century sum of service is a skyward blip on the U.S. employment demographics screen. Downsizing and the decline of corporate loyalty in recent years have fashioned a very different work world than the one these two embarked upon back on the far side of the 1950s.
Not many people can say they stayed with the same organization for 20 years and very few for 50 years. Concerning his longevity Cardreon says: "It's been a joy. I have enjoyed every minute of it. It's the pleasure I get from the job. That is what I'm about. People ask for me. You're like a Santa Claus," he says of his equipment supply work. "I got to know people and people got to know me," says "Rosey," as he is affectionately known to his co-workers and GSA customers -- other federal agencies.
Nancy Potter began as a clerk with the GSA's predecessor, the Federal Works Agency, where she cranked out forms and letters on a heavy old (manual of course) Remington typewriter. These days you can't find such a dated piece of equipment in her office in the GSA's central headquarters at 18th and F streets in downtown Washington. But you can always find Nancy Potter. She comes in early and stays late. Those dedicated hours evidence themselves on the walls of her office where they have been translated into certificates and momentos that testify to half a century faithful government service.
She is deputy director of budget for the GSA and the now high-tech tools of her trade are a Dell 486 and Lotus Notes, to mention but two. She works with a staff of 25 people and House and Senate staffers and the Office of Management and Budget examiners in efforts to continually improve GSA's financial management.
"She is one of the most capable people I have ever known. She is unfailingly accurate, hard working and knowledgeable. If we could clone Nancy, we would. There would be 50 more just like her. She is well respected up here. She is the touchstone for all vital information. We need her. We love her," said Susan Brita, a Democratic staff director for the transportation committee subcommittee on public buildings.
Looking back at a lifetime of memories with the agency whose life span parallels her adult career experience, Potter says of the agency, "I think we have done very well." Through the years, time and again, she has done "whatever it takes," according to one framed accolade on her office wall. She is proud of the agency's initiatives in encouraging participation of small, minority and women-run businesses, and its leadership in childcare since GSA is the largest provider of child care centers for the civilian "federal family." The GSA has always been a "warm" agency toward people, she says.
"I had other job offers, but the customers felt I was making a difference." So she stayed.
"I went to college and applied myself," she says with a spirit of determination concerning her success in government. She earned a business degree at George Washington University in 1963 and kept winning promotions at the agency. She is particularly proud she has mentored dozens of interns at the GSA. Chatting with her, one receives the impression she is just as bent on the notion of making a contribution toward good government as the day she took the federal oath of office 50 years ago.
In Bell, CA, about five miles east of Los Angeles, Rosamond Cardreon is officially classified as a "utilization officer." That means he manages government property for redistribution, sale or donation. Rosey achieved that position on the heels of being a warehouseman, chief of the shipping department, assistant manager and supply officer.
Even amid the bureaucracy, especially amid the bureaucracy, Rosey gives sound business advice: "You have to treat a person like you like being treated. Go out of your way to do things for them and give them a kind word."
His supervisor, Patrick Lamb, GSA chief of field and customer support in San Francisco, put it another way: "At this point in his career, he is not motivated by money or promotions, but by satisfying the people he deals with. He's personable. He's a gentleman and a gentle man. He likes to help people."
Rosey is the epitome of a "nice fellow." He also runs 10 miles and lifts weights five days a week. He will be in Washington for the July 1 GSA celebration, but says he hasn't given retirement any particular thought. "Maybe one of these days, I'll just hang it up," he says offhandedly. But for now Rosey and Nancy Potter both say they are still fulfilled by the patriotic partnership each forged with the agency five decades ago. Nancy has fond recollections of her years in Washington. Several times when he was in office, she saw Truman, whom she characterized as "an honest and sincere President."
She is endearingly referred to as "The Young Lady" by her cross-continent, five-decade co-worker. Indeed, she was a young woman when President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Just before she heard the news, she remembers walking down 18th Street to the GSA building, the first-ever modern, steel frame federal office building. "The street was quiet. It was sort of eerie, and when we got in the building, we discovered what had happened."
Her historical perspective about the GSA is just as keen because she has been there from its birth. She's the institutional memory everyone consults. She has seen the agency go from stack upon stack of wide, manually-entered spreadsheets to computerized financial programs; from fledgling organization to sweeping bureaucracy and then pared down to today's leaner, more competitive and nimble operation. "Our leadership has permitted us to be innovators. We have become a strong policy arm of government. We build on the past but always look to the future and where we are headed. We're looking for better, cheaper, quicker and faster ways to do things."


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I promise, I'm not here to rain on the Angels' and Dodgers' parades.
They deserve all the praise in the world for their recent acquisitions, the Angels reeling in power-hitting outfielder Josh Hamilton and the Dodgers adding former Cy Young award winner Zack Greinke in a stunning display of fiscal might and commitment to winning over the past week or so.
In the process, each club gave their fans the rarest of gifts this holiday season - the comfort in knowing their favorite teams don't just talk about winning; they thirst so intensely for it they are willing to meet whatever cost necessary to chase it.
In just more than 12 months time - or going back to the $160 million commitment the Dodgers made to All-Star center fielder Matt Kemp last year - the clubs have shelled out close to a billion dollars to either lock up or acquire All-Stars Albert Pujols, C.J. Wilson, Hamilton, Kemp, Adrian Gonzalez, Andre Ethier, Carl Crawford, Hanley Ramirez, Josh Beckett and Greinke.
And that isn't counting the $85 million extension Angels ace Jered Weaver inked in 2011 or the $61.7 million the Dodgers spent to sign South Korean left-handed pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu this offseason.
Even by professional sports standards, that's an absurd amount of money to spend - albeit a clear sign to local fans the Dodgers and Angels are serious about bringing a World Series championship to Southern California.
Or two or three or four.
Who can argue with that kind of commitment?
Certainly not me.
Still, I can't help feel a sense of trepidation as our baseball teams enter their new eras of free-spending, win-at-all-costs operations when recent history suggests moderately priced payrolls are just as likely to win it all as high-priced ones.
The past three World Series champions - the San Francisco Giants (twice) and St. Louis Cardinals - showed you can win with sensible budgets provided you have the patience and discipline to develop from within.
Meanwhile, our teams are getting farther and farther away from that philosophy.
Maybe it's the anxiety of what waits on the other side of this new, exciting journey or who ultimately will bear the brunt of financing the extraordinary investments being made.
Yes, the Angels and Dodgers benefit greatly from lucrative new television deals and each will use that money to bankroll their on-field products.
But at some point fans will feel the crunch through higher ticket, concession and parking prices as well as inflated cable bills.
New York Yankees fans understand that all too well, the burden of financing a new stadium and an exorbitant payroll reflected in such high ticket prices it's not unusual to see thousands of empty seats at Yankee Stadium during games.
Again, I'm not here to pull the plug on the party.
I'm just wondering if fans will get stuck with a hefty bill at some point.
And that's not even pondering the worst-case scenario for Angels fans - their team fleeing Anaheim for Los Angeles in search of a stadium and location that creates better revenue streams.
It's no secret Angels owner Arte Moreno isn't satisfied with Angel Stadium, and with his lease running out in 2016 and his well-known fondness for Los Angeles, it's impossible not to at least wonder about the possibility of a move to L.A.
Not trying to freak anyone out, but we'd be remiss if we didn't consider all possibilities.
Perhaps it's the nightmare of being hamstrung by aging, high-priced veterans clogging up valuable positions and sabotaging financial flexibility in four or five years.
Pujols turns 33 in January and Hamilton 32 in May, and both have seen a dip in their production over the past year or so. What can we expect three-plus years from now when they are pushing 37 and 36 and accounting for more than $50 million in payroll?
And how much flexibility will the Angels have come 2016 when Weaver, Pujols, Wilson and Hamilton - all of whom will be in their mid to late 30 s, by the way - are owed a combined $85 million?
Same goes for the Dodgers when they'll be on the hook for more than $90 million in 2016 for Kemp, Gonzalez, Ethier, Greinke and Crawford, all of whom will be past or nearing the end of their primes.
And that's not counting the huge contract Clayton Kershaw soon will get to push the payroll soaring over the $100 million threshold - for only six players, mind you.
Sure, maybe right now you're thinking, 'Why should I care about 2016?' That's four years down the line. And we'll happily pay the price in 2016 for the chance to win a World Series in 2013 and 2014.
In theory, that sounds great. But in reality, not so much.
There is nothing quite as depressing as watching an aging, overpriced baseball team limp through the tail-end of its run.
Just ask the Yankees, who built four World Series champions from 1995-2000 with a core of affordable, homegrown players - with a few high-priced veterans sprinkled in here and there - only to then start throwing money at high-priced free agents.
The result?
The Bronx Bombers have won just one World Series since 2000 and are on the hook for $119 million over the next five years to a 37-year-old Alex Rodriguez, $92.5 million over the next four to 32-year-old Mark Teixeira and $94 million over the next four to a 32-year-old CC Sabathia.
No wonder the aging, over-priced Yankees are sitting out this winter spending spree while looking to cut payroll.
Same thing with the Boston Red Sox, who spent lavishly on Gonzalez and Crawford the past two years, added them to an already high-priced payroll and found they were locked into a terrible, aging roster for the foreseeable future.
Had it not been for the now deep-pocketed Dodgers, who took the huge contracts of Crawford, Gonzalez and Josh Beckett off Boston's hands, the Red Sox would be stuck.
As it is, they were granted a rare re-boot, althoughand as you see this winter they are extremely wary about spending recklessly again.
Funny, isn't it, how the Yankees and Red Sox are showing some restraint this season compared to their free-spending ways of the past while the Dodgers and Angels continue to add extravagantly to their payrolls?
On the surface, it seems an enviable role reversal for local fans. But I'm here to tell you it comes with a warning tag.
I'm not trying to ruin anyone's fun.


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It's a shame the entire Internet is blacked out at the moment, because the post I was planning to write today was really going to be something. Devastatingly witty, brilliantly insightful, and guaranteed to contain something to offend every reader, it was going to be my best post ever.
But why waste it if nobody can see it? Since Anonymous called for a blackout today to protest CISPA, we've all been forced to go cold turkey from our Internet addictions. Heck, I don't even know why I'm typing this. It's like I'm talking to myself. (For most of us this is known by a slightly different name: blogging.) By tomorrow, the inspiration will surely have evaporated.
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Wait, you mean you can read this? I am really am posting? This microphone is live? I am shocked -- shocked, I say -- to discover that the grand call by Anonymous for an Internet-wide blackout has failed to excite the masses. After all, didn't the group post a video on AnonyOps site last week telling everyone to black out their websites today? Weren't you people paying attention?
Hmm, maybe the world isn't watching after all. Or maybe trying to get the SOPA lightning to strike twice takes more than a few ticked-off Anons.
Online is the new offline?
Today the AnonyOps site sports a red and black banner stating, "This Website is offline in protest of CISPA." But it doesn't exactly look offline. There's the video, of course, and links to other sites where you can call your U.S. senator, sign online petitions, download banner code, and view the other sites that have taken similar actions.
At press time, there were just shy of 400, not a single one of which I had ever heard of before. (See blogging = talking to yourself, above.) Better watch out Congress -- you've just ticked off Rubbing Alcoholic, It's a Tomato, and Drink Cocaine. The revolution is at hand.


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Jays' Cole finds faith in recent success
Righty's shutout start lowers his ERA to 0.30 with Vancouver
By Sam Dykstra / Special to MLB.com | July 31, 2012 10:12 PM ET
But in 2012, he's back in dominating fashion.
The Blue Jays right-hander prospect allowed five hits and struck out five over six shutout innings Tuesday to lead Class A Short-Season Vancouver past Salem-Keizer, 3-2.
The 22-year-old improved to 3-0 and extended his scoreless streak to a career-best 21 innings with the win, dropping his ERA to an astounding 0.30. An oblique injury that kept the right-hander out for three weeks is the only thing keeping Cole from reaching the innings limit he'd need to lead the Northwest League in ERA.
"I have a lot of confidence right now," he said. "I have some great guys behind me, and Tucker Frawley, who's been my catcher for the most part this year, has done a phenomenal job calling the game with me. Give a lot of credit to those guys. I've just worked hard here to get to this. This is everything to me right now."
Cole's streak could have ended in the third and fourth frames, when the first two batters both reached to start the respective innings. The fourth was the more dangerous of the two as Matthew Duffy singled and Joseph Rapp reached on a missed catch error by second baseman Daniel Arcila to put Volcanoes at the corners with nobody out.
But Cole struck out Charles Jones swinging for the first out and then forced Mitchell Delfino to ground into a double play to end the frame without allowing a run.
"That was a big confidence builder for me," said the Las Vegas native. "It was a good thing to be a part of because I haven't really had to face many guys in that situation with no outs this year. So that kind of pushed me to finish it out."
Cole continued a season during which he's shown vast improvement across the board. In his first professional season after being taken in the 29th round of the Draft last year, the Brigham Young University product was 1-3 with a 5.88 ERA in 11 appearances (eight starts).
While thinking on why last season wasn't such a success, he looked back even further to find the answer.
Cole spent the two years before BYU in Toronto "serving the Lord, however we could" during his mission. That included knocking on doors to discuss his faith with others, helping those in need move from place to place -- in other words, working every day to spread Christianity.
When he looked at that important time in his life a year later, the light bulb went off.
"The harder you work, the more you conspire to work for your own good," said the 6-foot-1 hurler. "I realized when I worked the hardest on my mission, I was the happiest. It helped me deal with being away from family and stuff like that.
"Last year, I wasn't as happy. I was pretty much down in the dumps, I guess you could say, because I just wasn't as successful as I remember. So I worked with my trainer, my mental coach, some pitching guys, and this year has been much better. It's been a blessing really."
Ian Parmley doubled, walked twice and scored once out of the leadoff spot for Vancouver.
Volcanoes right fielder Michael Mergenthaler smacked a two-run homer off the Canadians' Andrew Sikula to bring his team within one in the ninth.
Sam Dykstra is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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A Cavern of Black Ice
Raif is a clansman from the far north while Ash is a foundling raised to the south in Spire Vanis. Together they must stop the evil forces that are building up inside of Ash. There are people in the land that want Raif dead for the truth that he knows and want Ash for her great power. ...
A Fortress of Grey Ice
Tor, Aug 2003, 25.95, 672 pp. ISBN: 0765306336 Though they know this is probably their last stand as a people, the Sull prepare for war. Their only hope of defeating the overwhelmingly superior forces of the Endlords resides in their most sacred warrior the Reach, but Ash March is nowhere in sight, as she was not raised amidst her tribe. Meanwhile Raif Sevrance remains a hunted outcast from his Clan Blackhail for accusing the new chief of arr...
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This is the second volume in the Book of Words trilogy (following The Baker's Boy and followed by Master and Fool). Melli and Jack, fleeing for the second time from Castle Harvell, take refuge in a chicken coop. While Jack is taking a morning stroll in the snow to stretch his legs and bury the corpse of the Halcus man he's just killed to defend Melli, a group of soldiers kidnap the girl to sell her to a flesh-trader. On his way back to the coop, Jack ...
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Jones skillfully transports us to the chilly realm of warring clans, power-hungry rulers and ancient terrifying evil. Ralf Severance and his brother Drey are young clan brothers who find their father and their leader have been ambushed and murdered by the rival clan Bludd. Soon Ralf will suspect his leader foster son and new ruler of being involved with their deaths. Jones also introduces us Ash March who is haunted by strange voices that torment her whi...
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Master and Fool - The Book of Words 3
This is the third and final volume of The Book of Words (after The Baker's Boy and A Man Betrayed). In Bren, the duke has just been murdered on his wedding night. Thanks to Baralis, quickly the rumours spread, claiming that Tawl the duke's champion and former Knight of Valdis, is the assasin. He and Melli, now the duke's widow, have to flee and hide away, along with Maybor and a couple of guards. About a month later, King Kylock, who is becoming mo...
The Baker's Boy - The Book of Words 1
This is the first volume in The Book of Words trilogy (followed by A Man Betrayed, and Master and Fool). At Castle Harvell, Jack, a thirteen-year-old orphan, is the baker's boy. Since he doesn't know how to read, the mischevious king's chancellor and sorcerer Baralis employs him as a blind scribe to copy the precious books of Tavalisk the Archbishop of Rorn's library. After five years of hard work and little sleep, Jack has secretly learnt how to deci...
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cproto generates function prototypes for functions defined in the specified C source files to the standard output. The function definitions may be in K&R or ANSI C style, or in the lint library form. cproto can also convert function definitions in the specified files from the K&R style to the ANSI C style.
FIM (Fbi IMproved) aims to be a highly customizable and scriptable image viewer targeted at the users who are comfortable with software like the Vim text editor or the Mutt mail user agent. It is based on the Fbi image viewer and works either in the Linux framebuffer console or in the X system. It features the ability to filter the list of images with regular expressions, Vim-like autocommands, command line autocompletion and history, completely customizable key bindings, external/internal scriptability, and much more.
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Usepackage is a tool for managing the Unix environment for a multi-tool, multi-platform site. It is designed to simplify login scripts and allow administrators to control users' environments centrally. This tool should be considered primarily designed for sites where users have to deal with a number of different tools, or versions of tools, that are installed in different locations and require environment variables to be set. This is particularly a problem for developers, or anyone who has to manage a large toolset across multiple platforms (e.g. different versions of the Sun JDK which require various environment variables to be set correctly). One or more central configuration files control a number of different "packages" and their associated environment and dependencies for different platforms (this includes the standard PATH, MANPATH, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables). A single user command, use, can be invoked to source the appropriate environment information into the users' current shell.
The GUIShell project is a collection of utilities facilitating the use of the GTK+ toolkit in shell scripts through the gtkshell utility. The ACE configuration environment provides sample scripts utilizing gtkshell for desktop utilities. rootcat provides the ability to display messages to the root window using Xft, allowing one to write status display scripts.
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