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- Enable Network Threat Protection.
- Switch the client to computer mode.
- Install the client on a computer that runs all the time.
- Enable only Symantec Endpoint Protection clients as unmanaged detectors.
- A Symantec Network Access Control client cannot be an unmanaged detector.
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2 Under View Clients, select the group that contains the client that you want to enable as an unmanaged detector.
3 On the Clients tab, right-click the client that you want to enable as an unmanaged detector, and then click Enable as Unmanaged Detector.
4 To specify one or more devices to exclude from detection by the unmanaged detector, click Configure Unmanaged Detector.
5 In the Unmanaged Detector Exceptions for client name dialog box, click Add.
6 In the Add Unmanaged Detector Exception dialog box, click one of the following options:
■ Exclude detection of an IP address range, and then enter the IP address range for several devices.
■ Exclude detection of aMACaddress, and then enter the device's MAC address.
7 Click OK.
8 Click OK.
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If you are talking about at the end of the frozen throne, the in game cinematic only made it that way. Blizzard did not have enough time to create the full end cinematic that they had hoped for, as illidan watches Arthas rise to become the lich king. People even found sound files for it.
And Sukhoi, I doubt the next expansion is the burning legion. Go listen to Wrathions epilogue. This entire expansion was about placing both factions under one banner, to do with a coming threat and be prepared for it. He has visions about the legion coming, yes, but he never specifies when. he also stated that he wanted to prep us all for it, but he never gets the chance too in this expansion.


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Although I have a significant business background, my first love is Criminal Defense. I also do Juvenile Dependency and Juvenile Delinquency. Juvenile delinquency is an area of law that involves children who commit crimes. Juvenile Dependency is an area of law which involves children who are taken from their parents because the parents are accused of not properly caring for their children, or hurting their children in some way. In the Juvenile Dependency court, I sometimes represent one of the parents, or sometimes I represent the children. I adore working with the children and being a part of reunifying families that have been separated by unfortunate circumstance or finding new homes for children when reunification is not possible. Recently (2006), I have began accepting cases of person being held in State Hospitals because the government believes that they are mentally ill and dangerous to themselves and others. These are challenging cases and normally involve persons committed under the Sexually Violent Predator Law.
I also write and argue criminal appeals.
I am an active Member of the California State Bar. I belong to the San Joaquin County Bar Association and the California Public Defenders Association. In the past, I have been a member of the American Bar Association. I also serve on the following San Joaquin Bar Association legal panels: Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Dependency, Adult Criminal Misdemeanor, Misdemeanor Appeals.
I graduated law school in June of 1998, and began practicing in December of 1998. I use the term law school loosely because in fact, I pretty much taught myself the law. I attended a traditional law school for my first year of law school (Lincoln Law School, in San Jose, California), and then studied on my own thereafter through a self study program with (Northwestern California University, "NCU" Sacramento, California). While studying the law (30 hours a week), I also worked a demanding job (60 hours per week) as a corporate executive. Ultimately, I received both a Bachelor of Science and Juris Doctorate Degree from NCU. So if you learn nothing else about me, know that I am a very focused and determined person. I passed the bar (on the first try) and now I try to help other law students by acting as a mentor to law students. [See the Law Student Services section of this web site] My clients are generally happy with the services that I perform because I take the time to know the law, listen to the client's needs, understand the facts of their particular situation and shoot for the best possible resolution of their matter.
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Steamboat Clay Artisans sent e-mails to the 24 artists who donated a total of more than 500 hours of volunteer time last year to the annual Soup Bowl Supper fund-raiser. The e-mail asked whether they would be willing to help out again. Soup Bowl Supper co-chairwoman Deb Babcock said she was surprised by how quickly everyone replied.
"They all said yes. Everyone enjoys it," she said. "Absolutely no one said no."
Now that all the potters are in place at their wheels, ready to make hundreds of bowls for the event, the SCA is looking for a beneficiary for its successful signature fund-raiser.
For the past three years, potters have made hundreds of bowls, restaurants have donated soup, and the lines have been out the door. In three years, the SCA has raised $19,142 for area nonprofits.
In 2004, Yampa Valley Recycles was the beneficiary of a Soup Bowl Supper that raised $5,800 -- enough for the group to purchase a downtown recycling station for newspapers.
Any nonprofit can apply to be this year's beneficiary. The SCA creates the ceramic bowls, handles publicity and provides volunteers to help run the event. The beneficiary organization will help sell tickets, procure food donations and manage food service at the event, including clean-up.
"When we started the Soup Bowl Supper, we thought it was a neat idea, but we didn't know if it would be popular," Babcock said. "There are so many fund-raisers in town, but this is one of the very few that's really affordable, and you get a piece of art to take home with you."
A date has not been set for the 2005 Soup Bowl Supper. The date will depend on the schedule of the beneficiary. Artists plan to make bowls in the early spring and have them glazed and fired by early summer.
Any organization interested in applying to be the beneficiary should submit a one- or two-page letter describing the organization, explaining what it would use the money for and include an assurance that the group will have enough volunteers for the event.
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Letters should be submitted no later than March 1 and should be addressed to SCA, P.O. Box 882111, Steamboat Springs, CO 80488, attn: Soup Bowl Supper Committee.
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A Proof of Concept Study to Evaluate the Antiviral Activity, Safety, and Pharmacokinetics of the CCR5 Antagonist TBR 652 in HIV 1-Infected, Antiretroviral Treatment-Experienced, CCR5 Antagonist-Naïve Patients
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A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, dose-escalating study to assess the antiviral activity, safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics (PK) of the CCR5 antagonist TBR 652 monotherapy dosed orally once daily (QD) for 10 days in HIV 1-infected, antiretroviral treatment-experienced, CCR5 antagonist-naïve patients.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
HIV-1 Infection |
Drug: TBR-652 Drug: TBR-652 Matching Placebo Drug: TBR-652 50 mg Drug: TBR-652 75 mg Drug: TBR-652 100 mg Drug: TBR-652 150 mg |
Phase 1 Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Proof of Concept, Multiple Dose-Escalating Study to Evaluate the Antiviral Activity, Safety, and Pharmacokinetics of the CCR5 Antagonist TBR 652 in HIV 1-Infected, Antiretroviral Treatment-Experienced, CCR5 Antagonist-Naïve Patients |
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- HIV-1 RNA Change from Baseline [ Time Frame: 10 days ]
Enrollment: | 52 |
Study Start Date: | February 2009 |
Study Completion Date: | November 2009 |
Primary Completion Date: | November 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: TBR-652 25 mg QD
TBR 25 mg QD for 10 days
Drug: TBR-652
TBR-652 25 mg
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Matching Placebo QD for 10 days
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Experimental: TBR-652 50 mg QD
TBR-652 50 mg QD for 10 days
Drug: TBR-652 50 mg
TBR-652 50 mg QD for 10 days
Experimental: TBR-652 75 mg QD
TBR-652 75 mg QD for 10 days
Drug: TBR-652 75 mg
TBR-652 75 mg QD for 10 days
Experimental: TBR-652 100 mg QD
TBR-652 100 mg QD for 10 days
Drug: TBR-652 100 mg
TBR-652 100 mg QD for 10 days
Experimental: TBR-652 150 mg
TBR-652 150 mg QD for 10 days
Drug: TBR-652 150 mg
TBR-652 150 mg QD for 10 days
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- No clinically significant findings on Screening evaluations (clinical, laboratory, and ECG), which in the opinion of the Investigator would interfere with the subject's ability to comply with the protocol.
- Antiretroviral treatment-experienced; no antiretroviral therapy for at least 6 weeks prior to study entry.
- CCR5 antagonist therapy naive.
- CD4 cell count >/= 250 cells/mm3 during Screening (within 30 days prior to first dose).
- Two separate qualifying plasma HIV 1 RNA levels >/= 5,000 copies/mL within 45 days prior to first dose.
- Females who are not of reproductive potential (documented to be surgically sterile or postmenopausal [defined as amenorrhea ≥ 1 year and follicle stimulating hormone {FSH} ≥ 30 mU/mL]).
- Females of child-bearing potential may be enrolled following a negative serum pregnancy test. If participating in activity that could lead to pregnancy, males and females shall agree to use two forms of barrier method contraception during the trial and for 2 months after stopping the medication.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Presence of CXCR4- or dual/mixed-tropic HIV 1 virus.
- Active CDC category C disease (except cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma not requiring systemic therapy during the trial).
- History of infection with hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus, history of cirrhosis, or any known active or chronic liver disease. NOTE: Hepatitis B vaccinated patients are eligible.
- Serum ALT or AST values greater than Grade 1 or bilirubin values greater than the upper limit of normal (ULN) at Screening.
- History of HIV-2.
- Recent history (< 30 days prior to study drug administration) of clinically significant infection.
- Pregnant females or females who are breastfeeding.
- Treatment with immunomodulating agents (such as systemic corticosteroids, interleukins, interferons) or any agent with known anti-HIV activity within 30 days prior to study drug administration.
- Treatment with any vaccine within 30 days of study drug administration.
- A positive pre-study drug screen, including amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, or PCP.
- Anticipated use of antacids during the trial and/or within 7 days prior to first dose of study drug.
- Current alcohol or drug use, which in the expert judgment of the investigator, will interfere with the patient's ability to comply with the protocol requirements.
- Inability, in the opinion of the investigator, to comply with the dosing schedule and protocol evaluations.
- Use of any experimental medications within 4 weeks prior to Screening.
- Current (within 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug) or anticipated use of antimetabolites; alkylating agents; or drugs, herbal preparations, and foods (including grapefruit) known to affect the CYP 3A4 or CYP 2C8 enzymes or P-glycoprotein transporters.
- History of clinically significant hepatic, metabolic, endocrine, renal, hematologic, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, or cardiovascular disorders (including ECG abnormalities).
- Uncontrolled hypertension.
- Presence of a malabsorption syndrome affecting drug absorption (e.g., Crohn's disease, chronic pancreatitis).
- History of malignancy with exception of cured basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin.
- Receipt of radiation or cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents and not recovered from side effects prior to the first dose of study medication.
- Subjects who have used any over-the-counter medications (including phytotherapeutic, herbal, or plant-derived preparations) within 14 days prior to the first dose of study medication, unless approved by the Investigator, or who have used St. John's wort within 21 days prior to the first dose of study drug. (St. John's wort is prohibited during the study.)
- History or presence of an abnormal ECG.
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.
For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 29, 2017
Responsible Party: | Tobira Therapeutics, Inc. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01092104 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
652-2-201 |
Study First Received: | March 22, 2010 |
Last Updated: | July 3, 2013 |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Antiviral Agents TAK-652 Anti-Infective Agents CCR5 Receptor Antagonists |
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Anti-HIV Agents Anti-Retroviral Agents |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 29, 2017


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When Worlds Collide
By Mary Plumb | December 3, 2012
I think most TMA blog readers know that I also edit the book reviews for the magazine and have the great fortune to have many astrology books on hand, all longing to be included in the column.
There is never enough space to include all the noteworthy books, so this week I am using this format to mention a recent book, When Worlds Collide: Another Look at the Lunar Nodes, by Kathy Allan. (2012)
Kathy Allan was trained as a scientist and her primary interest (according to her book cover) is in "developing and refining astrological techniques that improve natal delineation and predictive accuracy." She has written for TMA, including the article Re-Visioning the Lunar Nodes (Feb/Mar 2009), some of which is woven into this book.
In this book, the author reviews Jyotish and Western views of the nodes, including a misconception based on Rudhyar's early work that he subsequently corrected. She traces the ideas of modern authors, such as Lilly, Carl Jansky, Celeste Teal, Judith Hill, and many others.
Kathy lucidly explains the astronomy. (This is the kind of thing I can read again and again, in the hopes that it will sink in; her clarity has made me confident that I do really understand it now.)
After setting this background, she next builds her own hypothesis on delineating the nodal axis; the reader will benefit from her careful thinking on the subject. Her methods for assessing the nodes include planets at the bendings; the planets ruling the nodes, or parallel – in either declination or latitude – to the nodes; and the house of the PNSE (and its ruler).
The main part of the book is comprised of chapters on chart delineations for many people and events. Julian Assange, Evangeline Adams, Albert Einstein, Princess Diana, Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and others, have chapters with well-told life stories and astrological technique. (The book was published in early 2012. She wrote: "Although the current polls have Romney winning over Obama in a two-way race (statistically they are even), when considering the progressions and transits on election day, Obama appears stronger than Romney.")
Some of the entities and events are the Federal Reserve, the Indonesian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Gulf Oil Spill.
She uses tri-wheels with secondary progressions, transits, and solar eclipses.
Her chart delineations draw upon a range of techniques including: planets out-of-bounds in declination; dispositorship and reception as taught by John Frawley; and modern rulers of the planets.
This is a thorough and clearly written book. It is also nicely designed, with a spacious layout and graphics.
I loved this quote that I found on Kathy Allan's website: "It is accurate to say that I live for astrology. For everything that happens of significance, I consult a chart. The vastly creative expression of the symbols and their correspondence with life events always astonishes me. A day without astrology is a wasted day. It connects me to the wonder of the sky, and to the mystery and magic of the world."
Please visit her website for more about the author and her book: KathyAllan.com
Have a good week everyone.
Here's to the fast-approaching, best possible ending to 2012.
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TMA Summer Reruns
By Mary Plumb | August 27, 2012
In the spirit of the upcoming Labor Day, this week's blog features summer reruns, hits from past blogs.
Here is Robert Blaschke's introduction to the distinction in Mercury retrograde cycles, due to its orbital speed. He explains: "The most problematic of the three retrograde Mercury types are the "Longies" (a 24-day slow retrogression with only 9º between stations). The third category of retrograde Mercury are the "Middies" (a 22-day retrogression with ±13º between stations). These can go either way."
Robert gave further evidence of the phenomena in a later blog, Benign Retrograde Mercury Heralds Shift into Fire Signs.
In Aberrations in the Venus-Mars Cycle, Robert explains an intricate planetary cycle and speculates on why relationships are so complex in our era. "In modern times, since 1960, an aberration has occurred in the Venus-Mars transit cycle in which the retrograde Venus conjunction no longer recurs exactly every 77 months as before. In the view of your correspondent, this has contributed to a societal decline in personal reflection taking place within marriage that would have led to an improved self-awareness about one's personal responsibility for problems in relationship. As a result, without that necessary introspection, society has evolved relational patterns that repeat over and over again in a counter-productive sequence of ongoing serial monogamy."
In The Astrological Faces of Love Gary P. Caton writes that "the natural progression of Love is from Eros, to Philia, to Agape." Gary writes: "Once integrated, these three archetypes, or faces, of Love are really One. If we consider the concept of Holarchy — each part or piece of the whole also contains the whole within itself — then Venus contains within her the essences of all three faces of love and love 'planets.' It is as if there are three 'decanates' of Venus: Venus-Venus, Venus-Juno, and Venus-Neptune."
Adam Gainsburg's A New Model for Full Planetary Phases: The Venus Journey introduced many of us to his uniquely synthetic and creative approach to the Venus archetype. Although in later works he slightly updated some of his terminology, this blog stands as a wonderful introduction.
It's true, I went to a beautiful wedding this weekend and love seems to be on my mind. In upcoming blogs, we'll be looking at the presidential election and other more serious worldly and political matters.
For now, onwards into the week, dear friends. Enjoy these waning days of summer.
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How Astrology Helped Me Cope
By Jan de Prosse | July 2, 2012
Before the blog, a note from the publisher…
The new Aug./Sept. issue of TMA is now available online to print subscribers who are registered for our Digital Edition, and to those who have purchased a digital-only subscription ($33/year, in any country). The Table of Contents for this new issue is available here. It's another information-packed issue.
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We appreciate (and rely on) those of you who subscribe or buy single copies of TMA online or in stores — it helps. Thank you!
How Astrology Helped Me Cope:
In May of this year I went to see my doctor for my annual physical. During the examination, she palpated my throat and became suspicious that something might be going on with my lymph nodes. She told me that there were plenty of things that could go wrong in that vicinity, but most of them are not serious. She suggested a sonogram to help diagnose the problem.
The sonogram was unrevealing. The technician said that he had not been given any guidance about what to look for, just the general instruction to check the area of the throat. So, my doctor prescribed a CT scan (my first) of the head and neck.
Two days later, my doctor called me into her office to discusss the results and told me that there was a nodule (lump) in my thyroid, which was not at all what she had been expecting. She also told me that the lump was most likely benign, but there was a small possibility that it could be precancerous or even malignant. (If it turned out to be benign, no treatment would be necessary.) I could choose to ignore the issue and have another scan performed in three months (and again in six months) to see if the lump was increasing in size. But I chose certainty; I chose to have my thyroid biopsied. In any case, there was no indication that anything had spread beyond the thyroid, so even if the lump were malignant, the treatment would be simple: surgery to remove part of my thyroid gland.
By this time, it was early June. At this point, I decided to check the ephemeris to see if astrology could shed any light on this business. Being a novice astrologer, I needed to use simple methods to get a sense of what was going on. I noticed immediately that Saturn (one of the usual suspects) was retrograde and within two degrees of conjoining my natal Chiron at 21° Libra in my 6th house. Saturn would go direct on June 25 at 22°45′ Libra. This slow motion meant that he was within 1–2 degrees of my natal Chiron the entire month of June and into July (and 2–3 degrees from my natal Mars at 20° Libra ). Once he went direct on June 25, he would finally move into Scorpio on October 6. In other words, Saturn would not return to conjoin my Chiron again.
This gave me hope that I was merely being tested by Saturn. In these cases, patience (a form of discipline) is always a virtue. I had to wait a week to get the biopsy performed, due to scheduling problems. But I decided that it made no sense to drive myself crazy with worry when the whole thing might turn out to be nothing. Indeed, it was probably nothing. And even in the worst-case scenario (cancer), it would be curable.
I explained to the radiologist who conducted the biopsy that I was not an experienced patient. I was certainly not used to this level of attention. There were four people in the room: a sonogram technician, a nurse, the radiologist, and a pathologist to interpret the findings. (As far as I could tell, the nurse was chiefly there to hold my hand when the going got rough.)
When I first called my doctor's office to get the results of the biopsy, I discovered that she was on vacation! So, I waited another week to get the results. "Fine," I thought. "I will pass this Saturn test. I may not get an A+, but I'm sure I'll pass."
Surprisingly, the second week was easier than the first. Still, I knew that my body was stressed out (even though, psychologically, I seemed to be coping rather well). I took medicine to prevent the migraines that had plagued me the first week, causing me to lie awake in the middle of the night thinking negative thoughts — something I was trying to avoid.
On June 25, the very day that Saturn turned direct, I received the news that my biopsy had shown only normal tissue. No further treatment was needed.
There is no doubt in my mind that astrology helped me to cope. I am sure that I would have experienced more anxiety about the outcome, if I hadn't found out that Saturn was only making a temporary stopover in my 6th house, just long enough to teach me a lesson about patience and maintaining serenity in the face of uncertainty. Thanks, dude.
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News from Tem & a few links
By Mary Plumb | February 27, 2012
A note from TMA's publisher:
Hi, everyone. Before we get to the rest of this week's blog, I have some news.
Starting with the April/May issue, we are adding exclusive online bonus content that we don't have room for in the printed magazine, available to all digital-only subscribers and all print subscribers who have registered for their free access to TMA's Digital Edition.
This bonus content will be posted online, along with the new April/May issue, by Tuesday evening (Pacific Time), February 28. It includes TMA's first-ever audio interview, a conversation I conducted a few days ago with astrologer Gary Christen, on topics including Uranian Astrology, the Transneptunian planets, the upcoming Uranus–Pluto squares, the economy and world events in 2012, potential earthquake configurations, and the future of astrology. By the way, in the printed April/May issue, there are two articles on the astrology of earthquakes, including a look at time windows in 2012 when the risk of a large quake in the U.S. is increased. The full April/May Table of Contents can be found here.
So, if you enjoy reading The Mountain Astrologer, or our blog, this is a great time to subscribe. It supports quality in astrological writing and editing, and it helps pay for this blog. If you'd like to subscribe to TMA as digital-only, you can get the current Feb/March issue and 6 more for only $33 in any country — and we now accept PayPal. We would also love to hear from you on what you'd like to see more of in TMA — send those comments to us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Thanks for your time and attention!
Thanks, Tem for filling in with the blog. I'm going to add just a few links (and take some time off today for some birthday cupcakes..)
May everyone's birthday always be happy,
Best to all,
Eric Francis writes on the Pisces Sun squaring the Gemini/Sag nodes, In the Moment: Sun Square the Nodes
Kathy Biehl's Forecast for the Week is always helpful (and cheerful).
Another friend, Kathy Rose, has a video for the aspects for March.
Thanks to Gary Caton for reminding me of The Astronomy Picture of the Day.
In case you missed this from financial heavyweight, Forbes magazine, Can Planets Affect Your Portfolio?
And, keeping it all in perspective, thanks to Ray Grasse for this beauty to behold, images from Hubble in 3D set to Arvo Part's "Tabula Rasa – Silentium".
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Peak Moments of 2012
By Tem Tarriktar | December 26, 2011
Happy Holidays to all of our readers!
Mary Plumb is taking a well-deserved holiday break, so I thought I would fill in this week and contribute my article from the current Dec/Jan issue of The Mountain Astrologer. It is one of eight articles from our "Astrologers' Forum on 2012." If you haven't seen that issue yet, you can still purchase it directly from TMA. Better yet, especially if you are a regular reader of this blog, why not subscribe to TMA? You'll enjoy a year of great articles and forecasts, get free access to the digital version of TMA, and help us fund this blog. If you appreciate the quality of the writing and editing we provide, please support our work with your subscription dollars. Digital-only subscriptions are also available for only $33/year and include the current Dec/Jan issue, plus 6 more, for a total of 7 issues. You'll also get your issues earlier; we expect to post the upcoming Feb./Mar. 2012 issue before January 1.
Here is my article, Peak Moments of 2012 and Forecast for Each Sign
Happy New Year!
–Tem (TMA Publisher)
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A Summer Monday
By Mary Plumb | August 8, 2011
If you, dear readers, are anything like me and my friends and family, you will understand that I am taking a week off from the blog. Time needed to assimilate, maybe, and have a bit more time to enjoy beautiful summer weather.
Transiting Mars is out-of-bounds (now at 23N46) and continuing to engage the brilliant and bright energy of Uranus (which it squares on Tuesday morning), and confront the hidden reserves of Pluto. (Mars is opposite Pluto on Wednesday night. Let's make the most of it — this particular aspect won't happen again until July 2013.)
Mercury is retrograde, of course, and rules siblings. Here's a link to my sister Kate's recent blog on this retrograde:
With Mercury retrograde, if you have time to reflect here are some articles on our site that you may have missed, or that deserve another read.
TMA's Beginners Series There are 13 parts; plenty to keep you busy for a while.
In case you missed the very cool digital flip-book, here's the entire June/July issue.
Book Reviews appeared only on the web from March 2007 through September 2008. There are lots of wonderful books reviewed here.
Robert Blaschke's blog on Mercury Retrograde.
Gary Caton on The Moon and Mercury Overthrow the Sun.
Laughter Yoga, scroll down for the link to the video.
Love to one and all,
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Week Off
By Mary Plumb | January 24, 2011
Hope everybody has a good week. We are taking a week off from the blog. I plan to reread the recent blog posts from our guest blog authors, and all of your fine comments.
Mary Plumb
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News from TMA — A Digital Option Coming in 2011
By Tem Tarriktar | December 27, 2010
Hello everyone, and Happy Holidays:
Mary is getting a well-deserved holiday break from the blog this week. So here is a chance to bring you the latest news from TMA headquarters in Grass Valley, California.
After a lot of hard work by our staff, the new February/March issue of the magazine is being printed this week! It is scheduled to be mailed out to our faithful subscribers on January 4, and to be in the stores by late January. This is a particularly interesting issue of TMA, a theme issue on archetypes, dreamwork, alchemy, and the water houses in the chart. This issue was orchestrated by TMA Special Projects Editor Kate Sholly, and features articles by Ken Johnson, Jodie Forrest, Ray Grasse, Dena DeCastro, Laurence Hillman, Arielle Guttman, Glenn Perry, and Alice O. Howell. We hope you'll send us feedback after you have time to look it over. (Here's a sneak peek at the Table of Contents.)
In addition to keeping up with our relentless production schedule, I have been investigating what it would take to offer our readers the option of accessing a digital version of TMA, for subscribers who would like to have access while traveling, or don't have the space to store printed magazines, or don't want to use the paper in the first place. In my discussions with our circulation manager and with a technical consultant, it looks like there may be a logistically viable way for us to do it, while also making extra content available digitally that there isn't room for in the printed magazine. I plan to post details of how this will work in a week or two, and I hope to have the digital option available to existing (and new) subscribers by late spring or summer of 2011. Subscription options will be: 1) just print; 2) just digital; or 3) both print and digital.
So let us hear from you, readers! What topics and writers do you want to see more of in TMA? What should we add on when we offer a digital option? And how can we expand/improve our forecast section?
I wish each one of you has a happy, low-stress, yet stimulating year ahead,
P.S.: A special thanks goes out to those of you who subscribed or gave gift subscriptions these last few months (the gift subscription sale ends on January 5th). Your subscriptions directly support our work, and I find it personally encouraging that our subscription numbers (as well as our prices) have stayed level even in the hard economic times of the last two years.
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TMA Blog Rests This Week
By Mary Plumb | August 30, 2010
Mary Plumb and all our great guest bloggers are taking an early Labor Day holiday! We'll be back on Monday, September 6. In the mean time, do enjoy all the fine blogs from past weeks, especially Robert Blaschke's recent Aberrations in the Venus-Mars Cycle.
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Good Monday!
By Mary Plumb | February 22, 2010
Hello to all TMA's dear readers. This is not my usual blog, just a warm note to let you know I'm taking a little break this week as I get ready to go to Boston early tomorrow for the NGCR conference. I'll be TMA's eyes and ears, so please come and find me and say hello.
I'll be there with my sister, Kate Plumb, a fine companion and terrific astrologer from New York. As she likes to tell people, we shared a room for 18 years. I think she mostly remembers that I was messy (that is, a Pisces). I mostly remember that she used to get up in the middle of the night to rearrange the furniture (that is, a Capricorn). To be fair, we each have a tendency to exaggerate – she's got Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Capricorn, I have the same conjunction in Aquarius.
Please do come find me in Cambridge with any and all praise, ideas, complaints, feedback to Tem and his amazing TMA crew. I'll gladly carry all your wishes back to everyone at the office.
Next Monday I will have a new blog, and I hope to see some of you soon in person!
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Hi, my name is Dakota and this is my little brother Jordan. My daddy's name is Charles. He has always had a heart for cooking, especially grilling.
Always looking at weber grills and smokers every time we go out shopping. Every night after he gets home from work, he cooks us all dinner. Usually it's great food, but he tends to like the spicy stuff. If he was able to come to Chicago and grill with Kevin, you could show him how to grill some really sweet things for us!
Hope you consider our daddy for this awesome opportunity. Thank you.
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It's your money. You work hard and I'm not here to tell you how to spend it. But I am here to suggest some small changes that could, over time, increase your savings by tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars. These are things you may not have thought much about because they seem so minor.…
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About chatcat
I live right in the middle of the lower peninsula of Michigan. Our Great Lakes protect us from much of the extreme weather in other states.
By: chatcat, 1:04 PM GMT on June 28, 2013
It was an interesting afternoon as small cells of thunderstorms formed over the Alma/Ithaca areas late Thursday, and moved in a southeasterly direction as they continued to grow. For our area, it was intermittent thundershowers. But areas to our north (Saginaw) got the heaviest rain with a lot of street flooding. As they continued to grow, by the time they reached the greater Detroit area, they were quite powerful. I haven't heard of too much wind damage but very intense thunder and lightning. It brought back memories of my childhood in Oakland County where we would get 2-3 of these types of storms every summer. Here, where I live now, we never get them. I gotta admit that I miss them even though they scared me to death when I was a kid. My daughter, who lives in Mt. Clemens, posted on Facebook that it was scary. Looking at the radar now, I see storms forming in that same area and moving to the southeast. But temps today are expected to remain in the 70s, so I don't think that these will be nearly as strong. Regardless, we certainly don't need any more rain.
Today: A chance of showers and thunderstorms until noon, then showers and thunderstorms likely. Mostly cloudy with highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70%.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely. Lows 58 to 62. Light winds from the north. Chance of rain 70%.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy with a 60% chance of light showers. Highs 72 to 76. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
Saturday Night: Partial clearing with lows in the upper 50s. North winds from 5 to 15 mph.
Updated: 1:05 PM GMT on June 28, 2013
By: chatcat, 12:42 PM GMT on June 11, 2013
We had showers most of Monday morning but the rain ended by early afternoon and it wasn't too bad of a day. I did get some gardening done and a few more plants bought. Today is expected to be quite nice once the fog and clouds burn off, and temps should reach 80F. Then more heavy rain is in the forecast. There just seems to be no end to it this year although the mosquitoes are loving it. We can't walk outdoors without an air attack. But on the good side, everything is so lush and green.
Right now (8:15 AM EDT), our temp is 65.7F, the humidity is 95% and skies are overcast. Winds are from the west at 3 mph and we received 0.31" of rain yesterday. Our overnight low was 63F after a high yesterday of 76F. It felt much warmer than that with the high humidity. The barometer is 29.87" and steady and the dew point is 62F.
Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. West wind 7 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. West wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.
Wednesday: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Wednesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low around 59. East northeast wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 75. North northeast wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Updated: 12:46 PM GMT on June 11, 2013
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Pumping gas into SUVs, minivans, is like pouring water down the drain Not all cars are environmentally equal By Mikaela Rierson
Hikes in fuel prices around the country didn't stop an estimated 33.7 million Americans from travel over the Labor Day weekend. The higher prices don't seem to be making a dent in k~cal pockets, either.
This week in Craig, unleaded is pumping for $1.74 a gallon. A little less than the $1.81 in Honolulu, and a little more than $1.46 in Kansas City or $1.15 in Florida. According to the American Automobile Association's (AAA) weekly survey, Colorado's gas prices have remained higher than the national average of $1.50 a gallon for I 1 consecutive weeks.
The usual grumbling can be heard at gas tanks around town. Even though prices are about 2S cents per gallon higher than they were a year ago, people still seem willing to ante Up at the pump without much of a fuss.
"It costs me about $30 to fill up," Craig resident Jeri Carr said. "But I get 20 miles to the gallon and only drive around town." She wiped a spot of dust off the shiny fender of her new SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle) - a GMC Jimmy. Her husband, Keith, commutes in a ditferent car 45() miles a week to Steamboat Springs and back. "Oh, man! It's costing us $240 a month just iN'r his gas."
Americans have long had a love affair with their cars. In this neck of the woods it s not cars so much as our trucks. The bigger, the louder, the better. And trucks are the gas-guzzlers. according to Riley Sovine in the sales office at the Craig Ford-Mercury dealership. 'We scil more trucks than anything," Sovine said.
There has been an explosion in sales of so-called light trucks, including SUVs, minivans. ~u pickups. According to a study released in August by the Washington-based nonprofit group. Friends of the Earth, light trucks constitute almost half of all new car sales, most ot them hougllt for commuting, errands and kid delivery. Yet current federal standards allow them to emit morc~ pollution and consume more gasoline than cars.
Under a 1978 law passed by Congress to encourage production of fuel-etficient vehicles. U.S. and foreign auto makers must pay taxes ranging from $1,000 to $7,7()() for each new passcnger car that gets below 22.5 miles per gallon on a combined city-highway avcragc. The light-duty trucks, such as SUVs, minivans, full-size vans and pickups, were exempted on the theory that many were used in businesses such as construction and on farms. The Friends of the Earth report concluded that if these veh~cles were held to the same 22.5 mpg standard, the industry as a whole would have paid the federal government $43.1 billion over the past five years.
The fact is the United States is a gas-guzzler. We use 17 million barrels of oil per day, nearly half of which is imported. Gasoline, one of the main products refined from crude oil, accounts for 20 percent of the energy consumed in the United States, primarily in cars and light trucks. What are you paying for when you buy a gallon of regular? According to the Energy Information Administration Office of Oil and Gas, (EIA) 37 percent of the retail cost is for crude oil, 36 percent goes to federal and state taxes, 13 percent pays for refining costs and profits, and 14 percent takes care of the distribution, marketing, and retail station costs and profits. Price fluctuations are due to seasonal demands for gasoline, local station competition, and crude oil supply disruptions stemming from world events or refinery outages. Current high prices are due to several factors, but EIA fingers the single greatest factor as OPECs unwillingness to commit to a production increase ahead of its Sept. 10 meeting.
At the local level, international calendars are an ocean away. John Caines, owner of Austam International auto sales in Craig, said some people are beginning to trade in their gas-guzzlers for older model cars. "A couple of weeks ago a guy bought a Nissan because he was spending $ l000 a month to commute to Steamboat in his truck." Caines said. "But I don't think the prices are hurting most people that much - they'd rather drive what they've got and pay a little extra. '
Hopefully, the cost per gallon will stop going up. Caines recently visited England and said overseas fuel prices are $6 a gallon.
If the price of gasoline isn't high enough in this country to pry us out of our SUVs, even if carbon emissions are at an all-time high, what will?
"Automakers are already competing with each other to bring more fuel-efficient vehicles to market," said Gloria Bergquist, spokeswoman for the Alliance of Auto Manufacturers. Ford has pledged to improve the fuel efficiency of its SUV fleet 25 percent by 2005 a percentage that could reduce global warming pollution of every Ford SUV by 20 percent, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. Toyota, Honda, Fiat, BMW and Audi are marketing fuel-saving and hybrid-engine cars. Chrysler, Ford and General Motors have added clean air cars to their salesrooms in the U.S.
And, people are buying the cars. It's no wonder, given the strides in technology surrounding hybrid and alternative-fuel engines. By using an electric motor with a gasoline engine, hybrids blaze the way for the cleanest technology. Auto companies predict the first hybrids to hit America can go 700 miles on a tank of gas, and are competitively priced at under $20,00(). Toyota's Prius, a four-passenger sedan, and Honda's Insight, a two-passenger sport coupe are already out of the chute.
Battery electrics are on the road today, hybrids have entered showrooms, and fuel cells could be on the market as soon as 2004. These cars are as fast, as cheap and as attractive as piston-engineonly models. Plus, they have near zero emissions and can get up to 70 miles to the gallon.
For drivers who want to hang on to their love-affair a little longer, there is a place to get the lowest gas prices in your neighborhood. The Internet site www.priceline.com lets you name your own price for gasoline. You pay by credit card on the Internet, then priceline.com sends you a debit card that you take to a local station, swipe at the pump, and buy gas at your price. It won't do anything to clean up the environment, but it'll free up some pocket change while you save tor a car that will.


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When you read stories about how flabby and unfit the children of America are, television is usually one of the main culprits cited. Kids aren't outside playing because they're inside snacking, glued to the tube especially young children, 2 to 11, who spend two and a half hours or more every single day watching TV.
They are seduced by it. They learn from it. They are taught by it. So maybe, just maybe, TV can help teach little kids to be more active, eat better and lead healthier lives.
That's the simple and powerful idea behind a new kid-fitness initiative by the people who brought "Teletubbies" to PBS television.
Call your teacher
March 20 has been declared the Teletubbies Get Up and Go! First Annual Exercise Day, a national fitness event that includes activities and information in thousands of schoolrooms nationwide. If you move quickly, you still might be able to get your kid's classroom involved. (Check out www.itsybitsyTV.com or call (212) 989-3660.)
I'm told that 25,000 schools are already signed on, and that at least six nationally known groups for kids have endorsed this effort. It includes a TV fitness special on PBS; four new fitness-focused Teletubby books; plus a 26-minute home video that features Tinky-Winky, Dixie, LaLa and Po having more fun than you ever thought possible, jumping, dancing, skipping and, of course, bumping their big, round teletummies.
A proactive campaign
"Children are fat. They are not getting enough exercise. They're in front of the screen for way too many hours a day," says Kenn Viselman, chairman of itsy bitsy Entertainment, the family friendly company that markets the Teletubbies in the U.S.
"One out of every four kids (in America) is obese," Viselman says. "That's wrong! Children look up to the Teletubbies and it's our responsibility, through them, to promote health and fitness that starts early and may last a lifetime."
Will it work?
Of course, the big question is: Will watching the Teletubbies model healthy habits group hugging included actually inspire other little beings to get fit? Who knows? It seems a big leap, I admit, but every itsy-bitsy step we take at least contributes to the illusion of forward motion. To me, it's so sad to watch generations of kids grow up fat and sedentary, already showing signs of heart disease, diabetes and clogged arteries, that I'd cheerlead ANY effort.


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The Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs exhibition will open in the Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris on the 9th March. The exhibition will be curated by Pamela Golbin and will celebrate the contributions of the two men to fashion world.
It will run until 16th September 2012.
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BREAKING THE CODE/FOX/1997-98 (The Masked Magician) - Hidden behind a black mask of wriggling white lines, the Masked Magician exposed to the world the secrets behind the world's most exciting magical tricks in a series of FOX TV Specials entitled BREAKING THE CODE: MAGIC'S BIGGEST SECRETS FINALLY REVEALED. This Benedict Arnold of the Houdini set revealed the secrets like teleporting a woman from one cage to another (Just use Twins) to "challenge magicians to come up with new ideas, to push magic into the 21st century." Newspapers like USA Today, Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Los Angeles Times suspected that the masked man was in reality a magician named Valentino. On the fourth installment (aired 10/29/98) of MAGIC'S BIGGEST SECRETS No.4: THE FINAL REVEAL we learned the name of the mysterious magician. It was none other than....Valentino. THE GONG SHOW/SYN/1976-80 (The Unknown Comic) - A big gimmick on this syndicated talent show satire (besides the terrible acts) was the Unknown Comic. Wearing a brown paper bag over his head throughout his act, this crazy comic told leftover jokes that were as stale as vaudeville. Once he put a small bag over his hand and said "This is my pet...my doggie bag!" With jokes like that, the brown paper bag was an excellent idea. On an episode of REAL PEOPLE/NBC/1979-84, it was revealed that this awful punster was actually comedian Murray Langston, veteran of THE SONNY AND CHER COMEDY HOUR/CBS/1971-77. THE LONE RANGER/ABC/1949-57 (Masked Rider) - "Who was that masked man?" was the classic phrase heard at the end of each episode of the western adventure THE LONE RANGER from its debut on radio on 1933 through its successful run on television in the 1950s. The mysterious "masked rider of the plains" (a.k.a. "The Lone Ranger") was a former Texas Ranger named John Reid (Clayton Moore), the lone survivor of an ambush set by Butch Cavendish and his outlaw gang. With the possible glimpses of our hero during the debut episode on September 15, 1949, The Lone Ranger never showed his face to his fans but kept it concealed behind his trademark black mask and his many disguises. The only one who knew his true identity was his American Indian sidekick, Tonto (Jay Silverheels) who nursed the once wounded ranger back to health. During the 1952-54 season of THE LONE RANGER, actor John Hart replaced Moore as the man behind the mask after a contract dispute.
TRIVIA NOTE: As of 1987 Clayton Moore as The Lone Ranger was starring in a petroleum commercial hawking a new gasoline Amoco Silver! On June 5th, 1987 Clayton Moore was honored with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He commented to the crowd "This star... belongs to you fans, all of you, that have backed me all my life." He also remarked that the only other honor as great was working with "my pal, Jay Silverheels...Tonto. See also NICKNAMES: "The Lone Ranger" THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW/NBC/SYN/CBS/SYN/1962-86 (Mystery Singer) - David Soul veteran of such series as HERE COME THE BRIDES/ABC/1968-70 and STARSKY AND HUTCH/ABC/1975-79 had his first regular television exposure on this syndicated talk show during the 1966-67 season. He appeared as a hooded "Mystery Singer."
TRIVIA NOTE: The NBC musical variety program THE GOODRICH SILVERTOWN ORCHESTRA broadcast on radio from 1929-36 featured Joseph M. White, known as the "Silver Masked Tenor" who always wore a silver mask while performing and whose identity was concealed for years. He developed a large following of fans in the late 1920s and early 1930s. See also - "The Gong Show." WHAT'S MY LINE/CBS/1950-67/SYN/1968-75 (Masked Contestants) - This quiz panel program was the longest running show of its kind lasting some eighteen years on the networks and later in syndication. A popular program gimmick was the "Mystery Guest" where all of the panel members donned blindfolds and then had to guess the identity of some celebrity who often disguised their voice when answering a series of yes/no questions. If the panel had not figured out who the mystery guest was after a possible ten guesses, the panel would remove their blindfolds, and the previously faceless celebrity (at least, to the panelists) would be revealed to each of them. John Daly, longtime moderator of the show, was the mystery guest on the last show (9/3/67) of the original series. The first celebrity guest to challenge the panel was ex-Yankee shortstop, Phil Rizutto.
TRIVIA NOTE: Comedian Ernie Kovacs spoof of this program was called "Whom Done It." A mystery celebrity would shoot somebody and the panelist would have to guess "Whom Done It." Whispering, the announcer talked to the home audience "And now let's tell our audience at home who wounded tonight's studio guest."
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It is not the norm for an 80-plus year old to run large companies. Have you seen Dan lately? Have you seen him at the Super Bowl ceremonies, where trying to hold the Lombardi Trophy nearly killed him? I prefer Art 2. He makes the changes that need made, as opposed to Dan who's motto was "Don't rock the boat" to too high of an extreme, as you would expect from an 80-year-old. I appreciate Dan's service over the years, but it was long overdue for him to step down when he did.
Not the perception that you want out in the market as you enter free agency. At the very least he should have just followed the program and then left in the off season to someone who still believes that he could succeed in this league. Nobody wants an underachieving troublemaker.
- Charles Harris-OLB, Missouri
- Rasul Douglas-CB, West Virginia
- Chris Godwin-WR, Penn State
- John Johnson-S, Boston College
- James Conner-RB, Pitt
- Nazair Jones-DT, North Carolina
- Garrett Sickels, DE/OLB, Penn State
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I'm a Dwyer fan. I was thrilled when we drafted him. But, he still hasn't proven much in my book. After his two 100 yard games this season, Redman showed up and looked even better against the Giants. That game against the Giants (on a bumb wheel no less) was the best performance by a Steelers running back this season. Since then, all the Steelers backs have looked very average. At this point, I like Dwyer in our running back stable, but he has not proven that he is a legitimate #1 running back.
Even if Bill Belichick was getting an atomic wedgie, his face would look exactly the same.
- Charles Harris-OLB, Missouri
- Rasul Douglas-CB, West Virginia
- Chris Godwin-WR, Penn State
- John Johnson-S, Boston College
- James Conner-RB, Pitt
- Nazair Jones-DT, North Carolina
- Garrett Sickels, DE/OLB, Penn State
I just can't imagine what was going through his noggin when he decided to not show. You know the saying, "Feed your ego or feed your family." He could have just went through the motions and landed a decent new contract some where. But, damn, this can't be helping things along those lines.
Again, is Buffet the norm or the exception? And I doubt he is doing much day to day CEO stuff at this point, probably takes naps in the middle of the day. Why not? And I disagree: Running an NFL team still requires ONE MAIN DECISION MAKER who has to make the final call on all major issues. You can't run an organization successfully any other way. The CEO should LISTEN to all opinions from his trusted board (family members) but still it is up to ONE PERSON to make the final, large decisions, such as what direction to go in personnel, coaches, policies, etc. If that person has a "let's not make any waves, let's keep everything the same" when the situation is demanding to make changes, it will hurt the chances of success. Let's say, for example, that you are CEO of McDonald's. And your sales are plummeting because more and more consumers are weary of the impact of fast food. Let's say your sales drop 30% but your attitude is, "Let's keep things as they are and not rock the boat." Well, by not adding some healthy food choices, you are allowing the company to lose too much $. The exact same could be said for managing an NFL team. Dan never wanted to make changes, to a fault. It wasn't until Art 2 stepped in and proclaimed, "I think coach Cowher knows it's time to win a Super Bowl" instead of the "Mr. Nicey Nice" approach from Dan that lit a fire in this team's butt and got them over the top. If they only had the Sr. Citizen approach of keeping everything the same for the sake of not making any waves, they would not have won a ring in 2005. As a matter of fact, it Art 2 didn't get involved in the draft (as Dan was not), we would have ended up with an OT instead of Big Ben. Just think of the ramifications of that. That genius Cowher wanted the OT that went to Philly. Had Art not got involved, Ben would be on another team right now. But, naaaaaa, we would have been fine with the 80-year-old as CEO.


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Although Sony's PlayStation Vita was clearly designed as a next generation gaming device, a new app allows gamers to use the phone for Skype video calls starting today. Both the $300 Wi-Fi and 3G and $250 Wi-Fi models will support the new technology, which marks the first time video calling has been available on PlayStation.
"Our users appreciate being able to access Skype features wherever and whenever they choose," said Manrique Brenes, senior director, consumer electronics group at Skype. "With the launch of Skype for PS Vita, we are taking another step towards our ultimate goal of making Skype video calling available on every platform, all over the world, and meeting the demands of existing PlayStation users to offer video on a gaming console."
Skype on PS Vita runs in "background mode" for users while gaming or using other applications and users have the capability to "pause" a game, conduct a call and then return to their previous activity. Additionally, PS Vita features both front and rear facing cameras, which allows users to switch back and forth between the two during a Skype call.
"First and foremost this is a gaming device, so we're concentrating many of our efforts, certainly on the marketing side, but also really in our publishing efforts, towards gaming," said John Koller, director of hardware marketing, Sony Computer Entertainment America. "The non-gaming functions of the device are very important, but I think another lesson we learned with PSP is you can't be everything to everyone initially at launch. But when you look at what else is going to be available, we've already announced a number of the different apps that are going to be coming. We're never going to be an Android marketplace or an App Store like on iOS, but we will have a number of very key and critical non-gaming apps that tie in gaming in a very unique way. You'll see that as we go add certain non-gaming apps. "
The PS Vita is also equipped with a 5" OLED touch screen, dual analog sticks, front touchscreen and rear touch pad, two cameras and a built in microphone.
"We have apps for Facebook, Twitter, Four Square, Flicker, Netflix, Hulu, and Skype, but we do have a lot of opportunity to expand," said Koller. "The sky potentially is the limit with non-gaming apps, but we don't want them to be. We want them to be a smaller number that's very relevant, rather than just opening us up to every single developer that can throw an app at us. That's not as interesting to us as making sure that they're all very relevant to who our PS Vita consumer is."
In addition to games, like the much-anticipated Mortal Kombat PS Vita game that's coming soon (see video below), Sony also has movies and entertainment available for the device. Moving forward, Koller sees the streaming phenomenon going portable.
"We're looking at something that has been very important on the PS3 and that is how do you bring along streaming media in a way that allows consumers to access that content on the go," said Koller. "I think that's another area that's very interesting to us and could be something that we look at in the future, but everything is going to drive back towards the gamer and creating apps that really matter and are relevant to gaming."