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Alright!Originally Posted by blacknomi
I start getting tired or I am starting toget tired - depending on your circumstances.
Student or Learner
Can we stop walking?
1- I'm starting to get tired.
2- I start to get tired.
#2 is quite alright. What do you think?
Alright!Originally Posted by blacknomi
I start getting tired or I am starting toget tired - depending on your circumstances.
The first one if fine, but the second one is (IMHO) quite ungrammatical. "I start to get tired" doesn't really make sense in any case. You could say: "I get tired when I walk too much." (The first one means the same as "I'm getting tired".)Originally Posted by blacknomi
What about this?
1- I'm starting to feel tired.
2- I start to feel tired.
I think they are almost twin sentences just that #1 is a bit more emotional. Right?
RonBee,Originally Posted by RonBee
The second one is (IMHO) not ungrammatical. I don't understand why it doesn't make sense.
Ms. Typo! Is your cat lying on your keyboard? I'm smelling her paws in a few of your posts. *GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG*Originally Posted by twostep
I wouldn't use the first one, "I start getting tired". Under what circumstances would you use? Mostly, I'd say "I'm getting tired."
I'm getting tired of reading books in the late late night.
1- is the correct response. 2- doesn't work in that context. Note, the progressive tense "stop walking".Originally Posted by blacknomi
EX: Can we stop walking, because I'm starting to get tired right about now."
EX: I walk 5 miles a day, and when I hit the four-mile mark, I start to get tired.
Dear O' Cassie,
I've been teaching FULL time for one year. When I look back on those days, I wouldn't say I have the best of my time, but things are going almost without a hitch. What murders me is that I have to run around the different work places. So to be honet, I'm starting to get tired.
I go to Joe's class four times a week. It is an early morning class. There are only 5 students and not all of us attend his class four times a week. Sometimes I am the only one who makes eye contact with Joe. I wish Student number 2 and 3 would show up and make me company. I start to get tired of his class somehow.
Any comment?
The first one is better.Originally Posted by blacknomi
1. What's murder, though, is that I'm starting to get run down now because I teach at several locations.
2. I'm starting to get tired of Joe's class, now. I wish the other students would show up; I could use the company.


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Glad Microsoft is following up the license of Windows 2003
where you buy Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise, you can use it on up to 4 VMs on the same machine (so Buy one get 4 free really)

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are water-soluble chemicals found in many plants. Ipriflavone is a semisynthetic version of an isoflavone found in
Soy isoflavones have effects in the body somewhat similar to those of estrogen. This should be beneficial, but it is possible that soy could present some of the risks of estrogen, as well. In 1969, a research project was initiated to manufacture a type of isoflavone that would possess the bone-stimulating effects of estrogen without any estrogen-like activity elsewhere in the body. Such a product would help prevent osteoporosis, but cause no other health risks.
Ipriflavone was the result. After 7 successful years of experiments with animals, human research was started in 1981. Today, ipriflavone is available in over 22 countries and in most drugstores in the United States as a nonprescription dietary supplement. It is an accepted treatment for osteoporosis in Italy, Turkey, and Japan.
According to all but one study, ipriflavone combined with calcium can slow and perhaps slightly reverse bone breakdown. It also seems to help reduce the pain of fractures caused by osteoporosis. However, since it does not appear to have any estrogenic effects anywhere else in the body, it shouldn't increase the risk of breast or uterine cancer. On the other hand, it won't reduce the hot flashes, night sweats, mood changes, or vaginal dryness of menopause, nor prevent heart disease.
A recent, large study found that ipriflavone might reduce white blood cell count in some individuals. See
Safety Issues
for more information.
Ipriflavone is not an essential nutrient and is not found in food. It must be taken as a supplement.
The proper dosage of ipriflavone is 200 mg 3 times daily, or 300 mg twice daily. A calcium supplement providing 1,000 mg of calcium daily should be taken as well.
Ipriflavone appears to be able to slow down and perhaps slightly reverse
osteoporosis. It may be helpful for this purpose in ordinary postmenopausal osteoporosis, as well as in osteoporosis caused by medications.1-22 Ipriflavone also seems to ease the pain of fractures caused by osteoporosis.23,24,25
Ipriflavone has also been proposed as a bodybuilding aid, but there is no meaningful evidence that it is helpful for this purpose.
Numerous double-blind, placebo-controlled studies involving a total of over 1,700 participants have examined the effects of ipriflavone on various forms of osteoporosis.26-37 Overall, it appears that ipriflavone can slow the progression of osteoporosis and perhaps reverse it to some extent. For example, a 2-year, double-blind study followed 198 postmenopausal women who showed evidence of bone loss.38
At the end of the study, there was a gain in bone density of 1% in the ipriflavone group and a loss of 0.7% in the placebo group. These numbers may sound small, but they can add up to a lot of bone over time.
However, the largest and longest study of ipriflavone found no benefit.39
In this 3-year trial of 474 postmenopausal women, no differences in the extent of osteoporosis were seen between the ipriflavone and placebo groups. How can this failure be accounted for in view of all the successful trials that came before? Perhaps because the researchers in this study gave women only 500 mg of calcium daily. All other major studies of ipriflavone gave participants 1,000 mg of calcium daily. It's possible that ipriflavone requires the higher dose of calcium in order to work properly.
Ipriflavone, like estrogen, probably works by fighting bone breakdown.40-43 However, there is some evidence that it may also increase new bone formation, too.44,45,46
Combining ipriflavone with estrogen may enhance anti-osteoporosis benefits.47,48
However, we do not know for sure whether such combinations increase or reduce the other risks (or benefits) of estrogen.
Ipriflavone may also be helpful for preventing osteoporosis in women who are taking Lupron or
corticosteroids, medications that accelerate bone loss.49,50,51
(However, the combined use of ipriflavone and drugs that suppress the immune system, such as corticosteroids, presents potential risks. See Safety Issues.)
Finally, for reasons that are not at all clear, ipriflavone appears to be able to reduce pain in osteoporosis-related fractures that have already occurred.52,53,54
About 3,000 people have used ipriflavone in clinical studies, and in all but two, no significant adverse effects were seen.55,56 However, these trials (a 3-year, double-blind trial of almost 500 women, as well as a small study) found worrisome evidence that ipriflavone can reduce levels of white blood cells called lymphocytes.57,58
For this reason, anyone taking ipriflavone for the long-term should have periodic measurements taken of white blood cell count.
In addition, ipriflavone should not be used by anyone with immune deficiencies, such as HIV, or by those who take drugs that suppress the immune system, except under physician supervision. There are other potential risks as well. Because ipriflavone is metabolized by the kidneys, individuals with severe kidney disease should have their ipriflavone dosage monitored by a physician.59 Individuals with ulcers should also avoid ipriflavone.60
Also, although ipriflavone itself does not affect tissues outside of bone, some evidence suggests that if it is combined with estrogen, estrogen's effects on the uterus are increased.61,62
This might mean that the risk of uterine cancer would be elevated over taking estrogen alone. It should be possible to overcome this risk by taking progesterone along with estrogen, which is standard medical practice. However, this finding does make one wonder whether ipriflavone-estrogen combinations raise the risk of breast cancer too, an estrogen side effect that has no easy solution. At present, there is no available information on this important subject.
Additionally, ipriflavone may interfere with certain drugs by affecting the way they are processed in the liver. For example, it may raise blood levels of the older asthma drug theophylline.63,64,65 It could also raise levels of caffeine, meaning that if you drink coffee while taking ipriflavone you might stay up longer than you expect. Ipriflavone could also interact with tolbutamide (a drug for diabetes), phenytoin (used for epilepsy), and Coumadin (a blood thinner).66
Such interactions are potentially dangerous, especially since phenytoin and Coumadin cause osteoporosis, and some people might be tempted to try taking ipriflavone at the same time.
If you are taking:
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Can anyone identify this horror please, there were about ten of them in our attic bedroom in Cumbria.
They have very good grip to what they are standing on and measure about 1cm from end to end including teh legs.
Hello there.
These are great photos of the Louse Fly or Ked. A very specialised parasite of Swifts, Swallows and Martins. When found in a house it is usually near the nest of one of their hosts.
Best wishes Lewis.
thanks Lewis, that is very helpful, we'll have to search out where the birds nest is now. i guess finding them in the attic bedroom is an obvious connection to this type of bird?!
thanks again
It may be worth mentioning that on the two occasions I have come across a bathroom full of these flies is when house martins inadvertently came in through the bathroom window. Their manic flapping in their vein attempts to escape were probably seen as death throws to the nycteribiids and they all jumped ship.
Crataerina pallidais one of the more common species - the Swift Lousefly (found on swifts that is, not that they are known to be fleet of foot).
Well one of them will have to go; the wife or the flies? It would be a close call in my house!
Just keep chucking any you come across outside and you will soon see the back of them. They have been known to bite but will not sustain themselves of of their main host for long, so no chance that they will infest your home and feed off your family.
Although I have a profound love of insects I have to admit that I find these flies a tad ugly - there are prettier looking flies for sure, though I bet Mr Ked thinks Mrs Ked is gorgeous.
thanks again for the helpful info, and yes they are very ugly things, it was the one that ran accross my wifes face whilst she was driving that really freaked her.
My girlfriend somehow managed to get one in her ear this morning! I told her it was a spider (based on the couple of legs I could see protruding from her ear canal). I must say, I was quite impressed with how calm she was. She carried on making my sandwiches for a good 5 minutes and then it started to crawl out. That's when I realised it wasn't a spider and took these photos:
I'd better not show her these close-ups in case she has a belated freak-out.
Well David what can I say? Thanks for sharing that fun little interlude with us. I expect I will easily be able to sleep someday soon. Is your wife on some form of calming medication? (Horse tranquillisers etc) I could just imagine how that conversation would have gone in my house i.e. not very well (actually that is a ridiculous understatement): Lots of loud sustained screams, head clutching, manic ragdoll flailing, entreaties to a higher spiritual power. etc 'What's in my ear? 'It's a spider, no wait a minute, its only a Ked darling'. Some how it would have been my fault, I am sure of that. I think your partner must be made of the right stuff.
Best wishes Lewis


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US Weather Extremes in 2012
In 2012, there were 905 natural catastrophes worldwide, 93 percent of which were weather-related disasters. In terms of overall and insured losses (US$170 billion and $70 billion, respectively), 2012 did not follow the records set in 2011 and could be defined as a moderate year on a global scale. But the United States was seriously affected by weather extremes, accounting for 69 percent of overall losses and 92 percent of insured losses due to natural catastrophes worldwide, writes Petra Löw, a geographer and consultant at Munich Reinsurance Company,in the Worldwatch Institute's Vital Signs Online service (www.worldwatch.org).
Of the 905 documented loss events, 45 percent were meteorological events (storms), 36 percent were hydrological events (floods), and 12 percent were climatological events such as heat waves, cold waves, droughts, and wildfires. The remaining 7 percent were geophysical events—earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. This distribution deviates somewhat from long-term trends, as between 1980 and 2011 geophysical events accounted for 14 percent of all natural catastrophes.
Deaths during natural catastrophes in 2012 stood at 9,600—substantially below the 10-year annual average of 106,000. The percentage distribution of fatalities in the four recognized event categories—meteorological, hydrological, climatological, and geophysical events—also differed in 2012. Only 7 percent of the deaths were caused by geophysical events, compared with the long-term average since 1980 of 40 percent. In contrast, 93 percent of the fatalities in 2012 were caused by weather-related events.
Some two-thirds of the global overall losses and 92 percent of the insured losses in 2012 were due to weather-related events in the United States. Hurricane Sandy, the summer-long drought in the Midwest, and severe storms with tornadoes accounted for $100 billion of the overall losses. The insurance industry covered $58 billion of this. These losses were the second highest overall and insured losses since 1980 in the United States. The most expensive year in the United States was 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit the coast of Mississippi and the city of New Orleans. The rest of the 2012 overall losses occurred in Europe (13 percent) and the Asia-Pacific region (17 percent). The insured losses for these two regions were well below the average and accounted for 8 percent of the total.
Around 59 percent of overall losses in 2012 are attributable to storms, compared with the long-term average of 39 percent. Earthquakes accounted for 12 percent of overall losses, but that was only half the 1980–2011 average.
Tornado image via Shutterstock.
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There are changes coming to the Raptors front office, even if some familiar names will remain.
Maurizio Gherardini, currently the teams senior vice-president of basketball operations, and Jim Kelly, the teams senior director of scouting, have had their contracts extended through the 2011-12 season.
But their duties could very well change.
President and general manager Bryan Colangelo has expressed the desire to restructure the teams hierarchy and the job descriptions of Gherardini and Kelly are expected to change perhaps dramatically when Colangelo finishes his housecleaning.
The president has said he wants to bring in a new face to the front office in some senior capacity, perhaps with the title of general manager, and that search continues.
What it will mean for Gherardini, who joined the team in 2006 after an illustrious career as a European basketball executive, and Kelly, who has been with the franchise in some capacity since 1994, will likely not be determined until after any new hire is made.
Gherardini, however, is likely to remain as the managing director of Canada Basketball, regardless of any change in his Raptors status.
The well-respected 55-year-old has helped re-establish Canada as a significant country in global basketball through an array of contacts that have helped the organization get significant exhibition games and some players land jobs in Europe.
Kelly has served in a variety of capacities since joining the franchise the year before it began playing. The native of Southern California was one of the first hires of then-president Isiah Thomas and has served as a talent evaluator ever since.


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Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?)
The Sirius Direct Satellite Radio Sony package included Sirius SNY-SC1, Sirius Connect SC-C1, all of which were installed according to the included instructions. The radio worked fine for a few months and suddenly froze. It stopped making any sound, although it did still display the station that was on when it froze. I can still switch the display between preset number and the channel number and the list of preset buttons will pop up, although none of them work. AM and FM, as well as all other unit functions are working well. What Now??


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Studies Show Green Housing is a Solid Investment
Along with the stock market achieving record highs earlier this year, the housing market is showing its strongest performance in the past seven years. In New Hampshire, single family home sales have increased almost 8.5 percent, and condos 18 percent, when compared to the same time last year. As properties switch to new owners and people prepare their homes for sale, the value of sustainable building, technology, and labeling is an important consideration for everyone in the market.
A home is the most valuable investment most of us will ever make. Recent studies show that certifying your residence as sustainable can add 9 percent to its value. On a $300,000 property, that is $27,000. In their 2012 Values of Green Labels in the Californian Housing Market paper, Nils Kok and Matthew Kahn focused on homes in the Golden State that had achieved LEED for Homes or GreenPoint Rated status. These properties, close to transportation routes and shopping centers, were constructed with non-toxic building materials and contained water efficient features. The traditional rational for making a house green has been to conserve resources and save money. It now appears these homes will fetch more money when they are sold. In fact, the study demonstrates that the increased revenue made when a certified house sells is more than the savings that come from its environmentally conscious attributes. It seems that the peace of mind some consumers in California gain from owning a green home is worth an extra 9 percent even if they will not recover the extra money they paid with the savings the house will generate.
It is not just home owners who are excited by green building. Even when the $2500 to $3000 cost of LEED residential certification is factored in, the increased value achieved through official recognition is very attractive to investors. The Urban Land Institute and PWC's recent 2013 paper, Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2013, focuses much of its efforts on real estate investment and says that green building is playing an increased role in both the residential and commercial markets. While they believe overall new development will be limited, they state that "trends point to more environmentally friendly, sustainable buildings and a more efficient use of space. Green developers continue to embrace this pursuit and to adapt and conform to new demands from consumers."
Green homes are certainly in demand. McGraw Hill's New and Remolded Green Homes: Transforming the Residential Marketplace projects a five-fold increase in new green home construction between 2011 and 2016. It also indicates the green home market accounts for an incredible $114 billion opportunity in the coming years. As the construction industry plans for the future, up to one-third of builders believe they will be dedicated to green building by 2016.
Continue reading at ENN affiliate, Triple Pundit.
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Judging by the number of coconut products in supermarkets these days — beyond the flaked coconut your granny used in macaroons and ambrosia — we've gone nuts for this fruit.
That's right: The hairy brown ovoid is not a true nut but the stone of a drupe, which makes it related to peaches and plums.
Just check supermarket refrigerator cases, where cartons of coconut milk, creamers and spreads share space with cultured coconut products (like yogurt and kefir).
Or shelves, where cans of coconut milk, jars of coconut oil and coconut spray-oils nudge bags of shredded and flaked coconut. Or in freezers, where coconut milk desserts sit next to ice cream.
And depending on your coconut crush, there's coconut tequila, vodka and beer, plus plain and flavored coconut waters based on the thin opaque juice found inside the fruit.
Of course, cooks in Asia, West Africa and the Caribbean have long used coconut milk (made by simmering coconut meat with water, then straining) and coconut oil (pressed from the meat) to enrich dishes in the same way cooks elsewhere might use cream or butter.
Some newer products are coconut creatures of a different sort. Canned coconut milk used in a Thai curry, for example, is not the same as coconut milks found in grocery refrigerated cases.
Which means it's important to know what you're buying (check ingredient and nutrition labels carefully), then don't assume coconut products will work like similar dairy products in cooking.
Consider refrigerated cartons of coconut milk.
"The coconut milk in the can is the one that tastes so delicious," said registered dietitian Andrea Giancoli, a spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. "You're not going to get that deep coconutty flavor, taste and texture with refrigerated coconut milks."
She's a fan of coconut oil, spreading it on such fish as salmon or whitefish, so "as it cooks, it makes fish even moister."
Solid at room temperature, coconut oil has a high smoking point that makes it good for frying and sauteing.
"With coconut oil, you're adding a really nice coconut flavor to your food," she said.
Those cultured coconut milk products similar to yogurts will add a "hint of coconut" layered with fruit into a parfait, she said. But don't expect their nutrition to equal dairy products.
"Coconut, itself, is all fat with very, very little protein," Giancoli said. "So you're not going to be getting naturally occurring carbohydrates or naturally occurring protein, or maybe a tiny, tiny bit of protein.
Caribbean seafood stew on rice
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 pound orange roughy or tilapia, in 1-inch cubes
1 cup each, chopped: onion, green bell pepper
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 jalapeno, seeded, finely chopped
1 can (14 1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
3/4 cup unsweetened canned coconut milk
8 ounces medium raw shrimp, peeled, deveined
1/2 cup chopped cilantro, plus more for garnish
2 cups hot cooked rice
Stir together 1 tablespoon olive oil, the lime juice, salt and pepper in a bowl. Add fish; toss to coat. Set aside.
Heat remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onions, green pepper, garlic and jalapeno. Cook and stir until onion is tender, 4 minutes. Stir in tomatoes and coconut milk; heat to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer uncovered, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes.
Stir in shrimp, the fish mixture and cilantro; return to boiling over medium heat. Reduce heat; simmer uncovered until fish just flakes easily with a fork and shrimp turns opaque, 5 minutes. Season to taste. Serve over rice. Sprinkle with more cilantro.
Makes 4 servings. Per serving: 474 calories, 19 g fat, 9 g saturated fat, 142 mg cholesterol, 35 g carbohydrates, 41 g protein, 642 mg sodium, 3 g fiber.
Developed by the Tribune test kitchen's Corrine Kozlak
Brazilian coconut-rice pudding
1/2 cup golden or dark raisins
1/4 cup light rum or 1 teaspoon rum extract plus 1/4 cup water
3 cups water
1 cup arborio rice, rinsed until water runs clear
1 stick cinnamon, 3 inches long
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup sweetened condensed skim milk
1 cup light coconut milk
2-4 tablespoons light-brown sugar
1 teaspoon each: grated orange zest, grated lemon zest
Pinch of salt
1/2 cup toasted shredded unsweetened dried coconut
Combine raisins and rum (or rum extract and water) in a small bowl; let soak, 15 minutes. In a large saucepan over high heat, combine water, rice, cinnamon stick and vanilla. Heat to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low; simmer, covered, until rice is tender and most of the liquid is absorbed, 20 minutes.
Stir in condensed and coconut milks. Add raisins and their liquid. Simmer, covered, until rice is very soft, 10 minutes. Stir in brown sugar, citrus zests and salt. Cook, 5 minutes. Add more sugar if desired. Cool pudding to room temperature. Discard cinnamon stick. Spoon into serving bowls or martini glasses. Refrigerate until cold. To serve, garnish with toasted coconut.
Makes 8 servings. Per serving: 309 calories, 6 g fat, 5 g saturated fat, 5 mg cholesterol, 58 g carbohydrates, 6 g protein, 68 mg sodium, 1 g fiber.
Adapted from "Steven Raichlen's Healthy Latin Cooking"
Here are just a few coconut products that might find their way into your kitchen.
Coconut, cultured: Similar in style to yogurts, kefir.
Coconut, dried: Can be sweetened or unsweetened. In flakes, shreds or chunks. Dessicated is a form of dried coconut.
Coconut, cream of: Sweetened coconut product mainly used in mixed drinks.
Coconut milk, canned: Thick product, in regular and reduced-fat (light) versions.
Coconut milk, refrigerated: Coconut cream plus water. May be fortified with calcium and vitamins; available sweetened, unsweetened, flavored.
Coconut oil: Coconut meat is pressed to produce the fat. Good for frying, sauteing.
Coconut spreads: Coconut oil is the primary ingredient; may contain other oils.


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Finally, after a nasty month of recitals, concerts, final exams, term papers, Katori Shinto Ryu seminars, and basement remodeling, my work output on Parrot is starting to pick up. I sent off a patch about an hour ago to get Parrot to compile with g++ through to the imcc code. Time permitting, I should have it the rest of the way by the end of the weekend. I'm really hoping that this added strictness will help to get Parrot compiling with Borland C++, which is a much more strict compiler than gcc is.
An EBKAC must have happened because it looks like a couple entries are missing.
Sorry, no real news here. End of school year means available time is being sucked up by running the children to concerts, recitals, soccer games, and so on. My wife is enjoying working on final papers, studying for exams, and art projects. At the same time, I'm nearly finished with my basement.
Perl 5 has occupied my time as well with me finally completing an old bug fix and updating new modules. My side projects of trying to test CPAN with bleadperl and creating TODO tests for the existing Perl bugs have been cutting into my tuit supply as well.
Fortunately, my tuits should increase towards the end of next week. In the mean time, don't expect any major changes, but I should have a trickle of changes starting in the next day or so.
I've been somewhat quiet since my last update. A weekend of nice weather filled my schedule with yard work. That doesn't mean things have been at a complete shutdown.
Shortly after completing building Parrot with Intel C++, I tried my first
make -j. It wasn't the complete failure I expected, but Parrot didn't build either. Obviously, there's a dependency problem somewhere. I'm also realizing that the Parrot makefile is a lot less structured than Perl's and things that normally build after miniparrot seem to be built before the ops files are converted to C. Its time to throw Parrot on a computer with many more CPUs to see how much damage I can do.
Borland C++ has been a bit more frustrating. Hoping to see that my patches have helped, instead Borland C++ is unable to make it past compiling the ops files. Using dmake has been as much of a failure, but it seemed to produce some useful error messages now, so there is still hope.
Sun Studio on Linux is somewhat on hold for me while I wait to see when the release of Sun Studio 12 happens. I'm hoping some bugs I see go away with the release, similarly to the problems I disovered in the Sun Studio 12 beta by trying to compile a threaded Perl.
On other fronts, I'm going to try to upgrade my OpenBSD VM to 4.1 sometime this week. I've found new problems with Perl with every OpenBSD release, so I'm interested in seeing how Parrot fares.
I've gotten one milestone for the grant completed today with a completed Intel C++ compile and test on Linux. Patches should be on their way shortly.
The other night, I sent in a large patch to cleanup some additional implicit void pointer casts that C++ simply cannot live with. particle gave me a great idea on IRC, however, for cleaning up some of the redundancy of one set of cleanups with a macro. So, its time to re-patch with some additional cleanups for good measure. More on this patch later today.
The C++ keyword cleanup of Parrot was completed last week with some help from Mark Glines and his working "make splint" on Parrot. I'm working now one some changes to Parrot::Ops2c::Utils that will move some struct and function declarations out to header files rather than in
src/ops/core_ops.c. The current structure is cause C++ some problems and the refactoring should help things out.
Other than that, I've made a few other cleanups throughout Parrot last week, ranging from silencing a few warnings on OpenBSD to giving
STRING.strstart an actual type other than being yet another Parrot void pointer.
The work on C++ has been taking me much longer than I thought, but, hopefully, this work will help clean up the Parrot code a bit more, make it a bit more portable, and, hopefully, actually allow someone to make good use of what I've been doing.
The work on changing variables called
class to something else in Parrot continues. I have a rather large patch ready to let loose after the release this Tuesday. I also found a couple of files with variables named
this, but the PMC method
namespace() is my newest bit of pain.
Yesterday, I sent in a patch that appears to clean up the last bits necessary to get Intel C++ to compile. One big problem for C++ compiles.
Yes, that's right. A variable named class. C++ really doesn't like that very much. I would have thought that would have been something that
-Wc++-compat would have caught, but obviously it didn't. I'm looking at
as a possible replacement, but I should mail the p6i list on that change.
With all the cleanup, though, the problems with linking a workable Parrot became clear. The guessed platform seems to be messed up with Intel C++ causing defines to be incorrect for src/platform.c. I should have this sorted out early this week.
I've been beaten by a bad cold the past few days, but I'm finally getting to the point of feeling better. Cleanup has been going slowly while chasing down unexpected test successes on Fedora, that have been failing everywhere else. Here's a few things I'm looking at right now.


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Pity he didn't download one of those stupid Virtual Girlfriend apps, he could have had some company, too.
An American filmmaker trapped under the rubble of his hotel used his iPhone for medical advice, while relying on his SLR for light and paper for recording his last thoughts. Happily, Dan Woolley was rescued after 65 hours of being trapped after the Haiti earthquake with nothing but a couple of grands' worth of electronics and …
Pity he didn't download one of those stupid Virtual Girlfriend apps, he could have had some company, too.
Too much risk of dehydration..
His iPhone doesn't have a torch (flashlight) app or some means of making notes? That's a bit crap, isn't it? Should have bought a 5800.
Yes, the iPhone has a note-taking app and can serve as a basic torch (whether one uses a torch app or not) but.... *drum roll*... these functions use up battery life!
I've never been trapped underground, but if I was using a smart phone - regardless of the make - to check medical advice and to wake me up every 20 minutes, I would work on the principle that it's best not using the phone battery for functions that could be done by other tools at my disposal.
I'm glad you labelled your own post as the fail it is, saves the rest of us the bother.
Whatever phone you had, if you were relying on some part of it for survival, would you *really* want to run the battery down for trivia like torch applications, or to take your "final thoughts" notes that might be more likely to get lost on a phone than on paper anyway?
Buried alive? There's an app for that!
...taken advantage of the time alone and had myself a 65 hour wankathon.
I'd've probably thought it more important to conserve fluids myself.
...And have to explain that mountain of used tissues around you if you were still alive when the diggers got down to you...?
Having to explain why you have to be surgically separated from the concrete you were lying on after it all dried is IMHO best avoided. Besides, think what all that dust will do.
OTOH, you could have given the oleophobic coating a whole new test..
Exactly - its just a real version of the popular iphone game 'paper toss'.. except you need to aim for your own mouth.. if u get my drift.
I'd have thought after a few hours in the dark he'd get the hang of it - and it's a handy party trick to have....Also - helps you know which way is up - useful if ever buried alive in an avalanche too!
I think those fluids would be preserved somehow.
Ask Paris.
After that.
Wonder if he'll mail his Steveness to thank him for such a device.
And I'm sure our lord Jobs will tell him to fuck off and change his name.
so the only thing he really used was the iPhones alarm...
a thing the cheapest feature phone also have...
Any idiot (ups we're talking about a Yank here, hence +100.000 apps in the US App store) knows how to tend to wound or ???
"Woolley was lucky to have already downloaded Jive Media's Pocket First Aid & CRP, and was able to treat his wounds with torn clothing"
Nobody would ever think of ripping a sleeve off to serve as a makeshift bandage on their own. It humbles me to think that, had it been me, I'd have bled to death through lack of an iPhone and a crummy app.
Then again I suppose I might just have remembered the odd scene or several from war films, action movies, medical dramas (etc. ad infinitum) involving bandaging wounds, while I was lying there with nothing else to do but come up with a way of stopping myself dying.
the same information on a general First Aid course at your local Red Cross or St. John Ambulance, with the advantage that you can still access the info when the batteries run out.
Also, Bill, I think that's CPR, not CRP (or was an A missing?)
...I know he was trapped in a lift shaft and all, but does anyone else find this guy really annoying? His "last messages" also made me feel slightly ill.
I eeked out my iPhone battery for over three days by turning off 3G, location services, bluetooth, WiFi etc (basically everything except your standard GSM) whilst I was at a festival. I had a cigarette-lighter based charger in the car but didn't have to bother with it.
Granted I didn't do anything but send the occasional SMS for the whole weekend, not sure what the battery usage of a medical app would be.
His battery life would have been much reduced had he used the defibrillator app.
If he had invested in a blackberry he could have emailed someone.
I phone doesnt have email. FACT.
I phone has outdated camera
I phone is rubbish.
iPhone does have email. FACT.
Sorry to disappoint you about that, but I do own an iPhone and do use it regularly for email. OK, it doesn't have the keypad a lot of blackberries have, but it does do push email.
That's right, he could email with no mobile coverage. Because the infrastructure was destroyed by the massive natural disaster which has been all over the news for days.
Well played sir. You win a clue.
...you're an idiot.
FACT: I use mine for email all the time. Even better now Gmail does push mail.
Having put up with Win mob devices for so long, I find the iPhone a breath of fresh air.
That's how you survive being buried for three days............
I think ActionMan8 was being sarcastic guys - no need to get all worked up.
iPhone has push email, not to mention clients for those infuriating social network sites (FACT)
He had an SLR - why would he want to use a phone to take photos (duh!). Hell, I've yet to see a phone that has an SLR class camera (very few, if any have optical zoom and a decent lens).
Blackberry is rubbish - as valid as your comment, foaming-at-the-mouth fanboy. It's all horses for courses - you like the crackberry, fine, but check your facts and pass puberty before you slag something off.
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I find it hard to believe his iPhone lasted 3 days between charges... my 2G barely lasts 1.5 days if I actually use it.
The story confirms it all.
You should consider rereading the article and working out which one was the one used here.
(Tip: look for words having a meaning close to pen, and deduce it from there)
"Tip: look for words having a meaning close to pen..."
You're saying it was a Windows one and thus not compatible with the iPhone then? "Pen computing" FWIW.....
Quill? Enclosure?
'Having established that falling asleep would be bad, if he were in a state of shock'
Err, why's that then?
If it was physiological shock, which given that he was bandaging himself with strips of clothing seems likely, falling asleep could lead to coma or at least not being awake to notice things going wrong. The body temperature drops when you're asleep, too - not a good thing to happen when you're in shock.
The headline should be iPhone battery lasts three days!
To get that kind of life he must have been right on top of the cell mast, or maybe right under it!
65 hours is quite easy on a full charge if wifi is disabled, email inactive and the screen brightness on minimum. My MkI iPhone worked for several days when stuck in iran. Mine remained connected to the cell network throughout
Crap Returning Phone ?
Because when you're in shock, your body shuts down and you can slip into a coma. Hence you always try and keep overdose victims conscious.
"Hence you always try and keep overdose victims conscious".
No you bloody don't - you let them sleep as much as possible.
There is no good medical rationale to keep overdosers conscious.
If you do, the pathetic, miserable, non-coping whiners will bore you to tears with their oh-so-valid reason for taking the overdose - split with girl/boyfriend, no job, no friends (no surprise) wanting sympathy, bored, fancied a trip to hospital etc.
There is reason to treat the overdose, but no need to keep the loser awake whilst you do it.
Haiti, I presume...?
about Haiti. But then that's not what this article is about.
There are plenty of other sites that have coverage, go there...
Our man at Cupertino is a third of his way to being St. Steve.
The camera is a dSLR with, apparently, no name brand? Yet the iPhone is explicitly mentioned by name?
Would a headline of "Canon dSLR keeps buried earthquake victim alive for three days" have worked just as well?
And another thing, why use 'flight mode' (as many comments have claimed)? Surely the signal could have led rescuers to the phone if he left it on? (And that doesn't require the network to be up).
Wow, you're all heart, aren't you. Sheesh.
Do you think any of this actually happened? Sounds like a press release from Jive Media to me.
On reading the headlines, you'd think that using the iPhone prolonged his life by emitting water or some other hydrate, but no it was the information contained within....
Information that for most people is called common sense, but then again, we are talking about someone who comes from a country were they need to label coffee and tea as being hot! Once saw a commedian who suggested that all warnings from food etc should be removed and allow natural selection to sort out the gene pool.


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Embedded instruments unlock validation & test for Xeon 5500 processor boards
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The advanced microarchitecture and high interconnect speeds on circuit boards designed around the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series (codenamed Nehalem) present design validation and test challenges for board designers and manufacturers. Older legacy test systems typically involve a probe of some sort making physical contact with the circuit board or chip pins on the board.
Unfortunately, the validation and test coverage delivered by this type of intrusive probe-based test and measurement system is rapidly eroding. With decreased validation and test coverage, product quality suffers, threatening the health of product sales over the long term.
Embedded instrumentation validation and test methods rely on instruments that are already embedded into the chips on the circuit board. As such, these non-intrusive board test (NBT) and validation methods can complement and/or replace legacy intrusive technologies and deliver the comprehensive coverage needed. Moreover, methods based on embedded instrumentation are much more cost-effective than legacy hardware-intense instruments and testers like in-circuit test (ICT) systems, oscilloscopes, flying probe testers, logic analyzers and others because software rather than hardware is the critical driver for embedded instrumentation validation and test technologies.
Coverage tradeoffs
Although seemingly simple, the concept of optimum validation and test coverage can be elusive. Whatever the method of quantification, coverage refers to that portion of a particular circuit board that can be validated or tested to determine whether manufacturing faults are present and whether the board meets the operational performance levels specified for the design. This definition raises several questions.
- How is coverage quantified?
- How much validation and test coverage is enough? Or, more specifically, what is optimum coverage?
Specifying a coverage level for a circuit board presupposes coverage can be quantified. Several methods for measuring coverage have been suggested as standards for the industry, but none has been universally adopted. A standardized way of quantifying coverage would create an effective comparative metric for evaluating design techniques relative to their contributions to the test and validation coverage requirements for a given design.
One example of a coverage model has been suggested by the INternational Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) and is known as PCOLA/SOQ/FAM. The letters in the method's name refer to the coverage metrics defined in the methodology. Coverage is divided into three segments: structural-device coverage, structural-interconnect coverage and functional-device and interconnect coverage.
The structural-device metrics are: Presence of the devices on the board, correctness of the devices, orientation, live (whether the devices on the board are connected to power) and alignment (PCOLA). Structural-interconnect metrics are: shorts, opens and quality (SOQ). And lastly, the functional-device and interconnect metrics consists of feature, at-speed and measurement (FAM).
A description of iNEMI's suggested methodology is featured on the group's web site at http://www.inemi.org/cms/projects/test/FT_assess.html.
What is optimum coverage?
Of course, 100 percent validation and test coverage would be ideal because, at least in theory, all faults, failures, potential bottlenecks, manufacturing variances and other possible pitfalls would be identified well before the product is in the hands of a user. Unfortunately, 100 percent coverage is impractical even if it were technically attainable. As coverage increases so does the cost of validation and test until the price of the product in the marketplace becomes uncompetitive. But spending too little on validation and test can be just as hazardous. Without adequate coverage, the quality of the product will suffer, warranty returns will increase, and repair or replacement costs could get out of hand very quickly.
The optimum amount of test coverage is the point of diminishing marginal return. That is, that point where the next dollar spent to increase test coverage will not return an equal or greater amount to the business. Spending beyond this point to increase test coverage would be too much. Spending less, not enough. Of course the real payoff for a breakthrough validation and test methodology like embedded instrumentation and the non-intrusive technologies it enables is the fact that embedded instrumentation delivers coverage so much more cost-effectively than the older, intrusive probe-based test technologies like in-circuit test (ICT), oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, flying probe testers and others.
Test technologies based on software-driven embedded instrumentation reduce the cost of validation and test while increasing coverage. This moves the point of diminishing marginal return closer to full 100 percent coverage without increasing the cost of validation and test. In fact, this can actually decrease the total cost of validation and test. Over the life of a system, this can have tremendous effects in terms of product quality, user satisfaction and market share.
Technical difficulties
The coverage delivered by older intrusive validation and test technologies has eroded over the last decade as chips and packaging, as well as board design and fabrication techniques have evolved. Several of the technical difficulties intrusive technologies have encountered are described below.
Probe-based intrusive validation and test technologies typically place metal probes on one or more pins on chips or on one or more of the test pads which had been designed into a circuit board for these purposes. Unfortunately, this type of physical access for probes has diminished in recent years as chips and circuit boards have evolved. Chip pins, for example, have become so fine-pitched that they are inaccessible by a probe. Or, the pins are hidden underneath the chip's silicon die as in a ball grid array (BGA) package. Heat sinks or a conformal coating over the entire board can also render device pins and test pads inaccessible. And, in general, test pads on circuit boards are disappearing as boards become more and more dense.
Capacitive effects on interconnects
Validating or testing high-speed serial chip-to-chip interconnects or input/output (I/O) buses on a circuit board by placing a physical probe on the interconnect is also fraught with difficulties. The speed of these interconnects today often exceeds 5 gigabits per second (Gbps). For example, PCI Express Gen 3 can achieve rates of 8 Gb/s while SATA III is already at 6 Gb/s, USB 3.0 speeds along at 4.8 Gb/s and HDMI 1.3 is capable of 10.2 Gb/s.
When a metal probe is placed on a circuit board test pad on one of these buses, the metal probe introduces capacitive effects on the bus. As a result, it is difficult for probe-based test and measurement equipment to distinguish between faults which may be disturbing the integrity of signals on the bus and the capacitive anomalies introduced by the test equipment itself.
Embedded instrumentation
Embedded instrumentation is a methodology which applies instruments that have been embedded into chips to perform validation and test functionality throughout the life cycle of chips, circuit boards and systems. Several specific validation and test technologies take advantage of embedded instruments. These include boundary scan (IEEE 1149.1), processor-controlled test (PCT) and Intel Interconnect Built-In Self Test (IBIST).
Boundary scan (IEEE 1149.1)
As a board test standard, boundary scan was ratified by the IEEE in the mid-1990s as a reaction to disappearing test access to devices. Tests are applied to a circuit board through a connector and the four-wire serial interface known as the Test Access Port (TAP). On chips, this interface is commonly referred to as the 'JTAG port', from the informal name of the working group that began development of the boundary scan standard, the Joint Test Action Group. Because of its widespread acceptance and deployment, the boundary-scan infrastructure in chips and on circuit boards has become the basis for other standards, including the IEEE 1149.6 standard for testing high-speed AC-coupled interconnects, the IEEE 1149.7 so-called compact boundary-scan standard as well as several others.
Processor-controlled test (PCT)
PCT takes temporary control of a processor on a circuit board to read and write memory and I/O registers in addressable devices. In this way, PCT exercises the functionality of the board and as a result detects and diagnoses structural faults. It operates at CPU speeds and, therefore, PCT detects faults which only manifest themselves while the board is running at operational speeds. ICT, manufacturing defect analyzers, flying probe testers and boundary scan are static technologies which do not verify operational functionality. As a consequence, PCT's fault coverage spectrum does not overlap with that of static test technologies like boundary scan.
Intel IBIST
An example of proprietary embedded instrumentation is Intel Interconnect Built-in Self Test (IBIST), which is being embedded by Intel, Avago and other semiconductor and intellectual property (IP) providers into chips and chipsets. IBIST can be implemented in validation applications to validate the performance of high-speed serial buses and in structural tests on circuit boards. In validation applications, IBIST-based pattern generation and checking, bit error rate, and margining tests are applied to confirm a board design's signal integrity. Intel IBIST uses the same debug port interface which is used for boundary scan and processor-
controlled test.
Validating and testing a Xeon 5500 board case study
Given the technical difficulties that legacy intrusive test and measurement equipment have encountered in recent years, embedded instrumentation methodologies can provide extensive validation and test coverage for circuit boards based on the Intel Xeon processors series 5500. The non-intrusive technologies that make use of embedded instruments, including boundary scan, PCT and Intel® IBIST, can provide coverage for virtually all of a Xeon 5500 circuit board. These boards are typically one- or two-processor designs, which can have one or two Input-Output Hubs (IOHs), which are also referred to as chipsets – see figure 1.
On Xeon 5500-based designs test access is provided via the eXtended Debug Port (XDP), a 60-pin, small-form-factor connector which provides access to Intel® silicon and system test and debug resources. Boundary scan, PCT and Intel® IBIST only require a small subset of the 60 XDP signals.
Although a 60-pin XDP header usually appears on a circuit board during prototype stages to allow for debugging, it is quite common for the XDP header to be removed from the design prior to high-volume manufacturing to reduce costs. When XDP headers are not available on a circuit board, alternatives can be provided. There are a number of different ways that boundary-scan and PCT run-control access can be provided, per the Intel Debug Port Design Guidelines and the board's own individual design-for-test features.
Fig 1: A typical single-CPU Xeon 5500 board design with coverages for boundary-scan test (BST), PCT and Intel IBIST.
Boundary scan coverage
The green in figure 1 indicates the test coverage provided by non-intrusive boundary-scan tests. This coverage includes the QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links. If the test pads that are required for intrusive test technologies were to be placed on these high-speed links, the intrusive technologies would only provide unreliable test results because of the capacitive effects of the test probes. Non-intrusive test technologies based on embedded instrumentation like boundary scan, PCT and IBIST do not require test pads.
Boundary scan is of particular utility for QPI nets, because there is no other deterministic means of detecting shorts and opens on these links. In addition, the performance of the QPI links is critical to the functioning of the circuit board because QPI constitutes the main bus through which all processor traffic flows.
Processor-controlled test coverage
PCT uses emulation technology to read and write memory and registers throughout the CPU-addressable devices on a Xeon board. By doing this, structural and functional faults can be identified. Therefore, PCT is a good complement to boundary scan, effectively extending the test coverage on the board.
PCT provides structural test coverage on nets where, for whatever reason, test points cannot be designed into the board. For example, a board's PCIe nets may not be tested structurally by boundary scan because devices on the links may not be complaint to the boundary-scan standard or the board was not designed with boundary-scan DFT considerations in mind.
Moreover, since it operates at processor speeds, PCT can supplement the coverage provided by traditional static test technologies like boundary scan and ICT with an at-speed fault coverage spectrum. In addition, PCT test times are very fast for a functional tester, typically one-to-five minutes, depending on the comprehensiveness of the test.
PCT instructs the processor to sequentially test all addressable devices on the board under test. These tests are normally carried out without booting the board to its operating system, so device initialization is handled by the PCT system instead of the unit under test's (UUT) BIOS. Test programming is greatly simplified by PCT's automatic test generator (ATG), which identifies the devices present on the board and then assimilates the appropriate device profiles from a built-in library into a board-specific test script.
From a functional point of view, PCT can test all CPU-addressable devices, including the DDR3 memory and PCIe devices that boundary scan is unable to test. Certain structural faults on the board, including shorts and opens and other assembly-related faults, can also be detected and diagnosed as a by-product of the functional testing. Another very valuable feature of CPU emulation functional test is the extensive coverage reporting system that comes with PCT. This allows fault reporting to the component and pin levels and is achieved by importing the board's netlist and then assigning parts and pins to specific device tests during the test development process.
Because of certain design-for-test restrictions on Xeon processor 5500 series boards, PCT has proven to be particularly useful for performing tests on DDR3 memory. Boundary scan, which could be implemented to test memory, is restricted from testing DDR3 memory because the memory I/O on Xeon Processor 5500 Series boards has been designed as output2-type, meaning that these cells can drive but not receive. And DDR3 memory itself is usually not designed with inherent boundary-scan support. Thus, pure boundary scan by itself cannot be used to detect shorts and opens on memory buses. Fortunately, PCT extends test diagnostic coverage to these memory buses.
Intel IBIST coverage
On Xeon circuit boards Intel's suite of embedded instruments, IBIST, can be accessed and controlled via the IEEE 1149.1 boundary-scan test access port (TAP), which includes an instruction register and standard TAP controller functionality. Special 1149.1 instructions set up the tests, start them, determine when they complete, and read back failure information. The actual pattern generation and error checking is done by the embedded Intel IBIST hardware at speeds much greater than boundary scan can support.
IBIST is a functional test which uses pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS) patterns as a foundation for pattern generation and checking, bit error rate testing (BERT) and margining. It does not provide total structural test coverage on a Xeon® board. As a result, it should certainly be deployed in conjunction with PCT and boundary scan to achieve comprehensive test coverage.
When testing QPI links, IBIST calls for the CPU(s) to act as a master and the IOH(s) to function as slaves to fully exercise all links bi-directionally. It should be noted that high-speed serial nets of these sort are expressly immune to common mode noise induced by some structural faults, in which case the links will "appear" to operate normally when there may be faults on the bus. IBIST as a manufacturing test will capture link performance degradation indicators which could be caused by structural faults. In order to detect QPI and PCIe lane performance degradation, the more advanced capabilities of IBIST BERT and margining are applied. For example, marginalities such as component drift across different device lots, trace defects, solder voids or micro-cracks, missing or bad terminations/capacitors, etc. can result in a degraded eye or a high bit error rate.
Meeting challenges with embedded instrumentation
Advancements in chip technology, such as those which have been incorporated into the Xeon 5500 processors, often raise issues of validation and test, not just for the chips themselves but also for the circuit boards where they are deployed. Test and measurement methods and technologies have evolved to account for these issues. The newer, more advanced methods based on embedded instrumentation are able to overcome the limitations of older legacy intrusive test technologies. ASSET's ScanWorks platform for embedded instruments, in particular, features the tools and supports the validation and test technologies for leading-edge circuit boards that feature the 5500 processors.
Non-Intrusive Board Test Strategies for the Intel Xeon Prodcessor 5500 Series
iNEMI (International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative) Functional Test Coverage
Assessment Project: http://www.inemi.org/cms/projects/test/FT_assess.html
Intel Debug Port Design Guide for UP/DP Systems, June 2006:
ASSET PCT Design For Test:
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text: Hello Benjie, The NSH office forwarded your message to me since I am one of the NSH Health and Safety Committee advisors for ergonomics issues. I was glad to see that you posted your questions on Histonet also. You will get a lot of good feedback from the group, and I think you will find that there is no lack of emotion from the individuals who have suffered injuries. I only know of one study conducted strictly on individuals performing histotechnology related job skills. The results of that study were published in the Journal of Histotechnology as part of a three part article (see below for references). General information on Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSD) can be found on the OSHA, http://www.osha.gov, and NIOSH, http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html, websites. Both agencies offer many free publications that are very useful for setting up an ergonomics program in any facility. (I don't know if they ship to Canada however.) You can also search for web sites that offer ergonomic furniture and suggestions for workstation designs. Keep in mind that repetitive motions do not necessarily cause injury. Usually, injury occurs when repetitive motions are combined with a stressor, such as using force or working in an awkward position. They can also be influenced by environmental factors and human factors, such as age, gender, diet, general health and smoking. Non-work related activities also contribute to injury. There is an abundance of automated equipment available for almost every histotechnology discipline. Many employers are strongly recommending a shift to automated equipment, especially for microtomy, staining and coverslipping. Unfortunately, it is common to see automated equipment being used manually because changing techniques requires a learning curve that many users can't work into their schedule. Most of us are using computers, often a major contributor to WMSD. If you are planning to attend the NSH Symposium/Convention next month in Long Beach, you might wish to enroll in Workshop #56, Ergonomics and What Does It Have To Do With Histology, on Monday, September 30th. It will be presented by Pearl Gervais, my fellow ergonomics advisor, and Susan Unger. I'm certain it will be a very good course. I'm sure we could all benefit from the responses you receive, so please share off-line messages with the group. Best regards, Jan Minshew Marketing Manager Leica Microsystems References: Herman, Gilbert E., et al., Histologists, Microtomy, Chronic Repetitive Trauma, and Techniques to Avoid Injury: I. A Statistical Evaluation of the Job Functions Performed by Histologists, The Journal of Histotechnology, Vol. 18, No. 2, June 1995. Herman, Gilbert E., et al., Histologists, Microtomy, Chronic Repetitive Trauma, and Techniques to Avoid Injury I I. A Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Physician's Perspective, The Journal of Histotechnology, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 1995. Herman, Gilbert E., et al., Histologists, Microtomy, Chronic Repetitive Trauma, and Techniques to Avoid Injury: Comparison of Performance Characteristics of a Motorized Microtome to Convention


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Former NASCAR star Geoff Bodine is finally hanging up his racing helmet and admits that Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s recent concussions had a lot to do with it.
Bodine, 63, raced for more than 27 years in NASCAR's top three series, winning 18 Sprint Cup races through the 1980s and '90s, including the 1986 Daytona 500.
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After his final full season in 1999, he continued to race part-time through 2005 and ran three Sprint Cup races in 2011 at age 62.
But Bodine, who survived a horrific crash in a NASCAR Truck Series race at Daytona in 2000, told the Elmira (N.Y.) Star-Gazette that he recently began rethinking climbing back into a racecar after a lifetime of hard hits.
"I don't know the definition of what a concussion is, but all I know is that I've been knocked out several times and have hit my head and jarred it several times really hard," Bodine told the Star-Gazette. "I even got knocked out in high school football, so my head injuries started a long time ago.
"I've had all of those multiple concussions and they add up. You never know if the next one is going to put you down."
Bodine said Earnhardt Jr.'s concussions last year, which sidelined NASCAR's most popular driver for two races, served as a wake-up call for him.
"Dale Jr.'s situation kind of pushed me into making this decision," he said. "I commend him for doing it because it takes a lot of courage and integrity to not race for two races. He realized his health was more important."
Bodine grew up racing on the Chemung, N.Y. his father and grandfather built and moved south to become one of NASCAR's biggest stars. He scored the first career victory for team owner Rick Hendrick and Hendrick Motorsports in 1984.
Bodine's younger brothers, Brett and Todd, both followed him to NASCAR. Brett now works for NASCAR after a long driving career and Todd also is a former Cup driver and a two-time NASCAR Truck Series champion.
Geoff Bodine, who now lives in Melbourne, Fla., said he is devoting his time these days to his family, charity work, running his new Honda motorcycle dealership, and building the next generation of bobsleds for the U.S. Olympic team.
He refuses to use the word "retirement."
"I'm not using the word retirement because people misinterpret what you are saying," he told the Star-Gazette. "I don't want that word associated with me. I'm not retiring from life. I'm more active now than ever.
"I'm just not going to drive a racecar anymore. That's all."
Bodine, who won his last Cup race in 1996, said his friends and family have prodded him for years to quit racing.
"My friends and my family have been telling me, 'What are you doing it for?'" he said. "I was doing it for my ego and I was having trouble getting rid of the competitive side of me. I wanted to race. ... That's what I've done all my life and I was having trouble getting that out of me."


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It was a day for milestones on Thursday. Frank Thomas smacked his 500th home run and a few hours later Craig Biggio reached the 3,000-hit plateau in style with a five-hit game.
Biggio had entered the first game of an 11-game homestand needing three hits to become the 27th player to reach 3,000 in a career. He got the job done -- and then some -- in the first as he helped the Astros beat the Rockies 8-5 in an 11-inning game.
"I couldn't have scripted it any better," Biggio said. "As a baseball player, the way the fans treated me. ... I've said for a long time, I love these guys, I love this city, I worked hard here and they appreciated that.
"I'm trying to stay focused, but getting a standing ovation every time up to hit -- it's a pretty nice appreciation. A lot of things have happened to me over the course of my 20-year career but tonight is the best. I'm just glad we finally got it done."
Biggio's 3,000th hit came in the seventh inning, driving in Brad Ausmus from second base with two outs. His fifth hit, an infield single to shortstop, came with two outs and no one on in the 11th inning to begin a rally that ended with a game-winning grand slam by Carlos Lee.
Thomas should have known his milestone would come in Minnesota, where he has tormented the Twins for years. Ten percent of his career home runs have come against them.
He reached the milestone number when he launched a shot over the fence against Carlos Silva on a 1-2 pitch in the first inning. Thomas hit his first career home run against the Twins as well when he hit a shot off Gary Wayne.
Thomas was especially pleased he was able to hit the home run early in the game so his family could see it.
"My kids had to leave for the airport at 1:45 p.m. and my daughter said 'Dad, you're going to do it in the first couple at-bats,'" Thomas said. "Thank God she was right, I'm happy she was here to see it."
Thomas added that it is an honor to join the group of superstar players who have hit 500 home runs.
"That's an unbelievable class of talent," he said.
Lowe's just happy to be pitching again: The Mariners are sending reliever Mark Lowe on a Minor League rehabilitation assignment, a huge step for a pitcher who underwent micro-fracture surgery to help grow back cartilage in his pitching elbow.
The surgery itself was risky enough, but Dr. Lewis Yocum encountered problems during the procedure and told Lowe not to get his hopes up about pitching again once he completed the operation.
"He just said, 'You might not pitch again,'" Lowe told the Seattle Times. "That was hard to swallow, but that was reality. That was one of the things I needed to hear, because my whole baseball career has been spent proving people wrong."
It's been eight months since the micro-fracture surgery and Lowe underwent another operation in the interim. But all of the hard work he put in is about to pay off, as he gets a chance to pitch in a real game again.
"Everybody was very honest with me," Lowe said about the odds of recovery. "I just kind of hung with it. There's not much more you can do."
Lowe made a splash last season when he got promoted and proceeded to throw 97 miles per hour, which helped him post a 1.93 ERA before elbow problems ended his season. Right now, his velocity is markedly lower. Lowe hopes he can re-gain the missing 10 miles per hour from his fastball, but he knows there are no guarantees.
"Whatever happens, happens," Lowe said. "There's nothing I can do more than I already have to change it."
Petrick's dream-come-true gets even better: Chicago Cubs rookie Billy Petrick, who began the season at Single-A Daytona, has quickly climbed through the ranks and on Wednesday night made his Major League debut in front of almost 40,000 fans -- including many friends and family. In his first inning of work, he struck out Cory Sullivan with a 95-mph fastball.
"I wanted to scream after I struck that last guy out," Petrick told the Chicago Tribune. "It was an awesome feeling."
Despite starting the year far from the Cubs, the organization liked what they saw in the young lefty.
"Our Minor League people felt this kid was throwing the ball better than anybody else we had, and that's exactly who we brought up," said manager Lou Piniella.
And once he was brought up, it was a dream realized for not only the player, but also for his family.
"It felt like just a dream to me, and more for my dad," he said. "He was pumping me up, saying, 'I'm dropping you off at Wrigley Field. First day, dropping you off for your job.' That's a great feeling for him, and I just fed off his feelings."
Mazzone: Bedard could have pitched with Braves: Baltimore Orioles pitcher Erik Bedard is on a roll, his latest gem coming in the Orioles' 4-0 victory over the Yankees on Wednesday night.
Bedard struck out eight while walking only one and giving up just two hits.
"What I saw out of him tonight?" pitching coach Leo Mazzone asked the Baltimore Sun rhetorically. "An all-star pitcher. ... I think he's been this way all year basically. The greatest compliment that I could give Erik Bedard is with some of the great staffs in Atlanta that I had the privilege of coaching, he could have pitched in them."
Now 6-4 on the year with an ERA of 3.36, Bedard leads the American League with 129 strikeouts. Even the opposition can't help but to be impressed.
"He has a much better idea than he had when he was younger," said Yankees veteran Johnny Damon. "The pitches he's throwing kept hitting his spots. He throws a lot of borderline pitches that are either on the corner or balls, and a lot of times we have to chase those because they are too close. He's just putting the balls in good spots."
"Right now, he's an accomplished left-hander, and that's the highest compliment I can pay him," added Yankees manager Joe Torre.
Baltimore skipper Dave Trembley believes that what Bedard is doing now is no fluke.
"Erik is probably about as reserved a young man as you'll ever meet, but he's as competitive a guy as you'll ever come across," said Trembley. "He's pretty composed most of the time, but he's very aware of what the situation is. ... I don't think there's any doubt the guy's a bona fide No. 1 on this club. He's pitched like that all year."
Tigers see bright future for Miller: Detroit Tigers pitcher Andrew Miller is off to quite a start this year, picking up three victories in his four starts with an ERA of just 2.70. And according to teammates, the best may be yet to come.
"Everyone knows he has talent, he's very impressive," Tigers veteran starter Kenny Rogers told the Detroit News. "We talk all the time. He's got a lot of years ahead of him. There are ups and downs no matter how good you are, but he's got so much room to learn, it's scary.
"He's not even probably 30 percent of the pitcher he could be, stuff-wise."
Miller, meanwhile, is just trying to make the most of his opportunity.
"I know that if I pitch well, things will work out well," he said. "But I know that if I don't, I probably won't be here too long.
"I just have to try and do as well as I can. If I start worrying about stuff then my mind is in the wrong spot."
For now, his mind is on listening to the veterans around him. "I'm just trying to listen, take tips and see if those tips will work for me," Miller said. "All these guys here love to talk about pitching, and I love to listen to it. Hopefully I can be around a long time like many who are here."
Manager Jim Leyland isn't about to discourage the youngster's desire to pick up some things from his teammates, but also wants him to be his own man.
"It's good to learn, it's good to listen, but you don't want to get swamped or pattern yourself after someone else," said Leyland. "He is what he is.
"He's good, and he's got a long way to go. I don't know how (this starting role) is going to play out, but it's like a bonus.
"We're getting a chance to see him a little bit, (fans) get to see him, and he's getting valuable experience."
Michaels on a roll: Jason Michaels is just plain on fire.
Now carrying an 11-game hitting streak, Michaels has 11 hits in his last 27 at-bats, including the decisive, three-run home run in the Indians' 4-3 victory on Thursday afternoon.
The ball traveled 415 feet. "I think I got enough of it," Michaels told MLB.com.
Now with six home runs on the year, Michaels doesn't want fans to think he's trying to hit the long ball.
"My junior and senior year at Miami, I had some home runs," he said. "But I went to the Minors, and I've never been a home-run hitter. That's not me. That's not my lane."
Michaels is now hitting .302 on the year with 25 RBIs.
Capuano ready for Tuesday return: After throwing a five-inning simulated game Wednesday without experiencing any problems, Milwaukee pitcher Chris Capuano is on schedule to come off the disabled list and start Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Capuano has been on the disabled list Since June 9 with a strained left groin. During his simulated game, in which he faced Kevin Mench, Gabe Gross, Claudio Vargas and Dave Bush, Capuano threw 75 pitches.
"I thought it went good," said Capuano, who was 5-5 with a 4.35 ERA in 13 starts before going on the DL, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "The leg felt great. I tried to treat it like a regular start day."
In addition to the 75 pitches thrown, Capuano fielded some bunts and also fielded a grounder while sliding on the ground.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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|Johnny Klein of Los Angeles poses in the Pin Palace in Strasburg with his sisters, Angie Schneider of Walnut Creek, Calif., left, and Berniece Whitte of Lafayette, Calif
A Tribute to Johnny Klein, 1918-1997Burke, Allan. "A Tribute to Johnny Klein, 1918-1997." Emmons County Record, 4 March 1997, 1.
(Editor's note: this story is reprinted from the July 18, 1991, Prairie Pioneer, Pollock, S.D., as a tribute to Johnny Klein, who died January 31, 1997. Among Johnny's survivors is his aunt, Mrs. Kathryn Klein of Strasburg.)
No one is more excited about the restoration of Lawrence Welk's childhood home than Johnny Klein.
Klein, who now lives in Los Angelas, was the Lawrence Welk Orchestra' s drummer for 25 years, 1951-76. He joined the orchestra just before the Lawrence Welk Show debuted on national television.
He visited the Ludwig Welk homestead Monday afternoon with his sisters, Angie Schneider of Walnut Creek, Calif., and Berniece Witte of Lafayette, Calif.
Natives of Strasburg, Klein and his sisters were Monday supper guests of their aunt, Katie Klein of Strasburg. Katie's late husband, Leo, was a brother of their father, the late John Klein. Their mother is the late Ann (Lipp) Klein.
Johnny is still a favorite in the Los Angeles area. He plays two nights a week with a four piece combo at a popular steak house. .'It's fun-I love it," he said.
After graduating from high school in Strasburg in 1936, Johnny enrolled in the University of Missouri, Columbia. He earned both a B.A. and Master's Degree from the university. Before graduate school, he served in the U .S. Army for four and a half years. He played drums both at the university and in the Anny.
"When I was in graduate school I saw in the St. Louis paper that Lawrence Welk was playing at Forest Park. I went to see the show and found out that the drummer couldn't play he had the flu. I filled in for him. He soon left the group to pursue other things, and I joined the band," Johnny explained.
Last year, Johnny and a dozen other Welk orchestra veterans visited Lawrence and Fern Welk on Welk's 87th birthday (March 11). "We played for him, and it was great to see his response." Johnny said.
Among the others in the group were Russ Klein, Mickey McMahan (trumpet), Bob Smale, Bob Havens (jazz), Laroon Holt, Barney Liddell (trombone), charlie Parlato and Joe Rizzo (bass).
Johnny said the Lawrence Welk Show re-runs do not appear on the Los Angeles stations, but the show is on the air in San Diego and many other California cities as well as throughout the United States and much of Canada. .
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Burlington Street Department Buildings - Equipment
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Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings - Equipment
- McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
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Photograph dated Mar. 22, 1944. Original caption reads: "Burlington Street Department, Burlington, Vermont This view shows one of our sidewalk plowing and sanding units consisting of a rubber tired Allis-Chalmers IB Tractor with Baker V-Type 5 ft. width plow and a trailer sand spreader designed and built in the street Department repair shop. Note the extra metal weights placed on the rear wheel hubs to give added traction. The V-type plow has been found from experience to be more satisfactory than the reversible blade plows, especially after heavy drifting storms. The sand spreader holds approximately 1/2 cubic yard of sand. It has sloping false bottom lined with sheet metal which assists the flow of sand to the rotor which is placed just to the rear of the main axle. The surface of this rotor is covered with beads of steel which operates against a steel fibre brush to deliver a carpet of sand 30 inches in width over the surface of the icy sidewalks. The power for revolving the rotor is obtained from the small wheelbarrow rubber tired wheel which make a contact on the surface of one of the trailer wheels and is transmitted to the rotor by V-belt. The pressure of this third wheel against the surface of the trailer wheel can be increased or diminished or thrown out of contact entirely by changing the position of a small lever mounted on the side of the trailer which is easily accessible to the driver."
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Do you guys think this a fair assessment from Paul Jones? I really hope that Jay doesn't plug Jose back in the starting five because obvious reasons say so. Right now, I'd go with the old motto "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". I hope Triano does this too. ;)
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That being said, Calderon should not come back until he is 100 per cent healthy as the team seems to have found a nice rhythm of late.
It says here that if the team is still going well, Calderon should come off the bench and work his way slowly back into the lineup facing some second unit players the same way Ford did a couple of seasons ago.
He might not like it, but in the end, its who finishes the game, not who starts and with Triano currently playing four starters (Bosh, Bargnani, Turkoglu and Jack) during crunch time in the fourth quarter with a rotating wild card player, that might just turn out to be Calderons spot when he is fully recovered.


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No doubt.
The Bobcats are going back to state.
The Ignacio High School boys basketball team, with an unprecedented second-half offensive explosion, won the Region 3 championship Saturday in Durango, defeating Paonia 76-46.
The Bobcats, who will make their third consecutive appearance at the CHSAA Class 2A State Boys Basketball Championships in Pueblo next week, removed any doubts about a once-close game when they scored a season-high 29 points in the third quarter.
Ignacio's tenuous eight-point halftime lead reached 18 points by the end of the third period.
When reserve Colton Davis scored the Bobcats' final basket to complete the 30-point victory, the Ignacio faithful celebrated in their home away from home at Durango High School. Ignacio totaled 46 points in its biggest offensive half of the year.
"In the first half, we weren't working our penetration," Ignacio head coach Chris Valdez said. "They were outhustling us; they were putting it all out there."
Paonia senior Adrian Penny canned a pair of long 3-pointers in the first half to keep the Eagles close. And senior Kacey Kropp hit three early jumpers for Paonia, which used a tough man-to-man defense to slow the Bobcats.
But the Ignacio coaches addressed those issues at halftime, and Valdez offered a simple question for his team.
"I asked them ... are you going to the state tournament or not?
"Then I asked them to give me the best 16 minutes of their life (in the second half)," Valdez said. "We wanted to get our motor running, play aggressive defense and attack the basket."
The message was clear, he said.
"When they walked out of that locker room at halftime, I could see it in their eyes," Valdez said. "They were not going to let this one get away."
Ignacio seniors Pedro Vigil and Ryan Brooks certainly were not going to let it get away.
Vigil delivered a perfect alley-oop pass to Brooks for Ignacio's first basket of the third quarter.
Brooks added a driving layup, and junior Paul Tahlo swished a 3-pointer.
Junior Shane Richmond hit back-to-back baskets.
After Brooks and Vigil scored again, Jay Black hit one of Ignacio's six 3-pointers.
But it was the final two 3-pointers of the quarter that boosted the decibels in the gym to their loudest level of the tournament.
"The first one felt really off," senior Deion Hudson said of his first 3-pointer against Paonia. "But when I set up my feet, it (the shot) felt good."
Then, with just two seconds left in the quarter, Hudson launched an NBA-range 3-pointer.
"After I hit the first one, I felt it. I felt like I could knock down another one," Hudson said.
He did.
"It was an amazing feeling," Hudson said.
"Deion hits those two shots ... they were huge," Valdez said. "He's coming back from an injury. But with those two shots ... he's back."
Hudson also earned special praise from Brooks, who finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Bobcats.
"When Pedro (Vigil) got in foul trouble early, we had our other guards step up big," Brooks said.
"Those two 3s (from Hudson) really gave us the edge going into the fourth quarter. It was Deion's best game of the year," Brooks said.
Brooks said the Bobcats listened to their coaches at halftime.
"They (Eagles) did come out strong. We knew they would give us a good game. They were some strong boys," he said.
"We let them breathe a little in the first half."
But not in the second.
"Coach told us to clamp down," Brooks said after the Bobcats limited Paonia to only five points in the final quarter to bring their season record to 21-2.
Vigil, despite the early foul problems, finished with a game-high 18 points, including two 3-pointers.
"I didn't want this to be my last game," Ignacio's senior leader said.
"I ... wanted to do this for my coach. He's worked so hard all year for us," said Vigil, who also finished with eight assists.
Valdez said Vigil's time on the bench was as valuable as his time on the court Saturday.
"When he got those fouls ... he didn't whine about it. What he did was sit on the bench and support his team," Valdez said.
"Then, when we got our leader back on the floor (in the second half), we got our confidence going."
Richmond, the Bobcats' leading scorer in Friday's 30-point semifinal victory over Crowley County, added 14 points in Saturday's victory.
"We started out a little slow, but we picked it up in the second half," said Richmond, who also had eight rebounds.
"This will be my third time (to state)," said Richmond, 3-for-3 in Elite Eight appearances. "This is what it's all about."
Penny led Paonia with 16 points. Kropp added 11 for the Eagles (15-6). Paonia had defeated Sangre de Cristo 61-60 in overtime in Friday's late semifinal game. Ignacio beat Crowley County 59-29.
"People didn't think we could get there (state)," Valdez said. "And we lost some great players from last year, I won't lie to you. But these players kept their focus all year ... these players are a family," said Valdez, who has directed the Ignacio boys to a 65-8 record over the last three seasons.
IHS finished second at state last year and fourth the previous year.
Now, the Bobcats will await their seeding assignment for the 2011 state tournament, which will be announced late today on www.chsaa.org.
Then, they will head to Pueblo on Wednesday along with their legion of faithful fans.
"Can't wait," Hudson said.
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The Molinas have five World Series rings between them, and Bengie and Jose Molina are cheering for baby brother Yadier to bring home the sixth.
"I love to see him play, even on TV and stuff. It's unbelievable to watch him from the stands," said Jose, who wore Yadier's Cardinals jersey as he cheered him on during Game 5. "Just to spend time with him because he always supports us and everything we do, so it's just awesome to be here and support him."
"This is the ultimate," agreed Bengie. "Nobody thought that the St. Louis Cardinals were going to be around here at the World Series. This is something special for them, and I think they can do it. We are very proud of him. All of us." (FOX Sports Midwest)
Some Major Leaguers play golf in the offseason, and some relax at home with their families. Others, like Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw and his wife Ellen, plan philanthropic trips to Africa.
"It'll be fun to go back," said Kershaw, who spent his honeymoon helping orphans and building a school in Zambia (Kershaw's Challenge).
"We're going to start building an orphanage -- that's what Kershaw's Challenge this year was geared toward. Hopefully, we'll see the beginning stages of that being built. It'll be exciting just to get back there, see some of the same faces and hopefully do some good." (MLB.com)
If you've ever wanted to see Brian Wilson put on some parachute pants and bust a move with MC Hammer, you're welcome (Yardbarker)
Derek Holland doesn't just pitch sparkling postseason gems (MLB.com). He also does a pretty convincing Harry Caray impression (MLB.com). Who do you have as the better Caray -- Holland or Ryan Dempster? (MLB.com)
Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford took on Pirates pitching prospect and future brother-in-law Gerritt Cole in an Arizona Fall League desert showdown.
"Going into the at-bat it was kind of fun," said Crawford, whose sister Amy is engaged to Cole. "After I got in the box, he was just another pitcher ... who just happens to throw 100."
Cole took home the family bragging rights by getting Crawford to line out at the track. (San Francisco Chronicle)
From the Cardinals' Edwin Jackson to the Rangers' Mike Adams, Josh Hamilton, Matt Harrison and C.J. Wilson, there is no shortage of presidential surnames among this year's World Series stars. (The Wall Street Journal)
Rangers starter Colby Lewis had a long journey road to the show (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Tweet of the Day: "It's official, making sauce today. Have been home for 3 weeks now and havent made one Italian dish, unacceptable. #dishes" -- Indians reliever Vinnie Pestano (@VinnieP52)
Quote of the Day: "It's pretty amazing. If it wasn't for her, I probably wouldn't be in this situation. She always took me to practice, made sure I was there, made sure I always had the right equipment. I'm glad she could be here to watch me. There was a little incident where she couldn't be there when we clinched last series, but she was taking care of my little sister. She had homecoming ... She was always there at every game, and it was nice to have her there always supporting me." -- Mike Napoli on living the dream with his mom at the World Series. (MLB.com)
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