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Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.">Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
Page Created by:
Hilary Almas, Brittany Cruz, Brittany Jones, Katelyn Kingseed, Chloe Pugh, Kyle Ritchey, Michael Szucs, Wendy Towle, Samantha Olmstead, Amy Vogel, Julie Ax, Brittney Newbury, Francesca Bevente, Leesa Zimmerman
With International Assistance Provided by:
Bao Yun, Lu Yong, and Zhang Dinyan, all of Beijing-Normal, China
What does this application do?\\">What does this application do?
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.1 Using Bubbl.us you can:
- Create colorful mind maps online
- Share and work with friends
- Embed your mind map in your blog or website
- Email and print your mind map
- Save your mind map as an image: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFuXiugyPI&feature=related
- Visit this site to learn more about what this application does;Review of bubbl.us
Why use Bubbl.us? ">Why use Bubbl.us?
Bubbl.us allows users to create without the use of paper and pen. You can easily develop a chart and change the look and content with a click of the mouse. By using this website you can save time, supplies, and money.
The website can be used in many different ways: 1
- Brainstorm ideas
- Build a family tree
- Create flow charts
- Create handouts
- Presentations
- Notes
- Organizing work
What's new with Bubbl.us? ">What's new with Bubbl.us?
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Able to organize work in folders
- Flexible layout
- Selection
- Crash protection
- Separate text/background color
- Color Swatches
- Line arrows and labels
- Text size and formatting options
- Copy/paste function
- Autosaving
- Better printing and image export
- Drag-and-drop sheet sharing
- Multiple sheets can be edited
- Integrated help system
- Better multilingual support
- SSL encrypted connection
Table of Contents
V. Educational Applications
VII. References
If you would like to take Bubbl.us home with you, or even share it with your family, friends, and coworkers, check out the brochure we have made for your convenience:
I. History and Development">I. History and Development
Original Goals of the Site">Original Goals of the Site
- Created as an easy to use learning tool to help people organize their ideas
- Avoid over complication of the application
- Abstain from adding cool, but are not useful
Kirill Edelman: Programming and Design 2
Year Active:">Year Active:
2006 1
Type of Web 2.0 Application:">Type of Web 2.0 Application:
Mind mapping/Brainstorming/Organizing Tool 1
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1
Kirill Edelman: gsdesign.com 2
II. How does Bubbl.us work?{anchor:HowdoesBubbl.uswork?">II. How does Bubbl.us work? {anchor:How does Bubbl.us work?
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How does it work?">How does it work?
Bubbl.us is a free application powered by Flash, and makes it easy for anyone to quickly start planning and sorting out their ideas through the use of linked text bubbles. Bubbl.us allows you to post your designs on your own website or blog, and share your creations with friends. You can also export your design into a presentation software, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, which can be useful in both business and educational settings. The mind maps created through bubbl.us can be printed as they appear online, or they can be printed as an html (which will print it in an outline form). 1
Bubbl.us is a great tool to use because it allows you to visually see how things are being sorted, and makes it easier to later turn your ideas into a well structured paper. Signing up for an account is free and easy, but keep in mind that you can create a bubbl.us mind map without even signing up for an account. When you start making a chart, you start with one "parent" bubble, and you are able to add more "child" bubbles from there. You can change the size, color, and positioning of your bubbles at any time. 9 Happy "bubbl-ing!"
What kind of features does this application have?">What kind of features does this application have?
- Can create several subcategories
- Can change the color, saturation, and lightness of bubbles
- Can print, save, or email
- Add contacts
What do you have to do to start using this application?">What do you have to do to start using this application?
- Start out by going to the website, http://bubbl.us
- Once on the website, click on "Start Brainstorming"
- Once you begin, a "Tip of the Day" will appear to help you better understand the site
- You will then be shown a screen with one "parent" bubble which is the beginning of your mind map
- Once you type in your first idea, you can change the color of your bubble, and create another bubble
- On the right hand side of the website, there is also a section which shows you where everything is located on the bubble. It also shows you everything that you can do and change on the bubble
- You can change the color of your bubble, the saturation, and the brightness as well
- You can hide, collapse, or expand bubbles
- If you create an account, you can add your friends, and this allows fast and easy sharing between them
- You can also save your mind map, and continue it later, or share it with a friend right away
Color Options">Color Options
Once you have filled in your bubbles, you have the option to personalize your bubbles with color. There are two different methods you can use to change the colors of them. In the first picture above it is shown what it looks like if you click on "Custom" on the top right of the box. When you click on this, you can customize your color with hue, saturation, and value tools. The second picture above shows us what it will look like if you click on "Palette" at the top right. The colors shown are colors that have already been made that you can select. Simply select the color you want to accept. You have successfully changed the color of your bubble.
Example of Use:">Example of Use:
Upgrade Your Account">Upgrade Your Account
III. How is Bubbl.us related to other applications?">III. How is Bubbl.us related to other applications?
Can it be used in conjunction with other applications?">Can it be used in conjunction with other applications?
Mind mapping has become an increasingly popular concept. It allows users to easily navigate through their thoughts and ideas. Bubbl.us is a web-based mind mapping software that is user friendly and fun to use. Bubbl.us is easily compared to MindMeister in function and capability since they are both web-based mind mapping programs. Bubbl.us, however, is free to all users and creating a user account is not necessary in order to create a mind map. In addition, bubbl.us has an endless number of undo capabilities so that the user can back up as much as they want. Bubbl.us not only has great functions, it has also been quoted as "prettier and more dynamic." In comparison, MindMeister is said to be a more "feature-complete" program according to Jason Clarke. Some of the features on MindMeister include the ability to import mind maps from other mind mapping software and collaborate with other users on the same mind map simultaneously. However, a user can only save 5 mind maps on MindMeister before a fee of $49.92 is charged 3 .
Bubbl.us has also been compared to Inspiration which is another mind mapping program. Children illustrate how user friendly and fun bubbl.us is in a video at http://cegsa.editme.com/Education. The children say that bubbl.us is easier to navigate, due to the fact that bubbl.us connects the bubbles for the user while Inspiration requires the user to connect the bubbles. A four year old student also stated that bubbl.us looks better than inspiration; however, Inspiration has a feature which allows the addition of images, while bubbl.us does not currently have this capability 4 .
Bubbl.us works well for people who like information to be presented in a clear way. Other applications allow for lots of graphics, fonts, line thickness, etc. Using too many different visuals can often overshadow the information that is being presented. Bubbl.us keeps the process simple and relies on color to help distinguish differences in information.
User Friendly
Collaborate with Other Users
Must Connect Bubbles Yourself
Attractive Maps
Import Maps from Outside Programs
Picture-in-Map Capabilities
Endless Undo Features
Costs $49.92 After First 5 Maps
Must Purchase Software
Free to All Users
Look below to see how the general appearance of MindMeister and Inspiration differ from Bubbl.us:
Order of Images: MindMeister, Inspiration, Bubbl.us
IV. Applications of Bubbl.us outside of Education">IV. Applications of Bubbl.us outside of Education
What are some unique ways of using this application?">What are some unique ways of using this application?
There are many different ways that bubbl.us can be used outside of education:
1. One of the ways that bubbl.us can be used outside of education is by using it to build family trees. Since bubbl.us has the ability to create multiple "parent" boxes and "child" boxes, it is a fantastic tool for creating family trees quickly and easily. One downfall while creating family trees on bubbl.us, is that photos/images cannot be inserted into the trees/mind maps.
2. Another useful way to use bubbl.us is in creating flow charts. Flow charts are used in technical books and software manuals, and are great visual representations used to train employees to use software, or follow business processes. When policies or processes need changed, this can easily be done by going back to the bubbl.us site and changing your saved work.
3. Bubbl.us can also be used to create different kinds of lists:
- Instead of creating a Christmas list on a piece of paper that just gets thrown away every year, you could use bubbl.us to make a hard copy of the Christmas list. After every year you could go back into your saved work, and change the list (instead of wasting more paper)!
- If you tend to buy the same thing when grocery shopping, you could keep a hard copy of your grocery list on bubbl.us, and no longer have the problem of wasting paper each time you go shopping.
Some more examples of how to use bubbl.us are:
- keeping track of birthdays and anniversaries
- creating timelines for important events
- thinking of ways to do everyday things, such as saving money
- Chore list by child
- Dinner menu
- Grocery list by section
V. Educational Applications">V. Educational Applications
How can Bubbl.us be used in an educational setting?">How can Bubbl.us be used in an educational setting?
Teachers have found many ways to incorporate bubbl.us into their classrooms. Class discussions, assignment directions, and pre-writing webs are just a few ways to use bubbl.us in the classroom. The main way teachers use the website is to have their students brainstorm and map out projects and papers. 5 It is a great way for students to organize their ideas and findings. Another way teachers use bubbl.us is in group projects. Students are allowed to network with each other and look at other's maps. By doing this they are able to easily work on their own tasks and share with their peers. Also, because you are able network with others, teachers are able to grade student's homework online, peers are able to do peer reviews on their own time, and it is all paperless! 5
Bubble.us has a number of uses, but assistive technology is not normally thought to be one. It can easily be used as a concept map. Concept maps are utilized for students who have difficulty organizing ideas in their heads.Bubbl.us can be used to aid mentally challenged students.
How can Bubbl.us be used in different grade levels?">How can Bubbl.us be used in different grade levels?
This website is most commonly used in classrooms Grade 5 and above; however, there are ways for teachers of younger grades to use the website as well. 6 Teachers in younger grades can make blank maps and have their students fill in the blanks. As the students become older, they can begin to use the computer in order to create their own maps. Teachers can also use bubbl.us to teach younger students simple things such as the four season.
Lesson Plans for Elementary:">Lesson Plans for Elementary:
Geography Brianstorming Map.doc
Geography Brianstorming Map.pdf
Sign Language Lesson Plan.docx
Lesson Plans for Secondary:">Lesson Plans for Secondary:
life at war lesson plan (3).docx.pdf
Bubble Molecules Lesson Plan.doc
Bubble Molecules Lesson Plan.pdf
Outline Paper Brianstorming.doc
Outline Paper Brianstorming.pdf
Comparison of Types of Rocks.doc
Comparison of Types of Rocks.pdf
Brainstorming using bubbl.us.docx
Brainstorming using bubbl.us.pdf
Lesson Plans for Post-Secondary:">Lesson Plans for Post-Secondary:
Brainstorming with Research Data.doc
Brainstorming with Research Data.pdf
EDCI 270 Project 2 Research.doc
EDCI 270 Project 2 Research.pdf
Lesson Plans for Business/Industry:">Lesson Plans for Business/Industry:
What are some examples of Bubbl.us being used to illustrate its current or potential educational value?">What are some examples of Bubbl.us being used to illustrate its current or potential educational value?
As a teacher, bubbl.us can be used in planning, helping with handouts and presentations, used for assessments, or to help summarize information. Students often find themselves using it in essay planning and writing, research and note taking, revision, or in analyzing findings and events 4.
One example of Bubbl.us being used to illustrate its current or potential educational value is from a teacher who posted a discussion online. His name is Ben Davis and he had his class use bubbl.us to help brainstorm for their research papers. He pointed out that bubbl.us allows his students to get their daily fix of social networking. By creating his own account, he became friends with his students and could easily grade their work that way as well. Through using bubbl.us, Davis' class was able to engage in further discussion on how they could organize different topics for their research. 5
Check out Ben Davis' success story with bubbl.us, by clicking on the link below: 6
VII. International Aspects">VII. International Aspects
How is this application used in China? ">How is this application used in China?
This web 2.0 application has yet to reach popular culture in China. Our International Partners who attend Beijing-Normal University in China agree that when brainstorming or coming up with ideas, the exchange is done mostly in person because it is seen as more efficient. Bubbl. us has worked hard to update their multilingual capabilities to help the exchange of ideas between different ethnic groups easier. Another tool most commonly used for brainstorming exchange is an online version of live chat, such as instant messaging, facebook chat, and g-mail chat.
"People who have used it, have praised it for its lovely interface and novel function. I think it should be hot on Campus. The time will depend!"
-Bao Yun, Beijing-Normal University (on Bubbl.us)
Follow the link below to connect to a website most commonly used for brainstorming or blogging in China:
Are there unique features of the application that may be more relevant to those outside of the United States? ">Are there unique features of the application that may be more relevant to those outside of the United States?
It does not appear as if Bubbl.us has any features making it more user-friendly for people outside of the United States; however, bubbl.us has the unique capability of saving and sharing. Once you become a member (for free), you are able to save the mind maps you make, and share them with other people who are members. You are also able to use the collaborate tab, in which you can work together with another member in creating a mind map. 1 This is great for group/collaborative projects, and this can even include people from around the world!
Check out this website to see how people in China are connecting with Bubbl.us:
VIII. References">VIII. References
- Amelyan, L. and Kirill Edelman (2007). Retrieved March 2009, from Bubbl.us- Brainstorming made simple: http://www.blog.bubbl.us/
- Amelyan, L. and Kirill Edelman (2007). Creators of bubbl.us. Retrieved March 2009, from http://bubbl.us/view.php?sid=7990&pw=ya71XC6HwyNHkMSRXYzRDWS9jUldxLg
- Clarke, Jason (2007). Online mind mapping using MindMeister and bubbl.us. Retrieved March 2009, from Download Squad: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/03/17/online-mind-mapping-using-mindmeister-and-bubbl-us/
- Flinders University (2008). bubbl.us in Education. Retrieved March 2009, from cegsa: http://cegsa.editme.com/Education
- Hargadon, Steve (2009). Retrieved April 2009, from Classroom 2.0: http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A7014
- Davis, B. (n.d.). Classroom 2.0: Success with www.bubbl.us. Retrieved March 30, 2009, from Classroom 2.0: http://www.classroom20/com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A7014
- Hill, U. o. (n.d.). Bubbl.us. Retrieved March 30, 2009, from Learn NC: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/external/bubblus
- Tech-Bites.com. (2007). Bubbl.us Basics: Brainstorming and Mind-mapping Online. Retrieved March 30, 2009, from Tech-bites.com: http://tech-bites.com/category/bubblus/
- Benzinger, Brian(2009). Solution Watch: bubbl.us- simple effective idea organization. Retrieved March 2009, from solution watch: http://www.solutionwatch.com/538/bubblus-simple-effective-idea-organization/
- Indiana's Academic Standards & Resources. Retrieved April 2009, from Indiana Department of Education: http://www.indianastandardsresources.org/index.asp
37 Comments
Unknown User (kkingsee)
Hi! My name is Katelyn Kingseed, and I will be your project manager for Project II, Team 30. We will be working with the web 2.0 technology Bubbl.us. Team 30 was originally working with the technology Mento; however, that website is no longer available for use, and we have switched. Please take some time to check out the website Bubbl.us, create your own account, and even add me and other group members as friends. I am pleased to welcome our three international partners into our team, from Beijing-Normal, and I encourage you to check out this website as well. Please feel free to post comments on this page as often as you like, and I encourage you to check this page daily as you would your e-mail. Happy Bubbl-ing!
Unknown User (skuo)
Hi Katelyn,
Excellent. You are very efficient to set up all the draft children. Thanks for the continuos communication with me.
It helps me a lot to track your team's progress and solve the problems. Good Job. Keep gonig. Thanks!!!
Any help or questions, just let me know. Shih-Ping
Unknown User (kkingsee)
I have found a youtube video which serves as a tutorial for bubbl.us. I would highly encourage you all to check out this video. It will help you become familiar with our web 2.0 technology.
The link is below:
Unknown User (cmpugh)
Hi everybody! Katelyn, thank you for that youtube link. It was very helpful! Does that website so anything besides brainstorming maps? I didn't see anything else. I was also going to tell you that I have a Skype account that we can use to get a hold of our IP for extra credit this week. My username on Skype is cmpugh2008. Everyone in the group, feel free to get Skype if you have a web cam...it's free. Just add me as a contact. See you all tomorrow!
Unknown User (mszucs)
Everyone add me as your friend on Bubbl.us my e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Unknown User (wtowle)
can everyone in our group put up their email so that we can make sure that we are all friends on bubbl.us
my email is email@example.com
Unknown User (karitche)
Everyone add me on Bubbl.us. My username is Ritchey42 and the e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com. I don't know which one you have to type in.
Unknown User (kkingsee)
Great idea Wendy!
My email is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Username is katelyn08
Unknown User (kkingsee)
I have posted your jobs on the roles and responsibilities page.
Please make sure you find which question you are in charge of (as a writer) and visit that specific page (child) on the wiki. That will be YOUR page!
Also, make sure you keep in mind your role(s) through this whole project.
Unknown User (halmas)
I could also be a part of the presentation. I could help with the pamphlet or table design or any role that needs help.
Unknown User (cmpugh)
My e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com. Katelyn, could you shoot me the e-mail addresses of our IPs? I could try to get a hold of them too that way we have two of us trying to contact them.
Username: cmpugh
Unknown User (kkingsee)
I have sent the e-mail, but I will also post the names and e-mails on here, so you all can arrange a live chat at some point within the next week!
Bao Yun firstname.lastname@example.com
Lu Yong email@example.com
Zhang Dinyan email@example.com
Remember to PLEASE check this wiki AT LEAST once daily in the next week!
Excuse me for my late! Thanks for your mail!
Hi, I am sorry that I am late to be here.
I am from Beijing Normal University, majoring in System Science. Nice to see U all here. I am a newer in Web2.0 Tech. but I will do my best. Thank you!
Hi everyone! thank you for your Invitation. My usename is zdy1117and the e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com. My major is school counseling, if anyone is interested to the knowledge about my specialty , please keep in touch with me. My compaions and I will do our utmost to work with the technology Mento, I hope you can get timely help to us. Thank you!
Unknown User (halmas)
Hi! My username is halmas47 with the email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Unknown User (kkingsee)
So glad to hear from you Zhang and Bao!
Please make sure you are researching Bubbl.us and NOT Mento. (There was a problem with Mento, and we were switched to Bubbl.us).
Take some time to check out the page/child 8. Bubbl.us Internationally.This will be the page you are in charge of for our project.
Unknown User (blcruz)
my email is email@example.com
My username is Brittany
I am sorry that I was late! Thanks for Katelyn and Brittany Cruz's letters! Thanks!
My username is Gorn,you can contect me by email: email@example.com!
Thanks again!
Unknown User (karitche)
Hey everyone. My name's Kyle Ritchey and my purdue e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com so you can add me anytime you want or my g-mail is email@example.com! Hope to hear from everyone soon.
Unknown User (wtowle)
Hey Kyle, I thought I would just let you know that you were suppose to post your resources on the page not as comments. But I thought I would just let you know about that.
Unknown User (cmpugh)
Hello everyone! I just signed up for a gmail account. My g-mail is email@example.com Can't wait to talk to everyone!
Unknown User (kkingsee)
Thanks for looking out for Kyle, Wendy!
Unknown User (brjones)
hey all, i just set up my gmail account.. its firstname.lastname@example.com
Unknown User (kkingsee)
I have reformatted the research page to hopefully make it easier to navigate! This should help you see how many research posts you have. Some people only have 1 or 2. Rememebr these must be posted by TODAY.
Also, Kyle, would you please move your research from the comments section to the actualy wiki page where every one else's are? You can do this by simply clicking the edit button on the research page.
Keep up the research. Remember to look at everyone else's research and make sure your personal question you are in charge of has enough information. If not, you will need to be doing some more research. 3 is a MINIMUM!
Hopefully you are starting to make contact with IP's! I just spoke with Cloud on Facebook chat! It was a great mode of communication!
Unknown User (halmas)
Hey Katelyn! I talked to Cloud on gmail chat, but it was very brief. I don't know if that counts. We discussed times we could talk to eachother about the project.
Unknown User (kkingsee)
I would suggest trying to speak with her or someone else again. Make sure you print off the conversation when you do speak with them!
Thanks for checking!
Unknown User (kkingsee)
You will notice a change in the appearance of the homepage. This is to start the formation of our rough draft!
Unknown User (karitche)
Hey guys I'm really confused on how to move my posts from the comments to the wiki page. This thing is really confusing to me. Can anyone walk me through this?
Unknown User (kkingsee)
Kyle, I went ahead and did this for you.
In the future, post comments only for discussion purposes, and not for posting info. to the wiki, because it is a little tricky to move!
In order to post to the wiki and not the comments, you need to press "edit" in the top right corner, and then you can work on the wiki like it is a word document.
Unknown User (kkingsee)
You guys are doing such a great job! Thanks for taking some of my advice and getting on it right away!
Unknown User (buchanam)
Katelyn! Hi, I'm the PM for group 41, and I was wondering if you happened to figure out how to put a video into your site?
Unknown User (kkingsee)
One of the girls in my group did it!! Check out our wiki mark-up and see if that helps, if not, I will refer you to her! Her name is Hilary Almas, and you can leave a comment on here for her!
Unknown User (kkingsee)
Michael, will you provide a link to the website where the teacher Ben (Davis?) talks about this activity with his class?
( i would like this link to appear after that portion of your section)
Unknown User (halmas)
If you download Jing you can make the video. It's really easy & they have a video to guide you through the steps if you need help!
Unknown User (cmpugh)
Hey guys, I need to add a couple of screenshots to my section of the wiki but I don't know how so if someone could tell me how that would be awesome! Thanks.
Unknown User (aproffit)
This app is nice because you can brainstorm your ideas, and then sort them so that it is organized brainstorming. Also, you can post your brainstorming for others to see, which would make it much easier if you were trying to do a group project. The fact that you can also import it into Microsoft Powerpoint is nice so that you don't have to recreate it, you can just do it once and import it into your Powerpoint to use again.


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InfoRelay Online Systems Inc. Expands Capacity with Switch and Data in Northern Virginia to Scale its Business and Reach New Customers
TAMPA, Fla. - March 24, 2010 - Switch and Data (NASDAQ: SDXC), a leading provider of network-neutral data center and Internet exchange services, announced today that InfoRelay Online Systems, Inc., an IT solutions and connectivity provider, has expanded its capacity in Switch and Data's Reston, VA data center. InfoRelay scaled its infrastructure to keep up with demand for its server colocation and managed hosting services. InfoRelay also provides services on a dark fiber ring which interconnects multiple data centers in Washington, DC and the Northern Virginia technology corridor, and expects this expansion will help it reach new customers in the Switch and Data site.
InfoRelay was founded in 1995 to meet the software development, system analysis, secure bandwidth and connectivity solutions needs of small and medium business. InfoRelay operates an 80 gigabit per second redundant BGP network based on carrier-grade Cisco routers. The company has 10 primary network locations, located within Ashburn and Reston, Virginia, as well as Los Angeles and San Jose, California.
"InfoRelay chose to expand with Switch and Data due to our first-hand experience with the company's success in delivering great customer service and support in highly secure, reliable sites," said Russell Weiss, President of InfoRelay. "Switch and Data's network-neutrality, flexibility in mixing cage and cabinet environments for our customers, and its capacity to support InfoRelay's projected growth were also critical in our decision." Weiss also stated that this expansion would allow for InfoRelay to offer more flexible colocation options to its clients, including quarter cabinet and half cabinet colocation services.
InfoRelay serves over 100,000 Internet users through its core product lines and subsidiaries and is proud of its more than 95% annual customer retention rate. Core elements of InfoRelay's value proposition are personal service, highly secure software and services, redundant network architecture and 24x7 customer care and support. InfoRelay chose to align itself with a leading data center services provider to ensure its customers continue to receive great service and support.
"We are pleased InfoRelay has chosen to expand its highly regarded managed services business in our Reston, VA site and congratulate them on their success," said Ernie Sampera, Senior Vice President and CMO for Switch and Data. "In addition, providing secure, high-bandwidth capacity in our data centers is a key element of our value proposition InfoRelay's IP transit and resilient, dark fiber connectivity to other important regional data centers provide more great choices for our customers."
Switch and Data operates three data centers in Northern Virginia which are located on Sunset Hills Road in Reston, Tyco Road in Vienna, and Science Applications Court in Vienna. Northern Virginia is an important market for Internet data centers, due to strong demand coming from government, Internet enterprises, system integrators and other corporate technology customers. The AeA ranks Virginia as the state with the highest concentration of tech workers in the country. Switch and Data supports the interconnection requirements of high-tech companies by providing the broadest footprint of sites in major North American hub markets such as Dallas, Buffalo, Chicago, Miami, New York, Northern Virginia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Toronto.
About InfoRelay Online Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1995, InfoRelay Online Systems, Inc. delivers enterprise-level managed services to businesses of all sizes. Utilizing seven data centers worldwide, InfoRelay serves over 100,000 clients through its main product lines and subsidiaries. InfoRelay's unrivaled network is powered by multiple Cisco routers, and boasts approximately 80 gigabits-per-second of network capacity. InfoRelay's staff and management combine decades of diverse experience in the fields of information technology, storage, and networking with today's best enterprise-level hardware and software technologies. Each enterprise-level client is assigned a dedicated Technical Account Manager and support team, allowing InfoRelay to further differentiate itself from the competition by providing a comprehensive, personalized support infrastructure. By demonstrating unparalleled levels of responsiveness, concern, and overall service, InfoRelay establishes a unique trusting relationship with each client, allowing InfoRelay to act as a 24x7x365 extension of its clients' IT departments. This partnership allows InfoRelay's clients to focus on their core businesses, rather than on the day-to-day concerns of hosting infrastructure. For more information, please visit www.inforelay.com, or call (703) 485-4600.
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Movie review: 'Texas Chainsaw 3D' demonstrates how to massacre $16
Sixteen dollars. That's how much it costs at the AMC Boston Common to watch a young woman smart enough to run from a maniac with a chainsaw but dumb enough to run in shoes with chunky heels. Sixteen dollars is how much it costs to watch this woman tire of falling down and hide in a coffin that, helpfully, has been left open but that's made of one of a chainsaw's favorite foods. Sixteen dollars is how much it costs to watch that chainsaw fly toward you in 3D and knife at your face, to watch it slice a spiky Southern boy, doing so with the endearing combination of grace and indelicacy that my grandmother applies to the carving of a desiccating turkey.
That much money gets you acting best described as "straight to DVD,'' acting often associated with sketch comedy that has bad acting in its crosshairs, with the self-consciousness of reality-television personhood. Of course, that much money also gets you a camera itching to crawl inside one woman's flared midriff top and the other's (there are only two) short-short shorts. That much money gets you the scene in which she removes the shorts and seduces a character played by the singer Trey Songz, who's credited by his full name — Tremaine "Trey Songz'' Aldon Neverson — a name longer than his screen time, a name longer than almost any one line of dialogue.
Sixteen dollars makes it hard to understand how the woman in the chunky heels could bring herself to sympathize with the maniac with the chainsaw (and the ax and the skill to sew the skin of your face onto his) after he's killed all of her friends. Sixteen dollars makes it hard to believe that the loony, gun-crazed mayor is that much more hateful than the maniac, even though whoever's playing the silent, grunting maniac gives the better performance. Sixteen dollars makes it hard not to ask not only how she could bring herself to that level of sympathy but how she can continue to run for her life while wearing a shirt that she refuses to snap entirely closed.
Sixteen dollars. That's how much it costs for another horror movie laid out in "Scooby-Doo'' configuration — three dudes, two girls, a van — for another horror movie to stretch logic to torturous lengths, to promise a sequel that by the time the current installment has ended no one will want because even if it's only half as inept and cynical that half would still be too much. Sixteen dollars is what it costs to discover that all the makers of "Texas Chainsaw 3D'' cared about was getting your $16. That's how much it costs to see the 1974 original — they've retired the "massacre'' part — collapsed into this latest sequel's opening credits, a movie you can rent for about $3. But $16 is how much it costs to discover that after those opening credits it's $16 you're annoyed you can't have back.


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I had a christian tell me last week that according to christian belief, those afflicted with mental illness go to hell. I felt this was seriously out of line and informed the christian of a mental health clinic not far away that would accept his insurance. Of course he won't go because that would almost certainly damn his soul for all eternity. Is this really in their bible?
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Yes. That was why the word 'correct' was in quotes since neither would actually be correct - just accurate according to the local lore.
I didn't mean to make that distinction to contradict you Ward, it's just that this entire thread is a bit irrelevant, inasmuch as there is no hell, no mentally ill person, not even Rick Santorum, could possibly go there, as much as we might like to see it happen.
pax vobiscum,
Can those who suffer from grand delusions be considered to suffer a form of mental illness? I have met many seriously deluded people who claim to be able to hear god talking to them and that he watches them all the time (paranoia) and can even read their very thoughts. Most of them also claim that he can do magic stuff and bring dead people back to life and hide dinosaur fossils deep underground. They are disturbed enough to believe everything is covered by some biblical verse. I hope they go to heaven instead.
Now to find a door to this room and go home to tend to my fronkeys.
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There is NO such a place- so nobody can go there- unless you mean Hell, Grand Cayman, or maybe Hell, Norway. No such a thing or place- so NO they and no-one else can go there... mentally ill, serial killer, Hitler or (add horrible person here) can NOT go anywhere after death..
I'm mentally ill and I don't being put in the same sentence with these guys.
mentally ill, serial killer, Hitler or (add horrible person here) can NOT go anywhere after death..
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I think there is still sort of a stigma about being mentally ill in the church. Because when you become a Christian, the Holy Spirit is supposed to free you from all the bonds of whatever is keeping you from a fulfilled life. So when people have mental health issues, there can be shame with that because they don't feel like a good enough Christian, or maybe they feel like God is disciplining them or testing them or something.
However, the stigma is changing, slowly but surely. In my own family, there is a history of bipolar and depression, and I know lots and lots of other people who have different mental illnesses. As my stepmom (a devout Christian) says:"If you see a doctor for a physical illness, why wouldn't you see a doctor for a mental illness?"
I think a big part of it is that the behavioral sciences for so long have been misunderstood by the public at large. I know there are still a lot of secular people even, who are very skeptical of counselors and psychologists. Until these misguided ideas about the behavioral sciences change, then our society in general will still have a lot of qualms about it. I think a lot of people, religious or not, feel like having mental illness equals weakness, when it absolutely does not. We need to get over that and accept help where it is necessary.
But I do know, that there is no where in the Bible that says anything about the mentally ill going to hell. I think there are some people who believe that for instance, someone with schizophrenia might be possessed rather than truly ill, but even then, I have never heard anyone say that they are going to go to hell. Instead, the person would be prayed over for healing and the demons would be prayed away. But that's an extreme case, and as far as I know it only really happens in the crazy fundie off the charts churches like WBC, and not in ordinary mainstream churches.
Crist, "stigma?" The church is the asylum. The "stigma" comes in when you are an atheist.
It's Cristyn, and the stigma exists both in and out of the church. I've been on both sides, I've seen it on both sides. I'm also quite involved in the behavioral sciences, as there is mental illness in my family, and I'm also married to someone who is studying it. It's a big part of my life, and I realize you may see this as anecdotal, but nevertheless, yes, there is a stigma about psychology, and it exists both within the church and outside of it.
Im still trying to figure out how you distinguish the diagnosed mentally ill from the rest of the fruitcakes in the church.
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A minister in Morocco's Islamist government on Thursday called for a change to a law allowing a rapist to marry his victim after a 16-year-old teenager forced into such a union committed suicide.


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BANNER ELK, N.C. - The Lees-McRae College track and field program will host Lees-McRae's Alonzo Clark Memorial Track and Field Invitational on March 13 with all proceeds going to the Alonzo Clark Memorial Fund. All entries must be received by March 10th by 5 p.m.
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The lack of growth in Kiwi franchisors expanding overseas is a result of weak regulation on home soil, says a university franchise expert.
A recent report on the New Zealand franchise sector showed there were currently 446 franchisors operating, up only slightly from 423 in 2010.
Massey University's Franchising New Zealand 2012 found about 23 per cent of those were currently franchising overseas - the same as in 2010.
Gehan Gunasekara, Auckland University associate professor in commercial law, believes the plateau has occurred because New Zealand has almost no regulation in the sector.
"The number of New Zealand franchise systems overseas has remained pretty static.
"I would argue the reason is that a franchisor has to reach a certain critical mass and develop a really good system at home before it can consider expanding overseas."
Gunasekara said that if it was made tougher to set up a franchise system, people would have to "really do their homework".
The resulting systems would ultimately be better grounded and have more potential for local and offshore success, he said.
"If you have more accountability, people will be more careful when they roll out franchise systems.
"We still have cowboys out there - there's no real accountability."
New Zealand does not regulate its franchise sector, unlike countries like Australia, but franchise owners can voluntarily join the Franchise Association of New Zealand (FANZ) and commit to its Code of Ethics.
According to its website, FANZ has around 200 members - including Burger Fuel, Cash Converters, Green Acres, Rodney Wayne, and Specsavers - which is less than half of the total franchisors operating in New Zealand.
"That's a major threat," Gunasekara said
"Everyone should be made to belong to FANZ or otherwise vetted in the same way."
New Zealand urgently needs to implement tight regulation like Australia, he said.
"New Zealand has been lagging behind Australia. Strict regulation has not held back franchisors in Australian, whereas here, we seem to have reached a plateau.
"We keep hearing that New Zealand is over-regulated and that it's held back businesses but Australia is highly regulated and they're growing well."
Gunasekara said Australian franchisors had to "do their homework" before they could roll out a system.
Massey University's study showed the average franchisor piloted their business for 12 months before making it available to franchisee owners.
"I'd say that's not long enough to see if the system works or not before you let other people take the risk," Gunasekara said.
"If it doesn't work you're going to take a dozen or more people down with you."
Ultimately, if franchise systems are not set up well their potential for future offshore expansion is limited, he said.
"The real crux of it is whether it's capable of worldwide expansion. You should be able to replicate it overseas.
"Otherwise, you're basically making a buck at the expense of a few franchisee owners."
The Franchising New Zealand 2012 survey found there are about 22,400 franchisee businesses operating in the country, employing 101,800 people.
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Are we alone in this galaxy of hundreds of billions of suns? It's a question of the most profound significance and one that I have been trying to examine in a mathematically rigorous way. My recent research examines how advanced civilizations, if they exist at all, would spread themselves out in both time and space. For example, we know from the historic rate of star formation that the galaxy has been capable of producing planets with environments like ours for almost five billion years. This would strongly suggest that if we are not alone within the galaxy that many civilizations could have had an enormous head start. My computer simulations suggest the first intelligences to emerge could have had whole geologic epochs to explore every nook and cranny of the galaxy long before our emergence.
The pessimist might say this question is moot. That maybe all civilizations have finite life spans measured in thousands and not millions or billions of years because of resource depletion or self-annihilation...or that maybe they simply turn solipsistic. These scenarios, however, would imply a uniformity of motive among all civilizations across both light years of distance and mega years of time. It would take only a small subset of societies to abrogate this uniformity for it to break down, so it is not very likely to exist.
Therefore, if we are not alone in the galaxy, and our uniqueness is a distinct possibility, then intelligent life has evolved on numerous occasions in the distant past, has had tens of millions of years or more to migrate across the galaxy, and has intentionally left us alone each time. The staggering implications of this are what drive my research.
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The Vikings lost 42-20 to New Orleans Sunday afternoon to fall to 2-12 on the season. The Saints piled up 573 yards of total offense compared to 207 yards for the Vikings. Drew Brees threw for 412 yards and 5 touchdowns for New Orleans. Christian Ponder was 14-31 passing for 120 yards and 2 touchdowns with 1 interception. Adrian Peterson ran 10 times for 60 yards after missing 3 games with a high ankle sprain in his left ankle.
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Israel on Tuesday marked the sixth annual "Good Deeds Day," a project started in 2007 by Israel's richest woman, Shari Arison.
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It's been done before and it's about to be done again. According to historians, the practice of grille swappin' for old Fords goes almost as far back as old Fords themselves. For the old Tin Lizzie, aftermarket radiator shells were available and/or included with the purchase of a new Peerless radiator. These shells could be had in different styles. Some closely resembled Henry's original, while other Peerless offerings featured a gracefully curvaceous upper filler panel as an elegant enhancement for old Lizzie, the T.
Later, as our little pages personal libraries attest, many a T 'n' A owed enhanced aesthetics to Deuce shells and grilles, which were, as we know, a popular choice of hot rodders. Here we don't need a historian. The proof is in print; just as it is throughout the years that followed—it's a documented fact that old Fords were often subject to facelifts. By the time the Shoebox-series Fords had caught on with customizers, there were options, which were varied and plentiful. Arguably, the greatest grille to ever grace the face of the Shoebox Ford was that which came from the '53 DeSoto—The Holy Grille.
So, who do you suppose might have been the first to recognize the untapped customization potential of certain Ford and DeSoto attributes combined? The answers vary from historian to historian, and unfortunately there's no known documentation in print, however I'll hazard a guess that in one capacity or another, a wrecking yard played a significant role in setting what would become a long-running custom trendition. Here, through dramatization, we will now illustrate just how that previously undocumented historical event may have played out.
Now that the quest for The Holy Grille has rendered the object of many a customizer's desire, we're done grille shoppin' and we've begun grille swappin', but not without professional help. If any part of the following procedure looks quick 'n' easy, allow me to clarify that right up front—it's not. In fact, it's anything but. For this to be a legitimate step-by-step how-to, the installation of 24-hour surveillance cameras would be required, as doing this job justice would honestly take more time and pages than any magazine tech writer could manage to secure. However, we can monitor the progress and provide an over-the-shoulder view of a true artist at work.


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The 2011 ALA Annual Conference takes place in in New Orleans, LA, June 23-28, 2011. Due to the size of the ALA Annual Conference, the event takes place in a convention center and several hotels. For the 2011 Annual Conference, the exhibits, keynote speakers, and many meetings and programs will be held in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center at 900 Convention Center Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70130. Free shuttle service runs between conference hotels and the Convention Center.
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With one in ten Brits reportedly leaving their Christmas shopping until the big day itself, it's not surprising that the most unlikely places for filling up on festive stocking treats can suddenly transform themselves into a haven of holiday help.
Perhaps synonymous with a hundred thousand angry housewives clutching a bunch of bad floral arrangements to their heart, the fuel station may be the last resort for a blues CD and a Scotch egg on Christmas Day, but it is still one of the few retail outlets open in the 24 hour festive shutdown where goods can go straight from checkout to under-the-tree in a matter of moments.
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Travelers at BWI Marshall might notice camera crews scurrying around concourses A and B next week when a new reality TV show about air travel begins shooting at the airport.
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The bit of celebrity comes at an opportune time for the airline, as it's in the middle of consolidating with BWI's No. 2 carrier, AirTran.
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The conversion to 2.0 from 1.0 began in summer 2012 and included improvements to performance, security and usability when moving from building to building.
Focusing on academic areas, the campus initiated its wireless coverage in 2004 to enable laptops to remain portable. Students, faculty and staff can now move within a wireless area from offices to classrooms to meetings, while browsing the web.
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The Dan Curtis Productions Records span the years 1963-2005. Dan Curtis predominantly produced television series, made for television movies, television episodes, and television miniseries. While Curtis produced many acclaimed productions, he is most known for his 1960's gothic soap opera
Dark Shadows
and the massive television miniseries
Winds of War
War and Remembrance
. Curtis also produced four motion picture projects including the horror film
Burnt Offerings
Me and the Kid
, as well as two films based on
Dark Shadows
. Series include television projects, motion picture projects, unproduced projects, and business records. Subseries are arranged alphabetically by project title and include scripts, production materials, and audio reels.
Daniel Cherkoss (later changed to Curtis) was born in ca. 1927 in Bridgeport, CT, and was educated at Syracuse University. He began his career in television in 1950 as a salesman for syndicated shows. He had a passion for golf and in the early 1960s created Challenge Golf with Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. He was also executive producer for The CBS Golf Classic, which first aired in 1963 and ran for a decade. He followed this success with the creation of the gothic daytime soap opera Dark Shadows, which first aired in 1966. The show suffered poor ratings until, in 1967, the vampire Barnabus Collins was introduced. Despite the massive following of loyal fans, the show was canceled in 1971 with a total of 1,225 episodes. The program went into syndication almost immediately and has continued to maintain a loyal fan base. Curtis produced two Dark Shadows feature films released by MGM: House of Dark Shadows (1970) and Night of Dark Shadows (1971).
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Michigan did not begin to record births and deaths until 1867, so events before that date were often difficult to track. One source that partially steps into that breech is the mortality schedules that were taken in connection with the federal censuses. Mortality information was collected for the 12 months preceding the official census date from 1850 through 1900, although the ones for 1890 and 1900 were later destroyed. Details vary from year to year, but include at least the name of the deceased, the sex, age, place of birth, date and place of death, occupation (for an adult) and cause of death. The Local History Collection holds the schedules for 1850 and 1860. The Kalamazoo County entries are indexed in our Local Information Database, with 160 and 180 items respectively.
If one reads carefully, interesting stories begin to emerge from these cold records. In the example below, three infants, all of the same age, surname and place, all died in September 1859 of "sore throat" (probably Scarlet Fever). They were undoubtedly triplets, born prematurely, and simply hadn't the strength to fight off the infection. There was only one Courtney family in Pavilion Township in the 1860 census, John and Ellen. They were Irish immigrants with seven older children. Although there are church and burial records for several other members of the family, there are none for the triplets. The mortality schedule entry may be the only existing record of the lives of these little girls, and of the very difficult year that it must have been for their parents. Ellen had one more child, and then died in the spring of 1861.
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Why John Lennon's son fears Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney are trying to obliterate him from history
Julian Lennon has fought to be part of the Beatles story since his birth in 1963
Peace was said to have broken out in the extended Lennon family last year. After a lifetime scarred by a bitter feud with his stepmother Yoko Ono, Julian Lennon arranged a most unlikely reunion.
Not only was his mother, Cynthia Lennon, in attendance at Julian's first photographic show at a New York gallery, but he was also publicly reconciled with Yoko and her son — his half-brother — Sean Lennon.
In an accompanying television interview, he insisted that, while he still believed Yoko to be 'manipulative', he was determined to be friends with her for the sake of her son.
'The key point is Sean,' he said. 'I don't want to hurt him.'
It had taken Julian a lifetime of therapy to get to this point.
And yet, earlier this week, his calm attitude appeared to come crashing down.
After a series of perceived snubs, Julian wrote on his Facebook page: 'Wow . . . Snubbed at Macca's Wedding, Snubbed at the Anniversary of 'LOVE' in Vegas! (A Beatles Cirque de Soleil-themed show) Snubbed at Macca's wedding reception in NYC, last night Snubbed at George Harrison's Film Premiere . . . What have I done to be ignored in such a way? I was not invited to ANY of these events . . . I thought WE had a relationship . . . Obviously not . . . Gimme some truth . . . Maybe now it's time to tell the Truth . . . I & My Mother will NOT be eradicated from History . . . How dare they.'
Yoko was present at almost all the events while Sean, 36, was at two of them; Sir Paul's New York wedding reception and the Love anniversary.
George Harrison's widow, Olivia, and their son Dhani attended the London premiere of the documentary about Harrison's life and the London wedding reception; as did Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara Bach.
Sources close to Paul McCartney claim Julian's lack of invitation to his two wedding parties was an 'oversight'
Sources close to Paul McCartney claim Julian's lack of invitation to his two wedding parties was an 'oversight' — for, certainly, McCartney has always been closer to Julian than his own father was.
'Julian is regarded as part of the family, but everyone just assumed he was in Italy (where Julian lives),' insisted a McCartney source.
As for Beatles activities, such as the Love anniversary in Vegas, they were organised by the Beatles' holding company Apple — and Yoko, who Julian once accused of wanting to 'deny Dad's English family', serves as the sole Lennon representative for it.
But it is little wonder that John's Lennon's 48-year-old oldest son sees darker forces behind the snub.
The truth is, Julian has fought to be part of the Beatles story since his birth in 1963.
He and his mother were the band's dirty little secret; manager Brian Epstein was so determined to make the foursome appear single and available that — even as reporters knocked on the door of Liverpool home where Julian was being nursed by Cynthia — he ordered flunkies to deny their existence.
Julian's mother, Cynthia Lennon, was in attendance at his first photographic show - and so was Yoko Ono and her son - his half-brother - Sean Lennon
Once the story was out, Julian remained out of sight; his father was either on tour or carousing with other women.
And when Yoko Ono came onto the scene in 1967, precipitating the break-up of his parents' marriage when Julian was just five, he was firmly ousted from his father's life. They didn't see one another for months, even years, at a time.
Ever since, Julian has been fighting to be acknowledged. He is asked about his father wherever he goes and his own musical talent — he is a songwriter, guitarist and singer — has been overshadowed by the awe in which John is held.
Little wonder he occasionally struggles to maintain his composure: 'I have a short temper. However, getting angry, negative and aggressive; it does no good. Dad used to shout in your face and scream. I recognised traits I had that were the same as his, so I stopped.'
Or, at least, he's attempting to improve his temper. Shortly after venting his fury on the internet this week, he took the message off Facebook and replaced it with another, which said: 'Rising above . . . Always have, Always will . . . And better for it . . . I Luv you Mum . . . Thank You.'
Manager Brian Epstein was so determined to make the Beatles appear single and available that - he ordered flunkies to deny Cynthia and Julian's existence
Cynthia, who married three times after John but kept the Lennon name as it helped her find work as an artist, has had to pick up the pieces.
Even before he left Liverpool for New York with Yoko in 1968, John was never much of a father. It took him three days to meet his son and then he immediately went back on tour. Often, postcards were his only communication for weeks on end.
Paul McCartney felt so sorry for the young boy that he wrote Hey Jude to cheer him up soon after Cynthia and John divorced.
From then on, despite the millions John was making, he kept Cynthia and Julian on a financially-tight leash — they got an allowance of £2,400 a year in maintenance until his death.
Things got worse when John was murdered and Julian was just 17.
After John divorced Cynthia he kept her and Julian on a financially-tight leash
For Julian wasn't named in John's will and it took him 16 years — and the threat of a prolonged court case — to persuade Yoko to hand over any of the Beatles's millions.
So, while Sean and Yoko enjoy an inheritance of £200 million, Julian is believed to have received £20 million in 1996.
But he has always said the thing that hurt most was Yoko did not allow him to keep any of his father's possessions. He has since bought back items from auction houses, including the postcards his father sent him from around the world.
'The irony isn't lost on me that I am using his money to buy back his things,' he said, when he exhibited some of the memorabilia he collected.
'The postcards meant the most to me, as they showed he was thinking about me when he wasn't around.'
Julian has even admitted the way his father treated him made him decide against becoming a dad.
'The reason I decided not to have kids in the past was because I didn't want to fall into the same pattern.'
He would like to have children now, but while he has been engaged twice — to socialite Lucy Bayliss and actress Olivia d'Abo — he has never married and is currently single.
Home is a small house near Lake Como in Italy, which he once dreamed he would share with a wife and family.
Although he has lived in many places — Wales, Majorca, Monte Carlo, and New York — Italy has always felt most like home, as it was where he would spend summers with the only man who ever acted like a father, his mother's second husband, restaurateur Roberto Bassanini.
Yoko, John and Julian in 1968
One former friend says he wonders whether Julian will ever find happiness.
'He loves his mum, but that is the only relationship he has ever had that sticks,' says the friend.
'He can never relax and open up; he thinks everyone's out to use him because his dad was John Lennon the legend.
One of the few people who can understand him is his half-brother, Sean.
The son of Yoko Ono and John, Sean had everything Julian didn't.
John announced he was retiring from the music industry while Yoko was pregnant with Sean, quitting work to look after his 'beautiful boy'. Sean, subsequently, grew up in a New York apartment worth millions.
'Sean had it all,' Julian later recalled. 'And I just thought: "Hmmm, I see. I see where the love's going with this." And there are Mum and I scraping by.'
Yet, just as John deserted Julian when he was five years old, Sean was also just five when the Beatle was brutally shot down by Mark Chapman.
And, despite their mutual animosity, Yoko turned to Julian to help Sean in the aftermath. She did not know how to tell him his father had died and asked for his advice.
She encouraged a friendship of sorts between the two; just as John had given Julian his first guitar, Julian bought one for Sean and taught him how to play it.
There was a brief time in the Nineties when the two did not talk, mainly because of the ongoing court case over Julian's financial settlement.
But Julian forged some kind of private reconciliation in 2007 when he turned up unannounced on his brother's tour of Eastern Europe and ended up staying for two weeks.
Julian has even admitted the way his father treated him made him decide against becoming a dad
Some of the photographs he took on that tour formed the centrepieces of his New York exhibition, which both his mother and his stepmother attended last September.
Although he has been seen with Yoko and Sean before at Beatles events (usually scowling from separate sides of the room), it was the first time they have appeared to be supportive of him.
As Julian launched the show, he announced he was finally comfortable with himself.
'I have turned everything around,' he said. 'I am starting to have a winning streak.'
Paul wrote Hey Jude to cheer Julian up soon after Cynthia and John divorced
To that end, last month he brought out his first album in 13 years. He had some success as a solo musician in the late Eighties, but quit the music business when, immediately after writing one album, his record label demanded another.
The latest album, perhaps aptly titled Everything Changes, has garnered some positive reviews — although it's failed to make it into the top 20 in Britain. He is still hoping to release it in America next month.
'Julian is a perfectionist and that is partly because he wants to live up to his father's talent,' says a record source who has worked with Julian.
'Although he constantly talks about what a terrible father John was, Julian is still the archetypal child who was deprived of his father's love and still wants to win his approval.'
Tellingly, he often carries a white feather in memory of his father and he has named his charity — which funds everything from environmental projects to spiritual healers in London cancer wards — The White Feather Foundation.
It's a habit that stems from a rather eccentric story his father once told him; that when John died he would return to Julian as a white feather.
'I realise that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy I have to good and positive use,' he insisted when he launched his charity.
'It's a connection. It's a bloodline. It's a love line — you can't just ignore that.'
And who can blame him for still desperately wanting that bloodline to be acknowledged — after all the pain it has caused him?
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Curtis Woodman gests a full part in the "Surf The Earth" web series. He jibs the backcountry, surfs the powder and knows how to perform Method Airs.
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Calls For Worldwide Aldi Recall Over Baby Wipes
A mother is demanding a public recall as she claims her daughter's face was left "like she'd suffered sunburn" after using Aldi wet wipes designed for newborns.
Following a recommendation from a friend Hayley Neale started to use the Mamia Newborn Wipes on her daughter Martha for a few weeks.
However, when Martha, 2, wiped her face with the wipes, she was left with a sore, red and blotchy face.
"I get through several packets a week with my two little ones, and I'd not had a problem before," said single mum Hayley, who also has a son, Harry, who is one.
But these wipes caused an instant reaction," she continued.
"Martha has sensitive skin, so I've always been careful. For a long time, I only used water wipes.
"But then someone told me about Aldi's sensitive wipes so I tried them and they were great, saving me a lot of money.
"I then moved onto the newborn ones, and they were no trouble either.
"But to see Martha's skin after using this batch, it was red and blotchy.
"She was so uncomfortable; she kept touching her face which was hot and shiny for several hours afterwards. It was like she'd been sunburnt."
An Aldi spokesperson said: "We are very sorry to hear of Ms Neale's experience with our Mamia Newborn Sensitive Wipes.
"We would like to reassure her there has been no change to the specification or the supplier of this product.
"All of our baby and toddler products are rigorously tested before going on sale, but as with all cosmetic products, there is the possibility of an individual intolerance to a particular ingredient.
"We will share Ms Neale's feedback with our supplier."


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Cramer Hall: Better Living Through Cloning, July 7, 2006
by Kathy Hedges
[Note: Departments have moved into Cramer Hall and classes will be held there beginning with the Fall 2006 semester.]
SOCORRO, N.M., July 7, 2006 -- Tech alumni who remember Cramer Hall as a classic Mission-style building flanked by two incongruous 70s-style wings will be surprised at the new appearance of the building.
To the north and south of the classic part of Cramer Hall stand two copies, each set at right angles to the original building. If you face Cramer from the north, east, or south, you can enter through an identical arched doorway, into a cool hall trimmed in dark wood and illuminated by 30s-style lighting fixtures.
Cramer Hall has been cloned.
According to Mike Hill, the architect for the new building, who works for the company Van Gilbert Architects PC, "Originally, the plan was to simply renovate the inside of the existing building, including the wings built in the 1970s. However, as planning continued, it became evident that Tech would get more high-quality space by removing the additions rather than by re-doing them."
Hill devised an elegant solution to the problem. He made copies of the original building and placed them on the north and south sides, at right angles to the original. The resulting Cramer is a much larger, revitalized Mission-styled building, totally in keeping with the original and also with the rest of the historic quadrangle at Tech.
There is also an added section in the back of Cramer that reproduces the building's distinctive roofline and large, bright windows with arched tops. In all, the new wings bring the square footage of the original building (a mere 8,850 sq. ft.) up to a spacious 34,500 sq. ft.
But it's on the inside that Cramer Hall really shines.
"The contractor, Bradbury Stamm, was really good about working with us," said Glenda Chavez, project manager for Tech's Facilities Management. "We had lots of communication with the departments that are going to be in the building about what they wanted and how it should be designed."
The building was designed with the departments of Computer Science and Psychology, and the Distance Education Program in mind.
"The Computer Science Department has their own server rooms," Hill said, "with lots of Internet and electronic connections. It has a number of classrooms and meeting areas, as well as office space. Distance Ed has two studio spaces in which they can videotape and transmit classes."
According to Dr. Iver Davidson, director of Distance Education, "The contractor was good in allowing us to transform a large storage room across the hallway from the new EODI offices into another office, this one for MST Coordinator George Becker, thereby helping us compensate for growth that has occurred in EODI since the original building plans were drawn up."
Davidson added, "We appreciate very much our beautiful new facilities, which allow EODI staff to work closely together. We can also expand delivery of distance courses with use of a seminar room (shared with the Psychology Department) directly across from the EODI offices."
The interior of Cramer looks much like the renovated interior of Weir Hall, with attractive wood doors and architectural details. Weir's warm and appealing appearance has been well-received by students, faculty, and visitors to campus. There's a reason Weir and Cramer look alike: "The original plan," says Hill, "was to remodel both buildings simultaneously." That plan meant that many offices and classrooms would have to be displaced at the same time. Instead, the decision was made to renovate one building at a time.
"The renovation of Cramer Hall is a tremendous opportunity for our traditional academic programs to be housed in a facility that offers such quality classroom space," said Dr. Peter F. Gerity, Vice President for Academic Affairs.
"We're also very excited about the high-quality course production and delivery facilities provided for Distance Education students, which has become a critical element of New Mexico Tech's academic programs," Gerity said.
In noting the similarities between Weir and Cramer Halls, Gerity said the architectural design and interior style will continue a legacy of "high-quality space and traditional appearance, which adds so much to the quality of our campus."