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September 2009
Ice Gets Bent Out of Shape
Scientists show that ice makes every connection, flattens out on water-hating graphene
(a) Top view. The two-layer ice has hexagonal symmetry. (b) Side view. Two flat layers of molecules with hydrogen bonds connecting the layers. (c) Side view of normal, puckered hexagonal ice. Enlarge Image
Results: For the first time, scientists have built completely flat, two-layer ice. While theoreticians have predicted that such ices are formed by squeezing water molecules between two surfaces, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Ruhr-Universitat Bochum are the first to create it. All it took was collaboration, creativity, and the absence of pressure.
Why It Matters: Creating this type of ice shows the structure of water on a water-fearing, or hydrophobic, surface. The structure of water at these surfaces is vital to understanding protein folding, and the assembly of cellular membranes and intracellular compartments.
How We Did It: Close collaboration between theoreticians and experimentalists along with well-equipped laboratories and a supercomputer allowed the team to build a layer of ice two molecules thick and then to determine how the atoms and electrons in that ice arranged themselves.
The experimentalists began with a thin sheet of carbon, known as graphene on top of a layer of platinum. Then, they introduced a small amount of water onto the surface in ultrahigh vacuum (that is, no pressure) and very low temperatures. While ice traditionally forms at 273 Kelvin, for this experiment, the temperature was dropped to 125 K, about the temperature of an evening on the moon.
Next, the team used low-energy diffraction equipment that sends waves of slow-moving electrons at the surface. How those electrons bounce off the surface tells researchers a lot about the structure of the material.
The researchers found a layer of smooth ice had grown on the graphene, not the usual puckered layers of ice seen on water friendly or hydrophilic surfaces. In the new ice, the angles between the atoms in the water molecules were stretched or compressed compared to normal ice. "This makes for stressed ice," said Dr. Greg Kimmel, the team lead.
So, the team subjected the ice to infrared spectroscopy, giving them information on how the water molecules were vibrating in the ice film. These results confirmed that the water molecules were in unusual configurations.
With these results, the theoreticians did complex calculations that determined the position of each of the atoms in the ice layer. The calculations were done with the software NW-ICE on a supercomputer at the Department of Energy's EMSL, a national scientific user facility.
The theoreticians found that in each layer of the ice, the water molecules formed slightly larger rings than normal. These six-sided rings stacked on top of each other, when looking down through the layers. They also found that each water molecule formed four hydrogen bonds—three with other molecules in the same layer, and one with water in the other layer. They also found that there are two types of water molecules: One type is parallel to the surfaces of the ice and its H-O-H angle is larger than normal. The other type connects the two layers and its H-O-H angle is smaller than normal.
What's Next: The team, again integrating experiments and theory, are studying the temperature range over which the two-layer ice is stable and what happens when more water is added on top of the two-layer ice.
Acknowledgments: The research was done by Greg A. Kimmel, Jesper Matthiesen, Christopher J. Mundy, Nikolay G. Petrik, R. Scott Smith, Zdenek Dohnlek, and Bruce D. Kay at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Marcel Baer at Lehrstuhl fr Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum in Germany.
Experiments and calculations were done in DOE's EMSL, a national scientific user facility at PNNL.
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Marcel Baer was partially financed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and by Fonds der Chemischen Industrie through grants to Dominik Marx.Reference: Kimmel GA, J Matthiesen, M Baer, CJ Mundy, NG Petrick, RS Smith, Z Dohnalek, and BD Kay. 2009. "No Confinement Needed: Observation of a Metastable Hydrophobic Wetting Two-Layer Ice on Graphene." Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(35):12838.


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David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.
Surgeon General of the United States
Assistant Secretary of Health
Statement on Hepatitis C
Good morning. I am David Satcher, the Surgeon General of the United States and the Assistant Secretary of Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. I am here today to discuss a major public health crisis: the hepatitis C epidemic. Mr. Chairman, I know how much this issue concerns you, and I commend you and your staff for your diligent pursuit of it.
Hepatitis C is a grave threat to our society. About 170 million people around the world are infected, and at least 4 million of them reside in the United States. About 85 percent of those infected develop chronic liver disease, and about 10 to 20 percent eventually develop cirrhosis of the liver, about 20 years after the onset of their infection. Hepatitis C is the most common cause of liver failure in patients who require liver transplantation. Although the incidence of hepatitis C in the United States has declined by over 80 percent since the 1980s, there are still about 30,000 new cases each year, and each year about 10,000 people in this country still die of hepatitis C. We conservatively estimate the total cost of hepatitis C to our society at $600 million dollars per year.
The estimate that there are 4 million infected individuals in the United States is based on tests of blood samples obtained during the CDC's Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). This is a very extensive survey that the CDC conducts on a representative sample of the entire population of the United States. The fourth NHANES, scheduled to begin later this year, will contain additional questions about potential risk factors for hepatitis C, so that we can gain a more precise estimate of how this disease is actually transmitted in our society. The estimate that there are still about 30,000 new cases of hepatitis C each year is obtained from the Sentinel Counties Study of Viral Hepatitis, which the CDC has been conducting since 1979.
We know that many Americans infected with hepatitis C are unaware they have the disease. Unfortunately, many of them cannot be readily identified, because the disease does not cause symptoms until it is far advanced. However, there is one group that can be identified: the roughly one million people who have received blood from a donor who subsequently tested positive for hepatitis C. In 1996, this Subcommittee formally recommended that steps be taken to ensure that these individuals be notified of their potential infection so that they might seek diagnosis and treatment. On January 28, Secretary Shalala announced just such a plan to notify people who received blood from a potentially infected donor of their risk. I will be in charge of implementing this plan.
In accordance with the Secretary's directive, we will first attempt to notify directly those at greatest risk. There are roughly 300,000 people who have somewhere between a 40 to 70 per cent risk of hepatitis C. They have this risk because they received blood from a donor who later tested positive for hepatitis C after June of 1992, when an accurate screening test for hepatitis C was introduced. A Guidance to Industry from the FDA which will announce the details of this lookback will be published soon in the Federal Register.
However, lookback will not reach everyone at risk, no matter how diligent our efforts. For example, it will not reach the 20 percent of recipients whose donors never return to give blood, and are therefore never discovered to have hepatitis C. At the present time we do not feel that lookback would be an effective means of reaching those who received blood from a donor who was
never tested directly for hepatitis C or who was only screened with the first generation test, which missed many who were truly infected and falsely identified even more who were not infected. Finally, lookback will also not reach the large majority of those who acquired hepatitis C from a source other than blood. This is a particularly important consideration now, because we have reduced the risk of hepatitis C from blood transfusion to less than 1 per 100,000 transfusions, and we expect this risk to decrease further in the future. The procedures for eliminating hepatitis C virus from clotting factors were introduced over a decade ago.
For all these reasons, lookback alone is not enough. I have therefore directed the CDC to lead the second component of of the plan, which is to develop educational programs for health care professionals and the public at large to support recognition, diagnosis, counseling, and testing of those at risk for hepatitis.
The third component of our plan is to evaluate carefully the success of both our direct and general notification efforts, and take additional steps to address unmet needs as we identify them. We have proposed an aggressive time table for implementing these programs, and we will actively monitor their progress at the highest level of the Department through the Public Health Service Blood Safety Committee, which I chair.
Secretary Shalala has made the Department's policy in this matter very clear. As she said on January 28 of this year, "... these steps are only the first phase of a comprehensive plan to address this significant public health problem. It is my intention to reach effectively as many people at risk as we can." I want to underscore these words. Everyone we believe to be at risk of having hepatitis C will be targeted by the Department's plan.
As part of the Department's efforts to educate the public about risk of hepatitis, we must be aggressive about discussing prevention. Hepatitis C is transmitted by blood. Hemodialysis patients are at high risk of hepatitis C infection, as are those who have used injection drugs, even if only occasionally and only in the distant past. Perinatal transmission occurs, though much less efficiently than transmission of hepatitis B or HIV. Sexual transmission within monogamous relationships appears rare, but there may be greater risks for those with multiple partners. The risk from transfusion is now very small, less than 1 per 100,000 transfusions, and we will take advantage of every opportunity available to reduce this risk even further.
There is no cure for hepatitis C. However, treatment is improving. Recent experience with interferon alpha treatment indicates that more prolonged therapy, and the combination of interferon alpha with ribavirin, may provide substantial additional benefit to certain patients. Although these new treatments show promise, much better ones are needed. I am cautiously encouraged by the commitment of the pharmaceutical industry to the development of protease and helicase inhibitors of
the hepatitis C virus.
What we really need, of course, is a vaccine against this disease. There are vaccines against hepatitis A and hepatitis B, and there is ongoing work on a vaccine against hepatitis C. However, we cannot underestimate the complexity of this task, particularly because of the rapid rate at which the virus mutates, and we must nurture the basic and clinical research that will be necessary to support vaccine development.
Research is the foundation of our struggle against hepatitis C. As you know, the hepatitis A and hepatitis B viruses were discovered at the NIH. Dr. Baruch Blumberg, the discoverer of hepatitis B, received the Nobel Prize for his work. This work led to the appreciation that there was at least one more hepatitis virus to be found. The major one of these, hepatitis C, was identified in 1989.
The discovery of the hepatitis C virus permitted the development of progressively more sensitive tests for the presence of hepatitis C in human blood. The first blood donor screening test was licensed in May 1990, only a year after the virus was identified. This test measured antibody to a single hepatitis C antigen. This test identified nearly 90 per cent of patients with transfusion-associated non-A, non-B hepatitis. However, this test had limitations, notably a 24 week window period between the time a subject was infected with hepatitis C and the time the test could detect antibodies to hepatitis C in the subject's blood.
The more effective blood donor screening test was introduced in June of 1992. This "second generation" test measured antibodies to three different hepatitis C antigens, and it reduced the window between infection and detection from 24 to 12 weeks. The date at which this test was introduced is the point in time around which our lookback and public education efforts revolve.
Direct funding for research on hepatitis C among all the institutes at NIH will increase from $25.3 million in 1997 to $29.8 million in 1998 and $34.4 million in 1999. A steering committee has recently been formed to provide more focused oversight of the hepatitis C research effort. The dollar amounts for NIH-sponsored hepatitis C virus research do not, of course, include funds spent on epidemiologic research by the CDC and funds spent on both basic and applied research by the FDA.
The NIH intramural program is focused on virologic, immunologic, and clinical studies which will support therapeutic and vaccine development, as well as the advancement of basic scientific knowledge. Dr. Stephen Feinstone of the FDA's Center for Biologics Research and Review, who was a member of the team that discovered hepatitis A, recently reported the construction of an infectious clone of the hepatitis C virus, an important step towards the eventual development of a vaccine. Extramural programs include for newly established Hepatitis C Cooperative Research Centers, which among their other works conduct studies of the natural history of hepatitis C in African Americans, Native Alaskans, and children. Studies of the natural history of hepatitis C after liver transplantation are also under way.
Let me conclude by reemphasizing that the Department of Health and Human Services joins in your concern regarding the impact of hepatitis C on our nation's health. I want to thank you for this opportunity to describe our efforts to control and, ultimately, eradicate this terrible disease. I would be delighted to answer any questions the Committee may have.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate panel has approved legislation to overhaul the military justice system in an effort to staunch the growing number of sexual assaults in the armed forces.
Key portions of the bill passed Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services personnel subcommittee are opposed by senior U.S. military leaders. They say the proposed changes are too drastic and will undermine the ability of commanders to enforce good order and discipline within their units.
But Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, the panel's chairwoman and the bill's cosponsor, says aggressive reforms in the military's legal code are needed to counter the rise in sexual assaults within the ranks.
Her bill would remove commanders from the process of deciding whether serious crimes, including sexual misconduct cases, go to trial.
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Across the country, higher education enrollment is plummeting. There were nearly half a million fewer students enrolled in college and graduate school in fall 2012 than there were a year earlier, according to a new Census release. That decline is all the more startling when you consider this: between 2006 and 2011, graduate and undergraduate enrollment grew by 3.2 million. The biggest decline, by far, came from students over 25. Their enrollment fell by 419,000; younger students dropped by 48,000.
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Higher education enrollment has risen over the last 20 years, Hartle says, but the trend is counter-cyclical. During bad economies, people rush to finish a degree or pick up new skills. That's why 2007 and 2008 saw a 13 percent increase in enrollment, the biggest jump in 25 years.
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The theory of evolution by natural selection says that changes come about incrementally, as a result of the long-term consequences of small selection advantages for favorable traits. The selection advantage is measured by differential rates in the production of offspring. If organisms with a new and favorable trait produce 101 offspring for every 100 produced by the older forms, the selection advantage s is said to be 0.01. The changes produced by even such a small reproductive advantage can be quite dramatic. If we start with a trait that is present in just 0.1% of the population and if this has a small selection advantage of size s=0.01, this variety will grow to become 99.9% of the population in just under 1,400 generations (in the codominant mode of selection) which is a very short time on the evolutionary scale. (Molecular Evolution, Wen-Hsiung Li, 1997, p. 39)
This presents a bit of a puzzle when it comes to explaining the existence of homosexuality if it is a biological trait, since on the surface it seems to have a selective disadvantage. David Barash has an article that explores what we have learned about the six main hypotheses that have been proposed to get around this problem: kin selection, social prestige, group selection, balanced polymorphisms, sexually antagonistic selection, and nonadaptive byproduct.
He concludes that none of them is the clear winner. But there are many as yet unanswered questions in evolutionary theory that researchers are investigating and this is one of them. He concludes that, like the others, it will be solved eventually.
There are lots of other hypotheses for the evolution of homosexuality, although they are not the "infinite cornucopia" that Leszek Kolakowski postulated could be argued for any given position. At this point, we know enough to know that we have a real mystery: Homosexuality does have biological roots, and the question is how the biological mechanism developed over evolutionary time.
We can be confident that eventually, nature will tell.
In terms of social policy, the answer to this question does not really matter. Treating people equitably irrespective of their sexual orientation means that we do not discriminate based on theories of the origins of the behavior either.


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I'm Tim Huddleston, a freelance writer and editor, specializing in ghost writing (boo!) and content development. My clients include major publishing houses such as McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Prentice Hall, and many others. I have written and edited hundreds of books over the past 20 years, on topics ranging from computer hardware/software, to health and fitness, to pile driving (but not the kind used in wrestling). I also create help systems for software companies, such as Tivoli Systems, and write training manuals for use in the construction trades. I'm not an expert in any of these topic areas, but I offer my clients value through my ability to research and assimilate information and develop content designed for my clients' specific needs.
But I'm not a geek! My focus is "practical non-fiction," which includes how-to, reference, and tutorial content on a wide range of topics, presented in print, multimedia, and online. I love developing content that helps people learn and master new skills, and feel my work takes on extra importance during bad economic times, when people lose their jobs and seek new skills so they can find a better job.
My promise to all my clients: I can take an ordinary manuscript and turn it into a great one. Many of my products have become best-sellers in their genre, and I have coached many aspiring writers into industry-leading names.
Publishers of practical non-fiction, of all stripes. These can be educational publishers, "dummies"-type presses, hands-on/how-to/self-teaching publishers, and others. I also want to appeal to book agents in this market, who might be interested in pairing me with authors who have great ideas but little writing experience. Overall, I want to attract attention from publishing industry decision makers who understand how my skills can fit their needs; this audience includes publishers, publishing directors, documentation managers, executive/sponsoring/acquisitions editors, managing editors, and people in similar positions of authority.
For this logo, think simple yet elegant/sophisticated. But not flowery or fancy. A simple treatment of my initials (TH) is my primary interest. Something small but eye-catching that can be used as a "favicon" for my Web site, and in printed materials such as biz cards, brochures, letterhead, etc. It would also be nice if the treated initials can be worked into a logo containing my entire name (Tim Huddleston), but that isn't necessary. If the logo must stand alone, that's fine.
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Michael Burke began his career by being named a "Teacher of Promise" by the Maryland State Department of Education in 2009. Since then he has been the Director of Technology, Multimedia, and Graphic Design as well as an HBS and BI teacher at Bel Air High School. Currently, he is the Science Department Chair and the Lead Teacher of the Biomedical Sciences Program at BAHS. Michael prides himself on the myriad of technical and productivity skills that his students develop while in his classes.


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- 4. Explain the correct way of scoring for a game game. of marbles.
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Looks like "Parks and Recreation" co-star Rob Lowe won't win a Pulitzer for his sports coverage after all.
An announcement on Lowe's Twitter page last week claimed his "people" told him Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning was going to retire. His friendship with Colts owner Jim Irsay lent credibility to the claim. But Manning dispelled the rumor today in an interview with the Indianapolis Star's Bob Kravitz.
Lowe's tweet quickly went viral and was retweeted more than 100 times.
Manning wasn't impressed.
"I never thought 'Sodapop Curtis' would announce my retirement," Manning told Kravitz, a reference to Lowe's character in "The Outsiders."
So while he's not retiring, Manning, still recovering from neck surgery that put him out of action the entire 2011 season, is unsure of where he'll end up this offseason. Facing a $28 million option bonus due on March 8, the Colts may move him in attempt to save cash. They are widely expected to use the No. 1 pick in the draft on Manning's heir apparent, Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck.
Manning said he would like to stay in Indianapolis, where he has played for his entire 14-year career.
"It's been a privilege to play here," Maning said. "I love the fans, the city, the transformation of the fans, how our place has become the toughest stadium to play in, the fact our fans wear more jerseys to games than anybody else. It's been fun to be a part of that."


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Today the Congressional Budget Office released a report that contained bad news for President Obama. Guy Benson writes, "White House Panic: Gruesome 2012 Economic Forecast Could Doom Obama."
[T]oday's dreadful report will cast a much darker and longer shadow over the 2012 presidential election landscape. Team Obama will likely put on a brave face and serve up rosier in-house economic figures in the media, but you'd better believe the CBO's latest economic projections are causing a lot of heartburn at the White House. Hideous:
The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday predicted the budget deficit will rise to $1.08 trillion in 2012. CBO also projected the jobless rate would rise to 8.9 percent by the end of 2012, and to 9.2 percent in 2013. These are much dimmer forecasts than in CBO's last report in August, when the office projected a $973 billion deficit. The report reflects weaker corporate tax revenue and the extension for two months of the payroll tax holiday.
A rising deficit and unemployment rate would hamper President Obama's reelection effort, which in recent weeks has seemed to be on stronger footing. If the CBO estimate is correct, it would mean that the United States recorded a deficit of more than $1 trillion for every year of Obama's first term. The deficit was $1.4 trillion in 2009, $1.3 trillion in 2010 and $1.3 trillion in 2011. The largest deficit recorded before that was $458 billion in 2008.
CBO had forecast an 8.5 percent unemployment rate for the end of 2012 in its August report. It now expects the jobless rate to be higher, and to still be at 7 percent in 2015. The higher unemployment numbers are due to lower economic growth than previously estimated. Gross domestic product for 2011 is now estimated to have grown 1.6 percent in 2011, down from the 2.3 percent forecast in August. CBO a year ago had predicted 3.1 percent growth for 2011. The outlook for 2012 has also worsened. GDP is forecast to grow only 2 percent this year, compared to a previous estimate of 2.7 percent.
As Guy says, that is "one ugly stat piled atop the next." But the CBO report actually understates the poor condition of the economy, as the Senate Budget Committee Republicans point out:
The Congressional Budget Office baseline budget outlook dramatically understates—by nearly $6 trillion—the deficit and debt path that the nation is on. The agency's current law outlook shows deficits declining from $1.3 trillion last year to $1.1 trillion this year, and dropping further until fiscal year 2018, when it starts rising again. …
While on the surface of the report it appears that the budget outlook has become more benign, in fact it is not so. CBO's projections look brighter only because the agency is required to use unrealistic assumptions regarding current law. What's more, both the Congress and the president have in the past written laws in a way that manipulates the requirements under which CBO must operate. It sums up to a disservice to citizens who are owed the truth about the dire financial condition that the government faces.
In particular, the baseline outlook assumes the expiration of three policies that will not happen. First, it assumes that the tax cuts put in place in 2001 and 2003 will expire, raising taxes sharply at the end of this calendar year—a proposal not even President Obama supports. Second, the baseline assumes that the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) will begin to snare more and more taxpayers, even though the AMT has been patched annually to hold taxpayers harmless for more than a decade. Third, the baseline assumes that Medicare's payment rates for physicians will decrease by 27 percent on March 1, 2012, despite the fact that Congress has repeatedly prevented the payment reduction. While those assumptions are not tenable, they do improve CBO's baseline deficit outlook by $4.9 trillion over the projection period—overstating tax receipts by $4.6 trillion and understating Medicare spending by $326 billion.
The omissions regarding expiring policy also have an impact on the size of the national debt and the cost of servicing that debt. The higher interest costs add $846 billion to deficits and debt over the projection period, which make the total deficit impact of the excluded policies $5.7 trillion. Adding this amount to the baseline levels will increase gross federal debt to $27.4 trillion at the end of fiscal 2022. This would make the ratio of the nation's debt to its economic output approximately 111 percent in 2022, even higher than it is today. …
An examination of CBO's spending baseline shows that federal spending is on an unsustainable course.
From a political standpoint, the bad news may be coming just in time. Barack Obama has been clawing his way back toward respectability in the polls; currently Scott Rasmussen's Approval Index stands at a -13, a poor rating but lofty compared to where Obama has been for most of his term. Worse, overall approval now exceeds disapproval for the first time in a long while, 51-48.
And the Democrats' resurgence is also evident in Rasmussen's latest congressional preference poll, where the Democrats now lead–albeit narrowly, at 41-40–for the first time in well over a year, I believe since before the midterm election.
So the Republicans have managed, somehow, to squander the strong position they have occupied since early in Obama's term. To some degree, that is probably due to improving consumer sentiment. But I suspect it is more attributable to the GOP presidential campaign. What should have been a great opportunity to bang away at President Obama has become, instead, a fiasco for the Republicans, as the candidates, especially Newt Gingrich, have consistently violated Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment. We are now, I am afraid, seeing the consequences.


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SOP id variable question 18 years, 7 months
Hello everyone, I was wondering if there is a variable, like a number, that is unique to each SOP, OP or whatever? My reason for asking is this: I have a RAND expression, which is rather lengthy, in each transform and rotation field of a transform SOP. I was hoping that there was some sort of $OPNUMBER or something so that I wouldn't have to type a different number in each field for every copy I make of the transform SOP, to get a different seed value for each copy. eg. rand($OPNUMBER)*(chf("../wassup",$F-(2*$OFFSET)) Is there such a thing? Thanksness, Edwin Erdmanis devomotion
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I run Houdini on Win 2k and it runs beautifully. I don't know if it's meant to be supported or not, but it works. And my distributor says they have tested an NT4 box and the same box with Win2K and that Win2k renders significantly faster. I haven't tried this myself, as I have different spec machines running the 2 os's. P.S. Has anyone out there (like sesi maybe?) considered writing a network render queue manager for NT that actually works in NT? Like Newtek's Light Wave Screamer Net? That's what I would like. Not an aswer like, "The Multi-Host output op won't work with NT to NT machines." Edwin devo:motion Alex Muscat wrote: > Simple question. Does NT require specifically NT to > run or can it use Win2k? (Which has NT integrated into > it) NT is really giving me a hard time on a new > system. > > Thanks in advance, i'm sure this question has been > asked many times. > > Alex. > > _______________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
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Actor Pierce Brosnan and his wife, Keely Shaye Smith, are joining in one of coastal Malibu's summer rituals — putting their home up for lease.
They have listed Orchid House at $250,000 a month. Just in case the renters scuff up the newly built 13,000-square-foot place, a $750,000 security deposit is required.
Set on 120 feet of beachfront, the Thai and Balinese-influenced contemporary features high ceilings, walls of glass, a screening room with a bar, a music room, a library, a wine cellar, a Japanese-style soaking tub, a sauna, a steam room, a cold plunge tub and a gym. There are three master suites for a total of four bedrooms and 12 bathrooms.
The tropically landscaped acre includes a guesthouse, a swimming pool and a pool cabana.
Although the price Brosnan and Smith are asking is at the top of the current rental offerings, the Multiple Listing Service shows that a place in gated Malibu Colony was leased for $300,000 a month at the beginning of June. That 4,687-square-foot house has six bedrooms, six bathrooms and a three-car garage.
Since Brosnan, 59, played James Bond in 007 movies including "Die Another Day" (2002), "The World Is Not Enough" (1999) and "GoldenEye" (1995), he has starred in "I Don't Know How She Does It" (2011) and "The Ghost Writer" (2010). Brosnan is in France filming "Love Punch," to be released next year.
Smith, 48, was an "Unsolved Mysteries" correspondent from 1994 to 1997.
Brosnan bought the property in 2000 for about $7 million, according to Los Angeles Times archives.
Bob Rubenstein of Coldwell Banker's Malibu West office is the leasing agent for Brosnan and Smith.
A sale could be music to his ears
"Glee" co-creator Ryan Murphy has his Malibu beach house up for sale at $6.995 million.
Entered through a courtyard with a koi pond, the nearly 2,100-square-foot contemporary Mediterranean includes three en suite bedrooms and a powder room. The beachfront deck features a cabana, a spa, an outdoor shower and a fire pit.
Murphy, 46, co-created "American Horror Story" (2011-present) and created "Nip/Tuck" (2003-10). He wrote and directed the movie "Eat Pray Love" (2010). He is working on "The Glee Project," which will select a cast member for the upcoming season, and in early June hosted a $40,000-per-couple fundraising dinner at his Beverly Hills house during President Obama's California visit.
Murphy bought the place at the beach a little over a year ago for $6,562,500.
Ann Eysenring of Partners Trust Beverly Hills is the listing agent.
Still in style in Beverly Hills
The Beverly Hills home of menswear, jewelry and fragrance mogul Bijan Pakzad is on the market at $11.995 million.
Built in 1993, the gated Italianate villa is a showcase of his style with bold primary color interiors, monochromatic-themed rooms and a chandelier made of his signature perfume bottles in the formal dining room. The 12,016 square feet of living space includes a marble-counter bar in the family room, a sweeping central staircase, a step-down living room, seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms. There is subterranean parking for more than 20 cars.
The nearly three-quarter-acre site contains manicured gardens, a one-bedroom guesthouse with an attached cabana, a tiled swimming pool, a spa and a six-car motor court. A stone path lined by orange trees, roses, bougainvillea vines and a fig tree wraps around the house.
The Iranian American designer, who died last year at 67, clothed some of the world's most powerful leaders including presidents Carter, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama. His appointment-only boutique on Rodeo Drive, opened in 1976, used its high prices as a selling point and advertised as "the costliest menswear in the world."
Public records show he bought the house in 2002 for $5 million.
Brenda Chandler Cooke and David Kramer of Hilton & Hyland are the listing agents.
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Motion picture executive Brad Kembel and his partner, Jimmy Ferrareze, have purchased the landmark James Eads How House in Silver Lake for $1.3 million.
Designed by modern architect Rudolph Schindler in 1925, the restored and updated International Modern-style house had been priced at $4.995 million when movie producer and prolific renovator Michael LaFetra first listed it in 2008.
The 2,426-square-foot home, a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, is considered a triumph of Schindler's early career and was influenced by his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright. The hillside house is built of concrete, redwood and glass. It features built-ins, four fireplaces, four bedrooms and 21/2 bathrooms. Diagonally placed corner mitered windows anchor opposite ends of the living room. The garden was designed by Richard Neutra.
Self-described architecture buffs, Kembel is executive vice president of Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate company, and Ferrareze owns a Brazilian boutique.
"We had been looking for an architecturally significant and modern house for many years," Ferrareze said. Kembel described the house as "eminently livable."
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6/17 The Yankee Way
It was Spring Training 2000, my first Minor League camp. I'm eating at the Cheesecake Factory in Tampa. Bernie Williams walks by with his wife and stops by and says, "Hey, Marlon, how are you doing?" I look at him and I'm thinking to myself, how in the world do you know who I am? You're Bernie Williams. Same thing with Derek Jeter, same thing with Gerald Williams. It seemed like that whole click, Posada, all of them, they treated baseball like a fraternity, like it should be. Everyone was equal, and it didn't matter who you were. If you were a part of a team or an organization, they treated you like they were your brother. I've always respected that, I've always respected the Yankees because of the way they handle things.
That's always been in the back of my mind and that's the way I've tried to be. I didn't know how in the world they knew all the guys like that in that area — you had the Yankees, the Phillies and the Blue Jays in Tampa area. I guess that's the Yankee Way. That was my first Spring Training. Bernie Williams. I've always respected that. It's a respect thing. Just the way they handle themselves and treat everyone the same. Do they do that here? There are some guys that do. I try to be like that.
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HI Marlon, you are a class act. God willing your back in the line up soon.
Marlon , you play the game like it is supposed to be played. I hope to see in the lineup soon.
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Out in Southern California, we respect YOU, the way you play all out and carry yourself. We miss seeing you and hope to again soon!
Marlon, you are a class act and are missed in the Cubs lineup. Hope that you are healing and will be able to play soon.
It shows in the way you play the game Marlon, have missed you in the lineup…..get back soon!
Marlon, Love your playing style and you have a lot of class. Wish some players can be like you.
Marlon great story and I can tell that you carry yourself in a great way. I feel like you would be the guy that would give back to the fans by signing a few autographs and meeting some of the great cubs fans after the game. Keep up the great work, and get well soon!!!!
Marlon, can't wait until you are back in the game again. Get well quickly.. the cubs need you.
Marlon, any person or group that conducts themselves in that manner will always receive respect and intern respect others. Great story to share. Get healthy; we need you back on the playing field.
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In last week's column, I discussed the value of following an online coupon blog. Coupon blogs help make the coupon shopping preparation process easier, as you can rely on the expertise of others to help match coupons to sales and create your shopping lists.
Keep in mind that there are good couponing communities and there are less reputable ones. A good blog will not present scenarios in which coupons for one product are used on another, and it won't advocate unethical or fraudulent coupon usage.
Unfortunately, a new breed of coupon community has emerged online under the dubious title of "glitch" groups. These groups are devoted to exploiting errors in coupon scanning for the purposes of using a high-value coupon for one product on a different product – what they call "glitches."
While coupon barcodes are designed to reduce this specific kind of fraud, there are some cases a coupon for one product may scan for another, slipping through the system.
Ethical couponers likely wouldn't dream of trying to use a handful of coupons for allergy medication to buy a pair of shoes, but these are exactly the kinds of exploits these couponing glitch groups are devoted to discovering. Glitch groups use trial and error to figure out which coupons might work as general dollars-off discounts versus being tied to a specific product. Then, they advise members how to use and attempt to slip these coupons through, undetected by the store or cashier.
Quite simply, "glitches" has become a new term for coupon fraud.
One large coupon glitch group had more than 9,000 members before disbanding and reforming as several secret groups that are invitation-only and no longer appear in web search results. It's disheartening to me that so many people would actively seek out ways to commit coupon fraud when there are so many legitimate ways to save money with coupons.
So, how do you know whether or not the coupon community you're following is reputable? The "if it feels wrong, it probably is" barometer is an easy one to apply to many situations in life, and couponing is no exception. If a site is advising you to use a coupon for cough medicine on a tube of toothpaste, it should be obvious that this isn't the right thing for anyone to do. It isn't worth risking a fraud charge to save a little extra money.
What other signs might help to determine whether your online coupon community is one to trust? Reputable coupon blogs may also indicate that they have relationships with brands and retailers. Under FCC guidelines, bloggers must disclose their relationships with brands, and any posts I write that are sponsored by another company must contain a disclosure at the top and bottom of each post. If a company has approached a blogger about sponsoring content for that blog, it's usually another sign that the blog is reputable. It doesn't seem as likely that a major manufacturer or retailer would want to place advertising on a blog that's advocating coupon misuse.
I'll leave you with a comment that a reader posted on my blog at JillCataldo.com regarding coupon fraud. While it may seem a "harmless" crime to some, people do get prosecuted for it:
"They'll let you get a away with it a few times, capturing the whole thing on video, and once you hit a felony amount (it's $500-$1,000 in most states) they'll grab you as you're walking out and call the police. Fun fact – store security can pull up a register monitor and watch the transaction in real time on a computer screen, and they can also zoom in close enough to actually make out the barcode, with the zoom camera mounted near the check lanes. Wouldn't that be quite a hoot to explain to your husband? Oh yeah, I got arrested for misusing coupons. Turns out, it was a felony."
Smart Living Tip: Utilizing online coupon communities can be extremely helpful in streamlining your shopping trips and planning time, but take some time to get to know a community and determine whether or not it is reputable.
Jill Cataldo, a coupon workshop instructor, writer and mother of three, never passes up a good deal. Learn more about Super-Couponing at her website, jillcataldo.com. Email your own couponing victories and questions to email@example.com.


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This previously unreleased live set, which has been issued on Blue Note's Rare Groove Series, will bore anyone who listens closely. The repertoire is dominated by lengthy funk grooves that are quite danceable but never develop beyond the obvious. Altoist Lou Donaldson was using a baritone horn at the time that gave him a generic and unappealing tone, the obscure trumpeter Fred Ballard does his best to no avail and the enthusiastic rhythm section (guitarist Melvin Sparks, organist Leon Spencer, Jr., and drummer Idris Muhammad) keeps the grooves repetitious. Bob Porter's liner notes (which colorfully give readers the history of Newark jazz of the past 30 years) are superlative but, even with the inclusion of a fast blues, musically nothing much happens. ~ Scott Yanow


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On Thursday June 23rd celebrities from Hollywood, radio, and TV will gather at the Nixon Library for a one of a kind event with a special purpose: to support our troops on the front lines in the war on terror and honor their service and sacrifice for our nation.
Troopathon 2011, as it is called, has the focused goal of sending as many care packages as it can get sponsored during an eight hour event. It its first year (2008) Troopathon brought in over $1.5 million for care packages for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. A $25 donation buys and delivers one care package.
One of the scheduled speakers is war hero and marine Nick Popaditch. Nick (a frequent guest on FOX's "Red Eye") was the tank commander and platoon sergeant in Baghdad during the historic fall of the statue of Saddam.
Recently Nick and his wife April joined me to talk about Troopathon and the significance it has for our troops serving in the Middle East. The YouTube video of the interview is below:
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What: Troopathon 2011, the largest care package drive in America in support of our troops.
When: Thursday June 23rd, 4pm-midnight EDT / 1pm-9pm PDT
How You Can Watch: Right here at the Bigs!
How To Donate: Donation page.
Hosts: Andrew Breitbart and Melanie Morgan
Who Will Be Participating?: Several famous celebrities including actors Jon Voight, Gary Sinise and Robert Davi, media personalities Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, SE Cupp, and many others including yours truly.


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The following books and articles on Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster can be found at the West Virginia Archives and History Library.
Cherniack, Martin. The Hawk's Nest Incident; America's Worst
Industrial Disaster. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University
Press, 1986.
Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the Second Session of the Seventy-Fourth Congress, Volume 80, Part 5 (April 1, 1936-April 21, 1936). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1936. Pages 4752-
Fayette County Chamber of Commerce. History of Fayette County
West Virginia, 1993. Marceline, Missouri, Heritage House
Publishing, 1993.
Hawks Nest Tunnel: 476 Graves. Richwood, West Virginia,
West Virginia Heritage Foundation, 1972.
975.4 W52 v.7.
Jennings, Caroline. "Was Witt Jennings Involved? The Hawks Nest
Tragedy." Goldenseal, Charleston, West Virginia, Volume 23:1
McKinney, Tim. Elkem Metals 90 Years of Progress in the
Kanawha Valley, 1901-1991. Charleston, West Virginia, Pictorial
Histories Publishing Company, 1992.
Orr, David and Dragan, Jon. "A Dirty, Messy Place to Work, B. H.
Metheney Remembers Hawk's Nest Tunnel," Goldenseal,
Charleston, West Virginia, 1981, 7:1
Rosner, David. Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of
Occupational Disease in Twentieth Century America. Princeton,
New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1991.
Rowh, Mark. "The Hawks Nest Tragedy: Fifty Years Later,"
Goldenseal, Charleston, West Virginia, 1981, 7:1
Skidmore, Hubert. Hawk's Nest. New York, Doubleday/Doran
and Company Inc., 1941.
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Skidmore, Hubert. Hawk's Nest. Gauley Bridge, West
Virginia, Thomas In-Prints, 1992.
F S6285h reprint.
Sullivan, Ken. Book Review: "The Hawk's Nest Incident,"
Goldenseal. Charleston, West Virginia, Spring, 1987,
"476 Graves The Story Behind Hawk's Nest Tunnel," West
Virginia Hillbilly, 10-28- 1972.
"Big Hawks Nest Plant to Begin Operation Soon," Montgomery News, 1-24-1936.
"Chemist Recalls Construction Details Clearly After 60 Years," Fayette Tribune, 10-1- 1990.
"Doctor Denies So Many Deaths From Silicosis," Montgomery News, 2-7-1936.
"Fifty-One Suits Filed This Week," Montgomery News, 6-21-1934.
"Hawks Nest Tunnel Took Toll on Workers During Depression," Parkersburg News, 6-10- 1990.
"Hawks Nest Tunnel Still Controversial," Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 6-10-1990.
"It Was a 3.8-Mile Tunnel of Death," Herald-Dispatch, 6-10-1990.
"Kanawha Gets Silicosis Suits," Montgomery News, 10-18-1934.
"Legacy fo the Hawks Nest Tunnel Still Lives on Years Later," Fayette Tribune, 10-1- 1990.
"Millions Exposed to Dust Disease," Montgomery News, 4-24-1936.
"Monument Will Honor Tunnel's Fallen Workers," Charleston Daily Mail, 7-25-1996.
"More Silicosis Suits Are Filed," Montgomery News, 1-4-1934.
"Silicosis Death Toll Placed at Fifteen by Dr. Harless," Montgomery News, 1-24-1936.
"Silicosis New Racket, Claim Engineering and Mining Journal," Montgomery News, 3-20- 1936.
"Silicosis Suits Up For Action," Montgomery News, 10-4-1934.
"Silicosis Jury Fails to Reach Agreement," Montgomery News, 7-12-1934.
"Silicosis Case to Come Up Monday," Montgomery News, 6-14-1934.
"State Entered in Hawk's Nest License Action," Montgomery News, 12-20-1934.
"State to Probe Dust Control," Montgomery News, 7-24-1936.
"The Nation Still Remembers Hawks Nest," West Virginia Hillbilly, 11-13-1986.
"The Silicosis Racket," Montgomery News, 1-31-1936.
"Town Still Suffering from 1930s Disaster," Wheeling News-Register, 6-10-1990.
"Tragic Epic of Hawk's Nest Retold," West Virginia Hillbilly, 3-19-1987.
"Tunnel Deaths in Hawk's Nest Project Cited," Montgomery News, 1-17-1936.
"Tunnel Working Conditions Are Given to Public," Montgomery News,1-24-1936.
West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly article, "Hawk's Nest"
"Time Trail" program, "News of Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster first published"
Notable Events in West Virginia History


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WILLIAMSPORT, PA – The York College wrestling squad split their two afternoon matches at the 2014 Budd Whitehill Duals hosted by Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA.
York dropped their first round consolation match to Wisconsin Stevens Point, 25-14, and then picked up a victory against Case Western Reserve, 26-23.
The loss against the Pointers was much closer than the final 11-point WSP margin of victory. The Spartans trailed early as the Pointers captured the 125 pound bout. The Spartans' Ryan Flynn (Newtown Square, Pa./Marple Newtown) tied the match with a 6-4 win at 133 pounds. Junior Joey Giaccio (Cranford, N.J./Cranford) put the Spartans up 8-3 with an impressive 20-4 tech fall victory over David Granatelli.
The Pointers won the next three weight classes to take a 13-8 lead through the 165 pound bout. Freshmen Mitchell Ramsey (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Mechanicsburg) and Nick Zak (Jackson, N.J./Jackson Liberty) both won to get the Spartans back on top, 14-13, heading into the final two weight classes. Ramsey won the 174-pound bout with a 3-1 sudden victory while Zak notched his second win of the day with an 8-1 decision in the 184 pound bout.
The Pointers put the match away with pin fall wins at 197 and 285 to earn the 11-point win.
Case Western jumped out to a quick start in the nightcap as Josh Hall earned a pin fall win for CWR. Sophomore Trevor Baez-Hernandez (Bendersville, Pa./Biglerville) picked up his second win of the day with a 13-4 major decision over Jeff Gould, drawing the York Spartans to within two of the Case Western Reserve Spartans, 6-4.
Giaccio had another fantastic match as the junior posted a 17-1 tech fall win at 141 pounds. Case Western tied the match at nine with a victory at 149 but York's Adam Kritzer (Herndon, Pa./Line Mountain) put the Green and White up 15-9 with a pin fall win at 157. Case Western Reserve got a win at 165 and a come-from-behind pin at 174 as it looked like the Spartans from Ohio would pick up the match win. Zak continued his perfect Friday with a dominating pin fall win at 184, putting the Spartans on top 21-18 with two weight classes left. Case Western notched a tech fall win at 197 to take a 23-21 lead heading into the heavyweight match. Sophomore Mike Spencer (Pompton Plains, N.J./Pequannock Township) was awarded a forfeit victory as the Spartans captured the team victory.
York concludes their stay in the duals with a match against RIT on Saturday afternoon at 12:00 pm in Williamsport.


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Personal/High School Graduated from St. Mary's Jr./Sr. High School in 2011 ... Three-sport athlete at St. Mary's (soccer, ice hockey, softball) ... Named to the Boston Herald Dream Team and ESPN Boston All-State First Team ... Named CCL All-Star in 2010 and 2011 ... Team captain for both ice hockey and softball ... Led the ice hockey team to three state championships and had a 100 game undefeated streak ... Named CCL All-Star in softball ... Received the Agganis Scholarship ... Born on May 17, 1993 ... Daughter of Julie and Daniel Dandreo ... Has one sister, Gina and two brothers, Garrett and Daniel ... Currently undecided on a major


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Review: Spandau Ballet's First New York Show in 30 Years
Photos and words by G.
This much is true – to say I loved every second of Spandau Ballet's first full concert in New York in 30 years is an understatement. The British quintet played a sold out show at New York's legendary Beacon Theatre on May 2, 2015 and everything about the night was legendary.
Aside from being a fan of Spandau Ballet since I was young, lead singer Tony Hadley was the first rock star I ever did a phone interview with (which you can read here and here), which is something I will probably never entirely get over, and at the time he was doing a solo tour where he exclusively added "Chant No. 1" to his setlist for readers of According2g.com! I also want to throw out there that if you can hear Tony Hadley's cover of "Life on Mars" by David Bowie, he sings the hell out of that chours and you should really try to track it down because it's amazing. But I digress… Seeing that show made me fall in love with Spandau Ballet all over again and I kept hope alive that they would one day tour the USA again. On May 2, all New York fans got their wish and Spandau Ballet reunited for their first show in 30 years!
If you know nothing of the group, the Spandau Ballet story has been depicted in the excellent documentary "Soul Boys of the Western World," and in it, you'll hear about their global success with massive hits such as "True" and "Gold," as well as their 20 year hiatus, which saw an acrimonious break up over song royalties. They have since patched up their differences and they showed the audience exactly why they became superstars over 30 years ago.
I am not sure what magic elixir the Soul Boys have tasted from, but they look and sound better than ever. Their 2 hour set was a mutual love fest, as the audience lost their minds when the hits were played and Spandau Ballet seemed so relaxed and humbled by the response of the crowd.
Tony Hadley's voice showed no signs of aging and as the night went on, you realize how many of their songs have extremely high notes, and Tony nailed every single one of them flawlessly, and if I may suggest it, I think Tony Hadley's voice sounds better now than it did on the records! Songs from every stage of their career were played, from the new track "Soul Boy" to their reunion song "Once More" as well as some of their earliest songs such as "Reformation," "Mandolin" and "The Freeze."
The "secret weapon" of the band is Steve Norman who not only played those amazing sax solos you remember from so many Spandau hits, but he also sang back up, played guitar and percussion!
In between playing global smashes like "Communication," "Highly Strung," "Only When You Leave," "To Cut A Long Story Short," "Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)," "Instinction," "Lifeline," "True" and "Gold" (which was played both acoustically and with the full band – and made the audience go absolutely bonkers both times), Tony Hadley played a bit of percussion.
Gary Kemp promised the crowd that it will not be another 30 years before we get to see Spandau Ballet perform again and I speak for all Spandau fans by saying "YES!!!!!!!" When the show was over, the audience didn't want to see the band go, and the crowd rushed the stage and the band shook hands with members of the audience for several minutes before retreating back stage. Despite having seen Eric Clapton the night before in concert, this was the most fun I've had at a show in quite some time.
Thanks again to the Soul Boys for an amazing night and again, on behalf of all Spandau Ballet fans, we look forward to many more new albums and tours! PS. Original drummer John Keeble is in the band, but I had a bad vantage point to get a decent photo (despite being in the 5th row), so apologies that he is not pictured.
The setlist was: Soul Boy / Highly Strung / Only When You Leave / How Many Lies? / Round and Round / This Is the Love / Steal / Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) / Reformation / Mandolin / Confused / The Freeze / To Cut a Long Story Short / Raw / Glow / Empty Spaces / Gold (acoustic) / Once More / I'll Fly For You / Instinction / Communication / Lifeline / True.
Encore: Through The Barricades / Gold.
Gail said,
I wish I had gone to this show because it sounds like it was amazing. Plus: Steve Norman, hubba hubba.
Kim Saade said,
I saw Clapton the night before as well, but THIS is the show I travelled to NYC to see (I was in the 4th row!). Totally agree that they were at the top of game!
What an amazing night! Come down South next time, fellas – we're really quite nice here in the ATL!


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The "Karlie"—a sexy, choppy style made popular by model Karlie Kloss—is slowly but surely sweeping Hollywood.
Miss Kloss cut off her locks into a jagged lob toward the end of 2012, and since then Julianne Hough, Ciara, Jennifer Lawrence, AnnaSophia Robb, Dianna Agron, Nikki Reed, January Jones, Nicole Richie, etc., have all copied her chic crop.
Another A-lister we're adding to that list: Victoria Beckham, who tweeted out a shot of her fresh new cut yesterday with this comment attached: "Loving the hair! Thank u Tina Outen @tinadidit x vb."
We're all about this undone 'do because it's A. easy to style—all it requires is a little texturizer—and B. it brings the hair off of your neck, leaving you feeling that much cooler as the spring and summer temperatures rise.
We fully support this style at Cosmo—even some of the editors on staff, like deputy beauty editor Jessica Matlin and Cosmo.com news editor Michelle Ruiz, are taking the short hair plunge.
Now all we're wondering is if the "Karlie" is going to be the next "Rachel?" Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!
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May 2010
Soon after the American battleship Maine was destroyed in an explosion while anchored in Havana Harbor, Cuba, on 15 February 1898, thirty-nine-year-old Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt left his government post to recruit a volunteer cavalry regiment to be raised in the Western territories for active service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
Roosevelt's regiment was officially the First United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, but quickly became known as the Rough Riders. View online presentation of Roosevelt in his Rough Rider uniform. Roosevelt fought against the use of the term, but as he noted, "to no purpose," and when the name began to appear in official communications, "we adopted the term ourselves." The Rough Riders became one of the most highly publicized regiments in United States military history not just because of their battlefield exploits, but also because of their colorful (acting) commander at San Juan Hill and exotic origins. There was a full contingent of cowboys, Indians, ranchers, and Western lawmen in the regiment as the name implied; but also, according to their muster roll: polo players, students, songwriters--and sixteen lawyers.
Roosevelt was wise enough to know that he was not competent to lead a regiment into battle--at least not without the month's training that he thought he needed--so he recruited Captain Leonard Wood, one of the most interesting and unusual officers in the United States Army to lead the regiment with the rank of colonel. Wood was a Harvard-trained surgeon who had won the Medal of Honor for his service as a regular soldier during the Apache wars. Roosevelt, as lieutenant-colonel, served as the second in command.
Roosevelt and Wood raised and equipped the Rough Riders so quickly that most of the regiment was able to join the regular cavalry division sent (albeit without horses) in the attack on Santiago, Cuba, in June 1898. Due to Roosevelt's political connections and Wood's military expertise, the Rough Riders were equipped like the regulars with modern, magazine rifles, while, as Roosevelt notes in his letter, the "other volunteers [were] at a hideous disadvantage owing to their not having smokeless powder" for their obsolete weapons.
On 1 July 1898, General William Shafter, the commander of the American forces besieging Santiago (and--according to Roosevelt--the worst commander since Roman times), launched an attack along the entire line of Spanish defenses east of Santiago. The role of the Rough Riders, who held the position at the extreme right end of the main American attack on the San Juan Heights, was not to assault San Juan Hill directly, but rather to attack a subsidiary Spanish position, Kettle Hill. The impetus of their attack and the enthusiasm of Roosevelt, however, carried them forward to the northern end of San Juan Hill, a strategic position overlooking Santiago--and everlasting fame.
In the immediate aftermath of the battle, however, the morale of the American forces surrounding Santiago began to slip. There was no sign of an early end to the siege and the regiments that had made the attack on the San Juan Heights had suffered fifteen hundred casualties, approximately ten percent of "unwieldy" General William Shafter's entire army. Roosevelt tried to buck up his men, but in this letter to Henry Cabot Lodge, as author Evan Thomas has noted, "he betrays his anxiety and uncharacteristic despair."
Few documents show so vividly the contingency of history: Roosevelt believed the situation was so dire that he was prepared to go outside the army chain of command to send a message directly to the president. In fact, the result of the battle on 1 July was almost exactly opposite what Roosevelt expected. Within two weeks the Spanish would lose their naval squadron at Santiago and surrender the city. Between his own well-advertised pride in his conduct, and the large number of American newspaper correspondents present to record his notable and very visible role, Roosevelt became an instant celebrity. His post-battle jitters remained unknown or were soon forgotten. Within a few months of writing this letter, he would be elected governor of New York; in 1900 he was chosen as the Republican candidate for vice-president; a year later, when William McKinley was assassinated, Roosevelt became president.
In 1898, Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), the recipient of the letter, was Theodore Roosevelt's best friend and chief political adviser. Roosevelt (1858-1919) later recollected that they had first met at the Porcellian Club at Harvard University, where they were nine years apart in their respective college classes. Republican Party politics brought them together in 1884, when the two young firebrands had to decide whether they would support the tainted presidential candidacy of James G. Blaine, who was anathema to their fellow political reformers. They held their noses and supported Blaine. The death of Roosevelt's first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, the same year caused Roosevelt to leave politics briefly for a career as a rancher in the Dakotas. He soon returned East to marry Edith Kermit Carow, a childhood friend, with whom he raised six children. Roosevelt served on the United States Civil Service Commission and as president of the New York City Police Board. In the meantime, after two unsuccessful attempts, Henry Cabot Lodge had been elected first to the United States Congress from Massachusetts in 1886, and then to the Senate in 1893, a position that he held for the rest of his life.
With the election of Republican William McKinley to the presidency in 1896, Lodge worked behind the scenes to secure a position for his protégé Roosevelt in the federal government. In 1897, Roosevelt became assistant secretary of the navy under John D. Long, a former governor of Massachusetts. Both before and after the sinking of the Maine, Lodge and Roosevelt agitated relentlessly for intervention in Cuba and the expansion of U.S. interests overseas. Roosevelt and Lodge remained friends for the rest of their lives, although their relative positions in government were reversed when Roosevelt became president in 1901, and their friendship would be severely tried in 1912 when Roosevelt bolted from the GOP to run for president as the Progressive "Bull Moose" candidate. The letter to Henry Cabot Lodge displayed here is located in one of the Historical Society's most remarkable collections, the personal correspondence of the two men from 1884 until Roosevelt's death in 1919.
The May 2010 Object of the Month celebrates the publication of The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010) by Evan Thomas, a corresponding fellow of the Historical Society, who spoke at the Society on 3 May. In The War Lovers, Thomas argues that, more than the American Civil War, or even World War II, the Spanish-American War was a harbinger--if not the model--of modern American wars. The "splendid little war" against Spain was a "war of choice," not immediately vital to national security but ostensibly waged for broader and sometimes shifting humanitarian purposes.
Thomas draws heavily upon several important Historical Society collections including the extraordinary personal correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge; Lodge's weekly "reports" in letters from Washington to his mother; and the diary of Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long, a former governor of Massachusetts, who reflected in his diary on the character of Theodore Roosevelt, his obstreperous and often insubordinate assistant at the Navy Department.
A sampling of the letters, diaries, and photographs of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge that Evan Thomas used in writing The War Lovers will be on display at the Massachusetts Historical Society each afternoon from 1:00-4:00 PM, from Monday-Saturday, through Saturday, 5 June 2010.
Dierks, Jack Cameron. A Leap to Arms: The Cuban Campaign of 1898. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1970.
Jones, Virgil Carrington. Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1971.
Lodge, Henry Cabot. Henry Cabot Lodge papers, 1775-1966. Massachusetts Historical Society.
Lodge-Roosevelt correspondence, 1884-1924. Massachusetts Historical Society. Heavily-edited versions of approximately half the letters were published in: Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925).
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt. Edited by Elting E. Morison. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951-1954.
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Rough Riders. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899.
Thomas, Evan. The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
Trask, David. The War with Spain in 1898. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.


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MISENHEIMER, N.C. - Rollins College registered eight of the last nine goals on Friday afternoon to take a 16-11 victory over Pfeiffer University in non-conference women's lacrosse action at N.E. Lefko Field. Marissa Giannerini (Baltimore, MD) led the Tars with four goals on the day as Rollins improves to 4-1 overall. Pfeiffer suffers its second-straight loss dipping to 3-2.
Both sides traded the first four goals of the match until the Tars' Cat Kelley (Alexandria, VA) put home an unassisted tally for a 3-2 visitors lead with 15:26 remaining in the first half. Pfeiffer's Natalie Marvin (South Berwick, ME) would later make it a 4-3 deficit for the Lady Falcons with a goal at 10:22, but a Giannerini strike and man-up goal from Sophie Townsend (Ocean City, MD) helped make it a 6-4 Rollins advantage at the break.
In the second half, Jessica Moulton (Huntingtown, MD) quickly brought Pfeiffer to within one just 29 seconds in, but a couple of quick strikes by Rollins made it 8-5 with 27:50 to play. Pfeiffer would then reel off the next five to grab a 10-8 lead. Liz Melesh (Annapolis, MD) would score on both ends of the five-point run while Alex Cook (Commack, NY), Shannon Bonnel (Mechanicsville, MD) and Marvin scored in between for the two-goal Pfeiffer lead. Cook assisted on Marvin and Melesh's tallies picking up two of her game-high five assists.
Cook would later score the Lady Falcons final goal of the day with 8:59 remaining until Rollins put home the final six to pull away for the win. Giannerini started the comeback with an unassisted goal at 8:43 while Tori Snow (Marblehead, MA) assisted on Katy Tyszko (Clermont, FL) goal just 47 seconds later. Giannerini put home her final score of the day in front of Townsend at 5:28 while Kelley finished things off with two of her three at 3:00 and 0:13.
Snow led the Tars with six groundballs on the day while Courtney Bianculli (Setauket, NY) caused a team-high three turnovers with Sarah Ann Showell (Ocean City, MD). Snow and Townsend would each corral four draws on the afternoon. For Pfeiffer, Cook, along with Amanda Smith (Hagerstown, MD) and Katherine Athens (Huntingtown, MD) each had three caused turnovers on the day while Bonnel led with six groundballs and four draw controls.
Pfeiffer returns to action on Wednesday hosting East Stroudsburg for an 11:00 a.m. spring break matchup at N.E. Lefko Field.


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This is the brand new page for this year's continuation of our UFO Challenge. The rules are simple: We support and encourage one another in completing our accumulated UFOs.
All are welcome to hop on this UFO train; we reach out our hands to help you get on. The train will blow it's whistle for each new member and we ring the bell for all the finishes that happen!!
It doesn't matter how you count your UFO's; it's entirely up to you. No UFO Police allowed here!!!
Here is my first UFO of 2013; a Sponge Bob comfort quilt. My DGD helped me with this while she was here for the holidays. She is 9 and we had a great time!


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