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Baltimore Orioles 2012 MLB Draft pick (26th round, 792 overall)
2012 All-WCC Honorable Mention
SENIOR (2012): Collected two hits, 1 2B, and 1 R at Texas State … amassed three hits and 1 R vs. Wichita State … doubled, knocked in a run, and scored two runs vs. Louisiana-Lafayette … went 2-3 with 1 2B, 1 RBI, and 1 R … recorded three hits, 3 R, and 1 RBI vs. Illinois-Chicago … tripled, scored 1 R, and had 1 RBI vs. Illinois-Chicago … went 3-5 with 4 R, 1 RBI, and 2 SB vs. Illinois-Chicago … drove in 3 RBI, rapped out two hits, and scored 1 R vs. Nevada … had a three-hit game and scored 2 R vs. San Jose State … collected his second consecutive three-hit game along with 3 RBI at Cal Poly … knocked a 3B and went 2-5 with 1 R vs. Lehigh … went 2-3 with 2 2B, 2 R, and 1 RBI at San Jose State … lined another double at USD … launched his first HR of the season in a 2-3, 2 RBI, 1 R performance vs. Saint Mary's … cranked his second HR and had 3 RBI vs. Saint Mary's.
JUNIOR (2011): Started 50 games during his junior season, batting .289 while knocking in 28 RBI…was plunked a team-high 13 times…was second on the team with six stolen bases…amassed 10 sacrifice bunts…posted a .363 on-base percentage...registered his first RBI of the season in Santa Clara's first game of the season at South Carolina (2/18)…1-4 in the second game of the series against South Carolina on Feb. 19…tallied two hits, including a double in the series-finale against South Carolina (2/20)…picked up his second RBI of the season against Albany on Feb. 25…went a combined 1-3 against Albany in a doubleheader on Feb. 26…had two hits against Stanford (3/1)…went 4-11 with four RBI in a three-game series against San Jose State Mar. 4-6…had three hits in a mid-week game against Cal (3/8)…went 2-14 with three RBI in the Jack Gifford Memorial Tournament Mar. 11-13…went 5-13 with 6 RBI in a four-game series with Brown…registered four at-bats at Stanford on Mar.22 …tallied two hits and a RBI against UC Davis (3/30)…had six at-bats in a 10-inning win against Bakersfield (4/1)…combined for three hits in three games against LMU Apr. 8-10…singled in a mid-week game against Cal Poly on Apr. 12…amassed four hits, three RBI and a run in a three-game series against WCC rival Saint Mary's…picked up two hits, including a double in a mid-week game against Stanford…singled twice in a extra-inning battle with USF (4/21)…hit a two-run homer at USF on Apr. 22…picked up two RBI in the series finale at USF on Apr. 23…singled against Pacific (4/26)…tallied one hit and one run in a three-game series against Gonzaga…had four at-bats against Cal on May 3…walked twice, stole a base and scored two runs in a 10-inning victory at Pepperdine…picked up two RBI on a double at Pepperdine (5/7)…scored two runs in a win over Pepperdine (5/8)...recorded a hit and a walk in a mid-week game at UC Davis (5/11)… scored a run and stole a base in the series opener vs. San Diego on May 20 … tallied two hits in the second game vs. USD (5/21) … hit by a pitch in the series finale vs. San Diego (5/22) … singled twice in the first game of a three-game series at Portland (5/27) … totaled four at-bats in the second game of the series (5/28) … amassed three hits, two RBI and scored a run in the final game of the season at Portland.
SOPHOMORE (2010): Left-handed batter and leadoff hitter who had a solid sophomore season as SCU's center fielder, starting in 46 of the Broncos' 54 games … hit .341 during the first two months of the season … stole 14 bases in 16 attempts, second best among all SCU players … made just one error defensively … finished the season hitting an even .300 and his 42 runs scored was third-best on the team ... led SCU in triples with six … posted 15 multiple-hit games … began the year on a tear, totaling 11 hits in the first four games … went 4-for-5 with a double and three runs in the second game of the year against Nevada (2/20) … had four hits in the next day, scoring three times against Nevada (2/21) … was a double shy of the cycle at Houston (2/26), hitting a homer, tripling and driving in a season-high four runs … enjoyed three-hit games against Southern Illinois (3/11) and San Diego State (3/22) … went on a six-game hitting streak in late March in games against San Diego State and Princeton … finished the year strong by going 8-for-14 in a three-game series win over Loyola Marymount May 28-30.
FRESHMAN (2009): Opening Day starter in right field ... six-straight starts to begin his college career ... in the lineup, hitting down in the order in eight of Santa Clara's first 10 games ... was hitting .350 (7-for-20) after a three-hit day against San Jose State (Feb. 28) ... just seven hits in his remaining 46 at-bats en route to posting a .212 average ... inserted into the starting lineup in a three-game series at USF (Apr. 17-19) and responded by hitting a two-run homer in his first at-bat Friday night, helping SCU win 4-1 ... came in to pitch and walked two during a lopsided loss to San Diego (Apr. 4), his lone appearance on the mound.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2008 graduate of Monterey High School in Monterey, Calif. ... led the Toreadores to three Monterey Bay League titles and one Central Coast Section (CCS) championship from 2004-08 ... earned First Team All-Monterey Bay honors three times (2006-08) ... named league MVP as a senior, hitting .424 with five home runs, while also posting a 1.45 ERA with a 5-0 record on the mound ... was named to the First Team All-Monterey County by the Monterey County Herald and Salinas Californian ... voted team MVP by his teammates ... was ranked the 251st best 2008 propsect nationally by Perfect Game Cross Checker ... played in the Bay Area World Series and the Perfect Game Nationals ... received all-tournament team honors at the Bay Area World Series in 2006 and '07 ... Monterey County Herald's 2005 'Player of the Year' and 'Pitcher of the Year' ... was 9-3 with a 3.60 ERA, striking out 58 over 61 innings in 2005 ... also in 2005, named team MVP and 'Offensive Player of the Year' by his teammates ... batted .478 with 32 RBI, six home runs and 24 stolen bases in '05 ... played for Mike Groves and J.J. Sherill.
PERSONAL: Born in Walnut Creek, Calif. ... parents are Mark and Suzanne Herbst ... has two siblings, Mark and Maria ... aspires to play baseball professionally and earn his degree ... majoring in Communication.


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My first encounter with NRT
Video discusses my first time encountering a person using nicotine gum
Is cold turkey the only way to quit?
I have seen it written that we have said that the ONLY way to quit smoking is to quit cold turkey. This is not a totally accurate statement. It is not that cold turkey is the only way to quit, it is just that cold turkey is the method which gives people the best chance of success. It is the method that all but a small percentage of long-term ex-smokers in the world used to successfully quit smoking.
There are people who have quit using alternative approaches. There are some who cut down gradually and actually succeeded at quitting. For every person who did it like this and succeeded, there are many many many many others who tried it and failed. The individual who used the method will think it is great because it worked for him or her, but since it works for so few people it will generally be recognized as a pretty ineffective technique by most people who do "real world" research into how to quit.
By "real world" research I mean by going to long-term ex-nicotine users who you know personally and finding out how they all got off nicotine. Again, you will very rarely find any who did it by gradual withdrawal. If you find a person like this who is now off years, you should never minimize the person's success. He or she quit smoking, likely doing it in a way that made it much more difficult than it needed to be, but still he or she did pull off the quit. The only advice that I would encourage that you share with the person is that now to stay off he or she must understand the bottom line method of sustaining his or her quit. That message is staying cognizant of the addiction and that the only true guaranteed method to stay off now is knowing never to administer nicotine again.
The same principle here applies to people who use NRT products. There are people who have quit this way. Again, it is a small percentage of the long-term ex-users out there, but they do exist. An individual who pulled it off this way will also feel that it is a great method for quitting. But again, this method works for a small percentage of people who try it and if you look into real world long-term quits you will have a very hard time finding many people who actually successfully got off nicotine this way.
I feel it necessary to use that phrase, "got off nicotine," as opposed to saying, "got off smoking." There are some major experts coming out and advocating that people should be given nicotine supplements forever to stay off of smoking. Can this work? Of course it can. If you can give people enough nicotine via supplements it will satisfy their need for nicotine. After all, this is the primary reason they were smoking at the end — to feed a nicotine addiction. If the smoker can just get nicotine for the rest of his or her life via another route, he or she will avoid going through the three days of nicotine withdrawal.
The question needs to be, why should anyone have to pay what is likely to be tens of thousands of dollars to avoid a few days of withdrawal.? On top of this, these people will never be totally free of the moderate withdrawals that such usage is likely to keep going. These people will in fact tout the use of the product as a great aid, but when compared to what people who are totally nicotine free are experiencing, this victory over cigarettes is just a bit hollow.
There are a few people though whom you may encounter over your lifetime that did quit using NRT's as intended, weaning down for week after week and eventually quitting. If the person is now off for years, he or she is pretty much in the same state as a person who had quit cold turkey. He or she is nicotine free, and he or she should be thrilled by that fact. In some ways I look at people like this with a bit of awe, for they in all likelihood stuck with a process that was pretty much a gradual and prolonged withdrawal and yet they succeeded.
Again, debating the merits of their method with them is pretty much a moot point. It worked for them and you are going to have a pretty hard time convincing them that it is an ineffective method. But you do have a message that you can share with them that they do need to know. That message is that even though they are off nicotine for years, they still need to recognize that they are not cured of nicotine addiction and never will be. No matter how they had stopped, they must still understand the bottom line message, that the only way to stay free now is staying totally committed to never administer nicotine again via any nicotine replacement source and to never administer nicotine again from the original source that likely started the whole process by knowing to Never Take Another Puff!
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SANDY, Utah - Another game, another Save of the Week nomination for Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando.
Rimando - who has won Save of the Week four times this season - is up for the weekly honor for his stoppage time stop on Toronto forward Jeremy Brockie in RSL's 1-0 win at BMO Field on Saturday. The veteran 'keeper - who is currently with the U.S. national team for the CONCACAF Gold Cup - is up against D.C.'s Bill Hamid, Columbus's Andy Gruenebaum, San Jose's Jon Busch and Houston's Tally Hall.
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Larry Seidlin became famous because of his tears. Now, he wants to make a few pieces of coin off of his words.
The former Broward County judge has written a book about the death of Anna Nicole Smith, which played out in his courtroom in 2007.
The book, titled "The Murder of Anna Nicole Smith," is scheduled to be released in June and will give Seidlin's take on what really happened to the former Playboy playmate when she died in a hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood.
U.S. & World
Smith's death has never been ruled an actual murder so Seidlin is already taking a bit of writer's license in the title, but speculation surrounding the death has spawned an investigation into Smith's former boyfriend and her personal physician.
Seidlin presided over the battle over Smith's dead body and where it should be buried. He took advantage of the worldwide media coverage and turned the legal proceedings into his own three-ring circus, where his actions could be best described as those of a court jester.
At the end of the fiasco, the emotional judge famously broke down while he was on the bench handing down his ruling.
Those tears were supposed to lead to Judge Wapner-like stardom, but it never panned out for Seidlin. Seidlin eventually quit his job.
His reported deal for one of those reality-TV judge shows fizzled. Last year, he became the target of a state investigation after allegations Seidlin tricked an elderly woman in his condo building out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Now, the man known as the "crying judge" is taking another stab at getting paid off of Smith's death.


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American Time Use Survey (ATUS), 2009 (ICPSR 30902)
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The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) collects information on how people living in the United States spend their time. Data collected in this study measured the amount of time that people spent doing various activities in 2009, such as paid work, child care, religious activities, volunteering, and socializing. Respondents were interviewed only once about how they spent their time on the previous day, where they were, and whom they were with. Part 1, Activity File, includes additional information on activities in which respondents participated, including the location of each activity and the total time spent on secondary child care. Part 2, Call History File, gives information about each call attempt. Part 3, Case History File, contains information about the interview process. Part 4, ATUS-CPS 2009 File, contains demographic and occupational data on respondents and members of their household collected during their participation in the Current Population Survey (CPS). Part 5, Respondent File, contains demographic information about respondents. Part 6, Roster File, contains information about household members and non-household children under the age of 18. Part 7, Activity Summary File, contains a summary of the total amount of time they spent doing each activity that day. Part 8, Trips File, provides information about the number, duration, and purpose of overnight trips away from home for two or more nights in a row in a given reference month. Part 9, ATUS 2009 Replicate Weights File, contains base weights, replicate base weights, and replicate final weights for each case that was selected to be interviewed for the ATUS. Part 10, Who File, includes data on who was present during each activity. Demographic variables include sex, age, race, ethnicity, marital status, education level, income, employment status, occupation, citizenship status, country of origin, labor union membership of household members, and household composition.
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- United States. Bureau of the Census, and United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. American Time Use Survey (ATUS), 2009. ICPSR30902-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-11-02. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30902.v1
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Now Available: Innovators Under 35 2013 See The 2013 List »
Ainissa G. Ramirez, 34
Formulated an advanced universal solder for electronics and optics
Yale University
AINISSA RAMIREZ discovered a long-sought prize of metallurgy: a universal solder that can bond metals to ceramics, glass, diamonds, and, notably, the oxide materials used in semiconductor fabrication. Researchers had been hunting for such a compound for decades: the limitations of available solders have often meant electronic- and optical-device failures. After earning a PhD in materials science at Stanford University and joining Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs in 1998,Ramirez found that mixing certain rare-earth elements, particularly lutetium, into solder metals vastly improved their bonding capabilities. Her solder is the first that can join all kinds
Of inorganic materials with high-strength bonds, and has the potential for extensive use in the electronics, optoelectronics, and microelectromechanical -systems (MEMS) industries. Ramirez also devised thin-film coatings that lessen damage caused to MEMS components by thermal expansion during operation, and she fabricated alloys that were key to Bell Labs'making a high-speed all-optical switch. Now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Yale University, Ramirez finds it odd that metals are "often over-looked" as a field for innovation. "These materials are fundamental," she points out.
2003 TR35 Winners
Scott Backhaus
Invented a novel, high-efficiency engine powered by sound waves
Zhenan Bao
Fabricates organic semiconductors used in flexible and cheap electronic devices
Marcela Bilek
Designs coatings to improve implanted medical devices and industrial tools
Daniel Bond
Turns sea muck into fuel cell power plants
Michael Bowman
Builds microturbines that could become the power plant of choice in many settings
Colin Bulthaup
Developed new fabrication methods that could slash the cost of chip manufacturing
Karen Burg
Engineered a minimally invasive process to rebuild tissue for breast cancer survivors
Xiangfeng Duan
Transforms nanowires into incredibly small transistors for powerful, flexible computers
Stephen Empedocles
Formulates business strategy for one of nanotechs leading startups
Vladislav Gavrilets
Designs flight control technology that could lead to unmanned autonomous helicopters
Scott Gaynor
Devises processes used to make polymers with improved properties
Cary Gunn
Shrinks optical circuitry to speed transmissions on phone and Internet networks
Yu Huang
Fashions three-dimensional grids of nanowires that act as electronic circuits
Jordan Katrine
Makes higher-density hard drives using magnetic nanomaterials
Krishna Kumar
Improves the stability and effectiveness of protein-based drugs
David M. Lynn
Synthesizes polymers that are better able to deliver therapeutic genes
David A. Muller
Images the individual atom that are critical to a transistors electronic properties
Yasunobu Nakamura
Achieved a breakthrough that could help make quantum computing a reality
Balaji Narasimhan
Devises time-release polymers to replace multiple vaccine injections
Ravikanth Pappu
Fights credit card forgery with glass-bead "keys"
Ainissa G. Ramirez
Formulated an advanced universal solder for electronics and optics
Christian Rehtanz
Adds smarts to high-voltage power lines so they can deliver more electricity
Manfred Stefener
Constructs small fuel cells to efficiently power laptop computers
Claire Tomlin
Writes software that could alleviate air congestion and lead to far fewer delays at airports
Stephen Turner
Built a tiny device that greatly speeds up DNA sequencing
S. Travis Waller
Writes algorithms that determine why traffic jams form and how to ease them
Ralf Wehrspohn
Fabricates nanotube crystals that can route optical telecommunications signals faster than competing chips
Peidong Yang
Assembles nanowires that could revolutionize lasers and computers


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Aug 12, 2017 at 8:00 am
Join aquarium naturalists and visit leopard sharks in their underwater home off the La Jolla Coast. Pick up snorkel tips as you discover the abundant variety of animals that make their homes among the kelp, sandy bottom, and rocks. Intermediate swimming ability is required and previous snorkeling experience is recommended. Participants must supply their own gear. Ages 10+ (minors must also be accompanied by a paid adult). Pre-purchase is required. Tickets are $30 for the Public and $25 for Birch Aquarium Members. Please note, shark snorkels does not meet at Birch Aquarium. Shark snorkels occur from July through September. See our website for a list of dates. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit aquarium.ucsd.edu or call 858-534-7336. Proceeds support exhibits and educational programming at Birch Aquarium at Scripps.
Jul 16, 2017 at 8:00 am
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What is a dog groomer?
A dog groomer is a service professional who provides dog grooming and basic hygiene care for your dog. Dog groomers are typically animal lovers who are competent and comfortable working with a wide range of dog breeds and temperaments. Dog groomers are knowledgeable about the care needs for different kinds of dog coats. A poodle will have different haircut needs than a shih tzu, for example, so it pays to have a trained pro provide the proper cut. Good dog groomers know how to safely clean your dog's teeth, bathe your dog, and cut their nails without going too short. They understand how to trim the hair from around your dog's face, express anal glands, and clean your dog's ears. Many people who choose dog grooming as a profession also pursue other dog services such as attending veterinary school, running a doggy day care center, working as a professional dog walker, and more.
What is included in a dog grooming?
Dog grooming is so much more than giving your dog a bath. Dog grooming is a broad term that covers all aspects of canine cleanliness and hygiene. The services included in dog grooming will vary based on your needs and what you choose to pay. Unless they are rolling in cowpies or playing in mud puddles, most dogs are okay getting a shampoo bath only as needed. You'll know when they need it if they smell bad or are bringing dirt into the house. Some dogs, like shepherds and shih tzus, have thick coats that can get matted and tangled without regular care. Pro dog groomers can deftly blow dry a dog's hair after a bath so that it is shiny and smooth. Dog grooming can include brushing that detangles dog hair and also thins the undercoat to minimize shedding.
Dog grooming also includes hygiene services such as toothbrushing and ear cleaning. Clean teeth are important to the health of your dog, and the pros have the patience and proper technique to get it done. Regular dog grooming can stave off tear stains, those reddish stains below your dog's eyes. Anal gland expression is something not many people want to do on their own, even if they love their dog. A dog groomer can safely and efficiently release any blocked anal gland fluid. Other dog grooming services include nail trimming and clipping. Nationally, dog grooming prices range from $60 to $80. Most dog groomers offer discounts to customers who purchase monthly packages or bundle multiple grooming services at one time.
How much does it cost to get a dog's nails trimmed?
Dog grooming prices for nail trims can vary based on the the size and temperament of your dog, where the nail trimming takes place, and whether you bundle the trim with other grooming services. The average cost to get your dog's nails trimmed usually ranges from approximately $10 to $25. Nationally, the average for dog grooming prices is $60-$80, which usually encompasses not only nail trimming but also bathing, haircuts and other services.
The cost to trim a dog's nails can vary based on whether the dog is at a doggy day care and has the service as an add-on, whether you bring your dog to a groomer's business, or whether you have a mobile groomer provide nail trimming at your home. Nail trimming costs less than nail grinding, which usually is done with a Dremel or similar tool. Nail trimming should be a regular part of of your dog's care, as overgrown nails can be painful and cause problems.
How much do you tip the dog groomer?
Do you have a dog that you get groomed regularly? If you do, you've probably wondered how much — or even if — you're supposed to tip your dog groomer. Treat your dog groomer as you would your own hair stylist. A 15 percent to 20 percent tip is an appropriate amount to show your appreciation for a dog grooming job well done. If your dog didn't get clean or their nails didn't get properly clipped, then you certainly don't have to tip. But if you're satisfied with the service, consider the tip part of the standard dog grooming price, and just plan it into your dog care budget so you'll have a happy groomer and a well-groomed dog. Here are a few examples of when you should tip extra:
- Your dog bit the groomer! Not good. A big tip will help.
- Your pooch barked like a wild beast or wrestled the groomer the entire time.
- Your dog's hair was extra gross and dirty — think dog poo or major mud matted in their hindquarters.
- Your senior or disabled dog can't stand on their own and needs extra care and support.
How much does it cost to trim a dog's nails?
Trimming your dog's nails is an important part of keeping your dog healthy and well-groomed. Well-clipped nails are also a factor in your dog grooming costs. When a dog's nails get too long, they have the potential to break or split, which can cause them pain and mean a costly visit to your local veterinarian. Overly long dog nails can also cause discomfort for your pup, especially if you have hardwood or tile floors. Be sure to calculate regular nail trimming into your budget for dog grooming. The dog groomer may use trimmers to clip the nails, or they may use a small drill (like a Dremel) to grind down the nails. A good professional groomer will know not to clip too close to the base of the nail, where nicking a nerve or a blood vessel could injure your dog. Nail trimming costs can vary based on geographic location and whether you bring the dog to the groomer or if the groomer picks up and drops off your dog. Transportation fees for pickup and drop-off service can add a lot to the cost. A simple dog nail trim may cost between $10 and $30, depending on location. Nail grinding may cost $2-$8 more than standard clipping. Many dog groomers offer discounts for bundled services, so you could get a nail trim at a reduced rate when you purchase it with a bath.


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Gertrude Himmelfarb
National Humanities Medal
As one of the leading scholars of Victorian studies, Gertrude Himmelfarb has tried to dispel stereotypes about the Victorian world.
"It's not quite a respectable word yet," she says. "It's now used as an epithet, as a derogatory or pejorative word meaning excessively puritanical, repressive, oppressive, hypocritical, and so on. And, of course, in some ways it was all of that compared to our society." Considered from the perspective of its own time, "Victorian society was the least exploitative, the least repressive, the least tyrannical society in the world," says Himmelfarb. "In many respects it was the most open, the most reform minded, the most tolerant. It gave the most promise for improvement--economic, social, and political improvement."
Himmelfarb's path to Victoriana was roundabout. As an undergraduate at Brooklyn College, she earned enough credits for a triple major in three disciplines--history, economics, and philosophy. "But to me, they weren't separate disciplines," says Himmelfarb. "What I was really interested in, although I didn't know it at the time, and I certainly didn't know it under that label, was what we now call the history of ideas."
The subjects of Himmelfarb's master's thesis were Rousseau and Robespierre, on the relationship between the French Enlightenment and the French Revolution. "But one of the works that fascinated me was Lord Acton's lectures on the French Revolution. It was that book that brought me to an interest in Acton himself."
The English historian Lord Acton became the subject of Himmelfarb's doctoral dissertation and of her first book. "Acton introduced me to the very rich, very intriguing realm of Victoriana--Victorian thinkers, institutions, events," says Himmelfarb. "Victorian thinkers, by the way, were far more varied, more subtle, more complicated than we generally give them credit for. This is true, not only of Acton but of those other Victorian eminences--Mill, Carlyle, Darwin, Matthew Arnold, and scores of others."
Himmelfarb, who earned her doctorate at the University of Chicago, is the distinguished professor emeritus of history at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where for many years she was also chairman of the doctoral program in history. In a long and fruitful career, she has received many honorary degrees, a National Book Award for Victorian Minds, as well as a number of fellowships from organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the American Philosophical Society. Himmelfarb served on the National Council for the Humanities and in 1991, she was the NEH Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities.
Himmelfarb's interest in how the Victorians thought about and dealt with the social problem of poverty has led to two of her eleven books: The Idea of Poverty and Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians. Although there was a law in England dating from the Elizabethan age that acted as a safety net for the temporarily or permanently unemployed, for widows and children, and for the disabled, most charitable organizations were private as opposed to governmental. And they were designed as much as possible to help the poor help themselves: "To help restore paupers, a distinctly Victorian term, to the class of the working poor," says Himmelfarb.
According to Himmelfarb, Victorians used the word compassion in an unsentimental way. "As the Victorians understood it," she says, "there was nothing sentimental, nothing utopian about compassion. It was hardheaded, rational, pragmatic--and at the same time moral and humane."
Helping others was a communal as well as individual obligation rather than a job for the government. In Poverty and Compassion, Himmelfarb writes, "The ethos implicit (sometimes explicit) in matters of social policy and behavior was not a lofty or exalted one. It did not celebrate heroism, or genius, or nobility, or spiritual grace. Its virtues were more pedestrian: respectability, responsibility, decency, industriousness, prudence, temperance. These virtues depended on no special breeding, talent, sensibility, or even money. They were common, everyday virtues, within the capacity of ordinary people. They were the virtues of citizens, not of heroes or saints--and of citizens of democratic countries, not aristocratic ones."
Himmelfarb sees continuity between Victorian society and our society today. "There's a reformist, ameliatory, moral temper that we've inherited from the Victorians and that has stood us in very good stead," says Himmelfarb. "And it is even more valuable today as we are confronted, not with a new industrial revolution, but with a new and very radical technological revolution."
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A different look at Linux jobs
The Linux foundation recently released the results of a short survey on Linux jobs in the form of an interesting infographic. While the graphic doesn't reveal any ground-breaking information for people looking for Linux jobs, it does give a snapshot of the Linux job market. The info was collected by analyzing job postings on the Linux.com Jobs Board from September through the end of November. Not surprisingly, Java and Android top the list of the "most referenced skill areas" for Linux jobs. Also not surprising is the distribution of jobs within the U.S., which appear to be primarily in states with major cities.
What is somewhat surprising (at first) is the percentage of the job postings based in the U.S. Of course, the world's largest economy is likely to have a higher percentage of total available jobs, but this graphic still doesn't tell the whole story. To be fair, there's nothing wrong with this data, it's just suffering from a lack of perspective. As an English, U.S.-based website, the Linux.com Jobs Board is very unlikely to include job postings in other countries – especially those without a large English speaking population (hence, the high percentages in other English speaking countries).
The other interesting part of this graphic is the split between the types of Linux job postings. According to the graphic, 53% of the jobs were developer positions, and 47% were systems administrators. Nothing Earth shattering at face value, but consider how that percentage has changed over the past few years. The rapidly expanding popularity of Android created an explosion of Linux developer jobs just within the last few years. The big question is: How stable are those jobs?
Back in August, The Evans Data North American Development Survey, showed for the first time, that Mac OS surpassed Linux as the primary software development environment in North America. Combine that with the critical reception of the Kindle Fire and other Android tablets (at least when compared to the iPad), and you have the potential for stagnant or negative Linux job growth. If Android can't find a way to move beyond mobile phones and onto a popular, well-designed tablet, another proprietary operating system could easily take its place as the chief competitor to Apple.
What do you think? Is it all doom and gloom, or are the prospects for the Linux job market rosier than I'm making them out to be?
RHEV 3.0 beta publicly available
Red Hat announced the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 in August, and after testing and feedback has been received, an improved version was released for public evaluation.
RHEV 3.0 is based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, which brings the performance seen in recent SPECvirt benchmarks and Linux kernel security features. KVM benefits from the expanding presence of the Open Virtualization Alliance, a consortium established to foster the adoption of open virtualization alternatives, specifically KVM.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 includes the following updates:
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is now a Java application running on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- A power user portal that provides end users with a self-service interface to provision virtual machines, define templates and administer their own environments
- A RESTful API that allows complete configuration and management of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for use by customers or a rich ecosystem of management partners
- Extended multi-level administrative capabilities, allowing fine-grained resource control, role based access control, delegation and hierarchical management
- New local storage capabilities
- An integrated and embedded reporting engine allowing for analysis of historic usage trends and utilization reports
- SPICE WAN optimization and enhanced performance including dynamic compression and automatic tuning of desktop effects and color depth. The new version of SPICE also features enhanced support for Linux desktops
An updated KVM hypervisor also features new capabilities. These include the ability to scale hosts and guests. RHEV 3.0 supports up to 160 cores and 2 TB of memory on a host system and up to 64 virtual CPUs per guest, and 512 GB of memory. Performance has also been improved in the latest KVM version, and the networking stack has been moved from userspace into the Linux kernel using vhost-net, improving performance and reducing latency. The transparent huge pages feature is also integrated, reducing the number of times memory is accessed, which improves performance for most workloads. A paravirtualized interrupt controller, x2paic, is used in the virtual machine, reducing guest overhead and improving performance in interrupt-heavy workloads. And Async-IO is used for block I/O operations. The use of SELinux-based sVirt infrastructure has strengthened the security capabilities of KVM as well.
SUSE unveils OpenStack cloud solution, rips Red Hat
Earlier this month SUSE became the latest company to jump on the OpenStack bandwagon, announcing it would release an early development version of its SUSE Cloud. That bandwagon is starting to get crowded now, with heavyweights like Dell and Canonical having already thrown their support behind the open source cloud computing project.
SUSE says their SUSE Cloud will be the first fully configured OpenStack-powered appliance. But, SUSE is being clear that the free download offered today is a development release, and not an enterprise ready solution.
"We didn't just want to say this is what we want to do, we wanted to show our customers and our partners that we have been doing some work in this area and we're serious about it. [This version] is a proof of concept demonstration to prove that the technologies are viable," said Kerry Kim, the director of solutions marketing at SUSE, in an interview last week.
A final version of SUSE Cloud is expected sometime in the next nine to 12 months, Kim said.
"We've been looking at the cloud computing space for a while, and evaluating and exploring different alternatives and technologies. As we saw increased momentum around the OpenStack project, and the group opening up the project to a community-based approach, we felt the combination of momentum and openness was in line with our philosophy around leveraging the open source development community," Kim added.
All the support around OpenStack obviously bodes well for the cloud computing project's stability and longevity. However, there will be at least one notable holdout among prominent open source companies. Red Hat, which could become the first $1 billon open source company, has decided to head in its own direction, instead rolling out its own Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a service offering in CloudForms and OpenShift.
The company's decision to turn away from OpenStack has caused some head scratching, and maybe a little animosity from some open source supporters, though Red Hat has said its own efforts are more "open" than OpenStack.
Kim didn't go into detail about how SUSE Cloud would be technologically different from Red Hat's products, but he didn't miss his opportunity to tout OpenStack's support within the open source community, and rail on the competition.
"Red Hat is actually an interesting example. They've chosen not to support OpenStack," Kim said. "That's sort of puzzling to us. Maybe they have their own stakeholder pressures and they have to make money. I have a biased view, but maybe as their share has increased they feel like they are now synonymous with open source, or something, and they can dictate what the open source community should be doing. I actually don't think they're getting a whole lot of support for their virtualization and cloud platform. I think the rest of the world is like, 'I don't know why those Red Hat cats want to do it all by themselves, other than maybe they want to make all the money for themselves.' Our strategy is very different. We want to make money too, but we want to do it in concert with our partners."
What do you think? Will companies like SUSE ride the OpenStack bandwagon to success, or will Red Hat be able to distinguish its brand with a unique cloud offering?
Ubuntu 11.10 laptop test drive
I recently received a "review" Dell Vostro laptop from Canonical with Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) installed. The idea was that I, as an illustrious member of the tech press, could see for myself how smoothly the Ubuntu Unity desktop operates. And, it worked!
I quickly figured out the Unity interface and installed Chrome as my browser, installed VLC Media Player, logged into my Hulu account and watched some of my shows, (which I mostly listen to) while simultaneously monitoring Facebook, Gmail, and reading various news sites. It worked well, had a little bit of lag, but nothing overwhelming, and I knew I was asking it to do a lot. The Ubuntu Software Center (now on version 5) was my favorite part. It was as easy as the marketplace on my Droid to just find the software I wanted to install and get it done.
I've been thinking of getting an Android tablet computer, but working on the Dell Vostro with Ubuntu 11.10 made me reconsider the purchase. That is, until I figured out I couldn't buy a Dell Vostro with Ubuntu. Nope, the only way to buy a Dell Vostro is with Windows 7 preloaded… and if I do that, would I really take the time to install Ubuntu instead (or as a dual-boot)? No. Why? Because that's too much effort. I'm an editor, and I'm not a super-geek. I'm much more like your sister who is savvy enough to deal with glitches on her machine, but who still takes her crashed hard drive in to a professional. And I'm not about to mess with a fully functioning brand new laptop just to install Ubuntu. But I'd buy it (if I could).
But wait! You can buy it. Kind of. What you can buy is a System 76 laptop. Problem is, it's not a Dell Vostro. And that wouldn't be a problem except that the price point is a bit different. Here's the deal – open source isn't free, as in beer, but it shouldn't be sold at a microbrew price either. The System 76 laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled that match the screen size of the Dell Vostro with Windows 7 installed are listed at $699. The Vostro with Windows 7 installed starts at $399, and the more beefed-up version is still only $549.
While the tech specs show some notable differences, there isn't a huge chasm. This is not going to bring on the era of the Linux desktop – except maybe in India and China where you actually can buy a Vostro with Ubuntu installed. Sigh.
Open source office suites: LibreOffice takes on OpenOffice
It has now been one year since The Document Foundation (TDF) announced the LibreOffice project, and by all counts, the open source software suite is flourishing. After just one year, TDF estimates that there are now 25 million LibreOffice users worldwide.
The project has also seemed to generate a lot of interest from developers. Just last week version 3.4.3 debuted with some significant security fixes –- a reminder that the project is still young, but also evidence that it is continuing to evolve.
All this attention on LibreOffice now raises the question of what will become of another popular open source software project.
"Thanks to a very welcoming attitude to newcomers, to the copyleft license, and to the fact that it is not requesting any copyright assignment, The Document Foundation has attracted more developers with commits in the first year than the OpenOffice.org project in the first decade," said Norbert Thiebaud, a member of TDF Engineering Steering Committee.
In Sept. 2010, developers who were critical of Oracle Corp.'s perceived lack of commitment to OpenOffice decided to split and create LibreOffice. Oracle handed off the OpenOffice project to the Apache Software Foundation earlier this year, leaving some concerned that it would languish as many developers joined LibreOffice instead.
Now, it looks like much of that concern was justified. Just as LibreOffice is celebrating its first birthday and releasing major upgrades, OpenOffice –- apparently hurting for money after being dumped by Oracle –– is planning a major fundraising campaign for this month.
Obviously, it's too early to say that OpenOffice is in decline, and the project will almost certainly generate large donations. But, now that it's clear LibreOffice isn't going away anytime soon, many users and developers could start turning away from OpenOffice.
What do you think? Will OpenOffice be revived by the Apache Foundation? Is having multiple open source office suite products good for end-users? If you switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice, why? We'd love to hear your thoughts.
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Red Hat acquires Gluster: The Red Hat of storage
Today, Red Hat announced the acquisition of Gluster, Inc., an open source storage solution provider specializing in the management of big data. Red Hat paid $136 million for the storage file system company, and hopes to bolster its presence in big data management and cloud data management with the purchase.
"The explosion of big data and the new paradigm of cloud computing are converging, forcing IT to re-think storage investments that are cost-effective, manageable and scale for the future," said Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president, Worldwide Engineering at Red Hat. "Our customers are looking for software-based storage solutions that manage their file-based data on-premise, in the cloud and bridging between the two. With unstructured data growth (such as log files, virtual machines, email, audio, video and documents), the 90's paradigm of forcing everything into expensive, single-system DBMS residing on an internal corporate SAN has become unwieldy and impractical."
Gluster's founder, Anand Babu Periasamy spun off the company in 2005 from the supercomputer company California Supercomputer Corp. with the objective to build a better file system. Speaking to its open source roots, the name Gluster is a combination of GNU and cluster. The file system was created around the concept that having a centralized metadata server lowers performance and limits scalability and should instead use the underlying file system on arrays and not store data in proprietary formats.
Gluster provides a software-based, scale-out file system that layers above Red Hat's other file systems. It is distributed across multiple systems and aggregates the total storage into a single namespace. A Gluster cluster exposes this namespace as an NFS or CIFS mount point that contains every file in the cluster. The underlying storage becomes fully virtualized, and can be distributed into private and public clouds. GlusterFS can also be deployed on Amazon's EC2 or inside of KVM virtual machines.
"We believe this is a perfect combination of technologies, strategies and cultures and is a great development for our customers, employees, investors and community," said Periasamy. "Gluster started off with a goal to be the Red Hat of storage. Now, we are the storage of Red Hat."
With the company's acquisition, Red Hat also gains the over 2,000 contributors to Gluster.org. The Gluster team recently announced that it is planning to provide highly scalable storage for unstructured data, while preserving the interoperability benefits of NAS.
"The scale out storage technology and expertise Red Hat is gaining from the acquisition of Gluster will serve as a powerful foundation for future public, private and hybrid storage clouds," said Henry Baltazar, senior analyst of The 451 Group.
Tizen: Another mobile OS from the Linux Foundation
I was a little flummoxed to read about the launch of Tizen, a new open source mobile and device operating system based on Linux. Earlier this month I wondered aloud about MeeGo, and this is the final nail in the coffin of that mobile OS, as Intel and the Linux Foundation have moved on to support Tizen instead. And Samsung has joined in.
Hmmm. This is where it gets interesting.
Samsung couldn't "buy" MeeGo because it was an open source project. But Samsung has now joined forces with two of the three major sponsors of MeeGo in creating this new OS.
Well, well, well… if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
So what else is different with Tizen? HTML 5. This is good for developers, but Web-based platforms have been tried before: webOS.
The Linux Foundation is pushing Tizen for use outside of the normal mobile device milieu: in-vehicle systems and consumer electronics. This may be attractive for manufacturers, as Tizen will likely be more affordable than paying for a Microsoft license.
Meanwhile, Samsung has signed a cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft that covers development and marketing of Windows phones as well as a broad patent agreement. It's hard not to see that this agreement is an effort by Samsung to protect itself from the Android lawsuits facing its competitors.
Oh, and this just gets better — the Tizen announcement was made on the same day that Nokia released the N9, which is the first, and probably the only phone to ever run MeeGo.
Intel announced the end of MeeGo on the project's blog, garnering some angry developer reaction, especially those who are concerned with the future of the Qt framework.
This all begs the question: How bright is the future of Tizen? Leave your thoughts and comments below.
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SUSE selected as supported operating system with SAP HANA
SUSE's partnership with SAP brought another win for the open source operating system, as today it was announced at SAP TechEd 2011 that SUSE has been selected as the supported operating system for use with SAP HANA, the newly released in-memory data appliance.
SAP HANA instantly analyzes large volumes of transactional data from multiple data source in real time. The partnership allows for tight integration of products and services as well as operating system service and support options.
The workload-optimized, preloaded, preconfigured IBM x3690 X5 for use with SAP HANA is also available, and includes SLES for SAP Applications preloaded. It lets business users instantly access, model and analyze all transactional and analytical data from virtually any data source in real time, without impacting existing applications or systems.
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MeeGo? Speculation about the OS abounds
I've been wondering (aloud at times), about the future of the MeeGo OS. I was there at OSCON and LinuxCon and the Linux Collaboration Summit in 2010 when it was hyped. The Intel partnership with Nokia to merge Maemo and Moblin seemed a promising venture, with the backing of the Linux Foundation it was being touted as the premier mobile Linux OS… and then came Android. Gulp.
So now that Android is clearly dominating the mobile space, competing heavily with Apple's iOS and all but drowning out Windows Phone OS, what's going on with MeeGo? I tried to find out at LinuxCon, but was met with some platitudes about how it's still being developed. Those I talked to said that the Nokia departure was admittedly a big bump in the road for the OS.
This week, Intel's general manager of the company's Systems Software Division, Doug Fisher, said that Intel was "fully committed" to its mobile OS. Meanwhile, rumors flew that Samsung was going to step up and buy MeeGo, but today Samsung quashed those rumors, telling Roger Cheng of CNET that they couldn't buy MeeGo even if they wanted to — MeeGo is an open-source project and therefore can't be the focus of an acquisition.
So MeeGo lives on. The Linux Foundation and Intel are continuing to spur developers to work on applications for the OS and get it onto hardware.
In the meantime, we may forget that it exists.
What do you want to see in RHEL 7?
What do you want to see in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7? That's what Red Hat is asking its end users in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Ideas discussion group on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Ideas discussion group provides a venue for sharing thoughts and use cases and will be used by the Red Hat engineering development groups.
"We welcome all of our customers and partners to participate in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Ideas group and collaborate with other users and Red Hat engineering to make the next version of our enterprise operating system better than ever," said Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platform Business Unit at Red Hat in a statement.
What do you think of this idea? Do you feel like it will be useful for you to have a way to give direct feedback on the next iteration of RHEL? What do you want to see in the next version?
Also, we're seeking system admins who are currently using RHEL 6 to give us feedback on the latest released version of the operating system. Please email email@example.com if you would be willing to share your experience.
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A View From Studio 3: Baseball 50 years ago
Like millions of Americans, I love baseball and its rich history. Like millions of Americans, I am beyond intrigued with the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. My DVR has been working overtime recording documentaries about one of our country's darkest days. First-hand accounts of the tragedy send chills down your spine. Watching the Zapruder film still makes your jaw drop. You can see new details each and every time it's played.
Rewind, play, pause … rewind, play, pause.
Critical moments in world history viewed over and over and over. One angle, one camera, and a half-century later, still thousands of unanswered questions.
Given our ability in 2013 to document every moment in our lives and deliver them to a worldwide audience in a split second, it seems inconceivable that in 1963 it took the better part of a half-hour for news of the President's shooting to spread outside of Dealey Plaza.
Wednesday, while catching up on a few unwatched Kennedy programs, I was catapulted back to into today's reality when baseball news broke. The Prince Fielder /Ian Kinsler trade was complete. Emails, tweets and a text message from a friend came rolling in. The deal was done, and almost instantly, everyone knew about it and millions provided instant analysis. Breaking news of any kind in today's world doesn't resemble breaking news in decades gone by.
Think about that.
A baseball trade. A tiny news event that has little or no impact outside of the game. Yet, it had the sports world and the social media world abuzz. That made me think and wonder about how different life is now than it must have been in 1963. I have no sure way of knowing. Obviously, the way information is shared is dramatically different. But I decided to examine how our great game of baseball has changed. Hoping that would provide some perspective.
In November 1963, baseball was a month removed from a Dodgers World Series sweep against the Yankees. Sandy Koufax was Series MVP and becoming a household name. Yogi Berra was still active but coming to the end of his brilliant career. New York was nearing the end of a dynasty that saw it play in 22 World Series in a 29-year time frame. Safe to say, we will never see that happen again. Oh, and the final game of that '63 Fall Classic was played on Oct. 6. Nearly a month earlier than the World Series ends with the current four-round format.
A half-century ago, Major League Baseball was still six years away from dividing the two leagues into four divisions. The cities of Atlanta, San Diego, Oakland, Arlington and Montreal had no Major League baseball.
Many of the cities that had teams were drawing fewer than 1 million fans per season. Fewer than 10,000 fans per game. The Dodgers, meanwhile, were a blockbuster hit in Los Angeles, drawing 2.5 million fans to brand-new Dodger Stadium. Today, Dodger Stadium is the third-oldest ballpark in the game. Since 1963, dozens of stadiums have been built. Dozens have been torn down or abandoned.
Fifty years ago, the designated hitter didn't exist, and as incredible as it seems, wearing a batting helmet was optional.
Free agency was a term never used. In fact, the minimum player's salary was less than $7,000 per year. It would be another decade before players were free to sign with clubs of their choice. Labor peace was never a problem because the players' union, while in existence, was barely active.
Baseball. Ever changing and forever providing perspective on time and events inside and outside of the game. A game that pales in comparison to real-world events and real-world problems. But as we reach the 50-year anniversary of Kennedy's death, it provides a reference point for those of us who weren't around on Nov. 22, 1963.


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By: Jessica Smith
This fall, as part of the Documentation and Interpretation course in Pratt Institute's Historic Preservation program, five graduate students (including myself) were given a project that involved researching five of New York's public housing developments on the Lower East Side. We were each assigned one site that included the Smith Houses, the LaGuardia Houses, the Baruch Houses, the Wald Houses, and Jacob Riis Houses. The project had two objectives: one was to provide research and consultation for the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project (NYELJP) who, in November, brought a lawsuit against the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in an attempt to stop their recently proposed Land Lease plan.
Our role was to look at the issue from a historic preservation perspective and determine if any additional measures could be taken to allow a more public review using preservation. The second objective worked in tandem with the first, in that, it sought to provide us with experience in writing and submitting an application for a National Register of Historic Places designation. Since the five sites were constructed between 1949 and 1959, all were potentially eligible for a National Register designation, which then would provide additional protection under a Section 106 review. In addition to the National Register application, we created a website titled "Small Town In Town" that compiled all of our research on these five sites in hopes of creating even more public awareness and fostering community pride about these developments.
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vickingo_73 wrote:These values seems low:
Stamina: 64
Short Pass Accuracy: 47
I suggest:
Stamina: 69 (+5)
Short Pass Accuracy: 57 (+10)
Added all the values to ladders
manoloxcr17 wrote:And a raise in Response, 82 is not a high value.
lucardax5d wrote:manoloxcr17 wrote:And a raise in Response, 82 is not a high value.
I agree, these should be your changes:
Response: 81 -> 82 (+1)
Agility: 76 -> 77 (+1)
What you do you think?
And I think to change their KS we have to wait, will again owner vs. Lanús, and it seems he will not play the rest of the tournament (back Monzón), we have to wait until Clausura 2011 to see him again.
vickingo_73 wrote:Don't you think that he's weaker? And agiler than the current? Always was my impression of him.
gotaa wrote:What the hell happened to his KS in yesterday's Almirante goal??? I saw that it costs a lot to him to use his weak foot (left), is that common? Maybe he could have worse WFA/WFF
vickingo_73 wrote:Each day I watch this guy more and more weaker, dunno if he already deserves a yellow number in BB. And tbh his teamwork must be in high whites-low green
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Joint crew press conference at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, with ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter onboard the ISS
On Sunday 9 July, a first joint press conference will take place featuring the complete crew onboard the International Space Station following the docking of Space Shuttle Discovery, with ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter of Germany taking part.
Journalists gathering at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne will be able to put their questions to the astronauts onboard the ISS live via a specially-established audio link.
The pictures of the astronauts answering questions will be transmitted via satellite across Europe. The press conference, due to last about 40 minutes, will start at around 17:48 hrs. The European media will be allowed 15 minutes interview time, after the US media.
Thomas Reiter is on board Discovery heading for the Space Station following its 4 July launch. After the docking, which is scheduled for 6 July, he will take on his second flight engineer role as a member of the ISS Expedition 13 crew. And in carrying out his Astrolab mission specialist assignment, he will spend a total of six months onboard. During that time, he will conduct a programme of European science experiments and build up experience of ISS operations with a view to the deployment of Europe's Columbus research laboratory, which is due to be installed on the Space Station in 2007.
For its six-month Astrolab mission, ESA will be relaying daily TV reports from the ISS across Europe, marking key events with live coverage. Every work day at 17:00 CEST, the NASA TV ISS mission commentary will be relayed to Europe. Every Wednesday at 11:00 CEST, edited weekly highlights from a European perspective will be transmitted via satellite, for use by all broadcasters. The ESA TV transmission schedule is posted online at http://television.esa.int. Extensive articles on the progress of work onboard the ISS will be available at http://www.esa.int/astrolab.
For further information, please contact:
Franco Bonacina
ESA Media Relations Division
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Tel: +33 1 5369 7155
Fax: +33 1 5369 7690
Jean Coisne
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EAC, Cologne (Germany)
Tel : +18.104.22.16801.110
Fax : +184.108.40.20601.112
Joint Crew Press Conference (STS-121/Astrolab)
with Thomas Reiter on the ISS
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Sunday 9 July, 16:30-18:30 hrs
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The November 16 event will target the poor and minority populations in the Sacramento region. Peter Lee is the Executive Director of Covered California - the state's health insurance exchange. He says the state received $910 million in federal funding.
"About $250 million is for marketing, advertising, outreach," he says. "Of that, about $45 million we've given out in community grants. And that money is going to a range of groups to have people out at street fairs. But, I want to tell you. We've seen groups out at street fairs that haven't received a dime or a penny because they want to get their people insured."
Of the 50 organizations receiving grants from Covered California, at least seven will help with outreach in Sacramento including The California Black Health Network, Planned Parenthood, and Sacramento Asian-Pacific Chamber of Commerce.


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Roberto Luongo has enjoyed some tough times and good ones, too, on the home ice of the Chicago Blackhawks.
Two years ago he was nearly in tears after his Vancouver Canucks were eliminated from the postseason as Chicago scored seven goals in the second-round clincher.
Now Luongo has helped the Canucks move to within one win of sweeping the defending Stanley Cup champions out of the playoffs in the first round.
Luongo, who had 30 saves Sunday night as the Canucks pulled out a 3-2 victory for a 3-0 series lead, predicts that Game 4 on Tuesday night at the United Center will be the most difficult game yet.
"Stranger things have happened. We've got one more to go. We know it's going to be a tough one" he said.
"These guys are the Stanley Cup champions. They're definitely not going to quit. Obviously its going to be even harder come Tuesday night and we've got to be ready."
Mikael Samuelsson scored the go-ahead goal in the third period in another rough-and-tumble meeting between two teams that know each other well and don't especially like one another.
A hit by Vancouver's Raffi Torres on Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook, was a major part of the postgame conversation. Especially since Torres just came off a four-game suspension for a hit to the head of Edmonton's Jordan Eberle.
Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville was adamant that it should have been a five-minute major penalty against Torres, who knocked Seabrook to the ice behind the net.
"Brutal. Major. Absolutely," Quenneville said. "He missed it. We could have scored four goals on that play. Is it a suspension? I don't have to worry about that. The guy didn't even get through his first game back off one. It's not my call."
Seabrook left the game briefly to be tested for a concussion and was able to return.
The Blackhawks did score after the penalty. Patrick Sharp took a pass from Jonathan Toews and scored on the Blackhawks' fifth power play to tie it at 2.
"His reputation speaks for itself," Toews said of Torres. "He's not just going in to make a play. He's trying to hurt one of our players. To us, that's pretty obvious."
Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault saw it another way: "I didn't think it's a penalty," he said.
The Blackhawks had seven power plays Sunday night, including four in the first period. They had a 1-0 lead in the first on a goal from Duncan Keith, but couldn't get control of the game.
When Chicago had a chance to extend that lead with a 5-on-3 power play, Luongo came up with some stellar saves, snuffing Chicago stars Toews and Patrick Kane on back-to-back attempts within seconds of one another.
"A couple of saves there. Just a little bit of luck and it gives me a chance," said Luongo, who had 15 saves in the first period.
"It's my job, obviously, to make the save at key times. Usually you get an adrenaline boost off that and obviously we were able to turn the tables and get two goals in the second. I was into the game early and into the crowd."
Christian Ehrhoff and Daniel Sedin also scored for the Canucks, who'd been knocked out of the playoffs the last two years in the second round by Chicago.
"I think Roberto did his job, a great job in the first period when we got in penalty trouble," Vigneualt said. "Especially on that 5-on-3, he kept us in. He gave us a chance to hang around and find a way to win."
Kane said that was the turning point, even though the Blackhawks were still tied after two periods.
"When you don't score on 5-on-3s, you lose the game," he said. "I had my chances tonight. I should have buried a couple."
Samuelsson, who missed Game 2 with an illness, scored on a second rebound at 6:48 of the third after a first attempt by Henrik Sedin went off goalie Corey Crawford.
"The rebound came out to Hank. He fanned on it a little bit, I think, but Crawford still had to make a save and he was a little bit out of position," Samuelsson said.
Hawks Lose, Get One Last Chance
Roberto Luongo has enjoyed some tough times and good ones, too, on the home ice of the Chicago Blackhawks.


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Not happy with your trinkets?
Feeling disappointed about your lack of throughput?
Getting teased by other healers in the raid?
Then get yourself a Glowing Twilight Scale today!
In all due seriousness, this is one of the best trinkets you can get. If you can snag one of these, you're virtually set for the rest of the expansion. Let's ignore the spellpower bonus for now and look at the proc alone. Every time you use it, your direct heals will cause the target of your heal to heal both themselves and friends within 10 yards.
Not quite sure which spells will activate it?
- Prayer of Mending bounces
- Prayer of Healing
- Circle of Healing
- Power Word: Shield glyph
That's not including your direct healing nukes. But yeah, it will trigger off each target hit by your AoE spells. In theory, you can overlap your raid with these HoTs within seconds. It's called Twilight Renewal.
It will also activate Trauma's proc.
I't's something like 356 HP per second for 6 seconds. Multiply it by 25 players in the raid, and you have a large number.
At least, in theory. And you don't have to be a theorycrafter to understand that you're providing a lot of painkillers and Asprins to your entire raid during those 15 seconds that the trinket is activated.
What it won't work with:
- It doesn't seem to work with Glyph of Holy Light for Paladins (needs confirmation)
- Riptide (Sorry Shamans)
The HoT effect is amplified by the ICC zone wide healing buff. It doesn't seem to gain any benefits from your character's spell power.
Here's a comparison from the logs of select volunteers on Plus Heal.
A Discipline Priest on heroic Sindragosa 25 (Time elapsed: 6:30)
A Holy Paladin on heroic Sindragosa 25 (Time elapsed: 7:24)
A Holy Priest on normal Sindragosa 25 (Time elapsed: 7:06)
It's difficult to create lab conditions, but this is the best I can do. Two of the encounters were on heroic and one was on normal for Sindragosa. Just a few things to note though:
When the trinket is activated, you gain Eyes of Twilight (which is when your heals get amplified and start spreading around). In this example?
- Discipline Priest – 3 activations
- Holy Paladin – 2 activations
- Holy Priest – 4 activations
The heal gains for Holy paladins aren't as bad as it's made out to seem here. I think if they all used it the same number of times (like 3), we'd see fairly close margins. Maybe within 2-3%? I'm still going to bet money that a Holy Priest has the slide edge in terms of proc maximization (and purely proc maximization).
So who does it go to?
Give it to your best healer.
If they're all equally deserving of it, and you want to approach it from a raid min maxing perspective:
- Holy Priest
- Resto Shaman
- Disc Priest
- Resto Druid
- Holy Paladin
At least, that's my personal take on it. You're free to assign it however you like and you'll want to look at any number of combinations such as who needs it, attendance, looks, etc.
Anyway, don't be like me and give it to a Holy Pally who quit the guild within the next week because he wanted to devote his time to PvP instead and joined a straight PvP guild.
Any Holy Pallies or Mages out there? We're looking for some really excellent ones. Bonus points if you can do the invisible thing on Putricide.


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
RIP Neva Patterson
Patterson's career spanned six decades and more than 100 film and TV roles. She played an ambitious mother in the science-fiction NBC-TV movie 'V' and its sequel, the miniseries 'V: The Final Battle.'
By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times
December 16, 2010
Patterson's career spanned six decades and more than 100 film and TV roles. She played an ambitious mother in the science-fiction NBC-TV movie 'V' and its sequel, the miniseries 'V: The Final Battle.'
Neva Patterson, a character actress who portrayed Cary Grant's fiancee in the 1957 movie "An Affair to Remember" in a career that spanned six decades and more than 100 film and TV roles, has died. She was 90.
Patterson died Tuesday at her Brentwood home of complications from a broken hip, said her daughter, Megan Lee.
The actress was a veteran of Broadway when she was cast as Lois, the socialite who would not make it to the altar with Grant in "An Affair to Remember."
"She just loved the fact that she kissed Cary Grant the first day on the set," her daughter said. "She really loved Cary Grant."
The characters she played were often "brittle, overwrought ladies, notoriously glamorous, usually business-oriented, and more often than not, quite overbearing," according to an Internet Movie Database description that her family seconded.
After making her film debut in "Taxi" (1953), Patterson appeared in more than a dozen movies. She played a worried mother in the well-reviewed "David and Lisa," a 1962 film about two teens with mental illness who fall in love. In the 1957 movie "Desk Set" she portrayed Spencer Tracy's prim, uptight computer expert and assistant.
On television, Patterson was the governor's secretary in the CBS sitcom "The Governor & J.J." that starred Dan Dailey and originally aired from 1969 to 1970. She also played a powerful matriarch opposite James Garner on "Nichols," a short-lived 1971 western on NBC.
Neva Louise Patterson was born Feb. 10, 1920, on a farm outside Nevada, Iowa, and was named for a friend of her mother's, not her hometown, she told the Des Moines Register in 2002.
Patterson, the daughter of a letter carrier and his seamstress wife, moved to New York City in 1938.
On Broadway, Patterson debuted in "The Druid Circle," one of 10 plays that she appeared in on the Great White Way between 1947 and 1959. Originating the role of Helen Sherman in 1952 in "The Seven Year Itch" on Broadway was a highlight of Patterson's life, her daughter said. During the play's run, the twice-divorced Patterson met James Lee, who worked in the prop department.
After they married in the late 1950s, the couple adopted their daughter as an infant and a 13-year-old Italian boy. Lee became a writer best known for contributing to the 1977 miniseries "Roots." He died at 79 in 2002.
She taught herself to speak six languages and always had a quip at the ready, her daughter said.
In the early 1980s, Patterson played an ambitious mother in the science-fiction NBC-TV movie "V" and its sequel, the miniseries "V: The Final Battle."
Fan mail and unexpected visitors continued to show up at her door, her family said. Last month, five "V" fans from France brought gifts and a request for her autograph.
In addition to her daughter, Megan Lee of Brentwood, Patterson is survived by her son, Filippo Quaretti-Lee of Florida; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
PATTERSON, Neva Louise
Born: 2/10/1920, Nevada, Iowa, U.S.A.
Died: 12/14/2010, Brentwood, California, U.S.A.
Neva Patterson's westerns - actress:
Skin Game (TV) - 1971 (Mrs. Claggart)
Nichols (TV) - 1971-1972 (Ma Ketcham)
Bret Maverick (TV) - 1982 (Emma Crittenden)
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I finally got to give Chris his Christmas sweater a few days ago. I started working on the pattern at the end of September and finished the collar and sewing the seams January 1st. So, it's my first FO of the year!
I did some collar modifications and mirrored cables on the sleeves after reading Ken's blog entry of his Durrow. I used the smallest size on US sz 6 needles instead of 8s and added some sleeve and body length.
Pattern: Durrow by Jodi Green
Yarn: Queensland Collection Kathmandu Aran, colorway 155
Needles: US 6 & 4 (for collar)
Started: September 30, 2008
Completed: January 1, 2009
Kathmandu Aran is one of my favorite yarns to work with. It's soft and the subtlety of colors is great.
I had the front and back done during school and tackled the sleeves over winter break. About a week ago I had to be in the car from Chicago to Tulsa, OK. So, I spent the whole time finishing one sleeve, took about 10 hours or so.
The cables and charts look complicated, but by the second sleeve I was moving along quickly and memorized what all the symbols in the chart meant. It's a lot easier than it looks.
It fits Chris perfectly and he loves it!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
5 comments:
- Kyle Kunnecke said...
looks wonderful - what a great gift! I have been thinking about making this one but have yet to commit... :)
- January 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM
- sko_G knits said...
it looks great, i LOVE it!!
- January 8, 2009 at 7:06 PM
- mollita said...
Your durrow looks great. I'm stalled at the sleeves, the chart does seem daunting, but after reading your post I'm going to dive back in.
- April 5, 2009 at 3:20 PM
- Suzanne said...
- May 2, 2009 at 9:50 PM
- Shivian Balaris said...
lovely! as a chicagoan myself, I approve!
- December 4, 2009 at 3:09 PM
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Northwest Passage
- This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
This activity has been extensively reviewed for inclusion in the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network's collection of educational resources. For information the process and the collection, see http://cleanet.org/clean/about/selected_by_CLEAN.
This activity was selected for the On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching Collection
Resources in this top level collection a) must have scored Exemplary or Very Good in all five review categories, and must also rate as "Exemplary" in at least three of the five categories. The five categories included in the peer review process are
- Scientific Accuracy
- Alignment of Learning Goals, Activities, and Assessments
- Pedagogic Effectiveness
- Robustness (usability and dependability of all components)
- Completeness of the ActivitySheet web page
For more information about the peer review process itself, please see https://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/activity_review.html.
This page first made public: Dec 1, 2008
This material was originally created for On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty
and is replicated here as part of the SERC Pedagogic Service.
In this exercise, undergraduate students use Google Earth and information from several web sites to investigate some of the consequences of climate change in polar regions, including the seasonal and longer-term changes in the extent of the ice cap at the North Pole, disintegration of ice shelves, opening of shipping routes, access to sources of fossil fuels, geopolitics, effects on polar bears, and possible secondary effects on climate in other regions due to changes in ocean currents.
Students learn to use satellite and aerial imagery, maps, graphs, and statistics to interpret trends accompanying changes in the Earth system.
Learning Goals
- Use Google Earth to study Earth system phenomena
- Make and compare length measurements using mapping tools
- Use graphs, statistics, maps, and animations to discern cycles and trends
- Determine effects of global change on humans and animals
- Investigate interrelationships between components of the Earth system
- Assemble data and information from multiple sources to draw conclusions
- Propose solutions to complex problems that take into account costs and benefits on a qualitative level
Context for Use
The activity is best suited for a course that focuses on energy, climate, or global concerns, and which provides students with understanding of interrelationships between components of the Earth system, including a perspective on the role of human activity in bringing about global change, and the effects of these changes on human society.
Prior to this activity, students should be provided with a basic understanding of recent trends in climate change.
This exercise was originally used in an undergraduate course at Stony Brook University - GEO 311: Geoscience and Global Concerns. Enrollment in the course was a mixture of geoscience and non-geoscience majors.
Fundamental Information about Using Google Earth
The Student User Guide is designed to provide information on using Google Earth to educators and students. In addition, the following links to Google's documentation can offer guidance for specific skills needed for this exercise:
The Google Earth Student User Guide
Google Earth Tip Sheet (Acrobat (PDF) 440kB Nov20 08)
Google Earth User Guide
Google Earth Help Center: Getting Started
Google Earth Help Center: Getting to Know Google Earth
Google Earth Help Center: Navigating in Google Earth
Google Earth Help Center: Finding Places and Getting Directions
Google Earth Help Center: Using Layers
Google Earth Help Center: Measuring Distances and Areas
NSIDC: Time Series in Google Earth
Description and Teaching Materials
Each student needs to be provided with a printed copy of the following handout in (Word .doc):
Word (Microsoft Word 109kB Feb23 15) or pdf (Acrobat (PDF) 147kB Feb23 15) format. The Word version of the document can easily be modified in order to customize the activity for varied class venues, or to adjust its content to conform to changing global conditions. Both the Word and pdf versions of the handout contain links to the data the the students need in order to perform the activity, therefore they could be made available electronically for use along with the paper copies in order to make data access convenient for the students. The students will also need paper copies to fill out and hand in.
Also hand out the one-page Google Earth Tip Sheet (.pdf) as a quick reference for the students.
Google Earth Tip Sheet (Acrobat (PDF) 440kB Nov20 08)
Students should be seated at computer workstations individually or in pairs. They should be asked to complete the exercise according to the instructions on the handout by writing their answers in the space provided underneath each question. It may be helpful to provide them with some basic instruction on using Google Earth.
In GEO 311: Geoscience and Global Concerns, we engaged the students periodically in informal discussion during the exercise, and had them hand it in at the end of the session for grading.
Teaching Notes and Tips
Time needed for this exercise may vary depending upon the amount of previous experience students have had using Google Earth and the amount of time devoted to informal discussion during the exercise. Typically, 80 minutes should be sufficient for completion, but the exercise can be used effectively even if it is apportioned into multiple class sessions.
Some of the students may not have a complete enough knowledge about world geography to complete the questions about shipping routes without assistance. For example, previous class sessions with this exercise have demonstrated that not all students are aware of the locations of the Suez and Panama Canals. Therefore, this exercise and others that employ Google Earth and other mapping tools should be used as an opportunity for students to gain new understanding and knowledge of world geography.
It is best to associate the exercise with some discussion in order to stimulate ideas among the students about complex interrelationships between components of the Earth system.
Since much of this exercise calls for qualitative judgments on the part of students, which may reasonably be expected to vary, grading should be somewhat lenient, in order to enable the students to feel comfortable being creative.
References and Resources
Each student needs to be provided with a printed copy of the handout in Northwest Passage in Word (Microsoft Word 109kB Feb23 15) or pdf (Acrobat (PDF) 147kB Feb23 15) format.
Also hand out the one-page Google Earth Tip Sheet (.pdf)
Google Earth Tip Sheet (Acrobat (PDF) 440kB Nov20 08)
Also provide them with a link to the Google Earth Student User Guide.
Links to information Needed for this Exercise
Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Data on Virtual Globes: Google Earth
NASA: 2008 Arctic Sea Ice from AMSR-E
Telegraph: Arctic becomes an island as ice melts
NPR: In The Arctic Race, The U.S. Lags Behind
NPR: The Arctic's Diminishing Sea Ice
BBC: Diary: Taking the Northwest Passage
NPR: Russia Pushes To Claim Arctic As Its Own
BBC: Huge Arctic fire hints at new climate cue
Reuters: Arctic ice second-lowest ever; polar bears affected
CBS News: Alaska will sue over polar bears
Wikimedia Commons: Image:Polar Bear Habitat.png
Science @ NASA: A Chilling Possibility
Fundamental Information about Using Google Earth
The Google Earth Student User Guide
Google Earth Tip Sheet (Acrobat (PDF) 440kB Nov20 08)
Google Earth User Guide
Google Earth User Guide: Getting Started
Google earth User Guide: Getting to Know Google Earth
Google Earth User Guide: Navigating in Google Earth
Google Earth User Guide: Finding Places and Getting Directions
Google Earth User Guide: Using Layers
Google Earth User Guide: Measuring Distances and Areas
NSIDC: Time Series in Google Earth
Additional Related Information
General Climate Change Information
The Daily Climate
Climate Central
Inside Climate News
GWU Milken Institute School of Public Health: 53 Sources for Climate Change News
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Committee on Climate Change
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
NSIDC: Arctic Sea Ice News Fall 2007
NSIDC: Sea Ice News and Analysis
NASA: Global Climate Change - Vital Signs of the Planet
Articles on Climate ChangeCooperative Institute for Marine and Atmosphereic Studies: The Gulf Stream
Wikipedia: Thermohaline circulation
Technische Universiteit Delft: Current velocities of the Gulf Stream
Wikipedia: Shutdown of thermohaline circulation
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory: Climate Impact of Quadrupling Atmospheric CO2
Telegraph: Arctic becomes an island as ice melts
The Middlebury Community Network: Editorial: The Great Global Warming Hoax?
Wikimedia Commons: Image:Polar Bear Habitat.png
World Wildlife Fund: Polar bear status, distribution & population
Los Angeles Times: Polar bear is listed as threatened species
BBC: Diary: Taking the Northwest Passage
NPR: Arctic Ice Hits Near-Record Low, Threatening Wildlife
BBC: Arctic sea routes open as ice melts
USGS: Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal: Estimates of Undiscovered Oil and Gas North of the Arctic Circle
Climate Progress: After North Sea Oil Spill, Shell Prepares to Drill in Arctic Where There is 'No Infrastructure' for Clean-Up
Science Daily: Greenland Glacier Melting Faster Than Expected
NPR: In The Arctic Race, The U.S. Lags Behind
NPR: The Arctic's Diminishing Sea Ice
NPR: Russia Pushes To Claim Arctic As Its Own
BBC: Huge Arctic fire hints at new climate cue
BBC: Russia plans Arctic army brigades
BBC: Arctic summit in Moscow hears rival claims


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wiccan adoption
Posted 28 January 2004 - 11:30 AM
---Andora :-/
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Posted 28 January 2004 - 04:08 PM
Does this mean that hes not going to be supporting you or the baby when he gets his salary from the air force?
Please give this alot of thought. There are alot of people out there that wholeheartedly want to give a child a good home thru adoption (my husband and I being two of them)but I know a few people who have given up children and a few people who have been adopted. Some of their stories are wonderful and some of them arent. So please be absolutely sure of this decision.
Please dont get counselling from the people at the adoption agencies as they only have their paying clients wishes at heart and their wishes are that you give up your baby.
Have you spoken to the father of this baby about adoption? If so what are his wishes? If you give the child up they will need his permission to do so.
Good luck Angel in this situation and I hope you and your baby are blessed. Take care of yourself ...all my best! :'(
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Posted 28 January 2004 - 06:17 PM
Or do things worth the writing.
Posted 28 January 2004 - 06:26 PM
If the father is joining the airforce, that will increase your income and provide you some stability. As for moving a lot, there are many children born into military families and moving around. The nice thing is that the community that you move to will understand what you are dealing with and be able to offer you support. You will find that not only do you have your "normal" family, but you will become part of a military family also.
I wish you the best
Posted 28 January 2004 - 07:24 PM
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
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Posted 01 February 2004 - 10:10 PM
Just a thought. The very best of luck.
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