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If Jerry Brown is elected governor, should his wife be his chief of staff?
It's a question I've heard discussed in political and government circles around the states. Brown's wife, Anne Gust, is by all accounts ( check out the LA Times profile here) running his campaign. She is a formidable lawyer and former top executive at The Gap. And there's no shortage of people who know the couple who will volunteer that she has far more discipline and better judgment than her husband.
It's also clear that Gust will be working full-time on Brown's behalf as governor, just as she has done during his term as state attorney general. So why not make her chief of staff?
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The answers to that I've heard from various wise men in Sacramento are: It would look bad. It might be nepotism. It might be legally questionable. It's a bad idea to have a chief of staff you can't fire.
But here's the other side of the argument: Gust is eminently qualified to do the job. She may be uniquely qualified, since Brown can be famously difficult to manage and she seems to be able to manage him. And the only thing stranger than having the governor's wife as chief of staff might be to have somebody else as chief of staff while Gust is really running things. Wouldn't it make more sense to be honest, and have the titles reflect the reality of how Brown's world may run?
Of course, Meg Whitman could win and spare us this debate over Anne Gust's proper role in a Brown administration. But who knows? When Whitman was asked at one debate what she admired about her opponent Brown, she mentioned his wife. Perhaps the candidates can agree on Anne Gust as chief of staff no matter who wins.


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Friedreich Ataxia
by Dianne Scheinberg, MS, RD, LDN
Friedreich ataxia is a rare, inherited disease. It causes a gradual breakdown of the nervous system. Friedreich ataxia affects nerves in the brain and spinal cord that control movement. It also affects sensory nerves that help with coordination. In later stages, the disease can cause injury to the heart and pancreas.
Friedreich ataxia is caused by a problem with a gene called the frataxin gene. This gene is found on chromosome 9q13. To develop this disease, a person must inherit a copy of the defective gene from each parent. However, there are some people with Friedreich ataxia that have no family history of the disorder.
Risk Factors
There are no known risk factors other than having a parent with the frataxin gene.
Symptoms can be different for each person. The most common include:
You will be asked about your symptoms. You will also be asked about your medical history, family history, and current medication. A physical exam will be done. If Friedreich ataxia is suspected, you may also see a doctor who specializes in the nervous system.
Images may need to be taken of your bodily structures. This can be done with:
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There is no known cure for this condition.
Long-term management is aimed at maintaining as much function as possible and controlling symptoms. Some treatments that may help include:
There are no current guidelines to prevent Friedreich ataxia.
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance
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Burk K. Friedreich ataxia: current status and future prospects. Cerebellum atxias. 2017;4:4.
Friedreich ataxia. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T113912/Friedreich-ataxia . Updated January 26, 2017. Accessed February 14, 2018.
Friedreich's ataxia (FA). Muscular Dystrophy Association website. Available at:
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Friedreich's ataxia fact sheet. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke website. Available at: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Friedreichs-Ataxia-Information-Page. Accessed February 14, 2018.
Koeppen AH. Friedreich's ataxia: pathology, pathogenesis, and molecular genetics. J Neurol Sci. 2011;303(1-2):1-12.
Wilson RB. Therapeutic developments in Friedrich ataxia. J Child Neurol. 2012;27(9):1212-1216.
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Mounting frustration with PGP Whole Disk Encryption has me revisiting BitLocker options this week. We last touched on this subject back in the early days of Vista. It appears that enough has changed with Windows 7 that we need to do some policy updates.
First off, I discovered that the BitLocker system volume encryption wizard was not presenting me with startup PIN or startup key options. Further, it also was not backing up recovery key data to Active Directory, as we originally designed it to under Vista. Why? Because Vista BitLocker policies do not apply to Windows 7! A quick step through the "Windows 7"-specific settings in Computer->Policies->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->BitLocker Drive Encryption (and the child "Operating System Drives" settings), and we are back in action.
Next, I noticed new settings related to smart cards in the new Group Policy settings. Does BitLocker now support storage of drive encryption keys on a Smart Card? No… not for system volumes anyway. Still, I was intrigued by option for removable and non-system volumes, and decided to try encrypting my office eSATA drive using BitLocker and a Smart Card certificate.
Microsoft provides the following information on certificate template requirements for BitLocker:
Madeningly, they specify that you should provide the 'Enhanced Key Usage OID value of 184.108.40.206.4.1.322.214.171.124', if you are going to specify an OID. They also say that your "key usage attribute" should be one of three possible options with names like "CERT_DATA_ENCIPHERMENT_KEY_USAGE
". The problem with this guidance is that the Certificate Template Manager MMC snapin does not expose any such options, and I cannot find docmentation for management of certificate templates using "certutil.exe", or any other available command line utilities. Am I supposed to use ADSI edit to do all my certificate management these days? Sheesh.
Some googling determined the following:
- Enhanced Key Usage, or EKU, is labeled "Application Policies" in the Certificate Template MMC, and they are exposed under the "Extensions" tab of a template properties dialog box.
- OID info is not displayed in the list of Application Policies. However, OID 126.96.36.199.4.1.3188.8.131.52 maps to the friendly name "BitLocker Drive Encryption". Select this policy and add it as a cirtical extension, or just leave the Application Policies list empty. Note that you will need to have the "BitLocker Drive Encryption" feature activated on any system from which you you are editing the Certificate Template (I am indebted to DXter for this post which led me on the path to solving this little mystery).
- The "key usage attribute" referred to in the BitLocker documentation also is exposed in the "Extensions" tab of the Certificate Template properties dialog. In this case, we will be looking at the "Key Usage" extension. Selecting a value of "Allow key exchange only with key encryption (key encipherment)" appears to work.
- Under the "Request Handling" tab, I also specified that the certificate will be used for "Encryption", and not "smartcard logon", since I don't want to use this same cert for Smart card logon… perhaps that will change later on. We also needed to enforce the use of the "Microsoft Smart Card Key Storage Provider" under the "Cryptography" tab, since we want to generate the certificate key on the smart card. (Note that you need CNG-compliant cards to use this option. CNG cards are the way to go!)


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Basics for hazardous materials carriers
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) is committed to improving commercial motor vehicle safety and ensuring quality, equitable service for Ohioans. The PUCO registers more than 2,500 hazardous materials transporters each year and works to ensure carriers are safely transporting these commodities on Ohio's highways.
Registration and permits
Carriers transporting hazardous materials in Ohio need to register with the PUCO. Registration forms are available from the PUCO in the motor carrier industry section of www.PUCO.ohio.gov or by calling (800) 686-PUCO (7826).
In addition to registering with the PUCO, drivers who haul hazardous materials in an amount that requires placards to be displayed are required to complete an additional application for a hazardous materials endorsement on the commercial driver's license. The "Application for Hazardous Materials Endorsement" is available from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles at www.bmv.ohio.gov.
Carriers that operate in interstate commerce and haul hazardous materials across state lines are required to apply for a U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) number. Carriers can apply online or print out the forms required by visiting the FMCSA registration page. For more information, contact the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) at (800) 832-5660.
Vehicle safety inspections
The PUCO and Ohio State Highway Patrol regularly conduct roadside inspections on commercial motor vehicles (CMV), including those transporting hazardous materials and wastes. Each safety inspection follows a thorough process to make sure that the driver and CMV meet the necessary state and federal regulations. Vehicles and drivers that fail to meet these regulations may be placed out-of-service and cannot continue operating until they comply with the regulations.
During the inspection of CMV's transporting hazardous materials, the inspector checks for compliance with shipping papers, placards, marking, labeling, packaging and loading regulations.
Shipping papers
Anytime a carrier transports hazardous materials, the driver must carry shipping papers which detail the material being transported. Shipping paper requirements can be found in 49 CFR Subpart C Part 172 of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR). Shipping papers must be within the driver's immediate reach when restrained by their seat belt and visible to a person entering the vehicle, or in a holder mounted on the inside of the driver's door. Shipping orders, bills of lading and manifests are all considered shipping papers. The inspector will check the shipping papers and verify that all required information is present and accurate.
Anyone carrying hazardous materials is subject to the federal HMR and must comply with the applicable placarding requirements. General placarding requirements are contained in 49 CFR Subpart F Part 172 of the HMR. Each bulk packaging, freight container, unit load device, transport vehicle or rail car containing any quantity of hazardous materials must be placarded on each side and each end with placards specified for the type of material being transported.
The requirements for marking of packages are contained in 49 CFR, Subpart D, Part 172 of the HMR. The basic marking requirement consists of the proper shipping name and identification number of the hazardous material contained in the package. Markings should be durable, in English, and not obscured by other markings or labels. Depending on the material, there may be additional marking requirements.
Each person who offers for transportation or transports a hazardous material shall ensure the package is properly labeled as required in the rules. General labeling requirements are contained in 49 CFR Subpart E Part 172 of the HMR. An inspector will verify compliance with the labeling requirements including proper position, and the appropriate multiple and duplicate labeling.
Hazardous materials require certain packaging types as identified in the HMR. An inspector will identify the type of packaging used and determine if the packaging is appropriate for the material it contains, and is not leaking.
An inspector will verify compliance with blocking and bracing requirements of cargo as well as segregation, separation, and compatibility for the hazardous materials that are being transported.
For more information about the Federal Hazardous Materials Regulations contact the FMCSA at (800) 832-5660 or the PUCO at (800) 686-PUCO (7826).
State and local regulations
CMVs carrying hazardous materials must operate and park in compliance with the laws and regulations of the jurisdiction in which they are operating. Hazardous materials carriers should become familiar with these regulations and follow them at all times.
Vehicle surveillance
A CMV containing hazardous materials and located on a public street, highway or the shoulder of a public highway must be attended by a driver at all times.
CMVs cannot be parked on or within five feet of the traveled portion of a public street or highway. Private property owners must be aware of the fact that a hazardous material is on board the CMV and provide their consent to have it parked on their property. Additionally, vehicles cannot be parked within 300 feet of a bridge, tunnel, dwelling or place where people work, congregate or assemble, except when necessary to fulfill the operation.
If a tire is flat, leaking, or not properly inflated, the driver must have the tire repaired or replaced before the vehicle is driven (the vehicle can be driven to the nearest safe area to perform required action).
If a tire is overheated, the driver must immediately remove it and place it at a safe distance from the vehicle. The driver should not operate the vehicle until the cause of the overheating is corrected.
No person may smoke or carry a lighted cigarette, cigar or pipe on or within 25 feet of a CMV that contains certain hazardous materials including flammable gas or explosive materials. Smoking is also prohibited on or within 25 feet of an empty tank motor vehicle which has been used to transport flammable materials or gases.
When fueling a motor vehicle that contains hazardous materials, the engine must be shut off and a person must be in control of the fueling process.
The PUCO is responsible for specifying routes that hazardous materials carriers must follow in Ohio. CMVs carrying hazardous materials shall operate over these routes which do not go through or near heavily populated areas, narrow streets or alleys, except where the motor carrier determines that such routes are necessary due to reasonable circumstances including emergency conditions or to reach loading or unloading points or facilities for food.
Hazardous materials incidents
The PUCO employs hazardous materials specialists throughout the state of Ohio who are available to assist with investigations of hazardous materials transportation related issues and incidents.
In cases of emergency, the PUCO maintains a 24-hour Hazardous Materials Incident Reporting Line at (800) 642-3443 to which incidents involving hazardous materials can be reported.
The PUCO provides technical assistance to emergency responders; conducts investigations at the scene of a hazardous materials accident; assists with identifying hazardous materials; ensures proper compliance with regulations for transport; and conducts radiological surveys and contamination control surveys of radiological shipments.
Upon calling the Hazardous Materials Incident Reporting Line, PUCO personnel will inform you of the availability and estimated time of arrival of a PUCO hazardous materials specialist.
Training and planning grants program
The PUCO will award grants for the training of public safety and emergency services personnel in the proper techniques for the management of hazardous materials spills and releases that occur during transportation. Grants are awarded on a reimbursement basis. Grant applications can be submitted at any time and are reviewed on a quarterly basis. For more information, contact the PUCO at (800) 686-PUCO (7826).
Transporting radioactive materials
Transporters of highway route controlled quantities (HRCQ) of radioactive materials must operate vehicles only over preferred routes specified by the PUCO. Deviation from these routes is permitted only when emergencies make the route unsafe or impossible to travel.
When transporting HRCQ radioactive materials, the carrier must prepare a written route plan and supply a copy before departure to the driver and the shipper. Any change to the plan must be reported in an amendment to the route plan, and delivered to the shipper within 30 days following the deviation.
Drivers of HRCQ shipments must have proper training every two years to operate a vehicle transporting radioactive materials. A certificate of training must be in the driver's possession and in the driver's qualification file.
Shipments of HRCQ originating in Ohio must be inspected by a qualified inspector prior to transporting the material.
Exclusive use shipments of radioactive material must follow the instructions for exclusive use vehicles specified in 49 CFR 7.44.


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I look forward to see it...going to give Jack Wells a run for his money, huh??
I look forward to see it...going to give Jack Wells a run for his money, huh??
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mine-ineye-deatheah-pielayah-jooa-kalayus. oolah-minane-hay-meeriah-kal-oyus-algay-a-thaykin', buddy!
Not my bike, but I shot I took to show that the R75 was the first G/S. It says so right on the bike. OK, maybe an S/G.
Where in the h@#* did you find these bikes?.....not my business but if I were to buy one needing a little work, what kind of coin-of-the-realm are we talking about?
These machines are amazing.......
"He who make a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
Dr. Johnson
And, the RUN. I ride them.
This photo is of me riding my 1925 R32 taken 4 years ago, in front of my shop.
If you want to see the collection, go to www.benchmarkworks.com and click on the museum to see what I own.
I have been slowly collecting and restoring these bikes over the last 35 years.
I have found most all of them here in the USA, through trades, luck, cash and more luck.
Of course, they were all unrestored, in pieces, in boxes when I got most of them.
Buying one, well let me give you some advice.
Any 1951 - 1969 BMW is the best thing to go for, if you are new at this. Mainly because almost everything is available new. Pre 1950 BMW's parts are sporadic, and some of the reproduction parts that are available are of poor quality. As far as buying one that "needs a little work" be it post or pre war, is usually wishful thinking, as far as it's condition. Keep in mind in the long run, it is far cheaper to buy a restored bike, (that has documentation, showing all the work and parts put into it, and who did the work) and pay the big bucks, that it is to buy one in a box, and restore it yourself or pay some one to do it for you. I do this work for a living. The average R50 - R69S, by the time you have painted it, done all the mechanical work, bought all the parts, and paid the labor, you will have 20K in it. Sadly, the average selling price for a R50 - R69S is $10 - $16 K these days. So you can see how this works out, money wise. And if you think $10 - $16 K is a lot, an R12 sells for $20 to $25K or R75 from WWII sells for $30K - $45K or more these days for a good running, restored one.
This is my 1936 R17. The photo was at the Return to Shilloh Rally in Tn, in 2006. They are quite rare. They made only 434 of them, between 1935 and 1937. It is an overhead valve 750. For it's era, is is very fast, and was considered the ultimate Gentleman's sport bike. It was also the most expensive motorcycle made in Europe at the time. It cost more than new automobiles of the era. (which is why so few of them were made. It will run right at, (but not quite) 100 miles an hour. The brakes are the same drum brakes as an R12 however, so when you apply the brakes at any speed over 60 mph is starts to slow down, and then the brakes get hot, and it just keeps going! You have to be very careful with it.
I rode this bike from Sturgis, Mississippi to Barber's Museum in Birmingham for the RA national several years ago. Won oldest bike ridden to the RA national. Had a lot of fun on the way, and on the way back. I've also ridden it to the Huntsville AL Chicken rally (Which is about 5 hours one way). The only real inconvenience is that it has no provision to automatically oil the roller rocker arms. So, every time you stop for gas, you must pull the hot valve covers, and squirt lubricant on the rollers of each rocker arm. (I use STP in a squeeze bottle, it sticks to the rollers for a long time) The spark advance is not automatic, it is manual.
The left grip twists in the opposite direction from the throttle grip, and it controls the timing. You must ALWAYS remember to retard the timing before you attempt to kick start the bike. If you forget, the engine will kick back and make you think you broke your foot! As you take off from a standing start, you twist the left grip forward, and then just leave it in the full advance position as you ride. When you come to a stop however, the engine will race, even with the throttle closed, until you twist the advance back to the retard position, and then the engine will slow to a nice idle. This bike has two Amal Fischer slide carbs, one for each cyl. Amal (an English brand) was made under license in Germany by Fischer carb, hence the name on the float bowls, Amal Fischer.
Oh yea, where did I find it? In lots of pieces, in Maine.... The left cylinder had been broken off the case, in a wreck, during WW II. Who knows why whoever owned it did not give it to the scrap drive in WWII but I'm sure glad they didn't! I managed to save the original case, and got it repaired, so the frame, original steering head ID plate and engine numbers match.
I had a look at your website......wow..you own all those bikes?.....is the museum open to the public?....one of my future trips is to SD but not for the rally..either before or after....would love to drop by and have a look see....
"He who make a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
Dr. Johnson
Yes, the museum is open to the public. Bench Mark Works business hours are 8am to 5 pm Mon - Thurs and 8am to noon on Fri.
But, I think you have the wrong Sturgis in mind. We are not located in SD, we are in MISSISSIPPI.
Since I live here at the shop, I'm generally here on weekends also.
Anybody interested in old BMW's is always welcome.
I hope I did it right
Vech did an outstanding job on the drive train and Holt BMW got the sheet metal all fixed up and finished. I have about 1,500 miles on the restoration and have been invited to Amelia Island this year. Yep its a rider but it does spend its off time in my living room with three of its brothers.
One last shot
Well, I'll have to make it to Mississippi then.....I wish i had one of these bikes.....
"He who make a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
Dr. Johnson
Here is my '39 R23, a 250cc prewar single. Slow, but cute. Giant 3.00 x 19 tires..
Notice that the frame is not one piece. The the frame completely bolts together.
Go over to the side car form, I put two photos of two of my side car rigs there.
Here are a couple pics of my 1928 R52, taken by Visian at the Redmond Rally this year. (Don't look at the non-ATTGATT attire; I had just washed the dust off the bike and was returning to the Vintage Display.)
But to get back to Vech's old bikes, here's his R12 sidecar rig getting some use this past spring:
(That's Mark and Esthi Huggett, who had just tied the knot at Vech's Spring Rally. I don't know what he has planned for 2011, but I can't see how it can top this.)
--Darryl Richman, forum liaison
This is my 1928 R52, just like Darrel's. The brass plate on the front fender is the original dealer's plate, that was put on the bike, when it was sold, new.
And, yes, all the numbers match on this bike also.


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ATLANTA - Alan Arnett scored a game-high 23 points and Johathan Brooks posted his third double-double of the season by adding 17 points and a game-high 15 rebounds to help Georgia Southwestern remain undefeated and lead the Hurricanes to a 64-61 victory over Clark Atlanta University on Saturday evening.
GSW improved its record to 6-0, which matches the best start in program history since Southwestern joined the NCAA in 2006-07. Led by All-American Phillip Brown, GSW started 6-0 in its 2011-12 campaign.
Clark Atlanta dropped to 1-2.
Southwestern struggled from the floor in the first half on Saturday, especially from beyond the arc where the Hurricanes made 1 of 7 attempts. GSW committed 11 turnovers over the opening 20 mintues and trailed 29-21 at the break.
Clark Atlanta stretched the margin to 11 points (38-27) with 15:55 to play for its largest lead of the game. The Hurricanes managed to pull within four points at 45-41 after Darius Redding knocked down a pair of free throws but Christian Houston rattled off four unanswered points for the Panthers to put GSW behind 49-41 with 8:24 remaining.
That's when Arnett and Brooks took over. The duo combined for eight points and four rebounds over the next three minutes to captain a 10-1 run and give the Hurricanes their first lead of the game.
CSU grabbed the advantage back one final time before Redding put the Hurricanes ahead for good at 55-54 with 2:48 to play. GSW's largest lead was three points and they held it four different times down the stretch, including at the final horn.
Redding joined Arnett and Brooks in double figures with 12 points in the game and added three steals and three assists.
The Hurricanes connected on 51.7 percent of their shots in the second half to finish at 42.1 percent for the game. CSU shot 36.4 percent overall. GSW grabbed three more rebounds (44-41) and had seven more bench points (17-10).
Jarrel Joye led the Panthers with 19 points. Houston added 11 and Jordan Husley chipped in 10. Kenneth Green pulled down a team-high seven rebounds.
Southwestern returns home to entertain Florida National on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Storm Dome.


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Helping to shape Tunisia's religious future
The main promenade in Tunis, Bourguiba Street, runs right through the heart of the capital. Compared to 2011, things look very different now. Street traders and their illegal stalls have taken over the rubbish-strewn pavements.
These days, you will often see women in headscarves sitting at the tables outside trendy little cafés. Parts of the street are cordoned off, and police patrols keep a watchful eye on the area where the mass demonstrations took place during the revolution.
The bronze statue of the fourteenth-century historian Ibn Khaldun, probably the most famous graduate of Tunisia's venerable Ez-Zitouna University, gazes across at the French embassy; but the square where the statue stands is fenced off with barbed wire, almost as if it were intended to symbolise exclusion.
Ez-Zitouna University, reputed to be the oldest Islamic teaching institution, has been training theologians since the eighth century. However, in the late 1950s, the first president of the Republic, Habib Bourguiba, set Tunisia on a strictly secular path that was continued by his successor, Ben Ali. For the most part, Islam was excluded from public life and it was only under close observation by the state that Ez-Zitouna University was able to keep instructing its students in Islam.
Nevertheless, Ez-Zitouna continued to play a major role in religious life, explains Menno Preuschaft, a Tunisia expert and researcher at the University of Münster in Germany. "The educational facility provided a space for people to express their religion," he says.
Ennahda's missed opportunity
Since the revolution, Islam has once again become a visible part of public and political life in Tunisia. Headscarves, traditional robes and long beards are no longer an unusual sight. When the constitutional assembly was elected in October 2011, the Islamist parties, particularly Ennahda, emerged as the strongest force. However, many Tunisians no longer now believe that Ennahda is capable of setting a religious course with which the majority of Muslims in the country can identify.
"People are increasingly sceptical about Ennahda's Islamist project," says Preuschaft, who explains that it is important to distinguish between two groups within the Islamist party: a conservative wing and a liberal one that wants Tunisia to pursue a democratic path. "One central criticism in recent months has been that Ennahda is playing into the hands of Salafist groups, and that it aims in the long term to use democratic means to establish an Islamist, undemocratic government," he says.
So who should shape Tunisia's religious future? In Egypt, the scholars of Al-Azhar University have already been frequently and actively involved in the political restructuring currently going on in their country. But in Tunisia, the scholars of Ez-Zitouna have, until now, remained outside the transformation process, despite the fact that the educational facility boasts a long reformist tradition and promotes a relatively liberal interpretation of Islam. This is why Menno Preuschaft believes that integrating Ez-Zitouna would be a great opportunity. "Religious representatives who do not primarily see themselves as political agents could take on the role of mediating between the political camps," he says.
Radical tendencies at Ez-Zitouna
Imed Shili, a professor in Ez-Zitouna University's Theology faculty, shares this opinion. "We're very unhappy with the current situation," explains Shili. "Of course we would like to help to shape the future politics and constitution of our country. After all, we are part of this nation."
But recently Ez-Zitouna University itself has been struggling with increased politicisation and radicalising tendencies. Until a few years ago, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) used to cooperate with the university and work with it on joint projects. However, it has since stopped the collaboration.
"We observed a distinct shift towards conservative Islam at Ez-Zitouna," explains Hardy Ostry, the head of the KAS office in Tunis. "The Ministry of Education decides who is appointed to the professorships; Ennahda has been exerting its influence there."
While insisting that the university is politically independent, Imed Shili is also watching current developments with concern. "A small number of professors and a larger group among the students support a conservative and radical interpretation of Islam," the Ez-Zitouna professor reports. "But," he adds, "the future does not belong to them."
A new government of technocrats
The way in which Tunisia shapes the future role of Islam in its society could become a model for other countries in the region. Of all the countries of the Arab Spring, Tunisia is the one for which people have the greatest hope. After the revolution, it introduced an ambitious reform process and quickly achieved initial successes. But then the political restructuring ground to a halt, and the assassination of two opposition politicians in February and July 2013 thrust Tunisia into a political crisis.
The Ennahda-led government resigned in late October. On 14 December, after more than two months of negotiations, Tunisia finally acquired a new interim prime minister. Mehdi Jomaa, an independent, has the task of breaking the country's political stalemate and, over the coming weeks, forming a cabinet of independent experts. This kind of government of technocrats might give the scholars of Ez-Zitouna a chance to help shape the future of Tunisia.
Carolyn Wißing
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Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins
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Microsoft Ditching 'Windows Live' Brand
Microsoft said Wednesday that it will ditch its Windows Live branding in favor of an over-arching "Microsoft account."
This Microsoft account will be an integral part of the upcoming Windows 8, the software giant said in a blog post, and will be rolling out over the next few months across Microsoft's product line.
Windows Live has been around since 2005, and at this point it's used to describe the Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger suite of services, as well as Windows Live Essentials apps.
Though these services are used by more than 500 million people every month, according to Chris Jones, vice president of Microsoft's Windows Live group, "they still did not meet our expectations of a truly connected experience," he wrote.
"Windows Live services and apps were built on versions of Windows that were simply not designed to be connected to a cloud service for anything other than updates, and as a result, they felt 'bolted on' to the experience," Jones said.
As a result, there was "customer confusion," Jones wrote, something Microsoft hopes to eradicate with the release of Windows 8 later this year. "Windows 8 provides us with an opportunity to reimagine our approach to services and software and to design them to be a seamless part of the Windows experience, accessible in Windows desktop apps, Windows Metro style apps, standard web browsers, and on mobile devices."
Modern devices are all-inclusive, with no separate branding to break up the experience, Jones suggested.
Microsoft's 'Identity Service'
Enter Windows 8 and the Microsoft account, which Jones referred to as an "identity service." It will be used to sign into a Windows 8 PC or tablet, as well as services like Xbox Live, Zune, and the Windows 8 app store. Users won't need a Hotmail account to sign up for a Microsoft account; any email address will suffice. Everyone who signs up will get a SkyDrive account and some free online storage, though.
Jones talked up the cloud component of Windows 8, which will share data across Microsoft products.
"For example your contact list is shared across Windows Phone, Windows 8, Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive, so when you add a contact in one place, it shows up in the cloud and on all of your other devices and services," he wrote.
This works on different PCs, too. "Log in to a new PC and pick up right where you left off," Jones said.
A Microsoft account can also be connected to other services, like LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter, allowing you to email or call contacts from these services directly.
For more, see PCMag's hands on with the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 and the slideshow below.
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In 28 seasons as head coach at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Brian Baptiste has seen his teams earn a reputation as being among the best NCAA Division III teams in the nation.
His career record of 533-238 speaks for itself. He also serves as an Assistant Director of Athletics at UMD.
Baptiste's teams have qualified for post-season play on 19 occasions, including 13 appearances in the NCAA Division III Tournament. The Corsairs have won 13 Little East Conference regular season championships and 11 post-season playoff titles in the 24-year history of the conference.
Baptiste's teams have posted winning records 23 times, and
were just a game under .500 on three other occasions.Four seasons
ago, the Corsairs won their first 20 games, were the last NCAA
Division III men's basketball team in the nation to lose a regular
season game, and finished the regular season with a 23-2 mark.
Ranked as high as second nationally during the season, they won the
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Division III Championships, advancing to the second round of the
tournament and finishing with a 25-4 overall mark. Senior center
Dan Holbrook earned All-American honors, and Baptiste was named
2007-08 Little East Conference Coach of the Year.
In 2000-2001, UMass Dartmouth went 25-3 and led all NCAA Division III teams in wins. Baptiste was named the Little East Coach of the Year, and the National Association of Basketball Coaches Chevrolet Northeast District Coach of the Year. UMass Dartmouth won both the LEC regular season and tournament titles, qualified for the NCAA Division III Tournament, and advanced to the Sweet 16. The following season, the Corsairs went 21-8, and went on to win the ECAC Tournament championship.
UMass Dartmouth has advanced to the NCAA Division III Northeast Region championship game four times, winning the regional title in both 1986 and again in 1992. In 1992-93, UMD had its finest season, advancing to the NCAA Division III Final Four. The Corsairs ranked as one of the top 10 Division III teams in the nation between the 1985-86 season and the 1987-88 campaign. UMass Dartmouth was top-ranked during the 1987-88 regular season.
A 1976 graduate of American International, Baptiste enjoyed an outstanding playing career following his graduation from New Bedford High School. Earning recognition from his peers, Baptiste was formerly the chair of the Northeast Division III Men's Basketball Selection Committee, and now represents the LEC as an National Association of Basketball Coaches Congressman.
Married to the former Kathryn Russo, Baptiste resides in Dartmouth, MA. He has four daughters: Jeana, age 27, Alaina (26), Erica (21) and Rachael (19).
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Book – Johannes Cabal has a problem with his soul. Namely, he doesn't have it – he sold it to Satan some time ago in exchange for the secrets of necromancy. He's decided that it was a bad deal, and he wants his soul back. Satan, of course, isn't letting any souls go that easily, so he proposes a challenge: if Cabal can acquire 100 souls within a year, he can have his soul back. The Devil will even throw in a diabolical carnival to help. It's not a great deal, but it's the only one on offer, so Cabal enlists the help of his estranged brother and sets out across the countryside, carnival in tow, to race against the clock. Er, hourglass.
For the first fifty pages or so I kept trying to figure out what time period and what country this book was set in; eventually I realized that it just doesn't matter, and I settled back to enjoy the ride. Johannes Cabal is delightfully deadpan and almost entirely unconcerned with the fates of other people. It's the almost that makes it great: he shows flashes of humanity at the most inopportune times. This is the first in a series; the latest, Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute, was published in October.


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Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. Announces Receipt of Take-Private Proposal From Its Majority Stockholder
CARY, NC--(Marketwire - Feb 20, 2013) - Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CRTX) (the "Company") announced today that its Board of Directors has received a letter from Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA ("Chiesi"). In that letter Chiesi, which owns approximately 60% of the outstanding shares of the Company's common stock, made a proposal, subject to certain conditions, to acquire the shares of the Company's common stock that it does not already own for a cash purchase price of between $6.40 and $6.70 per share.
The text of Chiesi's letter will be filed as an exhibit to a Report on Form 8-K to be filed today by the Company with the SEC.
The Company cautions its stockholders and others considering trading in its common stock that no decisions have been made by the Board of Directors with respect to Chiesi's proposal. There can be no assurance that any agreement will result from the proposal submitted by Chiesi or that any transaction based on Chiesi's proposal will be consummated.
About Cornerstone Therapeutics
Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CRTX), headquartered in Cary, N.C., is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on commercializing products for the hospital and adjacent specialty markets. Key elements of the Company's strategy are to focus its commercial and development efforts in the hospital and adjacent specialty product sector within the U.S. pharmaceutical marketplace; continue to seek out opportunities to acquire companies, marketed or registration-stage products and late-stage development products that fit within the Company's focus areas; and generate revenues by marketing approved generic products through the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Aristos Pharmaceuticals, Inc. For more information, visit www.crtx.com.
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THE steady flow of reminders to keep tires at the automaker's suggested inflation levels — even President Obama chimed in — demonstrates just how far the demands of auto maintenance have diminished. With spark plugs that seem to last forever and oil-change intervals stretching to 10,000 miles and more, many owners continue to slack off when it comes to looking after tire pressures.
But the day when drivers never have to pump air into their tires may be coming. Goodyear has developed a self-inflating tire technology intended to keep commercial truck tires at the proper pressure, saving fuel and reducing tread wear. The system, which Goodyear calls Air Maintenance Technology, automatically keeps tires inflated without the need for electronic controls or external pumps.
The key is a clever pumping device — essentially a flexible tube nestled inside the tire — that operates in much the same way a person's muscles push food through the digestive tract in continuous pulses. As the tire rotates, high pressure caused by the vehicle's load compressing the tire repeatedly deforms the embedded tube, generating a pumping action.
If the pressure inside the tire falls below the required level, a regulator lets outside air into the pumping tube, where it is pressurized and sent through a valve into the interior cavity of the tire. And all of this happens automatically, without any action by the driver.
Underinflated tires result in a loss of about 3 percent in fuel economy, according to government and industry research. A $1.5 million grant from the Energy Department's Office of Vehicle Technology is helping Goodyear to speed up demonstration of the system for commercial vehicles. The company has also received a grant from the Luxembourg government to support research there on a similar inflater for consumer tires.
How about car tires that never need inflating at all? The Tweel, a concept for a combined wheel-tire assembly proposed by Michelin in 2005, has been inching forward. The Tweel tried to take pressurized air out of the tire equation altogether, using flexible polyurethane spokes that support an outer band of tread material.
Such nonpneumatic tires would never need filling and would be immune to punctures. Although a flat-proof, no-air tire is an exciting notion, the original Tweel would vibrate considerably above about 50 m.p.h., producing excessive noise and heat.
So Michelin aimed the Tweel for use at low speeds, introducing the X-Tweel SSL, a nonpneumatic tire-wheel for skid steer loaders, those do-it-all machines used in landscaping, construction, contracting and farm businesses. The single-piece Tweel SSL replaces some 23 components that make up a standard pneumatic tire.
Skid steer loaders with pneumatic tires typically experience several flats a month, Michelin says. To reduce maintenance downtime, many owners fill their tires with foam or replace them with solid tires, resulting in vehicles with poor traction, handling and ride comfort. The damage-resistant X-Tweel SSL wears longer than conventional tires and also provides excellent traction, Michelin says.
The Tweel is no longer alone in the airless tire category, though.
Bridgestone has introduced its Air-Free Tire Concept, a prototype design with recyclable thermoplastic ribs serving as the central load-supporting elements. The design seems to resemble a crisscrossing mesh of polymer leaf springs. Bridgestone says that the concept tire offers sufficient comfort and performance for use on electric golf carts, lawn mowers and various low-speed buggies.
Yokohama Rubber has developed a full-size, nonpneumatic concept car tire called the Youmyaku. The prototype features a honeycomblike network of curving flexible ribs around a large metallic hub.
None of these technologies are going into a passenger car tire anytime soon, though, so drivers still need to remember to pump it up.


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SALISBURY, Md. – The No. 8 Salisbury University football team remained perfect in Empire 8 Athletic Conference play, holding on to defeat Alfred University, 24-21, in a battle of the league's top two teams at Sea Gull Stadium on Saturday.
Salisbury (6-1, 4-0 Empire 8) never trailed, jumping out to leads of 14-0, after the first quarter, and 17-7 at halftime. Alfred (4-2, 3-1) used two fourth-quarter touchdowns by Chuck Beckwith to get within a field goal with 5:25 left, but the Sea Gulls gained three first downs on their final possession to run out the clock and seal the victory.
Sophomore slot Isaiah Taylor scored two rushing touchdowns of his own and junior defensive back Andre Carter notched his fourth career touchdown on a 38-yard fumble recovery and runback. Sophomore place-kicker Eric Hart knocked down his second field goal in as many weeks, this one from a career-long 37 yards in the win.
The Sea Gulls opened the scoring on the first drive of the day when Taylor finished off a nine-play, 70-yard drive, taking a pitch 2 yards for a touchdown, giving the Gulls a 7-0 lead at the 10:52 mark. The key play came when quarterback Dan Griffin hit Taylor for a 34-yard pass completion on first down to the Alfred 25.
With the Saxons on their own 45-yard line after a pair of first downs, Austin Dwyer fumbled and Carter scooped up the ball on the 38, racing in for a 14-0 advantage with 2:26 to play in the first quarter.
Alfred cut into the lead when Zach Sopak connected on a 6-yard touchdown pass to Adam Schutz with 3:15 to go before the break, finishing a nine-play 45-yard drive that began when J.R. Britton recovered the first of two fumbles on the day.
Griffin hooked up with Juma Richards on a 52-yard pass play to the Alfred 18, setting up Hart's field goal with just over a minute to play in the half.
After a scoreless third quarter, Taylor punched it in from 5 yards out, 2:31 into the fourth, completing a seven-play, 79-yard march, for the eventual winning score and a 24-7 edge.
Griffin, though, fumbled on the Salisbury 32 and Brendan McGinnis recovered. Six plays later, Beckwith found the end zone from 4 yards to cut the Gulls' lead to 24-14 with 8:43 left.
Alfred's Zach Tavolaro squibbed the ensuing kickoff and Brendan Chavis brought it to midfield, but after a mishandled snap, Britton gave the Saxons the ball on the SU 48. Beckwith added his second score of the day from 2 yards out to move his team within three, but that was as close as AU got.
Joe Benedetti had 15 carries for a game-high 81 yards while Griffin was 2-for-6 with 86 yards passing and had 17 carries for 51 yards.
Greg Stanton posted a game-high 12 tackles, his fourth interception of the season and sixth of his career; he also broke up two passes. Rodney Hill finished with double-digit tackles with 10 and 2.5 for loss. He also recorded a breakup and quarterback hurry. Steven Gamble totaled nine tackles and game highs of 1.5 sacks and three tackles for loss. Carter registered a game-high three passes broken up.
Beckwith had 80 yards and the two touchdowns on 19 carries. Sopak was 16-for-27 for 150 yards and one pick. Schutz caught five passes for 31 yards and the touchdown. Defensively, Mike Raplee had 10 tackles, a sack and a tackle for loss.
SU hits the road to Ithaca, N.Y., to take on Ithaca College next Saturday at noon.


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Millions of Near-Retirees Have No Savings
By Carole Fleck , June 21, 2013 10:21 AM
An examination of how Americans are preparing for retirement finds that, overwhelmingly, they aren't.
As many as 18.3 million households with workers ages 45 to 64 have no retirement savings whatsoever, according to a new report from the National Institute on Retirement Security. When their entire net worth was taken into account (including real estate and other assets), about one-third still fell short of what they'll need to maintain their standard of living in retirement.
"The retirement savings gap - what a person needs to save for a secure retirement and what he or she has actually saved - is even worse than we expected," says David John, a senior strategic policy adviser at AARP.
Financial planners generally recommend saving between 8 and 11 times your annual earnings based on the last years of your work life.
For near-retirees who do have a 401(k) or IRA account, it might not provide much security when the time comes. The median retirement savings balance for two-thirds of households with workers ages 55 to 64 is just $100,000, the report found.
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The report attributes workers' dangerously low levels of savings to a prolonged economic recovery, stagnant wages and employers' dialing back on workplace retirement plans. It also blames a weak U.S. retirement system for the sorry state in which many near-retirees will find themselves in the not-too-distant future.
Not surprisingly, women and low-income workers face the greatest risk, the report found.
Some other eye-opening facts:
- 45 percent of 38 million households with workers ages 25 to 64 have no retirement savings.
- 90 percent of workers 25 to 64 who have pension plans still fall short on the savings they'll need in retirement.
- $6.8 trillion to $14 trillion is the collective shortfall for what workers need to live comfortably in retirement versus what they've saved.
Diane Oakley, executive director of the institute, says a lack of access to workplace retirement savings plans by many low-income earners, combined with workers' low savings rate, will likely result in "grave consequences." She predicts that millions of workers are headed for poverty in their old age. They'll need housing assistance, utility bill subsidies, food stamps and help from other government programs, she says.
Researchers used Federal Reserve data from 2010 to analyze retirement plan participation, savings and overall assets of 38 million households with workers age 25 to 64.
Among the policy measures recommended in the report:
- Give employers incentives to provide pension plans to employees.
- Reform Social Security to strengthen the program and increase benefits for low-income beneficiaries.
- Expand workers' access to employer-sponsored retirement plans.
- Create additional tax incentives for retirement savings.
If the amount you've saved for retirement is wanting, keep in mind that it's never too late to make changes or heed advice. Here's what the experts say: Alter your living expenses to match your income. Stay on the job as long as possible and wait as long as you can, up to age 70, to claim the maximum Social Security benefit. And be especially careful if you consider tapping your home equity.
Perhaps when the time comes, you'll be fortunate enough to worry about whether the 4 percent drawdown rule in retirement - withdrawing 4 percent a year from our 401(k) and IRA to generate income to last a lifetime - is a wise strategy.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – UMBC women's basketball's freshman forward Sara Tarbert (Delta, Pa./Kennard-Dale) had a stellar opening week in her collegiate career en route to being named the America East Rookie of the Week, as announced by the conference office on Monday.
Tarbert shot 50 percent from the field and 89 percent from the free throw line to average 20.3 points and 8.0 rebounds in a 1-2 week for the Retrievers.
The rookie opened up her career with a double-double, the first Retriever freshman to do so in this decade, scoring 21 points and adding 10 rebounds against Eastern (Pa.) on Monday. She followed up that performance by becoming the first America East freshman in this decade to tally back-to-back 20-point efforts to start her career, connecting on 8-of-14 attempts for a game-high 23 points versus Coppin State. Tarbert capped off the week by falling one rebound shy of her second double-double, leading the Retrievers with 17 points, nine rebounds, three assists and two steals against UMES.
Tarbert and the Retrievers return to action on Wednesday, Nov. 20 when they hosts American in a Retrievers' basketball doubleheader at the RAC Arena. The women open up the evening with a 5 p.m. tip-off, followed by the UMBC men taking on Loyola at 7:30 p.m.


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By BRIAN FANNEY
The Frederick News-Post
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Ask 6-year-old Faith Miller why the Spring Ridge Sharks swim team is different, and she'll say it's because of the games she plays and the fun she has.
Ask her mother, Valerie Miller, the same question, and she'll say it's because Melissa Lapham, head coach, and Jen Dickson, assistant coach, learned a great deal of sign language to help her daughter and four other deaf swimmers be part of the team.
"I'm really impressed with the coaching staff and the attitudes of all the kids," Miller said. "I pray the coach next year will
be willing to sign as much as Jen does."
To the children, speaking two languages is the norm of swim practice. To the parents of deaf children, the coaches' efforts mean they can take a step back from constantly translating and watch their children do something they enjoy.
Races start when the referee throws his arm down and blows a whistle. Coaches announce what exercises the group is doing with spoken word and sign language. They count repetitions with their fingers in sign and aloud.
The coaches use common sense to ensure communication barriers don't prevent capable children from participating.
"It's fun to swim," Faith said in American Sign Language. "We get in the water, we swim, we like to hold our breaths."
Her comments were translated by her mother.
While activities with deaf and hearing children sometimes result in two distinct groups, the swim team has been inclusive, Miller said.
"All the kids come up, ask what's the sign for this, what's the sign for that," she said. "I've seen a lot of team cohesion."
Lea Martinez, a 9-year-old on the team, said she enjoys learning sign language.
And unlike other sports, Miller said she doesn't need to act as an interpreter and be around her daughter all the time.
"I want to create some independence, but I don't want her to miss anything," she said. "It's a balance thing."
"I like helping them. It's fun," she said. "My sister knows a lot of sign language, which helps me speak and understand them."
Both coaches got their start learning sign language while in college.
"I think most of the enthusiasm comes from the fact (that) both of us want to be teachers," Dickson said. "There are other
languages. It's not just verbal."
Dickson took a class at Towson University, where she's a senior. Lapham learned some sign language as part of the education curriculum at Hood College, which she graduated from this year.
They said instructing deaf children to swim will help them in their teaching careers.
"I feel like I can have a better relationship with the kids," Lapham said. "It's more fun for me, it's more like a hobby."
The Sharks will compete in a divisional championship Saturday, where the coaches hope they finish strong, though either way, the two are proud of what they've accomplished.
"We're going to come together as a team," Lapham said. "We're trying to build a program here where we want everybody to come in, no matter if they can't hear, can't see, whatever."
Information from: The Frederick (Md.) News-Post, http://www.fredericknewspost.com
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Adventures in GenealogyI have heard it said "Genealogy is the greatest puzzle, the greatest detective game in the world." I love it! I remember as a young boy, standing outdoors on the farm with my father, asking him about his ancestors and who they were and where they came from. And being thrilled by his story of a long and dangerous ocean voyage from Ireland on a sailing ship long, long ago.
In my early 20s, I actually took a genealogy class while I lived in Calgary. This led me to interview my parents, my mother's parents, aunts, uncles and older cousins and record what they said. On my mother's side of the family, information was readily available, as her parents were still alive and that family had kept in close touch with their extended family, including the Wright relatives back in England. The big puzzle for me was the Buchanans and Watsons - Dad's people. Dad's parents had come to Alberta from Manitoba when he was little, and the few relatives we had nearby had nearly all died. Those surviving had little information to offer.
So I decided to look elsewhere. Armed with a notepad and a binder of Family Group sheets, I hitch-hiked from Calgary, Alberta to Neepawa, Manitoba in 1962. (Yes, those were safer times. I certainly wouldn't recommend it now.) I remember that one couple that picked me up was so intrigued by my quest that they drove an hour out of their way to help me reach my destination.
When I finally arrived at Neepawa, I went to the local newspaper and asked to see some obituaries in their archives. The people were very helpful. They suggested I contact Mervyn Buchanan, the manager of the Windsor Salt plant.
Not having any better leads, I visited Merv. He and his wife gave me such a warm welcome that I felt like I had come home after a long absence. They asked me to stay with their family, and drove me to visit relatives in Riding Mountain, Birnie, and various places. While Merv was at work, I sought out relatives in Neepawa to interview. I returned home to Calgary with more information than I dared to hope for.
Over the next two years I wrote to anyone who had been recommended by anyone as a source of family history information. Some failed to answer, but others referred me to people who knew more than themselves. Then, other pressing commitments took me away from genealogy for a few years. Does the term "binge genealogist" make any sense to you? I think it describes me too well.
About 1977 my work took me to High Prairie, Alberta. A family there asked me "Are you related to Gordon Buchanan, who owns the sawmill in town?" I said "It's possible, but probably not." They agreed, "Yes, he is originally from Manitoba." I replied "My father was born in Manitoba, so maybe we are related." After work, I rang Gordon's doorbell and waited apprehensively. I explained to the lady who answered that my name was Bill Buchanan, and I wanted to talk to Gordon about family history. She turned and said "Gordon, why don't you get your Buchanan Family Tree book?" This really got my attention! I had never heard of any such book. Gordon showed where he was in the book and I showed him where I was. We were related!
This book was a colossal amount of work on the part of its compilers and contributors. My quest for the next few months was to get a copy of the BFT book. The compilers, Lorne and Doris Buchanan, had moved from Neepawa and no one seemed to know where they were. My attempts to find a copy of the book for sale were unsuccessful. Then, unexpectedly a thick envelope arrived in the mail from Annie B. McMane. It was her copy of the book! She explained that she was living with her daughter, and could always use her daughter's copy. Not long after, a similar package arrived from Leona Murphy. These wonderful people! I can't thank them enough! I wrote a family history summary and made photocopies for my closest relatives, and sent copies back to Annie and Leona.
Some years later I acquired genealogy software and entered the BFT information, along with other information I had gathered. I posted a message on an Internet forum saying that I had put the BFT information into electronic form. This resulted in contacts by various people asking for the information, which I was happy to provide. Suzanne Schaller started an Andrew-Buchanan listserv, which has made it easier to share information. Other interested relatives have found me through my submissions to the Ancestral File.
A few years ago I decided to create a personal web site for a few of my interests. With time, this narrowed its focus to genealogy and expanded to include historical family photos. Along with her work on the Manitoba newspaper archives, Darlene Perrett was a big help in this area. Other than "word of mouth" I have found the web site to be the most effective way of helping people to find me. Any week that a "lost" relative sends me an email is automatically a good week for me.
In 2002, Suzanne Schaller suggested that the Buchanan family tree project was too big for any one person to update. Since she is descended from William Buchanan, she proposed to focus her energies on that part of the family tree. Since I am descended from John Buchanan, I volunteered to help update that part of the family tree. This led me to seek out the "lost" Hamilton, Keating, and McGillivray descendants. I find the Internet phone directories a handy tool, and they really came through for me in the cases of the Hamiltons and McGillivrays. I knew the Hamiltons had lived around Tisdale, Saskatchewan. None are currently listed there, so I started going through the married names of the daughters and found a Stella Woolsey in the Tisdale area. Stella explained that her deceased husband Harvey was from a different branch of the Woolseys, and suggested that I contact Norma Kabanuck, who gave me some information and suggested that I contact Roy Woolsey. Roy was a goldmine of information and old pictures. Roy suggested that I contact Al Hamilton. Then Teresa Fouillard contacted me, and she has been an on-going source of Hamilton info. The story of finding the McGillivrays was similar. I used the Internet directories to find Lorraine Kowblick, who put me in touch with Glen Thorpe, who sent me a copy of the McGillivray Family Tree book that he compiled in the late 1990s. My attempts at finding the descendants of John Keating and Margaret Buchanan always seemed to come up empty. Then Donna Phillips forwarded a message to me from George Johnson, and things opened up. George's wife is a Keating, and he had lots of Keating information. Visits to some of the George Watson descendants in the summer of 2003 led me to find the George Watson family in the 1900 census of Raber, Chippewa county, Michigan, but I could not find the descendants of his son, George Allan Watson. They disappeared in the 1930s and all attempts to find them were unsuccessful. Then I received an email from Theresa Adams in Alaska, that opened a door to this family. Her brother's children had found the web site and told her about it. When I found the family of James Watson senior in the 1851/52 census, I felt that we had enough information to look for his parents in the Old Scottish Parish Records. I think we have found them , but there is a need for further research.
The adventure continues ... Bill Buchanan
(from my website -http://billbuchanan.byethost17.com)


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Early next year, a new Italian guest will arrive at the International Space Station — an Italian coffee maker designed to work in zero gravity, dubbed ISSpresso. The arrival of the machine will coincide with the visit of the first female Italian astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti.
The Associated Press report says that while they'll still have to consume the brew from plastic bags with straws, it will be a vast improvement over the bland, tepid, instant coffee that astronauts have complained about for decades. American astronaut and two-time ISS visitor Donald Pettit called ISSpresso "a welcome addition to space station life. The pre-measured bags of freeze-dried coffee served in orbit taste good - when you're up there on the frontier. On Earth, any coffee lover would go "Yeeck."
Italy's Lavazza coffee company worked with an engineering company called Argotech and the Italian Space Agency on the design of the machine. They replaced the plastic tubing inside with steel tubes, and packed it all into a compact 17x14 inch box, weighing 44 pounds.


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IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) has offered Fibre Channel Storage Virtualization since June 2003. Two SVC nodes communicate with each other via fibre channel to form a high availability I/O group. They then communicate with the storage that they virtualize via Fibre Channel and with the hosts they serve that virtual storage to, via Fibre Channel. When IBM added real-time (metro mirror) and near real-time (global mirror) replication it was also done using Fibre Channel, with each SVC cluster communicating to the other by connecting using fibre channel protocol transported over dark fibre with or without a WDM or via FCIP (Fibre Channel over IP) routers.
Each Fibre Channel port on an SVC node can be a SCSI initiator to backend storage, a SCSI target to hosts and all the time communicate to its peer nodes using those same ports. With every generation of SVC node, these ports got faster and faster, going from 2 Gbps to 4 Gbps to 8 Gbps. In SVC firmware V5.1 IBM added iSCSI capability to the SVC using the two 1 Gbps ethernet ports in each node. This allowed each node to also be an iSCSI target to LAN attached hosts.
When the Storwize V7000 came out in Oct 2010 it offered all of this capability, plus offered two fundamental changes to the design.
- Firstly the two controllers in a Storwize V7000 can communicate with each other across an internal bus, eliminating the need to zone them together (or even attach the Storwize V7000 to Fibre Channel fabrics).
- The other more obvious difference is that a Storwize V7000 comes with its own disks, which it communicates with via multi-lane 6 Gbps SAS.
When IBM added 10 Gbps Converged Enhanced Ethernet adapters to the SVC and to the Storwize V7000, these adapters operated as iSCSI Targets, allowing clients to access their volumes via a high-speed iSCSI network. In V6.4 code IBM allowed these adapters to also be used for FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet). These are also effectively SCSI targets ports allowing hosts that use CEE adapters to connect to the SVC or V7000 over a converged network.
If you have a look at the Configuration limits page for SVC and Storwize V7000 version 6.4 (the Storwize V7000 one is here), you will see this interesting comment:
"Partnerships between systems, for Metro Mirror or Global Mirror replication, do not require Fibre Channel SAN connectivity and can be supported using only FCoE if desired"
So does this mean we can stop using FCIP routers to achieve near real-time replication between SVC clusters or Storwize V7000s? The short answer is most likely not. Lets look at why...
The whole reason Fibre Channel became the standard method to interconnect Enterprise Storage to Enterprise hosts is simple: Packet loss is prevented by buffer credit flow control. Frames are not allowed to enter a Fibre Channel network unless there are buffers in the system to hold them. Frames are normally only dropped if there is no destination to accept them. Fibre channel is a highly reliable, scalable and mature architecture. When we extend Fibre Channel over a WAN we do not want to lose this reliable nature, so we use FCIP routers like Brocade 7800s, that continues to ensure frames are reliably delivered in order, from one end point to another.
Converged enhanced ethernet allows Fibre Channel to be transported inside enhanced ethernet frames. The one fundamental that CEE brings to the table is the same principle that a frame should not enter the network without a buffer to hold it. Extending FCoE over distance has the same challenge: the moment you start moving those frames over a WAN connection you need to ensure frames are not lost due to congestion. How do we do this? The same way we did with Fibre Channel: we use Dark Fibre, we use WDMs or we use routers. The same issues and requirements exist.
For more information on FCoE over distance check out this fantastic Q&A from Cisco:
If you want to understand FCoE better, this document from Brocade is very good:


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Author and award-winning journalist Lee Grady will be speaking at Emmanuel College's New Beginnings Weekend January 6-9. Services will be held Thursday at 10 a.m., Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m., and Sunday at 10:45 a.m. in the John W. Swails Center.
New Beginnings Weekend is an annual series of creative worship services designed to help students, faculty and staff kick off the spring semester with fresh hearts as well as fresh minds.
"We want the students, faculty and staff at Emmanuel College to experience a true New Beginning, not just emotional highs, cool songs, or creative images. We want truth spoken and explained to us as we seek to understand and experience God in everyday life," says Campus Pastor and Director of Spiritual Life Chris Maxwell.
The theme for this year's New Beginnings Weekend is "Who Tattooed You?" Lee Grady warns, however, that the title may not mean what people think.
"People might assume I am going to preach against tattoos. That's not my purpose. I'm simply using the cultural popularity of tattoos as a conversation starter," Grady explains.
"As Emmanuel students begin this new semester, I want them to consider seriously who Jesus is and what it means to call him Lord."
Grady is an internationally recognized spiritual leader and the founder of the Mordecai Project, a ministry that focuses on confronting the abuse of women around the world. He became editor of IPHC Experience magazine in 2010 after serving as editor of Charisma magazine, one of America 's most widely distributed evangelical Christian publications, for 11 years.
"Through his writing and speaking, Lee addresses issues too many people fail to discuss. After he spoke two years ago for Emmanuel's New Beginnings Weekend, we wanted to bring him back. The students, faculty and staff will be inspired and challenged to pursue God's will," says Maxell.
Local church and community members are invited to attend the New Beginnings services free of charge. Click here for directions.


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Waiting in silence
Here is something I would like to be posted, I wrote it for my fiancee. If you think it is too graphic thats fine but its from the heart and its truthful.
Waiting in silence
The eyes were tired and the heart was worn,
The body was hungry and the mind was torn.
Bitten nails and clenched teeth,
A warm and aching feeling rising from underneath.
Thus the state of my position when you are not with me,
How can this extreme feeling of loneliness and sadness possibly be.
The one I gave my heart to and who refuses to give it back,
Leaves me yearning for you and its more than your body I lack,
I need your arms around me; I need you here with me,
To show me that this world isn't as horrible as it seems,
To tell me that it's okay to believe that something is meant to be.
That there is truth in love and in the romance of your words
With the love and passion that grows inside of me pushing onwards.
To reinstate and express every feeling, touch and promise told,
Before my eyes fill up with water and my lips turn cold.
You told me today that you would leave me,
Battle foreign lands, thousands away from me.
Away from my heart, my hugs, kisses and tears,
At least I know in my heart you won't be away from my prayers.
I miss you terribly and I curse the day you will leave me,
I can't stand this sorrow inside just killing me.
I don't want my heart life's in danger, I don't want my lover, my everything in danger.
So, broken with tears I'll watch you go,
Leave my side with a dozen kisses good bye
But I will be here when you return,
Waiting in silence and hopes because for you my heart burns.


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Global Astronomy Month 2013
Global Astronomy Month 2013 is over.
Global Astronomy Month (GAM) each April is the world's largest global celebration of astronomy.
GAM 2013 brought new ideas and new opportunities, again bringing enthusiasts together worldwide to celebrate Astronomers Without Borders motto One People, One Sky.
See below for programs and GAM-related news.
See the Program Schedule for a list of ALL GAM 2013 programs.
- GAM Programs
Global Star Party, Lunar Eclipse and more
Stars for All, Cosmic Concert and more
SunDay, Asteroid search and more
|Dark Skies
Globe at Night, Photo Contest and more
Cosmic Concert, AstroPoetry and more
|Join AWB (free) for the latest on more GAM
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Photo by: Bethany Struble Jacket by: Vans Pants by: Adidas Neo Label Shoes by: Clarks
The cold weather is slowly creeping in and I am loving it. As a minimalist, there is little I can enjoy when it comes to styling in the summer. I mean there is only so many combinations of a shirt and shorts that one can create. Fall coming in means, more layers, more combinations, and multiple possibilities. What are you favorite seasons to style?