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United States Marine Hospital Cemetery
Near 15th Avenue and Lake Street, behind the Presidio Landmark Building, off the Mountain Lake Trail
GPS coordinates: 37° 47' 20" N 122° 28' 28" W
Presidio National Park
San Francisco, California
Founded: 1881
Size: unknown
Number of interments: As many as 600
Open: always
A Marine Hospital was established on San Francisco's Presidio in 1875. The hospital provided health care to maritime laborers who had come to the US from all over the world. Shipboard medicine being what it was, many of them arrived in San Francisco in time to die at the hospital.
Records indicate that the hospital began burying indigent sailors, without family or funds to send their bodies home, on its grounds in 1881. Where they were buried before that is unknown, although the nearby City Cemetery – now the Lincoln Park Golf Course surrounding the Palace of the Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum – is a possibility. In 1883, the Ladies' Seamen's Friends Society purchased a plot for sailors in City Cemetery. The monument they erected continues to stand in the park.
Sailors died of cancer, cirrhosis, diabetes, heart disease, pneumonia, syphilis, scurvy, and tuberculosis, among other things. Initially, they were buried in their own clothes in redwood coffins provided by the hospital. Later, when the hospital built its own crematory, they were cremated and buried in bronze urns.
The site was used only until 1912. San Francisco had passed a law in 1902 forbidding burials within city limits. Technically, this did not apply to the hospital, since it stood on Presidio grounds, overseen by the US Army – who continue, to this day, to bury soldiers in the San Francisco National Cemetery, also inside the Presidio.
By the 1930s, the Marine Cemetery lay in ruins. It had only ever had temporary whitewashed wooden markers stuck into its sandy soil. The cemetery was forgotten and used as a dump. In 1969, the Veterans Administration, which had taken over the hospital, covered the old graveyard with a parking lot. Only when the US Army prepared to abandon the Presidio in 1989 did the Corps of Engineers rediscover the cemetery. By then, it was buried under 10 feet of debris.
The Presidio Archaeology Lab studied old records and learned that as many as 600 sailors from 30 states and 43 countries remained buried at the site. Also buried there are a hospital attendant, a nurse, a gardener, and the stillborn son of one of the hospital's doctors.
The National Park Service took over control of the Presidio in 1996. Not until 2011 was a stone plaque placed to honor those buried at the Marine Hospital Cemetery. It's not easy to find, even when you're committed to looking for it. I wandered at length, until I stumbled upon the strange unmarked wooden fence standing in the middle of a dune covered with off-limit native plants. By following the boardwalk up onto the platform, I discovered the black granite stone set down onto the face of the dune. It's only visible through a window in the boardwalk.
According to Where Jack is at Rest: The Marine Hospital Cemetery at the Presidio of San Francisco, published by the Presidio Archaeology Center, the plan was to leave the bodies in place "without further disturbance of their graves." However, if I were to nominate a place in San Francisco that deserves to be haunted, it's this long-forgotten corner of the Presidio where the dead did not get due respect.
The old Marine Hospital is now an apartment building.
Useful links:
The Presidio's site for the cemetery
Text of Where Jack is at Rest
Poster describing the causes of death at the Marine Hospital Cemetery
The Park Service's Presidio site
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Standard 5.C
The institution provides adequate facilities for library and information resources, equipment, and personnel. These resources, including collections, are readily available for use by the institution's students, faculty, and staff on the primary campus and where required off-campus.
- 1 Availability of Information Resource Facilities
- 2 Cooperative Agreements
Availability of Information Resource Facilities
5.C.1 Library and information resources are readily accessible to all students and faculty. These resources and services are sufficient in quality, level, breadth, quantity, and currency to meet the requirements of the educational program.
The Computing and Communications Department contracted Edutech International to conduct an overall assessment of computer technology on the Evergreen campus. See TESC Information Environment Review.
The Information Technology Wing
LIR Facilities and Services Visibly Interconnect
Library and information resources networks actively across academic and administrative departmental boundaries. With the generic library as a foundation and the interdisciplinary curriculum as the context, merged collections and services build upon an alternative past. The major remodel planned and implemented during the self-study period substantially strengthened opportunities for networking services, facilities and staff. One central, broad entrance provides access to the Library, the Computer Center, Media Loan and the stairs to Electronic Media, Photo Services and Computing and Communications. A large staircase which hides this entrance from the view of individuals entering the building is being removed in the current, second phase of the library building remodel.
More Teaching and Study Spaces
The remodel was shaped by a communal commitment to teaching and interdisciplinary study. Collaborative study spaces predominate, whether open area study tables, grouped lounge furniture, pod-shaped arrangements in labs or small group study and media viewing rooms. Wireless access (almost ubiquitous on campus now) allows informal group work around personal or library-owned laptops. Additional laboratory spaces provide easier scheduling for program work and more computers for individuals when classes do not use the labs. Limited quiet study areas provide an alternative for the solitary scholar, but group work is the norm and encouraged.
Hospitable Spaces and Blended Access
Art exhibitions invite patrons into lounge and study areas and help define the library as a public space. The new basement lounge, affectionately dubbed the Library Underground, hosts frequent campus gatherings and public readings, although flooding (a new issue since the remodel) has seriously disrupted the area. Groups from across campus meet and teach in library spaces, which are open to all. The media collections are prominently located in the reference area, where SAIL staff work closely with the reference librarians. Contiguous with SAIL is the Assisted Technology Lab, an emerging resource that has become a vital meeting place for students to work but also to show their art and media productions. Again, SAIL and reference staff provide service and technical support for ATL patrons. As the physical reference collection continues to shrink, reference, SAIL, the ATL, and circulation will merge to form a more cohesive unit with a prominent public presence. Overall, the Information Technology Wing has shed barren hallways and utilitarian desks in favor of lounge areas and comfortable study spaces. Wireless connections, our collection of laptop computers, overstuffed couches and chairs, large tables, task lighting, and spacious collections all contribute to the spirit of conviviality that informs the work of shared inquiry.
More General Access Lab Facilities
With the rapid developments in networked information technology, distinctions between general and specialized technology labs have blurred. The main computer center includes many specialized scientific software packages such as ArcGIS and Mathematica, while standard graphic manipulation software, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, appear in the CAL. Similarly, the Computer Center supports high-level statistics applications such as R as well as digital music editing. The library computers provide basic Office applications and general web access in addition to library-specific searches, but specific library computers also provide GIS, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, assistive/adaptive technology and scanning applications. Additionally, Academic Computing has changed access to networked facilities to reduce distinctions for students working across lab spaces. One user domain and single sign-on mean simpler, more consistent access to networked resources across campus. The Digital Imaging and Multimedia facilities, while providing applications for advanced media production, are open to all stidents.
Some specialty labs have self-contained resources, such as large format printers and applications requiring more sophisticated hardware. However, the primary distinction among labs is the level of expertise and specialized knowledge of the staff. Students benefit when they know that the specialized character of a lab means there will be more skilled assistance as well.
Service Desks and Facilities
Over time, the faculty librarians have transformed the reference desk into a teaching space, which goes well beyond traditional service models. For this reason, there is generally a librarian at the desk during the hours that the library is open to the public. Each contact between a librarian and a patron represents an opportunity to teach and learn. In collections, web page design, signage, collection organization, and creation of virtual services, the librarians ask, not just what is easiest or matches the expectations of inexperienced users, but what can be taught through the new design, service or collection. For example, broad aggregate databases have been purchased because they are cost-effective, but the librarians also emphasize and teach comparatively complex digitized indexes which refer students more deeply into the discipline-based literature of their inquiries.
Public Service Desks at Government Documents, Periodicals, the Sound and Image Library (SAIL), Circulation, Media Loan, Photo Services, including Photoland (Instructional Photo), and Electronic media provide access to collection and/or allow patrons to schedule lab space, reserve equipment, and ask for technical help. From anywhere on campus, faculty can phone EM for assistance in using classroom technologies. For a complete list of information desks see Library Service Points. For a complete list of major labs see Major Facilities.
Meanwhile, virtual access to rapidly expanding collection provides substantially improved service to off-campus programs.
See Services for Reservation-Based Students
See Services for Tacoma-Based Students
Cooperative Agreements
5.C.2 In cases of cooperative arrangements with other library and information resources, formal documented agreements are established. These cooperative relationships and externally provided information sources complement rather than substitute for the institution's own adequate and accessible core collection and services.
See 5.B.1
Despite huge improvements in access through Summit and shared purchasing agreements, learning and information resources have not stepped back from support for the core collection. Summit will eventually provide specific data regarding collection use insufficiently supported by our existing collection, while the Orbis Cascade consortium is also working on shared collection development guidelines to help design complementary collections.
See Required Exhibit 11 Formal Agreements with Other Libraries

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Usage and Examples
Before delving into the technical details of how version detection is implemented,
here are some examples demonstrating its usage and capabilities. To enable version detection, just add
-sV to
whatever Nmap flags you normally use. Or use the
-A option,
which turns on version detection and other
Advanced and Aggressive features later. It is really
that simple, as shown in Example 7.2.
nmap -A -T4 -F www.microsoft.com
Starting Nmap ( https://nmap.org )
Nmap scan report for 126.96.36.199
(The 1208 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
22/tcp open ssh Akamai-I SSH (protocol 1.5)
80/tcp open http AkamaiGHost (Akamai's HTTP Acceleration service)
443/tcp open ssl/http AkamaiGHost (Akamai's HTTP Acceleration service)
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.1.X|2.2.X
OS details: Linux 2.1.19 - 2.2.25
Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 19.223 seconds
This preceding scan demonstrates a couple things. First of all,
it is gratifying to see www.Microsoft.Com served off one of Akamai's
Linux boxes. More relevant to this chapter is that the listed service for
port 443 is
ssl/http. That means that service detection first
discovered that the port was SSL, then it loaded up
OpenSSL and
performed service detection again through SSL connections to discover
a web server running AkamiGHost behind the encryption. Recall that
-T4 causes Nmap to go faster (more aggressive
timing) and
-F tells Nmap to scan only ports registered in
Example 7.3 is a longer and more diverse example.
nmap -A -T4 localhost
Starting Nmap ( https://nmap.org )
Nmap scan report for felix (127.0.0.1)
(The 1640 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
21/tcp open ftp WU-FTPD wu-2.6.1-20
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 3.1p1 (protocol 1.99)
53/tcp open domain ISC BIND 9.2.1
79/tcp open finger Linux fingerd
111/tcp open rpcbind 2 (rpc #100000)
443/tcp open ssl/http Apache httpd 2.0.39 ((Unix) mod_perl/1.99_04-dev)
515/tcp open printer
631/tcp open ipp CUPS 1.1
953/tcp open rndc?
5000/tcp open ssl/ftp WU-FTPD wu-2.6.1-20
5001/tcp open ssl/ssh OpenSSH 3.1p1 (protocol 1.99)
5002/tcp open ssl/domain ISC BIND 9.2.1
5003/tcp open ssl/finger Linux fingerd
6000/tcp open X11 (access denied)
8000/tcp open http-proxy Junkbuster webproxy
8080/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.0.39 ((Unix) mod_perl/1.99_04-dev)
8081/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.0.39 ((Unix) mod_perl/1.99_04-dev)
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X
OS details: Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.5.20
Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 42.494 seconds
You can see here the way RPC services are treated, with the
brute-force RPC scanner
being used to determine that port 111 is
version 2. You may also notice that port 515 gives the service as
printer, but that version field is empty.
Nmap determined the service name by probing, but was not able to
determine anything else. On the other hand, port 953 gives the
service as "
rndc?". The question mark tells us that Nmap was not even
able to determine the service name through probing. As a fallback,
rndc is mentioned because that has port 953 registered in
Unfortunately, none of
Nmap's probes elicited any sort of response from rndc. If they had,
Nmap would have printed a service fingerprint and a submission URL so
that it could be recognized in the next version. As it is, Nmap
requires a special
probe. One might even be available by the time you
read this. the section called "Community Contributions" provides details on writing your own probes.
It is also worth noting that some services provide much more information than just the version number. Examples above include whether X11 permits connections, the SSH protocol number, and the Apache module versions list. Some of the Apache modules even had to be cut from the output to fit on this page.
A few early reviewers questioned the sanity of running services such as SSH and finger over SSL. This was actually just fun with stunnel, in part to ensure that parallel SSL scans actually work.


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orgone energy
...unlike Sir Isaac Newton, Reich was not willing to stand upon the shoulders of giants. He stood only as high as his own experiences would allow, and from this low perch imagined himself to be a lone eagle soaring higher than any other man had ever reached. --Roger M. Wilcox
Orgone energy is an alleged type of "primordial cosmic energy" discovered by Dr. Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) in the late 1930s. Reich was an Austrian immigrant to the U.S. who had been trained as a medical doctor, psychiatrist, and Freudian psychoanalyst.
Reich claimed that orgone energy is omnipresent and accounts for such things as the color of the sky, gravity, galaxies, the failure of most political revolutions, and a good orgasm. In living beings, orgone is called bio-energy or Life Energy. Reich believed that orgone energy is "demonstrable visually, thermically, electroscopically and by means of Geiger-Mueller counters."* However, only true believers in orgone energy (i.e., orgonomists practicing the science of orgonomy) have been able to find success with the demonstrations.
Reich claimed to have created a new science (orgonomy) and to have discovered other entities, such as bions, which to this day only orgonomists can detect. Bions are alleged vesicles of orgone energy which are neither living nor non-living, but transitional beings.
Reich died on November 3, 1957, in the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he was sent for criminal contempt. The criminal charge was levied because Reich refused to obey an injunction against selling quack medical devices such as the Orgone Accumulator and orgone "shooters," devices which allegedly could collect and distribute orgone energy, thereby making possible the cure for just about any medical disorder except, perhaps, megalomania and self-delusion.
The Food and Drug Administration not only declared that there is no such thing as orgone energy, they had some of Reich's books burned—a sure-fire way to ignite interest in somebody.
Despite having little status in the scientific community, Reich's ideas have been passed on by a number of devoted followers led by Elsworth F. Baker, M.D., founder of The American College of Orgonomy, and Dr. James DeMeo of The Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, Inc., located in Ashland, Oregon. Baker's successors (he died in 1985) and DeMeo continue to defend both Reich the scientist and orgonomy. Reich saw himself as a persecuted genius and considered the critics who ridiculed him to be ignorant fools.
See also Blondlot and N-rays, pathological science, pseudoscience, and Reichenbach's odic force.
further reading
books and articles
Carlinsky, Joel "William Reich--Epigones of Orgonomy: The Incredible History of William Reich and his Followers," Skeptic, (April 1994) Vol.2, #3.
Gardner, Martin. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science(New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957), ch. 21.
Morrock, Richard. 1994. Pseudo-Psychotherapy: UFOs, Cloudbusters, Conspiracies, and Paranoia in Wilhelm Reich's Pyschotherapy.Skeptic Magazine.
websitesA Skeptical Scrutiny of the Works and Theories of WILHELM REICH By Roger M. Wilcox
Psychiatric Orgone Therapy (character-analytic vegetotherapy) By Roger M. WilcoxHow to Build an Orgone Blanket or Pillow
The American College of OrgonomyWilhelm Reich and Orgone Energy
Wilhelm Reich & Orgone Biophysics by Juan SchochRESPONSE TO RECENT ARTICLES IN SKEPTIC MAGAZINE By James DeMeo, Ph.D.
WHAT IS ORGONE ENERGY? by Charles R. Kelley, Ph.D.FBI file on Reich (789 pages)
Mozambique: Saboteurs or New Age Fanatics? ("...Orgonise Africa is a band of dedicated followers of the Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich....The theory espoused by this group is that everything wrong with the planet is due to a lack of orgone. To set matters right, the [group's members] engage in 'orgone gifting'. This involves dumping 'gifts' of a substance called orgonite into the place - in this case, Cahora Bassa lake - that is to be cured of its orgone deficiency.")
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Here be dragons...
This is a Problem & Workaround Set for a series of CSS Boxes going from a simple single box, through 3 columns with a full width top box, all with variations.
There are also some relevant content placement issues that affect box positioning, a little gem of a bg image problem or two, and my own explanation of what it's all about.
What this isn't, is a how-to for CSS layout. This is a how-to for dealing with the misinterpretations of our current browsers. If you're new to CSS, this is a better place to start.
To which I add a little rant on how to approach designing your CSS, and a word about writing valid code.
CAVEAT - a Warning and an Explanation
Box Lessons was written way back in 2001. In CSS terms that's nearly archaic.
At that time, CSS was not used for positioning. Browser support was either poor or impossibly flawed, as with the then-popular Netscape 4.
This was bad because instead of using CSS, web designers misused table tags to achieve layout. Which failed in anything but the latest browsers for home computer screens -- it was no good for audio readers, cell phones, or really anything other than IE and Netscape. Which was completely at odds with the whole "write once, read anywhere" point of the web.
So Jeffrey Zeldman and the WaSP came up with a very neat hack that allowed keen web designers to use CSS by bypassing Netscape 4. The more-capable browsers would get your CSS, and Netscape would get a safe, unstyled page. Finally, the designer-rabble like me could get down and learn how to use CSS.
I figured the first thing that had to be done was a stable CSS version of the most popular web layout: main content in the middle, bordered by two side columns and a nice header box.
This was surprisingly hard to do. There was a double wall of inexperience combined with an as-yet unmapped minefield of browser issues. A handful of us bashed away at the problem, and I put my accumulated experience online as the Box Lessons. BL was a quick & dirty thing with just enough explanation to guide like-minded designers along. I figured some regular web-tutorial site would do a full version in a few months, and then I and everyone else could forget about the Box Lessons.
I was dead wrong. Everybody linked to Box Lessons instead. My hit-count went through the roof, my inbox exploded, I got invited to conferences, I co-authored a book through two editions, and I spent two years on the WaSP Steering Committee.
Meanwhile Box Lessons chugged along pretty much unmodified. Browsers came and went, and CSS became a minor growth-industry of experts and help-sites. But Box Lessons somehow maintained a rock-steady 1500+ hits a day. This has continued for five years now. I don't know why. It just seems to be what works for some people. A lot of some people.
And they send me the nicest thank-you notes. Box Lessons helped them get started on the web.
Which leaves me a little bewildered because Box Lessons has some real issues. Yes, the layouts still work, but they're full of workarounds for browsers that are as dead as dodos today. And the code syntax is just awful. These pages were patched-together demonstrations for other developers. They were never meant to be examples of good form back then, and today they make me cringe.
But Box Lessons didn't become a obscure historic artifact like it should have. Instead it's still a major starting point for thousands, and that leaves me with a bit of a problem. I simply don't have time to write a modern version, yet I'd be complete jerk to remove it just to save myself some embarrassment. Whatever I might happen think of the BL, it's still the all-important leg up for so many.
Hence this warning and explanation.
You're still most welcome to peruse the Box Lessons. Obviously it helps people in ways that I don't realize. Just please keep your eyes open. The reasons offered for WHY things are done are still good and will remain so. But almost all the browser workarounds listed here are useless today. You just don't need that stuff.
Maybe the Tantek box-width fix for the IE 5's still, though these days there are nicer methods for that if you look for them. But even the IE 5's are finally becoming rare simply because people need up-to-date browsers to keep viruses out.
You certainly don't need all the dreck we used to do for Netscape 4. Anyone still using that busted browser today gets crashed all over by the modern web, so you needn't feel bad that your site does too.
Today you should just write valid code. You will still have to do some workarounds for the few failings of the current popular browsers (and the numerous failings of the awful IE 6), but it's nothing like all the old stuff demonstrated here in Box Lessons. That era is well behind us.
So, caveat out of the way, if you're new to CSS, where should you go?
>Wikipedia - If you're brand new, then just looking up HTML and CSS can be a great help. Wikipedia gives a great introductory explanation to almost everything and this is no exception.
>CSS-Discuss - This is the CSS discussion list. Got a question? CSS-D can probably have it answered before I can even open my mail. Make sure you read the posting etiquette first, and check their own wiki of communal knowledge. That wiki is not just full of great information, but they keep it up to date.
>QuirksMode - This is a great, great resource for finding and dealing with the browser bugs of today, and ignoring the essentially dead browsers of the past. I like what he's done here.
>WaSP - Are you serious about the web and web standards? Then go to the WaSP. Read about who and why they are, dig into Learn for advice and tutorials, and check the daily Buzz to stay current.
>W3C - The source. The W3C writes our web standards. Bookmark the relevant specs, and dig around for the many helpful articles that they've published.
Bonus Advice
Always check the date on CSS websites and books. Since 2001 we've been swamped with new tutorials that get published and then are never updated.
A whole heck of a lot of it contains information and techniques that are simply obsolete, just like Box Lessons. Watch out for anything dealing with old browsers and not the new ones, and be aware that with years of practice we've sometimes figured out better ways of stringing the code than we did at the start. These older works are still very helpful, but keep your lights on for the inevitable sections that are no longer current.
Inadequate Credits
... go to a bunch of people I've never spoken to but I've read their source code and comments. The whole Box Lesson is sort of a Thank You in kind.
Rory and Codebitch provided extremely helpful comments and screenshots of Mac issues.
Nick provided me with badly needed hardware, coffee, and interruptions.
No Thanks to Microsoft, Netscape, and Opera for creating this mess. Now let's get out there and produce standards compliant code so these jokers won't try to make the web into personal fiefdoms again.
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How to Pick a Bookkeeping Company
All companies are supposed to precisely monitor the money going in and out of their accounts by way of salaries, expenses, and sales. Apart from enabling businesses to adhere to tax regulations, proper bookkeeping also helps you to know your business operations completely for learned decision making. Among the major reasons why businesses fail is poor bookkeeping. To avoid it, carefully choose a bookkeeper. To settle for a good bookkeeping company, make sure you follow these guidelines.
You need to hire a bookkeeping company that has technical knowledge. Before choosing a bookkeeping company, you should check if they are updated with software knowledge. This makes sure a bookkeeping company possesses the ability to automate a variety of processes thereby cutting on the time taken to enter data. Cloud based systems help bookkeeping companies to ensure accounts are current. In addition, they assist business owners in pointing issues more rapidly in order to make choices that allow businesses to grow and improve performance.
Be keen on communication skills. For accounting to be termed successful, there is no way out as far as communication is concerned. A reliable bookkeeping company ought to listen in order to be acquainted with the operations, issues, and operations of your business. This helps the company to do its work correctly. Moreover, they should have what it takes to expound things in a sensible manner so you can decide accordingly. To know how good a bookkeeping company is in communication, be keen to note how keen they are at what you say and how informative their responses are during the interview.
Make sure the reputation is paid keener attention to. Your business and the bookkeeping company you settle for are going to build a relationship. This relationship should be based on trust for it to be meaningful. However, this is not possible if you have doubts of the bookkeeping company you choose. This explains the need to make sure a bookkeeping company possesses a good image. You should check reviews and inquire from other business owners so as to know the bookkeeping companies with a positive image. Working with a reputable company assures you of all going well hence enabling you to share any necessary information to enable them to do a good job with your bookkeeping.
You need to put the experience into account. On top of being informed about the daily accounting activities of your company, a bookkeeping company ought to have a deeper knowledge of the industry you operate in and how it applies to your specific financial situation. This will help the bookkeeping company to identify omissions and patterns in your data. Also, it prevents reporting errors and helps one to gain from possible tax savings.


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Jason Collins has been signed for the rest of the season by the Brooklyn Nets.
The NBA's first openly gay player had finished his second 10-day contract, which meant the Nets had to sign him for the remainder of the season if they wanted to keep him.
Collins has added five points, six rebounds and six steals in eight games since signing his first deal on Feb. 23.
He's been a reliable veteran big man on a team that has lost center Brook Lopez for the season and has recently been without Kevin Garnett because of back spasms.
Collins is playing his 13th season in the league, including six previous seasons with the Nets.
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The Nokia Lumia 900 is the Windows Phone I've been waiting for. After months of rumors and speculation, Nokia President Stephen Elop introduced the world to Nokia's flagship Windows Phone at a press conference yesterday at CES in Las Vegas. I had the chance to get my hands on the Lumia 900, which is undoubtedly one of the hottest phones at CES. And yes, I was impressed.
Ever since the debut of Windows Phone 7 two years ago, I've felt that Microsoft was a little behind in the hardware department. That isn't to say that the crop of initial Windows Phones from HTC, Samsung, and LG weren't good, but it was hard not to feel like they were lesser versions of those manufacturer's high-end Android phone.
When Nokia announced it would be hopping on the Windows Phone train, I was excited. As I've written many times before, I've always loved Nokia hardware–particularly the Carl Zeiss cameras–but I didn't like the look and feel of Symbian. Windows Phone seemed to have the opposite problem: great OS, uninspiring hardware. Put the two together and they should make a pretty darn good phone, right?
The first Lumia phones we saw sort of fulfilled my wishes. The Lumia 800, the flagship phone for Europe and Asia, had that signature high quality yet durable Nokia build, but the display seemed a bit on the small side. Plus, it's missing a front-facing camera (even though the Mango update for Windows Phone adds support for dual cameras).
Enter the Lumia 900: Nokia saw which phones were doing well in the United States, and refined and added to the Lumia 800 so it could be competitive. The 900's display got bumped up to 4.30 inches (from 3.7 inches), added a front-facing camera, and–possibly the best addition–added support for AT&T's growing LTE network.
The Lumia 900 beautifully showcases the Windows Phone OS. The body is made from a single injectable polyurethane matte plastic build, as is the Lumia 800, which gives it a sturdy feel. The material is soft to touch, but resistant to scratches (although not necessarily fingerprints). And it doesn't feel like it will completely shatter if you drop it.
The bold bright and bright colors of Windows Phone look smashing on the ClearBlack Super AMOLED display. The display is slightly curved, too, providing good viewing angles and reduced glare.
For me, the most exciting feature is the 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss lens with F2.2 aperture. The Lumia 900 has a dual wide-mode function allowing you to take wide-angle shots. I wasn't able to test the Lumia 900's camera on the showfloor, but when I tested the Lumia 800's camera a few months ago, I was impressed with the snappy shutter speed and high quality photos.
There are some worrisome issues, however. It's hard to say how tough using AT&T's LTE network will be on the Lumia's battery. Nokia claims up to 7 hours of talk time and all-day battery life–but does that include on LTE? Additionally, in a world of dual-core and soon to be quad-core phones how will the Lumia perform in comparison? Windows Phone is a very light-feeling OS and during my quick hands-on, I didn't notice any lag or sluggishness. Still, further testing needs to be done.
Despite these issues, the Lumia 900 is an exciting addition to the world of Windows phones, and might just be the phone to win over consumers who might be hesitant of the OS. I just wish the Lumia 900 came in hot pink like the 800 does, but I guess you can't get everything you wish for.


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I'm good with having all of my files on my Macbook, iPhone, iPad, and iPod. Over 2000 photos, over 2000 videos, over 2000 music tracks, and hundreds of documents in PDF, DOC, TXT and other formats. I'm pretty well locked into Apple, but their late idiocy, er, make that myopia (don't mean to be disrespectful) has made 64 gb the limit on the iPhone, ditto iPad Mini and iPods. So my 90 gb of data has outgrown my devices, and all I can think is, I'd like to have the spare time to mount a campaign to explain to people how Apple has gone downhill since their one and only intelligent leader died. If they had an intelligent leader now, he wouldn't be making a new phone with a camera so inferior to the previous phone's camera (yes, it is), to name another blunder on top of the memory constraint.
Convenience ahead of sound quality? No - if I'm going to sit in one place for awhile I just connect the v-moda Verza DAC/headphone amp and a decent hi-fi headphone and I'm good for CD quality listening with WAV tracks I ripped bit-perfect from CDs, or converted from 96k downloads. For speaker listening, connecting powered speakers or a power amp and speakers is a snap, although that's not my normal situation. I have a Microstreamer DAC for the computer, so I can always play the original WAV or FLAC files in full resolution when desired. Being very small and compact, plus convenient yet ultra high quality is due mainly to the headphone, not the other small components. It's the loudspeakers and loudspeakers only that separate big from small, or convenient from inconvenient for most audiophiles. There is an argument for turntables there somewhere, but that's a fringe item - not mainstream audiophile - not yet anyway.


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Sevendust Reveal 'Black Out the Sun' Album Art
Sevendust are coming back with a shiny new studio album, 'Black Out the Sun,' due out on March 26. Now, the guys have unveiled the official cover art for the release. Check out the simple-yet-impactful work of art in the image to the left.
Fans will have their first taste of the band's ninth studio album with the debut single 'Decay,' which is set to reach active rock airwaves and retail outlets on Jan. 22, 2013.
As for what to expect from the album's sound, drummer Morgan Rose recently told Loudwire that the set would be spontaneous. "I don't know what it's gonna be like but I know it's going to be fresh, there won't be anything that's over analyzed," he said. "Usually, some of our best material that we have written in the studio that way – I think 'Home,' 'Denial,' there's a few songs we've written in studio like that.
"You just go in, nobody has an idea and then all of a sudden it's just done, 'Praise' was done like that. Some of the bigger songs we've done were done with the five of us sittin' in a room and somebody just startin' to play a riff and everybody running with it so that's how we're gonna approach the next record."
Check out a photo gallery from Sevendust's recent stint on ShipRocked 2012 below:


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This is a rare Rolex Submariner 5513 Tropical Dial No-Date that just sold at Antiquorum's May 13, 2012 auction in Geneva. The estimate was ($10,000 to $14,000) and not surprisingly, it sold for more than the high-end of the estimated value at $14,600. Tropical dial Rolexes – whether it is a GMT, Explorer or Submariner – command a significant premium over the same Rolex with a black dial.
Tropical dials likely came from a manufacturing flaw which caused the dials to turn brown after production. Factors such as sunlight, temperature, and other environmental factors may have affected the dial color (especially when you consider the variances between different dials). However, it is widely believed that what caused the original paint material to change brown, was improperly formulated paint. Needless to say, tropical dial Rolexes are rare, and highly sought after by collectors.


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In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like the reporters working the Texas Rangers bankruptcy auction, who got quite a showdown last night between two of the biggest figures in Texas sports.
Nolan Ryan and Chuck Greenberg have been trying to buy the Texas Rangers away from Tom Hicks ever since he announced that the team was bankrupt (running the Dallas Stars and Liverpool FC into the ground soon followed). Ryan and Greenberg were MLB's preferred pick and seemed like a lock: Nolan Ryan was Nolan Ryan and had connections to the team as both a player and a front office executive; Greenberg was the money behind the operation, a nice enough seeming fellow that had the "moxie to lead the [team] back to relevancy and into the playoffs." But it wasn't to be so simple. Hicks would agree to deals, but the lenders behind him would not. Eventually, an auction was deigned to be the answer.
Like a community theater production, the auction became a comedy of errors; made all the better—or worse, depending—by the inclusion of Mark Cuban in the proceedings. As per Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News—who liveblogged the whole thing—Cuban came into the courtroom, guns drawn, when it was announced that his group's bid was $25 million more than the Ryan-Greenberg group. This led to lawyers from both sides cursing at each other in the hallways. What followed was a prolonged to-and-fro between the sides as they continued upping their antes, Cuban's side pausing briefly to order in a few pizzas, giving out a slice to SBJ's Daniel Kaplan—likely a broken man by the end of the night.
Just after midnight, the bids had gone into the high $500 millions and the strangest thing happened—Cuban stopped. He looked at the Ryan-Greenberg group's latest bid—$385 million in cash, $208 million in assumed debt, $12 million in escrow—and balked. Seventeen years and one hour after Nolan Ryan put Robin Ventura in a headlock, he owned the damn team. Truly a night to remember for baseball and finance reporters in the state of Texas. But then the conspiracy theories started.
Rob Iracane of Walk Off Walk pointed out this morning that the winning bid did not include any land around the stadium. The deal that the Ryan-Greenberg group originally reached was for $575 million, but $70 million of that was for land. This means that there is an extra $88 million going directly to Tom Hick's creditors—who can now pay Mickey Tettleton that money he's still mystifyingly owed.
Randy Galloway of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram looked at the involvement of Cuban and the rising prices and just knew in his bones that Cuban had no real interest in the team and was only trying to drive up the price. Yes, Cubes was a lender to the club after buying up some of the debt. But that's just a sly move on his part. If he's one of the creditors as well as a bidder, he's guaranteed to either buy the team—his attempts to purchase an MLB team are well recorded—or recoup his expenses and live to try again in the future. How Randy Galloway twists this into a malicious move on Cuban's part, much less that he was working as the "lackey" of the shadowy creditors is beyond me. When asked for comment, Cuban told us "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard," and right now, we believe it.


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We have been in Prague since Saturday afternoon and we have completely fallen in love with this Czech city! The architecture is beautiful and all of the streets are cobblestone which makes you feel like you are stepping back in time. Everyone is so friendly here and the vibe is very laid back and chill. We are staying at Aria Hotel Prague, which is a gorgeous hotel with access to a sprawling private garden with beautiful views of the city. I will have a full post on our hotel later this week, so stay tuned!
We decided to take a paddle boat out on the river and it was honestly the best money we ever spent. It was so much fun and we got some really cool pictures of the scenery. It was so cool to get to go under the bridges with our little paddle boat. Luckily no one threw anything at us 😛 Someone told me while they were paddle boating in Paris, someone threw water on them, which is so rude!
Dress: Bytimo | Hat: Sole Society | Fanny Pack: Gucci | Watch: Kate Spade
Last night we dined at the restaurant on top of our hotel, Coda Restaurant, and watched the sunset with the church bells chiming in background. If you come to Prague you simply must have a meal at Coda Restaurant Terrace- the views alone are worth it.
Dress: Bytimo | Earrings: Anthropologie | Shoes: Treasure & Bond | Hat: Sole Society | Watch: Kate Spade
If you've been contemplating taking a trip to Prague, I can assure you that it's totally worth it and you 100% must see this picturesque city. I will have more posts about Prague in the next couple of weeks!


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Legacy OpenGL
In 2008, version 3.0 of the OpenGL specification was released. With this revision, the Fixed Function Pipeline as well as most of the related OpenGL functions and constants were declared deprecated. These deprecated elements and concepts are now commonly referred to as legacy OpenGL. Legacy OpenGL is still supported by certain implementations that support core OpenGL 3.1 or higher and the GL_ARB_compatibility extension. Implementations that do not expose this extension do only offer features defined in the core OpenGL specification the implementation is based upon.
Note: There is a distinction between the above extension and the corresponding profile which was introduced with OpenGL 3.2.
Implementations of compatibility contexts
Both AMD and NVIDIA provide backwards-compatible implementations at least on Windows and Linux. Apple does only provide an implementation of the core profile and supports core OpenGL 3.2 on Mac OSX. Intel provides an implementation for Windows up to OpenGL 3.1 with Sandy Bridge CPUs and OpenGL 4.0 with Ivy Bridge CPUs. However, Intel's Linux open-source driver developers have recently stated that they will not provide backward-compatibility on Linux.
Detecting legacy OpenGL
Although by no means exhaustive, the following examples are common in most legacy OpenGL applications.
One typical sign that code is using Legacy OpenGL is immediate mode vertex attribute specification starting with a call to glBegin ending with a call to glEnd. This concept is based on a procedural method, where vertex attributes are provided vertex by vertex and attribute by attribute. For instance
- setting the object-space position with glVertex*
- setting the current vertex color with glColor*
- setting the current direction interpreted as the vertex normal with glNormal*
Other regularly employed facilities are the matrix stack and matrix manipulation commands:
glRotatef(90.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0);
glTranslatef(0.0, 0.0, -5.0);
Fixed-Function lighting is found in most legacy applications as well. For that purpose, command such as:
- glLight* for setting certain parameters of a specific light source
- glLightModel for determining the shading algorithm
- glMaterial for setting material properties that influence said shading algorithm
are used to coarsely approximate real-world lighting with either flat shading or Gouraud shading.
Removed functionality
A comprehensive list of all functionality removed from core OpenGL 3.1 and higher can be found in Appendix E of the OpenGL 3.0 specification. The following enumeration shows some important areas that are affected by removal.
- Fixed-function vertex and fragment processing. These stages of the rendering pipeline are now the developers responsibility and can be fully programmed using shaders.
- Immediate-mode vertex attribute specification, client-side vertex arrays. Vertex Attributes must be stored in one or more Buffer Objects, or be specified explicitly using glVertexAttrib*(). Since OpenGL 3.2 using Vertex Array Objects is mandatory.
- The GL_QUAD and GL_POLYGON primitive types.
- The matrix stack and related matrix manipulation functions. This includes projection, model-view and texture matrices. Corresponding built-in GLSL functions have also been removed. Managing matrices and sending data to shaders is now the developers responsibility. See this page for libraries designed for that purpose.
- Fixed-function lighting, materials and color materials, fixed-function shadow mapping and bump mapping. Everything possible with functions corresponding to these areas can easily be emulated with shaders.
- Accumulation and auxiliary buffers. If additional buffers are needed Framebuffer Objects can be used.
- Versions 1.10 and 1.20 of the GLSL.
Reasons to avoid legacy OpenGL
Much of the functionality that was promoted to core OpenGL 3.0 was available as extensions before the specification was released. However, most of the features already moved away from legacy concepts like immediate mode vertex attribute specification and offered advantages in one or more of the following fields.
Vertex attribute data can be transferred once to the GPU, and rendered many times. With immediate-mode concepts this was not the case. Vertex attributes would have been transferred every frame - even when using client-side vertex arrays. Immediate-mode attribute specification has two major drawbacks:
- it incurs a lot of API call, e.g. four calls for four different vertex attributes via glVertex*, glNormal*, glColor* and glTexCoord*
- data has to transferred to the GPU after specification, even with completely static geometry that does not change its appearance in any way
Depending on the number of vertices the geometry to be drawn is made up of, this will lead to a vast number of commands just to specify the vertex attributes. Client-side vertex arrays eliminate the CPU overhead by providing a way to large chunks of attributes with only a few API calls. However, they do not eliminate the need to transfer data to the GPU every time glDrawArrays or glDrawElements are called.
Vertex Buffer Objects use fewer API calls while storing all attributes in GPU memory, eliminating both above mentioned drawbacks. Vertex Array Objects offer even more facilities to reduce the number of API calls, yielding, if all prerequisites are met, only two function calls are needed for geometry of arbitrary complexity (though vertex throughput performance is more complicated than simply the number of API function calls).
Flexibility using shaders
As already mentioned above, shading programs allow for replacement of formerly fixed-function processing stages. Indisputably, shaders offer flexibility which is unmatched by the fixed-function pipeline and there is no point in arguing against them, since programmable shading is a direct reflection of the capabilities of the underlying hardware. Among countless examples depicting the effects possible with shaders, here are just a few which are noteworthy:
- Complex Lighting Models
Fixed-function OpenGL provides only two local lighting models which actually attempt to simulate real-world lighting: flat shading, which produces values for a whole primitive and Gouraud shading which produces values at vertices which are then interpolated across the primitive. With shaders, the lighting model can be arbitrary, albeit still local. For instance, implementing per-pixel Phong shading in GLSL is a very common use-case.
- Shadow Mapping
Although supported by extensions as fixed functionality, shadow mapping using a render-to-texture approach and doing the mathematics involved directly in shaders is much more flexible and much less tedious. GLSL also offers dedicated functions to ease shadow-map lookups.
- Non-Photorealistic Rendering
Among effects in this category are toon shading and cel shading.
- Hardware Geometry Instancing
Moved to core in OpenGL 3.1, dedicated draw calls and corresponding GLSL 1.40 built-ins make this technique easy to use. Using legacy OpenGL, the developer had to either use the matrix stack and render an geometry multiple times, possibly using immediate-mode functions, or use arrays of object-to-world transformation matrices and also render geometry multiple times to achieve the same effect.
- Animation
There are many ways to animate geometry. It can be as simple as a translation or rotation but it can also be a fully fledged character animation system. It can also mean doing no transformation of geometry at all, e.g. when transforming only texture coordinates to achieve certain effect with textures. Legacy application would often employ the matrix stack to achieve this. All of the above can be implemented using shaders and, depending on the algorithm, without much or any intervention from the application.
All of the above can also be combined into multiple permutations of shading programs yielding even more effects.
OpenGL ES 2 and 3 don't support immediate mode. If the application is supposed to portable or compatible with mobile devices, the legacy options is not available. Also, although a new application which is supposed to work on more than one platform, e.g. Windows and Linux, drivers might not expose the compatibility extension and thus only support OpenGL 3.0 or higher core features. If so, the application will not work if only a legacy code path exists. Furthermore, if vendors should decide to drop the compatibility extension at some point, i.e. publish drivers only implementing the core profile, the same problem will arise. Writing applications that use only OpenGL 3.0 or higher core features have the advantage of being not only conforming to version 3.0 but also all other versions up to 4.3 and currently there are no known plans to deprecate more features. This means that applications are future proof regarding driver support on all major platforms until explicitly stated otherwise by hardware vendors.
Using the most recent OpenGL version
Remember: OpenGL is not a library, it is a specification. Like TCP/IP isn't a library; TCP and IP simply define communication protocols, which libraries can implement.
You should always use the latest driver version. But OpenGL versions correspond in part to hardware facilities. The major version numbers for OpenGL generally represent tiers of hardware. For example, OpenGL 3.x is roughly equivalent to Direct3D 10-level hardware. OpenGL 4.x is roughly equivalent to Direct3D 11-level hardware.
So to use OpenGL 4.x features (hardware-based features that is. There are several features of 4.x that are available in 3.x hardware as extensions) means to confine your program to only running on 4.x hardware.
GL 3.x hardware is widely available these days, though 4.x hardware has been around for several years now and will only become more widely available. Which you choose is up to you and your needs.


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Oconee Citizens should attend the SPLOST Public Hearing on Monday, February 10, 2014, at 6 p.m. at the Civic Center on Hog Mountain Road.
… Sometimes I get the impression that a few "Key Officials" have already decided what we need and just want money to go ahead……The Clarke County Courthouse now houses all three Superior Court Judges for the Western Judicial Circuit consisting of two counties: Clarke and Oconee. The Clarke Courthouse sits on its original site and is considered an Athens-Clarke County Landmark….
February 10, 2014
Lot of Politics and Too Little History-Vision in Planning Courthouse
By Wendell Dawson, Editor, AVOC, Inc
The more I read about the "Proposed Oconee Courthouse" the more concern I have. Sometimes I get the impression that a few "Key Officials" have already decided what we need and just want the money to go ahead. That is not how it is supposed to work. Such an important part of our history, our county and the City of Watkinsville deserves more community participation and information.
Little mention is made of the historical background of the current Courthouse Location.The courthouse has been located on its current site since 1806 and served as the first Clarke County Courthouse. Excerpts of HISTORY Of Oconee County & Watkinsville & Courthouse Site.pdf x
One official has been quoted as saying, "Security can't be guaranteed at the current location". That ignores the location of the Fulton County Courthouse near the State Capitol in Atlanta and even Clarke County, both where the original courthouse sites have been maintained over decades and even centuries.Another official is quoted as saying that it will take $ 25 Million to meet the Court needs for the next 20-40 years. That sounds awfully expensive for such a short period and is not supported by history.
Clarke County GA Courthouse on Washington St
The Clarke County Courthouse now houses all three Superior Court Judges for the Western Judicial Circuit consisting of two counties:Clarke and Oconee.The Courthouse sits on its original site and is considered an Athens-Clarke County Landmark. http://athensclarkecounty.com/90/Courthouse
Fulton County Courthouse at 160 Pryor St, Atlanta
The Fulton County Courthouse, built between 1911 and 1914, is an historiccourthousebuilding located at 160 Pryor Street SW inAtlanta, seat ofFulton County, Georgia. It was designed by noted Atlanta-based architectA. Ten Eyck Brown(1878–1940), along with the Atlanta firm of Morgan & Dillon.[2]It is officially theLewis B. Slaton Courthouse.
On September 18, 1980, the original building was added to theNational Register of Historic Places. An annex across the street is connected via skywalk. Both are located inSouth Downtown.
The "List of Proposed County SPLOST projects" reads like a Christmas Wish List or a Shopping List for the nouveau riche. In the past we had lesser resources and had to concentrate on the important stuff. OCONEE COUNTY BOC.Minutes.1.13.14.SPLOST.Mtg.pdf x
For more detail on the planning, politics and history see:
BECKER.2.9.14. SPLOST Requests Top $ 100 Million, Range from $ 55,000 to $ 25 Million.pdfx
Several citizens have asked me about the Courthouse proposal and express surprise at such an ambitious proposal. I have encountered no support for moving the courthouse from downtown and little for a completely new courthouse.
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When I was pregnant with my third, I was immediately welcomed into the 'more than two children' mum's alliance. Complete strangers assured me, that 'the third child is easier than the second' and that 'going from two to three was easier than from one to two'. Some people mentioned how their older child was a great help, I was held to ransom by my entrepreneurial 5 year old, who learnt very quickly that if baby was covered in **** and I needed another pack of wipes, she could pretty much negotiate anything!! Even friends and family with more than two, lied blatantly to my face about the workload and life changes involved in having three children. Maybe their well meaning comments were a desperate attempt to assure themselves that they did the right thing to have that third child, or maybe they were so damn tired during the early months of having three, that they were actually delusional about what it was really like!!
If you are considering having a third, here's a summary of some of the challenges you may face, they can all be over-come (except maybe growing an extra arm!) in one way or another and for me, were well worth it in the end!!
So, once you are a family of five or more, you no-longer fit into the average family bracket. Family tickets are generally for two adults and two children, hotel rooms are predominantly for families of up to four and if you have three under-fives, just try getting three car seats in the back of an average family car!! You only have two hands, space for two on your lap and when you try to go swimming at your local pool- the computer says 'no'!! You, as a couple, are officially outnumbered!!
You need to be places at particular times! With your first, you can stay in or leave the house as you please. You may have appointments to attend but they are of your choosing and can be scheduled around nap times. The second (with the average 2 ½ year age gap) is similar at the start, nothing too ridged in day-to-day life. Once you are on to the third child, (providing you haven't got twins) even if you popped them out in quick succession, the oldest will be committed to some sort of activity, nursery or in my case, school. Whether they have to get there (in the case of full time school) or not, you will want to keep the routine, especially if it means one less child for a few hours! But the walking or driving backwards and forwards to different activities means that the baby sleeps far too much in the day. I was a zombie for the first 10 months of the Boy's life, as he never slept at night and I was so tired during the day, I couldn't bring myself to wake him!
The car. As I mentioned before, getting three car seats in the back of a family car is virtually impossible as the middle seat is too narrow. We ended up with a Landrover Discovery monster (not the most economical to say the least!) because it was one of the few that had equal sized back seats plus the bonus of an extra two seats in the boot for grandparents, friends or hitch-hikers ;). Now, I couldn't be without a seven-seater, I know it sounds crazy but it's actually far easier if they all have play-dates at the same time- that means collecting six kids from school!!
Holidays. We just have to be more organised! Hotels do cater for larger families but I've learnt to search via our criteria, rather than look for a hotel I like, only to be disappointed that they can only offer us adjoining or two separate rooms (far more expensive than one larger room). We got away with it while the Boy was still in a cot- he was in a cot on holiday until his head and feet touched both ends (#badmother!)
So why did we have a third? For the simple reason of trying for the 'elusive boy'. With J's sister being the only girl out of nine cousins and siblings, and the fact that the sperm determines a baby's sex, I fully expected to have another girl. J may well have built a man-cave at this point and lived, as a recluse, in the garden! But, we got our boy. And no, we would not have tried again, had he been a girl!!!
When I see a family with three children, and the older two are different genders, I still can't help thinking 'why would you have a third?'
Well, we're now out of the other side and past the 'baby/ toddler' stage! Though I wouldn't change it for the world, it really wasn't that easy and I'm sure having three will continue to present challenges, being truly outnumbered by my children!! At least I have a greater chance of one of them looking after me in later life! There are of course, many positives to having three children, I just can't think of any more right now………….. 😉
Do you have three or more children? Are you considering having a large family? What have you found to be your greatest challenge with a larger family?


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Title: Africa, the G8, and the Blair Initiative
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Date: July 20, 2005
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- This report provides background on Africa, the G8, and the Gleneagles meeting. It outlines the British proposals and the U.S. reaction to them to date. In addition, it briefly reviews the problems that have inhibited African development and the response to those problems at previous G8 meetings. For additional information, see CRS Report RL32489, Africa: Development Issues and Policy Options, and CRS Issue Brief IB95052, Africa: U.S. Foreign Assistance Issues.
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If there were a Hall of Fame for materials, manganites would be among its members. Some manganites, compounds of manganese oxides, are renowned for colossal magnetoresistance -- the ability to suddenly boost resistance to electrical conductivity by orders of magnitude when a magnetic field is applied -- and manganites are also promising candidates for spintronics applications -- devices that can manipulate electrons according to their quantum spin as well their charge.
What's not particularly unusual about manganites, however, is that they have stripes, regions where the material's electrical charges gather and concentrate. Other so-called correlated-electron materials also have stripes, including many high-temperature superconductors having the same crystal structure: arrangements of layers of atoms named for the mineral perovskite.
Now a team of researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and Argonne National Laboratory have used the technique of angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES), at beamline 12.0.1 at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, to demonstrate a startling new feature of one kind of lanthanum strontium manganese oxide.
This "two-dimensional bilayer manganite" can change its stripes from fluctuating to static and back. As a result, at the right temperature it switches from a metallic state, a good conductor of electricity, to an insulator -- a colossal change in conductivity. The researchers report their results in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
New stripes versus old
"Self-organization of charges into static stripes isn't new, but as far as we know this is the first good insight into what happens to the electronic properties of a material when stripes 'fluctuate' -- in other words, break their perfect order -- and fracture to pieces," says Alexei Fedorov, staff scientist for ALS beamline 12.0.1 and a co-author of the PNAS paper. "It establishes the existence of a distinct new phase of the material, which we call fluctuating bi-stripes."
Unlike the stripes in some high-temperature superconductors, in which the electrons move freely, the electrons in the manganite bi-stripes are frozen in place. Electrons not trapped inside a stripe are free to move, but when the stripes are lined up side by side, all the way across the crystal, free electrons are stymied at every turn.
The bilayer compound used in the study has the formula La2‑2xSr1+2xMn2O7. The x's in the formula indicate the degree of positive doping, the introduction of additional positive charge carriers or holes (in fact, the absence of electrons), which markedly affect how the compound behaves.
Previous studies of lanthanum strontium manganese oxides focused on low to medium doping levels, where the sample behaves either as a ferromagnetic metal or an anti-ferromagnetic insulator. (Ferromagnetism is the kind of magnetism displayed by iron, which can be magnetized by a magnetic field applied from outside and can retain that magnetism.) The new study was conducted at higher doping over a range of temperatures, where earlier x-ray scattering experiments had observed static stripes.
"Static bi-stripes have a wider spacing and only occur at higher temperatures," says Fedorov. "It sounds counterintuitive, but below the critical temperature the bi-stripes 'melt,' and instead of forming long parallel bands they become disordered." The disordered stripes exist as broken fragments, allowing free electrons to find a path among them.
Detecting disordered or "fluctuating stripes" is tricky. ARPES can detect their presence, but x‑ray scattering, which reconstructs an image from x-rays diffracted by atoms of specific elements in the sample, doesn't see them individually; rather it responds to their periodicity. Since there's no periodicity in the "melted" stripes of highly doped La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7, the scattering signalquickly disappears below the temperature at which the static bi-stripes disappear.
How to catch stripes in the act
ARPES can see both kinds of stripes because it draws a spectrum of electronic states directly, when a bright beam of soft x‑rays from ALS beamline 12.0.1 falls on the sample and excites the electrons into the vacuum. These electrons are caught by a detector that measures their kinetic energy and direction. From this data the electronic structures in the sample can be identified.
The remarkable ability to turn the conductivity of properly doped bilayer manganite on and off just by adjusting its temperature a few degrees holds obvious promise. The bi‑stripes act like electronic valves and could be used to tune various materials -- perhaps even high-temperature superconductors -- by altering the material's stripe structure.
"We're after smart materials," says Fedorov. "We need them for all kinds of reasons -- for example, for electronic devices so energy efficient that they can run on a lighter batteries or fewer solar cells. In this area, applications are already getting ahead of what we comprehend -- for example, colossal magnetoresistance or high-temperature superconductivity. To make real progress, it's important that we understand the physics of highly correlated materials."
The physical picture of bilayer manganite the researchers have come up with shows how electrons can hop from manganese atom to manganese atom. Some of these atoms lack three electrons (Mn3+) and others lack four (Mn4+), and at low temperature the free electrons alternate from one to the next as they find paths through the disordered landscape. But at high temperature the stripes line up -- and the gaps between them are wider, accommodating an extra row of Mn4+ atoms, as a result of the extra hole doping. Electrons can't negotiate these irregularly spaced "stepping stones."
For the success of the team's work, Fedorov credits a long history of manganite research by the University of Colorado physicists, Zhe Sun and Quinn Wang, led by Daniel Dessau; the high-quality manganite samples made by Jennifer Hong Zheng and group leader John Mitchell from Argonne; and finally the characteristics of the 12.0.1 beamline, which was built for ARPES. He says, "The beamline was recently upgraded for greater photon flux, improved resolution, and excellent sample positioning, and" -- because experiments that rely on temperature change need a good vacuum -- "the stable vacuum environment, which made this study possible."
Additional work was done at beamline 10.0.1 with beamline scientist Sung-Kwan Mo. Both beamlines are operated by the ALS's Scientific Support Group under Zahid Hussain. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
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CNN) -- Two airplanes came too close to one another while attempting to land at a Detroit airport, a federal official said early Saturday, days after another close incident involving three jets at a Washington, D.C. airport.
A Delta flight from Phoenix was coming in to land Friday night at the Detroit Metro Airport as a small regional jet was trying to land, said Elizabeth Cory, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
The two planes were separated by approximately two horizontal miles. Standard separation distance is three miles, Cory said, noting that an investigation is under way.
CNN first learned of the incident from an alleged passenger who said he could see a regional jet below them from his cabin window.
"Air traffic control was aware that they had a situation where separation was less than they would like," Cory said.
Both pilots had visual contact with each other and neither plane was at risk of colliding with the other, she added.
Friday's incident in Detroit comes a day after federal authorities acknowledged that three U.S. Airways-operated jets at Reagan National Airport came closer than they should have because of an air traffic control "miscommunication."
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The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon when air traffic controllers were making adjustments for landing and departing aircraft because of bad weather.
The Chautauqua Airlines flight came within 800 vertical feet and .82 nautical miles after takeoff of an arriving aircraft, identified as a Republic Airlines flight, authorities said.
The third plane involved was another Republic Airlines flight, which was taking off and came within 2.07 nautical miles and 800 vertical feet of the arriving flight.
"During the switchover of operations, miscommunication between the Tracon and the DCA tower led to a loss of the required separation between two regional jets departing from Runway 1 and a regional jet inbound for Runway 19," the Federal Aviation Administration said.
"Tracon," or terminal radar approach control, is a reference to a regional radar facility. "DCA" is the International Air Transport Association code for Reagan National Airport.
"At no point were the three aircraft on a head-to-head course," said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
The FAA is investigating and plans to take "appropriate action to address the miscommunication" of Tuesday's incident.
"Such near misses and any operational errors are calls to action," Rep. John L. Mica, R-Florida, said after the Tuesday incident. "I'm asking our Aviation Subcommittee staff and FAA to thoroughly review what happened."
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An article by Mairead Maguire for Transcend
I was a participant onboard the Zaytouna-Oliva boat | 29 Sep-5 Oct 2016.
26 Oct 2016 – A few weeks ago, the US government agreed to give Israel $38 billion dollars, the largest military funding package the U.S. has given any nation. This $38 billion in military and other type of Aid will be used to imprison the Palestinians of Gaza, and continue Israel's military occupation, and imposition of an apartheid state, upon the Palestinian people.
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This money will be used in the training fields of Israeli military, which are in Gaza, where military experiments are done, using US military weaponry, by the Israeli Occupation Forces. The U.S. military and government is complicit in the crimes against the people of Gaza and the Palestinian occupied territory by the use of military hardware given by USA and by the training that Israelis give to Americans and USA gives to Israel. It is also estimated that some 70% of European humanitarian aid to Palestine ends up in Israeli pockets.
Gaza continues to suffer from the continuing Israeli blockade, naval and land, and this 25-mile-long tiny strip, 5 miles wide, with l.9 million people, living in it, is a brutal blockade and Israel controls everything including electricity, food, etc.
Indeed, everything that comes into Gaza comes through Israeli hands. Gaza's only airport was completely destroyed in 2002 by Israeli jets and ground forces. Egypt continues to be a part of this blockade as they have blocked Gaza's southern border; and Egypt continues to receive USA military funding. Medical authorities have reported that the time for operations in Gaza now goes up to 2025 as so many are awaiting health care, and the increasing issues around food, water, sewage, electricity, all of these mounting problems have led the U.N. to declare in their latest Report, that by the year 2020 Gaza will be uninhabitable. What hope is there for the Palestinians of Gaza, the vast majority of whom are young people?
In order to give hope to the people of Gaza by showing solidarity and support the Women's Boat to Gaza sailed in September 2016. Also we sailed in order to challenge this illegal and immoral blockade and occupation of Palestine by Israel, and draw international attention to the fact that under Geneva Conventions it is illegal to punish civilians, which is what Israeli government policies continues to do.
The Women's Boat to Gaza set sail from the Spanish Port city of Barcelona (Barcelona is twinned with Gaza) in mid- September 2016. The three legs of the trip were 1715 miles from Barcelona to Ajaccio, Corsica, France and then down to Messina in Sicily, Italy.
It was hoped to have two boats but when one developed engine trouble in Barcelona, the other 50' sailing boat, Zaytouna-Oliva, continued alone. At all Ports the women were greeted and hosted by mayors, officials, and supporters of the Free Palestine Movement. Over 40 women from around the world flew to Messina in hopes of being able to sail to Gaza.
I joined the boat in Messina, and was grateful to be chosen as one of the 13 women from thirteen countries, being finally chosen to sail to Gaza. It was sad for those of us sailing to leave behind so many wonderful women due to not enough boats to sail, but it is hoped the Palestinian Coalition will be able to get more sailings to accommodate those wishing to go on a future occasion. The 13 chosen participants included Ann Wright, (boat leader) the captain and two crew, two Al Jazeera journalists, and women from USA, Ireland, Russia, UK, Spain, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden/Chile, Malaysia, South Africa, Australia, and Algeria.
The third leg of the journey from Messina to Gaza was almost 1000 miles and a nine-day journey. On 29th September 2016, we set sail from Messina, Sicily, after a wonderful reception from the mayor, the Muslim community, and many Palestinian friends in Messina.
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The first few days sailing the weather was rough and many of us were seasick, but several days into the journey we had got our sea-legs and busied ourselves helping with the tasks to be done such as cooking, reporting, night watches with the crew, etc. We shared our stories and held nonviolence training. It was a wonderful experience getting to know the women whose courage was inspiring. Their love for the Palestinian people and their freedom was very deep. Unfortunately, some 400 miles from Messina, with some 600 miles to go, we had problems with the boats rigging. An appeal to friends in Crete resulted in a boatful of people coming out to meet us, bringing many gifts of food, and four men to fix the rigging! This was for me one of the most moving experiences of the journey, and it proved yet again, the magnificence of the human spirit. Around 20 men and women answered our call for help and came to our aid, and all for the people of Gaza. After the men fixed our boat rigging, we passed greetings to our rescuers from Crete and sailed in a happy and hope filled mood towards Gaza.
On Wednesday 5th October, we were contacted by the Israeli navy by phone. A few hours earlier all communications via our own phones were cut off. The Israeli navy communicator told Captain Madeleine that we were nearing the 20-mile military Israeli security zone and were breaking Israeli law. They said if we did not turn back or agree to be escorted to Ashdod, they would confiscate our boat and take us to Israel.
However, we kept sailing towards Gaza. We saw several Navy military ships on the horizon. At 6 p.m., a Zodiac boat came alongside our boat. There were 30 Israeli sailors including Israeli women sailors who were the first to come on board our boat.
They were not in combat gear. They wore baseball caps, and long sleeved jerseys. In 2010, I had been on the Rachel Corrie Irish/Malaysian boat, which was part of the Freedom Flotilla and when we were boarded by Israeli sailors, they were in combat gear, with rifles, and sniffer dogs, and we were handcuffed and forcibly taken to Israel. I was surprised when this different approach was used to confiscate our boat, the Zaytouna. In 2010, on the Mavi Marmara, the Israelis murdered nine people, and subsequently a 10th person died as 50 people were wounded. Therefore, the treatment of our women's boat to Gaza participants was very different from what happened on previous ones where I had travelled.
On the Zaytouna, when the Israeli navy sailors confiscated our boat, took us under protest against our will to Israel, arrested, held us for several days without contact with our families, and deported us for ten years, it was all completely illegal under international law. However, it is sad to report that no governments or international bodies have taken up our case for being hijacked, and again the Israeli government has been allowed to break international laws.
All the women were deeply saddened as we knew many people in Gaza were preparing for our visit, and yet again Israel was denying our entry into Gaza. So as we watched the coastline of Gaza in complete darkness and then the coastline of Israel fully lit up against the night sky, we were again witnessing the injustice and unfairness of the Israeli policies against the Palestinians.
With this experience, many of us committed in our hearts to continue our support for the Palestinian people's ongoing work to break the blockade and end the occupation. We also saw just off the coast of Gaza two huge gas rigs fully lit up and whose gas is piped to Israel. Yet Gaza has only a few hours of light, as Israeli bombings have destroyed most of its electricity and sewage infrastructures.
When we reached Ashdod, Israel, after six hours sailing, we were processed by Israeli security and searched, taken to Prison and released two days later. All the women on board the Zaytouna, now have a ten-year deportation order. As this is my 4th time being given a 10-year deportation order, it will be 40 years before I can return to Israel or get into Palestine. This thought reminds me that there are over 7 million Palestinian people who cannot return to their country, and this is why it is so important to campaign for the right to return for the Palestinian people.
I would like to thank the Freedom Flotilla Coalition who gave us the opportunity to participate on the journey to Gaza. Their work of joining in solidarity with the people of Gaza is so important and I thank them for all they do.
To the Palestinian people of Gaza, please keep your hopes high and believe that freedom and peace will come. Thank you for your perseverance and ongoing inspiration to us all.


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(Reuters) — Bitcoin soared to its highest in almost five months on Tuesday, pulling smaller cryptocurrencies up with it, after a major order by an anonymous buyer set off a frenzy of computer-driven trading, analysts said.
The original cryptocurrency soared as much as 20 percent in Asian trading, breaking $5,000 for the first time since mid-November. By mid-afternoon, it had settled around $4,800, still up 16 percent in its biggest one-day gain since April last year.
Bitcoin surged to near $20,000 in late 2017, the peak of a bubble driven by retail investors. But last year prices collapsed by three-quarters, with trading dominated by smaller hedge funds and crypto-related firms.
Today's gain was probably triggered by an order worth about $100 million spread across U.S.-based exchanges Coinbase and Kraken and Luxembourg's Bitstamp, said Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, chief executive of cryptocurrency firm BCB Group.
"There has been a single order that has been algorithmically-managed across these three venues, of around 20,000 BTC," he said.
"If you look at the volumes on each of those three exchanges – there were in-concert, synchronized, units of volume of around 7,000 BTC in an hour".
Still, analysts could not point to any specific developments that could explain the mystery buyer's big order.
Cryptocurrency markets had until today seen a period of relative calm through the year, with bitcoin trading around $3,300 and $4,200.
Big institutional investors have largely stayed on the sidelines. Concern over security breaches and regulatory uncertainty were cited as reasons for the lack of mainstream enthusiasm in digital coins.
In a sign of bitcoin's failure to gain an equal footing with conventional markets, Cboe Global Markets — which offered the first U.S. bitcoin futures contracts in 2017 — said last month it would no longer offer bitcoin futures contracts.
CME Group continues to list its futures product, which launched soon after Cboe.
"Altcoins" also surge
Outsized price moves of the kind rarely seen in conventional markets are common in cryptocurrency markets, where liquidity is thin and prices opaque. Big orders tend to spark buying by algorithmic traders, said Charlie Hayter, founder of industry website CryptoCompare.
As bitcoin surged, 6 million trades occurred in an hour, Hayter said — three to four times the usual amount, with orders concentrated on Asian-based exchanges.
Bitcoin's surge sent smaller cryptocurrencies, known as "altcoins," trading higher. Ethereum's ether and Ripple's XRP, respectively the second- and third-largest coins, both jumped by more than 10 percent.
Price moves of smaller coins tend to be correlated to bitcoin, which still accounts for just over half of the value of the cryptocurrency market.
"Usually bitcoin is the leader of the market and altcoins tend to follow, as far as direction and sentiment is concerned," said Mati Greenspan, an analyst at eToro in Israel. "Today bitcoin is in the driving seat."
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