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This is a lesson about the formation of glaciers, ice layering and stratigraphy, and the cryosphere and cryobotics. Learners will collect evidence of layering, explore the science story that layering tells, study snow and ice for insights into... (View More) climate change, and learn about the tools used to explore ice layers on Earth and in the solar system. Connections between rings of a tree and rings in an ice core will be made. Activities include small group miming, speaking, drawing, and/or writing. This is lesson 7 of 12 in the unit, Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
Learners will investigate how water and ice exist in the atmosphere as they study water vapor condensing, find that clouds are made of tiny droplets of water, and notice that snow forms in clouds. Activities include demonstrations by the teacher,... (View More) small group miming, speaking, drawing, and/or writing. In addition to commonly found classroom materials, dry ice, an aquarium or terrarium container, magnifying glass are needed. This is lesson 6 of 12 in the unit, Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
This is a lesson about how and why ice flows, especially in a large mass such as a glacier. Learners will experience the qualities of viscoelastic materials and view videos of glacial ice flows. They will observe ice flows and materials other than... (View More) ice flowing differently under stress, and will investigate landscape changes as a result of large scale glacial movement. Activities include small group miming, speaking, drawing, and/or writing. This is lesson 5 of 12 in the unit, Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
Temperature Variations and Habitability: Activity A Observing, Describing, and Adapting to Environmental Variations
In this activity, student teams design and conduct a scientific investigation in which they explore the conditions necessary for life. They conduct observations of environmental conditions both indoor and outdoor, and determine the range of... (View More) variation they see. They compare these data with published temperature data for Earth, Mars, Pluto and Venus. The activity supports inquiry into the real world challenge of searching for life in extreme environments. The resource includes several student data sheets, data table and images, and a teacher's guide. Materials needed for this activity include weather instruments (e.g., thermometers, barometers, anemometers). This is Activity A of two activities in the first module, titled "Temperature variations and habitability," of the resource, "Earth Climate Course: What Determines a Planet's Climate?" The course aims to help students to develop an understanding of our environment as a system of human and natural processes that result in changes that occur over various space and time scales. (View Less)
Materials Cost: Over $20 per group of students
This field activity introduces students to the concept of a system. Students identify the components, inputs and outputs of the local system at a range of biometry study sites, as well as the boundaries of their investigations at these sites in... (View More) terms of space and time. Collected data from the different sites are analyzed and compared. The activity includes a student worksheet and data charts. Equipment needed to do this activity includes a compass and camera. This is a learning activity associated with the GLOBE Land Cover/Biology investigations and is supported by the GLOBE Teacher's Guide, Land Cover/Biology. (View Less)
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A collection of different Romantic and Sentimental Dramatic tracks. The tracks all have beautiful cinematic, romantic and emotional sounds to them.
Almost 16 minutes of music for a special discounted price!
1.A Walk in the Park – 1:50
A beautiful and emotional Romantic track gives off the feelings of love and reflection – two lovers strolling through a park.
2. Epic Adventure – 3:24
An inspirational and motivational cinematic Romantic track that builds up with emotional feelings and a beautiful piano melody.
3.Act of Valor – 3:20
This track has more of a sentimental emotional feelings – soldiers returning from war, lovers saying goodbye forever.
4.Romantic Journey – 3:57
This is a pure cinematic score for a movie, video game or trailer. It builds up with beautiful orchestral movements and a tension filled breakdown before the final climax of amazingness. This track tells the story of a journey for love and adventure.
5.A Summer's Night – 1:20
This track has an uplifting and upbeat romantic dance type feel. Very synchronized and going along with a slight beat this is fun, cinematic and loving. A very carefree and beautiful track.
6.Flower – 1:53
This is a mix of Orchestral Romantic feel good music and a bit of hip hop. Would work well with more happy romantic and loving scenes and projects.
If you have any questions about this music pack or need help with anything please feel free to e-mail me directly. Thank You and Enjoy!

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"Cinderella does not have a Fairy Godmother, Sleeping Beauty does not have an evil stepmother, Rapunzel is pregnant and Frog Princes do not get kissed but thrown against walls.
This is the world of the Brothers Grimm – two German siblings who in 1812 published a collection of fairy tales including Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin and Rapunzel. They may not be the fairy tales as we know them, but without the Brothers Grimm we might not know them at all.
But why did two respectable German linguists go chasing after fairy stories, what do the stories tell us about German culture and nationalism at the time and why do these ever-evolving tales of horror, wonder and fantasy continue to hold us in thrall?"
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text: WASHINGTON — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't fully use their skills and knowledge. Young adults with bachelor's degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs — waiter or waitress, ...Read More »


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In my last blog I wrote about some useful cloud based services that could be used by development professionals for their convenience, and also for understanding the broader implications of moving towards the cloud. Today we will look at some innovative uses of cloud services.
A service or a tool is only as good as the use you make of it. Two interesting uses of cloud services are the use of Google Docs to do surveys, and the potential for real time collaboration.
Google Docs as we saw, is typically used to create documents, spreadsheets and Powerpoint presentations. One little known use is the use of Google Docs to create surveys using HTML forms. Google Spreadsheets allows you to create HTML forms from Google. They offer over 60 themes and 7 question types that allow you to create professional looking forms. What I liked best about it was that you could see live responses in the spreadsheet form. You can automatically add responses to a spreadsheet that are connected to your survey, view the collected information, and generate charts and graphs. Here's how you can do it:
Using Google Forms to make surveys
Go to docs.google.com
You may have to create an account if you don't already have one.
Create a new spreadsheet by going to Create New >Spreadsheet
A new spreadsheet opens up. Now go to Tools -> Form->Create a Form (see below)
This opens up a new form that you can then complete. See how the first question is filled out below:
There is a header at the top, where you can fill in the title of the survey, along with any helpful text below. Next you type in the question and the help text. On the right are three useful icons, the pencil icon is to edit, the two sheets are to duplicate or copy and of course the last one, we all recognize, trash or delete the question.
Now click on the duplicate or copy icon to copy the first question into the second question. Create the next question. This time, let's review the question types - we can have the participants type in free text, paragraph text, multiple choice, checkboxes, list, scale and grid.
Let's ask for the gender of the participant, using the option, multiple choice.
We will add one more query on salary and then save the form.
Once we save the form and go back to the spreadsheet, we will see that the questions have been added to the spreadsheet.
The survey is now ready to be sent out. You can embed the survey on your web page, send it out via email or share on your social networks. As people start to fill out the survey, your spreadsheet will automatically get populated. No need to physically compile responses and put them together! It is all automated.
You can now send out the form if you wish either through the spreadsheet option "send form" or from the "send form" option on the form itself. Other options, as you can see are go to live form, embed form in web page and show summary of options.
Sending the form results in an email window popping up like the following:
and off you go!
The "live form" even without modifications looks quite nice. See below:
Collaboration. The lack of tools for online collaboration can seriously affect the quality of work. Consider a common situation:
- One person produces a report and wants input from others. She sends it out to her colleagues
- Each colleague provides feedback. The tech savvy ones probably use Word to mark up the changes and send it back. Others will list the revisions on each page and para and send back a list via email
- The originator now has to combine all the revisions and then prepare the final document
Compare this to using Google Docs for collaboration
- The originator sends the document to everyone using Gmail (or not)
- Each person logs into Google Docs to make their changes
- Multiple logins allow each person who is logged in to see both his/her own changes as well as the changes made by others
- The originator logs in after the deadline and has the edits included in one single document
The latter is much more efficient. Here are the collaborative features that make Google Docs specially useful for online collaboration:
- Ability to share: You can mail the link, opting to paste the entire document in your email or send just the link.
- Access control: Users can also give multiple people access to the document
- Live editing: With Google Docs you can have two or more people working on a document at the same time, with both being able to view the changes that the other person is making.
As you can see, Google Docs is great at enabling collaborative work.
All in all there are enough cloud based services out there to allow one to completely give up desktop software during travel or for short periods of time. Admittedly, none of the services out there come close to professional software (although Google is getting closer everyday). However by learning to use these services, development practitioners can become familiar with cutting edge cloud based services and understand the challenges and promise of the cloud for achieving development outcomes.
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The Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy, facilitated by the Association for Environmental Health of Soils, has awarded Stephen Koenigsberg, Ph.D., vice president, Adventus Americas Inc., the Lifetime Achievement Award (Industry Sector).
This award is given to environmental professionals who have given significant contributions to a field of science or engineering, as assessed by the level and longevity of contributions, assumption of responsibilities, and volunteerism for charitable organizations and not-for-profit groups in the areas of industry, academia, government and military.
"Steve's contributions to the development of in situ and on-site remediation products, strategies, and services are recognized internationally," said Alan Seech, Ph.D., CEO, Adventus Americas Inc., "and his more recent work with advanced diagnostic tools to expedite site closure represents an important part of the future of our industry. We are proud to have Steve's work recognized by the prestigious AEHS Foundation."
Koenigsberg also serves as an adviser on Environmental Protection's editorial board.
Adventus Group provides a growing portfolio of leading environmental remediation technologies, including patented offerings from Adventus Americas Inc. and EnviroMetal Technologies Inc.
The Association for Environmental Health and Sciences Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit, member-supported, professional organization, whose purpose is to facilitate communication and foster cooperation among professionals concerned with the challenge of soil, sediment, air and water assessment, cleanup, and protection.


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Those True Blood season 6 spoilers just keep on coming! It's a damn good thing, too, because I'm in serious Bon Temps withdrawal ...and I don't know about you guys, but my friends are getting pretty sick of me begging them to dress up like various characters and re-enact key scenes from season 5. Plus, nobody ever wants to play Billith. (To be fair, being doused in ketchup isn't particularly pleasant.)
Anyway, back to those all-important, life-sustaining spoilers. This latest batch gives us a sneak peek into the identities of several new characters, episode titles, and the most up-to-the-minute casting developments, starting with:
1. A new character by the name of Wes will be welcomed (with open arms?) into the community by the sixth episode of the season. Nobody knows what kind of creature he is just yet, but rumor has it he'll be somebody's love interest (maybe several somebodies?).
2. Episode 4, titled "I'm Your Man," will apparently introduce two (more) new characters, the LAVTF Team Commander (LAVTF = "Louisiana Vampire Task Force") and a Security Chief (also part of the LAVTF).
3. Aaaaaand more casting news: Amelia Rose Blaire (90210, Grimm, Royal Pains) will be playing Willa, the "rebellious daughter" of Louisiana Governor Truman Burrell (played by Arliss Howard). Fun fact: The governor's name was originally Creighton Burrell, but that might've ended up a bit too confusing (Governor Crate & Barrel?!).
Anyway. I don't care if they bring on unicorns and leprechauns, I just want my favorite vampires back!
What are you looking forward to the most about True Blood season 6?
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ARTD 7973X Special Problems in Visual Arts Media IV
(Prior to Fall 2010, this course was known as ART 799.3.
The information below might still reflect the old course numbers. Bracketed numbers, if any, are the old course numbers. Learn more...)
90 hours of independent work plus conference each term; 3 credits each term
Research supervised by a faculty member in media problems related to the student's area of interest in the visual arts. Portfolio and/or paper each term.
Prerequisite: matriculation for the M.F.A. in art or for the M.A. in art education and permission of the deputy chairperson and instructor.


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The Rev. Donald Cozzens has now been joined by James Martin, S.J., in shedding light rather than heat on long-suppressed questions about the proportion of and challenges to homosexual priests in America ("The Church and the Homosexual Priest," 11/4/00). Both men are concerned about priests in active ministry. The truth is that homosexual men have functioned in the sacramental ministry for generations in greater or lesser numbers, often as generously and successfully as their heterosexual confreres.
It would be helpful, then, to broaden our perception of an issue often reduced to the narrow questions of whether homosexuals should be accepted in seminaries or ordained. By rephrasing an oversimplified question, we may discover its true complexity. As with internalized faith, the inquiry prompts no facile answers, but instead deeper and better questions.
The question is not Who can be a priest? but Who can minister? Answer the latter and you also respond to the corollary, Who may minister? And for an answer we can turn to a fresh if ancient criterion that supplants heterosexual/homosexual, male/female and married/celibate as the usual categories of eligibility for and the capacity to minister. Instead, we look at the more trustworthy criterion of discerning what is healthy over what is unhealthy.
Who can minister? Those who can make healthy relationships with those they serve are capable of ministering.
Health resembles fair weather more than foul. The latter, like the unhealthy, may be unpredictable and tormented by harmful storms. Sunrise, like health, is different every day, yet both give warmth, life and hope. Were weather and health always perfect, they would be unable to give or express life. This endowment of health is the necessary and sufficient condition for ministering in a church that understands itself as the mystery of the people of God and, therefore, a mystery of human relationships. This easily recognizable quality of health transcends all other distinctions as the common denominator of life-giving ministry.
The answer to the question who can minister tells us who may minister as well. If there is to be no distinguishing between Jew or Greek, slave or free in the Catholic community, then neither is there homosexual or heterosexual, male or female, married or given in marriage as a way of distinguishing among those who may minister in a healthy way to that community. The hallmark of who can and who therefore may minister is not exclusive to a specific gender, sexual orientation or conjugal state. Rather, it resides solely in the ability to be healthy in working with the other members of the community. That is the obvious subtext of Paul's letters to his many communities, as he urges Christians to serve, settle differences and encourage one another.
Authoring Healthy Relationships
Making healthy relationships is, in fact, the essence of exercising healthy authority. Health, evident in his lack of defensiveness and self-consciousness, was the energy behind Pope John XXIII's embrace of the needy world. Authority is never a problem when it is exercised by a healthy person.
The philosopher Yves Simon provided a dynamic understanding of authority as a function of human relationships in which one (pastor, teacher, parent) relates to another (parishioner, student, child) in order to help the latter to grow out of the old relationship into a new and enlarged condition of being, in which childish things may be put away. This concept fulfills the meaning of authority, whose root, augere, means to create, to increase, to make able to grow. Only those who can help others grow can or may minister in the Christian community.
Unhealthy Authoritarianism
The corollary, of course, is that forming unhealthy relationships is the essence of authoritarianism. The driving dynamic in authoritarianism is the elaborate striving by which one person controls others in order to satisfy his or her own needs. This style, no matter how nobly rationalized as "for the good of the church" or as "God's will," kills, delays or diminishes the true growth of the other as it places the desires of the unhealthy servant ahead of the healthy needs of those served. Authority is always a problem when it is exercised by an unhealthy person.
In the discussion spurred by Cozzens and Martin, the manipulative, authoritarian style has emerged as the most disturbing characteristic of some seminarians and priests. Such pathological tactics also mark many attacks on the Vatican II church and its leaders.
To understand who can and may minister, as well as who cannot and should not minister, identify a person's position on the healthy/unhealthy continuum. The unhealthy cannot fake their location in the continuum, although they attempt to, while the healthy do not fake their position because it never occurs to them to do so.
Manipulating, Demeaning, Dividing
In her study of American seminaries (Seminaries, Theologates and the Future of Church Ministry, 1999), Sister Katarina Schuth identifies an unhealthy dynamic: "The greatest challenge for faculty" is found in "those [students] who have a rigid understanding of their faith...they create a climate of distrust and defensiveness, publicly questioning the orthodoxy of professors and fellow students."
This insidious dynamic motivates students to see themselves as an elite corps, grandiosely calling themselves the John Paul II Generation, thus justifying their authoritarian efforts to reintroduce their punishing brand of orthodoxy and to demonize opponents by methods that would make James Carville blush. They want to reintroduce guilt into their version of Catholic sexual teaching. One seminarian proudly tells teenagers "that masturbation is always a seriously disordered act.... In itself it is always wrong" (in "Why a Priest?" by Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Magazine, 4/4/99). Such self-indulgent and self-aggrandizing attitudes employ manipulation, demeaning and shaming—stock authoritarian approaches that result in unhealthy human relationships.
Techniques flowing from this unhealthy dynamic motivate critics of Vatican II to attack the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago for anything and everything. These range from childish nyah, nyah claims that more people went to Cardinal Mundelein's wake than to his, to blaming his "Consistent Ethic of Life" for Catholics' voting 50 percent to 47 percent for Vice President Al Gore in the last presidential election. Likewise, bishops are covertly pressured to drop the Rev. Richard McBrien's columns from their papers, although the theologian's orthodoxy is unquestioned. It is found in a highly concentrated state in officials who demand that those they define as dissenters, like Sister Jeanine Gramick, "submit" to them and then punish them by destroying their potency, forbidding them to write, speak or even remember the humiliation they have endured.
These unconscious and unhealthy modes of manipulating people reveal the subtle but omnipresent gratifications of unhealthy authoritarianism. Those who delight in it often disguise their needs to dominate, seduce and conquer, but they cannot hide their negative effects. Such persons cannot minister because they corrupt rather than enlarge the community. Church officials should acknowledge that unhealthy people may not minister either.
Who May Minister?
We should not ask whether persons are homosexual or heterosexual but whether they are healthy enough to make life-giving human relationships. Holiness comes from the old English hal, meaning wholeness or health. Identifying health is not difficult. Who is getting the most out of this interaction, and what is the gratification, and to whom is it directed? Is there more to me or less as a result of this relationship?
Healthy ministers give themselves to others without taking so much back in return that they bankrupt the relationship, defrauding rather than helping others. To watch healthy people taking care of others is to find a rough operational definition of in caritate non ficta, "in love unfeigned," which has been and remains the energy of successful ministry wherever it is found. Only the healthy may safely minister and only the healthy may safely exercise authority.
The so-called vocation shortage may be a function of the unresolved and unhealthy organizational conflicts in the church. It is not helped by scouring the world for those willing to accept the sexually restrictive conditions for ministry that they may not understand fully, but by identifying those all around us who can minister in a healthy and life-giving way. "The genius of the apostolate," Pope Paul VI once wrote, is "knowing how to love."
Everybody—heterosexual, homosexual, single or married—is invited to this well-lighted gathering. Only those are excluded who cannot bear testimony to the light for fear that it will scatter the darkness to reveal the hidden, unhappy and unhealthy parts of themselves.
Beginning with a selective reading of the Pauline letters, Kennedy proceeded to posit "health" as the sufficient condition for the agent acting with authority in the church. As it is not physical health of which he speaks, one must wonder what subjective conditions qualify as "healthy" to him: certain attitudes on doctrine, or perhaps specific understandings of ecclesiology?
Whatever his standards for health are, it is quite apparent that none of those who could remotely be described as conservative members of my generation fulfill the conditions. He criticizes those of us young people who critically engage our professors in the university or seminary: odd, since those very professors are in principle teaching us to become critical thinkers ourselves. Surely if such professors openly question the orthodoxy of other writers, implied by their discourse, we students must with equal tenacity hold them to a similar standard?
Or perhaps it is simply the fact that we are conservative that enflames Kennedy's wrath. My generation comes to the church with little formation. We are rather ignorant about even basic doctrines and history, so when we do become curious we tend (like St. Augustine) to look to those who would seem to be the best teachers.
Kennedy tends to use images of light and illumination in his article as well, no doubt tapping into the conceptions many have regarding the "Enlightenment." It would seem that wiping away the old distinctions regarding who can and should lead as ministers, with nothing to replace them but a vague notion of "health," should more properly be called an "endarkenment."


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Susan SurfTone Nets a 'Shore' Thing
The world of surf music can be just about as treacherous as the waves off Oahu. But lesbian musician Susan SurfTone has found a "Shore" thing with the recent release of her new album, the first release under her own name after a passel of acclaimed discs as leader of Susan and the SurfTones. And its "retro-yet-modern" take on the surf rock of the early '60s is as relaxed as a day at the beach.
"When you're playing surf music, it is tagged to 1962, and that's what people think of," said SurfTone. "But there was a third wave of surf music in the '90s, when it really evolved. Some bands are still doing the old sound, but a lot are doing new things. I am reaching back to the original sound of surf music, but adding a new sound. Surf music is always seen as being repetitious, so the idea is to bring in different influences, to make it interesting to listeners now."
Among these new influences are heavy keyboards, more complicated bass lines, a straying from surf rock's 1-4-5 pattern, and a garage element that gives the music a bit more texture.
Not a singer
SurfTone, who started playing guitar at age 9, unabashedly admits that she is no singer, saying, "Nobody in
the world ever wants to hear me sing. I'm afraid even the dog will bite me."
Perhaps this is what initially kept her from pursuing a career in music. SurfTone said that after she graduated from law school at Boston University, the Federal Bureau of Investigation approached her about becoming an agent. Since she had never been interested in practicing at a law firm, she accepted.
"I took the test, got in, and did my training at Quantico," said SurfTone. "I was assigned to Boston, and then to the New York field office. It wasn't a place I felt I'd stay for the rest of my life, but it was a good experience. The policy as far as being gay was like 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' and I didn't like that aspect. I always felt like the whole thing could rear up and bite me, and I wanted to live my life like I wanted to."
So SurfTone left the FBI to be a musician -- a move about which she said she has "absolutely no regrets." She has been a career musician since 1993, covering a lot of ground in the interim.
Favoring the clean guitar lines of Scotty Moore and George Harrison, she moved to New York and spent her 20s playing in a series of bands. But when the lead singer left, the band would break up, and she would be back to zero.
By the time she reached her 30s, she decided she was sick of the uncertainty, and formed a band with herself at the center. She recorded several album salutes to bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Velvet Underground.
Not part of the Portland music scene
Raised in Hudson, New York, SurfTone lived in New York City for a decade in the '80s, moved to Rochester and Albany, toured Europe, and then relocated to Portland, Oregon, where she has been for 12 years.
After she moved, Susan and the SurfTones split up, due to distance. But she said that two former band members are flying over from Albany to play on her current tour, and will be joined by members from other incarnations of the band.
"I have been doing surf music since '93, and so you end up playing with a lot of different players," said SurfTone. "I am just happy to have Kim13 and Avory Gray on keyboards, Brian Goodman on drums, and Dan Ferguson on bass. There will be two keyboard players on stage, and it will be fun blending these two lineups together."
Although she said she is not part of the Portland music scene, which she described as "trendy" and centered on "the flavor of the month," she has played two halftime shows for the Trail Blazers, the 2005 ROCKRGRL Conference, and Duff's Garage, a Portland rockabilly venue.
Before she recorded her new release, "Shore," she returned to these roots. With the help of her friend Avory Gray, SurfTone spent two years teaching herself how to play the bass, and went on to record herself playing the Beatles, The Stones, old Elvis rockabilly tunes, and Muddy Waters.
"When I was done with that, then I knew that I was finally ready to record my new album," said SurfTone.
Like countless musicians before her, SurfTone sat on the edge of her bed with her guitar, and started working out some riffs. If it sounded good, she would build on it, adding bass and keyboard. If it continued to evolve, and at the end, sounded like something new, she would keep it.
Cove the Doors
As a personal barometer, she would set the song aside for three days. If after that time, she could still play it from memory, she would keep it. If she forgot it, SurfTone figured it wasn't good to begin with.
Her new album presents a dozen retro-rock surf tunes, among them a cover of The Doors "Riders on the Storm."
"I always liked to cover British invasion bands, but for this one, I wanted to cover an L.A. band," said SurfTone. "Immediately, The Doors came to mind. I think they were wonderful musicians, and I always liked Jim Morrison. He was the one true rock 'n' roll rebel."
SurfTone said she started playing around with their material, and things just seemed to gel around "Riders in the Storm." The song is largely instrumental, and SurfTone's cover hews closely to the original, which was also more than seven minutes long. SurfTone plays the bass line, and incorporates the central riff of The Chantays' "Pipeline".
The original cuts on the album incorporate classic 1962 surf rock sounds, but with the addition of keyboards, a jazzed-up bass line, and influences from psychedelic rock and Latin music. On February 27, Susan and her band will begin promoting "Shore" via their West Coast Tour. And although she relishes being on tour again, she has already steeled herself to the inevitable comments she hears as one of the only women lead guitarist fronting an instrumental surf band.
"Being a woman, you constantly have to prove yourself," said SurfTone. "I've been doing this for years, and I don't know how many clubs I've walked into where I'll overhear the comment, 'A girl playing surf guitar; this I've gotta see.' You constantly have to prove yourself, and when you do, all you hear is 'Pretty good for a girl.'"
As far as being lesbian, SurfTone only recently made that public, saying that her mother had a problem with it, so she waited until she passed to go public, out of respect for her.
"We'll see how that plays out," said SurfTone. "There are a lot of fellows in surf music who want it to still be 1962, so with them, this is not a very popular move. But for most people, I don't think it really matters."
Susan SurfTone begins her West Coast tour on Monday, February 27, 2012: ?Duff's Garage?,1635 SE 7th Ave. Portland, OR; Wednesday, February 29, 2012: ?Forbidden Island Tiki Lounge?,1304 Lincoln Ave. Alameda, CA; Friday, March 2, 2012: ?Max Steiner's?, 2500 E. Anaheim St. Long Beach, CA; Saturday, March 3, 2012: ?The Redwood?, 316 W. 2nd St. Los Angeles, CA.
For more on Susan SurfTone, including how to purchase her album, visit her website.


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This article was printed from mlb, originally published .
Read more news at: https://www.mlb.com/news
Stranger than fiction: Injuries strike in odd ways
Mariano Rivera's torn ACL, suffered while shagging flies, is a reminder that baseball injuries aren't always the result of inside fastballs or running into walls or bone-crunching collisions between players.
The history of the game is full of off-field injury stories that range from the silly to the serious.
Some certainly weren't funny to the player involved at the time. But how can you not laugh when hearing about the time:
Right-hander Steve Sparks, trying to make the Brewers out of Spring Training in 1994, dislocated his shoulder trying to tear a phone book in half as a motivational technique.
Right-hander Adam Eaton missed a start for the Padres in 2001 after stabbing himself with a paring knife while trying to open a DVD.
Indians outfielder Brian Giles missed several games in 1998 because of spider bites.
Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa went on the disabled list with back spasms after a sneezing fit in the dugout.
Phillies right-hander Jeff Juden was sidelined during Spring Training when his new tattoo became infected because he went sunbathing.
Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya developed elbow problems from playing too much "Guitar Hero."
Cubs outfielder Bret Barberie missed a game after getting chili juice in his eye.
Marlins right-hander Randy Veres had to go on the disabled list with a sore hand. He hurt himself pounding on the wall of his hotel room, trying to get the people in the adjoining room to be quiet.
Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs hurt himself trying to remove his cowboy boots. When one wouldn't come off as easily as he would have liked he stood to get better leverage, lost his balance, fell into a couch and bruised his ribcage.
Reds pitcher Steve Foster injured his shoulder while knocking over milk bottles while taping a segment of "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno.
Sometimes, however, the injuries turn out to be no laughing matter.
Orioles pitcher Brad Bergesen was considered an integral part of the team going into the 2010 season, so much so that he was asked to film a promotional commercial that showed him throwing off a mound.
The trouble was it was December. Bergesen hadn't thrown off the mound for awhile and strained his shoulder. He's 10-19 since and is currently pitching at Triple-A Norfolk.
Angels first baseman Kendrys Morales was so happy after hitting a walk-off homer against the Mariners on May 29, 2010, that he jumped onto home plate. In doing so, he fractured his tibia and not only missed the remainder of the season but all of last year as well.
Marlins outfielder Chris Coghlan tore the meniscus in his right knee while shoving a shaving cream pie into the face of a teammate after a win on July 25, 2010. He missed the rest of the season and eventually needed surgery.
A week after signing one of the most lucrative contracts in Braves history, outfielder Ron Gant broke his right leg in an ATV accident in 1994. He was released during Spring Training and didn't play again until 1995.
One of the most infamous odd injuries occurred before Game 4 of the 1985 National League Championship Series, when Cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman somehow managed to have the automatic tarp at Busch Stadium roll over his leg. Coleman, who would go on to be named NL Rookie of the Year, missed the Fall Classic, which St. Louis lost in seven games to Kansas City.
And then there was Mets reliever Duaner Sanchez. He was beginning to establish himself as one of baseball's best setup men -- with a 2.60 ERA in 49 games -- when, in the early morning hours of July 30, 2006, the cab in which he was riding outside Miami was struck by a drunk driver.
Sanchez suffered a separated shoulder that required season-ending surgery, and he was never the same again.
Sometimes, however, players can laugh about these injuries later. Like Hough. Not only did he fully recover, he went on to make the All-Star team for the only time in his 25-year career.


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by Lou Mancinelli
Whom do you work for, and how much money do you make? It was those kinds of comments that 26-year-long Mt. Airy resident and Pastor Kari Hart often heard in Washington, D.C., as a young woman during the late 1970s, long before the advent of her ministerial days. Hart experienced the Capitol after working for a successful Michigan congressional campaign. Those days in Washington were hard-drinking days among political players; it was kind of an ugly scene, she said.
At the time, Hart was but a year or two out of Oberlin College ('78), a dry campus in Ohio, noted for being one of the first institutions of higher learning in the U.S. to regularly admit female and black students. She ultimately became disillusioned in D.C. She quit her political job within one year.
Most recently, Hart has returned from a three-month religious sabbatical in Scandinavia and Costa Rica she took this summer. The purpose of the sabbatical was for Hart to reconnect with her past and to convey her reflections of those connections in writing. The sabbatical was funded by a $48,000 grant from the Lilly Foundation awarded to Hart and the members of her congregation at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, located at 2110 Chestnut St. in Center City.
The journey was an opportunity for Hart to deal with ideas that had been ruminating in her mind for the past 20 years but had yet to be explored in written form. In addition to funding her trip, the grant funded a congregational project called "Telling Our Stories." Over the summer, while their pastor was in Copenhagen and Oslo with her mother and sisters, members of her congregation were getting to know each other through activities like writing, visual arts, journaling and dancing.
But 22 years ago, before the Center City church position and the grant award, Hart went through a life-altering experience at her father's death bed. The experience untimately led Kari to the ministry.
Before that, she had worked in D.C. as a waitress from 1980 to 1983, and she was working at Le Bec Fin in 1985 when she married her husband, Shawn. She served up desserts at Le Bec Fin and later became one of its first full-time female servers. While raising a daughter, she balanced various freelance positions like copy editor, proofreader and fitness teacher. She became very involved with the Houston School Home and School Association. Eventually, in 2003, she received her master's of divinity degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia (LTSP) in Mt. Airy.
But let us reel back a number of years. Hart moved home to Mt. Airy, the town where she was born and raised, in 1985 in order to be closer to her father, who was ill at the time. The family was intensely close. Her father had been a professor at LTSP, but Hart had drifted away from the religious life in her 20s, rarely attending services.
But at her father's death bed in 1989, she "was faced with a crisis of faith." She says she felt the presence of God, experienced God being with her father during his final moments of suffering.
At the time, Hart was not sure what had happened to her in that fatal room. But she knows it prompted her to reconsider God's role in her life. Almost a decade later, in 1997, after a meeting with the Dean of LTSP, where she poured out her feelings in both words and tears, she decided to take one class. The class was "Corinthian correspondence," and she was hooked. She did not know where it would lead but decided to ride it out.
What it led to was Hart taking a few classes a year because she did not want to burden her family with the stress of her being a full-time student. She eventually graduated from the four-year program in six years. Since then, she has served as co-pastor at Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion.
Her recent sabbatical was a chance to revisit the Scandinavian cities she had lived in with her family for one year as a young girl, when her father took his own sabbaticals in the early '70s. Hart described those times "as some of the happiest" in her life.
About two-and-a-half years ago, Hart approached members of her congregation with the idea of applying for the grant. The idea was that the grant would lend itself to the writing Hart had been waiting for 20 years to undertake. She wanted to contrast the happiest times in her life, those times in Scandinavia, with the harrowing experience of her father's death. The church's governing body agreed it was a good idea. Part of the grant also included the "Telling Our Stories" campaign, carried out by members of the congregation this summer. Hart said writing the grant was a comprehensive process that involved the entire congregation.
"The grant was meant to bring the congregation together," said Ron Coolbaugh, the church's managing director. "Though telling our stories all summer, we feel more connected. We feel more connected to our pastor… It's really been a spiritual experience."
"One of the reasons I went into ministry was to figure out what happened to me [at my father's death bed]," Hart said. "I came from a very angry place with God to a place where I was at peace with God. And it happened at my father's death bed."
After two weeks with her family in Copenhagen and Oslo, and some time on her own, Hart flew across the Atlantic Ocean and over the Caribbean Sea to Costa Rica. In Costa Rica she spent a month at the Diquis Del Sur, a resort and writer's retreat. The second two weeks of the month, her husband joined her.
The results of her sabbatical are 18 to 20 prose poems. Hart plans to refine, rewrite and revise and later publish the poems in some form within the next year.
Meanwhile, Hart is occupied handling the demanding day-to-day duties of serving in an urban church. In addition to religious services, the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion hosts a welcome center for the homeless and a food bank. Other responsibilities include things like hospital visits.
"A lot of what we do is to be there for anyone who walks in, and anyone can walk in and does walk through our doors," Hart said.
For more information, visit www.lc-hc.org or call Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion at 215-567-3668.


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Monday, 25 June 2007
They Did It.
At 13:45 I've was called to say it had landed on the Cathedral Roof - fingers crossed it can take off from there. I suspect it'll stay there for an hour or two - again, lets hope the weather stays dry.
At 16:00 I can report that both chicks are settled - one on the gargoyle ridge at the top of Derby Cathedral Tower on the west side. The newly fl;edged chick (dare we still call her that, now?) spent an hour on the roof of a shop on Irongate, just nearby. We had great views of a parent flying back with a pigeon, eventually landing on the platfrom after flying low over fledgling number 2. She stayed resolutely where she was on the roof. The rain then got harder and harder as I left. So now I'm off to process the video clips.
At 23.00 - I'm back from the pub after a meeting to discuss a different project: "The Flora of Derbyshire" which we've been working on for over 10 years! Great comments from everyone tonight - and a hint of sadness that the webcam side of things may be winding down. But we'll want to bring you news of all the action outside as our birds learn to be peregrines in the weeks ahead.
Some of you asked about the regional TV news clip. Until Tuesday evening you can find it 10 minutes in at this address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastmidlandstoday/index.shtml
Sorry - the video upload to Google has faled after 6 hours. Will try again - but the BBC TV clip does include the highlights I guess you've all been wanting to see.
The shots below were captured direct and live from the Cathedral's video server at 1:35 today, showing both camera images side by side.
60 comments:
oh happy days, bit miffed though because i missed the 2nd bird taking off by about 3 mins, when i checked her she looked dry and ready to go, i went to the project page and back and she'd gone, never mind hope they both do return because its horrible looking at an empty nest and wondering where they are.
- 25 June 2007 at 13:42
somebody popped back to the nest at 14.08-9 who was that?
- 25 June 2007 at 14:09
Must be a parent bird it has come back with dinner for the babies that arent there time is 14.12 about.
- 25 June 2007 at 14:13
- Project Member (Derby Museum) said...
That's a parent - possibly Dad, but as I respond to this, it's just flown off again, so i can't be sure.
- 25 June 2007 at 14:14
I have watched for two and a half days,having my evening meal two hours late on Saturday and Sunday, and I find I missed the chicks leaving today by five minutes!
I am going for a long lie-down...
- 25 June 2007 at 14:20
Hope they come back to visit. Happy for them, but I really have "empty nest" feelings.
Sue, I have gotten to be quite hyper about planet stuff - recycle all the bits and pieces, nag manufacturers about minimal packaging, replaced my light bulbs with compact fluorescents, minimize water and energy use, organic yard, organic or local food, vegetarian (I was surprised to learn being a vegetarian saves as much energy as driving a hybrid car vs. a regular one.)
We really have a very short time span to turn things around, and I don't know if we are going to make it.
- 25 June 2007 at 14:35
Wow, what a good news! Both of them lift off at last. Hope to see them back soon for an afternoon tea. Jennie, Hong Kong.
- 25 June 2007 at 14:53
14.50 Just logged in only to see an empty nest!!!!!! I feel bereft - just like when my daughter left home - lovely that they both took off pretty much together though. What wonderful parents Mum and Dad have been.
Anna Ripley
- 25 June 2007 at 15:01
Just been near the Cathedral, heard squarking and someone landed in the nest, but couldn't decide who - probably a parent. I see it's an empty nest again now that I'm back at work. It's spotting with rain now, hope they find shelter.
- 25 June 2007 at 15:03
- 25 June 2007 at 15:14
they would have been better off being born as ducks with this weather, how many feilds look like lakes today came through oakerthorpe how scary are the what once was feilds, hope the girls are ok please keep us informed especially before bed time as i cant sleep otherwise thanks
- 25 June 2007 at 16:00
16:00 it looks like one of the chicks are back - but I can't see a ring
- 25 June 2007 at 16:04
who is that?????
16.02 a small(ish) peregrine with a catch - white/grey feathers possibly a dove or young type of pigeon
but who is the peregrine and if its a chick did she catch it herself?????
oh the tension these birds cause me! im worried out of my skin for them, its worse than having my own children
- 25 June 2007 at 16:06
think its a parent bird possibly the male with a very large dinner
- 25 June 2007 at 16:08
I am guessing, as an ignoramus, that a chick has not caught her dinner. I think it takes them a few weeks(?) after fledging to learn from the parents how to do that.
- 25 June 2007 at 16:12
Maybe Dad is waiting for someone to show up to be fed?
- 25 June 2007 at 16:24
Yes Karen Anne, he seems to be looking around for someone. It's raining quite a bit here so maybe the dynamic duo are hiding and missing out on a meal.
- 25 June 2007 at 16:30
8.56am B.C. Canaada, the parent just left the nest, looks like they took the food with them.
What an experience it has been to watch all this, thank you:-)
- 25 June 2007 at 16:57
Speaking of wonderful parents, in Dayton a Dad raised three chicks singlehanded as Mom vanished. Just seeing how thin parent peregrines get by the time the chicks fledge, I think this is a feat.
- 25 June 2007 at 17:02
Just to let you all know that are watching the webcam all across this country and around the world, its 5.06pm in Derby and the 2 chicks are still both sitting in same places and there fine, although very wet.
- 25 June 2007 at 17:04
Congratulations, Andrew @ Derby, That really was a Classic:- "the dynamic duo"!!! I think they are causing us watchers more dynamics than they are performing. Or perhaps not...
- 25 June 2007 at 17:07
i couldnt agree more with our viewer from canada ; this truly has been an awesome experiance,
from the end of the snooker @the crucible in may to start of wimbledon is usually for me a very long drawn out time - only filled by the fortnightly F1 grand prix, until now,
these birds have entertained me every single day and continue doing so even now, even when henman is on now i'm sat at the p.c blogging, and waiting for the next chapter of the pergrine saga
thank you to you all,ive been en-lightened
lyndsey, chesterfield
- 25 June 2007 at 17:07
I guess they'll be around for quite a while to come? (I certainly hope so!) They have to master this flight business and learn to catch their own food. I suppose the time will come when mum and dad will get territorial and "encourage" them to go and find their own territory - where around Derby might that be?
Karen Anne - again, I'm with you on the environment issue. I'm more pessimistic than you though - feel the tipping point has already happened The Chinese are in full-blown industrial expansion mode - opening 2 coal-fired power stations per week. Poor old earth - poor old us - poor old mother nature. We can't give in though - we must keep doing what we can! Kepp doing that one thing as hard as you can all!!
- 25 June 2007 at 18:18
Having watched for weeks, but missed the chicks flying off today, excellent to have so much info. from the project members, and to have such super pics.of the take-off.
Looking forward to the next few days/weeks of aerial displays.
- 25 June 2007 at 19:05
I am glad they successfully fledged. I turned on the cam this morning and they were both there. Left for and instant and only one remained. I did see the other one leave. Hopefully they are under cover for the rain.
We have had nothing but rain here in Alberta Cananda. hopefully yours doesn't last long.
12:00 P.M. Alberta time. Will check in again later. My fingers are crossed.
- 25 June 2007 at 19:05
- helenhoward said...
and then there was none!!
2000 and the nest is bare!! unlike us there home is not water logged. The bottom of our street is almost knee deep in water!!
hope our girls and of course mummy and daddy are safe where ever they are. unlike us humans they can perch at the top of a very high tree!!
- 25 June 2007 at 20:09
Well done, girls! Peeking in today after running around downtown looking for our wandering chicks in Dayton, it's good to see that they have made the leap. (For now, all is well, whew!) It's very bittersweet, as your chicks and ours were all hatched within days of each other, so now ALL my peregrine chicks have flown off for their own lives - the nerve!
I've read all your comments to get updated, but you shouldn't worry too much for our father falcon, named "Mercury". He manages to fly across the street to a small ledge where he can oversee the kids but so far they can't land there. He is fine and experienced father - he has had 37 or so children with 3 different mates. I hope we all get to see our chicks on the cams for a few more weeks.
Yes, everyone I know is conserving water & energy, recycling, and so on. In contrast to your rain, we're very dry and hot for this time of year, alas.
Congratulations to all for hanging in during this dangerous time.
Love from Jan in Dayton
- 25 June 2007 at 20:14
Nick looked like a very proud father on the tv tonight, i Know that their a lot of others who work very, very hard in the back gound. Derby have a first class team and can show the rest of the world how to do it, you have to be be good to get over 170,000 plus hits on your site world wide. BBC stand back, the derby team will out perform you. autumn and spring watch in derby????????? well done chaps.
- 25 June 2007 at 20:16
20:26-8 It looks like mum is preparing some food - it looks red between her talons... Thought I just saw a bird with similar tail feathers in a tree near centre of Derby, but can't be sure... And the bird flew off before I got close enough...
- 25 June 2007 at 20:29
20.25 Dad appeared in the nesting box with the girls evening meal, but they were obviously otherwise engaged, so he flew off with it.
Anna, Ripley
- 25 June 2007 at 20:52
Which tv program was Nick and the peregrines featured on? Thanks
- 25 June 2007 at 21:03
There was mention somewhere of "East Midlands Today" which I guess is a BBC regional programme (we only get as far as Oxford Today round these parts). It's a real shame, I'd love to see our hero (would that be "Nick"?) on the telly!
- 25 June 2007 at 21:18
Has anyone seen the fledglings actually get fed, now that they are out and about?
- 25 June 2007 at 21:25
Hi, Jan in Dayton,
We souls out here watching the Dayton web cam have no idea what the fledglings there are up to. Just that they've disappeared from the nest box. There is no blog, is there?
It looks from photos like the Dayton nest box is on the roof of a building, so they had lots of space to do practice runs?
Any news on the Dayton Mom, I assume the worst...
(Sorry to highjack the Derby blog for a moment.)
- 25 June 2007 at 21:29
The BBC East Midlands is available on www.bbc.co.uk/eastmidlandstoday/index.shtml
- 25 June 2007 at 21:31
The falcon's flights are on 10 minutes into the show today.
- 25 June 2007 at 21:39
I coudn't find today's program online, but here is a url for a search on that site for Derby peregrine with various stories, including a video with Nick. It looks like this url will get clipped, so I have broken it into lines, you will have to paste it together:
- 25 June 2007 at 21:52
Hi Karen Anne -
No, we have no blog on the Dayton cams, I believe you can comment in "Photo Gallery", but likely no "answer" to your questions. There is a falcon forum for many of the North Amer. cams and they are a bit more interactive.
The chicks have a nice roof to make practice runs on, yes, and many people are watching both inside the buildings and on the street. No word on missing mother "Snowball", tho I'm sure it's the worst news at this point.
I see your young ladies are out and about this evening, sigh. I supposed they all must simply get used to a very rough way to go at some point.
Take care.
- 25 June 2007 at 22:04
Try leaving the 's' in shtml out, Or do a Google search for BBC East Midlands Today. The recorded show is in the top right hand corner. Happy searching
- 25 June 2007 at 22:22
No one home so I guess I will check back later.
to Jan from Dayton. I also was following your cam and Was wondering how your fledglings were doing?
Bev. In Alberta
I will have to check the news stories for Cathedral that are [posted.
- 25 June 2007 at 22:29
- helenhoward said...
2230 and the box is very sadly empty
Good night god bless to our girls and be safe
- 25 June 2007 at 22:41
Well, it's incredibly easy to watch "East Midlands Today" on the PC. Just go to the BBC website, then to "TV". Search "East Midlands Today" or get there by any other way. Once you get to that page, just click on "watch latest episode". Simple! Even I can do it. I never realised you could do that. The peregrines spot was great (but brief!). The floods though - just awful! I hadn't realised just how awful the weather had been up there today. Our birds have done so incredibly well in the circumstances - no wonder thay looked a bit on the miserable side this morning. I hope they've found themselves a nice safe place to roost tonight.
- 25 June 2007 at 23:26
It's so quiet for us living in a different time zone, nothing happened overnight, just an empty nest. Not sure if the birds are coming back for food. God bless. Jennie, Hong Kong.
- 26 June 2007 at 05:12
05:12 No girls! Has anybody checked the local nightclubs?? (Roof's that is...) Just the remains of last night's meal in the right side nest...
- 26 June 2007 at 05:13
That's hilarious! Jennie
- 26 June 2007 at 05:19
05:33 Somebody is home! Look on the battlements (below the nest)
- 26 June 2007 at 05:32
05:39 Is that 'mum' or one of the chicks? You can see her on the bottom of the right hand camera.
- 26 June 2007 at 05:39
- helenhoward said...
morning all
0600 hours and a bare nest once again.
wonder where they spent the night?
- 26 June 2007 at 06:03
The video clips above are absolutely Fantastic. Excellent. Well done!
- 26 June 2007 at 08:17
All that fuss - sulking, squawking and flapping for days, and then she just - takes off as though she's done it a hundred times before. Wonderful. Thank you.
- 26 June 2007 at 09:10
- helenhoward said...
when will they return
- 26 June 2007 at 10:32
I think most of us will keep peeking in and out ... Jennie, HK
- 26 June 2007 at 10:44
- kadhir said...
Its been an amazing experience watching these birds for the past 6-7 weeks.Our sincere thanks to the Derby Peregrine Project team for doing a great job.We will still be taking a look at the box every now and then and you can be assured that we will be there to watch this wonderful natural phenomenon again.Lets hope that next year all the eggs hatch.
Fingers Crossed,
Kadhir & Helen
- 26 June 2007 at 11:24
Fantastic! it has been a great experience watching them, and i hope it will be just as good next year which i am sure it will be!
- 26 June 2007 at 20:18
Getting withdrawal symptoms. Not able to find the BBC website given for the midlands. However, very many thanks for last few weeks of fantastic viewing, looking forward to next year. A big thank you to all concerned. S
- 26 June 2007 at 21:12
Nice Article.
- 30 October 2007 at 06:07
Hello all!
- 30 October 2007 at 09:20
Good job!
- 30 October 2007 at 13:16
hinbQ4 Wonderful blog.
- 31 October 2007 at 18:21
actually, that's brilliant. Thank you. I'm going to pass that on to a couple of people.
- 31 October 2007 at 18:50


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Alfresco Joins Open Source Channel Alliance
Open Source Content Management Provider Alfresco Collaborates with Red Hat and SYNNEX to Provide End-to-End Open Source Solutions
LONDON, UK. — April 14, 2009 – Alfresco Software, Inc., a leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM), today announced its participation as a founding member of the Open Source Channel Alliance, launched by SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), a leader in business process services. The alliance is based on a consortium of leading open source Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) led by Red Hat.
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"The purpose of the Open Source Channel Alliance is to close the gap between business problems and value-driven IT solutions, by connecting enterprises with a complete open source proposition," explained Roger Egan, vice president, channel sales, North America Red Hat. "We hope that by partnering with leading open source stack vendors such as Alfresco, customers will leverage the alliance to guide them when making decisions which deliver value while providing alternatives to more expensive proprietary offerings."
SYNNEX is investing in open source because of the technical advantages and cost savings the open source model offers to the marketplace. Through the alliance, SYNNEX can offer complete open source solution packages that can deliver the kind of return-on-investment that VARs and SIs look to pass on to their customer bases, especially during the current economic climate.
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London: The beleaguered BBC is asking its staff to tone down the tweets.
Britain`s national broadcaster is in crisis over its bungled reporting of a child sex-abuse scandal.
Its top executive has resigned, two more have temporarily stepped down and others are facing disciplinary proceedings.
Unsurprisingly, some of the BBC`s 20,000 staff, including well-known personalities, have taken to social media to discuss its woes.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported today that Fran Unsworth, the newly appointed head of BBC News, had sent an email urging staff to pull together and advising that "it would be helpful if some of our problems were not played out publicly across social media and in the pages of the national press."
The BBC confirmed that Unsworth "did send an email of that nature."
The missive from Unsworth came as Norfolk police said a former BBC radio presenter has been charged with 18 sexual offenses against children.
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Paulo himself contacted us to share some of the initial results -- pointing out that, according to Amazon, the sales of a bunch of his books increased between about 4,000% and 6,500%. Yes, that's multi-thousands of percent increases. I would think that more than made up for the difference in price...
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Why She Chose Yale: the team and superior academics
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Favorite place at Yale: Old Campus, specifically L-Dub courtyard
My favorite class at Yale: Political Philosophy
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A strikingly coloured amphibian, Salvin's mushroomtongue salamander belongs to an unusual group of amphibians known as 'lungless salamanders'. The members of this group lack lungs and instead absorb oxygen through their skin and their mouth lining. Salvin's mushroomtongue salamander actively climbs around in trees in search of invertebrate prey, which it catches using its remarkable projectile tongue, which can be shot out at great speed. Females of this species lay small clutches of eggs in damp places on land, and the eggs hatch directly into miniature versions of the adults, rather than going through a tadpole stage.
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I have already replaced the control module on the icemaker. The only thing I didn't replace was the tray. Could it be anything else?
There is a special tester for the module I think it's made by orion tecnology. Anyone heard of this tester or know where to find them?