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Paul Pierce had 18 points and 11 rebounds, and Avery Bradley scored 22 points to lead the Boston Celtics to a 109-101 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night.
Kevin Garnett scored 18 points to help the Celtics continued their push up the Eastern Conference standings. The Celtics entered in seventh, but were no more than two games behind the next three teams ahead in the standings.
Led by Pierce, the Celtics controlled the game and used a 9-0 run midway through the fourth quarter to seal the win. Last May, these two teams went to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. On Wednesday, the Sixers lost for the ninth time in 10 games and are well out of the playoff race.
Jrue Holiday had 18 points and 10 assists for the Sixers, and Thaddeus Young had 19 points and 10 rebounds.
Thunder 122, Lakers 105
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Russell Westbrook had 37 points and 10 rebounds, Kevin Durant scored 26 and the Thunder held off a second-half charge.
The Thunder led from start to finish, but had their 18-point lead whittled down to five midway through the fourth quarter. Serge Ibaka, who dodged a suspension after delivering a low blow against Blake Griffin in Oklahoma City's previous game, hit a 3-pointer and Westbrook had a two-handed slam as the Thunder scored the last 12 points.
Kobe Bryant ended up with 30 points after leaving the game with a right elbow injury in the first quarter. Steve Nash matched his season best with 20 points as the Lakers fell back below .500 after reaching the mark for the first time since December.
Oklahoma City tied an NBA record with two turnovers. Milwaukee set the record in a game against Indiana on April 1, 2006, and Cleveland tied it in an overtime game against Portland on March 19, 2009.
Nuggets 120, Kings 113
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Ty Lawson had 24 points and Danilo Gallinari added 23 for the Nuggets as they won their sixth straight game.
The deep and talented Nuggets used a 36-point third quarter to build a lead against the Kings that they never relinquished in winning their season-best third straight road game. They scored 70 second-half points when they shot nearly 64 percent.
The streaking Nuggets have won seven of eight games, including 11 in a row at home, where they own a 26-3 record, which ties Miami for the best mark in the NBA.
Kenneth Faried had 19 points and 12 rebounds, Andre Miller scored 16 and Kosta Koufos had 15 points and eight rebounds for Denver.
Marcus Thornton continued his torrid scoring of late, making five 3-pointers and getting in 32 points for the Kings.


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Dan Scott has posted an example of how to create a MARC record (machine-readable cataloging, more details here) from scratch with the help of the File_MARC PEAR package.
In the past couple of days, two people have written me email essentially saying: "Dan, this File_MARC library sounds great - but I can't figure out how to create a record from scratch with it! Can you please help me? Yes, when you're dealing with MARC, you'll quickly get all weepy and get help from anyone you can.
His example code is pretty simple - load the PEAR package into the script, create the record object and start adding fields to it. He shows various output methods ("pretty print", writing the raw data to a file, etc.) and the output to various other data structures like JSON and XML.

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J2EE Application Deployment Files
Now that you have reviewed the OC4J server XML files (which include the server configuration files and the Web site configuration file), let's turn our attention to J2EE application XML files. There are two basic types of application configuration XML files: J2EE deployment (configuration) files and an OC4J-specific configuration file.
The application configuration XML files are meant for deployment of J2EE applications defined in an Enterprise Application Archive (EAR) file. The applications can include Web application components such as servlets and JSP pages, as well as EJB applications. A J2EE application can contain various types of modules, listed as follows:
- Web applications modules (WAR files), which include servlets and JSP pages
- EJB applications modules (EJB JAR files), which include Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs)
- Client applications contained in JAR files (JSPs)
- Connectors
In order to deploy an application to OC4J, you archive the JAR and WAR files that belong to the enterprise Java application into an EAR file, whose layout follows J2EE specifications.
Applications that include only a Web application are bound to a UR, to make the application accessible to the Web clients. Applications with the EJB application component, however, aren't bound to a URL. These can be accessed either through Remote Method Invocation (RMI) or locally, through the JVM running on a server.
OracleAS lets you create clusters of OC4J processes. The Oracle Enterprise Manager provides built-in support for managing such OC4J clusters across the enterprise. You must, therefore, rely on the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g (Grid Control) and not use the admin.jar tool to manage the OC4 instance by itself. For the same reason, you are advised not to edit a single OC4J instance configuration file directly, but rather, use the Application Server Control. Although only the EJB modules and Web modules have been described thus far, there are actually four J2EE application types: EJB, Servlet (Web modules), JSP, and Client. You've already seen that J2EE applications have two types of deployment (or configuration) files, namely:
- A J2EE deployment descriptor XML file (stored in the $ORACLE_HOME/applications/<app-name> directory)
- An OC4J-specific deployment descriptor XML file (stored in the $ORACLE_HOME/application-deployments/<app-name> directory), denoted by the prefix of orion
You thus end up with a total of eight J2EE Deployment XML files for the four types of applications, four of which are the OC4J-specific Orion XML files and the other four, J2EE XML files.
In addition to the eight possible J2EE deployment XML files, you have a set of four common global configuration files for all types of applications. The four global application configuration files are as follows:
application.xml This is the global application configuration file, which contains the common settings for all applications in an OC4J instance.
orion-application.xml This contains OC4J-specific global application information for all applications.
- web-application.xml This contains OC4J-specific global Web application configuration information that specifies common settings for all Web modules.
- oc4j-connectors.xml This contains information about global connector configuration.
on the job: The J2EE deployment descriptors are a Java standard, and the application developers provide these (probably as generated by their IDE) to the administrator; subsequently, the OC4J Orion files are generated from these by OracleAS when you deploy the application.
To summarize our discussion, you can have the following J2EE application deployment files in an OC4J environment:
- Four common Global Configuration Files: application.xml, orion-application.xml, global-web-application.xml, and oc4j-connectors.xml
- Two configuration files for each of the four J2EE application types, one a J2EE deployment descriptor and the other an OC4J-specific deployment descriptor. The resulting files are the following:
- For EJBs: ejb-jar.xml and orion-ejb-jar.xml
- For Web modules: web.xml and orion-web.xml
- For client modules: application-client.xml and orion-application-client.xml
- For connectors: ra.xml and oc4j-ra.xml
In the following subsections, the main application XML configuration files are discussed briefly.
exam watch: If you don't create the OC4J-specfic deployment XML files, they will be automatically created when you deploy J2EE applications.
{mospagebreak title=Description of the Application (J2EE Deployment) XML Files}
In this section, each of the eight types of application XML files, also known as the J2EE Deployment XML Files, are discussed. First, let's review the four common global application configuration files.
Following are the four common global configuration files for all J2EE application components.
on the job: All the configuration XML files starting with Orion are also referred to as OC4J-Specific Orion files. The other set of configuration files consist of J2EE-related XML files.
The J2EE application.xml File
The J2EE application.xml file is stored in the j2ee/home/config directory and is
exam watch: The application.xml file is the main J2EE application deployment descriptor file.
the global application configuration file for all J2EE applications in an OC4J instance. The application.xml file identifies all the Web and EJB applications that are part of a J2EE application. This file points to the location of the jazn-data.xml and the data-sources.xml file. Note that the J2EE application.xml file isn't the same as the local application.xml files. The latter describe the J2EE EAR files.
The following subsections state the important elements in the application.xml file. The <application> element is the top element in the application.xml file. Within the <application> element, you can use the following elements.
<ejb>pathToEJB.jar</ejb> The ejb element refers to an EJB JAR.
<alt-dd>path/to/dd</alt-dd> The alt-dd element represents an optional Uniform Resource Indicator (URI) to the deployment descriptor file for a J2EE module. The deployer will read the deployment descriptor from the default location if you don't specify the alt-dd element.
<connector>context</connector> The connector element refers to the URI of a resource adapter archive file.
<context-root>thedir/</context-root> The context-root descriptor shows the URI of a Web application.
<description>A description.</description> The description element is a simple description of the application being deployed.
<icon> The icon element is used to specify the location of application images used in GUI tools.
<java>pathToClient.jar</java> The java element refers to a Java application client module.
<module> There are as many module elements as there are separate J2EE modules, and each of them contains EJB, Java, and Web elements.
<web> The Web element shows the web-uri and the context-root of a Web application module. The <web-uri> element indicates the URI of a Web application file. (A URI is an Internet protocol element consisting of a name or address you can use to refer to a resource. A URL is just an URI that additionally provides a way of accessing and obtaining a representation of the resource.) The URI is relative to the top level of the application package. Here's the syntax for the <web> element:
Here's a simple application.xml file:
<display-namemyapp j2ee application</display-name>
A sample J2EE application that uses a Container Managed
Entity Bean and JSPs for a client.
{mospagebreak title=The orion-application.xml File}
The orion-application.xml file is the OC4J-specific global configuration file for all applications in an OC4J instance. You specify the following types of configuration information in the orion-application.xml file:
- autocreate-tables and autodelete-tables: You must define a data source for all container-managed persistence (CMP) beans. The autocreate-tables attributes determine whether to automatically create tables for CMP beans for entity bean persistence, thus ensuring that fields and database types are mapped correctly. The autodelete-tables attribute determines whether to automatically delete the tables. By default, autocreate-tables is set to true and autodelete-tables is set to false.
- Default data sources for CMP beans
- Default security user manager
- JNDI authorization
If you want to bind EJBs to existing database tables, set the autocreate-tables attribute to false. You then deploy the EJB in a .ear file. Finally, you reconfigure the newly generated orion-ejb-jar.xml file so it uses the existing database tables.
global-web-application.xml The global-web-application.xml file contains common settings for all the Web modules in an OC4J instance. The file contains OC4J-specific global Web application configuration details.
oc4j-connectors.xml The oc4j-connectors.xml file is a connector configuration file that contains the global OC4J-specific connector configuration information.
Now that you've reviewed the four global J2EE configuration files, let's turn our attention to the two types of configuration files (J2EE-specific files and OC4J-specific files) that each of the four application types (EJB, Web module, client, and connector) can have.
The EJB-related XML files are J2EE EJB application configuration files, used to define EJB deployment descriptors; they are part of the EJB JAR file. There are two EJB XML files: the J2EE ejb-jar.xml file and the OC4J-specific orion-ejb-jar.xml file.
J2EE ejb-jar.xml The ejb-jar.xml file defines EJB deployment parameters in a JAR file. If you're using CMP, the file contains definitions for the container-managed EJBs.
OC4J-Specific orion-ejb-jar. The orion-ejb-jar.xml file defines OC4J-specific deployment descriptors for EJBs and thus contains the deployment time information for EJBs. The file provides the mapping for EJBs to the OC4J server environment. You can specify the following attributes in the orion-ejb-jar.xml file:
- Session persistence settings
- Time-out settings
- Transaction retry settings
- CMP, ORMI, and JNDI mappings
The orion-ejb-jar.xml file is located in the $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/ application-deployments directory. After you deploy an application, you'll find the orion-ejb-jar.xml file in the /deploymentName/jarname(.jar)/orion-ejb-jar.xml directory. If you bundle the EJB with the application or if you don't specify a deployment directory in the OC4J main configuration file (server.xml), the orion-ejb-jar.xml file will be stored under the META-INF/orion-ejb-jar.xml directory.
The orion-ejb-jar.xml file will be copied to the directory specified for the deployment-directory attribute, but only if there are no prior files in that directory. Note that that you use the orion-ejb-jar.xml file only for the initial configuring of an application deployment. After this, the OC4J instance will modify the files to add pertinent information to it.
{mospagebreak title=Web Module}
There are two Web-related XML files, one of which is the J2EE-specific XML file and the other, the OC4J-specific XML file.
J2EE web.xml All servlets, EJBs, and JSPs that are part of the J2EE application are described in the J2EE web.xml file. Here are the contents of a typical web.xml file:
<display-name>myapp web application</display-name>
Web module that contains an HTML welcome page, and 4
OC4J-Specific orion-web.xml The orion-web.xml file contains the mappings for Web settings. Here are important items that are part of this file:
- Auto-reloading
- Buffering
- Directory browsing
- Document root
- Virtual directories
- Clustering
- Session tracking
- JNDI mappings
{mospagebreak title=Client}
There are two XML files that contain client configuration information: application-client.xml and orion-application-client.xml.
J2EE application-client.xml The application-client.xml file contains the JNDI information necessary for accessing the server application.
OC4J-Specific orion-application-client.xml The orion-application-client.xml file contains JNDI mappings for the client. The JNDI mappings map the EJB reference logical name to the JNDI name for the EJB, as shown in this example:
<ejb-ref-mapping name="TemplateBean"
location="myapp/myapp-ejb/TemplateBean" />
There are two connector-related XML files: ra.xml and oc4j-ra.xml.
ra.xml The ra.xml file contains J2EE-related configuration information.
oc4j-ra.xml The oc4j-ra.xml file contains OC4J-specific configuration information.
Using the Application Server Control to Configure OC4J
In the previous subsections, you learned how to manually edit the various OC4J configuration files. However, you can change OC4J configuration easily through the Application Server Control. To edit OC4J server configuration files using the Application Server Control, follow these steps:
- On the OC4J home page, click the Administration tab to display the Administration page.
- On the Administration page, click the Advanced Properties button.
- The OC4J Advanced Properties page appears listing all configuration files available for editing for the current OC4J server.
- The OC4J Advanced Properties Page appears, listing all the OC4J configuration files you can edit. Click the configuration file you want to edit. You can then make your configuration changes in the editable text box that appears.
- Click the Apply button to save your configuration changes.
Please check back next week for the continuation of this article.


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Hurricane Irene has come and gone. Last year Earl swept up the coast near the end of August with a great deal of hullabaloo. It missed us but did carry away some of Montauk's valuable ocean beach sand. Irene had decidedly better aim and hit when the tide was high, washing away beaches and dunes from the Rockaways to Montauk Point.
The ocean beaches from Town Line Road in Wainscott to Ditch Plain and the end of Deforest in Montauk that I photographed and paced off last Thursday and Friday shrank by more than 50 percent and were about two feet lower in grade on Monday. This time the hullabaloo was worth it.
A small portion of the displaced sand washed up to the north along the several road ends and trails accessing the ocean beach in Montauk and Wainscott. Wainscott, East Hampton Village, and Amagansett beaches got hit pretty hard, but Montauk suffered the worst. The major portion of the sand ended up a couple hundred yards offshore in the form of a sand bar, upon which waves were breaking on Monday afternoon during low tide. By the time this goes to press several of Montauk's downtown ocean beaches will have been rebuilt.
At Ditch Plain and elsewhere, an interesting geologic feature resurfaced. Where ponds and bays, such as Mecox Bay, were adjacent to the ocean thousands of years or so ago, they held their water because they were underlaid by a thickish stratum of clay, gravel, sand, and silt. Over time this stratum became reddish as a result of bacteria precipitating out iron from the overlying water. Napeague Harbor's reddish hue is a reflection of this bacterial activity. The result was a hard, almost rocklike layer that is almost completely impervious to water, something akin to breccia.
Such a layer extends along the back shore at Ditch Plain under the dunes facing the ocean. On Monday it was well exposed and pieces of fossil wood mired in it were also exposed. Where did the wood come from? Possibly from very early growth at the edges of the pond or, more probably, all the way from New England by the glacier that created the South Fork some 15,000 years ago. Every now and then geologists find a piece of fossil wood sticking out of an exposed bluff face in Montauk. The wood in question remains to be dated by carbon 14 or some other dating methodology well beyond the capability of yours truly.
From the west end of Napeague to the Montauk Lighthouse another curious aftermath of the storm became more and more obvious as one proceeded east along Montauk Highway. The leaves of the bear oaks, shads, winterberry hollies, and other deciduous hardwoods had turned brown. The north and south wooded edges of the state parkway through Hither Woods revealed a similar pattern, a coloration that one might expect after a long summer drought. East of downtown Montauk the browning off of the vegetation was even more apparent. The brown landscape the rest of the way to the point was dominated by withered fox grape leaves. My guess is that the wild grape crop for which Montauk is famous will not be a bumper one come September.
You may remember that after Hurricane Bob, which came ashore in late August of 1991, the vegetation on the south side of the South Fork also turned to brown seemingly overnight. The combination of the wind and salt spray off the ocean was more than the leaves could bear. Irene produced the same effect.
Something unusual happened in the early fall following Bob. Trees and shrubs that had already bloomed in the spring and summer resprouted green leaves and began blooming all over again in a kind of renaissance. Most woody plants have the ability to refresh their foliage come monsoonal rains after a drought or heavy pillaging by gypsy moth caterpillars, but flower for a second time? That's most unusual.
It didn't take long for the animal part of nature to get back to normal following the storm. On Monday afternoon there were swarms of darning needles and damselflies at the edges of the several freshwater ponds bordering Lake Montauk. Mosquito fish were in abundance. Mourning doves, goldfinches, song sparrows, catbirds, terns, robins, and crows were going about their business of feeding and preening, building up fat reserves and manufacturing new wing and tail feathers for the trip south to start but a few weeks later. Two months ago it was breeding and singing that preoccupied them, now it is feeding, feeding, feeding, and more feeding.
Humans also belong to that branch of nature. They were out on the beaches sunning, walking, or out in the water, wading, swimming, and surfing. Montauk and Wainscott beaches were packed. No matter the magnitude of the storm and the narrowness of the beaches, they were not going to let the last week of summer pass by with a whimper. Demographers tell us that birth rates go up following blackouts, thunderstorms, and hurricanes. We will have to wait and see.
Meanwhile if we have another one of these tropical storms within a month, there will be hell to pay, as the dunes are weakened and the beaches are almost as narrow as they are in winter. Keep a weather eye open.


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Reaping the Dividends of Reduced Emissions
Copenhagen produced practically nothing. Congress seems paralyzed. Powerful lobbies say we should delay responding to the climate crisis until after the economy recovers. But some good news recently came out of California, where a state advisory committee recommended a policy that caps greenhouse emissions and sends money back to the people.
As part of its implementation of AB32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the California Environmental Protection Agency convened a panel of economists, academics, and legal experts to form the Economic and Allocation Advisory Committee (EAAC), which presented its findings on January 11th, 2010. Despite intense pressure from utilities and petroleum lobbyists, who asked for free allowances and tons of questionable offsets, the EAAC recommended that the state sell (auction) 100 percent of emissions permits, requiring polluters to pay for the emissions they produce and to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases they emit over time.
The revenues collected would be used in a variety of ways, but the majority of the money would be returned to California households through either cash "dividends" or tax cuts. The EAAC states that climate dividends could be sent to Californians as checks in the mail or through an electronic funds transfer system, and cites the precedent of the Alaska Permanent Fund, which sends revenues from fees on oil companies back to Alaskans each year.
The EAAC report notes that dividends provide several benefits. They preserve public ownership of a common asset—the air we breathe—which we all share equally. And returning the bulk of allowance value to households helps residents afford energy-saving reforms like retrofitting their homes. It's also a boon to low-income people who can least afford increases in energy and fuel prices.
The EAAC proposes the cap and dividend approach for "roughly 75 percent" of allowance value, with the remaining 25 percent "devoted to financing investments and other public expenditure," including research and development of clean energy technologies. The EAAC estimates that if the 75 percent dividend recommendation were implemented, each California family of four would receive an annual dividend of $388 in 2012, rising to $1,036 in 2020, adding a total of $7,004 to family incomes over the eight-year program.
The Story of Cap & Trade :: Annie Leonard's newest video asks tough questions about who cap and trade really benefits—and what effect it would have on climate change.
The 75-25 split between consumers and investments is also found in a bill being considered in the U.S. Senate, the Carbon Limits and Energy for American Renewal (CLEAR) Act, introduced by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) and Susan Collins (R-Maine). The Cantwell CLEAR Act provides an alternative to the climate bill that passed the U.S. House, known as Waxman-Markey. Groups such as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace criticized Waxman-Markey for giving away free allowances to the utilities (once again "on behalf" of consumers) and for allowing too many iffy offsets that dilute the market for permits. The Senate version of Waxman-Markey has not moved for several months. If the Senate remains stalled, then California's AB32 will proceed, and in 2012 Californians will face a carbon price, but perhaps also receive dividends in return.
But don't go to the ATM just yet. Numerous political obstacles remain. Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay who is now running for Governor, has called for the suspension of AB32 due to fears of impacts on the state's ailing economy, and State Assemblyman Dan Logue is collecting signatures for a statewide initiative to halt the emissions reductions as long as state unemployment is above 5.5 percent. The utilities still want handouts, and will be pressuring the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and elected officials to provide them with free allowances, or to run the consumer "rebates" through their utility bills (prolonging the low-carbon transition by shielding consumers from the price of carbon).
The EAAC recommendations also offered the option of tax cuts to consumers instead of dividends. Unfortunately, tax cuts favor wealthier families, and provide a less visible (and therefore less politically popular) use of allowance value. Dividends could also be hijacked by legislators who would prefer to spend the money on other projects or fill the State's gaping budget deficit. Spending the revenues on other uses is tempting, but by neglecting consumers, it could accidentally help build the constituency for Whitman, Logue, and other enemies of the carbon cap. Dividend supporters prefer to reserve a majority of permit revenues for consumers to help households deal with potential price impacts. With political support for AB32 solidified, the private sector will respond to the escalating carbon price by investing in new technologies, and legislators can fund worthy energy projects by instituting carbon fees and diverting subsidies away from fossil fuels.
Although it faces obstacles, the EAAC recommendation is remarkable in that it puts people first, bypassing powerful lobbyists and special interests. Perhaps such linking of climate solutions with household economics will counteract the economic scare tactics of climate deniers, give some momentum to the cap and dividend approach in the CLEAR Act, and help climate activists get past their post-Copenhagen blues.


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Remarks from SCL President, Dan Foliart's induction of Carter Burwell as a SCL Ambassador, December 10, 2012 New York City.
Carter Burwell has made a significant mark on our industry in such a short period of time. He has been a true inspiration to our community, both for his creativity and his willingness to give back to this organization and his colleagues. The consummate composer, he is equally at home working in film, theatre or dance.
His theater work as composer includes the chamber opera The Celestial Alphabet Event and Mother and Cara Lucia. In 2005 he developed a concert work for text and music titled Theater of the New Ear, which was performed in New York, London and Los Angeles. The text, by two of his biggest supporters Joel and Ethan Coen and Charlie Kaufman, was performed by a dozen actors including Meryl Streep, and conducted by Carter.
He composed the music for the dance pieces The Return of Lot's Wife choreographed by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig and RABL choreographed by Patrice Regnier. He has performed around the world with his own ensembles as well as others, such as The Harmonic Choir.
His essay "Music at Six: Scoring the News Then and Now" was published in the inaugural issue of the magazine Esopus in 2003, and was reprinted in Harper's Magazine in 2004 as "Orchestrating War."He has taught and lectured at The Sundance Institute, New York University, Columbia University, and Harvard University.


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You have found a ghostwriter that you want to work with. You are ready to sign a contract. But does the contract cover everything? Here is a quick guide to what you need to know…
The most important thing to make sure is covered in a contract is rights.
(NOTE: Nothing in this blog posts constitutes legal advice; for that you must contact a duly recognized attorney.)
International copyright conventions recognize the writer as owner of his or her own words. So it important to make sure that any contract between you and your ghostwriter assigns all rights, including foreign rights, film rights, etc. So important are rights, that I would say this is the main reason we work with contracts when writing books rather than just a hand shake, as we do mwith most other projects.
PRICE and PAYMENT SCHEDULE
Price is the most obvious item to include in a contract. You want to know how much you will pay and when it is due, and it should be clearly stated. Some ghostwriting agencies will include a calendar schedule for payment, others (like us) base it on milestones. We typically divide payment into thirds, but we are flexible on that.
This might also be obvious, but be careful. All our contracts specify a range of words rather than an exact count, and there is a reason for that.
Word count is important, because it defines the quantity of work you will receive. If you pay $12,000, you don't want to wind up with just 10,000 words. On the other hand, if you pay $12,000, the writer does not want to be stuck writing 120,000 words.
But – and this is critical – you do not want to identify a specific number of words that the writer is compelled to write. If a writer has to write exactly 60,000 words, she will be far too focused on reaching that word count – at the expense of the quality of the manuscript. Added fluff or cut corners is not to your advantage.
Our contracts always specify a range of words, such as 55,000 – 65,000 words.
This might or might not be important to you. If it is, make sure it is included.
If you are expecting the writer to do research for you, best outline that in detail. Our default contracts specify no research. Our writers typically do some research, such as small fact-checking or details about a location, but if there is anything specific you need, that will need to be specified and paid for.
If you are dealing with a high-priced agency, one that charges something like $25,000 for a 75,000 word book, you should expect unlimited research (in my opinion), but don't try telling them that I said so. Just make sure that it is clearly stated in the contract.
You might want to specify what type of contact you will have with the ghostwriter. For a few people, face-to-face meetings are important, although they obviously lead to higher costs. Some clients want frequent contact with the writer; others want to let the writer run with the topic.
Our default contract makes it clear that it is the client's responsibility to make sure he is satisfied with the content as it is being produced, which means there is a chapter-by-chapter contact built in. It also offers a default price for face-to-face meetings, should the client wish to do that after signing the contract. Of course, we have the ability to be flexible in areas like this.
This is the trickiest element. Often a client wants to specify a timeline, so that the writer does not drag on too long. Understandably, you are eager to see your book published.
But the writer is a professional who pretty much sticks to a rigorous schedule. The client, on the other hand, has a life. And the client does not always have the time to review each chapter as it comes back from the writer. A busy person might take a month to get back to the writer with an "OK" or a list of changes required. A six-month job sometimes takes 12 months, as a result.
Ironically, the few times a client has insisted on specific dates, they have inevitably failed to provide timely information required for the project. Not even close.
Our contracts all specify an expected end date. It is important to have mutual expectations, but nobody benefits from rushing either the writer or the client. We once had a client disappear – phone, email, mailing address – for nine months, then return to complete his book.
CONTRACTS and WRITERS
The bottom line is that you want a contract to address the legal matters and perhaps also to set parameters. But you do not want contracts to cramp the creative process. Keep one eye on the legal aspects (specific) and the other on the creative process (flexible) and you have the basis for an effective ghostwriting contract.
Just remember that no contract will ensure a successful ghostwriting project. For that, you need to decide if the ghostwriter is easy to work with, whether she knows her craft and if the writer and the agency are accommodating in their approach.


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Award-winning writer and high-flying sexual truth-teller Jong (Love Comes First, 2009, etc.) partners with 28 collaborators to create this fierce and refreshingly frank collection of personal essays, short fiction and cartoons celebrating female desire.
The approaches to the still-taboo topic of feminine sexuality—at least, for women writers seeking approbation from the literary establishment—are, as Jong notes, "as varied as sexuality itself" and as exuberantly diverse as the contributors themselves. They range from such emerging talents as Elisa Albert and J.A.K. Andres to such luminaries as Rebecca Walker, Eve Ensler, Susan Cheever, Anne Roiphe and Fay Weldon, and represent a multiethnic, multigenerational swath of some of the finest women writers in the United States. Most of the pieces deal with the perennial themes of sexual coming-of-age, social and religious sexual hang-ups and lusty obsessions for male bodies (as well as female ones). Some deal with lesser-discussed—but no less important—subjects like procreative sex and eroticism in old age. Still others fearlessly explore fetishism, childhood masturbation, kink, sexual addiction and the excitement that, in the words of Linda Gray Sexton, comes from "the offering up of one's body like a sacrifice upon the temple of the bed." While sex is the source of life and some of the most powerful joys—and agonies—imaginable, it is also invariably linked to death. And that, writes Jong, "is part of our discomfort with it." But the contributors to this collection never make sex facile. As they work against cultural expectations and literary double standards, they make women's depictions of "doing it" just another aspect of a more fully realized human consciousness.


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A quick visit to the official website at BlueTheFilm.com is all it takes to get a sense of what its primary value sell is. Given the scope, then, and as discussed in this Q&A with Action Director James Bomalick, Blue is primed to set a new Bollywood benchmark for action. It's made to be seen on the big screen. As a fan of Hindi cinema, I'm just glad it's been made. Check out some behind-the-scenes footage from the sets, made available here courtesy Mr. Bomalick. (As always, thank you James!) Should translate to much fun, don't you think?
For some perspective and to see bits of how some of the action sequences in the video above are used, try catching them in this theatrical trailer (and "hubba hubba" the way of Katrina Kaif and Lara Dutta...it really should be Haaye Allah!):
A big asset to the film is its soundtrack (A. R. Rahman). I'd mentioned in this post on Bhoola Tujhe (here's its trailer) that this is one of my favorite soundtracks of the year. It's one of only two from 2009 I find myself listening to from start to finish, without skipping a track (the other being Delhi-6). Of course, a lot of this has to do with the music. But it is the lyrics, often overlooked, that make this soundtrack relevant. That three lyricists are involved is impressive, because there are several parallels to be drawn with the plot and among the songs, some of which are noted below. (Soundtrack notes, including vocalist and lyricist info on each song, available at this ARRahman.com link.)
For example, the Blue Theme (trailer here) talks of "bleeding blue when not red", and that there "lie as many secrets in the heart as there are treasures in the seas". 'Rehnuma' (Guide/Leader), as much as it reminds of a James Bond theme, also serves a reminder to 'Dil Ka Rishta' from Yuvvraaj (2008), in its last third. The lyrics stand out here, with Shreya Ghoshal perfect in giving voice to the seductress (a clue to shades of Lara Dutta's character, perhaps?). Sample these, in no specific sequence:
- Your ocean is a benevolent guide, a caravan, a companion.
- Burn a little, melt some, in desire for me.
- Engulfing embraces (like waves), Venomous glances.
- Life under your protection might only be attained after death.
- There's no shore for the sea of my destiny.
'Aaj Dil Gustakh Hai' (The Heart's Rebellious Today; trailer here) is a love song which features vocals by Ghoshal again, this time with Sukhwinder Singh. It's a delightful and diverse composition with elements of jazz and trick-hop, which complement the theme. Sample these, in no specific sequence:
- The heart's rebellious today, the water's on fire.
- A flood of breaths leads to rhythmic dreams.
- Why is time in such a rush?
After seeing its trailer, I'm not sure what purpose my favorite from the soundtrack -- 'Fikrana' (Carefree) -- is going to serve, and am hoping it's reserved for the end credits. "We're in blooming gardens, in twinkling stars, in fiery flames, and in wayward winds." Regardless, I hope the song in the film doesn't prove they've seemed to have reduced a track perfect for speed on water and pavement (e.g. with the frame below), to one that King Kong would fit in. The music is brilliant, the lyrics pure fun, and it's a tribute to the versatility of vocalist Vijay Prakash that he follow up a 'Manmohini Morey' in Yuvvraaj last year, with a song such as this...splendid!
'Maar Diya Dulhaniya' (You've Killed Me, My Bride; killed as in 'knocked me out') will likely be used to the effect Haan Ji was in Sanjay Dutt-starrer Kidnap (2008). The weakest link in the album is actually pretty good, with Udit Narayan making a comeback of sorts. The integration of hip-hop and R&B elements is a worthy experiment in this otherwise conventional track for a Hindi film. The lyrics, while clearly giving the appearance of a wedding song, have a tie-in with 'Rehnuma'. Is Lara Dutta as loyal as others think?
Finally, there's a rather atypical 'Chiggy Wiggy' (trailer here). It's unique not only because it features Kylie Minogue (in voice and appearance, but because of its lyrics. I know, I know, it could be a good name for a brand of chewing gum too (Winterfresh, perhaps?). But to those who do not like the song, where's your sense of fun? Fun because we are free to believe what we may about what 'Chiggy Wiggy' means. Is it merely a dance step? It could mean so much more, right? Are 'wig' and 'gy' simply dangling syllables? (Kylie's been touring the U.S. this month, and San Francisco and Los Angeles this past weekend; pictures courtesy a friend has asked to remain anonymous; here she is discussing Blue; and yes, I might be a Kylie fan from way back in high school :)
Much more than just another commoditized dance track, it's choreographed by Farah Khan; (here's a video on its making). The sound is perfect for its ambiance, and the transition from western dance to traditional bhangra -- perfectly timed with an appearance by Sonu Nigam -- is just what the song needs to better align it with the film. Bhoola Tujhe spoke of devotion to God. Here, devotion of another kind is introduced. Bits from Sonu's paragraph:
Is your beauty a blessing or curse?
Is loving you worship or sin?
What *you* say is the truth,
What *you* call me by (and *only* that) is my name.
Talk about devotion! :D Listen to the complete song at this link.
Any fair assessment of a 'motion-picture soundtrack' must consider the film it's in. The music to Blue is hardly ordinary, but the movie is anything but typical. For its purpose, I think time will tell it's a fine complement. Four stars and then some to Rahman and everyone who's worked on it! The background score should be just as interesting. (Also see: Soundtrack review at Darshit's blog)
Let me start with a big shout-out to Aditi Sharma from Saavn.com, who wrote with this giveaway offer for readers of this blog. It's one I thought you might enjoy.
Saavn are giving away (via online download) 10 copies of the complete Blue soundtrack, and 10 copies of 'Chiggy Wiggy'. All you need to do to avail of the giveaway is to send an e-mail to bluemusic at saavn dot com, and tell them you read about this giveaway at theBollywoodFan's blog (please include the specific link to this post). The first 10 e-mails received will entitle senders to the complete album, the next 10, to the song. So send your e-mails in fast! (Note 10/21: This giveaway is now closed.)
Please note I am in no way affiliated with Saavn, or with the film Blue. As the disclaimer at my blog suggests, your participation in any activity or communication here or at sites linked to is entirely voluntary, and absolves me and this site of any liabilities related to resulting damages, no matter how material. Please also refer to the Saavn Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.


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PIKE CO, IN (WFIE) - Around noon on Friday, a convicted sex offender in Indiana was forced to publicly wear his newest crime on a sign around his neck.
27-year-old Larry T. Bass, of Petersburg, Indiana, was sentenced to wear a sandwich-style fluorescent sign reading "Registered Sex Offender Who Bought Alcohol for Kids" on the public sidewalk in front of the Pike County Courthouse from Noon until 1 pm (EST) on Friday.
According to his agreement with the court, he plead guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, after purchasing alcohol for a fourteen year-old child.
In May of 2010, Bass was convicted of Child Molesting, a class "C" felony in the Pike Circuit Court and sentenced to five years in the Department of Corrections.
After his release from prison, Bass was arrested for buying juveniles vodka in September 2012. At the time of his arrest he was serving an additional two year term of probation.
After his appearance in front of the courthouse Friday, Bass will report to the Wabash Valley Work Release facility in Vincennes, Indiana where he will serve an additional eight hundred and twenty-three day sentence.
By the way, inmates committed to Wabash Valley are required to pay for the cost of their incarceration.
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After nearly 15 years comes the long-awaited next chapter to the film that ushered in a new era of comedy. When the college friends finally reunite over the Christmas holidays, they will discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be ignited.
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Google Maps wants you to play 'Ms. Pac-Man' on your phone!
Google Maps wants you to play 'Ms. Pac-Man' on your phone!
Forget "Pokemon Go," now you can play "Ms. Pac-Man" on your phone!
Here's how it works: Download the Google Maps app or, if you already have it, just open it. Then select the Ms. Pac-Man icon on the main screen and watch your map transform.
If you're in a rural area, you might want to move the map to the city or somewhere with more of a grid pattern. But once you get going, it's fairly easy to play.
All you need to do to move Ms. Pac-Man around is scroll up, down, left or right. Pretty simple!
Check out the game, but don't blame us if you procrastinate at work. Thanks, Google!


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County in process of complying with state soil erosion act
ARENAC COUNTY — While the Arenac County drain office was in violation of the state soil erosion law as of an inspection in 2011, it has since corrected all but one of those issues, with only enforcement of the law itself within the county still outstanding.
Environmental Quality Analyst Matt Siler with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality said during an inspection in 2011, he found the county drain office had several violations related to permits for several drain projects, where permits were either not obtained or obtained after construction had started. Additionally, the DEQ found a few instances where soil erosion control was not in place.
Siler said the problems with the drain office have since been addressed, as the county has kept up on its permits and has been keeping better records on erosion control and drain cleaning efforts. However, he said the Arenac County Board of Commissioners is interested in being able to enforce state law more broadly.
"Siler came up here, and he looked me in the eye and said, 'You need to have enforcement capabilities, and if you're not going to, we'll bring an engineering firm up here and do it ourselves," Commissioner Mike Snyder said.
Snyder said the county is underway on all of its obligations to bring itself in line with the state law, and County Prosecutor Curtis Broughton brought up the idea of turning the existing resolution into an ordinance to meet the state's enforcement requirements.
The county had passed a resolution stating it would enforce the state soil erosion laws, but Broughton was concerned it was not sufficient to go after violators without being made an ordinance.
"Do you know how many people have been brought before the court for violations? Zero," Snyder said. "The issue is that you would have to stand in front of (Soil Erosion Control Agent) Dale Zygiel, an officer of the law, and say 'I'm not going to do this' to come into violation."
The county wants to make the drain commissioner's office an approved public agency (APA) a goal which, if achieved, would mean the drain office would not have to pull permits with the building department to do work. It would still need to file reports with the DEQ, Drain Commissioner Larry Davis said.
To become an APA, Siler said the Arenac County Board of Commissioners would need to be able to enforce the state law, both for the drain office and for county residents at large.
Davis completed one step in making the department an APA when he successfully received a certificate of training, a requirement for complying with state law.
"I needed to be certified, and I am now," Davis said. "The biggest problem was the certification, so there was a training class with me and 26 other drain commissioners, and we all passed."
He said the drain office is currently in the process of proving it can keep proper records and file permits in a timely fashion.
Davis also agreed with a soil erosion ordinance. As an example, he said unpermitted drain work on a farm north of Au Gres may have caused permanent damage to the topsoil there. Without an ordinance, he said Zygiel is limited in enforcing the state law with the landowner who did the work.
Davis acknowledged there were instances where he failed to follow the proper permitting order, but said for the large majority of the drains he has worked on, the drain office pulled their permits properly and made sure that rocks and plants grew into place to minimize erosion.
He added farmers are still required to get a permit for soil erosion control on their property unless they file their plan through the Arenac County Soil Conservation District. In that case, the conservation district becomes the entity responsible for making sure the law is followed.
Siler said the drain office and the county as a whole is on the right track to fall into compliance with the state law.
"They're definitely moving in the right direction," he said. "They want to do the right thing, and they want to get into compliance with the law. It's taken a while to get this resolved, but hopefully this will all come together."
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Shares of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) slumped around 3% on Friday as investors reacted to a downgrade to "underperform" from Macquarie.
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The brokerage maintained its sunny outlook on Twitter's long-term potential but said the site needs to hire significantly more people before it can be as competitive as its larger Silicon Valley rivals.
Shares of Twitter have been on a tear since their Nov. 7 market debut, climbing more than 60% -- 40% in the last 15 days -- on what Macquarie says was "virtually no new news."
"We believe nothing has changed in the fundamentals to justify the sharp rise in shares over the past few weeks," the brokerage said in a note to clients.
On Friday, they were down about 3.3% to $70.90 in choppy trade. Macquarie maintained its $46 price target.
Macquarie, which originally had a "neutral" rating on Twitter, continues to believe the microblogging site has a bright future but warned opportunities will take time.
Twitter, which has less than half the number of employees as Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and just 5% of Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG), will need to make additional hires to be competitive and execute on new initiatives, the brokerage firm says.


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"Little Torah, Little Torah, Let me hold you tight!
Teach me, Teach me, all your mitzvot so I can do them right!
The Torah teaches every Jew, Torah, Torah, I Love You!"
Simchat Torah is such a fabulous Holiday- the reading of the Torah goes on portion by portion throughout the year, throughout the ages, in everlasting cycles. The Torah is concluded on Simchat Torah, but it is also immediately started again from the beginning. This shows that there is no end to the Torah and that it must be read and studied constantly, over and over again.
And so here are a few things we have been doing~ preparing for the great celebration!
This is also a great link to adorable songs on each Parshah- and since we are starting at the very beginning next week, I thought some of you might enjoy using it as you teach each weeks Parshah to your little ones.
So hope you have a wonderful and happy Holiday,


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Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban: Family Flight!
Nicole Kidman carries her adorable daughter Faith outside of the airport on Tuesday (February 14) in Sydney, Australia.
The 44-year-old Aussie actress and her little one were joined by big sister Sunday and papa Keith Urban for their family flight!
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Nicole Kidman
The family arrived Down Under so Keith could tape Australia's version of The Voice! Keith is serving as one of the coaches this season for the hit reality show.
Last week, Nicole and Faith had a girls afternoon as they went to a Gymboree class together.


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Vegetable Oothappam
The thing that I like about idli batter is that, the same batter can be used to made different dishes. The first two days when the batter is fluffier, thick and creamier idlis and paniyarams can be made. Then the batter can be made a little runny by adding water and dosas can be made. Finally when the batter has fermented a lot oothappams can be made. Again variations to oothappams can be onion oothappam, tomato oothappam and a mixed vegetable oothappam.
Also all of these dishes can be served for breakfast, lunch, dinner or as an evening snack too.
This time I opted for mixed vegetable oothappam for dinner, a couple of days ago. Its simpler to chop all the vegetables finely and assemble them before beginning to make the oothappam.
Idli/dosa batter - 2 cups
Onion - 1/2 (chopped finely)
Tomato - 1/2 (chopped finely)
Green chillies - 2 (chopped finely)
Carrot - 1 (grated finely)
Coriander - 2 tbsp (chopped finely)
Oil as needed
Heat dosa tava and drop a spoonful of batter. Spread it around, but make sure it is a little thicker than dosa. Sprinkle generously with the chopped veggies and let it cook. This has to done as soon as the batter is spread and when its still raw (liquid) and not cooked, as that helps the veggies to stick to the batter. Flip to cook the other side. Serve hot with chutney or sambar of your choice.
Variations: Different veggies like grated beets, finely chopped cabbage, spinach or grated ginger can be added.


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Searching Rideau Gerald Ross, born abt 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
He somehow ended up in Honolulu, Hawaii maybe year 1899.
Any information on him or family will be greatly appreciated.
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The following statement below was originally published by Solidarity with Virginia Prison Hunger Strikers:
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What: Press Conference
When: 11 AM
Where: VA Department of Corrections, 6900 Atmore Dr. Richmond VA (at the DOC sign on the corner of Atmore and Wyck St.)
RICHMOND – On Tuesday May 22 as many as 45 prisoners at Red Onion State Prison, comprising at least 2 segregation pods, will enter the first day of a hunger strike protesting deplorable conditions in the prison and ongoing abuses by prison staff. For the men participating in the strike this is their only recourse to get Red Onion warden Randy Mathena to officially recognize their grievances and make immediate changes to food, sanitation and basic living conditions at the prison.
Supporters from DC and Virginia along with prisoner family members will hold a press conference at 11 AM in front of the VA Department of Corrections, in Richmond at 6900 Atmore Dr., to urge Warden Mathena, the Virginia Department of Corrections under Harold Clarke, Governor Bob McDonell, state Senators Mark Warner and Jim Webb and other state and congressional legislators to act on behalf of justice and human rights.
A statement released by one of the hunger strike representatives said, "We're tired of being treated like animals. There are only two classes at this prison: the oppressor and the oppressed. We, the oppressed, despite divisions of sexual preference, gang affiliation, race and religion, are coming together. We are rival gang members but now are united as revolutionaries."
Some of the prisoner's demands include the right to have fully cooked meals, the right to clean cells, the right to be notified of the purpose and duration of their detention in segregation, and a call for the end to indefinite segregation. Red Onion has been repeatedly criticized since it opened in 1998. A 1999 Human Rights Watch report on Red Onion concluded that the "Virginia Department of Corrections has failed to embrace basic tenets of sound correctional practice and laws protecting inmates from abusive, degrading or cruel treatment."
After exhausting legal and administrative channels, prisoners are holding this hunger strike to bring these abusive prison conditions to light. This action comes at a time when many are speaking out against the expanding prison system in the United States in an effort to uphold their human dignity and basic human rights.
Letters signed by residents in Congressional District 9 will be delivered to the Senators office later in the week and concerned citizens from across Virginia and the nation will be pressuring the Virginia DOC to meet the prisoner's demands.


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According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), carbon monoxide (CO) is a poisonous, colorless, odorless and tasteless gas. Although CO is often mixed with other gases that do have an odor.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), carbon monoxide (CO) is a poisonous, colorless, odorless and tasteless gas. Although CO is often mixed with other gases that do have an odor.
CO is a common industrial hazard resulting from the incomplete burning of natural gas and any other material containing carbon such as gasoline, kerosene, oil, propane, coal or wood.
How does CO harm you?
According to OSHA, Carbon Monoxide is harmful when breathed because it displaces oxygen in the blood and deprives the heart, brain and other vital organs of oxygen.
Besides tightness across the chest, initial symptoms of CO poisoning may include headache, fatigue, dizziness, drowsiness or nausea. Sudden chest pain may occur in people with angina.
Symptoms can vary widely from person to person.
CO poisoning can be reversed if caught in time. But even if you recover, acute poising may result in permanent damage to parts of your body that require a lot of oxygen such as the heart and brain.
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), CO can enter the home in a variety of ways. However, the most common ways for CO to enter include unvented kerosene and gas space heaters; leaking chimneys and furnaces; back-drafting from furnaces, gas water heaters, wood stoves, and fireplaces; gas stoves; generators and other gasoline powered equipment; automobile exhaust from attached garages; and tobacco smoke. Incomplete oxidation during combustion in gas ranges and unvented gas or kerosene heaters may also cause high concentrations of CO in indoor air. Worn or poorly adjusted and maintained boilers and furnaces can be significant sources of CO, or if the flue is improperly sized, blocked, disconnected, or is leaking.
CO can also come from auto, truck, or bus exhaust.
To minimize the risk of CO exposure or poisoning, a Minnesota carbon monoxide law went into effect Jan. 1, 2007, that requires all newly-constructed, single and multi-family dwellings have a UL listed CO alarm installed. The law states that one detector be installed within 10 feet of all bedrooms in the home. As of Aug. 1, 2008, all existing single family homes are required to have an appropriate number of CO detectors and on Aug. 1, 2009, all multi-family dwellings needed to come into compliance.
This may mean that some homes will require more than one detector if there are multiple sleeping areas throughout the building.
The manufacturer of First Alert, a brand of carbon monoxide detectors, recommends the following if the CO alarm goes off:
Turn off appliances, or other sources of combustion at once.Immediately get fresh air into the premises by opening doors and windows.Call a qualified technician and have the problem fixed before restarting appliances.If anyone is experiencing symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning: headaches, dizziness, vomiting, call the fire department and immediately move to a location that has fresh air.Do a head count to be sure all persons are accounted for.Do not re-enter the premises until it has been aired out and the problem corrected.If anyone is experiencing symptoms, you need to get everyone into fresh air and call 911 from a neighbor's home. If no one is experiencing symptoms, you should call the fire department or a qualified technician from a neighbor's home to have the problem inspected. If you are unable to leave the home to call for help, open the doors and windows, and turn off all possible sources while you are waiting for assistance to arrive. Under no circumstance should an alarm be ignored!


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What Is Kabaddi? New League Draws Sellout Crowds in India
Sport Features High-Octane Mix of Tag, Greco-Roman Wrestling
NEW DELHI—Rahul Chaudhari tagged an opponent, spun away from a tackle and sprinted back across the midline of the court before taunting his rivals with a celebratory move: a midair split with a fist pump.
The lanky Mr. Chaudhari is a rising star in India's newest professional sport: Kabaddi.
An ancient Indian game, kabaddi in its newest incarnation...


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C.J. McCollum was 5-foot-6 and overweight. Not exactly what Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and Tom Izzo are looking for in a prospect.
But that's the beauty of sports in general and college basketball in particular. An athlete who doesn't fit the classic mold grows and develops in relative obscurity and lands in the lap of a school such as Lehigh.
And then, Lehigh rises up to slay a giant like Duke in the NCAA tournament.
So it transpired Friday night, when McCollum was the best player on the court, scoring 30 points to lead the Mountain Hawks over the Blue Devils 75-70.
The victory made Lehigh the sixth No. 15 seed to advance in an NCAA tournament. Sunday,...


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It was great dealing with Melanie Patrick who ensured everything went smoothly and to date. Thanks!
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A lost clue may have proven beneficial to one team.
okiebikergirlRegistered User(12/22/04 9:46 am)Reply ezSupporter Re: TAR 6 Episode 7: Phil is a CHOO CHOO Charlie-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's a RecapHIGHLIGHTS AND NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN FOOTAGE ON A SPECIAL EPISODE OF "THE AMAZING RACE 6," TUESDAY, DEC. 28 ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK"Phil Is A Choo-Choo Charlie" -- Highlights of some of the best moments from the first six episodes with never-before-seen footage will be broadcast on a special episode of THE AMAZING RACE 6, Tuesday, Dec. 28 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Phil Keoghan is the host of the series.Never-before-seen footage includes: Jonathan trying to persuade a local to prevent Lori and Bolo from getting on the ferry in Africa; Kendra and Freddy losing the first clue of the race in Chicago, which is quickly found by Jonathan and Victoria; and, at airport customs in Iceland, Lori and Bolo getting creative in trying to bypass the line in hopes of getting ahead of the other racers.
Unless I missed something somewhere, it looks like canadiangal and myself will be eliminated for the Week 6 scores. :':') The only thing that might save us, is the fact that no one was eliminated from the REAL race, so x_kicks might cut us a break. :\/
IT's A Darn Rehash Show |:(Next on The Amazing RaceTuesday, December 28 9PM ET/PTIn a never-before seen clip, one Racer tries to persuade a local to prevent another Team from getting on the ferry. Does the local lend a helping hand? One Team misses the last train of the night to their next destination. As the other Teams ponder their whereabouts, will this predicament result in elimination for the lagging pair? In the first episode, we didn't see a Team lose their very first clue, which was immediately found by another Team. What did the finders do with the lost clue? At airport customs, a Team gets creative in trying to bypass the line and get ahead of the other Racers. Watch this exclusive footage to find out whether the creative tactic was successful.
I was out earlier in shorts and a tee shirt!
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Checking trace level settings from UCCX CLI
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Checking trace level settings from UCCX CLI
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|How to check trace level settings from UCCX CLI?
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| Run the UCCX CLI command "show uccx trace levels uccxengine ss_tel" to view the trace levels for the SS_TEL for UCCXEngine.
Run the UCCX CLI commands "show uccx trace file size uccxengine" and "show uccx trace file count uccxengine" to view the trace file settings for the UCCXEngine.
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