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WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - Two more bizarre games could not have been scripted to start the Clarkson University baseball teams season, and unfortunately the Golden Knights came up short in extra innings in both contests, falling 7-5 in 11 innings and 4-3 in eight innings to Brockport Thursday afternoon at Chain O Lakes Park.
The Golden Knights begin their season at 0-2 with the extra-inning defeats, while Brockport improved to 6-1. Clarkson will take on Franklin & Marshall in a doubleheader today beginning at 10:30 a.m.
In the opener, starting pitcher Bryan Chudy (Goshen, NY) started strong with an 0-2 count on the first batter, but his control was lost after that and the Clarkson defense didnt help as Brockport was able to score three runs before Clarkson came to bat. The Clarkson offense tallied a run in the bottom half of the inning when Dan Lenney (Clifton Park, NY) singled home Bobby Derico (Watervliet, NY), and Chudy settled down in the second, whiffing a pair in the frame, while Clarkson opened up a two-run lead with a four-run outburst in the bottom half of the inning. Brockport had a pair of errors that provided some help, but the key blows came from Matt Jenack (Massena, NY), who drove in a run with a single, and Lenney, who plated a pair with a single through the left side.
That was all the offense that either team could muster for several innings, but Brockport scored a run in the sixth and another in the seventh to send the game to extra innings. The two teams tossed up zeroes until the 11th inning when Nick Bunce sent two home with a two-out single to end Clarksons longest game since April 9, 2011 (12 innings versus Union College).
Chudy allowed five hits in six innings and struck out five before being relieved by Evan Young (Ghent, NY) and Anthony Padrazo (Setaucket, NY). Padrazo took the loss, but pitched well, going four-plus innings of relief in his first collegiate outing. Jenack finished 2-for-4 for Clarkson, while Lenney was 2-for-5 with three runs batted in. Clarksons offense struggled after chasing Brockport starter Travis Renwick, getting just two hits over the final eight innings of the game.
The game was Clarksons longest non-league game since April 13, 2005, when the Golden Knights played Brockport for 13 innings in Watertown, NY.
In game two of the doubleheader, Clarkson never trailed in regulation, picking up a run in the top of the third inning on a Nolan Driscoll (Troy, NY) single, sending home Derico who had led off the inning with a walk. The Knights picked up another run in the fourth inning as again the leadoff hitter reached base. Junior Kyle Henchey (Rensselaer, NY) doubled to start the frame and moved up to third on a groundout before scampering home on a Derico sacrifice fly to right field, giving Clarkson a 2-0 edge.
The Golden Eagles scored a pair of unearned runs in the bottom half of the fourth, but Clarkson quickly regained its advantage with some clutch hitting as Driscoll laced a two-out triple down the right field line. Following a walk, sophomore catcher Tim Beninati (Schoharie, NY) drove an opposite field single to score Driscoll to give the Knights a 3-2 lead.
Freshman Greg Jasek (Chittenango, NY) was a batter away from earning a complete game victory, but a two-out double by Stephen Boronczyk scored pinch-runner Nick Pilotti from second. In the bottom half of the eighth inning, Jasek was removed in mid-frame for Justin Rebhun (East Greenbush, NY), and the junior was in the midst of pitching out of a jam when he was called for a balk with runners on first and third, allowing the lead runner to trot home with the game-winning run.
Driscoll and David Wixted (Ballston Lake, NY) each went 2-for-4 to lead Clarkson offensively, while Jasek went seven innings, allowed seven hits, and struck out seven while allowing no walks in his first collegiate start. Of his 104 pitches, 73 were for strikes.
Junior Joe Riley earned his second win of the season on Thursday as St. Lawrence Universitys baseball team evened its record with a 4-0 win over St. Josephs College of Long Island in Ft. Myers, FL.
The Saints, now 3-3, scored single runs in the top of the second and sixth innings, added two in the seventh and one in the ninth to back Riley, who has yet to allow a run in two starts.
Paul Piatelli walked, advanced on Brian Magovneys single and scored on a single by Kevin Prindle in the second. Piatelli then made it 2-0 when he walked, stole second and scored on Matt DeLucas single in the sixth.
Bryan Palermo singled, stole second and scored on Carter Franz double in the seventh with Jeff Kott doubling home Franz and Palermo singled and scored on Khifer OConnors base hit in the top of the ninth.
Riley struck out three and allowed five singles in seven inning with Andrew Weitzel finishing the game up with two innings of scoreless relief.
SLU18, Becker 2: Jill Carlton, Abigail Horan and Abigail Owens each scored three goals as the St. Lawrence University womens lacrosse team routed Becker 18-2 in a nonconference game Thursday in West Palm Beach.
Brigid Hurley and Lizzy Saward both scored twice for the Saints (3-1 overall). Caroline Bailey, Joey Kelley, Carly VanTassel, Stephanie ORourke and Michaela Maybee also scored for SLU.
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The non-league womens lacrosse game pitting SUNY Potsdam at SUNY Canton was postponed due to wintry conditions on Thursday. The game has been rescheduled to Sunday, April 7, at 1 p.m.
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MACON, Ga. – The Lipscomb women's tennis team took a hard fall as they lost to Mercer 4-2.
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I haven't seen one iota of explanation from yourself yet as to why both of us and Harman Kardon and the other links George posted to are wrong. Still waiting ChrisSy.
The 2011 Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture: "Where Did the Negative Frequencies Go?"
The AES website notes that the Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture series was established in May 1999 by the AES Technical Council, the Board of Governors, and the Richard Heyser Scholarship Fund to honor the extensive contribution to the Society by this outstanding man, widely known for his ability to communicate new and complex technical ideas with great clarity and patience. The Heyser Series is an endowment for lectures that will bring to AES conventions eminent individuals in audio engineering and related fields.
With thanks to the AES Technical Council for their permission, the preprint of John Atkinson's lecture is presented here.Ed.
Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture: "Where Did the Negative Frequencies Go?"John Atkinson, Editor, Stereophile magazine
"Even a cursory read of the academic literature suggests that in audio, all that matters has been investigated and ranked accordingly. But his 40-year career in music performing, record engineering and production, audio reviewing, and editing audio magazines leads John Atkinson to believe that some things might be taken too much for granted. The title of his lecture is a metaphor: all real numbers have two roots, yet we routinely discard the negative root on the grounds that it has no significance in reality. Perhaps some of things we discard as audio engineers bear further examination when it comes to the perception of music. This lecture will offer no real answers, but will perhaps allow some interesting questions to develop."
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It is an honor to have been invited to present this evening's lecture in memory of the late Richard Heyser. Audio theorist, engineer, reviewer, scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, inventor of Time Delay Spectrometry, and Audio Engineering Society Silver Medal recipient, Dick was a man I was privileged to have met just the once, at an AES meeting in London in March 1986. His comments that night gave me much to ponder in the years ahead. I was also in the audience for the presentation of his final two papers to the AES, given by telephone at the fall 1986 AES Convention in Los Angeles, from his hospital bed. I had not realized until that evening that his illness was terminal.
My wife got to know Dick well when they both worked for Audio magazine; she remembers going round a Consumer Electronics Show with him. Before entering each exhibitor's suite, Dick would cover up his name badge: "That way they won't know who I am," he said with his usual modesty, "and I will hear the system as it really is, not how they want 'Richard Heyser' to hear it."
It is also an honor to follow in the footsteps of such visionaries as Ray Dolby, recording engineer Phil Ramone, futurist Ray Kurzweil, mathematicians Manfred Schroeder and Stanley Lipshitz, film-sound pioneer and editor Walter Murch, Andy Moorer of Sonic Solutions and Adobe, Roger Lagadec, Kees Schouhamer Imminck (who developed the optical data-reading technology used in the CD), Karlheinz Brandenburg of MP3 fame, and acoustician Leo Beranek.
When Robert Schulein of the AES Technical Council e-mailed me last summer to invite me to give this lecture, I was sure that a mistake had been made. The gentlemen above invented the future. By contrast, I am just a storyteller; worse, I am a teller of other people's tales, including tales told by some of the people above.
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture," Laurie Anderson was once supposed to have said, and to be an audio journalist is not too different. However, as a generalist in a world of intense specialization, I think I can dance a step sufficiently varied to cast some interesting shadows.
I am sure that some of the questions I will ask in the next 50 minutes or so have already been answered, perhaps even by one or more of the people in this room. Nothing I will say is either original or new. Much of it has been examined in articles I have written and speeches I have given over the past decades. However, it is unlikely that everything will have ever been grouped together in the same presentation before. And, of course, given the large amount of ground I will be covering, I am well aware that I am skating over crevasses of deeper understanding. So I beg forgiveness for the inevitable generalizations.
Early Days
I had a schizophrenic education. On the one hand, I was an academic overachiever in the sciences. On the other, music meant more to me than any other interest at school, and I continued playing bass guitar in bands, first while I kept my nose to the scientific grindstone at university, and later when I took a job in scientific research.
I started out working, in a government laboratory, on the development of LEDs. This is my ID card at the lablong hair was mandatory for government workers at the end of the 1960s, of course.
One of my tasks was to grow my own junctions, using a slice of a zone-purified n-doped gallium phosphide crystal and depositing a layer of p-doped material on it with a vapor-epitaxy oven. I would then cleave the material into individual dies and make transistors from them under a stereo microscope. I would characterize the charge-carrier mobility by measuring the Hall Effect with an enormous magnetI once stuck my hand in the magnet but felt nothing, despite all the ions in my nerves presumably pressing against one side. I later worked for a mineral-processing laboratory, where I learned to pan for gold, among other skills.
But even as I began slowly climbing the scientific ladder, music pulled even more strongly, and I resigned from the lab in July 1972 to join a band that had just been signed to Warner Bros., and was to make an album at Abbey Road Studio and then embark on a tour of America. Well, we made the album, but our manager did a runner with the advance from Warners and the LP was never released. One memory I have of Abbey Road was this young tape op who, one lunchtime when the producer and engineer were at lunch, sat at the console and did a superb mix of one of our songs.
This slide is a montage of two photos I took in Abbey Road's Studio 3you can see that the tape op sitting by the 16-track Studer machine was a youthful Alan Parsons!
For the next four years I played with other bands, toured, and made other albums, but it eventually became clear that I would need a steadier source of income, and in September 1976 I joined the British magazine Hi-Fi News & Record Review as an editorial assistant. At a magazine devoted to audio equipment and recordings, I felt as if the scientific and musical sides of my brain could finally coalesce. And working on audio magazines is what I have done ever since.
As I said, I am a generalist in a world of specialists. The problem with being a generalist is the vast amount of information published in every field. It is impossible to stay current. Back when the Scientific Method was a radical new idea, and science was the preserve of wealthy gentleman amateurs, it was just about possible for a single person to know everything. But those days are long gone . . . one group of researchers reckon that 1.3 million articles were published in scientific journals in 2006 alone.
I am also old enough that my education in electronics and audio was exclusively based on tubes. Even the logic circuits I constructed at school used tubes! But looking back, I think there was one experience that foreshadowed my career as an audio reviewer. For one of my bachelor's degree final exams, I was handed a black box with two terminals and had to spend an afternoon determining what it was. (If I recall correctly, it was a Zener diode in series with a resistor.) That experience is echoed every day in my endeavors to characterize the performance of the audio components reviewed in Stereophileevery product, be it speaker, amplifier, CD player, is fundamentally a black box with input and output terminals. All I have to do is ask the question "What does it do?" And remember that testing a product is not just a case of pressing "F9" on the Audio Precision; you are faced with trying to get into the head of the designer and asking, Why did he do it this way? What is the trade-off the designer has felt worthwhile? (There are always trade-offs.) And why?
Concours d'elegance
I am addicted to elegant ideas. When I first realized that the square root of negative 1, i, could be visualized as meaning a rotation of 90° into a second dimension of what was hitherto a one-dimensional number line, it was a moment of satori. In the one-dimensional world of numbers, the concept of the square root of negative 1 is meaningless. But by adding a new dimension, you enter a new, rich reality where i does have meaning.
But it didn't take me long to realize that elegance is not always equivalent to truth. As a teenager, I thought that the hypothesis of the Static Universe propounded by Fred Hoyle, along with Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi (whose passing significance I'll mention later), was supremely elegant. (And it didn't hurt that, as a science-fiction fanatic, I was familiar with Hoyle's fiction.) Hoyle's idea was that, as the universe expands, it causes new matter to be created, if I remember correctly, at the rate of one hydrogen atom per century in a volume "equal to the Empire State Building," so that if you took a series of snapshots of the universe, one every billion years, they would all be identical. Of course, as soon as the cosmic microwave background was discovered, Hoyle was proved completely wrong. (This is ironic, as Hoyle had invented the term "Big Bang Theory" to disparage what turned out to be the correct theory.) But the Big Bang Theory means that the universe had a beginning and will have an end, which strikes me as inelegant in the extreme.
I am also fascinated by things that don't seem to fit. For example, when I first studied the Periodic Table of the Elements, it struck me as very strange that water is a liquid at normal temperature and pressure. If all you knew were the properties of its constituentstwo of the lightest elements in the Periodic Tableyou would expect water to be a gas like hydrogen sulfide, but less dense and less smelly.
But water obstinately isn't a gas, and we all take for granted that it isn't. In fact, our lives depend on it not being a gas. It takes a deeper knowledge of the properties of water to understand why it doesn't fit.
It is the combination of elegance and apparent anomalies that I will be talking about in this lecture. Which brings me to an explanation of its title:
Has HK hired you guys as DBT consultants?
Hey JRusskie,
Can you answer this one?
If A=B and C=B, then A=?
If you pass the test, then perhaps someone will hire you... But you and Georgie might have to fight over the job.
"i think THESE are the sort of differences between individuals that make DBT difficult: everyone hears differently. there is no absolute sound."
The sole purpose of DBT is to see if the person listening can distinguish between A and B. If they can't then for all practical purposes there is no difference in the sound from A and B. You and ChrisSy seem to think it's all about what the person "likes". It's a straight forward test method and "likes" has nothing to do with it.
Please explain to us all how Harman Kardon manages to use DBT all the time and do it well? I will be awaiting your reply Ariel.
So every household has a Harman Kardon product? And you and Georgie have living rooms that look like anechoic chambers? No fireplaces, of course....
Hearing a difference between a Harman Kardon product and another product in a anechoic chamber means what to you, Georgie and JRusskie?
Do you know that Ford makes the best trucks in the world?
Are you sure I didn't say 'licks". You know maybe tasting an audio product will yield just as useful results in a DBT.
Now run out to your nearest Boris' Convenience store and get yourself a can each of Pepsi (do you even have Pepsi in the Former-USSR?) and Coca-Cola and set up your own Pepsi (or whatever passes for cola in Russia) Challenge.
Wiki has a nice explanation of how to do a DBT...
Once you've done your very own Peps(k)i Challenge, please send us your conclusion. We're curious...
The next step now is to get everyone in your subsidized housing project to participate in your Pepski Challenge.
Gather up that data, compare it your own conclusion and let us know how useful that information is.
I'm sure you'll enjoy the challenge of your doing your very own DBT's! (You won't even have to ask Harman Kardon to use their anechoic chamber!)
The sole purpose of DBT is to see if the person listening can distinguish between A and B. If they can't then for all practical purposes there is no difference in the sound from A and B.
And that's the problem with these tests. If a formal blind test gives results that are indistinguishable from what would be given by chance, formal statistical analysis tells us that this result does _not_ "prove" there was no difference in the stimulus being tested, only that if there _was_ a difference, it was _not_ detectable under the conditions of the test. No more general conclusion can be drawn from the results. And as I have said, it is very difficult to arrange so that those conditions don't themselves become interfering variables. Even the fact that it is a test at all can be an interfering variable, as I explain in this lecture preprint.
Please explain to us all how Harman Kardon manages to use DBT all the time and do it well?
I have visited Harman's facility in Northridge and their blind testing set-up is impressive. They have worked hard to eliminate interfering variables and their testing is time- and resource-consuming and painstaking. Even so, they have to make compromises. Blind testing of loudspeakers, for example, is almots always performed in mono. And despite the rigor of their testing, you still have anomalous results, like the Mark Levinson No.53 amplifier, which was designed with such testing but fared poorly in the Stereophile review.
While formal blind tests are prone to false negative results - not detecting a difference when one exists - sighted listening is prone to false positives, ie, it detects a difference when none exists or perhaps exaggerates the degree of difference. As neither methodology is perfect, we go with the one that is manageable with our resources. We therefore offer our opinions for readers to reject or accept in the context of their own experience and I believe Stereophile does a better job of that than any other review magazine or webzine.
If you are uncomfortable with that policy, then you should not read the magazine. And if I remember correctly, JohnnyR, you admitted in earlier discussions on this sute that you neither subscribe to Stereophile, nor do you buy the magazine on the newsstand. So why should anyone pay attention to your opinions on how the magazine conducts itself?
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
So you are saying that if in a DBT the listeners could NOT tell a difference between two amps using music of their own choice then that doesn't prove the amps sound alike? Funny stuff there Atkinson. For one who thinks you should trust your ears to evaluate components you just bashed the ONE single TRUE way to test by USING YOUR OWN EARS in a DBT.
"And that's the problem with these tests. If a formal blind test gives results that are indistinguishable from what would be given by chance, formal statistical analysis tells us that this result does _not_ "prove" there was no difference in the stimulus being tested, only that if there _was_ a difference, it was _not_ detectable under the conditions of the test."
Your own words are saying that "if there was a difference it was not detectable under the conditions of the test"........oh you mean like letting the listener use the music of their own choice and switch back and forth endless times between two amps and then guess wrongly enough times so that they can't tell which one was which? LMAO if that's not proof that both amps sound alike then what sort of test WOULD prove that they do? Come on Atkinson you just don't like DBTs because they would show up so many components that people think sound "oh so better than the rest"
Opinions from you and your reviewers are the Gospel now folks. No need to test anything really just trust good ol'JA and his flunkies. Yay.
"If you are uncomfortable with that policy, then you should not read the magazine. And if I remember correctly, JohnnyR, you admitted in earlier discussions on this sute that you neither subscribe to Stereophile, nor do you buy the magazine on the newsstand. So why should anyone pay attention to your opinions on how the magazine conducts itself?"
Oh just maybe because a lot of people care for this little thing called the TRUTH? When magazines like your's take liberties with the truth by having shoddy reviews instead of in depth testing, then it's everyone's and anyone's responsibility to speak up when crappy falsehoods are published and the readers are supposed to take it all on faith. That's why. I for one do not take your opinions on anything audio related as worthwhile at all for the simple reasons that you show so much promise when you measure speakers but fail to even bother with the snakeoli products that you let slide under the radar yet let your reviewers give them glowing reviews sans any testing what so ever. Maybe that's the sighted listening bias you just spoke about yet you fail to even try with those type of products to get to the real TRUTH.
If you like Harman Kardon marketing, but you're not sure if Ford makes the best trucks in the world, then get yourself an F-150 and whatever truck you used to rumble across Afghanistan with, do your DBT (just like the Pepski Challenge) and let us know what you come up with...
You are marketing TRUTH now? How pure is it?
I know some construction workers who might be interested...
JRusskie, Just looking at your response to John's post and comparing word-for-word what John wrote and what you think he says, there's such a huge world of difference!! There's a war in your head!
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"Even so, they have to make compromises. Blind testing of loudspeakers, for example, is almots always performed in mono."
Well Mr Atkinson the reasoning behind testing speakers in mono is to eliminate the dreaded comb filter affect that would otherwise show up if a stereo pair were auditioned and the listener moved their head even a couple of inces. I'm surprised you didn't mention that fact but then again you think DBTs are hard to do, so if you don't know how to do them then indeed they are hard to do. *Chuckle* Any DBT done should be auditoned is such a manner. The rest of your "excuses" for not doing them is the same old same old from you, nothing surprising there.
So Georgie Porgie,
Let's say JRusskie is DBT'ing a $1500 speaker and a $500 speaker and can't hear a difference, and you are DBT'ing a $4500 speaker and a $4000 speaker and you happen to have enough working neurons to hear a difference... Which set of speakers should the ex-shepherd construction worker buy?
Even so, they have to make compromises. Blind testing of loudspeakers, for example, is almost always performed in mono.
Well Mr Atkinson the reasoning behind testing speakers in mono is to eliminate the dreaded comb filter affect that would otherwise show up if a stereo pair were auditioned and the listener moved their head even a couple of [inches].
That is a consideration, of course, but in my opinion a minor one. As I had understood from Floyd Toole back in the day, the additional complexity required of Harman's physical speaker shuffling apparatus to do blind speaker testing in stereo was not justified by the results, ie, they felt that the stereo performance could be predicted from the mono results.
I don't agree with that, but more importantly, this illustrates the thesis offered in my lecture, that when you move the testing situation a step away from how the product is going to be used, you can't be sure that the assumptions you make haven't invalidated the test. As I write in the abstract to the lecture, "perhaps some of things we discard as audio engineers bear further examination when it comes to the perception of music."
BTW, I am still waiting for you to acknowledge that the criticism you made of my lecture, that it was not about Richard Heyser, was incorrect.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
More excuses? I see what Johnny meant. You are never wrong. I am pretty sure Haram Kardon knows what they are doing. Please address any criticisms to them not me.
I am afraid that comb filtering IS a big deal. That would explain why cables "sound" different. It's not the cable but the listener changing where their head is between "testing"
You will be waiting a long time for any ackowledgement about your "lecture". Stop being the primadonna already.
Georgie wrote:
"Stop being the primadonna already."
Look in the mirror and repeat those words!!!!
So how does one differentiate speakers that sound differently, amplifiers that sound differently, pre-amps, turntables, tonearms, cartridges, DAC's, etc., if a turn of one's head makes that much difference?
Where's your reliability, Georgie? Doesn't science depend on reliability?
I can see what George is up against in here with Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee tag teaming and showing their ignorance.
Golly look what he meant.I think Ethan was banned from here ages ago for showing up Fearless Leader and his cronies and out right showing how REAL science works. BWAHAHAHAHAHAH loser boys.
Just bookmarking the link for future reference.
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......when you start doing a single DBT or even a SBT then you can talk about the "truth". Have you EVER designed and built your own speakers? Nahhhhhhhh you are too lazy or too "busy". Still finding plenty of time though to post online all the time though strangely enough.Till then you aren't an engineer so take your own advice and don't comment on speaker design anymore.
If you are going to save the link then please also save this link where discussion about it unfolded.
As you can see the original post was just one of many OPINIONS about the topic that is if you bother to read it at all. There are various OPINIONS about the topic and notice just how many of the so called "hobbyists" ended up being professional speaker builders. If you just pick and choose certain OPINIONS from the thread then you are guilty of leaving out facts.
For starters read the sixth post down by Jinjuku regarding Jeff's post that pretty much sums up where DIY has progressed.
Not real science either...
Frick and Frack strike again. Regadude and ChrisS always come up with strawman replies and ignore the links posted."Not real science "? How pompus can you get? Mr Winer measured the effects of comb filtering, what did you measure ChrisS the length of your nose when you typed that reply? You dismiss anything people link to yet show us nothing in return. Regadude, posting opinions isn't real science just so you both understand. Now run along lil boys and study real hard, maybe in another 20 years you might be able to hold your own in a discussion.
Has Winer's results been verified?
Did you know that Harman Kardon makes the best audio products in the world? And Ford makes the best trucks, right?
Or is that above your abilities like thinking?
Go ahead, put on a pink or white noise source and move your head about and tell me the sound doesn't change. You won't bother so forget it ChrisSy.
You never answer a question , you just put forth silly questions of your own. That's what people do when they don't know or are scared to try.
Moving a microphone while recording a person's voice? If that's how you do things then no wonder you don't know what Johnny was talking about. Yes the sound changes as recorded by the microphone so what? Genius.
I'll answer you this one... You and JRusskie always answer your own questions that you pose to everyone in these discussions. There's no need to provide any answer to you. As well, your attitudes and limited knowledge of the application of research methodology make civil and thoughtful discourse impossible.
So my questions to you and JRusskie are formed to reveal how each of you think whenever you provide a response.
You provide enough information for me to say that I find the "best" use of my time in these discussions is to make fun of you and JRusskie.
makes some sense of the whole darn thing.
The only duo that strikes here George, is you and Johnny. You both STRIKE OUT!


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A Study of Valacyclovir as Treatment for Genital Herpes Simplex Virus in HIV-Infected Patients
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The purpose of this study is to see if valacyclovir (Valtrex) is a safe and effective treatment for ano-genital HSV infections (herpes simplex virus infections of the anus and external genitals) in HIV-infected patients.
Herpes Simplex
HIV Infections
Herpes Genitalis
Drug: Valacyclovir hydrochloride
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Masking: Double-Blind
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|An International, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Valacyclovir for the Suppression of Recurrent Ano-Genital HSV Infections in HIV-Infected Subjects
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|June 1999
Patients are randomized in a 2:1 ratio to receive either Valtrex or placebo, twice daily, for up to 6 months. Patients come to the clinic for routine monthly assessments for 6 months, and return to the clinic for evaluation within 24 hours of the first signs or symptoms of an ano-genital HSV recurrence. Once the clinician confirms the presence of at least the macular/papular lesion stage, double-blind suppressive therapy is discontinued and open-label treatment with a higher dose of Valtrex twice daily for 5 days is initiated. For the first recurrence, patients are instructed to return to the clinic for further clinical assessments on Day 5 of the recurrence. Patients who have not healed by Day 5 may be offered an additional five days of open-label treatment, as deemed appropriate by the clinical investigator. If an additional 5-day course of open-label treatment medication is dispensed, the patient returns to the clinic on Day 10 for evaluation. Patients who have not healed by Day 10 are managed as deemed appropriate by the investigator. Once treatment of the first ano-genital HSV recurrence is complete and the patient is healed, patients are switched to open-label suppressive therapy with Valtrex for the remainder of the study period (up to a maximum of 6 months). The total duration of the study for all patients is 6 months.
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Patients may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are at least 18 years old.
- Are HIV-positive.
- Have herpes simplex virus (HSV) 2.
- Have received combination anti-HIV therapy for at least 2 months before entering the study.
- Have had 4 or more recurrences of ano-genital HSV (herpes infection of the anus and genitals) in the last 12 months. (If patient is taking medication to control HSV, then he/she must have had 4 or more recurrences of ano-genital HSV per year before beginning regular anti-HSV therapy, which is defined as therapy of 12 or more weeks.)
- Agree to use effective methods of birth control from 2 weeks before taking study drug, throughout the study, and for 4 weeks after completing the study. (A female may be eligible if not able to have children.)
Exclusion Criteria
Patients will not be eligible for this study if they:
- Have blood vessel disease.
- Are sensitive to acyclovir, Valtrex, famciclovir, or ganciclovir.
- Are unable to take medications by mouth.
- Have non-healed sores on the anus or genitals at beginning of study.
- Are using anti-herpes drugs. To be eligible for enrollment, patients currently using anti-herpes drugs must stop treatment with these drugs at the beginning of the study; however, therapy may be started again if the investigator finds it necessary.
- Are using interferon. Patients receiving interferon must stop interferon before beginning the study.
- Have kidney or liver problems.
- Are pregnant or breast-feeding.
- Have a type of HSV that is resistant to acyclovir, Valtrex, famciclovir, or ganciclovir.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00005663
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|Study First Received:
|May 11, 2000
|Last Updated:
|June 23, 2005
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|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service:
Herpes Simplex
Antiviral Agents
Anus Diseases
Herpes Genitalis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Herpes Genitalis
Herpes Simplex
DNA Virus Infections
Genital Diseases, Female
Genital Diseases, Male
Herpesviridae Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Skin Diseases
Skin Diseases, Infectious
Skin Diseases, Viral
Virus Diseases
Anti-Infective Agents
Antiviral Agents
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Therapeutic Uses
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CANTON - The rematch is on: Matthew A. Doheny defeated Kellie A. Greene, 72 percent to 28 percent, in the GOP primary on Tuesday, according to unofficial election-night results.
Mr. Dohenys victory means that he will face Rep. William L. Owens, D-Plattsburgh, on Nov. 6. It also means that for the first time since former Rep. John McHugh was in office, the Conservative, Independence and Republican party lines all belong to one candidate, which will help coalesce the right in the north countrys congressional seat, at least on paper.
The opportunity is not just to face Bill Owens again, Mr. Doheny said at his election-night rally at the Italian American Civic Association on Bellew Avenue. The opportunity its a clear one-on-one shot.
Mr. Owens won the district in 2009 and 2010, when there were two Republicans on the ballot one on the Conservative line and one on the Republican line. In 2010, it was Mr. Doheny on the Republican line and Douglas L. Hoffman on the Conservative line. Mr. Doheny lost by just under 2,000 votes, and many blamed Mr. Hoffmans presence on the ballot for the narrow defeat.
After Tuesdays results, no such third-party siphon exists this year for Mr. Doheny.
Mr. Doheny had some big advantages over Ms. Greene. He had spent more than $160,000 in preparing for the primary and the general elections, while she spent less than $10,000. He had been in the race longer. And the Republican Partys top officials had not just their thumbs on the scale for Mr. Doheny, but the entire weight of their collective body politic bearing down in his favor.
So the win was, to put it mildly, expected. But according to some supporters of Ms. Greene, Mr. Doheny still has his work cut out for him to bring the most conservative and politically active voters in the district into the fold, if he so chooses. With a tight race expected, every vote and every volunteer could make a difference; after all, Ms. Greene earned more than 3,000 votes on Tuesday, which was more than the Owens and Doheny margin in 2010.
I just dont trust him, said James A. Skeldon, a volunteer for Ms. Greene who said that he might vote for Mr. Doheny in November, but would do little else to assist him.
Mr. Skeldon and Lee Marshall were part of a contingent of a half dozen people holding Greene for Congress signs on Public Square on Tuesday. They said that like-minded conservative voters might stay at home in November, or vote for Mr. Owens out of spite. And they certainly wouldnt be as passionate as they would for a Greene candidacy, they said.
Some Greene supporters were already prepared to take the loss in stride.
If this ends tonight, Ill go home knowing I did the best I could for what I believe, said Arthur J. Feather, a Pamelia resident wearing a red Greene T-shirt and holding a Greene sign on Public Square. The bottom line is, were ordinary people of modest means doing something we believe in.
One conservative voter who wont come into the fold is Ms. Greene herself. A former international business consultant and recent graduate of seminary school in Arizona, Ms. Greene said she wont make an effort to help Mr. Doheny in November.
Im not going to support him, she said. He says hes a conservative, but his stance on issues shows hes a moderate.
Ms. Greene, who cant run for state office in November because she only recently moved to New York from Arizona, said that shell remain in politics.
I think this has been a launch pad for my career, and Im not going to be disappearing any time soon, she said at her election-night watch party at the Savory Downtown on Washington Street.
Mr. Doheny, who spoke to about 40 or 50 supporters at his rally, said his campaign would announce a campaign-stop blitz after his victory. He has another big day coming up, too: On Saturday, hes set to wed Mary E. Reidy in Alexandria Bay.
The state GOP chairman welcomed Mr. Doheny into the race with a news release on Tuesday night, saying that his impressive victory bodes well for November.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee welcomed Mr. Doheny, too, with a news release that attacked him as an extreme tea party right-winger, plucking quotes from appearances Mr. Doheny made in his primary campaign.
But Mr. Doheny said that the race would help, not hurt his chances in November.
Another win is always good, Mr. Doheny said. Weve developed our team, and our team has produced a great victory tonight.
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EUGENE, Ore. - Gordon Mannhalter had a bone to pick last year with his employer, St. Vincent de Paul.
Mannhalter watched too many donated bicycles hit the trash heap.
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"I was a finish carpenter for many years," the Marine Corps veteran said, "but I'd rather do this."
The work sparked the Veteran Bikes project in an even bigger west Eugene facility. It's a pilot project teaching unemployed veterns to work as bicycle mechanics.
"Often times for these veterans, this is their sole mode of transportation, so it's empowering for them," said Shane Ayrsman, coordinator of Veteran Bikes. "Well, we are focusing strictly on used bikes and reconditioning them like they were new."
In the big picture of growing jobs, St. Vincent de Paul director Terry McDonald said the new project "gives us one more tool to put into the box to make long-term jobs and training available for our community in a way that's productive."
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The Creighton University Men's Basketball program will showcase its support of the American Cancer Society Coaches Vs. Cancer program on Saturday, January 25, 2014 when it hosts the Georgetown Hoyas on First National Bank Court at the CenturyLink Center Omaha (7:02 p.m. tip-off). Fans are encouraged to wear pink to promote cancer awareness and participate in the Pink Out, and the first 15,000 Bluejay fans will receive a complimentary pink t-shirt courtesy of Alegent Creighton Health and Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center. The Bluejay players will be wearing pink jerseys and warm up shooting shirts in support of the nights events.
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Johathon Stalls with his handcart at the Price Library.
Jonathon Stalls finally arrived in Price after pushing his handcart across the plains and mountains of America. Sound familiar?
His transcontinental walk is not religiously motivated as was the legendary trek of the Utah pioneers, but it is dedicated to promoting a noble idea that became a Nobel idea: micro-loans. He said he is simply chatting with people he meets in small towns along his walk about the potential of small-scale venture capitalism as an alternative to purely charitable donations.
The idea originated with Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladesh banker who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his 30-year program of small loans to the working poor in that country. That idea has been amplified by Kiva, LLC, a non-profit organization that operates a system for linking contributors with banks in other countries that are willing to make micro-loans to people who want to make a go of small businesses.
Stalls is calling his journey from Delaware to San Francisco "Kiva Walk," although he is not an employee or an owner of Kiva.
Stalls said that the loans are tiny by American corporate standards - a $600 loan to a woman in Cambodia who wants to buy a cow, for example, or a few hundred dollars for a carpenter in Nicaragua. "It's quite different from handouts," he explained. People have to pay the money back, and the payback rate has been running at close to 99 percent. Yunus had the same experience with his clients.
The way it works is that a community bank in some foreign country will make a loan to an entrepreneur. Then the banker creates a profile of the borrower and explains why the loan is a good decision for the community and the individual. Kiva puts the profile on its web page (www.kiva.org), and people who want to contribute send in whatever amount ($25 is typical). The bank records the contribution on its balance sheet.
When loan is repaid, the Kiva contributors can get their money back, or they can let it roll over into the next investment. As with any loan, however, there is a potential for default, and the Kiva website is clear about this.
That's the message Stalls has been carrying for more than 2,000 miles on his walk that began on March 1 in Lewes, Del. He says he has gone through five pairs of walking shoes already as he logs 15 to 20 miles a day on the road.
"I have visited hundreds of small towns and stayed with families in many of them," he said. "I have had to revamp a lot of stereotypes as I got to learn about traditions and family life in the towns I visited."
The last glimpse of civilization he had before reaching Wellington and Price was a few days in Moab. The journey will take him to Helper and then over the hill to Springville next.
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42 U.S. Code § 1769g - Information clearinghouse
(a) In general
The Secretary shall enter into a contract with a nongovernmental organization described in subsection (b) of this section to establish and maintain a clearinghouse to provide information to nongovernmental groups located throughout the United States that assist low-income individuals or communities regarding food assistance, self-help activities to aid individuals in becoming self-reliant, and other activities that empower low-income individuals or communities to improve the lives of low-income individuals and reduce reliance on Federal, State, or local governmental agencies for food or other assistance.
(b) Nongovernmental organization
The nongovernmental organization referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall be selected on a competitive basis and shall—
(1) be experienced in the gathering of first-hand information in all the States through onsite visits to grassroots organizations in each State that fight hunger and poverty or that assist individuals in becoming self-reliant;
(2) be experienced in the establishment of a clearinghouse similar to the clearinghouse described in subsection (a) of this section;
(3) agree to contribute in-kind resources towards the establishment and maintenance of the clearinghouse and agree to provide clearinghouse information, free of charge, to the Secretary, States, counties, cities, antihunger groups, and grassroots organizations that assist individuals in becoming self-sufficient and self-reliant;
(4) be sponsored by an organization, or be an organization, that—
(5) be experienced in communicating the purpose of the clearinghouse through the media, including the radio and print media, and be able to provide access to the clearinghouse information through computer or telecommunications technology, as well as through the mails; and
(6) be able to provide examples, advice, and guidance to States, counties, cities, communities, antihunger groups, and local organizations regarding means of assisting individuals and communities to reduce reliance on government programs, reduce hunger, improve nutrition, and otherwise assist low-income individuals and communities become more self-sufficient.
(c) Audits
The Secretary shall establish fair and reasonable auditing procedures regarding the expenditures of funds to carry out this section.
(d) Funding
Out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to the Secretary to provide to the organization selected under this section, to establish and maintain the information clearinghouse, $200,000 for each of fiscal years 1995 and 1996, $150,000 for fiscal year 1997, $100,000 for fiscal year 1998, $166,000 for each of fiscal years 1999 through 2004, and $250,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2015. The Secretary shall be entitled to receive the funds and shall accept the funds, without further appropriation.
Source(June 4, 1946, ch. 281, § 26, as added Pub. L. 103–448, title I, § 123,Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4731; amended Pub. L. 105–336, title I, §§ 103(c)(2), 112,Oct. 31, 1998, 112 Stat. 3147, 3157; Pub. L. 108–265, title I, § 128,June 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 767; Pub. L. 111–80, title VII, § 749(f),Oct. 21, 2009, 123 Stat. 2132; Pub. L. 111–296, title IV, § 409,Dec. 13, 2010, 124 Stat. 3260.)
2010—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 111–296substituted "2010 through 2015" for "2005 through 2010" in first sentence.
2009—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 111–80substituted "2010" for "2009".
2004—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 108–265, in first sentence, substituted "1998," for "1998, and" and "through 2004, and $250,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2009" for "through 2003".
1998—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 105–336substituted "$100,000 for fiscal year 1998, and $166,000 for each of fiscal years 1999 through 2003" for "and $100,000 for fiscal year 1998" in first sentence and inserted ", without further appropriation" before period at end of second sentence.
Effective Date of 2010 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 111–296effective Oct. 1, 2010, except as otherwise specifically provided, see section 445 ofPub. L. 111–296, set out as a note under section 1751 of this title.
Effective Date of 1998 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 105–336effective Oct. 1, 1998, see section 401 ofPub. L. 105–336, set out as a note under section 1755 of this title.
Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 1, 1994, see section 401 ofPub. L. 103–448, set out as an Effective Date of 1994 Amendment note under section 1755 of this title.
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PPACG seeking input on development of regional sustainability goals
The Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments (PPACG)
is leading an exciting new effort in cooperation with the cities, counties, businesses, military installations, utilities, economic development organizations, environmental groups, schools, non-profit foundations, citizens and others to create measurable regional sustainability goals for
El Paso
. Goals will be developed in multiple areas impacting the environment, economy and health of the region.
These goals will enable a coordinated, regional approach to sustainability planning and provide the foundation to create a Regional
Sustainability Plan. This Plan will provide
a framework to identify how individual, business, institutional and government choices can work towards a better future.
This effort builds upon what is already being done and is integrated into all the ongoing local efforts. Public
input is a critical component in the development of these goals so they can reflect the values and concerns of the community. If you are interested in participating in this exciting effort, please attend one or all of the following focus group meetings:
Materials Management Focus Group...
Aug. 27, 2010; 9:00 a.m. ? 1:00 p.m.
Health Focus Group...
Aug. 31, 2010; 9:00 a.m. ? 1:00 p.m.
Built and Natural Environment...
Sep.13, 2010; 9:00 a.m. ? 1:00 p.m.
Economic Development Focus Group...
Sep. 20, 2010; 9:00 a.m. ? 1:00 p.m.
Transportation Focus Group...
Sep. 27, 2010; 9:00 a.m. ? 1:00 p.m.
All meetings will be held at PPACG, 15 S 7
Street, Colorado Springs, CO, in the lower-level conference room. For further information on the development of the goals please contact
Rich Muzzy
, PPACG Environmental Program Manager, at 719-471-7080, x109 or at
PPACG is a voluntary association of 16 municipal and county governments serving a regional community. Since 1967, PPACG has worked to ensure that local governments have a forum to discuss issues that cross their political boundaries, identify shared opportunities and challenges, and develop collaborative strategies for action.
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|Boone Restaurateur Charged For Worthless Checks
|Written by Boone PD Press Release
|Monday, 03 December 2012 14:12
A local businesswoman has been charged with writing worthless checks. The Boone Police release said that Betty Jean Austin, 72, of Boone and proprietor of the Mountain House Restaurant, was charged Monday with two counts of writing felony worthless checks. Austin is alleged to have written
two large worthless checks to a food distributor. Austin met with Boone Police at the Watauga County Magistrate's Office and was served with the charges before being released on a written promise bond with a January 22nd, 2013 court date.
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16 U.S. Code § 119 - Establishment; notice in Federal Register; administration; exchange and acquisition of lands; remaining funds
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In order to permit the establishment of the Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona, and other lands as provided for herein, as the Petrified Forest National Park, such national park shall be established
(a) after title to all of the lands described in section 119a of this title shall have been vested in the United States, with the exception of such easements and rights-of-way for railroad, public utilities, and highway purposes as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior, and
(b) when notification of the effective date of such establishment of the park, as determined by the said Secretary, is published in the Federal Register. Disestablishment of the Petrified Forest National Monument shall be effected concurrently with the establishment of the park.
The Petrified Forest National Park shall be preserved and administered in its natural condition by the Secretary of the Interior for the public benefit in accordance with the general laws governing areas of the National Park System and in accordance with the basic policies relating thereto as prescribed by sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title.
The exchange authority prescribed for the Petrified Forest National Monument in sections 444 and 444a of this title, is hereby extended to all the lands within the Petrified Forest National Park as herein authorized.
For the purposes of this section and section 119a of this title, the Secretary is authorized to acquire, in such manner as he shall consider to be in the public interest, any non-Federal land or interests in land within the area hereby authorized to be established as the Petrified Forest National Park. In acquiring any State-owned land or interests therein within the aforesaid area, such property may be procured by the United States without regard to any limitations heretofore prescribed by the Congress relating to the disposal of State-owned properties.
Upon establishment of the Petrified Forest National Park, as authorized by this section and section 119a of this title, any remaining balance of funds that may be available for purposes of the Petrified Forest National Monument shall thereafter be available for expenditure for purposes of the Petrified Forest National Park.
Source(Pub. L. 85–358, § 1,Mar. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 69.)
Petrified Forest National Park Expansion
Pub. L. 108–430, Dec. 3, 2004, 118 Stat. 2606, as amended by Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7116(d),Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1203, provided that:"SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
"This Act may be cited as the 'Petrified Forest National Park Expansion Act of 2004'."SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
"In this Act:
"(1) Map.—The term 'map' means the map entitled 'Proposed Boundary Adjustments, Petrified Forest National Park', numbered 110/80,045, and dated January 2005.
"(2) Park.—The term 'Park' means the Petrified Forest National Park in the State.
"(3) Secretary.—The term 'Secretary' means the Secretary of the Interior.
"(4) State.—The term 'State' means the State of Arizona."SEC. 3. BOUNDARY REVISION.
"(a) In General.—The Secretary is authorized to revise the boundary of the Park to include approximately 125,000 acres as depicted on the map.
"(b) Availability of Map.—The map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National Park Service."SEC. 4. ACQUISITION OF ADDITIONAL LAND.
"(a) Private Land.—The Secretary may acquire from a willing seller, by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, any private land or interests in private land within the revised boundary of the Park. In acquiring private land and interests in private land within the revised boundary of the Park, the Secretary shall undertake to acquire such private land and interests in private land first by donation or exchange.
"(b) State Land.—
"(1) In general.—The Secretary may, with the consent of the State and in accordance with Federal and State law, acquire from the State any State land or interests in State land within the revised boundary of the Park.
"(2) Plan.—Not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 3, 2004], the Secretary shall, in coordination with the State, develop a plan for acquisition for State land or interests in State land under paragraph (1).
"(3) Management agreement.—If the Secretary is unable to acquire the State land under paragraph (1) within the 3-year period required by paragraph (2), the Secretary may enter into an agreement that would allow the National Park Service to manage State land within the revised boundary of the Park."SEC. 5. ADMINISTRATION.
"(a) In General.—Subject to applicable laws, all land and interests in land acquired under this Act shall be administered by the Secretary as part of the Park.
"(b) Transfer of Jurisdiction.—The Secretary shall transfer to the National Park Service administrative jurisdiction over any land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary that—
"(1) is depicted on the map as being within the boundaries of the Park; and
"(2) is not under the administrative jurisdiction of the National Park Service on the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 3, 2004].
"(c) Exchange After Enactment.—Upon completion of an exchange of land after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 3, 2004], the Secretary shall transfer administrative jurisdiction over the exchanged lands within the boundary of the Park as depicted on the map to the National Park Service.
"(d) Grazing.—
"(1) In general.—The Secretary shall permit the continuation of grazing on land transferred to the Secretary under this Act, subject to applicable laws, regulations, and Executive orders.
"(2) Termination of leases or permits.—Nothing in this subsection prohibits the Secretary from accepting the voluntary termination of a grazing permit or grazing lease within the Park.
"(e) Amendment to General Management Plan.—Not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 3, 2004], the Secretary shall amend the general management plan for the Park to address the use and management of any additional land acquired under this Act."SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
"There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act."
Transfer of Jurisdiction, Air Force Housing at Radar Bomb Scoring Site, Holbrook, Arizona
Pub. L. 103–337, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2844,Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 3068, provided that:
"(a) Transfer Authorized.—As part of the closure of an Air Force Radar Bomb Scoring Site located near Holbrook, Arizona, the Secretary of the Air Force may transfer, without reimbursement, the administrative jurisdiction, accountability, and control of the housing units and associated support facilities used in connection with the site to the Secretary of the Interior for use in connection with Petrified Forest National Park.
"(b) Description of Property.—The exact acreage and legal description of the real property to be transferred under subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory to the Secretary of the Air Force and the Secretary of the Interior.
"(c) Additional Terms and Conditions.—The Secretary of the Air Force may require such additional terms and conditions in connection with the transfer of real property under subsection (a) as the Secretary considers appropriate."
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Hello everyone,
This was my first week of GSoC working on parrot-libgit2. parrot-libgit2 is aimed at providing a low-level PIR binding to libgit2 as well as high-level winxed bindings. The schedule is available here. Duke Leto wrote the initial code a couple of years ago, but since then the code had bitrotted.