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VA Linux Printing Summit Notes %description% Notes from VA Linux Printing Summit of July 27-28, 2000
The first VA Printing Summit was held on July 27-28, 2000. I attended, courtesy of VA itself, and took these day-by-day notes of the conference:
I'm here in Sunnyvale, California at the Open Source Printing Summit being hosted by VA Linux systems. The summit itself is an offshoot of the HP/VA "fix printing" partnership. A group of developers at VA is doing some work to make printing better, but any solution will obviously be beyond what they can do, so they've invited basically everyone involved with free software printing, plus an assortment of printer vendors, to gather here in Sunnyvale for two days of gabbing, arguing, head knocking, etc.
Day 0: A Three Hour Tour
Wed at 11am I drove to the airport in Providence, RI. I got there at 12:30, with just enough time to make a 1pm United flight for San Jose. That plane had loose screws on the pilot's window, necessitating a torque wrench and a mechanic trained in the operation of said wrench.
Three hours later, the mechanic had begun adjusting the second screw, and all options United offered had expired, so I had VA's travel service put me on a Delta flight. We got nearly 100m from the gate before the pilot discovered that the right engine wouldn't start. After a quick call to VA's travel folks and exhausting an entire cellphone battery while in line at the ticket counter, I was just able to buy a burrito and make a Northwest flight via Detroit, which put me in San Francisco at 1am.
Fortunately the rumors of bad California traffic appear to be greatly exaggerated; I saw no other cars and no roads less than four lanes wide. ;)
Day 1: Spoolers, Vendors, and APIHell
The first day was mostly dedicated to structured presentations to everyone by various of the larger projects. These included 20 minute background descriptions:
- L Peter
- on Ghostscript. A loadable driver project is in the planning stages for 7.0, and work for PDF 1.4 (which finally surpasses Postscript's facilities in a number of useful areas) is underway.
- Mike
- on CUPS. CUPS is all-singing for many applications, and if my eavesdropping is up to par, this was news to a few of the vendors.
- Patrick
- on LPRng. Patrick appears to be the retired EE professor he is.
- Ben
- on VA's work. They're now focused on printer configuration stuff? As usual, they'll overlap horribly with a dozen other projects. No matter; all's fair in love and code theft ;)
- Chema and Raph
- on Gnome. Gnome has big plans and quite a bit of code to show. The gnome canvas widget can or will soon also generate Postscript, PDF, PCL, or a Gnome Metafile. Preview is therefore trivial and efficient. Corba is a good thing.
- Gavriel
- formerly of Corel, on sysAPS. They use this library in WordPerfect etc; it is a good basis for spooler-independant future work (and is of course built from my database; I need to talk with Brian about the new export format).
- Waldo
- of KDE. They basically sort of just use Qt's printing support, which is essentially identical to their canvas widget and makes Postscript.
- Carl-uno
- of IETF on IPP.
- Gary
- HP, seemingly to provide a representative vendor viewpoint. He was asked - told, really - that we really want useful developer documentation more than we want all the higher-level initiatives they're doing now. HP offered numbers from IDC for Linux client (ie nonserver, deskjet space) market share: 4.14% new installations in 1999, and 5.54% new installations in 2004. Installed base in those years is 2.4% and 5.74%. Obviously the 2004 year numbers are completely made up, and undoubtedly wrong. Several folks pointed out various things indicating strong growth in the desktop area. (I, for one, don't care about numbers; as Robert later pointed out in the vendor session, one is a viable market size to sustain a free software development project).
Lunch was out on the patio; Jacob of PDQ and I ate with two Lexmark folks; one Lloyd from the evil disposable jetprinter division, and one Don from the delightful Optra division. We discussed various things, but the point came out that the bulk of the intellectual property they wish to keep secret is in fact above and beyond the minimum necessary information to produce good output with free software; we need only to know how to put dots in the proper places on the page, while they had rather thought we wanted a whole flock of dithering, halftoning, color, and other algorithms/tips/support to go with it. We pointed out then and later in a breakout session that free software has in fact got a perfectly good selection of algorithms and implementations for all of these things; it is mainly the inability to control the printhead that vendors can help us with. Other information is merely icing on the cake.
Back in session, the last few presentations finished up, and a flagrantly disorganized discussion of what to do started up. This came to a head with an HP fellow suggesting a model and Ben rather wanting to lock out the non-programmers and get something done already. Eventually it was decided to have two child sessions: one for API/model/etc stuff, and one for vendor relations. I attended the vendor relations one.
This discussion was attended by some free software developers and most or all vendors at the conference:
| Epson
The discussion consisted of equal parts:
- Explaining the way free software development works to the vendors. Many are totally unfamiliar with it; the idea of programming a printer merely for the fun of solving a problem, for peer acclaim, or whatever does understandably seem strange to someone who does mainstream printer work as a traditional day job.
- Explaining what we need and discussing the ways vendors can provide this. The lines around all that top-secret dithering magic were drawn, and a straightforward plea for documentation about the squirting of ink drops was made. Various arrangements like "partial NDA" techniques were discussed, and the many disadvantages of binary-only vendor drivers were enumerated.
Epson won special congratulations for providing a sufficent level of documentation to allow the straightforward implementation of decent drivers for the Stylus printers; as a look at my color inkjet summary page will show, Epsons are currently the best thing going for Linux inkjet shoppers.
All the vendor-bashing completed, we moved to VA's building up the road for a parking lot BBQ featuring an irritatingly loud band that made conversation difficult. I talked variously with Jacob Langford (PDQ), Mike Sweet (CUPS), Nancy Chen (Okidata), Patrick Powell (LPRng), Mark VanderWeiele (IBM), and Ray Hsu (Epson). Of those in the API session (as opposed to the vendor session) the consensus seemed to be that it had rapidly devolved into a nonproductive heated discussion between various factions. Perhaps the morning startup "summary" presentation of the API discussion will reveal more useful progress...
After the BBQ, Patrick, Jacob, and I retreated to the hotel's gazebo and gabbed for a while. Much discussion of BIOSes, bootstrap code, RTC chips, university politics, youthful indiscretions, and motorcycles ensued.
Day 2: Drivers, Fonts, and APIs
Day two began with breakfast and mingling. I ended up in a discussion with L Peter (Ghostscript) about licensing; it became clear to us that he had not fully realized the chilling effect that gs's dual license has had on outside contribution to Ghostscript. Then Robert (stp/gimp-print) wandered over and provided the perfect case in point.
Things then settled down into a set of presentations about the previous day's two discussion groups (vendor relations and api). Robert presented the results of our vendor relations group. Besides what I remembered above, a few other points were highlighted and discussed:
- IP in protocol
- Some of the inkjets embed some color or other IP into the printer and protocol. This makes a simple "how to lay down dots" protocol rather difficult for some vendors to offer.
- Backchannel
- Two-way communication info is important, too.
- Unified driver API?
- The vendors would love to see a single API to write drivers to. L Peter volunteered that gs's driver interface is stable and reasonably battle-tested, but there are other choices (see omni, below, or gimp-print's eventually-to-be-modular structure).
Mark VanderWiele then presented his project, which frankly took most of us by surprise. IBM has over the years written printer drivers for essentially all printers to support OS/2. They are porting this project to Linux and releasing it as free software: probably GPL or perhaps LGPL. The IBM version supports some 600 printers pretty well; the free software version will of course be rather more limited, but does provide a large stable of drivers, printer data, and a rather interesting modular raster driver API structure which seemed quite appealing to the printer vendors, who could plug in dither code, and some Gnome desktop folks, who could skip Ghostscript entirely.
The IBM system is remarkably similar to the structure of my own foomatic database-driven scheme; so much so, in fact, that it may be appropriate for one to absorb the other, or at least for us to collaborate on data exchange. They especially have good data on the more subtle printer characteristics like page sizes, printable regions, color adjustment data, trays, etc. The system provides for completely data-driven "universal" drivers defined via a subclassing mechanism in terms of one another, and for the use of dynamically loadable object code to implement printer or vendor-specific algorithms not already available in the standard codebase.
The system appeared to be limited to raster device support. The system uses Ghostscript as a rendering engine. The system's Linux incarnation has a few bugs yet, but does run. It will be published on IBM's developerworks site next week.
IBM owns one of each printer for testing. This amounts to over 500+ printers for which they even stock supplies; it seems to me that access to this might be a handy thing for free driver developers, although a printer "compile farm" would be a trick and a half to operate - what on earth do you do with the output?
As the grapevine had reported, the API discussion started off with a bang but promptly catapulted itself off a cliff. An extremely basic model of printing was agreed to; IMHO the model is so simple as to be mostly useless, but opinions may vary...
The main problem from the API standpoint is that applications just sort of throw data at lpr and pray. App writers would prefer to be able to do such things as these in a spooler/platform/etc independent way:
- Easily enumerate printers/queues/whatever.
- Easily know and offer to the user printer/driver/etc options.
- Easily know various interesting printer characteristics, like paper sizes, color gamut/space/etc, memory, font capabilities, etc.
- Generate print data (no, not just use sprintf with ad-hoc Postscript, thank you). Both Gnome and KDE have a good story here already: in each the canvas widget's API can be used to construct Postscript.
- Print the data, already.
- Get status back about it.
- Etc, etc, etc.
At this point I asked the obvious: Corel's sysAPS exists now and does much of this stuff, or at least provides a somewhat incomplete quasi-modular implementation of a well defined API which meets many of these needs, so why was it not being considered. The ever-subtle Ben promptly asserted that the sysAPS code sucks.
Much debate ensued over this point throughout the rest of the day. Investigation into the use or adaptation of sysAPS will almost assuredly proceed; something is bound to be useful from it, if we don't settle upon a descendant of the thing.
L Peter then gave a presentation of the issues surrounding Ghostscript drivers. There are four biggies:
- Dynamic Loading
- This is partly a technical issue, since gs is almost absurdly portable. Settling upon a good dynamic loading scheme for so many platforms is a trick. Keith Packard (XFree86) volunteered the MetroLink-contributed OS-independant dynamic loader used in X11 as a choice; there was some discussion of the details, from which it emerged as a fairly suitable choice. There will be discussion etc of loadable drivers on SourceForge soon; volunteer your opinions.
- Licensing
- L Peter has gotten the message that the AFPL is a large deterrent to significant third-party participation in the project. He explained his three-codebase release system (AFPL, Commercial, and GPL with a one rev lag). He explained why; in the past Ghostscript was GPL, and a number of fax vendors made a quick buck off his hard work with only token adherance to the GPL. L Peter also feels, quite sensibly, that developers deserve the bulk of the money for software, while middlemen like distributions, marketing, etc, deserve rather less. He finds that the current free software business models do very poorly at this, and is not convinced that the common support-subsidises-development model is really viable.
Anywho, providing for loadable drivers may amplify the AFPL issue, and L Peter stated that he is willing to make some sort of change to the AFPL to improve the situation.
- Bidirectional
- Ghostscript is currently somewhat weak in offering support for bidirectional devices. In theory, driver writers can probably mostly do it, or do it with only a few twiddles to things.
- Error handling
- Ghostscript's error handling is somewhat awful from a Unix filter point of view; the errors get mixed in with the data stream, and the error messages tend to be almost ludicrously cryptic. Mike Sweet (CUPS) volunteered to send in a few easy changes to make them go to stderr, which at least fixes part of the problem.
Mixed in with the licensing discussions were some free software project theory discussions. L Peter postulated that most successful free software projects appear to have someone with a strong "gatekeeper" role, acting as benevolent dictator or the like. In Ghostscript's early years, he had felt obligated to perform that role, and felt that his license structure was necessary to his ability to do that. He did so for over a decade, and his close adherance to portability and the Adobe specs is the legacy of his dedication. Unfortunately, very few outside developers have done significant work on Ghostscript; the gs developer community is not really viable. Now, he wishes to retire, and is faced with the problem of quickly constructing a viable non-L Peter Ghostscript development community. Various discussion about how to do this ensued. Netscape/Mozilla was offered as a failed model; X11 going under the X Consortium was offered as a failed model, and no easy fix was decided.
Lunch was out on the patio again. I ate with Mark Fasheh, an intern at VA, Jose (Chema) Celorio of Gnome, Ben Woodard of VA, an unknown female apparently associated with Ben, Waldo Bastian of KDE, and Robert Krawitz of gimp-print. Mark lead in by assuring me that my database is indeed a useful thing, which was nice to hear. We then discussed what sort of spooler interfaces were useful; Chema would be quite happy to toss Ghostscript and spool raw printer bits, while the rest of us pointed out that this had disadvantages: there are an awful lot of those bits in a color photo printjob, and the bits are totally opaque to the spooler, which is the sensible place for an admin to establish policy. Establishing pagecount policies or any sort of policy-based transform or observation on printjob data is essentially impossible in the render-on-the-desktop scheme. Thus there is perhaps a place for both, and certainly no need to eliminate backend filtering.
We also discussed the rather unbaked UPDF specification (my take: PPDs written in XML) and some shortcomings of PPDs (basically no arbitrary user values of any sort).
After lunch, Raph lept in with a PDF 1.4 vs SVG comparison. PDF is basically a swell thing, with a number of new features beyond any other sensible alternative. There is, however, some alarming patent verbiage in the Adobe spec for PDF 1.4 which is rather offputting to free software development. SVG (an XML-based vector graphics format from the W3C intended for the web) may therefore be the most appropriate alternative, although it is missing a disturbing number of features necessary for decent print work, and is rather late in the specification phase, so the needed changes may not be possible for the impending version.
Someone should have an action item to pester Adobe about those patents, but I don't think anything so sensible happened. Presumably Raph will work out the details as part of his Ghostscript PDF 1.4 implementation project.
Owen Taylor of Red Hat gave a presentation on the operation of the Pango library. Pango is an I18N, or internationalization library. It basically allows apps to draw text in the appropriate way using appropriate fonts. Pango provides APIs and code for reordering (ie, left vs right, up vs down, although not for the more exotic schemes like the allegedly spiral (!) forms of Korean) and for shaping (ie, ligatures in English, but more for the complex position-dependent glyph shapes and inter-relationships of other languages like the completely cursive Arabic or Hindi).
Fonts, of course, popped up at various times in the discussion; OpenType appears to be a fine font format for use in the future, but it seems no one actually uses these now. Synchronization between printer fonts and display fonts is a fine trick. A whole font presentation came later...
Hideki Hiura of Sun presented the work of the Li18nux project. The project aims to provide a standard and/or implementation components for good internationalization support on Linux. He drew a fine table which illustrates the solution space for internationalization:
|Singular Context
|Multi Context
|Empty Container Model
Xlib externally
glibc externally
xlib internally
glibc internally
|Unicode C. S. normalization
| Java
Plan 9
In this space, a singular context is a scheme which supports one language at a time. Ie, you can draw French or Arabic. A multicontext system supports multiple languages all at once, ie in one string. Current versions of such systems tend to use Unicode character encodings; Unicode is clearly the way to do this. I didn't quite catch the full semantics of the Y axis, but in the Empty Container Model, the application apparently handles many of the details of drawing internationalized text. In the normalization schemes, the system libraries handle much more of the text placement and layout.
The mention of Unicode brought on a summary and discussion of how it works; in short, it's hardly ascii. Unicode uses a variable-length encoding: western characters tend to be fewer bytes in some encodings, and various bizarrely complex multi-char sequences produce such things as overstrikes, annotations, and other things which seem like they don't belong in a character set. [ Dan Kegal mailed me after the summit to point out that it's not really stateful, and that one can be "Level 1" compliant with Unicode by simply using only precomposed characters. He's afraid that people will be scared away from Unicode; this seems unlikely, even if it is complex, since Unicode is really the only game in town. ]
Hideki's project is part of the "Linux Foundation", a body or company of some sort formed from the ashes of the Linux Standards Base and another group. Their goal is to provide for portability across various Linux distributions.
An initial i18n spec for Linux is due out at the impending Linux World. The project webpage is at www.li18nux.net.
Kieth Packard of the XFree86 project offered a presentation on fonts. The problems are many, but essentially, you need all the same fonts, or a good substitution, available in all of:
- Applications
- Display
- Printer
- Web
Kieth instantly solved one facet of the problem by asserting that the X server will in the future no longer handle fonts itself - ie, end of problem. Instead, the application will handle fonts, and send selected glyphs up to the server. The overhead is evidently minor for western languages, and it's a wash for Asian languages. Since this eliminated the age-old problem of X fonts being unavailable on particular servers, no one had any particular objection. As always in X, client library APIs will be extended and compatibility code written, so the world should really be a better place for this change.
As for the other facets of the problem, portions are nearly unsolvable; there is no way to get fonts out of a printer for use on a display, for example. There is no chance of just eliminating printer fonts; they can provide for a twelve times speedup over printing raw bitmaps all the time (a stat from IBM, who would certainly know). There is a seemingly straightforward problem of placing fonts where X, applications, and Ghostscript or other renderers can get to them. And there was some inconclusive discussion of font naming, font formats, and font character-to-glyph mapping (which, derangedly, is totally unstandardized in most common formats!).
Mark Fasheh and Ben of VA gave a short demo of GPR (by Thomas Hubbell). GPR is built atop PPD parsing and Postscript mangling code from CUPS, and provides a cute GUI for fiddling Postscript printer options and selecting the standard transforms from CUPS (n-up, gamma, etc), which are conveniently implemented in the same place.
I felt obligated to point out that this is but one of several equivalent projects; there are XPP, KUPS, and apparently others. Later in the hallway, Waldo agreed -- there are cute little front-ends all over the place -- what we need is more app-to-spooler-to-printer interface (ie plumbing) work.
In this vein, I asked Ben for more details on the notification scheme he mentioned working on. It turns out to be a fairly suitable multicast-based announcement protocol. Interested clients obtain the proper multicast group/port from the spooler, and then listen to job status updates from job monitoring code on the other end of the chain; either in the backend filters, or running as a daemon poking at snmp data on the printer to find out job status. Besides the "obtain the proper multicast group from the spooler" step, the design seems mostly spooler independent, so may be a good thing to fold into other systems.
Assorted small wrapup discussions took place at 5ish.
Raph observed that many of the troubles of the standardized driver API concept could be avoided by simply limiting the API to the actual problem domain: the raster inkjets. No nifty vector or font operations need be represented in the API. This somewhat strengthens the case for IBM's OMNI system, although of course much poking and prodding of that code will be needed to see if we use it as is or just steal.
Nick was volunteered as summit mailing list nagbot. He will nag people to do things.
A next meeting was not formally scheduled, although the idea of a vendorless gathering at the October (?) Atlanta Linux Showcase was proposed. The "opposite" idea of a Linux presence at the upcoming IETF IPP bake-off was shot down; vendors will not have linux-concerned people there, so it would not be useful.
After the official end, we gabbed in clusters in the hallway and eventually I hooked up with Hideki, Waldo, Robert, Raph, Alex, and Owen for a dinner of seafood and discussion. Topics ranged from printing (of course) to the usual selection of geek toys: laptops, monitors, computers, old computers, window managers, etc.
With any luck at all, tomorrow's flight home will be totally uneventful. I had quite enough events getting here :)
Day 3: United Fails Again
After my flight out, I had rather expected, statistically speaking at least, to have a flawless trip back. Not so. The initial flight from SJ to Chicago was slightly delayed when an oxygen mask deployed for no reason. Once on the ground in Chicago, we parked for an hour before a gate opened up; once we got to a gate a jetway driver could not be located. Fortunately (?) my connecting flight was delayed because a pilot could not be located, so after running across O'Hare like a madman I just made it.
On the bright side, before setting out on that adventure, I chatted for a bit with Mark Pruett (the newly entitled "printing discipline leader" or somesuch in VA's services division) about life at VA, printing, and the Alpha Linux-based distributed shared memory system driving Virginia Power's grid monitoring system.


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No. 12 Princeton Travels To No. 3 Johns Hopkins For Friday Lacrosse
Now, two years after its last appearance there, Princeton again plays Hopkins at Homewood (Friday, 5, ESPNU). And guess what? While the roster hasn't turned over completely since 2011, it's come fairly close.
Princeton has just two starters returning from the game two years ago (Tom Schreiber, Jeff Froccaro), and only Schreiber is starting in the same position that he did in 2011. Of the 23 players who played for Princeton in the 2011 game, only six will play again this year - Schreiber, Froccaro, Chris White, Jack Strabo, Nick Fernandez, Bobby Lucas.
Contrast this with Hopkins, who has eight of its starters from the 2011 game back again in 2013, and 11 of the players who played against Princeton will play again this time around. Hopkins returns its entire starting midfield and defense and its goalie from 2011.
Princeton in 2013 bears little resemblance to the team of 2011, or even of last year. The new Tigers got off on the right foot with a 10-7 win over Hofstra last Saturday. With that one game under its belt, Princeton now focues on third-ranked Johns Hopkins.
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Princeton started four freshmen against Hofstra - one each at attack (Ryan Ambler), midfield (Jake Froccaro), defense (Mark Strabo) and goalie (Matt O'Connor).
The only times in the last 25 years that Princeton had started as many as three freshmen in its opener were in 1991 (Kevin Lowe, Scott Reinhardt, Scott Bacigalupo) and 1995 (Jon Hess, Chris Massey, Jesse Hubbard).
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Prior to this season, Princeton's attackmen and offensive midfielders had combined for 101 career games started.
Princeton's defenseman and goalie had combined for three career games started (two by Derick Raabe and one by Eric Sanschagrin).
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Princeton graduated goalie Tyler Fiorito (2012 Ivy League Player of the Year, second-team All-America), defenseman Chad Wiedmaier (2012 first-team All-America, Princeton's first four-time first-team All-Ivy League selection), longstick midfielder John Cunningham (four-year contributor, MLL draftee) and defenseman Jonathan Meyers (four-year contributor). Returning defenseman Rob Castelo, who started all 16 games a year ago, tore his ACL prior to the start of preseason practice.
Between them, those five combined for 11 All-America selections and 13 All-Ivy League selections, not to mention 253 games and probably more than 10,000 minutes played.
In their place, Princeton's starting defense consists of a converted shortstick defensive midfielder (Nick Fernandez), a converted longstick midfielder (Derick Raabe, who has started two career games on defense) and a freshman (Mark Strabo). The goalie is another freshman, Matt O'Connor. The longstick midfielders are Alex Beatty and Brandon Bonvino, who between them appeared in five career games prior to this year.
Shortstick defensive midfielder Jack Strabo is the only Princeton defensive player who started the 2013 season in the same role he had in the 2012 season-finale.
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Princeton ranked fifth last year in Division I in scoring defense with 7.2 goals allowed per game.
With all its graduation losses and with a completely new lineup, Princeton allowed seven goals in its opener. Hofstra scored three goals in the first 8:42 before Princeton allowed only four more in the final 51:18.
Princeton and Johns Hopkins first met on May 17, 1890, in a 3-2 Tiger win. Princeton lost to Lehigh one week later and then suspended the sport due to "concerns of losing to schools that could not field proper football teams."
Princeton played one game in 1891 and one in game in 1893 and then did not play again until 1921.
Princeton has played Johns Hopkins at least once every year since 1937, except for the World War II-shortened season of 1944.
Johns Hopkins leads the all-time series against Princeton 55-27, though Princeton is 3-0 against Hopkins in the NCAA tournament.Between 1957 and the end of the 1990 regular season, Princeton was 1-33 against the Blue Jays, with the only win in that stretch a 7-1 win in 1966.
Princeton lost to Johns Hopkins 20-8 in the 1990 season-opener, but the series started to go in a different direction when the teams met again that year, in Princeton's first-ever trip to the NCAA tournament.
The Tigers won that game 9-8 on Mark Ames' goal with 1:44 to go, after Justin Tortolani (now a pediatric surgeon affiliated with Johns Hopkins) scored five goals.
Beginning with that game, Princeton is 15-10 in its last 25 games against the Blue Jays.
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Princeton won 40.7% of its face-offs in 2011 and 51.3% of its face-offs in 2012. Princeton won nearly 100 more face-offs last year than the year before, going from 87 to 182.
Princeton won 10 of 18 face-offs against Hofstra. Hopkins has been winning face-offs at an otherwordly rate in the early season. The Blue Jays as a team are 54 for 72 (.750), which ranks No. 1 in Division I.
Mike Poppleton of Johns Hopkins and Bobby Lucas of Princeton rank 1-2 in Division I individually. Poppletown is 40 for 50, which is an .800 percentage. Lucas won 6 of 8 (.750), all in the second half, including a 4-for-4 fourth quarter against Hofstra.
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Tom Schreiber has played in 28 games in his career.
He has had three or more points in 21 of those games and two or fewer in seven of those games.
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Ryan Ambler had a goal and three assists in his college debut to earn the Ivy League Rookie of the Week award. Ambler had his goal and two of his assists as Princeton snapped a 3-3 tie in the second quarter and took a 6-3 lead, and Hofstra would never tie the score again.
Ambler became the fourth Princeton player ever to have four points in the first game of his freshman year.
Ryan Boyle (2001) was the most recent. The others were Jesse Hubbard (1995) and Jason Buttles (1993).
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Princeton returned four players - Tom Schreiber, Jeff Froccaro, Mike MacDonald, Tucker Shanley - who all reached at least 20 goals last year. The last time Princeton had four
returning players who reached at least 20 goals was 1998, with Jesse Hubbard, Chris Massey, Jon Hess and Lorne Smith.
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Nick Fernandez will be moving from shortstick defensive midfielder, where he played his first two years, to close defense.
There is precedent for this at Princeton. In 2006, Ryan Schoenig, a shortstick defensive midfielder and face-off man, became a starter at close defense.
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Rob Castelo and Forest Sonnenfeldt will both miss the entire 2013 season due to injuries.
Castelo tore his ACL before the start of practice, while Sonnenfeldt had ankle surgery. Castelo started every game on defense last year, while Sonnenfeldt had 17 goals and six assists.
Castelo had his second major knee injury in three years. He also tore multiple ligaments in the game at Johns Hopkins two years ago.
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Princeton is playing Johns Hopkins in Baltimore for the seventh time in eight years.
Princeton played at Homewood in 2006. The teams then played in M&T Bank Stadium as part of the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic from 2007 to 2010 before playing at Homewood in 2011 and then at Class of 1952 Stadium last year.
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The Princeton men's lacrosse team spent a week in Costa Rica last June. The Tigers played one game against the Costa Rican national team, gave clinics for the Costa Ricans and for the local youth and worked on various service projects, including refurbishing a community center.
Princeton traveled to Spain and Ireland in 2008 and Japan in 2004.
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What Can You Say About ...
Ryan Ambler #14
• began career with a four-point game against Hofstra (1G, 3A) to earn Ivy League Rookie of the Week award
• had a goal and two assists to snap a 3-3 tie as Princeton built a 6-3 lead in the second quarter; Hofstra would never pull even again
• was the fourth Princeton player with four points in opening game of his freshman year (Ryan Boyle in 2001, Jesse Hubbard in 1995, Jason Buttles in 1993)
• was the second Princeton freshman in two years to start the first game of his freshman year on attack after Mike MacDonald did last year; prior to MacDonald, the last time a Princeton freshman started Game 1 of his freshman year on attack was 2004, when Peter Trombino did so
• high school All-America from Abington High, outside of Philadelphia, where he had 186 career goals and 210 career assists
• younger brother of former Princeton assistant coach Colin Ambler, who also played for Princeton head coach Chris Bates at Drexel
• father Bob is the all-time leading scorer at Drexel
Luke Armour #16
• senior who can play attack or midfield
• was slowed by injury for most of 2012
• had three goals and an assist against Dartmouth
• three goals and four points were career highs
• had two assists against Manhattan
• played in every game, starting seven, in 2011
• was fourth on the team with 14 points (9G, 5A) in 2011
Alex Beatty #36
• team's No. 1 longstick midfielder
• played in two games last year, when he was slowed by injuries
Brandon Bonvino #21
• is the No. 2 longstick midfielder
• played in three games last year
Hunter DeButts #47
• has moved from attack to the second midfield
• had two goals on two shots (including the first goal of the game) against Brown after missing the first seven games due to injury a year ago
• had an assist against Cornell, Rutgers, Dartmouth and Yale in the Ivy final
Nick Fernandez #24
• moves to being a starter on close defense after having been a shortstick defensive midfielder his first two years; Ryan Schoenig (in 2006) did the same for Princeton
• had his first career goal in the game against Syracuse last year
• also had a goal in the next game against Rutgers
• had four ground balls and a caused turnover vs. Manhattan
• missed games with ankle sprain, concussion, broken arm in 2011
Jake Froccaro #9
• starter at midfield
• won 1 of 2 face-offs against Hofstra
• had 65 goals and 20 assists as a high school senior at Port Washington
• can also face off
• younger brother of senior attackman Jeff Froccaro, a first-team All-Ivy League selection last year
Jeff Froccaro #10
• 2013 preseason honorable mention All-America
• 2012 first-team All-Ivy League selection
• starter on attack this year and last year after playing as a midfielder first two years
• had two goals and two assists against Hofstra
• game against Hofstra was his eighth career game of at least four points
• was second on team with 27 goals and 39 points last season; had 38 points his first two years combined
• had career-highs with five goals and seven points while tying career high with two assists against Villanova
• leads all active Princeton players with 55 career goals and is second for career lead with 77 career points
Will Himler #18
• was second on the team with 13 assists a year ago
• has been slowed by injury in the preseason
Bobby Lucas #17
• won 6 of 8 face-offs against Hofstra, all in the second half
• was 4 for 4 in the fourth quarter
• had team-best six ground balls
• twice won face-offs after Hofstra goals that led to Princeton goals on that possession
• won 91 of 152 face-offs (55.6%) a year ago
• won 46.2% of face-offs in 2011 and 52.1% as a freshman
• also plays shortstick defensive midfield
Mike McDonald #8
• has started every game of his career
• had three goals on five shots against Hofstra
• has 25 career goals on 44 career shots (56.8%)
• ranked fifth all-time among Princeton freshman with 22 goals
• had 22 goals on 39 shots (56.4%)
• had the highest shooting percentage (56.4%) of any Princeton player ever with at least 20 goals in a season
• shot 12 for 16 in six Ivy games
• had four goals in the Ivy tournament (two in each game)
• two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week
Brendan McGrath #15
• playing in the second midfield
Justin Murphy #32
• won 15 of 30 face-offs as a freshman
• missed the first nine games after breaking his leg in the fall
Matt O'Connor #11
• freshman goalie from Lawrenceville Prep
• became the third Princeton goalie in the last 25 years to start Game 1 of his freshman year (Scott Bacigalupo in 1991, Tyler Fiorito in 2009)
• made six saves and allowed seven goals against Hofstra
Kip Orban #13
• starter at midfield
• had two goals against Hofstra
• had eight goals and three assists as a freshman
Derick Raabe #5
• is the only current Princeton player who had ever started a game on defense (vs. Penn and Harvard in 2011) prior to this season
• had first career goal in the game against Harvard last year
• has played mostly longstick midfield in his career
Will Rotatori #27
• playing in the second midfield
Eric Sanschagrin #31
• made 11 saves while allowing five goals in first collegiate start, against Manhattan
• played final 5:05 against Brown in regular season without allowing goal
Tom Schreiber #22
• 2013 preseason first-team All-America
• 2012 first-team All-America
• led team in goals and assists as a freshman and sophomore; is the only Princeton player ever to do so
• 2012 unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection
• 2011 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• 2011 first-team All-Ivy League selection
• had two goals and an assist against Hofstra
• has three or more points in 21 career games and fewer than three points in seven career games
• had 32 goals and 28 assists last year, falling two assists short of having the second 30/30 season in school history (Dave Tickner 1977)
• became the fourth player in school history with at least 30 goals and 25 assists in the same season and first since Jon Hess in 1996 (Tickner did it twice and Wick Sollers)
• became the first Princeton player since Ryan Boyle in 2004 to reach 60 points in a season
• was tied for ninth in points in a single season at Princeton
• had at least one point in every game and at least three in 13 of 16 games
• leads active Princeton players in career points (92) and assists (42)
• team co-captain
• father Doug, who played at Maryland and won an NCAA title there in 1973 and then the 1974 World Championship with the U.S., is a member of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame
Tucker Shanley #7
• started on first midfield last year; has been slowed by injury this preseason
• had 20 goals as a junior after having seven as a sophomore
• had six multi-goal games as a junior
Jack Strabo #35
• first-line shortstick defensive middie
• had two caused turnovers and two ground balls against Hofstra
• has four goals, one assist, 19 ground balls and five caused turnovers a year ago
• had two caused turnovers in Ivy final
• younger brother Mark will start on defense as a freshman
Mark Strabo #3
• freshman starting on defense
• played at Landon
• younger brother of junior SSDM Jack Strabo
Chris White #29
• team co-captain along with Tom Schreiber
• one of top shortstick D middies
• had two ground balls and a caused turnover against Hofstra
• moved from offense to defensive middie as a sophomore


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Wednesday's college roundup: Embry-Riddle men's tennis is No. 1
Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 5:30 a.m.
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DAYTONA BEACH — For the first time in program history, the Embry-Riddle men are No. 1 in the NAIA Coaches Top 25 poll.
The Eagles received eight of 11 first-place votes and 279 to edge Auburn Montgomery (271 points) for the top spot in the preseason rankings.
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Steven Nelson Broussard
Position: RB-WR
Height: 5-7 Weight: 201 lbs.
Born: February 22, 1967 in Los Angeles, CA
High School: Manual Arts
College: Washington St. (school history) (Broussard college stats)
Drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the 1st round (20th overall) of the 1990 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 22 (4446th overall since 1950)
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Edward "Ned" Titus was born in l826 as a slave in South Carolina. He died at Brown's Creek,Freestone County, Texas in l900. He was brought to Steward's Mill, Texas by the Simeon and Nancy Lake family, in 1852. Little is known about his parents,except that his father was born in Africa and his mother was born in Virginia.
Ned's wife Clora Dunbar, was brought along with him from South Carolina. All that is known about her is that her parents were from Virginia and she, too, undoubtedly was born as a slave during the early l800 era. Her role in creating the Titus family lineage of descendants, nonetheless is very significant and not to be dismissed.
Freestone county in the l800's was an ideal location for new settlers with slaves. It was an agricultural region with an abundance of the cash crop cotton, as well as, wheat, corn, peas, beans and sweet potatoes.
As of l860, Freestone county had no free Blacks, and the slave population actually surpassed the white population. As with most Texas communities, slavery was officially ended January 1, 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation, but slavery in Texas did not actually end until June 19,1865.
Fourteen years later on March 4,1879,Ned and three of his sons purchased 320 acres of land in Freestone county, Texas, from Willie Lane and her husband C.B. Lane. The land was located at Brown's Creek, some ten or eleven miles East of Fairfield in the northeastern Part of Freestone County, where the Txu Electric Plant now stands.
Though Ned was illiterate and inexperienced, he and fellow ex slaves ,Ben Lee and Jim Keeton, survived in an environment that was not always friendly. They were instrumental in forming a predominantly Black community called Titus Farm. They were able to provide (what was considered a good life for their families for the times).
Ned and his wife Clora had 13 children.Their names were:
- Mary
- Sudie
- Frances
- William Timothy
- James
- Harriet
- Walter
- Henry Edward
- Emma
- Willie
- Levi
- Clora
- Guy
Ned took the leadership in establishing Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church (which is now a part of Jones Chapel Church of Fairfield),Titus Farm Grammar and Junior High School (which later became a part of Dogan High & Elementary school; then later still in l968-69 with the Integration policies instituted, a part of Fairfield Independent School District), and finally he helped to established Hopewell Cemetery. His descendants have studied in some of the best educational Institutions of the nation and have found employment in all walks of life, even representing the U.S. government diplomatically.
The farm remained in the family until the l960's when the residents were forced by the Texas Utility to sell it. Texas Utility wanted the land for coal strip mining and threatened to evoke imminent domain laws to forcible seize the land if the residents did not agree to sell it. Operating on the land today, is Big Brown Mining Plant that produces electricity from coal.
Adjacent to Big Brown Mining Power Plant is Hopewell cemetery, the only remaining landmark from what was once a thriving Titus Farm Community
Edward Ned and Clora are at rest at Hopewell Cemetery near Fairfield, Texas.
This information was provided to me, by Mr. Wilbur T. (Bill) Titus--Official Titus Family Historian and Last official resident of Titus Farm Community.
For further detailed information about Edward "Ned" Titus and Titus Farm Community ,please contact:
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At our weekly staff meeting on Tuesday, a colleague recounted a snippet of conversation he'd had with a friend that morning. She casually mentioned that she'd "forgotten to buy something on Cyber Monday." To which he replied, "You know, you're not obligated."
Funny, but the truth of it is a bit depressing. Or a lot depressing. This year on Black Friday, Americans spent $52.4 billion, up 16 percent from 2011. And three days later, Cyber Monday, now in its eighth year, raked in $1.5 billion. Just in case anyone cares, that figure is up 28 percent from last year, and the bulk of the shopping was done by people at work.
Getting and Spending
So is $54 billion a lot of money? Let's put it in perspective. It breaks down to $166.79 for every single American, or about $230 if you leave out the approximately 25 percent of the population under 18.
That amount is virtually equal to South Africa's entire gross domestic product for 2011 ($55.4 billion). Closer to home, the most populous state, California, has an annual public school budget (K–12) of $38 billion.
I guess on the bright side, it's way less than what Americans give to charity ($300 billion). And yet if you look at estimates from the National Retail Federation, an industry trade group, projected total sales in November and December will hit $586.1 billion, or almost double what we give to charity in an entire year.
On the afternoon of Black Friday, I visited an old friend. She was happy to see me but tired: She'd been up since 3:30 a.m. because she had to be at work by 5 a.m. Her employer, the arts and crafts store A.C. Moore, was giving away $5 gift certificates, and people had been lined up for hours before she arrived — clearly eager to save $5 on plastic wreaths, picture frames and yarn.
Is it just me, or is anybody else horrified by this shopping frenzy?
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National Geographic's critically acclaimed series Border Wars follows officers and agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and their critical battles at the most treacherous border crossings between the U.S. and Mexico. In Season Three, Border Wars goes even deeper inside the struggle as CBP fights an escalating drug-smuggling crisis fueled by big money, cartel rivalries and violence threatening to cross into our cities each day.
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Here at CoffeeAM, we want to ensure the best customer satisfaction; we have compiled this list of popular questions to address your concerns. If you have questions that are not addressed on this page, please feel free to contact our customer service team who will do their best to provide you with the answers for your concerns.
- What are your payment options? We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover (debit or credit cards). We do not accept CODs or cash, but we do accept money orders. To pay with a money order, print out your "Check Out" page and mail it to us with a money order covering the exact cost of your purchase, and your order will be shipped out after the money order is processed.
For International Customers: We do not accept wire transfers or bank drafts for international orders. International transactions between CoffeeAM or any of its affiliates and an individual or commercial enterprise in any country that is not listed as an approved shipping destination under "ship to country" on our checkout page must pay with a "Certified Bank Issued Check." Once funds have been secured from issuing bank the transaction will be processed. See International Shipping for more details.
- Can I place an order over the phone? Yes you certainly can. You can place your order over the phone during our regular business hours (8:30am-5:30pm, Monday through Friday) or you can place your order online at anytime. Depending upon the specifications of your order, we recommend for you to call our customer service line at 1-800-803-7774.
- How safe is it to order online? We provide you with secure servers such as eTrust and Safe to Shop certificates to make certain that you have a safe shopping experience; rest assured because your information will always remain confidential. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information.
- How do I order a gift for a friend? At checkout, enter your friends name and shipping information in the "ship to" portion of the form; this way, your friends name will appear on the customized product label. You can also add a note in the comments field so that they can receive a personalized gift message from you when they receive the package. The message can be up to 210 characters and it will appear on the invoice.
- Do you offer any shipping deals? Yes. We offer $5.95 flat rate shipping on 2 bags or more of coffee and/or loose-leaf tea in a single order. Shipping charges for other items will be calculated based on the weight of the product and the shipping distance.
- How long will it take to get my order? Depending on your shipping address, it can take anywhere from 1 to 7 business days before you get your order. We normally use FedEx or the United States Postal Service (USPS) for delivery. If you would like to have it delivered by another service, please specify when you place an order. For an additional surcharge, we offer Next Day Air, 2nd Day Air, and 3rd Day Air if you wish to get you order sooner than the average estimated shipping.
- How can I track my order? We provide tracking numbers as well as delivery confirmation on all orders, and after your order ships, you will receive an email with your tracking number. If you do not receive this email, contact us on our customer service line.
- Do you ship to other countries? Yes! International orders are shipped via FedEx or the United States Postal Service (USPS). The following options are available:
- International Air via FedEx Expedited shipping *Duties will apply*
- P63 international air parcel post *Duties may apply*
*Tariffs and duty fees may apply depending on which country your order is being shipped to. These fees are unrelated to shipping costs and will originate from your country's Customs Bureau, but they will be collected by UPS prior to delivery. If needed, UPS will attempt to contact the person listed on the order's destination and notify him or her of any additional charges. For more information, please contact your country's Customs Bureau.
CoffeeAM reserves the right to refuse shipment to any destination. All orders from a country not listed as an approved shipping destination under "ship to country" on our checkout page must be reviewed by CoffeeAM management prior to shipping. If needed, we will be happy to give you a specific shipping rate quote. Please email us at email@example.com or call our customer service line at 1-800-803-7774.
- How large are your coffee bags? While many others sell their coffee in 12 oz or 14 oz bags, all of our coffees are at least 1 pound full. Remember to look for this if you ever shop for coffee anywhere else! We also offer our coffees in 5 pound bags for even greater savings.
- Is your coffee of gourmet quality? We offer 100% high-grown Arabica varietals from locations all over the world. Each gourmet coffee is inspected and certified according to specific standards of each region to be qualified as "gourmet coffee."
- What is CoffeeAM's return policy? If you are not satisfied with your purchase, simply contact us within 15 days of receiving the item, and ship back at least 80% of the opened product to us to receive a refund less the shipping and handling charges incurred.
*Jamaica Blue Mountain Estate or Hawaii Kona Estate coffees may be subject to a 15% restocking fee at the time of return; this is determined on a case by case basis.
- What is CoffeeAM's exchange policy? If you are not satisfied with your purchase and would like to exchange it, contact us within 15 days of receiving the item, and ship it back to us. You will receive an exchange less the charges incurred, as well as the price difference of the exchanged product if any.
- What is the exchange policy on equipment? We offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee on all equipment for 30 days. If you are not satisfied with your purchase within this 30-day period, call our customer service department to get an RMA number through which your return will be processed. Non-defective products are subject to a 15% restocking fee, and your exchange or refund will be processed less the shipping and handling charges incurred.
- Are shipping costs refundable? Shipping is seen as part of the transaction and not part of the product; for this reason, shipping costs are non-refundable. However, if a product is damaged or defective, we will refund the original shipping charge and send you a new product.
Samples and Gifts
- Do you offer free samples? Yes we do. You can get a free half-pound sample of coffee if you order $25 or more worth of merchandise. We choose the specific sample every couple of weeks. Click here to claim your free sample.
- Do you offer gift certificates? Gift certificates are available in amounts ranging from $25 to $150. CoffeeAM gift certificates can be used towards any purchase on the site, including the first installment to our coffee club. However, subsequent payments can only be processed with other acceptable payment methods. To purchase a gift certificate please click here.
- How do I unsubscribe from your mailing list? It's really easy. You can either click here, or scroll to the bottom of our newsletter, and click on the link that reads "Click here to unsubscribe." Enter your email address and you will be immediately unsubscribed from our mailing list, no questions asked.
- How do I modify or cancel a CoffeeAM Coffee Club Membership? If you signed up for recurring shipments, and wish to cancel or modify your subscription, contact us at 1-800-803-7774and we'll be glad to help.


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Those of you used to running outside for quick cigarette during a Magic game or a concert at the old Amway Arena will need to reconsider that at the new Amway Center in downtown Orlando.
That's because there is no smoking anywhere inside or 25 feet outside from any entrance at the new complex.
This was done so The AC (as coined by Sentinel Theme Park Ranger Dewayne Bevil) could qualify for LEED certification, according to Heather Allebaugh, press secretary for Mayor Buddy Dyer. For those of you not aware, LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a rating system performed by a third party on how green your building is.
And when I say inside and outside, I mean even at the new outdoor lounges, Sky Bar and Gentlemen Jack's. If you're at Sky Bar and want a cigarette you're going to have to go back to the ground floor (Sky Bar is 100 feet up at The AC) and then walk 25 feet away from the building before you light up. I doubt they'll let you bring your drink with you.
Folks that I've talked to about this are either very happy or have vowed never to go to an event there. Where do you stand?


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In 1972, director/producer Sarah Kernochan won an Academy Award for her first film, Marjoe, a documentary about a wildly popular and totally fraudulent evangelical preacher. Since then, the 63-year-old New Yorker has built a modern-day renaissance career, writing songs and soundtracks, stories and screenplays (9 1/2 Weeks, Impromptu, What Lies Beneath) and earning another Oscar for Thoth, a 2002 documentary short about a street performer. But it wasn't until Kernochan, who had also published a novel, Dry Hustle, in 1977, began writing a second book more than three decades later that she found "pure ecstasy" in taking ownership of her work.
With Jane Was Here (Grey Swan Press), the writer lets her imagination loose on a small Massachusetts town, exploring reincarnation, karma and religion in a dark and suspenseful mystery. A week after the novel's release, More spoke to Kernochan about the trials and rewards of following your passion.
MORE: You're a screenwriter, filmmaker, novelist and musician. What's the common thread in your career?
Sarah Kernochan: The common thread is simply writing or, in the general sense, creating. When ideas come to me or stories present themselves, I don't immediately say I'm going to write that. I say, what form will this be best presented in? Sometimes it's just a tiny idea that fits in a song.
When it comes to the two documentaries that I've made, the characters were so flamboyant that you could not possibly invent them. They properly belonged in a documentary. And a documentary is a form of writing. There is the same amount of storytelling structure.
Screenplays were a way to make money—plus, I love movies—and that is more of a profession for me. It was many years before I got around to writing a script for my own pleasure.
Writing a novel right now was very, very important to me. As a screenwriter at my age, you can feel the opportunities ebbing. Part of it has to do with the economy but part of it has to do with a long-acknowledged bias against age in the business. It's a rude awakening when it happens to you. You walk into a meeting and it's like you've interrupted your son's frat party. I'm still working and it's still fun and it's still lucrative, but finally as I see the next couple decades in front of me, I have to clear things away so that I own my work. The hoops you have to jump though on a movie are unending. It means that only when you write the first draft of a script are you alone to do what you want. So I really needed to do a book, and that was pure ecstasy for me.
More: What inspired Jane Was Here?
SK: I kept coming back to this idea of having blood on your hands for a crime that you couldn't even remember, because it happened in a previous life. That image of blood appearing spontaneously on someone's hands—an ordinary housewife even, who doesn't know why this is happening to her.
I could never figure out what story to build around it. I think what finally switched it on for me is that I read a story in a book by [medical intuitive] Caroline Myss. She met a guy who claimed to remember not his previous life but where he was in between. It made him unable to connect with his current life. He felt very dispirited about this lifetime because he remembered too much. He had been let through from one life to the next without having his memory cleansed.
That's what gave me the idea of a character who can't really relate to her present life until she finds out the mystery of what happened to her 150 years ago. Obviously it requires a stretch for a reader who doesn't believe in reincarnation, but I know there are people out there who are willing to suspend belief for a story like this.
More: What was your biggest challenge in writing the book?
SK: Getting the time to write it. I have a busy career as a screenwriter. The book actually took four years. The first two-thirds were written in my spare time, and then I took a year off to finish.


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|Vandals win Jackrabbit Invitational
PRIMM, Nev. - The University of Idaho men's golf team, behind Sean McMullen's runner-up finish, won the annual Jackrabbit Invitational at Primm Valley Golf Club.
McMullen maintained his second-place standing during the final round with a closing 70 for a nine-under 207 as the Vandals won by four over Missouri-Kansas City. Idaho tallied 849 for the 54 holes to 853 for Missouri-Kansas City, 863 for Oral Roberts and South Dakota State tied for third.
Stefan Richardson was at one-under 215 to finish in a tie for ninth, while Jarred Bossio tied for 18th at two-over 218, Justin Kadin tied for 24th at 219, and Gordon Webb tied for 32nd at 222.


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Volvo Bus Australia has recently been awarded a three-year arrangement to supply at least 180 chassis to Brisbane City Council, including the trial of a new hybrid diesel-electric model. The council currently has a contract with Volgren, which will build the bus body on the chassis supplied by Volvo.
With close to 80 million passenger movements annually, across 235 bus routes, Brisbane City Council is a major provider of public transport services.
Volvo has been supplying chassis to Brisbane City Council for the past five years, and in 2011, the Council won the inaugural Lung Foundation Green Leaf Award for its introduction of the Volvo B7RLE 'enhanced environmentally friendly vehicle'.
Compared to a conventional diesel bus, the hybrid utilises energy otherwise wasted during braking. The stored energy is used to charge a battery, allowing the bus to run in electric mode, which saves fuel. The parallel hybrid can also combine or solely use the output of the diesel engine when the battery is low or when extra power is needed for acceleration.
"We expect to deliver a hybrid bus for trial during 2014," said Volvo's National Contracts Manager Ian Clarke. "The hybrids have recently been trialled in metropolitan Perth with promising results and we're looking forward to seeing them in service in Brisbane."
Under the new arrangement, the Brisbane City Council has committed to purchasing more of the B7RLEs in the first year.
Brisbane City Council Public and Active Transport Chairman Peter Matic said Volvo was awarded the new arrangement because of the combination of its offering and the value for money it represented in the offer.
"Volvo provided the most competitive tender submission and its response met Council's tender requirements in the key areas," Peter said.
"In previous business relationships, Volvo has demonstrated a proven reliable product, with excellent customer service and product support."
A Brisbane City Council spokesperson said Volvo was awarded the new arrangement because of the combination of its offering and the value for money presented in the offer.
"In previous business relationships, Volvo has demonstrated a proven reliable product, excellent customer service and product support."
Volvo's Ian Clarke said a complete offering incorporating whole-of-life product costs, service and support was developed for the Council.
"We've worked well with Brisbane City Council over the past five years, including supplying over 300 buses for use across Council's vast network. One of the things we've focussed on for Brisbane City Council is providing in-depth training for new products and service support for Council's drivers and technicians. If different bus models are moving between depots, we conduct initial familiarisation training, and we also offer courses throughout the year on specific aspects of operation and servicing, like electrical components, air conditioning or brakes."
Under the new agreement, Brisbane City Council will purchase at least 60 new Volvo Buses per year over the next three years.


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Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Workshop Opportunities
A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 16-1), is
effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 25, 2016. Please be advised that, depending
on the specified due date, the guidelines contained in NSF 16-1 may apply to proposals submitted in response to this
funding opportunity.
Full Proposal Accepted Anytime
Acceptance of a White Paper by the EPSCoR Office is required before a workshop proposal can be submitted. White Papers may be submitted to the EPSCoR Office via email at any time.
The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is designed to fulfill the mandate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to promote scientific progress nationwide. The EPSCoR program is directed at those jurisdictions that have historically received lesser amounts of NSF Research and Development (R&D) funding. Thirty jurisdictions, including twenty-eight states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U. S. Virgin Islands, currently participate in EPSCoR. Through this program, NSF establishes partnerships with government, higher education and industry that are designed to effect sustainable improvements in a jurisdiction's research infrastructure, R&D capacity, and hence, its national R&D competitiveness.
The EPSCoR Office welcomes unsolicited proposals from EPSCoR jurisdictions for workshops involving the EPSCoR community. These workshops will focus on innovative ways to address multi-jurisdictional efforts on themes of regional to national importance with relevance to EPSCoR's goals/objectives and NSF's mission.
Criteria for Eligibility
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In the brief but brilliant "Age of the Helicopter," there have been many contenders for the title of "Super Copter", but one of the newest copters that brings it all home is the EH101. Recently chosen to be the next "Marine One"the Presidential Helicopter, the EH101, will be specially outfitted as the new Oval Office in the sky. Helicopters are a monumental human achievement, a technological feat that's become so common place we don't blink an eye at them anymore. But National Geographic takes you for a ride on the EH101 to see why you might want to take a second look.
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ICLS Executive Director Sworn Into U.S. Supreme Court
2012 ICLS Graduate
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able to accomplish what many struggle to do alone - get my LLB from UOL
International Programmes. The help and guidance I received from actual
University of London tutors was what made this possible. Anyone thinking about
pursuing a degree with UoL should consider ICLS. The inability to properly
answer exam questions is the most common cause of failure and ICLS provides what
the University cannot - feedback and criticism of writing technique when
attempting an examination question. The lectures are also an asset to anyone who
struggles to read and retain an abundance of reading material. Thanks to ICLS I
am now a UOL graduate, and couldn't be prouder!"
2012 ICLS and UoL LL.B. Graduate
"You have made it much easier for me to begin revising for my examinations in June. I know that it must have been an exhausting weekend, and appreciate your efforts all the more! Your written material is excellent, and will assist me in organizing my studies. I hope to have the pleasure of participating in a weekend next year..."
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ICLS Writing Workshop Equips Students
"I just wanted to say Thank You to you and your team for executing such a productive weekend... Saturday was very intensive and by the end of the writing session I felt confident in myself, as I learned the techniques only ICLS could have taught. I now know what the examiners are looking for and most of all I understand how to organize the vast information I have per subject. You were organized, enthusiastic and addressed relevant issues. I am looking forward to the March Seminar. Thank you once again."
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e-LEARNING TAKEN TO NEW HEIGHTS AT ICLS
August 7, 2006: ICLS launched its new e-learning platform September 1, 2006. According to George Pappas ICLS Executive Director, "ICLS has developed an e-learning platform unseen by the LL.B. learning community. Our students world wide will benefit significantly from this latest innovation. Our continued focus on value remains undiminished."
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June 2006: ICLS provides live face to face legal writing workshops and selected LL.B. revision courses in addition to it's online legal programme.
According to George Pappas, ICLS Executive Director, "ICLS will provide expanded teaching without any additional cost to ICLS students. ICLS is going to do whatever it takes to increase the value of it's legal program. We're excited about supporting our online programme with brick and mortar learning. What's great about this development is that all ICLS students world wide will benefit since similarly registered ICLS students will receive the same review materials from any live workshops at no additional cost."
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The Question: Why?
From the time I was old enough for my mother to scold me the most popular question of mine was why? My curiosity has followed me almost from the day I was born and has yet to kill me. Everywhere I go and with each thought put into my head a yearning for further knowledge pursues. In part, my love for my surroundings and everybody within them has driven me to learn everything I can as to better interact with the world. This passion has molded me into the man I am today; an individual who strives to make a lasting impact on others by helping them liberate their minds and to celebrate the unique person each of us is.
Film: I have been a movie addict since I was a teenager. Since Campus Moviefest visited ASU in 2010 and I made my first movie ever, "Static Blossom," with Schuyler Williams I haven't been able to get movies out of my head.
Creation: Once I discovered how much I enjoyed creating movies I let my mind wander, to figure out what else I like to create. I found joy in making tangible objects and have since made countless devices, trinkets and prototypes through the highly-skilled, precision oriented technique of DIY building. To this day some of my favorites have been a slotted wood Christmas tree for easy storage and a man's touch on the holidays and a working, full three axis gyroscope.
Spoken Languages
- English – Native, Shakespeare wanna-be
- Spanish- Limited Work Proficiency
- Kiswahili- We can greet each other for hours.
- Arabic- I can say "I love milk my brother."