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On Thursday, Universal Music announced that they will be releasing a new set of The Beatles U.S. album versions on CD. In the 1960s, American Beatles fans never saw the first seven Beatles albums that were released in England -- at least not in the same configurations. The fact is that in the United States, Capitol Records actually released 13 different versions of Beatles albums than were released in the U.K. and this was a constant source of frustration to The Beatles themselves.
By the time The Beatles got signed to Capitol Records in late 1963, they had already released two albums in England, "Please Please Me" and "With The Beatles." Instead of releasing identical versions of the U.K. albums in the US, Capitol decided to release their own versions of Beatles albums starting with "Meet The Beatles."
Furthermore, the U.S. record executives had a whole different strategy for releasing Beatles records. They did not want to sell the same Beatles albums released in the U.K. because those albums featured 14 songs. Capitol thought it would be better for business to release new Beatles albums with only 11 or 12 songs and featuring different song configurations.
So, while John, Paul, George and Ringo spent their precious time specifically choosing songs for each of their U.K. albums, Capitol ended up rearranging, adding and removing songs to those configurations resulting in noticeably different album versions. You could say the first seven Beatles albums were 'butchered' by Capitol all in the name of business.
"We made only, say, 10 albums actually and in America there seemed to be 30 of them," John Lennon said in a 1974 radio interview. "We would sequence the albums how we thought they should sound. We put a lot of work into the sequencing," Lennon continued. "We almost got to not care what happened in America because it was always different... It used to drive us crackers 'cause we'd make an album and then they'd keep two from every album."
Although they were extremely unhappy with what Capitol was doing with their albums, The Beatles unfortunately had little control over it... until finally the record executives had no other choice but to follow The Beatles' lead. The turnaround happened with none other than The Beatles' groundbreaking album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Since it was a 'concept' album which did not have breaks between the songs, how could Capitol rearrange and 'butcher' the album but still keep the album's artistic integrity?
Luckily, the tide had changed. ''Sgt. Pepper" and The Beatles' remaining albums were, for the most part, kept intact for U.S. fans. Also, the fact that The Beatles started their own record label, Apple, in 1968 also helped the group retain control over their album releases.
If your first exposure to The Beatles music was through their CDs, then you would never know about this U.K./U.S. discrepancy. When The Beatles first released their catalog on CD in 1987, they insisted that only their original U.K. album versions be released.
But still there is a feeling of nostalgia for the U.S. album versions among the fans who grew up with them. Beatles expert and author, Bruce Spizer, commented: "While the Capitol albums are not what the Beatles intended, they are legitimate Beatles records that deserve to be heard today. After all, these are the records that exposed millions of Americans to the brilliant music of the Beatles."
That is why in January 2014, Capitol (now owned by Universal) is releasing a new box set featuring all 13 U.S. Beatles albums that differ from their U.K. counterparts. Eight of the albums were previously released on CD in the 2000s ("The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2"), but this is the first time albums like "A Hard Day's Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)," "The Beatles' Story," "Yesterday and Today," "Hey Jude" and the U.S. version of "Revolver" will be released on CD.
The CDs will be available in a box set or individually (with the exception of "The Beatles' Story" interview album). The release celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Beatles coming to America in February 1964.


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Lucy Kilp-Napper, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Research Professor
Office: University Hall 4711
Personal webpage:
BSc, Psychology, The University of Sheffield, UK, 2002
Specialty/Areas of Interest:
Health Psychology, Social Psychology, Substance abuse, Mental Health, HIV risk
Courses Taught:
Introduction and Overview of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs; General Psychology
Brief Bio:
Dr. Napper's research interests focus on health risks, psychometrics, and substance abuse prevention. In 2007, she received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to examine HIV risk perceptions among high-risk populations. She has worked on federally-funded grants evaluating substance abuse treatment for individuals with co-occurring HIV and mental health challenges. Her current research focuses on alcohol interventions for college students and their parents.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:
Napper, L.E., Harris, P. R. & Klein, W. M. P. (in press) Combining Self-Affirmation with the Extended Parallel Process Model: The Consequences for Motivation to Eat More Fruit and Vegetables. Health Communication.
Napper, L.E., LaBrie, J. W., & Hummer, J. F. (in press). Anxiety moderates the role of protective strategies in reducing alcohol-related harm among students accessing counseling services. Journal of College Counseling.
Hummer, J. F., Napper, L. E., Ehret, P. J., & LaBrie, J. W. (2012). Event-specific risk and ecological factors associated with prepartying among heavier drinking college students. Addictive Behaviors, 38, 1620-1628. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2012.09.014.
LaBrie, J. W., Napper, L. E., & Ghaidarov, T. M. (2012). Predicting Driving after Drinking Over Time Among College Students: The Emerging Role of Injunctive Normative Perceptions. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73(5), 726-730.
Napper, L.E., Fisher, D.G., & Reynolds, G.L. (2012). Development of the Perceived Risk of HIV Scale. AIDS and Behavior, 16(4), 1075-1083. doi:10.1007/s10461-011-0003-2
Reynolds, G. L., Fisher, D. G., & Napper, L. E. (2012). Assessment of Risky Injection Practices Associated with HIV and Hepatitis B and C using the Blood-Borne Transmission Risk Assessment Questionnaire. Journal of Addictive Diseases, 31(1), 80-88. doi: 10.1080/10550887.2011.642755.
Cervantes, R. C., Fisher, D. G., Córdova, D., & Napper, L. E. (2012). The Hispanic Stress Inventory—Adolescent Version: A culturally informed psychosocial assessment. Psychological Assessment, 24(1), 187-196.
Dickerson, D.L., Fisher, D.G., Reynolds, G.L., Baig, S., Napper, L.E., & Anglin, M.D. (2012). Substance use patterns among high-risk American Indians/Alaska Natives in Los Angeles County. American Journal on Addiction, 21(5), 445-52. doi: 10.1111/j.1521-0391.2012.00258.x.
Fisher, D. G., Reynolds, G. L., Ware, M. R., & Napper, L. E. (2011). Methamphetamine and Viagra use: Relationship to sexual risk behaviors. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40(2), 273-279. doi: 10.1007/s10508-009-9495-5.
Storholm, E. D., Fisher, D. G., Napper, L. E., Reynolds, G. L., & Halkitis, P. N. (2011). Proposing an optimal cut point for the Compulsive Sexual Behavior Inventory. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40(6), 1301–1308.doi: 10.1007/s10508-010-9712-2.
Napper, L. E., Fisher, D. G., Reynolds, G. L., & Johnson, M. E. (2010). The effect of recall period on HIV risk behavior self-report reliability. AIDS and Behavior, 14(1), 152-161. doi: 10.1007/s10461-009-9575-5.
Napper, L. E., Fisher, D. G., Johnson, M. E., Wood, M. M. (2010). The reliability and validity of drug users' self reports of amphetamine use. Addictive Behaviors, 35(4), 350-354. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.12.006
Fisher, D. G., Reynolds, G. L., & Napper, L. E. (2010). Use of crystal methamphetamine, Viagra, and sexual behavior. Current Opinion in Infectious Disease, 23(1), 53-6. doi:10.1097/QCO.0b013e328334de0b.
Marsh, K. A., Reynolds, G. L., Rogala, B. E., Fisher, D. G., & Napper, L. E. (2010). Who chooses a rapid test for HIV in Los Angeles County, California? Evaluation and the Health Professions 33(2), 177-196. doi: 10.1177/0163278710361929
Napper, L., Harris, P. R., Epton, T. (2009) Developing and testing a self-affirmation manipulation. Self and Identity, 8, 45-62.
Armitage, C. J., Harris, P. H., Hepton, G., NAPPER, L. (2008). Self-affirmation increases acceptance of health-risk information among UK adult smokers with low socioeconomic status. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22(1), 88-95.
Napper, L. E., Wood, M., M., Fisher, D. G., Reynolds, G. L., & Klahn, J. (2008). Convergent and discriminant validity of the RCQ, URICA and SOCRATES. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22(3), 362-371.
Reynolds, G. L., Fisher, D. G., & Napper, L. E. (2008). Results from a multiple morbidities testing program offering rapid HIV testing bundled with hepatitis and sexually transmitted infection testing. Public Health Reports, Suppl 3 (123), 1-11.
Harris, P. R., Mayle, K, Mabbott, L., & Napper, L. (2007). Self-affirmation reduces smokers' defensiveness to graphic on-pack cigarette warning labels. Health Psychology, 26, 437-446.
Harris, P. R., & Napper, L. (2005). Self-affirmation and the biased processing of threatening health-risk information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31(9), 1250-1263
Associate Director of:
Heads Up Alcohol Research Lab
Honors & Awards:
Principal Investigator. Alcohol Beverage and Medical Research Foundation. A Parent-Based Social Norms Alcohol Intervention for First Year College Students.
National Institute on Drug Abuse, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32).

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Rurally Screwed: My Life Off the Grid with the Cowboy I Love by Jessie Knadler
Release date: 2012 / 336 pages
Synopsis (from Amazon.com): Jessie Knadler was a New York City girl, through and through. An editor for a splashy women's magazine, she splurged on Miu Miu, partied hard, lived for Kundalini yoga, and dated a man-boy whose complexion was creamier than her own…Then one day, she was assigned a story about an annual rodeo in the badlands of Eastern Montana. There, she met a twenty-five-year-old bull rider named Jake. He voted Republican and read Truck Trader. He listened to Garth Brooks. He owned guns. And Jessie suddenly found herself blindsided by something with which she was painfully unfamiliar: a genuinely lovable disposition…
Review: Most romantic comedies end at the declaration of love and never explore "happily-ever-after." Rurally Screwed entertains the reader with not only the boy-meets-girl part, but continues well past "I do" and, best of all, is a memoir with a hilarious narrator.
Jessie Knadler never felt comfortable in her home state of Montana; she moved to New York City at seventeen where she spent years writing for women's magazines, perfecting her kundalini yoga and embracing her destiny as a sardonic, neurotic New Yorker. On assignment for Outdoor Adventure magazine, she returns to Montana to do an article on the Bucking Horse Sale and accidentally meets the love of her life – a man who shed his own hometown of Baltimore in order to become… a cowboy.
Once married, Jessie and Jake decide to move to Lexington, Virginia and are soon knee-deep in chickens, moonshine, and never-ending manual labor. Jessie soon feels lost in her new "identity" and must rediscover her authentic self.
While primarily the story of her love for her husband, Rurally Screwed is also a hero's journey as Jessie navigates her relationship with various identities – a child from Montana, a woman from New York, a wife in rural Virginia. Her searing wit and unflinching honesty is a pleasure to read; for example, her description of Lululemon-clad yoga fanatics as "what it would look like if Wall Street and reality TV had a baby." Fans of Ree Drummond's Pioneer Woman will love Rurally Screwed, as well as anyone who has fallen madly in love with his or her opposite.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. - Mississippi State Lady Bulldog tennis will complete their fall campaign this weekend with competition in two tournaments, one located in Los Angeles, Calif., and the other in Sarasota, Fla.
State's Alexandra Perper and Naomi Tran will travel to Los Angeles to compete in the Jack Kramer Club Invitational featuring players from Baylor, Louisiana Monroe, Penn State, Georgia, Utah, UCLA, USC, University of San Diego, and Pepperdine in addition to the MSU duo.
Petra Ferancova, Lien Van Geel, Georgiana Patrasc, and Sarai Flores of the Lady Bulldogs will travel to Florida for the Lakewood Ranch Invitational. The tournament will begin with two rounds of singles play, followed by a doubles match.
"We have had a pretty solid fall season, and we want to cap it off with a strong finish. This weekend will be the last chance to pick up some valuable wins," said Head Coach Daryl Greenan.
The Jack Kramer Invitational is set to begin at 7 a.m. CT Friday, and the Lakewood Ranch Invitational will follow beginning at 10 a.m. CT.
To track the Lady Bulldog tennis action, follow @mstateWT on twitter. Updates will also be available through hailstate.com.


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A busy December weekend is just around the corner. If you're lucky enough to be taking a break from holiday shopping to enjoy wine country, be sure to check out the following events. Saturday, December 10th From 11am - 5pm Michael Mondavi Family Estate will host a holiday celebration that will include light holiday fare… Read More
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Six Napa Valley reds guaranteed to keep the chill away
As the temperature continues to drop, it's time to lay down those Sauvignon Blancs and pull out some big, hearty reds. Here are six Napa Valley reds that will keep you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside this winter. Ehlers Estate Merlot. Located in St. Helena, the Estate Merlot is generally a weighty one that… Read More
Cork Bits: ideas for your Napa Valley weekend
Here we are, headed toward the first full weekend in December! For those planning to be in the Napa Valley, here are a few events you'll want to consider and if you go, let them know you heard about it on The Cork Board! Saturday, December 3rd From 11am - 4pm Bourassa Vineyards and Napa… Read More


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For those of you playing around with the latest beta build of Windows Vista at the moment, if you have an ATI based graphics card you may like to try out this new Beta 2 driver which comes in a new easy-to-install package and features full support for the Catalyst Control Center (for both 32-bit and 64-bit variants of the Vista operating system).
For a full listing of ATI Vista ready products, click on this link.
Continuing ATI's software and driver leadership, ATI has released its Vista Beta 2 driver on ATI.com, to coincide with Microsoft's official release of Vista Beta 2 at WinHEC 2006.
ATI's Vista Beta 2 driver includes support for all Desktop, Multimedia, Mobile, Chipset and Workstation DirectX 9 hardware.


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Soluble calcium compounds may aid low-volume water application
Grant G. Goble
Neil V. O'Connell
William L. Peacock
John E. Pehrson
Ann M. Wildman
William E. Wildman
California Agriculture 42(6):7-9.
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Slow water infiltration is a serious problem in some orchards and vineyards on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley. It is often associated with irrigation water low in salt and soils with inherently slow infiltration rates. Gypsum, a calcium salt, is commonly used to improve water infiltration in nonsodic soils. It is the most effective with low-salinity irrigation water (electrical conductivity [EC] < 0.1 decisiemens per meter [dS/m]).


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I couldn't write my vows so I wrote this post instead
It's harder than it looks. I've written so many things in my life but I've actually never written a real love letter. I'm not the lovey-dovey type and the words just don't come to me that easy. I'm not a traditionalist and I thought writing our own vows would be "different". I had no idea what I was signing up for. Although we aren't sharing before-hand, my future-husband wrote his vows what seems like ages ago and he is the biggest procrastinator I know. So what am I waiting for? Well, I actually sat down and tried to write.
I wrote a lot of things down but when I read it back it all sounded the same. My vows sounded so generic. Like anything you've ever heard at a wedding. I wanted to be different, clever, cutting edge. I wanted to write something someone would later go home and Google to see if I stole it from somewhere. It's a strange concept when you think about it. I mean how could I write anything on a piece of paper that hasn't already been said? If I really had something life-changing to tell the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with then I should probably get that out of the way before we're standing at the alter. Don't you think? So what DO I say? What CAN I say? That I love him. Of course I do. That he's my world. Of course he is. That I will be his best friend and share with him everything I have, that I am, and ever will be. Well, yeah, maybe. Maybe this is one time in my life where I get a get-out-of-jail-free-card. I don't have to be clever. I don't have to be interesting. I don't have to make everyone scratch their heads and then collectively say to themselves, "ohh, I get it." The pieces of the puzzle have already been put together. My vows were written long ago. We wrote them together, whether we knew it or not. They are cheesy and romantic and ever-so-typical. Our story is simple because the best love stories often are. You meet, you fall in love, and that's it. It's the same old song and today, just for once, I'm going to do something I never do. I'm going to shut my brain and just write what I feel. This is my solemn vow.


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If you're so tired of being homosexual, why not just choose to be straight? They've got nothing to lose, sans perhaps a boyfriend. Unlike quitting prostitution, which leads to monetary loss, or rebelling against oppressors, which might lead to reprecussions from the oppressing party, "switching sides" to heterosexuality would be completely harmless.
My point stands.
Your point only stands if you completely ignore most of the reasoning in my previous response. Let me re-iterate:
Just because a choice isn't conscious, just because a choice isn't instantaneous, doesn't mean it's any less of a choice.
Let me give you an example. If you make a choice to say... get a certain job, it doesn't happen all at once. You decide over a long period of time that you want the job, for many many reasons, some you're consciously aware of, some you're not consciously aware of. Then you have to train for the job, then you have to apply for it, then you have to stomach all the unsuccessful job interviews, then you have to land the job, then, and only then, can you do the job.
Now that's a relatively minor life-choice. And it's not a one-moment choice, it takes lots of factors to come into being.
So your reasoning that "oh, homosexuality can't be a choice, because suicidal gays don't immediately choose to be straight out of self-preservation" is deeply, deeply flawed. Devoid of logic.
First, the choice to engage in a "straight" lifestyle is so much more complex than other choices, the suicidal person simply won't have time to make the necessary decisions before lassitude claims them and they jump off the roof.
Second, you presume that all the factors involved in a "choice" are conscious, i.e: consciously decided, when it's clear that they are not.
Third, homosexual people (and furries, and seemingly all others with "alternative" i.e: perverted sexualities) often
themselves by their sexual identity. Some could theoretically stop doing the things that they do that make them socially outcast, but like religious people, to deny this part of themselves is too high a price to pay.
Fourth, you, like many others, seem to be saying that there is NO factor of choice in what sexual activities you engage in. i.e: It is either 100% choice, or ZERO per-cent choice. This would seem to me to be just as fanatical a point of view as that held by the hyper-religious set. It is perfectly plausible that there is a
of choice involved. Just as there is an element of choice in everything we end up doing. You seem very anxious to imply that people have NO responsibility for their actions and attitudes, and I would find that quite patronising, if I happened to be of a homosexual persuasion.
The situation is just not as cut and dried as everyone likes to think it is.
I was referring to the reason they were depressed.
There is rarely any "reason" to be depressed, and certainly very few reasons to kill yourself. There are few problems that cannot be solved. Reason and logic have little to do with clinical depression, however.
My point was that "reasons" are usually tertiary. One is either prone to black moods or not, and there are many mentally healthy homosexuals around, so the one does not
follow from the other.
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Report: 2008 Napa County winegrape crop down more than 15 percent in value
Following a wild growing season in 2008 that saw frost and near drought conditions wreak havoc on local farmers, the County of Napa has released its annual crop report.
Overall, the value of winegrapes grown in Napa County was found to have dropped by some 15.3 percent, from $472,606,600 in 2007 to $399,913,100 in 2008. The drop in overall value can be largely attributed to the crop loss caused by several days of frost in late April. While the total tonnage of white winegrapes saw a very slight increase in 2008, black winegrapes came in at a total tonnage of 79, 905.7, down more than 25 percent from 2007's 107,580.3.
Here are a few more details from the report:
Top five black winegrape varieties (by price per ton)
1) Petit Verdot ($5,616.25 per ton)
2) Cabernet Sauvignon ($4,779.55 per ton)
3) Cabernet Franc ($4,502.67 per ton)
4) Malbec ($4,418.74 per ton)
5) Others ($3,979.38 per ton)
Top five white winegrape varieties (by price per ton)
1) Roussanne ($6,000 per ton)
2) Marsanne ($3,034.74 per ton)
3) Semillon ($2,806.34 per ton)
4) Viognier ($2,786.15 per ton)
5) Sauvignon Musque ($2,634.51 per ton)
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So said a young girl when she learned her father had decided to move the family to Bodie so he could join the miners looking for his fortune. At one time, the town boasted 2 Churches, but 65 Saloons!
According to this sign:
"Gold was discovered here in 1859 by W.S. Bodey after whom the town was named. Once the most thriving metropolis of the Mono Country, Bodie's mines produced gold valued at more than 100 million dolllars. Tough as nails, "The bad man from Bodie" still carries his guns and Bowie knife down through the pages of Western history."
Well, there you have it. If you just dropped in to see Bodie, I hope you enjoyed your visit. If you were along for the full Road Trip, I hope your eyes were opened as much as mine were. It was a trip I'll never forget, and posting it here for you to enjoy has brought back a lot of memories.
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Way cool. Bodie is one of the remaining 4 historic mining towns I want to visit.
Hi Penny. Bodie is a fun place, but then, I LOVE California, especially the food and climate. Thanks for the visit! Marcia
A little ghost town in the middle of nowhere - just the kind of place we would love to explore. The tufa towers on Mono lake are fascinating, but I could do without the flies.
Wow - nice page! I'd love to peek around in some of those buildings. Looks like a time capsule
Great photos. We went to Bodie last summer and loved it. It is one of the most underrated tourist sights in the US.
Bodie is really cool in the Winter:-) Plus, the gold mine is now owned by .... Canadians:-\
What a lovely place to visit,really nice pictures.
I love your Bodie page! Wasn't Bodie so cool? or "Hot!"...lol! We didn't venture around too much, had baby in tow in a stroller. What a little trooper he is!!!
I never knew Bodie was right there. I had visited Mono Lake and unknowingly passed right by on my way from the lake to Reno. On our tour of Mono Lake the guide offered us to try (i.e. taste) some of the flies - wasn't so bad!!!
Bodie is spooky, but the real thing so to speak. Great pics here too, especially of Mono Lake.
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When faced with two weeks or longer on your own without kids this summer, what should you do? Should you stay home and catch up on work around the house, or opt to take a vacation instead? If you choose to take a vacation, what happens if there is no one available to take the vacation with? Should you go alone?
Well, that depends on a variety of factors. Are you an independent sort of woman that isn't going to panic if something goes wrong, such as the car getting a flat or the airline losing your luggage? Are you able to enjoy being alone for a substantial length of time? Is a vacation financially feasible, or would it be more practical to just take a weekend trip to visit friends or family?
If you've decided that you do want to get away for a little while, what type of vacation should you go on? Is there somewhere you've always dreamed of going? While it may be less desirable to take a vacation by yourself, the fact of the matter is that if you put off your dream vacation until someone can go with you, you may never get the chance to go at all.
Here in the U.S. we have the affordable option of taking road trips or flying to many interesting and beautiful locations, most of which are reasonably safe to travel to alone. A plethora of fabulous vacation spots can be found in and near our own state of Colorado, many of which are close to Fort Collins. However, if your dream vacation spot is in a high-crime area, or outside the U.S., especially in a country where you don't speak the language, it may not be a good idea to go alone. If you have friends or family you can stay with that can show you around, it may be okay, but navigating a foreign location on your own when you can't speak the language can be challenging at best. If you really want to go to a foreign location, do research first about the safety of the region, etiquette and cultural differences, especially attitudes towards women, before you make your final decision. Also consider going with a tour group – a simple internet search will turn up a wide array of these groups to choose from.
If you do go on vacation on your own, be aware of the dangers that a woman traveling alone may face. Provide family members and/or friends with a detailed itinerary and contact information as a safety precaution. And if you ever find yourself in an uncomfortable situation, listen to your instincts and remove yourself from the situation as soon as possible. For example, if you are on an elevator and a person or group of people gets on that makes you feel ill at ease, get off the elevator immediately. Do not question your judgment or worry about being rude – it's always better to be safe than sorry!
Although traveling alone can exacerbate the loneliness that you may already be dealing with on a daily basis under normal circumstances, it can also be an opportunity to enjoy quiet time alone, think things out, and have a chance to relax and escape the responsibilities of being a single mom for just a little while. A happy, relaxed mom is a better mom.
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In last week's episode, Briggs is trying to find the source of the call and he thinks that it's Mike which looks like it leads to a major showdown between the two of them.
In this week's episode, titled "Echoes Pt 1", Sid and Mike have a big confrontation as Briggs deals with the consequences of his actions.
Mike is riding a high thinking that he has the case in the bag, but DJ and Johnny know that it won't be that simple to take down Sid and Carlito. He continues to hit dead ends as Amber is gone now with the money. Charlie has to try and find her but that doesn't turn out the way that she expected it to.
DJ and Johnny get ready for the drop with Carlito Sr. but Johnny is distracted with Lucia and of course it's up to DJ to clean up his mess.
Carlito Jr. is still angry about what happened with him an his father and it forces him to make a move that will throw a wrench in the plan.
Sid turns the table on Mike but the FBI know that they were looking at Sid. Mike's CO demands that he gets Sid because Sid will create Hell for them the longer that he's free. It of course leads to a fight between the two of them which Mike's CO sees (wouldn't be a surprise if Sid egged him on purpose to get him to punch him).
He proves that he's a harder man to take down then Bello last year. He is able to break into Graceland and find out the truth about Briggs and Paige. This isn't good going into the final mission. He's sure to go after Briggs and take him out.
Briggs begs Charlie for forgiveness but she doesn't. She's more mad at him for lying then for what he did. Can't blame her considering all the opportunities that she gave him to come clean. It's going to be a big up hill climb for him but he will for her and for their child.
Charlie makes a bold move as she gives Mike the tape. He listens and realizes that this is the tape that he was looking for last year. She tells Mike that she's leaving after the case is done because she's pregnant. She asks him to make a decision about whether or not to turn Briggs in. He says that he will help her.
Paige is now convinced that Mike is responsible for Lena. Her hunch is dead on but no one thinks that Mike is capable of doing. How little do they know him. She confronts him in an indirect way and she doesn't get what she wants. She tells him she wants him gone.
Things make an interesting turn when someone from Immigration calls her about an APB on Lena. Turns out to be Lena's sister. She said that she came here because of a letter that Lena sent to her about running away (which obviously confuses Paige and her theory). She knows there's something off and she's determined to get to the bottom of it.
In the next episode, it's the season 2 finale and Briggs tries to unite Graceland as they try and come together so that they can survive the mission.
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- The Stockholm Environment Institute suggests that the world's wealthiest nations—like the United States and China—should shoulder the bulk of the cost for cutting carbon-dioxide emissions worldwide. Jeremy van Loon of Bloomberg reports:
The growth of climate-warming gases in coming decades will mostly originate in developing countries trying to spur economic growth and reduce poverty by boosting energy use, Kartha said. Any agreement that doesn't address that reality is destined to fail, he added. Power plants, refineries and vehicles together are the main source of manmade CO2.
``Developing countries' emissions are the real challenge to climate change,'' said Sivan Kartha, the institute's energy director.. ``And most poverty results from a lack of access to energy services. Traditionally, that has been addressed by fossil fuels,'' which add CO2 to the atmosphere.
The proposal, which has not been adopted by any country negotiating in the current United Nations-sponsored talks, considers both national income and overall emissions to quantify a nation's contribution to overall CO2 cuts. Rich countries wouldn't be able to meet their targeted levels by simply reducing output domestically and would be obliged to pay for clean-energy development in poorer nations, under the plan.
- Coincidently, China just approved legislation promoting sustainable economic growth—meaning resource conservation, pollution control, water-saving technologies, recycling and alternative fuels. Via ENN:
The law calls for closer monitoring of resource-intensive and heavily polluting industries such as steelmaking, non-ferrous metal production, power generation, oil refining, construction and printing, the Xinhua news agency said.
It will encourage industries to adopt water-saving technologies and use cleaner sources of energy such as natural gas and alternative fuels.
It also promotes recycling or making use of waste materials, including the recycling of maize straw, livestock waste and farming by-products to produce marsh gas.
China consumed 1.16 tonnes of coal equivalent for every 10,000 yuan of GDP in 2007, down 3.66 percent from 2006, and the government has set a 2010 target of reducing energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20 percent and emissions of major pollutants by 10 percent from 2005 levels, Xinhua said.
- Japan's jumping on the pro-environment trend too. The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has proposed a $4 billion budget to cut emissions and develop greener sources of energy. Ucilia Wang of GreenTechMedia explains:
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukudo has touted a set of emissions-reduction measures in recent months, of which the Ministry has now announced its financial support. However, the ministry's budget will still need to go through other regulatory processes and receive approval from the legislature before taking effect in the new fiscal year, beginning in April 2009.
In June, Fukuda pledged to cut Japan's greenhouse gas emissions by between 60 percent and 80 percent from the country's current levels by 2050.
The prime minister's master plan includes a carbon-emissions-trading program, in which companies that can't meet emissions limits can buy credits from those who have lower emissions. This type of program is already in place in other parts of the world.
The European Union has a carbon-trading program in place and sets carbon emissions caps for different industries. A consortium of 10 states in the eastern United States plans to enact a carbon-trading program on January 1, 2009.
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Jim Walker Software Engineer https://blogs.oracle.com/jwalker/feed/entries/atom 2012-10-01T16:53:35+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/jwalker/entry/x4150_infoworld_system_award x2270 Xeon 5500 Server Runs Cool But Is Hot! jwalker 2009-05-15T22:20:29+00:00 2009-06-17T06:35:15+00:00 The Sun Fire x2270 runs cool but is very hot!
 I added one to the Broomfield, Colorado test farm site. Eric Saxe is running it through it's paces for the tickless project. Darrin Johnson sent four to me and we will be adding them for the tickless project. I love the 1TB drives and the great speed. I plan to get more for general use in the next couple months.

    https://blogs.oracle.com/jwalker/entry/2008_opensolaris_developer_conference_prague 2008 OpenSolaris Developer Conference - Prague jwalker 2008-07-25T16:34:07+00:00 2008-07-28T16:46:24+00:00 The 2008 OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Prague was a great success. There were a lot of great talks and I tip my hat to Dirk Wetter, Wolfgang Stief, Martin Man and Lukas Rovensky and the other conference organizers. You really put on a great event!

 I gave the OpenSolaris Testing talk. Deirdre Straughan did a great job, as usual, taping the event, so I have video and slides of the presentation. I allowed attendees to access a Sun Fire x4150 with two Intel Quad-Core Xeon processors from the OpenSolaris Test Farm. It's an excellent OpenSolaris build server platform and was a great hit at the conference. I gave people the access information at the beginning of my talk, and by the end many people will logged on to take a look. I started a nightly build of the SFW consolidation during my talk. Here's the video:

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 Here's a picture of Deirdre, Jim Grisanzio, Rich Brueckner, Dave Stewart and I at dinner after the second day of the conference during the boat trip up and down the Vltava river in Prague.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/jwalker/entry/zfs_was_a_hit_at ZFS Big Hit at 2008 St. Petersburg Tech Days jwalker 2008-04-22T22:06:38+00:00 2008-07-28T16:55:32+00:00 With over 3200 people in attendance, Sun Tech Days 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia was another successful developer event, and I had the pleasure of working with my colleagues from the local Sun office. It was nice to return to St. Petersburg. I visited Leningrad in December 1988, so I noticed a lot of change. The city is definitely the Paris of the north. I gave the OpenSolaris Testing and OpenStorage for OpenSolaris presentations during OpenSolaris Day on April 4th. I gave the presentations in the main hall where the keynotes where given and had a great audience of over 150 people. Alexander Belokrylov did a great job with the demos, and I enjoyed engaging with the audience and got cheers everytime I spoke a little Russian. I have never seen better questions, and we had more questions than time after both presentations.

 In addition, I supported Jim Hughes, with the ZFS demo during the Solaris Track keynote on April 3rd. Here's a picture of Jim, Kirill Nikonchuk, who setup the hardware and me the night before. We had some USB issues with a PC clone, but once we switch to a Sun Ultra 40 everything worked. This picture was taken unattended by timer from the keynote podium. Also here's a pointer to the ZFS is Smashing Baby video on YouTube.

 Later in the day after the keynote, my wife Suzanne and I climbed up to the colonnade on St. Isaac's Cathedral to enjoy the view. Here's a picture of me in a Z-DAY tshirt, which highlights Halloween 2005, when zfs was first integrated into Solaris.

  https://blogs.oracle.com/jwalker/entry/dual_boot_macbook_pro Dual Boot OpenSolaris and MacOS jwalker 2008-04-14T20:13:16+00:00 2008-04-23T03:41:52+00:00 Paul Mitchell's blog post on dual booting a MacBook Pro pointed me in the right direction. Since then, I created this wiki page on genunix.org so we can further refine the process: OpenSolaris Dual Boot Wiki

 Here is the image of what you will get at boot time on your MacBook Pro

  https://blogs.oracle.com/jwalker/entry/opensolaris_on_great_wall OpenSolaris on Great Wall jwalker 2007-10-28T06:16:24+00:00 2007-10-28T13:19:25+00:00 OpenSolaris Developer Summit sweat shirt made it to the Great Wall today (on my back).
  https://blogs.oracle.com/jwalker/entry/dtest_dtrace_test_suite dtest - DTrace Test Suite jwalker 2006-12-13T15:48:54+00:00 2006-12-13T23:48:54+00:00 Adam Leventhal just wrote a great blog on the DTrace test suite, dtest.

 The dtest webpage is at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/dtest

 This is one of the whitebox test suites that is being maintained by developers, and is in the ON source code base on opensolaris.org.


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Cox Named CFPA National Running Back Of The Week Honorable Mention
Sept. 24, 2012
AMHERST, Mass. - After rushing for a career-best 188 yards and two touchdowns at Miami on Saturday, UMass running back Michael Cox has been named as one of the College Football Performance Awards National Running Back of the Week honorable mention selections. Highlighting Cox's performance was a nine-yard touchdown run which culminated in an end-over-end front flip into the end zone which was picked as ESPN Sports Center's No. 5 Play of the Day.
Stefphon Jefferson of Nevada was picked as the CFPA's National Running Back of the Week. Other honorable mention selections were Mark Weisman (Iowa), Le'Veon Bell (Michigan State), Adam Muema (San Diego State), Silas Redd (USC), and Kerwynn Williams (Utah State).
Cox managed his 188 yards on 30 carries and rushed for 10-or-more yards eight times. He picked up 9 of UMass' 26 first downs in the game. The 188 yards were the most for a UMass running back since the 2008 season. Entering the weekend, Cox was UMass' leading rusher with 113 yards.
The Minutemen will return home to Gillette Stadium this Saturday for a 3:30 PM kick-off against undefeated Ohio (4-0).
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As first spoiled by "General Hospital" actor William deVry via Twitter and later confirmed by the show, Oscar-winning actress Shirley Jones will make an appearance on daytime's longest running American soap opera. As TV Guide Magazine reports on Jan. 16, the actress most known for her role on "The Partridge Family" will guest star on Feb. 5.
Shirley Jones won't be playing herself. The actress will play Mrs. McClain, a lonely widow who may have seen something in the graveyard where Franco (Roger Howarth) originally buried his mother Heather (Robin Mattson) alive.
A "General Hospital" rep told TV Guide Magazine in an exclusive scoop:
"Mrs. McLain comes across a suspicious gravedigger late one night at the cemetery and takes her suspicions to Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) at the PCPD, thinking this might have something to do with the fugitive the police are looking for."
Mrs. McClain may provide a clue as to the whereabouts of Carly (Laura Wright) who has been missing due to the devious plan of Heather.
Whatever Mrs. McLain has to tell the PCPD, it will be good seeing Shirley Jones on "General Hospital" which will be her second stint on a daytime drama. She previously appeared in a string of episodes on NBC's "Days of Our Lives" where she played Colleen Brady.


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I'm not sure if this is even possible, but it's worth asking on here! Essentially I have a old machine at home (well, not old hardware wise, but I recently built a new gaming rig), which I decided to install a copy of W2008 R2 on and use as a file/backup server and media center'ish machine.
As of now, it has a single drive partitioned into C and D, with D being the Data partition. I have happened to find an old 1TB SATA drive lying around at home, and was wondering if it's possible to setup a Raid 1 array in my rig within Windows without needing to lose everything on my first drive (or maybe even just mirror a specific partition, say the Data partition, as this is just what stores my photos etc). Maybe this isn't possible, but you never know :)


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'Grandma' is a series of images that focus on intimate details concerning the subject's dwellings 3 years after her death. Through the vestige traces of nicotine and mess embedded within the unlived house, the images become portraits of the woman whom we cannot see.
It's only through the abstract spaces in which she exists and the objects she possessed, that we can start building a picture of her, and relate our own experiences to describe memories connected to a lose of a beloved.
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