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Sheriff's deputies in central Florida say three young boys spent two days alone with their father's body inside a trailer home.
Flagler County sheriff's deputies found 24-year-old John Jason Uriarte lying on a mattress Monday. His 3-year-old son - one of a set of twins - was curled up next to him.
Authorities say his 6-year-old son walked down the street and told neighbors something was wrong. The older boy told investigators his dad never woke up after going to bed Friday night. The boy also said he fed his brothers and watched TV with them.
The Department of Children & Families is investigating. Lisa Uriarte, the children's mother, says DCF placed them with their great-grandfather.
Information from: Daytona Beach News-Journal, http://www.news-journalonline.com


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- by Joe Stanganelli, Blogger
@SaneIT: Without championing Excel, there are some problems with this argument.
For instance, Tricia writes:
"A co-worker did not understand how to use the formulas correctly, which resulted in the wrong totals being reported. The list continued and most of it was related to lack of skill or attention to detail."
So...the problem was other people's stupidity, poor training, and inattention. Let's not blame the hammer because the carpenter bashed it against his head instead of the 2x4.
And to your point: "it's working, stop messing with it" -- well, if I was an Excel-using manager watching my employees constantly screw it up, I'd take that attitude too!
> " In this case what the manager probably needs is a handful of examples that show how often the data is wrong and the problems that it causes."
That certainly works for some people, but let's remember, of course, that anecdotal evidence is not the plural of science.
Excel is a tool with its uses. There are far more advanced tools that can do really nifty things and are more user-friendly, to be sure, but let's not dump all over Excel simply because certain people don't know how to read a formula.
- by kq4ym, Data Doctor
Habit and attempts to save money are not easy to overcome even when shown it's fighting against us. The managers who keep the old ways even when in the case of Excel, will eventually see the real problems in getting accruracy around the department and among departments when everyone has there own data collecting and recording favorite method.
- by Joe Stanganelli, Blogger
> Misusing Excel
There's the key in all of this. Misuse.
Excel certainly isn't the best tool for everything, or even most things, but it can be a darn useful tool at times. Additionally, all those tales of woe of people misunderstanding or screwing something up can be fixed by training and even by technology solutions (for instance, there are many ways to lock formulas and prevent editing).
For the sake of argument, I would posit that *one* advantage Excel offers (other than the obvious: being ubiquitous and low cost) is that -- unless you're lazy or not paying attention (which, unfortunately, is most people a lot of the time) -- it tends to compel understanding if you want to do anything useful with it or glean anything insightful from it (albeit not necessarily in the most efficient or effective way).
Conversely, a lot of GUI-based, "plug-and-play" solutions tend to impede true understanding when it comes to the "behind the scenes" of data reporting and data analysis -- as I've written about for A2 previously, here: allanalytics.com/author.asp?section_id=1408&doc_id=241161
- by James Connolly, Blogger
@Tricia. Misusing Excel in terms of collecting numerical data, customer names and the like is bad enough. Where I've developed headaches over the years is when someone uses Excel to collect just text-based forms data. So there might be 200 or more rows, each with columns for name, address, company, but then longer-form text entries of several hundred words. So, you end up reading what amounts to articles as someone describes a learning experience, an issue with their manager, or a problem with a product, etc.
When people are completing qualitative surveys some of those rows extend from "A" and "B" to "ZZ". They expect us to read that way!
- by PredictableChaos, Data Doctor
I'm frustrated just reading about this manager! My first approach would have been to do the actual analysis is a better tool and drop the results out for presentation in a set of XLS charts.
Sounds like the manager was not only ignorant, but a micro-manager and would not have been happy to find out that Excel wasn't the actual source of the analysis.
Time to look for another position elsewhere. Given that the organization already has better tools, you might not have to go too far.
- by SaneIT, Data Doctor
I run into this not only as comfort but as "it's not broke, don't fix it" which is a tad bit short sighted because it's broken, they just don't realize it until way down the line. In this case what the manager probably needs is a handful of examples that show how often the data is wrong and the problems that it causes. These examples need to be brought along with the system/processes to prevent these errors. Without those pieces the manager will likely continue down the path of "it's working, stop messing with it."
IN this case the organization had some extremely advanced tools and could have bypassed anyone doing work in the spreadsheet and simply had the end result output to XLS format. It would have resolved the issues of calculating in the wrong columns, bad formulas, etc.
I guess it is resistance to change because why would you drink the magic elixer over continuing to suffer.
You make a good point @Jessica Davis. The person describing this situation had pleaded with him to make the right decision. She was asking my advise on how to pull him toward a better tool. Every arguement we brainstormed she had already tried.
I believe the guy is stubborn. The only way you combat that situation is with upper management issuing a directive. I don't think the person I spoke with thought that would provide any career enhancement for her.
I think that is the main problem - how do you move managers in particular out of their comfort zone? It is amazing to me that the person doesn't hold himself accountable for having accurate data.
I feel like some kind of zealot. Lol!
- by tomsg, Data Doctor
I am guessing that this was all that was in his comfort zone. No amount of logic will move someone who just doesn't understand the technology. A move could only make him look bad ( or worse, ignorant).This is a real barrier in some organizations.
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text: To me, hard work does not mean stress. I guess that's the distinction between our two points of view. I had a world class coach tell me that after her best competitions, her abs were always really sore. I'm assuming that was from all of the hard work she was doing with them. She felt that soreness indicated to her that she had danced well.


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Transportation Instructor Bulletin #01:05
February 8, 2001
Employer Notification/Pull Notice Program
Effective January 1, 2001, Senate Bill (SB) 1403 amended California Vehicle Code (VC) Section 1808.1 to require all specified motor carriers to obtain one "pull notice" for each driver every twelve months from the Department of Motor Vehicles. Previously, motor carriers that employed less than 501 drivers were required to obtain one "pull notice" for each driver every six months.
Section 1808.1(c) reads:
The employer of a driver of any vehicle specified in subdivision (k) shall, additionally, obtain a periodic report from the department at least every 12 months. The employer shall verify that each employee's driver's license has not been suspended or revoked, the employee's traffic violation point count, and whether the employee has been convicted of a violation of Section 23152 or 2313. The report shall be signed and dated by the employer and maintained at the employer's principal place of business. The reports shall be presented upon demand to any authorized representative of the Department of the California Highway Patrol during regular business hours.
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Family Activities
Making time with your children can be challenging so we are offering mums and dads, family members and carers the chance to get away with their children and spend some time together in the great outdoors at Grafham Water Centre !
If you want to learn to sail as a family, why not try our Family Sailing Taster or if you fancy trying more than one activity, we have Family Days running throughout the summer months when you can bring a picnic and have a day out with us, having a go at a whole range of land or water based activities.
"Nothing is perfect, but Grafham Water Centre comes close!"
Max Findlater - 28 May 2013
All our activities are designed for adults and children aged eight years and over to participate in safely. Younger children may be able to take part if any safety equipment needed can be adjusted to fit them correctly. This can only be determined with the child present and will be at the discretion of the qualified instructor running the activity.
+Family Days
A chance for Mum & Dad to take part in some of our many activities with the younger generation of the family. Family days are designed for children aged eight and over and will run from 9.30am until 5.00pm.
Please bring a packed lunch with you. £25 per person - must include at least 1 person under 16 years.
Please be aware that children aged under eight may not be able to take part in all activities (see above).
+Family Camping Weekends
New in 2017 !
An opportunity for the whole family to participate in a weekend of adventurous activities on both land and water. Bring your own camping equipment and tents or book into Centre accommodation for the Easter weekend if camping is not your thing. You can choose to cook for yourselves or buy our catered package.
Price: £ 62.50 for adults (or £12.50 if not participating in activities)
Optional items:
- £5 per person per night for Centre accommodation (only available for Easter weekend)
- £20 per person for a catering package (three breakfasts, two lunches and two dinners)
Children aged 8-11 half price and under 8's free for activities and catering.
Please be aware that children aged under eight may not be able to take part in all activities (see above).
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Welcome BBQ followed by camp fire
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- Three nights camping (own tents) with use of Centre toilets and showers
- Welcome BBQ on Friday evening including a glass of wine and squash for children
- Four full activity sessions for all the family led by our fully qualified instructors
- Campfire on Friday, Children's activity session and family games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings respectively
- Centre "course director" to liaise and look after all camping families
- Fresh water tap available
+Family Sailing
A chance for the whole family to try a sailing taster session all together in one of our Whammel boats.
Session are for a half day, either AM or PM. Groups must include at least one child under the age of 16. Why not combine with a half day paddlesports taster and enjoy a full day of watersports fun ?
Please be aware that children aged under eight may not be able to take part in all activities (see above).
+Family Paddlesports
A chance for the whole family to try a paddlesports taster session using a variety of different canoes, kayaks or sit on top kayaks.
Sessions are a half day, either morning or afternoon. Groups must include at least 1 child under the age of 16.
Why not bring a packed lunch and combine with a half day sailing taster and enjoy a full day of family watersports fun!
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Benefits and Programs
With economic downturn or crisis prevailing worldwide, concern was voiced in 2002 over the financial viability of social protection programs. Reform proposals and actual reforms were guided by this concern. Oftentimes simply increasing the responsibility of the programs' beneficiaries was regarded as a solution, especially if people were offered more flexibility and greater choice.
North America
Even as reports showed a rise in poverty in the United States, social welfare activity was generally pushed to the back burner by budgetary concerns, election-year politics, and the nation's overriding focus on terrorism and Iraq. The lack of action was most apparent in Congress in the area of welfare, where the landmark 1996 reform legislation was scheduled to expire on September 30. That overhaul had transformed the U.S. approach to financial aid for the poor, establishing time limits and work requirements for welfare recipients and giving states greater power to experiment with their own versions of assistance. In the period since 1996, welfare rolls in the United States had dropped by more than 50%, from 12.2 million to 5.3 million. A majority of lawmakers in both political parties viewed the reform as a success, and the year began with strong expectations that a new welfare law would be passed.
Difficulties arose, however, when Congress got down to the details. Pres. George W. Bush, who made rewriting the welfare law a major part of his social agenda, outlined the administration's view with a proposal for more stringent work requirements, increased flexibility for states to design their own programs, and money for an experimental plan to promote marriage and encourage teenagers to abstain from sex.In May, on what was essentially a party-line vote, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives approved an extension bill much along the lines that Bush had requested. The battle then moved to the Senate, where Democrats came up with a much different version. One of the most significant points of conflict was over money for child care. President Bush did not propose any increase in the $2.7 billion states had been getting in block grants from Washington. The House bill increased grants by $1 billion over five years, compared with the Senate bill's $5.5 billion rise. Another sticking point was work requirements. The House measure increased the number of hours welfare recipients would have to work from 30 to 40 a week and said vocational training would not count as work. The Senate kept the current work requirement and added vocational training to the work category. In the 1996 overhaul of welfare, most legal immigrants were denied federal cash welfare benefits. The House voted to continue this ban, while the Senate gave states the option of restoring federal benefits to legal immigrants and extending health insurance benefits to some. After being approved by the Finance Committee, welfare legislation bogged down in the Senate when lawmakers and the White House could not hammer out a compromise. Backers of the Senate bill said it offered welfare recipients the best chance of becoming self-sufficient. President Bush complained that work requirements in the measure were weakened by loopholes. With the expiration date approaching and no agreement in sight, Congress voted to extend the 1996 law for three months, until December 31.
Those who felt that Congress should increase spending on social programs for the needy pointed to a number of reports. The Census Bureau, for example, said that in 2001, for the first time in eight years, the number of people living in poverty in the U.S. had risen—to 32.9 million, including 11.7 million under the age of 18. That was a 1.3% increase over 2000 and meant that 11.7% of the population was by definition poor, compared with 11.3% the previous year. The greatest increases in poverty were found in the suburbs, the South, and among non-Hispanic whites.
According to studies by the Center for Law and Social Policy, many of the people who had moved off welfare to work held low-paying jobs that did not provide health benefits. Another study found that the number of child-only welfare cases had increased and that there was a high rate of hunger and hardship among those children.
Partisan political squabbling also undercut reform efforts for Medicare, although there was widespread agreement that change was needed to provide the 40 million recipients with some form of prescription-drug coverage, which Medicare had never included. During and after the 2000 election campaign, politicians from both parties had promised help with soaring drug costs. Ideological differences, however, undercut efforts to compromise. Republicans favoured a private-sector approach in which insurance companies would receive government subsidies and offer packages that could vary from region to region. Democrats wanted to provide uniform coverage through Medicare. Although about two-thirds of the elderly had some type of private insurance coverage for prescription drugs, the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health research group, said that the average Medicare beneficiary spent $928 on those drugs in 2001, and the figure was expected to rise to $1,051 in 2002.
Failure to reach agreement on drug benefits jeopardized another piece of legislation in Congress involving Medicare—"provider givebacks." These would give hospitals, doctors, and other health care providers more money for treating Medicare patients.Medicare suffered a further jolt when the trade association for the managed-care industry reported that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) serving 200,000 elderly and disabled persons would withdraw from Medicare in 2003. That increased the number of beneficiaries who had been dropped by HMOs to 2.5 million.
Another of President Bush's social programs—his faith-based initiative—also languished in Congress. The plan would provide federal money to religious organizations so that they could get more involved in activities for the poor and disabled, such as homeless shelters, drug treatment, and other programs. The major stumbling block was the question of whether the religious groups would be allowed to give preference to members of their own faith in hiring. A bill passed by the House of Representatives in 2001 gave them leeway, but opponents argued that it violated church-state separation and could foster religious discrimination. What eventually emerged was a watered-down part of the original Bush plan that would allow a limited charitable tax deduction for people who did not itemize deductions on their returns.
Although the future of Social Security had been a major concern for years, the sense of urgency diminished in 2002. Part of the reason for this was an announcement by the Social Security trustees that the program's financial outlook had improved. Instead of running out of money in 2038, as had been predicted in 2001, the trustees said that the date would be 2041 if no changes were made in the current law. The expected tipping point for Medicare was extended one year, from 2029 to 2030. The main reason for the brighter outlook, according to the trustees, was an expected increase in the productivity of American workers during the next 75 years. Nevertheless, Social Security still faced a substantial financial challenge because vast numbers of baby boomers would reach retirement age in the years between 2011 and 2029, putting new pressures on the system. Debate over Social Security continued to focus on President Bush's effort to allow workers to invest part of their payroll tax in private savings accounts that could be used to buy stocks. Proponents of the idea argued that it would generate greater earnings, but in the face of a reeling stock market, the plan appeared to lose steam.
Outside Washington many states were forced to cut back their social protection services owing to steep drops in revenues, along with increases in unemployment and poverty. Especially hard hit was Medicaid, the federal-state health care program that covered 47 million poor and disabled persons. Medicaid costs had been growing at the rate of 13% a year, much faster than overall state spending. As a result, Medicaid accounted for one-fifth of the average state budget in 2002. A survey by the Washington Post found that all but nine states were taking, or planning, steps to hold down Medicaid spending, a turnaround after nearly a decade of increases in the U.S.'s largest public health insurance program. Cost-cutting strategies included dropping certain groups of patients, reducing some services, requiring patients to help pay for their own care, and limiting their access to high-priced drugs.
In Canada a major concern during the year was the national health system. A Senate committee report revealed that the system needed a major overhaul that could require more than Can$3 billion (about $2 billion) in new funding. In addition, a report prepared for health ministers warned that the public-health infrastructure was so fragile that the system could be overwhelmed by a crisis such as local contamination of drinking water. Among the problems cited by the study were shortages of funds, staffing difficulties, political interference, and a lack of planning.
Maclean's magazine, in its fourth annual ranking of health centres across the country, found that communities with medical schools led the way, while largely rural regions, which did not have easy access to the newest equipment and well-trained specialists, were generally at the bottom. Although Canadians spent Can$102.5 billion (about $67.5 billion) on public and private medical services, one-eighth of them said their health care needs had not been met in fiscal year 2000–01.
European countries took various measures aimed at ensuring the long-term stability of their old-age schemes. In June Greese's Parliament enacted a pension reform that included a change in the benefit formula that, over time, would result in a reduction in the maximum retirement benefit from 80% to 70% of final average salary and to 60% for those who entered the labour market after 1993. The retirement age was also boosted from 60 to 65.
In Spain the social security law was amended, effective retroactively from Jan. 1, 2002. Incentives were given to people to work past the age of 65—for example, they would receive their old-age pension in addition to their employment earnings. Finland also took measures to encourage people to work longer. A flexible retirement age—between age 62 and 68—would be introduced in 2005 as part of an agreement between the government, the pension institutions, and the social partners (employers' and workers' organizations). In addition, Finland's part-time pensions were made less attractive and starting in 2003 would be available only from age 58 instead of 56.
The new French prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin (see Biographies), announced that the government would introduce tax incentives for retirement savings in 2003. In the fall Ireland began the approval process for providers of Personal Retirement Savings Accounts, which were intended to encourage more people to take out private pension coverage. In October the Swiss government announced a reduction in the guaranteed interest rate for mandatory occupational pensions from 4% to 3.25%, following pressure by the insurance industry, which claimed that because of the currently low investment earnings, it could not meet the guaranteed rate without touching its reserves.
Russia's new state pension system became effective in January. The plan included a flat-rate basic pension; an "insured labour pension," with benefits based on earnings and length of service; and a mandatory "funded labour pension" that was essentially based on investments. The Slovak parliament approved parts of a pension reform that would apply to all workers under the age of 40 and create a three-tiered system. The first and third pillar were enacted, but no agreement could be reached on the second tier, which would be financed through individual retirement accounts. Similarly, in May the Lithuanian parliament voted against a second pillar in the form of a mandatory funded system of pensions. In January Hungary began reducing the role of private pensions by eliminating the obligation for employees and self-employed persons to become members of a mandatory private pension scheme and by abolishing the minimum state guarantee under mandatory private pension schemes.
Rising costs triggered a range of options for disability plans and health care. The United Kingdom introduced new rules to encourage the disabled to return to work by allowing them to retain their disability benefits even if they returned to the workforce. Previously, the disabled had to show that the work would be beneficial to their medical condition. Beginning in April the costs of medicines and dental treatment under Britain's National Health Service were increased. The Norwegian government proposed to tighten the eligibility criteria for disability pensions by introducing a requalification mechanism for people younger than 50 years receiving disability benefits; heretofore they had been granted a pension for life. The government in The Netherlands, in an effort to create strong incentives for employers to reintegrate disabled people, tabled a law that would require employers to continue salary payments for sick employees for up to two years; the existing law required a one-year payment. In Austria the National Council approved the cross-subsidizing of health funds. Financially better-off funds had to make payments into an equalization fund, and the recipients of the subsidy were obliged to repay by December 2009.
Various measures were adopted throughout Europe to deal with increased unemployment. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder announced that his government would implement proposals made by the Hartz Commission, including a restructuring of the labour market. Efforts would be made to improve job-matching and placement procedures, and unemployment assistance and social assistance would be brought more into line. In Belgium, in an effort to stimulate the employment of older workers, the employer contribution to social security was reduced for workers over the age of 58, effective in April. Starting in September Belgian companies were required to pay for outplacement services—including psychological guidance and job-search assistance—for dismissed employees over age 45. Beginning in February France no longer prevented a person from registering on the list of jobless if that person had started a business. Spain increased public spending on active labour-market policies and tightened the eligibility criteria for the receipt of unemployment benefits. In addition, a system of unemployment protection for temporary workers in the agricultural sector was established. Estonia introduced a new unemployment insurance that would become effective in January 2003.
Throughout the European Union (EU) the social protection of home-based employees and other "teleworkers" was improved. Thanks to an agreement between EU employer and trade-union organizations, they were granted equal rights in terms of health and safety measures, training, work time, and the right to belong to a trade union.
Industrialized Asia and the Pacific
In September Singapore launched a long-term care insurance called "ElderShield" for Singaporean nationals and permanent residents. Enrollment was automatic at age 40, but those eligible could elect not to join. Premiums would be deducted from Medisave (the Central Provident Fund's medical savings plan) accounts. Some 400,000 eligible persons opted out of the program, owing to the annual cost. In addition, a means-tested program was set up to cover people between 40 and 69 years old with preexisting disabilities, as well as persons age 70 or older.
Japan further revised its health insurance system, essentially by introducing higher co-payments and premiums that would take effect in April 2003. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare made initial proposals for the next pension reform. It suggested that older workers might postpone their "special early retirement pension" (available to people between 60 and 64 years old). The ministry also proposed to permit temporarily unemployed persons to remain covered by the Employees' Pension Insurance Program, which was for private-sector employees, instead of having to switch to the National Pension Program, designed mainly for self-employed persons.
In Australia discussions were under way on how to increase competition and efficiency in the superannuation (mandatory occupational pensions) industry. A bill was presented that would allow superannuation fund members to choose the fund that would hold their Superannuation Guarantee Accounts. Another bill provided for government assistance to low-income earners in the payment of superannuation contributions.
New Zealand introduced a new paid parental leave that would be financed from general tax revenue. The legislation applied to those becoming parents on or after July 1. They received the right to 12 weeks of paid leave at a rate of 100% of previous earnings, subject to a maximum that slightly exceeded the minimum wage. Employers were required to keep the job position open, except in unusual circumstances.
Emerging and Less-Developed Countries
The Philippines established a health care scheme for the poorest families, which was implemented through a partnership between local governments and the Philippine Health Insurance Corp.
In Nigeria work was under way to establish a national health insurance scheme, with five programs to cover various groups of people across the country (employees of the public and organized private sector, urban self-employed people, permanently disabled persons, children under five, and people in rural communities). In Tunisia a law adopted in March created a special social protection scheme for low-income people, such as domestic workers, small-scale craftsmen, and small fishermen and farmers, giving them access to old-age, survivors, and illness benefits. The National Social Security Authority in Zimbabwe published plans to extend social security coverage to domestic workers. In South Africa a committee of inquiry published a report recommending a move away from an employment-centred concept of social protection and the adoption of a more comprehensive approach. Among the proposals were the introduction of a basic income grant, extension of unemployment insurance coverage, and a better appreciation for the role of informal social protection.
Argentina's economic crisis prompted the government to cut public-sector salaries and pensions by 13%, a move that was reversed in August when the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. The legislature approved a pension-reform bill, which, contrary to earlier regulations, permitted employees to switch from a private to a public pension plan. New employees who did not choose a fund would be placed automatically in the public system.
The national commission that regulated the system of personal pension accounts in Mexico announced new procedures to simplify the transfer of retirement accounts from one fund (Afore) to another. Starting in August Chilean pension-management companies were required to offer at least four types of investment funds with varying percentages of assets to be invested in equities.


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As I've mentioned previously, I recently joined an online academic writing group. I was inspired by Kerry Ann Rockquemore's summer column [2] and her advice that we use as many external motivators as possible. Although I've been quite productive over the past few years, there's one project that keeps getting placed on the back burner and thus has become my academic bête noir.
I'm not a procrastinator; on the contrary, I tend to suffer from impatience and a tendency to rush projects. I am the kind of person who joins an exercise class and then attends regularly, like clockwork. However, scholarly work is lonely and it's often difficult to see the point in completing a book once the pressure of tenure is over. After all, there are so many more pressing projects to work on that offer more immediate rewards. But once a project is left lingering too long, it takes on a life of its own and becomes a daunting specter.
So this summer I committed to working every day, even if for a short time, on my project. Although this past fall semester proved to be my busiest ever -- with a new administrative position and a full load of classes -- I still managed to write most days. I even found myself looking forward to the relative calm that comes with quiet, focused scholarly work.
Then a series of wild and unexpected events began to occur, starting with the Packers' Superbowl win, an event that destabilized this small city with joyful celebrations. Quickly afterwards, our quiet state erupted in an ongoing political struggle that still rages. [3] It suddenly seemed more pressing to spend my weekends protesting the dismantling of collective bargaining than revising the introduction to a scholarly book few people would read. Closer to home, one of my closest friends suffered a horrible loss. Should I spend my spring break working on my book, or visit this woman who means so much to me at what is the worst time in her life?
So, despite the imagined reprimands of my online fellow writers, and the deadlines approaching, I have chosen to spend my time on what seems to matter most. Paradoxically, knowing that my book isn't the most important thing in the world makes it feel less daunting to write.


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Perfect game a perfect storm for Mariners
Perfect game a perfect storm for Mariners
Thanks to Felix Hernandez's perfect game on Wednesday, that feeling is coming back.
Sitting in the bullpen, watching Hernandez mow down the Rays lineup, Kinney couldn't help but sense the same feelings he experienced during the World Series run.
"Like, 'WOW' ... I remember this. I remember feeling like we all had chills," Kinney explained. "Shawn Kelley was sitting next to me and we both, our arms were goose-bumped up, and he said, 'Man, I don't feel like this when I pitch.' And I said, 'I don't either.'
"[The World Series] was the memory that came to mind. I was like, 'Man, I remember how this feels.' It's that same type of feeling I got watching Felix do that. It was just unbelievable."
Kinney believes the team has been on the right path for a while, but a momentous occasion like the perfect game can act as a springboard.
"Get that feeling of how much fun it is to come to the park and winning games, and nobody's thinking about anything, we're in there having fun," Kinney said. "That's how I know a winning team, how it happens. You come to the park, you're looking forward to getting here. You expect to go out there and you got a pretty good chance. It makes it really fun. When it's happening, nobody really thinks about anything. That's how it gets started.
"You can see that with us. We had a rough road trip this last road trip, but that's over with, we're home, we're off to a good start. [The perfect game] was crazy and I think it's the best thing that can happen to this club."
Mariners manager Eric Wedge has seen the Mariners come together, and it's starting to show up on the field. After a rough road trip that the Mariners were able to close with a pair of wins in Anaheim, they have returned home to win three of four entering Saturday's contest with the Twins.
Since the All-Star break, the Mariners are 20-13, tied for second-best in the American League.
"Every day we're working to get better, I think that these guys have really gelled together nicely, they're being good teammates with each other and they're getting better," Wedge said.
"Since I've been here, it's felt different. It really has since the All-Star break," said Kinney, who was recalled from Triple-A on July 1. "We kind of started winning and guys like, 'We can do this.'
"Now, a loss kind of stings a little bit, which it should. That makes a win that much more sweet. You see it here. I'm seeing it. To me, I feel like I'm on a winning team, I really do."


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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — There's a lot of anticipation worldwide about a NASA satellite that is hurtling its way toward Earth, but a Sacramento man already had an experience with falling matters from space.
Mike Gibson says he was awakened last month in the middle of the night with a giant crack and a bang and something rolling off the roof of his home on 21st Street.
He searched the area below where it rolled off and found a meteorite a little larger than a quarter.
Despite its small size, the space rock caused some damage — a few thousand dollars worth to the roof in fact. It came from August's Perseid meteor shower.
The damage could have been worse, Gibson said.
"It almost penetrated the roof," he said. "It hit exactly on the beam, shattered the beam on the roof. Two inches to the side, it would have went right through onto my granddaughter's bed."
Gibson's daughter took the meteorite to Sacramento City College and the Astronomy department verified its authenticity.
Parts of the NASA satellite are expected to land Friday night, although not in the United States.


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American Revolution, also called United States War of Independence or American Revolutionary War, (1775–83), insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and a large and influential segment of its North American colonies that was caused by British attempts to assert greater control over colonial affairs after having long adhered to a policy of salutary neglect. Until early in 1778 the conflict was a civil war within the British Empire, but afterward it became an international war as France (in 1778), Spain (in 1779), and the Netherlands (in 1780) joined the colonies against Britain. From the beginning, sea power was vital in determining the course of the war, lending to British strategy a flexibility that helped compensate for the comparatively small numbers of troops sent to America and ultimately enabling the French to help bring about the final British surrender at Yorktown.
Land campaigns to 1778
Americans fought the war on land with essentially two types of organization: the Continental (national) Army and the state militias. The total number of the former provided by quotas from the states throughout the conflict was 231,771 men, and the militias totaled 164,087. At any given time, however, the American forces seldom numbered over 20,000; in 1781 there were only about 29,000 insurgents under arms throughout the country. The war was therefore one fought by small field armies. Militias, poorly disciplined and with elected officers, were summoned for periods usually not exceeding three months. The terms of Continental Army service were only gradually increased from one to three years, and not even bounties and the offer of land kept the army up to strength. Reasons for the difficulty in maintaining an adequate Continental force included the colonists' traditional antipathy toward regular armies, the objections of farmers to being away from their fields, the competition of the states with the Continental Congress to keep men in the militia, and the wretched and uncertain pay in a period of inflation.
By contrast, the British army was a reliable steady force of professionals. Since it numbered only about 42,000, heavy recruiting programs were introduced. Many of the enlisted men were farm boys, as were most of the Americans. Others were unemployed persons from the urban slums. Still others joined the army to escape fines or imprisonment. The great majority became efficient soldiers as a result of sound training and ferocious discipline. The officers were drawn largely from the gentry and the aristocracy and obtained their commissions and promotions by purchase. Though they received no formal training, they were not so dependent on a book knowledge of military tactics as were many of the Americans. British generals, however, tended toward a lack of imagination and initiative, while those who demonstrated such qualities often were rash.
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Because troops were few and conscription unknown, the British government, following a traditional policy, purchased about 30,000 troops from various German princes. The Lensgreve (landgrave) of Hesse furnished approximately three-fifths of that total. Few acts by the crown roused so much antagonism in America as that use of foreign mercenaries.
Prelude to war
The colony of Massachusetts was seen by King George III and his ministers as the hotbed of disloyalty. After the Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773), Parliament responded with the Intolerable Acts (1774), a series of punitive measures that were intended to cow the restive population into obedience. The 1691 charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was abrogated, and the colony's elected ruling council was replaced with a military government under Gen. Thomas Gage, the commander of all British troops in North America. At Gage's headquarters in Boston, he had four regiments—perhaps 4,000 men—under his command, and Parliament deemed that force sufficient to overawe the population in his vicinity. William Legge, 2nd earl of Dartmouth, secretary of state for the colonies, advised Gage that
the violence committed by those, who have taken up arms in Massachusetts, have appeared to me as the acts of a rude rabble, without plan, without concert, without conduct.
From London, Dartmouth concluded that
a small force now, if put to the test, would be able to conquer them, with greater probability of success, than might be expected of a larger army, if the people should be suffered to form themselves upon a more regular plan.
Gage, for his part, felt that no fewer than 20,000 troops would be adequate for such an endeavour, but he acted with the forces he had at hand. Beginning in the late summer of 1774, Gage attempted to suppress the warlike preparations throughout New England by seizing stores of weapons and powder. Although the colonials were initially taken by surprise, they soon mobilized. Groups such as the Sons of Liberty uncovered advance details of British actions, and Committees of Correspondence aided in the organization of countermeasures. Learning of a British plan to secure the weapons cache at Fort William and Mary, an undermanned army outpost in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Boston's Committee of Correspondence dispatched Paul Revere on December 13, 1774, to issue a warning to local allies. The following day, several hundred men assembled and stormed the fort, capturing the six-man garrison, seizing a significant quantity of powder, and striking the British colours; a subsequent party removed the remaining cannons and small arms. That act of open violence against the crown infuriated British officials, but their attempts to deprive the incipient rebellion of vital war matériel over the following months were increasingly frustrated by colonial leaders who denuded British supply caches and sequestered arms and ammunition in private homes. On April 14, 1775, Gage received a letter from Dartmouth informing him that Massachusetts had been declared to be in a state of open revolt and ordering him to "arrest and imprison the principal Actors and Abettors in the [Massachusetts] Provincial Congress." Gage had received his orders, but the colonials were well aware of his intentions before he could act.
Paul Revere's ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord
On April 16 Revere rode to Concord, a town 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Boston, to advise local compatriots to secure their military stores in advance of British troop movements. Two nights later Revere rode from Charlestown—where he confirmed that the local Sons of Liberty had seen the two lanterns that were posted in Boston's Old North Church, signaling a British approach across the Charles River—to Lexington to warn that the British were on the march. Revolutionary leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams fled Lexington to safety, and Revere was joined by fellow riders William Dawes and Samuel Prescott. The trio were apprehended outside Lexington by a British patrol, but Prescott escaped custody and was able to continue on to Concord. Revere's "midnight ride" provided the colonists with vital information about British intentions, and it was later immortalized in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Some 700 British troops spent the evening of April 18, 1775, forming ranks on Boston Common, with orders to seize the colonial armoury at Concord. The lengthy public display ensured that Gage had lost any chance at secrecy, and by the time the force had been transported across the Charles River to Cambridge it was 2:00 am the following morning. The march to Lexington was an exercise in misery. It began in a swamp, and the British were forced to wade through brackish water that was, in places, waist deep. By the time the soaked infantrymen arrived in Lexington at approximately 5:00 am, 77 minutemen were among those who had assembled on the village green. Officers on both sides ordered their men to hold their positions but not to fire their weapons. It is unclear who fired "the shot heard 'round the world," but it sparked a skirmish that left eight Americans dead. The colonial force evaporated, and the British moved on to Concord, where they were met with determined resistance from hundreds of militiamen. Now outnumbered and running low on ammunition, the British column was forced to retire to Boston. On the return march, American snipers took a deadly toll on the British, and only the timely arrival of 1,100 reinforcements prevented the retreat from becoming a rout. Those killed and wounded at the Battles of Lexington and Concord numbered 273 British and 95 Americans.
The Siege of Boston and the Battle of Bunker Hill
Rebel militia then converged on Boston from all over New England, while London attempted to formulate a response. Generals Sir William Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, and John Burgoyne were dispatched at once with reinforcements, and Charles Cornwallis followed later. Those four commanders would be identified with the conduct of the principal British operations. The Continental Congress in Philadelphia, acting for the 13 colonies, voted for general defensive measures, called out troops, and appointed George Washington of Virginia commander in chief. Before Washington could take charge of the 15,000 colonial troops laying siege to the British garrison in Boston, Gage ordered Howe to drive the Americans from the heights in Charlestown.
The Americans provoked the assault by entrenching on Breed's Hill, the lower of two hills overlooking the British position. The placement of American artillery on the heights would have made the British position in Boston untenable, so on June 17, 1775, Howe led a British frontal assault on the American fortifications. In the misleadingly named Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill was the primary locus of combat), Howe's 2,300 troops encountered withering fire while storming the rebel lines. The British eventually cleared the hill but at the cost of more than 40 percent of the assault force, and the battle was a moral victory for the Americans.
Washington takes command
On July 3 Washington assumed command of the American forces at Cambridge. Not only did he have to contain the British in Boston, but he also had to recruit a Continental army. During the winter of 1775–76 recruitment lagged so badly that fresh drafts of militia were called up to help maintain the siege. The balance shifted in late winter, when Gen. Henry Knox arrived with artillery from Fort Ticonderoga in New York. The British fort, which occupied a strategic point between Lake George and Lake Champlain, had been surprised and taken on May 10, 1775, by the Green Mountain Boys, a Vermont militia group under the command of Col. Ethan Allen. The cannons from Ticonderoga were mounted on Dorchester Heights, above Boston. The guns forced Howe, who had replaced Gage in command in October 1775, to evacuate the city on March 17, 1776. Howe then repaired to Halifax to prepare for an invasion of New York, and Washington moved units southward for its defense.
Meanwhile, action flared in the North. In the fall of 1775 the Americans invaded Canada. One force under Gen. Richard Montgomery captured Montreal on November 13. Another under Benedict Arnold made a remarkable march through the Maine wilderness to Quebec. Unable to take the city, Arnold was joined by Montgomery, many of whose troops had gone home because their enlistments had expired. An attack on the city on the last day of the year failed, Montgomery was killed, and many troops were captured. The Americans maintained a siege of the city but withdrew with the arrival of British reinforcements in the spring. Pursued by the British and decimated by smallpox, the Americans fell back to Ticonderoga. British Gen. Guy Carleton's hopes of moving quickly down Lake Champlain, however, were frustrated by Arnold's construction of a fighting fleet. Forced to build one of his own, Carleton destroyed most of the American fleet in October 1776 but considered the season too advanced to bring Ticonderoga under siege.
As the Americans suffered defeat in Canada, so did the British in the South. North Carolina patriots trounced a body of loyalists at Moore's Creek Bridge on February 27, 1776. Charleston, South Carolina, was successfully defended against a British assault by sea in June.
The battle for New York
Having made up its mind to crush the rebellion, the British government sent General Howe and his brother, Richard, Admiral Lord Howe, with a large fleet and 34,000 British and German troops to New York. It also gave the Howes a commission to treat with the Americans. The British force sailed on June 10, 1776, from Halifax to New York and on July 5 encamped on Staten Island. The Continental Congress, which had proclaimed the independence of the colonies, at first thought that the Howes were empowered to negotiate peace terms but discovered that they were authorized only to accept submission and assure pardons.
Their peace efforts getting nowhere, the Howes turned to force. Washington, who had anticipated British designs, had already marched from Boston to New York and fortified the city, but his position was far from ideal. His left flank was thrown across the East River, beyond the village of Brooklyn, while the remainder of his lines fronted the Hudson River, making them open to a combined naval and ground attack. The position was untenable since the British absolutely dominated the waters about Manhattan. Howe drove Washington out of New York and forced the abandonment of the whole of Manhattan Island by employing three well-directed movements upon the American left. On August 22, 1776, under his brother's guns, General Howe crossed the narrows to the Long Island shore with 15,000 troops, increasing the number to 20,000 on the 25th. He then scored a smashing victory on August 27, driving the Americans into their Brooklyn works and inflicting a loss of about 1,400 men. Washington skillfully evacuated his army from Brooklyn to Manhattan that night under cover of a fog.
On September 15 Howe followed up his victory by invading Manhattan. Though checked at Harlem Heights the next day, he drew Washington off the island in October by a move to Throg's Neck and then to New Rochelle, northeast of the city. Leaving garrisons at Fort Washington on Manhattan and at Fort Lee on the opposite shore of the Hudson River, Washington hastened to block Howe. The British commander, however, defeated him on October 28 at Chatterton Hill near White Plains. Howe slipped between the American army and Fort Washington and stormed the fort on November 16, seizing guns, supplies, and nearly 3,000 prisoners. British forces under Lord Cornwallis then took Fort Lee and on November 24 started to drive the American army across New Jersey. Though Washington escaped to the west bank of the Delaware River, his army nearly disappeared. Howe then put his army into winter quarters, with outposts at towns such as Bordentown and Trenton.
On Christmas night Washington struck back with a brilliant riposte. Crossing the ice-strewn Delaware with 2,400 men, he fell upon the Hessian garrison at Trenton at dawn and took nearly 1,000 prisoners. Though almost trapped by Cornwallis, who recovered Trenton on January 2, 1777, Washington made a skillful escape during the night, won a battle against British reinforcements at Princeton the next day, and went into winter quarters in the defensible area around Morristown. The Trenton-Princeton campaign roused the country and saved the struggle for independence from collapse.
The surrender at Saratoga and French involvement
Britain's strategy in 1777 aimed at driving a wedge between New England and the other colonies. An army under Gen. John Burgoyne was to march south from Canada and join forces with Howe on the Hudson. But Howe seems to have concluded that Burgoyne was strong enough to operate on his own and left New York in the summer, taking his army by sea to the head of Chesapeake Bay. Once ashore, he defeated Washington badly but not decisively at Brandywine Creek on September 11. Then, feinting westward, he entered Philadelphia, the American capital, on September 25. The Continental Congress fled to York. Washington struck back at Germantown on October 4 but, compelled to withdraw, went into winter quarters at Valley Forge.
In the North the story was different. Burgoyne was to move south to Albany with a force of about 9,000 British, Germans, Indians, and American loyalists; a smaller force under Lieut. Col. Barry St. Leger was to converge on Albany through the Mohawk valley. Burgoyne took Ticonderoga handily on July 5 and then, instead of using Lake George, chose a southward route by land. Slowed by the rugged terrain, strewn with trees cut down by American axmen under Gen. Philip Schuyler, and needing horses, Burgoyne sent a force of Germans to collect them at Bennington, Vermont. The Germans were nearly wiped out on August 16 by New Englanders under Gen. John Stark and Col. Seth Warner. Meanwhile, St. Leger besieged Fort Schuyler (present-day Rome, New York), ambushed a relief column of American militia at Oriskany on August 6, but retreated as his Indians gave up the siege and an American force under Arnold approached. Burgoyne himself reached the Hudson, but the Americans, now under Gen. Horatio Gates, checked him at Freeman's Farm on September 19 and, thanks to Arnold's battlefield leadership, decisively defeated him at Bemis Heights on October 7. Ten days later, unable to get help from New York, Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga.
The most-significant result of Burgoyne's capitulation was the entrance of France into the war. The French had secretly furnished financial and material aid since 1776. Now they prepared fleets and armies, although they did not formally declare war until June 1778.


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DETROIT (WWJ) – An armed robbery on Detroit's East Side leaves one business in utter disarray Saturday morning. WWJ's Stephanie Davis reports what happened at the BP gas station on Mt. Clare and Jefferson.
"Here's what we know at the moment from the owner of this BP gas station, around 6:00 this morning, a pickup truck crashed through this BP, ramming the door and knocking over the ATM which was inside," Davis said.
According to the gas station owner Abdul Beydoun, the passengers of the pickup truck grabbed the ATM. While this was happening, another car approached the scene.
"One of the vehicles, as you've seen, stormed inside of the building. They took the ATM machine causing a lot of damage. And the second vehicle, there were three people, the second vehicle went inside, the person with an AK-47 and pointed it on my cashier and robbed them," Beydoun said.
After robbing the store, the armed gunman ran from the store and, along with the driver of the pickup truck, got into another car and drove off.
Beydoun is thankful his store's security cameras captured the entire incident. He said it would probably be at least Monday before he is able to open the store again.
Police crews were able to extract the truck from the side of the building fairly quick.
Beydoun said it was the first robbery he has experienced since being in that location for about seven years. He estimates the damage at about $20,000 to $30,000.
No injuries have been reported. The suspects are at large.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Detroit Police Department at 313-267-4600. Anonymous tips can also be submitted by calling 1-800-SPEAK UP or texting "DPD" followed by your tip to 847411.
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Traders "Bored" by Gold But Long-Term Case "Robust" as Russia Buys, Spanish Sell
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Traders "Bored" by Gold But Long-Term Case "Robust" as Russia Buys, Spanish Sell
PRECIOUS METALS prices fell in Asian and London trade Thursday morning, taking gold and silver to 1-week lows as commodity prices also dropped and stock markets stalled.
Shares in Apple Inc. were set to open New York trade 8% lower after the gadget giant reported weak Christmas sales.
New purchasing managers' data today showed business activity and sentiment in China rising to a two-year high.
Markit's PMI data also rose faster than expected everywhere in the Eurozone except France.
"The reason we are lower today [in gold and silver] is simple," reckons Marex Spectron's head of precious David Govett in a note.
"The market is long, the market is bored, the market is getting restless."
Longer-term however, "The investment case for gold looks robust," says Blackrock fund manager Evy Hambro, interviewed by The Telegraph, "with recent action by governments indicating that real interest rates are likely to remain negative in 2013, and the risk of inflation has increased.
"The behavior of central banks," adds Hambro, "suggests gold purchases look set to continue as diversification of currency exposure remains a key focus."
The US Federal Reserve's policy-making team will meet next Tuesday and Wednesday, and Fed chairman Ben Bernanke "can count on [his colleagues] to endorse the current program" of quantitative easing, says Nathan Sheets, Bernanke's senior international economics advisor for four years to 2011.
"Markets overreacted to the [Dec. meeting] minutes," reckons Dean Maki, chief US economist in New York for Barclays. "Nothing in the minutes said the Fed is going to be anything less than supportive of the economy in the coming months."
"[Bernanke] is going to stay the course and engage in QE," agrees Maki's opposite number at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, Michelle Meyer, also quoted by Bloomberg.
Despite Sterling's 2007-2009 drop of 25%, "yesterday we found out that one UK official, [David] Miles of the [Bank of England], believes that the Pound has not fallen far enough," says Standard Bank's currency strategist Steve Barrow, pointing to Wednesday's release of UK monetary policy minutes.
Furthermore, says Barrow, yesterday's announcement of an "in or out" UK referendum on European Union membership in 2017 "play[s] into the hands of the Sterling bears."
Having sought a "safe haven" during the Eurozone crisis, "Some foreign direct investment and other capital flows into the UK could turn around as the crisis eases and the UK threatens to cut its ties with the EU," Barrow warns.
Meantime at the World Economic Forum of policy-makers and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland, "We are buying gold and will continue to pursue this course," said Russia's first deputy chairman Alexei Ulyukayev today.
Despite hitting the 10% target set by President Putin 7 years ago for gold as a proportion of Russia's reserve assets, "This is a course of asset diversification in a situation when investing in securities or deposits remains risky," Ulyukayev said.
Russia's sovereign gold reserves are now the 4th largest in the world, worth some $520 billion.
Exports of physical gold from Spain to the UK have meantime multiplied 10-fold in the last decade to €1.2 billion, a report in yesterday's Expansion newspaper claimed, with gold pawned by cash-strapped consumers finding its way into large bars for gold investing.
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Chiptune musician Quinton Sung has gone ahead and given us the gift of song. Well, he regifted it, but he's wrapped it in a new, NES-style bow…so it's actually quite sweet.
Sung used the bleeps and bloops from an 8-bit-era sound board to meticulously rerecord each composition from Radiohead's Kid A and OK Computer albums. If you're a fan of both the band from Oxfordshire and the tinny beats of an old cartridge-based gaming console, then this nostalgic trip will really vibrate your central-nervous system in a soothing manner .
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Which ones leave you quickly, and which ones haunt you for life?
One of my top ten memories would be the late great Woolworth's in Montreal, Quebec. Every few months my grandmother and I would make the one hour bus trip to the city for wig maintenance.
You see, the hairdresser had burned off a lot of her hair with a bad perm when she was still in her twenties. As she aged, her hair thinned out and became nonexistent, so she needed 'Eva Gabor' to help her out. After an hour of giggling inside the house of hair, we would finally go off to lunch at Woolworth's .
Yes, there I would sit in anticipation, with my feet dangling off one of their red stools at the lunch counter. The waitresses all seemed to be painfully thin, and looked the worse for wear. Some of them tapped their pencil on the order book impatiently, while you looked through their menu to order.
The menu was never a challenge for me, as I always ordered the same thing. It was the traditional turkey dinner, with one scoop of potatoes, dressing, and gravy. Of course the mandatory canned green beans were always lying lifeless on the side. All for the price of $1.99.
Sometimes the waitress would whisper that it really wasn't turkey. She admitted that when they ran out, they subbed chicken. Frankly, I could never tell the difference. Was it even real meat? Then for dessert we would each have a slice of one of their layer cakes that graced the glass cake containers on the counters.
There was always a roar of conversation, and business men were flipping their newspapers and chain smoking.
Sadly, my children's generation will never have memories like that. Let's face it, a Big Mac is not going to hold a lot of mental adjectives.
So, the recipe below belongs in my children's memory tank like Woolworth's is stored deep down in mine. When I come to visit they know that the first meal I will make them is Chicken Divan.
When they were young, they would peek through the glass over door and watch the cheese sauce bubble. Then, like clock work they would ask me not to forget to make the caesar salad also. Yes, to them, those two things belonged together like peanut butter and jam.
It seems like yesterday when I could hear the voice of my oldest son calling his brother in for dinner. Sky would immediately interrupt whatever his brother was involved in and scream at him in excitement.
"Hurry Perry, I'm hungry!"
"Mum is making Chicken in a Van!"
You see in his mind I guess he could never hear the correct pronunciation of the words. Or maybe he really thought the chicken came from inside a van somewhere. I never really did find out why, like a lot of other childhood mysteries. So the name just stuck. To this day everyone in the family still calls it by that name.
Also, just like Woolworths we occasionally substitute left over turkey for chicken. As the waitress told me years ago - no one really notices the difference.
Instead of the caesar salad now, we sometimes make bean salad, or have fresh sliced cucumbers and tomatoes. Yes, that is fresh basil and feta cheese on top.
As the Italians say,
"One can not have enough cheese or memories, can we?"
Chicken in a Van or Classic Chicken Divan
1 (10 oz.) pkg. frozen broccoli, chopped or spears
12 oz. chicken, cooked and cut up
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 c. mayonnaise
2 tsp. lemon juice
6 to 8 tbsp shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
Buttered bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook broccoli to soften. Drain. Place broccoli in bottom of 1 1/2 quart casserole, cover with layer of chicken. Set aside. Mix soup with mayonnaise and lemon juice.
Spoon soup mixture over chicken. Top with cheese and then bread crumbs. Bake for approximately 20 minutes or until crumbs are brown. Serves 4 to 6.
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I have a windows xp box that's setup to dualboot zenwalk 2.2 (which is basically a slimmed down version of slackware 10.2) but it runs primarily windows xp. i have a usb external hard drive hooked up to it and I store all my pictures, personal files, and music etc on this drive. (I'll refer this to computer #2)
My other box is a dual boot of the same exact operating systems (this will be called system #1) but I'll be running the linux partition most often and would like to mostly be able to access the external hard drive on #2 while its running windows (and linux if possible). It would also be nice to be able to access the hd on #2 while #1 is running linux AND while it's running windows. the same goes for #2 (would like to be able to access the drive while #2 is running linux and while it's running windows from #1 running either os).
I hope this is clear enough, could be kinda confusing, but i basically have a drive that i would like accessable between 2 systems that are each running dual boot windows/linux partitions while either one is running either operating system. if this is not easily feasable, then at the very least, I would like to be able to access the external hard drive that is on #2 while it's running windows, from system #1 running linux.
thanks in advance! and please, if you don't quite understand what im trying to achieve just ask, and i'll try to clear it up. :jawa:
This is a typical case for SAMBA.
Windows has the facility to share files via this protocol build-in, so all you need to do is create a "share" and share the "drive" which represents the external disk over the network.
The other Windows box can then access this "share", as can Linux client with the SAMBA client software.
If OTOH you boot box 2 with Zen, you need to setup a SAMBA server on that system do do the same sharing you did with Windows. The only thing that might be different, depending on how you do it, is the hostname on which the "share" is defined.
There's certainly plenty of SAMBA tutorials around. If not, we can help you get started.
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DENSA, a rival to MENSA, for completely thick and stupid people, has been formed by Albert Barnswallow an unemployed dustman from Chatteris Cambridgeshire, England.
'Eres howit'll work' said Albert, gruffly, to local reporter Mandy Grimdyke.
'That MENSA's for-clever-clog-type people right? Well, DENSA'S for not-so-clever-clog people right?'
Members will be tested rigorously and will have to answer questions such as (1) How many beans make five? (2) Spell the word 'RADAR?' (3)A box has two apples in and you take one out, how many left? Those are the difficult ones of course but the test commences with: NAME? ADDRESS? and so on.
I spoke with Mr Barnswallow's father, Albert Snr, who said: 'If he's been up to no good it's nothing to do with his mother and me.. those stolen chickens were'nt nicked they were borrowed from our late butcher!!!' When I explained that I was there to discuss his son Albert's new low IQ club DENSA Albert Snr slammed the door in my face cursing under his breath.
Mandy commented: 'I can see where Albert gets his brains from!'
Mrs Barnswallow was unavailable for comment as she was busy trying to complete a two piece jigsaw puzzle, but having lost the lid was having immense difficulty.


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a time ago I came across a very nice unlabelled violin apparently very old. it could be Italian, made by a member of the Gagliano family, but I am a violin player and miss the knowledge to discover the origins of this instrument. It has a beautiful sound, rich amount of overtones, bright, clear and powerful tone. That's the reason why I would like to invite you and try to find an answer to this question...
What makes you think this fiddle could be a Galiano? It's hard to get a fix on this one, but something about the color of the varnish says "not 18th century Italian" to me. The F-holes are kind of funky.
Any other opinions out there?
Do you have more pictures?
Looks like 20th century to me. F holes are amateurish. Is the neck crooked?
This does not look like a violin from a distinguished maker, and the f-holes and scroll is very unconventional. But if the violin has a beautiful sound and responds well, why worry. What is in a name, only money.
With the caveat that I have no luthier expertise at all, the purfling looks a bit what my daughter would label "sketchy." It is always important to keep in mind that a violin without any label is likely not to be very valuable or by a well-known maker. AT least that is the assumption I would work with. If you really care, take it to a luthier with some expertise, or post some more pics from different angles and see if the luthiers on the site have an opinion. If it sounds great, don't worry, be happy. Finding a violin that sounds great that does not run you significant four figures is not easy.
Thanks for all answers! The sound of this violin is really exeptional, that's why I would like to know more about its origin. Its playabitiy reminds me of that of an old Italian violin, a Gagliano which I have tried shortly a long time ago. Please look carefully at the pictures below:
Picture 1 (scroll) : oi55.tinypic.com/2akkc3o.jpg
Picture 2 (Back): i51.tinypic.com/11hrl8o.jpg
Here an 18th century violin, listed as a Nicola Gagliano
Play it and enjoy it.
I think you just have a modern violin that sounds good, be happy
thanks, I will
Neck looks straight on the view of the back.
Agree , if the violin sounds exceptional and you didn't pay too much you're a lucky man and enjoy.
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Up All Night TV Show Fan Reaction
Buzz Blabber: Up All Night Is a Fall TV Winner
This week, you guys chatted a lot about the new Fall TV you're watching, and why you've gotten hooked. We also had the early debut of a Christmas song from Justin Bieber, which, like most things Bieber, elicited some mixed reactions. Check out this week's featured comments on these buzzy topics below!
Audiences love staying Up All Night
- "It's an adorable show that's hilarious without being too over the top. It provides just the perfect amount of surrealism what with Maya Rudolph as a 90s R&B star turned Oprah-esque talk show host. Will Arnett is a guy's guy but has a sensitive side, and he's cute too — kind of every woman's dream husband. And of course Christina Applegate . . . those of us who grew up watching Married with Children and Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, need not to explain." — pargie
- "It's a nice show, which is weird to say about a comedy. It really isn't trying to hard at all. It's pleasing to watch and happens to make you laugh a few times. Not everything needs you to be on the edge of your seat or rolling on the floor." — kaykayelle
- "My husband and I love Up All Night! With our first baby on the way, it's funny to watch and see what lies ahead for us." — PoshBride
Check out the comments on two more stories that had everyone talking this week when you keep reading.
Bieber's holiday tunes draw mixed reactions
- "I'm always ready for holiday music, but not from Bieber." — Sweet Melissa
- "This is my favorite thing ever. I've been saying 'only you shawty' from his other song to annoy my sister, and now I can sing this. So much more shawtys to annoy her with. Lovely." — awesomepants
- "My ears hurt." — littlemunchkin
2 Broke Girls Has Some Lovers and Haters
- "I love this show! Nothing serious about it, just pure fun. My whole family loves it, from the 8-year-old to the 53-year-old. Both the main actresses are so adorable. Laugh a minute." — ladyty
- "The reason we keep tuning in? Because FINALLY, someone is calling out the hipsters. Keep the jokes coming, ladies!" — PrincessLTrain
- "Tried watching this but it's just a waste of time. It's not horrible but it's a filler show. Something I would watch if I was sick in bed not something I would run home to see. New Girl is also a filler show but what bothers me about that show is that Zooey is great but the guys are lacking. BIG time. If only they could bring Damon Wayans Jr. back." — awesomepants
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Speaker is not only the boring box that will tune your songs once plugged into a media player only, it could be something fun like this Belkin BoaBuds flexible speakers. Boabuds flexible speakers has a long neck that you can bend it to any possible shape, like the picture shown below:
Belkin BoaBuds is compatible with any device that has 3.5-mm headphone jack, such as the laptop, tablet, Media players or smartphones.
BoaBuds Flexible Speakers Features:
- Flexi-neck speaker system wraps around objects for a versatile audio setup
- Portable, compact design
- 3.5-millimeter headphone jack connects to a wide range of portable music players
- Cable snaps keep your cables organized
- Backed by a limited one-year warranty
With the flexible neck, you are given the infinite possibility on where you can use this speakers. Sadly, Belkin BoaBuds is a not a portable speaker as it can't live without a power supply from AC outlet.
If you are interested, you can get one of this for $19.99 from Amazon.


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When she's not out hunting rogue vampires and werewolves, you can find Crystal Dawn out exploring the galaxy. She can do it all without ever leaving her computer. She kicks ass, takes names, and puts it all down for the enjoyment of her readers. At least that's what I think she told me. Writing came as a natural outlet for her overly creative mind. The start of her stories is the easy part. Finishing them is a little harder when all the stories are in there trying to get out. She loves reading, chocolate, fine sweet wine, and traveling among a large list of pursuits. Her favorite people, after her family and close friends, are her readers who she says are some of the most wonderful people in this galaxy and the next.
Review by:
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on Oct. 20, 2013 :
This is the same exciting nonstop action that the other books in the series have delivered. You just can't help but love Andrea and sympathize with her problems and admire her solutions.
(reviewed the day of purchase)


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It doesn't matter it you're a teen or a senior citizen (see Linda Abbit's post on the 108 year old blogger). Anyone can have a blog.
Today's "New Blog Of The Week" (NBOTW) is written by a 14 year old from Syria. He blogs about blogging.
In his post titled: What Does It Take To Be Successful?, he nails it. To quote him on "perseverance" (in blogging), he says
….Although all the posts and time will eventually lead to a successful blog, they are not enough alone. What is needed is constant posting, interaction with your readers, marketing, and a bit of patience. Slowly you will begin to see the results of your hard work and feel glad you endured any obstacles to reach your current position.
From his post, "Everyone Makes Mistakes – No Exceptions" he shares these words of wisdom:
Instead of taking the negative comments as insults, I started taking them as guidelines, good suggestions, and the best motivation boosts I could get.
Not only does he share his views on basic blogging, he shares his opinion on ""Internet Ideas That Won't Make You Rich".
This young man is well on his way. He understands the concepts of blogging and providing posts that hold value.
His blog is Rajaie Talks, and obviously, he is Rajaie.
Join me in welcoming Rajaie to the BWAB community.
Hello Rajaie!
Photo Credit: Todd Baker < < technowannabe's photostream


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Roger That mp3 download recorded by Young Money off their debut collaboration album titled We Are Young Money features Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj and Tyga in a vocal.
Young Money – Roger That Mp3 and Music Video
Young Money – Roger That Lyrics and Mp3
[Nicki Minaj]
I'm in the collard green 6 cornbread in the guts
Got dat halloween kicks trick or treat in the clutch
C'mon n-gga is you trickin or what
Flow tighter than a d-ck in the butt
Just hopped off the plane came back from Vancouv'
Little white tee sum boobs n bamboo
White girls tell me hey Nicki your camp rules
Is that why you get more head than shampoos
Asalaam alaikum no oink for me
and I never let a D boy boink for free
Cause its barbie bitch you can join the wave
I done penny nickel dimed I done coined da phrase (he he he)
You coudn't beat me there if you had a Lear
Indian style court side with a cavalier
V.I.P. Rose you can have a beer
Cuz honey when you gettin money you don't have a care
Now Roger Dat [6x]
Young black ricos
Kill for da c notes
But me doe
I Jackson b-tch Tito
She wanna play games
But this is not bingo
Monopoly I'm passed go
Gon head n deep throat
4 chick foursomes
Skin colors mocha
Sally and Sonia put the p-ssys on my totum
Wat stroke em
Strike ya like bowling
Now open like ya yawning
Its 6 in tha morning
Sleepin on me probably in a coffin
I'm hotter than the end of fu-kin august
I'm awesome
Repeat it to ya grandma and uncles my mothers
Tygas no dad but I'm the motha f-cka
Motha f-ckas
This the last supper
Look no hands
I'ma bread cuffer
I don't dare lover
I'm a dare devil
I don't fear nothing
Roger Dat.
[Lil Wayne]
Im Goin In
Fresh off the jet sharper than Gillette
The blunt still wet so pass it like Brett
We sips out the mug we call it upset
Smoke more than 4 quarters we call it sudden death
I'ma beast
You a pit
AK long neck
Keith Sweat
Weezy mothaf-cka
Capo in dis b-tch wit me
Money talks n have a convo n dis bitch wit me
I'm mountain high Colorado in dis bitch wit me
Flow crazy 730 you jus 650
20 bullets from the chopper take the roof off
Laughin to the bank
I'm a goof ball (ha ha)
Its YM
and we at ya neck like a violin
It's our world
We make it spin
and y'all the prey, AMEN.
Now Roger dat
Roger dat
Where Rog at
I heard Rog a rat
F-ck around n never get Roger back


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Friday afternoon Mass celebrates commencement as Bishop Estévez receives honorary degree. Read More
Friday afternoon Mass celebrates commencement as Bishop Estévez receives honorary degree. Read More
Cadets accept appointments into U.S. Army as they complete college careers. Read More
Graduates, family members, friends, and alumni can share their thoughts and photos about graduation on the Saint Leo Facebook page. Read More
Honorary degree to be awarded during Mass with live video streaming available. Read More
Three different ceremonies slated for graduates and their families. Live video streaming available. Read More
Dr. Monika Kiss is a finalist in a contest conducted by Best Colleges Online to identify the "2013 Online College Professor of the Year." Voting continues through April 28. Read More
New program for "Renewing the Writer in You" Read More
Support specialist for Wounded Warriors and Marine memoirist share stories and insights. Read More
NATO scholar, Marco Rimanelli, will teach in Europe next year. Read More
Saint Leo undergraduates across the university, particularly freshman and sophomores, will start taking courses in the fall from University Explorations. New liberal arts courses have been developed that take a topical approach to the humanities, the physical, biological and social sciences, religion, and more. Read an important FAQ here. Read More
University provides services to help match graduating students with employers. Read More
Legislation signed into law this week includes provisions to restore military Tuition Assistance programs. Read More
Muslims in a number of countries shielded Jews. Read More
The episode of the popular reality show featuring the 2,100-gallon aquarium in the university's newest apartment building airs this Friday at 9 p.m EST. Read More
Distinction awarded to colleges and universities that give back to their communities. Read More
Saint Leo University hosted a group of leading area executives who met at University Campus March 19 to hear guest speaker Jeff Vinik, owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning professional hockey team and a venture capitalist. Read More
On Tuesday, March 19th a presentation at University Campus will highlight Muslim rescuers. Read More
At Saint Leo University, we are honored to provide education to our active-duty servicemembers. We are sorry that, as part of budget cuts related to sequestration, these students may be directly affected by the military's decision to suspend tuition assistance for future courses. Read More
Author Tanya Biank to Speak in Newport News, VA, and Author Tracy Crow to Speak at University Campus in April. Read More
Both events will be held the week of March 4th and 5th at University Campus. Read More
Music, sports, fun and food will all be part of the annual Spring Fling tradition at Saint Leo University. Read More
Stacy Nadeau advocates for women's empowerment and healthy self-esteem. Read More
Military social work expert to speak at University Campus, Wednesday, Feb. 27. Read More
Historian speaks Thursday at University Campus in free, public event. Read More
Senior Marcus Ruh makes school history, highlighting his success in the classroom and on the basketball court. Read More


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Bought this gun one year ago. It is the SX3 waterfowl 3 1/2 in. I use it for everything minus deer hunting, I could just buy a barrel and go to town but I like my 870 for that. I have used it for waterfowl, turkey, and small game. Don't shoot 3 inchers, but shoot 2 3/4 and 3 1/2, have had no problems with anything. I reload my own sporting clay shells and have shot 7/8-1oz 8 shot with flawless action.
Love the fit of the SX3. Forearm is plenty long for any type of hand placement compared to Benelli's, let alone the lighter weight compared to other competitors. Love It!
Would like to see it sold in a hard case not just a box.
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First I listed the calibratable devices:
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wolfgang@LIFEBOOK-T730 ~ $ sudo xinput_calibrator --list
[sudo] password for wolfgang:
Device "Serial Wacom Tablet stylus" id=16
Device "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" id=17
Device "Serial Wacom Tablet touch" id=18
Then the calibration itself:
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wolfgang@LIFEBOOK-T730 ~ $ sudo xinput_calibrator --device 16
Calibrating standard Xorg driver "Serial Wacom Tablet stylus"
current calibration values: min_x=0, max_x=26312 and min_y=0, max_y=16520
If these values are estimated wrong, either supply it manually with the --precalib option, or run the 'get_precalib.sh' script to automatically get it (through HAL).
--> Making the calibration permanent <--
copy the snippet below into '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf'
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "calibration"
MatchProduct "!!Name_Of_TouchScreen!!"
Option "MinX" "236"
Option "MaxX" "26301"
Option "MinY" "169"
Option "MaxY" "16412"
Change '!!Name_Of_TouchScreen!!' to your device's name in the config above.
I modified /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf (Initially, the "Identifier" was "evdev touchscreen catchall". When this didn't work, I changed it to "Serial Wacom Tablet stylus"):
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Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Serial Wacom Tablet stylus"
MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Calibration" "236 26301 169 16412"
After logging out an in I could see no effect of the calibration. On the left side of the screen is still a considerable gap between pen tip and cursor.
Second, following xinput_calibrator's instructions, I created the file 99-calibration.conf, but put it in /usr/share/X11/... instead. No success.
Could anyone help me to understand what I am doing wrong here ?
Thank you very much !


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This Scan-Tech ignition switch may be installed on 1986 through 1998 Saab 9000 vehicles. The ignition switch is like a light switch to turn on the car. Like a light switch, ignitions have the exterior component that is moved and the electrical component that sends power to the system. This is the electrical portion of the vehicle's ignition. It does not include the locking assembly on the exterior of the ignition switch. Use of this electrical ignition switch is recommended for Saab 9000 vehicles made between 1986 and 1998. It may not be compatible with the ignition system on other makes, models, or years.
I needed a passenger side headlight assembly for my 2003 Ford Taurus. I went to the Ford dealer, who wanted $165 for it. The local junkyard had a used one they would sell me for $65. I finally ran across Parts Geek. I found a brand new headlight assembly for $38. I ordered it with my debit card on Wednesday. It arrived the following Monday. It was perfect. The mechanic who installed it was so impressed that he checked with Parts Geek and found the same assembly for his car. His dealer wanted $240. Parts Geek had the same part for $46. I cannot say how impressed I was with my order.


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Not so long ago, people thought attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder was a condition that only affected children-- whirling dervishes who careened through life leaving a path of destruction in their wake. We now know, however, that there is a sizeable group of quiet daydreamers whose inability to organize themselves and focus on the task at hand makes it impossible for them to meet the demands of everyday life. And we know that many children with ADHD continue… (more)
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Cougar softball team opens 2011 season 0-2
The University of Minnesota, Morris softball team had a rough outing in the opening weekend of the 2011 season, falling 21-2 to Gustavus Adolphus and 11-0 to Valley City State on March 5.
Playing at the Husky Dome on the campus of St. Cloud State, Morris struggled from the outset as Gustavus scored seven first-inning runs on their way to the lopsided win. The Gusties came back with 11 in the second and three in the third before being held off the board in the final two innings.
In the fourth the Cougars regrouped to bang out three hits and score two runs, avoiding the shutout.
Kelli Hamilton got the opening day start for the Cougars, and falls to 0-1 on the young season. She allowed 16 runs on nine hits in her one inning of work. Coming in on relief, Kelsey Draper pitched the game's final four innings, allowing five runs on six hits with three strikeouts.
In game two the Cougars were held to just one hit as Viking starter Krystal Hathaway fanned 11 in pitching the complete game shutout.
The Cougars were led by Draper and Kristy Hoge, who each logged a pair of hits.
Draper and Heather Briese scored the Cougars' two runs, while Briese and Jessica Gordon each finished with an RBI.


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Trashman, many thanks for that. Enjoyment should come before time!! Merry Christmas.
Toughest one yet. I'm embarrassed to say it took me 7:40.
Love your puzzles, tug, but it takes a dedicated, totally masochistic person to jump into some of them. You're doin' it right. And a Merry Christmas to you!
Thanks for that cryptic comment, Stella. Have a lovely Christmas.
Jeez, lueez!
Hey, PD, get off my site!!! :
I hope you saw my reply to you about creativity on my own puzzle, Zatoichicat! And you've already posted pictures, so you know how to do it--just find something you like that is already out there, or try a simple free program to make something yourself, and go for it! You'll find that creative gene, guaranteed!
You don't have to be creative, zato. It is very easy to get photos and very easy to post. I was amazed at how straightforward it was/is. It is nice to post as I like to get comments. You will love the first comment you get. Unless it's from me, giving you a hard time. Take care.
yes...all the talk of a "new" version peeked my curiosity, so I checked it out... I was considering it awhile ago, but I don't have a creative gene, nor a cache of pictures to draw from (lost all when last computer dropped dead) I love pd's and yours and would like to create puzzles as well.. I was thinking of taking pictures with phone and posting like that .... I'll have to get "the old man" to show me how....
Some ya wins, and some ya loses, zato!! Have you only just become a "star"?
Ok tman.... this one is yours... bested me by a whole hour...... I just knew the last one was a glitch! Well.... maybe not.... :-)))Check out the "Star" TaDa..... Now I just have to find the creative gene.... Ahhhhhh
OK Here I go......
very close, aishah. well done!
Well, I sure tried to beat your time. I was just a little ahead of you at the halfway point, but just couldn't keep it up. Great puzzle!
A more logical approach than mine, should beat my time, Aishah! Good luck
Addiction, addiction, addiction!! Good luck, Aishah!
John, school is in session. I can't wait to start this one, but I must. I hope to get to it tonight. By then, you should be done and I will know what time I have to beat. : )
I'm 1:54 and 46% if that gives you a clue, arianus. I'll be looking for your name on the board. Good luck
did anyone try it yet?


text: On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:29:59PM -0500, Nick Kwarciak wrote: > 1) My 735 has an EISA slot (in the same pull out compartment as the > power supply.) I was told that this might be some sort of proprietary > hardware that is different than the EISA or ISA cards one would use on > a pc or what not. Is this in fact true? Or should an ISA card from a pc > (like a controller card, network card, video card, etc) work? It does > at least appear to have the same connection as a standard ISA card and > I was able to fit in a couple of old ISA cards I had laying around from > various old pcs. If it is possible to get ISA cards working in this > machine, are there any particular settings or what not that would have > to be done? In particular I am thinking of putting an IDE controller > card in so I can get some of my IDE hard disks working in the machine > (SCSI disks are so expensive in comparison.) Any feedback on getting an > ISA card working would be appreciated. EISA & ISA cards will work in that slot, providing they don't do DMA to the host. That's only because nobody's written the code yet, not because of an inherent limitation in the hardware. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk