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Babies exposed to air pollution in utero have been found to have an increased risk of autism, according to a new study from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
As if sitting in LA traffic isn't punishing enough for a pregnant woman (bathroom, anyone?), now comes the risk of unintentionally harming her unborn child.
Researchers from UCLA found pregnant women exposed to particulate matter — the type of pollution from motor vehicles — have an estimated 5 to 15 percent relative increase in the odds of having a child with autism. In addition, ozone exposure during pregnancy was associated with a 6 to 12 percent relative increase in having a child diagnosed with autism.
Researchers studied the influence of these exposures on the development of autism using data from air monitoring stations and a land use regression (LUR) model to estimate exposures.
The study, published in the March 1 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, is the first to examine a link between ozone and autism, and the largest study of autism and air pollution.
While ozone levels have dropped over the last decade, Los Angeles still has the highest ozone levels in the nation, making it a natural location for the study.
The research team identified children born in Los Angeles who were diagnosed with an autism disorder at 3-5 years of age during 1998-2009 through California Department of Developmental Services and linked that information to 1995-2006 California birth certificates.
The 7,603 children with autism and 10 controls per case were then matched by sex, birth year, and minimum gestational age. Birth addresses were mapped and linked to the nearest air monitoring station and a LUR model.
"These findings are of concern, since traffic-related air pollution is ubiquitous," said Beate Ritz, chair of UCLA's Department of Epidemiology and the study's senior author in the Huffington Post. She said she was reluctant to advise expectant mothers to leave LA or polluted cities, because that's not an option for many. She did recommend avoiding sitting in traffic, when pollutant exposure is worst.
Not only is traffic hard to avoid if you're a working mama-to-be, but there are other health risks associated with the pollution you and your baby are exposed to when behind the wheel. If you're concerned, consider alternate routes during commuting hours or alter times of travel to reduce exposure.
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Networking Systems Require Tight Control/Data Plane Integration
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A critical element in the design of next-generation networking equipment is integrating the service intelligence provided by silicon with the transport capabilities of optics. An efficient combination of these two functional entities yields essential mechanisms needed to leverage the massive transport capacity available in the network for deploying and delivering new classes of service. The carrier, service provider, enterprise, and metro markets demand a new breed of equipment combining speed, capacity and intelligence to utilize the bandwidth in flexible and profitable ways, while incorporating emerging technologies such as MPLS, traffic engineering, VPN, and differentiated services over Ethernet and Sonet networks.
Designing efficient, high-performance networking systems requires careful integration of data path network processors (NPs) with control plane processors, co-processors, fabrics, and application software. Handling a high-speed packet/cell stream requires a multi-chip process flow and unless all of the piece parts work together efficiently, the performance of the system will be less than optimal. In essence, choosing a 10-Gbps NP does not guarantee10-Gbps line-card performance unless the designer makes careful system level integration choices as opposed to component level integration choices.
Data Plane Requirements
The data plane can be viewed as consisting of two different logic blocks for ingress versus egress processing. In most of the architectures, egress processing is the simpler of the two since your fabric subsystem supplies relatively homogenous packets and egress processing mainly consists of traffic management functions.
Ingress processing is the difficult task, since the incoming traffic can be a non-homogenous set of packet types, lengths and protocols from a variety of sources. All of those packets/cells must then go through parsing, classification, policing, admission control, and editing/modification at wire speed with bounded latency to sustain application requirements, especially performance.
When considering data plane processors, it is important to understand the demands placed by system applications on the ingress and egress logic of the data plane and also the interaction and integration with the control plane. The key attributes to evaluate are:
1. Classification performance: Search key size, search frequency and latency, associated data size, and the ability to do recursive search operations directly determine the data plane processor's ability to implement advanced admission control at line rate in edge route applications. Parsing flexibility is another feature affecting the breadth of protocols supported by a data plane processor and also impacts classification table size and maintenance complexity.
2. Provisioning performance: The key provisioning attributes of a data plane processor are standards compliance, range of policing rates, policing rate granularity, accuracy, and number of policing operations per packet while sustaining line rate. Policing algorithm support includes Diffserv srTCM, trTCM, and ATM GCRA and F-GCRA. Policing rates range from 8 kbps for VoIP to 10 Gbps for 10 Gigabit Ethernet links. Multiple policing operations per packet allow packets to be marked based on individual and aggregate flow provisioning.
3. Forwarding performance: A data plane processor's forwarding engine must be capable of making all packet modifications necessary at line rate. A key consideration is whether there is sufficient data path speed up to accommodate packet expansion caused by label stacking, tunneling and appending route headers needed by traffic managers and switch fabrics. A forwarding engine should be capable of pre-pending route headers, push/pop/swapping label stacks for MPLS and VLAN, and add or remove tunnels at line rate. Included in this effort are the QoS mappings necessary between protocols (IP, MPLS, Diffserv, 802.1Q, etc) contained within the packet and the route header formation.
4. Control plane integration: A tight coupling of the data plane and control plane processors provides several advantages. The results of the data plane processor's classification engine may be used to prioritize and expedite processing in the control processor. The data processor's policing engines may be used to protect the control plane from denial of service attacks. Most importantly, it allows the control processor to serve as an application processor for those packets requiring processing beyond layer 4.
Control Plane Requirements
Control plane processors are available or under development from Broadcom (Si-Byte), Sandcraft, PMC (QED), IBM and others. These processors are enhanced versions of popular embedded processors such as MIPS and PowerPC, with additional I/O and packet processing functionality. The key advantage they provide is in the area of development tools and ease of leveraging an existing code base. When considering a control plane processor the key attributes to evaluate include:
1. CPU performance and architecture: Data plane processors use customized or application driven instruction sets, whereas control plane processors use standard RISC architectures, so CPU MIPS are a key factor in control plane performance. MIPS, PowerPC, and ARM RISC architectures are suitable for the control plane, so the decision should be based on development environment, familiarity, or other control plane processor features. Control plane processors typically use multiple RISC cores, either loosely or tightly coupled, and tend to have one or two level caches.
2. Memory subsystem performance: The memory bandwidth of a control plane processor must meet the demands of both the RISC processor and communications I/O ports. An efficient implementation will allow the data plane processor to stream data directly into control plane processor shared memory without stalling the RISC cores from protocol processing. Since control traffic is stored and then forwarded, the shared memory bandwidth required will be four to eight times the average control traffic rate. The peak control traffic bandwidth equals the line rate, or 10 Gbps plus route header overhead, for 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
3. Communications I/O: Ideally, the data plane and control plane processors will have glueless interfaces that will sustain line peak rate and control traffic required rate with a bounded amount of latency. Several co-processor and data plane interfaces have been standardized or are under consideration by the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and Network Processing Forum (NPF). For 10-Gbps data plane rates, some options include POS/Utopia-3, SPI 4, HyperTransport, or 3.125 GHz serializers/deserializers (serdes).
Integrating the Planes
A typical 10-Gbps line card contains network processing and traffic management functions between the optics interface and switch fabric. At 10 Gbps, the network processing function is divided between a data plane processor and control plane processor. This assures deterministic line rate performance independent of traffic mix and advanced routing requirements.
The data plane and control plane processors should mate such that data traffic (packets or cells) is bi-directional over a glueless interface Figure 1. The SPI 4 interface is suitable since it meets 10-Gbps performance requirements and is widely available.
Control plane traffic is typically queued in multiple priority queues since it is not processed "on the fly" like data plane traffic. The subport capability of SPI 4 provides the mechanism for transferring multi-priority traffic between the data plane and control plane processors without head of line blocking.
Tight integration of the data plane and control plane processor architectures will enable several performance efficiencies. The control processor may leverage the classification and provisioning completed by the data plane processor. High priority control packets may be directly transferred to a control processor's RISC cache and the RISC CPU may be dispatched based on classification results.
Per flow statistics gathering is increasing in importance as quality of service is added to IP and MPLS networks through differentiated services. These statistics are not only used for billing, but are a key enabler for network engineering and security against denial of service attacks.
Per flow statistics are now a significant control plane bandwidth issue that is solved by tightly integrating the data plane and control plane processors. Statistics information is collected in the data plane and processed in the control plane.
Tight integration of the data and control planes also simplifies end product field support by enabling sampling and full statistics collection on selected flows. The data plane processor samples traffic by copying packets or portions of packets to the control plane processor for analysis. Random sampling may be applied globally across all traffic to support network engineering. Full sampling of selected flows enable problem determination on troublesome network links.
Linking the Software
Up to this point, we've looked solely at the hardware requirements needed to marry the control and data plane. However, it's equally important to closely link the software environments used to develop code for these processors. Here's why.
To solve performance bottlenecks, network processors implement complex architectures and memory subsystems that consist of multi-processing, multi-threading, crossbar interconnects, hardware assist and micro-engines, and more. This hardware complexity, however, makes implementation a difficult task.
The architecture complexity problems were compounded by weak toolsets. In the early NP designs, each vendor had to develop a set of software development tools consisting of assemblers, compilers, debuggers and simulators. However, especially on the compiler front, most of these tools were basic and thus designers still had to do a ton of hand-tuned assembly code to make these processors work.
Hand tuning is a tedious and iterative process, since performance feedback comes only after software/hardware integration in the lab and requires intimate knowledge of the hardware micro-architecture. Thus, software development teams are forced to spend the majority of their time trying to fit their application to the NPU architecture, rather than focusing on the characteristics of the application itself.
What is required is a set of powerful software tools that allow the developer to define the data plane behavior of the system utilizing an abstracted graphical programming interface tightly and seamlessly integrated with a C development environment for the control plane.
By utilizing an abstracted graphical programming interface with integrated low-level code generation, the developer can focus on developing the rules required for their application, while the tools takes care of generating the optimized executable code including the C functions required for control plane integration. These tools should also include real-time performance analysis so the developer knows immediately how a particular function will perform, removing the long traditional performance tuning cycle from the development process.
Wrap Up
Designing and implementing systems that can deliver advanced IP/MPLS services over high bandwidth networks requires a great deal of effort to be spent on integration issues. These issues are related to the control plane, data plane, switch fabric, and the efficient mapping of applications between the control plane and the NP-based data plane, such that high performance levels can be sustained under varying traffic loads and patterns.
In choosing an NP, designers should equally weigh the feature set of the device as well as its impact on the overall system, this will ensure that they derive the full performance benefits from the new generation of easy to use application driven network processors.
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Hemant Trivedi is the president and CEO of TERAGO. He received a B.S. in Electronic and Communications Engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in India and did graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at North Dakota State University. Hemant can be reached at email@example.com.

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Vijay Singh and Sergio Garcia's Barclays playoff breathes sudden life into FedEx Cup
Sunday saw Vijay Singh win his second PGA Tour event in four weeks at The Barclays, while Sergio Garcia once again went home disappointed. Meanwhile, thanks to the drama at Ridgewood, the FedEx Cup suddenly seems much more interesting.
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Even in a parliamentary system, every general election is always partly about leadership. Britain's 2010 general election, though, will turn on the question of leadership to an unusual degree. There are two circumstantial reasons for this and two very personal reasons. The first circumstantial reason is that events demand it. Britain will require particularly wise and credible leadership if the country is to steer a path through the fiscal dilemmas of the coming years in the face of hostile speculators and social divisions, especially in a hung parliament where agreements must be made and kept. The second is that the televised election debates are going to highlight the abilities and characters of the party leaders to an unprecedented degree. Either way, this contest will be more than usually focused on answering the question of who is the right person for the top job.
In recent days, however, the personal leadership issues have come most under the spotlight. The two main party leaders currently face very different problems. This is because Gordon Brown is less popular than the Labour party, while David Cameron is more popular than the Conservatives. Voters therefore have different expectations of the two men. For those who are minded to vote Labour, the issue is to overcome doubts about Mr Brown rather than his party. For those who are minded to vote Conservative, the issue is to overcome doubts about the Tory party rather than about Mr Cameron. Judging from the trend of recent opinion polls, swing voters are finding it easier to swallow their doubts about Mr Brown than they are to swallow them about the Tories.
All this means that the current attacks on the two leaders' respective judgments have to be seen in contrasting ways too. In Mr Brown's case, he has been lambasted by the Tories and the service chiefs for cutting real-terms defence spending while he was chancellor, which is true, and for refusing to give the military all the equipment they wanted in Iraq and now Afghanistan, which is also true. Mr Brown has further upset the chiefs by giving disingenuous answers to the Chilcot committee and then by jetting out to Helmand for a rather too obvious photo op as a war leader. But the political issue is not so much whether the critics are right about Mr Brown's behaviour, which in general they are, but whether the voters are sufficiently disturbed by it, which they may not be. This could be because the voters have long ago decided that Mr Brown is not a very good or a very impressive leader. His handling of these issues does not surprise people, so its impact on his and Labour's standing may actually be slight.
Mr Cameron is in a different situation over his handling of Lord Ashcroft. The reclusive Tory deputy chairman's avoidance of UK tax, and his long secrecy about it, are issues that of course play unerringly to the public's belief that the Tories put their own interests above those of the voters. That is naturally not good for the Conservative party. But the problem did not threaten the party's poll position as long as the public remained reasonably confident about Mr Cameron himself. Now, however, the leader's atypical lack of urgency and outrage about the Ashcroft issue has begun to play into other growing doubts about Mr Cameron's political priorities. That is why what was in effect a shrug of the shoulders when faced with the facts about William Hague's concealment of the truth on Lord Ashcroft was so particularly ill-judged and dangerous.
Mr Cameron has rebuilt the Conservative party's position around his own credibility as a new sort of Tory leader. His relative success means he is held to a higher standard than Mr Brown. But it also means that more is at stake for his party if that credibility comes under threat. That is now the case with the Ashcroft affair. Mr Cameron has questions to answer and, even more important, actions to take. He has no choice but to rise to the challenge.


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Discussion in 'Tickets, Memorabilia and Gear' started by Dayad, Jul 11, 2008.
Just got my season tickets today. FedEx man arrived at 10:35 this morning. WoooooHooooo
It's football time in Houston.
Could not have said it any better myself !!
Welcome to the greatest city of all. Houston Texas, are you ready for some football?
Whats the free gift.
I just got a letter saying mine would be shipped
now that the tickets have arrived......can we start scalping yet? lol
I received the email and did the FedEx tracking and it said my tickets were on the truck for delivery today.
Have any other kewl tix showed up at your place lately???
Received notification email this morning and what do you know 15 minutes later FedEx Delivery comes in my office!
Just received my tickets.
Mine rode around the city for the day and just got back to Fed Ex. Now they are NOT set up for delivery.
Last year mine were some of the last tickets delivered after riding around Houston for three days (I am not lying) and then they were delivered to the wrong address. I had to go looking for them and found them a block away.
This is my favorite least favorite time of the year.
I'm curious as to what our gift is.
Got my tickets.
Dunta's picture is not on a game ticket.
Probably doesn't mean anything.
Either it's another binder, or no one wants to say evidently...
Sounds like I'll be getting my MNF tickets in a little bit (poor people represent).
I'll be getting them today if not monday.
My Nashville guardian angel strikes!
Going to Texans/Titans baby! First time in 4 yrs.
as a matter of fact they sure did, They showed up the other day got em posted on the fridge.
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2008 Ohio wheat crop seen topping one million acres
Wheat planting in Ohio is anticipated to hit a million acres or more this year, thanks to historically high futures market prices and continued production efforts to keep wheat in the crop rotation.
"The reason why acreage is up this year is because of the good prices and the need to maintain crop rotations," says Jim Beuerlein, an Ohio State University Extension agronomist. "Wheat is in such high demand that growers are having a hard time finding seed."
The futures price of wheat is around $6.75 per bushel, nearly $3 more than the historic average, stimulated by low wheat inventories due to poor worldwide production of the 2007 crop. In Ohio, growers harvested 730 million acres of wheat out of 820 million acres planted, with an average statewide yield of 63 bushels per acre. Growers harvested 68 bushels per acre in 2006.
The increased planting prospects come on the heels of an optimistic crop for 2008. Timely planting and continued unseasonably warm weather are giving the new wheat crop a strong performance boost that should produce a very hardy condition going into winter dormancy.
"The wheat crop right now is looking fantastic. Because of the warm weather we've been having, it's growing very rapidly," Beuerlein says. "It should produce adequate tillers before dormancy."
According to the Ohio Agricultural Statistics Service, 78% of Ohio's wheat is planted, 36% ahead of last year and 18% ahead of the five-year average. More than 30% of the crop has already emerged, 23% ahead of last year and 13% ahead of the five-year average.
Beuerlein says that growers could run into problems if the wheat grows too large (over a foot in height) before going into dormancy. Ohio is already a week late with its first frost. But problems are not likely, he said.
"We really don't see any issues with the rapid growth of the crop. If growers are planting wheat in 15-inch rows then they don't even need to worry about crop size," Beuerlein says.
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A teenage high school boy from Mcclintock High School wants to be prom queen.
River Flannery is not gay, but has reasons why he wants to run as prom queen.
He says he is standing up for people who are unable to do so for themselves. He hopes that this would be an inspiration for them. He is referring to homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgender students.
The School administrators said rules are rules. Students vote for girls for prom queen and vote for boys for prom king.
River says he received the most votes, but was disqualified by school administrators.
According to Linda Littell from the Tempe school District, if the old rules were to be challenged, it should have been addressed beforehand which it wasn't.
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Deputies said they seized 201 plants that were growing on a two-acre property in the 100 block of Horseshoe Trail. Investigators said the plants ranged in height from 4 feet to 10 feet.
The sheriff's department said investigators saw 36 marijuana plants growing in the mobile home's front yard when they came to interview the homeowner.
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SAN DIEGO - Clinton Hart knocked down Tyler Thigpen's 2-point conversion pass with 23 seconds left and the Chargers held on to beat the scrappy Chiefs 20-19 on Sunday.
The Chiefs pulled within one on Thigpen's 3-yard pass to tight end Tony Gonzalez. The Chiefs (1-9) went for the win, but Thigpen's pass to Gonzalez was deflected by Hart to cornerback Quentin Jammer, who made the interception while on the ground.
The Chargers (4-5) were booed off the field Sunday while trailing 13-6 at halftime, but rallied behind Philip Rivers in the second half. Rivers threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Malcom Floyd to tie the game late in the third quarter, then hit star tight end Antonio Gates on a go-ahead, 8-yard score with just less than 7 minutes left. Rivers completed 27 of 36 passes for 316 yards.
► Giants 36, Eagles 31: At Philadelphia, Eli Manning threw two touchdown passes, Brandon Jacobs had two TD runs and the Giants held on to beat Philadelphia and further distance themselves from the pack in the NFL's toughest division.
► Titans 21, Bears 14: At Chicago, Kerry Collins threw for 289 yards and two touchdowns, and Tennessee beat Chicago to remain undefeated despite rushing for just 20 yards.
That was just one more than their franchise-low, a stunning performance for a team that was third in the league entering the game.
► Colts 24, Steelers 20: At Pittsburgh, Peyton Manning took advantage of Ben Roethlisberger's second costly interception to find Dominic Rhodes out of the backfield on a 17-yard touchdown pass with 3:04 remaining for Indianapolis' only lead.
Manning also hit Reggie Wayne on a 65-yard touchdown pass play on a tipped ball and Dallas Clark on a 2-yard scoring pass seconds before halftime following an unnecessary interception by Roethlisberger to end the Colts' 40-year losing streak in Pittsburgh.
► Panthers 17, Raiders 6: At Oakland, Calif., even the worst game of Jake Delhomme's career proved to be enough to beat the lowly Raiders. Delhomme threw a touchdown pass on the opening drive before matching his career-worst performance with four interceptions.
► Vikings 28, Packers 27: At Minneapolis, ending the Vikings' five-game losing streak to the Packers, Adrian Peterson rushed for 192 yards and reached across the end zone with 2:22 left for the winning TD.
► Dolphins 21, Seahawks 19: At Miami, the Dolphins' Wildcat formation, shut out in the past three games, produced scores on a 51-yard run by Ricky Williams and a 16-yard run by Ronnie Brown. Ted Ginn Jr. scored his first touchdown this season when he made a fingertip catch in the end zone of a 39-yard pass from Chad Pennington on a flea-flicker.
► Patriots 20, Bills 10: At Foxborough, Mass, Patriots rookie runner BenJarvus Green-Ellis rushed for 105 yards, Matt Cassel threw for 234 and the free-falling Bills had another bad game.
► Jets 47, Rams 3: At East Rutherford, N.J., Thomas Jones had three touchdown runs, Jay Feely kicked four field goals - including a franchise record-tying 55-yarder - and the Jets converted five turnovers into 27 points for the largest margin of victory in team history.
► Jaguars 38, Lions 14: At Detroit, Maurice Jones-Drew ran for a career-high three touchdowns in the second quarter alone after Detroit took the lead and David Garrard threw two touchdown passes in the second half.
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Some photos of my NOS 18038
July 2 2012 at 6:31 AM
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My new watch says hallo - and welcome summer.
With summer coming - very soon I hope, here are some photos of my new watch in different situations.
Was in summerhouse this weekend and the weather was so so - not very good - but not very bad either. But just to have the chance to get away from the job and spend some time with the kids was perfect.
Did wear the new watch all weekend - my new baby - the rolex day-date. And it did work well with the flip-flops and shorts and general a relaxed attitude.
On the way to the beach and on the beach - it was a pleasant feeling to wear this watch.
The president bracelet is very nice to wear - and the felling of the watch on the wrist was the same or better than my dweller.
But enough talk her are some photos from the weekend of my NOS 1979 - 18038 Rolex day date.
All I can say is that I really like the blue dial - it gives the watch different looks dependent on the way the light hits it.
Jan J
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You would like to try blue and gold Sub
- simon on Jul 2, 2012, 7:54 AM
Very cool watch Jan--- sporty in a high class way--keep enjoying
- Lou on Jul 2, 2012, 7:59 AM
Beautiful Dial!!
- JeremyKS (Louisiana) on Jul 2, 2012, 8:31 AM
handsome piece
- rony on Jul 2, 2012, 6:11 PM
great pics of a stunner!
- Karl on Jul 3, 2012, 1:50 AM
Really nice pics. Congrats to finding a great example. nt
- Jeff on Jul 3, 2012, 8:27 AM
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OK, so i ripped the game and make made a backup on my HDD to play it from there, but when i tried to load the game it gives my a black screen between the EA games logo and the intro.I tested it with with ios 249 and 223 which both came back with almost the same result. the only difference was that when i used ios 223 the light on my dvd reader kept going on and off. (i tried this with cfg and usbloadergx with same results)
So after that i tried to burn it on a disc. i loaded in the disk and it got to the menu but than it gave the error: can't read disc. After resetting the console my console didn't want to read the disk anymore (neither would neogamma or uloader).
so i've tried pretty much now. I did the MMM upload thing in the help section without result.
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We can't necessarily prove it. But Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley's opening monologue did include a song riffing on Kim Kardashian's failed marriage to Kris Humphries. So why should it be such a stretch that the nominees and presenters all decided to wear white in honor of the reality-TV newlywed/soon-to-be divorcée?


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New program helps fill community need
She�s hooking up donations of clothes and linens�bedding, mattress pads, towels and washcloths�to local programs serving people in need.
�My goal is to get things where they need to go,�� Valley said.
She�s already working with the leaders at the YWCA of Rock County, GIFTS homeless shelter for men, Pregnancy Helpline of Janesville, House of Mercy homeless center and Acts of Kindness, a charitable organization. She�s done most of the work on her own time.
Valley is a member of the police department�s new domestic violence intervention team and makes contact with many people and agencies, including the YWCA and its advocates. While recently touring the Y�s alternatives to violence shelter for battered women and their children, Valley saw an obvious need.
�They have a lot of soaps and hygiene products, but they didn�t have the towels they needed,�� she said.
After leaving the Y, Valley knew there had to be a way to fill this need. That�s when she recalled a talk show about a woman in a much bigger city who had contacted hotels and motels to see what they do with the linens they weren�t using anymore. Valley began doing the same here.
�Once I started calling, I found most really weren�t doing anything with this stuff,�� she said.
Valley quickly set up a program to pick up or have linens delivered so she can distribute them between the organizations at no cost.
Last week, from the Best Western hotel she received a vanload of items, including 50 blankets, 50 mattress pads, 60 sets of pillowcases, 70 sets of sheets plus towels and washcloths. She distributed them the same day.
Paul Benish from GIFTS filled up his vehicle with everything he could fit into it, the YWCA filled the bed of an S-10 pickup truck and the rest was delivered to Acts of Kindness, Valley said.
�I want to get maternity, baby items and things like that for the Pregnancy Helpline,�� she said.
Valley also knows clothes for adults and furniture are needed. That�s why she�s placed an advertisement next to rummage sale ads in local publications so people know how to contact her instead of throwing away what doesn�t sell.
�I can be the link to hook them up to where it needs to go,�� Valley said.
�It bothers me that people are not getting items they need and other items are being tossed. There had to be a way to connect these two together,�� she said.
�I see a need, and I see a way,� she said. �It�s not going to fill the need, but it�s going to assist people who need it instead of tossing these items out.��
Contact any of the following agencies:
-- YWCA of Rock County�1735 S. Washington St., Janesville, which offers programs in Alternatives to Violence, Transitional Living, Hispanic Outreach, CARE House and child care through it�s mission of creating a world of peace, racial justice, dignity, freedom and equality for all.
Contact Marilyn Lensert-Harris, anti-violence program director, at (608) 752-5445, Ext. 212.
-- GIFTS�God is Faithful Temporary Shelter is a men�s homeless shelter that rotates from church to church in Janesville, one week at a time October through April.
Contact Paul Benish at (608) 751-7848, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call the GIFTS Hotline at (608) 728-0140.
-- Pregnancy Helpline of Janesville�This 21 S. Jackson St., Suite C, agency, operates a 24-hour hotline and assists those who find themselves in this difficult position by providing a caring, confidential environment where clients can explore creative alternatives to problems associated with pregnancy.
Contact CARE Executive Director Barbara Niedermeier, at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (608) 755-9739.
-- House of Mercy�This 25-bed homeless center, 320 Lincoln St., Janesville, provides homeless families throughout southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois with short-term emergency shelter and access to housing, job placement and child care resources. Center staff assist the homeless in assessing their needs, obtaining appropriate referrals and services and designing an action plan aimed at achieving more stable housing.
Call (608) 754-0045.
-- AOK�Acts of Kindness is a charitable organization that distributes donated items to people at no cost from a donated building on Janesville�s near south side.
Contact Shelly Danks, founder, at (608) 728-0841, schedule an appointment or drop off items between 1 and 5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays.
-- Contact Laurie Valley at (608) 921-2998.
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I have a two year old Advent laptop, running Windows 7, which until recently has performed faultlessly. The problem I have now is that the DVD drive suddenly stopped working. When I click on the drive in Windows Explorer it says that Windows cannot load the driver and mentions 'Code 39'. Following earlier advice in your column I tried a cleaning disc and managed to work out how to uninstall and update the driver from Device Manager but it still refuses to work. Any ideas?
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Well done for eliminating the two commonest causes of CD/DVD problems, however the Code 39 error message points to a fairly specific, and surprisingly common Registry glitch but it is easily rectified. The Windows Registry is a vast collection of System files, responsible for configuring a PC's hardware and software, so please don't try this if you are a complete novice, nervous, or very unlucky with computers.
First create a System Restore point (Start > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore) then go to Search or Run on the Start menu and type 'regedit'. This opens the Registry Editor, navigate to the following Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
In the right hand pane look for entries labelled UpperFilters and LowerFilters, plus any with .bak extensions. Right click on each one in turn and click Delete. Close Regedit, reboot and hopefully the DVD drive will be working once again, though you may find that some programs that use the drive may have to be reinstalled.


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The Congress on Monday dismissed as baseless and unfounded the claims in the latest tranche of US cables made public by WikiLeaks that former PM Rajiv Gandhi may have been a middleman for an arms deal in 1970s even as the BJP asked the government to come clean. HT reports. WikiLeaks' latestdelhi Updated: Apr 09, 2013 02:55 IST
The Congress on Monday dismissed as baseless and unfounded the claims in the latest tranche of US cables made public by WikiLeaks that former PM Rajiv Gandhi may have been a middleman for an arms deal in 1970s even as the BJP asked the government to come clean.
Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi referred to the last line in that particular cable to emphasise that there was no basis to the allegations and accused Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website, of "spreading lies and falsehoods".
On Monday, The Hindu, citing US embassy cables from 1975, said, Gandhi, much before he was the prime minister, was the "main Indian negotiator" for Swedish aircraft major Saab-Scania which was trying to sell Viggen fighter aircraft to India for which his "family" connections were seen as valuable.
"Having noted what the Swedes had said the cable makes the comment that there was no additional information to either refute or confirm the information…The foundation of the whole story falls flat here," Dwivedi said.
The cable dated October 21, 1975 says the "Swedish embassy official has informed us that main negotiator with Swedes on Viggen (a fighter aircraft) at New Delhi end has been Mrs Gandhi's older son, Rajiv Gandhi.
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Latter's only association with aircraft industry (to our knowledge) has been as pilot for Indian airlines and this is first time we heard his name as an entrepreneur." Indira Gandhi was the PM at that time and Rajiv was yet to join politics.
The BJP said the revelations were serious. "The nation has a right to know the truth. These are 30 years old documents which point out to a possible connection of late prime minister Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi in different defence acquisitions," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
But Dwivedi hit back, saying the opposition party should think where it was taking the politics to and reminded it of another cable, which spoke of a senior NDA leader asking for money from CIA — an apparent reference to former defence minister George Fernandes.
He said the credentials of WikiLeaks were yet to be verified. Urging the media not to "fall for temporary gains", Dwivedi said "We are very hurt with the news".


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Cowboys' safety Gerald Sensabaugh wasn't seen at practice on Tuesday, as he continues to recover from a sprained foot suffered in the victory over the Redskins on Sunday, but he still has designs on playing in the team's Thanksgiving Day game against Miami this Sunday at Cowboys Stadium.
Sensabaugh has reportedly been wearing a protective boot on the foot this week at Valley Ranch, but the veteran safety isn't all that concerned about the injury.
"I'm alright," he said this week, per the Dallas Morning News.
Asked if he would play on Thanksgiving Day, he said, "I plan on it."
Head coach Jason Garrett said wouldn't be surprised if Sensabaugh played through the foot injury, citing the veteran safety's history of playing through any number of ailments in his time with Dallas.
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Government yesterday presented a bill on the re-denomination of the Kwacha to Parliament.
Minister of Finance Alexander Chikwanda presented the Bill, which aims to re-denominate the existing currency.
Chikwanda said the bill aims to put in place an effective date of application of the re-denominated currency and circulation of the existing and re-denominated currency.
The other objectives of the bill are the display of prices, both in the existing and re-denominated currency during the effective period.
The bill also aims to address the treatment of debt obligations and rounding off rules and technological adaption connected with the re-denominated currency.
Clerk of the National Assembly Doris Mwiinga presented the Bill for first reading.
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HAWTHORNE — Despite rising test scores and successful reforms of its middle schools, the candidates running for Hawthorne school board see room for improvement.
The five-person field of candidates running to fill three board vacancies are Eugene Krank, the current board president seeking his second term; Luciano Aguilar, who was appointed to fill a seat left vacant in 2011 and now is seeking his first full term; Yaquelin Amador, a former teaching assistant in the district running for the first time; Sergio Mortara, a grocery store owner; and Patricia McCorvey. All five candidates have or had children who attended schools in the district.
McCorvey could not be reached for comment.
While Hawthorne was among Southern California districts that notched improvements on the most recent student proficiency exams, the candidates all agree that more progress must be made. Hawthorne, which serves 6,500 students at seven elementary schools, three middle schools and a charter high school, is still outperformed by many of its neighboring school districts.
"I know that financially the parents in Hawthorne don't make as much as those in other cities, but there doesn't have to be such a huge gap," Mortara said. "If we were to eventually get these engineers to live in the community and put their children in schools in the community, we must improve the schools."
Being overshadowed by districts like Torrance, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach, where academic performance ranks among the best in the state, is nothing new to Hawthorne School District officials.
"When I got on the board, one of the issues at the time was enrollment. A lot of people might think Hawthorne wasn't the best place to send their kids. In middle school, people started fleeing," Krank said. "We needed to do something to create more pride in the schools."
Hawthorne, however, ranks favorably compared with other school districts in blue-collar communities. But working-class Hawthorne is surrounded by affluent communities that are often more attractive places for families to settle, Mortara said.
Realizing that the schools in Hawthorne had to become more competitive, the district reconfigured its three middle schools in 2011, converting them to magnet campuses. Prairie Vista focuses on the performing arts, Hawthorne Middle prepares students for careers in business and Bud Carson offers the increasingly popular science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, curriculum.
The middle schools have succeeded by flying in the face of current education trends. Hawthorne ditched the double blocks of math and English many district employ to prepare students for standardized exams measuring proficiency in those subjects. Instead, the district replaced that emphasis with more elective subjects, and middle school test scores have risen since.
But improvement in a school district is about more than radical reforms. To sustain success the candidates, all believe Hawthorne must add more staff to its ranks, a process that is underway.
"We have been hiring more teachers, but I would like to bring in more support staff with teachers aides and classified employees," Amador said.
All running for the board say the ingredient most important to the long-term success of the Hawthorne School District is the parents. And all agree that the district must develop strategies to improve parental involvement.
"The primary thing was to get the public and parents to have a more active and personal role in the district," Krank said. "I feel that school districts are not always the most inviting places for parents. Parents and schools often spend too much time blaming each other for what's happening to the children when both sides need to work together."
Aguilar said that some parents feel intimidated by the authority vested in board members and don't dare to challenge the district on issues affecting their children.
"When you're a parent, sometimes you get overlooked," Aguilar said. "We have to continue to make the board more approachable or parents won't want to get involved."


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An alleged road rage incident Tuesday in Southern California involved two men, a woman, a machete, a baseball bat and a soft drink, police said.
Hong Ki Yoon, 51, of San Gabriel and Jose Enrique Guido, 34, of Montebello were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, Alhambra police Sgt. Gerald Johnson said.
Christina Estrada, 29, of Montebello was arrested for battery on a police officer, resisting an officer, and throwing a beverage at a car, Johnson said.
Yoon and Guido were driving from Montebello into Monterey Park when one of the drivers cut the other off.
"The two drivers started saying things to each other and cutting each other off," Johnson said. "… The female passenger in Guido's car took a cup of soda and threw it at Yoon's car."
When both drivers stopped and got out of their vehicles, "Yoon had a baseball bat and Guido had a machete and they exchanged words," Johnson said.
Officers immediately responded to the incident.
Estrada fought with officers while Yoon and Guido both surrendered peacefully.
Guido is being held in lieu of $82,000 bail which includes outstanding warrants for petty theft and driving without a driver's license.
Yoon is being held in lieu of $30,000 bail and Estrada on $20,000 bail.


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California Pizza Kitchen Inc , a leading casual dining restaurant chain, reported first quarter 2011 results on May 5, 2011. Earnings per share (EPS) in the reported quarter surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate.
The recent earnings announcement, subsequent analyst estimate revisions and the Zacks ratings for both the short-term and the long-term are covered in depth below.
Earnings Review
California Pizza Kitchen posted first quarter 2011 earnings of 9 cents per share, which were above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 6 cents and the company's guided range of 3 cents to 5 cents per share. However, reported earnings missed the prior-year quarter earnings by a penny.
The better-than-expected results were driven by the menu optimization program, which focuses on higher margin menu items and cost control.
The pizza restaurant chain reported that total revenue for the quarter plunged 0.5% year over year to $156.0 million and was also below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $158.0 million.
Comparable store sales fell 2.1% in the reported quarter, as inclement weather conditions adversely impacted same-restaurant sales growth and restaurant operating margin contracted 80 basis points (bps) to 16.1% due to input cost pressure.
Read our full coverage on this earnings report: CALIFORNIA PIZZA BEATS ESTIMATES
Earnings Estimate Revisions: Overview
Following the first quarter earnings release, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the company has been on the rise, with most of the analysts remaining bullish on the stock. The upside in first quarter results and expectation of better traffic trends and improvement in restaurant margin have bolstered their confidence. The earnings estimate details are discussed below.
Agreement of Analysts
Analysts mostly remain optimistic on California Pizza Kitchen. Revision trends in the last 30 days drifted toward the positive side. For fiscal 2011, 7 out of the 11 analysts covering the stock raised their estimates while for fiscal 2012, 6 out of the 10 analysts increased their estimates. Only two analysts slashed their estimates for both 2011 and 2012. The revision trend remains identical for the last 7 days also.
Positive revisions by the analysts are based on continous efforts made the company to plug its falling comps by implementing several sales-building programs. Additionally, to drive traffic, California Pizza Kitchen intends to roll out new menu offerings in June with a new look and nine new items.
The highlight of the menu will be natural chicken and turkey, gluten-free pizza crust, etc. Moreover, to drive traffic, aggressive marketing is planned particularly for the third quarter of 2011 to support the new menu launch as well as mitigate the drag of the thank-you card program last year, which has historically been a significant comp driver.
The company witnessed a drop of 3.1% in comps for the month of April, mostly due to the unfavorable impact of the Easter shift. However, California Pizza Kitchen expects comps to be up 3% for the remaining two months of the second quarter of 2011 aided by earlier promotion of the thank-you card program. Management projects comparable store sales between 0% and positive 1.0% for second quarter 2011.
The company also continues to expand its restaurant margin by using its integrated information system, including point-of-sale system, an inventory usage analysis system, labor-scheduling system and theoretical food cost system. To further enhance margin and reduce cost, the company also rolled out a menu optimization program, which targets to eliminate 14 lower-selling and labor-intensive items from the menu, and create a more efficient and cost-effective back-of-the-house operation.
Through this program, the company expects to save approximately $6 million annually. Management also plans to utilize 0.7% of pricing in the new menu to mitigate the commodity cost inflation. To further enhance profit, California Pizza Kitchen is currently pruning its several underperforming units from its existing base of restaurants. Additionally, California Pizza Kitchen's transition to Nestle is complete with royalties from the licensing agreement increasing 0.8% in the first quarter.
The company also remains focused on accelerating its growth in 2011 and 2012, through franchising in the international market. The company's international franchisees expect to open a minimum of 10 restaurants in 2011.
However, for the second quarter of 2011, the analysts remain slightly negative with 5 out of the 11 analysts reducing their estimates while 4 moved in the opposite direction.
The analysts remain cautious due to cost inflation, which will lower the magnitude of the margin rebound. The company expects commodities cost inflation in the range of 3% to 3.5% for 2011, up from the previous expectation of 2.5%.
Magnitude of Estimate Revisions
Following the release of the first quarter results, estimates for both fiscal 2011 and 2012 have jumped by 2 cents to 73 cents and 86 cents, respectively, over the last 30 days. However, for the second quarter, estimates remain unchanged at 21 cents in the last 30 days.
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California Pizza Kitchen has implemented several sales-building programs to revive its top-line growth and falling comparable store sales. The company also intends to focus on operational efficiencies in order to drive restaurant margins. The financial condition of the company is also sound with a debt free balance sheet.
We remain cautious on the stock as comparable store sales and traffic have slumped, given that budget-constrained consumers are trading down to lower-priced dining options. Moreover, the company is experiencing stiff competition from other casual dining restaurants and cost escalation is expected to keep margins under pressure in the upcoming quarters.
Accordingly, we keep our conservative view on California Pizza Kitchen shares and have a Zacks #3 Rank (short-term Hold recommendation). Our long-term recommendation for the stock remains at Neutral.
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Aaah, the busy season. Pick-ups and deliveries manage to hit the loading dock at once. Here the flamingoes await a tall enough van, rocking in the gusty air, while the oyster shuckers show up with 4000 oysters and clams, and in the other bay my delivery of 25 cases of prosecco are about to be unloaded.


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Howard Hartzell speaks to the recipients of the 2012 Michael T. Hartzell Memorial Scholarship at a luncheon at Youngstown State University's DeBartolo Stadium Club. He was joined Tuesday at the rostrum with his wife, Mary Kay. The scholarship is named after their son, a Youngstown police officer killed in the line of duty in April 2003.
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Release Date: March 6, 2012
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Students raise money for Lung Association
Columbus State's Respiratory Care students are "taking it to the streets" – supporting the American Lung Association's Fight for Air run/walk on Sept. 29.
The Respiratory Care program has a long history of community service, says student organizer Karreen Lane, and about a dozen Respiratory Care students will participate.
You can help in two ways:
- Participate in the Run/Walk by registering online at: FightForAirColumbus.org- Choose "Join a team" or you can join individually with friends or family. The team name is "CSCC RT's Lead the Way."
- Donate online at FightForAirColumbus.org: 1. Click- on "Join a Team" 2. Enter- "CSCC RT's Lead the Way" for the Team Name 3. Hit- Search for a Team 4. Select- "CSCC RT's Lead the Way" 5. Select- "Support CSCC RT's Lead theWay" or "Make a gift," and you will be on your way to saving lives and supporting your community!
The Fight for Air will take place at Bicentennial Park in downtown Columbus and includes 5k and 1-mile options. Proceeds benefit research into lung disease, smoking cessation programs, asthma treatment and air-quality advocacy.
The Respiratory Care program trains students to become licensed as Respiratory Care Professionals as required by the Ohio Respiratory Care Board. Lane, 25, said she was inspired to study the program because her grandfather died of lung disease, and her niece is afflicted with asthma.
Asthma is the No. 1 cause of school absenteeism, according to the American Lung Association, and 10 Americans die each day from an asthma attack. Lung cancer is another leading cause of death, and smoking is still too common among young people.


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Ingredients: water, CHEESE, CREAM, skimmed MILK powder, BUTTER, emulsifying salts (E 339, E 450, E 452).
100 g of product contains in average:
- energy value 236 kcal
- fat, of which 18 g
- — saturates 12 g
- carbohydrate, of which 5,1 g
- — sugars 5,1 g
- proteins 13 g
- salt 0,80 g
One portion (10 g) contains:
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- fat, of which 1,80 g 3%
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French video game publisher Ubisoft reported today that it shipped more than 13 million dance games and 7 million copies of Assassin's Creed Revelations during its third fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31.
For the quarter, revenue was 652 million euros, or $878.9 million, up 8.8 percent from 600 million euros a year earlier. Ubisoft is the third-largest video game publisher in the U.S., and it has the clout to create and market giant titles such as Just Dance and Assassin's Creed and get them in front of a lot of gamers.
The company shipped more than 13 million dance titles in the quarter and estimates that it has about 70 percent share of the worldwide market in this segment, which has effectively replaced the guitar game market in the music game genre. Just Dance 3 on the Wii and the Xbox 360 with Kinect led the growth.
Assassin's Creed revelations shipped 7 million units. Ubisoft reports sell-in numbers, which means the units have shipped to retailers but have not yet been purchased by gamers.
Ubisoft said its online segment saw a 159 percent increase, driven by Settlers Online and Howrse. The company estimated it has 8.6 percent of the console game market in 2011, compared to 8.1 percent in 2010.
Yves Guillemot, chief executive of the Paris-based company, said in a statement that the company has focused on creating brands for both core and casual markets. That has helped it grow market share in consoles and online.
"In fiscal year 2012-2013, we will start to capitalize on the large-scale investments we have undertaken more than three years ago," he said.
Ubisoft is aiming for a comeback in shooters, led by titles such as Ghost Recon Future Soldier. He said he is also focusing on opportunities related to next-generation consoles.
For the fourth fiscal quarter, Ubisoft expects sales of 150 million euros to 180 million euros. For the full year, the company expects sales of 1.05 billion to 1.08 billion euros and operating income of 45 million to 65 million euros.
In the fourth fiscal quarter, Ubisoft is releasing five games for the PlayStation Vita, including Asphalt: Injection, Dungeon Hunter Alliance, Lumines Electronic Symphony, Michael Jackson The Experience, and Rayman Origins. Ubisoft also has a dozen titles coming for online markets such as the iPhone, Facebook, Xbox Live Arcade, and the PlayStation Network. But the console release schedule is light for the quarter.


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Costco shareholders fail in bid to shake up governance rules
.A proposal to have Costco Wholesale's directors run for election every year instead of serving staggered three-year terms won a majority of shares voted but fell short of the number needed to shake up the warehouse retailer's governance.
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A proposal to have Costco Wholesale's directors run for election every year instead of serving staggered three-year terms fell short of the vote needed to shake up the warehouse retailer's governance, according to a securities filing Friday.
The proposal garnered the support of 56 percent of shares voted at Costco's shareholder meeting on Thursday. But that was only 47 percent of Costco's outstanding shares, far from the two-thirds required to pass because it involves amending the company's articles of incorporation.
Another measure, asking the board of directors to change the company's rules so only a simple majority vote is needed to decide all sorts of issues, won 54 percent of the shares voted, so Costco considers it approved.
But before changes are made, Costco's board would have to offer such an amendment to the shareholders and get at least two-thirds of outstanding shares on board. On Thursday, the proposal only garnered the support of 46 percent of outstanding shares.
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Red Sox give Manny first breather
Slugger sits for first time this season; Varitek out with flu
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
This, even though Ramirez had an abbreviated day at the office on Sunday, when he was ejected arguing strike three in his first at-bat.
"Yeah, I thought about it," Francona said. "If it's supposed to be a day off, it's supposed to be a day off. It's an 11 o'clock start. He's been tremendous. Sometimes you try to reach one day too far and you set somebody back. I wasn't going to do that. I know what happened yesterday and all that. We've got a pretty good thing going right now [with Ramirez]. This will be good for him."
Because outfielder Coco Crisp is still unavailable with hamstring woes, Joe Thurston got the start in left. It marked the sixth straight game Crisp was out of action.
"He's still not there," Francona said of Crisp. "I checked with him this morning and he's closer. But he's not ready so we're not going to do something we're not supposed to do."
On the other hand, this was not a scheduled day off for catcher and captain Jason Varitek. The veteran has been hit with an extreme case of the flu the last couple of days. Kevin Cash started in his place.
"I've not seen him yet this morning. It wasn't pretty [on Sunday]," Francona said. "I don't think he's going to show up looking real chipper. It's affecting guys in different ways. Some of the guys are getting the head congestion, some guys are getting the nausea, and some guys are getting the aches and pains. It's hitting everyone different."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Managing e-discovery is complex enough in English, with cases such as Victor Stanley Inc. v. Creative Pipe Inc. emphasizing the dangers of failing to maintain and document defensible production methods. When a matter involves global business with electronically stored information (ESI) in multiple languages, the problems multiply. In-house counsel involved in multinational e-discovery must deal with a host of technical issues as well as legal complications in foreign jurisdictions.
E-discovery companies are scrambling to present solutions, establish overseas operations to meet demand and develop technologies to enable collection, processing, review and production of multilingual data as the need becomes more pressing. Multilingual e-discovery is even developing its own jargon, including LOTE to refer collectively to "languages other than English," and CJK to refer to Chinese, Japanese and Korean–languages with special characters that offer unique challenges.
"Foreign-language documents have become an integral part of the e-discovery landscape," says attorney John Tredennick, CEO of Catalyst Repository Systems Inc., which provides secure data repositories. Tredennick estimates that more than 50 percent of the data his company processes now involves LOTE. "But treating foreign-language ESI as if it is just another component of the discovery process can get you in real trouble."
Tredennick says improper collection of data in the EU can land you in jail. "Likewise, processing Chinese or Japanese e-mail using software not built for CJK languages will result in gibberish and a potential data spoliation claim," he adds.
Tower of Babel
To appreciate the technical issues in multilingual e-discovery, the first step is to learn how computers recognize different language structures. The relatively small collection of letters, special characters and punctuation marks included in Indo-European languages such as Spanish, French and German make computer processing relatively simple. On the other hand, the pictorial CJK languages have tens of thousands of often-overlapping characters with no spaces or punctuation between words. Languages such as Hebrew and Arabic that read right to left pose other issues.
Until recently, there was no global standard for coding languages so that they can be recognized by computers. The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed just
256 bytes or slots for letters, numbers, special characters and punctuation marks for each language. This was sufficient for English and Western European languages but inadequate for many others. Cross reference tables known as code pages, developed to allow ASCII-based computers to recognize more languages, are still used to store legacy data today. But because there is no universal set of code pages for all computers, code pages on one computer may be unreadable on another.
Fortunately, within the past decade computer hardware and software makers have adopted a global standard known as Unicode Transformation Format (UTF). UTF has the capacity to support more than 1.1 million characters, well beyond the 100,000 or so characters currently in use around the world.
But enough systems with code pages still exist that it's important to determine whether all data that needs to be reviewed is maintained in UTF. If any of it remains stored on systems using code pages, the e-discovery processing system must be able to support both legacy code pages and UTF. The system also must be able to identify the beginnings and ends of words and sentences in CJK languages. Some search engines can separate overlapping words and phrases by their context–a process known as tokenization.
Cross-Border Complications
The first stage of e-discovery–collection of the potentially discoverable ESI–is complicated by privacy laws. For example, the EU has strict privacy laws limiting the transfer of personal information across borders. But the EU and the U.S. have a "safe harbor" agreement allowing companies to transfer personal data out of the EU if they certify that they will provide adequate privacy protection. One solution is Web-enabled software that allows document collections hosted in one country to be securely accessed by legal teams elsewhere.
"The documents can be read online but they always remain stored on servers in the country of origin without being transferred, cached or downloaded to computers outside those countries." says Ian Campbell, COO of iCONECT, a litigation support software developer.
In addition to ensuring that your e-discovery collection team is safe harbor-certified, work flow and technical data formats should be reviewed so the data ultimately processed is not corrupted because of the collection tools used.
"When data is collected improperly, there often will be no way to salvage it when it comes time to process and review it, or if there is, the process can be extremely difficult and costly," says Greg Neustaetter, senior product manager at Stratify, an e-discovery vendor.
Man vs. Machine
Once collection is completed, e-discovery specialists suggest identifying all the languages contained in the potentially discoverable data to ensure the appropriate software is used to sort and process it.
"E-discovery filtering and processing is the systematic way of reducing a data set, converting the documents to a standard file format and gathering the metadata and extracted text for review," says Michelle Lange, director of e-discovery at Kroll Ontrack.
Translation software is a cost-effective first step in processing, particularly where there is a large volume of data. Though not as accurate as human translation, the software is good enough to sort which e-mails discuss lunch plans and which go to the heart of the litigation.
"Compare $15 per page for human translation to 15 cents using translation software, and the difference in expense can be staggering," says Tredennick.
After machine translation is used to eliminate irrelevant documents, human translators should take over to guarantee an accurate translation if English-speaking attorneys are viewing the remaining documents. Alternatively, attorneys with an understanding of the relevant languages and cultures may review the documents.
"It is important to select a human processing team familiar with a country's practices and cultural differences when doing e-discovery review outside the U.S.," says David Chaumette, a partner at Baker & McKenzie. The use of idiom and colloquialism in e-mails and text messages requires a review team familiar with the unique practices in each country, Chaumette adds.