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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/30/review_evesham_core_duo-solar_storm/
Evesham Solar Storm Windows Vista PC
Evesham ships its latest Core 2 Duo rig. Guess what, it runs Vista
Posted in Personal Tech, 30th January 2007 14:38 GMT
Review By current standards the Solar Storm is very conventional and uses a Core 2 Duo processor, as Intel's silicon offers both superb dual-core performance as well as value for money. In this case it's an E6400 model that runs at 2.13GHz on a 1,066MHz FSB. There are two 512MB PC2-5300U modules to give 1GB of dual-channel memory, and a Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H motherboard to tie it all together.
As the name suggests, this is an Intel P965-based mobo, so it fully supports the Core 2 Duo as well as the Core 2 Quad, which is handy when upgrade time comes around. On the I/O panel there are four USB 2.0 ports, one Firewire, eSATA and Gigabit Ethernet, as well as five 3.5mm sockets and optical output for the integrated HD audio. You'll also find parallel and serial legacy ports and two PS/2 connectors.
On the front of the case there are two more USB ports, one Firewire and sockets for headphones and a microphone. Evesham has installed a Winfast 7900GS graphics card with 256MB of memory and a Hauppauge Hybrid Nova-DT TV Tuner Card which has a single RF input for a TV antenna. In this package Evesham supplies a Microsoft Media Center Edition remote control and USB receiver.
There's still plenty of expansion room on the Foxconn motherboard as it has one PCI Express x1 slot, one PCI Express x4 slot and two old-style PCI slots available for use, although one of the PCI slots is hard up against the graphics card's cooling fan and is probably best left unpopulated. The hard drive is a Western Digital SATA unit with 320GB of space and there's room in the case for three more drives as Evesham hasn't included a floppy. The ICH8R South Bridge chips supports six SATA connections with RAID so you have plenty of options if you fancy increasing your storage capacity at a later date.
You get two Sony optical drives in the shape of a 16x DVD-ROM and an 18x dual-layer DVD writer. That leaves plenty of space inside the black and silver Chenbro ATX case and based on our experience with the Core 2 Duo we'd be happy that it would remain cool, calm and collected with a minimal supply of cooling air. But Evesham has taken a more cautious approach. In addition to the Intel heatsink, which is beefy enough to keep the processor under control and to also move air across the passive cooler on the North Bridge chip, there's a 120mm fan at the rear of the case, and a duct in the side of the case to pull air in through a perforated panel. Add in the fan in the power supply and the fan on the graphics card, and there's a moderate level of background noise. That's not to say that the Solar Storm is raucous - it's not - but we'd prefer an unperforated case and would consider unplugging the case fan.
The Solar Storm is based on a reasonable set of specifications so it's no surprise that the Evesham achieved a PCMark05 score of 5,718 marks. To put that in context, a high spec Core 2 Duo PC typically achieves a PCMark05 score of 6,500-7,000 marks while a GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card scores 11,000 marks in the graphics part of the test. In short, the Solar Storm is a strong performer without being exceptional.
Turning to the peripherals, we were unimpressed by the Creative I-Trigue 3220 2.1 speakers as the satellites stand on a tiny base that causes them to wobble alarmingly. However, they sound fine and dandy. We found the widescreen 20in Viewsonic VG2030WM was a pleasure to use at its native resolution of 1,680 x 1,050, and the combination of height adjustment and tilt makes it simple to set up.
The screen has both VGA and DVI inputs, and as the Winfast 7900GS has dual-DVI outputs the choice of connection wasn't a difficult decision. In one respect we were a trifle bemused by the choice of TFT as the large lower bezel houses integrated speakers on this model which is obviously an irrelevance when you have the Creative speakers.
As for the wireless Logitech mouse and keyboard, they work well enough but they're very basic models and bring nothing to the Vista party. We can't help but feel that a high-end Logitech VX mouse might have been a better choice to show off the Aero flip interface, but of course that would raise the price past the critical £999 point.
Ah yes, Windows Vista.
This is the first Vista PC we've seen up close and personal, although we've given various Beta builds of Vista a run for their money. Windows Vista Home Premium uses the Aero interface so it's loaded with various slick cosmetic bits and pieces and it was a pleasure to use a new version of Windows that didn't hammer the hardware to within an inch of its life. Unfortunately we couldn't help noticing the odd glitch here and there.
For instance, at start-up Windows Defender blocked a number of programs - including the control panel for the Realtek HD audio and Evesham's preferred anti-virus software, BullGuard. You can train Windows Defender like any other firewall and malware filter, but in this case the Allow button was greyed out. We also found that Internet Explorer 7 caused the PC to thrash away for a couple of seconds when we opened the browser, but the worst annoyance is that the hard drive is active almost all of the time.
This is especially clear with the Evesham as it has one bright blue light on the front for power and a second blue light for hard drive activity and the wretched thing was flickering a great deal of the time. Perhaps it's a cunning ploy to persuade Vista users to put their PC to sleep when they have an idle moment as it awakens quite speedily.
Our initial impressions of Windows Vista are unfavourable and that unnecessarily colours our judgement of the Solar Storm. This is unfortunate, as it's a highly capable PC that is suitable for the entire family.


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The Jets played like crap against the Dolphins and should have lost...Yes, I know they won and per Parcells "you are what your record says you are"....But this team is trending downward..
This reminds me of a story one of my uncles used to tell me when I was a kid:
When he was in middle school, the high school kids used to come down their school and beat them up every day. So one day, they pleaded to one of the high school kids that they've gotten their a$$es kicked enough and they couldn't take it anymore. The high school kid then told my uncle and his friends that all they had to do was make it through middle school and high school would be different. So when they finally made it to high school, the high school kid they pleaded to was the first to meet them outside in the parking lot the first day of school. He said, "congrats guys, you've made it, now we don't have to wait until the end of the day and go to your school to kick your @$$es, we can do it all day long now that you're in high school with us."
Moral of the story: Jets fans are my uncle and his friends, and the high school kids represent reality.
Also, I mean really is this supposed to cheer us up? We can beat the lousy teams but should be ok when we lose to good teams, because it should be expected. It's also not just the loss but the way we lost. If we had a nail bitter and just caught a bad break I don't think people would be as upset. However, the loss screams of systematic failures throughout the team, not just a next week adjustment.
I could only imagine if I paid for PSL tickets... I'd be ****ing pissed right now. You can pay for a year in college for the price that some people paid to see that piss poor performance.
We simply don't have the bullets in the gun to realistically contend for a playoff spot. I just don't see it. Sure, could the Jets luck into a Wildcard or something?...of course, but this team, from top to bottom, simply is not the caliber of what the Jets have fielded in the past several years. There is NO speed or playmaking ability on offense. Holmes is hurt, Keller has been hurt, Greene and Powell are quality backup RBs for an NFL team and not starters. Hill is a rookie with great promise but not ready yet. And Sanchez is a good quarterback but he's certainly not great and I don't know if even a great QB could produce major points with the offensive talent we have.
Add to all this the fact that our best defensive player is done for the season and that the old, slow linebackers we had last year are a year older and a step slower this year. The D Line has promise, and I like Wilk, Coples, Ellis, Pouha, etc. but they have only been playing decently and even if that unit hits its potential (which I think tops out at being a Top 5 DLine) it won't be enough to stop capable opponents on every single drive.
We have major injuries and, among the players not hurt, a severe lack of speed and playmaking abilities (where is the attacking defense? what's a sack?). Coaches and players seem demoralized....the injury to Revis was akin to a death in the family for Rex Ryan. Revis was the one piece that held his defensive house of cards together. The only sacks the Jets ever seem to get are coverage sacks and now our ability to cover well has been cut in half. The linebackers in particular will be exposed.
I don't think the Jets are the worst team in football. In fact, their mediocre talent and some decent coaching could keep them a consistent 6 to 9 win team for years to come...but that's not the goal. And to truly compete for a championship the Jets don't have to fill one hole or fix one problem, they probably need at least 5 or 6 new starters (RB, FB, WR, TE, 2 LBs). That is unlikely to happen anytime soon. I don't even have the energy to address the coaching.
It is actually very believable because Jet fans are accustomed to doom and failure. That's what happens over time without a championship. It could be alot worse such as if the fins made that FG to win. That was actually a bad thing that we won because the team figures hey we played like crap and still eeked out a win so we can probably eek another at home against the 49ers NOT!
It's good that they got stomped on and that they are 9 point dogs this week. Maybe the players will realize that you actually have to tackle the guy with the ball instead of just go for a jog with him if you want to win! I am not giving up just yet as the season has just begun.Having a 2-0 div record should give them plenty of incentive to get on track and move forward. I am hoping the weather is as cold as possible mon night and that this team gets a fire lit under their butts. The Jets were within 4 points at halftime sunday if sanchez doesn't mess up in scoring range. Why they weren't running the ball is beyond me. The coaches need to call the plays that will minimize mistakes and they are not doing that. The nightmare of needing to replace Sanchez is quickly becoming a reality as he is regressing instead of improving to the point that something surely has to be done if it continues. Rex needs to get some bawlz and yank his butt when he messes up. It's time for that. Mark has had every opportunity and it is clear he has decision making issues. If they stay with sanchez the only way I see them scoring is if they run a no huddle offense. This having him drop back in the pocket on short yardage situations has got to stop! I get more pissed on the call than anything most of the time. Rex Cmon Man!!!!! Its now or never ! Get these guys playing some football!!!
It seems like most jet fans are not upset about losing to SF and the steelers they were not favored to win either game and it would have been great if they won one of them. They are upset on how they lost and the teams demeanor on the field when they were losing, Then throw in an uninspired effort against the fins and Revis's injury being the proverbial cherry on top, their reactions are to be expected.
Tanny rolled the dice and went for broke building this team the team has gotten old or ineffective at too many positions. Rebuilding gives some fans hope the the present team is not given the fans at this point.
This game was 1996 Jets kinda ugly.

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POMPANO BEACH (AP) -- Authorities searched for clues on Sunday about who killed a Broward County sheriff's deputy while he was working security at a Cadillac dealership.
Deputy Philip Billings, 25, was wearing his police uniform and a bulletproof vest while working the off-duty detail arranged through the sheriff's office, deputies said.
A police dispatcher received a call about shots being fired near the dealership at 12:40 a.m. Sunday. Billings was rushed to North Broward Medical Center, where he died at 4:22 a.m.
Sheriff Ken Jenne would not divulge details about the circumstances surrounding the shooting, and said that investigators were still working on a description of possible suspects. Jenne asked the public to call authorities if they had any information on the shooting.
"We're doing everything we can to find this cold-blooded killer," Jenne said.
Billings, a former missionary in Bolivia, had been had been a sheriff's deputy for 18 months. A reward of up to $25,000 has been offered for information leading to the arrest of the gunman.
Jenne said he was being careful about discussing the case to keep from tainting the investigation.
"I'm not going to have -- six months from now, a year from now, or 10 years from now -- someone saying that they read in the newspaper or saw on TV and that's where the information came from," Jenne said.
The Broward Sheriff's Office has been criticized for its handling of the 1990 shooting of Deputy Patrick Behan. He was shot while sitting in his patrol car writing a report outside a Pembroke Park convenience store.
A judge in March threw out the conviction of a retarded man in the case because, in part, he found fault with the way Broward County sheriff's detectives got Timothy Brown to waive his right to remain silent.
"We have the pressure to get this right, not the pressure to get it done," Jenne said.
Brown and Keith King were teenagers when they were convicted of shooting Behan. The judge issued an order telling the state to retry Brown or free him within 90 days. Brown, now 27, is serving a life sentence. King, who also is retarded, was released after serving nine years for manslaughter.
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Around this time, last year, I posted a photo of myself without make-up. Today, I thought it'd be fun to do so again and invite you all to post your own make-up-less photos on your blogs.
Below: This is me, going off to the brunch mini muffin pajama party, sans make-up.
(For the record, Muttsee's not wearing make-up either.)
Post your own makeup-less photos on your blogs. Bonus points for sweaty post-workout pics like this photo.
This is meant to be fun, but there's an important message behind it: Society expects women to maintain a certain image; to put on make-up, paint our nails, curl our hair, shave our legs, pluck our eyebrows, wear high heels… Did I miss anything? How is this fair when men aren't expected to do any of these things? (Somewhere, my mom is saying: Life's not fair. Get over it.")
There's nothing wrong if you want to wear make-up for you. It's an art form, after all. However, none of us should be made to feel ugly if we choose not to wear make-up. Regardless of what society tries to tell us, women (all women, not just Gisele Bundchen) are beautiful in our natural state. The whole idea of concealer to hide our imperfections is ridiculous. How dare someone else try to tell us what's less-than-perfect about our skin! These so-called "imperfections" are what make us unique.
That's not to say I haven't, at times, fallen victim to society's message. I've griped about my "too pale" skin or the red dot at the top of my nose. (For the record, I named him "Ned the nose dot." I've learned to accept him; he gives my face personality.) And although I often go bare-faced in public—even in front of my friends—there's still no way I'm not wearing make-up on a date!
Do you wear make-up?
Normally, I don't, simply because I'm too busy to put any on. When I do wear it, I mainly stick to blush and mascara. I never wear concealer because I hate the way it feels on my skin.


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One of director Richard Linklater's first films, and his big breakthrough, was 1991's Slacker, a movie about misfit young people in Austin, Texas. Many years and a storied film career later and Linklater finds himself aiming his focus at the youth set once again, but this time he's looking at a decidedly different subset of the country's up and comers. College Republicans is a biopic that follows the college careers of conservative political figures Karl Rove and Lee Atwater. Rove and Atwater are divisive figures to be sure, but even their most vicious critics would have to agree that slackers they are not. This might prove to be a chance for Linklater to change up his dreamy, slow moving storytelling style a bit and do something more kinetic and Social Network-y.
College Republicans, written by Wes Jones, appeared on the 2010 Black List of best unproduced scripts in Hollywood, and it focuses on the meeting of the Republican brain trust of the past few decades, back when they were in college and Rove was running to become president of the College Republicans. It was during this period that they perfected many of the controversial political strategies that would lead to the duo being prominent figures in the Nixon campaign and both Bush administrations.
Despite the fact that Shia LaBeouf was once thought to be attached to this project, now that Linklater has his hands on it, that no longer seems to be the case. Instead, The Wrap is reporting that There Will Be Blood's Paul Dano will now be playing the young Karl Rove. Even as recently as Cowboys and Aliens Dano has been seen adeptly playing contemptible young characters, so he's probably a good choice to play as reviled a figure as Rove. As long as this movie is working under the assumption that Rove is a cheating, manipulative source of evil. Which I'm sure it is, because, you know, Hollywood…liberals. Ah, let's not talk politics on a movie site.


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STOCKS to watch on the Australian stock exchange at close on Friday:
BHP - BHP Billiton - down 29 cents, or 0.79 per cent, at $36.39
Resources giant BHP Billiton says its new US$1.5 billion gas plant will supply 20 per cent of the domestic West Australian market amid hopes of doubling capacity.
FLT - FLIGHT CENTRE - down $1.25, or 2.51 per cent, at $48.55
Flight Centre is altering its name to as Flight Centre Travel Group to highlight that it offers more than airfares.
SYD - SYDNEY AIRPORT - up six cents, or 1.5 per cent, at $4.06
The number of travellers through Sydney Airport rose by 2.4 per cent in August to 3.2 million, with strong growth in visitors from India, China and Malaysia.
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Hmmm. Gives new meaning to the phrase, "I could just eat you up!" I count at least 16 puppies. Can they all actually be from one litter?
HEEEEEYYYYY!!! They DO look like scoops of chocolate chip ice cream! How funny is that! Thanks ktbug.


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Get a couple of drill bits to use as hole or "pin" gauges. A #45 is .0820" and a 5/64" is .078125".
If the #45 won't go into the flash hole but a 5/64" will, they're good for tolerance. If the 5/64" won't go in the hole's too small for specs. Conversley, if the #45 does go in, the hole's too big for specs.
I've made 20-shot test groups comparing factory flash holes that varied about .003" in that range to cases that had them all drilled out to .086" with a #44 drill bit. No difference in accuracy whatsoever.
Therefore, I don't think one needs "exact" flash hole diameters. It's my opinion that anything over .086" will start causing high pressure problems; the powder's going to ignite faster and the peak pressure may well be higher.
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Honoring a young person who died, on the first birthday since he's been gone, is one of those landmark times that only the parent of a lost child can really understand. To those of us who were close to him, his death is still so recent, and hearing or saying the words is somewhat unfathomable. We stumble over phrases like Peter's funeral because … really? His funeral? It doesn't feel right to be saying that. But of course we do, because it did happen, and because we won't ever forget him. We carry on talking about him so no one feels timid about saying his name or bringing up something that they remember of him. If people avoid ever speaking of a loved one gone tragically, I don't think it makes it any easier on the mom or dad or sister; they miss him every day whether we bring him up or not. True, there are times we're hesitant, we tread gingerly, because we don't want to be the one to bring on the tears (although sometimes the tears are cathartic) when they are with us and are, for the moment, thinking of something else and perhaps, even smiling. So we're careful. But let's not be too careful, for we wouldn't ever want them to think that their beautiful boy is receding from our present world, or our thoughts.
It's just plain hard, no matter how you look at it.
And so today is Pete's birthday. Today he would have been nineteen.
He was obviously a great friend to so many – his friends are posting almost every day, still, to his Facebook page. Telling of dreams they've had of him, sharing their memories, or aching with missing him. After four months gone, that says a lot to me about the person he was.
I now think of him as like a fish, squirming, so inherently slippery, and in a flash, he slipped through our fingers despite trying to hold him, to keep him safe; he just wriggled through as a fish will do. Like a flash, too, he swam away. It's what's so stunningly unbelievable about it all.
There has been comfort in many ways, through the grace of God; as his aunt, I am thankful for those gifts. I believe.
I believe he's in Heaven, his soul no longer mortal like ours; his understanding like nothing we can comprehend due to the constraint of our humanity. One day it will be our turn, and I believe that he, and the other souls I loved – my mother, my father-in-law, my grandparents, and even the sister I never knew – will meet us, and that will be something new. It won't be like meeting as humans, with human relationships. Because we still live here, on earth, our minds yearn for that full understanding but our faith tells us it's a mystery. Yet there is so much evidence of this, for those who pray quietly, with faith and trust, and who are still, and open enough to listen for it, to hear it. Yes, I yearn for more, for complete understanding, although I know that will come in the fullness of time.
Does it make the missing of him any easier? Well, we miss him all the time; his parents and sister – they experience the loss on a deep and visceral level that a faraway aunt can't possibly comprehend except through the spiritual gift of empathy. But it's not the same as actually having the breadth of their experience, and so I pray for them daily, and remember Pete daily. On his birthday, and other special occasion days that matter deeply to us as living mortal beings, we want to remember him even more vigorously. I can't be at the special Mass in his honor with his family, so I will be there with my thoughts and prayers. I can't be at the pizza lunch his parents have planned for the family and his friends: which I think is just a wonderful way to remember him, for he was loved by so many. And then they will visit him privately. For this December 11 is Pete's day, and I know that nineteen no longer means to him what it does to us, because he's a soul that's moved beyond needing years…while those of us still here, do.
Until the day comes, when we, too, no longer need our years, we try to be open to what God has in store for us. Whichever way that goes, and whether we like it or not, our free will remains. How will we respond to the unexpected and painful things that happen to us, things that we might not understand? Or things that leave us deeply angry or wounded? For me, it's ever-changing. I'm trying to be refined by the process. Being that we're all part of the Body of Christ whether on earth or in Heaven, I now have another soul to whom I can connect and relate, because he's my nephew. Gone too soon, but there for us all.
I have to say this, because I am still human and so this is my context, "Happy birthday, Peter. Give my mom a kiss for me, and one for yourself too. Help us, help your friends – so many of us are on journeys that need God's help. Perhaps on your birthday there'll be a little extra grace for us all, and most especially, your mom, dad, and sister. You are missed so much."


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continued "The day after Christmas is insane. The return lines are out the door and around the building. And on days like that, when I call him from the parking lot to get him out for lunch, he answers the phone, and I can hear screaming in the background," says Valdivia. "I've asked him, 'Are they screaming at you?' 'Yes, I'll have to call you back later,' he said and hung up."
During a visit to a mall in Mission Valley, I ask clerks in Robinsons-May and Bed Bath & Beyond how customers treat them. They said that many customers do get irritable, but most of them remain polite. One woman, however, said an obviously perturbed man made her nervous with his glares. It caused her to start putting his purchase into another customer's bag. "He called me a stupid bitch," she said, "and stormed off without me getting it into a bag at all."
But Christmas season gives a financial boost to many part-time retail employees. A clerk in Robinsons-May told me she's happy with an extra 17 hours she has gotten on the floor this year. She gets only 20 hours per week during the rest of the year.
"Managers and assistant managers -- the upper level -- get hit hardest," according to Valdivia. "If you're on salary, they own you and can keep you at the store for as long as they want." She says her husband was on salary at the Wherehouse for 25 years. "The fact that now the Wherehouse has to close a lot of stores in the San Diego area is just deserts," she adds. "They were very nasty to their management. In Las Vegas they've been taken to court for requiring management to do carpentry and painting, things out of the job description.
"In his current store, my husband is paid hourly," says Valdivia. "He still puts in long hours, but usually at this time of year only. They do pay year-end bonuses based on profits. But when they have big sales, the profits stay low, and so do the bonuses."
Valdivia relishes the thought of being on the other end of Christmas business. "I would love to go shopping with my husband and pick things out together. It's not going to happen until after he retires, if the business doesn't kill him first," she says. "When Christmas comes now, I don't even want to go into stores. I tell everybody, 'I'll buy you guys dinner.' I'm not into gifts anymore. And I got so frustrated that I had to do something for me. So I used fireplace tongs -- I'm that short -- to hang lights. I turn them on every night.
"This year I'm taking the bull by the horns," says Valdivia, "and getting a little more involved with my church, because they go Christmas caroling and have such a positive attitude about it all. But people in malls are off the deep end. You talk about the Christmas spirit; if you want to see the Christmas spirit that's out there, try to find a parking space at the mall and accidentally cut someone off. There are so many worse things going on in this world to get upset about than somebody squeezing into a parking place you anticipated getting into. The way people treat each other is amazing, and it's all so they can get their stuff, get it wrapped, give it to someone else, and say, 'Look at me. Aren't I great? I love you. Here.' "
I ask how many times she's gotten to spend her birthday with her husband. A long pause follows as tears well up in Valdivia's brown eyes. Then she laughs loudly and says, "I think it was five years ago.
"Last year," she says, "I threw my own 50th birthday party at a restaurant. It fell on Black Friday. Both my family and his family came. At 1:00 in the morning, he came into the bar. It was a little anticlimactic, but it was great to see that he still wanted to catch it. Normally he's so beat up that he'll call and say, 'Honey, I'll see you at home.' "


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Days earlier, the 26-year-old Caldwell, traveling with his wife, Sylvia, and 10-month-old son Alden, had toured the engine room of the massive ship, eventually talking a coal stoker into taking a picture of him with the stoker's shovel.
Minutes after the Titanic hit the iceberg, Caldwell was on the deck. The ship seemed stable, and he was fretting about putting his wife and son on a lifeboat — he couldn't see the water below, and his wife had a history of seasickness.
"And then here appeared a bunch of stokers from below," says Julie Hedgepeth Williams. "One of them recognized him from the day he took the photograph and locked eyes with him, addressing him by name: 'Mr. Caldwell, if you value your life, get off this ship. I've seen the hull below, and it's filling with water.'"
The Caldwells jumped on lifeboat No. 13 and were taken to safety. More than 1,500 others lost their lives that night.
The Titanic story has been told many times, but for Williams, who teaches journalism at Samford University, it's personal. She grew up hearing stories from Albert Caldwell, the great uncle she knew as Uncle Al, and now she's written about him in "A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival."
"I knew him all my life," says Williams, whose previous work includes a book about the Wright Brothers' time in Alabama. "He died when he was 91 and I was a senior in high school. Oh, how I loved to hear him tell the story."
"The story" began with Uncle Al living with his wife, Sylvia, as Presbyterian missionaries in Thailand. In 1912, they decided to leave. Some research told Williams the reason was the birth of their son, Alden, but Williams says her Uncle Al said it was because Sylvia had health problems and had been prescribed rest in Naples, Italy.
A small ship took the Caldwells to Naples, which they immediately decided to leave because of widespread cholera. A ship called the Carpathia was docked.
"Sylvia took one look at the Carpathia and said, 'I don't want to be on a small ship,'" Williams says. "She was tired of being seasick."
And then they saw a placard for the Titanic.
"Their whole motivation was that the Titanic was the biggest ship on the ocean," she says.
It was on the dock at Southhampton that Williams says Sylvia provoked one of the most famous lines about the Titanic, one that has been used in books and movies since but attributed to other people. Williams' exhaustive research has her convinced that Sylvia was involved.
"As someone is carrying their trunk in for them, she says, 'Is this ship really unsinkable?,'" Williams says. "He answers, 'Yes, lady. God himself cannot sink this ship.'"
Caldwell often spoke of the opulence of the Titanic.
"He said the tables were piled high with all the delicacies one would want, and no one was seasick," Williams says. "He talked about the electric elevators between the decks .¤.¤. And there was music everywhere. It was as opulent as they say."
On that fateful Sunday, the Caldwells attended a worship service in the 2nd Class dining room. "Uncle Al would always say, 'Little did those worshiping God know how soon they'd meet him,'" Williams says.
In the middle of the night, while in bed with Alden, Sylvia felt the ship hit the iceberg. She called for Albert, asleep in the bunk, and they gathered some of their things. Most of their clothes, as well as $100 in gold in a trunk they couldn't find the key for, now resting at the bottom of the Atlantic, Williams says.
Contrary to Titanic mythology, many men were on the lifeboats that made their way from the Titanic, and Albert was one of them, Williams says.
"They pulled away from the ship, and not long after, he watched it go down," she says. "He said that first, the lights burned from underneath the water. Then the stern was there and rose higher and higher. And then, he said, with a gentle swish she was gone."
Later, the Caldwells would end up with other survivors on a ship that came to help them — the Carpathia.
"I understand the Carpathia went through some storms, so I imagine Sylvia was seasick, but I don't know," Williams says.
Sylvia and Albert divorced in 1930, and Albert married Williams' great-aunt in 1936. He told his story often through speeches and interviews. He worked for years for State Farm, based in Virginia.
Williams was able to record her great-uncle's tale of the high seas before his death in 1977. Caldwell's Titanic memorabilia went to the great-niece who was so interested in his story.
"Among his things when he died, we found a photograph of all of them on the deck of the Titanic," Williams says, adding that the photograph was taken by a friend in London and sent to the Caldwells. "It's now the cover of the book."
Caldwell didn't live to see James Cameron's movie version of "Titanic," which is being re-released in April to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the disaster. But Williams, of course, has seen it.
"I think it's technically right on, because I think they paid a great deal of attention to how it looked," she says. "But the love story between Jack and Rose is so not going to happen. It's so unlikely."
And, of course, there's the quote.
"The fact that they stole Sylvia's line really gets under my skin," Williams says with a laugh. "Kate Winslet asks the question Sylvia asked, and it's Kate Winslet's yucky fiance who answers her."


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Donald Trump has been getting hammered by every single liberal news outlet in the country for saying Obama and Hillary founded ISIS. They are literally calling him a liar, but the facts point to the contrary.
In fact, there is video evidence of Hillary Clinton saying, "I mean, let's remember here: The people we are fighting today we funded 20 years ago, and we did it because we were locked in this struggle with the Soviet Union,"
Here's what has been reported…
From Infowars:
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are founding members of ISIS by bankrolling, arming and supporting jihadists in Syria and Libya to both destabilize the Middle East and expand the domestic police state.
Clinton even admitted in 2009 that the U.S. government – staffed with many of her closest allies – was responsible for al-Qaeda, which morphed into ISIS.
"I mean, let's remember here: The people we are fighting today we funded 20 years ago, and we did it because we were locked in this struggle with the Soviet Union," she said.
Listen to Hillary's comments here…
It's funny, becuase Trump is getting absolutely torn apart for suggesting Hillary and Obama "founded" ISIS, but apparently Hillary, Obama, and their league of puppets forget that ISIS came from al-Qaeda…who you just saw Hillary admit "we funded".
Again, Hillary and Obama bankrolled, armed and supported jihadists in Syria and Libya to both destabilize the Middle East and expand the domestic police state.
Kit Daniels went on to report, "And a few decades later, in 2012, Clinton's State Dept. was backing al-Qaeda in Iraq, which morphed into ISIS, and other Islamic extremist groups as a proxy army to topple Syrian President Bashir al-Assad, a close ally to Russia and an enemy to Saudi Arabia, an Obama administration ally."
"The Salafist [sic], the Muslim Brotherhood and AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria," a leaked memo between her State Dept. and the Pentagon stated. "The West, Gulf countries, and Turkey support [this] opposition, while Russia, China and Iran 'support the [Assad] regime.'"
Hillary's State Dept. backed al-Qaeda in Iraq which later morphed into ISIS. @realDonaldTrump #Orlando #2a #tcot pic.twitter.com/ymA2VWH3eg
— Kit Daniels (@KitDaniels1776) June 13, 2016
"This secret document confirms that Clinton's State Dept. – and the Obama administration in general – was directly responsible for the rise of ISIS." Daniels said.
It doesn't get any clearer than that, folks. Hillary admitted it out of her own mouth and there is evidence to support it. The Obama administration, which includes Hillary Clinton, DID in fact create ISIS.
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Clae has made a strong name for itself in 2008 in the mens casual footwear market. Here we give you a first preview of their Spring 2009 collection.
The Kennedy comes in a nice all canvas version with white accents. Their most popular model, the Russell mid top sneaker, coming in classic black, brown and white, with the all white colorway being a first in the Clae collection.
You can now pre-book these styles already at Hanon.
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The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Friday, February 18, 2011, plus a bonus story on BP's disaster, are:
Rallies supporting workers spread from Wisconsin to Ohio
Six weeks into his term, Floridians consider Tea Party governor recall
Anti-government rallies in Iraq continue to spread across country
Bahraini military fires on mourners, then medics
Is Egyptian revolution already falling apart?
Wikileaks: China guided US response to financial collapse
Firefighter refused call to Giffords' shooting due to "political bantering"
"Poor decisions by management were the real cause" of BP disaster
Obama asks Abbas to withdraw UN resolution that reflects US policy
Rallies supporting workers spread from Wisconsin to Ohio
Public Worker Protests Spread From Wisconsin to Ohio
In what union leaders say is becoming a national fight, protests against legislation to restrict public employees' collective-bargaining rights spread from Wisconsin to Ohio.
In Madison, Wisconsin, crowds that police estimated at 25,000 engulfed the Capitol and its lawns yesterday during a third-straight day of protests as Democratic senators fled the legislative session. In Columbus, Ohio, about 3,800 state workers, teachers and other public employees came to the statehouse for a committee hearing. President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohioan, argued over whether the bills are "an assault on unions."
Ohio firefighters Dave Hefflinger and Jerry Greer said they were. They stood near hundreds of workers elbow-to-elbow in the statehouse atrium and listened to a Senate hearing through speakers. Chants of "Kill the bill" echoed.
"We're here to support our brothers and sisters," Hefflinger, a 27-year veteran, said in an interview. "They're trying to take away what we fought for all of these years."
Hefflinger, 49, and Greer, 39, members of the department in Findlay, Ohio, drove two hours south to protest the bill. The measure would eliminate collective bargaining for state workers, prevent local-government employees from negotiating for health insurance and replace salary schedules with merit pay.
With states facing deficits that may reach a combined $125 billion next year, Republican governors including Wisconsin's Scott Walker, Ohio's John Kasich and New Jersey's Chris Christie are targeting changes in rules for collective bargaining and worker contributions for health-care coverage and pensions …
In a telephone interview Feb. 15, Walker said he spoke with Kasich about the demonstrations. When asked for advice, Walker said, "Don't blink" …
The bills are state-level skirmishes in a national battle, and the purpose is to undermine labor unions and the Democrats they support, said John Russo, a professor and co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University in Ohio.
"It's really an ideological battle that's being fought across the country right now," Russo said yesterday in an interview while waiting to testify before the Ohio Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee. "This is a real teaching moment. Let's have this debate about the role of the public sector."
There were 50 witnesses scheduled, and Chairman Kevin Bacon said the committee would hear them without a break.
"This is a true test of democracy," Bacon said.
The statehouse spokesman, Gregg Dodd, estimated the crowd at about 3,800 and said it was the largest gathering inside the statehouse since it was renovated in 1996 …
Joe Rugola, the former president of the Ohio AFL-CIO who also is executive director of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees, said he represents bus drivers and janitors who earn about $24,000 a year.
"I'm still looking for this privileged class of workers," Rugola said in an interview while waiting to testify. "This is just part of a national attack on working people."
Six weeks into his term, Floridians consider Tea Party governor recall
Winds of a recall swirling around Florida's new governor
Just a month and a half on the job, and already the winds of a recall are swirling around Gov. Rick Scott.
The governor has made some enemies in the state capitol, and many are his fellow Republicans in the legislature.
As the rift continues to widen, Scott's ability to get things done may start to weaken.
Scott arrived in Tallahassee as an outsider and a man with no political experience, who was determined to change government as we know it.
First, he rolled out a controversial budget, cutting everything from education to prisons.
"My job is to represent the taxpayers of this state, and I'm not comfortable that this is a project that we ought to be doing," Scott said.
The governor's rejection of federal funding for high-speed rail opened up a new and very public divide with dozens of powerful Republican lawmakers.
They're making it clear they intend to overrule Scott and House Democratic leader Rep. Ron Saunders couldn't be happier.
Anti-government rallies in Iraq continue to spread across country
Al Jazeera
Fresh protests hit Iraqi cities
Violent protests have taken place at various locations in Iraq, with anti-government protesters rallying against corruption, poor basic services and high unemployment.
In Basra, the country's second largest city, about 1,000 people rallied on Friday, demanding better service delivery from the government, jobs and improved pensions.
They called for the provincial governor to resign, and blocked a bridge for an hour. Protesters shouted slogans saying that while Friday's protests would be peaceful, ones held in the future may not be.
"We're living in miserable conditions, no electricity, dirty, muddy streets. We have to make changes. We should not be silent," said Qais Jabbar, one of the protesters.
"I have filed my papers with the provincial council but have gotten no job until now," said Hussein Abdel, an unemployed 25-year-old. "There is corruption in Basra – they have to start taking care of this city and must stop making fake promises."
Protests were also held in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, which generally enjoys more economic prosperity than other parts of the country.
A Kurdish regional opposition party's offices were attacked by looters, officials said on Friday.
Bahraini military fires on mourners, then medics
The New York Times
Security Forces in Bahrain Open Fire on Mourners
Government forces opened fire on hundreds of mourners marching toward Pearl Square Friday, sending people running away in panic amid the boom of concussion grenades. But even as the people fled, at least one helicopter sprayed fire on them and a witness reported seeing mourners crumpling to the ground.
It was not immediately clear what type of ammunition the forces were firing, but some witnesses reported live fire from automatic weapons and the crowd was screaming "live fire, live fire." At a nearby hospital, witnesses reported seeing people with very serious injuries and gaping wounds, at least some of them caused by rubber bullets that appeared to have been fired at close range.
Even as ambulances rushed to rescue people, forces fired on medics loading the wounded into their vehicles. That only added to the chaos, with regular people pitching in to evacuate the wounded by car and doctors at a nearby hospital saying the delays in casualties reaching them made it impossible to get a reasonable count of the dead and wounded.
A Western official said at least one person had died in the mayhem surrounding the square, and reports said at least 50 were wounded. The official quoted a witness as saying that the shooters were from the military, not the police, indicating a hardening of the government's stance against those trying to stage a popular revolt.
Thousands of people gathered at the hospital, offering blood for the wounded, and doctors said they were having to work as "volunteers" because the government had issued orders against helping protesters.
The mourners who defied a government ban to march on symbolic Pearl Square were mostly young men who had been part of a funeral procession for a protester killed in an earlier crackdown by police.
Minutes after the first shots were fired, forces in a helicopter that had been shooting at the crowds, opened fire at a Western reporter and videographer who were filming a sequence on the latest violence. Two young who had been in the march said some of the fire came from snipers …
The violence came a day after both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the leaders of the country, a longtime ally, to show restraint. President Clinton reiterated that message on Friday and condemned the violence here, in Libya and in Yemen.
Is Egyptian revolution already falling apart?
The Associated Press
Egyptian activists seek democracy, face threats from military
A week after Hosni Mubarak's fall, the young activists who launched Egypt's uprising are pushing to ensure the final prize, a real democracy. But already they see threats. The new military rulers have not broken the former ruling party's hold and are evasive about their future plans. And the protesters' "revolution" itself faces splintering.
The new stage brings new, more complicated challenges.
The Armed Forces Supreme Council, the body of top generals that now rules the country after Mr. Mubarak's ouster last Friday, has laid out a transition that emphasizes speed, not the sweeping democratic change the protesters want. The military has left the remains of Mubarak's ruling party to dominate the caretaker government and the levers of power, including the powerful police forces.
The organizers fear that unless the ruling party is broken and major change guaranteed, Egypt can fall back into an authoritarian rule, a Mubarak regime without Mr. Mubarak.
"Remains of the old system are still operating in society. They are trying to wage a counterrevolution," said Mohammed Abbas, a Muslim Brotherhood member in the coalition. He said security agents are still targeting protesters, while pro-Mubarak activists are seeking to launch rallies to coincide with those organized by the youth protesters.
Also, the protest coalition is trying to fend off fragmentation that has plagued past reform movements, which tended to coalesce behind a single figure in a personality cult and then fall apart over personal disputes.
The new ruling generals urged the protesters to form their own political party. But the coalition refuses, saying a party now would bring out the divisions among them and break their bond of common demands. Not least, they worry that former members of Mr. Mubarak's ruling party or others will try to hijack the name of the "Jan. 25 Revolution."
Wikileaks: China guided US response to financial collapse
Special report: China flexed its muscles using U.S. Treasuries
Confidential diplomatic cables from the U.S. embassies in Beijing and Hong Kong lay bare China's growing influence as America's largest creditor.
As the U.S. Federal Reserve grappled with the aftershocks of financial crisis, the Chinese, like many others, suffered huge losses from their investments in American financial firms — from Lehman Brothers to the Primary Reserve Fund, the money market fund that broke the buck.
The cables, obtained by WikiLeaks, show that escalating Chinese pressure prompted a procession of soothing visits from the U.S.Treasury Department. In one striking instance, a top Chinese money manager directly asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for a favor.
In June, 2009, the head of China's powerful sovereign wealth fund met with Geithner and requested that he lean on regulators at the U.S. Federal Reserve to speed up the approval of its $1.2 billion investment in Morgan Stanley, according to the cables, which were provided to Reuters by a third party.
Although the cables do not mention if Geithner took any action, China's deal to buy Morgan Stanley shares was announced the very next day.
The two Treasury officials to whom the cables were addressed, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia Robert Dohner and Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Monetary and Financial Policy Mark Sobel, declined through a spokesperson to comment for this story. The State Department also declined to comment …
The concern in certain influential Washington and Wall Street circles is that Beijing would leverage its position as the main enabler of U.S. overspending. And the cables provide a glimpse into how much politics inform relations between the world's two largest economies.
One cable cites Chinese money managers expressing concern that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan — a major, longstanding irritant in the relationship — could sour the Chinese public on Treasury purchases …
The cables also indicate a high level of confidence among the Americans that China can't entirely stop buying U.S. debt, a sentiment shared by most economists who describe the dynamic as a form of mutually assured financial destruction.
But the cables do show that China can and will pull back, with financial repercussions. In the spring of 2009, with U.S.-China financial tensions running especially high, China's Treasury holdings fell to around $764 billion, down from nearly $900 billion. In July, after tensions between the two nations mostly subsided, its holdings rose to a record $940 billion.
During the financial turmoil, the cables show that Beijing also shifted its portfolio away from longer-term Treasury notes, which helped drive up America's long-term borrowing costs.
Firefighter refused to respond to Giffords' shooting due to "political bantering"
The Associated Press
Memos: Firefighter refused call to Tucson shooting
A veteran firefighter refused to respond to last month's deadly shooting spree that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wounded because of "political bantering," and it may have delayed his unit's assignment to help, according to internal city memos.
The Arizona Daily Star reported Thursday that firefighter Mark Ekstrum's team, which is specially trained to handle large medical emergencies, was dispatched to assist 90 minutes after the Jan. 8 shooting. The newspaper obtained the memos about the incident through a public records request.
While the crew was not among those first called to the supermarket where six people were killed and 13 others wounded, a memo from Ekstrum's supervisor said his actions caused "confusion and delay" during the emergency.
One of the fire engines from Ekstrum's station had to stop at another station to pick up personnel to take his place, according to the Star.
Ekstrum, a 28-year veteran of the Tucson Fire Department, retired two days after the incident while his supervisors were still considering how to discipline him.
Capt. Ben Williams wrote in a report that when Ekstrum first said he would not go on the call, "he mentioned something about `political bantering' and he did not want to be part of it."
Williams said in the report that he told the 56-year-old firefighter that he could not refuse a call for that reason and then talked to the firefighter privately in his office. He said Ekstrum "started to say something about how he had a much different political viewpoint than the rest of the crew and he was concerned."
Despite being told that was not acceptable, Williams said Ekstrum informed him he was going home "sick," so they answered the call without him.
"Poor decisions by management were the real cause" of BP disaster
BP workers could have prevented rig accident: commission
BP had workers on the doomed Deepwater Horizon rig who could have prevented the missteps that led to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but they were not consulted, the White House oil spill commission said on Thursday.
In an expanded report on the causes of the BP drilling disaster that killed 11 workers and ravaged the U.S. Gulf coast last summer, the commission released new details about the events that preceded the BP accident.
The commission's investigators said BP workers failed to ask a knowledgeable company engineer who was visiting the rig about unexpected results from a critical negative pressure test on the rig.
"If anyone had consulted him or any other shore-based engineer, the blowout might never have happened," the commission said in a statement.
The misreading of that pressure test and the decision to move ahead with temporary abandonment of BP's Macondo well was a major catalyst for the April 20 rig explosion that eventually unleashed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Had BP's well site leaders brought their faulty explanation of the test results to one of the visiting engineers, "events likely would have turned out differently," the commission report said.
The engineers visiting the rig that day later questioned the crew's interpretation of the test results. BP onshore officials said they would have insisted on further testing, had they been consulted.
"The sad fact is that this was an entirely preventable disaster," the commission's chief counsel, Fred Bartlit, said in a statement. "Poor decisions by management were the real cause."
Obama asks Abbas to withdraw UN resolution that reflects US policy
Abbas rejects U.S. request to withdraw UN settlement resolution
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to turn down Washington's request to withdraw a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding Israel halt settlement expansion on occupied land.
Several officials close to Abbas on Friday predicted this would be the consensus of a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive later in the day to discuss President Barack Obama's telephone call with Abbas on Thursday.
Washington has made it clear that it will veto the resolution should it come to a vote, and has implored the Palestinian Authority and other Arab nations to withdraw the proposal, but to no avail.
The point of the resolution, foreign diplomats say, is to highlight Washington's isolated position on the Security Council, show the Palestinian population that the Palestinian Authority is taking action, and to pressure Israel and the United States on the settlement issue.
The resolution has nearly 120 co-sponsors, exclusively Arab and other non-aligned nations. UN diplomats said that the draft would probably receive 14 votes in favor and the one veto if put to an immediate vote.
The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to start discussions later on Friday on a draft resolution that Arab states submitted in January, demanding that Israel halt settlement activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The Palestinians say continued building flouts the internationally-backed peace plan that will permit them to create a viable, contiguous state on the land after a treaty with Israel to end its occupation and 62 years of conflict.
Israel says this is an excuse for avoiding peace talks and a precondition never demanded before during 17 years of negotiation, which has so far produced no agreement.
Obama, who has said Israeli settlements in territories it captured in a 1967 war are illegal and unhelpful to the peace process, is opposed to a U.N. move that in Washington's view could shatter hopes of reviving the stalled talks.
The Obama administration is, however, embarrassed by the episode, because the Palestinian proposal accurately reflects their own stated official position on the settlements, which makes it difficult to oppose the resolution and has led to extensive efforts out of Washington to halt the vote.


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Woman claims she was taxed $134,000 for Aston Martin she never got
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Hello, beloved family. I honestly wish I could be there with you all right now, but at least, through the miracle of technology, I can send this along via email and ask that it be read in the event that there's an "I Remember Margie"' moment during the gathering after the funeral.
My Aunt Marge was one of my favorite people in the family. Even as a kid, I enjoyed her easy-going manner and sense of humor. When you told Aunt Marge a joke, even as a kid and no matter how corny, and she enjoyed it, you knew that her laugh was genuine and not merely indulgent for the sake of the nephew who just told a lousy joke. Two which I know she enjoyed were the time I was in my late teens and the topic of drugs came up at a picnic and I told her that I'd tried snorting coke once, but I couldn't get the bottle up my nose (which, considering the noses on both sides of my family, would probably not have been the truth if I'd actually tried snorting Coca-Cola straight from the bottle). Then there was the long-winded joke about a kid named Roy who put his new dress shoes out on the porch to dry after having polished them, only to discover the next morning that an animal had chewed them up, and on his way to school, his friend pointed to a feline and said, "Pardon me, Roy, is that the cat who chewed your new shoes?" (A riff on "Pardon me, Boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo.") I know that joke is as old as Moses toes and twice as corny, but she enjoyed stupid humor as much as I did, so there ya go.
I will always remember Aunt Marge's macaroni salad as the best at any picnic I've ever attended. It was kind of al-dente and soooo "mayonaissy" -- none of that fake stuff -- with even chopped black olives, if I'm not mistaken. Sorry, Mom, but it's true. And I'm sure that none of us will ever forget the accordian "concerts" at family get-togethers. I remember sitting in the garage on a summer night in the old house as Aunt Marge played polkas and waltzes on the accordian while Grandma Corbett and my Mom and aunts (and my Dad and an uncle or two) danced in the garage and driveway while we kids stuffed ourselves with way too many chips and fritos and Ruther Girl Cookies and fig newtons and sodas, and I'm grateful to her and to my Mom and Dad and aunts and uncles for doing for us what their parents did for them and what our generation has done for its kids and, hopefully, those kids will do for their own: showing, and not merely telling them, that family is not only important but imperative, and providing for hundreds of opportunities throughout the years to experience the joy and the fun and the accumulation of a lifetime of memoies of family members, family get-togethers and celebrations, and family relationships that turn into true and lifetime-lasting friendships.
To Aunt Marge!
Love, Chris.


text: TechDays, the biggest Microsoft Switzerland technology event, takes place 5-6 April 2011 in Palexpo Genève and 2-3 May in Congress Center Basel. TechDays 11 once again features two full days of latest trends in software development and -architecture, as well as new developments in the field of basic-, application- and infrastructure technologies. For students we offer heavily discounted tickets to the conference: 2-days student conference pass costs 100 CHF in Geneva (instead of 350 CHF) and 150 CHF in Basel (instead of 480 CHF). Check out the extensive agenda with total of over 90 sessions and register at: www.techdays.ch.


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Picture: Maroon 5 2011 American Music Awards held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live - Arrivals. Los Angeles, California - 20.11.11
Rockers Maroon 5 have abandoned their post-Grammy Awards ritual of celebrating at a favourite Mexican hotspot after learning the owners were among those championing the bill that made gay marriage in California illegal.
The Moves Like Jagger hitmakers, who are nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at next month's (Feb12) prizegiving, have "bailed" on their traditional post-Grammys hang-out.
Frontman Adam Levine explains the band is now looking for a new party place.
He tells People magazine, "We used to go to this Mexican restaurant to celebrate after the Grammys but the place supported the movement to make gay marriage illegal (in California) so we bailed on that."


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Carl Hagelin will play on the Rangers' top line with Brad Richards and Rick Nash.
Good gig if he can keep it. He will also get second power-play ice time. We believe if the speedy Hagelin can compliment the playmaking Richards and the shooting Nash he can register 35 points this season. Draft him accordingly.


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SHERIDAN HIGH SCHOOL WINTER SPORTS REVIEW - Today as the 2012 spring sports season opens today we take a look back at the last winter sports season that ended last Saturday with Sheridan high school Activities Director Don Julian.
One special moment for the Bronc basketball team happened before their final game was played last Saturday.
BRONC / LADY BRONC SOCCER - The Bronc and Lady Bronc soccer teams open their season playing matches with Riverton tomorrow.
The Broncs will play at Riverton the Lady Broncs host the Wolverines the JV's play at 4:00 the varsity 6:00.
Saturday the Lady Broncs play at a Jamboree in Cody the Broncs will play in Worland.
Broncs Head coach Kevin Riser says they are excited to begin the season but will not be at full strength for a few games.
Wyopreps.com has released the names of the 3A and 4A Boys' and Girls' All-State selections for 2011-12, and two Buffalo High School players were recognized.
Aaron Fenner and Kalob Rodriguez were both named to the 3A Boys' All-State Team.
Votes compiled from the Wyoming Coaches' Association determined the selections.
For the full list of both the boys and girls named to the 3A and 4A teams, go to the links at wyopreps.com:
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BRONC / LADY BRONC SOCCER - The Bronc and Lady Bronc soccer teams open their season playing matches with Riverton Friday evening.
The Lady Broncs will host Riverton the Broncs will play at Riverton, Saturday both teams will participate in a Jamboree in Cody.
Lady Broncs Head coach Tom Racette says week one went well and now it's game week.
This week the Buffalo High School spring sports season gets in full swing with a short practice week before competitions in just a couple of days.
The Bison boys' and girls' soccer teams will begin their 2012 campaigns on Friday as the boys host Gillette at BHS and the girls travel to Gillette to take on the Lady Camels. Game times are at 11 and 1 for both the boys and girls.
The Bison track team will also get their 2012 season started this week at the Natrona Earlybird Meet at Natrona County High School Saturday at 10am.
Wyopreps.com released the list of those named to the 3A and 4A All-conference teams and a few Buffalo kids were recognized.
Named to the Boys' 3A East All-Conference Team from Buffalo was Aaron Fenner and Kalob Rodriguez.
Jenna Anderson of Buffalo was named to the Girls' 3A East All-Conference Team.
The teams were compiled by Wyopreps from votes by the Wyoming Coaches' Association.
To view the entire list from both squads click here:
The Sheridan Lady Bronc had three players make the East all-conference team they are Seniors Steph Sessions and Noelle Golinvaux and Junior Hailey Ligocki.
Bronc's named to the boys team were Seniors Riley Ryan and Hunter Reece.
Ryan was also named the conference player of the year and Bronc's Head coach Mike Ibach was honored as the conference coach of the year.
BRONC / LADY BRONC TRACK AND FIELD - The Sheridan high school track teams open their season Saturday at the Natrona County "Earlybird invitational.
As they get ready to compete this week the weather has cooperated and the weather looks pretty good for Saturday in Casper.
Head coach Art Bauers says the Sheridan athletes have enjoyed the preparation this week and they are getting more athletes out this week following the winter sports season.
BRONC / LADY BRONC BASKETBALL - The Lady Broncs finished their basketball season with a victory Saturday in the consolation final at the state tournament.
They blew out Cheyenne East 48-26 Junior Hailey Ligocki ended the season nearly out scoring East herself leading the Lady Broncs with a game high 23 points.
The Broncs had a roller coaster week in Casper starting with a one point win over Kelly Walsh then a one point loss against Evanston in the semi finals Friday night.
Buffalo's boys' basketball team made a quick exit at State last week, losing two straight games and departing the tournament.
They dropped their first game 67-49 to Star Valley and then lost to Lander in their consolation bracket game 60-49.
Torrington eventually captured the 3A Title by downing Star Valley 48-39.
Wheatland took third and Powell as the Consolation Champion of the tournament.
The Spring sports seasons are now underway, at least practice is underway, but both the Bison and Lady Bison soccer teams will have their first games later this week.


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Naches Ranger District trail users at odds with district over possible closures
By Scott Sandsberry
Yakima Herald-Republic
Before too long -- this year, perhaps, or 2013 -- some trails within the Naches Ranger District will be closed in response to Forest Service budget cuts.
And the four-wheelers, snowmobilers, horseback riders, mountain bikers, skiers and hikers who use the trails are so up in arms about it that tonight's meeting of the district's Trails and Wilderness Interest Group (TWIG) is almost certain to draw an overflow crowd.
Many of those outdoor enthusiasts who attend these meetings -- which serve as a conduit between the ranger district and its most fervent user groups -- believe they're about to lose access to fully one-10th of the district's trails. That's not the case, said District Ranger Irene Davidson, but some trail closures are almost a certainty.
"A decision is going to have to be made," Davidson said, noting that the decision-making process will depend on input from tonight's meeting -- specifically on which trails users want to keep open.
"Our budget is not as good as what we thought it was going to be," Davidson said, adding that the current omnibus spending bill would mean cutting the district's budget by roughly 10 percent.
"I can't look at these people and say, 'We've got 1,100 miles of trail and by God we're going to keep all of them maintained with absolutely no budget. That's just ridiculous.
"At what point do (trail users) not think we need to tighten our belts?"
Trail-group representatives at TWIG meetings have repeatedly responded to the district's trail-closure suggestions with offers of volunteer trail-maintenance crews.
"Our trails are not in bad shape. They're really not," said Carol Swan, a Backcountry Horsemen of Washington member from Selah. "And they've got (TWIG) people raising their hands wanting to volunteer and help. And the Forest Service's response is to close."
Even the format of tonight's TWIG meeting, in which the visitors will be asked to argue on behalf of their favorite trails, grates on Swan.
"(Davidson) should have to justify closing a trail," Swan said, "rather than we having to justify why to keep it open."
The Forest Service's current Travel Management Plan process requires each district to identify roads and trails it can manage with its current staffing -- and, by extension, identify likely motorized roads and trails for closure.
"What I've been preaching is, 'Tell me about the trail, tell me why it's important to you, so we can start talking about where to spend our money to get the best bang for our buck,'" Davidson said.
Trail enthusiasts, she said, "are just fearful. And no matter how many times I try to tell them, my goal is not to get them out of the forest. My goal is to make my business run here. If I have $100, where do you want me to spend it?"
Some recreationists, though, believe that -- despite Davidson's contention that she's "tried to be so transparent with this whole process" -- district staffers aren't being entirely above-board.
In one recent meeting, Davidson showed photographs of a trails area devastated by four-wheeler use, using the ugly images as an example of why some trails should be closed to motorized traffic.
The problem with that example, said several trail users in attendance, was that the photographs -- taken in the Sleepy Park area off Forest Road 1202 near White Pass -- were more than 30 years old, the area having long ago been rehabilitated.
Walls have definitely gone up between Davidson and some user-group representatives, as evidenced by the November TWIG meeting when she pointed out two attendees and said she didn't want them on any trail-use committees.
One of them, longtime four-wheeler and trail-maintenance volunteer Ron Rutherford, said he was told by other attendees he was persona non grata because he was "set in his ways" and was "not moving in (Davidson's) direction."
"I told Irene it's OK we don't agree," Rutherford said. "She has a job to do, and I have a dedication to recreation and keeping public lands open to recreation.
"My take on this is that for management and Irene, it's easier to close and eliminate than deal with the problem."
And that problem may go beyond just the trails themselves.
"If they close a lot of these trails like they want to, businesses up here or on White Pass, we're going to go down the tubes, pretty much," said Pam Remley, who works at the Woodshed store on State Route 410.
"Right now there's no snow, and (business is) so slow we're just kind of twiddling our thumbs. You've got income and revenue down, employees getting laid off, and if recreation goes down to practically nothing and people don't want to come recreate here, what's going to happen?
"It's a big, vicious circle. It's not just the trails. It's revenue. It's the economy. It's frustrating."
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VeriFone CEO to Step Down
VeriFone Systems Inc. Chief Executive Douglas Bergeron is stepping down after a dozen years at the helm of the card-payment systems maker.
The company said it will hire an executive-search firm to find a successor, with Chairman Richard McGinn serving as CEO on an interim basis.
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Dang! It's a good thing I ordered mine right away instead of waiting for Friday! I'm excited!
Dang! It's a good thing I ordered mine right away instead of waiting for Friday! I'm excited!
If you compare the XP-G/XP-E emission curves in the technical sheets, you can see that they all are pretty much missing the green wavelengths. Having warmer tint just means less 450nm blue and more yellow and red. To get more green (which happens to be quite common color in nature), you have to choose a high cri led.
More up on their site including a 2AA regular. If it was tactical I would probably beg a plea with the wife to buy one.
If the info is from the old run then I guess we just have to wait and see.
I see they added a Preon II in warm white, I'd be all over that but I already have one. Still, good to see!
Yes, I have a few regulars. A tactical may be nice. BTW, the quarks are not heavily glued (the Ti ones are a bit tougher) so they are not that hard to mod to neutral... All mine are modded.
Preons, minis, and maybe turbos, those are glued, really tight... (Although I have seen a modded Turbo, so maybe not on that one).
Quarks - 123 MiNi NW, 123x2 NW, AA CW (x2), 123 MiNi CW (x2), SS Revo / Surefire P6 18650 MC-E & P6 w/ Nailbender SST50, Winelight ll w/ Lumens Factory 350 IMR, Smini NW XP-G R4 18650
Cool White sucks for outdoors. I will have no more of them.
Gotta feel for all of you guys that miss the neutrals you like. I got really lucky that I was able to snatch up the 123x2 Regular, exactly what I wanted. I hope a Neutral Revo SS shows up, but that is probably just a dream (and would probably be gone before I could snatch it up!)
the 123*2 regular and tacticals that were sold out earlier are back up in stock right now...
Nice! I really do hope to see even more models pop up in the next few days.
Order placed for neutral 123^2 tactical. Thanks for the heads up kadinh!
The love of light is the reason why I don't walk in darkness.
But darkness has it's beauty...
Sadly, my lights are much more beautiful!!
As of last night and today I've ordered an E01 to sit in my pocket all the time as a backup and an 18650 body from Going Gear for better runtime. I also have an S-mini 18650 XP-G R4 NW on order as well. My low voltage Quark NW head is going to wait until next batch, I can't sit on the 4sevens site hitting refresh until I get one, too many things to get done. Unless someone here has one they want to sell me...
Quarks - 123 MiNi NW, 123x2 NW, AA CW (x2), 123 MiNi CW (x2), SS Revo / Surefire P6 18650 MC-E & P6 w/ Nailbender SST50, Winelight ll w/ Lumens Factory 350 IMR, Smini NW XP-G R4 18650
Cool White sucks for outdoors. I will have no more of them.
Yeah, I see so many great comments on the tint of the XPG neutral run, but part of me says no rush, XML neutrals will be out in a year or so and know that 4Sevens will take care of us. I guess I'm not addicted enough/don't have the free funds yet.
Just received my 123x2 Neutral. I already had an S2, and when I compared the two I gave my dad the S2 version. No comparison. Yes, the S2 is brighter, but the neutral is MUCH nicer!
I hope that there will be another run of Preon REVO NW. Because I hate green .
Sorry for my bad English.
i don't buy anything else, but neutral white anymore.
Recently picked up a Xeno G42 NW thrower. It's a really nice light! Just ordered a G10 NW as well.
The Phaser: A nice EDC with great throw; heat and runtime can be issues.
Best Diffusion Film!
I've been using my NW 123*2 quark and my AA regular quark S2 (with a 14500 li-ion cell) and I gotta say that I like both of them. I like having a different tint of light for different tasks and depending on my mood. I'm glad I was able to pick one up while they were still available.
And I REALLY like having the deep carry clip on both of them and how they are almost identical in size! Thanks David for all your hard work and making some SWEET lights!
I think part of the reason for the commonality of blue-tinted LEDs has to do with the way that white LEDs are made. (I'm sure most people on CPF probably know this but just in case.)
They are just a blue LED with a phosphor coating that absorbs some of the blue light and reemits it in other colors. Unfortunately some of the efficiency is lost in the process. The more light that is converted (eg warmer colors), the more is wasted. The process of mixing and applying the phosphors isn't perfect either and this variability results in your different color bins.
Personally, I wish we would see manufacturers starting to use quantum dots on their LEDs.
I'm curious, why is the quark aa2 neutral not being produced anymore? is it going to be mass produced in some amount of time in the future? this is a little confusing
I have to say, it's rather ironic to me to read all this love for neutral/warm tints versus the cool whites, in light (har!) of all the comments about "dim yellow" incans in the LED forum over the years (they still pop up occasionally, usually in " flashaholic" stories about impressing people who have never known anything beyond incan Maglites.)
I myself remain partial to pure whites. However, in my experience, this usually means the warmest end of the cool white band, sub 5500K, and includes the high end of the neutral zone (5x and lower). I find that my favorites among my current lights are my NW Preon (4x emitter IIRC) and my 5B XR-E Dereelight, and on the high side, a smattering of lights that look like 5700K to my eye, in comparison to the 5000K CFL's in my office. On the other hand, those lights going past 6500K and often sporting an even bluer spill, don't appeal to me as much.
At some point I'm going to look into trying to hit that 5000k mark in a nailbender P60 module.
Also - comment from the first page on cool whites working well indoors - if there is NO ambient light then there is no depth perception from a cool white. My experience inside a shut down facility - I was running a cool white that day, fortunately my superintendant had his magcharger. That may also be part of another post from the first page where the op had his neutral bikelight and the girlfriend was having issues with the cool light.
FYI, high cri (90min.) warm xp-g's are now available (i've seen them listed in a well known Australian components store)
i wish 4sevens was the first manufacturer of high-cri affordable pocket lights !
Maybe they will have more. There seems to be really nothing coming out lately. Thus maybe a neutral delay?
Quarks are my favorite lights, and I'm wanting to get a couple more in NW when they come available. Since CPF proper is down I'll ask my question here....What temperature range is the warm tint, what temp range is neutral, & what temp range is cool?


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I like Theramore's Fall. I quite enjoyed this quick burst of new but easy content with this epic twist of lore, story explained or no. I did it hating the Horde, scared for Jaina and excited to be so close to more of this: new content!!
Okay so the loading screen itself looks very much like something you see zoning into a battleground in my honest opinion but it was new and shiny and it told me that new things were loading up and that is much cause for excitement!
And sure, at this point the scenario bugged on us meaning that once we'd killed the boss we didn't get progress for the "protect Jaina" part, but it did allow me to take this awesome screenshot and eh Spongeflaps snuck into the picture. Damn you Flaps trying to steal a moment in the spotlight!
Overall.. the music made me swoon. The brief exchange between Jaina and the Orc Guy gave me chills. And hey, random pointless loot and a nice little tabard? Yes please.
At the end of the day, this is not a pre-expansion event, it is a brief look at what scenarios will be like and at that it is successful. Just perhaps needed a little testing before it was thrown out there given the amount of bugs people have been having! Remember what's important.
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COLUMBUS — State environmental officials are seeking to recoup at least $23 million spent cleaning up illegally discarded tires from dumps around Ohio, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Illegally dumped tires are breeding grounds for disease-carrying insects and fuel for dirty, hard-to-extinguish fires. Cases involving dump owners who fail to pay for cleanups have been sent to Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann for review, The Columbus Dispatch said.
Since 1998, Ohio has spent $27 million removing more than 41 million scrap tires, recovering very little of the cost from the owners of dump sites, the newspaper reported.
One local example: Jack Vasi, son of former County Commissioner Mary Jo Vasi, and his sister, Mary Kay Szabo, operated a tire dump in Carlisle Township that the state paid to clean up. Vasi and Szabo are still on probation for their inaction.
It's a problem many states wrestle with, said Chris Newman, who coordinates a scrap tire cleanup program for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"They're not rich people," Newman said of dump owners.
Polluters often claim bankruptcy, allowing them to avoid reimbursing the state, said Bob Large, who supervises the state EPA's program. In some cases, the state places a lien on their property.
Ohio's tire removal program is funded by a $1 fee on all new tires sold in the state. The program, which began in 1998, raises about $7 million a year.
About 4 million illegally dumped tires remain in Ohio, Large said. In many cases, recycled tires are turned into landfill liners, mud flaps, rubberized mulch and radiator hoses.
Ignoring the problem isn't an option, Large said.
In 1999, a fire involving 4 million scrap tires at Ohio's largest stockpile, Kirby Tire Recycling in Wyandot County, burned for six days.


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"To hear Christopher Johnson perform [Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1], on the cusp of a great career, is to believe. Possessing a Van Cliburn intensity, he deserves to have the career of a true musical star."
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"Johnson has everything to make a big career: musicality, technique to squander, a touch capable of the merest whisper or a thunderous sound and stage presence.
With these indisputable gifts, he should shortly be following in the footsteps of Murray Perahia or Krystian Zimerman."
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"an utterly convincing and technically astounding performance of Prokofiev Seventh Sonata. I have rarely heard any pianist (except perhaps Toradze's phenomenal recording) play this unforgiving piece with the clarity and coherence with which Mr. Johnson explicated its knottiest problems."
-- Patrick Meanor, LISTENER MAGAZINE
"Johnson gave this two-fisted Romantic blockbuster (Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2) a sharply etched, strongly attacked performance that brought out its surge and passion. And after the minor key melancholy of the first two movements, Johnson unleashed the riotous coloration and surging sense of victory over adversity in the Finale with blazing technique and an exciting rhythmic fillip at the end."
-- Herman Trotter, BUFFALO NEWS
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MoMA presents an interactive website on its current exhibition on the Bauhaus. It it the Museum's first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects and designers in a conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology. Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of an array of experiments in the visual arts.
A book, "Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model" will accompany the exhibition, documenting some of the most important works, including the newly re-discovered Marcel Breuer and Gunta Stölzl's early Bauhaus African Chair and Laszlo Moholy Nagy's Light Space modulator – a kinetic sculpture from the 1930's; paintings and sculpture by Kandinksy, Albers and Klee as wells as works by Walter Gropius, Hannes Mayer and Mies van der Rohe.
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity, November 8 – January 25, at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
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I awoke sleepy this morning and I just had to have a cup of this wonderful eye-opening brisk, robust tea. You can taste the assam and ceylon teas and the malty taste. It has the slight bitterness and the astringency of a breakfast tea. Very nice.
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This course considers nineteenth-century Western art in the context of the major European powers' quest for empire in North Africa, West and South Asia (in particular, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, India). The course is organized thematically to consider the diverse European constructions of the "Orient" primarily through the work of British and French painters such as Ingres, Delacroix, Gérôme, J. F. Lewis, William Holman Hunt and David Roberts, among many others. Topics to be explored include issues related to imperialism, gender and sexuality, depiction of sacred sites, portraiture and cross-cultural dressing, race and ethnography, museum exhibitions, World's Fairs, advertisements, popular media, and the counter-narratives of indigenous artists.
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Class discussion and assignments will help students develop an understanding of common art historical terms and methods of visual analysis as well as encourage critical thinking in regard to how images from the era of nineteenth-century colonialism operate/d in the broader culture.
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A background in nineteenth-century history or art history will be helpful but is not required. Students from disciplines other than art history are welcome.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Taylor Swift fans exhibited their power by convincing a major national retailer to pull a T-shirt that mocks the singer's love life.
Abercrombie & Fitch released a shirt that read "#more boyfriends than t.s." Fans assumed "t.s." stood for Taylor Swift.
The self-proclaimed "swifties" fired off emails and tweets at the company and started petitions to have the shirt removed.
One fan even recorded a video while calling the Abercrombie & Fitch public relations line and posted it on YouTube.
"It is the most childish thing I've ever seen in my entire life," the fan said in a voice message. "Taylor has more than 20 million Twitter followers and there are so many people that literally cannot stand Abercrombie & Fitch."
The company received so many calls to its public relations line that it recorded a message letting fans know the shirt had been pulled from shelves.
"If you are calling regarding the Taylor Swift T-shirt, please note that this is no longer available," said the recording.
The latest public relations disaster for the clothing store comes just weeks after it was mired in controversy over comments made by its CEO.
Mike Jeffries told Salon.com he didn't want "fat" kids wearing his company's clothes during an interview in 2006. His comments resurfaced in an article published by Business Insider.
Jeffries's comments sparked national outrage, protests and promises of boycotts. The CEO later apologized for his remarks.
During the controversy surrounding Jeffries's comments, Abercrombie & Fitch reported its store sales dropped by 13 percent during the first quarter of 2013.
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...totius orbis Romani and encouraged the collection of the fragments of classical literature. But his greatest achievement was to bring order into the chaos of ancient chronology in his De emendatione temporum (1583) and Thesaurus temporum (1606).


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By Michael Mumper
While I voted for President Obama in yesterday's election, I'm in no mood to gloat. National debt is too high, and the weight of corporate and governmental interests overwhelm the voice of the individual. While the Affordable Care Act, I think, will move us to be a healthier, preventative-care culture, the price tag will be staggering. While I admire the more respectful tone to our international friends around the globe (which I think Obama brings), there is a lot we can take to heart about our conservative friends' message regarding individual responsibility, the value of wealth creation and the sustainability of financial conservatism.


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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Oct. 22, 2012) Mission Health today announced the appointment of Neil Gurney to the position of Vice President of Strategic Implementation. A seasoned veteran of both the U.S. and global advertising industries, Gurney will provide strategic direction for Mission Health and Mission Foundation, seeking to expand and refine a compelling brand and message for both entities.
Gurney comes to Mission Health with an extensive background in brand strategy and marketing. Before moving to the United States, Gurney served as CEO of the Saatchi & Saatchi group in Africa. The group included 16 agencies and approximately 400 staff members, and had annual billings of more than $80 million. At Saatchi & Saatchi, he had the opportunity to develop some the globe's best known brands, including Guinness, Metropolitan Life, Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and DuPont.
"Neil brings a wealth of knowledge to our family at Mission Health," said Rowena Buffett Timms, Senior Vice President of Government and Community Relations for Mission Health. "His expertise in strategic thinking, combined with his knowledge of the western North Carolina community and region, are a perfect fit for spreading Mission Health's message."
Most recently, Gurney served as a partner at Integritive 2 in Asheville. Joining forces with Integritive, a web specialist company, Integritive2 integrates brand marketing, advertising, interactive and sustainability all under one roof. The agency's clients include some of Asheville's most well established names, such as the Economic Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County, the Asheville Airport and Tupelo Honey Café.
"It is always refreshing when you meet someone who has great passion for their work, said Bruce Thorsen, President and CEO of Mission Foundation. "Neil has the ability to plan and cultivate brands that resonate within our community. When working in healthcare, it is crucial to possess these skills to reach patients."
Gurney will focus on developing plans that leverage the synergies between Mission Health and Mission Foundation, in an effort to achieve their respective business goals and objectives. As a brand steward for both entities, Gurney will develop and maintain a consistent brand position throughout all marketing and communications activities.
About Mission Health
Mission Health, based in Asheville, N.C., is the state's sixth-largest health system and the region's only not-for-profit, independent community hospital system governed and managed exclusively in western North Carolina. In 2012 Mission Health was named one of the nation's Top 15 Health Systems by Thomson Reuters ˆ the only health system in North Carolina to receive this recognition.
Mission Health, which traces its roots in the region back to 1885, operates five hospitals, numerous outpatient and surgery centers, and the region's only dedicated Level II trauma center. Its medical staff consists of more than 1,000 physicians and is certified in over 50 medical specialties and sub-specialties. Mission Health has seven Centers of Excellence: Cancer, Heart, Mission Children's Hospital, Neurosciences, Orthopedics, Trauma and Women's Health. Mission Hospital, located in Asheville, is the system's flagship hospital and is licensed for 730 beds. It is the regional referral center for tertiary and quaternary care and is the busiest surgical hospital in North Carolina. It also includes Mission Children's Hospitalˆ the region's only children's hospital. Other Mission Health member hospitals include Angel Medical Center in Franklin, Blue Ridge Regional Hospital in Spruce Pine, McDowell Hospital in Marion and Transylvania Regional Hospital in Brevard. With approximately 8,800 employees and 700 volunteers, Mission Health is dedicated to improving the health and wellness of the people of western North Carolina.