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To enable HTTP/HTTPS support, you need to set the connection factory's imqAddressList attribute to the URL of the HTTP/HTTPS tunnel servlet. The URL has the form
where hostName:portNumber is the host name and port number of the application server or Web server hosting the tunnel servlet and contextRoot is the context root directory you specified when deploying the tunnel servlet on the server, as described above under Step 4 (HTTP and HTTPS): Deploying the Tunnel Servlet.
You can set the imqAddressList attribute in any of the following ways:
Use the -o option to the imqobjmgr command that creates the connection factory administered object (see Adding a Connection Factory).
Set the attribute when creating the connection factory administered object using the Administration Console (imqadmin).
Use the -D option to the command that launches the client application.
Use an API call to set the attributes of the connection factory after you create it programmatically in client application code (see the Message Queue Developer's Guide for Java Clients).


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SMC (SubMiniature version C) are coaxial RF (Radio Frequency) connectors with a screw-type interface. They feature between 10 and 32 machine screw threads and, when mated, provide an air gap closure for protection against high-voltage breakdown and leakage in your PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards).
Types of SMC Connectors
Available in 50 and 75 Ohm configurations, SMC connectors are suitable for small form factor coaxial cables and PCBs where size matters.
Like snap-coupling SMB (SubMiniature version B) connectors, the centre contacts of SMC connectors are reversed when compared with SMA (SubMiniature version A) Connectors. Male (jack) SMC connectors have a pin for the centre contact whereas female (plug) connectors have a socket for the centre contact. The plug connectors feature a mating hex nut ( a six-sided nut with internal screw threads) while the jack connectors have an external thread.
What are SMC connectors used for?
- Instrumentation
- Cable assemblies
- Telecommunication
- Video Systems
- Automotive (GPS)
- Base Stations
- Wireless Applications
- Process Controls
- Radio Boards
- Test and Measurement
- Antennas
- PC/LAN (Local Area Network)

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GALESBURG, Ill. - Matt Wallen is 23 years old.
That explains his wide-eyed enthusiasm, willingness to wear shorts while working outside in the beginning of February and - some might say - his seeming idealism.
The soft-spoken Wallen explained his decision to take on the role of lead farmer in Galesburg, Ill.'s latest nonprofit corporation and first large-scale urban farming effort, Growing Together Inc., in other terms.
"My mom had this boyfriend who had a composter in the backyard," said Wallen, who grew up in Good Hope, Ill. "And I would go out there with him, and it was kind of cool to crank it and have him explain to me what he was doing.
"Then the day came that he reached in there and pulled out this black gold. It was the most beautiful soil I'd ever seen. It was just incredible," he said.
The boyfriend didn't stay around, but he left behind the composter and an indelible impression on Wallen.
"The idea of soil creation led me to want to understand natural systems and an appreciation for the beauty of nature's systems. Eventually that all led me to the desire to help people while I get my hands dirty."
While a student at Western Illinois University, Wallen's passion for soil and growing food led him to Will Allen's book "The Good Food Revolution" and Allen's urban farming Growing Power project in Milwaukee, Wis.
Along the way, Wallen came in contact with Peter Schwartzman, and as fate would have it, Schwartzman had an audacious idea right up Wallen's alley.
Besides being chairman of the Environmental Studies Department at Knox College, Schwartzman serves on the Galesburg City Council and has a history of community-based projects aimed at protecting the environment and educating Knox County's residents about energy and food options.
Schwartzman founded The Center, helped start the Knox Prairie Community Kitchen and started a number of neighborhood gardens on property he purchased throughout Galesburg. But the professor had bigger plans.
After Doug Ball bought the Fifth Street property formerly known as Holy Rosary Abbey, Schwartzman approached him about leasing 3 acres of unused land to turn into an urban farm. Ball climbed aboard the idea, and Schwartzman was off and running.
Following Allen's Milwaukee model, Schwartzman formed a nonprofit corporation and reached out to community members to form a board of directors. He tapped David Hays as president, Terry Haywood as vice president, John Hunigan as treasurer and Carolyn Hawes as a board member.
Schwartzman simply networked with other community activists he met over the years.
"I didn't know Peter all that well," Haywood said. "But I took students to the Bioneers Conference, and I always ran into him at the Youth Commission and at community events.
"He started talking to me about urban farming. He impressed me because I knew it was a project he had taken on before, and I liked his ambitions. He asked me to knock on doors. So that's what I'm doing," he said.
And Schwartzman asked Wallen to come as Growing Together Inc.'s lead farmer. He said the 23-year-old understands the kind of scope Schwartzman envisions for the project.
"Matt is here right now as an unpaid employee," Schwartzman said. "He turned down a job offer in Hawaii to take this job - because he believes in urban farming, alternative food systems and changing the way this community sees itself in the effort to grow food locally."
The short-term goal of Growing Together Inc. is simple. Wallen, Schwartzman and the rest of the project's leaders and supporters want to grow, sell and distribute locally grown foods to the community.
And they want to involve the community volunteers and, eventually, a paid staff.
"We have the best land in the world," Schwartzman said. "Seriously. The land here is beautiful, and you can grow food. But think about this: Of the food grown here, very little is ever consumed here.
"We want to change that. We want to show people that we can grow food in Galesburg that stays in Galesburg. We want to show people that it's healthy, better for the environment and better for the community," he said.
In a news release, Growing Together Inc. issued a kind of mission statement: "Galesburg and many towns in the surrounding area suffer from significant underemployment and food security issues. Yet, at the same time, local soil is the richest in the world. And thousands of acres of land - several hundred within the city limits - have potential for the cultivation of fruits and vegetables year-round. By linking the two together, providing the requisite skills and promoting the necessary enthusiasm and fortitude, GTI will encourage local people to put innovative agricultural strategies to work as a way to support themselves, their families and our community."
At its core, Growing Together Inc. isn't just about growing food for the farmers market, local restaurants and distribution at local food pantries. Schwartzman envisions a kind of paradigm shift.
"You cannot overstate the social benefits urban farming can bring to a community," Schwartzman said. "We're talking about exercise, social interaction, the opportunity to teach kids where their food comes from.
"We're talking about people learning to cook differently with diverse ingredients. Maybe people will want to learn how to can fruits and vegetables. People think that eating local is sacrificing, but we can show that it's retooling, reconsidering and maybe revisiting old ways that worked before globalization," he said.
Wallen said he isn't interested in telling people they shouldn't buy their favorite fruit in January from a grocery store.
"What we can do is replace some of what people eat with food that is grown locally," Wallen said. "People would be surprised about the diversity of foods we can grow. We think of corn and soy as local produce, but we could go much further and meet a lot of the needs of the people who live in this community."


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A wild uproar, or unrestrained celebration of being a Duran Duran fan.
Our collective vision for this convention has been to provide a vehicle for Duran Duran fans to meet, mingle, and cultivate lifelong friendships that go well beyond the life of the band. Their music has become the backdrop for many wonderful friendships over the years, and we hope to continue in that theme. The entire convention, from the moment of check-in on Friday night through Sunday midday, has been designed with that vision in mind.
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June 17, 2015
Rihanna in Guo Pei.
The red carpet at the Costume Institute Gala, an annual fund-raiser for the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute, is a crossroad of the arts, fashion and entertainment. Anna Wintour issues the dress code with the Costume Institute's fashion exhibition in mind.
This year's show is "China: Through the Looking Glass."
A Red Carpet Review, Pinnacle of Glamour and Glitz at the Met Gala and At the Met Gala, Cher and Marc Jacobs Make a Dream Duo
Plus: After-Parties
Rihanna in Guo Pei.
The 2015 Met Gala has only officially begun, but there's a clear leader in the race for best couple, no small feat at an event that threatens to sap Hollywood of every celebrity it has for the duration of an East Coast evening.
That would be Marc Jacobs and his surprise guest (who, by some miracle, remained under wraps until their red carpet debut), Cher.
"This has been a dream of mine for a very, very long time," Mr. Jacobs said.
It is Cher's first appearance at the Met Gala since 1997, when she arrived on the arm of Donatella Versace.
Ms. Kardashian West in Peter Dundas for Roberto Cavalli (Mr. West was also in an outfit by Peter Dundas for Roberto Cavalli.) As a clue to what Mr. Dundas, the newly minted creative director for Roberto Cavalli, might have in mind for his brand come his first show in September, Ms. Kardashian West's full-on bombshell embroidered nude tulle dress provided much fodder for thought.
Indeed, the only dress that came close in the sheer sweepstakes was Beyonce's custom-made Givenchy. Is this, along with Kim Kardashian West's gown, an argument for a new cross-border transparency? Read between the beads.
Mr. Bieber in Balmain, because, shocking as it is for us to say it, the balance between gold dragons and black tie actually worked for once. Men can have fun on the red carpet too, in moderation. Always in moderation.
Ms. Sevigny in JW Anderson. O.K., the theme was China, but did it have to go this far? There was a lot of dragon embroidery cliché on the red carpet, but Ms. Sevigny's off-the-shoulder look took — well, just call it the moon cake.
Ms. Johnson in Chanel couture. Short, completely unrelated to China in any obvious way and terrific looking, this frock both confirms Ms. Johnson as a celebrity fashion force in the making and proves, yet again, that at its best fancy dress has nothing to do with costume.
The best looks were those that had the least obvious connections to the museum's exhibit; arguably, once a style has made it into the hallowed halls of the Met, it ought to be retired from real-life wardrobes. Case in positive point: Ms. Lawrence's Dior, with its shouldn't-work-but-it-does combo of abstracted cherry blossom embroidery and weird sci-fi neck piece.
Capes, as in emperors, were another red carpet trend (one wonders if they were discarded for dinner, but one does not know, as one was not invited because one is press and press was not allowed), and this version, courtesy of Fan Bing Bing, managed to be both somewhat theme-appropriate, over the top — and also cool. Where's an Avengers movie when you need one? For further examples, see Lady Gaga's Balenciaga kimono cover-up, and Rihanna's fur-trimmed satin number.
Sarah Jessica Parker in a Philip Treacy headdress (top, right): The most popular accessory was, hands down (or perhaps we should say heads up), the headdress. Many gold versions came courtesy of Dolce & Gabbana (see: Karen Elson, bottom right, looking like a lantern doll; Tabitha Simmons), but this flame-throwing style by the milliner Philip Treacy topped them all. Literally.
Not surprisingly, red was the color of the night on everyone from reality star Kris Jenner to Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo! (in Oscar de la Renta), Helen Mirren (bottom right) Reese Witherspoon, Rita Ora (top right) — not to mention the new Mrs. Amal Clooney (left.) Ms. Clooney's studded leather bustier and tiered skirt might have mixed some sartorial metaphors, but at least she left the gloves at home.
Ms. Clooney in Maison Margiela. Mr. Clooney in Armani.
Both in custom Givenchy.
Ms. Cyrus in Alexander Wang and an Ana Khouri ear cuff.
Solange in Giles.
Ms. Jenner in Calvin Klein.
Ms. Lopez in Versace.
Madonna in Moschino.
Ms. Qin in Tommy Hilfiger.
Ms. Kravitz in custom Alexander Wang.
Mr. Kane in Brioni and FKA Twigs in a dress by Mr. Kane.
Ms. Mulligan in Balenciaga.
Lorde in Calvin Klein.
Ms. Gomez in a dress by Ms. Wang.
Ms. Henson in Balenciaga.
Ms. Delevingne in Stella McCartney.
Ms. Caplan in Donna Karan Atelier, Jack Vartanian earrings and a Carla Amorim ring.
Ms. Moore in Givenchy couture.
Ms. Ratajkowski in Topshop.
Ms. Sun in Michael Kors.
Ms. Tang in Burberry.
Ms. Thurman in Atelier Versace.
Ms. Seyfried in Givenchy.
Ms. Teigen in St. John. Mr. Legend in Gucci.
Ms. Ewers and Ms. Pivovarova in Balenciaga.
Ms. Kloss in Atelier Versace.
Ms. Aldridge in Carolina Herrera.
The Olsens in vintage John Galliano for Dior.
Ms. Washington in Prada.
Ms. Bochert in Marc Jacobs.
Both in Moschino.
Both in Burberry.
Lady Gaga in Balenciaga.
Cassie in Zuhair Murad.
Zendaya in Fausto Puglisi.
Ms. Mirren in Dolce & Gabbana.
Ms. Ora in Tom Ford.
Mr. Chen in Burberry.
Ms. Lima in Marc Jacobs.
Both in Valentino.
Both in Valentino.
Ms. Miller in an outfit by Mr. Panichgul.
Ms. Gyllenhaal in a dress by Mr. Mouret.
Ms. Zhang in a dress by Mrs. Herrera and Cindy Chao jewelry.
Grimes in Louis Vuitton.
Ms. Hudson in a dress by Mr. Kors.
Ms. Connelly in Louis Vuitton.
Ms. Vergara in Marchesa and Mr. Manganiello in Ermenegildo Zegna made-to-measure.
Ms. Munn in J. Mendel and Cindy Chao jewelry.
Mr. Gurung in Ralph Lauren. Ms. Wiig in a dress by Mr. Gurung.
Common in Prada.
Mr. Jordan in Dolce & Gabbana and Montblanc watch and cufflinks.
Ms. Mara in a dress by Ms. von Fürstenberg.
Ms. Weisz in Chanel.
Miguel in Michael Kors.
Ms. Danes in Valentino.
Ms. Collins in Chanel.
Ms. Kurkova in Tommy Hilfiger.
Ms. Jenner in Balmain.
Ms. Huntington-Whiteley in Atelier Versace.
Ms. Chastain in Givenchy and and Piaget jewelry.
Ms. Monae in custom H&M.
Ms. Donaldson in Topshop.
Ms. Elson in Dolce & Gabbana.
Mr. Slater in Brioni.
Ms. Roberts in Ralph Lauren.
Ms. Hudgens in H&M.
All in Burberry.
Ms. Williams in a dress by Mr. Valli.
Admittedly, the Ralph Lauren hood was a little controversial, provoking much Twitter debate thanks to its Gloria Swanson overtones, but the slinky simplicity of this cap-sleeved gold sheath made all the other gold dresses (and there were a lot of them) look like they had taken a wrong turn on their way to the Oscars.
Ms. Baldwin in Topshop.
Ms. Jagger in Gucci.
Ms. de La Baume in Topshop.
All in dresses by Ms. Burch.
Ms. Holmes in a dress by Mr. Posen.
Mr. Elgort in Tom Ford.
Mr. Marsden in Ermenegildo Zegna made-to-measure and David Yurman shirt studs and cuff links.
Ms. Keys in a dress by Mr. Gaultier.
Ms. Russell in Altuzarra, a Solange Azagury-Partridge ring and Ana Khouri earrings.
Ms. Parker in custom H&M and a Philip Treacy hat. Mr. Cohen in Ralph Lauren.
Mr. Wade in Versace and Buccellati jewelry and Ms. Union in Zac Posen.
Ms. Delevingne in Marchesa.
Ms. Wintour in Chanel. Ms. Shaffer in Alexander McQueen.
Ms. Kebede in 3.1 Phillip Lim.
Both in Ermenegildo Zegna made-to-measure.
Mr. Bridges in Sandro.
Ms. Murdoch in Oscar de la Renta and and Cindy Chao jewelry.
Ms. Gong in Roberto Cavalli and Piaget jewelry.
Correction: May 7, 2015
An earlier version of this article misidentified on second reference the surnames of guests. Gong Li is Ms. Gong, not Ms. Li; Chen Kun is Mr. Chen, not Mr. Kun; Zhang Ziyi is Ms. Zhang, not Ms. Ziyi and Tang Wei is Ms. Tang, not Ms. Wei.
An earlier version of this article also misidentified a guest posing with Kristen Wiig. He is Prabal Gurung, not Joseph Altuzarra.


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GENEVA – On the eve of World Malaria Day 2012, WHO hails global progress in combating malaria but highlights the need to further reinforce the fight. WHO's new initiative, T3: Test, Treat, Track, urges malaria-endemic countries and donors to move towards universal access to diagnostic testing and antimalarial treatment, and to build robust malaria surveillance systems.
A million lives saved
"In the past ten years, increased investment in malaria prevention and control has saved more than a million lives," says Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General. "This is a tremendous achievement. But we are still far from achieving universal access to life-saving malaria interventions."
Progress not enough to meet target
A massive acceleration in the global distribution of mosquito nets, the expansion of programmes to spray the insides of buildings with insecticides, and an increase in access to prompt antimalarial treatment has brought down malaria mortality rates by more than a quarter worldwide, and by one third in Africa since 2000. But simply maintaining current rates of progress will not be enough to meet global targets for malaria control.
T3: Test, Treat, Track
WHO therefore urges the global health community to further scale up investments in diagnostic testing, treatment, and surveillance for malaria in order to save more lives and to make a major push towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals in 2015.
Endemic countries should be able to ensure that every suspected malaria case is tested, that every confirmed case is treated with a quality-assured antimalarial medicine, and that the disease is tracked through timely and accurate surveillance systems.
WHO has published technical guidance for all three pillars of T3: Test, Treat, Track – releasing the final two documents of the package, Disease Surveillance for Malaria Control, and Disease Surveillance for Malaria Elimination, today.
"Until countries are able to test, treat, and report every malaria case, we will never defeat this disease," says Dr Margaret Chan, who is in Namibia for World Malaria Day this year. "We need strong and sustained political commitment from all countries where malaria is endemic, and from the global health community, to see this fight through to the end."
- In half of all malaria-endemic countries in Africa, over 80% of cases are still being treated without diagnostic testing. Universal diagnostic testing will ensure that patients with fever receive the most appropriate treatment, and that antimalarial medicines are used rationally and correctly. Countries that have already scaled up diagnostic testing (such as Senegal) are saving hundreds of thousands of treatment courses every year.
- Many countries have made significant progress in improving access to antimalarials. In 2010, 60 governments were providing artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) free of charge to all age groups. But millions of people still lack ready access to appropriate treatment. The effort must be scaled up to ensure that every confirmed malaria case gets treated.
- Improved surveillance for malaria cases and deaths will help countries determine which areas or population groups are most affected. It will also help ministries of health to identify resurgences and map new trends – thus maximizing the efficiency of prevention and control programmes. Better surveillance will also allow for a more effective delivery of international aid programmes.
"T3: Test, Treat, Track aims to galvanize endemic countries and their partners to build on the success of malaria prevention efforts over the past decade," says Dr Robert Newman, Director of WHO's Global Malaria Programme. "In recent years, there has been major progress in the development of new diagnostic tools and highly effective antimalarial medicines. The challenge now is to ensure these tools get used, and that countries accurately measure their public health impact."
Malaria progress, 2000-2010
During the past decade, global malaria prevention and control efforts have been scaled up, with notable progress in sub-Saharan Africa, where the vast majority of malaria cases occur. The number of long-lasting insecticidal nets delivered to malaria-endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa increased from 5.6 million in 2004 to 145 million in 2010. Programmes to spray the interiors of buildings with insecticides were also expanded, with the number of people protected in sub-Saharan Africa rising from 10 million in 2005 to 81 million in 2010.
The availability of rapid diagnostic tests has made it possible to improve and expand diagnostic testing for malaria. The rate of testing – in the public sector in Africa – rose from less than 5% in 2000 to 45% in 2010. Meanwhile, the number of ACTs procured worldwide by government health departments also increased exponentially: from 11 million in 2005 to 181 million in 2010.
However, malaria transmission still occurs in 99 countries around the world, and the malaria burden continues to cripple health systems in many African countries. In 2010, this entirely preventable and treatable disease caused an estimated 655 000 deaths worldwide. About 560 000 of the victims were children under five years of age, which means malaria killed one child every minute.
"Sustaining recent gains in Africa will require continued political commitment and funding," said Dr Thomas Teuscher, Executive Director a.i., Roll Back Malaria Partnership. "An estimated 3 million lives can be saved between now and 2015, if we continue to work in partnership and if governments in endemic countries redouble their efforts to provide people with essential health services."
World Malaria Day was instituted by the World Health Assembly at its 60th session in May 2007 to recognize the global effort to provide effective control of malaria. It is celebrated on 25 April ever year.
Note to Editors
WHO's statistical uncertainty range for global malaria mortality is 537 000–907 000 – an indication of the urgent need for better surveillance and improved reporting.
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We win that award all the time despite Mills and the McCullum brothers, so it makes me very suspicious it's just an award to give to the little folks to make them feel included.
But with Southee attending the Kyle Mills Gentlemens Academy lately, (on top of the three above) if we win it this year it will confirm to me at least the award is a sham.
Who can really say, hand on heart, a team with Mills, McCullums, Southee and Styris (another grump) should be winning that award as much as we do?


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My Love-Hate Relationship with Ebooks
A short post as I peruse the "ebrary" tool available to me as a graduate student. I am in search of a good text to read and about which to write an academic book review. It's an assignment in my Historiography class. I'm open for suggestion by the way.
I absolutely LOVE the ability to search, read, highlight and store on my virtual bookshelf the books on-line in virtual libraries. Before I discovered that I had access to "ebrary," a wonderful tool at the university, I used (and still do) Questia. I am admittedly an e-library "early-adopter" (a term we use in telecom to describe those on the cutting edge who can't wait for the latest new technology and will pay a premium to have it). Yes I actually pay a hefty sum for my Questia subscription. Now that I've seen "ebrary," I will likely reconsider, but I digress. The point is that for research and easy, quick access to information, ebook libraries are fantastic. I can highlight in multiple colors, build bookshelves on particular topics, create perfectly formatted citations in the style of my choosing —sigh — a student's or any researcher's dream.
On the other hand, I LOVE to OWN books. I want them all – physically in my house, on my shelves, stacked on my desk, on the floor, the dresser, the nightstand (See earlier post titled Civil War Books Filling Every Nook and Cranny.). I want to be able to pick a book up, feel it in my hands, flip through its pages, highlight phrases I want to remember, scribble in the margins, carry it in my bag to pull out during moments opportune for reading. This tactile experience – which is one of the joys of reading – is just not the same with an ebook.
I've been vaguely aware of the ebook readers on the market. One of my staff told me that the new "AmazonKindle" is all the rage in academia. Could this be the best of both worlds? I'm not yet ready to say. I guess I need to try it, but, alas, it has no pages to touch… I remain conflicted.


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Mother wants answers in fatal crash
Andrea Castillo dies after crash with undercover Hialeah Police officer
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The mother of a 21-year-old woman who died from her injuries suffered in a crash with an undercover Hialeah Police officer earlier this month wants to know why her daughter wasn't transported by air rescue like the police officer was.
"My family and I are completely devastated about what has happened to my daughter. She had just turned 21 the day before the accident," said Miami-Dade School Board member Susie Castillo. "She had her whole life ahead of her. She was just starting everything."
Castillo's daughter Andrea died two days after a collision with a undercover officer at E. 9th Court and 49th Street on October 19.
According to Hialeah Police, Marco Barrios, Andrea's boyfriend, ran a stop sign into the path of the unmarked police car. The SUV the pair was riding in flipped several times after it was hit. Police said Barrios and Castillo weren't wearing seatbelts.
Hazel Barrios said based on his bruises, her brother Marco, who remains in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital, was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. She also said her brother stopped at the intersection.
"Everybody wants justice, right? We want to know what's going on. We want to know, just like anyone else, we want answers," said Hazel Barrios.
"It really hurts. I'm very angry about the way we have been treated. I was never contacted by the (Hialeah) Police Department the night of the accident," said Castillo. "I found out because friends of hers told me and that's how we got to the hospital."
Castillo wants an independent investigation into the crash. Castillo said her daughter was unconscious after the crash when she and Barrios were taken by ambulance to the hospital.
Raul Somarriba, the officer involved in the crash, suffered leg, arm, and head injuries. He was transported by Air Rescue.
"You don't treat people that way. It's like our family doesn't exist. We're not important," said Castillo. "It seems like the only thing that was important was maybe the cop because he was the only one that was airlifted. He's the only one they paid any attention to."
"Air rescue transported the police officer because he met the highest degree of severity in injuries at the time. They were triaged," Hialeah Fire Rescue Capt. Cesar Espinosa said last week.
"I'm very angry. I'm very hurt and I think, I believe, I don't know because I don't have the facts of anything yet, but the fact that you have a person unconscious there, it seems logical that if you're taking the chopper and you're taking one person in that chopper, there's absolutely no reason why she shouldn't have been on that chopper," said Castillo. "My daughter's life shouldn't be -- what happened to her shouldn't be unanswered. It needs to be, I need to know why it happened to her."
Both families want the Miami-Dade Police Department to take over the investigation and have contacted the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The families are considering filing lawsuits against the City of Hialeah.
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WASHINGTON -- It didn't take long for former Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to land a new job, and it's not on Wall Street -- though it's in the same area code.
The Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank based in New York, said Wednesday that Geithner would become its newest senior fellow later this month. He stepped down as Treasury secretary on Jan. 25.
President Obama has nominated White House Chief of Staff Jacob J. Lew to replace him.
Geithner has followed this route before. He was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 2001 after his first stint at the Treasury Department and before he started a job at the International Monetary Fund. After the IMF, Geithner served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 until he became Treasury secretary in 2009.
"Both at Treasury and at the New York Federal Reserve, Tim was a tireless, creative, and responsible custodian of the public trust," said Richard N. Haass, president of the Council of Foreign Relations.
"His coming to CFR only strengthens our capacity to produce thoughtful analysis of issues at the intersection of economic, political, and strategic developments," Haas said.
Because of Geithner's long history dealing with the financial industry and his role in the banking bailouts, some speculated he might take a job on Wall Street.
Geithner bristled when people assumed he had worked for the industry, which he had not, and he recently told New York magazine it was "extremely unlikely" he would take a position on Wall Street. He also dismissed another rumored landing spot -- as a successor to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, whose term ends in early 2014.
Geithner said the bailouts were about saving the economy, not the big banks.
"If you want to protect the economy from a failing financial system, you have to get the system functionally working, and that requires you to do things that look like you are helping the people who helped cause the crisis," Geithner said in the interview. "People describe this as the rescue of the financial system. That's not really right; it was the rescue of the economy from the failing financial system."
Jacob J. Lew, White House chief of staff, to get Treasury nod
Geithner's stature and influence at the White House increase
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A group of 44 sophomores at Marquette University are setting out a new path, one that incorporates a broader consideration of social justice into a life of learning.
The students have taken up residence in the Dorothy Day Social Justice Living/Learning Community on two floors of the David A. Straz Jr. Tower residence hall. Two years in the making, the living/learning community will focus on justice issues in their course work, volunteer opportunities during the school year, Scripture study and prayer, explained Jim McMahon, the university's assistant vice president and dean of residence life.
The planning group settled on naming the community for Day because of her commitment to justice and serving poor and homeless people for nearly five decades. Marquette also is the archival home of Day's letters, diaries and notes from her experiences at the Catholic Worker house in New York.
Under the program, the students will share course work in philosophy and theology. In addition, they will spend two to three hours a week at service projects covering issues such as the environment, education, poverty, literacy and fair trade.
Living near each other also presents an advantage, allowing students to explore justice issues in small groups or one-on-one conversations at just about any time of day or night, McMahon said. Resident advisers will be able to faciliate discussions as needs warrant.
"Students who are involved in living and learning together do better academically and are more engaged. Critical thinking skills tend to be greater," McMahon said about the university's hopes for the program.


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Indian outsourcing company Wipro Ltd. says its quarterly profit rose 17 percent to 17.3 billion rupees ($317 million) as information technology services revenue grew.
Wipro on Friday reported quarterly revenue of 110 billion rupees ($2 billion), up 12 percent from a year earlier. It forecast lower revenue of 85 billion to 87 billion rupees ($1.58 billion to $1.61 billion) for the April-June quarter.
Wipro executives said sales in the first quarter of the fiscal year are traditionally weak.
India's third-largest information technology outsourcing company said profit for the fiscal year that ended March 31 rose by 19 percent to 66 billion rupees ($1.2 billion).
The Wipro results come after a strong profit result from top Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services and a disappointing forecast by rival Infosys.


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Okay, so he was dead. But he was also the most stunning wild bird I'd ever seen—probably ever would see. I'd been walking the city alleys of Bloomington, Indiana, when I nearly stepped on a lovely-but-lifeless Indigo Bunting. I recall lightly pinching his paper-thin body between my thumb and index finger. With the smallest movement of my wrist I could make his electric blue head flop from one side to the other. His snapped neck made sense. After all, the neotropical migrant navigates with the stars. Flying at night, he probably never noticed that eight-story brick building smack in the middle of the city's buzzing downtown—until he smacked into it himself, of course.
True, mine was not exactly the sort of encounter most birders relish, but it served as my first glimpse of a relatively new pastime—urban birding. Sound like an oxymoron? Plenty of modern-day birders are happy to report it's not. While traditional birders go the distance to see their quarry in preferred habitats, their urban counterparts are happy to stay home, instead scanning their own concrete-covered environs for avian treasure. Greg Links, an avid birder and trustee at large for the Toledo Naturalists' Association, does a little of both. Sometimes he steals out on his lunch hour to look for migrants passing through downtown in the spring and fall. "It's a quirky little game," he says. What kind of goody can we turn up in the middle of all of this?"
During one fall field trip Links and a group of urban birders found 58 species in an afternoon. "Those birds were all in downtown Toledo. Now, there were a couple of spots that were pretty wooded, so that was kind of cheating a little bit," he says. One of Links's favorite finds to date? A Connecticut Warbler walking along the library square. "That's a surprise. That's a bird of the Northern spruce bogs, and there it is walking on the sidewalk. With [urban birding] it's not so much the rarity of the bird as it is the uniqueness of the context," he explains.
It's not easy to pin down just who these newfangled birders are. According to the 2000 Census, more than 46 million Americans say they birdwatch in some form. "The demographics of birding in general have shifted fairly recently. It used to be two groups: the stereotypical little old ladies with their sneakers and binoculars, and then the other group of real hotshot, hard-core types who go out alone and list as many birds as they can," Links notes. And now?
There are still those intense loners who live to look for birds and list those they find all by themselves, thank you very much. (Links counts himself among them: "We're out to go birding, not kibbitzing!") But that's changing. "Today I would say birding is probably pretty evenly split between men and women, and they are going out in groups," says Links. Turns out, there really isn't an "average" urban birder. At least not yet, anyway. And there isn't any one reason why people scour their cities for birds.
For Sharon "Bird Chick" Stiteler, the hobby is part habit—and part obsession. An urban-birding blogger and author of the forthcoming book, City Birds, Country Birds (Adventure Publications), Stiteler has always been a city-based birder. "I grew up in Indianapolis, and my parents didn't necessarily have time to take me out to the middle of nowhere to go look at birds, so I would just watch them wherever I was," she says.
Now in Minneapolis, the 32-year-old is so devoted that she carries a miniature telescope in her purse. "I honestly cannot help it. If I'm at a cookout or an outdoor wedding or something—and especially if it's spring and migration's going on—I'll have that with me," she says. It often comes in handy. During one outdoor gathering, a nighthawk migration flying overhead captivated Stiteler and, ultimately, the rest of the party as well: "You start pointing and looking up, and everyone at the table around you starts looking up, too.
Before you know it, you're doing an impromptu lesson on nighthawk migration." When she's not urban birding, the freelance writer covers, yes, birds, and consults for manufacturers of bird feeders and bird-attraction products. Stiteler also maintains bird feeders for friends on the side. "One of them was having a horrible time with something attacking their feeders at night, so I installed a night camera. We found out we had had a bear coming. It was eating the bird food and destroying the feeder!" she recalls.
Of course, city birders don't need night-vision cameras or mini telescopes to be successful. "Hundreds of people will go by in a day, and the birds are oblivious to them. Typically, I don't need binoculars because the birds are just eight feet away, in a little planting of flowers or something," says Karl Overman, a field-trip leader for the Detroit Audubon Society and assistant attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Michigan. Like Links, Overman squeezes birding in during his lunch break. He's been hooked since junior high, but he began to look for birds in urban settings about four years ago and has noticed more and more of them passing through the city.
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In part it's those plantings—whether in city parks, on courthouse lawns, or even school playgrounds—which have helped make the pursuit so fruitful. That's because well-planned green spaces in urban areas translate to more stopover points for migrating birds that become hungry or exhausted during each leg of the journey. "Birds are flying over in huge numbers, and they fly over at night. What happens is the sun comes up, and they've got to plop down somewhere," Links says.
If they've been flying over a large urban area, that "somewhere" can be tricky to find. Peter Dorosh, president of New York's Brooklyn Bird Club, imagines green spaces must stand out from a bird's eye view: "They see city parks and preserves as dark spots within the 'neon empire.' They know if it's dark it must be good landing." If it sounds like Dorosh has learned how to think and see like a bird, it's because he has.
Other urban birders rely on their ability to detect specific calls to uncover the unexpected Blackpoll Warbler or other surprise songbirds, but for the 45-year-old Dorosh, who has been hearing-impaired since birth, urban birding remains a purely visual and intuitive experience. "I'm well acclimated and experienced in spotting birds with my very good vision and knowledge. I often rely on my instincts," he says. Dorosh's understanding of different habitat preferences, coupled with his exceptional vision, make it possible for him to spot even the most minute movements of songbirds who have landed under brush or among dense foliage.
As it happens, New York City has plenty of good landing spots for the hundreds of millions of migrating songbirds traveling the Atlantic Flyway overhead, and when even a small percentage of those migrants decides to drop in to rest, Big Apple birders get to see high concentrations of many diverse species. Dorosh knows a birder who lives in Staten Island, where the landscape is fairly suburban, who heads over to Prospect Park—in comparatively urban Brooklyn—each day during the migration seasons for that very reason. "He comes because he can see more birds—especially warblers—in shorter time and with less ground to cover in the very diverse habitats in Prospect Park. On very good days, more than 20 species of warblers can be found," Dorosh says.
Now, thanks in part to the "heat island" effect of some large cities, Dorosh and other urban birders may have a little longer to look for their favorite fall migrants. "There are several species of birds that stay longer downtown than they do elsewhere. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Ovenbird, Lincoln Sparrow. Those are birds that, if you go out on November first, let's say, the chances of you finding them in most parts of Michigan are, like, nil. But the chances of finding them in downtown Detroit are very good. The theory goes that it's because there's just enough heat to make these birds survive for a month more," says Overman. And after that? Rested and refueled, they'll head out for the next leg of the journey to their respective winter homes.
While city configurations may make for pretty good birding, let's face it, urbanization hasn't exactly been good for our feathered friends. The populations of many species have decreased during the past 40 years, while urban development continues to increase. "Urbanization reduces the size and quality of usable native bird habitat, thus limiting the amount of space and resources available to birds," says Steven Saffier, a science associate with the National Audubon Society.
Breeding pairs are especially hard hit because appropriate breeding areas can only accommodate so many birds. Once those areas are occupied, any remaining "homeless" birds have a tough time finding nesting sites and food. Urbanization also changes the dynamics of natural areas, not just their size. "So, for example, interior forest birds such as Cerulean Warblers, Ovenbirds, Wood Thrush, and many other neotropical migrants require particular-sized tracts of unbroken forest. If a forest is split by urbanization, the habitat is rendered unviable," Saffier says.
Still, for highly adaptive species—think European Starlings, House Sparrows, grackles, and Canada Geese—urbanization's been a boon. The result? "It's almost like a McList. You go to McDonalds anywhere, and it's the same menu," says Caren Cooper, a research associate at Cornell Lab of Ornithology. "You can get to an urban center and it's going to be the same species, whether you are in New York or in Atlanta. When you get to the extremes of urbanization, sometimes the bird diversity is the same no matter where you are."
But plenty of folks are fighting that trend. Fredericka Veikley, a financial analyst at a hospital in Boston, is a "casual birder" who longed to see more on her local urban ornithology menu. So, with an eye toward giving embattled natives like American Robins and Cedar Waxwings a leg up—and giving transient species a nice place to rest—she worked with Boston city officials, Northeastern University biologist Gwilym Jones, and other volunteers to transform a neighborhood eyesore into a viable avian habitat. What was once an abandoned, half-acre parking lot just blocks from Boston's Fenway Park is now a "parking lot" for nearly 200 species of wild birds.
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Known as Ramler Park, the spot officially opened in the summer of 2004, and has had plenty of time to become well established. Thoughtful planning means the birds can find essential natural food sources year-round: great stands of trees like white pines and sweetgums; shrubs such as cranberry viburnum; and perennial flowers including bee balm, oriental poppy, goldenrod, and veronica beckon to all manner of visitors.
Scarlet Tanagers, Rufous-sided Towhees, Carolina Wrens, Green Warblers, and many other distinguished guests have all been spotted here. Aside from its myriad native plant species, Ramler Park's proximity to Muddy River and the Back Bay Fens also has something to do with its ability to attract birds. "What we wanted was a little piece of that action right in our neighborhood," admits Veikley, who's president of Friends of Ramler Park, the neighborhood group that helped shape the project. Some of its members are hard-core birders, but, she says, "Most of them are neophytes just awakening to all that is around us."
Besides good forage and cover for wildlife, there are touches for the park's human visitors, too. A tile-lined fountain burbles at the its center, brick paths wind beneath a striking pergola, and an ornate metal fence featuring soaring swallows nicely contains the area. "It was meant to be sort of a spiritual place. I don't want to start using those 'Kumbaya' words, but we made sure that there was no 'active' activity place there. There's no playground equipment. There's no place to play ball. It's really just meant to be the most beautiful place that it could be," Veikley says.
In the case of Ramler Park, so far, so good. But Cooper warns that not all green spaces are created equal. It may sound counterintuitive, but some may be doing more harm than good: "There is some concern that green spaces can be ecological traps—habitat that looks good and draws birds in, but actually their population would do poorly there, because maybe there were a lot of cats around or something else was affecting their nesting success."
Ecological traps can wreak havoc on migratory birds as well. "Maybe there are lots of window crashes or the food sources are really of such low quality that they didn't charge [the birds] up enough so that they could make it to their next stopover," she explains. "People are trying to understand if those things happen, and if so, how can we stop that from happening?"
Ultimately, urban birders just might have a hand in finding out. To determine how and why birds in urban environments thrive—or don't—Cooper and others are enlisting the help of citizen scientists willing to "bird" in cities year-round. (All right, so counting Black-capped Chickadees during the winter doldrums isn't nearly as glamorous as discovering a Boreal Owl passing through Central Park, but it's still important.) "We have been trying to recruit more people in urban environments into birding, and also encouraging people to bird in residential landscapes, because we are interested in understanding how urbanization is affecting all kinds of birds," she says.
To that end, researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology launched "Urban Bird Studies" projects such as "Birds in the City," funded by the National Science Foundation (see sidebar). "Through the programs, everyday people who are interested in birds collect data that they submit and our scientists use that data to answer research questions about birds. It's everyday people participating in genuine scientific research," Cooper says. That's good news for the birds doing their best to nest or migrate despite our growing cities. And in the long run, it's good for urban birders like me. Who knows? Maybe the next Indigo Bunting I see will be alive and well, safely clearing my city's rooftops as he warbles his way north this spring.
Story by Susan M. Brackney. This article originally appeared in Plenty in February 2007.


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Yosemite's plan to protect Merced River would mean, limiting visitors, closing ice rink
FRESNO, Calif. – A draft plan to limit crowding in Yosemite National Park to protect a river that runs through it would limit the number of daily visitors to roughly current levels.
The long-awaited preferred options for the Merced River Plan were posted Tuesday on the park's website.
Under the plan, the number of daily visitors would be capped at 19,900. Mule rentals and commercial rafting would be banned.
Visitors would still be allowed to use their own rafts on the Merced River but would be directed to specific areas for access to keep steep banks from being trampled and eroded.
The popular wintertime Curry Village Ice Rink would be eliminated.
Park officials are under a court order to come up with a plan to protect the river.


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Mayor William "Bill" Moore retained control of the gavel on Fletcher Town Council, winning 76 percent of the vote in Tuesday's mayoral contest.
Mayor William "Bill" Moore retained control of the gavel on Fletcher Town Council, winning 76 percent of the vote in Tuesday's mayoral contest.
Moore, 69, defeated challenger Dennis Justice, 43, to earn his fourth term on council, where he has served as mayor for the last 14 years. He garnered 330 votes to Justice's 102.
"I'm blessed," Moore said following his victory. "We've got a wonderful town out here and I'm just proud to be part of it."
A retired Chevy salesman, Moore has been a strong advocate for developing the Heart of Fletcher and Fletcher Community Park and recruiting new industries to the town. He campaigned on a theme of continued progress while living within the town's means.
"We've just got to keep moving forward, but we've got to move forward at a pace we can afford," Moore said. "We've got to live within our budget. Our challenge moving forward is developing the (Highway) 25 corridor and bringing more businesses into the community."
Justice said he decided to run against Moore after a medical cannabis dispensary in Fletcher was "unjustly" raided by a SWAT team, despite its operator paying stamp taxes that he said benefited local law enforcement. He charged that Moore failed to seek "alternative resolutions."
"(It) forced me to run because nobody in the establishment questioned that raid," Justice said Tuesday after his loss. "If 4,000-plus (registered) voters could not act on that, I can't be their mayor anyway."
As the last precincts reported Tuesday, Moore admitted he "was no authority on marijuana. But I do know that it's illegal to grow it in North Carolina. As long as I'm mayor of Fletcher, we're going to enforce the law."
Another issue Justice campaigned on was his goal of developing 93 acres formerly owned by ArvinMeritor into a new park, with a concrete dome structure that would double as an indoor multi-sport facility and disaster shelter.
"It's all about priorities," Moore said, who pointed out the town invests roughly $425,000 each year in recreation. "That (Meritor) property isn't going to go anywhere. And we're going to develop that, but we're going to do it at a pace this town can afford."
District 1 Councilwoman Sheila Franklin and Mayor Pro-Tem Eddie Henderson of District 4 also won re-election Tuesday. Both ran uncontested for their seats.
"This is not about Bill Moore," the newly elected mayor said. "This is about Fletcher. The only thing that I will take credit for is I have put a lot of good people around me."


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I tried to find any current information on the upcoming Season 3 hit genealogy TV show on NBC called "Who Do You Think You Are?" but I only found notice from the NBC web site that the show "returns in 2012".
I did find some reference that also provides a hint that Marisa Tomei is expected to be one of the guests for the series return in 2012.
I did however find a nice Wiki entry on the NBC American series that did provide some interesting information and statistics (ratings) about the American series.
Take a look at the following link that gives you further information about this fascinating genealogical TV series:
"Who Do You Think You Are?" Wiki Show Information and Statistics
While we all await Season 3 in 2012, it is interesting to see some of the TV ratings information for this great series.
I thought you might be interested in the statistics while you are awaiting the 2012 series start.
Tony Kierna
Genealogy Coordinator
Schaumburg Township District Library


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Discipling our children: Engaging technology
November 9th, 2011
(Continuation from Part 3 in the discipleship series)
So what can we do to disciple our children? I can suggest a million things, but I'm sure no one wants to read all that. I'll talk about the most practical ones that I've done with my own children and you can pick and choose which applies most to your situation with your children. Discipleship is not one-size-fits-all, so it's not the specifics but the idea that matters, and you can tweak them to what works for you.
1. Engage technology
I love technology because it levels the playing field between generations and closes the gap between us and our children.
There are many things in our children's world that we cannot understand because we cannot be there. The lack of understanding drives us apart. But technology is one thing that young and old can participate on even footing. I cannot go snowboarding with the kids, but I can play computer games.
In order to disciple our children, we need to walk alongside them, and knowing what our kids are into with technology is one major way to build connection. I can guarantee you that the digital mode will increase in influencing our children; smart phones and the Internet are not going away. If you have not already done so, make sure you are engaging in social media, the latest computer games, the trending topics, the top apps, and the most viewed YouTube videos.
Engaging in technology serves three purposes.
One, it helps you understand your children so that you can speak into their lives effectively where they are at.
Two, it lets your children know that you are not old-fashioned and irrelevant, to be relegated to the Dark Ages, gaining you a level of respect.
Three, you can help your children navigate some of the dangers of technology since you will see firsthand the temptations they face.
Let me add one more: There are many digital tools and resources you can find to help you disciple your children.
Next post: Engage your children's learning


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© Jan 2005 Volume 2 Issue 1, Editor: Charles Despres, pp1 - 90
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Business Process Redesign (BPR) is undertaken to achieve order‑of‑magnitude improvements over 'old' form of the organisation. Practitioners in the academia and business world have developed a number of methodologies to support this competitive restructuring that forms the current focus of concern, many of which have not been successful. This paper suggests the use of Data Mining (DM) as a technique to support the process of redesigning a business by extracting the much‑needed knowledge hidden in large volumes of data maintained by the organization through the DM models.
Keywords: Data Mining, Knowledge Management, Business Process Redesign, Business reengineering, Artificial Neural Networks
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"Toy Story 3" recently became the highest grossing movie in Pixar's short (but mind-bogglingly successful) existence, with over $360 million in ticket sales in America alone. But that gross is small potatoes compared to the whopping five BILLION dollars in merchandising generated by "Cars," the 2006 Pixar smash hit. And so it was only a matter of time before Disney and Pixar decided to make a sequel to "Cars." What may surprise you is that it appears Pixar will also, in addition to a sequel, make a direct-to-DVD spinoff of "Cars" as well about… drum roll… PLANES. From Mike Sampson:
Eager to cash in on the lucrative direct-to-DVD market, Pixar is apparently developing PLANES, a movie very similar to CARS, except with planes as the anthropomorphic characters.
Disney has churned out hundreds of direct-to-DVD animated films over the years. And if you have children, you know just how terrible those half-assed sequels usually are. Just try and sit through "Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True" if you don't believe me. Once upon a time, "Toy Story 2" was going to be a direct-to-video sequel before the folks at Pixar decided to protect the franchise by making it into a full feature effort.
Sampson says "Cars" director John Lasseter (who is now the Chief Creative Officer at Disney) shut down the budget sequel pipeline at the studio, which means "Planes" would be something of a reversal for him. "Planes" would, in theory, be its own franchise, with all new characters and no real relation to "Cars," except for sharing the idea of talking vehicles as characters. But it's clear that Disney is hoping for the same kind of merchandising bonanza from this movie that it got from "Cars."
By producing the first direct-to-DVD Pixar movie, Disney is also clearly hoping to create a precedent for Pixar to make more movies like this, and on a cheaper budget. And having the Pixar brand on this kind of movie would be a way of letting consumers know they aren't getting just another cheap knockoff. In theory.
"Cars" is, at least in my opinion, the worst Pixar movie: a legitimately lousy movie that feels like it was derived from a marketing document and not a storyteller's inspiration (even if that wasn't the case). It's the studio's "Shark Tale." Everything about it is predictable and familiar, and so it's worrisome to me that the first direct-to-DVD movie from Pixar would be a spinoff of the only bad movie they ever produced.
But let's face it: Pixar's miracle run of hits will have to end at some point, and they may as well have it happen it on DVD, away from the spotlight of feature filmmaking. So get ready for lots of aviation puns and wise old Cessnas. "Planes" is coming to your Wal Mart pretty soon. After that, anything is possible. TRAINS. WAGONS. BIKES. Anything that moves, people.


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Follow Friday - 2 Jul 2010
My recommendations this week. As usual, I normally pick a good post from my week's readings, or left from the prior week! Hope they are useful or at least interesting to you, as well! If it is your first visit, even better! ;-)
The post by The Armchair Genealogist on 23 Jun 2010, "Making the Leap from Family Historian to Family Writer" is just too "near and dear" to my heart not to list it as the post to read this week. What do you think? Do you agree? I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments. Thanks! ;-)
This week I am recommending Tonia's Roots: Family History and Genealogy as simply a good read. Tonia participates in an array of activities on her blog, including how-to's, commentaries, and daily themes. I think you will enjoy checking in with her on a regular basis.
Families are Forever! ;-)


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