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Rihanna Announces Plans To Unveil Fashion Line In February
As if Rihanna hasn't done enough to one-up Karrueche in their battle over Breezy's bone, the Roc Nation roster chick has now announced that her new fashion line will be unveiled to the world during next month's fashion week in London……where Karrueche also visited just a little over a month ago to promote her upcoming fashion line ,"The Kill," which is due out any day now.
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Rihanna's collection for British brand River Island is slated for its debut next month during London Fashion Week.
Fashion week organizers listed the pop star on its official calendar of fall previews as they sent out registration materials on Thursday to the editors, stylists and retailers who cover designer collections.
The 24-year-old's first collection of clothing and accessories will be shown Feb. 16. Items will be available in River Island stores in Great Britain, and in the United States and Japan at Opening Ceremony starting on March 5.
Rihanna said in a statement that an appearance at fashion week is "a dream come true."
Rih's line looks to be more on the high fashion side, while Karrueche's line seems primarily casual since she recently revealed that it was originally established to supplement her ex Breezy boo's "Black Pyramid" clothing line as a female version.
But the real question is…..can Karrueche really go toe-to-toe with Rih when it comes to fashion?? We'd guess no. But we'll let you decide on your own after checking out a few side-by-side pics the sisterwives on the flip..
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Pea Ridge
Other Names: Elkhorn Tavern
Location: Benton County
Campaign: Pea Ridge Campaign (1862)
Date(s): March 6-8, 1862
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis [US]; Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn [CS]
Forces Engaged: Army of the Southwest [US]; Army of the West [CS]
Estimated Casualties: US 1,349; CS 2000-2500
Description: On the night of March 6, Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn set out to outflank the Union position near Pea Ridge, dividing his army into two columns. Learning of Van Dorn's approach, the Federals marched north to meet his advance on March 7. This movement—compounded by the killing of two generals, Brig. Gen. Ben McCulloch and Brig. Gen. James McQueen McIntosh, and the capture of their ranking colonel—halted the Rebel attack. Van Dorn led a second column to meet the Federals in the Elkhorn Tavern and Tanyard area. By nightfall, the Confederates controlled Elkhorn Tavern and Telegraph Road. The next day, Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis, having regrouped and consolidated his army, counterattacked near the tavern and, by successfully employing his artillery, slowly forced the Rebels back. Running short of ammunition, Van Dorn abandoned the battlefield. The Union controlled Missouri for the next two years.
Result(s): Union victory
CWSAC Reference #: AR001
Preservation Priority: III.1 (Class A)
National Park Unit: Pea Ridge National Military Park
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I'm intended to set up my root file system under gvinum and use mirroring.
Installed a fresh 7.2 system under Virtualbox to make some tests first, everything was working fine and then I did a fresh install again, but soon I found out that /dev/gvinum is not existing anymore.
kldload-ing manually the geom_vinum.ko module or even putting geom_vinum_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf doesn't create the /dev/gvinum structure.
I can't figure out what I'm missing
Thanks for any advice!
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - A.E
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Hi, again
Just a quick update on my gvinum issues - this time installed a 8.0-RC1 system under Virtualbox - just to mention there's a lot work being done on gvinum Now it includes some of the original vinum commands as well as some new like:
This time I had some progress settings up the root filesystem on gvinum.
I've also used this documentation, section "Install FreeBSD on Vinum":
However not all of the steps were correct, for example:
1. Editing with bsdlabel is being done in a different manner
I had to first mount / and /usr then make a copy of the current labels (bsdlabel ad0s1 > /tmp/bsdlabel.orig). Then edit it as described in the document and save it in /tmp/bsdlabel.new. Then a reboot in single-user mode is required again in order to write the new labels, otherwise you get an error like this:
bsdlabel: Class not found re-edit the label? [y]:
# /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 2097152 2097152 4.2BSD 0 0 0 b: 2097152 0 swap c: 20964762 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 2097152 4194304 4.2BSD 0 0 0 e: 14673306 6291456 4.2BSD 0 0 0
# /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 2097152 2097152 4.2BSD 0 0 0 b: 2096871 281 swap c: 20964762 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 2097152 4194304 4.2BSD 0 0 0 e: 14673306 6291456 4.2BSD 0 0 0 h: 20964746 16 vinum
bsdlabel -R ad0s1 /tmp/bsdlabel.new
vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error vm_fault: pager read error, pid 21 (bsdlabel) pid 21 (bsdlabel), uid 0: exited on signal 1 Segmentation fault
After that you can create your gvinum volumes/drives/subdisks/plexes and make an fsck against the created volumes - everything fine so far.
Added 'geom_vinum_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf and rebooted once again.
However upon boot the system is not able to find the root filesystem.
Screenshot here:
Even settings the vfs.root.mountfrom* variables from the loader prompt doesn't help much. I had to enter ufs:/dev/ad0s1a and the root filesystem is mounted again. However when I check the mounted filesystems - /usr, /var/, etc.. are all mounted using the gvinum volumes, except for root.
Seems that during boot the root filesystem cannot be found when it is used under gvinum.
Is anyone running a root filesystem under gvinum? Any ideas where to look for from now on?
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HOWTO: Making your partitions mirrored :)
During the last two days I was trying to find a way to make my system and all of it's partitions work under gvinum. Everything works, but the root partition is just not able to boot when it is under gvinum.
Instead I used a different approach - used gvinum and gmirror to successfully mirror my partitions.
I'm sending this to you as well with the hope that someone may find it useful when he/she comes across this issue.
Part I: Making a mirror for the root filesystem
1. Install a fresh FreeBSD system - minimal install
For this setup to work you need at least two disks - I used one 10g and one 15g disks within Virtualbox.
ad0 - 10gb
ad4 - 15gb
When you enter FDISK create one slice in the first disk.
For the second disk create two slices - one which will store the root mirror, and the other we'll use with gvinum later. The first slice of the second disk make to be the size of the root partition which you will use + 5-10MB more - just in case FDISK won't shrink it and make gmirror fail later.
The disk layout that I chose is: 1gb for root, /tmp and swap, 2gb for /var and the rest for /usr
Now this is important - we need to make the first partition in the first slice of the first disk to be the swap area. Do not create any partitions on the second disk.
At the end you will have this:
NOTE: The swap partition comes first, so later we'll use it with gvinum. If you can't wait till later - read this http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf
First disk (ad0):
ad0s1b swap 1024MB SWAP ad0s1a / 1024MB UFS2 ad0s1d /tmp 1024MB UFS2+S ad0s1e /var 2048MB UFS2+S ad0s1f /usr 5119MB UFS2+S
2. When the boot prompt appears enter the loader prompt
OK load geom_mirror OK boot -s
Change to a shell with history (not really required, though )
# csh
Install the bootstrap code on the second disk as well, in case of power failure and the first one is broken FreeBSD will still be able to boot from the second disk.
# fdisk -BI /dev/ad4s1 # bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad4s1
/dev/ad4s1 - this is where we will store the mirror for the root filesystem.
# newfs -O2 /dev/ad4s1 # newfs -U -O2 /dev/ad4s2
# gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0s1a
Now add the second component to the mirror and check the status of the mirror:
gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad4s1 GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad4s1 # gmirror status Name Status Components mirror/gm0 DEGRADED ad0s1 ad4s1 (14%)
When it finishes you will see this message:
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad4s1 finished.
You can verify it using the `gmirror status` command.
4. Reboot the system in single-user mode again.
A reboot is required, since gmirror is using the root filesystem and you will not be able to re-mount it in read-write mode.
Mount / and /usr in read-write mode and edit /etc/fstab and /boot/loader.conf, so we use our mirror for the root filesystem now.
# mount -u / # mount /usr # echo 'geom_mirror_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf # vi /etc/fstab
/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
Change it to this:
/dev/mirror/gm0 / ufs rw 1 1
Then reboot. After FreeBSD boots up you should be running on a mirrored root filesystem.
NOTE: Only 8.0-RC1 related.
During boot under 8.0-RC1 the system complains with this:
pid 63 (swapon), uid 0: exited on signal 11 .... pid 65: (fsck), uid 0: exited on signal 11 Segmentation fault Unknown error; help! ERROR: ABORTING BOOT (sending SIGTERM to parent)!
# mount -u / # mount /usr
# echo 'geom_mirror_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf # vi /etc/fstab
NOTE: I've made some tests and tried using gvinum as a root filesystem but right after reboot the new root filesystem cannot be mounted when it is under gvinum. That's why for the root filesystem we are using gmirror instead.
PART II: Migrating the other partitions under gvinum
BIG_NOTE: The setup we are going to implement using gmirror and gvinum, currently works only under 8.0-RC1. FreeBSD 7.2 fails when creating the gvinum volumes and prints this error "GEOM_VINUM: g_access failed on drive <gvinum_drive>, errno 1". Continue further only if you are running 8.0-RC1 or later!
Now we can setup the rest of the partitions using gvinum, so we can mirror them, extend them, etc..
1. Migrating the other partitions to gvinum
Remember that we created first the swap partitions on the first slice on the first disks? That's where we are going to use this
The way we are going to migrate the partitions to gvinum is to shrink the swap partition with 281 sectors (265 for gvinum configration and 16 for the bootstrap).
NOTE: Read this http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf - it contains much more detailed information about why we need to shrink the partitions than this little-howto
We need to use bsdlabel for that purpose.
# bsdlabel ad0s1
# /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 2097152 2097152 4.2BSD 0 0 0 b: 2097152 0 swap 0 0 0 c: 20964762 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 2097152 4194304 4.2BSD 0 0 0 e: 4194304 6291456 4.2BSD 0 0 0 f: 10479002 10485760 4.2BSD 0 0 0
# bsdlabel ad0s1 > /tmp/bsdlabel.orig # cp /tmp/bsdlabel.orig /tmp/bsdlabel.new # vi /tmp/bsdlabel.new
-- /tmp/bsdlabel.new --
# /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 2097152 2097152 4.2BSD 0 0 0 b: 2096871 281 swap 0 0 0 c: 20964762 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 2097152 4194304 4.2BSD 0 0 0 e: 4194304 6291456 4.2BSD 0 0 0 f: 10479002 10485760 4.2BSD 0 0 0 h: 20964746 16 vinum
2. Now boot into single-user mode.
Edit the labels using bsdlabel again
# mount /tmp # bsdlabel -R ad0s1 /tmp/bsdlabel.new
NOTE_2: After executing the above bsdlabel command you will see some error messages popping-up - check this for more information - http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...er/003736.html
If you did the steps from NOTE_1 you need now to bring back the mirror partition and enable geom_mirror.ko module upon boot.
In any case at this moment under 8.0-RC1 a reboot is required.
3. Create the gvinum objects - drives, volumes, etc..
For the subdisks you can use the values from bsdlabel, but you need to pay attention to the fact that gvinum starts after the bootstrap and we need to subtract 16 from the offset.
NOTE: Again - check this for more information about this here - http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf
# gvinum create
This is the config file that I created:
drive disk_ad0 device /dev/ad0s1h volume swap plex org concat sd length 2096871s driveoffset 265s drive disk_ad0 volume tmp plex org concat sd length 2097152s driveoffset 4184288s drive disk_ad0 volume var plex org concat sd length 4194304s driveoffset 6291440s drive disk_ad0 volume usr plex org concat sd length 10479002s driveoffset 10485744s drive disk_ad0
1 drive: D disk_ad0 State: up /dev/ad0s1h A: 1024/10236 MB (10%) 4 volumes: V swap State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 1023 MB V tmp State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 1024 MB V var State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 2048 MB V usr State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 5116 MB 4 plexes: P swap.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 1023 MB P tmp.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 1024 MB P var.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 2048 MB P usr.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 5116 MB 4 subdisks: S swap.p0.s0 State: up D: disk_ad0 Size: 1023 MB S tmp.p0.s0 State: up D: disk_ad0 Size: 1024 MB S var.p0.s0 State: up D: disk_ad0 Size: 2048 MB S usr.p0.s0 State: up D: disk_ad0 Size: 5116 MB
Check the gvinum volumes (/tmp, /var, /usr) we created using fsck.
# fsck -n -t ufs /dev/gvinum/<volume>
Edit /etc/fstab and use the gvinum volumes now for those partitions. After editing mine looks like this:
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/gvinum/swap none swap sw 0 0 /dev/mirror/gm0 / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/gvinum/tmp /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/gvinum/usr /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/gvinum/var /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
# echo 'geom_vinum_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf
And then reboot. After reboot all partitions should be mounted using gvinum, except for the root filesystem, which is gmirror-ed Now you can mirror the other partitions, extend them, etc. using gvinum.
And that's all
For more information, please check:
Any feedback on how this setup can be approved more is greatly appreciated!
And sorry for the long post if I bored you from reading, and sorry for all those NOTEs as well - I just wanted to make sure you'll notice them
P.S. Looking forward for 8.0-RELEASE to be ready, so I can migrate all of my systems with gmirror and gvinum
EDIT: Added the commands needed to install the bootstrap code on the second disk. This is usefull (and actually needed) in case of power failure and the first disk is broken, then FreeBSD will be able to boot from the second disk.
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Dr. Eric Holland aims to do something that hasn't happened in more than a half century: Find a better strategy for treating the deadliest brain tumors.
Holland specializes in glioblastoma, a brain cancer that spreads quickly and is notorious for its ability to weave inside brain tissue. That makes it almost impossible for surgeons to completely remove the tumors, called gliomas. The best available treatment – an aggressive combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation – can cause brain damage, yet the tumors almost always come back within months.
Holland, 54, has dedicated his career to finding more effective therapies with fewer side effects. At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, he spent 13 years building a world-renowned brain cancer program that used an innovative approach to tackle the disease's toughest challenges. Now he's bringing that approach to Seattle as the new director of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Human Biology Division and the Nancy and Buster Alvord Brain Tumor Center at the University of Washington. Holland also leads solid tumor translational research across both institutions.
His goals include changing how brain cancer is treated and guiding Hutch researchers toward new therapies for solid tumors that affect many other organs including the breast, colon and pancreas.
"We were looking for someone who could help us revolutionize solid tumor treatment," said Dr. Larry Corey, Fred Hutch's president and director. "And we knew that, absolutely, Eric was the one."
Turning discoveries into real-world therapies
What sets Holland apart is his ability to turn scientific discoveries into real-world therapies that improve patients' lives. This translational process can take years and cost millions of dollars, and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dead ends.
"We were looking for someone who could help us revolutionize solid tumor treatment and we knew that, absolutely, Eric was the one."
– Dr. Larry Corey, Fred Hutch president and director
"A lot of people are [either] great basic scientists or great clinicians," said Dr. Andy Koff, who worked under Holland at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. "Eric … actually fused basic research and clinical practice."
At Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Holland took a unique approach to brain cancer by integrating people from disciplines who typically don't work together. He invited basic scientists, clinical researchers, surgeons, mathematicians, computational biologists and other specialists to collaborate on solutions. And he developed tools to accelerate their progress.
Holland created a mouse model that lets researchers pinpoint where gliomas form and understand how they affect surrounding cells. The model gives researchers a powerful platform for testing drugs that could eradicate the tumors or slow their growth.
For instance, Holland's team used the model to identify the genetic pathways that drive glioma formation. Then, in preclinical studies, they showed that particular drugs could block that pathway. Now
Holland's colleagues are leading phase 1 clinical trials to find out whether the drugs could improve outcomes for children with solid tumors.
"The model dramatically improves our ability to zero in on how drugs affect gliomas," Holland said, "and it's being used by researchers around the world."
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Precision brain cancer treatment
Holland arrived in Seattle with an ambitious goal: quickly transform brain cancer treatment across Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and UW Medicine. To accomplish this, he launched the Brain Tumor Profiling Initiative, a collaboration between Fred Hutch and UW Medicine that will help doctors better tailor their treatments.
The initiative builds on Holland's work at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, where he created the world's most comprehensive brain tumor database. Based on tumor samples from hundreds of patients, the database contains a complete genetic profile of each tumor, plus details on how each patient was treated and how they responded.
Holland is building a similar database in Seattle using several thousand tissue samples collected by UW's Department of Neurological Surgery.
The goal is for every new patient to have his or her tumor profiled. Doctors can then compare that profile to other tumors in the database and select the most effective therapy. Holland believes this approach can eventually be used to improve treatment for patients worldwide.
"This is personalized medicine – making decisions that are tailored to the tumor," Holland said.
Goal: Revolutionize solid tumor treatment
Luring Holland away from Memorial Sloan-Kettering wasn't easy. He landed around $50 million in federal funding for its brain cancer center and built a faculty of more than 70 people. Moving to Seattle also meant uprooting his family, which includes his wife, Dimitria, and their school-aged sons Nikolas and Alexander. Ultimately, he was drawn by the opportunity to apply his brain cancer approach to many different solid tumors and 11 members of his team followed him to Seattle.
"The Hutch's science is first-rate and they outlined a compelling vision," Holland said. "It was an offer I couldn't refuse."
He is building on a strong foundation. Human Biology Division researchers investigate how cancer and other diseases impact the body, and pursue the development of therapies that reduce that impact. The Hutch has received three prestigious National Cancer Institute Specialized Programs of Research Excellence, or SPORE, grants for its work on breast, ovarian and prostate cancers. And researchers like Dr. Peter Nelson – who is developing tailored treatments for advanced prostate cancer – are already at the forefront of precision oncology.
In August, Holland's team launched the Solid Tumor Translational Research (STTR) effort, which brings together investigators and clinicians from Fred Hutch, UW Medicine and SCCA. STTR is on a mission to develop precision treatments for tumors affecting the brain, breast, colon, head and neck, lung, ovary, pancreas and prostate. Holland plans to bolster research in these areas until they are all substantial enough to earn SPORE grants, which help researchers translate discoveries into therapies.
STTR sets the stage for the type of collaborations that flourished under Holland in New York. These will provide insights into how to improve treatment for many tumors and will lead to discoveries that can then be applied back to brain cancer. It's the best shot at making headway against the disease.
"It will take collaborations with computer scientists, software programmers, nanotechnology engineers and others to make the next level of discoveries," said Desert Horse-Grant, who directs STTR's strategy and operations. "If we can integrate disciplines and feed the information into high-powered computers, it could lead to the breakthroughs that have eluded us."
New research network pursues tumor cures
Last summer, Dr. Eric Holland launched the Solid Tumor
Translational Research (STTR) network to pursue new therapies for tumors affecting nearly a dozen major organs. The network's goal is to translate new discoveries into lifesaving treatments – a process that can cost millions of dollars and is fraught with pitfalls.
STTR builds on the collaborative approach that Holland used at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he invited everyone from surgeons to mathematicians to work together toward cures. The network includes researchers from Fred Hutch, UW Medicine and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
To learn more, visit STTRCancer.org
Combining research and neurosurgery
As if running the Fred Hutch Human Biology Division, UW's Alvord Brain Tumor Center and STTR weren't challenging enough, Holland also performs brain surgeries and is a UW professor of neurological surgery. People advised Holland against juggling both surgery and research when he was in medical school. It was too difficult, they told him, and too demanding.
He has spent his life proving them wrong – just ask John Gallagher, a 40-year-old veterinarian in Darien, Conn. who was diagnosed 10 years ago with melanoma that had spread to his brain. Holland performed six surgeries to remove the cancer each time it recurred, and Gallagher has been cancer-free for five years.
"He was just spot on," Gallagher said. "He knew exactly what to do."
It's these survival stories that explain why Holland insists on staying involved in patient care.
"I love surgery – operating on someone lets you directly improve their life," Holland said, "and I love research because it's a chance to have an impact on many, many more people."
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"He always gave me hope"
How Dr. Eric Holland helped John Gallagher survive brain cancer.
John Gallagher remembers the visceral terror he felt before his first brain surgery: It was like he was on an airplane headed for a fatal crash.
Gallagher, a veterinarian who lives in Darien, Conn., was diagnosed a decade ago with melanoma that had spread to various parts of his brain. He was told he had a 3 percent chance of surviving more than four years.
His surgeon, Dr. Eric Holland, helped him decide on a course of treatment.
Gallagher received chemotherapy and radiation, but the tumors kept growing. He underwent six brain surgeries to remove the cancer each time it recurred, all performed by Holland while he was working at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Gallagher's medical background enabled him to have detailed conversations with Holland, and the more they talked, the more reassured Gallagher felt.
"I realized the guy is just a completely brilliant, amazing individual," he said. Gallagher recalls calling Holland's office after his first surgery to ask a question. To his surprise, Holland himself picked up the phone.
"That's not something common for a busy surgeon to do," Gallagher said. "That speaks volumes about the type of guy he is. He's not just a surgeon – he's a wonderful doctor. He's a good person."
Gallagher celebrated the birth of his first child in May and his 40th birthday in June. He's been cancer-free for five years and says Holland is the reason he's alive today.
"He never suggested that things weren't going to work out," he said. "He always gave me hope."
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Philanthropic funding helps Zoos Victoria to achieve significant outcomes that will serve the many generations to follow. Namely we seek partnerships with Trusts and Foundations which seek to support conservation, biodiversity, sustainability, education, research, tourism, indigenous Australians, capital investment and the preservation of native flora and fauna.
Since the establishment of Melbourne Zoo at Royal Park in 1862, the Victorian community has supported its development through philanthropic gifts, helping to shape our much-loved Zoo into what it is today. Our philanthropic partners continue to provide Zoos Victoria with the means to establish critical breeding programs helping to fight extinction at our three great campuses, including Healesville Sanctuary and Werribee Open Range Zoo. Our focus is now on identifying funding partners for priority programs which will help us achieve our goal to become the world's leading zoo-based conservation organisation.
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Seven years, 11 months, and 25 days.
That's how long it had been from the time Dusty Brown signed his first pro contract with Boston to the night he got pulled out of the shower in Durham to get the news that he was joining the Red Sox at Fenway Park the next morning.
But the 27-year-old catcher had been dreaming of that moment for most of his life.
"It's awesome. I've been playing baseball since I was 5 years old with really nothing else in mind except to be a major league player," Dusty told me. "If all else fails, at least I'll have that one game where I was actually in the big leagues."
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Brown was with the Red Sox for four days and made his major league debut on June 23rd at Washington as he caught the final inning of Boston's 11-3 win. He is eager to return to the show.
"Only getting three or four days really is just a taste," Brown said. "Now I know what I'm playing for, I know where I want to be, and I know what it's like to be there. So it's definitely always in the back of my mind to get back up there."
While his call-up was brief, the timing was perfect. Dusty got the news one day after his own birthday, and in all likelihood, close to the birthday of his first child.
Dusty and his wife Jordan are expecting a son that they plan to name Jude (they're both big Beatles fans) in July.
"It's actually any day now," Dusty said. "She had an appointment on Friday and the doctor told her to be ready because it's probably going to happen any day. Once I heard that I started to get nervous – I hadn't been since she's been pregnant, but now I'm starting to get a little nervous about it."
Jordan is going to have the baby in Boston, so if she goes into labor on this homestand, Dusty should have no trouble being there for the delivery. It gets a little trickier beginning on Saturday as the PawSox head to Pennsylvania (Scranton/WB and Lehigh Valley) for five days before returning home on Thursday, July 9.
If Dusty is worried about missing the big moment, he'll be happy to know that I was out of the country when my wife went into labor and I still made it to the hospital in time for the delivery.
OK, I was in Canada, but technically that is out of the country.
The PawSox were playing in Ottawa when my wife called my cell phone to say that she had gone into labor and was on her way to the hospital. I hopped into a cab, raced to the airport, and tried to hop on the first flight that could get me to Boston.
Legally, I arrived at the airport too late to board the first available flight but when I explained that I was about to be a father, they waived FAA rules and moved me right through security (remember that guys the next time you're late for a flight).
I was in Boston by midnight and Sam arrived at 9:55 the next morning.
If Dusty thinks his first stint in the big leagues was awesome, I can't wait to hear his description of becoming a dad.
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I suspect that catcher Mark Wagner will never forget his Triple-A debut. The newest member of the PawSox scored the winning run in Monday's 14-inning, 4 hour and 54 minute marathon win over the Syracuse Chiefs.
Wagner arrived with the reputation of being exceptional at throwing out opposing base stealers and gunned down 18 of 29 (62%) while he was with Double-A Portland this year.
But the Syracuse Chiefs decided to see for themselves and tested Wagner by attempting seven stolen bases in his PawSox debut (he threw two runners out).
Wagner was 0-for-5 at the plate, but did draw a one-out walk in the 14th inning before scoring the winning run on a double by Travis Denker.
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Congrats to Jeff Bailey on getting his second call to Boston this year. Bailey replaces Mike Lowell who was placed on the disabled list due to a hip strain and will not return until immediately after the All-Star break at the earliest.
Bailey will bring a hot bat to the Red Sox, and he has a 9-game hitting streak, going 12-for-34 (.353) with 2 2B, a HR, and 8 walks.
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On Tuesday night the PawSox conclude their 4-game series against Syracuse with Enrique Gonzalez taking the mound. I hope you'll join us for the radio call beginning with the pre-game show at 6:50 on the PawSox radio network and PawSox.com.
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text: I've been doing more reading than writing and its time to rectify that. Today is the start of a series of ten posts and reviews for the most essential texts on Karate that I have come across. These books are treasures to me. I recently moved in with the love of my life and she asked me when we were moving what was the most important things to take with me. And I looked at my little room, my little bed, my phone and laptop, my shoes, my clothes. My black belt. And then my eyes floated up to my bookshelf - to the top shelf. These are the books on my top shelf. They are what I would save from my room if it were engulfed in flames. Were it not for these words and ideas I would be a very different person, a lesser person. I hope that my enthusiasm in presenting them will encourage you to look for them yourself. And while I may rank them, they are, in my humble opinion, all essential reading for the true deshi - the true karateka.


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It's bad enough when Christians sit silently by while LGBTQ folks are marginalized, ridiculed, abused, raped or even killed for who they are.
It's another when Christians actively engage in the exclusion of people based on their identity or orientation.
And then there's John Piper.
It seems Piper has a Twitter problem. Maybe he doesn't see it as such, because with fewer than 140 characters, he can stir up quite a storm of controversy. But considering the damage that can be done with so few words, I think it is a significant problem.
First, there was his now-famous "Farewell, Rob Bell" tweet, basically bidding his fellow pastor and bestselling author adieu when his book, Love Wins dared to suggest that God's love was big enough to ensure salvation for all.
Over the weekend, Piper decided to get specific about his disdain for members of the LGBTQ community and all Christians who affirm them by tweeting the following:
"The church that approves of homosexual relations has by that act ceased to be a true church. Wolfhart Pannenberg"
When I told my wife, the Rev. Amy Piatt, what he posted, she suggested we shouldn't even care what he says. Piper is a voice of intolerance whose ignorance should be dismissed, she said. Though she and I see eye to eye on most things, we differ on this one.
First of all, Piper has more than 250,000 followers on Twitter. And of course with the viral nature of social media, his reach is much broader than that. Second, he's considered a prominent voice for conservative Christianity, sought and quoted often by the media and by other pastors. As such, he always seems ready to help reinforce the stereotype that Christians are narrow-minded, bigoted, hateful people who are more interested in being right and morally superior than they are in loving and serving their brothers and sisters.
Thankfully there are other (not as prominent) voices out there to counter the intolerance. As an example, the Rev. Roger Wolsey, a Colorado pastor and fellow God's Politics contributor, posted the following concise but clear message on Youtube:
Though it would be great if one affirming voice counterbalanced the negativity of another, but the net is still negative, I'm afraid. Some may hear the apology on behalf of Christianity. Some may even hear the claim that Piper's brand of Christianity is not representative of all of us. LGBTQ people may be welcomed back to the table, time and again, but damage already has been done.
My friend, Matthew Paul Turner, posted a video recently from James Alexander Langteaux, author of Gay Conversations With God, that points to the fallout from such divisive rhetoric.
Be forewarned that Langteaux's video does contain some frank, explicit language. So if you choose not to view it, the essence of what he says is that too many Christians do not seem to embody the values of the Christ they claim. And so, if this is what religion is about, we don't want anything more to do with it.
I certainly can understand Langteaux's pain and inclination to distance himself from a body that seems intent on making him "less than." But I'm not content to sit back and let such voices occupy the floor while dissenters say and do nothing.
Piper is wrong. His words cause damage. And though I could never go so far as to claim that his bigotry means he's not actually a Christian, I strongly believe Piper has strayed far from the path laid before us by Jesus himself.
The only true antidote to divisive rhetoric ultimately is face-to-face relationship. So my hope is that those who read this post will not just appreciate it, comment on it or even share it; my prayer is that it will be the impetus readers need to go out and find someone (or many someones) hurt and marginalized by some parts of the church and talk to them about their pain. Offer a compassionate ear in return, and if accepted, a warm embrace.
We can prevail in this clash of ideals. But the revolution will not be realized entirely from behind a microphone. One person, one relationship, one story at a time, we have to continue to believe that Bell was right: LOVE WINS.
Christian Piatt is the creator and editor of BANNED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE and BANNED QUESTIONS ABOUT JESUS. He co-created and co-edits the "WTF: Where's the Faith?" young adult series with Chalice Press, and he has a memoir on faith, family and parenting being published in early 2012 called PREGMANCY: A Dad, a Little Dude and a Due Date.
(Bible image titled "Getting the Message" by JustASC/Shutterstock.)
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Mars Oppositions 1995-2007
Every 26 months Mars is opposite the Sun in our nighttime sky. Since 1995, Mars has been at such an "opposition" with the Sun seven times. A color composite from each of the seven Hubble opposition observations has been assembled in this mosaic to showcase the beauty and splendor that is The Red Planet.
This mosaic of all seven globes of Mars shows relative variations in the apparent angular size of Mars over the years. Mars was the closest in 2003 when it came within 35 million miles (56 million kilometers) of Earth. The part of Mars that is tilted towards the Earth also shifts over time, resulting in the changing visibility of the polar caps. Clouds and dust storms, as well as the size of the ice caps, can change the appearance of Mars on time scales of days, weeks, and months. Other features of Mars, such as some of the large dark markings, have remained unchanged for centuries.


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Too clever by half: "The Recruit" fools everybody
That Colin Farrell will be a major star has never been questioned by the 12 people who saw Tigerland, but no one has been able to answer the When? question. The War Zone and American Outlaws also went unseen in the U.S., Ordinary Decent Criminal is going direct to video, and Farrell's secondary roles in Minority Report and Hart's War were overshadowed by the films' stars. But this year he'll be showing up in Daredevil, Phone Booth, Veronica Guerin and S.W.A.T., so almost everyone will see the hot young Irishman in something.
In the title role of The Recruit Farrell occasionally peers out from the shadow of Al Pacino, who is easing back into his "Hoo-ah!" mode. Farrell is the film's backbone, but who sees a backbone when it's covered with flesh and then clothing?
Walter Burke (Pacino) recruits James Clayton (Farrell), a bartender/software designer who was first in his class at MIT, for the CIA by dropping hints that Clayton's late father had been an operative. "I am a scary judge of talent," Burke boasts scarily.
At "The Farm," the CIA training facility, Burke repeatedly warns the CTs (career trainees), and by extension the audience, "What you see, what you hear– nothing is what it seems." But they fall for gag after gag– each a more complex and devious test than the one before– and so do we. (Oh, we may get some of them, but that's a con artist's way of setting you up to fall for the big one.)
We meet three of Clayton's fellow students, but the only one we get to know at all is Layla Moore (Bridget Moynahan), with whom James feels a certain "chemistry" (all of which is on the page, not on the screen). The others are Ronnie (Mike Realba), a friendly sort, and Zack (Gabriel Macht), a possible rival for Layla's affection. We see just enough of them to know them if they turn up later.
About half the story takes place at The Farm and the rest in the real world, where Burke gives Clayton an assignment that involves betraying Layla. I could tell you more but you'd have to kill me for spoiling the movie for you.
The script is pretty clever overall, but there's a terribly wrongheaded sequence where James compromises his mission by openly chasing someone through a train station when he should be conducting covert surveillance to see who the person will lead him to. But this gaffe is never mentioned afterward.
Director Roger Donaldson has a way with a thriller (No Way Out) and understands a magician's trick of misdirection. If he lets The Recruit get a little cheesy around the edges, maybe that's all part of the game.
Pacino continues his recent streak that began with Insomnia. Farrell continues to build a strong body of work that will one day surprise new fans when they review his career and realize how long he escaped their notice. In a scene that may be seen decades hence as prophetic, he does his first audition for the role of 007. Moynahan, who was Ben Affleck's girlfriend in The Sum of All Fears, seems rather plain to be romanced by these hunks. She shouldn't be babed out in the training scenes, but she should at least look capable of being fixed up.
A final question: Does Langley really have a "George Bush Center for Intelligence" or is the sign in the movie as a joke? I guess it's true about genes skipping a generation.


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Nain Habibian
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Nain is the name of a city in Iran known for manufacturing and producing handmade carpets with a combination of blue and ivory shades. Before the first world war, this city was famous for its exquisite tailoring of rugged and traditional Iranian clothes. However, after the first wold war, the industry had collapsed due to the increasing interest of Iranians in western clothing.
With experience in dealing with high-quality wool, artisans began to weave carpets in Nain. The Persian government assisted the city. It transferred weavers from the Persian city of Isfahan and established new manufacturing warehouses. By the 1950's, Nain began winning glory for its remarkable carpet centers. It was in the mid 20th century that masters of Nain created the famous cold blue-white and blue-beige carpets.
Typically, Nainy weaving of wool (a version of wool with silk) use a base of cotton. Most silk is used for border patterns and better "drawing" arabesques. Regular Nains mostly come in an ivory colored background with blue and beige accents. Sometimes the blue is more deeply pronounced and sometimes it is made of a lighter blue. There are however exceptions. Sometimes, these carpets come in vibrant red and vibrant green colors. To learn more about iranian rugs, visit our Persian Rugs section.
Sources and inspiration: Bérinstain, Valérie, et al. L'art du tapis dans le monde (The art of carpets in the world). Paris: Mengès, 1996. Print.; Jerrehian Jr., Aram K.A. Oriental Rug Primer. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1980. Print.; Herbert, Janice Summers. Oriental Rugs, New York: Macmillan, 1982. Print.; Hackmack, Adolf. Chinese Carpets and Rugs, Rutland and Tokyo: Tuttle, 1980. Print. ; De Moubray, Amicia, and David Black. Carpets for the home, London: Laurence King Publishing, 1999. Print.; Jacobsen, Charles. Oriental Rugs A Complete Guide, Rutland and Tokyo: Tuttle, 1962. Print.; Bashir, S. (n.d.). Personal interview.; Web site sources and dates of consultation vary (to be confirmed). Without prejudice to official usage.


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Latino Housekeepers and a Non-Latino Manager Who Defended Them Forced Out by Operations Manager Who Complained That Mexicans Gave Him a Headache, Says EEOC
FRESNO – A vacation home rental management company in Yosemite National Park will pay $165,000 and furnish injunctive relief to settle a national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's suit against Wawona Property Management, Inc., doing business as The Redwoods in Yosemite, seven Latino employees were targeted for harassment, discipline, heightened scrutiny, and eventual termination by an operations manager who favored non-Latino staff. The EEOC also obtained relief on behalf of the general manager, who was suspended and fired after reporting the discriminatory conduct to the board of directors.
According to the EEOC, the victims were longtime seasonal employees of Mexican and Salvadoran descent, who worked in the housekeeping and maintenance departments since as far back as 1997. In November 2006, the company hired a new operations manager who expressed a disdain for the Latino employees early on, allegedly stating that "Mexicans had given [him] a headache" and that he did not like people of color.
The operations manager verbally abused and formally disciplined Latino staff for alleged infractions such as taking coffee breaks and failing cleaning inspections. The EEOC contends that two Latino housekeepers were disciplined after calling in absences due to the sudden hospitalization of their son, while non-Latino employees who violated company policies were promoted. When the general manager raised the concerns of the Latino claimants to the company's board of directors, the general manager was suspended and ultimately terminated. Thereafter, the operations manager forced the Latino claimants to quit due to his hostility towards them, the EEOC said.
The EEOC filed suit against Wawona in September 2009 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Wawona Property Management, Inc. dba The Redwoods in Yosemite, Case No. 1:09-CV-016903 LJO-SKO), asserting that the national origin harassment, discrimination and retaliation were in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This settlement is a first for the EEOC in California's national parks.
The parties entered into a three-year consent decree in which Wawona agreed to revise its policies and procedures with respect to discrimination, harassment, retaliation and employee evaluations. The company further agreed to contract an equal employment opportunity consultant; periodically provide live anti-discrimination training to all employees in both English and Spanish, with additional training for managerial staff on how to properly handle complaints of discrimination and harassment in a neutral manner; track and report potential violations of Title VII; and display a posting on the matter.
"No matter how remote a place may seem, the EEOC aims to serve all workers who may be victims of unlawful discrimination," said Anna Y. Park, regional attorney for the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office. "Notwithstanding, the EEOC is pleased that Wawona is taking measures to rectify the situation and prevent future incidents of discrimination from occurring."
Melissa Barrios, local director of the EEOC's Fresno Local Office, said, "Workers should be able to come forward about discrimination they may be experiencing without fear that actions will be taken against them. Employers who engage in such illegal retaliation can and will be held accountable by the EEOC."
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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Ghosts, in traditional beliefs, are the souls or spirits of deceased persons or animals which can appear in visible forms or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely: The mode of manifestation can range from an invisible presence to translucent or wispy shapes, to realistic, life-like visions. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as necromancy, in spiritism as a séance as the intercession of saints in Catholithism, and mediumship in religions such as Voodou or Tibetan Buddhism. The belief in manifestations of the spirits of the dead is widespread, dating back to animism or ancestor worship in pre-literate cultures. Certain religious practices—funeral rites, exorcisms, and some practices of spiritualism and ritual magic—are specifically designed to appease the spirits of the dead. Ghosts are generally described as solitary essences that haunt particular locations, objects, or people they were associated with in life, though stories of the phantom armies, ghost trains, phantom ships, and even ghost animals have also been recounted.
- Ghost redirects here; for the 1990 film, see Ghost (1990 film)
- Poltergeist redirects here; for the 1982 film, see Poltergeist (1982 film)
- Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,
And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
- Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act II, scene 1
- Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.
- Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto I, line 145
- Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
- Arthur C. Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) "Foreword"
- When thoroughly reliable people encounter ghosts, their stories are difficult to explain away.
- C.B. Colby in Strangely Enough, p. 177 (1963)
- So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night,
They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;
I will go down to the chapel and pray.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend (1872), Part IV
- Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
- John Milton, Comus (1637), line 207
- For spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 423
- Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book II, line 681
- All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,
All intellect, all sense, and as they please
They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size
Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VI, line 350
- What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
- Alexander Pope, Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717), line 1
- The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 1, line 115
- There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave.
To tell us this.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 5, line 126
- I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
- William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act III, scene 1, line 52
- What are these,
So wither'd, and so wild in their attire;
That look not like the inhabitants o' th' earth,
And yet are on 't?
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 3, line 39
- Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act II, scene 1, line 33
- A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act II, scene 1, line 38
- Now it is the time of night,
That the graves, all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite,
In the church-way paths to glide.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act V, scene 1, line 386
- All on my own
Here I stand.
Am I humble, am I ghost?
I'm on a limb to climb
To something lawless I hope
Am I humble, am I ghost?
I found a way
To look towards this day
But it all hooked up
This could only go one way
I'm not alive, I'm not alive enough.
- Here's to the ghost
We still seem to host
How he's becoming us
Here come the vultures
Here come the vultures
Screaming down at us
- Charlotte Wessels, Here Come the Vultures, The Human Contradiction (2014)
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- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 33-34.
- Who gather round, and wonder at the tale
Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,
That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand
O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!)
Evanishes at crowing of the cock.
- Robert Blair, The Grave, line 67
- The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Part III
- The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich. (Quoted, "He flits across the stage a transient and embarrassed phantom.")
- Benjamin Disraeli, Endymian, Chapter III
- Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.
- Homer, Odyssey, Book XI, line 48. Pope's translation
- My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls,
A noise of falling weights that never fell,
Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand,
Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door,
And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.
- Alfred Tennyson, The Ring
- I look for ghosts; but none will force
Their way to me; 'tis falsely said
Between the living and the dead.
- William Wordsworth, Affliction of Margaret


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OAKLAND — Five boys, two as young as 14, have been arrested in the killing of a San Jose paramedic in the Oakland hills two weeks ago, and police said Tuesday the juveniles have admitted their involvement in the slaying.
Quinn Boyer, a Dublin resident, was stopped at Keller Avenue and Hansom Drive about noon April 2 when the teens pulled their car alongside his Honda Civic and someone shot him in the head at point-blank range, police said.
He never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead at a hospital April 4. Boyer had driven his father to a doctor's appointment that morning and then dropped him off at his Oakland hills home, and was alone in the car when he was shot.
The motive remains unclear, but the teens were arrested Monday and Tuesday ¿on suspicion of murder, robbery and carjacking, police said. The boys' names have not been released because of their ages.
Two are 14, two are 15 and one is 16, police said. They are all friends, but are not believed to be gang members, police said.
"I'm deeply concerned about an unacceptable and disturbing trend where robberies and other crimes are being committed by young people 13 to 17," said police Chief Howard Jordan. "Young people are finding it very simple to point a gun and shoot someone."
Police said Boyer was a random target. After he was shot, he apparently hit the gas pedal, propelling his car over a median strip and into a ravine.
Following the shooting, people in the Keller Avenue area described a "suspicious vehicle" in the area on the day Boyer was shot, giving investigators an idea of the car they were seeking.
An abandoned car — police have declined to name the make and model — was found on the afternoon of April 3 near Horace Mann Elementary School in East Oakland, miles from where Boyer was shot. Police said Oakland school district police Officer Anthony Fergoso helped identify most of the teens through surveillance video taken from near where the car was left.
The case is headed to the Alameda County District Attorney and criminal charges could be filed as early as Wednesday. Police are also investigating if the juveniles, or some of them, are linked to other crimes.
Boyer, a newly married 34-year-old, was memorialized Tuesday at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Oakland after a service that drew hundreds of friends, relatives, firefighters, paramedics, police, and city leaders, including Oakland Mayor Jean Quan.
Boyer had worked as a paramedic for Santa Clara County since 2008, with a stellar reputation on the job. In the days after he was shot, a memorial adorned the front lawn of his employer, Rural/Metro Ambulance, to honor him. The cities of Oakland, Sunnyvale and Milpitas proclaimed Tuesday as Quinn Boyer Day.
Boyer grew up in Oakland and graduated from Sonoma State, the Santa Rosa Fire Academy and Foothill College's paramedic program. He had recently been accepted into the physician's assistant program at Stanford. He was also a Big Brother and a volunteer at the Order of Malta clinic in Oakland, his family said.
His family has declined to speak publicly about the killing, and were not available to comment on the arrests.
Boyer was the 24th person killed in Oakland this year. Anyone with more information can contact Oakland police at 510-238-3821 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572 or 510-777-3211.
Reach Kristin J. Bender at email@example.com. Follow her at Twitter.com/kjbender.


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National Mountain Bike Calendar
The CCA says that the 2000 national mountain bike calendar will hopefully be out within the next few days. They acknowledge that this is the latest release ever for the calendar, but say that it isn't their fault. This time, we agree with them.
The primary problem is the current date for the Mountain Bike Nationals - July 29-30. There is a Norba National Series scheduled for the same weekend, and some of Canada's top pros are concerned about sponsor requirements that would see them face penalties for missing the race if they attended the nationals.
The CCA picked out the date for the Nationals a year ago, based on COA (Canadian Olympic Association) deadlines for Olympic team selection. They registered the date with the UCI, did everything they were supposed to. Then Norba, who are notoriously slow at deciding upon their schedule, announced that they were scheduling a race on the same date. The CCA talked to Norba, who gave them the brush-off (Norba doesn't care about other schedules).
So, the CCA has a choice - go head-to-head with Norba, or change the date of the Nationals. But, there is a problem with moving the Nationals: the only feasible date is a week earlier, which presents its own problems. First, they bump onto the dates for a B.C. race (which cannot move, due to venue/sponsor requirements). Second, the UCI exacts a fairly hefty fine for changing dates this late.
The CCA is stuck between a rock and a hard place, all because of the arogance of a U.S. series that considers itself more important than any other country's national championships. One way or another, they will have to make a decision within the next few days. Whatever they decide, there are going to be howls of outrage. However, this time, it isn't the CCA's fault. Really.
Register your vote on whether or not the CCA should move the National championships date to accommodate Norba by clicking on the Vote! button at the top of the screen.
Team News
Mark Walters returns to Navigators for 2000. Lyne Bessette and Clara Hughes are back with the Saturn women's team, and Brian Walton and Michael Barry stay with the Saturn men's team.
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Quoting from Michael's article:
The unfortunate truth is that not everything is available online. It takes onsite research in archives, libraries, and repositories to obtain as much information as possible about your family.Now, this statement would seem to be incontrovertible. However, a later statement made dramatically qualifies this issue. Here's the statement:
Digitizing records is time consuming and expensive. Governments are putting modern records online quickly because they are already in electronic form. But older, historical materials are slower to come online.The problem is the definition of the term "modern records." Let's suppose that we start with a new genealogist who is presently in his or her 20s. Further, let's make some assumptions. I will assume that the person's parents were born around 1970. Since I presently have grandchildren who are approaching their 20th year this does not seem unreasonable to me. Now, let's jump back one more generation. That puts the new genealogist's grandparents born in the 1940s and the great-grandparents born in the 1920s. The lease for my part, I would consider all of the record since 1920, to be "modern" and readily available. I would also suggest that most of the information necessary for a well sourced pedigree during this time period, would be easily and immediately available online.
In making these assumptions, I'm relying on thousands of my own searches and helping hundreds of people do the same. In fact, not too long ago I did the experiment of attempting to construct a four generation pedigree chart exclusively using Ancestry.com and it took me approximately half an hour to construct my own fully sourced pedigree back four generations on all my lines. As they say in the commercials, your results may differ but I would suggest that it is very common to find adequate records online going back four generations or even five generations for those who were born in the 1990s. Obviously these results rely rather heavily on the origin of the individual's ancestors. In fact, it would be extremely difficult and perhaps impossible to document the most recent four generations without using digitized records available online.
In his article, Michael makes the observation that FamilySearch's digitization effort would take "300 years." I think that this is a misreading of the information provided by FamilySearch. The 300 year time period referred to the time it would take to index all of the records. Is my understanding, that the digitization effort will be concluded within the next few years. The only records where this may not be the case are those that are clearly copyrighted and those for which permission from the original record creators is not forthcoming. The agreement between FamilySearch and Ancestry.com pertains primarily to the indexing of existing records. Be that as it may, it is true that the digitization of all of the world's records may never be accomplished. But the real question is whether or not a sufficient number of records are digitized presently or will be digitized in the near future that will allow people such as our budding genealogist referred to above, to do an adequate job of documenting a basic four generation pedigree.
Another factor that apparently was overlooked by Michael in this post, is the issue of online lending libraries. For example, our local Maricopa County Library system has access to the Gale Reference Library. This online resource has hundreds of "copyrighted" genealogical reference books fully digitized and searchable online. In addition, online lending libraries continue to expand dramatically and it may be only a short time before virtually every book available in major public libraries is also available to be checked out online.
Of course the real issue is whether or not the documents that are currently locked up in paper repositories are going to be generally available. From my standpoint, the question is when will the genealogists need to refer to those records? The answer is a little bit complex. I have spent my time at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah and other similar repositories around the country. In my case, I used to visit my local public library once or twice a month. With the availability of online library lending services my visits have decreased dramatically. Therefore, I do not believe that the conclusion that copyrighted material will be unavailable online is a valid supposition. In many cases, I do not need to go to the library to read a copyrighted book.
In saying all this, I certainly do not want to give the impression that I believe that all genealogical research can be done online. I will be long gone and buried before that is the case. But for the average US-born new genealogist, I believe that the future is already here. At this point, I probably need to raise the issue of how many sources are needed to establish a valid pedigree. But I will leave that for another discussion. For most purposes as I outlined above adequate documentation is presently available online dating back four or maybe five generations. There are exceptions and I assume I will receive comments to that effect.


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Monday, January 11, 2010
In loving memory: Sheldon Feuerstein, 1929 - 2010
Dad leaves behind his wife of 53 years, Joan; sister, Lilyan; five children, Jaye (Sela), Steven, Shari (DeUrso), Laurie (Walsh) and Nina (Rosenthal); nine grandchildren, Christopher, Eli, Masada, Timnah, Danielle, Benjamin, Markus, Liana and Sally. His family was the center of his life and we all - those above and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends - mourn his passing, but celebrate a life well-lived.
Sheldon was born on October 7, 1929 to Jacob and Rose Feuerstein. He was the fourth of five children, the other four all sisters: Belle, Lilyan, Edy and Nancy (and what an odd coincidence that he had five children, and only one son among them). His father was an acclaimed pattern cutter (he would cut the original pattern of the dress, from which others were made) and my father idolized him.
Sheldon met his wife, Joan, at a dance, and that happened (according to legend) only because his friend, Stu, insisted that he come out to play. A short time later, they were married. And from then on, they were never apart. When Dad almost died in 2007 and went through a ( triple bypass + new valve - gall bladder ), Mom never left his side and helped him regain his life (and even improve on it in many ways). She was the center of his world, and he could never quite believe his luck ("I don't know why she puts up with me," he would say, shaking his head).
Sheldon was, professionally, a lawyer and CPA (certified public accountant). He practiced for decades in New York, and then relocated with Joan to Florida in 1996. As an accountant, he also taught himself computer programming, in particular RPG on an AS400, and built his own custom applications to manage his clients' financial affairs. That probably doesn't mean much to some of you, but his son (aka, me), a professional computer programmer, was way beyond impressed that he could do this!
He was a man of many interests and talents, and without a doubt he felt that his first calling, his great passion, was for art and not numbers. While he was not able to remain in the school, his acceptance into the Cooper Union School of Art as a young man remained a point of pride for him his whole life. He was an accomplished painter and his work graces the walls of Joan and Sheldon's home in Boynton Beach, as well as many other homes and some synagogues.
Sheldon approached the world with avid curiosity and was always interested to learn more, especially in the sciences. His passions (besides his family and his artwork) over the years ranged from chess and model airplanes, to photography (he built a dark room in his basement) and astronomy.
He played an active role in each synagogue of which he was a member, from the Suffolk Jewish Center in Deer Park , NY to Temple Torah in Boynton Beach. Israel, its land and people, figured large in his life. His several visits to Israel always excited him and never satisfied him. He longed to visit "one last time," but his health did not permit this.
Family was such a big part of his life. When he grew up and when we (my sisters and I) were growing up, the extended Feuerstein family (including Schuckmans, Knollers, Kleins and Gventers) would gather on a weekly basis or more frequently, for barbecues, holidays, birthdays and so on. It was a wonderful way to be raised, and I miss it. That was definitely one of the drawbacks to moving to Chicago: I moved away from most of my family in New York.
As a Dad to his only son, my father went to great lengths to both share his passions with me and also to ensure that I enjoyed other activities that he thought were important for me, though they might not be his forte. Namely: doing things outdoors. My dad was a bit of a desk potato and workaholic (gee, I guess that's where I got my "work ethic" from), but he enrolled me in the Cub Scouts, then Boy Scouts, and went on many camping trips with me. These were not his favorite thing to do, but he did them because he felt they were the right thing to do. I am so glad he did, and sad that I did not make more of an effort to do the like with my own children.
But I will always remember lying side by side in sleeping bags on a clear cold night in the woods, with snowflakes falling down over us, looking up at the stars. There had been some screw-up and so we didn't have a tent, but we didn't mind. It was wonderful.
My dad had a long (but not long enough), full (but there always room for more), successful life, surrounded by those he loved and loved himYou can see many photos of my dad, from all throughout his life, here. Perhaps best of all, you can enjoy his artwork here.
I miss him more than words can say.
17 comments:
- reMARKable said...
an elegant elegy, Steve . . . from an early age I was impressed by that commanding presence, that resonant voice, that subtle sparkle of dry wit, and, of course, that "Revolutionary" artwork! When I think on Sheldon, the word STRENGTH loom large (come to think of it, so does LARGE . . . as in "larger-than-life"!) - if one measure of a man is by the lives he had a hand in molding, his progeny, well, I can think of no greater or lasting memorial than you five . . . may I myself, day by day, be ever more worthy of the blessing that is "family" . . . and may we all carry a piece of the man's STRENGTH in the days, months and years ahead . . . Sheldon Feuerstein, quite simply: a Mensch!
With love and respect,
Mark Plastrik
- Noons said...
Sorry to hear about this, Steven.
I lost my father in 2003 after a horrible illness and am still bouncing back.
One thing I've found helps: write down, in a sort of family book, all you remember while he was alive. Little bits of history, moments you both shared, what have you.
Odds on one of your children will one day want to know details about his life, you then have it all ready for them.
Believe me, I wish I had a similar source for the rest of my family, long gone. It's worth it.
- Steven Feuerstein said...
Thanks, Mark. What a wonderful tribute to my dad. It's funny, I was thinking about him this evening, trying to step back and look at his whole life...and that is precisely the word that came to mind: Mensch.
I feel very fortunate to have had him as my father.
- Steven Feuerstein said...
And thank you, Noons. That is a great idea. I agree completey and plan to attach my webcam to my laptop and record memories of (I hope) every person who joins us for shiva after the funeral.
- yas said...
Sorry to hear about this Steven.
- My Test Blog said...
I am so very sorry for your loss. We've had the opportunity to share a lot of experiences these past 10+ years but I wish having to share the loss of our fathers just weeks apart could not have been one of them. Please know that Connie and I are available should you need anything.
- Islam said...
Sorry to hear about this
- Tmyers said...
I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. I lost my mother 2 1/2 years ago and still miss her everyday.
One thing you could do to help celebrate your father's life is have all his kids and/or grandkids take a 'survey' about him. i.e. favorite past time, favorite food, favorite saying,etc. Get creative. It can really be fun to get to see how different people see the same person.
My heart goes out to you and your family.
Tammy Myers
- Pedro Leite said...
my dearest sympathies and regrets Steven...lovely elegy..It gives the res of us mortals..that you really care fo your father..
- Peter Kessler said...
I'm a huge fan of your classic work on PL/SQL.
Steve, Your dad *is* proud of you. During your time of loss and for your family remember Freud's observation: You really never end a relationship with a lost loved one, grief is a transitional time as the relationship changes. I lost my father when I was 12 years old in 1979. My relationship continues to evolve with my dad. Best wishes to you sir.
- __joel__ said...
Please accept my sincere condolences...
- Aman Sharma said...
There is no bigger loss than losing a parent and I just can say that I am so sorry to hear. May god give rest and peace to his soul and take him in his embrace for being such a good human being, father, husband!
I know no words can ease the pain you are into Steve! I just can say, I am so sorry over this terrible loss!
- Nelson said...
My deepest sympathies for you and your family.
I had a chance to see some of the good relationship you have with your parent at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2007 in Orlando, and saw the wonderful face on your father when looking at his wife.
Might he rest in peace.
- Dean said...
Steven, words cannot really describe the influence your father had on our entire family and those who had the opportunity to know him. We will all miss him very much. Your cousin, Dean
- Beth said...
Steven I am thinking of you and your whole family today with much love. I am remembering both your father and sister Laurie with many warm childhood memories and laughter. I am so so sorry for your loss of both of them and wish I could do more to help comfort you and your family. Your Dad was really a wonderful man and I will always remember how he made me laugh. I am sure you feel overwhelmed with grief so my whole family including my mom and sister Felice are thinking about all of you. May you be comforted amoungst the mourners of Zion.
Beth Zinderman Burnham
- Livio said...
Mr. Feuerstein,
please accept my deepest condolences.
- Anu...U Chill... said...
Hi Steven,
Deepest Sympathies. May God give strength to u and ur family. I went through your family picturs in flickr, and they are really wonderful. Even though i came to know abt you all recently, seems like I've known them since ages after seeing the pictures.