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Friday, January 14, 2011

The Gift that Gives Back

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm super excited about the gift I purchased for my mom's birthday. Since I was able to give it to her at her birthday dinner last night, I can finally share it with all of you!

So to be honest, when I first saw this item, I knew I needed one for myself. I ordered one right away and am completely in love with it. Not only is it beautifully stunning, but it means oh-so-very much to me on a personal/emotional level. Now that I'm sure you're wondering what it is, let me show you:

This beautiful heart pendant was inspired by the all-too-short life of sweet little Mia Marrone:
Mia Grace Marrone was diagnosed in utero with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Mia was born on April 29, 2010.

At 6 days old, Mia underwent her first of three open-heart surgery, the Norwood at the renowned Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

On July 25, 2010, at 87 days old, Mia's battle with HLHS sadly came to an end.

Mia Grace Marrone is survived by her parents, Jennifer & Ray Marrone, her older brother Cole and her twin brother Madden.
The Mia Marrone Heart Foundation is raising money and awareness for congenital heart defects, specifically HLHS, by making this beautiful Mia Marrone HLHS Swarovski heart pendant available for purchase. ALL of the money used to purchase these beautiful charms goes directly to fund research and raise awareness for HLHS.

If you have a special heart child in your life -- son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, niece, nephew, cousin, etc. -- this gorgeous pendant can serve as a beautiful tribute to your precious heart warrior. I know for me this purchase was completely for sentimental reasons: I feel honored to wear my son's special heart around my neck and love the opportunity to talk about what he's been through when others notice my lovely and unusual pendant. Please visit the Mia Marrone Heart Foundation Facebook page for an order form if you're interested in purchasing one of these pendants. UPDATE: They are now available in both pink AND blue pendants! Gorgeous!

I do believe my mom enjoyed her new pendant in honor of her grandson, and I know I cherish mine. And I will tell you that photos just don't do this beautiful heart justice. Here's another photo with the flash... those Swarovski crystals sure do sparkle!

Thank you to Jennifer Marrone and the Mia Marrone Heart Foundation for making these beautiful pendants available and for all you're doing to raise awareness and support CHD research!

  1. Of all the "heart mom" charms I've seen, this is my favorite so far. I'm sure your mom loved this thoughtful gift and will wear it often in honor of Chase and memory of Mia.

  2. My four month old son has hlhs and is scheduled for his glenn next month. Its been a long journey and I wanted something to show my love and support for my son and all hlhs kids, and honestly when I saw ur pendant I was instntly in love. I have to have one! And one for the grandparents too!!! :) where do I find them?

  3. You can buy them here! In pink blue or red


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We got about $6000 back with our tax return. We currently have about $30k in credit card/personal loan debt, balances ranging from $2000 to $9000 , with interest on the lower balances of 5%, 8% and 14%. The larger balances are currently covered under 0% promos but those expire this year and then will be considerably higher at 20% or so. Our dilemma is, we have a vehicle we owe 19k on. Payments are $340 with 5.5% interest rate. Should we take about 4K and pay down the car to where someone will buy it and free up $340 to throw at other debts, or, throw all of it towards the cards to reduced those balances?
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First you should fix your W-4 so you will have more money per paycheck, and a smaller refund.
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As mentioned, the first thing is to fix your w4. If you're getting a refund on your taxes, then that isn't good money management. If you think you like getting a refund, then no one here can help you until you change your way of thinking.

Next. You cut up all of your credit cards. Yes, cut them up. Obviously, you aren't able to use them as a convenience tool, but for loans. You need to 100% stop using them. If you can't agree to that, then again, no one can help you until you change your way of thinking.

Next, start with the lowest amount owed on the credit cards with interest, and pay it off. If you have more left over, pay off or towards the next one with a balance you can pay off.

Then, take the money you were paying on those with, and start paying off the next one. And put as much money as you can towards paying off all of the credit cards charging interest. And I mean every cent possible. If that means eating ramen noodles and cereal most days of the week for a year, then do it. You either loved beyond your means or didn't know how to structure unforeseen debt. It's time to be responsible and take care of it. Each time you pay something off, add all those payments to the next higher debt.

If you do this, and don't charge anything else new, and live below your means, you can eliminate your entire debt within a year. It's just a matter of if you want to or not. Other than a mortgage and possibly a car loan, if you have any recurring debt that you can't pay off in its entirety when the bill comes in, then you become a slave living beyond your means. There are some who say their car broke down, and the water heat went out, and they got medical bills, etc. These circumstances are rare. And even then, the answer isn't credit card bills. There's other ways to deal with these types of expenses.
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I agree with christcorp.

The one thing that I did not see was make a budget and follow the plan.
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I like the snowball method: http://clubthrifty.com/debt-snowball-complete-guide/
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Opinion – Leave the Chains Unbroken

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As part of immigration reform, there’s a push to ban “chain migration.” According to the Washington Post, Trump has said ending “horrible chain migration” will be a condition of any deal that may protect those facing deportation after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program expires.

According to the White House, chain migration is “The process by which foreign nationals permanently resettle within the U.S. and subsequently bring over their foreign relatives, who then have the opportunity to bring over their foreign relatives, and so on until entire extended families are resettled in the country.” The White House wants to replace that process with a merit-based system.

I disagree that the current process is “horrible” and find the proposed change unsettling. As I’ve discovered through my work on Ancestry.com, I, like many others in this country, am the product of chain migration.

My mother’s father was brought as a boy of six to the United States. His parents emigrated from the German state of Pomerania, which is now part of Poland, to the Chicago area because a cousin was already living there.

My mother’s grandmother was Swedish. She emigrated from central Sweden to the United States when she was about 18. Although I have not yet confirmed this, I am convinced she had family or family friends in the Chicago area. Why else would a single young woman choose to travel that far alone, and to Chicago of all places, in the late 1800s? Someone must have been waiting for her.

The story of my father’s family is similar. His great grandfather came from Germany to Chicago accompanied by his brother. They were cigar makers and had family in the area. Although they spoke German, my father’s mother’s family came from what was termed “Russian Poland.” They, too, had family and friends in Chicago.

Both sides of my extended family were connected through friendships and intermarriage with two other emigrant families. It was through these chains of interconnectedness that my father and mother met.

Had there been a merit system in place in the mid and late 1800s, I doubt many of my ancestors would have qualified for entry. Most were farmers, although there were a couple of carpenters along with the cigar makers in the mix. They were all largely unschooled. In the U.S., most of them turned to farming by working for other farmers or renting at first and then buying small farms when and if they could. My Swedish great grandmother worked as a household servant for a wealthy Chicago family for several years before she met and married my great grandfather, who was a renter farmer.

My ancestors were lucky. They came from “desirable” areas in Europe and not one of those places recently labeled with a scatological epithet. They were white and of “Germanic” origin. This country has a history of changing immigration policies dating back almost to its founding. As white Europeans, my ancestors would have been admitted under the Naturalization Act of 1790, which attempted to restrict immigration to Europeans or “Caucasians” only. Since they weren’t of Chinese or Asian descent, they didn’t have to worry about the Page Act of 1875 (restrictions on Chinese immigration) or the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. These were enacted  around the time many of my ancestors came to this country. In fact, even if they had arrived later than they did, they would not have had to worry about the Immigration Act of 1924, which was intended to limit the immigration of southern and eastern Europeans, especially Italians, Jews, and Slavs. And they were not Irish, against whom there was a swell of resentment because so many had arrived destitute as a result of the potato famine.

Even the current president is a product of chain migration. According to Wikipedia, Friedrich Trump, the current president’s grandfather, emigrated at age 16 from Kallstadt in Bavaria to New York City, arriving on October 19, 1885. The immigration records list his name as “Friedr. Trumpf” and his occupation as “none.”

If the immigration changes currently being proposed had been in place back then, Friedrich Trump might have been ineligible to enter the U.S. on two counts. First, on arrival, he moved in with his older sister, Katharina and her husband, Fred Schuster. They had emigrated in 1883. That would have violated a ban on chain migration. Second, although he had trained as a barber, Trump listed his occupation as “none,” because he had never held a job. It would be difficult for someone with no occupation to claim merit as a reason for entering the U.S.

If Friedrich Trump had been denied entry, his grandson would have been born outside the United States and therefore ineligible to hold the office of president.

As the debate over immigration reform moves forward, it behooves us all to remember that the urge to “close the door behind us” ebbs and flows, and to think about our own families. We are a nation of immigrants, and many of us are here through the process of chain migration.

We should also keep in mind that to the First Nations, the passengers on the Mayflower and all who followed are immigrants. And they entered without the permission of those nations, making them illegals.

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    The Lighter Evenings (Experiment) Bill will have its second reading in the Lords tomorrow (Friday). It proposes that in England clocks should stay one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time in the winter and two hours ahead in the summer. Other countries in the UK would be left to make their own decision on whether to join the experiment which would run from October this year to October 2009.

    Under the current system, road casualty rates increase after the clocks are moved back to GMT at the end of October, with the arrival of darker evenings and worsening weather conditions. In 2004, road deaths rose from 269 in October to 300 in November and to 323 in December. Pedestrian deaths went up from 56 in October to 76 in November and 78 in December and the overall casualty rate for road accidents also increased.

    The new proposal would result in darker mornings, but an extra hour of evening daylight throughout the year. A report commissioned by the Government showed that this would lead to around 450 fewer deaths and serious injuries, including between 104 to 138 fewer deaths.

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Hi im kae jade yes i know I have a guys name but I am a girl, I lived in australia, I am 17, my mum and dad passed away in a house fire, im now being forced to move in with my cousin thomas and his girlfriend in london, my cousin knows evrything about me, he knows I do drugs he knows I smoke he knows I drink, he knows I cut and iv never had a boyfriend, he knows I have been bullied all my life he knows iv tried to kill my self, he knows eveything, I guess you could say we are close.
I have long brown curly hair, crystal blue eyes but I wear dark brown contacts now, im pretty short, I have my nose tounge and eyebrow peirced, people say in skinney but im also curvey? But yeah my old friends would say im very very very loud, im a bitch at times but also very friendly, im out there I have absolutly no shame, I tell it how it is and im very snappy, I love my music and Im inlove with photography, im singing all the time, and dancing,
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`okay then` louis said looking at me weirdly.

`yeah well I have to get ready for school we only have and hour. I smiled as I walked past him and made my way upstairs to have a shower.

I walked into my room, closed the door and jumped into the shower in the connected bathroom, each room had one, the water was amazing, it felt so nice, the hot water hitting my skin and dragging all my worrys with it down the drain.

I stood there for about 10 mins before I herd my door open, I quickly turned my shower off, grabbed a towel and put it around my waist to cover up a bit. I walked out to see kae standing there looking around, `wheres all my stu--` she stoped talking as she looked at me, she started walking closer.

What is she doing. What is she doing. What is she doing. I started freeking out.

All of a sudden she was tracing the scar on my chest with her finger. Her touch made my get goose bumps all over my skin,  I felt electricity shooting through my body, I was getting turned on by the way she bit her lip while she was concentrating and her lightly touching my skin dosnt help either.

I couldn’t help my self, I grabbed her face and smashed my lips against her.

I had goosebumps to the max, all of a sudden she started kissing back, she was going wild.

I picked her up and pushed her against the wall, one of her hands where in my hair the other clawing into my back, she was Grinding up against me, I was throbbing by now, my towl was becoming looser,

I piced her up again and threw her on the bed, I was now hovering above her kissing at her neck, leaving trails of kisses from just under her ear to her collar bone.

Things started to get really heated, her shirt was moving up and up every second.

I could see her lacy black undies and the matching bra she had on, all of a sudden she pulled the shirt off leaveing her in her underwear and bra and me in just a towel, she started feeling me up while we where kissing eachother like our life depended on it,

She started tugging at my towel trying to get it off,

But all of a sudden someone walked in and screamed.

`its not what it looks like` I screamed as I looked at my girlfriend mia.

I quickly jumped up and ran after her leaving kae laying on my bed almost naked.

I don’t know what just happened, just a moment ago I was trying to find where my room is & now look what has happened,

I ended up almost getting it on with the guy who killed me yesterday.

`What is wrong with me` I kept repeating to myself, as I found the shirt I had on earlier, I pulled it back on and kept looking for my room so I could get changed and get out of this house.

I walked out of harrys room and all of a sudden I smashed into a tall figgure, he was very tan and well built, `oh im so sorry… what where you coming out of harrys room?` I looked up to see zayn with no shirt on `uh yeah I thought it was my room` I said awkwardly looking at the ground, I couldn’t look at him, I was blushing like crazy `here I will show you to your room` zayn said grabbing my hand and entwinign our fingers.

I looked down at our fingers and smiled a bit.

He dragged me towards a door and opend it for me, `well here you are` he said smiling at me, I did the same, we stood there for a bit just staring at eachother.

I went to walk into my room but I just got yanked back, I looked down to see that hour hands where still locked into place.

`uhm you can lwt go now` I said and smiled at him.

`oh.. Yeah uhm sorry…. Yeah sorry about that` he said scratching the back of his neck and walking away mumbling something to himself….

I started giggleing `hes so cute` I said to my self.

`whos so cute` I herd someone behind me say.

I turned around…..

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Things have been rough lately for stage crew worker Miranda. She has to work two jobs just to get by. Until she does a show for 5 Seconds of Summer and she and her friend Daniel get asked to tour with them! Miranda starts to fall for one of the boys but it threatens her job, where if something happened she would have to go back to Montana and face everything she left behind.
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When I got back from the pool Daniel was asleep. Thank god. I missed Daniel, he used to be so nice and we'd only been touring for two days and he was already letting it get to him. Daniel is small town, he should have never took this job. I took a shower and got in my pajamas. I was in bed for a while and couldn't sleep so I decided to go on the balcony. The hotel didn't have much of a view on this side, all I could really see from here was the parking lot and the side of a convenience store. I sang to myself quietly in the dark hoping no one could hear me. I knew I had a good voice, but I was insecure about letting people hear it. It just...makes me feel stupid I don't know...I stayed outside until I got cold and went back in. I watched a spanish drama show that I couldn't understand for a bit. My phone buzzed. I picked up my phone and saw yet another message from Ashton:

A: you have a good voice

Oh my heard that:M

A:Yeah! Don't be ashamed! It was good

Go to bed! you have a show tomorrow that I have to run! ;):M

A: Then how come you're not asleep

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Goodnight Ashton...:M

A: Goodnight Miranda

I woke up to the sun peaking through the curtains at around 8:30. I looked at the piece of paper Daniel had put on the night stand. He was still asleep. I sat up and picked up the papers. 'Guidelines for tour success' they were called. I threw a pillow at Daniel. He woke up instantly. Before he could speak I said

"What the hell is this?" I asked.

"The manager gave it to me" He said

"It looks kind of important, why didn't you tell me about it"  I asked

"I figured you would see it in the morning" He said. I looked at the sheet which was neatly typed in Comic sans.  'Step one: wake the boys up at 7:00'

"Sorta!" He said

"Sorry" he said.

"No Daniel I don't wanna hear it! you've been so irresponsible lately-" I said

"You're going to get me fired!" I said slamming the door behind me. I knocked on the their door loudly.

"C'mon wake up!" I said, fearing for my job, Calum finally answered.

"Woah, you look like crap" Calum said laughing

"Please tell me their awake in there" I said

"No, their not, why what time is it?" He said

"Eight thirty" I said quietly.

"Oh shit" He said running in

"Can I follow that bad?" I yelled from outside the door

"GET IN HERE!" He said. I race-walked in

"Wake Luke up" He said

"JUST DO IT!" He said. I shook Luke's shoulder

"Wake up." I said quietly. He made a groaning noise and moved away from my arm.

"LUKE GET UP!" I said louder. He rolled over and looked at me.

"What time is it?" He asked, rubbing his eyes.

"eight thirty" I said quietly

"oh shit!" He said

"Woah. you guys are really similar" I said. Luke flew past me and into the bathroom, I heard the shower turn on. Soon the light was on and the band was getting ready.

"Do you want me to get you guys some breakfast?" I asked.

"Sure" MIchael said combing his hair and looking into a mirror on the wall.

"Okay I'll be right back" I said

"You might wanna put some normal clothes on" Michael said. I looked down at my pajamas

"Shit! yeah good idea" I said walking back into my room. I rooted through my duffel bag and pulled out a plaid shirt and a pair of jeans. I put on my black keds, brushed my hair, threw the bandana in it and started out the door.

"When I get back you'd better have that list memorized backwards and forwards" I said to Daniel who was no help to me at all. I walked down to the McDonald's and ordered 6 McMuffins and 6 Hashbrowns and 6 Coffees. The service was fairly quick and I walked quickly back down to the hotel with my hands full of McDonalds bags...Thanks Daniel. I went up the elevator and back to the room. By the time I got back they were all ready and sitting on the couch watching the spanish drama special I was watching last night.

"Okay I bought some Mcmuffins, Hash Browns, and that fine" I asked

"Yeah!" Michael said lighting up. I laid out all the food on the table in front of them.

"Alright, I'm going to give this food to Daniel than we have to hurry down to the arena so we can do rehearsal" I said.

"No! stay and eat with us!" Calum said.

"I'll be right back" I said smiling and walking to our room next door.

"Here" I said putting Daniels breakfast on the table by the fridge.

"Thanks" Daniel said walking over to me.

"No thank you, for all your help" I said

"We have to be at rehearsal at 10 meet you in the parking lot" I said leaving.

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Upper Body Exercises: Three Favorite

Upper body exercises are important exercises to do. Whenever you go to reach, push, pull or lift something, your upper body plays an important role in how well (or not) you perform.

Upper body exercises are also important to do because they allow your upper to be fit and in shape. So, upper body exercises help us in our daily functional activities and they give us that boost of confidence we need when we look in the mirror and see awesome definition in our chest, shoulders, arms and back!

Here are three of my favorite beginner to intermediate exercises for a fit upper body. All of these exercises and pictures are taken from our great friends at Pt On the Net of which I am an Ambassador for them.

Upper Body Push Exercise: Bosu Ball Push-UP

It seems like the push up has been around since the beginning of time. Guess what, it’s not going anywhere either, lol! As a result, it is probably the king of upper body exercises as it works an array of muscles. Subsequently, a few of them include your chest, shoulders and arms.

Here is the correct way to do the Bosu ball push up:

  • Ensure that the hands are in line vertically with the shoulders, that the hips are horizontally in line with knees/shoulders, and that the feet are shoulder-width apart.
  • Grip the edge of the Bosu ball with the flat side facing up (as shown in the above pictures).
  • Ensure a firm grip on the edge, and with a *straight body line – perform a push-up (*note: this can also be done with the knees on the ground)
  • Perform the desired number of repetitions.

Upper Body Pull Exercise: DB Row on Stability Ball

The DB Row on the Stability Ball is an excellent way to work those major back muscles like your rhomboids and lats to name a few. Furthermore, using the ball adds an extra challenge to your balance and core.

As a result, here is the correct way to do the DB Row on the Stability Ball:

  • Position the feet straight, keep butt tight, ‘neutral’ spine angles, shoulder blades down and together, and chin tucked for good neck posture like pictures above.
  • Activate your stomach by drawing in your belly button to your lower back.
  • Lie face down with your lower abs/hips on the ball, feet against a wall (if necessary) and proper alignment.
  • Choose light dumbbells and perfect the technique before moving to a heavier load.
  • Start with the dumbbells under the chest in line with the ground.
  • Row the weight up with both arms, keeping the elbows wide.
  • The shoulder blades should squeeze together gradually as you row the weight, then unsqueeze as you lower the weight slowly.
  • Keep the stomach and butt tight to avoid lower back discomfort.

Upper Body Lift Exercise: Standing DB Shoulder Press

The Standing DB Press is a good exercise for working your deltoid (shoulder) muscles. If you have ever had a hard time lifting things over head and placing them somewhere, this is a great upper body exercise to help with that.

Here is the correct way to do the Standing DB Shoulder Press:

  • Position feet shoulder width apart, while pointing straight ahead like pictures above
  • Keep your stomach drawn in to your lower back and make sure your back is not arching or rounding
  • Start with the dumbbells at shoulder height, palms facing forward.
  • While maintaining total body alignment, push the dumbbells overhead until your arms are straight, but, elbows are not locked.
  • AVOID letting your back arch at ANYTIME (this may indicate tightness in the lats and a stretching program should precede loading of this exercise, see my blog on lower back exercise to help).

In conclusion, upper body exercises are once again, important to do.

As a result, the three that I just gave you are a great routine for getting a strong and great looking upper body.

If you would like help with designing your upper body exercise routine, please contact me here.

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Five years into the Obama presidency, the State of the Union is … still capable of defying expectations.
Going into last night, the political scuttlebutt set the stage for a rather contentious confrontation. A lame-duck president, fed up with a do-nothing Congress, would decry Republican obstructionism, blame them for their recent fiascos, and tell the nation how he intended to circumvent the legislative branch that seems incapable of routine governance.
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Very early on in the president’s address, Obama addressed one of the political crises that rocked Washington just last year:
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What struck me as amazing about this paragraph was the sense of collective responsibility – Obama referenced “us” and “we” when talking about the crises Republicans needlessly imposed on the nation. The president could have assessed blame, and would have been correct to hold Republicans responsible, but Obama was going to extraordinary lengths to be even-handed and conciliatory.
Almost 16 years ago to the day, then-President Clinton delivered a State of the Union address on the heels of the first Republican shutdown and used the opportunity to give GOP lawmakers a stern lecture: “Never, ever shut the federal government down again.” Obama did largely the opposite, suggesting all of Washington must do better. No finger-pointing, no assigning blame.
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It's been a while since word last emerged about Cloudyn, but the cloud administrative services market is well on an upward trend. Cloudyn itself, meanwhile, managed to land some new funding itself as a recently-concluded Series A funding round landed $4 million for the company, a development that offers some significant new opportunities for the firm.

Cloudyn's primary stock in trade is a cloud administrative service that better allows companies to deal with cloud utilization, both in terms of monitoring current use and optimizing that use to offer better results. This allows for more stabilized cost profiles and the like, even when using different infrastructure providers and that explains pretty handily why a group of investors ponied up an additional $4 million for Cloudyn's use. Not only did current investor RDSeed come back for more, but Titanium Investments reportedly led the charge on this one with a variety of other investors. To date, the company has raised fully $5.5 million for its operations, and the Cloudyn board of directors gets a new addition in the form of Titanium Investments' managing partner Alexander Aivazov.

Right now, Cloudyn's services work with such major names as Amazon Web Services and Google (News - Alert) Cloud, but reports suggest that the company is looking to expand outward and bring in other services as part of its normal operations, particularly offerings like those of VMware as well as Microsoft (News - Alert) Azure. With demand on the rise from the user base to add these platforms to current operations, Cloudyn was left in a position where making the additions was largely necessary, lest the risk of lost customers get too high. But making those changes required an additional note of funding to make same happen, and so, the funding round went on with likely some very interested investors looking to get in. After all, when a company needs money specifically so it can address a market that's demonstrated interest; it's hard not to take an interest in putting cash behind such a firm. With 2,400 customers to date already in Cloudyn's roster, that's an equally good sign.

Some, like Andreessen Horowitz general partner Peter Levine, see the growth of firms like Cloudyn as extensions of a whole new means of computing, which some are calling “Data Center as a Service”. This actually represents a noteworthy step forward, some believe, because with an increasing amount of traffic going to the cloud, finding ways to make that traffic run more efficiently can, in turn, lower costs. With more and more of a business' operations going to the cloud—a measure that makes a note of sense in light of things like the mobile workforce and the bring your own device (BYOD) concept—making the cloud work more efficiently saves time, and therefore money.

There's almost always value to be had in streamlining processes; doing more with less is commonly the sort of thing that improves profitability by dint of reducing expenses while at the same time leaving revenue either static or upwardly-bound. A service like Cloudyn's, meanwhile, can be a big help on that front, allowing companies to not only better know what's going on in terms of said companies' cloud use, but also providing some insight on how to improve it. Only time will tell if the Cloudyn service really catches on, but with users already in the fold and working, it's a pretty safe bet that stretching the service out to more platforms, as the users actually requested, will result in further expansion.

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In Risk, the game of global domination, much like business, alliances are a key component to a successful long term campaign. When it comes to the enterprise cloud one of the larger coalitions is the Microsoft (News - Alert) Enterprise Cloud Alliance, and this week it unveiled its newest member: QUADROtech.

“We are happy to welcome QUADROtech to the Enterprise Cloud Alliance,” said Chris Lwanga, Microsoft's Principal PM Manager. “QUADROtech's expertise and solutions are great additions to what we can offer our Alliance members and enterprise customers.”

QUADROtech has achieved Gold competencies in Intelligent Systems, Messaging, Data Center and Application Development as well as Silver in Small & Midmarket Cloud Solutions, Hosting, Cloud Platforms and Data Platform. The Microsoft managed Partner plans to leverage its partnership to further the development and adoption of its enterprise cloud solutions via Microsoft Azure.

“A strong relationship with Microsoft is strategic to our business,” said Peter Kozak, QUADROtech's CEO, “and joining the Enterprise Cloud Alliance is further evidence of our commitment to help drive Microsoft Azure consumption via high-value IP that enables our shared customers to optimize their operations with the power and global scalability of Microsoft Azure.”

Storage Migrator for Microsoft Azure puts Azure in the storage driver seat, freeing data from EMC (News - Alert) Centera storage systems and, in addition, saves the client cost and offers the necessary levels of compliance and security. Another enterprise cloud solution is QUADROtech’s EVnearSync for Microsoft Azure, which provides for a 0-second Recovery Point Objective (RPO) as a result of high availability, real-time replications.
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The cloud is certainly not a zero-sum game; this multi-polar market is expanding presence. Whether it’s greater performance, storage, workflow, etc. that you seek, the cloud is a good place to start your search. Groups like the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance are easing accessibility, adoption and innovation, making room for all on the cloud express.

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The Family Background

David Wilson was a lighterman of the late 18th century.  He saw an opportunity to service trading ships in the Humber estuary, by transporting cargo to and from the quayside in a small boat.  It was an exacting trade, dependent upon tides and ships.  However, he established a good business and, with the advent of the industrial revolution, the major import of iron ore and later trade with India set the foundations of the Wilson family fortune.

David and his wife Elizabeth bore ten children and Thomas, the youngest and one of only two boys, founded the Wilson Shipping Line.  Thomas married the daughter of a wine merchant and they bore 15 children.  Arthur was the youngest and it was he who built Tranby Croft, which is now Hull High School for Girls.   The Wilsons by this time had established themselves in Society and, in 1890, the Prince of Wales was a guest for the Doncaster Races.  It was here and on this occasion that the infamous so-called Baccarat Scandal played itself out.  The repercussions from this scandal affected the lives of the participants for many years after.

Arthur’s four sons were educated at Eton and they took little interest in the family business after they left school.  Jack, the eldest, became an MP; Thomas died at the age of 13; it is not known exactly what happened to Clive, the youngest; however, it was Edward Kenneth, known as the quiet son, who took over the business but it did not continue to prosper.  He married Molly Hacket and their only child, a daughter, was born at her grandparents’ house in Grosvenor Place on Monday 9th March 1903.  She was called Hilary.  The family lived in Roehampton until Kenneth bought Cannizaro Park in Wimbledon when Hilary was 17.

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Hilary was a shy, retiring child with a passion for music and a devotion to the piano.  Although custom of the day precluded entry to music college, her talent was such that the great Solomon accepted her for private study.  She gave many private recitals and, during the First World War, played to the wounded in hospitals.  In 1928 she married Sir Geoffrey FitzClarence who in the same year inherited his uncle’s title of 5th Earl of Munster.

Over the years, Lady Munster continued to perform in hospitals and at schools and her home at Bletchingley in Surrey was a hub of musical activity.  She was a great patron of many professional musicians of the day.  Perhaps due to the fact that her marriage was childless, she took a particular interest in young performers and, with the support of her close friend, Gerald Coke, a financier and supporter of music, the idea of putting her help on to an enduring and practical basis was conceived with the founding in 1958 of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.

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The Trust’s role was to support young musicians of professional potential to achieve their aims, by funding their fees and living expenses and also by underwriting concerts for promotional purposes. Now well-established in the classical music world, the help it provides has made and continues to make a real and significant contribution to the advancement of talented young musicians.  Lady Munster’s generous endowment, from which the Trust’s annual income is derived, currently provides assistance to young musicians amounting to around £200,000 each year.

It is a matter of great satisfaction that Lady Munster was able to watch her Trust’s steady growth from its inception in 1958 until its coming of age in 1979. During these years she took a keen interest in all its activities, regularly attending meetings and audition days and actively following the careers of its beneficiaries. Lady Munster died in November 1979, but her Trust has continued to flourish as a permanent memorial to a great musical benefactress.

The Trust can look back over its history sure in the knowledge that it has helped many young musicians to achieve their potential. It is certain that future beneficiaries will be increasingly appreciative of this help, especially in view of the ever-growing competition within the musical profession. It may be said that the Trust has contributed substantially to a rise in the general standard of musicianship, which has been evident over the past few decades. It can look to the future well aware that the need, recognised by Lady Munster and for which the Trust was originally conceived, still exists and confident that it is well-equipped to meet those needs.

The Trustees are assured by many of the musicians, whose advanced training was assisted through the Trust’s awards, of their awareness of the tremendous debt they owe to the generosity and inspiration of Hilary, Countess of Munster.

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The Trust provides financial assistance towards the musical education of individual students and the Trustees are prepared to consider applications from young student singers, instrumentalists and composers, undertaking postgraduate study.

In the main, the income of the Trust is used to support the cost of studies and/or maintenance of outstanding postgraduate or post-diploma students who merit further training at home or abroad. Awards are made for one year at a time, but are renewable, for a second year. They are based on ability and individual need and are made to selected applicants after interview and audition.

Each year the Trust is able to offer a small number of interest-free loans, to former beneficiaries who are on the threshold of their careers, to help with the purchase of musical instruments. This is in recognition of the problem which faces so many young musicians who, following their years of studentship, have no capital resources to equip themselves with the quality of instrument vital to the advancement of their career.

Click here for a list of the current Trustees

The Recital Scheme

A third and highly successful facet of the Trust’s work, since 1976, has been the growth of its Recital Scheme which seeks to help some of its most outstanding beneficiaries to become known to a wider musical public. This is done by offering sponsorship to a number of young artists each year at selected music clubs, choral and orchestral societies and festivals around the country. Its popularity with all the young artists and the clubs is well-established and provides a very important link between studentship and the profession.


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Salem Recap S01E12: Ashes, Ashes

Among the corpses Mercy walks. The vermin eat the flesh, and Mercy has gone off the deep end. She looks at a young child unfit for burial in the cemetary, a mother who died in child birth, and the baby smothered to cover up the sin. She is the mother of all the dead. Her father said that there is no purgatory, but Earth is purgatory. Mary tells her that she is no ghost, she is more alive than any of them, but Increase will not look for her here among the dead. Mercy asks of her girls. Increase has four of them, but the Grand Rite will cleanse the land. Mary assures her that her, her girls and her children will have a place in the land. Mercy asks what is coming, and Mary shows her the apple. Death is coming.

Cotton sees the land as rotten due to a rotten apple, the Malleum. It will bring about death on a massive scale, but they know nothing of the ritual that will unleash it. Cotton believes that he has finally put together enough pieces, that the apple will open. He has seen the apple, or atleast the box that contains it in the house of John Alden. Anne interrupts his findings, coming at a late hour. She did not know who else to turn to. She asks if he thinks its possible to be a witch and not know it. He thinks if one deeded their soul to Satan they would know if, unless she points out if someone deeded it for them. Cotton tries to assure her, but she needs more. She asks that he examine her, and he’s taken aback by her demand. Cotton examines her, and Anne likes it. Her eyes turn red, and her tongue forks, but he sees none of it since he closed his eyes during the exam. He decrees that she is free of the Devil’s marks.

Increase bangs on a bell to awaken the girls. He wonders who will be first. The girls are covered in burns  from the water, and he tells them that whoever speaks first will not burn. Mercy peeks in on her friends, while Increase suggests that one of them speak first of what John Alden did to them. He leaves them to get his air. Mercy creeps in. She kisses her girls on the forehead. They are thankful that she is here, because they are so close to breaking. But she has not come for them, they cannot travel as she does. She has come to remind them who they serve, the Queen of darkness, and she has not forgotten them, anymore than she has. She tells them to give the old goat what he wants, and speak against John Alden at the trail.

The crones are pleased that the grand rite is nearly complete. Mary has succeeded where all others have failed. Mary wishes to know why John Alden though. He is the sacrifice they need. Mary offered up the little soul long ago, the hurting. He is innocent she says. The Malleum needs innocence to open. Mary is the daughter that they have raised, blood and tears are their weapons. To free him would be to reveal what she is, and to do that would be to lose his love. Rather than lose his love, they urge her to use it.

Cotton and Increase walk together. In all of the literature, Malleum is always evil, why would he think it would signify apple. Cotton thinks that it is a physical object, and that object is here in Salem. Increase thinks his way of thinking is failing. The simplest explanation is the correct one. Cotton isn’t satisfied with that answer. He’s trying to stop the grand rite. Increase finds that thought funny, his feeble son is arrogant. He asks if his son knows the cost of stopping one. Increase tells him of the time he stopped the Grand Rite. When he was a child, other witches tried to complete the Grand Rite. Many children disappeared, and were found dead. Then many more disappeared. While others searched for the children, he hunted the witch. The male witch took the form of a six year old girl. Increase choked the child, and when the devil collected the body he would not let go. His hands were burned by hellfire, his hands still burn and are oddly green. Cotton points out that the Grand Rite was averted. Increase tells him that there is only one way to avert the Grand Rite to kill the witch who started it, which means John Alden must die.

John is brought to trial. Increase speaks of John’s short comings. He ran off to war, to gave himself over to it fully until he was captured by the heathens. And with the heathens he became a powerful and weapon to be used against the puritans who had betrayed him. Cotton interjects that it is all speculation, he has no proof of what happened while John Alden was fighting, when he was held captive. Increase gives John a chance to speak of what happened when he was lost with the savages, but John says nothing. Increase is more than happy to tell more tales. Mary listens to all with tears in her eyes. He was a tool of malice, learning the dark arts, gathering familiars to do his bidding. Increase shows the people a mark on his neck, an iron hard raised lump where he suckles his familiars. John finds it humorous, and Increase slaps him for his impertinence. Increase even blames George’s illness upon John, thinking after he undermined the pillar of the community that he unleashed the true horror. He projected the night hag to scare Mercy to show that no one is safe. Increase turns to Cotton, asking of Mercy. Mercy was indeed plagued by a specter, and that John did cast doubt on it. Increase goes further, pointing out that John also said that prayer was worthless. John has been the one that stood up against every instance of witches, his name was on Corey’s lips when he died, and he stood for Bridgette. He condemns himself at every turn. He understands that women are the entryway to evil. He asks how many women has John seduced, that he’s tried to seduce even the highest women in the land. He asks Mary if the accused entered her house, her boudoir. Mary asks if she would allow such a thing. Increase points out that her manservant said he did. Mary tells him that John came to discuss politics, to announce his attention to take his father’s seat on the select board. Increase lets the question hang of why in the middle of the night, and moves on. He puts Anne on the spot, asking her about the forced kiss that John was seen delivering upon her. He asks her to deny it, and she doesn’t. A snake in the grass, and who allowed his witches to run the brothel of Salem. Worse, he points to the young maidens that were eager to allow him to lead them astray. Cotton leans forward to hear what they have to say. One steps forward. Mercy told them that it was John who came in the shadows of night, that he licked and bite every part of her, and bewitched her. She might not name his name, that she may blame all on the hag, but he took her at night in spectral form and gave her to the night. Mercy lured the girls with magical tricks and games, and soon they were dancing in the woods with him. Mary shakes her head as the girl continues, saying that they touched each other and lay with him. This Cotton finds interesting. He faces the girls, asking if it was all of them. He kneels before the chatty one, Emily, asking if she is no longer a maiden. If he were to examine her, one of the other women were to examine her that he would not find her intact. Emily is quick to say that he has tongue, fingers, and other invisible instruments of pleasure and that she had her eyes closed, that she isn’t sure what he did. Cotton points out her delusions; that all are susceptible to involuntary thoughts at times, but that Emily has been overwhelmed by them, especially in the face of extreme torture by Increase. Under the circumstances any girl would think herself a witch, and any man a devil. The people murmur. Cotton submits that the level of torture was worthy of the Inquisition. Who is the real victim, and who the villain? John Alden or someone who uses a tool of torture. Cotton pulls out Increase’s pear and as the murmuring gets louder from the people Increase tries to put a stop to Cotton’s show and tell. The people are outraged, and Increase calls a suspension to the hearing until tempers are cooled. Cotton is pleased, and John is taken away.

In his cell, John feels like the entire town wants him hanged like he does possess some dark magic. Cotton knows that he’s not a witch, but that he does possess dark magic power, the Malleum. He asks where the box is that he found that lured the witch to his house. Cotton believes that it is the key to the Grand Rite, it is the greatest weapon of the witches, that will open when the Grand Rite is completed. If that thing is what Cotton believes it to be, and his father knows he has it then it is the final nail in his coffin. Cotton asks what if it’s the only chance that they have. John tells him that Giles has it. He buried it in Giles Corey’s grave.

Cotton attempts to do a little grave robbing. He digs up the body, gives it a good pat down, and finds nothing. He opens the cloth, and gets his hands dirty.

Increase slices his own wrist and collects the blood on a linen. He hands it off to a man, asking him if he knows what to do with it. Cotton comes to his father, not to disrespect him more but because he is afraid. He fears while they disagree on methods, they are both determined to stop the grand Rite. That brings Increase some gratification. Cotton tells him that the Malleum is there, or was. He saw it, he touched it. Increase asks where it is, but Cotton does not know. Cotton tells him it was in John Alden’s house. They search the house, tearing it apart, they find nothing. John helped him, Cotton explains. They trapped a witch, carried her to the woods to question and kill her. John was merely helping him eliminate a rival, Increase believes. If Increase can admit that John may be innocent, he asks that his son admit that John just may be guilty, and if he is right thousands may perish, their nation will fall.

Cotton goes back to John, tells him that he searched Giles’ grave and that it was not there. John cannot believe his ears, he buried the thing himself, which we know Tituba collected shortly after. He asks who else knew, but John tells him none other knew but Cotton himself. Cotton thinks that he isn’t being honest, but John is. The people are mobbing, and John asks what is going on. John knows the girls are innocent. Emily breaks free, telling him that she only regrets her lies towards him. The selectmen grab her. John urges Cotton to do something to help the girls. Cotton leaps, and John looks to see what Emily gave him. She handed him the halved silver coin. Dollie watches the horror from the shadows. Emily screams of Increase’s promise to save them. The four are fitted for nooses, and weight to their legs. Increase is giving them mercy. They were promised that they would not burn. Cotton makes it to the platform, to try to reason with his father. The girls are tainted, Increase fears that they carry the devil’s seed, and he is certain they must die. They pose a threat to Salem, as Cotton’s weakness poses a threat. He must cut out the malignant malice before it threatens further, Cotton tries to stop it, but the girls are hung above John’s cell. Anne is shocked, and Mary angered. The girls are dead.

Dollie goes to find Mercy, screaming and crying in the woods. Mercy finds her, and Dollie tells her of Emily and the others at Increase’s hand. Mercy swore they would be safe, but they were killed, her master was to protect them, but she did nothing. Mercy sends Dollie back to Salem telling her to gather the young, the poor, the suffering. They will be their army, and it will be a new day. The new day demands a new Queen of the Night.

Increase faces the people again. He knows its hard to believe that one of their own sons is capable of witchcraft. Still he wishes that John be convicted and sentenced for what he truly is, a traitor and a murderer. Increase says that when John was with the Indians he took up arms and slaughtered men in his company, something he swears to be true. Those kind of accusations are apparently good Salem arguments in a trial. He dares John Alden to deny it, to deny that he painted his face, that he smashed his skulls of his fellow soldiers. Cotton demands to know where he got such information. The information came from Tituba. Increase asks again that he speak, that he dispute the charges. Cotton asks the same. John announces that every sane man knows that he’s not a witch, but when Increase asks if he is a traitor, a murderer, John says nothing. Silence confesses for him. Increase knows that he is a witch, but even still he thinks that John should hang for his other crimes. Out of the frying pan into the fire, Mary lets her tears fall.

Back in his cell, Cotton asks that John tell him that his father is wrong, that he is not the man he says he is. John wonders if he really wants the truth, if he really knows good from evil. The puritans think the world is black and white, but John wonders if the truth is that the world is nothing but shades of gray.

Flashback time. After the battle John was left for dead, but he was found by the Mohawk. They were not the Indians that they fought, but the enemy of them. They took him, and John doesn’t think that he’ll understand why they saved him, but they did. They pulled the bullet from his neck, which is the scar that Increase pointed out. They treated him with kindness and respect. Their holy man took an interest in him, and that too he does not know why. He worked with them, hunted with them, and after one of those hunts they returned to find everyone in the village slaughtered. They were killed by the militia, their militia. They couldn’t even be bothered to tell one Indian tribe from another. A red fog descended upon him, and did not life until he killed them all, all but one, which he corrected the night he found the box. And the malleum? He knew nothing about it, only what Cotton told him. When they lost the witch in the woods he thought it would be best to hide it, so he buried it with Giles. Cotton thinks that someone must have unburied it. John tells him that if his father is to be believed then all they must do is hang him, and then all their problems will go away. But Cotton still can’t figure out, after all they’ve been through if John needed a friend or pawn. Poor Cotton.

Mary weeps over John. Isaac tells her that weeping doesn’t help, that he’s done his fair share. She sees he’s still bleeding, but he tells her that around here, who isn’t. Mary falls her to his knees in tears. Isaac tells her that it is his fault. John was headed out of town, and if not for him stopping him, John would be long gone. He tells Mary that she can save John, that she’s Mary. They call her Mary Sibley, but he calls her magic Mary in his heart. Even when they were children she could do anything, she just has to want it bad enough.

John sleeps. Mary kisses his forehead, and he’s startled to find her. She tells him that they will hang him tomorrow. He points out she is one of they. She doesn’t know who she is anymore. John finds it funny that Salem is finally going to hang someone for something that he’s actually done. He tells Mary to go back home to her life, as Mrs. Sibley. Mary confesses that she is his life. He tells her its too late for that. She will not let him hang. John knows that the good people of Salem, the ones that he’s been trying to save, want him dead, they think he’s the devil. He’s no devil, but he is guilty of treason and he’s ready to hang for it. He’s tired of living without her. There’s no way for them to be together she says. It’s over, like everyone else in the town.  Mary tries to promise, but John doesn’t want anymore vows from her. He doesn’t think she’s making any sense. The walls are stone, the windows and door are steel, and that all the love in the world cannot change facts. Mary tells him that love is stronger, and there is still a place for them. She asks him to go to his dreams one last time, to dream with her. She kisses him.

And the kiss brings him some place else, far outside his cell in the woods. He looks at her in horror. Mary just let the cat out of the bag.

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Crossing paths again - 33 years later....

In July 2005, some otherwise 'lost' history of my Austin Healey 3000 came to light - highlighting some amazing coincidences. The black & white car has had 5 owners (or 'custodians') since it was sold new in 1966. Chris Dimmock is the current 'custodian' (since 1995). The first part of the story was when we discovered that my Healey 3000 MK III Phase II BJ8 (H-BJ8/37244)- the 'black & white' car - was originally sold by John Sprinzel Racing Limited, Lancaster Mews, London, in July 1966, to Mr Richard Steil, the first owner. We discovered this thanks to Richard, who found some amazing original documents that he'd kept for nearly 40 years! Richard had bought 'my' Healey, brand new, fully optioned for 1,098 Pounds Sterling, registered (UK) JGT 874D and used it as his transportation for nearly a year in England before driving it from 'London to Sydney' in 1967.

Richard bought the 'black & white' Healey 3000 MK IIIA from John Sprinzel Racing Ltd, with the options shown on the invoice below. Richard originally ordered a Healey Ice Blue car - but due to the delays in manufacture of a fully optioned Healey Ice Blue BJ8 - John Sprinzel Racing managed to get an 'Ivory over black' BJ8, fully optioned to Richard's specification, from the Austin Healey distributor, Car Mart London.

Invoice from John Sprinzel Racing Ltd for the Black & white Healey 3000

Original purchase Invoice from John Sprinzel Racing Ltd. Courtesy Richard Steil.

I emailed John Sprinzel on July 14, 2005, and sent him a scanned copy of the invoice (above). John replied "Hi Chris, Yes, the invoice is not only from my company, but is all handwritten by me. I tended to do that in those days before computers. We went on computers in 1970, the first BMC dealer to do so!"

As the Heritage Certificate shows the 'Dealer' as Car Mart London, I emailed John again on July 15, 2005 and asked how the supply chain worked from the Factory to the retail dealer back in the 1960's. John Sprinzel replied "Hi Chris... Dealers in those days, got their cars from a distributor, Car Mart for Austins and Healeys, Stewart and Arden (later Henleys) for Morris, and University Motors for MG. So your Healey came from Car Mart, who, incidentally, rebuilt my seriously crashed PMO200 after the Greek Acropolis shunt. They had all the factory body jigs, which was part of the contract with BMC for getting a Distributorship."

John Sprinzel and the Healey 3000 coincidences:

Isn't it an amazing coincidence that Richard Steil bought the 'black & white' car from John Sprinzel - the renowned BMC race and rally driver - and then drove the 'black & white' Healey 3000 to Sydney - just a year before John Sprinzel raced an MG Midget in the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon!

John Sprinzel is also the Patron of the Sprite Car Club of Australia - a club I have been a member of since 1979.

What's even more coincidental is that John Sprinzel had actually presented me two trophies in Sydney in 2000 (3rd outright in the 'Club Drivers Championship' 1999, and 'First Associate' (non Sprite) in the 1999 Club Pointscore) that I won driving the same Healey 3000 MkIIIA which John had sold new to Richard over 30 years earlier in London!

John Sprinzel presents 3rd in SCCA Driver's Championship trophy to Chris Dimmock, Sydney 2000 John Sprinzel presents SCCA Associate Championship trophy to Chris Dimmock, Sydney 2000

John Sprinzel presenting 1999 competition trophies won in the 'black & white' Healey 3000, to Chris Dimmock, Sydney 2000.
Photos Courtesy Steve Koen.

When John Sprinzel presented these trophies to me back in 2000, neither John or I were aware that John himself had sold 'my' Healey 3000 new to Richard Steil back in 1966...... we didn't discover this until 2005!

The ownership and competition history of the black & white car

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Last Updated: July 16, 2005