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Date:  Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:09:17 EST

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Bert

Speak to him, write him a letter, send him a christmas card anything

before indeed it is too late.

Bestie is a legend. My own father died of similar com;ications

earlier this year and it has brought that sad episode back to me.

May you rest in peace now George and thank you for the on-the-field

magic you gave to many

Posted by Stu on November 25, 2005 02:21 PM.

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The end of a long fight, I hope George Best is at peace now. He died

around the same time as I was having liver and kidney function tests

today because of my heavy drinking- a timely reminder. George fought

his demons bravely and publicly but sadly too much damage had been

done to his body but I am sure his candidness helped many people. He

was also

brilliant footballer

Posted by Beth Heron on November 25, 2005 02:27 PM.

A Legend In His Own Lifetime

There's not many people whose myth overtakes them in their own

lifetime. It is a measure of his greatness as a football player that

George Best did so not just in his own country, but globally. I was a

young boy growing up in Iran when I first heard people talk about

Best. The first time I saw him play I became a Manchester United

supporter for life. I was

only ten years old and didn't even realise that I had already missed

the best of George Best back in 1969. But even so, what I saw of him

through to the mid seventies was still head and shoulders above any

other player I have ever seen since.

I remember seeing him return from a club imposed suspension in a cup

replay against Southampton which United eventually won 4-1 in extra

time, at it was a one man master class. A one man team. Best had a

dozen chances saved, cleared off the line or hit the woodwork. He

made a dozen more chances for his team mates and in the end he had

scored two and made

two. Sportsnight cleared their whole evenings agenda to show as much

of the game as possible. I have never seen anyone singlehandedly

influence a game as much as Best could. Not even Maradona. Not close.

He will never be forgotten even when people no longer play football,

he'll be like some mythological god from a distant past.

Football can be an overly sentimental business, today it is surely

justified. It should be remembered that George Best was the best

player we have ever produced in this country. Everything that

happened since he retired from the game should not be dwelt on when

remembering his talent, which was unique.

Posted by damien on November 25, 2005 02:33 PM.

UK political blog Harry's Place has answered my call for details of

other newspapers hosting blogs:

The excellent little Italian centre-left newspaper Il Riformista, has

been offering blogs to its readers and from its journalists for about

two years now.

They also, believe it or not, print a blog supplement in the paper

once a month with the best material they have found on the sites.

Thanks for that Harry ... more nominations of "blog friendly" papers

from around the globe are welcome.

Contemporaria

This post was last changed at 04:00 PM, December 10 2004, at a time

when the top headline on Guardian Unlimited was Plastics may harm

unborn boys, and the top headline from the BBC was French EU vote

battle nears end, and there were posts elsewhere tagged with these

same keywords:

The post was written by Jane Perrone. You can email the author at

jane.perrone@guardian.co.uk

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despite two positive cosmic alignments

happening in the afternoon and evening. Here's the low-down. The big

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you are at it. The bus has many cool items and features including:

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Brooke,

happy Thanksgiving. Yes, the reservations are at PF Changs for 8pm.

Amanda is doing the decorations. And I have the cake all set, so I

think we are good. I will give you a call this afternoon. I am busy

busy busy cookin right now.

What are you plans for today?

Call me and if you want to come over for turkey and the rest of it.

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To: Elisa Peyton [elisapeyton @aol.com]

From: Brooke Lucas [brookelucas22 @yahoo.com]

Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 8:47 PM

Subject: Kimberly 22nd Birthday Party

Elisa,

Good morning! Here is the finalized list of additional attendees, for

Kims 22nd birthday party. Cant wait!! Let me know if you need any

help

with decorations or anthing else.

1. Savannah Harris

2. Leslie Brewer

3. Pam Nellis

4. Nancy Burke

5. Holly Vicks

Cheers. See you Saturday night. The restaurant where we have

reservations is PF Changs in Winter Park, right?

Talk to you later,

Brooke

12/01/2005 Edmond, OK

Christmas Tour

Venue Name: Henderson Hills Baptist Church

Address:

3452 South Blvd Edmond, OK

Ticket Information:

Start Time: 7:30 PM

12/02/2005 Edmond, OK

Christmas Tour

Venue Name: Henderson Hills Baptist Church

Address:

3452 South Blvd

Ticket Information:

Start Time:

12/03/2005 Castalia, OH

Christmas Tour Partner Appreciation Night

Venue Name: Christian Broadcasting Ministry Studio/ Sanctuary

Address:

3809 Maple Ave.

Ticket Information:

Start Time: 7:00 PM

12/08/2005 Renton, WA

Christmas Tour

Venue Name: New Life Church

Address:

15711 152nd Avenue NE Renton, WA

Ticket Information:

Start Time: 7:00 PM

12/09/2005 Renton, WA

Christmas Tour

Venue Name: New Life Church

Address:

15711 152nd Avenue NE Renton, WA

Ticket Information:

Start Time: 7:00 PM

12/10/2005 Renton, WA

Christmas Tour

Venue Name: New Life Church

Address:

15711 152nd Avenue NE Renton, WA

Ticket Information:

Start Time: 7:00 PM

12/11/2005 Chino, CA

Christmas Tour

Venue Name: Calvary Chapel Chino Valley

Address:

12205 Pipeline Avenue

Ticket Information:

Start Time: 6:00 PM

12/16/2005 Baytown, TX

Christmas Tour

Venue Name: Robert E Lee High School

Address:

Ticket Information:

Start Time: 7:00 PM

12/17/2005 Lancaster, CA

Christmas Tour

Venue Name: First Assembly of God Lancaster

Address:

44515 20th Street West

Ticket Information:

Start Time: Saturday 7:00 PM

12/18/05 Bakersfield, CA

Christmas Tour

Venue Name: Canyon Hills Church

Address:

7001 Auburn St

Ticket Information:

Start Time: 7:30 PM

12/18/2005 Lancaster, CA

Christmas Tour

Venue Name: First Assembly of God Lancaster

Address:

44514 20th Street West Lancaster, CA

Ticket Information:

Start Time: 9:00 & 10:45 AM

David Mullins Itinerary

last updated 6/27/05

for booking information, contact...

David and Robin Mullins

PO Box 608

Noblesville, IN 46061

David's email: dmullins@kidbrothers.org

Robin's email: rmullins@kidbrothers.org

voice phone: 317-773-3304

fax: 317-773-3304

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July 3rd, 10th, 17th, & 24th, 2005

Disappointing Messiah Series

East 91st Street Christian Church

8:00am Traditional

9:15am Contemporary

9:15am Traditional

10:45am Contemporary

6049 East 91st Street

Indianapolis, IN

For more info call 317.849.1261

or visit www. east91st.org

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David and Robin Mullins

PO Box 608 Noblesville, IN 46061

David's email: dmullins @kidbrothers.org

Robin's email: rmullins @kidbrothers.org

voice phone: 317-773-3304

fax: 317-773-3304

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11/26/2005 TPAC's Jackson Hall Nashville, TN

11/28/2005 Bass Performance Hall Ft. Worth, Texas

11/29/2005 FedEx Forum Memphis, TN

12/05/2005 Jubiliee Auditorium Alberta, Edmonton

12/06/2005 Jubilee Auditorium Alberta, Edmonton

12/16/2005 Broward Center Ft. Lauderdale, FL Now 9/21/2005

12/17/2005 Ruth Eckerd Hall Clearwater, FL Now 8/25/2005

Date City Venue Event Contact

2005

December

5 Reston, VA McLean Bible Church Women's Event with Ellie Lofaro. --

6 Grand Haven, MI -- -- --

2006

January

13-14 Ft. Myers, FL United Christian Giving Women's Event

with Dee Brestin. 239.770.6784.

20-21 McCook, NE

McCook City Auditorium With Dee Brestin. 308.345.7441.

1/29-2/5 Caribbean Sea KT and Friends Cruise KT and Friends Cruise Web

site.

February

1/29-2/5 Caribbean Sea KT and Friends Cruise KT and Friends Cruise Web

site.

17-18 Omaha, NE King of Kings Church -- 401.333.6464.

March

4 Nashville, TN -- Women's Event --

24-25 Milwaukee, WI -- Women's Event --

3/31-4/01 Shreveport, LA -- Women of Faith. April3/31-4/01 Shreveport, LA -- Women of Faith.

7-8 Minneapolis, MN -- Women's Event --

21-22 Necedah, WI Olympia Resort and Conference Center Women's Event

with Ellie Lofaro. 608.742.2229.

29 Schenectady, NY -- Women's Event with Ellie Lofaro. --

May

During a 30+ year career at GE, Bill Gutzwiller made substantial

contributions to the field of power semiconductor applications and

devices, especially the silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) and the

Triac. You�ll learn all about the development of these historic

devices from Bill�s firsthand experiences and recollections. If

you�ve designed an SCR or Triac

circuit, studied these devices at school, or marveled at the wealth

of material contained in any of the numerous volumes of the famous GE

SCR manuals, then you�ve benefited from Bill�s work.

Homer Coonce joined Bell Labs in 1952, just at the time when the

newly invented transistor was made available for research and

development. He worked for many years at Bell Labs, developing

transistor logic and switching circuits. Most notable was Homer�s

work on the Flyable TRADIC computer, beginning in 1954. The TRADIC

project spanned most of the decade of

the 1950s and is credited with establishing the transistor computer

as a viable product. In this Oral History, Homer recounts his work on

two historic Bell Labs/Western Electric transistor computer

applications � Flyable TRADIC and the Nike Zeus missile system.

MORE NOTABLE GE TRANSISTOR HISTORY: Carl David Todd has been involved

with transistor engineering since the earliest days of this

technology. Carl�s first exposure to transistors was in 1949 as a

high school student when he built a working point contact transistor.

He entered and won a prize in the 1954 Raytheon CK722 Transistor

Applications Contest, and was

personally involved in the development of the famous 2N107 hobbyist

transistor when he worked for GE in the mid 1950s. Read Carl�s Oral

History for a first hand account of his historic work with the first

transistors.

**********

Germanium Transistor Audio Amplifier

Historic Construction Project.

Based on a 1956 Design by Paul Penfield Jr.

(Germanium Transistor Audio MiniAmp)

Sylvania 1N34A and Raytheon CK705/1N66

Point Contact Germanium Diodes.

Experiment with 1950s Hobbyist Technology.

Sylvania 1N34A &

Raytheon CK705/1N66

1950s Hobbyist Germanium Diodes

The Museum�s most popular exhibit. Here you�ll find photographs and

descriptions of unique and historic devices or applications relating

to semiconductor history from the last century. Visit this exhibit to

confirm identity of devices you have found or just spend a rainy

afternoon browsing in the Gallery.

The transistor was invented at Bell Labs in 1947 by John Bardeen,

Walter Brattain and William Shockley. No other discovery in the last

century has had such a profound impact on our modern lives. Initially

viewed as a lab curiosity, transistor technology literally exploded in

the 1950s and 1960s, generating billions of dollars in revenue and

producing devices

and applications which contribute in fundamental ways to modern

society. Here are a few �basic numbers� which help to illustrate the

importance of transistors:

There are over 50 million transistors on a single current

microprocessor chip.(The Intel� P4 has 55 million transistors)

PS

The transistor was invented around 1923, by physicist Dr. J. Edgar

Lilienfeld, the father of the modern electrolytic capacitor. WHAT?!!!

But everyone knows that it was invented at Bell Labs in 1945. Nope.

The original transistor was a 1920s thin-film device deposited on

glass. The base region was a clever idea: crack a piece of glass, put

it back together

with metal foil clamped in the crack, then slice off the extra foil

to make a flat surface that goes: glass, metal, glass. Deposit a thin

layer of semiconductor and heat the device, and the thin metal line

will "dope" that part of the semiconductor layer. Simple! But Dr.

Lilienfeld unfortunately didn't have a solid theory to explain how

his invention worked,

so it was ignored. Some hobbyist should try making a home-built

transistor.

Lilienfeld's patent numbers are:

# 1,745,175 Method and Apparatus for Controlling Electric Currents

# 1,877,140 Amplifier for Electric Current

# 1,900,018 Device for Controlling Electric Current

[Go to IMAGES button to view them.]

These patents caused Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley some grief, and

caused the US Patent Office to disallow the Bell Labs FET patents in

later years.

Also: T. L. Thomas, Twenty Lost Years of Solid State Physics, Analog

(magazine) March 1965

PPS

It is possible to make a transistor using Galena (lead sulfide, PbS).

Galena is often available from rock shops and science museum stores.

You can even make your own by melting sulfur and lead powder over a

flame. Look up keywords such as "cat's whisker diode" and "crystal

radio" to find out more.

The trick to making a transistor is to use a hyper-clean,

freshly-cleaved crystal face, to sharpen your cat's-whisker contacts

by dissolving the tips using electrolysis, and then to put the tips

within 0.05mm of each other (or preferably within 0.01mm). Obviously

the latter is the hardest part. Better use a microscope! The authors

of the following article

found that the base/emitter junction was critical: it HAD to act as a

good rectifier. The base/collector junction wasn't as important. They

got some power gain, but their beta was in the single digits. Others

have mentioned that if you break open a 1N34 glass diode to expose

the Germanium chip, you can make a crude transistor with a similar

procedure.

Crystal Triode Action in Lead Sulphide, P. C. Banbury, H.A. Gebbie,

C. A. Hogarth, pp78-86. SEMI-CONDUCTING MATERIALS, Conference

proceedings, H.K. Henisch (ed), 1951 Butterworth's scientific

publications LTD 1951.

Vi ricordate quando a Settembre Paul Flessner aveva annunciato cha sarebbe

stata resa disponibile una versione ridotta di SSMS per SQL Express? Bene,

da oggi � disponibile la CTP.

SSMSE � uno strumento grafico per la gestione di istanze SQL Server 2005

Express Edition (SQL Server Express).

SSMSE pu� essere utilizzato per gestire anche istanze di altre edizioni di

SQL Server 2005, ma non pu� gestire Analysis Services, Integration

Services, SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition, Notification Services, Reporting

Services o SQL Server Agent.

La versione non definitiva � disponibile per il download al seguente

indirizzo:

http://www. microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx

?FamilyId=82AFBD59-57A4-455E-A2D6-1D4C98D40F6E&displaylang=en

Database in sola lettura condivisi con SQL 2005

Un'interessante novit� di SQL Server 2005 non ancora documentata � quella

di poter creare dei database in sola lettura condivisi direttamente da pi�

istanze.

Le ultime versioni dei componenti che possono essere distribuibili per SQL

Server 2005

Le ultime versioni dei provider aggiuntivi per SQL Server 2005

Le ultime versioni dei componenti per la compatibilit� con i vecchi

ambienti per SQL Server 2005

Da notare, anche se non l'ho ancora provato, l'editor di SQL Server 2000

per i package DTS

Tutti i pacchetti sono disponibili per il download al seguente indirizzo:

http://www. microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx

?familyid=d09c1d60-a13c-4479-9b91-9e8b9d835cdc&displaylang=en

posted @ 6:49 PM | Feedback (0)

SQL Server Express utility Versione 1.0.2130

SSEutil � uno strumento che permette di interagire con semplicit� con SQL

Server. Tra le altre cose, permette di:

Connettersi ad un'istanza di SQL Server.

Creare, attaccare, staccare, elencare i database di un'istanza.

Aggiornare i file che compongono i database alla nuova versione.

Eseguire comandi SQL tramite la console (simile a SQLCMD).

Elencare la versione di SQL Server in esecuzione.

Abilitare e disabilitare i trace flag (ad esempio, per tracciare i comandi

SQL spediti al server dalle applicazioni client)

UGISS @ WPC 2005

Riporto l'annuncio della presenza di UGISS alla WPC:

Grazie agli stretti rapporti che il consiglio direttivo di UGISS mantiene

con Mondadori ed Overnet Education anche quest'anno sar� possibile per i

soci UGISS usufrire della grande opportunit� di poter assistere - senza

alcuna necessit� di pagare alcun fee - alla sessione Ask The Expert che si

terr� Mercoledi 16 Novembre in Sala Blu alle ore 18.45, dove potremo

parlare di tutto ci� che riguarda SQL Server 2000 e, ovviamente, di SQL

Server 2005.

L'opportunit� � davvero ghiotta in quanto rappresenta il momento ideale

per porre tutte quelle amletiche domande alla quale non avete ancora

trovato riposta, oltre ad essere un ormai consueto punto di ritrovo della

community intera.

Per quanto riguarda gli iscritti alla conferenza questi saranno felici di

sapere che per tutta la durata della stessa un stand UGI sar� sempre

presente e presidiato da qualcuno. Ho scritto solamente UGI perch� la

novit� di quest'anno � che tutte le community UGI-qualcosa (UGISS,

UGIDOTNET ed UGIMEX) condivideranno lo stesso stand...e questo non pu� che

essere un bene, in quanto in un sol colpo potrete ritrovare vecchie (e

nuove) conoscenze ma, sopratutto, avere risposte confronti sugli argomenti

pi� disparati!

Per poter accedere all'evento � necessario essere iscritti ad UGISS e

presentare nome, cognome e login (niente password o e-mail) ed effettuare

la registrazione in loco.

Maggiori informazioni sul sito UGISS al seguente indirizzo:

http://www. ugiss.org/news+ugiss.aspx?ctl=ArticleView&mid=374&articleId=70

Arriverderci a WPC! Venite numerosi!

Notizia interessante appena letta su BLOGO.IT.

Riporto testualmente:

Sondaggio sui lettori dei blog italiani

E� il primo sondaggio sui blog italiani e non avrebbe avuto senso

riservarlo a Blogo. Per questo possono partecipare tutti i blogger

interessati a far parlare della blogosfera italiana sulla base di dati

affidabili.

I risultati saranno pubblicati il 10 dicembre 2005 con licenza Creative

Commons in forma aggregata e ordinabile, con la possibilit� di escludere i

blog commerciali dal resto dei dati. I blogger che partecipano al

sondaggio avranno accesso anche ai singoli dati del proprio sito.

Se desiderate partecipare al sondaggio CLICCATE QUI

Io l�ho fatto, mi sembra interessante�

Novembre 20th, 2005 ||News dal sito ^___^ ||

Un secondo post per comunicarvi che nel mio nuovo blog natalizio ho appena

pubblicato ben 10 calendari ..natalizi appunto.

D�ora in poi poster� in quel blog tutta la grafica su questo tema.

Ricordo l�indirizzo: http://magiconatale.splinder.com

Ciaooooo�

Novembre 20th, 2005 ||Template per Splinder ||

Oggi nel riordinare uno dei miei spazi web, ho trovato alcuni miei vecchi

template che quasi non ricordavo pi� di aver fatto. Ho pensato quindi di

ripostarli con la speranza che vi possano piacere. Questo � un template

decisamente sul dark andante�

Novembre 20th, 2005 ||News dal sito ^___^ ||

Piccola comunicazione che mi riguarda. Ho creato un nuovo blog, nato per

attendere l�avvicinarsi del Natale. Rester� aperto fino al sei gennaio e

vi poster� piccole creazioni grafiche per voi, ma anche notizie, ricette,

racconti�insomma tutto il necessario per ricreare, anche nel mondo

virtuale dei blog, quella meravigliosa atmosfera magica che solo il Natale

possiede. E� ancora spoglio, ma v i aspetto ugualmente numerosi�

Il blog � Magico Natale Sarei felice se mi lasciassi dei Countdown di

Natale!Novembre 19th, 2005 ||Mie creazioni, Adesivi

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