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1. A side shield structure in a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write head having a main pole layer with a write pole having top and bottom surfaces terminating at a pole tip at an air bearing surface (ABS) wherein said write pole is further comprised of two sides that each connect to a side of a flared portion of the main pole layer at a neck height (NH) distance from the ABS, comprising:
(a) a first side shield section formed on either side of the write pole, said first side shield section has a first side along the ABS, a second side connected to the first side and facing a side of the write pole, a third side formed perpendicular to the ABS and at a greater distance from the write pole than the second side, and a fourth side opposite the first side;
(b) a first non-magnetic gap layer with a certain thickness and having a top surface and bottom surface which are formed along planes that are parallel to the ABS, said bottom surface adjoins the fourth side of a first side shield section and said top surface adjoins a first side of a second side shield section on either side of the write pole;
(c) a second non-magnetic gap layer that is formed along either side of the write pole and flared portion of the main pole layer, said second non-magnetic gap layer provides a first gap distance between a side of the write pole and a second side of the first side shield section, and provides a second gap distance between the sides of the flared portion and the second shield section; and
(d) a second side shield section formed on either side of the flared portion of the main pole layer, said second side shield section has a first side parallel to the ABS and contacts the first non-magnetic gap layer, a second side formed parallel to a side of the flared portion of the main pole layer, a third side coplanar with a third side of the first side shield section, and a fourth side opposite the first side of the second side shield section.
2. The side shield structure of claim 1 wherein the first side shield section has a height which is the distance between the first and fourth sides, said first side shield height (SSH1) is defined by the equation SSH1<(0.6\xd7NH)+0.08 microns.
3. The side shield structure of claim 1 wherein the main pole layer, first side shield section, and second side shield section are comprised of CoFe, CoFeNi, NiFe, or a material that is Co based and amorphous.
4. The side shield structure of claim 1 wherein the first gap distance is from about 0.05 to 0.3 microns.
5. The side shield structure of claim 1 wherein the second gap distance is from about 0.1 to 0.5 microns.
6. The side shield structure of claim 1 wherein the first non-magnetic gap layer has a thickness between about 0.05 and 0.3 microns.
7. The side shield structure of claim 1 wherein the first non-magnetic gap layer and second non-magnetic gap layer are comprised of alumina or another dielectric material.
8. The side shield structure of claim 1 wherein a first side shield section on one side of the write pole is magnetically connected to a first side shield section on the other side of the write pole by a trailing shield formed along the ABS.
9. The side shield structure of claim 8 wherein the trailing shield is separated from the top surface of the write pole by a write gap layer.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
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1. A method for remediating a spilled petroleum lipophilic product, comprising the steps of:
contacting a wax with a lipophilic material; and
allowing said wax to chemical bond with said lipophilic material to form a solid bond, thereby facilitating ready removal and pacification of said spilled petroleum product.
2. A system for capturing and reclaiming a petroleum spill, comprising the steps of:
contacting a liquefied wax to a spilled petroleum product at a temperature above a transformation temperature; and
allowing said liquid wax to traverse said transformation temperature and transform to a solid capturing said spilled petroleum in a solid form, thereby facilitating ready removal and pacification of said spilled petroleum product.

1. A virtual machine system comprising:
a virtual machine (VM) creation application that creates a VM using machine configuration data and a virtual disk image of the machine to be virtualized; and
virtual disk image file that stores said virtual disk image of the machine to be virtualized and content information identifying the content of the virtual disk image, whereby said content information may be read from said virtual disk image file by a content determination application program without starting the VM corresponding to said virtual disk image.
2. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein said virtual disk image file has a file format including a section containing a pointer to a portion of said virtual disk image containing desired content information.
3. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein said content information includes information identifying whether one or more application programs in said virtual disk image has been patched.
4. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein said content information includes usage policy data for applications in said virtual disk image and said content determination application program comprises a usage policy engine that determines from said usage policy data whether a particular user may or may not use an operating system or application programs within said virtual disk image.
5. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein said content information includes migration policy data for applications in said virtual disk image and said content determination application program comprises a migration policy engine that determines from said migration policy data whether the VM created from said virtual disk image may or may not be moved from a current physical machine to another physical machine.
6. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein said content information includes time out data for said virtual disk image or application programs within said virtual disk image and said content determination application program determines from said time out data whether a particular user may use or continue to use said virtual disk image or said application programs within said virtual disk image.
7. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein said content information includes DRM data for said virtual disk image or application programs within said virtual disk image and said content determination application program determines from said DRM data whether a particular user may use or continue to use said virtual disk image or said application programs within said virtual disk image.
8. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein said content information includes tag data that indexes the contents of said virtual disk image and said content determination application program includes an indexing engine that searches said tag data to identify the contents of said virtual disk image.
9. A virtual machine system as in claim 8, comprising at least two virtual disk images having tag data that index the contents of said virtual disk images, said indexing engine searching said tag data to locate a desired virtual disk image of said at least two virtual disk images.
10. A virtual machine system as in claim 8, wherein said tag data includes data relating said machine to be virtualized to a particular user environment.
11. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein said content information includes network environment data for said virtual disk image and said content determination application program determines a network environment of said machine to be virtualized.
12. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein said machine configuration data is stored in said virtual disk image file.
13. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein at least one saved state of said machine to be virtualized is stored in said virtual disk image file.
14. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein said content information includes user notes relating to modification of said machine to be virtualized.
15. A virtual machine system as in claim 1, wherein said content information is stored in said virtual disk image file in an extensible file format.
16. A virtual machine system as in claim 15, wherein said extensible file format is XML.
17. A method of creating a virtual machine, comprising:
reading machine configuration data and a virtual disk image of the machine to be virtualized from a virtual disk image file; and
creating said machine to be virtualized from the machine configuration data and the virtual disk image.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein said reading step comprises the step of reading a section of said virtual disk image file including a pointer to a portion of said virtual disk image containing said machine configuration data.
19. The method of claim 17, further comprising reading content information from said virtual disk image file without starting the VM corresponding to said virtual disk image, said content information identifying the content of the virtual disk image.
20. A computer readable medium comprising a virtual disk image file that stores a virtual disk image of a machine to be virtualized and machine configuration data, whereby said virtual disk image and said machine configuration data are configured so as to be read by a virtual machine creation application program that creates a virtual machine having a virtual hard disk including the contents of said virtual disk image and a machine configuration specified by said machine configuration data.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
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1. A shock absorbing type steering shaft comprising a tubular outer shaft having a female serration and a solid inner shaft having a male serration, characterized in that:
after the outer diameter surface of the outer shaft is pressed inwardly in the radial direction to plastically deform an inner portion thereof, the inner shaft is inserted into the outer shaft so that the inner shaft is pressure-contacted and fixed to the plastically deformed portion of the outer shaft.
2. A shock absorbing type steering shaft characterized in that:
a predetermined portion of the tip end of the outer shaft is pressed and deformed from the outside thereof in the radial direction to form the female serration portion, and the male serration portion of the inner shaft is pressure-fitted in this pressed and deformed portion.
3. A method for manufacturing a shock absorbing type steering shaft for fitting and fixing a solid inner shaft having a male serration in a tubular outer shaft having a female serration, comprising:
pressing and deforming a portion or portions of the outer shaft from the outside thereof in a radial direction while forming the female serration therein; and
pressure-fitting the male serration of the inner shaft into the pressed and deformed portion or portions of the outer shaft to contact and fix the inner shaft to the outer shaft.