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KPFA Evening News Anchor Sharon Sobotta: Fighting has resumed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu Province, with both Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo accusing each other of weapons fire across the border between the two countries. KPFA's Ann Garrison has the story.
KPFA/Ann Garrison: On Thursday, a Congolese spokesman told the BBC that shells landing in the border town of Goma were coming from Rwanda, and today he accused Rwanda of firing a rocket that landed inside Goma and killed three people. The Rwandan army said that Congolese mortar fire had landed in villages along its border. A UN spokesman said that the UN Force Intervention Brigade had undertaken its first offensive operation to support the Congolese army in displacing the M23 militia from their positions, but the Associated Press reported that a U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that it was a defensive operation. Many citizens of Goma distrust the UN's motives, and believe it to be standing in the way of the Congolese army. The AP reported that roads through the city of Goma were blocked today by burning tires and crowds chanting anti-UN Mission slogans.
The 2012 UN Group of Experts report identified both Rwanda and Uganda, but most of all Rwanda, as the aggressors behind the M23 militia, but Rwandan President Paul Kagame still has his defenders, most notably former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, evangelical megachurch Pastor Rick Warren, and former President Bill Clinton. On August 13th, after visiting Rwanda, Bill Clinton told the BBC that he was willing to make special allowances for Rwanda.
Bill Clinton: I support a free press in Rwanda. I don't support the repression of journalists. I don't think human rights should be violated in the Congo to protect the territorial integrity of Rwanda, but I suppose I do make more allowances for a government that has produced as much progress as that one has, and has been well-organized and otherwise had the rule of law, and so, that's the way it is. Very few situations are perfect.
KPFA: Clinton refers to the territorial integrity of Rwanda, but not the territorial integrity of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which Rwanda and Uganda have invaded repeatedly since 1996, though this is not a matter of historical dispute. In 2009, on Barack Obama's Inauguration Day, the Rwandan Army crossed into Congo with the blessing of the U.S. and the UN Security Council. The international community no longer explicitly agrees to Rwanda's incursions, but the Security Council has refused to openly name Rwanda as the aggressor and sanction its top officials.
Clinton also excuses Rwanda in Congo because of "the rule of law in Rwanda," though human rights defenders including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have called on Kagame to release imprisoned political opponents, and, though Rwandan journalists have been not only repressed, but also murdered and imprisoned in recent years. During the last week of May, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling for a fair trial in imprisoned opposition leader Victoire Ingabire's appeal, and stated that her first trial was politically motivated and did not meet international judicial standards.
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His passing barely caused a murmur at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, but the Jan. 7 death of George S. Waltman of Kingston, N.Y., should not be overlooked.
In 1968, Waltman completed the 24 Hours of Daytona by himself -- no co-drivers, no pit crew. His Aztec Racing Morgan Plus 4 finished 30th, 335 laps behind the winner. During mandatory rest periods, bathroom breaks and meals, be would park his Morgan in the pits and place an "Out To Lunch" sign on the seat. To get additional seat time, he drove his Morgan to and from Daytona, a 2,000-mile round trip.
It was not the first endurance solo for Waltman. In 1962 and 1963, Waltman drove the 12 Hours of Sebring by himself. "Waltman is a 32-year-old Triumph dealer from New York City, and needless to say, he uses his own product," said a story in the March 25, 1963 edition of the long-defunct Miami News. "Oh, how he uses it."
Waltman's first drive at Sebring went virtually unnoticed, and his second one almost did, too, until Fred Kingsbury, publicity director for the race, began pointing reporters his way. "Now, there's an endurable man," Kingsbury said. Especially since, as he did at Daytona, he drove his car to and from the track from his home in New York.
Waltman's obituary said that as a teenager, "he succeeded in acquiring his pilot's license at Floyd Bennet Field in Jamaica, N.Y. He then enlisted in the Army Air Corp. He served in the Pacific Theater during WWII, with the 73rd Bomber's Wing. George was later employed by British Air and then moved on to his real career passion, the auto industry. George not only worked as a service engineer for Jaguar-British Leyland, he also dabbled in auto racing in the Bahamas, Sebring, Daytona, Bridgehamton, Lime Rock and Watkins Glen. After quasi-retirement, George maintained Scuderia Auto Sport in Great Neck, N.Y. and then relocated the shop to Honesdale, Pennsylvania."
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A Colorado Springs man wanted on charges of sexual assault on a child was arrested in Breckenridge Monday evening, according to a statement from the Breckenridge Police Department.
Zachary T. Siegel, 22, who allegedly had sex with a 12-year-old girl he met through Facebook, was taken into custody after local authorities learned that he was at a Breckenridge restaurant. He was arrested inside the restaurant without incident.
He posted a $25,000 bond at noon Tuesday and was released from the Summit County Jail, according to the statement.
Siegel is accused of contacting the girl over the Internet, convincing her to send him nude pictures of herself and then inviting her over to his apartment in Colorado Springs, where they allegedly had sex, according to the arrest warrant.
He was arrested on charges of fugitive of justice and sexual assault on a child.
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The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is investigating in the United States and overseas to determine whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing received training that helped them carry out the attack.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is charged with joining with his older brother, Tamerlan, who's now dead, in setting off the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs. The bombs were triggered by a remote detonator of the kind used in remote-control toys, U.S. officials have said.
For full coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings investigation, visit NBCNews.com
U.S. officials investigating the bombings have told The Associated Press that so far there is no evidence to date of a wider plot, including training, direction or funding for the attacks.
A criminal complaint outlining federal charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev described him as holding a cellphone in his hand minutes before the first explosion.
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The brothers are ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago with their parents.
"I think given the level of sophistication of this device, the fact that the pressure cooker is a signature device that goes back to Pakistan, Afghanistan, leads me to believe — and the way they handled these devices and the tradecraft — ... that there was a trainer and the question is where is that trainer or trainers," said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, on "Fox News Sunday."
"Are they overseas in the Chechen region or are they in the United States?" McCaul said. "In my conversations with the FBI, that's the big question. They've casted a wide net both overseas and in the United States to find out where this person is. But I think the experts all agree that there is someone who did train these two individuals."
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said he thought it's "probably true" that the attack was not linked to a major group. But, he told CNN's "State of the Union," that there "may have been radicalizing influences" in the U.S. or abroad. "It does look like a lot of radicalization was self-radicalization online, but we don't know the full answers yet."
On ABC's "This Week," moderator George Stephanopoulos raised the question to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee about FBI suspicions that the brothers had help in getting the bombs together.
"Absolutely, and not only that, but in the self-radicalization process, you still need outside affirmation," responded Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.
"We still have persons of interest that we're working to find and identify and have conversations with," he added.
At this point in the investigation, however, Sen. Claire McCaskill said there was no evidence that the brothers "were part of a larger organization, that they were, in fact, part of some kind of terror cell or any kind of direction."
The Missouri Democrat, who's on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told CBS' "Face the Nation" that "it appears, at this point, based on the evidence, that it's the two of them."
Homemade bombs built from pressure cookers have been a frequent weapon of militants in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen once published an online manual on how to make one.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda, officials have said. He frequently looked at extremist sites, including Inspire magazine, an English-language online publication produced by al-Qaida's Yemen affiliate.
In recent years, two would-be U.S. attackers reported receiving bomb-making training from foreign groups but failed to set off the explosives.
A Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence for trying to blow up a packed jetliner on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb sewn into his underwear. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had tried to set off the bomb minutes before the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight landed.
The device didn't work as planned, but it still produced smoke, flame and panic. He told authorities that he trained in Yemen under the eye of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric and one of the best-known al-Qaida figures.
A U.S. drone strike in Yemen killed al-Awlaki in 2011.
In 2010, a Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb in New York's Times Square also received a life sentence. Faisal Shazad said the Pakistan Taliban provided him with more than $15,000 and five days of explosives training.
The bomb was made of fireworks fertilizer, propane tanks and gasoline canisters. Explosives experts said the fertilizer wasn't the right grade and the fireworks weren't powerful enough to set off the intended chain reaction.
The father of the two suspects said Sunday that he has postponed a trip from Russia to the U.S. because of poor health.
"I am really sick," Anzor Tsarnaev, 46, told The Associated Press. He said his blood pressure had spiked to dangerous levels.
Tsarnaev said at a news conference Thursday that he planned to leave that day or the next for the U.S. with the hope of seeing his younger son, who is under arrest, and burying his elder son, who was killed. His family, however, indicated later Thursday that the trip could be pushed back because he was not feeling well.
Tsarnaev confirmed on Sunday that he is staying in Chechnya, a province in southern Russia, but did not specify whether he was hospitalized. He is an ethnic Chechen and has relatives in Chechnya, although he and his family spent little time in Chechnya or anywhere else in Russia before moving to the U.S. a decade ago.
He and the suspects' mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, returned to Russia last year and settled in Makhachkala, the capital of neighboring Dagestan, where Tsarnaeva's relatives live.
During the past week, they were both questioned extensively by U.S. investigators who had traveled to Makhachkala from Moscow. They also were besieged by journalists who staked out their home.
Tsarnaev's family said last week that he intended to get to the U.S. by flying from Grozny, the Chechen capital, to Moscow. He and Tsarnaeva left Dagestan on Friday, but their whereabouts were unclear.
Mewanwhle, Boston hospitals say the number of patients being treated for injuries sustained in the marathon bombing continues to drop, two weeks after the attack that killed three and hurt more than 260.
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Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Pfizer: Abuse of dominant position? (2)
In November we made reference to the investigation started by the Italian Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (here).
It is investigated if Pfizer has tried to artificially extend the protection over EP0364417 until January 2012, trough Divisional Application no. EP1225168 (Latanoprost). The arguments used by the Italian Authority to start the investigation can be read here.
According to the Italian Law (art. 14 ter of Law no. 287/90), companies investigated can offer commitments to exclude anticompetitive effects. If those commitments are accepted by the Italian Authority, the case can be closed.
In this case Pfizer has offered the following commitments:
1.- An open and free non exclusive licence in Italy, Spain and Luxemburg over EP 1225168. Interested parties may become licensees by just submitting a letter of acceptance to Pfizer.
2.- Renounce to actions brought against AIFA e Sifi spa and others at Regional Amministrative Court of Lazio.
3.- Accept claims (legal and administrative costs excluded) filed at Courts of Milan and Rome against Pfizer by following plaintiffs.
• Tubilux Phrama spa
• Alapis sa
• Ratiopharm Italia srl
• Ratiopharm Gmbh
• Mylan spa
• Idustriale Chimica srl
• EG spa
4.- Renounce to preliminary injunction requested by Pfizer against Sifi spa at the Court of Milan
5.- Renounce to the extension requested on January 10, 2011 over the paediatric use.
6.- Inform the consumers though its website (during 3 years) about alternative Latanaprost products available in the market. Inform doctors and pharmaceutics (during 6 months) about available products in the market.
The Italian Authority will take a decision regarding Pfizer's offer before 29 July 2011.
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In the UK EP 0364417 received an SPC extending protection until 17th July 2011. This was further extended by six months by a paediatric SPC until 17th january 2012.
- 6 July 2011 at 17:58
Will the CC investigate the situation in the UK? what about other countries?
- 10 July 2011 at 09:22
- Antonio Selas said...
After the extension granted on July 27, today October 14 ends the term to take a decision regarding Pfizer's commitments offer. I'm quite curious to see the result
- 14 October 2011 at 08:54
- Antonio Selas said...
Pfizer's commitments offer rejected by the Italian Authority in a decision published in Bulletin no. 40 dated 24 October 2011. A decision will be taken after January 11.
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Sabres owners show interest in bid to buy Bills
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The owners of the Buffalo Sabres have hired a high-profile investment banker to lead their potential bid to buy the Buffalo Bills.
Three people familiar with the hire confirmed Wednesday that Terry and Kim Pegula have retained Steve Greenberg, of Allen & Co., which is regularly involved in sales of sports teams.
The Pegulas have not publicly said whether they will try to buy the NFL team, which is on the market after the team's owner and founder Ralph Wilson died in March. But The Associated Press has reported the Pegulas were among prospective buyers who received a non-disclosure agreement and background on the Bills from a law firm representing Wilson's estate.
The people who confirmed Greenberg's hiring spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Pegulas have not announced it. The move was first reported by The Buffalo News on its website.
Greenberg, the son of Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg, has been involved in purchases of the Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Bucks and numerous other teams.
The Pegulas made their fortune in the natural gas industry, after Terry Pegula sold off many of his company's assets for $4.7 billion to Royal Dutch Shell in 2010.
The Bills were last valued by Forbes to be worth $870 million but their sale price could go much higher because NFL teams rarely go on the market.
The franchise's current lease essentially ties the Bills to playing at their current stadium through the 2019 season, but there are concerns the team could eventually relocate to another city, state or perhaps, Canada, under a new owner.
A Pegula spokesman issued a statement last month saying the Pegulas "have a strong desire to have the Buffalo Bills remain a centerpiece of this region."
But the statement stopped short of saying whether the Pegulas would try to buy the team.
Prospective buyers are awaiting a full valuation of the franchise from investment firm Morgan Stanley before the bidding process begins.
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One Stamford mother had quite the surprise when her 7-year-old bit into a chocolate chip cookie from Panera Bread and felt something hard – that something turned out to be a nail that was baked into her daughter's treat.
The woman bought the cookie for her children on Nov. 25 from a Panera Bread restaurant at 1063 Post Road in Darien, police said. She returned home and gave it to her daughter, only to discover a two-inch-long rusty looking nail inside.
Police said the nail had a dull tip and was the kind commonly used in the construction of wood pallets. The woman's daughter was not hurt.
The Darien Health Department and State Department of Health were notified. Authorities are working to figure out where the nail came from how it ended up in the cookie.
The town health department conducted a preliminary inspection of the restaurant on Tuesday and will continue to investigate. Police said Panera and its distributor, SYGMA, have been cooperative.


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First Security Watch Summit Will Spotlight Mobile Security
Along with my fellow Security Watch bloggers Neil Rubenking and Fahmida Rashid, and everyone else at PC Magazine, we are all extremely excited to announce our first security panel next month in New York City!
Security Watch Summit 2012 will focus on one of the hottest, most misunderstood spaces in security today: securing mobile devices. Lead security analyst Neil Rubenking will moderate a distinguished panel of experts for a lively two-hour discussion.
Anyone who's ever spoken to Mr. Rubenking, or had their products ripped to shreds by his malware testbeds, knows that the man does not mince words. McAfee is graciously sponsoring the summit, but rest assured Neil will not let them wiggle out of any tough questions!
Suitably, this closed-door event will take place in an old bank vault on Wall Street, the Vault Grill located below JP Morgan's antique bank vaults:
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Greetings - I am testing the Excel addin and after merging two sheets I ended up with two columns combined. I guess I don't quite have the merge options figured out. I would like to now split one of the columns which contains a company name and the sales rep name, for example "Mr Excel Tickling Keys Tracy Syrstad" where there is only spaces. Most of the sales reps names are only two words and are on the left side of the column but I don't see an option that would allow me to split the column after the second
or anything that would work. Any ideas on how to accomplish this without creating the sheet again?
The Easy-XL -> Columns -> Split Columns command will allow you to split a column up into multiple words based on a separator character that you specify. It sounds like you may have already done this using a space as the separator character. This would have resulted in a bunch of new columns being added to the sheet, each one containing a single word. You could then use the Easy-XL -> Columns -> Combine Columns command to recombine the first two of these columns (remember to add a space between each column you combine).


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Batch Architecture, Part Zero
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I'm not an architect. I don't even play one on TV. In fact real architects would probably say I'm in the babble phase, architecturewise . But I've been involved in a few situations over the past year or so (and I'm involved in a couple starting round about now) which have led me to the following simple conclusion: Many installations would benefit from drawing up a Batch Architecture . I don't... [More]
You Might Just Be A Clone If...
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As previously discussed I'm often in a situation of trying to make sense of a set of job-related SMF data. Even though it may be your own installation's data, you're probably confronted with what I like to call "a journey of discovery" occasionally, too. I'm always looking for what I can discern from the data. 1 And, when confronted with a set of data about batch jobs, I go into overdrive. This... [More]
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When tuning DB2 batch it's important to know which SMF 101 Accounting Trace record corresponds to which job step. A few years ago I wrote code to do this. It works fine for all z/OS DB2 Batch except that originated by IMS. Here's how it works: Find all the Type 30 Step-End records for a given job name. Find the Type 101 Accounting Trace records for which the Correlation ID in the 101 record... [More]
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Up until now I haven't talked much about DB2, except perhaps to note it's a little different. But what is a DB2 Batch job anyway? It's important to note a DB2 job ISN'T necessarily exclusively DB2 - although some are. It's just a job that has some DB2 in it. The reason for writing a separate post, apart from breaking things up a little, is because batch jobs with DB2 in them present... [More]
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I concluded Batch Architecture - Part One with a brief mention of inter-relationships and data. I'd like to expand on that on this part. Often the inter-relationships between applications are data driven - which is why I'm linking the two in this post (and in my thinking). But let's think about the inter-relationships that matter. There are four levels: Between applications. Between jobs. Between... [More]
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First a word of thanks to Ferdy for his insightful comment on Batch Architecture, Part Zero . And also to my IBM colleague Torsten Michelmann for his offline note on the subject. As I indicated in Part Zero I hoped to talk about jobs in a subsequent post. And this is that post. In particular I want to discuss Viewing jobs as part of distinct applications, and Generating a high-level understanding... [More]
We Have Residents!
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Back in May I wrote about a new batch residency planned for this October and invited good people to apply to join the team. It's been very pleasing how many people applied to be residents and the high quality of the entrants: It was genuinely difficult to pick the eventual team. We also had to reduce the scope a bit - which was a disappointment to both Frank Kyne and I. So, if you didn't get... [More]
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Over the years I've written emails with data collection requirements dozens of times, with varying degrees of clarity. It would be better, wouldn't it, to write it once. I don't think I can get out of the business of writing such emails entirely but here's a goodly chunk of it. Another thing that struck me is that the value of some types of data has increased enormously... [More]
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In October Frank Kyne and I expect to run a residency in Poughkeepsie. You can find the announcement here . The residency builds on the ideas presented here and three subsequent posts. I revisited a specific part of it in Cloning Fan-In . So what are we going to do? For a start we're going to assemble a team of 4 skilled mainframe folks from wherever we can. One of them will be me, which leaves... [More]
Evernote, Remember The Milk, SMTP / MIME and z/OS Batch
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Another kernel popped the other day: SMTP / MIME . But what on earth is MiGueL Mainframe troubling himself with SMTP / MIME for? Let's come at this from a different angle... You probably know by now that when you send me your data it gets put through some batch reporting: Ultimately I don't create the graphs by hand, but I do do the analysis and put the presentation together myself. That's the... [More]
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I've written extensively in the past about what you can glean about batch suites from SMF, most notably SMF Type 30. While I don't believe SMF alone can give you the full dependency network (complete with validation) I've just added some analysis to my code that gets me a little closer. As you're probably never going to run my code the bit that would be interesting is the kind of inferences it's... [More]
Two Kinds Of Pipes
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It's been a while since I last posted here. And that's been more a matter of being incredibly busy than anything. Some of you will have seen me "on stage" - there having been several conferences and user groups recently. Some of you were with me at the zChampions meeting and some of you I'm actively working on customer situations with. (By the way one of the rules of zChampions isn't... [More]
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Now with free map , this is the concluding part of a four part series on batch parallelisation, with especial focus on cloning. In previous parts I discussed: Motivation Classification Issues This part wraps up with thoughts on implementation. I'm going to break it down into: Analysis Making Changes Monitoring While there probably are iterations of this, this is the essential 1-2-3 sequence within... [More]
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Part 1 and Part 2 were, in my opinion a little abstract. But I think they needed to be: They set the scene for why parallelising your batch can be important. They gave some vocabulary and semantics to help structure our thoughts. Now we need to go a little deeper. Let's start with how to think about the problem of making a job or set of jobs more parallel. Hetereogeneous Parallelism Here the trick... [More]
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I hope you don't get the idea I'm overly into rigour, talking about Classification. But I think it has to be done - to provide terminology for this series of posts. This is the second of four posts on Batch Parallelism, following on from Motivation . If I think about how parallelism works in batch it broadly falls into two camps: Heterogeneous Homogeneous ( If you look these two terms up in... [More]
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I have enormous trouble pronouncing "parallelise" right - and not saying "paralyse". It's true, and I bet many of you have the same trouble (sober or not). It's on a par with "red lorry yellow lorry" or "the Leith Police dismisseth us". But it's a word I think we're going to have to get used to pronouncing right. And this post will explain why. This looks to... [More]
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Burbank, CA (Monday, February 9, 2009) � ABC Family's "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," which launched as the highest rated original series in the network's history this past summer, has been picked up for a second season, it was announced today by Kate Juergens, executive vice president, Original Series Programming & Development, ABC Family. The series has been picked up for a 24-episode order. The first season's finale will air on March 23, and the series will tentatively return in summer 2009.
"'The Secret Life of the American Teenager' has really struck a chord not just with our Millennial audience, but with viewers across the board," said Juergens. "We're delighted to announce the series will return. The success of this show goes directly to creator Brenda Hampton's telling of this heartfelt story and is backed by the standout performances of our talented cast."
ABC Family recorded its most-watched year on record in 2008. In its new Monday 8 p.m. time period, season 1B to date, "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" qualifies as TV's No. 1 program in Females 12-34 (2.1 million), and cable's No. 1 program across all key measures, including Total Viewers (3.7 million), Adults 18-34 (1.1 million), Adults 18-49 (1.7 million) and Viewers 12-34 (2.5 million). Since returning in its new Monday 8 o'clock time period on January 5, "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" surpasses the CW's "Gossip Girl" in head-to-head action, beating the flagship property by 42% in Total Viewers, by 6% in Adults 18-49 and by 67% in Viewers 12-34.
The one-hour drama, which focuses on the relationships between families and friends and how they deal with an unexpected teen pregnancy and other teen issues, currently airs on the network on Monday nights, 8:00-9:00pm ET/PT. The first-season order for the series was 23 episodes.
The series stars Shailene Woodley, Molly Ringwald, Mark Derwin, India Eisley, Ken Baumann, Daren Kagasoff, Francia Raisa, Megan Park and Greg Finley. Created and executive-produced by Brenda Hampton, the series is produced by ABC Family in association with Brendavision.
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If Stanley Kubrick was somehow able to make 2001: A Space Odyssey in the year 2012, would he be able to release a trailer that captures the scope and majesty of his film? Or would the tale of humanity's journey from one stage of development to the next be marketed as just another spacefaring action flick? The folks at Film School Rejects deliver an imaginary trailer for today's 2001, recutting the original trailer in a way that calls to mind the recent spate of frenetic scifi trailers—especially those released in anticipation of Prometheus.
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Mute Means Mute
This should be about choices. Please see the updates at the end of the article.
I think the current behavior of the iPhone mute switch is correct. [...] if the mute switch silenced everything, there'd be thousands of people oversleeping every single day because they went to bed the night before unaware that the phone was still in silent mode.
Andy Ihnatko presents an argument for total muting:
No. I should slide the switch to "Mute," and then the phone goes SILENT. If I miss an appointment because I did that, it's completely on me. If my phone disrupts a performance despite the fact that I took clear and deliberate action to prevent that from happening…that's the result of sloppy design. Or arrogant design, which is harder to forgive.
Marco Arment mostly agrees with John:
When implementing the Mute switch, Apple had to decide which of a user's conflicting commands to obey, and they chose the behavior that they believed would make sense to the most people in the most situations.
Here's my take: Physical settings should always trump and override software settings. If you've flipped a switch, you've told the iPhone something very important, just like when you flip a switch in the real world. When you turn off a light, you expect the lights to go off and stay off. When you hit the mute button on your TV, you expect it to stay muted, even if your favorite show comes on and you miss the first 5 minutes because you didn't hear it.
So unless you really understand how the iPhone works and what specific conditions are required to actually mute the phone, you never really know if the mute switch is a mute switch or just a suggestion that you probably want it to be quiet under most circumstances.
I don't believe this is what most people want, and it's certainly not what I want. I don't want devices trying to be smart unless they can be smart enough to truly understand not just basic (or assumed) if/then conditions, but to fully grok how the human mind works under potentially conflicting directives. We're not there yet. Even HAL had trouble with this.
Here's an example: Say my flight is delayed and I get home and to bed 5 hours late. I flip the mute switch OFF. I now want the alarm to not go off at 6am even though I set it to go off at 6am earlier in the day, before I knew I'd be getting in so late. But the mute switch won't work like a mute switch in this situation. Your iPhone will say, "You didn't mean for me to mute the alarm even though you muted me right before you fell asleep. I got this. I'm still going to wake you up just like we planned earlier today."
So to really turn off the alarm, I need to swipe to unlock, open the Alarm app, find my alarm, and disable it. I should know this, even though no other phone or device I've ever used behaves this way.
And then when the alarm still goes off at 6am, I'll realize I should have known that the mute switch won't behave like most mute switches I've used. I've thought about this and to the best of my recall, my other phones and devices mute and stay muted when I tell them to.
When I ask the iPhone to be quiet, I'd really like for it to be quiet and stay quiet until I ask it to make noise again, and I think most people expect the mute switch to mute everything. I want to mute my 4-year-old sometimes. And although my 4-year old understands this, he doesn't always listen. But because I love him and because he's 4, it's OK.
I don't cut my iPhone the same slack.
Update: A number of people on Twitter have pointed out that the mute switch is not actually a mute switch at all, but a "ringer" switch, and they're right. Apple calls it a "Ring/Silent switch" in the iPhone User Guide:
In ring mode, iPhone plays all sounds. In silent mode, iPhone doesn't ring or play alerts and other sound effects.
Important: Clock alarms, audio apps such as Music, and many games still play sounds through the built-in speaker when iPhone is in silent mode.
Calling the switch a "Ring/Silent" switch helps to clarify its behavior somewhat, and the explanation in the manual should help clear things up (assuming people actually read it), though I'm still not convinced this is the behavior most people want.
Update 2: Know what would be really cool? Let users decide for themselves what the switch does. They could call it a "side switch" like they do on the iPad, and give us choices about what it controls.
Update 3: What this means is that there is no single way to tell your iPhone to just be silent across the board without turning it off. Some apps, like the alarm for example (but many other apps too), will still make noise, and you have to know which ones will make noise and which ones won't and manually configure them all to be quiet if you don't want them to make noise in any given situation.
This is what most people want? Maybe, but it seems like a lot to remember when you're heading out on a date.
Some people are saying that if mute meant mute, they'd never be able to use the iPhone as an alarm because of all the other services that would wake them up all night. That's a good point. One answer to this: Airplane Mode. But wait! what if they got an important phone call, they'd miss it! So maybe the iPhone should allow calls to come through even when it's in airplane mode ...
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As I do research for my shows on 5by5.tv, I save the links, articles, quotes, and interesting tidbits we'll be discussing, collecting them on a little blog which I never thought to publicize.
Yesterday I mentioned this during a live show in the chat room, and the listeners seemed curious about it, so I thought I'd share it here as well.
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I have this great romance with chocolate since I possibly could remember plus one of my favorite chocolate-created food needs to function as the trusted old fashioned chocolate dessert or White chocolate cake. Today, even when I really like chocolate desserts, does not imply I will eat such pastry that is positioned before me. No, no. I must merely eat the top of the greatest actually chocolate dessert if not, I will not eat it in any respect.
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I decided to film my August-January sketchbook. I know the camera is shaky, the quality is crappy, I'm not sure if the whole fast forward thing is good or not, and I'm pretty sure I stole this idea from someone else. Oh well, please enjoy anyway!
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Wildlife officials transplant bighorn sheep from Basalt to Gore Canyon
The population of a western wildlife icon just got a boost along the Upper Colorado River.
Bighorn sheep, the official Colorado state animal, once roamed the rugged slopes of Gore Canyon and hilly rangeland near Radium, but herds have seen a sharp decline statewide since the early 1900s. Wildlife officials say the animals faced competition with domestic animals brought by human settlers. Herds also took a hit from being over-hunted.
As early as 1945, wildlife workers have tried to boost bighorn populations by trapping wild sheep and relocating them to establish new herds or supplement existing ones. In 2009, Colorado Parks and Wildlife upped its efforts to grow bighorn populations, developing a 10-year management plan.
"Ecologically speaking, there was a niche missing," said Lyle Sidener with the CPW office in Hot Sulphur Springs.
In February 2009, CPW released 14 bighorns in Gore Canyon. Bighorns breed once a year, with ewes generally having only a single lamb, but by 2013 the local herd had doubled. On Jan. 3, wildlife officials brought an additional 13 bighorns to the area, bringing the total population to 41.
The new transplants included one ram, seven ewes and five lambs. There's no longer a domestic sheep industry in the area, and hunting regulations protect the animals, but Sidener said the bighorns still face threats from disease. To ensure the local herd stays healthy, both groups of bighorns were transplanted from the Basalt State Wildlife Area.
"It's important to get sheep from same area so disease background is the same," Sidener said. "We have to be very careful of how we move sheep, we can't get them willy-nilly from other areas."
Like the 2009 transplants, the 13 new bighorns were brought by truck in horse trailers. Wildlife officials gave them a light dose of tranquilizer to ease them through the handling process and to administer "booster shots" to further help the animals fight disease. CPW will track the sheep with radio collars and ear tag transmitters to record their progress.
According to Sidener, the goal is to ultimately restore a healthy, sustainable population that provides a chance for wildlife viewing and an opportunity for future hunting.
"For all states with bighorn sheep, they're an important resource and important to the public," he said.
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Money needed to keep 'Under the Sink' running
The city of Omaha will have to chip in extra money to keep the doors open at Under the Sink.
The household waste disposal site needs cash to run next year because of state funding changes.
The City Council is set to spend nearly $100,000 in short-term cash on Under the Sink, which the city operates as a service to area residents. Now, the city is calling it an inconvenience.
Vehicles roll up and crews offload them, taking everything from containers to spray cans and garden hoses.
But this service is threatened by a financial problem.
Operations are funded mostly by state grants. In the past, the state has given those grants to the city as a lump sum at the beginning of the year. But federal changes on grants forced changes at the state level.
"The policy decision was made to pay everything on a reimbursement basis," said Steve Danahay, of the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.
Now, dozens of operations like Under the Sink will only get their funding after sending invoices.
"It is an inconvenience to them and a hardship in some cases," Danahay said.
"It's a major hiccup in the flow of finances," said City Councilman Garry Gernandt.
City Council members have put a special item on next week's agenda to provide some $95,000 in stop-gap funding to keep Under the Sink running.
"This is an entity that must stay in operation," Gernandt said. "It provides a vital service."
The City Council is set to approve the special funding at its meeting Tuesday.
The total of more than $95,000 will be divided between the city of Omaha and Douglas and Sarpy counties.
The city's share of about $32,000 will come from the stormwater fee revenue fund.
The city of Omaha said operations at Under the Sink will continue as normal with no interruptions. Officials said the stop-gap funding will keep operations going until state grant money catches up.


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B@B Trade Inc. Recalls "Slim Fortune", "Lidiy", and "Slim Expert" Weight Loss Dietary Supplement
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of Slim Fortune, Lidiy and Slim Expert. The dietary supplements contain undeclared Sibutramine, an unapproved drug.
Sibutramine is known to substantially increase blood pressure and/or pulse rate in some patients and may present a significant risk for patients with a history of coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias or stroke. This product may also interact, in life-threatening ways, with other medications a consumer may be taking.
The recalled products are packaged in plastic bottles as follows: Slim Fortune green capsules / 30 capsules per bottle, Lidiy green capsules, / 30 capsules per bottle, and Slim Expert 30 softgels capsules per bottle. All these products are marketed as a natural herb for weight loss.
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Game Maker Studio DRM Misfires; Permanently Replaces Created Game Resources With Pirate Symbols
from the time-to-craft-a-pirate-themed-roguelike deptAnother day, another story of DRM gone wrong. Just recently, Tim Geigner posted a story about a rather expensive dictionary app that hijacked users' Twitter accounts to shame them as pirates -- even if the inadvertent tweeters had shelled out $25 for the program.
Fortunately, this situation didn't result in a bunch of paying customers outing themselves as pirates. Instead, the program in question, Game Maker Studio, permanently overwrote user-created game resources with the internationally accepted pirate symbol -- the skull and crossbones.
A recent update to Game Maker Studio has left many developers confused and frustrated after an anti-piracy system went haywire.
Those who use a legally obtained version of Studio have had game resources, such as sprites, overlayed with an image of a skull and crossbones. The resources are permanently edited, rendered useless.
While the result wasn't as publicly embarrassing, the unlucky users who had dumped hours into creating their games saw their work swiftly -- and permanently -- undone. At first, YoYo Games staff indicated affected users should run a virus scan to make sure the program hadn't been tampered with. As more bug reports poured in, it became clear that the issue wasn't on the end users' computers. Unlike some other companies whose DRM has gone wonky, YoYo Games has been proactive about fixing the issue.
Mike Dailly of Yoyo Games showed up at the original post, as well as in the Yoyo Games forums, with advice for affected users, as well as providing updates on the efforts to track the issue down. He also went the extra step of talking down a few zealous pitchfork bearers who attacked the poster reporting the problem.
Please don't ASSUME folk are using pirated copies, sometimes a virus or something can effect an exe and gives some issue like this.Unfortunately, YoYo Games isn't looking to remove its DRM scheme, despite this bug's permanent defacing of users' games. In a longer post, Dailly offers an apology, but states that Game Maker will likely never be DRM-free.
The current solution is to uninstall, delete both %appdata%\GameMaker-Studio and %localappdata%\GameMaker-Studio, delete the GameMaker-Studio registry key, scan your machine in case its a virus, and then reinstall.
The program assumes a modded .exe is a crack, but this isn't always the case as a virus can also change it. I also have a feeling theres something else changing exe's.....
If your still having issues, get in touch with the help desk, let them know your key...and we'll see what we can do to help.
I totally understand that those who have paid for GameMaker and are getting this are feeling very upset by the whole matter, and I can only apologise for the problems. As to why it's in there should be reasonably clear. GameMaker has traditionally been one of the most pirated programs around, and it's simply not right that some pay good money for it, while others simply pirate it. We try hard to make it as smooth an experience as possible for paying users, but are constantly fighting pirates understanding of the protection systems.This won't be much comfort to affected users and it doesn't bode well for those looking to purchase the pro version of Game Maker Studio. Moving towards a more "passive" DRM just pushes the problem to the background, rather than remove it. As in the situation mentioned at the beginning of this post, even passive DRM has its flaws -- especially when it takes it upon itself to treat paying customers as thieves.
We'd LOVE to be able to remove the protection completely, but we know that vast numbers would simply copy it if it was that easy. There are many levels to the current protection system, and while many are visible like this, there are also many hidden so that we can always tell when a final game was created with a crack.
We expect an update to go out tomorrow to remove this protection, and will move away from the "destructive" protection like this, to more passive methods to help protect innocent users who through no fault of their own, somehow trigger it.
Dailly also suggests that Game Maker might move towards some sort of "internet connection required" DRM, which is never a welcome development, no matter how inevitable.
So yes.... we can never "win". Hardware dongles can be cracked and removed, all software can be "fixed". Only "online" can reduce piracy properly, and even that can be removed by some dedicated hacker. That said, the more the world moves online, the easier it gets to block, but we're not there yet, so we do what we can.All of this unpleasantness aside, at least this situation has altered YoYo Games' anti-piracy tactics going forward, taking it in a more pragmatic direction -- which should result in fewer paying customers being adversely affected.
Remember the goal is to drive pirates to buy, and if they think a copy will destroy their game, that's a pretty strong incentive. However, we'll make sure our concern for paying customers now takes precedence over trying to force a sale from a pirate - which will probably not happen anyway.
We've become blinkered a little in trying to stay one step ahead, and for that I totally apologise, there are certainly other ways of doing this.As long as DRM exists, collateral damage is to be expected. Mike Dailly is to be commended for tackling this head-on, rather than shunting it off to customer service or refusing to discuss the negative impact on YoYo's customers. The only way YoYo can promise this sort of thing won't happen again is to go DRM-free, but if it's not willing to do that, an open discussion with its current (and potential) customers is at least a step in the right direction.
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South Norwalk, after a couple of years of relative dormancy, seems to be coming alive again. With the advent of new condominiums and office spaces, there is much more foot traffic, and those folks get hungry. All of which is good news for this historic part of town, and Quartino Trattoria & Vineria is front and center of this trend.
Located in one of the lovely old buildings on Washington Street in the heart of SoNo, the ambiance takes advantage of the old exposed brick walls, fanciful Italian countryside murals and rough-hewn wood flooring. Though flanked by other established Italian restaurants, Quartino sets itself apart with a concentration on classic dishes done well and an interesting, well-priced wine list with many affordable options available by the generously poured glass.
The owner, Giuseppe Cinque, is no stranger to local restaurants and his clientele seems to have loyally followed him to SoNo, probably for his attention to quality ingredients, which is especially apparent in the selection of antipasti, whether a simple arrangement of burrata cheese, summery tomatoes, prosciutto and verdant basil, or a light and fresh touch with thin slices of eggplant plumped with fresh ricotta filling and melted mozzarella in a lightly chunky San Marzano tomato sauce. Other starters include a combo of mussels, shrimp and calamari in white wine and tomato broth, or a slightly underfried, but otherwise tasty mix of fried calamari and zucchini strips with a peppery tomato sauce and a sweet vinegar sauce for dipping.
Salads are bright and bountiful, whether classic Caesar or a seasonal concoction of watermelon chunks with tomato, arugula, onions and pine nuts in a lemon vinaigrette. Soups range from a delicate classic stracciatella to a hearty pasta fagiole that would benefit from an embellishment of fresh herbs.
Pastas are a highlight, especially a lovely linguine with briny clams redolent of an excellent olive oil and wine broth, but orecchiette with broccoli rabe, sausage and pepperoncino is a close second. Other options include paccheri with veal and cremini mushrooms, light potato gnocchi and a showy presentation of spaghetti with olives, capers and tomato tossed and served in a wheel of pecorino Romano.
The house specials main course is chicken scarparello that, although all the classic ingredients of chicken, sausage and roasted potatoes are present, tastes a bit tired and in need of an herbal lift. Much more appealing is branzino with broccoli rabe or classic renditions of chicken Parmigianino or Milanese.
Desserts need work. Apple tart is a tad soggy and bland while prettily presented chocolate budino has an oddly gummy texture. Excellent hazelnut gelato accompanies both and is a nicely sweet ending.
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PRICES: Dinner: Appetizers $11.95-$5.95, main courses $24.95-$16.95; desserts approximately $7
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Game 117: Boston at Toronto
He's back. After watching box score after box score show that Travis Snider was mashing at a ridiculous rate with Triple-A Las Vegas, the Blue Jays decided to bring the kid back to Toronto on Tuesday.
Snider's production — .337 with 14 homers and 40 RBIs in 48 games for Vegas — might have netted a call-up earlier, but the Jays were keeping a close eye on his service time. Why not? The team is not in the running and holding him back could save millions.
By waiting until Tuesday to promote Snider, he will likely fall a few days short of reaching Super Two status after the 2011 season. What this means is he would not have an extra year of arbitration eligibility. It made complete sense for the organization to handle the situation this way.
When Snider was up witht he big league club earlier this season, he played against right-handed pitching. Now, manager Cito Gaston said he'll play against "everybody." Snider did not like seeing Alex Rios go, but he said he is looking forward to taking advantage of the chance to play in right field on a daily basis.
We also chatted with GM J.P. Ricciardi today about the Jays' unsigned Draft picks. Check bluejays.com later tonight for more on that and for Snider's comments on being called up. The Jays optioned Joe Inglett to Triple-A to clear room on the roster for Snider.
Today's lineups:
Second place AL East, 7.0 GB
1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
2. J.D. Drew, RF
3. Victor Martinez, C
4. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
5. Jason Bay, LF
6. Mike Lowell, 3B
7. David Ortiz, DH
8. Nick Green, 2B
9. Alex Gonzalez, SS
Starter: RHP Josh Beckett (14-4, 3.10)
Fourth place AL East, 17.5 GB
1. Marco Scutaro, SS
2. Aaron Hill, 2B
3. Adam Lind, LF
4. Lyle Overbay, 1B
5. Vernon Wells, CF
6. Randy Ruiz, DH
7. Edwin Encarnacion, 3B
8. Rod Barajas, C
9. Travis Snider, RF
Starter: LHP Ricky Romero (10-5, 3.70)
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Overbay has to learn 4th hole hitters don't go up there looking for a walk, they hit to drive runners in.
I agree, though he's done well there so far. There is a simple solution to that. Switch Overbay (high OBP guy) for Hill (RBI guy). That's what you get with Cito though. That, and Millar hitting cleanup!!!
Big Papi Ruiz!
I'd like to put Ruiz in the 4th hole, that is until Snider is ready. Ruiz has more experience hitting in that spot than anyone else on this team and if he can drill one over the center field fence on Beckett, he can hit them on anyone.
Here's where I'd like to see the lineup.
lol. Taking some heat by other commentors about whether the signing of Ruiz would have any relevance at all to the Jays this year, or next. Back in December I wrote.
I don't think in any way I implied that Ruiz was the 'answer,' to the Jays problems. That is a strange thought. He was signed to a minor league contract, not exactly a premier free agent pickup. Depending on how others fair next season, he probably won't see any MLB playing time (others, notably Millar, did not fair well).
In my opinion, I think the guy has drifted under the radar a bit. I think he has legitimate Major League talent, but for one reason or another (probably because he is only a 1B/DH), hasn't been able to show it. He actually did well briefly with Minnesota late last season. He is not exactly Mark Teixeria or Manny Ramirez, but not bad for the bottom of the barrell in my opinion.
If he plays, and tanks. You can come to my blog and bash me for thinking the guy had any value whatsoever, because I will deserve it.
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3 homers for Ruiz in a very short time with the club. I left myself on the hook for that comment, I now feel validated!!! There were no guarentees Ruiz would get called up this year, or ever as a Jay? I'm glad he did. With Ruiz, the Jays will definately get a guy that can flirt with .300 all year. The man can definately hit. He is just a hard guy to find a position for, but the way our run production has been this year at DH/1B, I don't think that would be a problem.
Lol, Beckett didn't want any part of Ruiz.
Why did we send down Accardo who was pitching really well and bring up Janssen? Accardo had only given up 1 run in his last 10 outings, and Janssen's fastball just isn't going to do it-not at 87-88 mph. Clearly, he hasn't recovered yet, send him back down to AAA and let him finish out the year there.
Both Ruiz and Lind just missed another home run in their last at bat and Papelbon needed to change shorts, cause Ruiz, Lind, Hill and Snider scared the crap out of him-you could see it in his facial expressions.
If anyone has any doubts Ruiz can hit, just look who he's hit his 3 home runs (in 6 games) off of-Burnett, Chamberlain and Beckett-3 of the premier pitchers in baseball.
Ruiz is a tremendous "break" for the Jays. A DH with power, can hit both lefties and righties, highly motivated, hits well with risp and makes major league minimum. There is no need to add another power bat at high cost in the off season, they're all in house and reasonable cost with Lind, Hill, Ruiz, Snider, Dopirak-soon and EE.
Snider brings energy to this lineup, even Papelbon pitched around him. Now, if we start batting Ruiz 4th, bring up Dopirak, dump Millar and get EE healthy (likely not until next year), this lineup could really cause some damage.
Back in December it was me under the name "quicksilver" who made those critical comments regarding your post. This past week watching Ruiz play and everytime i heard about him i was reminded of that december conversation. Well you were right about that one. Im glad Ruiz proved me wrong. Thanks for reminding me of this lol
It will be interesting to see what happens to Justin Jackson in Dunedin when he comes back from the injured list because it looks like others are being moved up in the chain.
2009 draftee SS Ryan Goins has his second promotion of the year to Lansing and Tyler Pastornicky has been promoted from Lansing to Dunedin to replace Jackson. The thing that's really interesting on Pastornicky is he's stolen 51 bases in 110 games. Not a HR hitter but a .271/.337/.348 is very good compared to Jackson, and the 51 stolen bases are exceptional.
Another kid at Lansing that would probably be moved up except for a crowded well performing outfield in Dunedin already is Johermyn Chavez, a right fielder who hit his 20th home run tonight along with his 80th rbi in 117 games and is on a tear hitting .409 over his last 10 games.
Now the interesting stuff should happen with Randy Ruiz. He should have raised a few eyebrows by now, and the pool of video and advance scouting should be sufficient for opposing teams to start looking for holes in his swing. Over the next few weeks, we should watch how they pitch to him, and see if he can make the adjustments. We know what he can do with a mistake, but now we will see how he fares when they start picking on his weak spots. (I hope they just decide to throw it down the middle and hope he hits it to somebody! LOL)
I like your lineup, gsjays, but I would really like to see Wells hitting well enough to claim the cleanup hole again, with Snider, Ruiz, and Overbay behind him. And while I am wishing for things, maybe we could sign Hanley Ramirex to play shortstop next year, and bat leadoff. As my grandfather used to say, "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride".
Actually that pitch Ruiz hit out last night was a good pitch, striped the outside part of the plate and low. I was surprised he hit that one out. I'm sure they'll find weaknesses in his swing, but he has also been around long enough, I suspect he'll adjust. However, it also is becoming prudent for Cito to start putting him in the right hitting spot so he has some protection, which he doesn't have at the moment. In Vegas, Ruiz was 3rd, Snider 4th and Dopirak 5th, and that lineup produced a lot of runs and wins.
You're much more optimistic than I on Wells. I think what we see now is what we get, with continual deterioration over the next few years. I'm starting to think he should be in the 9th hole, instead of the 6th. I don't think Wells has ever been or ever will be a 4th hole hitter and when we put him in that slot it was a huge mistake.
If Wells was really a team player (which he isn't), he'd be the guy pressing Cito to bat him lower until he improved, because right now he's costing us wins.
GS while I do agree that Wells should be batting lower in the lineup, I disagree that it should be Vernon's responisibility to let Cito know where he should be batting. If Cito can't see for himself that Vernon continues to struggle then maybe some criticism should be directed at him.
He doesn't seem to get enough heat for batting Millar in the cleanup spot once in a while either in my opinion.
I'm starting to think Millar has pictures on JP or something, because he shouldn't be in a MLB lineup at all, never mind batting in the 4th hole.
Although, I do understand Cito's idea of leaving guys in certain positions, the fact is, this team should start getting ready for next season and beyond.
Millar isn't part of that future, Dopirak is and he should be here, along with Arrencibia. Get all these kids settled in and ready for next year. Experiment with the batting order to see what's going to work the best.
And I still don't understand why Accardo was sent down and Janssen recalled. They had to know Janssen's stuff wasn't up to snuff so why recall him; send someone down to Vegas to watch him pitch if they didn't trust the information they received from the Vegas coaches.
In the meantime, Accardo has pitched lights out for us, giving up 1 run in his last 10 innings, so why was he sent down? Did he piss in someone's Wheaties or what?
Send down Carleson who's been totally noneffective since April, if they really felt the need to have Janssen pitch here instead of Vegas.


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At this morning's opening presentations at Honeywell Users Group Americas 2013 in Phoenix, a recurring theme was that Honeywell wants to stand by its customers and develop long-term, rewarding partnerships that work to everyone's advantage. In a presentation this afternoon, Shawn Gold, global program manager - performance services, fleshed out that vision in describing the company's new Assurance 360 service program.
Conversations over time with customers have taught Honeywell that some of the challenges keeping their customers up at night include the need for continuously improving their operations and responding appropriately to changing business conditions, while upholding the best support standards and reducing total cost of ownership. At the same time, they need to maintain a knowledgeable staff, manage the complexities of open technology, maintain an appropriate technical direction applicable to their specific situation, maintain the correct alignment between support strategy and business strategy, minimize risk and downtime, and reduce the total cost of ownership of their assets.
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The Optima program is a pay-for-performance solution designed for companies that do not have the time, resources or expertise to handle system maintenance and upgrade tasks or for which they are not a core competence. "In the Optima program, Honeywell takes ownership of the outcomes," explained Gold. "The outcomes define the revenue we get paid. We have some skin in the game."
Honeywell has ownership of the risk and of change management. Optima customers get a dedicated performance manager responsible to them who has active management of all incidents and plans. There is an established performance baseline with defined outcome metrics.
It is a truism, said Gold, that when a customer has a bad day, the service provider has a good day, because when the plant is down, the customer is willing to spend the money it takes to get it up and running again. Assurance 360 turns this idea on its head. "It should be that when you have a good day, we have a good day too," Gold said.
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The six elements of the plan include change management, establishment of remote performance monitoring by Honeywell, proactive service management, management of upgrades and new installation projects, development of performance metrics and scorecards, and comprehensive reporting of results.
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The Performa level is a similar program, but with less direct involvement from Honeywell. It's designed for companies that feel they have the internal resources to handle these issues, but want to make sure they haven't overlooked anything critical, said Gold.
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H.R.807 - Full Faith and Credit Act113th Congress (2013-2014)
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|Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-4] (Introduced 02/25/2013)
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|Senate - 05/13/2013 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (All Actions)
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Synth-pop band Capital Cities has plenty of songs on its debut album that it wants to promote as singles—if only radio programmers would allow it.
The band's hit, "Safe and Sound," is the only song most fans have heard: it has been playing on the radio for more than two years. And because so many listeners now know the song, which peaked last year at No. 2 on radio's Top 40 chart, stations are afraid to take it out of rotation....