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Well, if you're so paranoid, get some tape and cover over the camera and microphone, or take it apart and disconnect it.
But, maybe even light bulbs have cameras and microphones in them now, using the powerlines to transmit the data back..
"Should the TV owner choose not to use these features, the camera and microphone can be disabled. Users can check if the camera and microphone are activated from the TV's settings menu. As an added precaution, the camera can be rotated and tucked into the bezel of the TV. Once tucked away, the camera only captures a black image."
I presume that these features are part of the movement toward having TVs contain fully functional computers that can connect to the internet for viewing content or in the future Skyping other locations. That funtionality is in your laptop as well, but we expect it there. Sometimes the laptops spy on people, for example if it is stolen.
A TV that can transmit is more frightening to some. Perhaps because of 1984, but perhaps because that TV has become a major part of people's reality and has so far only been one way.
A totalitarian state, or even a demanding employer, could ask us to be available for conversation at any time. "Your choice, but if you have nothing to hide. We are only here to protect you from criminals." etc.
Perhaps because of 1984, but perhaps because that TV has become a major part of people's reality and has so far only been one way.
Or because TVs are more likely to be found in bedrooms and other places where people would very much not want to be seen by others. Unlike laptops (which can be closed and/or moved), those TVs are always pointed so that you can see them from the bed. This means that if it has a camera, it can watch you have sex, it can watch you watch porn (which, Slashdot readers notwithstanding, is more likely on a TV than a computer), and (if the angle is wide enough) it can watch you get dressed in the morning.
A TV in a common room with a camera is potentially acceptable, but making it a standard feature of every TV would be a catastrophically bad idea. There are some places that cameras just do not belong. Like my bathroom.
Perhaps because of 1984, but perhaps because that TV has become a major part of people's reality and has so far only been one way.
Or because TVs are more likely to be found in bedrooms and other places where people would very much not want to be seen by others. Unlike laptops (which can be closed and/or moved), those TVs are always pointed so that you can see them from the bed. This means that if it has a camera, it can watch you have sex, it can watch you watch porn (which, Slashdot readers notwithstanding, is more likely on a TV than a computer), and (if the angle is wide enough) it can watch you get dressed in the morning.
A TV in a common room with a camera is potentially acceptable, but making it a standard feature of every TV would be a catastrophically bad idea. There are some places that cameras just do not belong. Like my bathroom.
While I distlike the idea of TVs in bedrooms (unless you're a college kid whose only private space is the bedroom), I have to strongly disagree with the idea that a TV with a camera (that can watch you without your knowledge) in a common room is even remotely acceptable. Most of the time that I spend interacting with my child is in the living room, with the TV in plain sight, on standby (unless we're watching Sesame Street). I am strongly opposed to the very idea that someone could be watching or listening to what I'm teaching my children. (For what it's worth, I don't have anything to hide, assuming a secular upbringing loosely based on the "golden rule" isn't outlawed anytime soon, but if it were to be outlawed, I wouldn't want my TV ratting me out.)
To be honest, I would rather have a camera in the bedroom. I don't particularly care about shadowy figures watching me have sex with my wife. (We enjoy it, but we're not especially camera-friendly, and we don't do anything that you couldn't find much more professional "amateurs" doing online.) The values that we instill in our children are personal and way more important than our naked asses.
Riiight, because THAT is what a militant police state would want, free amateur porn. I can just imagine the conversations now "OMFG, would you look at the faces THAT guy is making? It looks like he's gonna drop a deuce LOL!" or "Oh shit, not that fat girl again, every time she bounces its like watching a 70s water bed with all the ripples!"
I can think of a few reasons why something like that might be useful to a government, but watching the average couple fuck? Not enough brain bleach in the world for tha
You misunderstand. I'm not saying that the government wants free porn. I'm saying that as soon as the cameras are there, your love life is only a quick hack away from people who do.
You misunderstand. I'm not saying that the government wants free porn. I'm saying that as soon as the cameras are there, your love life is only a quick hack away from people who do.
Indeed. There are webcams all over the net that people have put in their houses as "more effective" baby monitors and such.
And they are wide open to the internet.
Are you bored?
http://pastebin.com/fDkTWZGX [pastebin.com]
Trendnet cameras. Wide open to the world. And so is your life.
And there are plenty of people that still have the 30 day trial of Norton that ran out 5 years ago and haven't updated their OS in just as long...the point? this discussion was about the government, not dumbasses being dumbasses. At least in most cases with the TV they have to go an extra length to be dumbasses as most current routers are IP V4 and are NATed so you can't just waltz in, 5 will get you 10 those Trendnet cams are using the crappy routers you get from the ISPs that usually have every kind of po
this discussion was about the government, not dumbasses being dumbasses.
The point, sweetie, is that the Government doesn't need to force people to install cameras. People are already doing it on their own. The dumbasses are the ones building the infrastructure on their own. Instead of Big Brother, it's millions of Little Brothers.
And all it needs is someone to act as Mom.
It's called a turnkey police state.
BMO if you want to argue THAT point you might as well be hosting a "Ban Facebook!" party because as we have seen dumbasses will post INCREDIBLY detailed shit about their daily lives to FB. No need for big bro to follow anyone, just subscribe to their FB page and you can practically follow them minute by minute!
In the end though the original poster was trying to make this some big brother plot and when I pointed out it would be stupid THEN they switched to the stupid user scenario. But if you want to argue s
Why would anyone want their TV connected to a network anyway? Is this to do with those stupid "Skype(tm) Ready" systems?
Because they want to watch movies from their server? A lot of TVs these days are quite capable of that feature and make that "media-box" redundant that way.
I have a great idea, you protect me outside of my home and inside, I'll protect myself and relieve you off that duty, but in return you keep your nose out of my home.
You may come any time and search it provided you have a warrant. If you have none, you have no business in here.
what about the mic? if the switch is software it can be remotely accessed. the switches need to be physical.
Note that typical Timothy insanity in the summary. PC's meeting the PC97 spec and their internal mic. I have motherboards that meet that spec, even entire PC's. None of them have a mic. Most don't even come with a speaker. You can plug a mic in but I would be highly intrested in how some spook can instruct my PC to go out, buy a mic, plug it in and start recording me, all without me noticing it.
"But AHA! How do I know there isn't a mic", the true paranoid asks me.
"Well because I can't see any", I reply.
"How do you know what one looks like, nano genetic engineered cyber tech can make things very very small, they can put mic's inside chips and camera's inside pixels", the paranoid rants.
And... he has a point. There are certainly occasional press releases about screens that can see and you could certainly mistake a PC on a chip new story as it including a microphone and camera. Am I that certain that the needs of either a mic or a camera preclude it from being to small, or indeed being covered by a cooling fan? Yes, I am but I have not always been right (Once I thought I was wrong and I was wrong about that).
I can certainly see how those for whom tech is close to witchcraft and who have a limited understanding of how government works that and have guilty conscious might get worried.
Take the old, the TV is watching me, that has now been revived. People have believed this since the days of cathode ray tube tv's with rabbit ear antenna's. How would such a device possibly watch you? There is no technical way, you would have to believe the government has immensely advanced tech that nobody else knew about to hide a camera in there without it being obvious OR just plain not understand how TV works. Never mind how the hell the signal is supposed to get back to the spy headquarters.
With modern electronics and computers, this will only get worse. You can reason out why an old TV can't send anything back. But how can you proof a laptop visibly equipped with the tools to spy and the means to transmit them, isn't doing it? You could measure the network connection but how do you proof that there isn't a hidden signal that goes unreported? The led beside the camera is probably software controlled, at least that is what a paranoid could claim, so how do you proof it isn't recording when it isn't? Take it apart and measure electric flow but that is far to techy to satisfy the paranoid. If you believe lightbulbs can record and transmit a mere No current will not satisfy you.
A lot of people believe the moon landings never happened. An AWFUL lot of people. Not just ignorable people in trailer parks. That the moon landings really did happen is beyond obvious, the most simple proof is that the Russians never even bothered to cast doubt on it. If you think the Russians and Americans are in cahoots on this... well... that is the nature of paranoia, secret world government and every government on the world IS working together after all. See how neatly it all fits when you don't need actual evidence and facts?
It doesn't help that there are real spy projects like Echelon that show that some governments are willing to sift through a huge amount of drivel for... well... god knows what... it certainly doesn't seem to have given the US any intelligence to stop them blundering so often on the world stage.
When a population who doesn't trust their government meets a government that can't be trusted, you have the end of democracy.
It is like with doctors, at a simple basic level, you got to trust your doctor. If you don't, how can you take your medicine? Ask for a second opinion? How do you know that doctor is not in cahoots with the first? At a basic level, we should trust our government. And to ensure this, come down like a ton of brick on any in government that break this trust. But that would have required a lot of US presidents to hang from a rope during their term. And you can't have that can you?
So people cover their TV to stop it watching them, and get to vote on the next leader they don't trust. Long live western democracy.
Well, let's assume I'm paranoid. Which I probably am, I'm pretty sure the government would love to spy 24/7 on its subjects (I deliberately avoid the term citizen, it comes with some rights attached). According to your text, I would probably think that democracy has ended. I don't trust my government to have my interests in mind, and I am firmly sure (that's basically a result thereof) that it cannot be trusted. I still don't cover my TV or PC every night and I don't cover my webcams and don't muffle my mic
"Should the TV owner choose not to use these features, the camera and microphone can be disabled. Users can check if the camera and microphone are activated from the TV's settings menu. As an added precaution, the camera can be rotated and tucked into the bezel of the TV. Once tucked away, the camera only captures a black image."
But can someone who wants to use the camera, be assured about his privacy?
i know a lot of people taping the camera (also on laptops etc)
and actually, it make sense
This "wanker", as the name implies, is just
Ok, then. Carry on. Have a nice day.
I actually do this with my kids toys. Snip the wire or throw in a resistor and suddenly it gets much quieter. Not paranoia, just hate loud noise.
You are assuming the tape you put over the camera is not transparent at IR or UV light frequencies - think of the Sony 'night-vision' cameras that could see through clothes.
You are also assuming the gain of the microphone can't be turned up remotely to hear enough. Some decent signal processing can remove a lot of the underlying noise to recover the what is being said.
Ask yourself too, how many owners are going to keep the TV firmware updated to deal with the inevitable security holes that will be found?
Personally, I think it's not paranoid at all to question the pros and cons of these new 'features', inevitable as they may be.
You are assuming the tape you put over the camera is not transparent at IR or UV light frequencies - think of the Sony 'night-vision' cameras that could see through clothes.
Haha, seriously? That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard all week!
But, maybe even light bulbs have cameras and microphones in them now, using the powerlines to transmit the data back..
Well, THAT certainly explains the Incandescent Bulb Ban, the installation of "Smart Meters", and that huge new NSA facility in Utah. But we need to connect it to HAARP, Chemtrails, and Obama's Birth Certificate for true conspiracy greatness. Extra points if you work in Black Helicopters, the Rothschilds, or the Tri-Lateral Commission.....
There was a guy who was to report to his local police station every day because ho complained that secret mlitary tests made his incadescent light bulbs burn out. He kept a logbook of every tine this happened. It only happened 9 to 5, mondays to fridays.
You dated my ex-gf didn't you? No joke! Her mother was your typical trailer trash alcoholic with a chain smoking habit. She was also bit wonky in the head. One day as my ex and I were sitting down on the sofa, I asked if her TV was broke or something. It's because she would cover the unit with a table cloth. Her response.
"When I watch TV, they are watching me."
The answer was in a serious tone. Talk about being ahead of her time. Not too far off.
How did you fit the couch into the trailer?
Well actually, it was more like a single wide mobile home. As for the sofa, I have no idea. It was already there when I arrived to visit her mother for the first time.
But, maybe even light bulbs have cameras and microphones in them now, using the powerlines to transmit the data back..
The powerlines weren't reliable enough. Now the light bulbs transmit the data in the visible spectrum by DPSK-modulating the visible light; it's repeated throughout your house until it reaches a window at which point it's picked up by the black helicopter-drones and sent back to headquarters.
doesn't like every laptop now have a built-in microphone, an HDTV camera, a wireless and wired Internet connection, a browser and software with voice to text conversion, face recognition and more?
we're gonna need a lot of tape.
shit, maybe this story was a plant by Big Tape! 3M has deep pockets. that's the real conspiracy.
doesn't like every laptop now have a built-in microphone, an HDTV camera
Most (all?) laptops at least have a light that turns on to let you know the camera is active. Though microphones don't provide any indication, usually.
that's what they want you to believe.
You can get remote control light bulbs these days - these are infra-red controlled for on/off and color. If they can fit an Ir sensor inside, they can fit a CCD sensor and microphone. They could even fit a fibgerprint reader on the on/off switch.
Well, if you're so paranoid, get some tape and cover over the camera and microphone, or take it apart and disconnect it.
Everyone who stops by my desk asks "why do you have electrical tape over your webcam camera?" My answer is "because MIS didn't say they wouldn't spy on me.
Also, I tend not to wear clothes around the house. Even when I'm telecommuting. Although, putting the two together could be interesting given I have a female boss up a notch or two in the hierarchy. "Yeah, we need to talk about your tele
Well, if you're so paranoid, get some tape and cover over the camera and microphone, or take it apart and disconnect it.
But, maybe even light bulbs have cameras and microphones in them now, using the powerlines to transmit the data back..
Actually they use Wifi/3G powered by perpetual motion engines or for Japanese models by miniature fusion reactors. This enables them to send data, even when the TV isn't plugged into anything so they can still spy on you.
The only sure way to protect yourself is to wrap the entire set in tinfoil.
Ok, so maybe I am paranoid, but that does not mean they are not out to get you. And they could certainly be more reassuring to paranoid people than with this statement:
> Samsung employs
But authorized by whom? They never clarify this, and they add a lot of exceptions later on. "Required by law", that could mean the law of any of nearly 300 countries in the world. What if Iran wants to spy on you - that is "required by law", too!
Uh, I don't think covering up a mic will work 100%. You would need to physically disconnect it. That isn't easy since it is internal and would void warranties.
That's an awesome idea, however, I fear that it will take a long time for people to be aware that this is good and needed.
Energy Star worked because people are aware we should preserve energy (also it make their bill lower)
They don't seem to figure out whats the issue with privacy yet (see FB, Twitter, preference cards in supermarkets/etc - list is huge)
But you could never really do that. Energy use is easy - basically plug the machine into a Kill-a-watt and type up a sticker.
To ensure that a complex electromechanical device does not do something is nearly impossible. Sure, the default configuration might allow you to shut the camera down and you could see that nothing from the camera is being transmitted, but you could always put the machine into a 'nasty' mode which surreptitiously turns the evil eye back on.
Hard to do on a router. Hard to do on a TV.
To ensure that a complex electromechanical device does not do something is nearly impossible.
WTF? It's very easy to certify that a TV doesn't have a camera and microphone installed to watch you.
It's also easy to certify that devices inherently capable of spying come with a real privacy policy instead of a "privacy policy".
To ensure that a complex electromechanical device does not do something is nearly impossible. Sure, the default configuration might allow you to shut the camera down and you could see that nothing from the camera is being transmitted, but you could always put the machine into a 'nasty' mode which surreptitiously turns the evil eye back on.
Sometimes the old solutions are the best. Retro solution- a physical switch. When the button (mechanical affair with springs and levers) is pressed, the wire that connects the camera to the power supply is moved a millimetre in this direction, breaking the circuit. The only way to reactivate the camera is to have someone press that springs-and-levers button again.
That's the way I was taught electronics in primary school. No need to over-engineer a solution; you can't improve on an original like that.
Trust in corporate ethics is so incredibly low. Privacy expectations plummet every year. If I was a hardware manufcaturer, I'd fund an independent organization (like Consumer Reports) and say "use this money to investigate which new devices coming out violate consumer privacy, and issue ratings". If we can have Energy Star compliance, why not Privacy Star compliance? If all my tvs had Privacy Star stickers, and my competitors did not, +1 for me and my business.
Not to put too fine a point on this, but what you seem to be implying is that industry can regulate itself. I think the Banking sector, Oil industry, Pharma, Agriculture all prove that industry (the market, corporations...whatever you want to call it) cannot regulate itself. The reason for the success, which your post either deliberately or naively ignores, is that Energy Star was created by the EPA and the Department of Energy during the Clinton administration. What corporations are real good at is roll
"The instructress had called them to attention again. 'And now let's see which of us can touch our toes!' she said enthusiastically. 'Right over from the hips, please, comrades. One-two! One- two!
I can see why Americans are in outrage and upset about the prospect of mandatory exercise via the Televue screen
Remember the scene in Kentucky Fried Movie where the news anchors are watching a couple having sex and trying hard to not let on they can see them through the TV? These days it may be a uncomfortably close to the truth.
In Soviet Russia television is watching YOU!
Samsung Says Their TVs Aren't Really Spying On You
Of course they'll be saying that. They'd be crazy NOT to say it.
I mean, they have enough patent lawsuits from Apple already.
Your boxers have a hole in them.
Your blue polka-dot boxers, the ones you wore this morning, may have a hole in them. We wouldn't know, since we're not spying on you.
Your boxers have a hole in them
Our salesman will be around in a jiffy with a selection of new boxers in your size. *Ding-Dong* - That'll be him now, don't worry about your pants and wallet, we have your banking details and we've seen what you put in your boxer shorts.
For someone to create a personal firewall that prevents unwanted access to your appliances and unwanted data transmission from your appliances. It should be reasonably easy to build such a device, sell it for a reasonable price and let everyone know that they now have complete control over what their appliance does and when. I'd buy one in a minute!
The only way to prevent oher people from taking inappropriate advantage is to eliminate the opportunity.
the problem is that its not so simple since you've to figure where the data is sent to in order to block it and that it can have multiple addresses, that the name used can resolve to various ips and change over time, that updates can change it, that it be tied to whatever online service the tv needs to be fully functional (stores for example), and even so they could still hide it in legit-looking requests without afaik, (ianal), violating any law
...unless it is using a wifi link to transmit to the police outside.
It's been a while since I did anything firewall related - but surely it would be easier to white list sites for the IP address of the TV? *.youtube.com for example?
How do you plan to identify a "good" packet from an unwanted one when they're both likely destined for Samsung?
And when the packet is headed for an EC2 IP on port 80, just like that Netflix viewer people want to use? Will you just test the Evil bit or something?
Ultimately this is a solvable problem, because steganography is hard, but it's not an easily solvable problem by any means. It would probably take the resources of a major government or large corporation to be quite sure nothing unwanted was in any outbound packets, and that itself would make the device non-trustworthy, so I don't think it's practical.
How would you implement such? The devices would very be unlikely to transmit their data in human-readable text, so you'd need to know the binary layout of the data packets transmitted, and such details would not just be handed over when asked for. Then you have to take into account that different manufacturers wouldn't use the same protocol, and possibly not even one manufacturer would use one protocol among all of its products, so you'd have to reverse-engineer ALL your internet-connected appliances. Not t
They did confirm that an earlier line of their toasters might continue laughing at customers until the firmware was upgraded.
I've never understood the anxiety that this kind of thing causes. If you want to stop your tv or toaster or lighbulb from spying on you then:
1. go to a kitchenware place
2. buy some cooking foil
3. craft it into the shape of a baseball cap
4. position it as high as possible on your body
This works for all types of covert stuff that the man uses, with the exception of dream-robbing.
Easier, just don't plan your putsch in front of your television.
Paranoid much?
PC97 PC's? Seriously? Barely anybody had a network connection when that was out, let alone remote-access. And how would remote access to that microphone work through your firewall and without you noticing the traffic?
Every time you come up with (or reiterate) a crap conspiracy theory, I mentally filter everything you say as if I was talking to the local nutter on the bus.
This is why we need open source software. We are wasting our time with speculation if we could just look at the code.
This is why we need open source software. We are wasting our time with speculation if we could just look at the code.
Please load your brains before you shoot your mouth off! [samsung.com] But then again this is slashdot. Samsung does compete with Apple for the hearts and minds of non tech savy consumers most of which have no clue about the Busy-box and OSS and the Linux kernel which makes all this home tv tech possible.
Samsung does provide the source. Read the eulas. If you do hack it and run a modded firmware you do so at your own peril. Some of the stuff that they do is interesting and can be hacked. I am sure that if they were to h
This is why we need open source software. We are wasting our time with speculation if we could just look at the code.
This is by far the lamest and most impractical meme slashdot has created to date. Have you looked at the size and complexity of any popular OSS application/library? A cleverly hidden back door could take you an eternity to find, and that's when you already understand the design (or lack thereof). Not only that, but you then have to build it to verify the binaries on the machine are the same as what you built from the source. When all is said and done and you have complete trust in the software you then run it on chips provided by the same company you don't trust.
There is no surefire way to determine if these kind of devices (and the companies that supply them) are trustworthy, just as there is no surefire way to determine if a person is trustworthy. Trust is subjective, all anyone can really do is examine their reputation and track record, and perform random spot checks. Sure you can do more than spot check, you could sniff every transaction on the wire. But just as you can never be absoluely certain there are no bugs, you also can never be absoluely certain there are no back doors.
Financial institutions primarily catch internal "cyber-thieves" by auditing the information trail they alter, not by reviewing the code they alter.
I vote for "not" — conspiracy theories about mandatory (or just secret) surveillance equipment in consumer electronics is just too persistent, even when the technical capabilities turn out to be a hoax; when the equipment is actually all in place and the user is protected only by a corporate honor policy, it's hard to be sanguine.
Considering that "viewscreens" that allowed The Party to watch people in their homes were an integral part of the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four [wikipedia.org], it's arguable that people who are familiar with that story are probably inclined to at least think briefly about the possibility. (In the book, the "viewscreens" couldn't be turned off, although it's fair to say that most pieces of modern tech aren't exactly ever "off" unless you completely disconnect all sources of power, so this may be 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.)
Then again, in this age of the almighty corporation, how much is a simple corporate assertion of goodwill really worth?
. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time
It also looks like they may not have even thought things through particularly well. I started seeing articles March 20th.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of March 26, 2012,
Ever heard of camera phones or smart phones? Most people have one, many of those charge them in their bedroom at night. They have wireless connections to a network, mostly don't use open source software, etc. About the only difference is that the camera is not likely to be facing the bed, but the microphone will still work just fine.
Now, poke a few holes in your foil hat, I think your scalp is starving for oxygen and sunlight.
The saucers are coming. A remember, they zipped a few hundred light years to personally shove some probe up your butt.
Who needs a 'TV' with a camera and internet access anyway?
Do it yourself with a usb web cam, DVB-T USB adapter, raspberry pi and any old 1080p monitor with HDMI inputs, a USB hub and speakers?
Yes, that sounds MUCH easier.
but there is also potential for good And I claim the patents! (or at least establish the obviousness of the following applications)
And one I forgot: Detect what language you are speaking and switch the audio to that language if it's available. If it's not English it can also attempt to verify your immigration status and put in a call to ICE.
Oh, hell, now that we're on spying ideas, there are some public-safety-relevant ones:
Detect assaults in progress and dispatch the police.
Detect cries for help and dispatch the police.
Detect snuggies and dispatch the fashion police.
Nice patents, however, they all kinda assume that TV, as it is now, will not rapidly become a thing of the past. I donot have a TV subscription anymore (why pay for ads?) and I have noticed that live is better that way. I watch what I want, when I want it, and that never includes ads.
Save sanity by telling channels that nobody is watching their stupid programs. (So they're motivated to not air such complete garbage.)
I'm sorry, but there is no killing shows like Jersey Shore, The Real Housewives of $foo, Teen Mom, Ice Road Truckers, and so on. They're just too cheap to produce for the networks to say no to crud like that and yes to quality programs which require a full staff of talented writers and actors.
It would not be inaudible. A driven speaker isn't an efficient microphone because it is well-damped by the speaker-level audio signal.
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* What: Cadek Community Orchestra in concert.
* When: 3-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25.
* Where: UTC Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine St.
* Admission: Free.
* Phone: 425-4601.
* Website: www.utc.edu/Academic/Music/Events.php.
A concert by the Cadek Community Orchestra on Sunday, Nov. 25, will be conducted by graduate student Min-jeong Won, under the direction of Jooyong Ahn. It will feature works by Haydn, Elgar and Bizet.
Symphony No. 104 in D Major is Joseph Haydn's final symphony and the last of the 12 symphonies composed for the two London concert series. Although it became known as the "London," Haydn referred to it as "the 12th." It was first performed in the early summer of 1795 and is in four movements: allegro, andante, minuet and trio, and finale.
Guest soloist Hannah Kuhn will perform with the orchestra in Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto. This piece was composed during the summer of 1919 and represents the angst, despair and disillusionment that Elgar felt after the end of the World War I, as well as an introspective look at death and mortality.
Also included in the concert is "L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1." The incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play "L'Arlésienne (usually translated as "The Girl From Arles") was composed by Georges Bizet for the first performance of the play at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1872. It consists of 27 numbers (some only a few bars) for voice, chorus and small orchestra, ranging from short solos to longer entr'actes. Bizet himself played the harmonium backstage at the premiere performance. The play received poor reviews and closed after only 21 performances. However, the incidental music flourished in the form of two suites for orchestra.

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Posted by manderson on 1/19/2013 8:25:00 PM (view original):I think Northwood just wanted to continue to win and got the coach they think was better.
(1) u was there 2 seasons and i only see two recruits signed by u. I took over a team that only had two schollys. I than cut 3 players that wasn't good to me.
I signed 2 Fr guards, 2 Fr post and 1 So post. Three of them started the whole season and the team finished with their best season ever. If it wasn't for me moving to D2, this team could easily be better next season.
So u done what u could with more sim recruited talent and I coach more of my own talent.
Its not to late to apply for one of the other available conference teams. That way u can coach against me in the regular season.
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Three months after the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, the new Egypt is still sorting itself out—and perhaps will be for some time to come. Observers are concerned about both the country's domestic problems—attacks on the Coptic Community, the rise of the long-repressed Salafi movement, etc.—as well as Cairo's foreign policy. To understand what's happening right now in the largest and perhaps most influential Arab state, it's useful to consider the country's domestic and foreign policy as part of the same general initiative—a fund-raising drive.
An editorial in yesterday's Washington Post contends, "Egypt's previous foreign policy was often toxic."
It opposed international initiatives on democracy and human rights, and it joined efforts in the United Nations to stigmatize Israel. It regularly made promises to Washington on which it failed to deliver--such as its attempts to broker cease-fires between Israel and Hamas.
But Mubarak's value was not in brokering ceasefires between Israel and Hamas, an outfit backed by Egypt's Iranian adversaries. Rather, it was the fact that the Egyptian leader and his intelligence chief Omar Suleiman gave Hamas no quarter. Among other very useful acts, Mubarak established a blockade of Gaza. Now that the new Egyptian government plans to end the blockade, as Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Elaraby told the Post's Lally Weymouth, Hamas will likely have an open supply line across the Egyptian border. As Martin Kramer, Wexler-Fromer fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, explains, this is something like Syria's border with Lebanon, which is the location of Hezbollah's supply line.
Other evidence of Egypt's new sympathy toward Hamas is the fact that it brokered the reconciliation between the Islamic Resistance and Fatah. Some optimistic observers take this as a sign that Hamas as well as its Syrian sponsor have both been weakened. Nonsense, says Kramer, "it just means that Hamas can ride Egypt now instead of having to rely on Syria."
Egypt could become a bigger headache for Washington; it might start acting a lot more like Syria. Cairo's rulers might not like it, but they have little choice: the country is broke.
As David P. Goldman wrote in yesterday's Asia Times:
Egypt is running out of food, and, more gradually, running out of money with which to buy it. The most populous country in the Arab world shows all the symptoms of national bankruptcy - the kind that produced hyperinflation in several Latin American countries during the 1970s and 1980s - with a deadly difference: Egypt imports half its wheat, and the collapse of its external credit means starvation.
The foreign investment that Gamal Mubarak and his band of reform-minded technocrats lured to Egypt all left the country after Gamal's father was toppled. Egypt collects receipts on the Suez but its two other major sources of income are way down. Goldman calculates that guest worker remittances from abroad are perhaps half of what they were in 2009, largely because Libya has expelled its Egyptian labor. Tourism, Goldman writes, is a fraction of what it usually is. I had once thought that tourism was likely to rebound quickly; after all, al-Gama'a al-Islameya's 1997 attack in Luxor that killed 58 foreign tourists was meant to undermine the industry, but within a year or so tourism bounced back. But Mubarak crushed the Islamists and got them off the front pages of Western newspapers. Today, with Salafis given free rein and setting fire to Coptic churches, Western tourists are staying away indefinitely.
Egypt, says Goldman, is in big trouble. "I can't make the numbers add up," he told me in an email. "The Egyptians seem to be out around $20 billion a year, and they've lost $13 billion in foreign exchange reserves during the first quarter. Who's going to lend them that kind of money? The US was talking about $1 billion in debt relief, which means a tiny fraction of that in cash flow terms. Are the Saudis going to bail them out? The ticket's too big, and they didn't like what was done to Mubarak."
To feed Egypt there are essentially two choices. The first is to keep the country as stable as possible, prove a relatively reliable partner to Washington, and reform the economy so that it's amenable to foreign investment. But neither the Egyptian military nor the likely presidential candidates are going to go that route since this is what got Mubarak tossed out, and his sons locked up in jail—"corruption," as Egypt's young middle class revolutionaries called it.
The other option is to present an Egypt much less reliable and stable than Mubarak's. In other words, a scary Egypt, an unpredictable Arab leviathan that might go to war with Israel or just fall apart at the seams. In order to keep this Egypt from exploding or imploding, someone has to pay, but it's unlikely to be the Saudis or the Iranians. There's no superpower contest in the Middle East, so the only option is Washington. To survive, Egypt needs to raise the rent on the Americans. "They think Mubarak sold Egypt for too little at $2 billion a year," says Kramer. "They're rattling the cup."
Cairo is normalizing relations with Iran and giving Hamas a ride in order to get the Americans to pay up—unless they want to see Egypt get really ugly. The military is not going to crack down on the Salafists unless Washington pays for it, full price and not as part of any package deal. So what if street confrontations between Muslims and Copts leaving dozens dead in the streets of Cairo keep tourists at home? $15 billion a year in tourist revenue is not enough to cover Egypt's basic requirements in the first place.
The problem of course is that the U.S. doesn't have the money to keep Egypt afloat either. The bill for Egypt's revolution has come due, and as it turns out, everyone left his wallet at home.


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I simply don't have access to a "cares about RBI" place in my psyche. There is a "mildly curious about OBI%" alcove just before the acid filled lake guarded by robot snipers with lasers which leads to the "cares about RBI" antechamber though. - Nate
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Oh, he's no innocent. But there comes a point where if you accuse someone of something they didn't do, no matter how many crimes they committed in the past it doesn't mean they did that one. It's natural to feel sympathy for someone who was falsely accused of something. People have a sense of fair play and while they believe a guy like Henry deserves everything they get for the crimes they committed, they don't believe they should pay for crimes they didn't commit.
First thing I would do is a little investigation into what team this 16 year old kid roots for. I wonder if there might be a Pittsburgh Steelers poster or two up in his room.
This makes absolutely no sense. Now had they said something like this happened at a party, or something along the same lines as Odell just recently it wouldn't be as odd. Like someone already said, I highly doubt a couple NFL players just go randomly seeking out kids on the side of the road to beat up for no reason.
If for some strange reason this is in anyway true, then absolutely Henry should be banned for life.
I am getting a little sick of this stuff. I could trip, fall, hit something, get a black eye, go down to the local police station, say Chris Henry accosted me, and in less than 5 minutes the story would be picked up by a local media source. The police and local media should be held more accountable for what they do.
Life is nothing but a series of decisions and here's a kid who has landed on the top of the world by the grace of his genetics and he's bent on tossing it down the toilet because he wouldn't know the right choice if it bit him in the butt. The best thing for him would be to rent an island until he's allowed back in the game.
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I think you're right about accountability to a point. However Henry brought a lot of this onto himself. If you tripped, fell, hit something and got a black eye and you blamed Carson Palmer, no one would believe you and there wouldn't be anything said about it because Palmer's never had any legal problems. But Henry has a history so when someone says he did something, people are more likely to not give him the benefit of the doubt.
WLWT is saying that Henry won't be charged with anything.
Breaking News: No Charges Against Bengals' Henry
Travis Gettys, WLWT.com
POSTED: 4:04 pm EDT June 15, 2007
UPDATED: 4:49 pm EDT June 15, 2007
FLORENCE, Ky. -- No charges will be filed against Chris Henry in an alleged assault, police said.
The 16-year-old and his family have stopped cooperating with police and two other suspects have been identified in the attack, Florence police said at a Friday afternoon news conference.
Police said the assailants were two Florence men, but officers did not identify them.
The teen had claimed last week Henry, who on probation for a 2006 firearm conviction in Florida, and another man jumped from an SUV and assaulted them June 8 near Mount Zion Road.
The boy also said Bengals wide receiver Reggie McNeal was inside the vehicle during the attack.
A league source told News 5 after those reports had been made public that the allegations had been fabricated.
Henry is among nine Bengals to be arrested since the end of the 2005 season, and he's not the only troubled player to be the subject of conflicting reports of alleged misbehavior.
Last week two men accused Bengals linebacker Odell Thurman, who is eligible to apply for reinstatement to the NFL following a one-season ban for substance abuse violations, of assaulting them earlier this month at a party in Georgia.
However, the men dropped their claims before a scheduled court appearance and no charges were filed against Thurman.
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Let's step back and look at the things Chris Henry has really done. They are all a bunch of very minor stuff. Nothing violent, a lot really petty.
-marijuana in his car
-no driver's license
-no car insurance
-waving a gun around
-blew .092 alcohol level. Up until recently drunk was .010
-giving alcohol to minors
-not using a turning signal
Things he's been falsely accused of:
-having sex with minors
-beating up minors
I don't know about you but I'm no wild and crazy guy but I've done over half the things on his list and nothing he did was violent or brought harm to others.
This guy is being made the NFL's poster child for arrests and he did come to the NFL very immature but he's not the villian he's made out to be.
Yes the gun and the pot are two things I have no experience with but if I grew up in a violent neighborhood I very well might have a gun. I'm fortunate that I've never lived in such an area.
He got what he deserved for the gun incident and I hope he learned from it but to his credit he didn't use it.
I knew I was forgetting something...the failed drug test! Thanks Boss...
For me, it's not that he owned a gun - it's that he waved it at a group of people (including police officers).
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WILLIAMSBURG — Angela Stanford didn't know that she's made the cut of every LPGA tournament at Kingsmill. Didn't know that her 9-for-9 track record on Pete Dye's River Course puts her in a club with only one other member — Natalie Gulbis.
But this Stanford knows: "I love it here from top to bottom, from the resort, to the volunteers, the community, and the golf course is just awesome. … You could put this venue on our schedule five times for all I care.
"There's absolutely nothing I don't like about this place. … My parents come every year. My mom's coming in late tonight."
That affection showed again Friday as Stanford fired a second consecutive 68 that leaves her one shot behind leader Ariya Jutanugarn.
The LPGA's truncated schedule — Kingsmill is only the circuit's ninth event of 2013 — has allowed Stanford to enter every tournament this season. But at age 35, and after 13 years on Tour, she's ready to cut back, the better to spend time watching her Texas Rangers and tending to her foundation.
The world's 18th-ranked player and a five-time LPGA winner, Stanford is as Texas as oil, armadillos and Willie Nelson — check her Twitter feed, @Angela_Stanford, for evidence. She hails from Saginaw, graduated from Texas Christian and resides in Fort Worth, not far from the Rangers' Arlington ballpark.
So devoted to (obsessed with?) the Rangers is Stanford that she red-eyed home from the LPGA tournament in Hawaii two weeks ago to attend a Sunday game against the Seattle Mariners — Texas won, 11-3.
The Rangers then hit the road, a blessing in disguise for Stanford, who was preparing for the inaugural LPGA North Texas Shootout last week in nearby Irving.
"Probably good because I would have been distracted," Stanford said. "I would have been sitting at the ballpark instead of entertaining."
Playing in front of friends, family and fans who rarely see her compete in-person, Stanford tied for 22nd at North Texas and headed to Williamsburg. She tied for fifth here last year after a final-round 64, her third Kingsmill top-10, but has never seriously contended on Sunday.
Stanford is among 11 players within three shots of the lead, a group that includes Stacy Lewis, the world's No. 2 player.
"Since I came on Tour (in 2009), Angela has become someone I've looked up to," Lewis said, "and she's been a great friend to me."
Lewis is a fierce advocate for the Angela Stanford Foundation, which funds college scholarships for students affected by cancer. Stanford began her philanthropy in 2006 with a benefit golf tournament for Texas charities serving orphans and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Three years later, she created her foundation.
Stanford's vision for the organization crystallized when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Nan Stanford, Angela's closest, underwent chemotherapy immediately.
"I've always wanted to do something with kids," Stanford said, "and when my mom was diagnosed … in '09, that kind of changed my world, obviously. Then I had a close friend who kind of nudged me to start the foundation. She passed away from … cancer, and just the more I realized it was becoming a part of my world, I felt like, OK, if we're going to help kids, let's help the kids that are affected by cancer.
"I always say if I would have been a high school senior when my mom was diagnosed, I probably wouldn't have gone to (college) right away because all the funds, especially for middle-class families, just go straight to medical and everything that the patient needs."
A child of municipal workers, Stanford grew up middle-class, an upbringing that informs her to this day. Indeed, she wears blue during Sunday rounds as a shout-out to blue-collar types.
"She's had to work for everything, and that's how it should be," TCU coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin told Golf Week's Beth Ann Baldry in 2009. "In the real world, things aren't handed to you. You have to earn it. . . . It's kept her humble. She hasn't forgotten, and she never will."
Safe to say, the foundation's scholarship recipients won't ever forget Stanford. And here's the kicker: The scholarships are for four years.
"We don't just give them one year and leave them," Stanford said. "We kind of stay with them. If they make their grades, we stay with them all four years."
Fellow Tour member Jennifer Gleason is the foundation's executive director, and Stanford said Gleason does much of the work.
"Being gone all the time, it's hard to be completely 100 percent involved (in the foundation)," Stanford said. "So a lot of cutting my schedule back is just to be rested more, but also to be home more."
The recipient of the LPGA's inaugural Kia Community Assist Award in 2012, Stanford will be home next week hosting a foundation fundraiser.
"I really believe in her charity," Lewis said. "What she does for those kids is unbelievable."
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State taxpayers weren't the only ones paying rent for state Senate Democratic Leader Robert J. Mellow's Peckville office to a company he co-owned.
The senator's campaign committee paid rent to the company for space in the same building, too.
Over a seven-year period, Mr. Mellow's campaign committee paid a company co-owned first by his wife, then the senator himself more than $47,000 in rent and utilities for office space in the same building, according to the senator's campaign finance records.
All three - the Senate office, the campaign office and the company, Brad Inc. - have the same address, 524 Main St., Peckville.
Nothing in the state campaign finance reporting law prohibits a legislator from renting a campaign office from himself or a family member, though state law forbids using a legislative space for political purposes.
But the head of one watchdog group questioned the campaign committee rental arrangement.
"That's a pretty sweet deal," said Barry Kauffman, executive director of Common Cause/PA, the Harrisburg-based good-government watchdog group. "I would certainly think (campaign) donors might want to review whether ... they're paying for legitimate campaign expenses or whether the campaign is using a campaign device to personally enrich the candidate."
Lisa Scullin, a spokeswoman for Mr. Mellow's Senate office, said the rent for the campaign office is a "legitimate use of campaign funds" that has been "fully disclosed publicly."
The campaign and Senate offices are "completely separate" from each other, Ms. Scullin said.
"Different walls, different entrance, different faxes, different personnel, completely separate," she said. "I cannot make it clear enough. There's no commingling whatsoever."
Mr. Mellow only co-owned the building "a few months," took steps to sell it as soon as possible and disclosed everything publicly, she said.
The payments by the campaign committee, Friends of Bob Mellow, were in addition to more than $200,000 in rent for the Senate office paid by state taxpayers over the same seven-year period to Brad Inc.
Mr. Mellow, 66, D-22, of Peckville, opened his main local office at 524 Main St., Peckville, in 1990, only a few blocks from what was then his home. The Peckville building was owned by Gabriel J. Giordano, a longtime aide in the Peckville office, and his wife, Celestine P. Giordano. The Giordanos bought it Aug. 9, 1990, for $90,000.
Mr. Mellow lists himself as a shareholder in Mr. Giordano's insurance company, Giordano Associates Inc., as early as his 1999 financial interest statement. His 2006, 2007 and 2008 financial interest statements say he has a 50 percent share in the company.
On Jan. 8, 2001, the Giordanos sold the building and an adjacent parking lot, to Brad Inc., a company co-owned by Mrs. Giordano and Diane Mellow, now Mr. Mellow's ex-wife. Brad Inc. was established a month earlier, according to state Corporation Bureau records.
The sale was for $1, but a real estate transfer tax document showed the sale valued at $82,331, less than the Giordanos paid for the building and adjacent lot in 1990.
The owners of Brad Inc. were only disclosed after Mr. Mellow gained an interest in the company. He first reported it on his 2007 state-required financial interest statements. The statement says he gained a 50 percent share of the company in January 2007 as a result of his divorce.
State law does not require disclosing the financial interests of a spouse.
Mr. Mellow attempted to sell the building but was unable to do so right away because of "present issues existing regarding the real estate and financial markets," according to the 2007 financial interest statement.
Despite those issues, Brad Inc. sold the building and adjacent lot Sept. 18 for $350,000, more than four times the amount reported in Brad Inc.'s 2001 transaction with the Giordanos. The property was sold to Ibis Realty Inc. of Scranton.
The campaign committee's rent and utilities payments to Brad Inc. began April 13, 2001, a payment of $519.31. They ranged from a low of $495.90 on June 12, 2001, to a high of $603.25 on Oct. 5, 2007. Most of the 84 payments made over the seven years ranged between $500 and $550. The seven years of payments totaled $47,393.59.
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This is actually pretty sad. She must be feeling pretty rough!
According to people.com
Her own lyrics hit a little too close to home for Jennifer Lopez, who broke down in tears onstage after singing a song about loves from her past.
"I'm going to sing you the last song I wrote about love," Lopez, who recently split from husband Marc Anthony, told the audience at the Mohegan Sun's 15th anniversary celebration on Saturday night after singing an acoustic rendition of her hit "If You Had My Love." "A lot has changed since then."
Lopez, 42, then launched into "Until It Beats No More" while dancers re-enacted scenes with the singer and some of the men from her past. A Lopez lookalike danced with guys who looked a lot like her exes Diddy, Cris Judd and Ben Affleck.
The final couple to appear in the spotlight danced much like Lopez and her estranged husband during their American Idol performance in May, just weeks before they announced their split.
After she was done, Lopez told the sold-out crowd, "I took a trip down memory lane" – and then started to cry as the crowd applauded.
But it wasn't all sadness for Lopez. She then held up a photo of her twins Max and Emme, 3½, and said, "There's love – and then there's love."
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Bears' Harris fined $5,000 for facemask penalty
09/22/2007 12:23 PM - Chicago Bears defensive tackle Tommie Harris has been fined $5,000 by the NFL for what league officials deemed a "major facemask" penalty in last Sunday's victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.
The play in question occurred with 3:35 remaining in the game, and with Kansas City in possession with a first-and-10 at its own 19-yard line.
Harris sacked Chiefs' quarterback Damon Huard for a three-yard loss, but pulled him down by the facemask, and was penalized 15 yards for a personal foul.
It is not known if Harris plans to appeal the fine, but replays of the incident indicated that the fourth-year veteran tackle did grab Huard's facemask. Huard was shaken on the play, but continued in the game.
The incident marred a monster performance by Harris, who is coming off a 2006 season in which he was limited to 12 games by a hamstring-related injury that required offseason surgery and a long rehabilitation. Harris had five tackles, two sacks and a quarterback pressure in the contest.
That is amazing.
It seemed like every time something like this happened last year the NFL just overlooked it.
First game of the season and Trent gets concussed by an obvious late hit on the slide.
Not even a flag was thrown.
Then last week some dude blocks Colquit 15 yards out of bounds, no penalty!


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Merce Gonzales, 49, who was arrested at his home at 330 Collyer St. on Oct. 5 on suspicion of dealing drugs out of the house, pleaded guilty Friday to attempted drug possession, a felony.
The Longmont SWAT team raided the house and recovered meth, cocaine and drug paraphernalia.
He was on probation for his role in another local drug ring that police broke up as part of Operation Bad Cowboy. He is scheduled for a Dec. 20 probation revocation hearing in that case.
Prosecutors dismissed two other drug distribution charges as part of the deal in the new case. He is due for sentencing on Jan. 25.


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Measurement madness
In case you haven't noticed managers think patient care is about ticking boxes. Box ticking seems to be the way of modern management. The medical students fail to clerk patients as they should so somebody gives them a sheet to get signed off. You can see why. Patients develop pressure sore so the nurses are given boxes to tick. You can see why. The nurses are so busy ticking boxes that patients may have to lie for hours in a wet bed. Which, of course, may cause pressure sores. So somebody introduces another box to tick. You can see why. It's what Dr Grumble refers to as puppet-string management. All the staff are controlled by somebody in an office who pulls the strings. No thinking is required at the coalface. The idea is that the intelligent worker can be replaced by people who do not need to think but just have to tick boxes. All the thinking is done by the manager. The concept seems to have come from manufacturing. Building a car can be reduced to a set of simple tasks. You do the task, the conveyor belt moves on and you do it again. Dr Grumble has yet to visit a ward that is like that.
Qualify as a doctor and you will find that there are more boxes to tick. Not just about the patients but about you. The managers, you see, need to prove you can do all the things you need to do. So they get somebody (it could be a nurse) to tick boxes to say that you are competent. Naively the managers think your job can be reduced to a set of competencies. You can see why. They are thinking about factory workers. By now you will find the boxes are computerised. Whoever set the system up thought that would be convenient . You can see why. It's office-based people who decide these things. But you try and find a computer that's free on a busy ward. The managers think each box-ticking exercise should take a minimum of 15 minutes. You can see why. But they forget that's 15 minutes each or half an hour of medical time. And they don't seem to realise that consultants do not even have a 10 minute break in some places.
By the time you get to Dr Grumble's stage and you are fully trained you will find that you still need to get boxes ticked. Dr Grumble used to go to on courses he wanted to go on. About things he needed to learn. Now there is pressure to do courses the managers want him to go on. You can see why. There is pulling and pushing from the managers. Dr Grumble might want to go to a conference but the managers will prevent him because the work is building up. You can see why. So Dr Grumble waves the unticked CPD boxes and tells them he has to go. You can see why.
It never used to be like this and the system worked. But that was in the days when managers told Dr Grumble off for over performing. Now they want him to work all the time. Even at weekends. They even offer Grumble extra money. Before he did it for nothing. The system is changing: some of it is good and some of it is bad. The pulling and pushing has been designed so that when the system is fully on a private footing the managers cannot make doctors work to the exclusion of ongoing training. It is the way you have to do things because the imperative for all organisations is to earn money and it is doctors, and not managers, who bring the money in. Managers are just an overhead. It's as well to realise that.
Any GP reading this will know about ticking boxes. That's how GPs seem to be paid these days. Some managers somewhere have decided that general practice is rather like a car plant and can be reduced to some set tasks that the population needs done and that all you need to do is get those idle GPs to do the tasks, tick the boxes and Bob's your uncle. You can see why. But is it sensible? GPs are highly computerised and they are rather good at ticking boxes. Most of their patients come their way quite often so it's quite easy to tick the boxes. That's why GPs got paid more than the government intended. They said they would. Or the BMA did. But the managers thought they knew better.
Now if you reduce general practice to a box-ticking exercise you can see that general practice is not a difficult job. You just find out what boxes need to be ticked and get somebody to tick them. Since no thinking is involved you could delegate this task to somebody who is not actually trained to be a GP and is not paid as much. Perhaps even somebody who is not actually a doctor. GPs wouldn't want to do this because they realise that their job is very much more than ticking boxes. But Big Business, with eyes just on the money, would see that ticking boxes could be done more cheaply and wouldn't be at all interested in the many unmeasurable thinking things a GP does for which there is no fee.
Of course, all this has already gone way too far and whether we are talking about the competencies of young doctors or the hoops GPs have to jump through, frankly, it is all unstoppable. But like Iona Heath, Dr Grumble calls for restraint. Below is what Iona says in the current BMJ:
The quality and outcomes framework purports to measure clinical quality at the level of the individual, or rather at the level of a standardised individual of its own creation, and organisational quality at the level of the primary care practice. Take the case of a single patient with hypertension. However, she also has bronchiectasis after many years of smoking and has just had cancer of the oesophagus diagnosed. She has a child with severe learning difficulties and she is fearful, not only for herself but also about what will happen to her child. She is married and the relationship is difficult. Her sister has lung cancer and is already very ill. The sister's children have problems and children of their own, and this is only the beginning of a story which becomes richer and richer the more that it is told. It is a story with multiple components, each of which interacts with the others unpredictably. Each of the components has a history that affects the interaction, and each has the capacity to affect the patient's blood pressure and to support or undermine the treatment that is prescribed for her. To what extent does the achievement of a blood pressure of less than 150/90 mm Hg assess the quality of this patient's care? Could it be that some of the apparently poor adherence to guidelines in primary health care is not a sign of poor quality but rather a sign that the indicators of quality are not yet adequate? There will surely come a point when we need to restrain our contemporary obsession with measurement. There will perhaps always be some essential components of care which verge on the ineffable and whose subtlety and effectiveness could be destroyed by the very attempt to measure them.


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Be who you are. Those who mind don't matter, those who matter won't mind.Really great quote BTW. ;)
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Thanks everyone for your thoughts. My first mental response to a situation like this one is the knee jerk, solve the problem quick and easy and be done with it- type thing.I guess what made me upset is that they have known me for a very long time and known that I eat a certain way.I'll be going at this point. :-/(clap)(clap)(dance)(dance)(woot)(woot)Thanks again,Tom
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As it turned out, my wife became ill and we had to scap the whole trip. We didn't want to get any of the in-laws sick, especially the kids.Oddly enough, the same in-laws came up this past weekend for the Labor Day weekend and one of their kids was running a fever. I didn't like the idea that my daughter was going to be playing with her cousin but my wife didn't want to cause any trouble by not showing up. My daughter has became ill just about every time these in-laws visit with a sick kid. Sure enough, my daughter became ill and has a fever of her own now. ::)
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As far as diet, I put nothing in my mouth that I don't want to. If we are at a restaurant where I can eat nothing, I simply eat nothing. I might get an iced tea w/lemon (even that is iffy at some establishments!). If it bugs anyone or anyone has something to say about it, tough. I am always graceful and pleasant about it and, therefore, I don't feel that anyone should have a prob with however I eat or don't eat, and if they do, it is their problem.Basically: I've gotten a LOT more assertive, albeit in a very gentle, graceful, classy way, if I do say so myself, about eating and not eating what I want, when I want, PERIOD.
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Just bring your own food and don't let it get to you. Perhaps they are just concerned that they'll be criticized if they cook something you can't eat. Don't let it build into something that becomes a problem.


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ROAD trips have inspired a new exhibition of contemporary paintings in Horsham Regional Art Gallery.
Melbourne artist William Mackinnon's 'Paintings conceived while driving' solo show continues until October 7.
The director of Melbourne gallery Utopian Slumps, Melissa Loughnan, will officially open Mackinnon's exhibition on Sunday at 3pm.
Horsham Regional Art Gallery director Adam Harding said Mackinnon's works stemmed from the intersection between reality and imagination; what he physically perceives and what he imagines.
"For many years, the car has changed the way that Mackinnon sees the world; it is as integrated into his life as the internet is for many others," he said.
"These works have been influenced by the many hours Mackinnon has spent in cars.
"But ultimately this is an exhibition about the possibilities of painting.
"The motion of a vehicle never fails to stimulate Mackinnon's mind.
"For the artist, the movement, the soundtrack, the windscreen is all cinematic; his own road movie unfolds.
"To Mackinnon, there is nothing quite like driving alone at night in the rain.
"Heading somewhere, leaving somewhere, perpetually cast in a contemplative space."
Mackinnon has a Masters from the Victorian College of the Arts, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and a post-graduate diploma from London's Chelsea College of the Arts.
He won a travelling scholarship in 2008 and became artist-in-residence at indigenous arts resource agency Mankaja Arts in Western Australia the following year.
On Sunday Loughnan will discuss the challenges of running her commercial art gallery, which she originally launched as a not-for-profit organisation to promote underground art. "Utopian Slumps exemplifies the utopian ideals of an artist and the slumps of reality; it's hard to be an artist, it's hard to pay the bills and sometimes you have an idea you can't quite execute," she said.


text: This excerpt, taken from Dr. King's book "Why We Can't Wait," appears in an issue of Life Magazine. King parallels the experience of handicapped people to the social handicap of the Negro. Comparing instances of governmental aid, he notes that there has been "countless other measures of compensatory treatment that the nation has accepted and approved as logical and moral." King continues the segment by referencing the stance of three American presidents that he has engaged conversation on the subject of civil rights. He ends by noting the Civil Rights Movement and its contribution to the whole of society.


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How do greenhouse gas trends affect our climate? How do emissions affect our air quality? What roles do small particles in the atmosphere play in reflecting solar energy back out into space? How—and how soon—can we increase the energy efficiency of our urban and national transportation systems to minimize human effects on climate?
These are just a few of the questions that Portland State University (PSU) scientists will be able to better tackle, thanks to the new high-performance computer—named "Gaia" after the Greek Earth goddess—that is coming to PSU this fall. Gaia will offer 20 "teraflops" of computational power (20 million million calculations per second) and 120 terabytes of storage during computations. It will be 10 times more powerful than all the previously available computing power on campus.
The Gaia cluster will be based in PSU's Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. A $350,000 grant from the Murdock Charitable Trust funded Gaia, with additional support from the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science (MCECS), the Institute for Sustainable Solutions, and PSU's office of Research and Strategic Partnerships.
"This is an absolutely enormous advance for those of us at PSU that are interested in taking on the computationally difficult research questions related to climate, air pollution, and energy efficient transportation systems" said Dr. James F. Pankow, professor with a joint appoint in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in MCECS and in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Fellow in PSU's Institute for Sustainable Solutions.
Pankow is the only fully active university faculty member in the state of Oregon holding membership in the prestigious National Academy of Engineering. His groundbreaking research relies heavily on advanced modeling to reveal significant factors related to air pollution and climate change, including the behavior of tiny "haze" particles that permeate the earth's atmosphere, the complex chemistry of urban smog formation, and how toxic compounds such as PCBs, pesticides, and dioxins become dispersed around the globe.
"This investment in PSU by the Murdock Charitable Trust can trigger a whole cascade of scientific advances, helping to move PSU into the upper ranks of universities engaged in critically-important environmental research," said Jonathan Fink, vice president for Research and Strategic Partnerships at PSU.
The new equipment will be installed in two phases, the first by the end of December 2013, and the second by early 2015. Gaia is projected to be operational by the end of this year.
Gaia will be used for computationally demanding modeling by faculty in many departments at PSU, and will greatly enhance the overall research endeavors that are funded at Portland State by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Geological Survey the Oregon Department of Transportation, the Electric Power Research Institute, Portland General Electric, the Cooley Family Fund for Critical Research of the Oregon Community Foundation, the Huff Family Foundation, and numerous other important agencies, organizations, and foundations.
About the Maseeh College of Engineer and Computer Science at PSU
The Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science evolved in parallel with the growth of the high-tech industry in Oregon. More than 2,200 students are currently enrolled in programs that lead to undergraduate and graduate degrees in disciplines such as Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Technology Management; Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and Computer Science. (www.pdx.edu/cecs)
About Institute for Sustainable Solutions at PSU
The Institute for Sustainable Solutions (ISS) advances sustainability research, education, and outreach at Portland State, leading the University to be a powerful catalyst and model for a more equitable, ecologically balanced, and economically vibrant future. (www.pdx.edu/sustainability)
About Portland State University (PSU)
Located in Portland, Oregon, PSU has about 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students. PSU's motto is "Let Knowledge Serve the City," and we provide every student with opportunities to work with businesses, schools and organizations on real-world projects. Our downtown campus exhibits PSU's commitment to sustainability, and sustainability is incorporated into much of the curriculum. (www.pdx.edu)


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Going to FOSDEM 2010
Actually I just arrived in the really nice hotel in Brussels
after a remarkable unspectacular flight.
Will later meet Philippe for dinner and probably discuss some last-minute modifications - nah, just kidding - of our Mirabeau presentation about creating personal media networks and bridging UPnP over XMPP on Saturday 6th in the Jabber/XMPP dev-room at 16:00 o'clock.
Having dinner before the beer-event is actually quite a good idea™.
I'll do another presentation on Sunday morning in the CrossDesktop room at 11:00 o'clock titled Coherence - the Digital Living room and beyond.
Stop by if you are at FOSDEM too.
This time I had planned to fly out on Monday evening, to have some time for sight-seeing, but we have decided to take part in the XMPP Dev Challenge.
So probably again no time for visiting the Atomium.


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Lingoo is a small application wrapper for the Google Translation online service. It employes powerful engine from the world leader in online services and bring the power of language translation to your desktop. Lingoo is implemented an background app hiding in the Menu bar with few hotkeys to activate the translation when it is needed.
What's New
- "Swap languages" button added.
- Cmd + 1,2,3 hotkeys added to change the translator mode.
- "Show translator" hotkeys do hide the translator if pressed while the app is active.
- Few minor issues fixed.


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Survival Isn't Always Important
Bethlehem's executive pastor, Sam Crabtree, gave this insightful exposition and application of Isaiah 7:1-9 at today's Bethlehem staff lunch. Read and be blessed.
Don't Believe, Don't Last
The seventh chapter of Isaiah reports on a wartime context in which the King of Assyria was beginning to make a westward move toward Israel. So King Rezin (of Aram) and King Pekah (of Israel) formed a coalition to save their kingdoms from Assyria's encroachments. To put this is in the sophisticated nomenclature of the theological academy: the big fish is gonna eat the little fish. So the little fish get together and say, "maybe if we join forces, an alliance against the big fish could save our necks," except that fish don't have necks. Pekah and Rezin come to terms and say to each other, "Let's get Ahaz to help us." In the words of the old hymn, Ahaz says, "I'm chicken, Colonel Custer; you're on your own."
So Pekah and Rezin reply, "Okay, Chicken Little. We'll just take you off your throne, install our own man, and then do what we please."
At that point in the developing events, the word of the Lord comes to Isaiah, saying that he should take his son Shear-jashub (meaning, "a remnant shall return;" Isaiah has another son, Maher-shalal-hasbaz, who is thought to have stuttered) and go to Ahaz with encouragement, saying, "Chill, Ahaz. You can trust God. Don't tremble at these two smoldering cigar butts a-comin' to terrorize you in order to get you to do their will. God will handle of them. Trust him."
And then comes the punch line: "If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all." If you do not believe, you will not last.
Isaiah's message continues: "As a matter of fact, Ahaz, a child will be born, Immanuel, and by the time that child knows right from wrong those two kings will be long gone." Translation: don't dread wicked kings in order to survive.
But alas. Ahaz thinks he has to survive at all costs, and so he goes off to the big bad King of Assyria and makes a deal, pays incredible tribute, brings Assyrian things into Judah, and so begins a string of dark days. But Ahaz survived, didn't he?
If we make survival the chief goal, we very often can survive, but what do we become in the process? To survive we pay the price of bondage. But if we can settle the issue of survival, we are truly free. Survival wasn't the issue for Jesus. Jesus was willing to die, hence no one could make him do anything that would compromise his integrity or mission.
On occasion I have said to the staff and elders that I don't care whether Bethlehem goes out of existence, if in order to survive we become the wrong Bethlehem. If we can first settle the issue of what God wants us to be, who we are, what we are, what we believe and stand for (because we must), survival becomes secondary. If we survive, we survive. If we perish, we perish. If we grow, we grow. If we diminish, we diminish. To settle the issue of survival is freedom!
When I taught in the public schools I would annually at Easter put up various bulletin boards featuring quotes about the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. One day a fellow teacher asked how I could do that in a public school. I said, "You take one pin and put it up here in this corner, and you take another pin and put it up there in the other corner…" But they weren't asking about that kind of how. "I do not compel the students to read it or discuss it or pledge allegiance to it, nor are they tested on it. I have had no complaints from students, parents, or administration. But if I did, if I were to lose my job over this, I can't think of a better reason to lose my job." To settle the issue of survival is freedom!
The battle is the Lord's. But if we choose to make the battle ours, and choose to make survival the goal of the battle, then we start to figure the angles, make subtle accommodations, compromise here and there, demote moral conviction, and do anything to win, to survive. What we need is a fundamental shift in the center of gravity in our lives from focusing on survival of ourselves to glorifying God, even in death.
At the outset of his public ministry, Jesus was driven out into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit for forty days and nights, to be tempted. That's a long time without nourishment. He begins his ministry about to starve to death. (At the beginning of your ministry, people will not beat a path to your bones.) Survival in jeopardy. And what does he say? "Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." He could say no to Satan because he had settled the fundamental issue of survival. The issue was not bread, but obedience.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego could remain faithful in the face of fiery flames because they had settled the issue of survival.
Daniel could persist in prayer because he had settled the issue of lions' dens.
David could charge Goliath with a bag of small stones because he had settled the issue of what was worth dying for.
The martyrs in Revelation testified in the face of death threats and overcame Satan.
Revelation 12:11 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
In contrast, Caiaphas had to survive (If we do not destroy Jesus we will lose our place.), and so he concocted a bogus legal proceeding.
Pilate had to survive ("You're not Caesar's friend." Oh, so that's the issue.), and so he washed his hands of it and said "Crucify him."
Beware the impulse to survive. You may become something you didn't intend. Ironically, if you don't believe, you won't last. If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.


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October 17, 1966. It was probably a cold day in Wisconsin on that date, a date when a '67 Corvette Sting Ray rolled onto the lot of Dale Chevrolet in Waukesha and was signed into "Dealer Demonstration Service" by William R. Dale, VP of the dealership. A little under a year later, Dale Chevrolet sold the '67 to one James Holtyn of Milwaukee. Quite a distance away, another '67 Vette was on its way home for the first time. When it arrived, a young James Alvarez rode his bike over to his neighbors' garage to see the new purchase. In a word, his words, "...the car was amazing." And with that, Jim started his life-long obsession with Corvette.
It was just a couple years later when Jim was beginning another obsession-motorcycles. "I started riding when I was 10," James tells us. "My parents recognized my interest in mechanical things, so they bought me a mini bike for my 10th birthday. A few weeks after riding it, I started to get curious about the bike and how it worked. So as a normal kid would do, I borrowed my fathers tools and started removing parts." And just like any young up-and-coming gearhead, Jim was hooked. From there he graduated to a dirt bike, and by age 16, he was on his fourth motor-driven cycle.
In the late 70s, Jim sold his bike to buy his first Corvette, a '76. Later on in the '80s, he would again sell off his vehicle of choice to move to California. While out in the Golden State, he began hanging out with his cousin Bill. Bill owned more than a few Harley-Davidsons, and Jim fell in love quickly with the Hogs: enough that after earning a little bit of extra cash, he ran down to a local dealership to get a Harley of his own. "It was just too expensive for me," he remembers, "but the dealer convinced me to buy a Honda, which I did." Even though it was a far cry from the teeth-rattling ride you get from an American icon, James had his first new bike.
"The following weekend," says James, "I drove my new bike over to my cousin's house so we could go for a ride. When I got there, I was so proud of my new ride that I asked Bill if he wanted to take it for a drive. He looked around as if to make sure no one was looking and then said, 'No. I'd rather ride my Harleys.'" It was at this point in time that Jim didn't quite understand the passion one feels for a Harley versus a Honda, but Jim was about to get an education. "After a number of rides and endless times where I was left to eat his dust, I decided to buy a Harley. And then I understood why he didn't want to ride my Honda."
Jim started out with a Sportster. He then moved up to a Softail, and in 1999, he bought a Road King Classic, Model FLHRCI, decked out with an EVO V-Twin. Jim bought a Road King because it's a cruiser, "I could ride a couple hundred miles in a day and still feel like new." And with all things mechanical, Jim felt the need to tinker. "I hate to have exactly what everyone else has, so I started to customize my bike." Going after the retro look, the Hog owner removed the stock bags in favor of a hard set.
Then he started adding chrome-a lot of chrome-as much chrome as he could find. Next, he rolled out a pair of Metzler oversized blackwalls and traded them for the whitewalls that had been on the bike. "It improved the ride and gave it a great retro look," Jim told us. And with the installation of a vintage-'50s logo in place of the typical Harley badge, the bike was ready to make some noise.
By now Jim had understood why his cousin didn't want to ride his Honda, "The Harley has a distinctive drive that just puts you in another place. There's no way to describe the feeling of a Harley or the sound and acceleration of a '67 427 Corvette Sting Ray. They are both very unique!" Yeah, that's right, a 427. See there were other things going on during this time than just an education about real motorcycles.
Back in 1982, the decision to buy a vintage Shark was made. With expenses being what they were, Jim couldn't afford the decked out '67 he was looking for so he settled for a base-model '66. As so often happens, children, finances, and priorities forced his hand, and the Vette went to another owner. It was then that a vow was made-a vow to make the next plastic fantastic that graced his garage something special. With 20 years in the automotive industry, James explains his tastes in automobiles as somewhat unusual. His desire was to purchase an authentic, one-owner, Corvette Sting Ray-one with all the paperwork. Jim wanted the brass ring, a '67 427 Tri-power.
With the search on-for about five years actually-Jim saw many a car and heard many a story and claim. But most of all, what Jim saw was a number of very expensive, completely restored cars that were too pricey for him. And price or not, Jim wanted an opportunity to see a Vette go through the restoration process. When he finally located an acceptable car, Jim was on an airplane that same night to beat out the prospective buyers. That morning at dawn's light, a sight greeted him he hadn't expected: A '67 Vette with everything still original, down to the GM Safety Kit, floor mats, and even shocks. Best of all, the paperwork was all there and so was the tank sticker. Two weeks later the Vette was in its new home, and one James Holtyn of Milwaukee could rest easy knowing his car had gone to an owner that would take care of his one-time pride and joy.
The next step was to find to find the right expert to help with the restoration process. Soon, during a weekend show at Pomona, California, Jim was floored by a "perfect" '68 L88. Upon approaching the owner about the process, Jim met Steve LuVisi, owner of Automotive Expertise Unlimited and the L88. A week later Steve had the Vette, and it validated what Jim had hoped for-everything was intact and indeed original. All that was left was the decision on how perfect this car was to be, "I told Steve that I wanted my '67 to be as nice as his '68 L88-a Top Flight Corvette," Jim said, "I also told Steve that I wished the car to appear as if it had just rolled off the showroom floor...and he made that wish a reality."
With the restoration soon completed, Steve sent the car for paint. Suggesting the same body man who had made the '68 look so wonderful, Gary Svecko of Performance Paint in Torrance, California, received the Vette next and completed everything needed to take this Sting Ray back in time to delivery day: October 17, 1966. So, now Jim has a choice; he can ride down the street in the present with his '99 Harley-Davidson or he can take a stroll down memory lane when he was 10 with a showroom-fresh '67 Corvette. Whichever he decides, Hog or Sting Ray, Jim is the King of the Road.


text: St. Gregory the Great Women's Club will hold their Craft Fair/Flea Market Show on March 9, 2013 from 9am to 2pm in the Gym located at 5345 Virginia Beach Blvd. across from Haynes Furniture Store. We will have 31 Bags, oragami owls, handcrafted items, Jewelry, Hand decorated picture frames, and many more original items plus Flea market tables. come and help the Women's Club support many local charities.


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The Ruskin Pottery was not a huge concern It was in effect a family business. According to Paul Atterbury and John Henson in their book on the pottery only 25 people ever worked for the firm and the maximum number was 16 working there in the early 1920's.
The cabochons were made from pressed powdered clay called 'tocky' in the local Birmingham dialect. They were created in presses that made a conventional size and thickness. The cabochons were also known as 'enamels' and they became a significant part of the factor's production. The leadless glazes that were used on the shapes became little experimental pieces.
It is thought that The Taylor's visited the Paris exhibition in 1900 and were influenced by the French artist potters of the time especially Dalpayrat.
They began exhibiting their wares in 1901. They went international in August of 1904 when they took their wares to the United States for the Louisiana Purchase International Exposition in St Louis. They received acclaim and the 1st Grand Prix Award.
These cabochons have the standard impressed mark that was used after 1908.


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Duke has plans for Anna, Sam demands answers from Spin, and Todd takes care of Carly.
In a Swiss hospital room, Duke tells an unconscious Robin he never wanted to hurt her or her mother. Heather Webber is responsible for all of this for giving Anna hope. He promises to reunite her with Anna, but it has to be carefully orchestrated. The doctor who caught Luke and Anna arrives and tells him that the incompetent staff at Ferncliff gave Robin too high a dose of electroshock. She may forever be comatose. Duke pulls out an old picture of Anna. Circumstances kept him and Anna apart, but now he can go back to her. He will mend her broken heart and very soon everyone will know Robin is alive. The doctor asks about Luke. He seemed devoted to Anna. Duke is not concerned about Luke.
In her office, Anna is working on finding Joe Jr. McBain shows up with an update on Heather. She went to Llanview, pretended to be a nanny and stole Tea's baby. Anna wonders why Heather chose this baby. John tells her the story of the switch. Webber and Manning conspired to switch the babies and Tea still does not know the baby is not hers. Anna thinks that is cruel – she will lose him all over again once she learns the truth. She is going to make sure Heather pays. Suddenly, she gets faint. She hasn't eaten or slept in a while. McBain sends her home. She has to stay sharp to beat Heather.
Jason pounds on Steve's door. He asks if Heather has been there but she hasn't. Steve wants to know if this is about Tea's baby. Jason confirms the switch. The baby Tea took back to Llanview is Sam's. But now the baby is gone and so is his nanny - Heather. Steve demands Sam be told but Jason does not want her to know until the baby is safe. Steve thinks Heather could be selling the baby. Things could get dangerous. Doesn't Sam deserve to know?
Outside his room, Todd asks his PI if he has found Heather, but no dice. Inside, Carly wakes up. Todd has ordered her favorite foods and made sure Joss is off safely to school. Carly thinks he needs to work on his stalking issues. She can't stop thinking there is something else Johnny is not telling her. Todd holds Carly's hand and tells her how amazing she is. She can do so much better than Johnny. She agrees. She had better – Jax, who she divorced for Johnny. She is mad at herself. He encourages her to call in sick and they watch a movie and eat popcorn. Later, Todd offers to scrub her back … and her front. She laughs and is thankful that she feels better. After Carly leaves, McBain arrives. He knows what Todd did.
Spin rushes into Alexis' house at Sam's call. She wants to know what Jason is keeping from her. Spin stalls but she bypasses his tricks. Spin is loyal to them both, but he doesn't know what Jason might be trying to tell her. He tries to leave but she won't let him. She is sure Spin knows and asks if it has to do with the baby case she overheard him talking about. He tells her that is confidential. She grabs him and screams that he needs to tell her before she hurts him. She can take him down and he knows it. He tells her there is the possibility of something but she has to ask Jason. He sneaks to the door and dashes off. Later, Jason arrives. He tells her she needs to sit down. Her son is still alive.
Maxie goes to the hospital to dig dirt on Ellie. Ellie sees Maxie and comments the wedding was one of the best dates of her life. Later, she and Spin spent the evening together at the observatory. Maxie worries they had sex, which to Ellie seems like Maxie might still like Spin. Isn't her husband, the wrench murderer, in jail? Maxie does not want Spin to get hurt again. Ellie knows all about their history and thinks it is great that Maxie and Spin can be friends now that they are both in relationships. Maxie assures her being friends with Spin is the last thing she wants. Spin arrives to take Ellie on a picnic. Ellie hopes she and Maxie can do girl talk again. She and Spin leave.
Anna returns home but her door is ajar. She pulls a gun out on the intruder. Duke turns around and she is in shock.
Heather shows up at Steve's with the baby.
Tomorrow's Port Charles spoilers for General Hospital:
Duke asks Anna, "Aren't you pleased to see me?"
Manning tells McBain, "If you think there was some kind of a baby switch than you are crazier than …" McBain cuts him off and yells, "Stop talking!"
"Sam, you were right the whole time," Jason says. "Your son is alive."
Heather tells Steve, "If anything happens to me, no one will ever see that baby again."
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